Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 188 Desperate

"You have to work hard, Xiaotai, so that you can have food to eat."

My mother often reminds me of this.

Wang Tai remembers that she was always busy. She cleaned for the rich families, scrubbing the floors spotlessly, wiping the glass crystal clear, and washing the clothes. Everyone liked her very much.

After my father died in the mine, my mother worked even harder.

One day, she was mopping the floor when she suddenly fell to the ground. She could no longer straighten her back and had to lie on the bed.

The doctor said that she suffered nerve paralysis due to overwork and her whole body was severely damaged and could not recover.

From this day on, my mother began a long rest.

Wang Tai worked in the mining area. In the steel-making city, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can always earn a living as a miner.

Sometimes, looking at the dusty mines, the dirty men and women swinging pickaxes, and the endless black smoke spewing out of the chimneys, he would think to himself how hard everyone works.

Why do everyone have to work so hard, day and night, suffering from back pain, or even becoming disabled?

Different people have different answers.

"Of course it's to make more money to drink. That's life. Just drink some wine and you'll be fine."

"Looking for a woman, looking for a woman!"

"My child has just been born. I have to raise him well so that he won't be like me."

"Get a house in a better location, so that there won't be people peeing and pooping everywhere outside, and the smell of poop and pee will be everywhere when you go out."

"Just live like this, there is no other way."

……

Wang Tai couldn't find the answer.

One day, my mother suddenly said, "Don't work so hard. Just stay alive. Don't damage your body."

Wang Tai nodded.

However, when he returned to the smelly house again, his mother had committed suicide with broken pottery.

Wang Tai became a lonely man.

He could almost see his future fate: either he would become a father and die in the mines, or he would become a mother and suddenly become unable to move.

Wang Tai was in a daze for a long time, and he became more and more lazy, as if something that was holding him up had broken.

Until one day, the workers in the mine talked about something.

"We are now in alliance with Shell City, Sand Harbor City, and the Wasteland Development Company. It's called the Development Alliance. We are all one family."

"Why don't you try your luck at the company? I heard they pay well."

"I heard it's not easy to get in. There are tens of thousands of people in Shagang City, probably all waiting for their chance. Will it be our turn?"

"You have to take a boat in the past, and the boat fare is not cheap. You might as well use the money to buy more firewood and beans."

……

Everyone had their own concerns, but Wang Tai went straight away.

He was tired of the mining area.

After taking a boat all the way to the port of Shagang City, Wang Tai, carrying his bag, walked all the way from the dam to the Emerald City.

Along the way, he saw shuttle buses coming and going, and a breeding platform standing on the Dead Sea that looked like a giant ship. Many mushroom people were running around there. They raised shells and fish, but unfortunately they were not hiring people.

The fact is just as the miners said, Guangxu Dam has not recruited anyone for a long time.

Wang Tai built a shed outside the Jade City and lived there. He had some copper coins on him, so he was able to survive.

During this period of time when he had no work to do, he felt particularly relaxed and leisurely.

Sleep until you wake up naturally, then walk around and look at the flowers and plants, or go to the stalls in Emerald City to listen to people bragging and chatting. The people here speak very nicely, and everyone is energetic and happy, unlike the workers in the mining area who are always frowning.

The only problem is that there is less and less money in my pocket.

Sleeping outside the Emerald City every day allowed Wang Tai to get a lot of first-hand information. While the stalls were cooking food, the local workers would talk about the company's latest developments.

One of them is very important.

The express delivery center of the Wasteland Development Company has developed very quickly, recruiting a large number of people to send them to various cities. However, they are currently only recruiting from the workers of the Light Soot, not from outside.

Some workers moved to express delivery centers with better treatment, leaving vacancies at work.

Wang Tai goes to Guangqi Dam every day. There is a small house there where the latest situation of the dam is announced.

as predicted.

The next day, the people in the hut announced that they would recruit another group of soot workers.

Thanks to the close proximity and fast news, Wang Tai got a spot.

The monthly salary of the soot workers is 6000 yuan, and there is no special limit on the working hours. The main assessment is the amount of soot sand collected. If the amount is enough, you can come one day a month. If it is not enough, you will be deducted for working every day.

Accustomed to the high intensity of work in the mining area, Wang Tai feels that working here is really easy.

But soon, he discovered something troublesome.

I have become a lazy person.

It’s not that I can’t do it, it’s that I simply procrastinate and don’t want to do it.

Even though he could earn much more money than before and live in a luxurious house in Emerald City for free, he still didn't want to do it. Sitting at the window station of the dam, he always couldn't help being lazy and dazed.

The better the environment, the less willing one is to work.

He was constantly fighting with himself.

I must be serious tomorrow!
What a pity today.

Cheer up, don't be lazy anymore!
It's so troublesome to get a network...

Next time, next time for sure.

……

This is how I got to the end of the month.

Naturally, the amount of soot sand collected by Wang Tai is still far from meeting the standard.

As a newcomer to the company, if you fail to reach the basic level, you may be fired.

Wang Tai panicked at this time.

He began to rack his brains, thinking about how to get enough. However, private transactions are strictly prohibited on the dam. If found out, the company will never hire you again, so no one dared to touch this line.

While Wang Tai was desperately fishing with the net, he was thinking about how to get enough fish.

Finally he came up with an idea.

Wang Tai modified the net. This method originated from the scallop cages on the breeding platform, where a string of cages are connected by ropes, and there are many shells in each layer.

Based on the scallop cage structure, he added levers and rockers commonly used in mining areas. Miners in the Fullmetal Mine used such tools to pry rocks and steer wheeled carts loaded with rocks.

When the two are combined, they become a simple hand-cranked windmill.

Wang Tai had no choice but to try his luck.

