Chapter 43: An Unusual New Year
The next day, Li Qing's team came to the venue of the second competition, on the outskirts of the casting area, near a clearing near the market.
This competition is about whose house is built well, can make people live comfortably, at least, and can shelter from the wind and rain.
Before the referee started, the two teams were given some shovels, axes and other basic tools, and five energy coins.
The game began, Uncle Chi was full of enthusiasm and ordered Li Qing and Chi Chu to follow him to the woods to cut down trees, Xiao Wang left the place to strengthen the foundation, and Meila went to the market to buy daily necessities and decorative materials.
Everyone went their separate ways.
Li Qing grew up in the city since he was a child, and he never even touched an axe, let alone cut down a tree.
On Earth, trees don't let them go unnoticed, and if they don't do it, they will be caught.
However, in the game, he did cut it. I've never eaten pork, and I've never seen a pig run!
After walking around the woods for a while, Uncle Chi chose a tall and straight redwood and beckoned Li Qing to come over.
Li Qing carried the axe, walked under the tree, rushed to the root of the tree, lifted the axe, and went down.
At the moment when he went down, Li Qing was so shocked that he almost fell, his palm was almost cracked, and his arm was numb from the shock.
Uncle Chi saw that Li Qing's axe had also fallen, and the bark had not been broken, so he shook his head again and again.
Li Qing was also embarrassed, but under the guidance of Uncle Chi, it took a lot of effort to finally cut down the tree.
This was the first time Li Qing had cut down trees in his life, and he was excited to show off to Chi Chu, but he found that Chi Chu had already lost five!
Hey, manual labor is really not suitable for him, Li Qing continued to comfort himself like this.
In the morning, Li Qing and Chi Chu had already prepared most of the timber, most of which was due to Chi Chu's work.
Uncle Chi has already designed the drawings, and everyone began to build the wooden house according to Uncle Chi's instructions.
By the end of the afternoon, the main body of the wooden house had been built, and there were still some details to be dealt with, and tomorrow Uncle Chi was ready to show off his carpentry skills.
The next day, Li Qing's task was much easier, he first went to the woods and built two trees, in case there was not enough wood.
Then, like Chi Chu, he processed the inside and outside of the hut again. A small garden was also carved out in front of the house.
Xiao Wang gave Uncle Chi a hand, they installed windows, doors, nailed floors, and made a wooden table and bed.
Mera bought curtains, tablecloths, bedding and other daily necessities from the market, as well as some beautiful flowers and plants.
Before the end of the game, Li Qing's hut had already been decorated, just waiting for the referee to judge.
This boxy cottage is beautiful, clean, well-lit and welcoming.
Looking at them again, it's like a public toilet, very simple.
Uncle Chi glanced at it, and said with a laugh: Can you live there?
The result of the game is clear at a glance, naturally Li Qing and they won, and now it is a 1-1 draw.
The final race is tomorrow, a three-day survival challenge that takes place in the house they built.
Within three days, those who cannot survive can abstain, and the winner who remains in the last place.
Looking at it this way, the winner has been revealed! The more they rushed their houses, they were so rubbish, and survival itself was a problem.
But they didn't abstain, and the game went ahead as planned.
After the day's work, the lord was worried about the safety of Mera, so he immediately sent his men to install dozens of searchlights next to Li Qing's hut, within a radius of fifty meters.
When these lights are turned on, they shine brighter at night than during the day, and the difficulty of survival plummets.
These three days should be considered a vacation!
The next day, the game is about to begin.
Li Qing and the others came to the wooden house leisurely, the beds were ready, and the hut originally had two rooms, one large and one small.
Mera slept in the hut and the others slept in the big house.
The game begins.
Mera offered to take care of the small garden and pick some fruit along the way.
Xiao Wang took the bucket and went to the river to fetch water and fish.
Uncle Chi started to light the fire and prepare lunch.
Li Qing and Chi Chu went into the woods, ready to come back from hunting some game, preferably for three days, so that they could rest for the next two days.
