Chapter 63: Cultivating Immortality is to Be Better at Moving Bricks
"Brother Gou, I am a great emperor, am I just chopping stones and cutting wood here?"
The Jade Emperor showed an expression of doubt about his life. After using up the last bit of blue, he simply let himself collapse to the ground, looking as if his body had been hollowed out.
"Those who are capable should do more work. You are the only players with the [Swordsmanship] skill. I have no choice! Work harder. I have assigned two people from each of the three teams over there. Our overall progress is slow now because you are cutting materials too slowly! Don't always think about what you should get every day, but think more about what you have paid for! Do you understand?"
Wang Ergou put on the ugly face of a capitalist while speaking as he used the [Carrying] skill to lift a new batch of cut building materials and walked away.
The Jade Emperor curled his lips in dissatisfaction and muttered, "Sooner or later, I'll have to hang Ergou under the street lamp!"
An NPC who looked like a middle-aged uncle waited for Wang Ergou to leave, then rubbed his hands, nodded and bowed as he approached the Jade Emperor. He pointed at the carbon lines drawn on a wooden board with great fear and trepidation, and said, "Immortal... Immortal, there is too much left here. We need to cut a little more..."
"Oh, it cuts to the black line, right? Sorry, I didn't notice it just now. Wait a minute!"
The Jade Emperor said this, and temporarily meditated to restore the blue of a skill, then swung the sword energy condensed from spiritual power at the black line on the wooden board.
The NPC nervously leaned away, and with a snap, the piece of the wooden board in his hand outside the black carbon line was cut off by the sword energy and fell to the ground.
On the ground, there were already a lot of scraps of wood and stone scattered around, almost forming a small mountain - even this had to be cleaned up several times! Fortunately, the five senses in the game can be adjusted, and the so-called brick-moving work also has the assistance of spiritual power and various spells. Otherwise, no matter how good the benefits given by Wang Ergou were, and how delicious the promised pie was, it would be impossible for players to be patient enough to do such a "labor" as building a city.
After several hours of hard work, the "City Lord's Mansion" that was planned to be built first has already taken shape - the foundation has been completely laid, several beams and pillars have been built, and the stone brick walls are neatly built. It only needs tiles and bricks to come out of the kiln, and the main buildings of the "City Lord's Mansion" can be built.
This public drawing was designed by Aunt Wang. There were originally several design plans for the city that Wang Ergou was ordered to build by the task force, but Wang Ergou and Zhao Qing both liked the "Chang'an City" plan at first sight. Based on the principle of minority obeys majority, everyone chose it.
In the renderings, the overall color scheme is white walls, red paint, and green tiles. It looks majestic and magnificent. Most of the buildings are symmetrical, and the city planning is also a zoning design, which is regular and exquisite, a typical Tang style.
However, compared with real ancient Chinese buildings, the buildings designed in the plan are mostly two to three stories high. This is planned out of consideration for the practicality of building materials and buildings in the world of "Records of the Ten Continents".
Although it is currently impossible to replicate a grinding machine with sufficient precision to make cement due to the lack of necessary conditions for industrialization and mechanization, this is a world of immortal cultivation after all, and there are some special materials that are unconventional, unreasonable, and seem to conform to the rules of the world, so cement is no longer the best choice. For example, a very common tree near the Taiyin Sect is called the "red iron tree". The bark of this tree is black, but the wood inside is dark red. Its texture is extremely hard. Once it is cut off from the ground, it will become invulnerable to swords and guns, and water and fire in a short time. It is an excellent wood.
In the past, ordinary people would have to bake the wood for several days to make it brittle, then soak it in ice water before using the sharpest black iron to shape it. Or experienced craftsmen would trim the wood into the right size before it leaves the ground, and then cut it down in one go, saving some effort.
Therefore, due to its superior properties and scarcity caused by its extreme difficulty in processing, hematite is highly sought after in the construction industry and has also caught the attention of the project team.
However, for the players, the characteristics of the red iron tree are completely ignored - too hard? Can you be harder than the sword energy condensed by spiritual power? Need high temperature and ice water treatment? Do you look down on the power of my various talismans? What's more, the so-called "invulnerable to swords and guns" and "invulnerable to water and fire" only refer to ordinary swords and guns and mundane water and fire. As long as there is spiritual energy, even the worst green special-level swords in the hands of the players can easily break the defense of the red iron wood.
Even the NPCs who were hired by Wang Ergou to help went from watching the "immortals" do hard labor in fear to expressing sincere admiration for their efficiency. Even the hands holding all kinds of exquisitely crafted and shining knives and swords changed from being cautious to being accustomed to it.
The wooden boards and stones that originally required a lot of effort to cut can now be easily cut by the "immortals" in just one or two strokes, and then can be used after a little polishing.
Normally, it would take several months to dry the wood in the shade, but the "immortals" could dry a large batch of wood in less than an hour by blowing the wind back and forth or lighting fires to bake repeatedly. Even the furnaces for burning bricks and kilns for baking tiles were "magic weapons" made by the "immortals", which made people sigh that they were really divine.
However, these methods and techniques, including several kilns for burning bricks and tiles, were all researched and designed by members of other groups within the project team. This allowed Wang Ergou and others to use these fruits of modern technology and the wisdom of cultivating immortals from other worlds as soon as possible.
For example, the kiln used for burning bricks is carved on the walls and floor of a rough and somewhat ugly adobe house. A formation for maintaining high temperature is engraved on it. The temperature of the kiln can be maintained by continuously supplying spiritual power to the formation, and a whole room of blue bricks can be easily burned.
The "technical director" who is admired by many players is a new member of the project team's third technical group, and the first Dragon Team technician who met Wang Ergou and others in the game. Of course, ordinary players don't know the true identity of this player, and Wang Ergou deliberately confused the public, claiming that he had "dug" this technical guy out at a great cost by applying for friends one by one based on the accounts that had won the activation code.
This technical expert has a very ordinary ID, named Zhou Qian. He is a breath of fresh air among all the flashy IDs of players who are looking for fun.
Although Zhou Qian had just entered the game today and was only at level 1, he had arranged everything in an orderly manner when presiding over the city construction plan of Chang'an City. He even kept muttering to himself while inspecting the work of the players: "The efficiency of the brick kiln is still too low. We have to wait for several days. Since this is a world of cultivating immortals, will there be any formations or talismans that can speed up time? Or is there any way to speed up the process? Hmm... I have to study these two directions later..."
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