Chapter 641 - 604: Efficient Logging
The Flying arrived once again at the Habbit Village on Lake Island within the Swamp Space. Without the obstruction of the Eight-Headed Snake, the journey was filled with unlimited deployment of floating logs. This indeed increased the workload for the Vine Demons downstream. But it was necessary, as the wood had to be transported out at the fastest speed.
At this time, the Habbit Village had already built a simple floating bridge with rafts to serve as a dock for the Flying. This dock was truly too primitive and outdated, so the transported stone had to be used to reconstruct it.
The dock was filled with Habbit children cheering and jumping for joy to welcome Da Fei.
Da Fei asked with a smile, "Where are the adults?"
The children scrambled to answer in a babble, "They all went to the forest to transport wood!"
"Daddy said, with Lord City Lord here, we won’t have to worry about food anymore. We’re not rushing to fish for food now; let’s first help with the urgent tasks of the Lord City Lord."
Such sensible words made Da Fei couldn’t help but burst into astonished laughter. What are children? They are the flowers of the motherland, with an infinitely moldable future! This was the system’s task specially left for Brother Fei to cultivate!
In any case, once the Habbit Village officially becomes Brother Fei’s subordinate village, the first thing Brother Fei will do is to open a school here—What to learn? Cooking!
Now there was nothing else to say, unload stone, unload laborers.
Then, dozens of rafts transported the 500 Woodcutters newly brought by Da Fei to the Black Forest. Ah, rafts, too backward, must be replaced. Da Fei felt overwhelmingly engaged, with so many tasks at hand.
When Da Fei’s team came to the small island where the entrance to the Black Forest passage was located, Tai Da and Billbo, who had already received the firework message, were already on the island to meet them.
Looking at the endless stream of lumber transport teams coming in and out of the passage, Da Fei waved to the crowd with relief, "Everyone has worked hard!"
The crowd cheered, "Hello, Lord City Lord!"
Seeing the new Woodcutter brigade brought by Da Fei, Tai Da was even more excited, "Lord, with this fresh force, our logging progress will greatly increase!"
Da Fei laughed heartily, "Let me show you all what a real fresh force is!"
Now, Da Fei and his entourage entered the long-missed Black Forest. After so many days, a large open area had already appeared in the Black Forest, with the sound of logging echoing everywhere.
Looking at the remaining vast expanse of forest, Da Fei felt the urgency of time—anyway, let’s get started!
Da Fei clicked on the mailbox to accept the competition reward items!
What is the mailbox? The mailbox is the channel for players to receive items purchased from the Chamber of Commerce, where Da Fei once bought a Skill Reset Potion, offline shelter items, etc. In short, no matter where the player is, the mailbox can always provide items anytime, anywhere—it’s the privilege of paying players, the real "Miracle"!
—System Prompt: You have received the competition reward "Sandworm Mining Machine" from the mailbox!
—System Prompt: You have received the competition reward "20 Unit Crystals," but you can only carry 10 units of resources, please properly handle the remaining 10 units of resources.
In an instant, a round, chubby object the size of a large truck, looking metallic yet crystalline, a yellow "giant maggot," and a pile of sparkling gemstones suddenly appeared!
For a moment, everyone was amazed!
Indeed, specialized vehicles like transport trucks and engineering vehicles are stored alongside the troops in barracks or Chambers of Commerce in the city, but once outside the city, one knows how inconvenient they are, and they are also unable to use regular Teleportation Array (but can use Military Teleportation Array). Da Fei was just considering that because of the mining machine’s large size, it might be inconvenient to transport by ship, so he had left it in the mailbox until now.
But looking at the current situation, even without using the Holy Vine Space, there’s still a way to open the cargo hatch doors on the deck top and hoist the mining machine onto the ship.
Now there was nothing else to say, use all the spilled Refined Crystal Gemstone Ore on the ground as raw material!
—System Prompt: Starting the Sandworm Mining Machine requires 10 Unit Crystals or 10 unit gemstones, please load fuel!
Deploy!
— System Prompt: You have deployed 10 Unit Crystals of Refined Crystal, providing the Sandworm Mining Machine with ten times the power of ordinary fuel. The Sandworm Mining Machine has been activated, and you can now control the mining machine to mine, or hand over control to your Deputy Officer.
With a thunderous rumble amid exclamations of amazement from the crowd, this behemoth "maggot" the size of a truck began to trundle along.
Holy shit, this is fun! Da Fei immediately steered it towards the forest ahead!
— System Prompt: Your Sandworm Mining Machine has discovered timber within the forest. Would you like to mine it?
Mine!
Following Da Fei’s command, several rows of rotating saw teeth extended from the mining machine’s mouth, cutting down a few withered trees in an instant like electric saws, before devouring them into its massive body.
— System Prompt: Your Sandworm Mining Machine has mined 3 units of timber.
— Operating Prompt: When the mining machine’s ore hold is filled with minerals, the mining machine can still continue to mine, but the mined materials will be discarded on-site. Please make sure to collect them.
— System Prompt: Your Sandworm Mining Machine has mined 4 units of timber.
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Holy crap! Watching the mining machine work with the voracity of a grain harvester, Da Fei was overjoyed beyond measure! This mining machine is really badass! And it makes sense, its original form is a sandworm, meant for digging and burrowing - what’s timber in the grand scheme of things?
Tai Da was even more excited, shouting out loud: "Lord, the efficiency of this machine is dozens of times higher than manual labor! It’s no problem at all for us to quickly clear out this forest. These newly assigned woodcutters could just assign 200 people to specifically transport the timber!"
Da Fei burst into hearty laughter: "That’s right, technology is the primary productive force! Everyone work hard and fast, we must hurry and finish the job!"
The entire workforce’s Morale soared and they cheered in unison!
Now, the Sandworm Mining Machine was like a razor clearing the path, toppling trees wherever it went, flattening the forest in the blink of an eye. And the line of workers transporting the wood had become an endless chain that still couldn’t meet the need, prompting Tai Da to redistribute another 50 woodcutters to reinforce the transportation team.
Beyond his surprise, Da Fei couldn’t help feeling that the rewards from this competition were just too awesome. There are so many experts in the world, and if they all get such amazing prizes from the competition, what advantage does he have left? Da Fei, feeling a sense of urgency, knew he had to sweep the hidden map’s bosses one by one.
Right at that moment, Da Fei’s message alert went off, a Harem Beauty! Yo, my beauty, haha!
Harem Beauty: "Brother Fei, I have shipped 65 units of Ancient Granite to the Guild’s warehouse. If Brother Fei needs more, we will continue to keep an eye out."
Da Fei couldn’t help but laugh: "Thanks, I’ll compensate you all when I have time—Oh, by the way, where did you get this stone?"
"We dug it up while excavating the canal, but the quantity is very limited."
Da Fei responded with an "oh": "So how far did you get with the canal digging?"
"It’s progressing slowly, things aren’t going very smoothly. Alright, I won’t bother Brother Fei anymore, take your time."
Da Fei replied with an "okay": "Alright, take your time with your tasks."
Progressing slowly and not going smoothly? I see, they are hinting and seeking help, huh? But concerning this problem—watching the mining machine on the timber site made Da Fei’s eyebrows twitch!
Brother can help you out a bit, but I’m a realist, no pushover charmed by just a bit of mineral, no sirree. You beauties need to show some sincerity, you know, something like a "2-fly" would do, haha, bwahahaha!
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