"Good morning, Miss Soraya!"
As soon as Soraya walked into the bicycle factory, Gilly greeted her, "You came so early."
This made her a little embarrassed. Yesterday, she went to bed a little late with Miyue and Lily Fighting the Landlord, and woke up half an hour later than usual today. In the days when Wendy was away, everyone felt lazy, of course... Anna and Agatha were the exceptions. Whether it was work or study, they were always role models for the sisters. Especially the latter, who always go out first and come back the latest.
"Is the substrate ready?"
"Yes, please come with me."
As the first batch of graduates, Gilly has now become her assistant in the bicycle factory, and she will be notified in advance of any job content. A year ago, Soraya would never have believed that ordinary people and witches would cooperate with each other and get along well with each other.
"Is that a ready-made bicycle?" She suddenly noticed that today's factory seems to be different from the past. The steam machine tool is not as roaring as usual, and everyone is staring around a row of brand-new two-wheeled cars. .
"Yeah, our first batch of products," Gilly's face filled with a deep smile, her eyes narrowed, "a total of twenty cars, it's not easy. Especially the chains and wheels, calculated according to the yield less than half."
It's really not easy, Soraya thought, the factory was completed last fall, but it has been through various twists and turns since then, such as inadequate equipment, serious shortage of personnel, etc... Its priority is obviously not as good as the steam engine next door Assembly plants and chemical plants. The first two have been rotated in three shifts at present, and people are working almost all the time, but here is still production during the day and closed at night. Even Gilly had secretly complained that a partner who went to a chemical factory had been paid three times as much as her, but the bicycle had not yet been seen.
Now she can finally get a bike of her own.
Pushing open the door of the production room, Soraya saw that a layer of white paper had been laid on the flat ground, about forty square meters, like snow in winter.
"The part being processed today is the inner tube, sorry for your troubles," the little girl bowed.
"Well," the witch nodded, "you can do your own thing."
"Hey, please call me immediately if you need anything," she laughed. "I'll stay at the door of the factory building."
Seeing Gilly's back excitedly leaving, Soraya knew she couldn't wait to experience what it's like to ride a bicycle.
Shaking her head with a smile, Soraya took off her shoes and stepped on the flat sheet of paper.
The painting work of the bicycle mainly includes three parts: the inner tube, the outer tire and the frame anti-rust. The specific one depends on the step of the assembly in the factory. Of course, in general, the speed of finishing the painting by yourself is much faster than the assembly speed, so there is a lot of inventory in the factory whether it is the inner tube tire or the frame. It's just that the magic power grows every day, and it is a waste not to use it, so every three days, Soraya will still come to the bicycle factory to complete part of the painting work.
She recalled the quality of the inner tube a little, and raised her hand to summon the magic pen.
As a gas-filled membrane, it must be light and soft, moderately tough, and able to fuse at high temperatures. Based on past experience, she chose shaving coating as the material - which was the result of hundreds of tests, the sky coating is too flexible, and the water coating is extremely fire resistant, until she noticed when collecting the raw materials. The shavings left by the carpenter's processing found the most ideal drawing object.
Unlike Lucia, which can be mixed and remelted in any proportion after decomposing the metal element, she must draw it with reference to the real object to understand its performance. At the same time, she can't memorize the magical characteristics of thousands of materials, so the easiest way is to make a color card, and choose the coating on the color card to display it in a wide range when she wants to use it.
Of course, for common coatings like inner and outer tubes, she can paint directly without having to refer to the color card.
The magic brush gradually became wider, and finally the brush was centered on Soraya and expanded to about six meters. When the limit range of ten meters was used for coloring, the magic in the edge area could easily get out of control. In order to ensure the uniform quality of the coating, she would rather have more Take your time to draw.
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In less than an hour, 40 square meters of paper was covered with a layer of shavings—of course, it was not real shavings, just like when she painted steel, the coating she got was not steel... Hardness and flexibility It can't be both, no matter how hard the coating is, it can't compare to a stone, and it will shatter like glass.
In addition to the shavings, Soraya also painted her name on it as a signature. This is also the tradition of the painter. She originally only wrote her name on the lower right corner of the coating, but later found that after the coating was cut, her name could only appear on one inner tube, so she simply played with her heart and painted her signature everywhere. Yes, no matter how you cut it, you can see the words "Soraya's work". At first, she was a little flustered when His Highness discovered her. She thought she would be blamed, but she didn't expect His Highness to call her the inventor of watermarks with a smile, and even praised her.
Although she didn't understand what the watermark meant, being able to get the praise of His Highness still made Soraya happy for several days, and then she kept this signature style.
After the coating is completed, the next process is to burn the paper on the back to obtain the complete inner tube material, which is then sent to the knife workshop to be cut into strips, and finally the joint is hot-melted with a red-hot soldering iron. Of course, special workers are responsible for these tasks, and she can only use the initial raw materials to make them.
This batch of coatings consumed almost one-third of the mana in the body. Soraya deeply felt the effect of training on the improvement of mana. Before switching to this, completing such a large coating at one time was enough to exhaust her. While it was still early, she said goodbye to Gilly and went to the backyard of the North Slope Mine alone.
After entering the mountain road, there is a guard post almost every 100 meters, and a dark fort and watchtower are set up at the entrance of the courtyard. Even the lord castle is not so tightly guarded.
Soraya entered the yard under the soldier's military salute and saw that Anna was cutting odd parts - whenever she came here, she was meticulously completing her work. Looking at her focused figure, Soraya suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Aside from talent, at least in seriousness, she was too far from her. At the same time, she also had a bit of envy in her heart. Whether it was her ability, work commitment, or her relationship with His Highness, Anna was the best among witches.
"Yoah, Sister Zoroya, you're here," Lucia on the other side heard her footsteps and raised her head with a bright smile.
Anna also put down the parts in her hand and waved at her, "Today's copper wire package is also troublesome for you."
"Wrap it on me," Soraya put away her thoughts and walked towards the two with a smile.