All the citizens of the Maine Clan came from Xide. At this moment, they were working mechanically day after day on the dull assembly lines as usual, and many of their faces no longer carried the lively spirit they had possessed when they first arrived.
Perhaps they had possessed it at the beginning. When they had first encountered all that new knowledge, when they had first come into contact with that precision equipment, the novelty had filled their hearts.
However, that feeling was quickly suppressed. Their learning ability was too strong, so they soon mastered the basics. With daily practice, the sophisticated mining equipment quickly became as boring as an assembly line.
To accommodate newcomers, the instructors' public lectures never introduced a new lesson more than once a week. Whenever too many newcomers arrived, they had to start from the beginning again. The veterans often nearly fell asleep listening to them.
This was not the life they wanted. If the novelty of the outside world had not continued tempting them to persevere, they would probably have begun complaining long ago.
"Nicole, how did you do? How much did you earn today?"
Inside a Space Folding room, one tall, slender woman finally stopped working and glanced at her companion, who was still operating the equipment. She asked curiously,
Her companion, Nicole, was a shorter, plump woman. Hearing the question, she turned around and said directly, "Hmm... I refined thirty-one Energy Blocks: seventeen premium-grade, thirteen high-grade, and one low-grade. I should be able to exchange them for about a hundred points. What about you, Maggie?"
By now, they were so familiar with operating the equipment that they even dared to get distracted and chat while the machinery was running. That would have been impossible at the beginning. This proved that the Maine