Under Perfikot's watchful gaze, the engineers quickly shoved a plump engineer, already bruised and battered, in front of her amidst a flurry of jostling.

"Who are you? What exactly happened today?" Perfikot gazed at the battered man in front of her with some disgust, feeling quite frustrated.

After all, it was this man's antics that not only severely delayed today's construction progress but also nearly led to a strike situation, practically dancing a tap dance on Perfikot's blood pressure.

Thus, Perfikot was exceedingly angry with these engineers, but a competent authority figure wouldn't easily reveal their emotions. She merely showed some disgust in her eyes without revealing any other emotions.

"In response to Count's inquiry, my name is Colin Snowie, one of the construction company's commissioned supervisors. Having seen this guy's wanted notice on the street before arriving, I recognized him and thought of apprehending him to be handled by the Northern Territory's police," the engineer named Colin explained to Perfikot, simultaneously not forgetting to credit himself: "Count, I was thinking of the safety of your territory. This person is a dangerous communist, responsible for multiple strikes in Langton and the Empire's mainland, attempting to incite upheaval. Do not trust their lies! They intend to share everything, including wives, distributing sacred and inviolable private property among the lazy poor!"

"Alright, shut up!" Perfikot snapped her fingers, and an invisible palm in the air instantly slapped Colin, closing his mouth.

Seeing Perfikot discipline the engineer, the workers were relieved but simultaneously, the engineers' faces showed some dissatisfaction and hostility towards Perfikot.

Perfikot didn't care about this. She calmly stated, "I only need you to state the facts, not to embellish and twist matters in front of me. If this happens again, I'll rip out your tongue."

After saying that, Perfikot looked at the group of engineers still showing dissatisfaction and questioned them: "Is there something you're unhappy about? Speak up so I can see what you're truly dissatisfied with."

Perfikot's tone was very calm, yet her hand gripping her staff indicated she was already ready to get angry.

At this moment, an engineer stepped up and said, "Count, we just feel your actions are unfair. Colin didn't make any mistakes, he merely wanted to capture a wanted criminal."

"Capture a wanted criminal? He could very well have informed the police first, letting them handle the matter, instead of arrogantly catching him himself," Perfikot looked at the group of engineers and then at the workers. She noted that whether in terms of clothing craftsmanship, materials, or cleanliness, there was no comparison between the two. She then frowned and said, "Do you all really stay on the construction site all day? Why don't I see any dust or oil stains on your clothes? I remember requesting all engineers to supervise construction on-site, correct?"

Hearing Perfikot's inquiry, the engineer standing out calmly replied, "Count, engineers have received good education and pay more attention to hygiene. Their work nature is different from that of workers, and they don't easily dirty their clothes.

Moreover, today's shift change hasn't begun; we are the engineers waiting for work to start, so relatively, our clothes lack dust and oil stains.

If you see engineers who've been busy all day, you'll find that they too have dust and oil stains, only not as much as ordinary workers."

Perfikot was noncommittal about this explanation, merely looking deeply at the person who stepped forward and then stated, "I reluctantly accept your reason, but I still hope you can commit more fully to the work rather than spending your time on hygiene."

After speaking, Perfikot looked at Colin, who had been knocked down by her air slap, shook her head, and said, "If you had brains instead of being eager for success, you'd have gone to find the town's police first, letting them handle the matter instead of arrogantly bringing people to catch him, making the situation uncontrollable."

"Count! Count! I was wrong, please forgive me! I won't dare again!" Upon hearing Perfikot's words, Colin inexplicably felt uneasy, quickly hugged Perfikot's leg, and wailed loudly, begging for Perfikot's mercy.

However, it would have been better if he hadn't hugged her. Once he did, Perfikot felt severe physiological discomfort; she didn't even think of resorting to alchemy and instead just fiercely beat Colin with her staff: "Let go of me, you insolent pig!"

Seeing this, Balas and the engineer who stepped forward quickly approached together, pulling Colin away from Perfikot's leg.

Yet even so, the blood on Colin's face, along with tears and snot, ended up staining Perfikot's dress.

Seeing this, Perfikot didn't hesitate to tear off the hem of her dress and directly burned the torn dirty part.

She manipulated the fire to land on Colin, igniting him into a human torch, turning him into a heap of ashes in just a few seconds.

"Damnit!" Perfikot was so furious she couldn't speak.

She didn't mind interacting with people with dirt, as long as the person wasn't rude and offensive, Perfikot really didn't mind dirtying her clothes or anything.

But for someone like Colin who directly rushed to hug her, even rubbing snot on her— that was a challenge beyond her physiological limits.

Not to mention this behavior was a significant offense to her. A grown man suddenly hugging an underage female was a very serious crime, even in the original world. It's further intensified in the conservative eighteenth century.

Colin's behavior amounted to molesting Perfikot publicly.

Precisely because of this, Perfikot got so angry and directly burned him to ashes, without anyone thinking there was anything wrong or that Perfikot was overreacting.

The workers had no opinion on this, merely feeling the pig deserved his fate.

Meanwhile, the engineers were already distancing themselves from Colin, not wanting to challenge Perfikot, who was visibly furious.

"Enough, this matter ends here! Everyone, whether workers or engineers, must make up for today's delayed progress within three days. If you don't, every tenth person among you will be executed!" After saying this, Perfikot waved her hand and directly left.

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