Chapter 583 Sour Lake

Author: Fatty in the wine glass

Chapter 583 Sour Lake

Take a boat from the narrowest part of Goddess Ocean to reach the other shore, and move for another two days to arrive at the key city in this area, the Sour Lake.

There is more than ten kilometers between the sour lake, which is a lake and the sour lake which is a city.

The distance doesn't sound close, but the whole district of Sourhu City can't hide the pungent smell that becomes rich from time to time.

Li Xiang and the students wanted to go to Sour Lake, but Wang Qi would arrange a business handover first.

When I left Huguang City, I reached a cooperation with the local chamber of commerce to bring a box to Sourhu City.

It is a valuable box, which is probably a pile of colorful pearls and some magic crystals. It can only be done by the guarantee provided by the guarantor who has been following his group of people and the reputation of Qingchunquan Academy.

This delivery task has no income, so it was changed to the Sour Lake Chamber of Commerce to help change a batch of horses for cold land use.

It’s just that changing horses is not worth the escort fee. The Sour Lake side will provide 100 days of horse storage service. The replaced horses become stored in a state of storage. Of course, some labor is required to reduce the storage cost.

After a while and looking for a big hotel to settle, I also made some simple gas masks for the students. As for their own people, there were serious chemical protective masks I brought over.

The next day I went to visit the Sour Lake.

With the attributes of Wang Qi and others, without a mask, the damage rate will not be higher than the autologous recovery ability. However, the smell of sulfur dioxide is really stimulating. The more sensitive the sense of smell, the more uncomfortable it is. It is better to protect it.

Sour Lake, without too much explanation, is obviously a product of active craters and a sulfur-enriched area.

There are workers who collect sulfur here, which is also the main specialty product of Sour Lake City.

The local sulfur state is quite different from the North District of Phoenix City that year.

When Phoenix City was established, there was still flowing lava in the northern area. In this environment, sulfur could not exist on the surface at all, and could only maintain its shape in a hot spring like boiling water, where water flowed there, so the acidity of the hot spring was limited.

The Sour Lake is relatively "cooler", otherwise there would be no workers who could get close to it.

Coolness is relative. In the entire super-large washbasin-shaped terrain, the temperature is at least thirty degrees.

One-third of the inside is the body of the sour lake. Looking down from the mouth of the "washbasin", you can see the yellow color at the bottom of the shallow water area, which gradually transitions from yellow-green to blue-green from the outside to the inside. There is water mist evaporating on the lake, but the scale is not very large. Compared with the average temperature in the basin, the temperature of the water body is about 60 degrees.

No one salvaged sulfur from it, and it can be seen that it is very fatal and may have turned into a dilute sulfuric acid lake.

Workers collect sulfur and masks, and naturally there is no mask. It is considered good if they have a wet cloth.

They would gather at the edges of several three-dimensional structures that looked like magic.

They are a bit like perfectly unfolded octopus, except that the ratio of height and horizontal length is a little different.

These structures play the role of a cooling tower. High sulfur-containing steam will condense and flow along the "wrist foot" and finally drip onto the ground in the area close to the tip of the wrist foot to complete the final cooling to form solid sulfur.

It can be confirmed that the carrier is steam, because these octopus have ditches that lead part of the condensate to the sour lake. However, it is a ditches, but it is actually a terrain depression that is less than half a meter deepest.

The temperature in the area where solid sulfur is formed is very high, and iron hooks need to be used to cool the plate-bonded sulfur away for a while before touching.

Wang Qi and his group visited first, and after that, they returned to the top of the crater and waited for a worker with the worst physical condition to climb up and then conducted an interview... They naturally had to pay for their work if they delayed their work, and both sides were very happy.

The guarantee officer will conduct preliminary communication and hand it over to the students for questions.

"How old are you?"

"Thirty-eight years old...probably?"

Workers under forty are already very close to death from the outside.

Because his shoulders have been hiking heavy objects for a long time, the trapezoid muscles are extremely developed, but their surface is mostly purple-black and there are some scars left after ulceration. The relatively thin front of the chest also has uneven abnormal color blocks, and there are also symptoms of blue knuckles.

The students had seen dead people and had not lost their ability to think, so they quickly started to have questions and answer questions.

"How old did you start doing this?"

"Sixteen...it may be fifteen."

“Are you consider changing jobs?”

"Yes, but it's too difficult. My body has collapsed and I have less money to do other things."

"Is this a lot of money?"

"It should be possible, at least I can support my wife and children."

