I build a shelter in the eternal night.

Chapter 38 If you do not take what Heaven has given you, you will suffer the consequences.

There are less than two hours left before the eternal night falls.

Inside the wooden cabin at the campsite.

Zhou Mo was standing inside the room and reported, "Station Chief, today's harvest was pretty good. We ran to two destroyed stations in one go and brought back 218 strange stones. There were quite a few strange stones in these two stations."

"It must be because the stationmaster was frugal and didn't want to spend money on his daily life, but he ended up benefiting us after his death."

"We also brought back a lot of food and other usable resources."

"but."

“There are only a few stations that are close to us left, and the remaining stations are quite far away. It may not be possible to make a round trip within a day.”

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Chen Fan sat in the chair, looking at the strange map hanging on the wall, his eyes slightly narrowed.

This is a problem.

One's stamina is ultimately limited.

The rainy season arrived early. Except for the stations around the wasteland that were able to evacuate in time, none of the remaining stations were able to evacuate and were all destroyed in the wilderness. These destroyed stations often left behind a lot of abandoned strange rocks and the resources they desperately needed.

These are all gifts from heaven that have no owner.

The ancients said.

What God does not take, is to be blamed.

There are nearly 30 abandoned sites. Even if each site only contains 100 Strange Stones, the total would be 3000 Strange Stones, a rather astonishing fortune, enough for him to upgrade the city wall to level 2.

He was genuinely tempted.

but--

Insufficient stamina is also a difficult problem to solve.

With limited physical strength and the rainy season making travel even more difficult, unless there is a means of transportation available.

The most common means of transportation in the world are horses and camels.

The Chamber of Commerce's main mode of transportation.

Or perhaps it was the man in the green robe he encountered, a high-level cultivator who had mastered the corresponding techniques, who could move dozens of meters in a single step, quite elegantly.

He possesses neither of these qualities.

"There's no rush."

After pondering for a moment, Chen Fan said softly, "First, clear out all the resources from the nearby abandoned sites. As for the more distant sites, I'll think of a way. Is there anything unusual about the wasteland? Is there any difference between the wasteland and the non-rainy season?"

"There is one thing indeed."

Zhou Mo asked with some doubt, "On the way back to camp, I saw an egg, about the size of an ostrich egg, with a soft-looking shell, lying there all alone in the wasteland."

“I was thinking, there’s no life on the wasteland, what kind of animal could lay its eggs here?”

"I just stepped forward to check."

"The egg suddenly broke, and a bunch of foul-smelling egg liquid spilled out."

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After a long silence with a blank expression, Chen Fan said softly, "Let's go outside and get some more rain."

"That egg might be the egg of a monster. I can't smell your scent, but I'm not sure if monsters can. Try to get rained on as much as possible to wash away the smell so as not to bring disaster to the camp."

The words fell.

Zhou Mo's expression changed slightly as he instantly realized the seriousness of the problem. Without daring to delay any longer, he quickly left the wooden house.

After Zhou Mo.

Chen Fan then began to take stock of the existing resources in the camp.

There is no shortage of resources such as food and water for the time being.

There are 367 usable stones, not counting the stones placed in the Ghost Fire.

There are also 50 Ghost Stones in the Ghost Fire, used for daily maintenance and replenishing the arrow towers.

The current safe zone of the entire camp is 20 meters in diameter.

The diameter of the inner city wall is 10 meters. The core area is relatively small, but this also means that the cost of building the city wall is less. Therefore, he placed many core buildings inside the city wall, while some non-core buildings were placed outside the camp.

His next plan was to expand the overall area of ​​the camp.

Upgrade the existing city wall to level 2.

Rebuild another ring of walls around the camp, thus creating two barriers. The first barrier protects ordinary buildings, while if it falls, retreat to the core area.

just
His current resources are insufficient to support this plan.

The method of obtaining monster stones by killing monsters is somewhat unreliable; we need to collect all the monster stones from the destroyed sites in the wilderness first.

Transportation.
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An idea gradually emerged in Chen Fan's mind, but he felt that the success rate was a bit too low. His 2.0 heating system was actually extremely simple in principle, but people in this world had never thought in this direction, which was why they found it amazing.

Essentially, it's just using the "spiky wood" as a piston triggered by pressure.

After pondering for a few breaths.

He took out two Strange Stones and created another bear trap. He then used 10 Strange Stones to upgrade it to level 2. This time, he chose the option to "increase the speed of spike recovery".

They also forged a copper pipe that was one meter thick.

Place the copper pipe over the ground spikes.

He then crafted a thinner copper pipe, which stood on the table and repeatedly stabbed at the "ground spikes" at the bottom of the thick copper pipe.

Each time the spike is pierced, the spikes will be activated once.

The copper tubes that pierce the ground spikes will be bounced up.

It bursts forth with momentum.

Yes.

He wants to build a car.

The core principle is similar to that of an internal combustion engine, but the difference is that instead of the "oil-gas mixture explosion" that drives the piston in an internal combustion engine, a "spiky" mechanism is used to activate and drive the piston.

An extremely rudimentary "spiky" engine was thus formed.

By simply adding a vehicle chassis and a "main drive shaft" and other gear and wheel devices, the linear reciprocating motion of the piston can be converted into rotational motion.

This can create an extremely rudimentary means of transportation. It's hard to say how fast it will be, as it's limited by the triggering force and reset speed of the ground spikes.

gear?

This is a fantasy world, where the hell are you going to find gears? Besides, making gears requires relatively strong and wear-resistant materials, and there are no such materials in his camp at the moment. Copper pipes are not very sturdy and belong to building modules.

etc--

His expression gradually became strange.

Is there still a pile of Mantis Ghost's "Mantis Arms" in the warehouse?
He'd tried that thing; it was pretty sturdy.

Try?

Try it!

Chen Fan immediately jumped off the table, picked up the thick copper pipe and the spikes from the ground, and headed outside. If the experiment succeeded, the resources in the destroyed sites around the wasteland would all be his.

At least several thousand strange stones were acquired!
There is still a little over an hour before eternal night.

There is plenty of time.

After receiving the order, everyone in the entire camp got to work.

Chen Fan first spent two more strange stones to build a brand new wooden house. Wang Mazi and his men began to dismantle the house, removing as many neat wooden planks as possible and assembling them.

Qi Chong, along with his men, dug for a long time in the farmland before finally unearthing the monkey-headed monster buried deep inside and skinning it.

Zhou Mo also squatted by the edge of the farmland, looking at the blueprints given to him by the station chief with a headache, while holding a large knife and starting to split and disassemble the bones in front of him.

This is the corpse of the bamboo pole ghost.

It is slender all over.

Bones are also slender and strong, making them perfect as drive shafts.

The lame monkey had attended a private school for a few years, so he was relatively quick-witted. He held the blueprints and looked at them one by one, making constant corrections.

(End of this chapter)