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[Received: Stone*3]

[Decomposition successful!]

[Received: Stone*5]

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Renyi, under the puzzled gaze of Dala Bengba, dismantled the boulders scattered on the ground one by one.

Soon, the messy ground looked as if it had been licked by a cow. I casually walked to the wall where the Dala Bengba was hanging.

A perfectly square stone brick, half a meter high, landed steadily on the ground.

The second piece, the third piece...

The stone bricks were laid one on top of the other, fitting together perfectly. With each step upwards, the area of ​​the steps decreased.

Lacking the patience to arrange them into a proper staircase, they simply stacked each step two or three stories high.

Less than 10 minutes,

A simple slope rose from their feet to the edge of the crumbling golden palace, hundreds of meters above the ground.

[I thought it was Mission: Impossible... but it turned out to be Minecraft?!]

[The DNA of the infrastructure powerhouse is stirring... I'll go play a couple of rounds too!]

[This is like building a ladder to heaven with bare hands... (⊙＿⊙；)...]

......

"Then after I went up, I demolished a non-load-bearing wall and came out."

He casually took off his clothes, which were covered in scorpion blood and sand, and soaked them in the bucket.

As he scrubbed and washed, he casually concluded his desert adventure for the day, leaving Ivan and Klaus stunned.

Aurora's gaze carefully swept over the man's bare upper body twice.

After confirming that there were no new injuries other than sand, he turned around and went to the entrance of the cave to start a fire.

After hanging up the tattered clothes, Renyi thought to himself that he would have to go to Dala Bengba tomorrow to get them a few sets, since the modern clothes they were wearing were almost completely worn out.

"Boss."

"Come and take a look."

Klaus couldn't wait to lead Renyi to inspect the results of their afternoon's work.

He pointed to the newly completed platform, "I processed each branch so that the metal could grip them and climb along the grain to the designated location for connection."

"The foundation is complete. It has two floors, eight rooms, one... prison cell, and below it is both a common area and a lookout tower."

"Now only the outer walls and roof remain."

At this point, his brows furrowed slightly.

"I'm still considering what materials to use. Wood and bone are convenient, but their defensive capabilities are weak. If I use metal, the weight will be too great, making expansion difficult..."

So they need a material that is as lightweight and sturdy as possible?

I think this might be fate.

To everyone's astonishment, a massive, dark-colored carapace appeared on the open ground. It still retained the shape of the lord-level creature, radiating an indescribable sense of oppression in the dim light.

Hearing any verbal description is nothing compared to the sheer awe of seeing the real thing with your own eyes!

Even though it was already an inanimate object, the lingering malevolent aura still made Ivan and Aurora instinctively hold their breath.

[The Desert Lord's Complete Carapace (Lord-level)]

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This definitely meets the requirements.

Even raven cannot pierce it, and it is also resistant to poison and high temperatures.

"My God...unbelievable material! This shape has much less wind pressure than a wall! How could I not have thought of that!"

Klaus rolled up his sleeves, ready to take it along to do infrastructure work.

"What's the rush?" Renyi casually raised his hand and put the shell back into the warehouse. "We'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Things aren't going to run away; forcing yourself to work when you're exhausted will only increase the chances of making mistakes."

And please don't overwork yourself to death, that would be too frustrating ʅ（´◔౪◔）ʃ

Fortunately, Klaus couldn't hear Renyi's inner thoughts.

Otherwise, they would definitely put on a live performance of a heart attack.

"All right......"

Just as Klaus was reluctantly giving up and following Ivan and Renyi toward the cave, the hillside not far away suddenly became lively.

Dala Bengba was directing the other cave dwellers and cave monsters to carry baskets of collected plant tubers, berries, and several whole roasted angry lizard monkeys to the flat highlands.

They also lit a huge bonfire.

It illuminated half of the darkness.

"What are you doing?" Ivan asked curiously.

"Judging by this, they're holding a ritual, aren't they?" Klaus guessed. "Celebrating the desert's big guy being taken care of by the boss?"

[What? Burning paper money at a grave.]

[This is clearly a feast, how can you call it burning paper money?]

[Dala Bengba: Ladies, let's have a feast today! To commemorate how our leader crushed the village bully next door!]

[It really is similar to how weddings and funerals are held in our village...]

The cave dwellers neither knelt nor prayed; they simply piled up large quantities of food.

But the way they gathered in twos and threes did make them look both nervous and expectant.

Perhaps it's some kind of celebration.

"Let them be, we just need to be vigilant," Renyi concluded.

The group stopped paying attention and returned to the campfire that had been lit in the cave of Aurora to roast some of their provisions and fill their stomachs.

Ivan and Aurora were on night watch for the rest of the night.

The two chatted idly for a while.

"My grandmother was cursing in the yard the day before she passed away."

"The old man next door is her neighbor across the hall and also her old comrade-in-arms. The two have been arguing for almost fifty years."

Aurora couldn't help but smile:

"That's really...enviable."

"yes,"

Ivan grinned. "She didn't wake up the next day. The old man next door didn't go to the funeral, but he sat alone at the door all afternoon, and then he went the next day. Actually, he did it on purpose to make my grandmother angry, just so she wouldn't be bored."

Where are your parents?

"I died in the line of duty, and later I joined the army."

His relieved tone left Aurora momentarily speechless.

She felt that the heaviness had not diminished in the slightest; on the contrary, it seemed even more profound because of this composure.

—That is an invisible medal forged with honor and longing.

Aurora made the sign of the cross and whispered, "They'll be proud of you."

"Of course." Ivan poked at the flickering embers listlessly; all he cared about now was when he could get a fight.

In this tranquility,

The rustling sounds gradually seeped into the cave.

Ivan's laziness vanished instantly. He exchanged a glance with Aurora, both seeing wariness in each other's eyes.

That sound was strange.

It wasn't the sound of footsteps, but rather the dragging sound of some heavy object rolling over damp soil and grass, "rustling" and "sizzling".

Interspersed among them were intermittent hissing sounds—

It sounds like a leaky bellows.

"What's that noise?"

Ivan grabbed "Thoughts" and was about to open the door.

Aurora stopped him, made a shushing gesture to signal him not to act rashly, and then crouched down and quietly pressed herself against the door.

She cautiously opened the small window in the door—

The campfire outside the cave had gone out, and only the distant firelight of the cave dwellers could be seen to make out some of their outlines.

In the darkness, more than a dozen enormous, writhing shadows were moving about not far away.

At first, Aurora was merely wary.

But when her vision adjusted to the darkness and she could see the location of those dark figures, her breath caught in her throat.

That's... an experimental field!

In the afternoon, the plants there were still planted neatly.

But now...

Those slimy, dark shadows were crawling all over it, trampling the flat ground into a mess!

O__O "…

Seeing that Aurora hadn't moved for a while, Ivan lowered his voice and asked:

"Hey, what did you see? Should we wake the boss and the others?"

These words seemed to snap Aurora out of her daze.

"Bang!"

Aurora kicked open the heavy wooden door with a sudden thud!

The force was so great that the soil fell in a flurry.

Ivan nearly dropped his axe.

He watched helplessly as Aurora, who had been praying for him with a gentle expression just a moment ago, glared at him with fury.

"Get—out—!"