Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 833 - 62

The mining-steel system Henry serves has a total of three sets throughout the Northern Territory, with two belonging to the Lord's Mansion, also employing fully automated mining equipment and Alchemy Puppets.

However, the other set of equipment was financed and built jointly by the steel companies in the Northern Territory.

They contracted several mines, then pooled funds to purchase a steelmaking blast furnace, thereby establishing their own mining-steel system.

But this system differs somewhat from the Lord's Mansion's two sets; they employ a large number of workers doing tasks meant for automated puppets, resulting in relatively low production efficiency.

Consequently, their production line's monthly output is only 3,500 tons of steel, much lower than the capacity of the fully automated production lines.

Perfikot, though somewhat discontented with this result, could tolerate it, especially since it also helped stabilize social order; otherwise, a mass of unemployed workers could be problematic.

Therefore, she accepted the fact that the capitalists' production system had low efficiency.

However, the capitalists themselves seemed unable to accept this, as low production efficiency meant less profit, which was more unbearable than death to them.

This drove them to find every possible way to increase capacity.

To this end, they even adopted Perfikot's proposed three-shift system, where each round of workers worked eight hours, with three shifts rotating.

This required more workers and higher salaries, but it was undeniably a more effective way to increase labor efficiency, enabling the entire production system to operate like the fully automated systems under the Lord's Mansion, continuously for 24 hours a day at a sufficiently high production efficiency.

Although this cycle increased the capitalists' cost expenditures by nearly a third, and production capacity only rose to 4,500 tons of steel per month, it was still substantially better than before.

The capitalists understood marginal effects, so they accepted the modest increase in production capacity compared to their investments.

Perfikot naturally accepted such results as well, since the three production systems now could produce 14,500 tons of steel a month, nearly providing an annual steel output of 150,000 tons.

This increased steel capacity, while not completely fulfilling her need for constructing two Floating City modules, did enable each construction site to operate at no less than 70% of anticipated construction speed.

Overall, Perfikot was satisfied with this.

During this period, although the Divines stirred up minor issues, peace prevailed in general.

Summarily, small matters were numerous, but major ones were absent.

Perfikot showed great vigilance towards this, as her military family background made her familiar with tactics to exhaust or lull the enemy into a false sense of security.

Therefore, she felt a strong sense of urgency, and after maximizing the construction speed of the Floating Cities, she plunged into the laboratory, aiming to create the main cannon of the Floating City.

It was her trump card designed for slaughtering gods, theoretically capable of inflicting severe damage upon even the chief Divine in one strike.

Clearly, a weapon of this caliber was not something easily constructed. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Perfikot's first thought naturally turned to the railway gun.

A truly massive terrestrial cannon once employed by humanity in the original world.

Particularly, the 800mm-caliber Dora Cannon used during World War II, a truly astonishing land cruiser and steel beast.

However, for Perfikot, the Dora Cannon was somewhat impractical.

Its large caliber and powerful force were offset by a shooting speed that was too slow; it could fire only a few shells an hour, which was fine for demolishing fortresses but vastly insufficient for god-slaying.

One shot might not kill, and while reloading for a second, the enemy would have already reached one's doorstep.

Hence, Perfikot wished to create a faster-firing, more powerful weapon, to enable it to kill a Divine in one strike.

At this point, the electromagnetic cannon she once used in the Langton battle came to mind, especially the electromagnetic cannon Perfikot employed to launch thermobaric bombs, blessed by the War God, turning it into a terrifying war beast with its own soul.

Due to concerns about the War God's blessing's effects, Perfikot had left it in Langton, entrusted to Sanderion for safekeeping.

After all this time, now Perfikot felt she might create a more powerful cannon than before.

After all, the previous one was hastily made, somewhat rough in construction.

Thinking and acting swiftly, she redrew the designs, using the power of the Jade Record to optimize and upgrade them, transforming what was once a crude makeshift design into something more precise, while improving the previously low energy transmission efficiency, elevating the entire cannon's power to new heights.

Thus, Perfikot crafted a 600-caliber electromagnetic cannon based on the upgraded designs, intending to verify the technology.

As the cannon's power improved, so must the power of its shells.

Perfikot initially considered creating a plasma shell but struggled in vain to stabilize the plasma despite successfully producing it.

Simply put, it's inherently unstable and unless used immediately, would completely decay in three days just by sitting there.

This was after Perfikot tried various means to stabilize it as much as possible.

Before her attempts, it decayed within mere minutes.

Thus, she abandoned this overly sci-fi type shell, pivoting towards more practical armor-piercing and high-explosive shells.

Thanks to the rapid advancement of weaponry in the original world, after abandoning overly sci-fi plasma shells, Perfikot had plenty of structural references for more realistic shell designs.

For example, armor-piercing shells, although steel needles were often criticized for insufficient damage, their armor-piercing effectiveness was well-validated.

Thus, Perfikot crafted a batch of 600-caliber armor-piercing shells, planning to later test their armor-piercing effects on some ancient beast.

If it penetrates, it can deal damage; low damage is still better than no penetration.

Plus, with some luck, a shot through the heart or brain might yield a one-hit-kill effect.

Particularly, Perfikot improved the electromagnetic cannon's charging design, directly switching to capacitor power supply to swiftly reload and fire by switching capacitors when needed.

Based on Perfikot's calculations, a 600-caliber electromagnetic cannon, when adequately prepared in advance, can fire 2-3 shots in a minute.