Chapter 24 From now on, you are the cook of the shelter!

  The newcomer named "Mosquito" is really good at carpentry.

  Old Bai and Fang Chang used the steel bar as a ruler to mark out the planks that they hadn't sawn out for a long time.

  More than that, these wooden boards still have snap-on edges, and they are easily put together to form a square hollow brick groove.

   After a while, several molds for making bricks were made.

   "You guys are not good at handling this wood. Look...it's going to grow mushrooms." Mosquito wiped off his sweat, leaned the saw to the side, looked at Fang Chang and Lao Bai and asked, "Is this enough?"

   "Enough is enough! Thank you, brother, it was a great help!" Lao Bai patted Mosquito on the shoulder with a happy expression on his face.

   Mosquito had a shy expression and gave a dry laugh.

   "You're welcome! Just let me know if you need anything."

  Old Bai smiled and patted his shoulder.

   "Okay! I will remember it, and you will definitely be welcome next time!"

mosquito:"…"

   With the mold, making mud bricks is much easier.

Lao Bai and Fang Chang combined the yellow mud collected from the river with a little water, kneaded it into a viscous mud, poured it into a mold, placed it in a square shape on the ground, and then stuffed it into the gap in the middle. Put some charcoal on it, and put ash on the surface of the mud brick.

   This is also the method Lao Bai learned from the wilderness survival video.

  Wait until the first layer of bricks was almost dried, they changed their orientation, continued to stack the second layer, and continued to stack them layer by layer until the brick stack was higher than the top of their heads.

  After the completion of the work, Lao Bai carefully ignited the carbon inside the brick pile, let the fire start to burn from the middle, and then gradually engulfed the entire brick pile.

   "Can this thing work?"

  Looking at the "mud stack" with smoke, Fang Chang wiped the sweat from his forehead with his muddy arms, as if he had crawled out of a cesspit.

  Lao Bai's image is not very good, and his face is covered with carbon dust, as if he just crawled out of a coal mine.

   "Ghost knows, we can only wait and see."

  It is also the first time for him to burn this thing. When he was a child, he only watched adults make it, so he didn't know if this method would work.

  Everything can only be seen tomorrow.

   "Let's go, let it burn here first."

   "Let's go to the cement kiln to have a look. I feel that we are very close to the finished product. This time, use more power to blow the wind, and try to get a bucket out before going offline!"

   On the other side, with the help of [WC really has mosquitoes], Guafeng and Ye Shi finally completed the improvement of the N-generation fishing device.

  They replaced the original cylindrical structure with a cage structure, and replaced the weak wooden bars with strong steel bars, and carried out secondary reinforcement on the main structure of the trap.

  Don't care what kind of fish, come in and don't even think about leaving!

  The three of them went to the lake together, planning to try again.

  Looks very happy.

   As for Chu Guang, he was still thinking hard about the skill of bacon.

  Although there is still no great progress...

   "Dear Master Manager, what are you doing...?"

Hearing the voice from the side, Chu Guang stood up in front of the bacon rack, patted the soot on his hands and looked aside, only to see 【Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes】, looking curiously at the bacon he made shelf.

   If I remember correctly, this man seems to be a chef who graduated from New Oriental?

  Thinking of this, Chu Guang's eyes lit up.

   "I'm researching how to make bacon... You came just in time, and from now on, you'll be the cook at Outpost 404!"

   As he spoke, Chu Guang didn't give the player a chance to speak at all, and continued to speak while looking at him seriously.

   "The situation we are facing now is very serious. In addition to the construction of the surface outpost facilities, we have to reserve enough food for the 100 compatriots who will arrive on the surface before winter comes."

"I need your help!"

   Scrambled Egg looked confused.

   Chef is okay...

  In reality, he is a chef. Before going online, he cooked two dishes before handing over the spoon to his colleagues. Unexpectedly, he had to do his old job in the game.

   Is this the equivalent of a career-changing life player?

   After a long time, he opened his mouth.

   "But... what can I do for you?"

