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Reif didn't go home to rest. He was alone at home and there was no need to spend time walking back.

The duty room next to the construction site has tables, chairs, a heated kang, and most importantly, a hot stove. The old man on duty is very nice to talk to. As long as you bring your own food, he doesn’t mind helping you prepare some lunch for yourself. There is hot soup, a warm meal, and then a walk to bask in the sun, or chat with a few co-workers, and the afternoon is over.

The food that Laifu brought was golden vine powder, and the other workers had similar food. The old man on duty originally helped them make pancakes. Later, during an inspection, the mayor said that lunch must have some oil, so he had some oil delivered. With oil, you can make pancakes, which taste much better and are much more comfortable on your stomach.

As for the soup, the old man on duty is very particular about his soup. He stews the soup with rye flakes and small green vegetables. There is also some minced meat in the soup from time to time - the rye flakes are his own and the small green vegetables are from a "winter" researcher at the magic school. The minced meat was a gift from Mr. Qiao Xiu.

Different from the big shots that Reiff had seen in the past, the new big shots in Huishi Town were all very friendly. The key was that they were willing to distribute benefits to the poor, and they were not just polite in words.

The young magician who would bring some green vegetables every one or two days once said that the Masked Void Master taught them that if you really care about others, you should show it with actual actions and just stay with your words. It's tantamount to cheating. This young man believed in the teachings of the great god, so he originally only needed to plant one experimental field, but he planted two.

"Two fields certainly have their own advantages." Steve, who had just learned basic magic, wrote in the report, "The two fields can be compared with each other to improve the efficiency of the experiment."

As for whether it would be more difficult to farm two fields, he, who comes from a farmer's family, doesn't take the hardship to heart.

Felix was also quite satisfied with this student. Although compared with other classmates, Steve is a little clumsy and his learning and comprehension of magic is slower, but he has a calm personality and is diligent. His rigorous style and redoubled efforts are enough to make up for his innate deficiencies.

If we take the route of a traditional mage, then people like Steve who are born with slightly lower intelligence are destined to not be able to go very far. But the "Magic Cannon" is an alternative mage who is extremely inclined to fighting. It pays more attention to agility and careful thinking, and does not have such high requirements for intelligence. Even if Steve can't become an excellent magic gunner, he can at least become an excellent battle mage.

In fact, if Felix could break through the limits and enter the realm of legend, it would not be difficult to promote a less talented but diligent and careful student. "Talent" is an insurmountable barrier for ordinary people. For extraordinary people, at least the gap between "mediocre people" and "talented people" can be bridged. It's just that the step from "talent" to "genius" is unimaginable.

For most professions, "talent" is completely sufficient.

It's like a digger, and Reiff is the most talented of the diggers. Even wearing thick protective clothing, he can adjust his body well. The burden on his body is smaller for the same work, and the workload is greater in the same time.

The pickaxes they use are enchanted tools that are stronger than ordinary pickaxes and can also record the number and power of swings - this is the key to calculating rewards.

More than a month has passed since the start of the work. When the wages were settled, Reif earned nearly 20% more than the average excavator. This means that for the same eight hours a day, his workload is equivalent to more than nine and a half hours of work for others.

It's a pity that he can only immerse himself in hard work and is not good at interpersonal communication and management. Otherwise, Felix would still want to promote him to be the captain of the diggers!

"What a pity!" At a certain meeting, she specifically mentioned this outstanding excavator. "He is obviously a very good talent, but it is a pity that he is clumsy and not good at management."

"There are always some people who are not good at anything except working hard and doing their job better than others." Sui Xiong said with a smile, "By the end of the year, we can issue them a 'Model Worker' 'Medal."

"Model worker?" Felix's eyes lit up, he thought carefully for a while and nodded.

Humans are not pigs or dogs, and they don’t just need to eat enough and drink enough. As the mayor, she not only wants to increase residents' income and improve their living conditions, but also gives residents hope and motivation to move forward, making their lives more glorious.

It is really a good idea to give medals to outstanding workers like Reiff!

This kind of thing happens from time to time in the army. Some outstanding soldiers will still be awarded medals even though they have not achieved meritorious service enough to be promoted. Of course, the gold content of this kind of medal is much lower than the medal for meritorious service, but a medal is a medal, and no matter what, it is a rare honor.

Moreover, soldiers who can receive such medals will be highly respected by people after they retire, because it means that they may not be outstanding enough, or they may lack opportunities, but they must be good and reliable people.

