Chapter 6

After running back and forth several times, I finally managed to gather all the building materials.

Another 30 minutes of construction time passed. The Cat Engineering Team carried their tools in and out of the foggy area. Occasionally, Mingzhu would have an illusion and hear the cat shouting, "Eighty, eighty!"

[Ding! The hotel + residence combination courtyard house has been completed, covering an area of ​​approximately 600 square meters. Host, please list it as soon as possible to attract refugees to move in.]

Mingzhu ignored it and began to use the remaining resources to build farmland.

Four fields were built, each field is about 2x2 in size.

After completion, 50 rice seeds, 50 wheat seeds, 50 cabbage seeds and 50 lettuce seeds were awarded.

"Host, planting a field requires 50 seeds. If you harvest, you will receive random seeds and a total yield of 300 kilograms."

"What if we use chemical fertilizers?" Mingzhu asked, hitting the key point. "I believe the yield you're talking about is the yield of grain without any fertilizer."

184's eyes widened, and it took him a long while to come back to his senses. "Yes, applying fertilizer can increase crop yields. Isn't that common sense?"

"...You're right, that's common sense." Mingzhu agreed with 184, then changed the subject and asked, "Any kind of fertilizer will do?"

184's eyes widened even further as he spoke in disbelief. "Host, you can even ask such a question. Are you stupid or dumb?"

"You probably want to be beaten."

Mingzhu snorted coldly, but didn't bother with 184.

He began to observe courtyard houses that combined hotels and residences into one.

It actually has two entrances and is double-decker.

The wooden house is located in the second entrance and is also on the second floor.

And because two wooden houses were combined into one, the original layout of two rooms upstairs and one room downstairs became four rooms upstairs and one room downstairs.

Although the first courtyard house he built was a combination of a hotel and a residence, Mingzhu had no intention of renting out the residence.

He made this his own residence and moved the four fields he had built to the back before he began to inspect the hotel building.

The hotel building is a fusion of three hotels.

In the center is the Mushi Inn, and on the left and right are Qingliang Inn No. 1 and No. 2.

The fusion of the buildings into a quadrangle creates a U-shape. The wall near the gate is made of stacked stones, giving it a rough and sturdy appearance.

The hotel is on the second floor, with a single-layer wall. There is a staircase at the wall that leads to the second floor. There is also a walkway on the second floor, with a simple railing made of wooden planks.

The aisle is not wide, and can only accommodate two people walking side by side.

The majority of the guest rooms are located on the second floor. There are nine guest rooms in total, each with its own bathroom for guests to wash and use the toilet.

Each room has a window, all wooden, not very big, supported by a wooden stick. As for the lighting, it is quite good.

The only drawback was that the rooms were bare, including the first floor, which was to be used as a kitchen, dining room, and living room.

"No furniture drawings?"

"Yes, I have!"

184 signaled Mingzhu to take a closer look at the 'Special' function option on the panel.

Mingzhu was skeptical, but when he took a look, he was immediately filled with disbelief.

"I want blueprints, not a furniture factory."

184 looked at Mingzhu in surprise. "A furniture factory is a place where furniture is produced. Host, you are so weird."

"The furniture factory can only be built after the base reaches intermediate level. I need furniture now to furnish the rooms. I can't open a hotel with empty rooms without even a bed."

184: "...If there's no bed, you can sleep on the floor."

"Don't be such a jerk. Check yourself and see if you've sustained any damage that you haven't noticed."

184 suddenly curled up into a ball and fell into deep thought.

184 obediently began to self-examine.

If nothing unexpected happens, an accident did happen.

184 Currently, the only architectural system is the Chinese style. About 90% of the data is available, and 10% of the data is lost.

184 couldn't believe it, and the next moment he opened his mouth and started crying.

"Host, wuwu, Tong is so miserable, wuwu, host, can you see, Tong is really so miserable."

184 He lay sprawled out, his head tilted back and heaving, tears streaming down his face.

Mingzhu had originally been quite resentful, but seeing 184 so upset, he could no longer complain. Mingzhu even hugged 184, who was crying and sobbing, and comforted her.

"Come on, don't be sad. I asked you to check yourself, not to scold you. If the program is missing, then it's missing. I don't care."

184 sobbed. "I'm really upset. I'm heartbroken. I suspect the missing 10% contains very important information."

"But it's already lost, and we can't find it back. What else can we do?" Mingzhu continued to comfort 184. "I think the only way is to upgrade the base to advanced or even top-level as soon as possible to see if we can replace the part you lost."

184 was still choking with sobs. "Even if it could be completed, it would only be the 'Chinese style' architectural system."

