Chapter 38: Crafting a Piece of Equipment

In fact, Lu Yuan had never tanned leather before, so making equipment made him a little embarrassed.

He only knew that if the leather remained in place, it would slowly deteriorate and turn into a dry, lumpy substance. By then, the fire lizard's leather would definitely be downgraded from "ordinary grade".

"I still have to wear the clothes and pants myself, so I have to think of a way to make them more exquisite."

As for the tanning of leather, he had seen the general process on TV a long time ago.

Just remember some rough steps.

The first step is... soaking and degreasing? The purpose is to remove dirt and fat on the fur that is easy to spoil.

Lu Yuan had no idea what chemical to use, so he searched for a long time in the ruins of the Meda civilization and found a bag of unknown powder that had been produced some time ago.

[I don't know when it was produced, but it looks like laundry detergent. It has gone bad, but the remaining sodium carbonate and sodium silicate still have a certain degree of cleaning effect.]

Pour the washing powder into the bucket, then soak a bunch of lizard leather in it, stirring it every once in a while.

The soaking step alone took two days.

Using a knife, scrape away the fat little by little.

Stretch the leather and dry it in the sun.

[Salamander Leather (General Grade-)]

Lu Yuan's pupils dilated, and his heart skipped a beat. Why the hell was there a minus sign? "Is this going to be downgraded?!"

That’s a bit too much.

God, I am only one person, can't you relax your requirements a little? ! But he had no choice, a person's knowledge and strength could only go so far.

I couldn't even pick up the next bag of laundry detergent.

Lu Yuan calmed his mind and continued working.

A salamander skin was chopped into more than twenty pieces by an axe.

Some of the leather is 3 cm thick, and some is even 5-6 cm thick. After being soaked in water, it is really heavy.

Lu Yuan worked hard but was happy. After all, these leathers would become his future pants, clothes and shoes.

He was still looking forward to a complete set of Salamander suits.

There are three types of lizard skin. The first is the scale layer on the back and buttocks, which is extremely hard and tough, and is almost invulnerable to knives and guns. Even if it is soaked in laundry detergent, it is still hard, harder than wood.

The second type is the skin on the legs, which is relatively soft and highly flexible.

The third type is the skin on the abdomen, which has short hair, like a carpet. This type of skin is the softest.

After the soaking is complete, rows of hides are hung out on poles like rolls of cloth to dry.

[The extraordinary biological leather has been initially decontaminated. The current quality is average. The tanner must be a grandet who was reluctant to use even a good decontamination agent. (General grade——)]

[The sun drying method is also a bit rough, it is best to use a dryer. 】

After drying, there are two minus signs.

Lu Yuan kept rubbing his head and sighing.

His right eye kindly gave a hint: [Tanning agents are needed to further enhance the quality of leather. The most common tanning agent is alum. During the leather making process, alum reacts chemically with the collagen in the leather, which helps to improve the elasticity and durability of the leather, and has the advantages of being waterproof, wrinkle-resistant, and antibacterial.]

Lu Yuan was very sad, but he could only bite the bullet and praise: "Thanks to the Pioneer's Eye... otherwise, I would be at a loss. Or, can you give me a better idea?"

Unfortunately, the Pioneer's Eye is not artificial intelligence, and it will not change at all due to Lu Yuan's praise.

There was no other way, Lu Yuan could only slap his head and said, "Alum... I remember finding it somewhere, I have it... In the ruins of the chemical plant, there seems to be some residue!"

"Let's go, old wolf! Let's go pick up some trash."

He took the old wolf and walked towards the ruins of the city.

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Safe zone.

Lu Yuan was able to reconnect to the signal! This was a great thing!

However, before a new transmission signal was invented, people did not dare to raise the alarm for the time being, for fear that Lu Yuan would turn off the communicator again.

Due to the different speeds of time flow for both sides, Lu Yuan's work that took several days to complete only took more than an hour in the safe zone.

So much information is sent in just one hour that people simply cannot keep up.

Therefore, the institute had to add more staff, with each person reviewing part of the content.

Many graduate students, doctoral students, and professors were called together in front of computer desks... With the great shutdown of society and the stagnation of industry and schools, everyone had nothing to do anyway, so it was easy to withdraw this part of the staff.

These one hundred people had the same joy as watching a wilderness survival program.

"It can be seen that this gentleman is still very lonely. He deliberately pointed the camera at his work area... Even though deep down he didn't believe that the camera could really transmit the images back, he still did it."

“Sharing personal updates is a social way to get rid of loneliness.”

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

A psychology expert analyzed and recorded these in a notebook.

As the first person to explore the Pangu Continent, Lu Yuan's first-hand information is of self-evident value.

"Have you noticed that he seems to be stronger than ordinary people? Ordinary people would be paralyzed by exhaustion after doing so much physical work, right?"

"That's true... Could it be that he has special abilities... a dual ability?"

Everyone was a little surprised. People with innate dual abilities are extremely rare, and there are only a few of them in the entire earth.

"The leather is very tough. It's not easy to cut it with an axe. It must be quite dense."

"Wait, the place where he is seems to be a... city ruins?!"

Indeed, in one corner of the screen, the ruins of a collapsed house were captured.

Time has left many traces on the house, including peeling wall paint, rusty steel bars, collapsed pillars and beams, and fungi growing in dark corners.

The rampant vines covered up many traces.

The time after the destruction of civilization is like a vast ocean, with only withered leaves accumulating on the once wide road.

"This must be the Meda civilization... This is the communicator he found from the Meda civilization."

People were shocked and at the same time felt an inexplicable fear.

Why is there a Ninth Age? What about the previous eight Ages?

Where did those civilizations go? What is the true purpose of "God"? No one can answer these questions.

In the end, it turned into a sigh.

After a long time, someone in the conference room started talking again.

"The tanning method of this leather, how should I describe it... Alas, it's too rough, barely usable."

"He probably wants to make clothes and survive in Pangaea for a long time."

"But, he seems to be demonstrating something more important?"

Put yourself in their shoes, without enough expertise, being able to tan leather is already pretty good.

Even a leather tanning master, alone and without chemical materials, can only do this kind of rough work.

Time passes 100 times faster, just like fast-forwarding a movie.

As if in the time it took to talk, Lu Yuan came back from the ruins excitedly, carrying several large buckets of things, with the joy of a good harvest on his face.

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(End of this chapter)