Dwarven Technology
Ye Miaomiao really didn't want to look directly at the incredulous expressions of Zuo Haohan and the five miners.
After all... Bell is an NPC no matter what, and the only one who will be embarrassed is her - the innocent victim.
"Let's go to the tavern first," Ye Miaomiao instructed the miners to work as expressionlessly as possible, and then helped Zuo Haohan into the dwarf tavern.
She slammed the door shut, shutting the excited Bell outside. "We don't have enough wheat seeds in the territory to plant an acre of land yet, so we're collecting them for planting. The rice isn't ripe yet, so the only things we can use for making wine are various berries."
"Berries are fine! Berries are fine!" Bell jumped outside the door.
Ye Miaomiao: “…” Even a door can’t stop you from speaking.
A faint smile appeared on Zuo Haohan's pale face. He gently grasped the edge of the table and looked up and down at this small place.
It was a rather shabby tavern, its stone floor and walls stained in a dull color. A half-burnt candle hung from a rusty iron frame overhead. A few worn square tables sat on one side, flanked by a stone bar. The shelves behind them were bare, not even a barrel of wine.
There is another room further inside.
He limped slowly into the inner room, where the furnace, various barrels and several tall shelves were crowded together. All kinds of brewing equipment were crude but extremely complete.
Ye Miaomiao suddenly felt guilty. She gave Zuo Haohan such a messy place to take care of and asked him to make wine, but only gave him 20 points. Isn't it a bit... unfair?
Ye Miaomiao thought about it and asked, "Can I find you another helper?"
"Need not!"
Zuo Haohan's urgent voice came from the inner room. He limped out from the inner room with a smile full of surprise on his pale face.
"It's incredible! The equipment and materials here are a complete set from the retro era," Zuo Haohan excitedly pointed to the inner room. "There are even some equipment that I've only seen in books! They're all here! It's like a dream! I can actually try them out myself!"
Ye Miaomiao looked at him gasping for breath and couldn't help but feel worried. No equipment is more important than life, kid.
"I'm enough on my own! It'll just take a little longer. A small mistake in winemaking can lead to a huge error. Besides, if those precious instruments break, where will I find replacements?"
When Zuo Haohan said this, his eyes flashed with astonishing brightness, making Ye Miaomiao unable to refute for a moment.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Bell's voice came from outside the door: "I'm here, I can help too! Bell is always willing to help!"
Ye Miaomiao: “…” No one will think you are dumb if you don’t speak.
"That's fine. Anyway, your only task is..." Ye Miaomiao felt a headache: "That is, to give the drunkard outside the door... some drinks."
Zuo Haohan was stunned for a moment, then nodded in understanding, unable to hide the smile on his face: "Lord... Boss, don't worry. Apart from anything else, I'm good at dealing with drunkards."
Ye Miaomiao: "..." You don't know...
To be on the safe side, she gave Zuo Haohan the access rights to the tavern. As long as Zuo Haohan was willing, he could kick people out of the tavern at any time through the system.
Ye Miaomiao felt relieved now. She left the pub and ajar the door behind her.
As soon as I came out, I saw Bell lying by the window, standing on tiptoe as hard as he could to peek inside.
"Where's the person? Where's the person?" Seeing Ye Miaomiao come out, he looked around and circled around her, almost jumping in anxiety, but what he was more concerned about was: "Where's the wine? Did you bring the wine? ... I mean, did you bring your work efficiency?"
Ye Miaomiao didn't answer him, but stretched out his hand: "Bring me five level three pickaxes first."
"How can I have five level 3 pickaxes just like that?" Bell's eyes rolled. "There's only one forge, how can I make tools? Bell was just bragging..."
Ye Miaomiao said ruthlessly: "There is no wine either."
"But! But..." Bell fumbled in his pocket and took out a crumpled blueprint, looking at Ye Miaomiao expectantly: "The Dwarf Tool Room can forge third-level tools..."