"Even so, that's not bad!"

184: ┭┮﹏┭┮

"Alright, alright, let's quit while we're ahead."

Mingzhu currently doesn't want to comfort 184, he just wants to go get some straw. If he doesn't have a bed to sleep on, then he can still make do with using thatch as a bed.

So when Cat 184 was sobbing, Mingzhu decisively went out again.

"184, look after the house."

"Good host."

Mingzhu walked along the marked route, which was an area with various tall and gnarled trees and dense grass.

There used to be a path leading to the top of the mountain, but now the path is covered by overgrown grass and is not noticeable unless you look closely.

The path was surrounded by barbed wire, which was rusty, pitch black, and emitted an indescribable fishy smell. When I looked closer, I found that it was dried human tissue.

It seems that this place should belong to the occupied area.

The barbed wire used to prevent others from climbing, but now it prevents zombies from crossing.

Mingzhu stood at the rusty barbed wire and looked out.

Tall, gnarled trees blocked most of the view, making it difficult to see clearly with the candlelight, but I could sense movement on the other side of the rusty barbed wire.

Like a living person, but also like a zombie. And not from the ground, but from... underground.

In this situation, Mingzhu's brain cells were unprecedentedly active, and he was already thinking about the N apocalyptic books he had read.

——Is there an experimental base underground?

——Conducting human experiments?

Mingzhu, who was brainstorming for a moment, couldn't help but hiss and quickly turned around without any intention of going in.

He came to pull out the thatch, but he couldn't find any thatch, so he just pulled out weeds. The main point is that you don't sleep directly on the floor, you have to lay out the grass.

"Fortunately, there is a one-click collection function, otherwise I would just have to cut it by hand..."

"Wait, what about one-click collection?"

Mingzhu squatted beside the grass, looking at the lush weeds, lost in thought.

One-click collection does not mean... one-click harvesting?

Damn, 184 is a bit too incomplete this time.

Mingzhu was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, but he still started looking for tools to prepare for mowing the lawn.

Thanks to my "stinginess" in my previous life, I was reluctant to eat and wear, and used all my merit points to exchange for the space button, which I later used to exchange for all the supplies related to life. Otherwise, I would only be able to pull out weeds with my hands now.

Soon, Mingzhu made an extremely sharp knife.

No chainsaws.

To be precise, there is no solar power storage.

Besides the knife, there is only the dagger.

Even though I was living in an interstellar society in my previous life, I was on the front lines facing the Zerg from the very beginning. It was common for me to have enough people but not enough weapons.

What to do to survive!

They could only transform into cold weapon makers one by one, making cold weapons such as daggers, bows and arrows, and swords.

Like a chainsaw,

Since solar power is needed, there is one in the space button, but it is temporarily unusable.

Besides, what kind of good person would use a chainsaw to cut the lawn? Chainsaws are used to cut trees, not cut grass.

"Begin labor."

Mingzhu encouraged himself and simply chose a spot that was already overgrown with weeds. He wasn't in the mood to sort the weeds beforehand, so he just cut a handful with his knife and threw it directly into the system space.

184 has done quite well in this regard.

After things are stored in the system space, they can be automatically classified.

Mingzhu only needs to cut the grass mechanically and then collect it with one click, and the system space will sort and store the cut grass.

In this way, Mingzhu operated the machine and quickly cut a lot of grass. Just when Mingzhu was about to stop and go back, he heard movement from the rusty barbed wire fence not far away.

Mingzhu instinctively sheathed his knife and instead gripped his pistol with both hands, looking warily toward the distance. Soon, several uncoordinated figures in white coats stumbled toward Mingzhu.

"Run, there are evolved zombies."

Mingzhu reacted very quickly and drew his gun and aimed it at the guys running towards him.

Those guys probably didn't anticipate the situation turning out this way. Mingzhu drew his gun, not at the zombies that might appear at any moment, but at the fleeing men.

"There are zombies. There really are zombies."

The guy in the lead was about 40 years old and had a weathered face.

There were reddish-brown stains on the white coat he was wearing, the color of dried blood.

"Why are you pointing guns at us?"

The others were gasping for breath, and even though they were still in shock, they did not forget to make accusations.

The bright candle looks like a child with a lot of question marks hanging on his face.

"First of all, I don't know you and have no obligation to protect you. Also, I've searched the area nearby. Aside from the barbed wire fence where you mentioned the evolved zombies, there are no zombies anywhere near me!"

Mingzhu itself is working, and mowing the lawn requires concentration, so naturally, dangers must be cleared beforehand.

Although I don't know what happened to these guys, there is nothing wrong with pointing a gun at them and keeping them on guard.