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Volume One: Eastward to Another World, Chapter 117: Making Raw Materials

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    Tree Vine Village.  This is a crescent-shaped village, facing the grassland and facing the endless yellow sand.  There was originally a tree and a well in the center of the village. No one knows how long this tree has existed, and no one knows who dug the bottomless well. Before the ancestors of Shuteng Village came here, they had already  exists.  Now the Bailuo tree has fallen, the wells have dried up, and the village has lost its vitality.  Water is the source of life, especially on the edge of this dry desert. No water means no life.  Lin Dong stood in the center of the village, looking down at the fallen Bailuo tree. The tree looked like it was carved from crystal white jade. It was covered in snow-white color. The bark had been peeled off, revealing the snow-white tree.  trunk.  The trunk of the tree is not thick, and it only takes two hands to surround it. Lin Dong wanted to count the annual rings of this Bailuo tree, but he found that the trunk of this tree was completely integrated, with no rings at all.  wheel.  "Lin Dong, you really got a treasure this time. This Bailuo tree is probably five thousand years old." Gui Lao said happily.  "This tree looks very small, how can it be five thousand years old?" Lin Dong asked.  "This is the Bailuo tree! How can it be compared with ordinary trees? You must know that the Bailuo tree is the slowest growing tree, no one." Lin Dong nodded. He did not feel very excited because there were thousands of pairs of trees.  The eyes are looking at themselves, and everyone's face is full of bitterness.  It turns out that the reason why these villagers need money is because this place is no longer suitable for human survival. More than a thousand people need to be relocated, and the cost is naturally very high.  ??Chinese people have a problem of being unable to leave their homeland, and Lin Dong is no exception.  Seeing that these people were about to leave their hometowns in order to survive, Lin Dong couldn't help but think of his hometown and his family.  "I can't go back." Lin Dong muttered in a low voice, lowered his body and stroked the big tree with his fingers.  "Why can't you go back?" Turtle Lao asked curiously.  Lin Dong did not explain to him because this was really a difficult problem to explain.  "Old Turtle, is this trunk of any use? It's a pity to waste such a good piece of wood." Lin Dong said.  "It's useful, but it's useless to you. This tree trunk is a good raw material for making jamming weapons. Unfortunately, you don't know how to make jamming weapons. It's impossible to bring it back. This tree is too heavy." Gui Lao said with some regret.  Lin Dong took out the black snake sword and said, "I can't take the whole thing away, so I'll cut off a piece and take it away to the head office." A strange smile appeared on Mr. Gui's face and he didn't stop him.  Pong!  Lin Dong¡¯s black snake sword struck the tree trunk as if it were a steel plate, causing Lin Dong¡¯s arms to go numb.  You must know that the black snake sword is extremely sharp, even if it is cutting a steel plate, there must be a gap, but there is not even a scratch on this white Luo tree. I really don¡¯t know what kind of material this tree is made of.  "You still want to chop down a five-thousand-year-old Bailuo tree with your broken knife, so stop dreaming." Gui Lao said with a smile.  "Why is it a broken knife? This is Black Snake No. 1. I spent a lot of money to buy it." Lin Dong said dissatisfied.  "This knife is at best the Stardust level. If you want to cut the Bailuo tree trunk, you must have the Starlight high level knife." "Starlight High level? Is there that kind of knife?" "I don't know if there is one here. Anyway, I remember it.  There are a lot of medium-level star-level knives." "Tsk, memory is useless. It's useless to say that. Is there any way you can cut off a piece of this tree and take it away?" Mr. Gui shook his head, "It's useless.  , Just be satisfied. One of the bark and fruits can be used to make blank cards, and the other can be used as a base liquid for paint. They are both top-quality raw materials. " Lin Dong sighed with regret. This tree is really too heavy.  It was a fool's errand to transport it from the desert back to the center of the interior, and now we had to leave this priceless treasure behind.  At this time, an old man with white beard and hair walked out of the crowd, followed by a fat boy. The fat boy held a rather ancient wooden box in his arms.  "Master, if it weren't for your generosity, we, the 1,080 people in Shuteng Village, would have died trapped here. My benefactor, please accept the little old man's respect." Lin Dong stopped him quickly,  "You don't have to be polite, old man. I just paid for what I need. It's not as noble as you said." The old man smiled, showing his white teeth.  "No matter what, you saved more than a thousand people in the village. Thank you. Thank you." "Jiao Yang, give these fruits to your benefactor quickly." The fat boy came to Lin Dong holding the old wooden box.  