CHAPTER 41: CHAPTER 41: LOST IN THE GAME

The chubby Orange Cat pondered for a moment, then looked at Mr. Zhou: "Wait a moment, I’ll go down and study the internal structure of the hand-cranked blower."

Mr. Zhou smiled: "No need, I’m familiar with this thing. Come, let’s step aside, and I’ll explain it to you in detail."

The chubby Orange Cat spread its hands helplessly: "Well, fine. How do you know so much?"

Mr. Zhou shrugged slightly: "It’s not that much, mainly from having too much free time in the past."

"By the way, if there’s any rough work later, other players can help. Everyone’s looking for something to do."

"See, how good I treat you?"

Mr. Zhou took the chubby Orange Cat aside and began a detailed explanation.

Seeing this, the other players went back to the Red Iron Ore, planning to mine some more from the open-pit there to bring back.

They realized that the final site for the high furnace should be near here, so bringing in more Red Iron Ore was definitely the right move.

After listening carefully to Mr. Zhou’s explanation, the chubby Orange Cat started to get busy.

It assigned some crude preliminary work to other players, while it handled the detailed processing.

The other players were very willing, each fearing they did too little.

In places that required fixing, the chubby Orange Cat and Mr. Zhou discussed carefully and used mortise and tenon joints for securing.

Working until the latter half of the night, finally, two hand-cranked blowers were cranked out.

At that time, there weren’t many players present, most of these were those who excelled in the previous level-1 team-building task, hence they gained more experience.

That’s why they could level up to 2 so quickly.

Don’t think going from level 1 to 2 only requires 100 experience points, theoretically, just collecting 20 Magic Potions or 20 liters of blood can easily achieve that.

First, those Magic Potions are absolutely not easy to collect.

The Magic Potions Fang Ka needed all required to grow to a certain stage, with visible differences in appearance during the growth stage, making them hard to fudge, and no player truly dares to fool Fang Ka.

Moreover, these Magic Potions are not like vegetables planted in a small area; they are distributed across a vast region and are very sparse.

As for the blood, other players are not like the Iron Black Pot; they can’t even make proper traps.

Even if they research, often they understand with their eyes but not with their hands.

And even if they really manage to set it up, trap hunting requires waiting, which is definitely not a short period.

Among players who participated in the first blood collection task with the Iron Black Pot, having helped with trap setting at that time, some did collaborate using trap hunting.

But the efficiency wasn’t high.

As for bow and arrow hunting...

First, their bows and arrows weren’t made successfully.

Secondly, practicing shooting with ancient bows and arrows, without guidance, is indeed a bit difficult to handle.

Such rarities as the Iron Black Pot are too few.

A group of players, under Mr. Zhou’s lead, began experimental firing on this prototype.

After observing for a while, Mr. Zhou nodded slightly: "The issues at the initial stage are still acceptable."

When the internal temperature of the high furnace prototype slowly rose, he signaled for two players to use the blower on the air inlet.

He also instructed the two players to be gentle and control their strength, taking it slow.

The two indicated their understanding and, under Mr. Zhou’s guidance, strictly controlled the blower’s force.

Mr. Zhou kept observing the state inside the high furnace prototype.

After a good while, Mr. Zhou tossed in a small piece of Red Iron Ore, along with coke and limestone.

Soon, his gaze turned worried.

"Increase the blowing a bit."

The two players immediately increased the blowing force.

"Continue to increase."

Mr. Zhou closely observed the high furnace, and half an hour later, he abruptly raised a hand: "Stop, get some water to cool down the furnace base; let’s wrap up."

After the wrap-up, Mr. Zhou sat down on one side and began sketching with a tree branch.

Hand Rubbing Diamonds hesitated for a moment and then walked over to sit next to Mr. Zhou: "Zhou, what’s up?"

Mr. Zhou rubbed his bony face: "There’s a lot wrong, too many areas that need improvement, I don’t even know where to start."

Hand Rubbing Diamonds patted Mr. Zhou’s shoulder: "Have you ever considered a question?"

Mr. Zhou turned his eyes to Hand Rubbing Diamonds: "What question? Tell me."

Hand Rubbing Diamonds said with a faraway look: "This game indeed is made with very realistic details, and many aspects can use reality as a basis, but don’t forget, this isn’t a game that fully simulates reality."

"This is a magical supernatural game, if ordinary materials can’t solve the problem, why not try magic materials?"

Mr. Zhou’s eyes grew brighter as he listened, then he suddenly slapped his forehead and stood up: "Wow, you’re right! I’ve fallen into a rut, indeed, a bystander’s perspective is clearer, the more knowledgeable you are, the more you think of real-world knowledge."

"There are definitely many things on this island not found in reality, many of which should be magic materials. We can spend time to analyze their properties."

"We might be able to create a completely different magical furnace."

"By the way, when I first started on this prototype, you seemed to have something to say, did you have this idea back then? Why didn’t you mention it earlier?"

Hand Rubbing Diamonds shook his head: "I was thinking, if you could really use real-world like materials to finish the furnace, then there was no point to bring it up."

"Didn’t you make that brick burning kiln according to reality? I think it looks pretty good."

"Now seeing how difficult you find it, I came over to give you a suggestion."

"By the way, I have a magic material recommendation, but it might be a bit troublesome for Mage Fang Ka."

Mr. Zhou looked at Hand Rubbing Diamonds curiously: "Hm? What magic material? How does it relate to Mage Fang Ka?"

Hand Rubbing Diamonds glanced towards the west of the Island: "Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching and I found a hidden dungeon, the magic material I’m talking about is near that hidden dungeon."

Mr. Zhou nodded: "You and Mr. Qian mentioned this to me, so shall we head over there now to get the materials and test their properties?"

Hand Rubbing Diamonds sighed: "We can’t get close now, it seems Mage Fang Ka has set up a Magic Array."

"What do you think?"

Mr. Zhou stood up, his eyes twinkling: "Let’s go, bring a few people with high favorability, and let’s find Mage Fang Ka."