Chapter 226 Silk Institute, Water Mill, and Oil Workshop Upgrade

Chapter 226: Chapter 222: Silk Institute, Water Mill, and Oil Workshop Upgrade

Hearing the medical team had returned, Lin Feng rushed over at once.

"How’s the situation?"

Wu Xianlin said, "It was a close call. The bus was stopped by a tree, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Because the rescue was timely, none of the injured died."

"That’s good, that’s good."

"Boss, the hemostatic powder played a huge role this time. If not for the hemostatic powder, some of the injured would have been in mortal danger.

Also, we discovered during its use this time that it can be mixed into an injectable solution and injected directly into the wound."

"Oh, that’s good news. It means we can treat deep wounds.

By the way, did you observe if the hemostatic powder causes blood to coagulate inside the blood vessels?"

Lin Feng had considered this problem ever since the hemostatic powder first appeared.

If that were to happen, it could cause thrombosis within the blood vessels, which would be a major issue.

"That doesn’t happen. We’ve experimented with the hemostatic powder. It doesn’t directly coagulate the blood, but rather accelerates coagulation."

As for why this was the case, they had initially wanted to analyze it.

But after seeing the data from their tests, they gave up. Just like the Clearing Heat and Stopping Cough Pills, it was simply impossible to analyze.

"That’s a relief. I was worried that a medicine this effective might have side effects."

Lin Feng told them to go rest first. After what happened today, the hemostatic powder was bound to attract attention.

’With the current situation at the Medicine House, it doesn’t matter if it gets attention. We can’t produce nearly enough.’

Of course, producing the hemostatic powder was simpler than the Clearing Heat and Stopping Cough Pills. If they focused solely on the hemostatic powder, they could definitely make more of it than the pills.

He glanced at the village’s upgrade requirements: Population of 100, all village buildings at Level 2, and all buildings fully constructed.

He was stuck on the "all buildings fully constructed" part. There was really no way around that at the moment.

He could half-ass the other buildings, but he wouldn’t dare do that with the special ones. They were unique, and demolishing and rebuilding them would be a hassle.

’Wait, that’s not right. Have I been thinking about this the wrong way?’

Lin Feng looked at the data panel and realized he’d been influenced by his thinking about the Land God Temple.

’When upgrading a building, you can add materials to improve it. I can totally upgrade them first and add the rest of the structure later!’

He thought of the dormitory building being constructed outside. He could use this method to turn the entire dorm into proper Houses through an upgrade.

’In that case, I can upgrade after all!’

However, he quickly thought of the Mountain God Temple. The other buildings were fine, but this one didn’t even have a foundation yet.

Also, once a building was upgraded, it couldn’t be randomly demolished. That would need to be handled carefully.

For instance, he could at least finish a portion of the interior of each building to qualify it for an upgrade.

At this moment, Lin Feng really wanted to slap himself twice. If he’d thought of this earlier, the construction in Lin Xian Village could have been finished long ago.

Clearly, he had overcomplicated things. He could have just built a simple version first and then expanded the building’s scale through upgrades.

’No wonder these construction quests appeared. Maybe they didn’t exist originally and only showed up because I was building too slowly.’

None of the buildings he had constructed ahead of time had triggered a quest.

He went straight to find Hu Zhiming and Zhou Jun. He had to change Lin Xian Village’s construction model.

In the breakroom, the three of them sat together, with Hu Zhiming and Zhou Jun looking at Lin Feng in confusion.

"Brother Lin, are you sure you want to do it this way?"

"I’m sure. Brother Zhou, explain it to your team as well. Just build a portion of the Mountain God Temple on West Mountain for now."

Although Zhou Jun was curious why Lin Feng wanted to do this, he didn’t ask.

He knew very well that some questions wouldn’t get an answer even if he asked.

After sending the two of them off to handle it, Lin Feng went to the Silk Institute, located below Northward, planning to upgrade this building first.

The building here was simple and had actually been completed a long time ago.

[Silk Institute (Level 2): Increases silkworm cocoon yield and quality, shortens the silkworm rearing cycle, small chance of mutant silkworms appearing, increases silk yield by 10%, increases silkworm mutation probability by 5%.]

Seeing the Silk Institute’s stats, Lin Feng noticed the attribute that could cause silkworms to mutate and temporarily swapped the upgrade materials.

The result was delightful; he had actually managed to roll an attribute that increased the silkworm mutation rate.

’This Silk Institute is pretty good. It can increase cocoon yield and quality, and it also speeds up the silkworms’ growth cycle.

Unfortunately, not a single attribute related to mulberry trees appeared.

I’ll have to find another way to get special mulberry trees.’

There was also a street tree mutation reward from a quest. If worst came to worst, he could just use that reward on the mulberry trees.

’I guess mulberry trees are also a type of fruit tree. Mulberries are highly nutritious, so it wouldn’t be bad if they became the street trees.’

Of course, if possible, he still hoped to choose a more attractive type of tree for the streets.

As for the mulberry tree area that wasn’t finished yet, he already had a better idea: upgrade that area directly into an Orchard.

The Orchard had its own special effects, so he wouldn’t need to rely on the Silk Institute to modify the mulberry trees.

Lin Feng glanced at the Silk Institute. Normally, you could only raise silkworms in the spring.

With Lin Xian Village’s special environment, there was no need to wait for spring. The only problem was that there were no mulberry leaves at the moment, so he couldn’t start raising them.

Lin Feng had actually considered weaving cloth from spider silk, but after doing some research, he gave up on the idea.

Spider silk’s strength and toughness were both superior; its strength was close to that of carbon fiber, and its toughness was even higher.

