The moonlight cut out diamond-shaped spots on the iron frame of the warehouse, and the shadow of "Qimin Yaoshu" was faintly visible on the surface of the pickle jar.

Mou Xuan pressed the tactical gloves on the bronze weight, and the beam suddenly rose up as if alive, with the seal characters of "Salt and Iron Theory" at the end oozing with rust.

"Seventy percent of the salt crystals from the Ao Bo Tu will be transferred to defensive fortifications." Before Mou Xuan finished speaking, the rosewood abacus in Dispatcher Shao's arms broke into two pieces and made a crisp sound.

The middle-aged man wearing tortoise-shell glasses adjusted his glasses frame, and the beads jumped around in the projection of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: "Last night, repairing the Arrow Tower consumed thirty carts of Kaogongji gold foil, and now they are taking away fresh-keeping supplies..."

Transport captain Luan suddenly kicked the gear box of "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" in the corner, and the wristband inlaid with the fragments of "Mawangdui Silk Book" jingled: "Last time I transported ice bricks of "Water Classic", just because you said you wanted to take a shortcut, I ended up crashing into eighteen ice holes on the Ghost-Seeing Cliff!" His beard was still stained with roasted mutton fat from the celebration banquet, and now it splashed along with his saliva onto the ice crystal screen of "The Classic of Tea".

Chen Yao silently placed the prescription for "On Plague" on top of the water-soaked "Shennong's Herbal Classic" medicine cabinet, and the icy blue mist immediately enveloped the moldy astragalus.

She saw Mou Xuan's right hand, which was corroded by crystals, tapping lightly on the tactical panel, and the outline of the strange beast in "Classic of Mountains and Seas" suddenly bit the word "mortise and tenon" in the material list.

"Cui Gong's 'Construction Methods' can save 20% of consumables." Mou Xuan turned his wrist, and a stream of data from 'Dream Stream Essays' popped up from his crystallized fingertips. "As for the transportation route -" He suddenly grasped the fragment of the silk book on Captain Luan's wristband, and bronze lines instantly covered his forearm: "Tomorrow at noon, let 'Xu Xiake's Travels' take you to the earth veins."

The warehouse suddenly became so quiet that one could hear the rustling sound of the Yunlin Stone Album generating a new list.

Dispatcher Shao's broken abacus was suddenly stitched together by the golden thread of the Zhoubi Suanjing. He stared at the projection of the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic that was being reassembled and murmured: "Earth vein transportation... that requires the use of Miss Shen's Shui Jing Zhu authority..."

"The conversion rate of the evil water ice crystals is enough to last for three days." Chen Yao threw out the ice crystals condensed in the corner of the wall at the right time, and the evil water pattern recorded in "Shui Jing Zhu" suddenly stretched out into the whole picture of the river in the mist of "Tea Classic".

Captain Luan stared with wide eyes at the fragments of silk book on his wristband, which were now getting hot as if resonating with the ice crystal river.

Mou Xuan took off half of his crystallized tactical gloves, revealing his palm covered with runes from the Record of Metal and Stone: "Before dawn, convert the gearbox of The Exploitation of the Works of Nature into a geomagnetic compass." He turned to the still dazed Dispatcher Shao, and suddenly pressed a projected abacus bead into his palm: "Use the Four Elements Jade Mirror to recalculate the rationing ratio, and increase the error tolerance to 5%."

When the morning light from the Complete Book of Agricultural Administration came through the air vents, Chen Yao saw Dispatcher Shao using a repaired abacus to connect the various projections. The formulas from the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art were actually combined with the mortise and tenon structure of the Construction Methods to form a new model.

Captain Luan directed the workers in a gruff voice to embed the rubbings of Xu Xiake's Travel Notes into the gearbox. The transportation map stained with oil was imprinted with winding, glowing veins by the ice crystals of Shui Jing Zhu.

Outside the warehouse came the sound of Xing's weapon experts debugging the crossbow of "Wujing Zongyao". Mou Xuan stood at the intersection of the ice crystals of "Tea Classic" and the salt crystals of "Ao Bo Tu". His crystallized right hand was outlining the flow of materials in the void like the migration of strange beasts in "Shan Hai Jing".

Chen Yao suddenly discovered that the new crystal patterns behind his ears were showing some lost talisman patterns from the "Golden Stone Rope".

The moonlight flows through the gaps in the list generated by the "Yunlin Stone Catalogue", and the three-dimensional formulas of the "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" in the warehouse are being reassembled with the mortise and tenon structure of the "Yingzaofashi".

Dispatcher Shao was wearing tortoise-shell glasses on the tip of his nose. With the help of the "Four Elements Jade Mirror", the restored huanghuali abacus condensed the data streams of thirty-seven material points into a rotating three-dimensional sand table.

"Old Cui!" He suddenly reached into the void, and the gold foil fragments of "Kaogong Ji" automatically flew to Engineer Cui who was debugging the geomagnetic compass, "Compress your bracket materials by another 3%!" As the abacus beads jingled, the projection of wheat ears from "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" in the air suddenly exploded, filling the gaps in the arrow tower's defense network.

Transport Captain Luan squatted beside the gearbox, his beard still covered with sesame seeds from last night's celebration banquet.

He carefully pressed the rubbing of "Xu Xiake's Travels" into the groove of the geomagnetic compass, and the originally broken route on the transportation map suddenly began to bulge like a blood vessel. "This bastard is really smart!" He touched the wristband which suddenly became hot. The fragments of the "Mawangdui Silk Book" on it were resonating with the ice crystals of "Shui Jing Zhu", projecting a winding network of earth veins on the wall.

Chen Yao retreated silently to the corner of the warehouse, the icy blue mist condensed from "The Theory of Plague" flowing through her fingertips.

She gently turned the moldy "Shennong's Herbal Classic" medicine cabinet, and the twelve secret compartments automatically popped out the aged medicinal materials.

Ice crystals climbed up the window frame along the words of The Classic of Tea and condensed into a crystal clear cooking table in the moonlight.

"The eighth chapter of "Record of Delicacies"..." She tapped lightly at the void, and the shadow of roasted lamb from the Tang Dynasty emerged in the icy mist.

When the pickle jar of "Qimin Yaoshu" began to ooze amber light, Chen Yao suddenly flicked a salt crystal from "Zhou Li" into the stove - this was the time crystal that she had specially picked off from Mou Xuan's tactical gloves this morning.

The warehouse suddenly erupted in cheers.

Twenty underground transport vehicles broke through the ice of the "Shui Jing Zhu" river channel, and the gears of "Tian Gong Kai Wu" flashed in the wheel tracks.

Captain Luan held a half-man-high "Wujing Zongyao" crossbow design drawing and shouted: "I didn't even scratch the shaft this time!" The fragments of the silk book on his wristband had merged with the transport vehicle, projecting a galaxy-like network of earth veins on the wall.

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