Next to him, Lin Dong stretched out his hand to pick it up. Only after receiving it did he realize how powerful it was.    This seemingly small wooden box actually weighs hundreds of kilograms. Lin Dong was secretly surprised that Jiao Yang, a fat little boy who was only eleven or twelve years old, had such strength.  Lin Dong placed the wooden box on the ground, opened it and took a look.  I saw fourteen white fruits neatly stacked in the wooden box, each one as big as a peach.  "My dear benefactor, these fruits were originally sixteen. They were picked by my grandfather's grandfather when he was young. These fruits are very strange. Not only are they heavy, but they will rot as soon as they are taken out of the village.  But if it is placed not far from the sacred tree, it will remain unchanged all year round. " Lin Dong picked up a Bailuo fruit in his hand. The fruit was translucent and faintly glowing. Once he opened the box, the whole village was filled with fragrance.  "No, this fruit needs to be processed immediately. You can see that there are small black spots on the peel. The Bailuo tree is dead. It is estimated that this fruit can last for another three days at most." Gui Laoji said.  Lin Dong felt nervous. He had spent a lot of money to buy this, and he was not willing to watch it rot.  "What should we do?" Lin Dong asked.  "Ask them to prepare a room, a lot of firewood, a good iron pot, sea view blue stone, taihuang stone, and soapstone, a pound of each, autumn golden grass, alyssum grass, and tear red grass, all  Three kilograms of each fresh item" Gui Lao Xi talked about a lot of things. Lin Dong took a pen and paper and wrote them down one by one. He handed the note to Jiao Lei and gave him some rubies and asked him to go to Shazhou City to purchase them.  .  Finding a secluded yard in the village, Lin Dong moved all the fruit bark into the house, leaving only the fat boy Jiao Yang to help in the house, and Lin Dong started to get busy.  According to the instructions of Mr. Gui, they first lit a fire to boil a large pot of boiling water. There was no water source in the village, and every drop of water was transported from a very far away place. However, the villagers did not complain and used the only two old horses in the village to boil the water.  Take a trip to the camel.  There is enough water in [Four Gates], but Lin Dong still accepted the water sent by the villagers. If he could conjure up the water, it would definitely cause great panic among the villagers.  The villagers discovered that Lin Dong did not use much water every day. They did not know that Lin Dong would take advantage of the silence of the night every night to quietly take out the water from the [Four Gates] and replenish it into the water tank.  Fourteen fruits were poured into the boiling water one after another, and the color in the pot gradually turned into a thick white. The little fat guys Jiao Yang and Lin Dong took turns watching the fire and chopping firewood.  This boy was so strong that in one afternoon there were more than a thousand kilograms of firewood in the yard.  There are few trees around, and most of the firewood is furniture donated by the villagers. Since they have to move anyway, there is no use keeping these bulky furniture, so the villagers like Lin Dong are willing to give it to Lin Dong.  At night, Jiao Yang returned to the village with the required materials. Although Shazhou City was the largest city nearby, it could not compare with these big cities in the interior. Seven or eight kinds of raw materials were nowhere to be found.  Fortunately, Mr. Gui had already thought of substitutes. Looking at these substitutes, Mr. Gui looked regretful and said, "It's such a pity. Originally, I could make high-grade pigments according to my recipe, but using these substitutes would be even more expensive."  "It's a lot lower." Lin Dong rolled his eyes and asked, "Mr. Gui, how many levels is the pigment after the reduction equivalent to what the mainland said?" Mr. Gui thought for a moment and said, "According to you, it's about level ten to eleven.  ." Lin Dong felt happy, level 11 paint!  This has never been heard of in Shuangyue Continent. As long as it succeeds, I won't have to worry about paint for a long time.  "Mr. Gui, what about these blank cards?" Lin Dong pointed at a pile of bark on the table.  "It's hard to say. I just know that the bark of the Bailuo tree is an excellent material for making blank cards, but I have never tried it. The desert Bailuo tree is extremely precious. Who would be willing to take off the bark to make blank cards." Jiao Yang is responsible for lighting the fire.  , as time passed, a strong aroma enveloped the entire village. Although the villagers were curious about what Lin Dong was doing, no one dared to discuss the matter in private out of respect for a card maker.  Lin Dong sat at the table, holding a black snake sword in his hand and carefully processing the bark of the Bailuo tree. Although the bark is not as hard as the trunk, it is also extremely difficult to process.  The bark needs to be cut to the same size as a standard card, and then the outer bark needs to be carefully removed, leaving only the innermost layer.  