"Good morning, Miss Soroya!"
As soon as Soroya walked into the bicycle factory, Jilly came up to her and said, "You're so early."
This made her a little embarrassed. She had stayed up a little late yesterday to play Landlord with Mystery Moon and Lily, so she got up half an hour later than usual today. During the days when Vendy was not here, she felt that everyone had become a lot more lazy. Of course... Anna and Agatha were exceptions. They had always been role models for their sisters, whether it was work or study. Especially the latter, she always went out the earliest and came back the latest.
"Is the base material ready?"
"Yes, please follow me."
As one of the first batch of graduates, Jilly had now become her assistant in the bicycle factory. She was informed of the work content in advance by Jilly. A year ago, Soroya would never have believed that ordinary people could cooperate with witches and get along well with each other.
"Is that the finished bicycle?" She suddenly noticed that the factory seemed to be a little different today. The steam machine tools were not roaring as usual, and everyone was looking at a row of brand-new two-wheeled cars.
"Yes, it's our first batch of products." Jilly's face was full of smiles, and her eyes were squinting. "There are a total of 20 bicycles. It's not easy. Especially the chain and wheels, according to the calculation, the yield is less than half. "
"It's really not easy," Soroya thought. This factory was completed last autumn, but since then it had experienced various twists and turns, such as equipment not being in place, a serious shortage of staff and so on. It was obviously not a priority as the steam engine assembly plant and the chemical plant next door. The first two plants were currently working three shifts, and there were people working almost all the time. However, this factory was still in production during the day and closed at night. Even Jilly secretly complained that the salary of a colleague who went to the chemical plant had been raised to three times her, but there was still no sign of a bicycle.
Now she could finally get a bicycle of her own.
Opening the door of the workshop, Soroya saw that the flat ground had been covered with a layer of white paper, about 40 square meters, which looked like snow in winter.
"Today's part of the processing is the inner tube. Sorry to trouble you." The little girl bowed.
"En," the witch nodded, "Go and do your work."
"Hey, if you need anything, please call me immediately," she said with a smile, "I'll stay at the entrance of the factory."
Looking at Jilly's back, Soraya knew that she couldn't wait to experience the feeling of riding a bicycle.
Shaking her head with a smile, Soroya took off her shoes and stepped onto the flat paper.
The paint job of a bicycle mainly consisted of three parts: the inner tube, the outer tube, and the frame to prevent rust. Which one to paint depended on the factory's assembly progress. Of course, in general, the speed at which he could finish the painting was much faster than the speed at which he assembled it. Therefore, whether it was the inner tube, the outer tube, or the frame, the factory had a lot of them in stock. However, the magic power grew every day, and it would be a waste not to use it. Therefore, every three days, Soroya would come to the bicycle factory to finish part of the painting.
She recalled the color of the inner tube and raised her hand to summon the Magic Pen.
As a membrane material to contain gas, it must be light, soft, tough, and able to be melted at high temperature. Based on her past experience, she chose the wood shavings coating as the material. This was also the result of hundreds of tests. The sky coating was too flexible, while the water wave coating was particularly fire-resistant. When she was collecting raw materials, she noticed the wood shavings left behind by the carpenters. That was when she found the most ideal painting material.
Unlike Lucia, who could decompose the metal elements and remelt them in any proportion, she had to refer to the real object and draw it. At the same time, she could not remember the magic power characteristics of thousands of materials, so the simplest way was to make a color card. When she wanted to use it, she could choose the coating on the color card to apply it on a large scale.
Of course, for the common coating like the inner tube and the outer tube, she could directly draw it without referring to the color card.
The Magic Pen gradually widened, and in the end, with Soroya as the center, it expanded to about six meters. When she used the limit of ten meters to paint, the magic power in the periphery would easily go out of control. In order to ensure the uniform quality of the coating, she would rather spend more time painting.
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In less than two hours, the forty square meters of paper was completely coated with a layer of wood shavings. Of course, it was not real wood shavings. It was just like when she painted according to steel, the coating she got was not steel. Hardness and flexibility could not be balanced. No matter how hard the coating was, it could not be compared to stone, and it would break like glass.
In addition to the wood shavings, Soroya also painted her name on it as a signature. This was also a painter's tradition. Originally, she only wrote her name on the lower right corner of the coating, but later she found that after the coating was cut, her name could only appear on one inner tube. So, she decided to play around and painted her signature everywhere. In this way, no matter how it was cut, the words "Soroya's work" could be seen. At first, when His Highness found out, she was a little flustered. She thought she would be scolded, but His Highness smiled and called her the inventor of the watermark, and even praised her.
Although she did not understand the meaning of the watermark, being praised by His Highness still made Soroya happy for several days. Later, she kept this signature style.
After the coating was completed, the next step was to burn the paper on the back to get the complete raw material of the inner tube. Then, she sent it to the cutting room to cut it into strips, and finally, she used a red-hot soldering iron to melt the joint. Of course, there were specialized workers responsible for this work, so she only needed to finish the initial raw material.
This batch of coating consumed almost one-third of the magic power in her body. Soroya deeply felt the effect of training on magic power. In the past, finishing such a large amount of coating at once was enough to exhaust her. While it was still early, she said goodbye to Ji Li and went alone to the backyard of the North Slope Mine.
After entering the mountain road, there was a sentry post almost every hundred meters, and a hidden fort and watchtower were set up at the entrance of the yard. Even the Lord's castle did not have such a tight security.
Under the salute of the soldiers, Soroya entered the yard and saw Anna cutting strange parts – no matter when she came here, she would always finish her work meticulously. Looking at her focused figure, Soroya suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Apart from talent, at least in the degree of seriousness, she was far behind Anna. At the same time, she was also a little envious. Whether it was ability, dedication, or relationship with His Highness, Anna was the best among the witches.
"Oh, Sister Soroya, you're here." On the other side, Lucia heard Soroya's footsteps and looked up with a bright smile.
Anna also put down the parts in her hands and waved at her. "Today's copper wire package also troubled you."
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