Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 69: War Tree - Crane Version (First Order Request!)

In Li Mu's memory, university dormitories are warm and comfortable spaces where many people live together.

The width of these dormitories does not exceed three or four meters, and the length is between eight and nine meters. There are four beds on each side of the room, with a narrow passage in the middle.

The size of the bed is roughly the same, up to 1.2 meters wide and 2 meters long, but there are two types of shapes.

One is a bunk bed style that can accommodate two people sleeping at the same time; the other is a bed-under-desk design, with the bed on top and a dedicated wooden table below.

In Li Mu's opinion, although bunk beds can accommodate more people, they are only suitable for sleeping and lack private space. Therefore, after some consideration, he decided to choose the design of a bed with a desk underneath.

According to his plan, one dormitory could accommodate eight people, so two thousand people would need about two hundred and fifty dormitories.

If we assume that a dormitory is four meters wide and ten meters long, the area of ​​each dormitory is forty square meters. In this way, the total area of ​​dormitories for two thousand people will reach ten thousand square meters.

Although 10,000 square meters sounds quite large, in fact it only requires a square space of 100 meters in length and width. Even considering the need to set up partition walls, the width can be appropriately increased.

After completing these calculations, Li Mu began to think about the location of the dormitory building. First, he ruled out the ground as a location, because the second wave of extreme cold weather was coming, and if the dormitory was built on the ground, it would undoubtedly increase the difficulty of heating, and there was not much ground space left.

In this case, Li Mu decided to build the dormitory building underground. After all, he had originally planned to build an underground city, and now he could implement it all at once.

Thinking of this, Li Mu passed through the tunnel and stepped into the underground world again.

The air in the underground world was filled with a smell of moist earth, but Li Mu had long been accustomed to this environment.

As soon as I arrived at the underground city, I saw Ah Sao and dozens of people harvesting potatoes. These people were holding potatoes as big as basketballs carefully and walking step by step, for fear that they would slip and smash the potatoes.

Seeing Li Mu, Ah Sao walked over and said,

"Old Li, you need to build another crane, otherwise it will be very troublesome to transport such heavy potatoes."

When Li Mu heard what Ah Sao said, he couldn't help but pat his head. He had forgotten about this matter.

He had the help of vines, so he didn't find it difficult to transport soil, but he forgot that the others were ordinary people. A giant potato weighed dozens of kilograms, and it was difficult to carry it up without the help of a crane.

Moreover, he had to concentrate on building the dormitory next, and the excavated soil needed to be transported up there, so a crane became necessary.

"No problem, I'll figure out a solution."

After Li Mu replied to Ah Sao, he began to think about how to build a crane.

Cranes in the old days required fuel and electricity to be powered, but that is no longer possible now.

But without mechanical help, does it have to rely on people pulling it on the ground?

How many people would that require? And they can’t always be waiting on the ground, right?
"people?"

Touching his chin, Li Mu suddenly thought of a suitable plant - the giant war tree.

The giant war tree can transform into a human form. Although it moves slowly, it is strong enough and has a slight intelligence. With its strength, it can easily pull objects weighing several tons from the underground city to the ground.

If a simplified version is built according to the template of the giant war tree and is only used to pull things, there is no need to enhance its combat capabilities. In this way, the source energy consumed during the transformation will be less.

Li Mu did it as he thought. He returned to the ground, threw a banyan seed at the entrance of the cave, and then activated his ability.

In a short while, a big banyan tree more than ten meters high and more than two meters thick grew into a tree.

Then the tree continued to transform according to the thoughts, and slowly turned into a human form, growing limbs and facial features, and possessing simple intelligence.

Just like that, the War Tree – Crane Edition is done!
The user just needs to gently walk in front of the wooden box and gently pull its roots three times, and the hanging tree will pull the wooden box up smoothly.

Similarly, when coming down, just tap the tree trunk three times beforehand. Since it is used as a crane, Li Mu named it "Hanging Tree". Considering that it is in human form, maybe it can also be called "Hanging Man"...

After hanging the tree, Li Mu built a rectangular wooden box above the cave entrance that was similar to an elevator car, and connected the box with vines as thick as thighs.

Li Mu walked into the wooden box, then ordered the hanging tree to hold the vines and slowly lower the wooden box into the underground city, repeating this several times.

A plant version of the "elevator" is completed.

After telling Ah Sao the news, Li Mu began to think about the specific layout of the underground dormitory and how to create a comfortable living environment in a limited space.

As he thought about it, tall buildings in the city appeared in Li Mu's mind.

The ground floor area of ​​these high-rise buildings does not need to be too large, just a few hundred square meters will be enough, and then they will continue to rise higher into the sky. As long as they can build more than ten or twenty floors, they will have a space of tens of thousands square meters.

There is not much difference between underground and on the ground. High-rise buildings can also be built underground, the only difference is that one is higher in the air, and the other is deeper underground.

The first floor that was excavated was used as the ground floor to build the square and canteen, and the dormitory was built deeper.

As the saying goes, knowledge and action should be unified. Li Mu started working on it as soon as he came up with a plan.

When we got to the middle of the first floor, we first dug a large circular pit with a diameter of six meters, then dug vertically downwards. After digging to a depth of five meters, we started digging horizontally.

While digging, they used vines to fix the soil layer, which gave rise to street lamps to provide lighting. Every once in a while, they transported the excavated soil to the first layer.

Five hours passed slowly in this repetitive work mode.

……

Li Mu patted the dirt off his body and couldn't help but take a deep breath. The assembly line-like work was really too boring.

But such efforts also have impressive rewards.

It took him only five hours to dig out a square space three meters high and fifty meters wide in the second space.

However, his source energy has been almost consumed, so he needs to go back to have dinner and continue digging after his source energy is restored.

When he reached the cave entrance, Li Mu had an idea and used vines to weave a crawlable vine ladder on the five-meter-long tunnel, and then slowly climbed to the underground level.

“Are you a vegetable?”

"You've been busy down there for so long, aren't you tired?"

Ah Sao walked up to Li Mu, punched him lightly, and asked in disbelief.

"I am your father!"

The simplest bad mouth, the most ultimate enjoyment.

"I am a normal human being with flesh and blood. How can I be a vegetable?"

Li Mu first rolled his eyes and retorted, then he suddenly couldn't help laughing.

"Hahaha"

Recalling that he was either controlling plants or on his way to controlling plants every day, it seemed that he could indeed be considered a vegetative person.

Thanks to book friend 140824230148306 for the reward, and other book friends for the monthly ticket recommendations, I am really grateful!
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