Chapter 14: Anyone with other ideas, please scratch your toes.

Time passed slowly. An hour later, logs with diameters of 20-30 centimeters and lengths of three meters were scattered throughout the forest.

There were about fifty of them.

The sound of sawing ceased.

"Whew~"

"Sawing wood is truly tiring."

Lu Xian had long since taken off his shirt; sawdust mixed with sweat clung to his muscular, streamlined physique.

He was covered in sweat.

If he hadn't taken his shirt off beforehand, it would likely be soaked through by now.

[Brother Lu is so fair!]

[Tsk tsk, those little muscles (¯﹃¯)...]

[This is my husband.]

[Shameless, he's clearly mine!]

Lu Xian didn't pay much attention to this group of 'lechers' in the livestream room.

He had already laid back.

He was no longer the restrained and shy young man from yesterday's broadcast.

He looked at the logs scattered in the forest and said to everyone, "The main materials are roughly cut."

"I'm going to take a break, halftime break."

After putting down the chainsaw, he sat down on a log and wiped the sweat from his face.

After resting for a while, Lu Xian recovered and said with a wry smile, "Sigh, why didn't you suggest something else earlier?"

"Building a wooden house is really physically demanding."

"It's a good thing someone sent a chainsaw, otherwise I would have had to give up."

It's no wonder this livestream room interactive task offered a C-rank item reward.

If this task were given to other newcomers, they would probably just be able to stare at it helplessly.

A five-square-meter wooden house isn't actually that big.

But building it is not easy.

It's not like a shed shelter where you can just pile up some branches and leaves.

Newcomers who have just arrived in the Survival World, apart from their random Survival Talent, where would they find the tools to build a wooden house?

So, it makes sense that this difficulty level comes with a C-rank item reward.

Naturally, Lu Xian wanted to build a slightly larger wooden house, with 3x3x3 (meter) specifications.

After resting for a while, Lu Xian returned to the tent to pick a few ripe bananas to replenish his energy. He chatted, "For the wooden house, I plan to use those logs directly as the wall section."

"No need to saw them open, saving some fuel."

It must be said, the chainsaw sent by that [Jester's Smiling Face] was of quite good quality.

After sawing fifty logs, the small fuel tank in the chainsaw hadn't even run out.

There was probably about three-tenths of the fuel tank left.

He hadn't even touched the spare 10-liter fuel tank or the small bottle of engine oil.

"However, the walls of the wooden house aren't the problem; the key is the roof."

"I plan to make the roof structure flat; a peaked roof is more troublesome to make."

"What do you think?"

Lu Xian chatted with the audience in the livestream room.

A simple version of a wooden house is just an upgraded version of a wooden shed.

He had planned to design it as a flat-roofed wooden house from the beginning; it's convenient and easy.

[A flat roof is fine too.]

[But I think a gabled peaked roof looks better~]

[Hahaha, building a peaked roof house alone might cost Brother Lu his life; just how to lift the wood up is a problem.]

[Consider a single-slope roof wooden house?]

"Actually, a gabled peaked roof isn't impossible; it would indeed be more aesthetically pleasing, and the space would be larger."

"But the two main beams and the crossbeam are hard to handle," Lu Xian said.

It's just that the grooved mortise and tenon parts at the top are different.

If it were a flat roof, he would just stack the logs with interlocking mortise and tenon joints to form the walls.

Then, he would saw grooves or flatten the top to place the roof covering materials directly.

But for a gabled peaked roof, he would need to erect two main beams higher than the existing walls on top of the foundation, then place a crossbeam.

Then, take longer pieces of wood, saw them in the middle, and hook the grooves onto the crossbeam to form a triangular structure with a high center and low sides ▲.

However, seeing the debate in the livestream room becoming endless, he immediately said, "How about this, let's take a vote? I'll give you two minutes to decide."

"Those who support ■ flat roofs, type 1."

"Those who support ▲ gabled peaked roofs, type 2."

"And those who support ◣ single-slope roofs, type 3."

"As for friends with other ideas, you can pick your toes."

