Chapter 61 Production Accident
"Impossible, the dead cannot be resurrected, this is an iron law."
"After a person dies, his soul will dissipate. This is irreversible, and no amount of vitality can do that."
"My Lord, do you want to resurrect the dead?"
Ash's expression turned serious.
Because the Banshees have the innate ability of the symbiotic contract, their perception of souls is much clearer than that of other races.
"If it is a simple physical death, such as the fishman whose vitality was drained due to the contract signed before, it can still be saved."
"For example, if you inject a large amount of vitality into it, you can recover quickly without any side effects. Before you signed the contract with the other banshees in the cave, your vitality was almost drained, but you recovered quickly."
"The opposite of that is the death of the soul."
"Once the soul is dead, no means can save it."
"Even if I'm resurrected, I won't be the same soul as before."
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The mind link fell silent again.
"What if"
"I mean if"
"The soul has been transferred to another place, is it possible for the body to be resurrected?"
"It is impossible, Lord. The soul cannot exist independently from the body. The soul and the body of a mortal are inseparable."
"What about the extraordinary ones?"
"I have no idea."
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"But I have a guess."
"What?"
"A soul that can exist alone in the world must be a god."
Ash thought he heard a sigh.
After a while, another message came through the mind link: "Ash, I need to ask you a favor."
"Go to the deep sea, the abyss, and bring me some pollution."
"I always have a feeling that the pollution in the deep sea is different from other pollution."
"Our life pool is large enough now. You don't have to worry too much about the loss of life force from those who leave the contract."
Pollution? She frowned. That kind of thing could no longer threaten the banshees. After signing a contract with Xius, all the life force flowing through him would be purified by an inexplicable force.
But what's the point of studying that kind of thing? She didn't understand, but she was willing to obey.
Ash nodded and wanted to leave, but after a moment's hesitation, he opened the mind link again and replied: "Got it."
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With a complicated expression, Zeus closed the mind link and looked up at the clerical manager in front of him.
"Well, please continue."
Alexei looked at him strangely, wondering why his lord seemed to be more and more distracted recently.
He took out his notes and flipped through them:
"The soap production is very successful. We started to use olives to press oil when we renovated the workshop. Now we use olive oil to make soap directly. We already have the first batch of finished products. I sent two boxes here before."
“The olive oil reserves are running low, right?”
"Yes, I have already sent more people to level the road, and there will be improvements by then."
"The school's courses have officially started. Currently, most people register for night classes. Not many people come for daytime classes. Adults on the island usually have to work. As for children, people are still not very comfortable letting them come to school alone, but the situation is slowly improving."
"The above is good news, but there are also some troubles."
"First, there are those secret workshops, you know, where nitroglycerin is made."
Hughes nodded. Although he had not yet started the formal preparation of nitroglycerin, he still set up a workshop to experiment and let the craftsmen go through the process to see if there would be any problems.
“We didn’t actually put the materials in, we just had the craftsmen try to do it according to the standard process, and we ran into too many problems.”
"First, the craftsmen are unwilling to accept your operating protection procedures, such as the finished product cannot be greatly bumped. They stubbornly believe that it is enough to follow the traditional winemaking methods."
"Have you told them how dangerous these things are?"
"Yes, we have people to supervise them. They are very obedient when they are being watched, but once there is no one around, they do whatever is convenient for them. Some even deliberately violate the rules when there are many people around to show that they are very brave."
"This kind of thing also happened in the soap workshop. Some craftsmen did not follow the regulations for the sake of convenience. Several people were burned, but fortunately none of them were serious."
Hughes sighed.
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That's why he insisted on opening the school first.
This kind of thing can easily happen if one does not receive basic education and has no basic understanding of the industry.
Because they don’t understand, they lack reverence; because they know nothing, they don’t care much about their own lives. If they want to upgrade their industry, education is always the most important link.
Even when you see a boiling hot pot, people get hurt because they try to save trouble, let alone something as dangerous as nitroglycerin, which is invisible.
Nobel himself had many accidents.
The last time Zeus came, the factory owners in the Rhine directly used human lives to fill the factories. With so many deaths, they naturally felt awe. Not to mention whether this was humane, Zeus ran an explosives workshop. If something went wrong, everyone would be killed.
Given the current situation, he was completely unable to trust these craftsmen to take on slightly more complicated production processes.
"Let's temporarily seal up that workshop. Also, in the soap workshop, repeatedly publicize the story of the injured craftsman so that others can learn from it. The injured should receive timely treatment, and we will pay for the treatment this time."
"We need to formulate new reward and punishment measures. If workers do not follow the rules, they will be deducted from their wages. The reward measures must also keep up, and workers should be organized to learn. This trend cannot continue."
"Since not many people come to school during the day, slow down the classes. I'll talk to Zoe."
Zoe is now teaching people to read at school. Because she is very patient and teaches well, she has received unanimous praise and is the one who basically teaches the daytime classes.
"What about the nitroglycerin thing?"
"Let's do this for now. We'll focus on making soap for now, so let's put that aside for now."
Alexei nodded and left. He didn't dare to let the craftsmen continue to produce nitroglycerin. He had seen the power of this thing.
The study was empty, and Hughes sat in a chair, lost in thought.
"At the moment, it seems more appropriate to let the Banshees take charge of the nitroglycerin workshop."
“They don’t have the stubbornness and arrogance of craftsmen, and they are still cautious about the production process.”
"Besides, we have the symbiotic contract. Even if we get injured, our lives won't be in danger."
"We just need to find a place to set up a new workshop."
Hughes sighed.
The underground cave where the banshees are now located has good confidentiality, but it is not suitable for the manufacture of explosives.
An underground explosion would almost certainly cause a collapse, and those buried underneath would not necessarily be saved even by the symbiotic contract.
What's more, his manor is above this underground cave. Suddenly, he thought of something and his eyes lit up.
"I remember Chloe said that the Candlelight Society was going to exile a group of skilled workers here?"
(End of this chapter)