Chapter 515 Magic Picture Scroll

"Good morning, Miss Soraya!"

As soon as Soraya walked into the bicycle factory, Gilly greeted her, "You're so early."

These words made her a little embarrassed. She went to bed a little late yesterday with Miyue and Lily fighting the Landlords, and she got up half an hour later than usual today. In the days when Wendy was away, everyone felt a lot more lazy, of course... Anna and Agatha were the exceptions. Whether they were working or studying, they had always been role models for the sisters. Especially the latter, who are always the earliest to go out and the last to come back.

"Is the substrate ready?"

"Yes, please follow me."

As one of the first batch of graduates, Gilly has now become her assistant at the bicycle factory. She will be notified in advance of any work content. A year ago, Soraya would never have believed that ordinary people and witches would cooperate with each other and get along well with each other.

"Is that the finished bicycle?" She suddenly noticed that the factory today seemed different from before. The steam machine tools were not roaring as usual. Everyone was surrounding a row of brand-new two-wheeled cars and looking at them non-stop. .

"Yes, our first batch of products," Gilly said with a thick smile on her face and her eyes narrowed, "there are twenty of them in total, which is not easy. Especially the chains and wheels, based on the yield rate It’s less than half.”

It is indeed not easy, Soraya thought to herself. This factory was completed in the autumn of last year, but it has experienced various twists and turns since then, such as insufficient equipment, serious shortage of personnel, etc... Its priority is obviously lower than that of the one next door. Steam engine assembly plants and chemical plants. The first two currently have three shifts, and people are working almost all the time, while here they are still producing during the day and closing at night. Even Gilly complained secretly that the salary of a colleague who went to a chemical factory had been increased to three times hers, but there was no sign of the bicycle.

Now she can finally get a bicycle of her own.

Pushing open the door of the production room, Soraya saw that a layer of white paper had been laid on the flat ground, about forty square meters, like a snowfield in winter.

"The part being processed today is the inner tube, please," the little girl bowed.

"Well," the witch nodded, "just go and do your work."

"Hey, if you need anything, please call me immediately," she smiled, "I'll stay at the door of the factory."

Seeing the back of Gilly leaving happily, Soraya knew that she must be eager to experience the feeling of riding a bicycle.

Smiling and shaking her head, Soraya took off her shoes and stepped onto the flat paper.

Bicycle painting work mainly includes three parts: inner tube, outer tire and frame rust prevention. Which one to do depends on the stage of assembly in the factory. Of course, in general, the speed of completing the painting yourself is much faster than the speed of assembly, so whether it is inner tubes, outer tires or frames, the factory has a lot of inventory. But the magic power grows every day, and it would be a waste not to use it, so every three days, Soraya will still come to the bicycle factory to complete part of the painting work.

She briefly recalled the quality of the inner tube, then raised her hand to summon the magic pen.

As a membrane material to hold gas, it must be light and soft, have moderate toughness, and be able to fuse at high temperatures. Based on past experience, she chose wood shaving coating as the material - this was also the result of hundreds of tests. Sky coating was too flexible, while water wave coating was extremely fire-resistant, until she noticed when collecting raw materials. The most ideal object for painting was found in the wood shavings left over from the carpenter's processing.

Unlike Lucia, who can break down metal elements and mix them in any proportion and then remelt them, she must draw them with reference to the real thing to understand its performance. At the same time, she cannot memorize the magical characteristics of thousands of materials, so the easiest way is to make a color card, and then select the coating on the color card to apply it on a large scale when she wants to use it.

Of course, for commonly used coatings such as inner and outer tubes, she can draw them directly without referring to the color card.

The magic brush gradually widened, and finally the brush was centered on Soraya and extended to about six meters - when using the extreme range of ten meters to paint, the magic in the edge area is easy to get out of control. In order to ensure uniform coating quality, she would rather Spend more time drawing.

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In less than an hour, the forty square meters of paper were all coated with a layer of wood shavings - of course, it was not real wood shavings, just like when she painted on steel, the coating she got was not steel either... The hardness and Flexibility cannot be taken into consideration at the same time. No matter how hard the coating is, it cannot compare to stone, and it will break like glass when dropped.

In addition to the shavings, Soraya also scrawled her name on it as a signature. This is also the tradition of painters. She originally only wrote her name on the lower right corner of the coating, but later found that after the coating was cut, her name could only appear on an inner tube, so she just got more playful and painted her signature everywhere. Yes, no matter how you cut it, you can still see the words "Zoraya's work". She was a little panicked when His Highness discovered her at first. She thought she would be blamed, but unexpectedly His Highness smiled and called her the inventor of watermarks, and also praised her.

Although she didn't understand what the watermark meant, Soraya was happy for several days to be praised by His Highness, and she kept this signature style after that.

After the coating is completed, the next process is to burn off the paper on the back to obtain the complete inner tube raw material, which is then sent to the knife shop to be cut into strips, and finally the joint is hot-melted with a red-hot soldering iron. Of course, dedicated workers are responsible for these tasks, and she only needs to complete the initial production of raw materials.

This batch of coatings consumed almost one-third of the magic power in the body. Soraya deeply felt the role of training in improving magic power. In the past, completing such a large coating at one time was enough to exhaust her. While it was still early, she said goodbye to Gilly and headed to the backyard of the North Slope Mine alone.

After entering the mountain road, there are sentries almost every hundred meters, and a bunker and a watchtower are set up at the entrance of the courtyard. Even the lord's castle is not so tightly guarded.

Soraya entered the yard under the military salute of the soldiers and saw Anna cutting strange parts - she completed her work meticulously whenever she came here. Looking at her focused figure, Soraya suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Putting aside her talent, at least in terms of seriousness, she was too far behind. At the same time, there was also a little envy in her heart. Whether it was ability, work commitment, or relationship with His Highness, Anna was the best among witches.

"Hey, Sister Soraya, you're here," Lucia on the other side heard her footsteps and looked up with a bright smile.

Anna also put down the parts in her hands and waved to her, "I'm sorry to bother you with the copper wire package today."

"Put it on me," Soraya put her thoughts aside and walked towards the two of them with a smile. (To be continued.)