Defeat magic with science

The food and accommodation conditions in the mining factory are very poor, because people without management will choose to live here, and even Li Qing doesn't live here, and it was originally only a place for mining ores, there is nothing to steal, so there is no need to send people to watch .

However, Zhou Yan's goal is to create a usable mecha as soon as possible, so he hopes that all the processes including forging and smelting will be completed under his own supervision.So during this period of time, I ate and lived with the workers in the mine, and the progress of the project was indeed clearly advancing.

What surprised Zhou Yan was Luo Futu. He originally thought that he would not adapt to the life here soon and would move back to the hotel, but he did not expect him to persist until now.Zhou Yan sat on the ground and roasted dry food with fire. Luo Futu sat next to him, broke a small piece off the rough dry food, and put it in his mouth. The taste is not bad.

"Is your piece delicious?"

Zhou Yan couldn't help asking, Luo Futu looked very fragrant and elegant when eating, which made him doubtful, could this pot of dry pancakes have two flavors?Now he regrets that he didn't drink the pot of chicken soup boiled for Luo Futu before, it was too wasteful.

Luo Futu hooked the corners of his lips, broke off a piece from his dry food and handed it over: "Try it?"

His eyes were still covered with the black veil, but he could accurately tell where he was, but by covering his eyes, other facial features stood out more, such as the sharp and curved corners of his lips, and With a high nose bridge... Zhou Yan couldn't help but glanced at his lips, took the piece of dry food and stuffed it into his mouth, then spit it out on the ground without chewing twice.

Luo Futu's dry food hadn't even been roasted, and it tasted even worse.

Then he passed the piece in his hand.

"You don't need to stay here with me, go back to the hotel."

Luo Futu didn't rush to answer, he took the piece of roasted dry food off the iron rod: "I think it's very necessary."

Zhou Yan is always so strong, and always forgets that he is just an Omega in essence.There are hundreds of workers in the mine, and although most of them are Betas, there are only one or two Alphas in Baoqiu. How can he feel at ease if he is left alone in this kind of place.What's more, the mining factory was recruiting some time ago. Since they started making mechas, they have recruited more people, and they haven't carefully counted the genders of the recruits. If there are a few Alphas mixed in, The consequences could be disastrous.

Luo Futu broke off a small piece of the baked dry food, and stuffed it into Zhou Yan's mouth.Zhou Yan subconsciously opened his mouth and bit it, the rough taste was roasted by fire, at least it was not as hard to swallow as before.He subconsciously glanced to the side. Others were like them, roasting dry food around the fire, eating with gusto, and did not show any discomfort.

Not only is the food bad here, but the sleeping environment is even worse. Several people sleep in a bunk, and the mixed smell in the room makes people want to vomit.Gabriel treated Zhou Yan as a good partner, and Li Qing arranged a separate room for Zhou Yan and Luo Futu.

However, even if the houses were arranged separately, the living conditions were not much better. There was no real door between the single room they lived in and the room where the workers lived. There was only a curtain, which was barely "separated into a single room." .Perhaps it was because Zhou Yan did not smell of pheromones, so the people here subconsciously regarded him as a Beta, and it was quite proper for a Beta and an Alpha to be in the same room.

It doesn’t matter if the living environment is poor. The most unbearable thing for Zhou Yan is that the personal safety of the workers here is hard to be guaranteed. Mining in the mine is inherently high-risk and high-pressure labor. Sometimes they need to climb to high places, but the protective measures are only around the waist a rope.So after the first batch of alloys were smelted, Zhou Yan didn't let them rush to make mechas, but produced a batch of hard hats and safety shoes, so that watching the workers going in and out of the mine every day would make them less anxious.

He had been in a highly civilized society for a long time before he felt this kind of discomfort. Zhou Yan always felt very guilty—for example, if the current working environment of an iron ore factory was placed on Miyunxing, it would be exposed quickly and severely punished. Label it a "sweatshop".

Zhou Yan couldn't help sighing: "Look, in fact, if the productivity of our society is high enough, the working conditions of these people would not be so bad."

——However, Luo Futu's eyes were blindfolded, and it was actually a bit strange for him to use the word "see".But when he covered his eyes, Zhou Yan couldn't see what he was thinking, so he subconsciously felt that he was a little pitiful.

