Chapter 111 Primitive Orcs 8
At the foot of a shady mountain, a big white tiger was digging the loess with great effort. Three large "artificial" holes had already appeared between two uneven layers of soil.
The soil is hard during the snow season, but it is not a big problem for the orcs' claws.
Xie Yunsui was processing wood when he suddenly stopped.
Out of Xier's sight, Xie Yunsui heard a message from a bee: "The Charming System requests an exchange of 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes."
After the 100 kilograms of potatoes, the Charm System finally started to move again.
This time it’s sweet potatoes?
I don’t know whether the system wants to reflect the diversity of its products, or whether it was the host’s own choice.
Xie Yunsui thought about it and didn't rush to quote. He had plenty of sweet potatoes of various qualities in his space, and these sweet potatoes had not been consumed in the doomsday world. It was a good opportunity for him to see how the system selected products.
He asked the little bees to go to the warehouse and pick out all kinds of sweet potatoes, and put them on the shelves in 100 portions of 10 jin, 10 portions of 100 jin, and 1 portion of 1,000 jin.
The shelves that Xie Yunsui had removed on the grounds of wasting energy were finally put back into use, and the Wanjie Shop also went from being empty to living up to its name.
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Yi Han asked anxiously, "Why isn't it healed yet?"
System: "I expended too much energy to bring you into this world."
Yi Han said with a hint of guilt, "Sorry, I didn't know traveling through time would be so energy-consuming. I've been working really hard on the Lion Map, but it's very difficult to increase his Favorability after it reaches 80."
The system said coldly, "Because you haven't given birth to a child for him yet, he certainly won't love you wholeheartedly."
Yi Han hung her head: "I know...but I can't have children."
The system slowed down its mechanical voice: "So, you need to capture more people and gain more energy. That way, you won't have to worry about 100 kilograms of food."
Yi Han thought that Shitu had not been interested in doing baby-making exercises with him recently because the food was not enough and exercise consumed too many calories. Shitu had been sleeping for long periods of time to resist hunger recently.
He also thought of the tiger beastman in the cave next door who was even stronger than the lion. When Yi Han went out, he would come over to talk to him from time to time, and occasionally give him a piece of meat, showing such concern for him.
When conquering the Lion Map, one has to reach level 60 to obtain 200 energy points. Yi Han exchanged all of them for potatoes, but such a small amount of potatoes was not enough to eat.
Later, he wanted to exchange for food, but he did not have enough energy. This time, he accumulated 200 energy points thanks to the favor points of the tiger beastman next door.
Yi Han was tormented in his heart, as if he had betrayed Shitu from the moment he decided to exchange the energy points given by the tiger beastman for food.
"No... forget it, let's exchange it for ten kilograms of sweet potatoes first. Shitu has been sleeping a lot lately, and ten kilograms of sweet potatoes will last me a long time to eat."
The system finally waited for the Wanjie Shop to be put on the shelves. When it saw the content and price clearly, it was immediately delighted.
The main system's mall has finally opened up more products for it, it seems that it is still useful.
The system deducted energy and first exchanged ten kilograms of sweet potatoes for the host, and then used its own private energy value to exchange for one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes, which was 10 energy points cheaper than buying ten kilograms of sweet potatoes alone!
Of course, the discount on 1,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes is even greater, but unfortunately it has no extra energy value.
According to the specifications of the main system mall, all kinds of goods should be supplied in unlimited quantities, and sweet potatoes should not be limited to these few varieties. The main system must have discovered that its energy value is insufficient, so it only opens up the quantities it can afford.
With a stock of 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes, the system finally stopped giving subtle advice and directly issued a task to the host.
[Side Quest: Achieve friendly relations with the tiger beastman Hu Yuan, and receive ten kilograms of sweet potatoes as a reward.]
Yi Han, who had just made up his mind to ignore the tiger orc next door, was stunned and subconsciously looked at Hu Yuan's strategy value. It had reached 54%. He only needed to work harder and increase it by 6% to achieve friendly relations and get ten kilograms of sweet potatoes for free. After the progress reached 60, another amount of energy would be credited to his account, which could be used to buy more things.
