After blaming the noise pollution on Otteson, Xu Nan's mood instantly brightened considerably.
Over the next few days, he stopped practicing the Three Great Songs near the Anonymous City mines. Blazing Fire was very pleased with this and reported that the miners' efficiency had risen again. No one claimed to hear any terrifying noises anymore.
Of course, the Rat Swarm near Anonymous City also showed faint signs of making a comeback.
Everything had two sides. For the sake of his grand mining enterprise, until Xu Nan found a more perfect solution, he could only tolerate those rats occasionally appearing around the outskirts of his territory.
As the four mines opened one after another, Cloud Ascending Coins were rapidly put into circulation, and a series of incentive measures were launched, more and more Icefield People joined the ranks of the miners.
A small number of them already had experience mining for the Barnes family. Under normal circumstances, they would have been the most inconspicuous group, but now their status had risen accordingly, and many people sought their advice.
Under Xu Nan's deliberate arrangements, word quickly spread that using Official Mining Equipment could yield higher-purity ore. Some people had already begun renting equipment skeptically, hoping to earn better profits.
After all, beyond the basic daily wages, Xu Nan had also established a series of enviable progressive bonuses to reward workers whose mining performance exceeded the average.
For now, the results were better than expected. Aside from the Icefield People being truly terrible at mining at first, those northern burly men gradually grew accustomed to moving through narrow mine shafts. Thanks to the relatively advanced mine carts, there had yet to be any safety accidents.
Even so, Xu Nan remained extremely concerned about this matter.
Before Lost Paradise's mining technology team arrived, he