Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 185 Central Furnace
"Yes, we don't have that much time to proceed slowly. You can start working with your staff first, and I will come over when the time comes. Judging from the current situation, the people on the island are quite accepting of you, so there is no need to worry too much."

Una nodded worriedly.

Hughes turned to Alexi in front of him and said, "Tomorrow I will go with the Banshees to the lighting ceremony of the Central Furnace. This will also be the time for them to officially appear before the people of Castel."

For Hughes, Castel's disconnection from the outside world is not only a crisis, but also an opportunity.

Now, no matter what troubles arise from revealing the Banshee's identity, the problem will remain with Caster and will not be affected by the outside world.

Zeus no longer had to consider anyone's opinion. Be it the Empire, the Candlelight Society or the Silent Temple, none of it had anything to do with him. Caster was now just Caster, and when the battle was over and they were able to come in, people would have already gotten used to the presence of the banshees.

The Banshees are an inseparable part of Caster. Zeus cannot abandon these banshees who follow him no matter what. All he can do is to make the best arrangements possible. The rest will depend on tomorrow.

Alexei took the order and left. There was no conversation all night. The next day, Hughes gave all the workers half a day off with pay and organized them to come and watch the lighting ceremony of the central furnace.

The central furnace is located on the west side of the former Candlelight Church, close to the center of Castel Island. It was originally an ordinary hill, but now it has become a huge deep pit. Circles of roads meander downwards. People gather around the deep pit. Although there is no one to maintain order, thousands of people are as quiet as a flower field in the early morning.

The main reason was that everything in front of them was too shocking. The workers seemed to be captivated, staring blankly at the huge metal structure at the bottom of the deep pit.

A giant steel boiler stood at the center of the pit, its twelve riveted beams sunk deep into the rock. Like a newborn beast, the newly constructed iron structure slowly opened its eyes to gaze upon the world.

The spiderweb-like depressions along the pit wall extended to the bottom, 120 meters deep, where puddles of water accumulated from last night's heavy rain. When the stoker pried open the fuel tank, the harsh sound of metal friction made the workers in the front row take a half step back.

The design of the central furnace is not complicated. After all, it is just a large boiler, but the key is that it is large enough.

The islanders may not be able to understand the exquisite design, but the huge outline can conquer them at the first time. For industrial products, size is also part of industrial beauty. Big is beautiful, more is better. There are many people who hold this idea.

And it's really beautiful.

People looked at the densely packed pipes under the huge pit. The metallic-looking pipes were like blood vessels, leading to the huge central furnace, while the other side was hidden in the ground.

This huge furnace was originally just used to burn fuel to provide energy for the guardian inscription, but in line with the principle of efficient utilization, Zeus added a steam chamber to it to utilize its waste heat. In this way, the church above has a lot more steam power available for free. Although he has not yet figured out what to use it for, a redundant design is better than nothing.

The steam engine is not very complicated. Once the turbine blades are successfully manufactured in the future, we may be able to build a power plant directly here.

This is exactly the future cathedral area, a steam church that can generate electricity. It sounds very exciting!
So steam pipes were laid underground, carrying the roar of steel to various places in Castel.

After checking the boiler, the boiler operator waved to the people behind him. They were all students in the advanced class. Ever since Zeus started giving online classes to the banshees, some unexpected things happened. The banshees have now become the best teachers in the advanced class. The reason is that they can store the online course resources on the network of mind connection and read them directly when giving lectures.

Although reading PPT is a teaching method that many people hate, it is really different for students in advanced classes. There is a risk of cognitive interference in this world, and what they need most is absolutely correct knowledge to consolidate their cognition.

So, inexplicably, the Banshees became the teachers of the next few advanced classes. And because they could open a mind link to Zeus on the spot when they encountered something they didn't understand, their popularity among the advanced class students soared. Who could resist a teacher who could answer any question on the spot?
Of course, this made things difficult for Zeus, as he needed to multi-thread and was chased by a group of banshees asking questions. Fortunately, after asking so many questions, the banshees gradually learned how to do it themselves.

In short, in the eyes of the advanced class students, the status of the Banshees is quite high, and next to that, they are also the group closest to the Banshees.

Under the gaze of the Castel Islanders, a group of banshees slowly walked out of the passage at the bottom of the deep pit.

Una and Nini led the team together. The banshees carried cans one by one - they contained physical pollution, and they were going to add fuel to the boiler.

The crowd around the deep pit suddenly became excited. They looked at the banshees and started talking.

"She, she's a banshee! She's actually a banshee!"

"Oh my god, that's Nini! Lady Nini! I saw Lady Nini!"

"It doesn't look that tall."

"Think about how far away you are from them, idiot! Look at the workers next to you, they are much shorter than them."

Xius turned sideways and whispered to Chloe beside him, "Are all the people you've placed in place?"

The orange-red light in Chloe's eyes lit up for a moment, and then she nodded: "No problem, they are all here."

This is the ability of the [Nymph], the perception ability that Chloe mentioned last time.

They can extend their perception to cover a large area and monitor everything within that area.

This monitoring ability is quite strong, and almost nothing can escape their detection, but there is a fatal flaw: they themselves cannot move and are extremely vulnerable.

If it were on the battlefield, this ability would need to be used with extreme caution, but now it's just monitoring the crowd, so there's no need to worry too much.

"And this ability has another advantage, which is that the two nymphs in the web can communicate directly with each other through their minds. It's very convenient. I'm talking to them directly now." Chloe raised her chin proudly.

It sounds a bit similar to the Banshees' mind link, but this seems to be a weakened version. The Banshees' range is much larger than this.

"Xius, there seems to be something happening over there." Chloe suddenly raised her hand and pointed towards the crowd.

(End of this chapter)