Infrastructure Throne

Shen Qingze squinted at the space under the bed, then said slowly: "You can sleep on the floor, it's spacious there."

Yan Zui squinted his long and narrow eyes: "How dare you let Ben... let me sleep on the floor?!"

Shen Qingze closed her eyes again, turning a blind eye to his indignation: "This is my room, my bed."

——Do you still dare to pick and choose?

Yan Zui tried his best to maintain the last dignity: "I am a guest."

Shen Qingze: "ZZZZZZZ..."

Yan Zui was silent for a long time, and finally succumbed to fatigue, wrapped in a cloak, rolled onto the bed, and lay down next to the young man.

Two big men squeezed into the narrow wooden bed, making it even more cramped and cramped, unable to lie flat, and unable to turn his back to strangers, so Yan Zui could only face the young man.

In the dark night, Yan Zui stared at the other side's face with inquiring eyes, and the sleeping young man breathed steadily and long, as if he was as fearless as he said.

The body was repeatedly tormented by the cursed pain and drowsiness, and finally fell asleep unknowingly in exhaustion...

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The sky is bright.

Shen Qingze was awakened by the chirping of birds outside the house, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a man in a cloak sitting by the window, using a dagger to sharpen the long spear that was snapped off by the King Kong Bear's palm, the end of the spear was gone. The remaining half was whittled down into a wooden spear half the height of a man.

The big white dog squatted at the door, not willing to approach him, only staring at him warily.

"Are you awake?" Under the hood, Yan Zui raised his chin and glanced at him, coughing softly.

Shen Qingze glanced at the ordinary healing potion on the table, and wondered if it was an illusion, the curse lines on the man's face seemed to be a little lighter, it really deserved to be produced by the system.

He put on his coat, put on the leather boots brought by the big white dog, wiped his face, and took out the refined iron dagger from under the pillow.

Yan Zui's eyes fell on the dagger. It was pitch black, exquisite and unique in shape, with blood grooves on both sides, and the blade was extremely sharp. The hard fur of the Vajra Bear could be cut through its throat as easily as cutting tofu.

The man's eyes flickered: "Is this dagger made by your iron shop?"

Shen Qingze paused, nodded casually, and the dagger was sheathed instantly, so fast that Yan Zui could hardly catch the trajectory.

The sun was hanging high outside the house. Father Li went to the shop early in the morning. There was still some rice bran paste warm in the stove. The young man filled half a bowl for each of them.

Yan Zui ate a spoonful, frowned and said, "Do you usually eat this kind of thing?"

The bitter and rough rice bran has a strange smell as soon as you eat it, and the salt is almost too weak to eat. Even chewing is a kind of torment, let alone swallowing.

"Otherwise? It's better than those children in the city begging on the street, at least they can survive."

Yan Zui lowered his eyes and remained silent for a while, his fingers holding the spoon tightened, and he slowly ate up the bowl of rice bran paste.

Shen Qingze is also not used to it, but since the orcs attacked, the price of food in the city has skyrocketed, and the income from the iron shop alone is already stretched.

Fortunately, the system store has unlocked the first level, so we must find a way to make money!

Shen Qingze silently called out the system interface:

[Current level LV5, own five-dimensional attributes, strength 101, agility 90, defense 70, comprehension 80, charm 50]

A note under the charisma attribute column: Ordinary linen clothing, wear-resistant but uncomfortable, charisma value -30.

Shen Qingze: "..."

Is it so real?

At the beginning of the game structure, his boss repeatedly asked the numerical planning to add charm as an important basic attribute, and also asked the artist to make the novice equipment as ugly as possible.

Now he has finally deeply felt its sinister intentions. Otherwise, how can he attract players to buy beautiful skins with crazy krypton gold?

The system store has already lit up the first-level icon, and there are still very few things for purchase in it.

The first item, which is also the most important item, is soil improvement: for ordinary soil, the yield per mu is increased by 50%, 10 copper coins per mu; for medium cinnamon soil, the yield is doubled, and 10 silver coins per mu; The output was tripled, and the price per mu was as high as 1 gold coin.

Father Li has nearly 20 mu of ancestral land in the village, but most of it is yellow and poor soil with poor fertility. The old father's family was not prosperous, and after gradually being abandoned, they were crowded by other villagers in the village.

In addition to soil, the first-level store also has various common crop seeds, and the price ranges from 1 copper coin to 10 copper coins.

Shen Qingze quickly browsed through the product column, and finally saw table salt at the end. Unfortunately, the price of 20 copper coins for a small jar and the purchase restriction directly dispelled his idea of ​​making a fortune by reselling table salt.

Shen Qingze made some calculations in his heart, his poor net worth can't even afford medium brown soil, let alone fertile black soil.

After the soil is improved, you still need to spend money to buy seeds. High-yield varieties are also expensive. In the future, you will need to fertilize and weed, all of which are money.

Poverty makes people sad.

Just when he was frowning in a daze, Yan Zui swallowed the last mouthful of rice bran paste, and wiped his mouth slowly, as if what he had just enjoyed was some kind of delicacy, rather than a meal of pig food.

