Chapter 308 Let the tide of industry overwhelm everything.
Castel.
The furnace under the cathedral was finally completed. According to the originally scheduled construction period, now should be the time to start igniting the fire, but plans cannot keep up with changes, and the Pirate King has been burning in the furnace for a long time.
Today, the last cover plate of the furnace roof has been put on, and this furnace, which is the largest in Castell's history and should be the largest in the world, has finally officially started operation.
Although the previous furnace started burning, it did not run subsequent equipment. First, the pipelines had not been fully constructed. After all, the planning of this part followed the main body of the furnace. Second, the operating mode within the factory had not yet been changed.
This completion ceremony can be said to be announcing the complete end of the deep-sea war. Castel can no longer have any worries and begin to expand outward.
Therefore, after the basic debugging of the equipment was completed, except for some workers who maintained its operation, almost all the remaining islanders gathered in the main church.
The cathedral was originally designed to be extremely large, and the central patio became the best viewing platform after the ceiling was removed. The crusaders and banshees were busy maintaining order, and the engineers were doing the final debugging.
The new newspaper members led by Nini are randomly interviewing the onlookers and writing news reports with exaggeration - since Nini learned about starting a newspaper, she has shown 300% of her enthusiasm.
In order to compete for the position of reporter, the other banshees were also very competitive. From reporting style to eye-catching headlines, the banshees quickly iterated multiple versions. After Nini successfully ran for the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, the manuscripts they wrote made Xius feel familiar after reading them.
Banshees are so good at this. Banshees seem to be good at everything.
There is no way. The mind link makes this race incredibly efficient in communication, and communication is the cornerstone of all progress.
In addition to the banshees, many crusaders also watched the ceremony in military uniforms.
In the previous battles, the Crusaders did not wear uniform clothing, so every bit of Castel's production capacity was precious and had to be calculated accurately.
Now that the war is over, Zeus can also focus on light industry. The principle of textile machines is not complicated. The mechanics of the Fire Moth have made some improvements based on the textile machines in this world. This batch of military uniforms is the first batch of finished products.
Castel does not produce cotton or wool, but there is still a lot of it in stock in Gem Bay, so Hughes directly pulled it over to make this batch of military uniforms.
Although the shipbuilding progress was still a bit slow, the Skyshroud Behemoth airship was still empty, so Zeus simply sent it to Gem Bay and moved some useful but difficult-to-carry supplies to Castel bit by bit.
At present, sea routes have not been established, and these materials are the first batch of industrial raw materials.
"How are the preparations going?" Hughes asked Alexei beside him.
He recently gave up his duties as chief clerk and began to return to his old job, concentrating on military affairs.
Although the war is over now, there are still many things to do in the training and personnel arrangements of the Crusaders. Today, the work of maintaining order and organizing activities also falls on him.
Alexi was in good spirits. The hardships of war had made him more mature. He said without hesitation, "It's basically done. The representatives of the Skitarii and the Fire Moths have all arrived. The Banshees are all in place as well. The representative of the sacrificed personnel, I mean Chloe, is also dead."
Hughes nodded. This lighting ceremony was not just a simple celebration, but also a comfort to those who died in past wars.
During the entire war, serious casualties only began to occur after the sea water surged up at the end. However, due to the rapid resolution, the number of casualties and missing persons was finally fixed at 219. A full one-fifth of the Crusaders never returned.
Most of these people died in battle, and quite a few of them were left with no trace left - whether it was the fishmen or the sea urchin monsters, they were not something that human flesh and blood could resist head-on.
There were also many casualties among the Fire Moths. Most of them served as political commissars in the Crusaders, a role that did not require them to charge into battle, but they charged faster than anyone else.
It was their existence that allowed Castel to hold on to the end. Even when the sea water surged up and Castel was about to sink, the morale did not collapse. Instead, despair squeezed out the soldiers' instinct for survival, and they held the last line of defense of the cathedral.
The memorial to the victims was erected on the top of the church, which is the place with the best view. Surrounding it is Castres, which is gradually recovering its vitality. I believe that seeing the prosperity of Castres in the future, they will be able to rest in peace.
Chloe's diary was hung on the memorial tablet and her name was engraved on it. Although she strongly opposed it, it was still hung up - her unhesitating sacrifice deserved this honor.
As for Monica, she was not on the viewing platform, but at the furnace below. She was going to perform a ceremony to awaken the machine soul. Although the machine soul in the furnace had already awakened, Monica always felt that it would be more ceremonial if she summoned it again.
Soon all preparations were completed and Hughes stood on the platform.
This is the fourth floor of the cathedral. The original handrails have been removed and replaced with a protruding platform.
Xius looked around and suddenly felt a little dazed.
When he first arrived at the island, it was still barren. The tallest building was his newly built manor, which was three stories high. The sea tax he paid was dried fish and sweet fruit wine.
Now he was standing in a permanent fortification made of reinforced concrete, surrounded by people lying on the guardrails, waving their hats and cheering him on.
The banshees stood in the crowd, laughing and joking, without distinction between each other. The Crusaders were dressed in neat and tidy uniforms, holding shiny bolt-action rifles in their hands.
Farther away, researchers from the Fire Moth were pointing at the gigantic furnace below them. The steam humming in the pipes sounded like a chorus of praise.
Everything has changed, and the utopia he dreamed of has come into this world.
They built factories, fought monsters in the deep sea, touched upon the power of gods, and intervened in disputes on the continent.
Although it has only just started, Castel, the steel giant rising from the sea, has already bared its ferocious fangs.
This is what he wants, this is what he loves. He doesn't want to be a nobleman or a god. He wants to see the spark of industry bloom on the earth and burn in everyone's heart.
Those who are conservative, corrupt, and stubborn, let the torrent of steel crush their corpses.
The sun shone down, illuminating the atrium of the cathedral.
Hughes raised his hands at both sides, as if basking in the sunshine, as if embracing everything.
(End of this chapter)
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