Chapter 34. The speed of light is a muscle (2)
“Fire in the hole!”
Flashing!
It was a sunny morning.
Lloyd’s cry cut through the sunlight.
At the same time, Xaviel’s longsword flashed.
A white flash of light penetrated the granite.
soaked deep exploded in
Great!
Even granite, which had endured in one place for tens of thousands of years, could not withstand the explosion caused by elaborate calculations inside.
It cracked in one direction.
The crack widened in an instant.
collapsed under its own weight.
Kurrureung!
Like a giant’s dice, cubes of granite fell apart.
It was a large lump that could have weighed several tons.
“Nice job Xaviel!”
Lloyd gave a thumbs up.
Xaviel wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.
That was Xaviel’s role.
Next came the turn of the Phantom Species.
“Hey, Podong?”
“Ppodong?”
“Would you like to try this? Red sunflower seeds.”
“Podo-dong?”
“I specially ordered this to feed you. There is only one red one and one blue one in a set, so I have to pay 1 RP to buy them?”
“Podoong?”
“I bought 50 of them yesterday. I poured 50 RP into it. But what can I do? Isn’t this the body’s proud and tearful efforts to feed you and Bell?”
“Podo-dong?”
“Then would you like to eat something delicious?”
“Ppodong!”
Little Boy on the palm of his hand received the red sunflower seeds.
He immediately put it in his mouth and started chewing.
In the meantime, Lloyd retreated far away.
And I watched Podongi’s transformation.
Tuaang-!
A 10 meter tall hamster descended(?).
“Podoong!”
“okay. Well done baby. Come on.”
“Ppodong!”
“Ooooooh. Would you mind moving that?”
Lloyd’s hand pointed at a cube of granite.
“You can move it to the Orc Village. how is it? can you do it?”
“Ppodong!”
Podongyi nodded vigorously with his big, round head.
He approached the block of granite straight away, twitching his plump buttocks. He stretched out his dainty hand. He opened his more dainty mouth.
Then he crumpled the granite block into his mouth.
“Pdeung! Pudedeung!”
One side of Pudongi’s cheek pouch swelled up in the shape of a cube.
“Good job, Podong-ah. And that too?”
“Pudeudeung!”
The rest of Pudongi’s cheeks also became cube-shaped.
Lloyd climbed onto Podongi’s back.
“Then let’s go!”
“Pdeung!”
Even with several tons of granite blocks in both cheeks, Podongi’s steps were unstoppable. Like a dump truck, it ran towards the orc village.
After moving the granite to the Orc Village, the next process continued.
The protagonists of the next process were Lloyd himself, the young Orc warrior Arosh, and 20 sapper soldiers.
“The stone came back!”
“Everyone ready!”
Every single thing!
They were waiting at the planned site for the Seokbinggo.
As soon as the granite arrived as if he had been waiting for it, he picked up a hammer pickaxe.
Then, he ran furiously at the granite spit out by Podongi.
“Crush it!”
“Let’s not lose either!”
“Ooh!”
Orc Aroche and 20 sapper soldiers sweated all day long.
Following the marks Lloyd had drawn on the granite, the rock was split into chunks and squared.
It was to make large granite bricks for the ice storage.
Of course, Podongi didn’t take a break during that time either.
“Ppodongah?”
“Ppodong?”
“Can you dig in here? from here to here. this much. It is seven meters deep.”
“Podo-dong?”
support position!
Lloyd drew a crack in the ground with a twig.
It was an action that seemed to draw randomly.
But in fact, the lines he drew exactly matched the design of Seokbinggo.
It was thanks to the design skill option ‘Display floor plan (2D)’.
‘Oh, it’s comfortable. A floor plan displayed on the ground in real time only for me.’
All you had to do was load the design model of Seokbinggo, which was designed in advance.
What if we apply that to real terrain?
A floor plan visible only to him was carved into the ground.
Thanks to this, the lines he drew reflected the actual stone ice storage design. I was able to accurately convey the range and depth of the digging to Pudongi.
“Please.”
“Ppodong!”
Podongie raised his arms.
Following the line drawn on the floor, he started digging with furious momentum.
Ho ba ba ba ba bat!
There were no exceptions, even in the dry and hard wilderness.
With each gesture, the ground dug up.
A huge amount of dust also bloomed.
But Lloyd did not back down.
The more I did, the more I stayed next to Podongi who was digging the ground.