An idea suddenly popped up in his mind, it turned out that it was as simple as making Luo Futu look pitiful, as long as he shut up.

He suddenly had a heart of compassion, so he didn't continue talking, and just broke the roasted dry food with hot water and ate it.After getting along with each other for the past few days, Zhou Yan found that he actually misunderstood Luo Futu. He is not a person who cannot bear hardships. Futu will arrange for him.

Over the past few days, Luo Futu has become very proficient in the process of mecha manufacturing.

However, it may also be because he wants to master this powerful mechanical weapon earlier, and at that time, even if he leaves his partner, Luo Futu can continue to do his own thing.

"You are very tired today, go to bed early after eating."

Hearing Luo Futu's instructions, Zhou Yan glanced at him, his expression softened, at this moment, an old blacksmith worker came over and yelled at Zhou Yan: "Xiao Zhou, let's take a bath together after dinner. "

Zhou Yan glanced in his direction, and responded with a slightly stiff smile.

——This change made Zhou Yan never expect that after staying here for a few days, he gradually made a few friends, and they gradually regarded him as their own, and sometimes they would call him to take a bath together.Bathing is the only recreational activity for the workers here. There is a large hot spring behind the mine, which is built in the open air and is surrounded by many pools, large and small. Everyone likes to take a bath here after work.But because no one paid much attention to hygiene before, and the environment around the hot spring was very worrying, Zhou Yan almost fainted when he came here for the first time.

This is too unfriendly for a clean freak.

Zhou Yan arranged for some people to be responsible for cleaning the hot springs. They were not allowed to spit or throw garbage around the hot springs. They also put some screens to block the view. It was no longer a group of people taking a bath together carelessly, and there was no privacy.

Of course, the most important thing is sanitation. It’s still winter, but in summer, if the environment is still so dirty and messy, it is very likely to cause a large-scale plague, and the mines will be lost at that time.

Zhou Yan told Gabriel what he thought, and Gabriel was not interested in managing it, so he simply let Zhou Yan do it.Zhou Yan really made a ruthless rectification.

In short, after nearly a week of hard work, people can finally enter the public hot springs.

Zhou Yan actually didn’t think he would make friends. His personality was not suitable for making friends, but the workers he got along with the most treated him very well.

Not as vigilant as at first.

Hearing these words, Luo Futu suddenly laughed: "I will go with him, you can go by yourself."

The old worker can feel Zhou Yan's kindness, and he can also feel that Luo Futu is not a good person. Although they stick together all day long, Luo Futu and Zhou Yan are two completely different extremes.The old worker walked away with the bathtub in his hand, and before he left, he muttered: "Why does Xiao Zhou, who is such a good person, be friends with you?"

Zhou Yan looked at Luo Futu expressionlessly: "You can't talk well."

Luo Futu stuffed dry food into his mouth: "I've already spoken well, do you want to see how I don't speak well?"

"..."

Sure enough, he is still cuter when he shuts up.

Zhou Yan didn't want to chatter with Luo Futu anymore, so after a quick meal, he said, "I'm going to take a shower. At eight o'clock tomorrow morning, the material for the exoskeleton of the mecha will be out of the oven, so I have to get up early to watch it."

Luo Futu raised his eyebrows: "Do you want me to follow?"

Zhou Yan hesitated, and Luo Futu said again: "Of course, if you are not afraid of encountering an Alpha with ulterior motives on the way and delaying tomorrow's work progress, I will not follow."

"..."

Zhou Yan thought carefully for a long time, and finally compromised: "You go with me."

This is not the time to be brave, he knows his current gender disadvantage, and the folk customs here are so tough, it's not good for him or the whole environment to be brave.When Zhou Yan was studying in the military academy, he hated the Omega who used powerful inhibitors to pretend to be Beta and sneak into the school. Their impulsiveness may bring unnecessary losses to the entire country, which is really hard to sympathize with.

When Luo Futu heard this, he immediately stood up with a smile: "Don't worry, with me here, I will never let any Alpha approach you."

Zhou Yan believed this, and Luo Futu showed that he cared about him.But in his opinion, he only cares about a collaborator who is of great use to him. This is a tacit understanding that does not need to be deliberately emphasized. Just as Zhou Yan will protect Luo Futu unconditionally, he will try his best to protect his own personal safety.

