Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 237 Li Wei's Special Training

Li Wei spoke calmly, his gaze sincere.

"Young man, don't be too greedy." Liang Yuzhi chuckled silently, as if she could read Li Wei's mind. "I noticed you're missing a helmet. I happen to have a four-star quality helmet with attributes here—"

"Sorry, as I said, I have no interest in cooperating."

Li Wei interrupted Liang Yuzhi, gave her a deep look, turned and left, and also voluntarily exited the four-star conspiracy state.

Liang Yuzhi stood there for a moment, quite surprised, but ultimately said nothing, got into the car and left.

In the distance, Zhao Xuanxuan, who was resting, looked over curiously. She really wanted to know what Li Wei and the other person had talked about. Thomas and Leon must be very curious, but they couldn't ask.

"Xuanxuan, forge me a two-handed sword."

"Oh? Okay, but I'm afraid my skills aren't good enough. How about I have Li Yue make one for you? She's a genius in this area." Zhao Xuanxuan was pleasantly surprised, but also worried. She knew her own skill level.

"Listen carefully, I want you to build it for me!"

Li Wei looked at her calmly and repeated it again.

"what?"

Zhao Xuanxuan was shocked and puzzled. Looking at Li Wei, she felt that this man, who was clearly very familiar, was suddenly hard to understand. What was he up to?
What kind of medicine is available?

It's actually quite simple. If Li Wei's conjecture is true, then it will also prove one thing: if there is no Expansion Card nearby, then no matter whether you kill a four-star ability user or a five-star mutated creature, you will never get a Universal Gold Card!

Yes, this explains why Li Wei always gets universal gold cards whenever he goes out hunting or scavenging, no matter what he encounters—whether it's a rat king, a mutated crocodile, or even a cat-like ability user.

100% drop rate!
But what have Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi accomplished in the past fourteen days?

Even if the distance is too far and information cannot be received, the changes in the difficulty of the tasks on the Explorer Card will absolutely not be delayed.

Besides, Li Yue has fully recovered. According to Liang Yuzhi, she can easily kill a five-star ability user. Why should she still work honestly? The outside world is too wonderful, with so many ruins and mutated creatures that are not hard to find.

Why don't they go?
In the small town north of the scavenging camp, Li Wei was able to find at least a four-star mutated creature, while Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi couldn't find one last month.
Why don't they go hunting?

If you eliminate all possible causes, the remaining cause must be the truth.

Therefore, it can be seen that Liang Yuzhi is truly evil.

They're really getting desperate.

As for Li Yue, it's impossible to understand what she's thinking, but she has undoubtedly gotten what she wanted.

She might actually be Li Wei's real rival.

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Several days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Today is the twenty-second day of the month. The weather is sunny and cloudless, with a high temperature that is close to or reaches 30 degrees Celsius.

In addition, it hasn't rained for twenty days, and it's unlikely to rain in the next few days either.

The whole of June looks bleak.

Li Wei got up at three in the morning to fetch water from the well to irrigate the farmland and vegetable fields. He worked non-stop until nine in the morning before finishing the irrigation. At this time of year, crops cannot do without water, otherwise it will lead to reduced yield and even a decline in quality.

Even in a world with magical radiation, logic still applies.

"Sir, this is the meal we prepared for you." An older female cook came over carrying a food box. They were worried about Li Wei not going home for breakfast; they were truly kind people.

After thanking her, Li Wei finished his meal and then went to the blacksmith shop near the parking lot. He found a chair and sat there watching Zhao Xuanxuan work.

This is basically his daily routine.

Aside from that, they would never leave the town, not even if it meant dying.

Anyway, his contribution of over 7,000 points is a big enough advantage. The newly joined free citizens, plus the electric bus which is almost like a bug, are enough to maintain the family's rapid development.

It's worth mentioning that the maximum contribution limit that a family can now obtain has reached 14000 points, and it's slowly increasing every day, which is inevitable.

As long as fixed assets increase, the contribution cap will increase.

As for the newly joined free citizens, well, it's like a new game launches and all the new players rush in with fervor.

At first, they treated Li Wei and his group as NPCs, which Li Wei found interesting.

As a result, half a month later, the rumor not only did not end, but was spread with great seriousness.

In particular, these free citizens can list a whole bunch of evidence and a whole bunch of wildly imaginative conspiracy theories.

Some people believe they have become some kind of reincarnators or apostles or something, it's all a jumbled mess.

After several secret discussions, most of the free people finally came to the conclusion that they might really be NPCs, especially Li Wei, who was like the old village chief, able to issue tasks and receive rewards at the end of the month.

Although Li Wei can indeed issue missions...

But this misunderstanding would be huge.

In recent days, Li Wei has overheard several free citizens discussing how to increase his favorability. Some attractive female free citizens have even offered themselves to him. Sleeping with an NPC is quite an impressive resume, isn't it?

Alas, I feel tired.

Fortunately, there were many other jobs available to divert their enthusiasm. For example, repairing buildings, rebuilding, and expanding basements. Speaking of which, the old free man was an engineer, and he planned to build a new underground base beneath the five-story building and install the airtight doors that had been dismantled.

In short, Li Wei's answer to him was that as long as he didn't collapse the building, he could do whatever he wanted with the rest.

Interestingly, this old guy who claimed to be a famous engineer even produced a city wall design for Li Wei, which could be used to deal with the rock giant's impact. Zhao Xuanxuan has been studying the design for the past two days.

Just then, after Li Wei finished breakfast, Zhao Xuanxuan walked over, her forehead and back soaked with sweat. She was really working hard.

He plopped down opposite Li Wei, picked up a bottle of cold boiled water, and gulped it down in one go, showing great generosity.

