Chapter 431: What is a City?
The bricks of Broken Feather are well built.
Ye Xi was not given the opportunity to do it himself again.
After learning how to lay bricks, the people from the surrounding tribes also enthusiastically came together to help, for fear that Ye Xi, who was about to move, would find a gap to lay bricks.
These muscular creatures wrapped in animal skins are not only willing to learn, but they are also inexhaustible and tireless, and they work hard to share their efforts.
Four days later, a stunningly tall building appeared in front of everyone.
The building is about nine meters tall, nearly three times as tall as a "traditional" stone house, and you have to tilt your neck to see the towering roof.
But even with such a tall building, the cement-bonded building showed no signs of collapsing, and was as solid as a whole naturally formed rock.
The walls are not decorated with any cement or plaster, and the blue-gray rock bricks are overlapped by the cement, and occasionally dark green natural lines are revealed.
This not only saves materials and time, but also retains a simple and vigorous beauty.
The entrance is no longer blocked with bulky stone slabs.
A tall, intricately carved bluestone gate with a flame pattern is connected by a hinge, hinges, hinges and a wall that can be easily pushed open and closed by the hands of a child.
The interior of the building has two floors, with an atrium in the sky, the first floor is about five meters high, and the second floor is about four meters high, which looks extraordinarily spacious and comfortable, even if a soldier with a height of two and a half meters stays inside, it is not too crowded.
The campfire is no longer the only source of light in the stone house.
The interior of the building is inlaid with large blocks of transparent ice island stones, and the dome is inlaid with a full eight pieces, neatly and beautifully forming a hollow circle, through which the light shines brightly and transparently throughout the building.
Some of these ice island stone windows are sealed, while others are modeled after modern designs, and the windows can be pushed open along the track boxes placed underneath, allowing fresh air to pour into the building with the wind.
The building also has a fireplace and chimney, and the bedroom has a ondol, a stone platform and a stone chair, and an ergonomic staircase that is both practical and beautiful.
Everything is dizzying.
Everyone couldn't help but be excited and ecstatic by it.
When Ye Xi announced that it was finished, the tribesmen even lit a bonfire next to it in ecstasy, put aside all the work in their hands, and danced around it for a long time.
β...... Wow!"
For the nineteenth time, he stood not far away, looking up at the house with a fiery gaze, his eyes blurred as if he was looking at a lover in a dream.
No one laughed at him.
Next to him, the dolphin stood bare-chested, covered in mud, looking at it with the same obsessive eyes and admiringly, saying, "It really looks like a tall beast crouching, no, the beast is not as imposing as it!"
Originally, everyone thought that the model would be perfect enough, but they didn't expect that when it was actually made, it would be more than they imagined to be the best.
Their feet seemed to be conscious, and they ran uncontrollably to look at them again and again.
"Crunchβ"
The bluestone gate was suddenly pushed open.
Tu Shanwu walked out of the gate with a bone staff.
Tu Shanwu's white hair was fluttering, he had a straight face, but there was a smile in his eyes, and he reprimanded: "Okay, what are you doing here, since you like this new-style stone house so much, why don't you hurry up and build your own." β
The purr and the dolphin's face turned red.
"Yes!!"
The two said in unison.
They looked at each other, grinned, and immediately turned around and ran away like children.
After the two of them left, Tu Shanwu's gaze swept to the other people who were peeking at the stone house with blazing eyes, shook his head, and returned to the door with a bone cane with a smile.
Even Tu Shanwu couldn't help but admire the building.
Originally, he actually preferred to stay in a dark cave, but when he saw this building, he was immediately impressed by it, and immediately moved in without saying a word.
In fact, the stone house of the purring dolphin has also been dug and is being built, but the two of them still can't help but run to see it again and again.
Not only them, but people from other tribes also ran over from time to time to sneak a look, and after looking at it like this, it seemed that infinite power surged in their bodies, and they built a stone house to become more powerful.
It can be said that the completion of this new-style stone house has made everyone in the alliance go completely crazy like chicken blood!
Everyone longs to own such a stone house, to live in it.
When you get to work, the posture is like not dying.
Ye Xi saw that after the snoring and the dolphin ran back from Tu Shanwu, the speed of moving bricks and laying bricks became even more crazy, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The skilled masons in my last life, I heard that they can lay more than 2,000 bricks a day, and they still have back pain at the end of the day." β
"But ordinary people here can build 4,000 pieces a day, and the next day they are still alive and vigorous. β
"It is worthy of the primitive people who grew up savagely. β
"I still underestimate them, look at them, as long as it doesn't rain all the time, they can be built before winter comes. β
With the construction of the stone houses in full swing, the construction of the city walls is also on the agenda.
............
"The city walls?"
In the open space, the thirty-five chiefs spoke in unison after listening to Ye Xi's suggestion.
Ye Xi said categorically: "Yes, the insect willow can only block the insects, and the fierce beasts or enemies can still easily break into the territory, so the city wall must be built, so that the territory will be safer." β
The chieftain asked, "Is this wall also made of bricks and cement?"
Ye Xi: "Yes, the method of laying bricks is the same as building a stone house, but the city wall must be built higher and thicker than the stone house, so as to block the attack of the giant beasts." Of course, this is a big project, you can take your time, it's okay if you can't finish it before the winter, the winter is cold, there should be no invaders. β
But I saw that Chief Youshi suddenly said: "Since there will be this wall to protect the territory in the future, is the insect willow tree useless?
Since excavating materials such as bluestone clay and ice island stone, and making great contributions to the alliance, the current Youshi chief has become much bolder, no longer cowering and blushing, and he dares to speak in public during the chieftaincy's meeting.
But as soon as the words fell this time, everyone laughed.
Chief Youshi is a little inexplicable.
The Roar Chief next to him patted him on the shoulder and explained with a smile: "Bugs are much more athletic than giant beasts, not to mention flying insects, even if there are high walls, they may not be able to stop them, so it is better for the Worm Willow Wall to stay there." β
Chief Youshi suddenly understood, his face suddenly turned red, and he was silent.
The population of the small tribe is small, so the chiefs elected are not necessarily smart and wise, and it is normal for them to occasionally be unable to figure it out.
There was no malice in everyone's laughter, it was the kind of intimate laughter between acquaintances.
So Chief Youshi didn't get angry, he just felt embarrassed.
In the midst of laughter, the Mantooth Chief suddenly asked, "Lord Xiwu, why is this wall called a city wall, and what is itβa city?"