On the way to the bathroom, a small incident happened. There are indeed people who like Zhou Yan in this mining factory, but there are still some people who have great opinions on Zhou Yan, because he always makes some "safety regulations" and "hot spring usage regulations". "Regulations" and other troublesome things for them to abide by, these people have been saying behind their backs that Zhou Yan is hypocritical like an Omega who has never seen the world.

So on the way to the hot spring, Zhou Yan accidentally met a few people who had such thoughts.The one who took the lead was Sun Tian. He had quarreled with Zhou Yan a few days ago, and it was a knot. Zhou Yan felt a little headache seeing them.Fortunately, these few people saw Zhou Yan and didn't take the initiative to say anything today, and Zhou Yan was happy that they didn't make trouble, just pretending they didn't see it.

They walked forward happily, and the moment they passed by Zhou Yan and Luo Futu, Zhou Yan suddenly smelled a pungent smell of smoke, and he couldn't help but sneezed.

Zhou Yan looked back subconsciously, and those people had already walked away.

Luo Futu looked at him keenly: "What's the problem?"

Zhou Yan shook his head: "It's nothing, I might have caught a cold."

Luo Futu is not a good-tempered person, so if they meet each other, conflicts will inevitably arise again.Zhou Yan hurriedly dragged Luo Futu into a cubicle with a screen to prevent him from conflicting with others.

"Sometimes you really don't look like an Omega, and you don't have any sense of defense."

Zhou Yan took off his bathrobe and sat in the hot spring pool, tilting his head and staring at Luo Futu: "You mean I don't mind you taking a bath with me?"

Luo Futu didn't speak, but obviously he was talking about this matter.

"It's nothing, anyway, I've seen your naked (harmonious) body. Everyone is so familiar, why are you so hypocritical."

Luo Futu raised his eyebrows slightly, took off his robe, and then slowly walked into the warm water.Zhou Yan looked at him blankly, staring at Luo Futu's figure with wide shoulders, narrow waist and big pectoral muscles, feeling very envious in his heart - he didn't practice to this level when he was in Miyunxing... Sigh, people are more angry than others.

"Wow—"

Luo Futu suddenly poured a handful of water on Zhou Yan, and said with a smile, "Look again, be careful that I'm not polite to you."

Zhou Yan wiped the water from his face, curled his lips and looked away—he didn't want to look at it yet!

Zhou Yan sat down deep in the hot spring water, and the hot water with the smell of sulfur spread over his shoulders, making him very comfortable.Zhou Yan closed his eyes, raised his head and leaned against the edge of the pool, closed his eyes and meditated.After a while, Luo Futu slid to Zhou Yan's side silently like a snake, and looked at him sideways: "I'll be closer to you for personal protection."

"..." A strange Alpha will not suddenly appear in the pool.

Zhou Yan glanced at him, and suddenly a faint fragrance gushed out from the tip of his nose. He couldn't tell whether it was the pheromone smell from Luo Futu's body or something else.

It smells like smoke...

Zhou Yan's mind suddenly became dizzy, and the scene in front of him became blurred.He couldn't use all his strength, so he hurriedly grabbed the edge of the hot spring pool and muttered, "I'm dizzy..."

Luo Futu was concentrating on soaking in the bath when suddenly a head leaned over his shoulder. He was slightly stunned and looked down in surprise. It turned out that Zhou Yan was really leaning on his shoulder.

……

what's the situation?

He was in a daze when Zhou Yan suddenly leaned on his shoulder and slid slowly into the water. Luo Futu subconsciously hugged his waist and pulled Zhou Yan into his arms.Zhou Yan's body was limp, and he didn't even respond to being hugged by him. He just lay on top of him, as if he didn't want to move at all.

"Zhou Yan, what's wrong with you?"

This is very wrong, Luo Futu patted Zhou Yan's face lightly, but saw that there was a blushing on one side of his face, as if he was drunk.

But he didn't drink...

"I……"

Zhou Yan spoke in a low voice, and Luo Futu subconsciously leaned over, only to hear him say: "I'm greedy for meat."

"..."

Before Luo Futu had time to react, Zhou Yan, who was lying in his arms, suddenly came over, opened his mouth and bit Luo Futu's Adam's apple, and said vaguely: "Meat..."