Chapter 237. The beggining idiot (2)
“Lloyd-sama? Why are you sighing so heavily?”
A very sudden voice.
Xaviel’s question came from right behind him.
“…!”
Is the expression that the heart sinks down at a time like this?
Lloyd was taken aback.
No, I was trying hard not to show off.
I unknowingly bit my lip.
I held my breath for a moment and rolled my eyes.
My head is spinning as I think about what to say.
I turned around, thinking that it was a relief that I didn’t show my expression to Xaviel because he was approaching from behind.
I laughed.
“You look like you can’t breathe right now?”
He pointed to the roadbed construction site and grumbled.
“See over there? yonder roadbed. I’m really going crazy.”
“Are there any problems?”
“Okay. The construction surface above the upper subgrade. It’s very messy there. I begged you to trust me that you shouldn’t lay down the road like that, but it’s true. Satan, these bastards really don’t listen.”
“Hmm, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”
“You don’t see anything wrong, but I see a lot of things, right? It’s a sleeper in that state, and if you install the rails, everything will be twisted later.”
“Is that so.”
“uh. I’m going to call the Satanists later and try again. Whoa, to the point where I can’t trust this and entrust the work.”
“You must miss Lord Bavaria.”
“Oh yes. Engineers and bone soldiers.”
Lloyd’s smile turned into a bitter laugh.
It was a topic that I brought up just to get around.
He really missed the Bavarian Lord and the Corps of Engineers in the Prontera estate.
It is because they have been working together on numerous construction projects so far.
They are veterans you can trust and trust.
“But why are you here?”
“I think it’s time to eat.”
“I hope you don’t tell me that tonight’s menu is grilled belly of a lava centipede.”
“Unfortunately, the menu for dinner tonight is grilled lava centipede belly.”
“Hey, is that the best?”
“It will be for the best. It is the only menu that can be sourced and cooked here.”
“In addition to grilling, there are also steamed and fried ones, right?”
“Water is scarce for steaming, and there is no flour to use for frying.”
“Then why not eat it raw?”
“You mean raw?”
“uh. Like soy sauce crab…No, anyway, just raw.”
“Do you really want to do that?”
“…no.”
Lloyd let out a deep sigh.
It’s been about 3 months since I’ve been working on roadbed construction.
In the meantime, I had to eat only centipede meat to get really sick of it.
In fact, it was also the only food available here.
At first it was quite tasty, but now the smell of the centipede meat made me sick to my stomach.
“Well, what are you going to do? Let’s go.”
He sighed louder and took a step.
He was one step ahead of Xaviel.
A faint smile was painted on his lips without Xaviel knowing.
On the one hand, it was heartbreaking.
‘It’s a relief.’
He managed to change the topic with difficulty.
Judging from the atmosphere, Xaviel didn’t seem to notice anything.
‘It would have been very difficult if he had found out.’
Lloyd touched the chest of his coat.
Slightly bulging inner pockets.
The ghost of Prontera, the madman hidden there.
Just a little while ago, he and I were arguing with each other.
That’s why I wondered if Xaviel had heard it, and I was heartbroken.
Did you take a sneak peek at it while changing the topic?
Fortunately, Xaviel was calm.
It didn’t seem to detect anything.
Lloyd was finally able to calm his thumping heart.
His steps became a little lighter.
Just like that, Xaviel’s eyes became heavy.
‘….’
Apparently Lloyd-sama is strange.
I can’t help but think so.
‘Because Lloyd-sama doesn’t complain about food.’
At least, the Lloyd Frontera he knew was like that.
At least since I stopped being crazy, it really was.
Even if they offered me some fairly ordinary or crude food, I rarely refused.
There was no picky corner about the taste at all.
I didn’t even get tired of it.
Even if I ate the same food for 10 days and a month, I ate well without complaining.
Although I felt a complaint in my heart, I did not express it outwardly.
It was like someone who had lived in poverty for several years.
So it was like someone who knew the importance of food keenly.
But just now?
‘I said outright that I was tired of centipede meat.’
The one who wasn’t like that at all until morning.
In the evening, the reaction was a sudden disgust.
I couldn’t help but think it was strange.
‘Besides, that self-talk earlier was definitely strange.’
Lloyd’s back as he walks ahead.
Xaviel’s gaze became meaningful.
In fact, he was the one who heard Lloyd’s voice just before talking to him.
‘It felt like I was mumbling to myself. No, should I say it felt like two Lloyds were having a conversation?’
I couldn’t believe it.
It really felt like that.
The noise from the nearby volcano prevented Lloyd from listening to himself.
However, I was able to understand the tone and atmosphere to some extent.
‘It felt like Lloyd-sama was talking to Lloyd-sama. What’s even weirder is…During the conversation, I heard two accents alternately.’
As if two personalities with the same voice are talking.