Such people may not be competent in key positions, but at the grassroots level and in the local area, they must be respected and loved pillars. To exaggerate, they are the load-bearing pillars supporting the building of "society."

Felix and Qiao Xiu specially sent vegetables and oil to the diggers, mainly to win the hearts of these strong laborers as soon as possible. Sui Xiong told them that money is secondary, and people's hearts are the key to doing things. So they all thought of some ways to win people's hearts as much as possible.

For example, now Qiao Xiu is patrolling the forest near Pyroxene Town with his men. They use the magic compass developed by Satan, the leader of the Mage Corps, to find the gathering points of negative energy. During the day, they nail the special purification pillars into the ground, and then activate the power of the pillars. Not only can they temporarily destroy this gathering point, but they can also establish a temporary purification node in turn.

This is done to reduce the possibility of skeletons appearing around the town at night, and thus avoid the annual "Ji Shuo Night" skeleton tide.

"Ji Shuo Night" is an astrological concept. Generally speaking, there will be a night with extremely active negative energy between mid-autumn and late autumn every year. Such a night is called Ji Shuo Night.

In the Ash Forest, every year on the night of the New Moon, an endless army of skeletons would emerge and launch a crazy attack on all the people who settled here. Many pioneer villages were destroyed in the New Moon Night, and no one in the village was alive. Even a town with strong defense like the Four Towns, if it was not built close to the edge of the Ash Forest, it would not be able to withstand the terrifying skeleton tide on the night of the New Moon.

When Sui Xiong first landed, he had witnessed the skeleton tide on the night of the New Moon. For ordinary people, it was a terrible disaster.

Not only that, small-scale skeleton tides often occur on the night of the New Moon every month. This kind of skeleton tide is naturally nothing to the town, but it is still very threatening to the village.

Qiao Xiu and his team destroyed the negative energy gathering points around the town one by one, established purification nodes, and the ultimate goal was to build a large-scale purification array.

This is the subject that Satan Mage is currently researching. He has chosen the direction of "purification" as the key to his breakthrough to the legendary realm. According to his calculations, if this extremely large purification array can succeed, it means that his ideas and calculations are correct. Then, if he wants to enter the legendary realm, he only needs enough magic power.

For a scholar-type great magician like him, magic power is not a problem. It is nothing more than a large-scale ceremony. The key is to make sure that your direction is correct in order to avoid the failure of the ceremony.

If his research can succeed, it will not take long for the Void Mask Church to have a true legendary mage, a wise man who can assist this big ship with wisdom to sail steadily in the long river of time.

The people of Pyroxene Town are not aware of these things, but they know at least one thing-what Qiao Xiu and his team do is of great benefit to Pyroxene Town.

Very good!

This made the residents of the town suddenly have a better impression of the scary red-haired big guy whose nose can spray sparks, and they also have more trust in Mayor Felix who rules the town and the Void Mask Church behind the mayor.

Compared with the rulers in the past who only cared about building the city walls and never cared about the lives of people outside the city walls, this group of new rulers obviously sees farther, is more humane, and cares more about everyone.

Raising wages, stabilizing prices, repairing houses, rebuilding farmland, developing mines, purifying the environment... Mayor Felix and her partners and subordinates are indeed doing things that are beneficial to Pyroxene Town.

Some of the things they did have immediate results, some of which are good in the long run even though they can't see any effect for the time being, and some of them are what they have wanted for a long time but have never been able to get.

With all these measures in place, the residents of Pyroxene Town naturally chose to trust and support Mayor Felix. Whenever she appeared in the town, the residents would take the initiative to salute her. At this time, what they have in their hearts is not fear, but admiration.

Not only that, the influence of the Void Mask Church in Pyroxene Town is also rapidly increasing. Many residents who had no clear faith in the past were willing to go to the priests of the Void Mask Church to listen to the lessons, pray with them, and praise this great god with a strange appearance.

When the special mushrooms in the first tunnel flourished and the soil around it began to purify, the residents of Pyroxene Town finally couldn't hold back and cheered and laughed until tears came out of their eyes when they saw the ground faded from gray and black and showed the original color of the soil again, and the vegetables planted on the ground sprouted.

"You are such an amazing person... uh, an amazing god." In the air, the goddess of wealth, whose figure was covered by divine power, said to Sui Xiong, "I have never seen a god who can win people's hearts in this way. In my opinion, you don't look like a god, but rather a wise king who never really existed in human legends."