Chapter 178 Lin Dachui's tough life
Lin Wen worked on the levee for a whole day and night, and managed to complete the 16 hours of work with great effort.
[Qi Jin Shenli] only lasts for one hour. In the first hour, Lin Wen was very relaxed.
But when the [Qi Ban Divine Power] disappeared, the sledgehammer suddenly became extremely heavy, and Lin Wen had to use all his strength every time to lift it.
Not only that, because the hammer handle is long, Lin Wen's own mass is much lower than that of the sledgehammer, so the center of gravity issue is particularly important.
After failing many times in a row, Lin Wen gradually mastered the trick of center of gravity, which was to always keep the direction of force not higher than the horizontal line of his center of gravity.
This way he will always keep his feet on the ground and won't be lifted up.
After working for the second hour, Lin Wen was soaked and sweating profusely, but after taking a look at his soul, he did not cast any more spells.
[Qi Jin Shenli] is very expensive, consumes 25% of the spirit, and only lasts for 1 hour. The cost-effectiveness is too low.
[Nine Oxen and Two Tigers' Strength] consumes only 15% of the spirit, but lasts for 16 hours. In terms of the bonus in stamina alone, the difference between the two is not much.
Therefore, this spell is his main construction work.
Although it is a bit tiring to rely on "extraordinary strength", this difficulty can be overcome.
Lin Wen knocked on the levee for a full 16 hours. By the end, he was numb and his hands and feet had lost sensation, but his spirit was still excited.
The moment the spell ended, Lin Wen fell to the ground.
He slept for an unknown amount of time, and when he woke up, the moon and the stars were in the sky. Lin Wen was reluctant to activate [Blind and Clear], but fortunately he had made a lot of preparations beforehand and brought a lot of supplies.
Lin Wen put on a miner's hat, ate some dry food, drank some cold water, ignored the groans of his bones and muscles, and once again turned on his "Nine Oxen and Two Tigers' Strength" and worked for another 16 hours.
When he woke up for the third time, the morning sun was rising and the sky was filled with rays of light. Lin Wen seemed to be bathing in the path to becoming an immortal. His whole body was full of strength, and he activated the [Power of Nine Oxen and Two Tigers] for the third time.
After 16 hours, the 2,600-meter levee was completely destroyed, and the 21-meter height was sunk 3 meters.
The soil on the levee was as hard as iron. Even if Lin Wen carried 100 tons of weight, he couldn't leave any footprints.
The dark holes and ant holes in the dike had long since disappeared without a trace, and any impurities that could not withstand the pressure flew out.
When I woke up for the fourth time, the sun was high in the sky.
Lin Wen walked around the levee and felt very satisfied, but there was still one last step.
Lin Wen came to the center of the levee, squatted down, and pressed the ground with his five fingers.
Of course, he was not trying to communicate with the spirit world, but rather to cast a spell he had been planning for a long time.
【Turn soil into stone】
A light grey Jindan stage spell that consumes 50% of the spirit energy and turns mud into rock. The range and effect are related to the soil quality.
His spirit was instantly drawn away, and in Lin Wen's perception, he seemed to be sinking along with the green light that was invisible to mortals.
All the soil filtered by the green light turned into rock.
The green light spread from top to bottom, quickly spreading in all directions from where Lin Wen pressed his palm.
When the green light extended from the levee to the land outside the levee, its speed dropped sharply, as if it encountered a strong obstacle.
Moreover, with every inch passed, the green light became dimmer.
Lin Wen immediately controlled the green light to stop expanding sideways.
Only the soil that has been forged and hammered will have very little consumption of petrification.
In the main body of the levee, the green light expanded rapidly without any obstruction, and the light faded relatively slowly.
After a moment, the entire embankment was petrified, and only the last trace of green light remained.
Lin Wen let the green light rush into the river, and the green light disappeared in an instant.
The experiment failed, [Turning Soil into Stone] cannot turn water into stone.
But it doesn't matter.
Lin Wen stood up and smiled with satisfaction when he saw the embankment that seemed to be carved from a whole piece of granite.
[Turn Soil into Stone] This spell has very high requirements for soil quality. If he does not forge the levee first and uses this spell directly, he may only be able to petrify a very small part of the levee.
