I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

Chapter 110 The Situation of the Dam

A cat and a stone gradually approached the village from the sky.

Even before the village, what caught Murphy's eye was the dam under construction.

Murphy immediately moved closer to the edge of the flying carpet and began to observe it carefully from above.

Just as Murphy had predicted.

The dam design has serious problems.

However, in fact, there is no problem with the dam itself.

Whether it's the construction diversion during the building process, the design of the dam structure, the reinforcement of the dam's soil foundation and the rock foundation on the bank, the widening of the river channel, or the planning of diversion and flood discharge, all aspects can be described as ingenious.

But why does Murphy think this dam problem is so serious?

The person who designed this dam was driven by theory; he only cared about the ingenuity of the design and didn't care about its actual performance.

Once the dam is completed, it will most likely be able to handle floods.

However, whether or not farming can be resumed after the flood is dealt with, and how profitable it would be, is hard to say.

The reason why water needs to be considered as a living organism rather than an inanimate object when designing a dam is because the villages surrounding the river still need to survive after the dam is designed.

The ecological condition of the river, the surrounding soil conditions, and the biological and plant conditions must all be taken into consideration.

However, the design of this dam was very arbitrary and did not take these aspects into consideration at all.

The designer even forgot about the so-called cold wave!

The lake water will freeze during a cold snap.

However, this dam still did not take this into account.

Murphy could even guess.

This person must live in a warmer, more southern city and has never seen a cold snap before, yet he is a very knowledgeable person.

An engineer whose skill level is not bad either.

Murphy pondered for a moment longer about the parts in the engineering drawings Lynn had given him.

The monitoring system naturally did not take into account the possibility of the lake freezing over.

Although a hydraulic system was carefully designed, the dam severely damaged the soil's ecological environment.

Once the flood has passed, even if this hydraulic system is very useful, there will be no environment to allow it to function properly.

More importantly, the dam's navigation system —

Murphy thought about it carefully for a long time and became even more convinced of his idea.

The city where this designer lives is definitely a central human city.

This person didn't even consider the passage needs of small and medium-sized vessels, especially small ones.

It's important to understand that not all places are like the capital city center, where management is relatively uniform.

The middle reaches of the Kulun River can be described as having a dense network of rivers and numerous tributaries. The nearby territories are not entirely unrelated, but they are completely unconnected.

Not to mention that the villages within the territory are each managed independently.

In this situation, only small and medium-sized boats would transport goods needed by different villages via tributaries.

Large ships either find the cost too high or are simply unable to pass through.

This design by the person in question can be quite disgusting for small and medium-sized boats.

"Was this dike built by your village alone, or was it a joint effort by several nearby villages?"

Murphy asked.

"Although the Kulun River is not a particularly large river, it is still of medium size, so it is naturally impossible for our village to be responsible for it."

"This project was jointly undertaken by several nearby villages, with the surrounding territories also sharing the costs."

The village chief offered an explanation, then looked at Murphy and asked again.

"You seem a little dissatisfied with this dam?"

Murphy nodded, and then spoke.

"Although the dam may appear to be fine on the surface, once the river recedes, the land where the farmland was will suffer soil erosion and become barren. And this doesn't even take into account the possibility of the lake freezing over during a cold snap—"

After Murphy had been rambling on and on about the dam to the village chief, the two of them had only just arrived at their destination.

After listening, the village chief nodded thoughtfully, and the cat flicked its tail and meowed a few times.

"I don't understand what you're saying. I'm just a cat."

It's hard to say whether the cat lacks a sense of responsibility or has self-awareness.

Anyway, after hearing all that, it really went in one ear and out the other.

The village chief knew very well that he couldn't just listen to others' empty talk without having relevant theoretical knowledge as a foundation.

They might become arrogant, knowing only one side of the story, and start giving orders in all directions, ultimately making things worse.

It understands the principle that everyone has their own area of ​​expertise.

So after Murphy finished forcing it, it didn't listen carefully to what was inside.

I just roughly understand Murphy's position:

This dike has a problem; overuse will make farming impossible, and freezing will cause it to break down.

As for whether these are true or false?

Either Murphy should speak with the engineers currently in charge of the construction in his village, or the designer of the dam should be called over directly.

The village chief clearly couldn't do the latter.

After thinking for a while, it took out a gem from its fur.

It meowed a few times into the room, signaling Sylvia on the other side to call over the project's engineers to confront Murphy.

Then, while grooming its fur, it explained to Murphy.

"There are two project leaders for this project. One is a dwarf, and the other is a human who is just as short as the dwarf. I'm just a cat, so I don't know that many things. You should talk to them."

Murphy is, of course, a reasonable person.

After thinking about it, he felt that what the village chief said made sense, so he followed the village chief all the way into the village.

It can only be said that although this area is a village, it seems to have fewer people, and in terms of development, it is not much different from those towns.

The roads have long since been replaced by layers of stone bricks, and the surrounding houses are mostly two or three stories high.

You can even see people of different races passing by from time to time.

Of course, it's possible that this area had just experienced a major illness not long ago, so there were hardly any pedestrians on the road.

The center of a village is also somewhat different. Generally speaking, the center of a normal village is either a square, administrative facilities, or a church.

However, right in the center of this village was a huge shed?

Murphy turned to look at the village chief and asked curiously.

"What's this shed for?"

The village chief then pulled a crystal, about the size of an adult's fist, from the hair and tossed it to Murphy.

"This shed is used to cultivate crystals! Our village got rich by trading crystals."

Murphy took the crystal and examined it closely, discovering that it was extremely similar to the stone he used to make rune liquid.

They may belong to the same broad category, but there are some differences in the specific varieties.

However, Murphy knew he had more important business to attend to, so he put the matter aside and planned to check on it when he went shopping.

Before long, Murphy followed the village chief to a reception room.

There were no engineers in the reception room, but Murphy did see several acquaintances.

It was Will and his group who had once sought Murphy to forge a sword.

However, only Will and Fina came.

Will was no different from before.

Fina's priestess robes were extremely gorgeous, making her petite figure appear somewhat elegant and noble.

When Fina saw Murphy arrive, she quickly stood up and greeted him with a smile.

"Mr. Murphy, I didn't expect to see you again so soon, and I didn't expect to be taken care of by you again so soon."

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However, Murphy's gaze only swept over Fina once before instinctively landing on the box in her hand.

Murphy had a feeling that something in that box was attracting him—it looked like a mountain kernel?

But this mountain core seems a bit unusual.

Murphy spent some time searching and calculating before arriving at a conclusion.

Could this thing be the core of the Magic Crystal Mountain Range?

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