The Lord Demon King is Unfathomable!

Chapter 1703 478: Campbell People Learning by Doing_4

Boom——!

Black smoke surged into the sky!

The steam engine began to roar!

After a tremor that seemed to shake heaven and earth, the steel monster started to shudder violently.

Then, under everyone's gaze, the two parallel tracks emitted a teeth-clenching creak and began to slowly turn!

This steel giant beast, weighing dozens of tons, actually moved!

Cheers erupted on the construction site.

"It's moving! It's moving!"

"Holy cow, awesome!"

"Haha! The most awesome is yet to come!"

Amidst the players' cheers, the [Jade-faced Hand Tired King] let out a strange scream, clumsily manipulating the lever and forcefully pushed it down.

With a loud "clang," the massive mechanical arm crashed onto the ground, effortlessly digging up a small mound, then twisted its neck and tossed the scoopful of dirt ten meters away.

"Ooh ooh ooh!"

"This feels great!"

The players cheered, having a great time.

To them, it was just like playing a super-sized "construction simulation" game, with countless magic mods installed!

Among the excited crowd, only [Earth-eating Rich Man] was cursing.

"Damn it, don't play like that!"

The worn equipment is all part of the cost!

At this rate, they might not even get this thing to the Southwest Swamp for work; it'll break down right at their doorstep!

The center of the construction site was bustling, and so was the edge, though the atmosphere was entirely different.

[Wolf Limp] had just recruited hundreds of NPC construction workers from the refugee camp, who were now standing at a distance, wide-eyed and mouth agape, witnessing the unbelievable scene before them.

Most of them were peasants who had lost their land, but there were also some who had served the lord as household servants, supposedly having seen some of the world.

Yet even so, none of them had seen anything this outrageous.

"By Saint Sis..." An old farmer made the sign of the cross, his voice trembling, "What... what is that thing? A steam engine running on the ground?"

"I thought the loom in the factory was the largest machine I'd seen in my life..." Another blacksmith muttered, speaking in a dream-like voice, "I didn't expect something even more exaggerated than that!"

"Look at its claw! It dug such a big hole in one go! By Saint Sis, this thing moves once and it's more work than I do in a day!"

"They must be mages!" A man looking like an apprentice said quietly and confidently, "I've heard adventurers from the Academic State say that only the legendary mages can control such steel giants!"

This explanation immediately gained everyone's concurrence!

Their gaze toward the cheering foremen in the workshop had subtly shifted from gratitude toward "generous employers" to awe for "mysterious mages."

No wonder they could offer such high wages!

Turns out, they're wealthy Master Mages!

It's just puzzling why these Master Mages are willing to stoop to do construction work; it's truly rare.

What were they thinking...

Among these simple temporary workers, only one named "Kenny," a carpenter, remained silent.

His wooden expression seemed to be in a daze but was actually lost in captivated thought.

Unlike the others!

He had once served as a militia artilleryman in the Campbell Third Artillery Team, and due to hitting an Ogre General with a smoothbore cannon in a battle against the Demon King Army, he had been awarded a combat medal by Aaron Campbell, before retiring to resume his ancestral carpenter's craft.

Since he frequently dealt with artillery, he knew better than anyone the power and limitations of cannons.

He was certainly amazed by the machine's terrifying digging ability, but what made his heart beat wildly was the other potential this machine exhibited—

Using this thing just to haul cargo and dig dirt was simply extravagant!

Kenny's gaze involuntarily fell onto the top of the engineering vehicle, where a platform was reserved for installing the digging arm.

If a twelve-pound cannon could be mounted there, what a fine sight that would be.