Chapter 7
"We're researchers at Ansan Base," the middle-aged woman in the lead explained. "Before the apocalypse, we received orders from the military to conduct experiments in the underground laboratory here."
"The experiment lasted for over a year. When it was over, we discovered that the world had already ended."
It seems like a very reasonable explanation, but Mingzhu doesn't believe it. Some things may seem like coincidences, but you really can't think about them too closely.
Mingzhu was wondering, how could he be sure that he would believe such a statement full of loopholes?
Come on, does he look that stupid?
Ming Zhumin pursed his lips and looked at the few people, still not putting down the pistol.
He was still filled with murderous intent, which made the people who tried to persuade him feel uneasy and afraid to take any excessive actions.
At this moment, rustling sounds were heard from not far away.
Before Mingzhu could move, several people seemed to be greatly frightened and fled with their heads in their hands, even forgetting to be afraid of the pistols in Mingzhu's hands.
Almost in the blink of an eye, several people disappeared.
"Didn't they say there were evolved zombies nearby?" Mingzhu couldn't hold back his cool and handsome disguise and grumbled, "That's it! You're just kidding!"
Fortunately, he did not believe it. Mingzhu put the pistol in his right hand on his waist, and still held the pistol in his left hand. He had no intention of continuing to mow the grass, but looking at the various mushrooms, Mingzhu had the urge to pick them.
Before he traveled to the interstellar space, although he was from the northern province, his parents divorced when he was a child, and he followed his mother away from his hometown and married in the southern province.
My stepfather is a native of Southern Province. His favorite thing to do is to eat mushrooms in various ways until he gets poisoned whenever mushrooms grow all over the mountains.
The most memorable time was when his stepfather took him to meet his comrades-in-arms, and the first dish at the banquet was mushroom hotpot.
The food was delicious, and everyone ate without a word. But after finishing the meal, Mingzhu, who had thought he was doing well, found that he was in trouble because when he went to pay, he found that the computer on the cash register was doing the hula dance and asked him kindly if he wanted to join in.
Afterwards, the store owner sent them all to the hospital, and from then on, it was as if a new world of curiosity had opened up for him. He used to be quite resistant to eating mushrooms, but later he started showing off mushrooms with his stepfather, and ended up getting poisoned by various mushrooms.
No, it's not poisoning. It's because I ate the mushrooms before they were cooked through.
The more Mingzhu thought about it, the more excited he became. The next moment, he became a mushroom picker, picking mushrooms one by one.
Regardless of whether they were brightly colored or dull, the candles were all picked. The system automatically categorized them, saving the effort of carefully distinguishing the candles.
Mingzhu quickly gathered all the mushrooms visible nearby. It was already getting dark. The forest at night was always dangerous. Although Mingzhu wasn't afraid, he decided to head back.
In order to save time, Mingzhu even took out the light-speed motorcycle that he had stored in the space button, and quickly returned to the base.
184 was lying on the hall floor, its body motionless, but its tail had its own thoughts, swaying left and right, leisurely and comfortable.
"The host is back!"
184 Seeing the bright candle, he immediately stood up.
"How's the thatch collection going?"
"I didn't find any thatch, so I cut some weeds." Mingzhu answered, sat down aside, and began to count the supplies stored in the system space.
There are mostly weeds, but there are also quite a few wild vegetables and very resilient vines.
Put them all into categories.
Mingzhu first took out the weeds, a big pile of them.
But it's wet and can't be used for the time being.
Mingzhu simply spread the weeds flat on the hall floor to dry in the sun.
Then I took out the mushrooms marked as non-toxic, cleaned them, and cooked a pot of mushrooms and insect meat. That was it for dinner.
Mingzhu finished eating quickly, washed the kitchen utensils, and started weaving a basket with vines to hold things.
184 stared intently.
"Host, you are awesome!"
184 approached Mingzhu and placed his paw on Mingzhu's knee.
"Host, please take a closer look at the system panel!"
Mingzhu: "? Have you made any changes?"
184 nodded vigorously and said rather proudly, "Based on the knowledge gained from Tong's networking and incorporating it into practical applications, Tong has specially added a crafting category to the system panel. From now on, the system panel will no longer have five categories, but six."
"good."
Mingzhu affirmed 184's "ambition" and immediately checked the system panel out of respect.
As 184 said, there is a production section in the system panel. When I click on the production section, there are three options from high to low.
Crafting Bench, Crafting Room, and Crafting Factory.
What Mingzhu can build and use now is a basic crafting tool table.
Building a Crafting Table requires 100 units of wood and 10 units of stone. Since Mingzhu already has a candle, he immediately builds the Crafting Table and places it on the first floor of his residence.
After putting it away, Mingzhu immediately checked what tools could be made on the 'crafting tool bench'.
