Li Cang slept soundly, and Big Corpse Bro didn't need to rest.
Although due to his long-lost wild dad—
Hmm, let's use a more polite term.
Although Big Corpse Bro was forced to inherit the bizarre bone hyperplasia disease due to his cheap adoptive father's poverty, he was not at all sloppy when it came to work.
After a night of work, the entire yard had been tidied up.
Wood, bricks, tiles, shattered furniture dug out from the ruins, etc., were neatly piled into several garbage heaps, along with a nearly new diesel generator that was buried in the ruins but mostly undamaged, and half a barrel of gasoline.
Ecstasy!
Didn't this just leap from the Stone Age directly into the Electrical Age?
Even a chosen one couldn't be better than this!
Hmm.
What the heck?
Something seemed off.
Diesel generator—gasoline??
Damn it!
The original ground of the house was paved with very thick bluestone slabs, which were still very intact; although there were a few crisscrossing ground cracks, they didn't affect use at all and didn't need to be repaved.
He directed Big Corpse Bro to dig soil and mix mud, preparing to rebuild the house.
The reserved rainwater was running low, so they had to simplify things a bit, trying to hand-stack the huge bluestone blocks as much as possible, filling the gaps with mud mixed with dry grass, which would save a lot of water.
Such a blatant cut in corners resulted in the original main house being built into a side room of a side room.
The house was basically a 6x4m rectangle, with a ceiling height of less than two and a half meters, and the door left was even shorter than Li Cang's height, requiring him to duck to enter.
There was only one window, providing very poor lighting, but this was already the only intact plastic window left.
Two days later, with the iron-framed hospital bed moved inside, Li Cang's new home was completed.
With the door closed, free from the scorching sparks and pungent sulfur smell, Li Cang had his first good dream in days.
He woke up again at noon the next day, awakened by hunger.
Lunch was cabbage and rice porridge; after the yard was completely cleared, Li Cang found a small patch of cabbage under the fallen brick wall.
Among the tender green and pale cabbages were a few standout small oilseed rapes, all of which had stubbornly survived.
Cabbage cooked with rice porridge, with a little oil, salt, and white pepper.
Li Cang ate ravenously; he swore that besides the last meal's cured pork, he had never eaten such delicious food in his life.
After two days of soaking, the corn and soybean seeds were plump and white, most of them already sprouting tender shoots.
At this point, they couldn't be fully submerged in water, so Li Cang found a small piece of old cloth, washed it repeatedly until it was clean, wrapped the seeds in it, then sprinkled them with clean water from the jar, and placed them in a warm, sunny spot to germinate.
They were precious, after all, as they were crucial to the sustainable development plan for the 8*8 and 16*16 Floating Islands.
The clean water in the large water jar was enough for Li Cang to drink for two weeks; accounting for cooking, it might be reduced by a day or two.
As for washing, the rainwater had been completely used up for house repairs, so it was out of the question.
Food, however, was relatively abundant; just the grain retrieved from the kitchen alone could last for more than half a month.
These two days, no other Floating Islands appeared nearby.
Li Cang could only vaguely see the outlines of giant islands, like lonely whales, hidden in the smoke and clouds, which made him envious.
He summoned the praying coin and opened the wishing interface.