There can be no omissions during this period. If you miss a precious high-grade blank card, it will become invalid.  At the beginning, there were only four or five successful cards out of ten, and the angry boss scolded Lin Dong for being a prodigal.  Lin Dong was helpless. After all, this was his first attempt at raw materials. As his experience increased, his success rate gradually improved a lot. By the next day, Lin Dong was able to succeed.Eighty-nine of them.  Until the third day, all the bark was turned into white blank cards by Lin Dong.  The fourteen Bailuo tree fruits that had been rolling in the boiling water had become smaller and smaller. The originally milky white water became crystal clear at first. On the fourth day, the fourteen fruits completely disappeared and turned into  There is a pot of crystal clear liquid. The liquid is rolling in the pot, exuding a strong aroma.  During this period, the villagers of Shuteng Village had begun to move into the depths of the grassland in a planned manner. First, the strong adult men were the first batch. They rode several shuttle cars bought from Shazhou City and headed towards the boundless grassland.  The remaining elderly, children and women were temporarily relocated to Shazhou City, waiting for the men to find a suitable place to survive and build houses before picking them up.  Only a few families choose to live in the city, and most people voluntarily move with the village to distant places.  As a result, the number of people in the village gradually decreased. After arriving at Diqitian, the only ones left in the village besides Lin Dong were Jiao Lei and chubby Jiao Yang.  Jiao Yang is responsible for lighting the fire while Jiao Lei is responsible for carrying water, cooking and other sundries.  On the eighth day, Lin Dong began to make blank cards under the instructions of Gui Lao. Making blank cards was not difficult. Put the juice made from boiling the fruits of the white Luo tree into a wooden basin, and wait for it to cool down before adding the white cards.  Blank cards made from Luoshu bark are put into it and soaked.  This process requires Lin Dong to continuously inject source power into the wooden basin. The Bailuo juice juice in the basin will absorb the source power released by Lin Dong like a sponge. When the source power is injected, the juice will emit a faint golden light.  When the light weakened slightly, Lin Dong injected his source power into it again.  Three more days later, the production of blank cards has been completed. The cards, which were completely soaked in juice, were exposed to the sun.  The sun was shining brightly in the desert, and all the cards were formed in just one morning.  Lin Dong carefully collected the cards and counted the number, seventy-nine!  So many high-quality blank cards made Lin Dong really excited for a long time.  The next step is to make the paint.  What I used was the basin of Bailuo juice left over from making the blank card.  Lin Dong divided it into three parts and placed them in three wooden basins respectively. Then he placed the raw materials bought in Shazhou City into them and continued to use the source power as a guide to mix the colors.  Lin Dong was making raw materials for the first time. He didn't know that Gui Lao's method of making materials was much more advanced than the methods commonly used in mainland China.  It¡¯s simple and won¡¯t be wasteful.  After another three days, the colors in the three wooden basins gradually became richer, including red, yellow and blue.  Lin Dong finally understood that what Gui Lao made was actually three primary colors. As long as these three colors are available, the other colors can be adjusted at will. Using the three primary colors to adjust other colors is a simple matter for Lin Dong.  Furthermore, these three colors produced by Guilao are all full-attribute pigments that contain the five characteristics of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth!  After the color is soaked, it is another demanding extraction work.  By the end, Lin Dong had three more pieces of pigment essence the size of blue bricks in his hand.  The process was of course arduous. The large amount of released energy every day brought Lin Dong's body to the edge of collapse several times and he was exhausted.  But Lin Dong was surprised to find that running the ¡®Stardust Art¡¯ when physically exhausted seemed to have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort. Now Lin Dong¡¯s strength has approached the sixth level and is only one step away from the seventh level.  ¡°Lin Dong, pack up, we¡¯ll leave right away.¡± Mr. Gui said anxiously.  Lin Dong carefully put away the cards and paints, "Why are you anxious? I feel like I'm one step closer to promotion recently. This place is very quiet. I want to retreat here for a while to see if I can succeed." Mr. Gui seemed to be very uneasy.  He seems to be running around in the room. In the past few days, Gui Lao has been in a state of anxiety, and he doesn't know why.  "Lin Dong, do you believe in premonitions?" asked Mr. Gui.
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