Chapter 9: It's Too Real

Thinking of accepting a relationship, the words 'raising a family' came to Li Mu's mind again, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, money, money, it's really not good without you, whether it's in the previous life or this life!

Li Mu was cranky, and he didn't know when he fell asleep. When he woke up on the second day, Bai Qiaoqiao had already cooked the porridge and boiled the dried vegetables. She knew that Li Mu was going to work today, so she got up early and got ready. When the two met, they just glanced at each other, Bai Qiaoqiao blushed, and gave Li Mu a look as if begging for mercy, as if begging him not to mention last night's incident in front of Sun. Li Mu felt interesting in her heart, and gave her a look to reassure her, took a bite indiscriminately, changed into clothes that were convenient for work, and came to the yard where the iron was struck yesterday.

The ordnance supervisor occupies a large part of the house on this South Street, and the iron is only in this courtyard. Li Mu's first job was to smelt ore, burn the ore in a furnace, refine the crude iron, and then hand it over to skilled blacksmiths, who will refine the crude iron into iron ingots for repairing weapons and making armor.

Li Mu's job doesn't require any technical content. The old iron leader led him to a room full of ore, briefly explained how to burn the stove, how to use iron tongs and crucibles, and demonstrated how to separate impurities, and told Li Mu to avoid his body and not to be splashed with iron juice, so he left to supervise the work in another place. As for Li Siwen's conjecture, Li Mu wants to steal the teacher, which is impossible in this era. For the craftsmen of the Ordnance Prison, striking iron is a subsistence business, and one more person can eat, one less bite to eat. Between the huge ordnance supervisor and the blacksmith who can strike iron, it is either a master and an apprentice, or a brother and sister, all of whom have a heritage, how can someone teach you when an outsider comes in.

Fortunately, Li Mu didn't expect anyone to teach, he wished that no one would pay attention to him, so that when he used the system, he didn't have to worry about being noticed.

Seeing the old iron head walk away, Li Mu returned to the furnace and summoned the system.

In this deputy job system, Li Mu is only responsible for the data balance part, and he actually doesn't know what the effect of each skill is. Especially after crossing over, he didn't know what it would be like when he used his skills. When the Turkic camp was rubbing inferior incense, a glimmer of light flashed, and the incense came out. He didn't know if the same was true of blacksmithing, if he could turn iron ore into iron ingots by smelting in his heart, it would be much easier.

As it turned out, he was a little overthinking. He threw the iron ore into the furnace and smelted it twenty times, but the iron ore did not turn into iron ingots, and there was no sign of melting at all. Li Mu secretly wondered, could it be that the system was out of order?

No matter what the system doesn't work for, the work always has to be done. Li Mu had no choice but to follow what the old iron head said, and first lit the fire of the furnace. When the fire was at its highest, suddenly a prompt came from the system.

[Do you smelt iron ore?] There are 5 iron ores, and the estimated output is iron ingots*1, some gold impurities, and some copper impurities. 】.

So that's it! Li Mu understood that the deputy position system on his body was just a skill system, not an immortal magic power, and it could not be changed out of thin air. When using skills, equipment and conditions are still required. Just like smelting ore now, there is no furnace, no fire, how can it be possible to melt the ore, without these prerequisite parts, the skill will naturally not be used. And the use of pharmaceutical techniques to make inferior incense does not require conditions or equipment, so it is natural to use skills directly.

It's still very real!

Li Mu sighed with emotion and silently confirmed. Suddenly, his body moved involuntarily, taking iron tongs, clamping crucibles, watering and quenching, and separating impurities...... After a whole set of work, he was already sweating profusely.

"Oh my god...... Dare to love and skill movements, the real one is a little too much. Li Mu was secretly glad that he didn't rely on the system in his body, so he threw all the ore into it, if he really threw it in, he wouldn't be tired directly.

"Huh?" Li Mu suddenly found that there was an extra progress bar with physical strength on the system interface, which was missing by one-tenth, and now there was 90 left. After a pause, Li Mu suddenly remembered. This is one of the settings he added himself.

In order to avoid excess materials in the later stages of the game, Li Mu deliberately set the 'physical strength value', no matter how high a person's deputy level is, the physical strength value is 100, which can avoid RMB players from leveling up infinitely. However, he also left a backdoor for RMB players, and the physical strength is gone, right, you can eat food to make up for it! Of course, in the game, whether it is cooking skills to make food, or buying food directly in a restaurant, it costs money, otherwise how can it be called a krypton gold system. If you eat well, your stamina will recover quickly. If you don't eat well, your stamina recovery will be slow, and if you don't eat, then wait for the automatic recovery, 10 o'clock an hour, if you don't eat for a day, your stamina recovery speed will be doubled, until you starve to death and fall off.

"I've got retribution for all the pits I dug!" Li Mu sighed secretly, got up and filled the furnace with iron ore. The texture of the pile of iron ore in the house has just been confirmed, and it takes five parts of ore to smelt one iron ingot. Pulling the bellows to fan the fire to the critical point where the skill can be used, Li Mu silently confirmed it again, picked up the iron tongs, clamped the crucible, boiled water and quenched, and separated the impurities......

All morning, he was doing this work in a loop. When his stamina was exhausted, there were already ten iron ingots piled up in the open space next to him, and Li Mu was too tired to get up, so he fell to the ground and waited to recover his stamina. The process of using the skill cost another ten cents.

The old iron head made a round, and at noon he happened to return to Li Mu's room. When I heard that there was no sound inside, I couldn't help but be a little angry. It's not time to put food out, why don't you work? Even if it is a person introduced by Li Gongzi, it can't be like this! He burst into the house in a rage, and was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth when he saw ten iron ingots neatly stacked on the ground. Is this afterlife a monster? Even if it's a monster, you can't do it so fast! He originally thought that Li Mu, a novice, and no one to guide him, would be good if he could smelt a piece in the morning. Who would have thought that he would smelt ten times, even if he did it himself, he might not be able to smelt so much. Looking at these iron ingots again, the size is the same, like the bricks on the city wall of Chang'an, the old iron head asked himself if he could never do it, and he couldn't help but wonder, is there any secret method in this future life?

The old iron head was about to speak, when suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder, and Li Siwen's hearty voice came: "Old iron head, I'm here!" Look what I got you today, air-dried bacon! Let me tell you, my brother is on his first day at work, you can take care of it, do more work and less in my face, I can't lose you! ”

The old iron head smiled bitterly when he heard this, pointed to the house, and said, "Li Gongzi, this brother can't be taken care of by the old man!" It's not honest enough, it's obviously an expert, how can you say it's a layman, look at it! ”

"Connoisseur?" Li Siwen frowned suspiciously, stuffed the bacon he was carrying into the old iron head's hand, stretched out his neck to look into the room, and saw the ten iron ingots stacked neatly, just like the old iron head, he was stunned.