Chapter 152: Refining the Iron Nail
Song Tiantian hired several blacksmiths and established a new weapon department.
This was mainly due to the iron chains she found in the Misty Illusion Realm that bound Dr. Bai. She didn’t know what material they were made of, but they were incredibly hard and had excellent spiritual conductivity.
So, she wanted these people to help her forge weapons.
To forge some long swords or long sabers.
As for those nails, to Song Tiantian, they were like small swords, capable of surprise attacks at critical moments.
Moreover, Song Tiantian discovered that after purifying these nails with the System, she could refine them with Spiritual Power. There were three nails in total, and if she refined them properly, they could play a different role at critical moments.
However, forging weapons from those iron chains was a major undertaking. Their melting point was extremely high, and Spiritual Power was also required to shape them.
Song Tiantian wasn’t in a hurry and didn’t urge them. She simply let them go to work for eight hours a day, without overtime, and to practice slowly.
She didn’t have that many weapons to forge.
Later, Song Ranran would custom order some weapons here.
Song Tiantian offered them a fixed salary, but after work, they were allowed to take on private jobs and continue working here to earn extra income.
Li Tie was originally a blacksmith from the nearby Qingshan Village, having forged iron there his entire life.
Blacksmithing is an intangible cultural heritage. Very few people forge iron in modern society.
If it weren’t for the rise of short videos later, and some people liking to collect custom swords and place orders online, he would definitely have changed professions and couldn’t continue doing this.
His family had been forging iron for generations, but in modern society, fewer and fewer people in the village were blacksmiths.
Later, Fierce Beasts appeared. Although news and short videos about Beast Tamers were everywhere online, he felt it was very distant from him.
It wasn’t until this year, when he personally witnessed Fierce Beasts destroying his village and was forced to move from his family’s small villa, that he realized how close the Fierce Beasts were to him.
Unfortunately, after his family fled to the city, he wanted to form a Contract with a Fierce Beast and become a Beast Tamer, but he didn’t have the Beast Tamer Talent. He had no choice but to spend all his money to buy a bottle of Cold Fragrance Number Two to activate his Beast Tamer Talent.
After that, he had no money left. The money he had earned before was spent on buying a car, building a villa for his family, and getting married, so the money was almost all gone.
He wanted to find a new job, but it was hard to find one in the current environment.
Until he saw that Tiantian Pet Beast Center was hiring blacksmiths, and since he had no place to live in the city anyway, even though the city was safe, Li Tie still brought his family here.
His father was also a blacksmith and could work. His mother, having been influenced for so many years, also knew forging techniques, but lacked the strength and could be an apprentice blacksmith.
His wife was pregnant and could just rest at home.
The three of them were directly hired.
Song Tiantian even gave him an interest-free loan for a Pet Beast, allowing him to become a Beast Tamer.
This made Li Tie feel a strong sense of belonging here.
Moreover, the money his family earned from side jobs didn’t need to be used to repay the loan.
There were still some businesses here, such as deboning knives and skinning knives, which were doing very well, with people placing orders every day.
Weapons made from Fierce Beast claws and bones are now more useful than steel.
After all, no matter how carefully a blacksmith shop crafts its weapons, they will never be as good as steel, which is why blacksmiths were replaced by steel mills.
But now, with Fierce Beast materials, the blacksmith’s skills seem to be useful again.
Currently, these are all in the research phase.
He could only figure these things out himself.
There was some simple information online that he could study.
But currently, when people buy weapons for Beast Tamers, they can basically only buy them from officially designated places, and the prices are very high.
These materials will be sought after by many people, so there’s no worry about selling them. A large number of official Enforcement Teams need weapons, as do the bodyguards and escorts of those consortiums, and they themselves need them.
Therefore, it was extremely difficult for Li Tie to get a batch of materials to practice with.
But Song Tiantian was very generous and gave him a batch of materials for free to practice with. He could make them when he had free time, and then they would be sold at the Pet Beast Center.
In fact, Li Tie felt a bit embarrassed; Song Tiantian gave him too much.
He felt that coming to the Pet Beast Center was a very good choice.
After all, if he hadn’t come here, his family would have been crammed into a small single room of a few square meters, feeling very depressed, and not daring to eat anything good, as every penny counted.
There were too many people in Qingshan City. Those from nearby villages who encountered danger were rescued by the authorities and brought into the city, but the city had limited residences and even fewer job positions.
Life was extremely difficult.
The authorities knew they were struggling and were actively helping them find jobs. Hearing that Tiantian Pet Beast Center was short-handed, they arranged for several busloads of people to be escorted there. Having a job brings stability to people’s hearts.
In the first few days after arriving, Li Tie’s family couldn’t settle down. Working day and night helped them feel a little more at ease.
Working here, they were also allocated a two-bedroom apartment, allowing the family to live together and feel less oppressed.
His wife also started to smile a little because she knew they didn’t provide meals. Even though she was pregnant, she still went to the supermarket to buy groceries and cook every day.
The supermarket had discounts every night at 8 PM. At this time, the family would go together to pick out discounted vegetables, and they were incredibly happy.
Apart from the main road at the entrance, the surrounding areas of the Pet Beast Center were planned out. Everyone could go outside to farm, but there was no safety guarantee. They might encounter Fierce Beasts outside, and the crops they grew could also be stolen.
Li Tie’s wife wanted to go out and farm there, but Li Tie stopped her.
Their family now has three people earning money. Although he has to repay the loan, they also have side income, and their income is not low. There’s no need to do that.
Overall, he is very satisfied with his current life. His biggest wish now is to pay off the loan early, as he dislikes owing money.
Song Tiantian actually didn’t want to hire so many people.
But she couldn’t resist Leng Qing’s constant persuasion.
They hired about five thousand people, and the number of security guards is even more than before.
There are now seven hundred security guards here.
Song Tiantian didn’t want to hire any more security guards because she couldn’t afford them. The basic salary for security guards is the highest, and even those who came later only asked for twenty thousand a month.
But Song Tiantian could barely afford it, and as these people stayed longer and gained combat experience, their salaries would have to increase.
A month ago, Song Tiantian was still worried about not being able to recruit enough people. She never expected that a month later, the tables would turn.
Song Tiantian had to plan again, arranging jobs for these new arrivals, and the assembly line that had been paused was restarted.
The Pet Beast Center had just started to turn a profit, and now it was losing money again.
After Song Tiantian finished refining the three nails, she was thinking about how to make money and how to expand the business of the Pet Beast Center.
