Chapter 44 Why Build a Toilet First?

"Why… build a toilet first?"

Thanks to the game's mud material, they didn't need to build brick kilns. The dried mud felt sturdy and waterproof. When everyone was excitedly building the first big house, Mingmei and the others had another idea for the remaining mud bricks: to build a toilet.

"If we don't build a toilet… who was it that got scared by a snake that jumped out in the open the other day, and ran off with their bare ass exposed, didn't even bother to clean up their business, and got two points deducted?"

Since Merui Ta woke up, her personality had indeed improved a lot compared to when Mingmei first met her. However, Merui Ta was still as feisty as ever. Instead of explaining the benefits of a toilet properly, she had to rub salt in the wound.

The incident of Zhen Po running off to take care of a "big matter" one morning, only to be scared by a snake falling from a tree, screaming and running away naked, nearly blinded the girls who were washing their faces by the mountain spring outside the cave that morning.

Among them, Merui Ta, as a pampered young lady, thought she had already made great progress in this game, but that moment still dealt her countless critical hits!

"It's not just this. It's not even safe to go together, those bugs are too scary."

Wang Wenfei felt she had to help Zhen Po save some face and tugged on Merui Ta's arm privately, telling her to say less.

After all, no one could control that.

"Forget snakes, bugs, rats, and ants, just having to dig a hole before doing your business is annoying! I'm about to burst, but I have to hold it in and dig a hole first!"

"Why can't you dig a few in advance?"

"I did dig them in advance, but some bastard used them first, and then didn't even bother to dig a new one. What a jerk!"

Eating, drinking, and relieving oneself were important matters in life, especially since relieving oneself often resulted in point deductions, which made many players agree to build a toilet.

With a toilet, they no longer had to worry about being seen, being attacked by snakes and insects, or having to dig a hole every time!

Mu Chen even planted some mosquito-repelling and insect-repelling plants around the toilet, which also helped to eliminate odors. Everyone's fondness for Mu Chen kept rising.

"Speaking of which, why are you faster and better than others at identifying plants and finding food, Mu Chen?"

That evening, as the group returned from foraging for food with Mu Chen, they exclaimed once again.

"Didn't the system prompt that I unlocked some kind of tech point after eating the bento box? After that, I seemed to have a different feeling about plants."

After Mu Chen answered, he saw everyone was thoughtful. Mingmei happened to come over, heard Mu Chen's words, and continued, "Everyone has their own talents, why not explore them?"

"The more areas you excel in, the greater the chance we'll all survive and complete the game together."

After eating the bento boxes, everyone had practiced their talking skills until they were incredibly smooth, but adding bricks and tiles to the tech tree of human civilization seemed… to have made no progress yet.

"At this rate, when will this end?"

Looking at the recently broken 3000 points, with so much further to go to reach 16,000, the players handed over the food to those staying at the base and began to ponder what was different about themselves after eating the bento boxes.

"We only have 60 players here. If there were more, the score would snowball faster."

At night, Mingmei and Mu Chen sat at the entrance of the cave, chatting while watching the stars.

When they talked about the houses, she couldn't help but glance at the houses built on the platform base in the distance. The two rows of three-room brick houses looked reassuring in the moonlight.

Although they had only built these so far, they should be able to build two more before winter, as long as the weather was good and they had enough mud bricks.

"I really hope we can find a few more classmates before it gets cold."

"Hopefully. Although I don't know how many players have been eliminated, it's not low enough to reach the game's limit." Mu Chen nodded. "Yesterday, Zhen Hu said his talent point seemed to be related to animals."

"Oh?"

"Zhen Hu said he noticed that many furry animals seemed to be growing thicker fur, as if preparing for climate change. The last few times we hunted Unihorn Sheep, Zhen Hu noticed something was different when processing the fur, saying the fur was already several times thicker than when it was hot."

"Is it going to be that cold later? It's already growing like this?" Mingmei said worriedly, "Bai Xiao mentioned a heated kang… do you know how to build one?"

"I've seen it, but I haven't tried it."

Mu Chen's answer was quite honest. Bai Xiao was the same. She had seen it when she was traveling and thought it was novel, but she didn't know much about it, so she specifically asked everyone if anyone knew how to build one when they were building the house.

For everyone living in the interstellar era, an earth kang… no one really knew how to build one.

"But the principle shouldn't be too difficult. They've all been figuring out what their talents are these days, maybe someone will know how."

Mu Chen gently stroked the back of Mingmei's head, telling her not to worry. Then, Mu Chen changed the topic from building a heated kang.

"I think we can post that little ad again. Zhen Hu also observed a lot of migratory animals today, and they are starting to leave this place one after another. This way, they will go to farther places. Let them carry the 'little ad' and our promotion range will be expanded."

"That's true. We didn't restrict where the animals we put the ads on went before. If they just live in this area, the range is limited." Mingmei nodded. "And the rivers… if used well, they can be very useful too."

Mingmei had already imagined the scene of a small raft floating down the river, intercepted by some unknown player by the river, and the map being taken from it.

Mingmei, lost in thought, was startled by a sudden gust of cold wind blowing in her face.

"The weather is getting cold quickly, we need to hurry with everything. I still hope we can find more partners before winter comes."

"Yeah, but the storage of food and the construction of surrounding defenses also need to be accelerated. Spring will be difficult after winter."

……

"Hey, why are you talking about serious matters in such a good atmosphere?"

Dennis wondered if there was something wrong with his hearing. What was Cheshire saying?

He turned his head and looked at Cheshire, who had a regretful expression, and couldn't help but take another look at the other's live broadcast screen.

A man and a woman, both pleasing to the eye, sitting together watching the stars.

The scene was really nice.

But, because of this, why did Cheshire have such a dissatisfied (?) expression on his face?

Just as Dennis was greatly puzzled, Cheshire suddenly turned his head and caught him!

Dennis: "I…"

"I think I have something to deal with in reality."

Dennis saw Cheshire's body becoming somewhat transparent, it seemed that something was really urgently looking for her in reality.

"Dennis, can you help me look after my students? Please." After saying that, she directly transferred the form recording her students' performance to the other party and hurriedly went offline.

Correspondingly, their school's principal also went offline, leaving the remaining three teachers looking at each other.

"Did something happen at school?"

"It should be fine, after all, we are still here." The older Xu Wensong comforted the two young teachers and said, "Cheshire left so many students, let's each help look after a few. I heard her students are quite well-behaved, so it shouldn't be difficult to observe them."

Xu Wensong redefined "quite well-behaved" and "not difficult" for everyone. It wasn't until the end of this game that all three of them received a huge shock…