parentshiftbook Chapter 336 We need him here by yesterday
Chapter 336 We need him here by yesterday
"For the great first day!"
Makary raised a simple cup filled to the brim with cheap beer.
"Cheers!"
And in response...
"Hurray!" a crowd of soldiers, both mercenaries from the earth and the selected few from the imperial army raised their cups in response.
After a grueling day of messy organization, intense work, and constant struggle to keep everything from falling apart, the sun has finally reached the line of the horizon, announcing the end of the first workday in the camp.
"Bottoms up!" Makary cheered again before tilting his cup and chugging down the drink as if there was no tomorrow.
And all over the camp, everyone did pretty much the same, celebrating the new beginning with a can of a proper beer each.
"Haaa..." To my side, Fay exhaled after downing half of her cup in a single go, a satisfied smile growing on her lips as the warmth of alcohol heated her insides.
"From now and until the bell rings, you are all free to rest after the day of hard work. Once the bell rings, everyone is to go to get your well-deserved sleep, so that you will have the energy to eat breakfast tomorrow!"
Even though the six thousand people in the camp were separated into a bunch of groups no bigger than a hundred men each, the voice-transmission technology in the form of speakers connected to each other by a mess of cables allowed Makary to coordinate the entirety of the party all at once.
"So once again, to the future!"
Shouting once again into his mouthpiece, Makary then raised his mug again, drowning his own exhaustion with the remaining half of the beer.
"I really don't get what you all see in alcohol," I muttered silently, more to strike up a conversation with Fay than to judge something or someone.
I took a sip of my own beer, only for my face to twist under the influence of its sour aftertaste.
"You will grow into it," Fay cheered while snuggling up to my side and leaning her head over on my shoulder.
How were we going to source an insane amount of isolating material? What about the basic furniture to turn those tent sheds into proper housing? Then how about equipping each of the advanced sheds with a stove large enough to fulfill the needs of all the men living inside?
"I figured," I muttered after taking quite some time to think about what I saw happen through the day.
Things were moving forward at a satisfactory rate... but that was only because it would still take a day or two for our workers to catch up with all the resources we'd managed to stockpile. And once that reality would come to pass...
"We need to find a way of not only sourcing more machines and resources but how to move them through a lot quicker than we can do now," Makary spoke out into the air, not targeting anyone in particular with this remark.
"Aren't we going to move the gate to a better location tomorrow?" I pointed out the easiest solution to the latter of our problems.
"Yeah, we are. But that only means we will move the choke-point from here to earth. In other words, we are reaching the limit of how quickly we can push stuff through the hangar. And don't even get me started on how much of a pain it is to move cargo through to the hangar..."
Makary shook his head.
"But even if we improved the throughput, even if we could push all the cargo through that we want..." Makary lowered his head and drilled his eyes into the ground. "In two to three days, we will run out of basic materials. In a week, we will exhaust our supply of tools. Three more days and we will be out of fuel."
Hearing Makary list out the things we lacked, I finally started to appreciate the seriousness of our situation.
It was one thing to watch how the camp turned from an empty plain into a seedling of a city, but to learn just how quickly we were burning through our assets to achieve this rate of development was something entirely else.
And with that in mind, I could already tell what sort of solution Makary had in his mind and was trying to slowly ease me into.
"Just give it to me straight," I suggested with a sigh. "What do we need to do to keep going?"
Makary raised his eyes and gave me a long glance, only to finally turn his head right back to where it was before and once again lock his eyes on some random pebble in front of him.
"We need to get that magistrate bastard here. He's the only one who can get us the resources and tools we need within any reasonable timeline. But for him to commit that hard..." Makary shook his head, refusing to look back as he continued with the topic. "I believe we need him to see this place with his own, two eyes. And not in a month or two," Makary stated only to stand up and turn on his heel.
The middle-aged man then grabbed my shoulders and looked directly into my eyes with an intensity that made me, for just a moment, question his sexual orientation.
"We need him here by yesterday."
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