To achieve today's effect, with his current level of cultivation, he would probably need hundreds of spells.
Therefore, he specially built a giant iron hammer to forge the levee with great artificial strength, compact the soil, hammer out impurities, and temper it into steel.
In order to ensure the success of the spell, he deliberately compressed consumption in the past few days, tried his best to save spells, and managed to restore his spirit to 50%, and adjusted the natural state of Taoism to the highest level.
In this way, the soul can use two [Turn Earth into Stone] in case one is not enough.
Unexpectedly, the effect was even better than I imagined. One spell was completed, and there was even a little extra.
Although there was no direct good karma gained from repairing the dike this time, Changshan County’s daily good karma increased by 3 points.
From 191 to 194.
This is a continuously shaking tree, which is much better than a one-time good fortune.
The most important thing is.
When the spell was completed, Lin Wen clearly saw that the countless karmic threads as thin as hair on his body had increased a lot.
The upper limit of his soul suddenly became 100.03%.
Although it was only strengthened a little, it was a good start, enough to make Lin Wen laugh so hard that his legs couldn't close.
This is his ultimate plan to become an immortal.
Improve good karma and increase the line of cause and effect.
The thread of karma will strengthen the soul.
As your soul becomes stronger, you can use more spells.
More spells will bring more good karma, and more good karma will bring more karma.
In this way, a perfect closed loop is formed.
Chickens lay eggs, eggs lay chickens, and the cycle continues endlessly.
Daozu takes off today!
Ha ha ha ha!
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On the fifth day, Lin Wen informed Zhao Minggong that the levee was completed and asked him to evacuate all the workers on the second most dangerous levee, Yingjia Village.
The empire’s most professional engineering team is about to take over!
What troubled Lin Wen was that Zhao Minggong proposed acceptance and asked for the engineering team's asking price.
This is a reasonable request and it is hard to refuse.
In desperation, Lin Wen had to agree to the inspection, casually said a number, and then reported his own bank account to Lao Xie.
Old Xie didn't think much about it, thinking that County Chief Lin wanted him to contact the professional engineering team himself, so he listed this account as the payment account.
Afterwards, Lin Wen carried his big hammer and went to the Yingjia Village dike, starting his second dike-forging career.
——
the next day.
Zhao Minggong's deputy Zhang Song brought a team of professional engineering experts to inspect the levee.
The group climbed up the Dongdao Dam with a full set of professional equipment.
The chief expert was a man in his forties wearing gold-framed glasses, but he looked very young.
He surveyed the east-west terrain of the levee and commented, "The location is problematic. The levee is too far forward, narrowing the river and increasing the impact of the water flow."
He inspected the area and said, "This sub-embankment built on top of the main embankment is crude and crude. It shows absolutely no engineering knowledge. The person who built it was an absolute idiot."
The three statisticians standing by solemnly noted the chief expert's words. One of them asked, "What do you think this sub-dike is worth?"
The chief expert pushed his gold-rimmed glasses and said disdainfully, "According to my price standards, this low-quality embankment is worth at most ten thousand yuan."
The auditor said, "Can you produce the valuation documents?"
The man with gold-rimmed glasses said arrogantly, "Of course, I am responsible for my profession."
Afterwards, the group began the formal acceptance work.
The staff cleared the loose soil on the surface of the embankment, revealing the rocky ground underneath. The man with gold-framed glasses knocked twice with a small hammer, and there was a hint of surprise on his usually indifferent face.
"From the sound, there must be at least two meters of rocks underneath. It must have cost a lot of money, right?"
He turned and asked Zhang Song.
Zhang Song replied cautiously, "County Magistrate Lin said they hired the most professional levee construction team in the empire."
The man with the gold-framed glasses had a sneer on his face again.
"Which engineering team dares to call themselves the most professional? It's obviously a scam. You, get out your inorganic flaw detectors and geological inspection instruments. You, go down and inspect the foundation of the levee."
A worker carried out a large black box and placed it on the embankment. It will emit ultrasonic waves that will penetrate deep into the building to detect its structure, damage and defects.
Another staff member set up another cylindrical object with a rather technological feel.