Wherever Wang Qi went, the first thing he paid attention to was the income level of the lower-class people. He often talked about these things with the students. This time they quickly realized it.

"You only have one labor force in your family?"

"Yeah."

"How many kids?"

"Three, the big ones are apprentices in the city." The apprentice has no salary, and even has to give some things to the master during the holidays, but they just don't have to eat at home.

"Where is your wife?"

"Take a child and grow some vegetables."

"Is she healthy?"

"That's much better than me."

Women are healthy. Even if the soil nearby is acidified very much, growing vegetables can probably subsidize the expenses of most adults, at least not completely useless.

My personal knowledge was almost the same, and I began to turn to the entire sulfur collection workers.

Most of the workers in Sour Lake start working at the age of fifteen to eighteen. On average, only one of the four apprentices can hold on in this kind of working environment. Few people who can keep on working can support the level of the person in front of them. Many of them fall down while climbing a mountain with sulfur.

Even if he reaches his level, his life is overdrawn and his physical function is declining. He either chooses to work until one day he falls down, or he retires and goes home to lie in bed for a few years before dying.

In short, people in this industry have reached their limits in their lives in their forties.

The students not only ask questions, but also think of solutions, but unfortunately the solutions proposed cannot solve the problem.

This environment, even on the first day of visit, is easy to realize, that it is this pungent gas that accelerates the passage of workers' lives.

Wang Qi also took out a spare protective mask to bring to the students. They naturally believed that the mask could effectively improve the working conditions of workers.

However, the interviewed worker just carried a mask and walked less than a hundred meters on his achievements today, so he couldn't do it.

The student did not understand, and Wang Qi helped explain: "Because the protective mask and heavy physical labor are conflicting, bringing it requires more force on breathing, which will affect the workers' weight-bearing ability and endurance."

Needless to say, the carbon dioxide concentration in the mask is too high, and a difficulty in breathing determines that this road cannot be done.

Use protective masks to do heavy physical labor must ensure sufficient rest. For work with certain physical requirements, continuous work should not exceed fifteen minutes in general. If a single working time is forcibly extended, the total working time will be shortened.

It is obvious that for the income level of sulfur collection workers, more frequent rest is the enemy closely linked to the income. If the calculation load capacity decreases while also paying for the renewal of protective masks, the workers' income will decline sharply.

"Yes, yes, it's too hard to bring this thing." The worker had never been to school, but could understand and react.

“Is there no other way to get sulfur with less pain?”

Wang Qi did not answer this question.

Of course the answer is, but it doesn't make sense to talk about it in the main world.

The sulfur industry of its own small kingdom was destroyed after a comet collision after a little struggling. After all, the threshold for picking sulfur from the cold water pool is too low. After the overall temperature drops, there is a lack of new sulfur generation, and it is cleaned in a few days.

After that, the sulfur used by the Kingdom was mainly obtained from pyrite, and the technical threshold of this thing was a bit high. At least you can only think about it after you have understood the steel first, and the cost is too high to be exported as a product.

In addition, the oil industry chain can also produce sulfuric acid by-products, but the production capacity ratio is even smaller. If the oil chain consumes itself, only a small amount can be provided to other manufacturers.

As for using magic puppets to collect sulfur... Wang Qi's current understanding of the creation system is not very good.

The mining method of the sour lake, after the magic puppet goes down, sulfur will gradually condense after the joints and various gaps left for movement, and it will not take long without even considering the corrosion problems caused by the acidification environment.

There is also a relatively feasible road for the main world, opening up mountains.

For the workers in the Sour Lake, sulfur content in their workplace is not the biggest problem, but they spend too much time in the process of climbing and going down the mountain. If the mountain can be opened and replaced with wooden tracks that are not affected by sulfur steam, workers can significantly reduce their working hours in high sulfur-containing areas, at the cost of a certain proportion of workers are unemployed due to natural restrictions on sulfur production.

but!

This is an active volcano that has been spewing sulfur steam. Who can guarantee that there will be no problems when opening the mountain? The seventh ring road is not possible. The engineering power of the Phoenix Kingdom cannot provide any guarantee. Once there is a problem, it will not help, and it will directly destroy the entire Sour Lake City.

In short, there is no hope of change.

In another direction, after Li Xiang painted the Sour Lake on paper, it was quite beautiful. Several workers who were climbing the mountain brought the conflict of "death is approaching" to the picture, and it had a natural sense of theme.
Chapter completed!