Posts were rapidly refreshing:
【At my wits' end, I sacrificed everything I could. I finally found a Floating Island, but it had monsters on it, damn it! I almost died there.】
【Has anyone else encountered zombie monsters? How did those things come about?】
【Those things used to be people! Will we turn into those things if we die?】
【Will being bitten transmit it?】
【Comparing yourself to others is infuriating. There's an island floating a few kilometers from me with a large water tower and a wheat field. I estimate the island owner is a big beauty, heh~】
【Someone save me】
【Sky Island Survival Day 6. Island area 19*21, wooden bunker, 9*6 vegetable patch, inventory of black rye bread * 6, red wine * 19, barley beer 6 cases, various grains. Coordinates are within a 50 km radius of the original Karakorum Mountain peak fragment, and you can also see the nearby Mount Ronsdalve, very obvious. If there are any friends nearby, please private message. Can exchange seeds, grains, bread, red wine, beer for drinking water.】
【Sharing some experience on making simple tools with available resources to kill zombies.】
【Discovered a huge Sky Island, visibly part of a city block, relatively well-preserved, with at least 3 large supermarkets, 1 to 2 pharmacies/clinics, and hardware stores, etc. Conservatively estimated at least 600+ zombies. I have a self-built pontoon bridge and grappling hook. Seeking strong teammates to explore together, 50/50 split on gains. Interested parties private message me.】
【Sacrificed a strange zombie, gained 19 coins. What is this fate coin thing for anyway?】
【Damn it, can this forum add a coordinate function? I have a box of machetes, spent 6 coins to add a 'driving' function to my Floating Island, speed 18 km per hour, been circling for three days, and haven't even encountered a Wild Island with living people, resources, or even zombies!】
Ah, this...
So many ruthless people.
Li Cang immediately threw that smug feeling to the back of his mind.
【Cang: Lao Wang, are you dead?】
【Si Fu Xing He: You son of a monkey, don't call me Lao Wang! Die, my ass, I'm waiting to bring your warm ashes back to whitewash my newly built toilet.】
So the ashes joke just won't die, huh?
【Cang: I think the title Lao Wang suits you very well. By the way, you can add a description function to the wishing interface using fate coins. It's very cheap, only 0.3 coins, the entry is 'add Wish description'.】
Lao Zhong's surname was Zhong, but his well-known nickname in the underworld was Lao Wang.
Think about it, really think about it.
【Si Fu Xing He: Received, you're good, Cang Laoshi!】
【Si Fu Xing He: Yesterday I exchanged eight taels of gold for 16.2 fate coins, don't know if I lost out. Cang, have you encountered zombies?】
【Cang: If you really don't want to call me by name, you can also call me Daddy. Eight taels of gold, did you rob a bank?】
【Cang: Killed one, he's my long-term laborer now, moves bricks very efficiently.】
【Si Fu Xing He: Awesome, awesome, Cang Laoshi, let me tell you, be careful, don't act like your life doesn't matter just because you think you're going to die. I saw on the forum that Wish can even revive dead people, hmm, but only ashes definitely won't work.】
【Cang: Over 6000 fate coins, damn!】
【Si Fu Xing He: .】
【Si Fu Xing He: Ahem, let's not talk about that. There's an idiot on the forum who added a driving function to his Sky Island for 6 fate coins, what a waste. I can just private message you my location and 'navigate' over for only 0.6 coins, tsk tsk, that guy seems pretty dumb~】
【Cang: Is that why your progress bar hasn't budged for six days? A green turtle is a super-charged race car compared to you!】
【Si Fu Xing He: F**k!】
【Si Fu Xing He: That's nitrous oxide! Watch out, your chemistry teacher might bang on your door in the middle of the night!】
【Cang: Is that a good thing?】
Li Cang remembered very clearly that his and Lao Zhong's high school chemistry teacher was a young married woman with a good figure and explosive looks, who was at most twenty-six or twenty-seven when she taught them.
【Si Fu Xing He: Li Lei Si warning!】
【Cang: .】
Li Cang's heart skipped a beat.
He couldn't help but glance at the names that were always dim in his 'friends' list for private messages; Li Lei Si was prominently among them.
【Si Fu Xing He: Oh, by the way, I've been browsing a lot of posts these past few days. Absolutely do not throw away zombie corpses after you kill them! Some lucky guy sacrificed a corpse and got a 'mutated Bloodline bestowal', the effect is that his blood becomes highly toxic to zombies; one drop of blood diluted with a little water can poison an entire reinforced company of zombies. Damn, isn't that a game skill? It's outrageous.】
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