Rei Fu did not go home to rest. He was the only one at home, so there was no need to spend time walking back.
There were tables and chairs in the duty room next to the construction site, and most importantly, there was a hot stove. The old man on duty was very easy to talk to. As long as you brought your own food, he didn't mind making some for you when he was preparing lunch for himself. There was also hot soup. After eating a warm meal, you could stroll around and bask in the sun or chat with a few of your workmates. Lunch would be over by then.
The food Rei Fu brought was gold vine powder, and so did the other workmates. The old man on duty originally helped them make pancakes. Later, during an inspection by the mayor, he said that lunch should at least have some oil, so he sent some oil over. With oil, they could make pancakes, which tasted much better and made their stomachs much more comfortable.
As for the soup, the old man on duty was very particular about it. He stewed the soup with black oats and green vegetables, with some minced meat in the soup from time to time. The black oats were his own, the green vegetables were a gift from a student of the magic school who studied winter planting, and the minced meat was a gift from Master Josh.
Unlike the big shots Rei Fu had seen in the past, the new big shots in Pyroxene Town were very kind. The key was that they were willing to share the benefits to the poor, not just talk politely.
The young sorcerer who would send some green vegetables every one or two days had once said that the Void Mask had taught them that if you really cared about others, then you should show it with your actions. Just talking about it was tantamount to lying. This young man trusted the teachings of the Great God very much. Originally, he only needed to plant one experimental field, but he chose to plant two.
"Two fields, of course, have their own benefits." Steve, who had just learned beginner magic, wrote in the report. "Comparing two fields can improve the efficiency of experiments."
As for the hard work of planting two fields, he, who was born in a farmer's family, did not care about the hard work.
Felix was also quite satisfied with this student. Although Steve was a little stupid and slower to learn and comprehend magic than other students, he was calm and diligent. His rigorous style and redoubled efforts were enough to make up for his innate shortcomings.
If he were to follow the traditional path of a mage, Steve, who was born with low intelligence, would not be able to go far. However, "Magic Cannon" was an alternative type of mage that was extremely inclined towards combat. It focused more on agility and meticulous thinking, and didn't have a high requirement for intelligence. Even if Steve could not become an outstanding Magic Cannoneer, he could at least become an outstanding Battle Mage.
In fact, if Felix could break through his limits and step into the Legendary-realm, it would not be difficult for him to nurture a student who was less talented but diligent and attentive. Talent was an insurmountable chasm to normal people. But to superhumans, at the very least, the difference between mediocre people and heroic people could be bridged. It was just that it was impossible to take the step from "hero" to "genius".
For most professions, being a "hero" was more than enough.
Take the excavators for example. Reif was the most talented of them all. Even if he wore thick protective clothing, he could adjust his body very well. The same work put less strain on his body, and the same amount of time he had to work was more.
The pickaxes they used were enchanted tools. They were sturdier than ordinary pickaxes, and they could also record the number of times and strength used. This was the key to calculating the pay.
It had been more than a month since they started working. When it came time to settle the pay, Reif was paid nearly 20% more than ordinary excavators. This meant that even though he worked eight hours a day, his workload was equivalent to more than nine and a half hours for others.
Unfortunately, he was only good at hard work and wasn't good at interpersonal communication and management. Otherwise, Felix would have promoted him to be the leader of the excavators!
"What a pity!" She specifically mentioned this excellent excavator in a meeting. "He's obviously a very good talent, but he's clumsy with words and isn't good at management."
"There are always some people who are not good at anything other than hard work and doing their job better than others." Sui smiled and said, "At the end of the year, we can give him a 'model worker' medal."
"Model worker?" Felix's eyes brightened. He thought carefully for a while and nodded.
People weren't pigs or dogs. They didn't just need to eat and drink enough. As the mayor, she not only had to increase the income of the residents and improve their living conditions, but she also had to let the residents see hope and have the motivation to move forward. She had to make their lives more glorious.
It was a good idea to give a medal to an excellent worker like Reif!
This kind of thing happened from time to time in the army. Some excellent soldiers would still be awarded medals even if they didn't make enough contributions to be promoted. Of course, the value of this kind of medal was much lower than that of meritorious service, but a medal was a medal. No matter what, it was still a rare honor.
Soldiers who could get this kind of medal would be very respected after they left the army, because it meant that they were good and reliable people, even if they weren't good enough or didn't have a lot of opportunities.