"My gun is broken." Yan Zui took out the broken tip of the gun, and wiped it carefully. The tip of the gun was also forged from fine iron, and it shone coldly in the man's hand. The entire Abyssal City may not find a few. bring.

Yan Zui raised his eyes and stared at him: "Since your iron shop can forge such a sharp dagger, it should be able to forge a gun no less than this for me, right? The price is up to you."

dagger?

"No..." Shen Qingze just wanted to explain euphemistically, that the gadgets produced by the system may not be able to make a second handle, when he saw the other party take out a velvet money bag, with a ray of golden light showing from the open mouth of the bag.

When it was thrown heavily on the table, it made a wonderful sound of gold coins colliding.

When she reached the edge of her mouth to decline, she was immediately swallowed back, and Shen Qingze's indifferent face rarely showed a vivid smile.

"not a problem!"

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Li's blacksmith shop.

"What? You promised someone to forge a fine steel spear?!" Father Li's eyes were bigger than copper bells, "Ordinary iron spears are nothing more than ten days and a half months, and I can sharpen them , but such a superior weapon, it is said that only the forging masters of the Great Xia Empire and the Blue Sky Merchant Alliance can make it! I am a poor blacksmith, where can I forge fine steel?"

Father Li thought for a while, but still waved his hands with a bitter face: "No, no, we can't earn this money, so you should go back and explain clearly..."

Shen Qingze stared at the burning fire with narrowed eyes, his eyes sparkling: "I have a way, I can try it."

Father Li was stunned: "What way?"

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As an important part of the player group, casual life players can also enjoy a pleasant game experience in "Dawn Century". The game provides a wealth of life skill branches, cooking, forging, medical skills, planting...even embroidery and tea ceremony.

The most important thing is that after the player chooses a specialization, he can also randomly get a corresponding primary technology.

Shen Qingze initially preferred cooking specialization, which was low in cost, high in demand, and easy to make, but it was obviously not suitable for Yuanliu City, a birth point in Hell difficulty where ingredients were scarce.

The most important point in the structure of the game is balance. Compared with other birth points, Yuanliu City has very bad geographical conditions, food, population, and climate conditions, and there are even more cowardly enemies such as the orcs and monsters.

In order to maintain balance, the game naturally has to compensate in other ways-such as rich mineral resources.

In addition to the built-in [Sturdy Folk Style] buff, there are various types of mineral deposits around Yuanliu City, and the proportion of rich ore is large. Both open-pit iron mines and coal mines are mined.Selling ore to other towns is Yuanliu City's biggest source of income.

But this does not mean that Abyss City is rich, on the contrary, the city's poverty is as famous as the raw ore it produces.

Shen Qingze recovered from his contemplation, silently called out the system interface, and in the dazzling array of life skills, he chose blacksmithing without hesitation.

[System: Congratulations to the player for obtaining a life skill specialization, and embarking on the road to shaking the world with a hammer! 】

[Random Reward: Elementary Forging—Technical Book of Steel Filling Method]

Shen Qingze's eyes brightened, and as the "Steel Filling Method" technical book was opened, the tools, raw materials, and even blast furnace design drawings required for steelmaking, every process step, production conditions, and effects were listed in detail. .

The iron smelting technology in the Dawn Continent is not well developed. Most of the agricultural tools are still made of wood. The ironware on the market is mostly made of pig iron, which is heterogeneous and brittle. Monopoly, secretive.

The price is often prohibitively expensive, and it is a luxury sought after by the nobles and gentry, and the common people simply cannot afford it.

In the basic forging skill pool provided by the system, there are various smelting techniques such as block smelting method, hundred smelting method, steel frying method, steel pouring method, etc. Shen Qingze was very lucky to randomly get the most efficient one.

Limited by the current limited material and technical conditions, it is undoubtedly a dream for Shen Qingze to rely on it to make steel on a large scale, but it is more than enough to make a few fine steel weapons to make a little money.

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Shen Qingze spent a whole day searching around for iron ore, iron ore powder, coal, lime powder and many other raw materials. According to the instructions in the technical book, he and his father Li improved the small ironmaking blast furnace in the iron shop .

With all the preparations in place, Shen Qingze, with his special skill bonus, officially began to try to forge the gun head with the help of old man Li.

As an IT engineer, he doesn't know much about iron and steel smelting technologies, only the general principles.

With the super support of the game system, he only needs to follow the steps step by step, follow the prompts to complete the key processes, and improve the skill proficiency through continuous practice to increase the success rate.

After all, players are only here to experience the fun of the different-dimensional game world, not to learn metallurgy in the game.

In fact, the actual process that Shen Qingze needs to operate is far more complicated than the game.Originally, in the game, players only need to spend two or three hours to raise their primary skill proficiency to a passing level.

Now this process took Shen Qingze a full three days, during which several pieces of scrap iron and steel were scrapped.

Of course, in the eyes of Mr. Li, the scrap iron and steel scraps judged by these systems are already rare and good iron materials. As long as they are hammered and forged, they will become high-quality ironware, so they are collected with great care.

