Wasteland Development Diary

"You have to work hard and diligently, Xiao Tai, only then will you have food to eat."

Mother often reminded me like this.

In Wang Tai's memory, she was always busy.

Mother cleaned for those wealthy families, wiping the floors spotless, making the glass crystal clear, and washing clothes clean.

Everyone liked her very much.

After Father died in the mining area, Mother worked even harder.

One day, while she was wiping the floor, she suddenly fell to the ground, and then she could never straighten her back again, only able to lie in bed.

The doctor said that she had nerve paralysis due to overwork, with severe damage to her whole body, and could not recover.

From that day on, Mother began a long period of rest.

Wang Tai worked in the mining area.

In Steel Refinery City, as long as you were willing to put in the effort, being a miner could always get you a meal.

Sometimes, looking at the dust-covered mines, the dirty men and women swinging pickaxes, and the endless black smoke spewing from the chimneys, he would think, everyone is really working hard.

Why does everyone have to work so hard, day and night, to the point of back pain, and even becoming disabled?

Different people have different answers.

"Of course, it's to earn more money to drink, that's how life is, it's great to have a drink."

"To find women, find women!"

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

"To get a house in a better location, so there aren't people urinating and defecating everywhere outside, and you don't smell of feces and urine when you go out."

"Just live like this, there's no other way."

……

Wang Tai couldn't find the answer.

One day, Mother suddenly said, "Don't work so hard, just live, don't ruin your body."

Wang Tai nodded.

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

Wang Tai became all alone.

He could almost see his future fate, either becoming his father, dying in the mine, or becoming his mother, suddenly unable to move.

Wang Tai was muddle-headed for a long time, and he became lazier and lazier, as if something holding him together had snapped.

Until one day, the workers in the mining area talked about something.

"We are now allied with Shell City, Sandport City, and Wasteland Development Company, it's called the Development Alliance, we are all our own people."

"Why not go to the company and try our luck? I heard they pay high wages."

"I heard it's not easy to get in, there are tens of thousands of people in Sandport City, probably all waiting for that opportunity, how can it be our turn?"

"You also have to take a boat to get there, the boat fare is not cheap, with this money, it's better to buy more firewood and beans."

……

Everyone had their concerns, but Wang Tai went directly.

He was already tired of the mining area.

After arriving at the port of Sandport City by boat, Wang Tai carried his bag and walked all the way from the dam to Emerald City.

Along the way, he saw shuttle buses coming and going, aquaculture platforms standing on the Dead Sea like giant ships, and many mushroom people running around there, they raise shellfish and fish, but unfortunately, they don't hire people.

The fact was just as the miners said, the Soot Dam had not recruited people for a long time.

Wang Tai built a shed outside Emerald City to live in, he had some copper coins on him, and wouldn't starve to death.

This period of time without work was especially relaxing and leisurely for him.

Sleeping until he woke up naturally, after waking up, he would walk around, look at the flowers and plants, or go to the stalls outside Emerald City to listen to everyone's bragging and chatting.

The people here spoke nicely, everyone was very energetic and happy, unlike the miners who were always frowning.

The only problem was that the money in his pocket was getting less and less.

Living outside Emerald City every day still gave Wang Tai a lot of first-hand information, when the stalls were cooking food, the local workers would talk about the company's recent situation.

One of them was very important.

The Wasteland Development Company's express delivery center was developing extremely fast, recruiting a large number of people to go in, and they had to be sent to various city outposts.

However, they currently only recruit internally from Soot workers, not externally.

Some workers flowed into the better-paid express delivery center, so there were job vacancies.

Wang Tai went to the Soot Dam every day, where there was a small house that would announce the latest dam situation.

Sure enough.

The next day, the people in the small house declared to the outside world that they would recruit another group of Soot workers.

Relying on being close and getting news quickly, Wang Tai got a spot.

Soot workers have a monthly salary of 6000 Gu, and there are no special restrictions on working hours, the main assessment is the amount of Soot sand collected.

If the amount is enough, you can come for one day a month, if it's not enough, you have to work every day and still get money deducted.

Having gotten used to the high intensity of the mining area, working here, Wang Tai felt it was too easy.

But soon, he discovered a troublesome thing.

He had become a lazy person.

It wasn't that he couldn't do it, he just simply procrastinated and didn't want to do it.

Even though he could earn far more money than in the past, and even had luxurious housing in Emerald City to live in for free, he still didn't want to do it.

Sitting at the window workstation on the dam, he always couldn't help but be lazy and daze off.

The more superior the environment, the less he wanted to work.

He kept fighting with his inner self.

I will definitely be serious tomorrow!

What a pity today.

Cheer up, I can't be lazy anymore!

Getting the net is so troublesome...

Next time, next time for sure.

……

That's how he muddled through to the end of the month.

Of course, the amount of Soot sand Wang Tai collected was far from meeting the standard.

As a newcomer to the dam, if he couldn't reach the basic amount, he might be fired.

Wang Tai panicked at this time.

He began to rack his brains, thinking about how to gather enough quantity.

However, it is strictly forbidden to trade privately on the dam, and if it is verified, the company will never hire you, so everyone dares not touch this line.

While Wang Tai was desperately scooping the net, he was pondering how to gather enough quantity.

Finally, he came up with an idea.

Wang Tai modified the net.

