Chapter 77 Mobile Shelter
Processing fruit is much faster than processing meat. Even with the 1,200 kilograms of fruit traded with the village chief, it was all done in a whole morning.
Lu Xuan put the finished product of the big head into a space bead separately, leaving only a small amount for the wages of the helpers and food for his family.
Other busy families in the village also dried a lot of fruits, and according to Lu Xuan's instructions, they took some to make tea.
Some people only picked one kind of dried fruit to brew, while others picked multiple kinds to brew mixed fruit tea, but no matter which one, the taste was very good.
Zhang Chengming even came over to ask Lu Xuan to help him cool it down. The taste of the icy fruit tea instantly reached a new level.
"I didn't expect that dried fruits can be so delicious when used to make tea." The villagers drank fruit tea while enjoying the air conditioning, their faces full of emotion.
"The wild fruits I picked at the foot of the mountain before were sour and astringent, and the tea they made wasn't very tasty either. The reason this time was so delicious was thanks to Lu Xuan's magic."
"I thought Lu Xuan knew enough magic before, but I didn't expect to add the ability to make ice. With this ability, wouldn't it mean I can always have cold drinks during the hottest season? Why don't I have this ability?"
"Who says it's not true? Why did the immortal only give Lu Xuan so many abilities? It would be great if he could give me one too."
"What are you daydreaming about? Why would an immortal teach you immortal arts? Are you prettier than Lu Xuan, or are you smarter than him?"
"Isn't it okay to think about it?"
"There's no point in thinking about it. I'll just be content if I can just bask in Lu Xuan's influence and gain a little bit of the immortal's grace in this life."
At that time, they could never have imagined that their dream would come true one day in the near future.
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It was a rare free time in the afternoon, so Lu Xuan greeted the audience and then turned off the live broadcast to prepare for a nap and relax.
But I didn’t expect…
"What are you doing?" Lu Xuan, who had just woken up, looked at the several thatched houses rising from the ground in the corner of the square with a subtle expression.
He just slept for about an hour, and he built a house?
[Wow, it seems like the host missed a lot by sleeping!]
Why did they suddenly think of building a house? Was the cave not big enough or the air conditioning not cool enough?
Xiong Mao said, "You haven't seen it yet? Build a house."
Lu Xuan: "Why build a house for no reason?"
Zhang Chengming, who was hugging a pile of hay, sighed, "You're not married yet, so you don't understand our hardships."
Lu Xuan glanced at the most active people: Li Jing, Zhang Chengming, Xiong Mao, Liu Daxi's son Liu Chun, Zhang Gui, Zhou Lin...
These people's characteristics are so obvious, what's there to not understand? It's just adult stuff.
There are adults in the live broadcast room, so naturally they will understand.
[Hahahahaha! It's inconvenient to spend the night in this big cave. I'm so bored I'm ready to move!]
[When these people got angry over eating wolf meat, I guessed this day would come. I didn't expect it to come so soon.]
[After all, they're both young and full of vigor, and they're not without wives. Holding it in all day long is unbearable for anyone. I understand, I understand, hehe.]
Lu Xuan pulled the corner of his lips and said, "Don't bother. It's useless to cover it up."
Zhang Chengming was puzzled. "How could it be built in vain? We had agreed on how to take turns living there."
Li Jing nodded silently.
The audience in the live broadcast room thought that Lu Xuan was envious of the man's wife and was deliberately looking for trouble. Just as they were sighing and about to make a joke, they heard Lu Xuan say coldly: "Because there will be an earthquake tomorrow, even if we build it now, it will collapse tomorrow."
Zhang Chengming and others:!!!
Live broadcast room audience:!!!
Old fans carefully recalled the time of the disaster displayed on the Weather Companion, and it seemed, as if... there would indeed be an earthquake in the next two days.
They had totally forgotten!
Xiong Mao gasped and exclaimed, "Are you telling the truth?" Then he and his wife would be unable to do anything again! ?