He then wiped his mouth and took out the city wall design drawings to examine them carefully.

"What do you think? Can you understand it?"

Li Wei asked, his head spinning from looking at all those formulas; that's how it is for most underachievers.

But Zhao Xuanxuan was able to watch it intently and gained quite a bit of insight.

"I can understand it and I can do the construction, but I definitely couldn't design it. This level is amazing. He even calculated that the full impact force of a four-star rock giant is about 500 tons, which can flatten a pickup truck with one punch. And the city wall he designed can definitely withstand the full impact of the rock giant."

"However, the key issue is not that. The problem is that we need to build this kind of composite gravity wall that is resistant to impact, overturning, and absorbs and dissipates energy. This will require a lot of building materials. Five hundred tons of special cement alone will not be enough. We have now found a limestone mine. If we fire it, we can only fire another three hundred tons at most in the next two months. Li Wei, have you considered these things?"

Zhao Xuanxuan asked very seriously.

Li Wei shook his head slightly. What was he even considering? This wasn't something he needed to think about. As for building the city wall, there was Thomas, there was Lyon, and even Li Yue wasn't bad. In the end, there was also Zhao the gambling dog.

At the very least, I have a famous engineer among my free citizens...

All he needs to do in this area is to let go and leave it alone.

"How's the forging of my two-handed sword coming along?" Li Wei changed the subject.

Zhao Xuanxuan looked like she wanted to say something but couldn't. She was reluctant to waste a one-star conspiracy card, so for the sake of her character, she had nowhere to complain.

"Not for now."

That's all she could say. Sigh, they asked her to forge a two-handed greatsword, but didn't they see that even that bitch Leon looked down on the ones she forged?
You, Li Wei, are an agile scout hunter. It's one thing to be good at your bow and javelin, but why are you trying to forge a two-handed greatsword? Besides, you've been so busy lately, with dozens of people on the list of ironware requests from the free people. Where would you find the time to forge a two-handed greatsword for me?

After that, Li Wei didn't say anything more and closed his eyes to rest. About half an hour later, when Zhao Xuanxuan had eaten and drunk her fill and regained her strength, she got up to get back to work. Only then did he stand up and say, "I'll help you out."

Huh?
Zhao Xuanxuan looked at Li Weiyi suspiciously, not understanding why, but too lazy to ask. She did need a helper. Since you, Master Li, would rather waste your precious time to come and be a handyman, I won't tolerate it.

Next, Li Wei and Zhao Xuanxuan got busy in the blacksmith shop. There was a lot of work to be done there, and it was all very detailed.

Scrap iron is remelted, molded, cast, and forged.

The items they made included iron spears, iron shields, iron fences, fine steel arrowheads, crossbows, and even fireplaces, ovens, and iron pots.

But the most numerous were iron spikes that could be used as traps. They could be placed on flat ground or assembled and fixed to city walls or the outside of buildings like armor.

This can stop some mutated creatures that are very good at climbing.

These combinable trap spikes were something Zhao Xuanxuan had seen other experienced players use in their camps on the chaotic killing battlefield, and they worked very well.

Now she has stolen his skills.

Li Wei naturally agreed wholeheartedly. In fact, he didn't interfere with what Zhao Xuanxuan wanted to forge; it didn't matter, including the two-handed sword he mentioned.

He was simply trying to help Zhao Xuanxuan based on his own perception.

Although he wasn't a blacksmith, he could easily point out the slight problems with her posture when she swung the hammer, the wrong habits in how she exerted force, the minor errors in her control of the fire and furnace temperature, and even the details such as her breathing, the changes in her steps, and the stability and balance of her waist.

This isn't aimed at blacksmiths; it's more like special training for a soldier.

At first, Zhao Xuanxuan was a little unconvinced. Who's the blacksmith, you or me? It wasn't until Li Wei could always pinpoint her problems that she finally gave in.

Just like that, seven or eight days passed in the blink of an eye, and it was the end of the month.

Li Wei didn't leave the blacksmith shop again, even when he was on night watch, he would send Ah Dai out to patrol the farmland. It seemed like he was determined to outlast Zhao Xuanxuan.

Until dusk on the last day of the month, all three electric buses returned, bringing back Li Yue, Liang Yuzhi, Thomas, Lyon, Zhang Jinjun, and all the free people. Only then did Li Weicai slowly walk out of the blacksmith shop in the magnificent sunset, leaving without looking back.

Inside the blacksmith's shop, Zhao Xuanxuan's eyes were slightly moist. At first, she really thought Li Wei was just messing around, but this month, she worked as a blacksmith for 26 days. In the first eighteen days, her blacksmith fate only increased by 1 point. However, in the last eight days, with Li Wei's help, her blacksmith fate actually increased by 3 points, and the total number has now reached 25!

She was no longer a novice who knew nothing; how could she not know the importance of destiny?

It can be said that these eight days were more valuable than her efforts over the past two years.

Previously, she had always been vague and unclear about her future path, and even in battle, she was sometimes brilliant and sometimes chaotic.

But now, Zhao Xuanxuan finally realized that she had found her own path. It had nothing to do with forging, blacksmithing experience, or what grade of equipment she could make. It was about how to swing the hammer when she held it, how to accumulate force layer by layer, and how to finally unleash it. This was very important.

"Thank you for thinking so highly of me!"

Zhao Xuanxuan thought silently. Although she also knew that Li Wei's special training of her was ultimately aimed at making her, Thomas, Leon, and Li Wei himself, so that the four of them could form a force that could rival Li Yue and Liang Yuzhi.

so what?

If something can be used, it has value; otherwise, it's like mud that can't be plastered on a wall—it has no ability but still keeps whining.

joke!

(End of this chapter)