This game is too cruel

Chapter 23: Build a house and stock up on food! (overhaul)

Looking for salt requires Lu Qiqi to ask for help everywhere.

But when it comes to renovating a house to make it stronger and warmer, the infrastructure masters are the best (crossed out)... employees.

The infrastructure master used to go online on time every day. After listening to Lu Qiqi's request, he disappeared for three days.

During the three days he disappeared, I don’t know how much information he read and how many videos he watched on building houses in the wilderness.Anyway, when he returns, he is already version 2.0 of the infrastructure master!
The Great God is always reliable and doesn't talk much.

He directly threw the house reinforcement plan in Lu Qiqi's face.

His reinforcement plan was to sink the original house 50 centimeters so that one-third of the house would be embedded in the ground.Use bowl-thick wood for reinforcement, and use stones + logs mixed with fiber mud to make walls in the underground layer.On the ground floor, rattan is used to build the building frame, and mixed fiber mud is used to reinforce the walls layer by layer.

Even the roof was redesigned by the infrastructure master.Choose a frame structure, use wood as the roof, and build it into a "herringbone" shape.This will help distribute the weight on the roof and clear away heavy snow that will accumulate in the future.

But after planning, it is equivalent to rebuilding the house, which is a huge workload (and there is no backup plan)!

In order to speed up the progress, Lu Qiqi spent a lot of money to recruit most of the players.

She was particularly anxious at the beginning of building the house.

Although lured by the high reward of 500 contribution points per day, many players are willing to accept the task.But she was still worried that they wouldn't be able to do it for long before they would lose interest because of the boring work.

Fortunately, the flower-growing family has a talent for infrastructure - they couldn't refuse to build a small tree house out of mud, trees and rocks in the wild!

Especially when the fatigue level is adjusted to zero in each period, the players who participate in building houses are only happy and not tired.

They will even use the moss and mud on the ground to plug the small gaps that appear during the construction process. What they pay attention to is two words - perfect!
In addition to strengthening the house, keeping warm is the most important thing.

Half of the house space is buried underground, which actually has a certain temperature locking effect.But if you want to keep warmer, you need to make a stove, kang surface and chimney in the house.

Lu Qiqi still knew a little about the principle of kang burning: the heat in the stove enters the kang hole through the smoke inlet, transfers energy in the kang hole to heat the kang surface, and then is discharged from the chimney through the smoke outlet.

But actual combat experience... is infinitely close to zero.

As a giant in theory and a dwarf in practice, she was curious about the bricklayer.When the infrastructure master was doing the kang, she often squatted beside him and watched.

Of course, the great lord is not in vain, he will also help the infrastructure master and Xini to move a few stone slabs.But really just move a few pieces, sit on the stone pier next to it, and watch.

"Can't you help me?"

Xiong BaTian couldn't stand it anymore, "Is it going to cost you your life to move three stones?"

"oops."

Lu Qiqi sighed tiredly: "Some people can only rely on their brains to make a living. And Lu Xun once said, 'Laziness is the cornerstone of human progress.' As a lord, if I make progress, the tribe can follow suit."

Xiong Batian: "Lu Xun said something like this?"

Lu Qiqi shook his non-existent biceps and simply lay down on the spot: "Oh, Zhou Shuren said that."

When she was lying down, the infrastructure master had already started experimenting.

The smoke produced when the stove is burning floats out of the house along the pipes, and the temperature inside the house gradually increases due to the fire on the stove.When it was not cold, the room instantly became hot.

This house is done!

Lu Qiqi suddenly became energetic.

She couldn't wait to enter the house, and even though she was sweating from the heat, she sat inside for a while.

After feeling the steaming room, she left with satisfaction.

On the other hand, great progress has also been made in the purification of salt.

Although they did not have the soy milk needed for purification, Ms. Butterfly found another way to purify it.Even though the salt produced now is not as pure and refined as produced by modern processes, it is still enough for normal consumption and food storage.

More than two months have passed since the golden skull fabled the snow disaster.But Lu Qiqi's heart is only now a little more at ease.

Storing supplies for winter has become the main theme.

Pickled fish, pickled meat.

Their location is very close to the river, and fish is naturally one of their food sources.

Players and tribesmen are becoming more and more skilled in fishing techniques. From catching to drying, Lu Qiqiu earns at least 30 fish every day.

The hunting team led by Teng is also very powerful. Basically, they can bring back some food every three or two days.Often they are large animals such as antelopes, cows, bears, and porcupines; occasionally they are small animals such as rabbits and pheasants, and food such as cassava roots and breadfruit.

As a warehouse manager, Gou Sheng has never taken a class, but he has already begun to suffer from mathematics.

"Lord, so far, the tribe has reserved 689 salted fish; about 400 kilograms of pickled bacon; about 1000 kilograms of cassava roots; and 200 kilograms of other miscellaneous fruits, wild vegetables, eggs, etc.

These foods add up to about 3000 kilograms.

According to you, an adult..."

It can't be calculated, it can't be calculated at all.

This addition and subtraction is already difficult enough for him, and there are multiplication and division behind it.

Gou Sheng's eyes were full of tears. He was almost eaten by cannibals before without crying, but now he was crying because of the arithmetic problem.

陆期期看得想笑，但她又装作很严厉的样子接过他的话：“一个成年人每天饮水量1.5～1.7千克，食物量1～1.1千克。按照1千克计算，这些食物够领地里150人吃大概10天。

Gou Sheng, if you haven’t learned such a simple arithmetic yet, how will you teach other children in the future? "

Gou Sheng quickly held back his tears and stood up straight: "Yes, I'm sorry!"

