"yooooooo~ Stand up obediently! Little ones! Today is the day of layoffs! ”

On a sunny afternoon, the chicken pen was lively again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

They finally remembered the days when they were laid off.

Yes, the expressions on the faces of me standing in the center of the chicken pen and Akai who was sharpening his knife were blocked by bangs, but from the two pairs of white glasses and weird smiles, it was not a good thing for these chickens.

[cluck, cluck] *n

"Three, two, one!" I counted down to three, and when I counted to two, I immediately rushed into the flock like a wolf with a kitchen knife.

"Ahh You bastard, you sneak away! Akai didn't react for a moment, and then rushed into the flock of chickens on the other side with two swords in his hand with an indignant expression, bringing a burst of "bloody rain".

As mentioned above, Akai and I started the great layoff plan after we brought Xiaobai back.

You must know that chickens and livestock have the reproductive power in this world many times faster than pigs, cattle and sheep, and their growth cycle is also very short.

Suppose there are 100 chickens, and you feed each chicken with a hundred seeds, and then the chickens will start to reproduce, and every two chickens together will be very unscientifically born one chick, and after a hundred chickens will reproduce, there will be 50 chicks.

It's a very simple arithmetic that elementary school students will do.

But don't forget the eggs!

Although the odds are relatively small, they can't hold us more eggs.

"The eggs in the warehouse are overflowing, and if you don't dispose of so many chickens・・・・・・ "When I got home and opened the boxes in the food warehouse, I saw that they were full of eggs, thousands of them・・・・・・

So, Akai and I made a bet to keep twenty chickens, kill all the remaining chickens humanely, and then have a game.

The main content of the competition is to determine the winner by comparing the amount of chicken and feathers collected at the end.

After a flurry of chickens and eggs, our almost stuffed chicken pen was finally refreshed.

"Whew, I'm so tired." It was the first time I had done something that was very physically demanding, and although I didn't feel tired at all, I was tired as soon as I was done.

Slapping the [healing] on myself, I looked at Akai who had also stopped on the side.

"It's finally done."

"Hehe, no, it looks like I've won." Akai smirked.

There's no way to do it, I'm not as good as Akai in terms of physical strength, so naturally I kill less.

"Well, even if you win."

"Even if I win, I won."

"Haha, let's not talk about this, let's take an inventory." I snorted haha.

Akai spread his hands and handed me everything in his backpack.

One hundred and forty-two pieces of chicken, with nearly two sets of feathers.

"It's a terrifying number, even if we eat these chickens every day, we can eat them until next year."

"I'm going to get tired of it, absolutely!" Akai imagined the days when we ate chicken every day.

“・・・・・・”

No matter how delicious something is, if you eat it every day, it will lose its meaning, just like eating kimchi every day until you vomit.

Suddenly, I thought of the merchants of the village!

"If I'm not mistaken, there seems to be a person in the village who specializes in collecting chicken, and the reward is gold and iron ingots and the like."

"If that's the case, then great."

Back at home, we took stock of the contents of our backpacks and sorted them into boxes.

"Speaking of which, Akai."

"Huh? What's wrong? Akai, who was sitting at the table drinking hot cocoa, wondered.

We took the time to go out into the jungle to collect the beans, then cut down a jungle tree and transplant it to our backyard. Ripe cocoa beans can be used to make cookies on the workbench and can also be used separately to make tea.

After all, although this world has rules for synthesis, it doesn't need to be restricted everywhere, except for synthesizing specific things, there are not so many restrictions, even if you just take cocoa beans as candy and eat them.

Of course, the premise is that you can eat it・・・・・・

"We don't have much ore at home." I counted the boxes where the ore was stored.

There wasn't much ore, in other words, there weren't many iron ingots, and Akai easily understood what I meant.

Gold ingots are of little use to us, and no other types of ore have been generated in this world, so so far, there are only a few types of ore that can be mined underground, of which iron ore accounts for the vast majority.

The second is coal, which is a fuel resource.

Of course, the rarest are diamonds and emeralds.

"Whew, that means we're going to have to go to the mines, right?" Akai sat in his chair and swayed.

"Yes. I thought of a good place, and maybe I could find something good. ”

"Where? You know, we've lived here for so long, and we've explored most of the caves in this grassland. Akai wondered.

"What do you think of the bottom of the volcano?" I stopped what I was doing.

Akai stopped rocking his chair, "Okay, I haven't been in the mine for a long time, I remember that all kinds of things have been coming one after another since the winter." ”

I think about it, and it really is.

"yes, first the long winter, then the hellish thing."

Our equipment is handed over to the blacksmith's uncle for repair after it is damaged, but repair does not mean that there is no cost, and each repair requires iron ingots to be re-smelted as a material.

"Well, without further ado, we'll set off tomorrow, and I'll prepare the pickaxes, bows and arrows, food, and torches in the evening."

"In that case, I'll go chop some wood right now and come back." With that, I walked outside.

"Huh?"

"I'm running out of wood at home."

"That's right, it's hard."

With a wave of my hand, I pushed the door open and walked towards the grove that Akai and I had planted outside the wall.

The woods are already quite large, but they stand out on the plains.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, plant trees first. In this world, everything can be missing, but wood must be available, and the more the better, after all, it is the foundation of all development.

Oh yes, there's one more thing I haven't said, this world is full of fruits!

That's the existence called 'Apple'.

When I cut down the trunk and hollowed it out, the leaves that stayed in the air would decay and disappear over time, and there was a chance that at least one sapling would be left, and then I would replant the sapling in its original place, and after a few days it would be a lush tree again.

However, there are times when unexpected products fall from the leaves.

That's Apple.

The great Isaac Newton once said, "The earth has gravity," and he was smashed in the face by an apple.

Back then, Akai and I also got a few apples when we first came to this world, and we took a bite of it with excitement on our faces, and then we didn't ・・・・・・ anymore. Just as oranges are oranges in the south and oranges in the north are oranges, the apples that look red are bitter after we bite into them.

In a nutshell: it's unpalatable!

But in the end, we also put the apple away from wasting it, and after eating it, we put it away when we got it.

Now that our apples are also useful―――――― our horses love to eat them.

"If I have the chance, I'll definitely upgrade the world upgrade option in agriculture." I said indignantly in my heart.

In the eyes of the aborigines, Akai and I lived in a place like a small castle, and it was like a very wealthy lord of this generation.

But life is still very difficult for us.

Like a boss who comes out every once in a while to destroy the world・・・・・・

Before I knew it, I had gossiped so much, and after the last tree was cut, I rushed home with a whole set of wood.

――――――――I'm a dividing line――――――――

The next day, when we were ready, Akai and I made our way to the foot of the volcano.

Surprisingly, the underground of the volcano is a hollow, and the huge karst cave reaches to the earth's crust, which is very spectacular.

The low magma flows, and it is very bright, so you don't have to worry about the darkness.

Over the course of a day, we explored the cave and swept it all the way.

A lot of iron ore and coal, and if you're lucky, you can dig gold and lapis lazuli at the bottom.

But the most gratifying part of them is that at the lowest level of the lava flow, we find a diamond set in the wall.

Eventually, when we mined the diamond, the trip to the volcano was over and we were on our way home.