Chapter 105 "People-oriented" Renata
Not long after, in the Zaun ditch area.
This entire city area collapsed and sank due to a canal explosion more than 200 years ago, sinking dozens of meters underground and never seeing the light of day.
Piltover also built a huge underground pipeline directly connected to here, discharging sewage and garbage here day after day.
This is naturally the place with the least population and the worst environment in Zaun. It is the "Zuan" of Zaun.
No one would be willing to stay here for long except the miners and underground scavengers who make a living here, the fugitives and bandits who need a hiding place, the vagrants, drug addicts and orphans in the gutter who have nowhere to go.
However, Renata chose to open her alchemy potion factory in a dark and remote corner even in the sewer area.
There is almost no light here.
The alchemy factory, which is as huge as a steel city, as closed as a war fortress, and flies the flag of Gorask Industries, is the only source of light.
The light was originally white, but it was dyed into a strange purple by the alchemical exhaust gas emitted recklessly by the factory.
And under this large area of strange purple light, the rows of towering factory buildings, the huge and ferocious open-air alchemical machinery like behemoths, and the dense and tangled steel pipelines like vines appear even more eerie and terrifying.
As soon as Levi approached, he smelled a pungent poisonous gas that was enough to make people "bleed" and heard the loud noise of the high-pressure reactor in the factory.
"This environment doesn't look like a 'good slave estate'." Levi sighed.
"Is Chuck... in here?" A little head suddenly popped out beside him, with green hair and twin ponytails.
Yes, Levi brought Zeli with him.
Because after hearing the tragic plight of the Zaun slaves, Zeli wanted to rush over to save her friends regardless of the consequences.
Even if Levi didn't bring her here, she would have come to kill him on her own.
What's more, after chatting with her for a while, Levi recognized that this green-haired girl was not an ordinary passionate girl at all, but the future [Zuan Fireworks·Zeli].
Not only is she a natural born lightning elementalist, a beggar version of the Flash, a humanoid Pikachu, she is also a one-in-a-million scientific genius.
Not to mention, Zeli is so kind, brave and has a strong sense of justice.
Even without Levi's intervention, she would become a community hero like Spider-Man in the future, and become the [Zaan Fireworks] that the Alchemy Barons fear.
How could Levi miss this super talent who is born with the same values as the leader and is good at both science and magic?
So he took Zelie with him.
But this girl is still young.
Zeli is only a 14-year-old child now.
The girl came here with full of confidence and fighting spirit, gritting her teeth and determined to rescue her friend from the devil's cave. It seemed that no one could stop her.
But when we got there, we looked at the alchemy factory that looked like a devil's castle from afar...
Zeli couldn't help but become nervous again.
"Hey, Levi?" She was so nervous that her calves were shaking, but she insisted on not retreating: "Can the two of us really rescue Chuck from here?"
"Of course." Levi gave her a little confidence: "Don't forget how we got here just now."
He flew here with Zeli.
"Don't worry - didn't I tell you that I am the chosen one of Goddess Janna?"
"Boasting!" Zeli snorted: "It's just magic... I know a little bit of it!"
As she spoke, a few flashes of electricity shot out from her fingertips, making a bilibili sound.
"Don't be so frivolous!" Li Wei knocked the girl's head unhappily: "Your thing is too bright and conspicuous here."
He didn't explain how powerful he was.
He just deliberately asked Zeli: "If there is danger, will we not rescue him? Do you want to abandon your friend?"
"I..." Zeli did not disappoint: "Of course not!"
Although reckless, this young man's ambition is what Levi wants to see.
Levi calmed Zeli down and looked up at the alchemy factory:
Not only is this factory located in a remote area, but it is also surrounded by high walls covered with barbed wire. There are also watchtowers and security posts at regular intervals.
It is clearly a factory, but it is guarded as heavily as a military fortress.
"So many fully armed guards, some of whom are even equipped with prosthetic limbs and alchemical armor..."
"This security cost is not low."
Are we spending so much money on security just to keep an eye on the slaves?
"No... There must be other secrets in this factory."
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Gorask Industries, interior of the alchemy factory.
Chuck has been here for a while.
He did not come alone. He was also escorted by the gang thugs along with dozens of slaves who entered the factory at the same time.
When they first arrived at the factory, the slave workers were generally a little nervous.
Because this factory is located in a remote area and is heavily guarded, it looks like a slave prison where once you enter, there is no way out.
At first, Chuck couldn't help but worry whether he would be treated inhumanely in here.
But after entering the factory, Chuck discovered...
No one beat him, scolded him, or asked him to put on handcuffs and go into the cell.
"Haha, don't be nervous. We at Golask Industries are different from other companies. Our corporate culture emphasizes treating the factory as home and putting people first."
The factory foreman who took in these slaves spoke very kindly.
Chuck even felt that this kind-looking foreman was more reassuring than his mother who sold him to the factory.
I only heard the foreman say to everyone: "Mrs. Renata asked you to sign the contract not to buy your freedom, but to gain your loyalty."
"We just hope that everyone can forget the pain of the past, join our Gorask Industries without any burden, and join our warm and united big family—"
"Yes, from now on, we are all a family!"
The foreman's gentle and friendly opening remarks made Chuck relax his guard.
At this time, he still had some doubts:
How could Madam Renata be so kind and treat the slaves so well?
But the subsequent tour inside the factory made Chuck and the slave workers believe the foreman's words involuntarily.
Because they saw firsthand:
There is no beating, humiliation or abuse of slave workers like in other factories here.
The workers were working at their respective posts with full enthusiasm, their expressions were happy and natural, with smiles on their lips.
Chuck tried to talk to these seniors, and they all communicated with him enthusiastically, telling him how wonderful life was here, how kind Mrs. Renata was, and how much Golask Industries cared about its workers.
"Oh my god... this is heaven!"
Although the working environment here is also very bad and the work tasks are also very heavy, compared with those meat grinders in Zaun that do not treat workers as human beings... this place can really be considered a paradise.
"We are so lucky to have come to a good place!"
Chuck and the other slaves couldn't help but sigh.
If they had known that the treatment for slaves would be so good, they would have come to sell themselves long ago.
No... maybe it's really like what the foreman said.
They are not slaves, but the children of Lady Renata.
The reason why she asked them to sign the contract to sell themselves was simply that she wanted them to put aside their past and integrate into this big family wholeheartedly.
"Haha." Seeing that everyone had such a good impression of Renata and Golask Industries, the factory foreman also laughed heartily.
He continued to call out to Chuck and the slaves:
"Today is your first day at Golask Industries, and it is also the starting point of your new life. Madam Renata has prepared clean clothes, dormitories, food, and water for everyone."
"She has instructed that everyone should leave behind the filth of the past and join our big family with a new look."
"So, next—— "
"Please follow me to the 'disinfection room' first."
"Disinfection room?" Chuck was slightly stunned: "Sir, do you need to...disinfect us?"
"Yeah." The foreman smiled and nodded: "I guess you don't have the conditions to take a shower normally, right? I guess some of you have lice, haha."
"And to embark on a brand new life..."
"It won't work without disinfection."
