Chapter 22 Capturing the Mutated Leech Baby

  Chapter 22 Capturing the mutant leech cubs

  . Ten percent increase in strength.

  What kind of black technology is this?

  But then again, is this thing considered candy or a stimulant?

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

  ”It lasts for 10 hours.”

  The 10% gain effect looks pretty good. Even a tenth of the strength at a critical moment is enough to turn the tide of the battle.

  But eating a lollipop before a battle…

  doesn’t go well with the image of Wu Yzu, the iron-blooded tough guy.

  And it’s unknown when it will take effect.

  After thinking about it, Chu Guang decided to keep it for now. Having

  one more trump card in hand is never a bad thing.

  …

  The next morning.

  The players went online as scheduled.

  Although they were exhausted from work in reality during the day, they were exhausted after going online, and they were full of energy and vigor.

  Lao Bai’s cement kiln was completely dry.

  He and Kuangfeng went to the construction site on the map, pulled dozens of kilograms of limestone back with a cart, 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 silicate cement.

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

  In simple terms, it is to crush limestone and mix it with clay and iron filings in a specific proportion, and then heat it to 1450 degrees Celsius in a special kiln for calcination.

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

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

  As long as you do your homework in advance before playing the game, it is much easier than traveling back to ancient times and starting from scratch.

  Considering that this is the first time he has done this thing, Lao Bai chose the simplest formula. The material requirements of this thing are not too harsh, and it can be barely completed with the current conditions of the shelter outpost.

  Relying on his “natural strength”, he swung a hammer to break the stones picked up from the construction site into as many pieces as possible, and then mixed them with clay and iron filings reduced with charcoal, and sent them into the newly completed kiln.

  The charcoal was lit.

  Green smoke slowly rose.

  Fang Chang enthusiastically lent a hand and rubbed the branches tied to the mud plate – this was a simple blower, made of water pipes, bark, and cotton thread, which could send a large amount of air into the kiln to make the charcoal inside burn more fiercely.

  ”How can we determine the temperature in the kiln?”

  ”I don’t know.”

  ”I don’t know???”

  ”What else? Do you have an industrial thermometer? Anyway, don’t talk nonsense, just rub the blower and increase the force to push it in, and it’s done! Oh… I can just get a generator somewhere.”

  ”…”

  Lao Bai sighed while stroking his chin, and Fang Chang was speechless.

  This guy.

  Since he became the “construction team leader”, he has really become more and more like a contractor.

  While rubbing the branches, he was slacking off, wondering where Kuangfeng and Yeshi had gone…

  In fact, not only did they not know, but Chu Guang, the manager, also did not know.

  Although he could confirm whether the players were online or offline, as well as their approximate location and distance through the system, he could not fully grasp the players’ specific coordinates.

  At least not now.

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

  ”Where did you go?”

  Facing the manager’s inquiry, Kuangfeng answered truthfully.

  ”Near the nest of mutant leeches.”

  Chu Guang frowned.

  ”Didn’t I say not to go there?”

  ”We didn’t go in, we just set a trap near the nest… Look, this is a mutant leech cub.”

  Before Kuangfeng could speak, Ye Shi, who was standing beside him, saw that the manager looked unhappy, and was afraid that he would lose his favor if he was slow, so he quickly put the plastic bucket in his hand on the ground to explain.

  Chu Guang took a look in the bucket and found that it was filled with glass bottles, which were filled with palm-sized larvae.

  Their postures were twisted, their deformed mouthparts were retracting and entangled with their companions, just like the tentacles in the book.

  ”Interesting… How did you do it?”

  He had never heard of anyone catching this thing when he was on Bet Street before.

  Although mutant insects are rich in protein, they also have a high content of parasites. They can’t be killed by just throwing them into a pot and boiling them for a while.

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

  ”Blood! We use animal blood to lure them into the glass bottle with bait. Large leeches can’t get in, and small ones can’t get out after squeezing in!”

  Ye Shi said excitedly, and Kuangfeng added two sentences beside him.

  ”These mutant leeches should be foraging at night and retreating to their nests during the day. Except for some bottles that were crushed, these little guys are still in the bottles. I was just planning to give it a try, but I didn’t expect the effect to be so good.”

  Chu Guang touched his chin and nodded.

  ”I see… This is indeed a good idea.”

  No wonder Kuangfeng asked him for some meat from his prey yesterday. It turned out that he was going to use it as bait to catch mutant leech cubs?

  But…

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

  Chu Guang continued to ask Kuangfeng.

  ”I don’t know about leeches, but mutant leeches are definitely inedible.”

  ”I’m not planning to study how to eat it. I’m planning to use it to fish.”

  ”Fishing?”

  ”Yeah,” Kuangfeng nodded, looking slightly excited. “When I was exploring the lake shoreline before, I found some big black birds fishing on the lake! Since there are fish in the lake, we can definitely get food by fishing!”

  What a great idea!

  After hearing what Kuangfeng said, Chu Guang’s eyes lit up.

  In fact, it’s not that he hadn’t tried fishing before. After all, compared to hunting, fishing is much less risky.

  But his fishing skills are really hard to describe. It’s hard to catch fish even with professional fishing gear and bait, not to mention that he doesn’t have 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 settle down by the lake?

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

  After trying several times without success, and even putting the fishing gear that he had spent a lot of time making into it, Chu Guang gave up.

  ”Do you know how to fish?”

  Facing the manager’s question, Kuangfeng was stunned and said.

  ”No… But I checked it online and found that there are such fishing traps. I plan to try to make a few.”

  Although he was not sure whether the NPC could understand what “checked it online” meant, the NPC had no reaction to the previous few times they talked about real things. It should be that the program setting automatically ignores such content, so Kuangfeng just said it directly.

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

  ”Okay, since you know how to catch fish, then this matter will be handed over to you!”

  After receiving the order, Kuangfeng and Ye Shi immediately ran to make traps.

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

  Chu Guang watched them collect some branches and plastic ropes that they had picked up from somewhere, and then squatted in the corner to tinker with them. He

  ignored them. What Chu Guang wanted to study now was how to smoke meat with the tobacco leaves he had bought.

  Yesterday, he followed the method of the survivors on Beth Street, crushed the tobacco leaves and wrapped them on the meat, then slowly baked it with firewood, allowing the tar rich in ketone compounds in the leaves to penetrate into the fat layer of the meat, killing parasites and microorganisms…

  But I don’t know if it’s his illusion, why does it always feel a little smelly?

  ”It shouldn’t be…”

  Chu Guang frowned as he picked up a piece of hind leg meat and smelled it closely.

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

  However, the piece of hind leg meat in his hand was obviously dark red in color, cooked on the outside and raw on the inside, and had a faint smell of decay.

  ”Is the method wrong?”

  (End of this chapter)