He happily drank the dust with Podongi, who worked for him.
Every time the place where Podongi dug the ground was carefully checked.
Are there any errors with the actual design?
Didn’t you dig too little or dig too much?
Using surveying and designing skills at the same time, he thoroughly inspected every nook and cranny.
And every time I found a place where there was a slight error, I picked up a shovel myself.
Be careful where you sell sparingly.
The excessively dug out places are solid.
dug up and filled
Even a single centimeter error was directly corrected.
‘Dig the ground. This is one of the most important processes not only in the construction of the stone ice storage, but in all construction.’
In other words, it was to make the foundation of the structure.
Neglecting this process will inevitably lead to problems later.
What if there is a problem with the building?
‘Credit is down. Bad rumors spread. Then you won’t be able to sustain your business for long.’
Trust with customers is of the utmost importance.
It didn’t matter if the opponent was a human or an orc.
Orc chief Akush was also a clear customer.
Anyone who has a contract with you is a customer.
It was Lloyd’s mindset that he should consider all non-humans, even orcs and monsters, as customers.
‘Artisan spirit? no. I give you money! Everyone who gives money is a customer, a king, a guest, a guest!’
So, I had to make the best of it.
I had to give my best.
Considering the current construction cost and the money that will come in line in the future, of course it should have been.
So Lloyd was willing to sweat.
The days passed in an instant.
It was a breathless day as if it had been put on a plate.
Xaviel blasted the granite to remove chunks.
Podongi moved a block of granite to the site.
Orc Arosh and the soldiers polished the granite.
Lloyd diligently trimmed and inspected the site.
So, after ten days, the foundation work was finally completed.
“No time to rest! Let’s keep going!”
“Yeep!”
Lloyd took off his shirt and stepped out.
Carrying granite bricks with the Corps of Engineers.
Bricks were laid in rows on top of the pre-compacted foundation.
The experience of assisting with tile work at a site in Korea was a great help.
‘Though it’s terribly bigger and heavier than the tiles I laid at the time!’
It was the same that the floor was finished with a hard material.
harden the floor
Set the level or slope in advance.
To cover the hard stone to fit the plan.
Even the finish of filling the gaps between the stones with joints was similar.
The only difference here is that instead of grouting the tiles, they are waterproofed with mud mixed with lime.
In any case, the whole construction went smoothly until then.
However, when the floor was finished and the stones on the walls began to be raised, problems arose.
“Kkeehiing↗”
With a groan that somehow felt more spectacular because it was strange, a sapper sounded from the waist of a sapper.
“Hey are you okay?”
“Ugh…I think my back is out.”
“….”
The soldier who broke his back while putting a stone on the wall had to lie in bed for several days.
It was because the large granite block was too heavy to lift.
Other soldiers in the Corps of Engineers were in a similar situation.
As the work progressed day by day, the number of people in the goal post increased.
Someone injured a wrist ligament.
Another had a broken shoulder.
This was true even though they were soldiers who had become accustomed to working in their own way through the construction of coal mines on paved roads in ondol rooms.
In the end, Lloyd was the only person left to lift the stone, even if he struggled.
Xaviel had to rest for a few more days because he used blasting in succession.
A deep wrinkle formed between Lloyd’s brows.
‘This is a little troublesome. If there was even an Orc Arosh, I’d be able to use it. oh that guy Of course, what’s the point of going on a hunting expedition at a time like this?’
Unfortunately, Arosh was not in the village.
It was because he went on a group hunt, which was the duty of a warrior, with his tribe members when the construction of the site was finished.
‘That’s why I can’t make a giant baby from here.’
The floor had just been finished.
The stone on the floor has not yet settled down.
If a kid weighing dozens of tons moved around and stepped on it, there was a possibility that the floor stones that had been laid with great effort would be slightly displaced.
‘Then what should I do?’
Lloyd contemplated a solution.
The problem was that the stone was too big and heavy.
However, the size of the stone could not be reduced.
‘Because it should be at least this thick for insulation.’
The purpose of building Seokbinggo now was to protect against the cold.
In order to block the heat from the outside, the whole thick stone had to be used.
‘Is there no choice but to wait for the bottom stone to settle down and then use the baby boy?’
I thought it would be better for the safety of the soldiers.
However, it was the afternoon when Lloyd was lost in his thoughts.
An unexpected solution came through an unexpected way.
