Codex of the Old Gods: I Have a World

He could feel that under the sand, there was an intricate and extremely developed root system, which was as hard and solid as a huge water storage network.

In desert vegetation, the root system is always larger than the exposed part of the soil.

Because of drought, they all have a strong tendency to water, resulting in developed root systems.

They seem to be very thirsty, looking forward to the rain from the sky.

When it was time for Zhao Chuanxin to pour the smelly liquid every day, this desire reached its peak.

It's like livestock, they're domesticated.

On an Elaeagnus jujube tree, Zhao Chuanxin felt a stronger life attribute.

He opened his eyes and saw a black-tailed ground crow hiding in the bushes.

This is the power brought to him by the heart of the Holy Spirit.

He said "Hey", and he didn't expect that in this place where birds didn't poop, a bird finally came to poop.

He walked toward the ground raven.

In the past, the ground crow would have been frightened and fled.

But at this time, when Zhao Chuanxin approached one meter away, the ground crow just looked up curiously, but did not fly away in a hurry.

Zhao Chuanxin leaned over and touched its head, but it didn't even run away.

Zhao Chuanxin stood up and sighed: "Hey, eating game in the future will be too easy and not challenging."

While he was wondering, he saw three thin figures appearing in the distance.

At this time, the temperature at night can also reach above zero, and in the desert during the day it can reach more than 20 degrees, but these three thin bodies are still tightly wrapped by the shabby iron jackets that can stand up on the ground.

Their little faces were dirty, and when they looked at people, their heads were lowered but their eyes were raised. It was an expression of wanting to defend themselves while also seeing strangers clearly.

The leading child was the shortest and had some buck teeth.

Zhao Chuanxin held his waist with both hands and watched as the three children scared the black-tailed crows into flying to the sheep pen and asked, "What do you do for the three of you?"

The buck-toothed kid looked around and saw that no one seemed to be able to speak for him, so he had to muster up the courage and said, "We want to pick up feces."

Zhao Chuanxin looked at where they came from and said in surprise: "Who told you there is excrement here?"

If no one told him, even if he killed Zhao Chuanxin, he wouldn't believe it. Three children could find themselves here.

"Someone told us on the post road."

"Male or female?"

"man."

Since it was not Gulizar's fault, Zhao Chuanxin was suspicious. Could it be that he was targeted by bandits?

But he still pointed to the sheepfold: "There is a yak and two horses there. Don't mess with them, just go and pick them up."

Three children, carrying baskets with shit on their backs, walked towards the sheepfold without saying a word.

Zhao Chuanxin and Guo Tuwa squinted at the three children picking up feces.

Guo Tuwa shook his head: "The shopkeeper doesn't look like the bandit's spy."

"It doesn't matter if it is. We will accept anyone flying from the sky."

"Shopkeeper, Miss Gulizar hasn't been here for a while."

"Oh, that's just right. She doesn't have to pay for food anyway." Zhao Chuanxin looked at the surrounding vegetation: "The most urgent task is how to get some pastures such as Stipa, Carex, and rye. It's really nerve-wracking..."

Guo Tuwa looked at the green grass all around. The temperature in the sky was several degrees lower than elsewhere, and it looked like a desert.

He scratched his head: Do you want to plant grass?

The buck-toothed kid whispered to his companions: "They say we are being watched by bandits. Why don't they avoid us?"

"Shhh...we're just here to pick up excrement, we didn't do anything bad."

"Listen, that man is crazy and wants weeds. I see they have two huts. How about we trade the grass with him for some fertilizer."

For making a fire, cow dung is best because it is rich in fiber and flammable.

Horse manure is poor, too fine and not easy to burn.

Generally, cow dung is used to burn the fire, and then horse dung is thrown into it.

Human feces is taken back to increase fertility in the fields.

The land in the northwest is barren and crops generally do not grow well.

"Go ahead and say it."

"You go."

"Go away."

Finally, the buck-toothed kid ran up to Zhao Chuanxin, raised his head and discussed, "Can we exchange grass for the excrement in your hut?"

Zhao Chuanxin was stunned: "Okay, pick them up after they are dried by the wind. By the way, I want grass with roots, do you know rye? Do you know the grass that cattle and sheep eat?"

"I know." Bucktooth nodded.

When their baskets were full, the buck-toothed child was bent over, but he clenched his teeth and held on. He found Zhao Chuanxin again and said, "Shopkeeper, how many days will we be able to come back? There is still some poop left to pick up."

Zhao Chuanxin and Guo Tuwa looked at each other.

