Chapter 148: The Preliminary Perfection of the Sky Island (1)
Finally, Siwei had to hear the news to those who transported stone and wood to see if he could send the people in charge of business in their store, and then discussed the matter of purchasing a batch of iron ingots near the Floating Island.
The delivery came this time. The man yesterday. After chatting with Xiwei for a while, he said that he could try to help Xiwei ask, but whether it can succeed is not something he can guarantee.
"After all, the ideas of those nobles are not something that we civilians can guess." The man said with a wry smile.
Even though he has gained favor from the senior executives of the Chamber of Commerce through hard work and his more sleek and sophisticated ways of doing things, this does not mean that he has entered the upper class.
For those chambers of commerce that monopolized some resource trafficking rights through various methods, ninety percent of their upper classes are great nobles with complex relationship networks.
No matter how good a civilian does, he is just a civilian from beginning to end. Even if he has made a huge family business, ordinary nobles can only hook their fingers and make it so as to be wiped out. Therefore, it is basically impossible for civilians to be in the upper level of the Chamber of Commerce. It is already very good to be able to speak like a man...
And this kind of aristocrat may not have any interest in selling some stone, wood, iron ingots. The best result is to let some of his men come to discuss with Xiwei.
"Well, I'll bother you." Sivi didn't force it, but then he said to the man as if he had remembered something: "By the way, if your chamber of commerce is not interested in this deal, you can go to Luolan Auction House and ask them to buy a batch of iron ingots for me. You should just report the name of Alphonse Adrick."
After all, the other party showed goodwill to him yesterday. It doesn’t matter if he makes a little harmless request at this time, and especially sells personal favors to them. Anyway, Xiwei also has a lot of unused white ordinary-level equipment in his hands, and it will be fine to throw it at the auction house to sell it. It should be fine for them to have a long reputation.
The man agreed skeptically, and then took the convoy away from here.
This time the convoy only transported one-third of the car, and another batch of them had to be transported before all the stone and wood ordered by Xiwei were delivered. The man probably planned to take advantage of this stall to go to the shop of the Chamber of Commerce in the City and discuss with the people inside.
After waiting for them to walk away, Sivi put the pile of stone and wood into the storage box and took it to the floating island.
Although the aerial corridor has been almost built, there are still many places that require stone and wood.
For example, many places need to be repainted with stone floors. Before the iron ingots come, some underground pits that are still being excavated also need to build a load-bearing frame with wood like mines on the earth.
After stacking the materials in the old place, Xiwei walked into one of the huge pits. He couldn't help but frown when he looked at the dust falling from time to time on his head.
In addition to building a load-bearing frame, the mines on the earth also need to pour concrete to improve the anti-collapse of the pit. Even so, there are still news of mine collapses from time to time. Although there are also alchemy products similar to concrete in this world, the price of that thing is not cheap, and the output is not high.
After all, in a world dominated by magic, the role of concrete is really useless. Even if concrete is really created, it may not be able to withstand the ordinary second-ring magic.
But no matter how much Siwei established it, it is an academy. It would be too ridiculous if it could not even compare to the safety of the mine caves on the earth.
"I remember that cement seems to be made of limestone, clay and gypsum..." Siwei murmured to himself.
Of course, as I said just now, cement is not suitable for this world. All he wants to do is to build the mysterious origin and improve the cement from the original earth after his alchemy level to create a stronger concrete.
But now is not the time to get into cement. Xiwei put this idea aside first, and he quickly walked into the depths of the pit.
The dwarfs seem to have the ability to have night vision, and even if there is no light source, it will not have much impact on their vision. Perhaps because of this, they, who are shy by nature, like to appear in the late night and quiet time.
But Xiwei is not good, at least he does not have the function of night vision yet.
Only by summoning a cyclonic flame arrow to float beside him, he can continue to move forward without ensuring that he will not hit the wall.
This is the underground of the main island, with the tunnel winding, and the total length that Xiwei has walked has been nearly three kilometers. Unfortunately, Xiwei still did not see the end of the tunnel, but encountered a small dwarf on the way.
Xiwei recruited five elves in total, but the only one he was familiar with was Voda. The other few had never spoken to him much, so Xiwei was stunned when she saw the other party and asked, "How is the progress of the project now?"
