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The plot side line of Hogg the Gnoll has been triggered, and it is only an inconspicuous part of the current Gnoll Extermination Campaign, which is in full swing.

At least not yet, it hasn't been able to make waves.

While combat players are busy swiping points in the points pool for rewards, and new players are busy upgrading and engaging in equipment, the game rhythm of administrative professional players has not been affected by the big war that started from the outside.

For example, the chief architect of the Crimson Castle, the Chosen Gray Man, and his roommate's assistant brick movers, they went online early today and rushed to the construction site of the Scarlet Castle.

Today is a very important day for the two of them, as the first three-story "residential building" designed by them is about to rise today.

If this happens, it means that Murphy's reconstruction of the Crimson Keep can really be carried out in the process.

What's more, the construction of this building today is probably the first attempt to adopt a "new construction method" on this continent, and the two "architects" themselves are not confident that this will happen.

"I said, no cement, no measurement, all the drawings for construction, it always feels weird."

On the busy construction site outside the city, the brick mover held a pile of drawings and complained to the equally uneasy ash beaters around him:

"And do you really believe that their 'fossil to mud' spell will work the way we intended? Don't end up with a four-dislike, it will be a shame. ”

"I don't know, if you ask me, I'll ask who to go, and you can't find a senior brother and sister who can build a house with psionic spells in the entire design institute."

The Grey Man sighed for the seventeenth time.

He glanced at the drawings again, and finally shook his head at the "model" that was being erected by the camp workers in front of him.

That's a model!

The three-story design is now only the first floor, and the main body of the model is fixed with long wooden planks and wedges, just like children playing with Lego, and they start from the foundation according to the two design drawings they have made.

The four planks are joined together with reserved wedges and grooves to form a "hollow column" that supports the structural strength of the entire floor.

Because it was an experiment, the gray beaters and brick movers did not build exactly the number of ten rooms on the first floor of the plan as soon as they got started.

They made a three-room parallel, and led the workers to spend four full days to get the whole model ready, and now from the outside, this is a qualified boxy "wood house".

Workers standing on a ladder are "capping" it.

They put the hollow slabs that had been assembled on the site on top of the square house according to the pre-drawn positions, and reserved interfaces to connect its internal space with the hollow pillars below, forming a "hollow structure" protected by wooden planks.

Because of the need to ensure the structural strength of the house, the gray beaters and brick movers made these "wood molds" quite thick, which is basically equivalent to the thickness of standard concrete walls and floor slabs.

This makes the footprint of this wooden "model" in front of you look quite large.

"Yo, this 'building block toy' is really good."

The three old buddies who were the first to try the administrative profession came to the construction site.

They commented on the "house mold" being built in front of them, and the mud truck also asked very humbly:

"So, are you going to build a house in a way similar to 'pouring'? I've heard you say before that you first get a mold for a house, and then let the psionist use the spell of fossils to clay to reshape the shape of the stone, let the stone slurry flow into the mold and finally fix it, and then remove the external mold to form a standard room? ”

"Yes, the principle is like this, it is similar to the mainstream method used at our construction site, but there is no reinforcement here."

The brick movers sighed and said:

"Although I have questioned Lady Triss and received a positive answer, to be honest, we don't know if it will be successful. Theoretically, though, as long as the psionist can ensure that the slurry flows evenly in the house mold and shapes quickly, it will be fine. ”

"Sounds pretty convenient."

The forkliftman struck and rubbed his chin and said:

"If that works, wouldn't you be able to 'duplicate' similar houses over and over again with a set of mold templates? Theoretically, as long as there is enough stone and the psyker can hold it, the construction of the residential area can be completed in a month. ”

"How can it be so fast!"

The ash man complained:

"It takes time to design and make the mold, and the workers are not skilled in assembling it, and most importantly, no one knows if the structural strength of this thing can hold up three floors. Wouldn't it be the end if it collapsed?

This is just the beginning, and there are still many testing processes to be done in the future.

And even if it can be done, this modular construction method can only be used as a basic building, and can only be made into a boxy or geometric structure, and you want to fill in the specific functions of the floor or do the work on the architectural details and have to be processed later.

That's a lot of wasted time.

We are looking for stonemasons, but this profession is a 'high-tech talent' in Translasia, and it is difficult to find a suitable one, so we can only choose from ordinary workers and start training. ”

"You think long-term."