For the sake of the livestream room's interaction, he was already very 'indulgent to fans.'

Otherwise, he could have just done whatever he wanted.

[2222, it must be a peaked roof; wilderness forest, primitive wooden house, chopping wood and cooking, natural and leisurely, the scene I've always dreamed of living in.]

[1111, flat roof is good!]

[Sorry, I'm not voting for any, I'm picking my toes / doge funny.]

[LMAO, I have my own ideas, can I pick my nose instead of my toes? ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ]

Seeing the chat in the bullet comments, Lu Xian couldn't help but laugh; it was really interesting.

Two minutes passed quickly.

The voting results were out:

[Flat roof, 190,266 votes.]

[Gabled peaked roof, 230,813 votes.]

[Single-slope peaked roof, 159,202 votes.]

580,000 votes in two minutes.

The livestream room had grown to over 600,000 people!

Among the ten newcomers from yesterday, he had the highest traffic and popularity, and his livestream room was the most active.

"The peaked roof has the most votes?"

"Then let's go with the peaked roof."

In this way, the wood for the roof needs to be smaller.

At the same time, he needs to make a wooden shovel for digging holes and a ladder for going up and down.

Having rested enough, Lu Xian stood up and said, "Back to work."

Busy until the afternoon, Lu Xian finally managed to push and carry those logs to the side of the camp with great effort.

Sawing wood is easy, but transporting wood is difficult; three-meter-long wet logs weigh one or two hundred jin.

"I'll stop working for today."

"Rome wasn't built in a day; the wooden house will take at least three or four days to complete."

"I noticed the tide has receded, so I plan to go foraging by the sea before it gets dark to see if there's any harvest."

At this moment, he really wanted to take a refreshing hot bath.

Lu Xian took the inner pot of the rice cooker and went to the beach.

His expression gradually relaxed, and his eyes widened.

A look of surprise filled his face, and he laughed, "Looks like the high tide wasn't a bad thing after all!"

"Great!"

The people in the livestream room exclaimed in surprise one after another:

[Holy crap, there's a big fish stranded on the beach!]

[Looks like it's tens of jin!!]

[Sea cucumbers, sea urchins, octopuses, shrimp... so many seafood items delivered to our doorstep, I'm stunned.]

[Confirmed, Master Lu is a lucky dog! The Chosen One!]

At this moment, Lu Xian was pleasantly surprised and ran towards the big, conspicuously colored fish that was stranded, saying, "There's a fish! Let's go see!"

Soon, the big fish, which was conspicuously pale red all over, appeared before everyone's eyes.

[What kind of fish is this? Can it be eaten?]

[Holy crap, it's a coral trout! Such a big one!]

[It makes no sense, how could this kind of fish be stranded...]

Someone in the livestream room recognized the species of the fish at a glance.

Lu Xian looked at the dying, pale red coral trout in front of him.

It was fat and long, with a predator's big mouth and sharp teeth, the fish body was nearly a meter long, covered with fine white spots like stars.

He had eaten this fish before, and it was quite expensive.

Cheap ones are 80-90 per jin, expensive ones are 1,000-2,000 per jin.

He never expected to encounter this in the Survival World.

And it was 'delivered to his door'?

"This is a coral trout."

Lu Xian laughed, "Thanks to the sea for the gift!"

He noticed that it wasn't just this one fish stranded on the beach, but other small fish, big shrimp, octopuses, and various shellfish!

It really is a welfare level for survival newcomers!

Yesterday the beach was 'bare', and today it is 'full' of seafood!

Awesome!!

Lu Xian lifted the coral trout by its gills, then laughed, "Guess how much this fish weighs?"

[Twenty or thirty jin, it's not small.]

[Tsk tsk, in a seafood market, such a big fish would cost at least ten or twenty thousand yuan.]

[I noticed that not only did Brother Lu harvest fish today, but the other nine Streamers who entered on the same day also had harvests.]

[Foraging for seafood on the beach, catching game in the rainforest.]

At this moment, Lu Xian showed a look of happy annoyance on his face.

Sigh, what to do, there's too much seafood!

Can't finish it all at once!