Perfikot actually doesn't enjoy turning people into living statues; this thod is indeed sowhat bizarre and cruel.
However, those unscrupulous rchants genuinely believe she won't kill over trivial matters. After all, this is akin to the steam era of the 18th century in the original world; expecting these rchants to have any business integrity and professional ethics is as impossible as asking a priest not to have entered a young boy's body.
In this era, business ethics are almost nonexistent. In pursuit of profit, these rchants don't even care about workers' lives, so how could they possibly care about consurs' lives?
Especially in this era, the production process itself has certain deficiencies that later generations would find beyond human capabilities. Processing precision, material strength, and processing techniques, all are in a nascent stage.
Although it's not impossible to produce qualified and good products, the issue is that not all rchants have enough of a baseline and morals to pay for product quality, investing more production costs.
They even expect workers to work 18 hours a day, without restroom breaks or water, squeezing out the last bit of surplus value while lowering production costs as much as possible. It goes without saying how unacceptable it is for them to increase production costs.
Therefore, even with Perfikot's terrifying deterrent thods and repeated warnings, many parts that are sent still fail to satisfy her.
Admittedly, there are so due to production process issues resulting in non-conformance; Perfikot shows great tolerance for these, usually only asking them to take it back for rework and providing suggestions for process improvent.
But those truly impossible to improve, Perfikot would also have the Alchemists and Engineers cooperate to solve the problem.
The prerequisite for Perfikot's easygoing attitude is that these issues are indeed caused by non-human factors, not human factors, especially due to the supplier's careless and perfunctory attitude.
Perfikot is willing to assist in resolving issues caused by non-human factors since demanding them would indeed not solve the problem.
But for the latter, she shows no kindness.
She is least able to accept perfunctory behavior.
Anyone daring to do so is dancing on her minefield and bottom line, in a face-to-face all-out manner.
So for such individuals, Perfikot usually issues a stern warning the first ti, sends in the White Bear Knight the second ti, and directly walls them in the third ti.
And the rchant on the cooling shell of the Energy Tower belongs to those who seek death.
Even after Perfikot issued the first warning, he learned nothing and still perfunctorily brought components that didn't et Perfikot's requirents, insisting that the batch had no issues.
What's more, he even mocked Perfikot, saying: "The current level of technology production can only achieve this extent. Countess, you may be talented, but you should consider reality and stop designing those overambitious items beyond production capabilities."
Hearing this enraged Perfikot, directly ordered him to be pressed on the cooling shell of the Energy Tower, which deviated by at least 5% in size, and lted him into it while manually adjusting the shell's size and other technical paraters to et her requirents.
Thus, this guy beca a signature appearance of Chernobyl City's Energy Tower—a lanting rchant.
Over the ensuing years, this also beca a famous sight of Chernobyl because whenever Perfikot executed soone, she would pull them in front of the lanting rchant statue and wall them with Alchemy.
If their cris were insufficient for walling, she would steam them alive with high-temperature steam in front of the cooling shell.
But that is a story for later; for Perfikot, aside from these rchants occasionally causing her trouble, there were no other issues.
The overall project progress was smooth, the vertical shaft leading underground had already been dug, confirming the existence of a sealed rock layer and geothermal resources underground for constructing a geothermal cycle through water injection.
Originally, to maximize efficiency, Perfikot should have added additives to the water injected underground to allow it to expand to twice its original volu, enhancing heat conduction and operational efficiency.
But considering the protection of groundwater, Perfikot opted not to do so, instead designing an alternative cooling system that enhances heat conduction efficiency to resolve the issue.
This is also the reason why Perfikot interrogates these suppliers; after modifying the design, the demands on production processes are even higher.
To so extent, it is indeed higher than the commonly used production processes of this era.
However, this is not an unsolvable issue. If Alchemists oversee detail processing combined with proper process improvent and level enhancent, it can et Perfikot's requirents.
While she is strict, she is not unreasonably inhumane or oblivious of actual circumstances.
In fact, she personally visited all the component production factories around Chernobyl, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the required components and the factories' production processes, knowing what they can achieve, what they can achieve with effort, and what they can't even with efforts.
Under these circumstances, if soone tries any tricks with defective products, perfunctorily refusing to invest costs to improve processes during production, then she has no choice but to wall them in the components they delivered, making them part of the Energy Tower.
Anyway, with her Alchemy level, doing so wouldn't affect the Energy Tower's operational efficiency, instead making the construction more smooth due to adding these "living piles."
"Beifa, bring a cup of tea, with extra milk and sugar." Perfikot finally set aside her work, ready to take a proper rest.
The intense ntal labor during this period made her heavily dependent on sweets. Not only did her regular drink change from unsweetened tea to a calorie bomb with milk and large amounts of sugar, but her daily diet also turned high-calorie and high-carb.
This was mainly to et her ntal consumption, as the perfect life form gave Perfikot intelligence and physical superiority far beyond the ordinary, but her bodily consumption was also significantly higher than ordinary people.
Previously, she rely hadn't worked intensely, so her dietary consumption didn't seem so terrifying.
Just as Perfikot planned to enjoy her cup of "milk tea" tea and relax, suddenly a White Bear Knight burst into her office, reporting: "Bad news, Countess! Those workers and engineers have clashed and are now protesting for a strike."
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