Or as if two people with the same voice were arguing.
It was just such a feeling of self-talk.
‘Besides, one of the two personalities I was conversing with was like…It was like Lloyd-nim’s way of speaking in the past.’
It really was.
Before the old Lloyd came to his senses and became sincere.
Those days when I was doing all sorts of crazy things.
I was writing the tone of the conversation at the time.
So, Lloyd’s self-talk that I overheard by chance just now felt like Lloyd of the mad days and Lloyd of the present were arguing aung daung.
‘….’
Could Lloyd-sama have a dual personality?
‘No, it doesn’t seem like that.’
Xaviel shook his head slightly.
No matter how you look at it, Lloyd didn’t show any signs of a double personality.
So, Xaviel was even more confused.
‘Besides, last time the King of Hell called Lloyd-sama a strange title. Kim Soo-ho. What the hell does that title mean?’
Although Lloyd at the time replied that he did not know what that title was.
It was different from what I saw.
‘I think Lloyd-sama knows something.’
But it seemed like he didn’t bother to reveal it.
The more I looked, the more I felt that way.
‘but. It wasn’t just one or two places that were odd. From the past.’
To be precise, it was from the day Lloyd suddenly started working on the ondol a few years ago.
Certainly Lloyd has changed since that day.
It turned out to be a completely different person.
At the time, I thought it was weird, but I didn’t think it was bad.
Because the person who was a messed up mess became sincere in an instant.
Rather, everyone around him, including himself, welcomed the change.
But now?
I got a little anxious.
Then, he became afraid that Lloyd would suddenly return to his old maniac.
Because I am a person who has changed once.
There is no guarantee that it will not change again.
So I felt even more anxious.
‘Lloyd-sama, I want to protect Lloyd-sama’s sincerity.’
Although he was frequently criticized for being petty and mean.
Even so, he thought that Lloyd now was much better than when he was an idiot.
No, in my heart I was thinking that I could truly believe and follow him.
That made me even more anxious.
‘If Lloyd-nim goes back to his old self…What should I do?’
I couldn’t get a feel for it.
Just hope that doesn’t happen.
So that we all do not fall into misfortune.
I just sincerely hoped and hoped.
And I was just making up my mind.
‘I don’t know what kind of help I can be, but I’ll do everything to protect Lloyd-nim’s current appearance.’
Lloyd walking ahead.
A resolute light appeared in Xaviel’s eyes as he looked at his back.
♣
Railroad construction continued.
There seemed to be no way to find a way to help the ghost of the crazy Prontera right now.
That’s why Lloyd focused on the construction he was doing.
From the edge of hell to the hell center of hell.
The 110-kilometer-long roadbed construction has entered the final stage.
In the meantime, Lloyd craved and ate 30,000 Satans more efficiently.
The secret was simple.
All I had to do was to cosplay as the bad business owner as much as possible.
“Everyone knows, right? It’s an all-nighter today!”
Special allowance for staying up all night?
Of course not.
Welfare benefits for poor working conditions?
Of course there was none of that.
It just rolled viciously and rolled again.
Didn’t even let me go to work.
Then, what if you want your work efficiency to drop even a little bit?
He called in all sorts of grunts and brushed them off.
“Come on, sing it. The reason you are struggling and aesthetic is because you lack passion and persistence!”
“Passion! patience!”
“Your voice is small!”
“Terrible! Perseverance!”
“Okay, use that energy to work more!”
“…Big! Still, it hurts and is hard!”
“shut up! You have to be sick and tired to be Satan!”
…It was like that.
Of course, that was something he would never have done, completely contrary to Lloyd’s usual philosophy.
If you do hard work, the wages commensurate with it.
If there is something dangerous, take safety measures and risk allowance.
For all such work, be sure to write a labor contract.
That was Lloyd’s usual theory.
The sadness and humiliation he experienced many times while rolling in the field of Korea. Even the misery of taking a daily wage there.
It was because he did not want such dirty things to happen in his field.
But now?
It was completely different.
‘Because this is hell!’
Hell was truly a strange place.
If I had treated the workers like this elsewhere?
The scene would have already turned upside down and there was an uproar.
But Hell here is completely different.
The harsher the field was rolled, the more Satan liked it!
The more he ordered the work, the more the Satans cheered!
The more you ignore welfare and whatnot, the more Satans growl!
‘…Aren’t they completely crazy perverted psychos?’
It was to the point where I was thinking about it.
That is to say, the more the satanic people here treat people in a more gentle and reasonable way, the more they view people as patrons. I climbed up while looking at it, and I didn’t listen to the words.
So it was.
‘It doesn’t fit my site policy, but I can’t help it. this is localization It is to operate the field in a way that is suitable for local customs.’
Lloyd struggled to suppress the sound of his conscience and constantly self-hypnotized (?) and rolled the Satans.