It was just that farming spiders was incredibly difficult, and the yield couldn’t compare to silk from silkworms.

All he could say was that there was definitely a reason why the ancients didn’t choose to use silk from other creatures to weave cloth.

After dealing with the Silk Institute, he headed toward the Water Mill and the Oil Workshop.

If there were no issues with these two buildings, he planned to upgrade them directly as well.

As for any missing parts, he could just add them in during future upgrades.

Arriving at the Water Mill and Oil Workshop, he saw that only a little work on the water channels was left before completion.

The main issue was drawing water from the valley, which could actually be replaced entirely with electricity.

Even though the building was called a Water Mill, the system hadn’t specified that he had to use water.

However, for the sake of developing tourism, they had built a water tower on the mountain, using a pump to get water into the tower to power the millstones.

"Hello, Boss."

"How are things going here?"

"We’re just on the finishing touches now. Both buildings are complete.

Boss, let me show you inside."

"Alright, let’s take a look."

Lin Feng followed the worker into the Water Mill. The interior was spacious, and there was more than one millstone.

"Boss, look. This is the channel we designed. It can power ten millstones at once.

Five large and five small ones, to meet different milling needs."

"A very nice design."

Lin Feng noticed they had made full use of the mountain’s changes in elevation during construction.

The millstones were built almost like steps, with one large and one small millstone on each level.

Lin Feng then went to check the Oil Workshop next door and found it was similar, except it had some additional equipment for roasting and cooking.

Both used a pressing process; one just produced powder, while the other produced liquid.

The Oil Workshop could clearly be used to make soy products, vermicelli, and the like.

After coming out of the Oil Workshop, he upgraded the building directly.

[Oil Workshop (Level 2): Increases the purity of pressed oil, improves pressing efficiency, awakens the oil’s special fragrance, increases oil quality by 10%.]

Walking down from the upper level, he upgraded the Water Mill as well.

[Water Mill (Level 2): Accelerates milling efficiency, reduces waste and nutrient loss during grinding, increases flour quality by 10%.]

’The Oil Workshop actually has a special effect that can awaken the oil’s fragrance. Nice, very nice. The stat increase is good too.’

Lin Feng felt he’d gotten really lucky this time to have obtained a quality-enhancing attribute.

This attribute was completely random. Using the same materials on one building might roll this stat, but on another building, it would be completely different.

Getting the quality stat on both buildings this time was truly a stroke of good luck.

Compared to the Oil Workshop’s functions, the Water Mill’s were a bit lacking.

But the "reduces nutrient loss" part was actually not bad either.

’In a bit, I’ll have someone buy some crops for oil pressing and milling to test out the effects of these two buildings.’

Seeing that there were only four special buildings left, Lin Feng was in a great mood. It wouldn’t be long before he could upgrade.

The thought that he would get another special local product after the upgrade made his mood even better.

’I wonder if the special product from this upgrade will be higher than ’Beginner’ grade?’

Then again, he felt it was impossible. If it was really higher than ’Beginner,’ the village’s level probably wouldn’t be very high.

He had just left the area and hadn’t even made it back to the main village when his phone rang.

"Lin Feng, that hemostatic powder of yours, we need to prepare a large quantity."

"Director Yang, did you hear about how the powder was used in the bus accident?"

"The hospital reported it directly. I never expected the hemostatic powder to be this effective, and that it could even be used via injection."

At first, they only treated it as a topical hemostatic medicine. They procured a batch simply because its effects were so good.

They hadn’t conducted further experiments on the powder, which is why they didn’t discover it could be used via injection.

The use of the powder in this bus accident made them realize its importance.

Putting aside the issue of strategic reserves, in accidents like this, this powder was a complete lifesaver.

"The approval for this drug will be completed soon. Also, the procurement volume will be huge. Do you have any way to handle that on your end?"

Lin Xian Village’s pharmaceutical production limits had always been a headache for him.

And because of Lin Xian Village’s unique nature, the problem couldn’t be solved by other means.

"It will take some time, but I should be able to increase production by then.

However, it will be impossible to meet market demand."

For the Clearing Heat and Stopping Cough Pills, he couldn’t even meet domestic demand, let alone market demand.

’I wonder what level the Medicine House needs to be before anyone can just walk into a pharmacy and buy it?’

"As long as you can increase production, that’s good enough. As for meeting the entire market’s demand, I wouldn’t dare to hope for that."

After ending the call, Lin Feng’s thoughts turned to the issue of medicinal herbs. Right now, due to production limits, the required amount of herbs was relatively small.

After he leveled up in the future, the required amount would definitely increase.

The current area of Lin Xian Village’s Medicinal Herb Garden was nowhere near enough to meet the Medicine House’s needs.

’Looks like finding a cultivation base needs to be put on the agenda.

Once the village reaches Level 3, the area of the Farmland will surely increase as well.’

It was unrealistic to do large-scale planting on the land he was currently leasing.

Thankfully, the village’s area of influence would also expand after the upgrade, giving him a wider range of options.

As he walked into his small courtyard, he saw Hu Xia, Zhao Shiyun, and Gu Yuxi sitting under the pavilion, looking at some clothes.

"Boss is back! The sample clothes we made by weaving with different materials are ready," Gu Yuxi said excitedly.

It was mainly because the samples they’d made this time were so special that she found it incredible.

At the same time, she couldn’t understand how simply changing the weaving method could cause such a distinct change in the clothes made from the fabric.

It was just like how outsiders couldn’t understand why clothes made in the Lin Xian Village Clothing Workshop were more comfortable than others, even when using the same fabric.

Lin Feng looked at the clothes in their hands, also curious. What kind of special effects would these clothes have?