"Build!"
[Advance wood -10, Common wood -100, Stone -10, Mud -20, Bronze -10, Fire Beast Core -2]
Ding! Ding! Dang! Dang!
From the tool room next door came another burst of knocking, the sound of making tools.
Then a flash of golden light and a wooden medicine-making table appeared in Ethan's room.
On the table were a stone mortar and pestle, a bronze herb-cutting knife, and several bottles and jars for preparing medicine, most of them made of bronze.
And around the room appeared two wall-sized medicine cabinets. On each wooden drawer hung a small tag, marked with the name of the herb inside.
Ethan glanced over them.
[Pine needles]
[Poison thorn vine]
[Honey]
[Sour water]
[…]
Everything shown was material he already had.
Pine needles and poison thorn vines he understood, but how was this sour water stored inside a cabinet drawer?
Curious, Ethan pulled open this black technology drawer. A glow of white light surged out. He couldn't see what was inside at all.
But the instant he opened the drawer, information about the item appeared automatically in his mind.
[Sour Water: Filthy water condensed from acid rain, extremely lethal, can cause severe skin burns and ulceration! If it gets in the eyes it can cause blindness. If poured into a bathtub, it can destroy evidence completely. It is the main ingredient used for making corpse-dissolving water.]
[Take out?]
"Huh?"
"Corpse-dissolving water like in The Deer and the Cauldron?" [T/N: A children's book]
"Not bad, not bad. This was absolutely a killer must-have, perfect for destroying corpses and eliminating traces."
But one hundred units of sour water was far more than he could ever use. He planned to put ninety units up for sale in the trading channel and keep ten for himself.
After looking over the pharmacy.
Ethan went into the last remaining room.
This room was definitely the warehouse. Once he stepped inside, he saw library-like shelves, rows upon rows of neat racks stacked with all kinds of materials he had brought back.
Besides all kinds of wood and stone, there were also various beast cores and spirit stones.
These beast cores and spirit stones were stored in wooden boxes below, the lids propped open. From afar they looked like piles of treasure.
It was enough to make anyone's heart race.
After touring everything, Ethan returned to the living room.
He noticed a small compartment in one corner of the living room. When he entered, it was actually a bathroom.
But both the showerhead spot and the toilet spot had a red exclamation mark, meaning there were no devices yet.
So everything had to be built by Ethan.
Other things could be missing, but showering and using the toilet were absolutely necessary.
After all, doing things like before, going in a bucket and dumping it out, it polluted the environment and smelled awful.
Now that he had the conditions, Ethan of course wanted something better.
In this life he had no chance to live in a villa in the city, so this counted as achieving the dream in another way. Naturally he wanted to live comfortably.
[Automatic Water-Condensing Showerhead: Gathers 10 liters of water per hour into its storage tank, can store up to 100 liters. As everyone knows, bath water can't be drunk or you'll get diarrhea! (Inserting 1 spirit stone allows operation for 3 days) Crafting requirements: Bronze 1530/60, Fire Beast Core 9/1, Water Beast Core 6/2]
[Automatic Cleaning and Decomposing Toilet: Whatever you put into the toilet will be automatically decomposed into fertilizer and water, returning it to nature. No pollution, no weird smells! (Inserting 1 spirit stone allows operation for 7 days) Crafting requirements: Advance stone 580/10, Mud 435/5, Water Beast Core 6/2, Earth Beast Core 4/1]
Sure enough, spirit stones were essentially energy in this world.
At first, in the stone age stage, spirit stones didn't seem useful.
But once black technology started developing, spirit stones became like batteries, even more precious than money. Or in other words, these spirit stones were actually the "currency" of this world.
The future currency would probably be spirit stones.
By upgrading the villa, Ethan had gathered some information that slower-developing people would not have found.
He decided that from now on, unless it was an important material, he would only accept spirit stones.
He had to gather more while everyone still didn't realize how valuable spirit stones were. Once the value became widely known, collecting them would become much harder.
"Build automatic water-condensing showerhead, build automatic cleaning and decomposing toilet."
[Bronze -60, Fire Beast Core -1, Water Beast Core -2]
[Advance stone -10, Mud -5, Water Beast Core -2, Earth Beast Core -1]
A flash of golden light and above Ethan's head appeared a showerhead made of bronze. And through the bathroom window he finally understood why a single showerhead needed sixty units of bronze.
It was because the 100-liter storage tank was not small at all.
But in order not to take up indoor space, the storage tank was designed by the system to sit outside the villa, right against the wall, almost blending into it. It didn't look out of place at all.
It even made the villa's exterior wall gain a square piece of metal paneling, giving it a nice design feel.
Next, the automatic cleaning and decomposing toilet appeared.
It was a toilet made entirely of stone. It looked primitive, but its surface was polished extremely smooth. Sitting on it gave a cool stone feeling, but it was fine and not rough.
Ethan took the chance to use the toilet.
At first he only planned to pee, but the toilet was so comfortable that he accidentally pooped.
Frightened, he quickly used a spirit stone. He needed the toilet running immediately.
After wiping his butt with a leaf (he hadn't made toilet paper yet).
Ethan witnessed something magical inside the toilet.
His pile of poop turned into white glowing particles and vanished. Meanwhile, his warehouse gained one unit of fertilizer.
This was seriously magical.
[Basic fertilizer: Can increase plant growth speed by 10 percent]
"Awesome plus!"
Even though the bathroom only had a showerhead, that was already enough to excite Ethan.
Since coming here all these days, Ethan had never had a chance to bathe. Taking this opportunity, he quickly stripped and rinsed himself clean in the bathroom. A whole layer of muddy water washed off him. He was filthy.
Even his clothes smelled like sweat.
He simply scrubbed them a bit under the showerhead too.
After showering, Ethan finally felt refreshed.
But since his clothes were washed, he didn't bother putting anything on and went upstairs to sleep completely naked.
Under the blanket, it didn't matter whether he wore clothes or not.
Ethan went upstair, and saw that little Daji was hogging his bed, sleeping soundly.
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