The people watching around were quickly attracted by the noise on their side, and they panicked when they learned that there would be another earthquake tomorrow.
Li Tie also became anxious and slapped his thigh and said, "Why didn't you say so earlier!"
Lu Xuan said calmly, "It's too early to say anything, except being so anxious that you can't eat. Don't worry, the magnitude of this earthquake is not high. It won't crack the cave or the square. At most, it will shake a little."
Speaking of the earthquake, Lu Xuan simply said a little more.
"In the past few years of the disaster, major disasters have indeed only occurred every two or three months, but earthquakes can occur as often as ten days to half a month, or as often as a month. You'd better get used to it soon."
The villagers almost vomited blood when they heard this.
They don't want to get used to this!
That night, all the villagers were so worried that they couldn't eat dinner or even sleep well. Some even wanted to stay outside.
...Then he was taught a lesson by the mosquitoes in the mountains and returned to the cave in a mess.
That’s not all. While everyone believed in Lu Xuan’s ability, they were also worried about what might happen. They moved supplies to the square before dawn, fearing that the hard-earned supplies would be buried.
Seeing this, Lu Qing and Lei Yan couldn't help but say, "Should we also put away the supplies and furniture at home? It would be a shame if such good things were to break."
Lu Xuan waved his hand, "No need, let's have breakfast first."
The villagers had been busy for a long time and finally took a break. When they turned around, they saw the Lu family sitting together and eating breakfast as if nothing had happened.
Everyone: “…”
For a moment, they just felt like clowns.
After breakfast, Lu Xuan looked at the time and said, "It's coming."
Less than three breaths after he finished speaking, the ground really began to shake.
With the familiar vibration, the horrific memory that had been forgotten with great difficulty was rekindled. Although the vibration was indeed far less intense than the last time, many villagers still fell to the ground with weak legs.
Ye Jing, who was pregnant with a big belly, was so frightened that she had a miscarriage and screamed in pain. Carpenter Ye and Ye Lin were so scared that they didn't care about the earthquake. They tried hard to stabilize their shaking bodies while carefully protecting Ye Jing from falling.
About thirty breaths later, the ground returned to calm. Except for a few villagers who were so scared that they collapsed and had some scratches on their hands when they rubbed them on the ground, most of the villagers were intact.
Seeing that Ye Jing looked pale, Lu Xuan asked Lu Qing to give her a pill to preserve her pregnancy. As soon as the pill entered her stomach, Ye Jing's face became visibly rosy.
The village chief took some people to determine the losses caused by the earthquake... but in fact, it was not a loss at all.
Except for the fence outside the square which was a bit loose and needed to be re-fixed, none of the not-so-sturdy stoves were damaged.
If there was any damage, it was that all the thatched houses that carried the dreams of a wonderful nightlife for young people like Zhang Chengming and Xiong Mao collapsed one after another.
A group of young men surrounded the remains of the thatched house, their expressions filled with grief and regret.
Especially Xiong Mao, who was the most frustrated because of his beautiful wife, had a ferocious expression as if he was going to eat someone in the next second.
The people in the live broadcast room felt both sympathy and amusement.
[So sad, but really funny, haha.]
[The anchor, please give them a hand. It's not easy for them either.]
[Didn't the host take out a single-person safe house? Why not lend it to them?]
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow. Lend them the safe house for business? What would that make him? The owner of a love hotel?
Forget it.
However... there are other ways to solve this problem.
"Stop staring blankly. You just want to do your work in a soundproof way so that other people can't see you. I have what you need here." Lu Xuan said lightly.
A group of young men turned their heads quickly, their eyes as fierce as those of wolves and tigers. "What is that?"
The audience guessed, it should be a tent?
The anchor had indeed won several tents of different sizes before but never found an opportunity to use them.
But tents are not soundproof. What is the difference between using a tent in a big cave and the curtains that the villagers are using?
A moment later, Lu Xuan built a room in the big cave as a model room for the village chief's family.
The audience suddenly understood after seeing this small house that looked somewhat familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar.
