After adding water, he put the lid back on, checked the interface style against the instruction manual, and only plugged it in after confirming that everything was correct.

"Let's turn on the power and give it a try."

As soon as the power was turned on, the machine beeped and started operating, the front panel lit up faintly, and the numbers on it slowly changed. Three pairs of eyes were fixed on the display screen.

"What do these numbers mean?" Ya Ya asked curiously, squatting next to the incubator and staring at the constantly changing numbers.

Xiong Bo leaned closer. "There's small print on top. This red one indicates the temperature of the box. It should tell us how hot or cold it is inside. The red one next to it is the humidity, and there are small symbols after that. Oh my, there are pictures of chickens, ducks, geese, and birds on the right side, and you can even choose different kinds of eggs..."

Xiong Bo clicked his tongue in amazement as he looked at it: "The people in that area can actually use these unique numerical characters to accurately distinguish the invisible and intangible temperature and humidity. I wonder what the principle is or how they measure it. Below, there are egg-flipping time, temperature settings, humidity settings... wow, even the number of days."

"This thing is amazing! Report... what is this?" Qiao Chuan pointed to the small yellow triangle icon below.

"Call the police."

"Hold me tight?" Ya Ya moved even closer, but she couldn't see any hands inside, so how could she hold me tight?

Xiong Bo had already seen those two words; they seemed to be a warning in the instruction manual, but he didn't pay attention to them since he didn't need them at the moment.

"Don't rush, let me see how to adjust these things. To keep this temperature stable, the manual says that once you select a mode, there will be a set of preset numbers for fixing the incubation temperature, automatically turning the eggs at a set time, and the humidity target, so you don't have to adjust them one by one. This yellow one should be the chicken mode, right?"

As he spoke, Xiong Bo pressed the small red button next to him to adjust the mode, and only stopped when the yellow chick icon lit up.

The numbers on the panel changed slowly for a short while before settling within a suitable range. Xiong Bo checked the manual to confirm that the numbers were correct and didn't fluctuate wildly. The computer case emitted a soft, steady hum and began to operate quietly.

After waiting for a while without any fluctuation in the values, Xiong Bo finally let out a long sigh of relief. "It's done, it's stable, there was no mistake in the adjustment."

"It's amazing... It adds water and turns the eggs by itself, and can incubate more than a hundred eggs at a time. It doesn't require the hen to brood or anyone to watch over it all the time." Qiao Chuan couldn't help but exclaim as he touched the machine's casing.

"We still need to add water. In a day or two, the water in the tank will evaporate completely, and we'll have to open the lid and add water. If the water level drops too low and the humidity decreases, the alarm symbol on the screen will light up and it will also make a sound to remind us."

"Uncle Bear, can we put the eggs in now? Does this already have electricity? Will the eggs guarding the eggs be put here too?" Ya Ya tilted her little head, looking at the empty chassis through the viewing glass.

"Don't rush, let it idle for a while longer and observe it to see if anything goes wrong. Chuan girl, you try adjusting the second one. Once both are fixed, we'll go find the village chief."

"OK."

Qiao Chuan got the hang of it quickly. Following Xiong Bo's method, all he had to do was check the machine, add water, plug it in, and press a few buttons to select the yellow chick icon. The machine would then automatically lock all the egg incubation parameters.

Both incubators were left aside to run idle and test their functions. Xiong Bo and Qiao Chuan didn't wait around; each grabbed a tool and started mixing cement to continue building the walls of the electrical room. To keep Ya Ya from getting bored, they even gave her a small shovel.

"Little Fairy Ya Ya, look at this open space. We watched the projection here last time. After I finish building the power distribution room, I plan to build a big house on this open space." Xiong Bo said, mixing cement and pointing to the open space not far away.

"A big house? Who's going to live in it? Uncle Bear, are you going to live in a new house?" Ya Ya scooped up a small clump of cement ash and put it into the small pit that Xiong Bo had dug.

"No, no, no, I don't need to live in such a nice house. The Dragon God Temple hasn't even invited the Dragon God to live there yet. There's no rush to build my own house." Xiong Bo waved his hands repeatedly. "I plan to build a bright and spacious house, and make the walls as white as Teacher Yu's house. In the future, we can put a projector in the house, and everyone can watch it, whether it's day or night."

Ya Ya blinked and imagined everyone sitting in a row inside the room watching the projector.

"Uncle Xiong, will the walls of your big house be like Auntie's, with electrical wires and water pipes inside? Once they're installed, our village will have lights that turn on with the touch of a button and water that comes out with the turn of a screw!"

"Yes, we need to keep them all. Look over there, our solar panels are on the slope. We connected them with wires, dug trenches and buried the wires so they wouldn't be exposed." Xiong Bo pointed to the hillside behind them.

"Oh my, it really is! Uncle Bear, you'd better hurry! Tell me what you need and I'll go buy it. I have money!" Ya Ya put her little hand on her forehead, and she could just see the wires emerging from the ground connecting to the white box.

Hearing Ya Ya's words, Xiong Bo thought about it seriously for a moment. "To be honest, we do need to buy some things. I observed the projector last time, and I estimate that it only uses one or two kilowatt-hours of electricity if it's on all night. Our batteries can hold sixteen kilowatt-hours, so I think the lights should use even less electricity than the projector, right?"

"This system is more than enough to supply electricity for now, but if we want to provide electricity to every household in the future, it won't be sufficient. We'll need to add several more solar power systems. And the white paint on the walls—I don't know what they use over there; it feels slippery to the touch."

"Master, there are also wheels," Qiao Chuan reminded him when he heard the topic being discussed.

"Oh right, Little Fairy Ya Ya, could you please help me buy a few wheels from that area, the kind of wheels covered in black material that you see under tricycles? I'd like to try making a small cart that people or animals can pull. Our road isn't finished yet, and we can't even use tricycles on the way up the mountain. Having a small cart like a handcart would make it much easier for Da Niu and the others to haul stones and bricks later."

Ya Ya thought for a moment, then took out the pretty purple notebook that Brother Zhao had given her from her spatial storage and a pen: "Uncle Xiong, write down what you want to buy in the notebook. I'm afraid I won't remember too many."

Xiong Bo was too embarrassed to accept the beautiful notebook. "It was my oversight. Little Immortal, I have a notebook. I'll write a note like Fang Laoxian did later. Thank you for your help."

"It's no trouble at all! Everything Uncle Xiong said is very useful!" Ya Ya put the notebook back into her space, and then curiously looked around. When her gaze fell on the bellows that Xiong Bo had made earlier, her pupils shrank, and she ran to the wooden box in a few steps.

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