Chapter 247 Water Supply Cloud Imitation Sky Sea Water Supply System
Popsorp was speechless.
As if waking from a dream, she said in a strained voice, "I understand."
She didn't know if her relatives were still alive... They were neither warriors nor royalty.
The mother and father were killed in a foreign coup while traveling as merchants. The compensation sent back home was only enough to feed their children for less than two years before they went hungry again. So, after the older sisters and brothers came of age, they went out to trade. However, the white dwarves on the ground were very hostile to the wind sprites. In order to avoid the white dwarves, the wind sprites went further and further away and stayed away for longer and longer periods of time. Eventually, they were never able to return to their hometown.
After coming of age, Popsorp chose to accept the royal family's offer of service. Ostensibly, she was to travel and do business, but in reality, she was responsible for spying for the royal family. She knew that this was much more dangerous than simply doing business, but she also knew that it would allow her younger sisters and brothers to have enough to eat, so that they wouldn't be so thin and pale that their magical energy fluctuations were extremely weak, yet they would still have to force a smile and say that they weren't hungry at all.
She once had three younger sisters and two younger brothers, but only two sisters and one brother survived. They were all still minors. Pupusop couldn't bear to think about what the young wind sprites would have to endure when Yiyiwal was breached; they were all so young...
“It’s not necessarily only warriors and royalty who will survive, is it?” Dedemarin’s voice broke the deathly silence. “You are wind sprites, after all!”
Barbaria quickly chimed in, "That's right, that's right! Even the flower fairies can't catch us, let alone those humans and dwarves. I think everyone can survive. If the city falls, we can just build a new one. If the country is destroyed, we can rebuild it. The Flower Fairy is so kind and benevolent, I think the Land of Sin will be willing to accept the wandering wind fairies. We wind fairies aren't lazy!"
After the water sprite traded the magic cloth recipe for a house and a large sum of money, she stopped working. Hearing Barbaria say this, Dedemarin glared at her irritably: "Who are you talking about!"
"Huh? No, no, I didn't mean you don't work..."
"Hello!"
Amidst her companions' bickering, Popsorp gradually calmed down. Yes, her younger sister and brother were both very clever and quick-witted, and their magical talents were also excellent…
Shu Xin was unaware that the alien fairies were holding frequent small meetings for their wandering kin who had lost their country and home. She ultimately decided to wait until Xi returned from the Demon Realm to discuss with him whether or not to steal the supplies that the human race had not yet sent out.
After all, seizing supplies would require sending demons, and her understanding of demons was certainly not as good as Xi's. Shu Xin was confident in the demons' combat power, but she was worried about their identity.
The group of demons most skilled in concealment and disguise had already been selected in advance, and those with good knowledge had been sent out as spies. The problem was that demons hiding in the magic tree caravan would not attract extra attention, but demons robbing human supplies would definitely be targeted and carefully tracked by various forces.
If the remaining demons aren't good enough at disguising themselves and end up revealing their identities after rushing in to plunder, then it would be a huge loss!
After collecting the intelligence information, Shu Xin continued to study how to fully utilize the wonders of magic to create a magical water supply system that was more suitable for the residential area.
Although Shu Xin herself didn't realize it, after finding out about the high-yield crop green cassava and finding out the corresponding cooking methods and processing tools, she felt much more relaxed than before. It was as if a huge boulder had finally been lifted from her heart, or as if a sharp sword hanging over her head had finally been removed. She no longer worked day and night on her projects, but started leaving get off work on time, and her diet and rest became regular.
The inspiration for the new water supply system came from a bowl of delicious mushroom soup.
As Shu Xin savored the savory and rich creamy mushroom soup, she remembered the delicious mushroom cultivation tips taught by Bretzman. The tips were to use the seawater with the highest magic concentration from the core of the Sky Sea to irrigate the mushrooms, which would make them grow quickly and well. Then Shu Xin had a sudden inspiration: could she try to create a miniature version of the Sky Sea?
The thick white clouds floating in the Giant Dragon Bamboo Forest are the fruits of Shu Xin's labor over this period of time.
Previously, when Shuxin was making waterbeds and water pillows, she had studied the water element for quite some time, which made her attempt to make a super mini version of the sky and sea much smoother than she had imagined.
She discovered that high concentrations and high purity of water elements naturally gather together to form an elemental water sphere. This elemental water sphere can levitate in the air and then automatically attract water elements from the surrounding air. However, the purity and concentration of free water elements in the air are not very high. As free water elements are added, the elemental water sphere will continuously grow larger and become diluted until it reaches a critical point, falls to the ground, breaks, and disappears.
When making a waterbed, it is necessary to interrupt the self-dissolution process of the elemental water spheres.