Ye Miaomiao retracted her hand in disdain: "My human tool room can also be upgraded, so I don't need your dwarven technology. The employees don't bring their own! It seems that the wine issue will have to be postponed..."
"Don't! Don't!" Bell's eyes, as big as soybeans, suddenly widened, and he fell to the ground as if he had been slapped, and his whole body drooped.
Ye Miaomiao didn't care about him.
"Wait! Wait!" Bell quickly took out another blueprint from his pocket. I don't know how he could fit so many things in his small clothes.
"This...this is..." Bell handed the drawing to Ye Miaomiao reluctantly, as if he was saying goodbye to a close friend.
As soon as this drawing appeared, the system automatically recognized it.
Ye Miaomiao didn't care how reluctant Bell was, she happily grabbed the blueprint, and the system immediately displayed a notification -
Congratulations on obtaining the "Blueprint: Dwarven Technology"
["Dwarven Technology Blueprint" can be merged with "Tool Room Blueprint" and renamed "Basic Factory Blueprint". Should it be merged?]
Ye Miaomiao: “!” Fusion, fusion!
She immediately chose yes.
【Congratulations on obtaining a new building blueprint! 】
A flash of blue light flashed across the blueprint, then transformed into a strange booklet. It flipped to the page titled "Primary Factory," where a flowing illustration appeared.
Primary Factory (Iron Age):
Health: 200
Comfort level: 20
Introduction: It has a simple production tool assembly line with three NPC level 3 employees. It can produce 100 level 3 tools, 200 level 2 tools, or 300 level 1 tools per day.
Required resources: Level 2 Tool Room x 1, Iron x 100, Copper x 100]
Iron Age!
Ye Miaomiao quickly closed the booklet and looked at its appearance. It was made of quite high-grade parchment, unlike the animal skins in the past. The cover was also marked with eight large characters: "Blueprint of the Architecture of Iron Civilization".
Then, an even more surprising notice came—
Congratulations to the "Hungry Hungry" territory for becoming the first in the world to enter the "Iron Civilization"! Successfully achieving the "First Person" achievement!
Along with the announcement, a piece of festive music sounded.
As a reward, you will receive a gift package of SST cards and coupons! This includes: one SSR card coupon "New Year's Shopping", one SSR card coupon "It's a Holiday Today!", and one SST card coupon "Anywhere Door"!
Thank you for your contribution to human civilization! We hope you will continue to work hard. We are with you!
Ye Miaomiao: "!" Three cards shining with golden light appeared out of thin air in Ye Miaomiao's hands, and she knew the use of these three cards in an instant.
[It's a holiday today!] This is essentially a leave note, allowing a territory to choose a day without facing any disasters. [Anywhere Door] is a double-road-wide archway that can be placed between two territories, allowing users to travel between them at any time.
However, what surprised Ye Miaomiao the most was the last card coupon——
[New Year's Goods Shopping: After using this function, all official residents in the territory will be transported to a supermarket 3 minutes before the end of the world, where they can purchase goods for free.]
Supermarket before doomsday!
Buy for free!
——No wonder there is a big purchase of New Year’s goods, isn’t that the New Year?
Ye Miaomiao's smile instantly brightened. She held the three cards in her hands with care, as if they were three heavy pieces of gold, and carefully put them into her system.
Ye Miaomiao: A small step for territory, a big step for zero-yuan shopping!
The look she gave Bell at this moment was extremely kind and tolerant: "Zuo Haohan told me that it will take at least three days to brew the fruit wine. I'll urge him and you can drink it soon."
Bell quickly took out a small light particle from his arms: "This! This can speed up the brewing!"
Ye Miaomiao took the small light particle and was surprised: "Isn't this divine light?"
"Yes, the Dwarf Tavern has a special device. Three divine lights stacked together can speed up the fermentation of yeast by 10 times and last for a month... Lord~" Bell climbed onto Ye Miaomiao's arm and shook it: "I only have one divine light~"
Although Bell was known as a "prince," his rough brown beard revealed a face that was truly mature and weathered. His voice, thick with phlegm, and his snarling voice made Ye Miaomiao shudder and nearly lose her breath.
