When Gastens climbed down from the steam generator, Gabriel was checking out with David Edinger, the equipment manager at the mine. As a mechanic stationed by the Pengpai Power Machinery Company in Johor Bahru, Gabriel had no additional charge for repairing his own company's equipment. However, there are some steam engines from other companies in Johor Bahru. To repair these equipment, Gabriel had to pay Gabriel in addition. For the mine, these other brands of machines need to be replaced with new ones, and if they can be repaired, they can save a lot of money. For Gabriel, these expenses are not included in the company's account book, and naturally they are happy to cooperate. He had to climb up and down by himself before, but now he has an obedient little slave. He became a hand-off manager and made money easier.

"There are 60 kroners in total, thank you master."

"Well, you're welcome, this is the discount price you give you, and it's guaranteed to be easy to use."

Gabriel and Edinger chatted for a few simple words, turned around and left the machine with Gastens. He touched the pile of money in his hand, took out a 2-croton note, and handed it to Gastens.

"I hope you will give me some extra money. I'll save up to get married."

"Yeah, thank you Master."

Gastens rolled the 2 kroners into his belt and shook his arms. Just now, a bent pipe broke in the steam passage of the machine. He carried nearly twenty kilograms of new bent pipe onto the machine alone, and his arms were exhausted.

"You have been going down the well for more than half a month. How do you feel?"

"It's great, but I'm tired and can't eat enough. I don't have enough bread in the mine and I don't have enough bean soup."

Gastens answered truthfully. It has been two weeks since his letter was sent, and he has not yet replied. But his relationship with his master Adam Nelson is getting more and more harmonious. Now, when Nelson is tired, he can also carefully swing a few sledgehammers. Although his speed and efficiency are not as good as Nelson, he can at least share part of the work.

"It's good to have bread." Gabriel made extra money and was in a good mood. "I've worked in the Ridan Mine in a neighboring province before. They gave the workers oatmeal cakes and didn't even go to bran. I tasted it once, and my throat hurts. The Browns's family is good for the workers. Two black bread a day is a lot of money."

"Many of the rye grown by our Master Bass's house is sold to the Browns' house."

"That's right. There is your own bakery at the mine, which is cheap. If you really want Liuyinzhen to send it here, it will take three hours on the way, who can wait?"

Gabriel seemed to be in a good mood. When Gastens saw it, he asked about what he had been curious about.

"Master, I have been working for half a month. I feel that the underground work is much more tiring than farming, and people will die at any time. Do these workers do this every day, are they willing?"

"Who cares whether they want them or not?" Gabriel glanced at Gastens, "Many of these workers were originally serfs. The Brown family bought them to work and did well, and gave them the identity of a free citizen for ten years. You are also a serf. Don't you want to be a free citizen? Besides, here is food and accommodation, and you also pay wages. Although the salary is a little less, it is much better than not making a penny for serfs? Many serfs are thinking of coming. I tell you, I bring you here, but your blessings are worth it, you boy!"

"Yes, yes, I know, thank you Master Gabriel." Gastens nodded and bowed, paused for a while and asked again, "Master, when will I be a free man?"

"You?" Gabriel stopped and thought seriously, "I spent 100 kronor to buy you. When will you help me earn enough 1000 kronor, I will give you the identity of a freeminant, okay?"

"That's great, thank you Master!"

"Okay, do it well for me!"

Gabriel reached out and patted Gastens on the back of the head and strode away. Gastens followed a few steps and followed.

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Nora Stewart is an employee of Pengpai Power Machinery Company, whose main job is paperwork. She has been to high school and has good reading, reading, writing and writing. Her father teaches in the Seventh District Public School, and her mother takes care of her three younger brothers at home. As the eldest sister of the family, she gave up the expensive university and joined the company to earn money to supplement her family income.

The boss of Pengpai Dynamics doesn't like too many clerks, so Nora's job is very complicated. She has to contact almost all back-end jobs except accounting and accounting. Today, the postman sent more than a dozen letters, most of which were orders from various places, and some were letters sent to the company that did not specify the recipient. She had to open them one by one to check them out, register them, and then transfer them to the corresponding department.

The letter Gastens wrote was placed in the third letter of the stack. The first two letters were orders, and Nora quickly finished processing it. She picked up Gastens's letter and looked at the envelope and lacquer first. It was a common cheap envelope and no noble badges, so she was not so nervous. She looked at the signature again, saying that Gastens had no surname. People who wrote this either forgot to write it, or had no rules, and were not worthy of attention. However, no one was writing a letter to the company, so Nora could throw it away directly. She picked up the paper cutter, pulled it, pulled it out, and pulled out the letter paper, and planned to take a look at it casually, and threw it away.

However, the content of the letter obviously made Nora's plan to relax for a while. Although the centrifugal speed controller is simple, various terms and brief diagrams still make Nora a little confused. She jumped and read the technical part half-understand and fell on the final content.

"...On this alone, I think this equipment can greatly improve the output stability of the steam engine and help your company defeat other competitors in the market. As its designer, I am willing to hand it over to your company for use, just hope that your company can satisfy my small wish. I believe that for your company, the cost of realizing this wish is not even more than 5 kronor......"

This is a technical self-recommendation letter. Nora has received it, but most of it is not reliable. However, when it comes to technology, she does not have the right to make decisions. Nora wrote two notes on her notebook, reinstalled the letter, and placed it in the grid of the technical department.

Let men judge the value of men’s things.

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When the demon surge broke out, Gastens was swinging a hammer. He was slow, and he had to compare carefully every move to prevent it from hitting Nelson's hand. Nelson himself didn't care and was still encouraging him. And just as the two of them cooperated with each other, the exposed pyroxene on the wall of the entire mine cave suddenly lit up. It felt like someone threw a flash bullet from the Earth World in the mine cave. Gastens, who was unprepared, was suddenly blurred. In the white light, he heard a scream.

