Extraordinary Puppeteer

Chapter 338 This is the best of times, but also the worst of times
The extensive use of steam core technology has directly eliminated the traditional employment model, and a large number of jobs have been completely replaced by automated robots such as 'spiders'.

Countless workers who did not even have the opportunity to receive basic education lost their jobs overnight and starved to death because they could no longer find work.

The irony is that before they were fired, most of them were paid meager wages, working more than twelve hours a day, and working in groups of two in 24-hour shifts throughout the year.

In the factory where the machinery is roaring, people are sweating and doing heavy physical work that is dirty and tiring, and there is a risk of injury or even amputation at any time.

But even if they are still alive, after the automation revolution, those who cannot read and count will never find a job again.

It wasn't until countries set up an organization called the poorhouse in order to curb the same crazy expansion of cult groups and exponentially increasing numbers of evil things, that the bottom people once again got a chance to survive.

That era was also an era when various cult groups made great profits.

Countless low-level people who could not survive either joined the cult group for one bite, or their bodies and souls were harvested by the cultists after death.

And more unemployed workers either had extreme negative emotions during their lifetime, or turned into evil spirits with deep resentment after death.

Extreme negative emotions are a breeding ground for evil things. For a time, demons danced wildly in the mortal world. People and ghosts were all on show, and only the untouchables were in despair.

It's exactly what the saying goes - it's the best of times, and it's also the worst of times.

After several years of fermentation, the aristocrats of various countries realized that the number of evil spirits wandering in the city seemed to be a little bit more.

At this time, they reluctantly pinched their noses and plucked out a hair from their wealth, and set up a welfare institution that allowed these untouchables to barely survive.

In this way, the untouchables can survive, all countries and extraordinary organizations are making a lot of money, and the cult group is too busy digesting the benefits and has no time to make trouble.

Everything is so happy, as if a peaceful and prosperous age has arrived.

But at this time, everyone still doesn't know that the seeds of destruction have taken root and are growing vigorously.

Since the birth of Lieyang and Invisible Fire, they have been purifying the souls of the dead in the world. This has been taken for granted by everyone, but they don't know that Si Chen also has limits.

Countless lives died in the mortal world and countless resentful souls were born. It takes two ministers to purify the resentful souls, otherwise the whole world would have been filled with evil spirits.

However, since the start of the automation revolution, the average number of resentful souls born every moment has increased tenfold and hundreds of times, which has placed a heavy burden on the two ministers and made them a little bit overwhelmed.

The massive pollution caused by too many resentful souls can't be seen in a short period of time, but after a long time, even Si Chen can't bear so many resentful souls.

With the accumulation of pollution day by day, the number of evil spirits in the mortal world and the spirit world is increasing. Although this growth rate is not obvious, after more than 40 years of fermentation, even a fool can realize that something is wrong.

Soon, everyone discovered that there was a problem with Lieyang and the invisible fire. If it continues to develop like this, it will fall sooner or later.

However, very few people paid attention to this situation. Si Chen died as soon as he died. After all, it was just that there were more evil spirits, so it was no big deal.

Could it be that in order to help the two ministers reduce their burden, they were asked to cut their flesh to support those untouchables, so that these guys who died and would not live in peace would smile at Jiuquan and not degenerate into evil spirits?
How can it be!

When there was no Si Chen to purify evil spirits in the first era, didn't the mortal world and the spirit world come over well, what's the fuss about?

Many people even ridiculed the two Sichens as idiots in their hearts. It's just that there are a little more evil spirits in the mortal world. Is it necessary to not even care about their own lives?
So various countries and extraordinary organizations in the world continued to play music and dance, until one year before the Ice and Steam Calendar, the Fierce Sun and the Intangible God finally fell.

At the moment of their fall, even almost [-]% of the extraordinary people in the world belched in an instant, either dying suddenly or turning into evil things.

Most of these transcendental beings are wild transcendental beings, and they are all secret traditions of cultivation based on the two Si Chens.

Almost completely unaware that the two Si Chens of the Holy Spirit Path had a problem and did not find a way to switch to the secret biography in time, and were directly implicated in the fall of their own source.

In an instant, Fan Chen directly exploded the pot, and a real group of demons danced.

But this is just another carnival feast for the various forces that have long anticipated this situation and made full preparations.

Evil things are resources for the strong, and no one thinks they have too many resources.

And when all the forces were happily harvesting a large number of evil things, someone finally noticed something was wrong and realized that something was wrong.

One month after the death of the two Sichens, a sudden cold wave swept the whole world.

From the spiritual world to the mortal world, from the New World to the boundless sea and then to the Old World, the temperature in all places dropped rapidly to minus twenty degrees in one day.

Countless poor and low-level civilians froze to death on the street suddenly because of the incident.

While the countries were busy suppressing this matter, they issued announcements to remind the public not to panic. It was just because a cold wave broke out after the death of the two Sichens, and everything would be fine after a while.

And in the next month, the cold wave gradually receded, which made everyone feel relieved. Although the temperature is still low, in the eyes of most people, this is a good sign, and it will be better after a while .

But all the demigods and blood gods already felt that something was wrong.

Many of them have predicted that within about two years of the Sixth Era (the Second Era only has six hours, so there are only six months in a year), there will be a terrible cold wave. A great cold wave capable of destroying all life in the mortal world!
This news quickly swept through the entire mortal world, and everyone panicked and regretted it at the same time.

If they had known that the fall of the two Sichens would cause such serious consequences, they certainly would not have let those damned untouchables fend for themselves.

It is too late to say anything at this point, all countries and extraordinary organizations have taken action, allocating resources everywhere, and at the same time moving a large number of direct descendants into the spirit world.

But the population is too large, and the spirit world can only carry a small part, so they still have to prepare in the mortal world.

Different forces have developed different plans.

The Wellington Empire, where the Xinjia settlement is located, has designed an energy tower powered by a steam core, which is the giant steam tower of the Xinjia settlement.

The energy tower only needs to burn fossil fuels such as coal mines to supply a huge amount of heat, and the conversion efficiency is close to perfect.

As a result, more than 300 high-quality coal mine locations began to be built, and a basin with a diameter of several kilometers was forcibly created by a legendary strong man.

The settlements are built in these artificially excavated basins, and each settlement is designed to accommodate ten thousand people. The nearby coal mines are mined for heating, and supplemented by specially designed greenhouse plantations to produce food to achieve self-sufficiency.

At this time, the 'untouchables' who were in numbness and despair were forced to be stuffed into steam locomotives as labor force and went to work in various basins under the double threat of death from nature and the strong.

Countless factories worked overtime to produce energy towers and other functional building components in settlements, and one master after another was working day and night to create the steam core.

Just when everything was going according to the plans of these countries and extraordinary organizations, an accident happened.

The cultists spread the news crazily in the dark, letting a worker know a desperate fact.

The settlement they are building with their own hands will never allow untouchables like themselves to live in it. When the settlement is completed, their fate is to die, and their flesh and soul will become the extraordinary material reserves of those nobles.

After learning this desperate fact, these workers who had been silent for a lifetime finally broke out crazily.

Anyway, it's a dead word no matter what, so what are you afraid of?
Even in the face of the gods, they have to bite off a piece of meat!

(End of this chapter)