I can downgrade maintenance

Chapter 2 Arcane Artisan
Li Ke woke up slowly, blinked, and sat up in a jerk.

The soreness in the muscles all over her body made her frown and grit her teeth.

She knew that this was the result of excessively squeezing flesh and blood during the previous fight and escape.

She also knew that the soreness was better than the previous numbness. It at least showed that the muscles had relaxed and recovered to a certain extent.

Mental recovery is undoubtedly more important than physical recovery.

She had experienced auditory and visual hallucinations before. The situation was already very dangerous, but she needed to guard against evil beasts, so she had to exert herself and tense her nerves.

This sleep is indeed very necessary, but she can't easily forgive Zhou Ning's behavior because of this.

"Too reckless, too self-righteous! In case evil beasts attack..."

I looked around, and I didn't see Zhou Ning's people, obviously they went out to collect survival resources.

"After all, it's because I'm too incompetent!" Li Ke sighed, leaned closer to Erya, and looked at her situation.

It was bad, the fever was persistent, and my lips were peeling from thirst.

But there is no way, the kettle, lunch box and the like were lost while fleeing for his life, and without the cooperation of the Yang Qi Talisman, he dared not use the rainwater at all, especially the water after landing.

"Huh?" Li Ke noticed something unusual.

The ground that should have been glowing with a faint dark green light turned gray, as if it had been sprinkled with a layer of plant ash.

Moreover, this kind of continuous rain will greatly increase the yin qi, further causing the turbid air to rise up, and the evil poison in the ground and even the air should be heavier, but now...

She naturally noticed the campfire at the entrance of the cave.

The campfire consists of a few stones to build the outer frame, and ten tree roots of different thicknesses form the main body of the fire, and the inside is burning red.

It is very common to blink, but it is full of indescribable charm when you look closely.

It seems to be a landscape bred by nature, which makes people feel that it should be so, and at the same time, it is refreshing.

It seemed that it was because of the waves of heat emitted by the campfire that drove away the evil spirits and purified the land.Not only in this shallow stone cave, but even the outside world has been roasted into a piece of purified soil with a radius of three to four meters, which is very unusual, especially now that it is still raining.

"Such a rich and pure power of Yang Yan, could it be that Zhou Ning used some trump card? This kid, even if he has such a trump card, he should save it until night..."

Li Ke muttered, she realized that Zhou Ning was wrongly blamed before, with such a campfire seal, there is a high probability that evil beasts will not approach.

She hugged Erya into her arms, and used her limbs to isolate the earth's qi.

Although the land was purified by the sun, it was still cold.

Since evil beasts dare not approach, she doesn't need to be prepared to fight at any time.

At the same time, she also has greatly increased expectations for Zhou Ning's material collection operation.

As dusk approached, Zhou Ning came back in full beard and tail.Holding a clumsy stone pot as an umbrella.

Li Ke breathed a sigh of relief, but said unforgivingly: "You son of a bitch, your wings are stiff..."

"Big sister, when I finish the work at hand, I will accept the punishment!" Zhou Ning said and began to toss.

I saw him throw down the stone pot, assemble a stone pick with lightning speed, plan the hole in the stone with a few bangs, and dig out a few stones.

Immediately, he placed stones around the campfire, set up a stone pot, and poured some unknown grass stalks, rhizomes, and mushrooms into it, chanting: 4 wild apples, 8 berries, 4 mushrooms...

Then he brandished a stone pick to dig a cave.

I don't know what kind of tricks Zhou Ning has mastered. In short, it looks easy and efficient. In just a short while, the stone cave has doubled in size.

After that, Zhou Ning began to build a fireplace.

To him, those large and small stones that were dug out before are like building block parts that he has played with thousands of times, and each piece knows how to use it best.

Li Ke saw Zhou Ning create a hollow effect more than once, and soon after, he used a newly picked up stone to fill the hollow part, and the seam fit perfectly...

"This... the secret craftsman?"

Li Ke originally wanted to help, but Zhou Ning's smooth operation made her realize that her joining would only add to the chaos.

As the sun set, Zhou Ning's construction also came to an end.

3 x 3 x 2, the unit is meter. On the basis of the original stone cave, Zhou Ning roughly excavated such an open stone house.

Then use the fireplace as a wall to cover most of the opening, leaving only a gap of about 1.3 meters for access and ventilation.

