Chapter 48: Home Again
The next day, after a brief meal, Iron Fang, Iron Wood and Sally went to the grove to cut down trees.
The good news, because it's not far from the farm, there are no monsters in the grove, and the few of them are safe, but they still have to watch out for snakes, insects, rats, ants and other creatures.
Lu Xi is doing today's challenge task on the farm, and it is already the fifth day of the challenge task, and Mao Xi flies out from time to time to take a look at the state of the three people, so as not to really have an accident.
Cross's group still has two days to go, and they will probably be able to reach here tomorrow afternoon, and the distance from the Spirit Farm is already close, and it takes Xiao Yuan less than ten minutes to run over each time.
Lu Xi hasn't been to them again, it's not that she's busy, but it doesn't seem to make sense to go, and she can't help more, so it's better to let them hurry with peace of mind.
As for things like food, it can be completely carried by Xiao Yuan, and it can be regarded as a whole worry about Xiao Yuan.
In fact, it cares more about the life and death of this group of humans than Lu Xi.
There is an organization on the earth called the "Animal Protection Society", which mainly empathizes with certain animals with real feelings, and Xiaoyuan, or most of the silver wolves, they can completely set up a "Human Protection Association".
It's hard to find out what makes Silver Wolves so fond of humans, but they do really like humans.
After completing all the challenge tasks in the afternoon, Lu Xi's level rose to level 25 and he received a large number of materials that are not currently useful.
I took a look at the side quests that have not yet been completed: "Side Quest - House Maintenance", "Side Quest - Special Guest", "Side Quest - Beautiful Music", "Side Quest - Tavern", "Side Quest - Placement".
The side quest of residential maintenance requires that all the functional facilities in the house be repaired to the point where they can be used, including the side room and the basement, but these two require Lu Xi to reach a certain level before they can be unlocked, and there is no urgency.
The side quest of special guests is long-term, and the requirement is to place catnip every day and have a good relationship with the attracted guests, which Lu Xi does every day, needless to say.
The side quest of beautiful music, Lu Xi has been entrusted to Peter, she just needs to listen to the music materials collected by Peter every day, anyway, the materials she collected will be deleted by Peter, so she still doesn't ask for trouble.
The side quest of the tavern is to ask Lu Xi to build a tavern in the Spirit Farm, the kind that is open and has customers, Lu Xi has no clue yet, but the arrival of Cross and others has given her some inspiration.
Placement of this side quest is what Lu Xi is currently doing, and when Kroos and them all arrive, and then they are all settled, this task will be completed, and there will be other follow-up tasks later, and the content is inseparable from Kroos, so you can complete it slowly.
Let's take a look at the item "Treasure Map" in the backpack that will inevitably trigger side quests.
Lu Xi found that if he wanted to be idle, he would be really idle, but if he wanted to be busy, he would have to do all kinds of side quests.
After hesitating between the two, Lu Xi went to Xinwa Village to supervise the work very happily.
can easily do tasks and have time to rest, why force herself to be as busy as clocking in every day, anyway, even if she does the task slowly, there is no punishment, right?
Lu Xi intuitively felt that the rain this time would not be too light, so he didn't think about building that kind of small wooden shed, but planned to build a large, sturdier and less prone to accidents.
Eight pieces of wood of similar length, nailed into the ground half a meter deep, and tied up and down with ropes to prevent any wood from falling unsteadily.
On the top of the roof, a rope the thickness of an adult man's thumb is used to erect a lattice-like roof, and a large piece of cloth sewn from cotton cloth is first spread, the corners are fixed, and then some fillers are laid on it, mostly light and unsinkable objects.
The first is to play the role of some cold protection and warmth, and the temperature drops greatly when it rains, and the second is to increase the ability to prevent rain, which can play a buffering effect and avoid the cloth on the roof of the shed from being damaged by heavy rain.
In order to avoid too much rainwater from being stored on the upper area, the roof of the shed was deliberately made high on one side and low on the other.
The four walls must also be fenced, but fortunately, it is not troublesome to sew the cotton cloth, and there are more than a dozen people sewing together, and there is no shortage of cotton cloth.
So the shape of the wooden shed was quickly completed, and the corners were pressed with stones on the outside, and the circle was pressed to the full.
The three of them dug a lot of soil from other places, raised the ground inside the shed, and the rainwater from the province entered the shed, and the wooden board given by Lu Xi was used to pave a layer on it, which was a bit like a modern wooden floor.
In the middle of the room, there are not wooden boards, but several stones, and there is a place for cooking on a fire.