Yi Han looked at the sweet potatoes on the ground. Ten pounds was not much. They would be gone in a few days.
It's just... a friendly relationship, shouldn't that be a big deal?
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Xie Yunsui raised his eyebrows when he saw the two orders were completed one after another.
It seems that the other party currently does not even have the ability to buy a thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes.
Xie Yunsui relaxed a lot and told the little bee to always pay attention to the order before continuing with the work at hand - breaking the wood into the same size one by one.
Freshly cut wood is full of moisture and difficult to burn, and there is not enough sunlight to dry it during the snowy season. Xie Yunsui wanted to make charcoal from the wet wood.
It takes about three or four days to make charcoal from wet wood, which is much faster than drying wood in the sun. In addition, wood burns for a short time, turning into ash in just one or two hours, while charcoal can be used for five or six hours. There is no need to get up frequently at night to add wood.
Redwoods are tall, and just breaking off a few branches from one tree is enough to produce enough charcoal for several days.
The traditional method of making charcoal kilns is not difficult. Xie Yunsui not only read books on the subject, but also made it himself.
When Lin Xiran and I participated in a wilderness survival activity, an experienced team leader taught them that making charcoal was not the main purpose. They had to use charcoal to burn clay to make pottery pots to improve their living standards in the wild for more than a month. The team leader even made a simple blast furnace and made the iron products he picked up into spears to hunt two deer.
The latter cannot be achieved with the current world production level, but the first two can still be tried.
Stone pots are heavy and conduct heat slowly, so they can only be used for initial transition. Ceramic pots are more convenient and practical.
They burned firewood together for the whole afternoon. Seeing that it was getting dark, Xie Yunsui sealed the vents of the three charcoal kilns to isolate the air, and then took Xier back.
"Are you hungry?"
Xie Yunsui lay on Xier's back and heard a series of cooing sounds.
Xier blushed, but luckily no one saw it, and said, "We'll eat when we get home."
Fortunately, he had eaten a lot of food in the morning, so he was not very hungry. After thinking for a while, he said, "You ate little in the morning, and you haven't eaten meat all day. Are you very hungry?"
Xie Yunsui: "I'm fine. Since we're not in a hurry to eat, let's go to the river and wash our paws first."
After digging in the dirt for so long during the day, both of Xier's front paws were covered in mud.
He couldn't change into human form to clean up the dirt, and he was used to holding food in his paws to eat, so of course he had to wash his paws frequently.
Xier said "oh", changed direction and went towards the river.
By the time we returned to the valley, it was completely dark.
After dark, everyone habitually returned to their residences and did not stay outside, so Xie Yunsui was slightly surprised to see that some people were still moving wood.
In addition to a few visiting Luo Luo beasts, there were also a lot of wood placed at the entrance of the big cave, some of which were dry and some of which were still freshly broken.
The snow at the entrance of the cave seemed to have been cleared, revealing the brown soil surface. Dry and wet wood were divided into two piles and placed side by side in an orderly manner.
Such a project cannot be completed by one person or in a short time.
Xie Yunsui saw Hu Zhao limping up and asked, "What are you doing?"
Hu Zhao then noticed that Priest Yun had returned, and hurried over: "Priest Yun, we collected a lot of wood today. But... we..." He looked embarrassed.
Xie Yunsui guessed it after scanning the cave and seeing no trace of fire: "No fire?"
"Yeah." Hu Zhao said, "We didn't collect much wood yesterday, and we used it all up at night. When we woke up in the morning, we found that the fire was all out."
At Xie Yunsui's suggestion, they divided the fire into three groups to keep warm, which tripled the amount of wood used and was of course not enough.
"Did you collect all this wood today?"
Xie Yunsui pointed at the pile of wood in front of the cave, turned around and saw that there was also a pile of wood at the entrance of his cave. His eyes flashed slightly.