This object will emit a wide range of special gamma rays. If the geology is dense and solid, this special gamma ray will be quickly weakened. If the geology is soft, it will quickly penetrate through.
Therefore, the geological conditions can be determined by simply detecting the gamma ray intensity on the other side.
The staff below made a gesture, and the staff above immediately started the machine. Because the levee was very high, he started the machine very cautiously and adjusted the intensity to a height of 1900 tubes.
The staff below took a look at the data on the sensor board and waved his hand to indicate that no signal was received.
The staff above were a little surprised. This should be very high. It was just an 18-meter embankment with a certain angle. How could it not be acceptable?
He turned up the intensity by one notch, to 2200 tubes. The gamma-ray generator was already buzzing, proving that it was consuming a lot of energy.
But the staff below still shook their heads.
The staff above frowned and raised the power level again, turning it to 2500.
Still shaking hands.
In a fit of anger, the staff above adjusted the energy level by two more levels, reaching 3100 tubes. This was already extremely high-energy radiation. The generator made a buzzing sound, proving that it was carrying a heavy load.
But the staff below still shook their heads.
The staff member above picked up the intercom and shouted, "I've reached 3100!"
The intercom replied: "Impossible, I don't receive any radiation at all."
The person above said angrily, "Is your board not turned on? This happened to you last time."
"No way, I opened it."
"Is the location wrong?"
"Impossible, I used triangulation to measure the standard angle."
"So what the hell is wrong with this horse?"
"Is there something wrong with the machine? Turn it down to the lowest setting and we'll do an alley-oop."
The personnel above adjusted the energy level intensity to the lowest 100 and pointed the gamma ray generator directly at the induction plate.
Intercom: "Got it, 100."
“The machine is good.”
"So what's wrong with this?"
"Try again."
But once we got back to the embankment, it was still zero.
"Why don't you try turning the energy level up to the highest level?"
The staff above had already realized that something was wrong at this moment. He adjusted the energy level to 6100, which is the extreme value, and emitted ultra-high energy rays.
A joyful voice came from the intercom: "Got it."
"How many?"
"Uh, 3?"
"What? 3,000 how much?"
"Uh, I said the value is 3."
"Impossible!" the staff above immediately denied. "According to this data, the levee must be filled entirely with high-density, high-strength rock, with a density of at least 5 tons per cubic meter. This rock must have been specially processed. Who could possibly get so much of it to build a levee?"
"Shall we try it from a different angle and at a different depth?"
"good."
However, no matter how many times they changed their postures, the data they obtained was the same.
Later I changed the tools, but the number was still the same.
They looked at each other, and suddenly realized that they were standing on an incredible creation.
One person lost his balance and nearly fell, while the other fell directly to the ground.
At this time, the man with gold-rimmed glasses also came over with his men. With a constipated expression on his face, he said to the person in charge, Zhang Song, "It's, it's okay. There's no structural damage or defects. The professional engineering team of the Empire is of this level."
When he came back, he saw his men lying on the ground in a crooked state, not looking professional at all. The man with gold-rimmed glasses was immediately furious and shouted, "What are you doing! Get up!"
The staff then got up.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses was furious: "Where's the data?"
A staff member handed over the report timidly.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses snatched it away and angrily shouted, "Have you taken the wrong medicine? Handing over data is like passing a grenade."
"But, Mr. Jin, this number, this number..."
Seeing his professionals being so petty, the man with gold-rimmed glasses felt completely humiliated and angrily asked, "What's wrong with the data? We've seen all sorts of storms, and how can a tiny anomaly scare you like this?"
He looked down at the data and his face turned pale. He wiped his glasses three times before he finished reading the paper.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses raised his head and said after a long while, "Really?"
Everyone nodded.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses forced a smile, his face pale. Zhang Song asked with concern, "How is the quality?"
The man with the gold-rimmed glasses swallowed and said, "Not bad, haha. A levee built entirely of rock, haha, with a density of 6.2 tons per cubic meter, haha, no cracks, damage, or defects. Haha, very normal, very normal. The Empire's professional construction team can do it..."
He took two steps in a trance, looked down, and suddenly realized the horror of the huge creature under his feet.
With a bang.
He fell to the ground.
(End of this chapter)
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