Fearsome Farmer - Chapter 51

Chapter 51: Li Siwen’s Light Industry

A human, two strange gangs of wild beasts confronted each other like this.

A few minutes later, the lion disappeared into the forest, followed by the fox and the black bear. The old sow and little wild boars followed behind. Their obedience was unbelievable.

Did they accept the wild boars as their partners, or did they learn to raise wild boars like humans?

All possibilities were horrifying.

On this side, the black panther’s gang didn’t attack Li Siwen. They were more cautious than Li Siwen.

However, their gang didn’t take away the live wild boars, but dragged away the corpses of two old wild boars. As for the remaining wild boars, they were all eaten, of course. The food intake of these beasts was no weaker than Li Siwen.

“What a strange world! I have to be more cautious. These lonely wandering beasts are not so simple themselves, but they are willing to form a team. This shows that there are still existences that make them all tremble. Faced with this unknown existence, what advantage can I have?”

Li Siwen thought about it and dealt with the gray wolf’s corpse. He kept the wolf skin and dried its meat.

“I need a more sturdy treehouse, but I also need a more handy hoe and shovel. Unfortunately, I only have 5 Heavenly Workmanship Points left. I shall get a shovel. It’s not too convenient to dig using a hoe.”

Next, Li Siwen covered the fire stove in the treehouse with two stone slabs to prevent a fire from breaking out. Then, he sealed the treehouse securely with logs..

Then, he went more than a hundred meters away from the flooded valley directly, where he remembered that there were many big rocks washed down by mountain torrents with high iron content.

He didn’t know how to make iron, neither did he know how to build a furnace. But time didn’t allow him to explore slowly, so there was only one way. He would see if he could make use of the Heavenly Workmanship Points to do so.

He picked a big rock that appeared to have the highest iron content and hit it directly with the back of the mountain axe with brute force. Now he felt like he really had foresight. If this had been a machete, how was he going to knock it?

The rock was very hard, but Li Siwen’s Stamina and Strength was enough. The weight of the mountain axe was also sufficient. The 10-centimeter wide axe back did not differ from a sledgehammer. Following a crack, more cracks appeared and fragments fell off.

Li Siwen wrapped the fragments around a piece of rag for future use. Then, he continued knocking on the rock, and at the same time observed the direction of the treehouse. He would look back every ten minutes. After all, there were more than a thousand catties of meat there. He could not be negligent.

However, it seemed the two wild beast gangs had really left. He spent half a morning in the flooded valley knocking on the rocks and accumulated more than two hundred kilograms of suspected iron ore fragments. Nothing happened during that time.

After transporting these iron ore fragments back to the treehouse, Li Siwen rested for a while, then put his hands on the pile of fragments anxiously and extracted two points of Heavenly Workmanship Point. He focused on refining the iron.

In the next second, a soft glow flashed. The pile of iron ore fragments liquefied at an incredible speed and finally turned into a black iron ingot.

At this moment, Li Siwen was overjoyed. He picked up this iron ingot and estimated its weight to be at least a hundred kilograms. Didn’t that mean that the iron ore in the flooded valley contained at least 50% iron?

“Continue refinement?”

Li Siwen hesitated for a while. He looked at the 3 Heavenly Workmanship Points left in the blue orb. It was too little.

At the moment, he used the most conservative method. He first extracted a little Heavenly Workmanship Point and made a most common shovel with a bit of the pig iron. The quality of this thing was very inferior. Even a bit of force would break it.

Then Li Siwen put the shovel on the iron ingot and extracted the last two Heavenly Workmanship Points. He strengthened it as much as he could.

The result was not beyond imagination. One Heavenly Workmanship Point transformed it into a wrought iron shovel, and another transformed it into a stainless steel hovel, which was the same level as his hoe.

Even so, Li Siwen was relieved. Now, he had a mountain axe that he could fight with and cut wood, a hoe that could weed and farm, and a shovel that can be used for infrastructure. Well, the mountain axe could be used as a sickle and a hammer. Not bad, he could finally set sail for his light industry.

His top priority was to strengthen the treehouse and deal with heavy rains in the future.

Without taking a break, he used his Level 3 woodcutting skill on one of the four pillars of the treehouse, focusing and choosing to leave the Vitality Point alone. He slashed it six meters above the ground. He removed the crown of the tree trunk, leaving only a sturdy trunk double the hardness.

After that, he put a wooden handle on the stainless steel shovel, and dug frantically outside the treehouse again. This time, he was going to dig a trench five meters deep. It was not to make a moat, but to erect logs.

He had cut down a lot of big trees these days. Among them, the gigantic trees as thick as buckets were cut into pieces of logs that were ten or eight meters long, and those which required two or three people to hug it were left.

Li Siwen planned to chop these thicker trees into ten-meter-long log sections, then put them into the trench and tamped with mud to form thicker wooden walls.

He would leave a one-meter gap between this wooden wall and the second wooden wall and fill it up with soil to further strengthen it.

In short, this was an extensive project. Before Li Siwen had the stainless steel shovel, he didn’t even dare to think about doing it.

But it was no problem now. There was sufficient food supply, enough Stamina and Strength to squander, and sophisticated tools to use. He worked hard without resting the entire afternoon and dug out a one-meter-wide and five-meters-deep trench with a circumference of about 40 meters in one breath.

He consumed 30 Stamina points. Even so, he still had 20 points left.

After resting for half an hour, Li Siwen ate some dried meat and took his mountain axe to chop wood. He was stronger than a bull with his 24 Strength. Together with the sharp mountain axe, it only took a moment to cut a tree that required two people to hug it.

At about 9 PM, he gathered up the required log segments, carried them back one by one, and erected them in the trench. It was exactly five meters underground and five meters above the ground. Tamped with soil, it became very firm.

Only with such a barrier could Li Siwen feel relieved.

After he filled the trench and rammed it down, it was almost midnight. He gave up persevering and returned to the treehouse. He sealed the entrance with logs, left a small trap, and dropped asleep.