Chapter 86

"This can be explained. There must be one person with a red hand and one with a black hand on this ship, right? Doesn't everything have to be balanced? If two European emperors put together, the system will be pissed off. If two non-Europeans put together, how can they live? Our combination is perfect. More coal is better. Now it's winter. This stuff can be exchanged for a lot of supplies. So you are not black. Digging coal in winter is the symbol of red. It's useless for me to dig those messy ores." Li Mu hurriedly explained. It would be better not to explain this matter. Tomorrow's three meals might become a problem. He couldn't live by tightening his belt.

This explanation really caught Qiao Sheng off guard. It was reasonable, but it also had a certain sickness to it.

Let's focus on the ores. There are really many types. Li Mu first classified them according to the types of ores: coal, metal, non-metal, building material, and chemical. Coal was placed in a storage box alone, and there were two pieces of oil shale that looked out of place.

"What is oil shale?" Qiao Sheng picked it up and clicked on it to check. It said mineral resources, and you can explore the usage yourself.

"Shale oil is obtained by heating it at high temperatures, and it is called artificial petroleum." Li Mu continued to put metal and non-metal ores in the same storage box, and put building materials and chemical ores together.

"Then this should be considered modern technology. Our primitive wooden boat can't possibly use oil." Xiangsheng racked his brains and thought about it. The boat was indeed powered by pure manual labor or firewood. Oil seemed too advanced.

In the end, the two concluded that existence is reasonable. Maybe with the development of the game, they will enter different eras. The next step is to work hard for semi-automation. Now it is completely manpower, which is really tiring.

The next morning, Qiao Sheng went into the kitchen after washing up. Li Mu had already rolled the hand-rolled noodles. No one knew where he was busy now. After the noodles were cooked, he shouted and came up in a few minutes.

After asking, I found out that they had used high-tech equipment and prepared a lot of explosives. They were going to find a place to try blasting the mine today. If they only dug manually, they would be exhausted to death in the mine, and they might not be able to leave the island for the whole winter.

After dinner, Li Mu continued to go to the storage room to tinker with the explosives. Qiao Sheng prepared lunch. The two of them were almost done here, and Qi Ye also shouted outside the boat.

After packing their things, the three of them went to the mine. Sure enough, this place was much closer. It took less than ten minutes to reach the mining area. Qi Ye was ready to dive into the mine with a new backpack on his back. The bag was made for him by Li Mu on the road just now. It was still fresh, and he was crazy about working to fill it.

Li Mu grabbed him who was about to rush into the mine, and then found a place a little far from their mine and started to bury the explosives. This operation made Qi Ye dumbfounded. He went to Qiao Sheng and secretly asked where he found such a powerful teammate and how he could do everything.

"Do you believe me when I say I picked it up from the sea?" Qiao Sheng asked back.

"Which sea area? I'll pick it up when I drift there. This is really useful." Qi Ye was really envious. If he knew such a person, why would he still be living such a miserable life now.

Qiao Sheng decided to stay away from the idiot. He was a player, not an NPC. He also went to pick up things. Before leaving, he reminded this person who had never seen other players that he should be careful when he met others while drifting on the sea. Not everyone has good intentions.

Li Mu quickly buried the explosive points. The three of them hid far away before igniting them. Qiao Sheng hid behind the stone and covered his ears. He buried five explosive points in total, counted five times, and waited for a while. He was sure that there was no problem before he dared to come out from behind the stone.

It must be said that this blasting method is very fast. The ground is full of ore. Qiao Sheng's backpack and wrist bag are full in a short while. Li Mu's waist bag is also full of ore. Qiao Sheng dragged the two full bags and prepared to go back to the boat to empty them. Qi Ye also handed over his full small bag.

It's good to have more bags. Qiao Sheng asked him to click to agree to her to open the backpack, and then took all the bags back. There was no need to sort them back on the boat. They just poured them into the storage box. Li Mu would come back to clean them up in the evening.

He checked the snow downstairs and only cleared the three layers of snow. Then he hurried back to the mine with the empty bags.

Li Mu and Qi Ye blasted a lot of ore again, and they piled them there. They moved to another location and continued to bury the blasting points. This time Qi Ye did not wait far away, but worked with Li Mu. Qiao Sheng came back and said hello, then went to the place where the ore was piled and collected the ore with bags.

When they were full, they sent them back. In this morning, they sent them back five times. When they came out for the last time, they saw that the time was almost up, so they asked the two of them to leave here and find a place sheltered from the wind to make lunch. In this mine, the dust from the explosion was all up, and it was really uneatable to eat here.

When they came back for the second time, Qiao Sheng prepared cotton cloth for everyone, at least to cover their mouths and noses and inhale less powder.

For lunch, Qi Ye took them back to his cave. The mine was closer, and it only took more than five minutes to walk there. As soon as they entered, they felt that the cave was nice. Qiao Sheng took out the pot and heated up the stew by his campfire, and put the pancakes on top to blow off the steam. He

asked them to wash their hands and faces before eating, took the iron pot of stew off, put the clay pot of bone and corn soup on the fire, put wontons in, and each person had a bowl in a while.