The young man's "forging talent" against the heavens made Father Li dumbfounded and at the same time extremely puzzled.

A few days ago, he was still a layman in forging, but his level has improved by leaps and bounds. He has only a half-knowledge of iron-making technology, but he can always accurately grasp the key parts, and often has some amazing pioneering feats, subverting the 30-year-old father Li. Blacksmithing experience.

It was already the fifth day that the two of them soaked in the iron shop and indulged in blacksmithing.

The raging flames in the blast furnace had burned to golden red, and a little golden iron juice dripped down.

The iron ore produced by the mines near Yuanliu City is of good grade, with high iron content and less impurities such as phosphorus and sulfur.

The blast furnace uses coal as fuel. Although it is not as good as coke, the temperature is at least much higher than charcoal.

Shen Qingze blew the wind vigorously in front of the bellows. He was dressed in linen shorts, revealing two slender and powerful arms.When the bellows is pulled repeatedly, the stretched and flexed arms bulge with smooth muscle lines.

The rising temperature produced a thin layer of sweat, steaming his originally fair skin into a honey color.

At some point, a black shadow that was incompatible with the sun suddenly appeared not far away.

With one leg half bent, Yan Zui leaned sideways on the adobe brick wall of the blacksmith shop, looking at Shen Qingze who was concentrating on his work from afar.

Under the hood, his bangs covered his forehead, and his long black hair was tied high behind his head, hanging down from his shoulders.

A mask was worn on his face, covering most of his face tightly, only two sharp and deep eyes were exposed, and the traces of curses around the eye sockets had obviously faded a lot.

The man stretched his limbs freely, with a relaxed attitude, like a black panther basking in the sun, lazily and loosely, restraining all the evil spirits in his body under the black military uniform.

The mask was casually sewn for him by Shen Qingze last night with leftover materials, it's not very breathable, but at least it covered the face of the frightened and crying child.

Of course, masks also cost money.

Brother Shen would never let go of any chance to steal money from the benefactor's pocket.

The fire burned more and more vigorously under the continuous blowing wind, and Shen Qingze's strength alone produced the effect of two or three grown men.

It's hard to imagine that the young man's seemingly thin body and pampered appearance can maintain such strength for a long time and do such heavy rough work.

If it were those noble children in the city... Yan Zui narrowed his eyes and smiled slightly, as if disdainful.

Shen Qingze turned her head inadvertently, just in time to meet the man's gaze, with interesting inquiry in his eyes.

The moment the two looked at each other, Yan Zui didn't feel guilty about being caught peeking at him at all, instead he boldly went up to him and stared at him openly.

Shen Qingze kept moving his hands, looked at him and frowned slightly: "What are you doing there?"

Yan Zui said slowly: "As an employer, can't I come to inspect your work progress?"

Shen Qingze was speechless for a moment, grabbed a shovel from the coal pile and handed it over: "It's all here, let's do some work. This way you can also get the weapons you want earlier."

Yan Zui's eyes fell on the dirty shovel covered with soot, as if he heard some funny joke: "How dare you ask your employer to do the work for you? I paid a lot of money. "

Shen Qingze was expressionless, and slowly counted the other party's debts in a straightforward tone: "You lived in my house, slept in my bed, ate my rice, and drank my medicine—"

Having said that, he paused slightly, emphasizing the last four words: "all, no, pay, money."

Yan Zui: "..."

He didn't bring much money when he went out, and the only gold coins he had were given to Shen Qingze to make a spear.

Shen Qingze condemned the other party with his eyes - don't think about eating and living for nothing.

This is embarrassing.

Father Li hurriedly grabbed the shovel to smooth things over: "Let me shovel the coal, the amount is very particular."

The big white dog squatted on the ground and swept the young man's calf with its tail, opened its mouth very spiritually and bit the handle of the bellows, and actually helped the owner blow the wind together.

Father Li was stunned, his watchdog still has this ability? !

It's not that Shen Qingze never thought about using cattle, horses or water power to improve the blowing efficiency, but after calculating the cost, the poor and white young man immediately decided, let's talk about it later.

But he never expected that his dog could be used as a labor force.

So he patted Ah Bai's dog's head in relief: "Even a dog knows that you can't get something for nothing, so I'll give you an extra meal at night."

Yan Zui suddenly felt connoted: "..."

Crushed iron ore is smelted at a high temperature of more than 1000 degrees in the furnace until it turns red. It fully reacts with fuel fluxes such as coal and limestone in oxygen, and gradually decarburizes and melts into molten pig iron.The molten iron and slag flow out from the spout-shaped iron nozzle and the slag outlet respectively.

The hot golden-red molten iron slowly filled the Fangtang, and the surrounding temperature suddenly rose several degrees, and the heat wave made several people sweat profusely.

Shen Qingze suspects that the temperature here is at least fifty degrees.

He wiped his sweat, pinched the hem of his clothes, and quickly took off his shirt, revealing his muscular chest and abdominal muscles.

As if he suddenly remembered something, when he turned his head, the man on the wall stared even more vigorously.

"..." Shen Qingze turned her head back, and silently put her clothes back on.

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