Hu Zhao said, "Well, there isn't much dry wood. Hu Ji and I climbed up the redwood tree and stepped on a lot of branches. Maybe these will be dried out when the dry wood is used up."
Xie Yunsui couldn't help but said, "It will snow in two days, so it won't dry up in a short time."
Hu Zhao was shocked. "Two days later? Priest Yun can predict the future? Is this an instruction from the Beast God?"
Xie Yunsui: "..."
He casually glanced at the stars and the thickness of the clouds.
Seeing Hu Zhao's increasingly admiring gaze, Xie Yunsui didn't explain much, but simply said, "I'll go get some fire."
If they still insist on the spirit of "I am useless and I want to die", Xie Yunsui will not care about them. Tough control may not necessarily be exchanged for gratitude.
Collecting wood was just a small matter, but Xie Yunsui could see that these people's mentality had changed.
"When you don't need a fire, just cover it with firewood and ashes. There will be a little spark under the ashes. When you need it, just blow it and the fire will rekindle."
Xie Yunsui brought a few people into the cave and demonstrated the smoldering method to them.
Several people, including Hu Zhao, widened their eyes and saw a fire really rekindled from the ashes. The shock in their hearts was beyond words.
They didn't come to their senses until they brought the fire back to the cave.
Xie Yunsui stayed in his cave to dry Xier's wet paws.
Xier felt that Yun Sui was taking too much care of him, so he quickly retracted his claws and said, "I'll roast it myself, you can eat the meat quickly."
He didn't want the demi-humans to go hungry.
Seeing that he was seriously warming himself by the fire, and that the fur near the flames was dry and fluffy, Xie Yunsui felt relieved to prepare dinner.
Prepare another large stone slab and place it on the fire. Put the frozen meat on it when it is hot. The heat conduction is too poor, so it will probably take a while for the meat to become soft.
Xie Yunsui couldn't wait to improve his living standards as soon as possible.
As for food, clothing, housing and transportation, I don’t have the conditions for other things at the moment, but at least the quality of food should be improved, right?
After Xier finished roasting the fire, his two paws puffed up with fur, feeling unimpressive, he licked them with his tongue to make them smooth, then lay down and looked at the barbecue on the stone slab.
A pair of animal eyes stared at the piece where the meat met the stone slab. Some bubbling fat was roasted out, bringing with it a wonderful meaty aroma.
Xier's stomach growled even louder, and he didn't dare to look anymore. When he turned around, he found that his demi-human was slightly lost in thought.
"Yun Sui?" Xier called out, "What are you looking at?"
Xie Yunsui came back to his senses and said with a smile, "I was thinking... the valley is so big, maybe there will be some unexpected food."
Xier didn't understand: "Aren't we going to burn wood tomorrow?"
"Let's go check again in two days. Tomorrow we'll walk around the valley and look for food."
Xie Yunsui thought that maybe he should find Zuyang to go with him. He had been in the herbivorous tribe for so long that he should have some way to tell whether some food was edible or not.
late at night.
While Xier was sleeping, Xie Yunsui quietly left the cave and randomly selected two fertile lands.
Sweet potatoes were planted in one area, and radishes were planted in another. Wood crystal cores were pinched to help them grow. They grew into a large area, and the time was calculated to help them mature to an over-ripe state.
Then they moved the snow from other places here and pretended that this place had not been developed.
Thinking of Xi'er, he found a high ground that was not easy to find and planted five durians.
Durian seeds that have been de-digitized will slowly grow and germinate into large trees like ordinary seeds. Durian is a purely tropical crop and requires a high temperature climate all year round to produce fruit.
But with the wood crystal core, it is okay to only produce one crop of fruit.
Xie Yunsui didn't care about anything else. He took out the apple and told Zuyang that this was his last fruit. It would be difficult to explain if he planted another apple tree.
Instead, you can spread the seeds outside and let them grow freely.
After enduring half the night, Xie Yunsui finally returned to the cave.
The big white cat was sleeping soundly on the hay bed. Xie Yunsui found a warm and comfortable position, nestled in his fur and fell asleep peacefully.
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