Come on, Guo Tuwa has lost some work again.

Originally he wanted to dig out the hut.

Zhao Chuanxin bared his teeth and said, "Okay, bring the grass in exchange, and remember to bring the roots. By the way, I have three sugar balls here. I'll wrap them in oil paper for you. Take one for each of you when you go back."

Buck Teeth took the greased paper, opened it immediately, stuffed a piece into his mouth, and gave it to his friends.

Zhao Chuanxin looked at their hands covered with cow dung and hesitated to speak, and finally held back his words.

"Shopkeeper, can we exchange for sugar?"

Zhao Chuanxin thought for a while: "In exchange for sugar, you have to exchange seeds, any kind of seeds."

The three children nodded hurriedly and headed south carrying the baskets.

Nikola Tesla emerged from the laboratory and it was time for him to go on foot again.

Nikola Tesla took a deep breath of the air that smelled of green grass: "Zhao, the most outstanding thing you have done is to make this place full of green."

"Wrong. What I do best is that I can quickly clean up the piles of dung."

There is a lack of dung beetles here, no creatures to help decompose...

Those cow dung can fertilize the land, but with the old divine chamber pot, there is no need for other fertilizers.

Zhao Chuanxin thought of the black-tailed crow, so he went to a piece of sand surrounded by plants near the bushes and built a small rock lake.

Of course, the lake is barely there, only as big as a small swimming pool and only one meter deep.

Zhao Chuanxin emptied the secret realm, filled it with water and poured it into it.

It looks like a small lake in the desert.

Guo Tuwa had to remind: "Shopkeeper, the water level in our well has dropped a lot, and the water pump cannot pump it up."

The water pump was jointly built by Zhao Chuanxin and Nikola Tesla.

Zhao Chuanxin served as the tool, and Nikola Tesla commanded.

The pipes and sealed chambers are all made of fused quartz glass, with only a small amount of rubber used as sealing rings.

Zhao Chuanxin waved his hand: "No problem, it will be restored later."

Farming is addictive.

For example, expand the green planting area.

Today, one meter of sand fixing and wind protection will be expanded. Tomorrow, a few grains of sand will be swept away in front of the center's sky flying door.

Now, every morning, Guo Tuwa only needs to deal with it perfunctorily.

But the more this happened, Zhao Chuanxin wished that the sky and the surrounding area would be spotless.

The seeds were all used up, so every afternoon when he took a walk with Nikola Tesla, he would break off branches and cuttings and water the smelly liquid on time.

By the next day, the cuttings are guaranteed to be alive.

In addition, Zhao Chuanxian will build a rock road in the middle part of the green space extending southward.

As long as the vegetation prevents wind and sand, and the rock road is not buried by sand, the road will lead wherever it goes.

Now it is dozens of meters away.

Today's cutting task was completed. Zhao Chuanxin straightened his back and watched the black-tailed ground crows drinking water by the "artificial lake" he had just built. He thought to himself: We should build more.

But we can no longer pump water from the well. If the well is drained, Zhao Chuanxin will have no place to cry.

Zhao Chuanxin's heart moved and he came up with a bold idea.

There are many springs in the Badain Jaran Desert, and there are many desert lakes on the Alxa side.

Later scientists believed that there should be a large water network under the desert, and the source of the water network may be the Qilian Mountains 500 kilometers away in the southwest.

He looked at the central area of ​​​​the sky, which was already surrounded by green plants and was not exposed to wind and sand.

So the next morning, Zhao Chuanxin found an open space, gathered sand to form a tower, and surrounded a rock tube two meters above the ground.

He worked his way down, hollowing out the inside.

Most of the sand was used to construct the thick rock wall, and less than half of the sand was used to build a spiral staircase all the way down.

When the excavation reached two meters, the dry sand turned into wet sand.

After digging to five meters, the rock layer was exposed underneath.

Zhao Chuanxin was shocked. He knew for the first time that the thickness of the sand in the desert might only be a few meters deep.

Luckily it was rock, not dirt.

The rock was wet, and Zhao Chuanxin was surprised and happy to see it.

He began to reverse the operation to turn the tower into sand. The sand continued to solidify into the inner wall of the cylinder, and the rest was collected into the secret realm.

After digging down another meter and a half, the rock was cleared and the sound of running water could be heard below.

He actually dug out a water channel.

The direction of water flow is northeast.

Zhao Chuanxin built a staircase, walked down it, reached out to grab a handful, and looked at it under the lantern and skylight. The water was very clear and refreshing.

He took a shallow breath, it was very refreshing and salt-free...