CH 17

Chapter 17: The moving house is built

To build a house, a foundation needed to be built, using steel and concrete, etc.

That’s how ordinary people built their houses.

However, Mu Liang had his tamed beast, rock armor tortoise, which saved him 90% of the process.

He could save cement and steel by using the shell of the rock armor tortoise as a foundation, and because of the ability to manipulate the connection between the shell and the stone.

The only thing left was to mechanically build the walls using stone bricks.

“It’s amazing.” Mino held the stone brick and placed it on the black line that Mu Liang had drawn earlier.

She found that the stone bricks fused with one another, and there was no gap between them.

“Mino, don’t make that wall over there too high. Leave some space for a window.”

After Mu Liang finished drawing all the lines, he discovered that the young girl had already made a wall as high as a person’s height.

He came to her side and used his power to take down a few stone bricks to make a square window.

“This way, thieves will come in.” Mino weakly reminded him.

Everyone who lived in the camp had no windows because they wanted to stop thieves from coming in and stealing things.

“Ordinary thieves can’t come up here.”

Mu Liang bent his fingers and flicked the young girl’s forehead.

“It seems so.” Mino rubbed her forehead in a daze, and realized that it was true.

Now that she was going to live on the back of the tall and powerful Little Black Tortoise, why should she be afraid of thieves?

Mu Liang made the window, turned around, and went to work on the door.

He didn’t care about the design of the house. Since he wasn’t an expert in designing houses, he only kept the main outline of the house in his mind.

There were two rooms about ten square meters in size opposite the door and a hall in the middle, which was about 30 square meters.

The bathroom was located in the corner of the courtyard and its drainage channel was connected with the ground so that the smell would not rush into the rooms.

The wall of the courtyard was symbolically made half a meter high, and the door was set on the side of the tortoise’s back.

Mu Liang set up a special signal for the rock armor tortoise, and with some specific actions, he could summon the rock stairs.

Time passed slowly. Since he was very focused on his work, he didn’t even feel the passage of time.

In the evening, the clouds in the sky glowed with a little orange and red light.

“Huh, it’s already so late.”

Mu Liang looked at the house without a roof and felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart.

“Wow~~ Finally, it’s half done.”

Mino’s blue eyes were shining as she cheered.

She clenched her little fists and cheerfully said, “Let’s work harder, so we can finish it today.”

Mu Liang shook his head and said, “We need some wood support for the roof to easily stack bricks.”

“Ah? Then let’s go find wood.” Mino was about to descend to the ground.

“We have ready-made wood. We don’t need to look for it.” Mu Liang grabbed the young girl’s collar from behind.

“Ready-made wood?” Mino pondered with her head sideways.

“Do you think all the people in the camp are gone by now?” Mu Liang reminded her.

At this moment, he had already contacted the tricolored lizard and asked it to patrol the camp to see if anyone was still there.

“Now that it’s getting dark, they should have left already.” Mino was not stupid. She immediately thought of something.

She widened her blue eyes and shouted in a clear voice, “We can take the wood from the camp for our use.”

“Come on, let’s go back to the camp.” Mu Liang gave the rock armor tortoise a command.

“Awoo…” The rock armor tortoise slowly walked towards the camp.

“Huh?”

Mino stood still for a while and said in surprise, “Little Black Tortoise is walking, yet why doesn’t it feel like he is moving?”

“Little Black Tortoise is controlling the vibration.” Mu Liang said gently.

How could it not shake? If an object was very huge, a single vibration produced by its movement could trigger a series of changes.

“So that’s the case.” Mino realized it in a flash.

Rock armor tortoise wasn’t fast, but it was very big. One of its steps was equivalent to a few steps of a normal person, so it was still very fast.

Ten minutes later, the rock armor tortoise arrived at the edge of the camp.

At this time, the camp was completely empty. This conclusion was obtained from the investigation of the tricolored lizard.

“Everyone is gone.” Mino felt a little sad.

She stood on top of the rock armor tortoise and looked at the empty camp that was devoid of life.

“How far is the Moon Lake tribe from here?” Mu Liang asked calmly.

“I heard from the hunting team that it’s about a five or six days walk away,” Mino said softly.

Mu Liang thought about Bloodbeard and asked curiously, “Are there a lot of people in the Moon Lake tribe?”

“I heard that there are probably ten thousand people, but I don’t know if it’s true,” Mino exclaimed.

Ten thousand people were too many for the young girl.

How much food and water would be needed to feed 10,000 people?

“It seems to be a big tribe. Maybe it’s true?”

Mu Liang patted the girl on the shoulder and said calmly: “Then we will go to the Moon Lake Tribe later to see if it is true.”

“Huh?” Mino froze for a moment, then she cheerfully asked, “Are we really going to the Moon Lake Tribe in the future?”

“Do you want to go?” Mu Liang looked at her blue eyes.

“I……” Mino met Mu Liang’s black eyes and received an encouraging gaze.

She bit her lip, nodded heavily, and yelled clearly: “I want to go! I want to see if my sister is there.”

“Then our next target is the Moon Lake Tribe.” Mu Liang grinned and gave her a thumbs up.

“……” Mino looked at Mu Liang’s clear smile. Suddenly, her heart started beating even faster for some reason.

She covered her heart with her hands at a loss for words, and a blush appeared on her face.

“Don’t be dazed. Come here and help me gather the wood.” Mu Liang raised his hand and grabbed the young girl’s rabbit ear.

“Oh! Don’t pull my ears.” Mino immediately exploded and stomped her feet in dissatisfaction.

All of her stirred emotions were pulled away by this tug.

“Which house do you want to demolish?” Mu Liang stood in front of the camp and asked the young girl.

“Let’s demolish the houses of those families whose kids used to rob my small lizards.”

Mino hesitated for a second, and then she raised her finger to point at a few houses.

“Then let’s do it. We only need large pieces of wood.”

Mu Liang took the lead and said, “Just move the wood to the little Black Tortoise. It will help us carry it up.”

“Okay.” Mino went to demolish the house with great interest.

“Bang, Bang……”

With Mu Liang’s current strength, it was very easy for him to demolish the houses and carry the big wood away.

He could carry five or six logs at a time.

Although not a lot of wood was needed for building the roof, they still had to store a lot of wood for the fire.

In no time, a pile of wood appeared in the corner of the courtyard of the new house.