It's just that Lu Xi looked at the tightly covered wooden shed, and couldn't help but think, if this is a fire to cook when it rains, and the smoke can't escape, wouldn't it be easy to be poisoned.
So I picked a few positions and let them open a few "windows", a curtain outside, when necessary, they can be opened for ventilation, and they can also be lowered to shelter from the wind and rain.
Because it has to accommodate more than 50 people to enter and exit, the door is a little bigger, and even the wet can barely get in.
It's still not enough for the three of them to be busy, especially when it's close to night, the wind suddenly gets a lot stronger, and there is a kind of depression about to come.
So Lu Xi went to Cross to deliver some raincoats, and sent three more people over in advance, and the six of them discussed it, and they didn't rest much all night, and finished most of the work all night, leaving only odd jobs.
Of course, Lu Xi would not be supervising the work all night, so he returned to the farm and slept normally, and when he woke up, he saw a dim light outside the window.
When I walked out of the house, the rain had fallen, and the ground was wet.
However, it is obvious that the heavy rain is still gathering strength, and it is only a small hors d'oeuvres at this time.
The challenge on the sixth day had no impact and was released as usual.
Xiao Yuan and Mao Hao are not on the farm, and they sense through the Demon Pet Contract that the two cubs are in the direction of Kroos's location, and they are not too far away.
Thinking that it should be the abnormal weather last night, so Cross and the others didn't dare to stay, stayed up all night to hurry, and only then did they walk to the location near the Spirit Farm in the morning.
In about two or three hours, they can walk to the address of Xinwa Village that Luxi chose for them.
Xiao Yuan cared about those people, and it was understandable that he ran to check on their situation in the morning, but he didn't know how he went with him.
For the human beings outside Lu Xi, Mao Hao's perception is not good, and there are only two kinds of human beings in Mao Hao's eyes, Lu Xi and human beings outside Lu Xi.
It's just that Lu Xi wasn't very curious, and after completing a few challenge tasks in a raincoat, he ran back in the heavier and heavier rain.
Lu Xi looked at the figure flying in the sky, and unconsciously began to think, flying like this on a rainy day, will it really not be struck by lightning?
However, in terms of the dragon's physique, it shouldn't be a big problem to be struck by lightning a few times.
When he stood aggrievedly at the door to hide from the rain, Lu Xi found that there was no shed or anything like that in the yard to shelter from the rain.
Such a large yard, except for some workbench facilities, is a piece of farmland, but it looks very empty, and it is time to arrange some scenes.
While thinking about these things, Lu Xi was doing the challenge task of planting specific seeds, and at the same time listening to Mao Hao "explain" what happened this morning.
It turned out that at about four o'clock in the morning, it began to rain outside, and there were a few lightning strikes and a few thunderbolts.
Lu Xi slept deeply and didn't hear the thunder, but Xiao Yuan and Mao Miao were woken up, and Xiao Yuan thought of Cross and those people as soon as he woke up.
Because of Xiao Yuan's care along the way, they are very close to and reverent of Xiao Yuan's attitude, and sensing the attitude of these people, Xiao Yuan unconsciously regards them as part of his "responsibility".
I couldn't help it at the moment, especially when I thought of the dozen or so human cubs, who were obviously cubs themselves, but they were too worried about the human cubs.
So he lured him to help him and escorted those human cubs to the place in advance, so as not to follow the adults in the rain and get sick from the cold.
Mao Hao is naturally obedient to Xiao Yuan, not to mention that there are benefits promised by Xiao Yuan to take.
Lu Xi didn't see the two of them in the morning, he just went to send those human children, and when he was done, he came back.
And Xiao Yuan stayed to see what else the humans needed their help with.
"Uh, how did you send those kids?" Lu Xi was very curious.
"Take the quilt, wrap it up, grab it and fly." Mao Mao responded to the meaning, but unfortunately it only had two claws, and it flew back and forth several times before it was all delivered.
Lu Xi made up that scene, I don't know why I thought about the evil dragon robbing the princess in the story, and felt that those people agreed to give their children like this, which was really courageous.
Or maybe you don't dare to refuse.
After glancing at the time, Lu Xi returned to the house to prepare lunch, considering that those people were in a hurry in the rain, those people definitely didn't have time to make a fire to cook, so Lu Xi took out some steamed buns stored in his backpack before and prepared to bring them over.
Thanks to the game backpack, these steamed buns come out in the same state as when they were put in, and as soon as they are taken out, the heat comes out.
It also saves Luxi the trouble of heating up again.
When Lu Xi met Cross and them, they were already less than ten kilometers away from the location of Xinwa Village.
