Chapter 14

If you pay extra, the price is actually quite cheap, just one level one crystal core per day. They will provide more abundant meals a day, as well as other cool arrangements.

Qin Mingyue: "What cool arrangement?"

Jin Suanpan held his pipe, but this time he didn't smoke. "The boss is planning to build a poultry house and raise chickens, ducks, and geese. Do you want to join in?"

Qin Mingyue: “…”

Xiaowan: "Is this the legendary paying to work?"

"It's a great experience. Everything at Taoyuan Inn is produced in-house, ensuring it's all natural, green, and pollution-free!"

"Haha, that sounds great."

Sanshui scratched his hair and gave an awkward smile.

Liu Yong had nothing to say, but he agreed.

Jin Suanpan gave them two keys to a double room and said there was nothing much to say. "You can move freely around the Taoyuan Inn, but your safety is not guaranteed if you go outside the area."

"You should have felt it when you arrived. Taoyuan Base possesses a miraculous power! Under its protection, all threats will be eliminated."

"Remember this: you are not allowed to be hostile to your boss or employees." Jin Suanpan smiled meaningfully and continued. "Otherwise, you will bear the consequences at your own risk."

"Oh well."

Qin Mingyue was stunned. After being warned, she subconsciously nodded and promised that she would be obedient and not make any mistakes.

On the contrary, Xiaowan in their team is quite rebellious. Although it is green tea, she can never make a fresh and fragrant tea, which often makes people feel crude and ignorant.

It’s just that Xiaowan’s boyfriend is dead. At present, neither Liu Yong, Sanshui, nor Qin Mingyue will indulge Xiaowan too much, at least they will not indulge her as much as before.

After all, they had relied on Xiaowan's superb sense of direction to survive. Now that they had left City Z and arrived at the safe Taoyuan Inn, Xiaowan's importance was no longer as great, and naturally, their companions' attention began to focus mostly on survival.

Liu Yong even thought in his heart that if the Taoyuan Inn was confirmed to be safe, then he could choose to live here for a long time. One crystal core for one day's stay was actually not that expensive.

After Jin Suanpan left, Liu Yong and Qin Mingyue discussed that the four of them should split into two groups, or each of them should form a group to take a good look around the Taoyuan Inn.

"What's there to see?" Xiaowan asked impatiently. "You don't think this place is safe, do you? Look at the buildings here. They're made of wood and stone. It's hilarious."

Qin Mingyue: "If houses aren't made of wood and stone, what else could they be? Concrete? Please, Xiaowan, use your brain. Who uses concrete to build houses these days? All the steel will corrode and rot. If cement isn't mixed with steel bars, who can guarantee it's as solid as rock?"

"Instead of worrying about accidents with a house made of steel and concrete, it's better to choose a house built of stone from the beginning."

"Sister Qin, why are you becoming more and more preachy?" Xiaowan said playfully, sticking out her tongue and pretending to be cute. "Whatever you say is true. Brother Liu Yong is not wrong. Although the buildings here are shabby, they are very safe."

"Let's go, let's walk around and don't go too far."

The four of them scattered and walked around the Taoyuan Inn.

Mingzhu is sleeping.

He didn't sleep for long, he woke up after only an hour.

After waking up, Mingzhu got up and washed his face with cold water, then continued to prepare materials for building the birdhouse.

The material is quite sufficient.

Soon, three poultry houses were built next to each other.

Still surrounded by thick white fog, cats carrying various tools were coming in and out.

Construction is expected to be completed in 45 minutes.

Mingzhu simply started preparing materials for digging primary fish ponds. This time Mingzhu planned to dig 4 primary fish ponds.

One primary fish pond is used to raise fish, one primary fish pond is used to raise lobsters, one primary fish pond is used to raise shrimps and crabs, and the last fish pond is used to raise eels.

"Once the poultry house is built, you'll receive 20 chicks, 20 ducklings, and 1 goose," 184 explained. "These are side quest rewards. The rewards are fixed and only given after you build your first poultry house."

"Building a primary fish pond will reward you with 100 crucian carp fry, 20 carp fry, 20 grass carp fry, 100 loaches, 100 shrimps, 100 lobsters, and 100 river crabs..."

"The rewards for building a primary fish pond are quite generous." Mingzhu was surprised, but then he thought that the rewards given by 184 were not mutant species, but normal species.

It seems that the rewards are high, but in the early stage, you cannot eat any of them. All of them must be left for reproduction and sustainable development.

"I remember in my previous life, the heaviest crucian carp I ever ate was only about 1.5 kilograms." Mingzhu muttered, "Grass carp can grow to about 10 kilograms, but what do grass carp eat? What do carp and crucian carp eat?"

184: "Feed."

“Is there a feed processing plant in the system panel?”

"No!" 184 looked at Mingzhu in surprise. "How could there be a feed processing plant in the system? That's something only modern technology can do. It's all part of the traditional infrastructure system, there's nothing like that."

Mingzhu: “…”

Shut up! If the program is broken, it's broken. He won't say anything. Why is he so arrogant?

"Is there a recipe for hand-kneaded feed?" Mingzhu asked. He remembered that there was a kind of folk machine used to process feed.

It seems that by adding crops such as grass and corn, crushing, stirring, and pressing them into shape for a certain period of time, you can make feed pellets.