The old man of the mud truck pouted and said:

"Look at the tents in the camp first, the survivors are thankful that they can live in sheltered houses, who would ask for any patterned statues? That's all something we need to consider when we are developed. ”

"Hey! Do you also have water pipes in the mold of the house? What is that big passage through the floor for? ”

After walking around the construction site, he quickly discovered the uniqueness of the house mold designed by the gray man, and ran to ask:

"I see that the workers have stuffed three wooden piles into the hollow mold, so that there will be no gaps through the floor slab after the mortar is poured? Doesn't that make it less robust? ”

"It's going to be weakened, but it's not going to cause structural problems, and we've calculated it over and over again with 3D modeling."

The Ash Beater explained:

"The reserved holes will later become 'underfloor heating', and we have designed a matching steam and hot water pipeline for these residential buildings, so that in the winter, a super-large boiler equipment will be used to continuously provide hot water flowing through these holes, and we can achieve 24-hour 'central heating'.

Of course, this kind of soil heating can not regulate the temperature, and the heat transfer efficiency of the stone is very poor, it is estimated that there is a degree of better than nothing, and it can barely ensure that the temperature in the house will not be lower than the limit of a frozen person.

It even has the side effect of dampness, and it needs to be reinforced with psionic spells once a year to avoid water seepage.

But if this happens, then I can proudly assure Mistress Murphy that his people won't freeze to death this winter. ”

"! Awesome! ”

When the other three brothers heard the explanation and introduction of the gray man, they immediately gave a thumbs up and shouted 666, but after shouting, the eldest mud car Juhe blinked his eyes and said to the gray man and the brick movers:

"Haven't you young people heard of something called 'kang'? To make a small kang for each house, it is nothing more than a matter of adding a chimney, plus your local method of central heating, not to mention freezing to death this winter, I guess these survivors don't need to wear cotton clothes in the house. ”

“6！”

The brick mover's eyes lit up, grabbed the design drawing, opened it, and said:

"I'll add it, it's still an old buddy who is well-informed."

"That's it."

The three old brothers laughed and began to brag and chat again, and half an hour later, the "capping" of the workers ended, and a boxy wooden house mold stood in front of everyone's eyes.

Lady Triss and Master Murphy were also invited.

A group of workers were immediately frightened when they saw the lord coming, and they gathered around the construction site and whispered.

Although the Chosen Grey Man is very popular in the camp, and they all know that this young man is a very knowledgeable person, but this method of building a house is the first time they have seen it for the first time, and everyone hopes to see if they can get a result from the busyness of the past few days?

"Well, this mold is well done, so delicate."

Tracey, who had wrapped herself tightly and was still a little sleepy, circled around the mold of the house, and came back and whispered to Murphy:

"It's like the work of an old craftsman, with years of experience and craftsmanship to design such an elaborate hollow mold, but your warriors are so young, to be honest, I don't believe they are all geniuses.

So that's what you told me earlier, the magic of their 'super library' that is unique to that world? ”

"I didn't say that thing was called a 'super library,' that's how you understand it."

Murphy maintained the proper smile expected of an NPC, and replied with onomatopoeia:

"But it does have all the features of a super library you can imagine, and if they want to and have some search skills, they can find everything they need in it.

There weren't that many geniuses in their world.

But by our standards, all of them are geniuses, with endless knowledge waiting to be grabbed and exploited, and the only thing that limits them from becoming masters in a certain field is self-discipline and perseverance to learn.

However, this is the hardest part, no matter what the world is. ”

"What a miracle and a miracle that is unimaginable."

Tracey sighed:

"If only we had something similar here."

"Yes!"

Murphy reached out and patted Tracey's wrist lightly, and he said:

"The matrix of halflings' orbs of computation has touched that realm, and as long as they continue to develop, something similar will be born here. Tracey, you can join in if you want.

But now I need you to help my warriors build this house, and we can see their toil and efforts.

They desperately need some positive feedback, and we desperately need a building method that can be quickly replicated in our realm to ensure that our realm doesn't lose a bad luck or two when the snow arrives.

I don't want to see my tragedy happen to anyone else, after all, not everyone can meet a beautiful vampire lady on a winter night. ”

"But you can do that, Murphy, you're also a full-fledged psican, and fossils into mud aren't a difficult skill, and with the dwarves, it's even considered a trick."

Tracy glanced at Murphy.

She shook her head and stepped forward, flipping her fingers to take the luxurious Serenade Scepter in her hand, and gently moved forward.

The stones that had been prepared in advance and piled up around the mold were immediately "captured" by the shaking psionic energy and lifted into the air, and in the precise manipulation of the earth's psionic energy, the solid rock quickly "melted" in front of the eyes of the little players.

