Chapter 2384: On the last day, take advantage of the chaos! (1/2)
Without saying a word, Li Yao poured psychic energy into his eyes, turning his eyesight to the limit, carefully observing the workers in the big iron factory.
From such a distance, the workers moving between the blast furnace, pipes and various steel structures are like black and brown ants.
Most of them wrapped themselves tightly in gray cloaks, wearing simple protective masks and eye masks, but the exposed skin was smeared into grayish brown and dark black by dust and pollutants, and they also wore protective earplugs. For this reason, the action seemed dull and slow, really like a mechanical crawler with an unwound clockwork, or a group of lifeless corpses.
Li Yao understood why Wuyoujiao was able to expand wildly around the big iron factory without being discovered. No matter whether these workers practiced ”Wangyou Jue” or not, they don't seem to have any emotions and desires, just like a metal fatigued machine!
Most of the workers work hard in the depths of the mine or inside the factory, so it is naturally impossible to observe them directly, but Li Yao saw rows of workers crawling out of the mine, dragging trucks of raw ore from the depths of the mine.
Even this kind of fairly simple work that can be completely replaced by psionic puppets is all undertaken by the primitive miners. Where Li Yao can see, the only psionic puppets that can be seen are the overseers scattered all over the commanding heights— -The entire big iron factory is actually mechanically supervising human work, maintaining a cold and iron-blooded order!
Li Yao even saw that a cross-shaped execution platform was erected in a corner of the factory area. A primitive miner was tied to it by a big five flowers, but there was a combat puppet holding an electromagnetic whip, facing the miner's scarred back. Take it away.
”Flap! Pop! Pop! Pop!”
Sparks flew everywhere, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the primitive miner was so painful that he screamed sternly.
Hundreds of primitive miners were forced to watch by the battle puppets. Their mouths and noses were all covered by protective masks, and they couldn't see their expressions clearly, but judging from the twitching of their shoulders, they were obviously in extreme fear and extreme anger.
And looking at the blood-stained look around the execution platform, it was obvious that people were sent here every three to five to kill chickens and monkeys.
Li Yao clenched his fists and murmured, ”What crime did this worker commit to be beaten like this?”
Long Yangjun said: ”He was given a dozen lashes. He is always a serious crime such as damaging magic weapons, rather than a petty crime such as taking too long to go to the toilet, right?”
Li Yao was taken aback: ”What, too long to go to the bathroom is considered a'little sin', is it a whip?”
”Of course, the immortal cultivator feeds so many workers and pays monthly wages, not to support you to come to the bathroom all day long.”
Long Yangjun said, ”According to different genders and ages, there are also different times for going to the toilet. If you do not return to your work station after five minutes of overtime, it is a violation of the rules of the big iron factory and at least a whip is required.”
Li Yao was stunned for a long time, then carefully observed the commanding heights and firepower points around the entire large iron factory, and continued to ask: ”I think the battle puppets set up by the cultivators here are indeed quite advanced. It’s much better, but why don’t you see too many civilian puppets? A lot of simple and repetitive crude work can obviously be done with civilian puppets, right?
”It is strange to say that the overall technological strength of the empire is at least several decades ahead of the federation. This is true in terms of military magic weapons and combat puppets. However, in terms of civilian magic weapons, civilian puppets, and the unifying spirit net, it seems that there is no advantage, even in In some areas, the Federation is even better!”
”Don't you understand, because there is no demand for this!”
Long Yangjun whispered, ”Your Star Federation pays more attention to safeguarding the rights and interests of ordinary people, which leads to extremely high costs for factories to hire ordinary people. If you want to reduce costs, you can only invest a lot of new technologies and new resources into industrial automation. As well as the field of research and development of civilian puppets, civilian puppets are used to replace the original workers. There will be a demand for this before there will be a technological explosion.
”But the empire has absolutely no worries in this regard. It can unscrupulously reduce the cost of the original people to the limit, without considering any benefits, rights, or occupational diseases.
”At the same time, the empire can also use various methods with extremely strong side effects, such as activating demonizing genes or overloading the use of stimulants, to improve the work efficiency of the original people and expand the cost advantage.