This method came from the scallop cages on the aquaculture platform, which are connected by a string of cages, with many scallops in each layer.

Based on the scallop cage structure, he added levers and rockers commonly used in the mining area.

In the Steel Refinery City's mining area, miners use this tool to pry stones and turn stone wheel carts.

The combination of the two became a simple hand-cranked windmill.

Wang Tai could only treat it as a dead horse.

He put this thing into the Dead Sea through the work window, shaking the rocker, so that the wooden pieces above rotated, driving the net to collect and catch.

However, after he fished it up, he saw that there was not much ore residue in the net, because the linen itself would roll inside and outside, like long hair blown by the wind, it was difficult not to be scattered.

The two workmates next to him advised him, "Don't do these things, just work hard."

"Xiao Wang, if you don't hurry up, you don't want this job, do you? There are still a bunch of people staring outside, why are you doing these useless things?"

"Like Bone Man Jacob and Awei, working steadily is the right way here for us."

"Why don't you understand?"

……

Wang Tai did not give up.

He believed that as long as the net was made smaller, the problem of rolling could be solved, just like cutting your hair short and not being afraid of being blown by the wind.

Mainly there was no other way.

Wang Tai changed the big net pocket into three small net pockets, fixed on each rotating wooden piece.

He sank the tool into the Dead Sea, nervously turning the rocker, and then counted 120 times, using the rope to fish up the tool below.

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The net pocket really stored Soot sand, although the amount was not much, but it was enough to prove that this was feasible!

Wang Tai was immediately excited and began 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 on the top and bottom, and each set of fan blades can drive 3 small net pockets, and the collection efficiency is 3 times that of ordinary net pockets.

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

He simply made another rope structure, directly pulling the rocker, you can pull the net below all the way to the bucket filled with water.

After shaking off the Soot, he shook the rocker to send them back to the Dead Sea in a circle.

So reciprocating cycle.

Turning the rocker can complete the collection work.

Wang Tai only needs to sit in a chair, sunbathe, and calculate the time to shake the rocker.

This tool group helped him quickly reach his share.

The workmates no longer ridiculed him, but asked him to make the same device.

The dam leader Yuan Tong also specially found Wang Tai, and talked to him about the popularization of this tool, and said that he would ask for credit for him.

……

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

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

The black-haired young man said with a serious face: "Thank you for your ingenuity, which has made the company better developed."

The other party extended his hand to him.

Wang Tai shook hands with this mysterious chairman in a bit of a panic.

100 Light Seeds, converted into Gu is... 10,000 Gu?!!

The reward is so big!

Wang Tai was more surprised and dazed, feeling very unreal.

The chairman gave him a Light Nax and a gold: "This is 99 Light Nax Seeds, and 100 gold, keep it safe."

"Okay... okay!"

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

He really became rich overnight, possessing huge wealth that would allow him to live a worry-free life even if he was lazy every day.

"I have a question."

The chairman said with a smile: "What is the reason you invented this tool?"

Wang Tai was speechless for a while.

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

"...If it weren't for my mother's advice, there would be no this tool."

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

Zhou Yi was not disappointed, but showed an approving look on his face: "You have a very good mother, she is right, health is the first priority.

I don't think laziness is worthless either."

"The various tools we use are made to be more convenient and labor-saving.

It is precisely because everyone wants to be lazy that they hope that tools can replace us and complete the labor procedures that we were supposed to undertake."

"To some extent, laziness is the fuel that drives our human progress."

"Enjoy your deserved wealth, I hope that in the company, there can be more people like you who can live a healthy and happy life without having to work so hard."

Wang Tai suddenly felt a little sad.

It would be great if my mother was here too.

"Thank you, Chairman."

"Give this tool a name, this is the privilege of the inventor."

Wang Tai thought for a while: "Let's call it the Hardworking Machine.

Let the machine work hard for us."

……

Since then.

The atmosphere on the dam has gradually changed.

In the past, the workers took the former Bone Man Jacob as their goal, and worked hard to fill up their time every day.

But when Wang Tai won the first prize of the 'Wasteland Invention Award' of 100 Light Seeds and became rich overnight, everyone was thinking about making new tools.

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

Everyone would get together to discuss and exchange experiences, and when they were free, they would tinker with wood and stones, wanting to make something out.

Wherever Wang Tai went, everyone looked at him with envious eyes.

"Brother Wang, is there anything new recently?"

"Don't forget about us poor brothers..."

"Brother Wang, Brother Wang, what do you think of this one of mine? Is there a chance to win a prize?"

……

Wang Tai didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

In the company, he had a new title: Inventor.

Wang Tai found that he had earned enough money to live a worry-free life, but instead lost the laziness of his previous mixed eating and waiting for death, as if he had been injected with a strange motivation.

This is very strange.

It was as if something in his body had been suddenly stimulated, making him want to create more and better new tools, so that everyone could be freed from heavy work, and even if they worked easily, they could live.

There would be no more fathers who died in mining disasters, and no more mothers who were paralyzed from overwork.

Without the pressure of survival, he began to focus more on improving the Hardworking Machine.

Wang Tai sometimes looked at the other end of the Dead Sea, which was the direction of Steel Refinery City, his dirty and unforgettable hometown.

Mom.

I'm not working so hard, I'm living well, and my body is not broken either.

Just miss you.