"It's not going well. Master." The little devil, wearing a shrink-shrinked bowler hat, took off his hat and hugged it on his chest. The expression on his face deeply interpreted the word "sad": "Three places have collapsed. There are also many places where the walls and ceilings are not very stable. Once, Voda was buried by the sand that collapsed from above. It was obvious that the rabbi reminded him that he could not dig there!"
"That's how it is."
Sivi sighed and couldn't help scratching his forehead in distress.
If this continues, it seems that even if you continue digging, it will be useless and just a waste of time.
After thinking for a while, Xiwei ordered the little devil who was still nagging something: "Forget it, let's talk about the excavation matters until the iron ingot arrives. You can let everyone else gather here."
"I understand, Master." The little devil with a long face bowed to Xiwei and disappeared with a thud.
Xiwei turned around and put a magical link of wind element that could accelerate, and then began to walk back.
After he returned to the ground, the little devils were already waiting for him honestly.
Sivi handed them two Achievement building drawings he bought at the Achievement Store while he was on the way, and asked, "How long will it take for you to help build these two?"
The two achievement buildings are [Spring of the Holy Praise] and [Soul of the Stone of the Return].
The former is a large fountain that can automatically generate water sources, and the water inside also has blessings, purification and healing effects, but the effect will disappear after five minutes of leaving the fountain platform. Even so, this building can be regarded as a good building in terms of beauty and practicality.
The latter is a huge piece of jade, and it has only one effect, that is, it can buy and bind the return crystal in reality rather than in the dungeon. Although from the explanation, the return crystal is very expensive and the cooling time is as long as three days after use, Xiwei, who has saved his life countless times in the dungeon because of the timely launch of the return crystal in time, is very clear that it is absolutely worth the chance to survive with such a small price!
Simply put, these two are fountains and the return stones that can make people return to the city, both of which are very useful, and their prices are also very good-looking. The original wealthy achievement point of Civina became a pitiful single digit after purchasing these two drawings...
However, achieving construction does not require additional construction resources, and both of them have irreplaceable effects, which makes Xiwei feel that it is not a loss for his achievements.
Several tiny devils looked at the architectural drawings, then looked at each other for a while before Voda said to Siwei: "Master, these two buildings are not too difficult. If we want to do it together, it will be completed in only three hours at most."
"So fast?" Xiwei was shocked. He thought that it took more than ten hours to renovate the room before. Now it would definitely take a lot of time to build these two buildings, but unexpectedly it was a surprise quick...
"Because they are all small buildings and there is no need to waste time processing materials, they are built faster," Voda explained to Siwei.
Xiwei calculated that if there were three hours, the convoy would definitely be halfway through. And even if there was no iron ingot, it would be useless.
In addition to the fountain and the return stone, the achievements in his hand now also has a mysterious birthplace, a star vein furnace and a magic engine. The latter two are the core parts of the Sky Academy. It is more reassuring than being exposed outside or built underground. Therefore, it cannot be built now.
After thinking for a while, Sivi immediately made a decision.
"Voda, you and your partner divide the work. Some people come to build these two buildings, others dig rivers on the island, and the last part comes to help me build other things."
"Dig a river?" The little devil tilted his head in confusion.
"There is no river on the floating island. After the Holy Psalm Spring is built, we don't have to worry about the water source. We can lead the water inside to the outside to form a small river. I just saw a small pond for fish farming behind the castle, which can also be connected. There are a lot of stones anyway, so we can also connect the water channel under the air corridor, so that a huge water system can be formed between the islands. If there is no way to make a water circulation, we will finally discharge the water outside the island."
Sivi explained to the elves.
He built fountains not just for the beauty and the effect of the fountain water. As long as the river can be built, the construction conditions of some special buildings such as forbidden forests and water beast nests can also be met.
"What else is there to be built?" asked the little devil again.
Xiwei did not answer, but just handed it the construction drawings of the [Mysterious Birthplace].
"I understand, leave it to us!" After looking carefully several times, the little devil immediately patted his chest and promised Xiwei: "We can complete everything in five hours at most!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!