Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste
Chapter 113: Recruiting Assistants

Chapter 113: Chapter 113: Recruiting Assistants

Under Perfikot’s orders, the construction company rapidly built a laboratory for her in a few days, and thanks to the help of alchemy, the laboratory was quickly put into use.

Perfikot currently has three projects to study: the steam turbine developed based on heavy water, synthetic fibers researched using synthetic resin technology, and the industrial mass production of carbon foam materials.

The simplest among them is naturally the industrial mass production of carbon foam, since Perfikot has the sponge preparation method and the theory related to aerogels at her disposal. While achieving industrial mass production indeed has its challenges, for an alchemy master it only requires some additional effort.

In contrast, the development of synthetic fibers presents the greatest research difficulty.

Although there are techniques related to synthetic resins and synthetic compounds, and alchemy and chemistry are somewhat like father and son, theoretically this should be a straightforward task.

However, the world’s technological development is progressing along the path of alchemy; chemistry... has yet to separate from alchemy.

In the original world before crossing over, chemistry and other theoretical disciplines only experienced significant growth after the first industrial revolution, transitioning from empiricism to systematic disciplines.

The current world is in the midst of the first industrial revolution; if there are no discrepancies in the technological development trajectories of the two worlds, then significant breakthroughs in technology will only occur after the first industrial revolution, entering a new phase of theoretical synthesis.

Before this, systematically researching a specific discipline is somewhat wishful thinking.

Under these objective conditions, researching synthetic fibers isn’t something Perfikot cannot achieve, but it requires her to invest a significant amount of time and energy to compensate for the lack of systematic theory through her research.

Of course, she could also simply use alchemical methods to directly create synthetic fibers that meet her needs.

After all, if she’s crafted synthetic resins, creating synthetic fibers isn’t much further.

Yet such development is akin to building castles in the air, unable to form a systematic discipline and unable to allow others to expand upon her research ideas.

Even with the Eye of Omniscience providing relevant theoretical knowledge, most of this knowledge is fragmented and lacks a systematic framework, requiring her to organize and consolidate it.

Thus, for Perfikot, while the threshold for developing synthetic fibers isn’t high, it is quite cumbersome.

On the other hand, Perfikot has a certain degree of accumulation with steam turbines, and knows precisely how to realize them. It’s merely a matter of spending time conducting experiments, establishing an initial model, and then continually refining it to achieve a satisfactory end product.

Regardless, each project requires a substantial investment of time and energy from Perfikot, accompanied by a large number of repetitive experiments.

This causes her to reflect; it’s no wonder that in the original world, professors loved using research assistants since such repetitive work can easily lead to both mental and physical exhaustion, particularly mental fatigue.

Repeating the same task a thousand times can truly render one numb.

Thus, Perfikot had no choice but to reactivate all her maid dolls, placing them in the laboratory to assist in completing the extensive repetitive work.

Meanwhile, with the title of Northern Expedition Count now in hand, Perfikot made use of this identity to send a telegram back to Langton under the guise of the Arctic expedition plan, requesting the recruitment of volunteers and alchemical assistants willing to come to the Northern Territory.

It’s not that she’s particularly inclined to recruit from the mainland, but it’s ultimately difficult to find satisfactory assistants in the New Continent.

After all, with basic alchemical equipment idle even in universities, one can surmise the state of education in the New Continent.

Until the recruited assistants arrive, Perfikot had no choice but to hold the fort herself, operating her maid dolls to complete the research work.

Although most of the experiments require her personal involvement, for Perfikot, it’s merely a bit tiresome.

When developing the Steam Knight armor and Flying Airship previously, she alone managed to complete these two world-changing research projects, relying solely on herself.

Now, for Perfikot, it’s merely a replication of past research life.

However, three projects stacked together in such a demanding research workload only allowed her before winter to accomplish the industrial preparation of carbon sponge, enabling the construction company’s team to promptly add a layer of carbon sponge insulation to most buildings before the completion of the forward base.

"Very well, the indoor temperature is 5℃ higher than the outdoor temperature, ensuring good insulation." Perfikot glanced at the thermometer in her hand, feeling quite satisfied.

The insulation effect of carbon sponge undoubtedly offers more than a mere 5℃ temperature difference, but since it’s not completely winter yet, having such insulation indoors without heating is indeed quite commendable.

"Congratulations, miss, your plans seem to be proceeding very smoothly." Foster continues to accompany Perfikot and feels genuinely pleased and proud of her accomplishments.

"It’s nothing to talk about, merely proceeding according to my expectations," Perfikot wasn’t pleased, instead feeling that things hadn’t gone perfectly: "Moreover, if everything was progressing smoothly, Mr. Andrew should have delivered the parts for the Steam Knight armor I need by now, but since they haven’t arrived, this will affect my plans."

According to Perfikot’s original plan, it wasn’t just the parts for the Steam Knight armor that Andrew was responsible for delivering that should have arrived at this time.

However, neither the anticipated Steam Knight armor parts nor other items arrived as expected, which annoyed Perfikot greatly.

Not to mention, there’s also been no new information from the mainland either.

Whether it was the Northern Guardian title promised by Duke Gloucester or the Knight Order and Guard Corps meant for her, there’s been no news.

The only consolation is that her Flying Airship managed, after transporting Duke Gloucester back to the mainland, to attempt flying directly back to the Northern Territory, instead of detouring around the New Continent, thus opening a new aerial route.

This route has shortened the time needed between the mainland and Northern Territory to two and a half days.

Bear in mind, even the fastest ships of this era require at least ten days to sail from the Old World to the New Continent, only achievable via the shortest southern route.

And now, Perfikot’s Flying Airship can shorten the time to one-fifth, which is unbelievably remarkable.

This route provides significant convenience for communication between the Northern Territory and mainland, allowing Perfikot to consider whether to make a trip back to the mainland before winter, to see what’s happening there and to urge Duke Gloucester.

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