Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste
Chapter 131 Warehouse Reserves

Chapter 131: Chapter 131 Warehouse Reserves

Under Perfikot’s coordination, the entire camp’s placement of sick and wounded soldiers finally proceeded without further complications.

All soldiers suffering from frostbite, colds, typhoid fever, and other injuries and illnesses were properly accommodated. Perfikot even rolled out several warmers on-site using some of the iron materials stored in the warehouse, allowing them to stay warm in the warehouse set up for the injured.

Captain White successfully arrived with Beifa and the maid doll on a small train, bringing with them Perfikot’s frostbite remedies, and began treating the anxious soldiers gathered there.

This put the originally uneasy soldiers at ease, knowing that Perfikot wasn’t planning to "deal" with them after gathering them.

With everything operating normally, Perfikot began inventorying and inspecting the warehouse’s supplies to prevent them from being damaged by frost or experiencing abnormal losses.

For instance, certain soldiers fond of alcohol might have snuck some drinks from the stored spirits.

In fact, the alcohol stored by Perfikot in the warehouse was quite substantial, with wine barrels taller than a person filling half the warehouse—enough to drink an entire regiment to death or steep a company of soldiers in alcohol as medicinal wine.

Originally, she had almost drained all liquor reserves in New Shaker City from the New Continent Governor using administrative orders to amass such alcohol.

However, Perfikot accumulated this much alcohol not for drinking purposes, but to refine alcohol for disinfection and medical use.

Alcohol can also be produced using alchemy and industrial methods, but Northern Territory’s industrialization progress is barely above zero, effectively nonexistent.

So, until Perfikot can establish factories and production lines, such methods remain futile.

Aside from spirits and armor components for Steam Knights in a warehouse, the fjord camp’s warehouse stored mainly winter supplies and large quantities of food.

A total of five warehouses filled with flour and wheat are enough to feed everyone at the fjord camp and Eagle’s Beak Cliff base for three years.

Additionally, there are two warehouses of preserved meat like smoked meat and sausages, enough to last them an entire year.

Perfikot stockpiled so much food not only for wintering but also for next year’s so-called "expansion" plans.

A significant portion of these supplies is for the incoming pioneers next year since even if they start farming, crops wouldn’t immediately grow; they would have to wait until next year’s autumn harvest to see returns.

Achieving food self-sufficiency within a year is almost impossible.

Of course, if Perfikot’s desired agricultural scientists and other experts arrive on schedule, and she tackles greenhouse planting during this winter, there might be hope to meet Northern Territory’s future grain demand through industrialized production methods.

Perfikot plans to solve this issue within two years, and she has no doubt about achieving it.

For a Transmigrator like her, solving the food issue is hardly a problem.

People of this era cannot imagine the day when crop cultivation isn’t measured by area but by volume—where it’s not farmers but robots that plant and maintain crops.

Although highly intelligent robots are challenging for Perfikot, creating maid dolls (an impossible feat back in her original world) indicates it’s feasible for her to develop agricultural robots.

However, thinking of robots, Perfikot sighed, as she was studying how to manufacture mining robots before snowstorms interrupted her work last night.

She plans to utilize them at the already mining coal mine and the projected iron mine—using human labor is awfully inefficient, especially at the current open-pit coal mine, where such weather makes coal digging...

Perfikot isn’t cruel, yet she must endure large numbers of hired workers facing increasingly cold weather at the coal mine and their incredibly low efficiency in her estimation.

According to Perfikot’s design and calculations, employing mining robots could increase mining efficiency by at least 400%!

This figure pertains to robot operations at deep coal seams; regarding the current open-pit coal mine, she believes her designed robots could achieve 500% mining efficiency.

Industrial machines—no match for the feeble human flesh.

After checking warehouse storage conditions and ensuring supplies were well-preserved, with only a few meat products experiencing minor storage loss, Perfikot satisfiedly left the warehouse.

She reminded her old butler to prevent unauthorized entry into the warehouse, then boarded the small train again.

Her destination wasn’t Eagle’s Beak Cliff but the coal mine, to inspect the situation.

The primary reason she didn’t rush to the coal mine was that conditions there were slightly better than the fjord camp.

Most fjord camp soldiers were staying in tents, whereas mine workers had a windproof dormitory to shield against blizzards.

This wasn’t Perfikot neglecting her soldiers; rather, the coal mine’s construction was pre-planned and the construction company expanded railroads while completing related coal mine facilities.

Originally, the fjord camp functioned as a warehouse, with a permanent sturdy barracks for one stationed company. However, the recently arrived regiment exceeded the barracks’ planned living capacity, forcing them to resort to tents.

Their late arrival also made it unrealistic to expect the construction company to timely complete their barracks.

Given this era’s construction technologies, expecting to build houses post-winter was nearly implausible.

Even Perfikot couldn’t manage to mix and cure cement below freezing temperatures, despite planning on resolving this in the future, as she lacks the current capability.

So soldiers can only endure living in tents under such weather conditions.

"Wake me when we arrive," Perfikot told the guard beside her, then reclined in her seat and closed her eyes, drifting into sleep.

Even though she almost hadn’t slept the previous night, she quickly fell asleep aboard the shaking train.