"Just leave the iron ore outside."
"By the way, how's the matter of gathering refugees and expanding the population of Iron Soul Village, which I asked you to do, progressing?"
Chen Mu put down the iron parts in his hand and turned to look at Gao Fenghai.
Needless to say, it will definitely go smoothly!
The Undead Tide a few days ago almost completely destroyed several nearby villages, and now there are refugees everywhere outside.
As soon as I announced that I was willing to take in refugees, they all started rushing here. If this continues, the village's food reserves will run out."
Gao Fenghai's tone was somewhat bitter, and he was starting to have doubts about whether Chen Mu truly wanted to develop Iron Soul Village.
These past few days, Chen Mu has been tinkering with a bunch of iron lumps in his head, without contributing anything to the village's revenue. If it weren't for the lingering influence of Chen Mu killing the Skeleton King, some villagers would probably have already started making trouble.
As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for people. No matter how strong Chen Mu is, if he can't feed the villagers, they won't be willing to risk their lives for Chen Mu. This is a very simple truth.
Don't worry! Just focus on increasing the population, and food will be available soon.
As Chen Mu spoke, he took out a cloth bag and put the many delicate parts next to the furnace into it one by one.
"Yes, then I won't disturb Lord Chen Mu any longer."
Gao Fenghai bowed respectfully, then turned and left with his men.
After putting the parts away, Chen Mu turned and went to another room.
Deep inside this room stood a massive machine, two meters tall. At this point, the machine was almost completely finished, with only the core component in the middle still exposed.
It seems Gao Fenghai still doesn't trust us enough!
Chen Mu, why didn't you use the Divine Soul Seed to control him?
Mingye emerged from the corner, a puzzled look on his face.
"There's no need. With my keen senses, I can easily sense if he has malicious intent."
Chen Mu smiled, emptied the parts from the cloth bag, and continued to improve the unfinished machine in front of him.
Although Mingye did not agree with Chen Mu's approach, he did not continue to pester him and disappeared into the shadows in a flash.
After a while, Li Taiping and Li Wei walked in from outside, each carrying a large pile of things, including plants, stones, and even soil.
"Okay, put everything down!"
Just then, Chen Mu finished assembling the machine, put on the protective cover, and turned to look at Li Wei.
" Li Wei, give me two Yin Stone. I want to test the machine's effectiveness."
Like the Spirit Stone stones of Netherworld Panhuang Continent, the Yin Stone of the Pan Emperor Continent are important forms of currency. However, the Yin Stone are filled with Death Spiritual Power, while the Spirit Stone contain various types of Spiritual Power.
However, relatively speaking, Yin Stone have lower purchasing power in the Netherworld, while food, clothing, and other daily necessities are in greater shortage.
Death Spiritual Power is a force that is not friendly to living beings. If a creature's body cannot absorb Death Spiritual Power, then that creature cannot survive in the Netherworld.
Therefore, there are no ordinary people in the Netherworld. All living beings are at least Body Tempering Realm cultivators. Although they also need Yin Stone to cultivate, for the Netherworld, where survival resources are scarce, survival is more important than cultivation improvement.
Therefore, ordinary, low-quality Yin Stone are not valuable in the Netherworld; even small villages like Iron Soul Village can produce a lot of them.
"Here, this is a Grade Three Yin Stone."
The third-grade Yin Stone was the highest quality Yin Stone that Li Wei could offer. She trusted Chen Mu completely, so she wanted to help Chen Mu as much as possible.
Chen Mu didn't stand on ceremony and inserted the two into the energy slot. Then, a faint light appeared inside the machine, and it began to vibrate slightly.
"Beep... System self-check in progress... Self-check complete! Loading data..."
An electronic synthesized voice sounded from the machine, and after a while, the machine stabilized and stopped vibrating.
"Hello, Master. This is the multi-functional refining machine, model xxxxx, at your service."
Seeing that the multi-functional refining machine was running smoothly, Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief and skillfully picked up some plants, stones, and soil from the ground and put them into the refining machine.
This multi-functional refining machine is already widely used in the Pan Emperor Continent. The reason it took him three days to complete it was mainly because the Rules of Heaven and Earth in the Netherworld had changed, and he had to adjust the tiny runes in the parts.
Beep beep beep...!
Chen Mu raised his hand and tapped a few times on the screen, and a soft glow appeared on the analysis area of the refining machine.
In material composition analysis...
Inorganic matter 45.2%, water 11.2%, protein 2.3%...
The screen flashed with information analyzed by the machine. Chen Mu opened the product module in the system, found several recipes for synthetic food, and started the refining machine to produce them.
Beep... da!
About half an incense stick's time later, a long, brown energy bar was sent out from the exit of the multi-functional refining machine.
Chen Mu quickly picked up a plate from the side and placed the 'energy bar' on it.
" Li Wei, this is called a 'high-calorie nutrition bar'."
I'm planning to mass-produce this food. Why don't you try it and see how it tastes?
He handed the plate to Li Wei with a kind expression.
"This... was it made of mud and wood?"
Li Wei couldn't help but swallow, and asked Chen Mu for confirmation.
Although the energy bars didn't look unappetizing, she had personally witnessed how they were made.
She had initially thought Chen Mu was making some kind of weapon, but Chen Mu to make her eat such a thing. She was undoubtedly reluctant.
"Hehe, don't feel guilty. After these things are refined by my machine, all harmful substances have been eliminated, leaving only nutrients that are beneficial to the human body."
You'll know once you try it. It's not particularly delicious, but it's enough to fill your stomach.
Chen Mu looked at Li Wei and said sincerely.
"Oh... okay then!"
Since Chen Mu had said so, Li Wei couldn't refuse anymore. Anyway, she had eaten everything when she was starving before, so she didn't care about suffering a little.
She picked up an energy bar from the plate, put it in her mouth, crunched it down, and chewed it continuously with her eyes closed.
After a while, she suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"Hehe, it tastes pretty good, doesn't it?"
Chen Mu smiled confidently.
"Mmm! It's so delicious, even better than most monster meat."
As she spoke, she shoved the remaining half of the energy bar into Li Taiping's hand, excitedly saying, "Dad, you should try it too."
Without hesitation, Li Taiping immediately put the energy bar into his mouth and chewed it, his eyes gradually brightening.
"It's really good!"
Lord Chen Mu, I wonder how much of this food your machine can produce in a day?
As an elder of Iron Soul Village, his focus was clearly much longer-term.
"Hehe, don't worry! If one machine isn't enough, I'll build two or three."
In short, with me here, Iron Soul Village will never have to worry about food again.
Chen Mu's words left Li Taiping and Li Wei speechless with shock.
After a long while, Li Taiping's eyes reddened, and he suddenly knelt down, bowing deeply to Chen Mu: "I, Li Taiping, on behalf of the many villagers of Iron Soul Village, thank Lord Chen Mu for his great kindness!"