   "Good question."

  Chu Guang looked at the bacon rack beside him.

   "I tried smoked meat, but the effect was not satisfactory. I need you to solve the problem of food storage... I have read your information, and the organization said that you have relevant experience in handling food, right?"

   Scrambled Egg was stunned.

   "I probably know a little bit, but games are games—I mean, I'm not sure my experience would work here either."

  Thinking that this is the game world, Brother Chaodan temporarily changed his mouth, but it seems that the NPC doesn't seem to care, probably because the program is set to automatically ignore reality-related elements that have nothing to do with the game.

   "It's okay, I need professional advice," Chu Guang said, looking at the bacon rack beside him, "Help me find out what's wrong with the bacon rack I made."

  Looking at the wooden shelf in front of him, Scrambled Egg fell silent.

   Not so much what went wrong...

   It would be better to say that there are problems everywhere.

   "This...First of all, the bacon must be in a closed environment. I'm afraid it's useless to burn the outside with your roasting method. Also, are the spices sprinkled on the meat?"

   "A special tobacco leaf."

   "Tobacco leaves?!"

"Well," looking at the scrambled eggs with a surprised face, Chu Guang nodded, "This is an inland area, and salt is very expensive. The local survivors use this kind of tobacco leaves rich in aromatic compounds and tar to replace table salt. Knead it and spread it on the surface of the food, and heat it to make the antiseptic substance mix with the fat on the surface of the food to achieve the antiseptic effect.”

   Can you still do this? !

   The scrambled eggs surprised everyone.

  Some aromatic compounds can indeed be used as food preservatives, but this is the first time he has heard that this thing can be eaten.

  Maybe it's not fatal if you don't overdose?

  But his intuition told him that this kind of smoking process is simply tantamount to fighting fire with fire...

   "Actually, you can smoke meat even if you don't add salt... but the flavor is not very good. I don't understand the method you mentioned, but the food smoked in this way is not suitable from a health point of view."

   The term scrambled eggs is more euphemistic, because I heard that the NPC has a setting of favorability, and the hidden mission can only be accepted when the favorability is high.

  In reality, he just rolled his eyes.

   "It's okay without adding salt?!" Chu Guang was stunned.

"Well... microbes need moisture to survive. Smoked meat is essentially drying the moisture in the meat to achieve the effect of dehydration. If there is salt, the effect will be better, the preservation time will be longer, and the flavor will be better. But if there is no, just operate It’s okay to be appropriate.”

   "Of course, if the fat content is high, dehydration will be more troublesome... It still depends on the specific meat."

   Having said that, Scrambled Egg paused, glanced awkwardly at the bacon rack next to it, and whispered.

   "But no matter what the situation is, you didn't do the sealing... It must be not very good."

   It would be a happy event for the outpost to be able to pickle food without consuming this weird tobacco leaf.

   However, Chu Guang was still a little puzzled.

  No matter how ignorant and ignorant the survivors on Beit Street are, since they can survive in this wasteland until now, they shouldn’t be mistaken for this kind of survival skills, right?

   What went wrong?

  However, Chu Guang does not intend to think about such troublesome things for the time being.

   Firstly, he came because he didn't have that much free time.

   One more thing, let the NPC solve everything, so why do you need players?

   "Very well, this glorious and arduous task is entrusted to you!"

   He patted this little boy on the shoulder hard.

  Chu Guang solemnly handed over the work of bacon to [Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes], and asked about safety issues, and then left happily.

good.

   Solved another problem.

   Now that the food problem is already on the horizon, shouldn't I try to recruit more players to improve productivity?

  With just these few hands, it may not be possible to repair the fence of the nursing home until the end of the month.

   Just as Chu Guang was thinking this way, there was an excited cheer not far away.

   "Niubao!!!"

   "Damn it, it's finally done!"

   I originally wanted to draw a picture of what the mutated leech looks like, but I was afraid that you might misunderstand, so I forgot it_(:3」∠)_

  

  (end of this chapter)