Chapter 20: Cave

This rock is very large, about four meters high and ten-thirty meters long. Due to weathering, many rock fragments have fallen off the rock and onto the ground.

There were similar rocks in the oasis and nearby deserts. Mai Dongzi knew at a glance that they were volcanic rocks, and the volcanic rock in front of her was undoubtedly the largest one.

Mai Dongzi walked around the rock and then stabbed the volcanic rock with a dagger. She found that the dagger penetrated easily. Only then did she realize how sharp the daggers in the interstellar age were.

Mai Dongzi originally planned to continue burning sticky bricks, but when she saw this volcanic rock today, an idea suddenly came to her mind, and she decided to give it a try.

After trying and feeling that it was possible, she began to try to dig a hole with a dagger more than one meter above the ground.

Mai Dongzi's strength was exhausted now, and with the help of a sharp dagger, he quickly dug out a shallow rock cave with a diameter of about one meter.

She estimated it in her mind and continued digging.

…

"Hey, what is Miss Lucy going to do now?"

"Isn't it obvious? Dig a hole."

"Ah, I thought, Miss Lucy was stabbing this rock with a dagger yesterday. It turned out that she was going to dig this rock. But why did she dig this rock?"

"No, I mean, do you guys understand the main point? No one can't see what Miss Lucy is doing. The question is, why is she digging this rock?"

Not only the person who asked this question was confused, but everyone in Lucy Xi's live broadcast room also had the same question: why did Sister Lucy dig this rock hole? They really couldn't guess.

The audience, who are used to not getting answers, are not disappointed. They firmly believe that they will get the answers if they continue watching.

…

Because the dagger was very powerful, Mai Dongzi was not able to dig rocks as easily as cutting melons and vegetables, but it was not difficult either. Moreover, she found that after digging for a while, the dagger was still not damaged, which showed that its quality was very guaranteed.

With a sharp blade in hand, Mai Dongzi moved quickly, but the rock cave was not so easy to dig. She dug out a passage two meters deep and one meter high and had to rest.

Mai Dongzi wiped the sweat off her face and drank a lot of boiled water. Digging this thing was more tiring than practicing martial arts, especially because it was one meter high and she had to bend over, which was very tiring.

Because time felt a little tight, Mai Dongzi rested for a while, stretched his waist, and continued to dig the rock hole.

When she stopped at night and went back to the cabin to rest, the curious audience could not wait to drive the miniature live ball into the rock hole.

Entering from the dug-out rock hole, through a passage that is just wide enough for a person to enter by bending over, the cave walls inside suddenly become wider and higher, about two meters in both directions.

Although it was in childish form, the audience was not stupid and could roughly tell what Lucy Xi was trying to do.

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"Why did Miss Lucy dig a rock cave? Doesn't she have a tree house? It seems that the rock cave is far less comfortable than the tree house hole. Why bother doing this?" Some confused viewers asked curiously.

"These past few days, this fake daughter has been doing some useless things. I don't know if she is trying to attract attention..."

"You are useless. If you don't know, don't tell me. Sister Lucy didn't even interact with the live broadcast room. It's obvious that she doesn't care about these things. Think about the online violence she has suffered in the past two months. She can't even hate it, so why does she want to attract attention? Don't think we are stupid. If you want to fool us, find some good excuses." Some viewers directly jumped up.

"Yes, digging a rock hole is hard work. If she wants to attract attention, she doesn't need to do that. Wouldn't it be better to sing and dance?"

"This Lucy Xi can't dance or sing. She studies painting."

…

After returning from training in the past few days, I watched Lucy's replays of the Grand Prince's Guard whenever I had time. I was very appreciative of the audience's comments on her digging a rock hole.

Zhang Shenshang from the guard team said: "It seems that Miss Lucy did a good job in her studies. She knew that the sandstorm was coming and her tree house could not withstand the destruction of the sandstorm, so she built another sturdy residence."

"The data we published specifically pointed out that in deserts and desert areas, there will be a severe sandstorm every month. Anyone who has read the relevant data should have noticed this," said Adjutant Chen.

"The most important thing is that Miss Lucy thought of digging a rock hole. It shows that her brain is better than we expected." Zhang Shenshang said.

When Adjutant Chen saw Zhang Shenshang say this to Miss Lucy, the corners of Prince Arthur's mouth curled up slightly, and his expression became somewhat happy. He couldn't help but sigh that Zhang Shenshang was really good at talking.

"The more I pay attention to her, the more I feel that Miss Lucy is not a simple person," Adjutant Chen sighed sincerely.

"There are two other adventurers in the desert map. They are also prepared for the coming sandstorm. But one of them is not well prepared and may not survive." said another bodyguard named George Ben.

"There is no terrain around him that can serve as a shelter, but he can leave the desert and enter the forest. He is more than a hundred kilometers away from the forest," said Zhang Shenshang.

"Judging from the current situation, the desert is much safer than the forest," said Adjutant Chen.

"These one hundred adventurers are all very powerful. Up to today, no one has been eliminated." Fu Yijia, who has the highest cultivation level among the three bodyguards, also spoke.

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The next morning, Mai Dongzi went running as usual. After breakfast, he continued digging the rock cave until noon.

Next, Mai Dongzi stopped digging the rock cave and went to the kiln cave.

Mai Dongzi tested the temperature inside the kiln and found that after a day and two nights of cooling, the ceramics inside the kiln should have been completely cooled and formed.

The audience in the live broadcast room watched Mai Dongzi take out those gray clay utensils from the kiln, and they couldn't guess what she was going to use them for.

After the explanation from experts from the Institute of Paleochemistry, they already knew that the utensils made in this way were called ceramics, and they could be used to hold water.

When Mai Dongzi was burning the kiln, she swept all the wood ashes into one place, and then burned all the shrubs she had pulled back from the oasis lake into ashes.

She filled a funnel-shaped ceramic container with a lot of charcoal, which she had processed before and had been hammered into tiny particles, which she then compacted neatly.

Then she carried a ceramic jar with a lid and handles on both sides to the lake, placed the funnel on the mouth of the ceramic jar, used a larger ceramic jar to draw water, and poured the water into the funnel.