"The devil is surging!"

“Which mine cave?”

"Get out first! Hurry!"

In a daze, Gastens could feel someone holding him back. Nelson's voice sounded in his ear, "Go away! Run with me!"

Since Gastens went down the well, he had heard the workers talk about Mo Yong, but no matter how detailed the description was, it was not as good as his own. When he opened his eyes, he found that his vision was shaking and the workers were running. Neither Nelson nor him took the kettle on the ground, nor did he get the black bread that he had not eaten yet. When Mo Yong burst out, any waste of time was disrespectful to his life.

Run, run, the mine tunnel that was already familiar during this period seemed extremely long. The two soon arrived at the working face where the slide rails were arranged. Many workers had gathered here and were clamoring. Gastens heard from their chat that there was a problem with the third working face. Someone was inspiring the magic rush while mining, and the person was crystallized by the surging magic power at that time, and it was useless. The gushing magic power also activates the pyroxene in this mining area. Although this activation is only temporary, within one or two hours, the temperature here will exceed the human body's tolerance limit with the release of pyroxene energy. If you do not escape in time, the workers will be roasted to death.

"Don't panic! Slide the rails one by one according to the working surface! The pyroxene here is all low-level pyroxene, and it doesn't heat up quickly, and it's still time to go!"

Nelson was obviously experienced and influential among the workers. He directed the scene loudly to calm the workers' emotions. There was obviously news on the elevator that the slide rails had begun to operate clangly. However, Gastens felt a little dangerous for the efficiency of the master's steam engine. As more and more people hung the slide rods on the slide rails, the slide rails that had just begun to operate made huge moans.

"Brother Adam, this won't work! There are too many workers hanging on the slide! The traction steam engine is not powerful enough!"

Gastens realized the problem at the first time. He looked around and happened to see the railcar transporting ore. "Brother Adam, let's use the railcar, together with the slide!"

Nelson glanced at Gastens and shouted loudly, "Loeb, Caulke, Big Bieber, you guys come down and get on the minecart! You all heard little Gas' words! There are too many people! We use minecart!"

The workers crowded on the work surface heard this and began to unload the pyroxene from the mine truck and put themselves in. Neielson and Gastens did not get on the car, nor left. They commanded on the spot and helped the workers get on the slide rails and the mine truck, and then hung their slide rods on the slide rails in a heat wave that had passed. At this time, the six forward mines in the entire work surface had already shone with dazzling light, like six huge light columns illuminating the working surface as bright as day. Gastens felt his heart beating violently, and the scorching air made him breathing difficult. The slide rails, which were originally quite fast, were also particularly slow at this time. He had to use a lot of effort to fix himself on the slide rod so that he would not fall.

"Little Gas! Hold on! You did a great job!"

Nelson's voice was a little blurred, but Gastens finally managed to get over. When they arrived at the lifting platform, they had already left the area that was most affected by the demon rush. Most of the workers who arrived here in the early stage evacuated, and a few people stayed to wait for them. Gastens and Nelson, who had already been exhausted, boarded the elevator with the help of the workers and left the mine that was gradually getting hot.

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The magic surge accident in mine No. 7 eventually killed two workers, one named Ras Biorre and the other named Sig Waztartten. Gastens knew them and was not familiar with them. The mine was closed for a day, and the next day, the mine manager Bavishi Brown took Nelson and several of the best-skilled workers in the mine, as well as Gastens who knew the steam engine. Gastens was a little curious. At this time, production did not resume quickly. What was the meaning of leading the way down the well? Nelson seemed to know something, but he did not say it directly, just asked Gastens to be restless.

From the lifting platform to the working surface, there were no traces of the explosion of the magic surge along the way. The pyroxene level here is low, and the temperature of the explosion of the magic surge will not destroy the metal equipment. The black bread and cloth bags thrown by the workers on the roadside have turned into balls of black powder, with a faint smell of paste. The mine manager Brown did not stop because of these. He walked in silently all the way and entered the No. 3 operation surface where something happened. The people who followed him were also silent all the way, walking one by one through the mine cave, and crossing the fine crystals on the ground. They were one of the dead workers, whose body was crystallized by the sudden burst of magic power, and then turned into powder because they did not have magic affinity.

Gastens's eyes swept over the crystal powder and followed the team in front. After passing the corpse, people quickly reached the work surface of the explosion of demon rush and stopped.

Gastens, who was walking behind, could feel the mine manager Bavi Stone? Brown was looking for something. He looked at the mine cave left and right, and the long drill and hammer were scattered around, and nothing unusual was happening.

"It's really true!"

Gastens heard a small scream. He poked his head out of the crowd and moved forward in the gap. He saw the creation that was being watched. It was a piece of pyroxene half buried in the rock, crystal clear like crystal. But unlike ordinary pyroxene, there was a small creature solidified inside the pyroxene, about forty centimeters tall, with two hands and feet, two pairs of wings growing on the back, and there were flowing and solidified long hair behind the small head. If you look closely, you will find that she was still wearing clothes, barefoot, as if flying, staying in the pyroxene. Gastens took a long breath and stared at it. Judging from the creature that was solidified in pyroxene like amber, she was very similar to humans, and even had a small breast.

"Brother Nelson, what is that?"

Gastens asked in a low voice, but was interrupted by the order of the Brown Mining Manager. He began to direct the workers to carefully lift the pyroxene out of the rock, with a clear look of joy on his face. Gastens couldn't help, so he watched from the side. Nelson walked past him with time and whispered an answer.

"That's the pyroxene elves, the creatures that live in pyroxene."
Chapter completed!