He used a mixture of mud, gravel, grass stalks, and moss to tightly plug the gaps in the fireplace wall.Turned the campfire into it again, and stuffed some bush resin to help it burn.

Soon, the furnace was full of fire, and Li Ke felt as if he had invited the spirit of fire to live in the furnace. The stone was burned red, and the heat wave surged, making it impossible to stay in the stone house.

But after this wave of burning has passed, the stone house is comparable to a 'cooked house'.

It is the kind of place where people live for a long time, dry and ventilated, and filled with yang.

By this time, Li Ke had naturally fully understood Zhou Ning's intentions.

A mature house is the most basic facility to resist all evil spirits.

She reminded: "There is still a door left."

"Well, there's still time, so I'll treat Er Ya's injury first, so we can't delay any longer." Zhou Ning took out a small wooden bowl from his back basket as he spoke.

Judging from its appearance, it is made of clever use of the natural structure of the wooden button, and there is a special charm in the simplicity.Inside, there is a sludge-like substance, and when it rises a little, it smells like herbs.

"This is……"

"Trust me, I can't harm Erya, time waits for no one, I will explain in detail later."

Li Ke nodded and assisted Zhou Ning to apply medicine to Erya's wound.

Afterwards, Zhou Ning used a simple wooden shovel to shovel a piece of jelly-like sticky substance from the stone pot into a container woven with grass leaves.

"I'll eat two yuan first, so I can work hard. There are still two yuan in the pot, which belongs to you and Erya." After saying that, he began to eat with big mouthfuls.

Li Ke frowned when she saw it. When she saw Zhou Ning cooking, she had some guesses, but even now, she couldn't help muttering in her heart: "Is that stuff edible?"

A quarter of an hour later, the law of true fragrance was once again demonstrated by facts.

The straw mushroom pizza is not only edible, but also tastes good.

Among them, it is called wild apple, but it is actually just a kind of grass-stalked food, with the chewy Q-like chewiness of squid.

And the so-called berries bring a cheesy, tangy brushed finish, only fruity.

The only real mushroom tastes like chicken drumsticks!It's really strange!
Following Zhou Ning's instructions, Li Ke also found the water bag from the straw basket.

It seems to be made of aerial roots. The mouth of the thumb-thick hose is plugged with a cork, and the bottom of the soft sac, which is as flexible as an animal stomach bag, is tied into a dead button...

It was the first time for Li Ke to see such a water sac, and she didn't know how Zhou Ning made it, let alone where the water with a faint grassy smell came from.

But she chose to believe Zhou Ning.

Zhou Ning has shown too many miraculous things today, and there must be reasons for these, Zhou Ning promised her to explain in detail.

Two slices of straw mushroom pizza provided Zhou Ning with 50 points of satiety and restored 10 points of mental strength. The price/performance ratio was not bad.

This is the benefit of playing 'Famine' games. Knowing that ingredients + kitchen utensils = cooking food is much more effective than eating a single ingredient raw or cooked.

It's just that the straw mushroom pizza has an excellent taste, which is a small surprise for Zhou Ning.He was originally prepared to eat bran swallowing vegetables.

With food at the bottom, Zhou Ning hurried back and forth, and finally at night, he built a poor-quality wooden door, as well as crudely made fence gates and fence walls.

At this time, don't ask whether it is good or bad, just ask for it.

As soon as the fence was erected around the edge of the land purified by the campfire, the goldfinger sound of the wolf howling, which represented the fall of night, sounded.

Immediately afterwards, the fog swept in.

This fog is like thousands of monsters wearing exaggerated cloaks, coming in groups, giving people the characteristics of "alive".

Zhou Ning hurriedly 'placed' a torch that had been rubbed out in advance on the ground.

This 'placement' action is not unusual for inserting on the ground, but a kind of spell-casting operation with very technical content.

So, the light of the torches added to the fence, and the thick fog was kept out of the fence.

That kind of effect is like using a glass cylinder to buckle a piece of dry land without water intrusion in the washbasin.

"Damn!" Zhou Ning felt a sense of survival after successfully preventing the bomb from exploding at the last second. He lay on his back relaxed on the ground for a long time before dragging his tired body into the stone house.

'Boom! 'The thick darkness was shut out.

(End of this chapter)