It turned out to be a mobile quarantine center!
As the name suggests, this is a detachable and spliced board house similar to modern square cabins and container mobile houses. The material is lighter and stronger than modern square cabins, with a total weight of only ten kilograms.
In the Star Alliance, such simple houses are only used in the slums of remote and technologically backward marginal planets. However, for the ancients, mobile cabins are a very practical thing that can be used as a substitute for safe houses.
It fully meets the needs of young people like Li Jing and Zhang Chengming, and has outstanding sound insulation effects!
Lu Xuan specifically let them enter the quarantine center to feel it. No matter how loudly the people inside yelled, no sound could be heard outside.
Zhang Chengming and others were ecstatic.
Why build a thatched house when we have such a good mobile cabin?
What's more, this quarantine center is surprisingly cheap, requiring only 50 kilograms of supplies, the same price as biological clothing, so basically anyone can afford it.
Li Tie rubbed his hands excitedly: "With this quarantine center, won't we no longer have to worry about having no place to live in the future?"
He did not forget what Lu Xuan said that they would not live here for long, and they might not be able to find a cave big enough to accommodate the entire village elsewhere.
With mobile shelters, they can reassemble them and live in them wherever they go.
Lu Xuan said: "The mobile cabin is soundproof and breathable, and can block rain, but it cannot isolate hot and cold air. Once winter comes..." Sleeping in the cabin can freeze people into popsicles.
Compared with tents, the only advantage of quarantine cabins is sound insulation.
Precisely because of its overly simple functions, it has been eliminated by most planets in the Star Alliance, and only marginal planets with overlapping economic strengths use it.
Li Tie let out a cry of regret, but then he thought, you get what you pay for, and he really couldn't ask for too much for fifty kilograms of supplies.
All the families in the village who were in need came to exchange for a mobile cabin. In addition to mixing 10 to 20 kilograms of food with 50 kilograms of supplies, the rest was offset by meat, fruit, etc.
Soon, more than twenty mobile cabins appeared in the cave.
In addition to the four walls and the roof, the quarantine center is also equipped with spare partitions that can be used to separate two or three small rooms, which can help avoid embarrassment for the elders at home when young people are doing things.
The audience in the live broadcast room couldn't help but joke: Mobile quarantine center, to protect your love.
The magic of the quarantine center made the villagers quickly forget the fear brought by the earthquake.
That night, the young people living in the mobile cabins finally got their wish and spent an extremely passionate night. Many "old couples" who had been married for more than ten years finally found a little bit of the sweetness of their newlyweds.
Two days after the villagers lived in the cabin.
Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Tie, "You said the village is planning to grow vegetables?"
Lei Yan and Lu Qing, who were sitting on the sofa on the other side, couldn't help but brighten their eyes.
Li Tie nodded. "It's been getting hotter these past two days. Many of the wild vegetables the foraging team found are too old to eat. Mushrooms are only found a little near the waterfall. We've almost used up all the fresh vegetables everyone brought into the mountains. If we don't grow some ourselves, we'll probably have to eat meat every meal from now on."
Audience in the live broadcast room: !!! Listen to what you say, it's too Versailles! Isn't it good to eat meat every day?
Lu Xuan asked, "You only grow vegetables and not grain?"
Li Tie sighed, "Of course I want to grow crops, but this is the wrong season. I'm just afraid the seedlings will wither after just a few days..."
Halfway through his speech, he thought of Lu Xuan's magical technique of inducing childbirth, and his heart couldn't help but move.
But he soon lost his temper again.
They can’t rely on Lu Xuan to feed the more than a hundred mouths in the village, otherwise what would become of them?
Unexpectedly, Lu Xuan took the initiative to say: "Don't worry about the season, I can help."
"Really!?" Li Tie stood up excitedly.
"But..." Lu Xuan changed his tone, "Before that, I have to move first."
Li Tie's face changed drastically, "What!?"
Lu Qing and Lei Yan also widened their eyes in surprise.
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