He put this thing into the Dead Sea through the working window, shook the joystick, and made the several wooden pieces on it rotate, driving the net to collect and catch fish.

However, after he fished it out, he found that there was not much slag in the net, because the burlap itself would roll inside out, just like long hair blown by the wind, it was hard not to be messy. The two workers next to him advised him: "Don't bother with these, just work hard and it's over."

"Xiao Wang, why don't you hurry up and do your job? Don't you want this job? There are a lot of people watching you outside, and you are still doing these useless things."

"Like Jacob and Ah Wei, we should do it in a down-to-earth manner. This is the right way for us."

"Why don't you understand, kid?"

……

But Wang Tai didn't give up.

He thought that as long as the net was made smaller, the curling problem could be solved, just like cutting your hair short without having to worry about it being messed up by the wind.

There is basically no other way.

Wang Tai changed the big net bag into three small net bags, which were fixed on each rotating wooden piece.

He sank the tools into the Dead Sea, nervously turned the joystick, counted to 120, and used a rope to pull the tools up from below.

There was indeed some light soot sand in the net. Although the amount was not large, it was enough to prove that this was feasible!
Wang Tai suddenly became excited and started to debug further.

After working hard for a day and a night, he finally completed this simple tool.

It has three sets of fan blades, each set of fan blades can drive three small nets, and the collection efficiency is three times that of ordinary nets.

As long as Wang Tai shakes one side of the joystick, the modified net blades will rotate in the Dead Sea. When he shakes the other side of the joystick, he can drive the rope to pull the net back to the window.

He simply built a rope structure and pulled the lever to pull the net down to the bucket of water. After shaking off the soot, he used the lever to make a circle and send it back to the Dead Sea.

This cycle goes back and forth.

Just turn the joystick to complete the collection work.

All Wang Tai needs to do is sit on a chair, bask in the sun, calculate the time and fiddle with the joystick.

This toolset helped him reach his share quickly.

His fellow workers no longer teased him, but instead asked him to make the same device.

The dam manager Yuan Tong also specifically found Wang Tai and discussed with him the popularization of this tool, and said he would recommend him for credit.

……

What Wang Tai didn't expect was that Chairman Zhou Yi actually found him directly.

"Congratulations, you are the first person to win the Wasteland Invention Award. According to our evaluation, your invention will increase the output of the entire Light Soot Dam by at least 3 times, so we finally rated it as the first prize, with a prize of 100 Light Seeds."

The black-haired young man said seriously: "Thank you for your intelligence and talent, which has enabled the company to develop better."

The other person held out his hand to him.

Wang Tai shook hands with the mysterious chairman in a hurry.

100 light seeds, if converted into mushrooms, would be... 1 million mushrooms? ! !
The reward is huge!

Wang Tai was more shocked and confused, and felt it was very unreal.

The chairman handed him a light box and a piece of gold: "This is 99 light seeds and 100 gold, keep it."

"Good... good!"

Holding the heavy gold and looking at the numbers in the light box, Wang Tai realized that he was not dreaming, this was real.

I really became rich overnight and had such huge wealth that I could never worry about food and clothing even if I was lazy every day.

"I have a question."

The chairman smiled and said, "Why did you invent this tool?"

Wang Tai was speechless for a moment.

He hesitated for a long time, but finally told the truth.

“…If it weren’t for my mother’s advice, there wouldn’t be this tool.”

"It's a bit embarrassing to say this, but in the final analysis, I just wanted to be lazy and had no choice but to make this thing by chance."

Zhou Yi was not disappointed. Instead, he showed an approving look on his face: "You have a good mother. She is right. Health comes first. I don't think laziness is worthless."

"All the tools we use are made to make things easier and save effort. It is precisely because everyone wants to be lazy that they hope to have tools to do the work for us."

"In a way, laziness is the fuel that drives our human progress."

"Enjoy the wealth you deserve. I hope that in the company, there will be more people like you who can live a healthy and happy life without working so hard."

Wang Tai suddenly felt a little sad.

It would be nice if my mother were here too.

"Thank you, Chairman."

"Give this tool a name. It is the inventor's prerogative."

Wang Tai thought for a moment and said, "Let's call it the Desperate Machine. Let the machine do the hard work for us."

……

Since.

The atmosphere on the dam gradually changed.

In the past, the workers took Jacob, the former skeleton, as their goal and worked hard every day. But when Wang Tai won the first prize of the "Wasteland Invention Award" with 100 light seeds and became rich overnight, everyone was thinking about making new tools.

The entire dam project began to gradually transform from working hard to working more cleverly.

When they have nothing to do, they get together to discuss and exchange experiences. When they have free time, they will tinker with wood and stone to make something.

Wherever Wang Tai went, everyone looked at him with envy.

"Brother Wang, is there anything new recently?"

"Don't forget us poor guys..."

"Brother Wang, Brother Wang, what do you think of mine? Do I have a chance to win a prize?"

……

Wang Tai was a little amused.

In the company, he has a new title: inventor.

Wang Tai discovered that he had earned enough money to live a life of ease and comfort, but he no longer had the laziness of living a life of idleness and waiting to die. It was as if he had been injected with a strange motivation.

This is weird.

It was as if something in his body was suddenly stimulated, making him want to make more and better new tools, so that everyone could be freed from the heavy work and live even if they worked lightly. There would no longer be fathers who died in mining disasters, and mothers who were paralyzed by overwork.

Without the pressure of survival, he began to devote himself more fully to improving the machine.

Sometimes Wang Tai would look towards the other side of the Dead Sea, which was the direction of Steel City, his dirty but unforgettable hometown.

mom.

I don't work that hard, I live a good life and my health is not bad.

Just thinking of you guys.

(End of this chapter)