Thanks to this, the roadbed construction was completed very quickly.
The roadbed that will be the foundation of the railroad.
After that was done, the track construction started right away.
‘You don’t have to make it grandiose and complicated. As long as the train that escorts the soul can travel smoothly on both the up and down lines at an appropriate speed.’
There was no need to make it complicated and luxurious like the KTX high-speed train built in modern Korea.
Lloyd pledged to stick to the basics.
‘First of all, from the roadbed to support the track on the road bed.’
He took the basis of the orbit in the form of a ‘guided orbit’.
In other words, to put it simply, it was a form of pebbles laid all over the road.
‘The pebbles themselves on the floor exert friction and absorb shock and vibration to some extent. The construction is simple and the structure is simple.’
On the other hand, there were disadvantages that dust was generated when the train was running and a lot of effort was required for maintenance.
But it didn’t matter.
‘Because it’s hell, fine dust is no problem, and there will be too many Satans to put in for maintenance work anyway!’
Even now, as many as 800,000 Satans are escorting souls with wagons.
But what if the railroad is operated in earnest later?
It was obvious that a huge number of Satan would be forced to become unemployed (?).
Putting the surplus satans generated in this way into orbit maintenance would simplify things.
‘Whoa, so let’s work!’
Breaking the gravel was easy.
Basically, Hell was overflowing with stones.
This is because various rocks formed as the pyroclastic material cooled are scattered everywhere.
I scraped it all over.
It was laid flat on the roadbed with a total length of 110 km.
On top of that, sleepers and rails were laid.
The format was not too up-to-date.
Of course, it was possible to make the latest high-performance orbit anti-vibration fasteners such as the ALT-System (Alternative System), which is widely used in Korea, Germany, the United States, and Switzerland.
‘But there’s no need to do that.’
Of course, the latest technology is good.
When the train is running, there is much less vibration or noise and it becomes more comfortable.
But here?
If such a construction method was chosen, it would unnecessarily complicate the construction and lengthen the construction period.
‘Besides, it’s a train that will only carry a lot of microbial souls escorted with Satan, but the ride comfort!’
he didn’t know
So it was.
He also decided on the relatively old and simple ‘STEDEF’ method for the orbit.
‘Because it’s the oldest and simplest way I’ve studied.’
The STEDEF orbit was first developed in France in 1964.
In fact, it was also a method that was widely used in early trains in Korea.
For example, the National Railroad and Seoul Subway Lines 1 to 4 could be cited.
“Lay down sleepers! Lay down the rails! Fill the fasteners properly! Follow the construction guidelines properly!”
A sleeper that is placed transversely on the roadway to secure the rail and distribute the load.
It was made from centipede legs obtained countless times by dismantling lava centipedes.
Four sturdy centipede legs were intertwined.
It could be used to make sturdy sleepers.
Rails were laid based on the centipede leg sleepers that were driven into the road.
The rails on which train wheels will actually run in contact.
The rails were made from centipede shells.
who?
This is Javiel.
how?
With an aura of dazzling power obtained by reaching the level of a grand master.
Each ska!
If you swing your sword once, dozens of auras will sprout.
Came over the centipede corpse.
The thick and hard shell of the centipede disintegrated in an instant.
It was cut and processed according to a certain standard so that it was truly creepy.
The countless centipede skin rails obtained in this way were laid on the sleepers.
Centipede antennae were used as fasteners.
It’s like being tied with a cable tie.
The hole made under the rail and the icon were woven together.
And the sleepers and the entire rail were additionally fixed as if they were driven into the roadbed.
“Ppodonga! Step on it!”
“Ppodong!”
After eating red sunflower seeds for a long time, Pudongie, who became huge, jumped happily.
The plump and thick belly and hips swayed.
I put a lot of weight on it and stepped on the sleepers and rails.
There was a lot of loud and heavy noise throughout the day.
Of course, Lloyd didn’t pay attention to the noise on the spot.
The reason was simple.
Because this place is hell.
‘It’s a hell where no one lives anyway, so why care about noise?’
There was no need to worry about damage to the surroundings such as noise and dust.
Thanks to this, the construction progressed much more quickly.
Of course, that’s why Lloyd hadn’t even dreamed of it.
because it’s hell
because there is no one
Construction site noise that I didn’t even pay attention to.
Because of that, the fact that the construction site is becoming dangerous.
– …Rumble! Noisy!
The bottom of a lava lake near a railroad construction site.
There was a being who had a hard time sleeping there.
But now?
was angry
Because of the noise from the construction site out of nowhere.
It’s like struggling on a Sunday morning because of the loud and meaningless noise from upstairs.
– Rolling over! Everything…shall i kill
The most dangerous and violent beings in the wilds of Hell.
The lava giant opened its eyes in a devastating rage.