“Kwuyik? You shouldn’t listen to it like that!”
From the beginning of the Seokbinggo construction, there were orcs who had gathered in groups of threes and fives to watch.
They would giggle and watch Kiddy and Lloyd digging and compacting, laying stones on the floor.
It was the same today.
Lloyd was raising the stone on the wall by himself.
Of course, it was incredibly heavy.
However, with the help of Asurahan’s method, it was not impossible.
At this point, I also thought about doing some strength training.
However, the orcs who were watching began to intervene one by one.
“human! It doesn’t cost that much, does it?”
“yes?”
Lloyd, whose face was red from raising the stone, raised his head.
Outside the pit at the construction site, an elderly orc was talking to me from above.
“What did you just say?”
“It is literally. If you do that, it won’t be an isolation movement.”
“Yes?”
“You have to keep your back straight and your butt back. Also open your chest. You have to keep your ankles flexible so that you can properly stimulate the muscles in the desired area!”
“Hey, am I not exercising?”
“It doesn’t matter!”
“….”
It was from then.
The other orcs who were watching with him also began to add a word.
“Catch the lower part!”
“Breathing is also important!”
“More quickly when uploading!”
“One more bite!”
“….”
It was as if I was kindly surrounded by gym-goers who died at the gym I went to for the first time in my life, filled with petroleum extract.
Eventually, the situation came to a point where the uncles (?) came forward directly to the sluggish appearance of this side.
“Kuah, that person is frustrating!”
“Why can’t you do what I tell you to do?”
“We will show you a demonstration!”
“Look closely and learn!”
Dozens of angry orc men stomped down to the scene.
Before Lloyd could stop himself, he hugged the large granite bricks one by one.
Anaconda-like tendons shot up on their backs.
“Heoitcha Kkuik!”
“Sencha Kwiik!”
It was a stone that Lloyd groaned while using his shady mental methods.
It was a stone that could only be lifted by three or four soldiers from the Corps of Engineers.
But what about these old orcs?
Truly, the rice cake gorilla that broke into the Olympic weightlifting stadium lifted it so lightly as if it overturned a table!
“omg.”
It was a jaw-dropping sight.
But Lloyd wasn’t taken by surprise.
He quickly caught the essence of this absurd situation.
he said quickly.
“Oh, you are amazing!”
“Kwuik! That’s about it!”
“no. You are really great. I couldn’t even dream of putting that stone ‘up there’.”
“How long have you been there?”
Lloyd pointed to the half-stacked wall.
The muscular orc warrior glanced back at him.
And he laughed.
“Humans, that’s the problem. Take a good look.”
He lifted the stone he was holding onto his head at once.
Then, as if dealing with a half-empty ramen box, he gently placed it where Lloyd pointed.
Whoop-!
A large granite brick took its place with a heavy sound that resonated deep in the heart.
It was placed exactly where it was needed for construction.
‘it’s okay. This is it.’
Lloyd secretly clenched his fists.
Then he hugged the granite brick next to him.
I deliberately groaned and tried.
“Hehehehehe fishery! Am I not doing well?”
“Tsk tsk! watch out human. A proper demonstration is like this!”
Flashing coo-!
Another huge stone was placed where it was needed.
A similar process continued after that.
Lloyd was sweating profusely and groaning. He touched the hearts of the Orc warriors with his embarrassing facial expressions worthy of an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Every time that happened, the Orc warriors trembled with their biceps in soaring sadness.
I tried my best to teach the weak and meager people the proper exercise posture.
Warm affection overflowed in the flaky muscles and tendons.
Thanks to that, I was able to upload all the walls of the Seokbinggo within less than a day!
The work did not end there.
“Oh, it’s harder to lift like this!
The next day, Lloyd deliberately groaned and acted tough.
It was a pitiful look as if a beginner going to the gym for the first time was casting a trainer summoning technique.
Then, more orc warriors than the previous day came snorting.
I burned my will to teach the unfortunate beginner the true exercise method.
It was thanks to their voluntary (?) help.
Seokbinggo’s arched ceiling structure Hongye was also outlined in less than two days!
‘It’s not even a quickie project.’
Each orc was like a crane.
Because of its great strength, it was able to place it in the correct position while handling a very large and heavy stone.
Literally, muscle mass.
The speed of light spacetime that Lloyd had only dreamed of was becoming a reality.