The technical content is not high, and electricity is required for operation.

Mingzhu thought that he could try looking in the three nearby cities and should be able to find some feed processing machines that were still usable.

“No!”

184 shook his head to make himself look cute.

"Fortunately, there aren't many fish or crab fry."

Mingzhu sighed and chose 'Cat Engineering Team One-Click Manufacturing'. The construction time was 45 minutes, the same as the construction time of the poultry house.

"Maybe I should find a way to dig up some bamboo roots and plant them. That way I can use them for weaving and dig up bamboo shoots to improve my diet."

184 The blinking of cat eyes and the farmer's gesture made him look somewhat wise when he was thinking.

"Host, have you forgotten the special options?"

"Um?"

"Landscape construction." 184 suddenly said with a tone of dismay, "What Chinese Forest Gardens are all about? Exquisite and elegant small bridges and flowing water."

"No way, no way, host, don't you know that the landscapes of the Siheyuan, such as the lotus pond, bamboo forest, peach garden, etc., are all natural landscapes that can produce edible plants and fruits for humans."

“…”

Mingzhu found himself stuck in a strange mental circle and hadn't thought of this.

Yes, Chinese gardens have always been a combination of man and nature. Even ordinary courtyard houses will choose to plant some bamboo to cultivate sentiment.

If the courtyard is larger, more landscapes can be arranged. Raising koi in the lotus pond is a basic practice, and some people will raise grouper fish or even turtles.

The first part focuses on family reunion, while the second part serves to protect the house.

Mingzhu clicked his tongue twice, indicating that when more people came, they could consider building various types of courtyard houses.

"Actually, you don't need a siheyuan. For residences, the initial structure is two stories, one on the bottom and two above. That's enough for a family of three."

"oh!"

"Host, you must understand that 184 can only choose ancient Chinese style buildings at present. Buildings do not really conform to the core concept."

"You mean it doesn't quite fit the bill, but it can be built." Mingzhu understood the meaning of Chapter 184 very well, and couldn't help but find it a little funny.

"There are only six housing options in the 'Residence' panel: straw huts, thatched houses, wooden houses, bamboo houses, and stone houses. You can combine them to form a courtyard house. All you need to do is buy a blank courtyard house blueprint."

Mingzhu said seriously, "I think your setting 184 is not rigorous. How about this? Just like you changed the fish pond, you can change the five types of residences into three levels: primary, intermediate, and advanced. For example, the primary residence is about two stories in size, the intermediate residence is five stories, and the level 10 residence is 10 stories?"

"Residential buildings of the same type can still be combined. For example, if you combine three identical residential buildings into one, the original area of ​​about 60 square meters will be expanded to 120 square meters."

184 was stunned for a moment, then the cat's eyes began to flicker, a manifestation of the rapid processing of data. After a while, about 10 minutes, the cat's eyes stopped flickering.

184 was very surprised and said: "Host, how did you know that Tong's original setting was like this?"

This time it was Mingzhu's turn to be stunned, and after being stunned, Mingzhu was too weak to hold his forehead.

Honestly speaking, Mingzhu sometimes feels really helpless when encountering such an artificial intelligence retardation that is sometimes silly, sometimes wise, and sometimes very smart.

Tell me, if the program is broken, then it is broken. But why does it always break the key points? What does that mean?

Moreover, the program was broken, but instead of actively repairing the damage, it required him, the host, to remind it. It was really hard for Mingzhu not to feel that 184 couldn't do without him.

"184 You will conduct self-inspection and then fill in the holes in the broken program you find."

Mingzhu reminded 184 to stop pretending to be surprised by the cat and just do what he had to do.

184 came to his senses, squatted down obediently, and began self-inspection and repair.

184 His squat wasn't just an ordinary squat, but the usual prone position of a plump cat. It was mainly because he had too much flesh. When he squatted, he looked like a gas tank, but when he proned, he looked like a round cat pancake.

Mingzhu looked at 184 a few more times, then ignored him and waited for the Maomao Construction Team to finish the construction of three poultry houses and four primary fish ponds.

45 minutes of construction time was not enough for Mingzhu to kill a group of bugs before. Now Mingzhu can only sit on the ground not far from the Maomao Construction Team, his hand on his chin, and stare blankly.

It was also a coincidence that when waiting for the last minute of construction time, Liu Yong and Sanshui actually walked around nearby.

"Boss." Liu Yong took the initiative to greet him. "You are just enjoying the scenery."

"Look at the Maomao Construction Team busy!" Mingzhu answered casually. It happened that the Maomao Construction Team had finished building the poultry house and the primary fish pond, and they were carrying various tools and leaving in an orderly manner.

[Ding! The poultry house is complete. Rewards: 20 chicks, 20 ducklings, and 1 gosling.]

[The primary fish pond is now complete. Rewards include 100 crucian carp fry, 20 carp fry, 20 grass carp, 100 loaches, 100 shrimp, 100 lobsters, and 100 river crabs.]

[Ding! Please note that the feed required for poultry houses and primary fish ponds is divided into primary and advanced feed. Primary feed is grass feed, which can be made by mixing common wild vegetables with weeds and crop branches. Advanced feed can be made by mixing grass feed with crops such as corn, fruits, etc. in a certain proportion.]