"Also, the host has moved the furniture factory in the 'Special Section' to the 'Tool Making Factory'."
Mingzhu nodded to show that he understood and continued to check the 'production tool table'.
Wood can be processed into planks, stone can be processed into blocks, and flax and kudzu can be processed into linen and kudzu cloth, hemp rope and kudzu silk.
Mingzhu flipped through the "Function Section" again. He remembered that in addition to the library, academy, cat and dog kennels, teahouses, restaurants, and theaters, there were also stone mills used for shelling various grains, crushing grains, and even grinding soy milk.
50 units of stone, 15 units of wooden planks, 10 units of hemp rope.
We have stones and wooden boards, but we don't have any flax ropes.
Mingzhu pondered this while searching for the supplies he had stored in the system space and the space button. There was no hemp rope, but there was cotton rope.
Mingzhu tried using cotton rope instead of hemp rope. As expected, it worked. Mingzhu simply used 50 units of stone, 15 units of wood, and 10 units of cotton rope to make a millstone.
It was exactly the same stone mill that the villagers in the countryside used to make for grinding beans and chili peppers. Mingzhu placed the stone mill next to four plots of farmland and used the tool table to process all the existing wood into planks.
It was estimated to take an hour and a half, so Mingzhu simply found a very thick, wide, large and straight bamboo and started making bamboo bowls, bamboo cups and bamboo tubes.
Bamboo bowls are used for eating, bamboo cups are used for drinking water, and bamboo tubes can be used to steam bamboo rice. The extra ones can even be made into bamboo chopsticks.
In this way, Mingzhu was doing handicrafts, and soon an hour and a half passed. After the wooden boards were processed, Mingzhu took out the hammer and saw and began to "crackle" and manually assemble the wooden bed.
In fact, a simple wooden bed is quite easy to make. First, determine the length and width. The size of the candle is 2 meters x 1.5 meters...
The wooden boards produced by the 'tool bench' are 1.5m x 1.5m.
Mingzhu first sawed a wooden board into three small wooden boards of 0.5 meters x 1.5 meters, nailed another 1.5x1.5 meter board together with nails, and then used stones to make bedposts and placed the wooden boards on them. The simple wooden bed was made.
"Let's set up the hotel like this tomorrow," Mingzhu said to 184. "Once the bed is ready, we should be able to open it."
"Host is awesome!" 184 raised his paws and clapped his hands in praise. "Tong will help the host tomorrow too!"
"Okay, I'll wait for your help tomorrow."
Mingzhu first put the simple wooden bed he made into the space button, and then chose a room with windows and a good size on the second floor of his residence as a bedroom. Of the remaining three rooms, one was converted into a bathroom, one into a study, and one into a studio, where he would store some small gadgets that Mingzhu could not put into the space button.
By the time the simple wooden bed was placed in the bedroom, it was already around 9 p.m. Mingzhu said goodnight to 184 and lay down on the simple wooden bed with his clothes on, closing his eyes and falling asleep.
The wooden bed without any soft mattress was indeed very hard.
But Mingzhu was actually used to it. He had a nearly dreamless night. When Mingzhu woke up in the morning, the first thing he did was to get face to face with 184's furry cat face.
"Morning, host."
"Good morning, 184."
Mingzhu yawned, got up, washed his face with cold water, and prepared to continue yesterday's work.
"Actually, we can get a stone bed." 184 followed Mingzhu and made a sincere suggestion.
"You're right."
Mingzhu had no intention of refuting 184.
Nine guest rooms meant at least nine beds were needed. Obviously, the beds in the guest rooms couldn't be the simple wooden bed Mingzhu had built for him yesterday, measuring 2 meters by 1.5 meters.
The minimum size is 2 meters x 2 meters. If it is a double room, the size must be 2 meters x 1.2 meters, or 2 meters x 1 meter.
"9 rooms, 4 single rooms and 5 double rooms. So we need 14 beds." Mingzhu began to check the number of wooden boards.
It was enough to make 14 beds, with a lot left over. However, making tables, chairs and benches obviously also required wooden planks, so Mingzhu thought about it and decided to simply pile up most of the beds with stones.
When the time comes, you can cover it with dried weeds and then cover it with bedding, and it will be no worse than a proper bed.
Moreover, compared to making a wooden bed, a stone bed is obviously simpler. You just need to take out the stones and place them there.
The stones processed by the "tool table" look like they have been polished and have consistent specifications and sizes.
50cmX50cm.
To place a stone bed that is 2 meters long and 2 meters wide, 16 units of stone are needed; to place a stone bed that is 2 meters long and 1 meter wide, 8 units of stone are needed.
Mingzhu has more than 200 stones stored in the system space. If all 9 guest rooms are equipped with stone beds, 144 units of stones will be needed.
That was enough, so Mingzhu simply gave up the idea of making wooden beds and laid stone beds instead.
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