Chapter 18: Windfall

"Data restructuring is in progress.

"The captain has been issued: the half-hole mud house manufacturing blueprints, please check the captain.

"The next aid is being manufactured in an accelerated manner, and the estimated completion time: 24 hours, please be patient."

The long-lost parchment drawings fell into Lu Ning's hands.

"Half-hole mud house ......"

Lu Ning was very unfamiliar with this name, and was a little stunned for a while.

He unfolded the parchment and read it over and over again.

"This ...... This is a real send-off! ”

Lu Ning, who had read it all, let out a sigh of surprise.

As the name suggests, a half-cave mud house is a kind of house made of mud with half the height underground.

In addition to being able to guard against wild beasts, the biggest feature of this mud house is that it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the material is convenient and the structure is simple and strong and reliable, and its principle is somewhat similar to the cellar that Lu Ning wants to build.

"It was necessary to dig a large hole in the ground, and to build the walls and roofs with mud and clay, to use wood as pillars, and to lay thatch and animal skins on the roof and facades......

"The tools I need are very simple, I have all the materials here, it doesn't seem too difficult, and maybe it will inspire me to dig the cellar......"

"It's really a special aid, it's a great help to me, you're too awesome, ghost!"

Lu Ning held up the drawings and couldn't stop praising excitedly.

"It's a privilege to help the captain."

The ghost responded.

The location of the cave house was eventually determined by Lu Ning to be a little downhill from the original tent, where the soil was softer and easier to shovel.

After the middle of the night passed, a large circular pit with a radius of less than three meters and a depth of almost one meter was dug by Lu Ning.

Looking at the time, it was already four or five o'clock in the morning.

Lu Ning first went to the stone kiln to take a look, the wood inside was still smoldering, and he still had to wait.

The campfire had been burning all night and was already a little weak, so Lu Ning took out two sticks of firewood and filled it to make the campfire light up again.

The four plants not far away were a little wilted, but unfortunately Lu Ning had no other way for the time being, so he mixed some plant ash into his soil.

The rest of the food was temporarily put into the corner of the tent by Lu Ning, which was relatively close to the campfire, and it could also shelter from the wind, so there would not be much of a problem in a short time, but in this way, the tent was not a spacious space and seemed more crowded, Lu Ning could only curl up and lie down as much as possible, barely because he turned over and pressed those vegetables, fruits and green potatoes.

He let out a long yawn and closed his eyes and went to sleep.

The next day, the fierce wind weakened a little, but the temperature dropped by 3 degrees.

It's already an astonishing low temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the overall average temperature of the Antarctic continent is no more than that in the blue starfish.

At half past eight in the morning, Lu Ning was called out by the ghost on time.

This time, he didn't even need to wipe his face, as soon as he got out of the tent, Lu Ning was immediately refreshed by the cold wind wrapped in snowflakes.

"It's starting to snow......"

Lu Ning raised his head and looked at the gloomy sky.

The heavy snow that had covered the sky for the past two days had been blown by the strong winds, but today, when the wind was a little darker, the snow had really begun to fall in the sky.

Although the snowflake is not too big, it means that ......

A blizzard is really coming.

Lu Ning took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it, and a white mist drifted around with his breathing.

Lu Ning no longer looked at the sky, picked out a little green potato from the tent that was more severely frozen, put it on the campfire, roasted it, and ate it.

With his equipment, Lu Ning set off again.

The road from the camp to the giant forest has completely devoid of wild monster activity, and it is estimated that these wild monsters have either frozen to death or have found a place to fall into complete hibernation.

For example, the nest outside the giant forest that originally belonged to the snow leopard, but was occupied by a group of wild wolves after being cleared by Lu Ning.

The group of wild wolves was classified by Lu Ning as a "difficult" crusade level, two grades higher than the snow leopard, and one level higher than the one-horned tiger that Lu Ning thought was well-fed.

Therefore, Lu Ning has not tried to provoke them - but in the past two days, the wild wolves have also disappeared without a trace, and this den has no owner at all.

Lu Ning chopped a large amount of firewood and brought it back to the camp, where he returned to process the wood.

Before returning with the wood, Lu Ning suddenly thought - the group of wild wolves occupied the nest before, and now that they are gone, will there be something left?

For example, the wreckage left by their hunting can be of great use to themselves.

As soon as Lu Ning thought of this, he immediately had the idea of wanting to come forward and take a look.

Anyway, the wolves are gone, so there shouldn't be any danger-

Thinking like this, Lu Ning didn't dare to be careless, holding a small hand axe in his left hand and a logging axe in his right hand, he walked in the direction of the nest.

Lu Ning cautiously pressed against the cliff wall towards the entrance of the cave, but just as he came to the entrance of the cave, a strange sound came from inside the cave.

Could there be any wild wolves that haven't left?

If only one or two, you ...... now. Can be handled!

Lu Ning took a deep breath, held his breath, and slammed to the entrance of the cave and raised his axe.

However, the sight inside the lair surprised him.

Inside were the wreckage of prey—not that Lu Ning had expected, but rather that he had come for them.

However, among the wreckage, there was a living monster.

The wild monster probably only looked like a juvenile, not as tall as Lu Ning's calves, covered in black and white fur, cat-like and dog-like, and had two short horns on its head.

The young beast crouched on the ground beside an adult monster with black and white fur, also with black and white fur.

Lu Ning cautiously stepped forward to take a look.

It turned out that this was not a bitter drama where the parents died and the young beast was helpless-

In fact, the adult creep, while similar in color, is not supposed to be of the same species - meaning that unless the creatures of this planet do not follow the biological common sense summarized by Blue Starfish, the wreckage could never be the parents of the young beast.

However, judging from the wild monsters such as snow leopards and wild wolves encountered before, this world should not be much different from the blue starfish in terms of the reproduction and inheritance of racial characteristics.

It is estimated that this little guy was lost with his relatives, or was abandoned, and found this place when he was looking for his parents everywhere and then recognized the mistake......

"And such a stupid monster......"

Lu Ning couldn't help but be speechless for a while.

The young beast cried for a long time, and then, as if it had just found Lu Ning standing here, suddenly stopped howling, straightened its body, and scratched its head with its eyes wide, as if it had found something that made it subvert its worldview.

Lu Ning didn't have time to take care of the young beast, and he began to clean up all kinds of wreckage in this lair.

It can be seen that the wild wolves left in a hurry, and a considerable number of the carcasses of these prey have not been eaten at all, and have basically been bitten to death and dragged here, and then never moved.

But it was cheap, Lu Ning - he couldn't help but grin to the root of his ears, and he ran around three times, bringing all the wreckage back to camp.

"It was a real surprise."

Lu Ning returned to the camp and counted the prey he had dragged back.

"One, two, three...... Fifteen, sixteen, ten...... Why did you come with me? ”