Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 608 - 572 Emergency Repair

Perfikot, dressed in work attire, was currently with several engineers examining the situation inside a boiler that had exploded due to water ingress.

"This pipe has burst, remove it and replace it with a new one, and send the old one for recycling," she directed an obviously deformed pipe to the engineer beside her, unconcerned with the dirty environment with accumulated water inside the boiler, she knelt on one knee inspecting the boiler's damage.

They were located between the boiler's combustion chamber and its outer casing, an area filled with various pipes and valves crucial for heat exchange in the entire Energy Tower.

When the boiler exploded due to water ingress, this area was the first hit by seawater, resulting in much more severe damage to the piping than expected.

In the original world, a boiler explosion of this magnitude would have been deemed beyond saving, with replacement offering better value than repair.

However, for Perfikot, there was not enough time to replace it, and with Alchemists around, repairing damage from explosions was actually quite straightforward.

Of course, the competency of those Alchemists couldn't match hers, but repairing damaged pipes and restoring components deformed by explosion impacts was quite simple for these Alchemists.

Nonetheless, due to many matters requiring attention, some elite Alchemists had been dispatched to the Northern Territory, leaving Langton City's Alchemists either insufficiently skilled or too old, mostly beneath Perfikot's standards.

The severe shortage of personnel resulted in them turning like spinning tops for days, leading many to experience significant mental exhaustion.

Yet, Perfikot was not about to let them rest; for those mentally fatigued Alchemists, she administered a mental recovery potion and then sent them back to work!

Apart from essential sleep time, Perfikot gave these Alchemists no rest.

In the current race against time, she was fighting tirelessly on the front line, so how could anyone have time to rest?

In the urgent need for time, she even ordered a batch of personnel to be sent over from the Northern Territory in order to repair all Energy Towers before the typhoon made landfall and restore all shelters to usable status.

Thus, not only the Alchemist Association's Alchemists, but other civilian Alchemists were also gathered by Perfikot for work.

Even Sanderion remarked that in the history of the Alchemist Association, no one had ever mobilized Alchemists on such a large scale, nor had Alchemists ever achieved such high efficiency.

Perfikot merely scoffed at such evaluations, saying: "That only shows you're living too comfortably! Clearly, you have the ability to change the world, yet you believe yourselves superior and disdain offering help to ordinary people.

Yet, you are aimlessly seeking high-level tasks, unwilling to do what you perceive as menial work, and most ordinary Alchemists can't accomplish high-end tasks, let alone conduct academic research to promote the development of alchemy.

In the end, so-called traditional Alchemists are nothing but a group of conservative, stuck-in-the-past craftsmen, possessing skills but not turning them to practical purposes, and only good at empty talk.

They lack even the proactive spirit of engineers, who undoubtedly contributed excellently to industrial development after the industrial revolution, whether by improving existing machinery or inventing new ones.

Compared to them, these Alchemists could only be employed for tasks that didn't require much thought."

Perfikot's evaluation was indeed scathing, but Sanderion had no grounds for rebuttal since it was indeed the case.

She felt it most deeply herself.

After all, having grown into a Legendary Alchemist in the old era and becoming the Alchemist Association's president, Sanderion was undoubtedly a leading figure among traditional Alchemists. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

She had considerable insight into traditional Alchemists, fully aware of what these people were truly like.

Perhaps this wasn't much of an issue in the old times, but after entering the industrial era?

Sorry, but the whole society is rapidly developing, and you folks remain stuck in your ways, practically waiting to be ousted by the times!

Sanderion truly lived for a hundred years, witnessing the world transition from the feudal era to the industrial era, and she experienced the world's transformation and progression most profoundly.

Thus, she absolutely supported Perfikot's initiative to drive these Alchemists.

She was fully aware that these Alchemists, solely learning and applying traditional alchemy knowledge, exhausted all their talents, so expecting them to innovate and invent was akin to drawing cards in a pool without a guaranteed payout—success was purely dependent on luck.

Hoping for them to make progress was nearly a dream.

Conversely, after Perfikot introduced the Imaginary Alchemy theory, those rapidly accepting new knowledge among the new generation of Alchemists exploded with their talents, resulting in various innovations.

So, these traditional Alchemists, seemingly destined for the garbage heap of history, could only screw bolts and plaster.

Indeed, it was precisely because of this reason that most of those screened to go to the Northern Territory were young pioneering Alchemists able to accept the new knowledge system and achieve solid results.

A large number of traditional Alchemists unable to accept the changes were left in Langton and the Empire, resembling remnants of the old era unable to board the ship to the new era.

However, it was precisely the multitude of traditional Alchemists screwing bolts and plastering that allowed Perfikot to erect numerous Energy Towers within a month and conduct repairs on damaged Energy Towers after the tsunami.

Through such urgent repairs, the many Energy Towers damaged by seawater were restored and resumed operations, providing a warm environment and shelter for the populace.

Despite the time extracted at the expense of draining Langton City's Alchemists more than once, as the outer city's water levels gradually receded, revealing streets once again, the Energy Towers in the inner city almost all resumed operation.

Meanwhile, the flooded shelters managed to drain the accumulated water thanks to a multitude of sump pumps at work.

What remained was mainly clean-up and renovations, which could proceed a bit slower.

For the inner city's populace, they already had the most basic life security, at least no longer having to worry about having nowhere to hide when the storm struck.