Qiao Sheng didn't expect that the water for washing faces here was sea water. He didn't have a water filter here, and water resources were scarce. It was okay in autumn, because there was a rainy season and there was a lake on the island. Since winter came, he relied entirely on collecting ice from the lake and heating it up to drink.

It's a good snow season now. We can just dig some dry snow at the door, and we don't have to go to the lake to break ice.

But the habit of saving water resources is completely imprinted in his mind. We should save as much as possible and never waste it.

After lunch, the three of them rested for a while before putting on cotton masks and continuing to go into the mine. The two men were still responsible for blasting, and Qiao Sheng was responsible for transportation. With

more trips, the courier Qiao Sheng changed her routine several times. At first, she made a waist bag and delivered four bags at a time, but she felt that the speed was too slow. The key point was that she had to run back and forth constantly. There was a pile of ore piled up in the mine, so Li Mu and others had to change places for blasting frequently.

While clearing the snow, Qiao Sheng thought of whether he could take the storage boxes out, take ten storage boxes, and send five back, so that Li Mu and his team could pack the ore they had exploded at any time. He

quickly entered the storage room and began to experiment. Ten empty storage boxes can only take up one space in the backpack, but the storage box full of things must take up one space by itself.

This is also possible, and the other spaces can continue to be used to store ore. Now the situation is that they are exploding fast and in large quantities. After thinking about it, ten may not be enough. Although the storage cabinet has a larger capacity, she still doesn't want to reveal all her cards when there are outsiders.

I made another ten medium-sized storage boxes, a total of twenty empty storage boxes, and boiled a pot of hot water, and put all of them in the bag to take away.

When I arrived at the place, I poured hot water for the two of them. In this weather, the hot water turned into warm water in ten minutes, and then I took out all the storage boxes, explained to Li Mu, asked him to put them in his wrist bag, let him carry the waist bag, and returned Qi Ye's backpack.

Ten storage boxes per trip, plus the space left in her bag, she sent back the full ones and left the empty ones for Li Mu and the others to continue filling, so the work efficiency would be much higher. Before the sun set in the afternoon, Qiao Sheng ran back and forth more than ten times, and she didn't need to pack much, so she just picked up the things and walked back.

When she got home, she emptied the things in her bag and checked the snow situation. If it was not serious, she would turn around and leave. If it was serious, she would clean it up to avoid sinking the boat.

It was getting dark when she returned to the boat. After handing over the food for Qi Ye, Qiao Sheng was too tired to go to the kitchen. The two of them washed vegetables and cut meat together and had a simple hot pot.

"There are no step statistics, otherwise I would definitely be the number one in my circle of friends. My legs are so tired from walking so much." After eating, Qiao Sheng leaned against the wall covered with animal fur, not wanting to move at all.

Li Mu was fine here, just blasting the installation box, and was not as tired as yesterday. After washing the pots and pans, he went to make hot water. Qiao Sheng needed a good bath, so he moved a brazier next to her bathtub.

He also had to take a good bath himself. He had been rolling around with ore for the past two days, and there was so much coal that his face was rubbed black by the coal just now.

He made hot water and let Qiao Sheng take a good bath to relieve her fatigue. Before going to bed, he massaged her legs, otherwise it would hurt more tomorrow.

In fact, it was just pinching the calf. Qiao Sheng could do this herself, but it was painful, so she was a little reluctant to do it. In order not to affect tomorrow's work, she endured the pain and let Li Mu pinch it.

After the pinching, she felt like crying. It was painful to begin with, and now there were blue and purple marks all over the calf, especially the mark of his thumb, which was too obvious.

"Master Li, you are too cruel. This is human flesh. You really don't care about the life or death of the person involved by pinching it like this." Qiao Sheng touched her legs that looked like she had been beaten, and she felt sorry for herself.

"The process is not important. Feel if it doesn't hurt that much. It really works. You must loosen up your muscles, otherwise you won't be able to stand up tomorrow. By the way, I estimated when I was blasting the mine today that in two days, we can almost finish harvesting the mine. The demand for gunpowder is relatively large, but the mineral resources are basically self-sufficient." Li Mu was a little embarrassed when he looked at his bruised leg.

The main reason was that he really didn't think he was using too much force, how could it be so serious?

Qiao Sheng also felt that her calf was not so painful anymore, so she took off her pajamas and crawled into the quilt. She groaned and had to endure for two more days. Suddenly, she remembered that their job was very tough. They used ore to make explosives, blew up the mine to produce ore, collected ore to continue making explosives, and the cycle made them understand.

Li Mu made breakfast, corn series, roasted corn, cornmeal porridge, and Qiao Sheng put two halved pig faces and pig ears in her wrist bag for lunch. The staple food was roasted sweet potatoes. She roasted twenty on the grill before going out in the morning. It was enough to eat anyway. There was no soup because the cook was too tired. She just drank barley tea.

Qi Ye was still black and dirty when he came to the shore to gather in the morning. He was so envious of the two clean people getting on and off the boat that he had to get on the boat too! Only by floating can you eat and drink freely!