Chapter 22: Capturing the Mutant Leech Cubs

Strength increased by 10 percent.

What kind of black technology is this?

But then again, is this thing sugar or a stimulant?

Chu Guang didn't know its ingredients, and there was no production date and ingredient list on the outer packaging.

"It's 10 hours."

The 10% buff effect looks pretty good, and even a single percent of the power at a critical moment is enough to turn the tide of the battle.

It's just eating lollipops when you're in battle......

It's a bit of a bad match with the image of his iron-blooded tough guy Wu Yzu.

And it's unknown when it will take effect.

After thinking about it, Chu Guang decided to take it first.

Having one more hole card in your hand isn't a bad thing.

……

Early the next morning.

Players went live as scheduled.

Although they are tired to death from their work in reality during the day, they are tired after going online, and they are full of enthusiasm and vitality.

The old white cement kiln has completely dried.

He and Hurricane went to a construction site on the map, pulled dozens of kilograms of limestone back with a board truck, and then went to the river to get a few large buckets of clay and sand, and began the first round of trial firing of Portland cement.

In fact, the formula of ordinary Portland cement can be found publicly on the Internet.

To put it simply, limestone is crushed and mixed with clay and iron filings in specific proportions, heated to 1450 degrees Celsius in a special kiln and calcined.

The cement clinker prepared by this method only needs to be added with sand and water to form a cement mortar that can be used in construction.

With the help of some professional websites, you can even find out the specific material ratio of different cements according to the construction requirements.

As long as you do your homework before you start the game, it's much easier than traveling back in time to ancient times and starting from scratch.

Considering that this is the first time he has made this thing, Lao Bai chose the simplest formula, which is not too demanding on the materials, and can barely be completed with the current conditions of the shelter outpost.

With his "natural powers", he picked up a hammer to break as many stones as he could from the construction site, mixed them with clay and iron filings reduced with charcoal, and sent them into the kiln that had just been completed.

Charcoal is lit.

Smoke is slow.

Fang Chang happily put up a handle on the side, rubbing the branches tied to the clay tray - a simple blower, made of water pipes, bark, and cotton thread, which could send a large amount of air into the kiln, making the charcoal inside burn more violently.

"How do we determine the temperature in the kiln?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know ???"

"Or else? Do you have an industrial thermometer? In short, don't talk nonsense, rub the blower and push it in harder, and it's over! Ay...... It's good to get a generator somewhere. ”

“……”

Lao Bai sighed while touching his chin, and Fang Chang was speechless on the side.

This guy.

Since becoming the "construction captain", I have become more and more of a contractor.

While rubbing the branches, he deserted, wondering in his heart, and wondered where the two animals had gone......

In fact, not only did they not know, but Chu Guang, as a manager, did not know.

Although he can confirm whether the player is online or offline, as well as the general location and distance through the system, he cannot fully grasp the specific coordinates of the player.

At least not yet.

But just as Chu Guang was thinking about what the two players were doing, he saw the two players walking towards him with buckets.

"Where have you been?"

In the face of the manager's inquiry, Hurricane answered truthfully.

"Near the mutant leech's nest."

Chu Guang frowned.

"Didn't I say don't go there?"

"We didn't go in, we just set a trap near the lair...... You see, this is the cub of a mutated leech. ”

Before the wind could speak, Ye Shi on the side saw that the manager looked displeased, for fear that he would lose his favor, so he quickly put the plastic bucket in his hand on the ground and explained.

Chu Guang glanced into the barrel and found that there were some glass bottles inside, and the bottles were full of palm-sized larvae.

Their postures are twisted, stretching their deformed mouthparts, and they are intertwined with their companions and arched wildly, like the touch of a book. Hand.

"It's kind of interesting...... How do you do that? ”

When he was on Bate Street before, he had never heard of anyone arresting such a thing.

Although mutant insects are rich in protein, they are also relatively high in parasites, and that thing cannot be killed by boiling it in a pot for a while.

In addition, this thing has a special living environment, rarely acts alone, and its combat effectiveness is difficult to assess, and very few survivors are interested in it.

"Blood! We use the blood of animals to lure them into glass bottles where the bait is placed, and the large leeches can't get in, and the small ones can't get out! ”

Night Ten said excitedly, and the wind added two words next to him.

"These mutant leeches are supposed to feed at night and retreat back into their nests during the day, leaving the little ones in the bottles except for some that have been crushed. I was just going to give it a try, but I didn't expect it to work surprisingly well. ”

Chu Guang touched his chin and nodded.

"I see...... It's a really good idea. ”

Is it any wonder that Tempest asked for some meat of his prey yesterday, and it turned out that he was going to use it as bait to catch the cubs of mutant leeches?

Merely......

“…… What are you going to do with this thing? ”

Chu Guang looked at the wind and continued to ask.

"I don't know about leeches, but mutated leeches definitely can't be eaten."

"I'm not going to study how to eat it, I'm going to use it for fishing."

"Fishing?"

"Well," Tempest nodded, looking slightly excited, "When I was exploring the shoreline of the lake before, I spotted some big black birds fishing on the surface of the lake!" Since there are fish in the lake, we can get food by catching fish! ”

That's a great idea!

After listening to Tempest's words, Chu Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.

In fact, it is not that he has never tried fishing before, after all, fishing is much less risky than hunting.

It's just that his fishing skills are really indescribable, and it is rare to catch them with professional fishing gear and bait, let alone without that kind of thing.

In fact, this is not entirely his problem, if the fish are so easy to catch, why don't the survivors make their home by the lake?

The fish in Linghu are all mutants, which are what the survivors call xenomorphs.

After trying a few times without success, he put in the fishing gear that he had finally spent time making, and Chu Guang gave up.

"Do you know how to fish?"

Faced with the manager's inquiry, Hurricane was stunned and said.

"No...... But I looked it up on the Internet, and there are some of those fishing traps, and I'm going to try to make a few of them. ”

I'm not sure if the NPC can understand what it means to "look it up on the Internet", but the few times they talked about it in reality, the NPC didn't react to it, and it was supposed that the program would automatically ignore such content, so Tempest simply said it.

Chu Guang was overjoyed in his heart, but he nodded quietly on his face.

"Okay, now that you know how to catch fish, I'll leave that to you!"

After receiving the order, Tempest and Night Eleven immediately ran to make traps.

Catching fish is much more fun than moving bricks and chopping down trees!

Chu Guang watched as they collected some branches and plastic ropes that they had picked up out of nowhere, squatted near the corner of the wall and tinkered.

Ignoring them, what Chu Guang wanted to study now was how to smoke meat with the tobacco leaves he bought.

Yesterday, he kneaded the tobacco leaves and wrapped them in the flesh, following the methods of the survivors of Bate Street, and then slowly roasted them over a wood fire, allowing the ketoalcohol-rich tar in the leaves to penetrate the fat layer of the meat, killing parasites and microorganisms......

I don't know if it's his delusion, why does it always feel a little stinky?

"It shouldn't be......"

Picking up a piece of hind leg meat and sniffing it closely, Chu Guang frowned.

Under normal circumstances, meat smoked in this way should have a nicotine smell and a burnt yellow grease on the surface.

However, the meat of its hind leg is obviously dark red in color, cooked on the outside and raw on the inside, and has a faint smell of decay.

"Is it the wrong way?"