I will teach you how to cultivate immortality

Chapter 17 Civilization Accelerator
Since learning about the "migration of monsters", the entire Lijia Village has been urgently mobilized.

Especially after Li Yu went into the mountains to find out the situation, he immediately organized all the young and middle-aged labor force in the village.

Because according to the news brought back by Li Yu.

It wasn't just the monsters that migrated this time; even the animals in the mountains showed obvious signs of agitation.

Of course, it refers to the young and middle-aged people in the whole village.

In fact, in this small village with only a dozen households, there are less than twenty young people.

This even included several teenagers aged fourteen or fifteen, so it could be said that almost all members were mobilized.

Li Yu didn't expect that such a small number of people could resist the incoming monsters.

He just needed everyone to make some noise near the village from time to time to scare away the hungry beasts.

At the same time, Li Yu also asked the village peddlers to go to nearby villages and inform them of the news.

"Brother Yu is kind-hearted!"

"If it were me, I would have taken the opportunity to collect some money from them."

The peddler in the village is called Li Er. On weekdays, he is responsible for buying and selling goods in nearby villages and towns.

If you really count, Li Er's family is one of the few wealthy families in the village.

If anyone in the village is short of firewood, rice, oil, salt, etc., they can go to Li Er's house to buy or exchange.

"Second brother, you can't say that!"

"After all, we are all from the same village, so we should help each other."

Following closely behind Li Er was a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old.

The boy's name was Li Chengfeng. He was Li Er's fourth brother and his only surviving brother.

It is said that the name Li Chengfeng was given by the eldest girl's father when he was in the village.

So this is one of the few relatively acceptable names in the village.

"Humph! Counting on those bastards for help?"

"You might as well just hope they don't compete with us for water this year!"

What Li Er was talking about was a very realistic problem. The nearby villages all shared the same river.

If you use too much upstream, there will be nothing left downstream.

So in previous years, several villages have often fought over such things.

From a more selfish perspective, Li Er even hoped that the nearby villages would suffer more casualties this year.

"Second brother, look, isn't that the eldest girl and Bu Ku'er?"

Seeing this, Li Chengfeng, knowing that he could not convince Li Er, had to turn around and point in the direction of the village entrance and said.

"What are they doing again?"

Looking in the direction of Li Chengfeng's finger, Li Er saw the eldest girl jumping up and down with a basket on her back.

"I heard you're looking for mud suitable for building a wall?"

"Brother Yu plans to build a trench outside the village and set up some traps to prevent wild animals from entering the village again like last year."

Hearing this, Li Er looked at the big girl's back and fell into deep thought.

Although he didn't think that a trench and some traps could prevent the wild beasts from entering the village again.

But from Li Yu's arrangements, it can be seen that he is obviously not very confident about the safety of the village.

"Brother Yu is a hunter favored by the mountain god, and Bu Ku'er is the mountain god's child..."

"What do you think? Can our village consider building a shrine specifically for the mountain god?"

Hearing Li Er's words, Li Chengfeng couldn't help but blink.

"Uh... Second Brother, do you know what the mountain god looks like?"

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Strengthening the village's defenses and even setting up separate sentry posts was not just Li Yu's idea.

After Li Boyang was born into this world, he had actually been thinking about similar things. In his opinion, the collective public facilities in Lijia Village were really terrible.

Except for the fence that surrounds the village.

There is nothing that can be called "public facilities" at all.

So when Li Yu ordered the children in the village to search for mud everywhere to see if there was any place with mud suitable for building a wall.

Li Boyang suddenly had an idea and a bold idea popped up in his mind.

So he asked the eldest girl to join in.

I don’t know if it’s because of the times, or simply because the village is too poor…

The houses and courtyards that Li Boyang saw in the village were basically built with the most primitive stone bricks.

It is the original stone brick obtained naturally by kneading the soil into brick shapes, then drying it in the shade and exposing it to the sun.

Some are even made directly of stones, covered with mud and wood ash.

For a house like this, even the most basic insulation is difficult to achieve, let alone other requirements.

So Li Boyang asked the eldest girl to follow the other children to look for mud everywhere.

In fact, I also want to see if I can find high-quality soil to prepare for firing real blue bricks in the future.

Of course, considering the molds, earthen kilns, high temperatures, clay, water sources and environment required to burn blue bricks, it is simply unrealistic to burn blue bricks in a short period of time.

Therefore, Li Boyang only regarded it as a long-term plan and did not rush for success.

"Brother, is this kind of soil okay?"

The dirty girl, who looked like a tabby cat, stared at Li Boyang at this moment, her eyes full of curiosity.

Because now Li Boyang is holding a small ball of soil and placing it on his head to bake it.

tumultuous!
It only took a few breaths.

The hair on Li Boyang's head emitted an astonishingly high temperature, even forming a terrifying heat wave.

Since there is no specific thermometer, Li Boyang does not know what the current temperature of his hair is.

But just look at the eldest girl's fiery face.

It was not difficult for Li Boyang to judge that this temperature was definitely beyond the range that normal humans could bear.

[I have lost my normal temperature perception? ]

[No, to be more precise, my tolerance to temperature has surpassed that of ordinary humans.]

Feeling the soil in his hands gradually becoming harder, Li Boyang decisively stopped sending evil energy to his crown.

As the evil spirit weakened, the temperature of the hair gradually dropped to a normal level, until it finally turned back to its red color.

"ah!"

Gently crushing the outer shell, Li Boyang saw the black mud block in his hand that was burned into a rectangular shape.

"It's so hard! It's like a piece of iron!"

The eldest girl also reached out and pinched the burnt mud block, and immediately shouted with a look of surprise.

"Is this the soil you're looking for, little brother?"

In response to the eldest girl's question, Li Boyang nodded affirmatively.

The content of metal elements in this piece of soil is indeed one of the highest in the soil found so far.

This means that if Li Boyang wants to refine blue bricks in the future.

There is no need to add extra things like slaked lime to increase its hardness and fire resistance.

The most important thing is that the soil here only needs to be simply shaped and fired before it can be used as ready-made hard bricks.

[With the right bricks, we can speed up the civilization of this era! ]

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