Infrastructure Craze (BL) (Full English Translation)

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Chapter 11 Water Diversion

Early the next morning, Zhuang Yu went up the mountain with a Feng Wen, one reason was to collect bamboo shoots with his group of helpers to make bone soup, and the other was to cut some bamboo to take back and make into water pipes to divert water from the river, so that there would be a continuous water source available.

This method was feasible, as long as the bamboo pipes were placed with one end in the higher terrain of the river and the other end in a lower area than the river, using atmospheric pressure, water could be drawn out from the river.

Little Mushroom saw Zhuang Yu cutting bamboo and ran over to bite on a bamboo tube curiously. What tasty thing was this? It wanted to taste it first.

Zhuang Yu watched in astonishment as Little Mushroom, this little trickster, chewed on such hard bamboo?

As Zhuang Yu carried the bamboo and Feng Wen carried the bamboo shoots back, a group of children from the collective cave were curiously gathered around the water pool, looking at it.

Last night, Zhuang Yu had worked alone for a long time, embedding the remaining uninstalled stone slabs, thanks to his still considerable physical strength.

The pool made up of stone slabs looked quite artistically unique, even Zhuang Yu was surprised by the finished product, it was a tasteful swimming pool.

A group of little radishes were still discussing curiously, "Is this the hole we dug? It looks so nice."

"Brother Yu said this is a reservoir swimming pool, not a hole, but what's a reservoir swimming pool?"

Zhuang Yu started making bone soup and using bamboo to make water pipes.

Making water pipes wasn't just about connecting bamboo tubes together, they also had to be dried by fire so they wouldn't mold or attract insects, lasting longer. Moreover, heating the bamboo tubes together tightly with fire would make them fit closely, and when dried, the bamboo tubes would expand when immersed in water, becoming airtight.

This method of connecting two large bamboo tubes tightly with a small bamboo section was also something he learned from the old abbot in the countryside. One had to admire some of the ancient ideas, being able to make a airtight pipeline without using a single screw. Although these bamboo tubes seemed to have gaps now, once immersed in water and expanded, it would be difficult to pull them apart, with not a single gap left.

Making water pipes took quite some time, not completed until the bone soup was ready.

A group of children had just finished watering the chili plants, "Brother Yu, the water is completely gone."

Zhuang Yu nodded, this was expected.

While drinking bone soup, suddenly, someone from the Golden Centipede Tribe shouted, "Fetching water."

The sound was loud, even Zhuang Yu in such a remote place could hear it.

Then, Zhuang Yu saw that the big centipede between the mountains suddenly started moving, and on the head of the golden centipede stood an old man in luxurious animal fur, presumably the Witch of the Golden Centipede Tribe.

Everyone from the Golden Centipede Tribe started moving, people scattered all over the mountains, carrying huge containers, running towards the riverbank.

The momentum was grand, the scale magnificent.

Fetching water from the river and storing it had always been the most important task for the Golden Centipede Tribe because their ancestral beast could last a long time with just one drink of water, and during this time, the ancestral beast wouldn't want to drink water again.