"Okay, just kidding."

Lu Qiqi took out a handful of sweet roots and said, "But tomorrow night, I'm going to slap your multiplication table on your back." The eggplant, which was beaten like frost, flashed with joy.

After amusing Gou Sheng, Lu Qiqi began to worry about food.She estimated that if she wanted to survive the winter safely, she would need to stock up on food for at least 2 to 3 months.

The problem with the salt well has been solved;
The construction of the house is also mostly completed;

She mobilized all the extra people to go out in search of food and come back.

At present, in addition to the food consumed every day, 300 kilograms of food are brought in, which is equivalent to everyone being able to find about 3 kilograms of food every day.

People are looking for food in a wider and wider area, and food is piling up in more and more places.

But Lu Qiqi always felt that something was missing, until she saw dozens of animal skins randomly thrown away at the door of the warehouse...

Hey, winter clothes!
Now that the weather is suitable, it’s okay for everyone to wear a leather skirt and run around.

When the weather gets cold and freezing, who can withstand it?Even if Teng and the others can withstand it, the players cannot.

When the time comes, let them choose to stay in the house or carry them out?

They may choose to quit traveling.

But now there are only more than 150 unprocessed animal skins in the territory, and the total number of players and tribesmen in the territory is more than [-]!

Lu Qiqi was worried about this and went to Teng to ask about their tribe's previous methods of keeping warm.

Teng: "Our former grassland tribe would save a lot of animal skins every spring. If we bring those animal skins over, it will definitely be enough for our territory."

Lu Qiqi: "How far is the grassland tribe from here?"

Fuji: "It will take about four days."

The four-day journey made Lu Qiqi a little excited.

After she came here, she stayed near the territory and never went out.Winter is coming, and before this year's heavy snow comes, you have to take a look at what it's like outside...

Dense jungle, endless.

Lu Qiqi followed Fu and the others through rivers and over mountains, but there was no sign of civilization anywhere.

She thought of the towering city walls and city-states she saw in the promotional video of Morka Continent, "Have you ever seen people wearing armor and riding war horses?"

Fu was confused when he heard her description: "Lord, what is that?"

If you don’t know, you just haven’t been exposed to it.

It seems that the place they are in is the most primitive and backward place in the world.

The boundless jungle isolates them from contact with the outside world and also provides a relatively safe development environment.

So this position is very good. After the winter, she can conquer other tribes and find Xiong BaTian to recruit more players.

When Gou reaches a certain level of strength, he will then find a way to contact outside city-states.

Lu Qiqi was planning the future, and the former grassland tribe appeared in front of him.

The tribe, which had been deserted for several months, had been taken over by vegetation.There are many small purple-blue flowers growing around, blooming densely.

Seeing this scene, Fu couldn't help but sigh, "Every season, small flowers like this will bloom near our territory."

Lu Qiqi carefully observed this plant, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it for the moment.

She casually pulled out two of these plants and put them under her backpack, ready to show Lady Butterfly when she got back, and then checked the animal skins in the tribe.

Many animals have visited here, but fortunately the hides have not been damaged much by animals.Although the animal skin has been swarmed with small bugs and even chewed holes in the animal skin, it can still be used after taking it back and treating it with smoke.

There are so many animal skins that it can’t be packed all at once.

The journey back took everyone a full 6 days, and 6 people brought back a total of 31 animal skins!From a visual inspection, it would take the same number of people about two more trips to bring back all the hides.

I have to say that this grassland tribe used to be quite fat.

It’s just that these animal skins are not well preserved.

Lu Qiqi looked at these insect-infested and hardened animal skins and felt a little confused as to what to do.The people of the Grassland Tribe who knew how to tan animal skins died during the cannibal attack, so how to repair these animal skins?

If you are in doubt, ask the players to solve it.

In the mission hall, new mission bars began to refresh.

[Task: Tanning animal hides]

A new batch of important animal skins for the winter have arrived in the tribe, and they are in urgent need of craftsmen to re-tan the animal skins to make them soft and warm.

Task requirements: Tann the hides and process the hides into clothes and bedding according to the Lord's requirements.

Mission duration: two months.

Task reward: 1000 contribution points will be obtained for each piece of animal skin tanning completed.

[Love of Life: Detroit]: Have you noticed that the threshold of this game is getting higher and higher. From the beginning of finding food, organizing warehouses, upgrading to building houses, making salt, and now tanning animal skins... I feel that it is very difficult for novice players. It's getting more and more unfriendly.

[Working Boy]: Don’t tell me, I’ve been stuck in the game for a month.I work for my boss during the day and go home to lay walls for 677 at night. It’s really a fulfilling day.

[Baltic Sea]: I’m really convinced too.This game is so difficult, why do you think you are playing it?If it were me, I would give up traveling.King Pesticide and Identity Six are not fun, Red Dead Redemption and Elden's Ring are not fun, and which one is not fun, The Sims, Green Hell, or the recently popular shit chewing?
[I make a lot of money in the game]: Brother, the account in this game alone is worth seven figures!Who is willing to give up traveling?

[Usopp]: Who would give up the game? This is simply a paradise for infrastructure players!You have no idea how advanced this game can be, especially when you watch the territory being built bit by bit with your own eyes. It makes people want to see it build a powerful empire in this mountain from primitive society to the industrial revolution.

[cowardly]: You can chat whatever you want, I’m going to learn how to tan animal hides.Official Dad, please look at me, I don’t want to contribute anything, I am willing to do anything!
　good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)