Hunting is Li Qing's forte, he carried a sniper rifle with him, and found a hillside with a wide view.
There are no big animals here, at most there are rabbits, deer, geese and so on.
Li Qing took the gun, searched and searched, and finally found a rabbit, but before he could shoot, he saw Yue Chong and them, chasing the same rabbit.
Sure enough, the road is narrow, but this is a survival game, whoever fights is whoever, Li Qing aimed at the rabbit, and slammed the shot, which happened to be a big hit.
Yue Chong, who was chasing behind, was dumbfounded, standing in place, looking at Li Qing's direction, his teammates thought that good luck had fallen from the sky, and they were ready to pick up the corpse.
However, Chi Chu had also arrived, he pointed at Li Qing, and then pointed to the bullet hole on the rabbit's body, and it turned out that the rabbit was ours.
Yue Chong scolded a few words disdainfully, and then walked away with the team members.
Of course, a rabbit was not enough to eat, so Li Qing and Chi Chu simply went to a farther place.
They came to a lake, and there were a lot of geese in the water, which was a rare delicacy.
As soon as Li Qing was about to shoot, he saw five muzzles sticking out faintly on the right, it was Yue Chong and his team.
Yue Chong smiled at Li Qing, and said with bad intentions: "Whoever kills, who is counted, you are alone, can you compare to the five of us?" β
The team members in the back looked at Li Qing alone and burst into laughter.
Li Qing didn't care, and motioned for them to fight first.
Bang bang five shots, except for the frightened geese in the lake all flew away, none of them hitγγγγγγ
The more angry and dejected, at this time, Li Qing took a few steps forward and raised his gun to aim in the air.
At this time, the wild goose was frightened, and it didn't fly as fast as usual, but it couldn't escape Li Qing's muzzle.
Bang bang bang three shots, and they all hit.
Chi Chu shouted loudly and rushed up to pick up the corpse, and after a while, the three fat geese were brought back.
Yue Chong's face was extremely ugly, but the difference in strength was too great, and he didn't dare to say anything.
"Would you like one?" Chi Chu held a wild goose and swayed in front of Yue Chong's eyes.
His team members obviously had the urge to want it, but Yue Chong still wanted to make a face: "You can keep it for yourself, we are not rare." After saying that, he took the team member who was full of regrets and left.
When night fell, on Li Qing's side, everyone gathered around the bonfire outside the hut, eating a sumptuous barbecue feast, as well as fresh strawberries picked by Meila, and fish soup stewed by Uncle Chi.
Looking at Yue Chong's side again, there was no movement in the dark, and it was estimated that dinner was not settled.
While everyone was eating, I heard the sound of rustling in the darkness around me, and there were dark ghosts.
Of course Li Qing and they are not afraid, this place is very bright, and many dark ghosts will not approach.
Just in case, Mera and Uncle Chi are wearing clothes with light strips, which is even safer.
Everyone ignored it and continued to eat and drink.
At this moment, the hut that did not want to be in Yue Chong suddenly caught fire, and then, Yue Chong, and his team members, fled to Li Qing and them one by one.
Far from the hut, but where the searchlight shone, their clothes were almost charred, and they fell to the ground panting.
It turned out that in order to protect themselves, they wanted to light a fire, but they burned down their dilapidated houseγγγγγγ
In the end, Uncle Chi also went out of the horse, agreed to let them stay here for one night, and gave them some food.
Although Yue Chong was not convinced, he still did not resist his hungry stomach and accepted the barbecue.
He told Li Qing that he would not accept help in vain, and that the grievances between them would be cleared up in the future.
The next day, the team that rushed to the next voluntarily abstained.
At the end of the game, Li Qing's team won, and the happiest of them was Uncle Chi, followed by the workers of the twenty-five factories under the master, and no one could get an extra piece of energy coin.
In this way, Li Qing can be regarded as having an unusual New Year in a foreign land.