Chapter 24 From now on, you are the cook of the shelter!
The newcomer named "Mosquito" has really good carpentry skills.
Lao Bai and Fang Chang used the steel bars as rulers to mark the wooden boards that had not been sawed out for a long time. He just carried a saw and cut out a pile by dividing five by two.
Not only that, these wooden boards also have buckle edges, so they can be easily put together to form a square hollow brick groove.
After a while, several molds for making bricks were formed.
"You guys are not good at handling wood. Look at this... mushrooms are growing so fast." Mosquito wiped his sweat, leaned the saw aside, looked at Fang Chang and Lao Bai and asked, "Are these enough?
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"That's enough, that's enough! Thank you, brother, it's been a big help!" Lao Bai looked overjoyed and patted Mosquito on the shoulder.
Mosquito looked shy and laughed dryly.
"You're welcome! If you need anything, just tell me."
Lao Bai chuckled and patted his shoulder.
"Okay! I'll remember it, and you'll 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 thick mud, poured it into the mold, put it into a square shape on the ground, and then stuffed it into the gap in the middle.
Apply some charcoal and dust the surface of the mud bricks.
This is also a method Lao Bai learned from wilderness survival videos.
When the first layer of bricks was almost dry, they changed the direction and continued to stack the second layer, and continued to stack them layer by layer until the brick pile was higher than their heads.
When he was done, Lao Bai carefully ignited the carbon inside the brick stack, allowing the fire to start burning from the middle, and then gradually engulf the entire brick stack.
"Can this thing be done?"
Looking at the "mud pile" with smoke rising, Fang Chang wiped the sweat from his forehead with his arms covered with mud, as if he had crawled out of a cesspit.
Lao Bai's image can't be said to be very good, and his face is covered with carbon dust, as if he had just climbed out of a coal mine.
"Who knows, I can only wait and see."
It was also his first time to burn this thing. When he was a child, he only watched adults do it, so he didn't know whether this method would work.
Everything can only wait until tomorrow.
"Let's go, let it burn here first."
"Let's go to the cement kiln and have a look. I feel that we are very close to the finished product. Use more force this time and try to get a barrel out before it goes offline!"
On the other side, with the help of [WC Really Has Mosquitoes], Guangfeng and Yeshi finally completed the improvement of the N-generation fishing device.
They replaced the original tubular structure with a cage-like structure, replaced the weak wooden bars with strong steel bars, and reinforced the main structure of the trap.
No matter what kind of fish you are, don’t even think about leaving after you come in!
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 technique of smoking meat.
Although there is still not much progress...
"Dear manager, may I ask what are you...doing?"
Hearing the sound coming from the side, Chu Guang stood up from the bacon rack, patted the charcoal ash on his hands and looked aside. He saw [Tomato Scrambled Eggs], looking at the bacon he made with curiosity.
shelf.
If I remember correctly, this guy seems to be a chef who graduated from New Oriental?
Thinking of this, Chu Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.
"I'm studying how to make bacon... You came just in time. From now on, you will be the chef of Outpost 404!"
As he said that, Chu Guang didn't give the player a chance to speak at all, and looked at him with a serious face and continued.
"The situation we are facing now is very serious. In addition to the construction of outpost facilities on the surface, we also have to prepare enough food for the 100 compatriots who will arrive on the surface before winter comes."
"I need your help!"
Scrambled Egg looked confused.
The chef is okay...
In reality, he is a chef. Before going online, he cooked two dishes before handing the spoon to his colleagues. Unexpectedly, he had to do his old job in the game.
Is this equivalent to switching careers as a life player?
It took a long time before he opened his mouth.
"But...what can I do for you?"
"Good question."
Chu Guang looked at the bacon rack nearby.
"I tried smoking meat, but the effect was not satisfactory. I need you to solve the problem of food storage... I have read your information. The organization said that you have relevant experience in handling food, right?"
Scrambled Egg was stunned.
"I know a little bit, but games are games after all - I mean, I'm not sure if my experience applies here."
Thinking that this is a game world, Brother Scrambled Egg changed his mind temporarily, but it seemed that the NPC didn't seem to care. It was probably because the program was set to automatically ignore reality-related elements that had nothing to do with the game.
"It's okay, I need professional advice," Chu Guang said, looking at the bacon rack aside, "Please help me find out what went wrong with the bacon rack I made."
Looking at the wooden shelf in front of him, Scrambled Egg fell into silence.
It’s not so much what went wrong…
Rather, there are problems everywhere.
"Well... first of all, the bacon must be smoked in a closed environment. Your grilling method may burn the outside and it will be useless. Also, are there spices sprinkled on the meat?"
"A special kind of tobacco leaf."
"tobacco leaf?!"
"Well," Chu Guang nodded while looking at the scrambled eggs with a surprised expression, "This is an inland area, and salt is very expensive. The local survivors use tobacco leaves rich in aromatic compounds and tar to replace table salt.
Crumb it up and apply it on the surface of the food, and heat it to mix the preservative substance with the oil on the surface of the food to achieve the preservative effect."
How else could it be like this?!
Everyone was shocked by the scrambled eggs.
Some aromatic compounds can indeed be used as food preservatives, but this was the first time he heard that they could be eaten.
Maybe it won’t kill you if you don’t overdose?
But his intuition told him that this smoking process was equivalent to fighting fire with fire...
"Actually, meat can be smoked even without adding salt...but the flavor is not very good. I don't understand the method you are talking about, but the food smoked in this way is not suitable from a health perspective."
The term scrambled eggs is a euphemism, because I heard that NPCs have a favorability setting. Only when the favorability is high can you accept hidden tasks.
In reality, he simply rolled his eyes.
"You don't need to add salt?!" Chu Guang was stunned.
"Well...microorganisms need moisture to survive. Smoking meat is essentially drying the moisture in the meat to achieve dehydration. If there is salt, the effect will be better, the storage time will be longer, and the flavor will be better. But if there is not, as long as
It’s possible if done properly.”
"Of course, if the fat content is high, dehydration will be more troublesome...it still depends on the specific type of meat."
Having said this, Scrambled Egg paused, glanced at the bacon rack next to him with a little embarrassment, and whispered.
"But no matter what the situation is, you haven't sealed it... it's definitely not feasible."
If you can pickle food without consuming this weird tobacco leaf, it will undoubtedly be a happy event for the outpost.
However, Chu Guang still had some doubts.
No matter how ignorant the survivors of Beit Street are, since they have been able to survive in this wasteland until now, they must not even have this survival skill wrong.
What went wrong?
However, Chu Guang did not intend to think about such troublesome matters for the time being.
Firstly, it's because he doesn't have enough time.
Another thing, if everything is solved by the NPC, then why do the players need to do it?
"Very well, this glorious and arduous task will be left to you!"
He patted this cute little newbie hard on the shoulder.
Chu Guang solemnly handed over the task of smoking meat to [Tomato Scrambled Eggs], and asked about safety issues, and then left happily.
good.
Another problem solved.
Now that the food problem has been solved, shouldn't I try to recruit more players to increase productivity?
With just these hands, they may not be able to build the walls of the nursing home until the end of the month.
Just when Chu Guang was thinking this, an excited cheer suddenly came from not far away.