Its physical form was temporarily transformed into fluid slurry, and under the manipulation of Tracey, it was pushed from all sides by an invisible hand into the hole reserved for the mold of the house.

It's like a liquid flowing.

The stone slurry continues to move forward along the geometric "channels" created by the hollow wooden planks, filling every space.

This scene was like mercury pouring on the ground, and the fluid magma made a pleasant rushing sound under the action of gravity, like a delicate container being filled little by little, from the hole in the ground to the foundation built in the same way below, and then quickly changed from fluid back to cold and solid rock in the retreat of Trace's time.

But their form has been permanently altered by the constraints of the plank mold.

The entire casting process lasted five minutes.

This is still the result of Tracey's personal manipulation by the psionic master, and if she is replaced by an ordinary psionic master or a psionic apprentice, this process will be extended.

But to tell the truth, the ash man originally imagined that the house would not be "formed in one piece", he would follow the repeated process from foundation to pillar to capping, and complete the construction of the house according to strict standards.

Today's experiment is just to verify whether the "rapid construction" designed by himself and the brick movers can take effect, of course, it is difficult to say that it is their originality, after all, it is the same cement pouring method when building high-rise buildings in real society.

It's just that here it's replaced with a more mysterious psionic means.

"That's it!"

Tracey stopped casting, and as the psionic vibrations subsided, she brushed her hair, turned to the agitated gray beaters and brick movers, and said:

"All the space in your molds has been filled with stone slurry, they have solidified, go ahead, remove the outer molds and see your work."

"Up! Tear it down! ”

The excited ash beater gave an order, and the workers, who had long been unable to bear it, immediately stepped forward to disassemble the outer layer of wood mold.

The three older men also ran to help, but the internal mold had been sealed into the molded house structure according to the design of the ash beater when the stone slurry had set, and they only needed to remove the external mold to see the real condition of the house.

Dismantling and dismantling, Brother Shovel, who is always sober in the world, suddenly patted his head and said:

"Alas! We don't have to tear down the external planks! After you dismantle them, you still have to paint and tile the wall, so you might as well just keep it, and use the wooden board to make a 'protective layer' for the outer layer of the wall, whether it is painted or reprocessed in the future, it is not stronger than you work the stone? ”

"That's right!"

The ash beaters patronized and excited.

Hearing Brother Shovel's words, he immediately thought it was true, and ordered the workers not to remove the planks, and he himself grabbed a sledgehammer in front of everyone, and walked to the wall.

He glanced at the brick movers, who nodded vigorously at him.

So the gray man took a deep breath, swung his sledgehammer and smashed it against the wall in front of him.

This is to test the sturdiness of the molded room, and there is also a full insurance half-hanging next to him to "dub":

"Eighty! Eighty! Eighty! ”

"Damn, how am I going to test it?"

The gray man who smashed three hammers in a row was laughed at, and he put down the hammer and cursed.

But everyone was looking at the wall in front of them, and the three hammers smashed the planks, revealing the flat rock layer inside, without any chipping and peeling.

This is not much worse than concrete, after all, the stone from Translancia itself is not bad.

"Get out of the way!"

Triss in the back said.

She kept everyone away, and smashed it with a heavy blow of psionic energy, and with a loud bang, the newly built house was shattered by a third of the spiritual energy, as if it had been hit by a bomb.

"Ahh

The brick mover slapped the dust flying in front of him, and said very disappointedly:

"It doesn't look like it's sturdy."

"No way?"

Tracey smiled and explained:

"With the destructive power of this spell, ordinary houses would have been razed outright, but you've got more than half of your building left, and it's proven to be stronger than the buildings before Cadman City.

Congratulations, warriors.

You've invented a pretty powerful 'swift construction technique'. ”

"Ah, I should give you enough rewards, and I will satisfy you whatever you want."

Murphy stepped forward and took Trace's hand, and he said to the gray beaters and brick movers in front of him:

"Your efforts have laid solid hope for the future of the Crimson Keep, and from now on, our rebuilding will no longer be on paper, and you will have your hands set for the next two months. In addition to building settlements for the survivors, I need you to build sufficiently strong houses for my subjects in the five predetermined collective farms.

It's going to be a big job!

But I'm sure you'll do it well. ”

"Ding"

The Gray Man's Orb of Arithmetic made a soft sound, and he looked down and exclaimed:

"I've passed the administrative trial, and I'm now the official village chief! How does this class quest called 'Rise of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons' feel weird? I'm not named Van Cleef, and I really want me to design and build a new city?

Mother, this really can't be done! ”

(End of chapter)