These people might not be competent in key positions, but they would definitely be respected and loved at the grassroots level. To exaggerate, they were the load-bearing pillars that supported the building of "society."
Felix and Josh specially sent vegetables and oil to the excavators, mainly to win the hearts of these strong laborers as soon as possible. Sui Xiong told them that money was secondary, and the hearts of people were the key to doing things. So they all thought of some ways to win people's hearts as much as possible.
For example, now, Josh and his men were patrolling in the forest near Pyroxene Town. They used the magic compass developed by Satan, the head of the mage group, to find the gathering point of the negative energy. They nailed the special purification magic pillar to the ground during the day, and then stimulated the power of the magic pillar. They could not only temporarily destroy the gathering point, but also set up a temporary purification node.
This was done to reduce the possibility of skeletons appearing around the town at night, so as to avoid the annual tide of skeletons on the "Night of Extreme Winter."
The "Night of Extreme Winter" was an astrological concept. Roughly between mid-autumn and late autumn every year, there would be a night when the negative energy was extremely active. Such a night was called the Night of Extreme Winter.
In the Ashes Woods, every year on the Night of Extreme Winter, an endless army of skeletons would pour out and launch a crazy attack on all the people who settled here. Many pioneer villages were destroyed on the Night of Extreme Winter, and no one in the village survived. Even the towns with relatively strong defenses like the four towns could not withstand the terrible tide of skeletons on the Night of Extreme Winter if they were not built close to the edge of the Ashes Woods.
When Sui Xiong had just come ashore, he had witnessed the tide of skeletons on the Night of Extreme Winter. For ordinary people, it was a terrible disaster.
Not only that, but on the Night of Extreme Winter every month, there would often be a small tide of skeletons. This tide of skeletons was naturally nothing to the town, but it was still a threat to the village.
Josh and the others destroyed the negative energy gathering points around the town one by one, and established purification nodes. The ultimate goal was to build a large-scale Purification Magic Circle.
This was the topic of Satan's current research. He had chosen the direction of "purification" as the key to his breakthrough into the legendary realm. According to his calculation, if this extremely large Purification Magic Circle could be successful, it meant that his ideas and calculations were correct. If he wanted to step into the legendary realm, he only needed enough magic.
For a scholarly great mage like him, magic was not a problem. It was nothing more than a large-scale ceremony. The key was to make sure that his direction was correct in order to avoid the failure of the ceremony.
If his research could be successful, then it would not be long before the Church of the Void Mask would have a real legendary mage, a wise man who could use his wisdom to assist this big ship to sail steadily in the long river of time.
The people of Pyroxene Town did not know these things, but they at least knew one thing — what Josh and the others were doing was of great benefit to Pyroxene Town.
Great benefit!
This made the residents of the town suddenly have a better impression of the terrifying red-haired big man who could spray sparks from his nose. They also had a little more trust in Mayor Felix, who ruled the town, and the Church of the Void Mask behind the mayor.
Compared with the rulers who built the city walls in the past and never cared about the life and death of the people outside the city walls, this group of new rulers was obviously more far-sighted, more humane, and more considerate of everyone.
Raising wages, stabilizing prices, repairing houses, rebuilding farmland, developing mineral veins, purifying the environment … Mayor Felix and her partners and subordinates were indeed doing things that were beneficial to Pyroxene Town.
Of all the things they did, some of them had immediate results, some of them didn't have any immediate results, but they were still good in the long run, and some of them were things they had wanted for a long time but couldn't 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, there was not fear in their hearts, but admiration.
Not only that, but the influence of the Church of the Void Mask in Pyroxene Town was also rising rapidly. Many residents who had no clear faith in the past were willing to go to the priests of the Church of the Void Mask to listen to the lessons, pray with them, and praise the great god who looked a little strange.
When the special mushrooms in the first tunnel grew vigorously and purified the soil around it, the residents of Pyroxene Town could not help cheering and laughing until tears flowed out of their eyes. The special mushrooms in the first tunnel grew vigorously and the soil's original color returned to the ground. The soil's original color was restored and the vegetables planted on the ground sprouted.
"You are really a great man … er, a great god," the Goddess of Wealth said to Sui Xiong. In the air, the Goddess of Wealth said to Sui Xiong, "I have never seen a god who can use this method to win people's hearts. In my opinion, you are not like a god, but like a sage who has never really existed in the legends of the world. "
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