However, considering that Bell contributed technology today, the territory entered the Iron Age so quickly and obtained so many rewards, and the divine light was originally used to increase technology points.
Ye Miaomiao thought about it and nodded simply: "Okay! But only this time!"
"Oh!" Bell cheered immediately and shouted excitedly around the tavern like a horse running wild.
Zuo Haohan's puzzled expression appeared in the tavern window.
Ye Miaomiao: “…”
After handing the divine light to Zuo Haohan, Ye Miaomiao couldn't wait to leave the underground.
It will take some time to produce one hundred parts of copper and iron materials, and they cannot be produced in a short time, so the primary factory has to be postponed.
Seeing that it was almost ten o'clock, Ye Miaomiao turned a corner and went outside the city wall.
.
At the gate of the territory at this moment.
Fang Yan and eight other members of the expedition team were standing ready for today's guard mission. The five people in front were wearing iron armor and holding iron swords, with the member with a strength value of 32 leading the way.
The three men at the back were armed with level three bows, and together with the four guards on the sentry tower and Fang Yan, who was on hand to provide support, they formed a formidable defense force that was invincible and unstoppable.
In the distance, four second-level "People of God" are about to form, and the hideous and terrifying oppression they bring is not comparable to that of the first-level monsters.
But the residents inside the wall were looking into the distance in a relaxed manner, or even eating various snacks with great interest, discussing which monster would fall first.
They only heard a cry of surprise, and thought they were frightened by seeing a monster.
Unexpectedly, the city gate only slightly opened, and a petite woman in iron armor walked out. The woman had fair skin and looked extremely fragile, yet she dared to walk towards the center of the battlefield holding a heavy sword.
What was even more unbelievable was that the residents in the territory all started cheering, each one louder than the last, as if they were cheering for her?
Is this some kind of catwalk audition?
"hateful!"
At this moment, a deep voice was heard from someone lying in the grass not far away: "It's just as that semi-finished product said. They don't even take God's people seriously!"
"Damn it! This is so damned!" The man slammed the ground hard, and it shook slightly. "Level 2 citizens, charge! We'll knock them over!"
A few people in the distance seemed to notice something and suddenly looked over here.
"Xiaobai, calm down!" a voice beside him said cruelly, "Lord Yu said their defenses were weak. This time, we've deliberately lured in the second-level citizens. Just wait and see their crushing defeat!"
The two voices lay down and watched for a while, but the scene they imagined did not appear.
In just a moment, before they could react, the four level 2 monsters screamed and fell one after another. These huge monsters were completely unable to fight back.
The ground shook slightly, and laughter and cheers came from the other side.
silence...
The air was indeed a little quiet. Xiaobai, who was angry just now, coughed lightly and tried his best to save face: "But because I am a second-level citizen, if..." It hesitated for a long time but couldn't explain the reason.
Four second-level subjects vanished in a single encounter. Is this normal? Is this reasonable? This territory possesses incredible power!
"It seems the plan needs to change," another voice pondered for a moment. "This territory is indeed not simple. It is completely different from what Lord Yu described. I will go back and report to the Lord first."
"noob?"
"exist!"
"You stay here to report the news. It's only natural for you to transform into a human. The lord has already revoked your territory status so that you can enter other territories when necessary. What do you think?"
"Of course! For the sake of territory, I will do anything!" To show his loyalty, Xiaobai patted his shoulder so hard that he almost got a stitch in the side. His loyal look was really convincing.
"Okay!" Xiao Hei was deeply moved. "I'll go back and report to the Lord immediately! You must be careful!"
It turned around and was about to leave when it suddenly remembered something and turned back sharply: "Remember, your tail will show when you get excited. You must not reveal your identity!"
"These humans are incompatible with us. If they knew you were from the territory of God's people, you would be killed without a burial place!"
Xiaobai shuddered all over and quickly tucked his tail in: "Don't worry! Brother Hei! I will definitely not be exposed!"
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