Chapter 8 The Wrath of the Zaun(1/2)
On the other side, Levi has already started tonight's work.
The factory where he works is not large in scale, and the business it does is also very niche:
The product manufactured here is Hex Technology Audio, which is the magic version of home audio driven by Hex Stone.
Levi's job is to sit in a narrow workstation, holding an electric heating mithril welding gun, and welding components and mithril circuits to the printed circuit boards of Hex speakers.
This job is not tiring, but the operation must be precise, otherwise the entire board will be destroyed if one wrong place is soldered, which will take another discount on my already low salary——
Mithril is a precious material, and if it is lost too much, compensation will be required.
Repeating the same work all the time, and having to be careful not to make mistakes every minute, will undoubtedly bring great mental pressure to people.
Levi had only been sitting here for two hours, and he already felt a little dizzy.
He had to put down the mithril welding gun and rubbed the sore corners of his eyes.
"What's wrong, Levi?"
The worker at the work station next to him, a thin man who looked like a monkey, asked him with concern.
Levi "remembers" him. This guy's name is Baku, and he is the original owner's best friend in the factory. Naturally, Baku is also from Zaun.
"Are you sick today?" Baku asked.
"No."
"You're not sick, why are you so soft today?" Baku smiled mischievously: "It's only been two hours and it's not working anymore. Isn't it too fast?"
Li Wei pretended not to hear this guy's metaphor for the lower world, and just complained from the bottom of his heart:
"I'm already tired after two hours..."
"Are you tired?" Baku was stunned for a moment: "Isn't this much easier than when we were in Zaun?"
"Uh..." That's true.
There is no such easy job as Circuit Board in Zuan.
There are only black mines that never see the light of day, steel plants with splashing slag, alchemy plants with sewage flowing across them, and machinery factories filled with iron filings...
In order to obtain the iron ore, Li Wei's grandparents were buried under the mine.
While trying to refine iron ore into steel, his father slipped and fell into the furnace.
In order to turn steel into parts, his mother's hair was caught in the machine.
Now Levi is finally making his mark.
He only needs to sit in the bright and safe factory building in Piltover, assemble the mechanical parts shipped from Zaun, install the mithril circuit board and Hex gems as core components, and process them into speakers.
Not tired, safe, and earning more (compare to Zu An’s words).
"What else do you have to complain about!" Baku encouraged kindly: "Levi, we have to work hard, and don't let our monitor see you being lazy!"
"..." Li Wei was speechless.
He suddenly realized that he seemed to have misjudged the situation before.
He originally thought that the group of apprentices in Zaun had become a powder keg, and if a spark was given, it would explode into fireworks all over the sky.
But the reality is:
Because compared with the purgatory-like life in Zaun's hometown, these Zaun apprentices who have arrived in Piltover... seem to be quite satisfied with the current situation?
"Hey...Levi, seriously, don't rest for too long!" Baku still kindly reminded him: "If you are fired for being lazy, you will be sent back to Zaun directly."
"You don't want to go back to Zaun and hang out with those worthless people, do you?"
"..." Levi was even more speechless.
Okay, even before I got the right of residence in Piltover, I started to discriminate against my poor relatives in my hometown...
No wonder this guy in Baku is so contented - thinking that there are a bunch of poor relatives across the canal who are envious of him and drooling every day, he must be very motivated to work!
"But don't you think we're no better off now?" Li Wei calmly began to argue: "In the eyes of those Picheng guys, what's the difference between us and the people back home in Zu'an?"
"..." Baku fell silent for a moment.
He held it in for a long time before he finally managed to say: "Who told us we are Zaan people... our lives are cheap."
"The lives of the people of Zuan are also lives, why should they be treated as such?"
"We obviously do the same work as those Piltover workers, and we even do more and heavier work than them. Why are they treated so much better than us?"
In order to give priority to ensuring the employment of local people, Piltover stipulates that at least 50% of the employees in each factory must be from Piltover itself.
The salary of these local workers in Piltover is almost ten times that of Zaun apprentices in the same position.
This inequality is obvious.
A slight arch can cause the fire to burst into flames.
"Hey...what's the use of talking so much." Baku's face turned black with embarrassment: "No matter how much you say, are those Picheng guys still riding on our heads?"
"No, is it the Picheng guys who are riding on our heads?" Levi guided him while the iron was hot: "Are those policies that discriminate against Zaun workers formulated by the Picheng workers we see every day?"
"These Piltover workers are just ordinary people. Should they be blamed for all this?"
"Of course it's their fault!" Baku said without stopping.
He was so filled with hatred that he opened his mouth to curse: "Those damn Picheng guys don't work with high wages every day, and whenever there is work, they push it to us... We are simply raising these fat people for free."
Pigs...they have to call them Zaun guys and gutter rats every day...The benefits are all their Picheng guys, but when something goes wrong, the responsibility is all our Zaun people...We can do it
No matter how good you are, you can’t get a promotion or a salary increase, but any dog in Picheng can be our leader..."
Baku continued to scold him for several minutes, and the content of the scolding was not the same.
This shows how much he hates those Picheng guys.
This gave Li Wei a headache.
"Mr. Summoner." Blue Bird Janna moved in his overalls pocket, and then quietly communicated with him with her thoughts.
"Is this what you said before..." She learned a lot of new words today, and whenever she saw an opportunity, she wanted to practice the theory: "Transfer conflicts?"
"Yeah." Levi replied.
"It seems that this child hates the wrong person." Janna sighed pitifully.
"Not entirely. After all, the contradiction already exists objectively. If you don't talk about theories and shout slogans, it won't exist."
"The Piltover people have formed systematic discrimination and group oppression against the Zaun people, and this is also the type of oppression that Zaun workers like Baku are exposed to the most every day."
"But those big business owners who really caused him pain were so far away from his daily life that he couldn't even hate them."
"So what do we do?" Janna asked.
She gradually realized that Levi was taking her to do something big that could subvert the world. Even she, the goddess, would feel confused and helpless about this matter.
But Li Wei, who had zero practical experience, was actually no better than her.
Facing Baku's bloody outpouring of resentment, he didn't know how to persuade him.
Those hardships were all experienced by him personally, and they were more convincing than Livy's principles.
In desperation, he could only listen to Baku quietly, and advised him not to get too excited: "Baku, calm down...it will be unlucky for the squad leader to hear you. The squad leader is also from Piltover.
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"Hey..." Baku stopped scolding.
The fire that Li Wei held up seemed to have finally burned out.
But at this time, I just heard this guy sigh melancholy:
"Hey, I wish I were a woman."
"ha?"
"It's great to be a woman. Climb into those Piltover guys' beds, get a certificate and become a Piltoverite."
"Look at the few female workers in our factory. Now they are working with team leaders and technicians... their lives are no easier than ours."
Levi: "..."
Is this your idea after scolding you for so long?
YY doesn’t dare to order something bigger, can he be promising?
"Hey, why do you look at me like this? Are you looking down on me?"
Baku's mood has stabilized, but his smile has become ugly again:
"Levi, think about it for yourself-"
"If a rich woman from Piltover wanted to keep you, would you refuse? She probably wouldn't even be able to pull up her pants!"
"Go away!" The Zaun people spoke with a very affectionate tone.
Li Wei also followed the local custom and cursed: "Do you think everyone is as spineless as you? You sleep with a rich aunt just for some money, and you don't feel disgusted!"
"Hey, what if it's a young rich woman?"
To be continued...