If the weather had been good, they would have already arrived, but it was a pity that the wind and rain had been blowing since last night, and the ground had become even more wet and muddy, and it would be too laborious to walk, and I am afraid that it would be a few hours of walking.
Fortunately, more than a dozen children have been sent to the place in advance, and the overall speed of the journey has not been slowed down much.
Lu Xi didn't talk nonsense, handed over the steamed buns to Cross, and asked him to divide them, and the group of people stopped for less than ten minutes, replenished their strength, and continued to hurry.
With the replenishment of food, the state of this group of people is also significantly better, and it is expected that there will be no major problems.
Of course, the most important thing is that their group of people are wearing raincoats produced by the system, which has a strong rainproof effect, and they are not wet by the rain, and their natural physical condition will not be too bad.
Lu Xi and Mao Hao went to Xinwa Village to check the situation again, Xiao Yuan is currently here, it may be that there are more than a dozen human cubs in its heart who need to be taken care of more than those adults.
The wooden shed has been erected, and the size inside is very spacious, at least fifty people can be accommodated when lying down normally.
A fire had risen in the middle of the place, and a dozen or so children were roasting around the fire, and under the care of Xiao Yuan, they did not get too close.
A few older children took the initiative to take care of the younger children, and those who watched this scene were very pleased.
The six adults were not in the wooden shed, they went to the grove to get firewood.
I don't know how long it will rain again, but the fire for cooking and heating every day is indispensable, and while the rain has just fallen, a lot of wood has not been wet, and storing some firewood in advance can also save a lot of things.
Lu Xi didn't do anything, he gave a few children some food to eat, and looked at the sturdiness of the wooden shed, but he didn't see any problems, so he went back to continue his challenge task.
The rainy weather also had an impact on her, slowing down the completion of many challenging tasks.
By the time the last challenge was completed, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening, and the heavy rain outside was like beans, and it hurt to hit the body.
The sky was even darker, there was no light, it was extremely dark, just looking outside, I couldn't help but be afraid.
Lu Xi was in the house on the farm, and he could only hear some small rain, but he didn't have much confidence in those who stayed in the wooden shed.
I was afraid that the wooden shed would not be strong, and I was worried that the cotton cloth soaked in the juice of the rain mushrooms would not be able to protect against the rain.
In addition, Xiao Yuan stayed in Xinwa Village and did not come back, Lu Xi still put on a raincoat, took a rain hat, and took an umbrella, and ran with Mao Hao.
If you don't look at it, it's hard to feel at ease.
Fortunately, Xinwa Village is only two or three kilometers away from Lingyu Farm, and it will soon be there.
The raindrops fell on the wooden shed, making a thumping sound, but because there were a lot of things in the middle of the roof to fill in, the actual rain sound heard inside was not very loud.
The rainproof effect of the rain mushroom juice soaked cotton cloth is also very good, there is no sign of leakage, you can see a small window open in the direction of the back rain, and from time to time there is fine smoke emitted, and it is watered by the rain.
Faintly, from the outside, you can see the figures projected by the firelight around them, probably having dinner.
Lu Xi didn't go in, and quickly let Mao Hao fly back again, and it didn't take a few minutes in total.
Xiao Yuan suddenly got up and raised his head in the wooden shed, but after a while, it fell down again.
Cross had been paying attention to this, looking in the direction of Xiao Yuan's head, and all he could see was the white cotton walls, but his mind was spinning quickly.
Almost immediately, I thought of "Miss Lucy", and was about to ask if Miss Lucy was coming, but when I saw Xiao Yuan lying down again, she closed her mouth again.
I couldn't help but look at all the places in this wooden shed.
Near the door, a few wooden boards were put to block the door, and a stone was moved and placed there, the wind and rain were too strong, there was no heavy anything, and the door was easily blown open.
Probably there is a lot of in and out, and there is a lot of rain near the door, but fortunately, the space inside is not small, even if the space at the door is empty, it is enough for everyone to rest.
A little more on the side, there is a lot of firewood, which is enough to burn for three or four days, so as not to worry about running out of firewood at night.
A few young and vigorous young men were in the outermost part of the room near the door, but because they had a few quilts, they leaned against each other, and there was a fire in the middle to keep warm.
There was a large place in the middle of the fire, with several pots set up, and a little further away from the fire, there was a pile of wet clothes that had been dried.
Many of the stripped people were huddled under the covers, surrounded by light-hearted laughter.
Obviously, this is not a good place, but everyone is a little relieved.
Cross thought, maybe it was because they had a "home" again.
I thought it was my own reason recently.
Later, it turned out that oh, it turned out to be a nationwide flu outbreak again.
Hehe, I'm sick once.