At that time, the Tree of Life provided a specific magic recipe. Although Shu Xin was still not quite clear about the details of the magic operation logic, the magic materials required by this recipe included seven hairs from a magic cat whose magic talent was defense and protection. From this direction, it could be guessed that this was to use defense and protection magic to stop the natural expansion of the elemental water sphere.
When creating a miniature version of the sky and sea, it is not necessary to interrupt the process directly, but rather to slow it down as much as possible.
This time, the Tree of Life also provided a very specific magic recipe. The magic materials needed still include seven hairs from a magical cat and a leaf from the Tree of Life, but this time, the required magic materials are hairs from a magical cat with wind and water magic talents.
Logically, the properties of the materials should change, and the finished product should also change accordingly, but it didn't. The finished product was still seven small green crystals. Could it be that the role of the Life Tree Leaf is to fix the form of the magical materials?
However, this time the green crystals are not to be thrown into the water element sphere, but rather need to be placed around the water element sphere.
Presumably because Shu Xin had drilled a hole in the hard seed coat of the Great Leaf Ant Tower, the Tree of Life fully affirmed her needle-carving skills and proposed a solution to draw levitation magic runes directly on the tiny green crystals. Shu Xin asked if there were any alternative solutions. There were, but the alternative solutions required the magic materials of water fairies' hair or flower fairies with water magic talents.
Putting aside how impolite it is to pluck the fairies' hair for no reason, the very idea of using the fairies' hair as magical material is unacceptable to Shu Xin—she can hardly help but think of the human race's exploitation of the river elves, like sucking their marrow and skinning their bones.
As for why using the fur of magical cats and the leaves of the Tree of Life as magical materials didn't cause much of a reaction, one reason is that picking the cat fur and dropping the leaves wouldn't harm the magical cats or the Tree of Life. In reality, fairies wouldn't suffer any other damage besides a slight loss of magic power from losing a single hair. So the main reason is that the actions of humans are too cruel. However, the occurrence of such behavior makes Shu Xin feel uncomfortable.
Shu Xin ultimately chose needlework.
After the green crystals engraved with levitation runes were evenly placed around the water element sphere, moisture in the air was continuously attracted and gathered there. Due to the interception and obstruction of the green crystals, the speed at which the moisture merged into the element water sphere became relatively slow, and it gradually gathered and condensed around, forming a small patch of thick water mist.
Because the incorporation of water is only slowed down, not completely isolated, the elemental water sphere will still gradually dilute and expand. As a result, a small body of water will gradually appear in the formed mist. At this time, the flower fairies can come to collect water and drink. Furthermore, because the flower fairies take away some of the water, the expansion process of the water elemental sphere will be further slowed down, thus further prolonging the existence of the mist itself.
Shu Xin directly named these clouds, which were modeled after the sky and sea, "water supply clouds."
The subsequent maintenance work is also very simple. There is wind in the bamboo forest, and the water supply cloud will drift in the wind, but the green crystal ring is fixed in position and will not move. The patrol team needs to move the water supply cloud back to the position of the green crystal ring. When the water supply cloud breaks and dissipates after a long period of use, the patrol team must also report it in time so that the administrator can notify the workshop to re-condense the water element ball as soon as possible, so as to replenish the number of missing water supply clouds as soon as possible.
It's the dry season now. When the rainy season comes, the air humidity will increase significantly and there will be more rainfall. The water element sphere will expand and break apart much faster than it does now. Shu Xin is considering arranging a special team to be responsible for the maintenance of the water supply cloud.
These thick, pure white clouds are more like a concentrated mist than a miniature version of the sky sea. The real sky sea is a vast ocean suspended in the sky, containing an immeasurable amount of water. If we compare the water contained in these clouds to the sky sea, one is a giant pool, while the other can only be considered a miniature basin.
But such a small water basin is just right for the flower fairies.
There's no need to fly to distant canals to fetch water anymore. Fluffy white clouds filled with water float high and low, near and far, in the Dragon Bamboo Forest. The flower fairies can simply fly to the nearest cloud to fetch water, which is very convenient and quick.
The only drawback was that the water in the water supply cloud was not as magically potent as the Sun Spring water. Shu Xin thought that the various ingredients in the Land of Sin were rich in magic, so the health of the flower fairies should not be affected. She specifically asked the Tree of Life and only after receiving a reply that there was no impact did she begin the large-scale installation of the water supply cloud in the residential area.
After the original irrigation canal was no longer used as a water supply canal, it was not left idle at all. Nonoli quickly arranged for water vegetables to be planted on it. After all, even if the green cassava that the caravans took out was planted by the flower fairies immediately, it would still take time to grow. However, the dried water vegetables sold by the merchants could be cooked into water vegetable soup on the same day.
When Shu Xin had completely completed the renovation and upgrade of the residential area's water supply system, Xi, who had been away for a long time, finally returned to the Land of Sin with a large number of mixed-blood demons.
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