National destiny: Starting with a coffin, building an aircraft carrier is broadcast live globally.

"The terrain here is open and water is readily available, but the disadvantages are equally obvious."

Open terrain is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

Their numbers are too small; ideally, they should find a natural barrier that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, such as a valley or cliff, and modify it.

"There are threats from all four directions, and wood isn't sturdy enough..."

Ivan, his sausage lips barely swollen, pouted, "It's not that complicated!"

Both Renyi and Klaus looked at him.

"Build it like our military camp!" Ivan puffed out his chest.

......

Blue Star, the Bear Country.

Ivan's live stream was playing on the screen.

Maxi was holding a steaming cup of black tea, watching Ivan, Renyi from the Dragon Kingdom, and Klaus from Hanscat discuss the construction of the base.

Although our number 11 player isn't the brightest, he's not stupid at all.

In this short time,

Ivan's words, "Build it like our barracks," clearly reached Maxi's ears.

"Pfft—cough cough cough!"

Maxi spat out the mouthful of black tea he had just drunk.

"General!" The adjutant beside him was startled.

"Stop!" Maxi raised his hand to stop his adjutant from blocking the screen, ignoring the mess on the ground, his face looking like he had swallowed a live cockroach.

What was he trying to say?!

......

The Age of the Ocean.

Klaus became interested. "A military barracks? What kind of barracks?"

Ivan began to gesture triumphantly.

"The walls need to be high! Thick! Three layers of moats need to be dug around the outside, and the gate needs to be secured with stone bolts!"

Blue Star, the Bear Country.

Maxi forced a smile, awkwardly wiping the water stains with a tissue while listening intently to Ivan's endless chatter.

"The barracks should be divided into several rows: dormitories, a mess hall, and a training ground! The toilets should be built downwind."

Ivan got more and more excited as he talked, and even picked up an axe, trying to draw a picture on the ground.

"Oh, and we also need an armory, and a moisture-proof one!"

Maxi felt his blood pressure soaring.

This idiot, this is being broadcast live worldwide!

...He wouldn't draw the layout for the whole world, would he?!

Ivan was completely unaware that his commander was on the verge of a breakdown. He scratched his head, finally realized the most crucial point, and slapped his thigh.

"Ah, none of that matters. All of that can wait!"

He held up one finger, his expression serious.

"We need to build a lookout tower first!"

Phew... thank goodness...

Max picked up his teacup, pretending to be calm, and took another sip. It was empty.

"Hmm? Refill my black tea!"

......

Ivan's words were eloquent, but with just a few people, they couldn't really build a military camp.

Therefore, the most valuable information comes from the last sentence.

Observation tower.

"You have a point, but to build a tower that is tall and stable enough..."

Klaus poured cold water on Ivan's boasting, immediately shutting him up before he could finish.

"Is it that difficult?"

The burly man from the Russian bear scratched his head.

"In the wild, we cut down trees and build scaffolds or treehouses."

"This is the 'Ocean Era,' not your memoir of a legendary soldier."

Klaus rejected one request: "Even a wooden structure couldn't withstand one kick from you, let alone a monster."

His gaze fell on a giant tree nearby, as thick as three people could hug.

He walked over and circled the tree once.

The trunk is not hollow; it has a diameter of four or five meters and a height of over forty meters.

Last time, when we dismantled the Albatross, besides wood, the most common items were iron blocks.

His [Deep Sea Shadow] is useless...

But now, it seems there's a place for it to be put to use.

"Klaus, how about trying to fuse iron into the tree using your sequence?"

"We don't need to turn it into an iron tree, just add an exoskeleton to its lower half, or turn the upper branches into ironwood?"

"Exoskeleton?"

Klaus looked up at the towering tree before him, a glint of fanaticism in his eyes.

Nature's creations are perfect in themselves; if you were to build a metal mesh on its surface following its natural texture...

He stroked the rough bark and muttered to himself, "This will save materials to the greatest extent possible."

"Go ahead and build them."

He acts like a nouveau riche.

"Enough is enough."

With a wave of his hand, a hundred units of iron were piled on the ground, causing the ground to tremble. The cave dwellers, including Dalabengba, came running out screaming.

This was the first time Renyi had ever taken out the disassembled iron blocks.

Each unit is approximately half a cubic meter in size.

They were irregular in shape, but each piece had a dark gray sheen and looked like pig iron.

Try picking up any piece.

Although there was no exaggerated roar or bulging veins, the iron lump, which was about half a cubic meter in size, actually lifted off the ground!

He weighed it in his hand. "It's solid."

Then he let go.

"Thump—!!!"

The iron lump slammed into the soft soil.

[Wait, this looks like it's half a cubic meter in size, right? If it's solid iron...]

[Judging by its irregular shape, its volume is conservatively estimated to be at least two tons!]

[Two tons?? You just picked it up like that? And even weighed it in your hand??]

[Upstairs, did you forget we've all been upgraded?]

[Anyway, I only deadlifted about a ton at the gym today...]

"Throw a few pieces over here!"

Klaus placed one hand on the tree, and a model of the tree was being built on the panel. He couldn't wait any longer.

Ivan stretched his neck, bent down, picked up a piece, and tossed it over.

The movement was as effortless as tossing a bag of rice.

"Thump!"

The ground trembled slightly, Klaus's shoes hit the ground, a vein throbbed on his forehead, and he closed his eyes.

The two pieces of pig iron were like soft mud squeezed by an invisible force. Instead of turning red or emitting high heat, they decomposed directly from solid into countless thin, black metallic streams, like a group of living snakes, which quickly swam along the ground to the roots of the tree.

They climb upwards along the grain of the tree trunk, seeping into the crevices and weaving into a complex and intricate grid.

The grid is not simply a cover on the surface.

Instead, it blends perfectly with the texture of the bark, preserving the tree's camouflage while giving it the strength and resilience of steel.

Klaus was completely immersed in his creative process.

For an artisan, nothing is more captivating than building a perfect creation with one's own hands!

He guided the metal to remove impurities, reinforce weak points, and mimic the wrinkles of bark and traces of moss, ensuring that it provided ultimate defense without disrupting harmony.

Ivan instinctively touched the axe.

He's already level 3 and he's still using brute force to kill people. Is this guy playing with Transformers?

Judging by this pace, it will probably take at least a day and a night to finish.

Renyi silently put the remaining iron blocks back into the warehouse, and then neatly stacked them up again near Klaus's side.

Only then did he turn around and walk towards the dazed Dala Bengba.

Dala Bengba came over and looked at Renyi with the same look he gave a god-like boss.

"We need a temporary place to stay," Ren Yi explained using the simplest words and gestures possible. "A cave, a place where people can live, and it needs to be secluded."

"About...this deep."

As he spoke, he drew a rough rectangle on the ground and then held up four fingers to indicate about four meters.

Dala Bengba tilted his head, seemingly trying to understand the instructions.

"Dig a hole and let us stay for a few days." Ivan simply and bluntly dug a hole in the ground with his foot, then lay down on the ground in a sleeping position.

Now Dala Bengba understands!

It suddenly thumped its chest and let out a series of excited "roaring" sounds.

So even the Descendant likes to live in caves!

That shows we've found a common ground!