37 Zhang Wu Jis First Treasure 3 (1/2)
Holding the Crystal Surgeon Knife +5 in his hand, the knife shines brightly like it was a lit LED light. The shine pierced through his skin, showing a pinkish red flesh of his hand holding the knife. But his intention to hold this knife is not for fun but in order to collect as much Cyanide as he could.
Luckily, he brought quite an amount of bottle gourd to collects the borax, this he transfers all the pills on him into the Bottle Gourd before he arranged the Jade Bottle by his side. The reason was simple. Cyanide is an extremely volatile liquid, which is why he was having a headache for being unsure on how he can extract the Cyanide perfectly from such a big mass of water.
It will be pointless for him to do anything except starting to collect as much cyanide as he could while waiting for Tang Yuan's arrival. He expects this guy might bring over 100 Slave Disciples over for his simple summon, but that's fine. A help from a hundred people can make thing faster, especially when this Tian Village is in need of a quick changeover.
Suffering this disaster might be an unfortunate incident for them. But amongst the misfortune, a person such as Zhang Wu Ji actually appeared at this village to save it, was a good thing. Perhaps if Zhang Wu Ji was here before the disaster happened, their fate will be sealed by destruction, but since the fate brought Zhang Wu Ji here to inspect this matter, they can only pray to the gods and thanked them for their kindness.
Although the water in the whole lake wasn't a living patient, it was categorized as one, because the water is poisoned. By slicing the surface of the water, a pungent smell that caused a person to feel nauseous were gathered all over on the blade. Before the gathered Cyanide liquid gathered enough to form a perfect drop, Zhang Wu Ji makes a swift movement to lift the Crystal Surgeon Knife higher to allow the whole Jade bottle to enter the gap and allowed the Cyanide Liquid to drips into it.
He repeated the procedure as many time before the others arrived, but after the first three Jade bottle is filled, the process to fill the fourth is a third slower. This little change hits his curiosity as he filled another Jade Bottle to inspect the solution within the bottle.
0.06mg Cyanide Concentration Liquid in Jade Bottle
Usage: Pesticide, Gold Mining. Concentration too low to affect human, but long period consumption will cause organ and oxygen processing failure.
Durability: -/-
”It dropped by 0.01mg, but the concentration is gathering a third slower. Does a large amount of water affects the speed of the collection?” Zhang Wu Ji made his initial guess, but soon, he noticed that the water flowing down the river will go past three falls before they entered the irrigation channel designed and assembled by the villagers. Using the advantages of the smaller Irrigation Channel, Zhang Wu Ji quickly returned to the area and run his tricks.
”The water from the river did not flow into their village, but it was collected using this water mill to redirect the water from the river straight into the village! Why didn't I notice that?” Zhang Wu Ji quickly reaches the spot where the resident is still busy moving the water collected by the water mill back to their village.
”Stop! Throw away all the water! Empty all the tanks and send villagers out to forage fruits with high sugar content! I will help you all to cure this disease! Until the people from the Seven Star Sect is here, nobody is to drink or use any water that comes from the river directly! I will remove the poison in the water before allowing them to be distributed!” Zhang Wu Ji stopped the others from continuing to carry the water back.
At the same time, because of his words, the villagers quickly throw away the water the moment they heard the word [Poison]. Some of the villagers immediately returned to the village to inform everyone about the Master Senior's instruction, and very soon, the water in the village's well, jars, boiling pot, and others were all thrown before they carried their containers to where the Water Mill is located.
With the help of three villagers, Zhang Wu Ji treated the water by removing the content of the Cyanide inside the water completely before he allows the villagers to collect and use the water. But before they started, every single villager took the water home under his instruction to clean themselves first before eating and drinking. All of their belonging is washed to remove the remnants of poison still remained in their clothing.
”The quality of the water indeed becomes better.” the villagers that used to suffer hair loss is the first to notice the differences. The number of fallen hair is reduced further, and the itchiness on their scalp is gone from using the water.
Soon, the water stores in the village are replenished. And at the same time, Tang Yuan's group of people is here with over a hundred carts pulled on their way over here. Inside the carts are shovels and hoes, also some heavy duty tools that sufficient for them to turn the village upside down. Under Zhang Wu Ji's instruction, the group of Slave Disciple heads to the direction of the lake, along with a few carts of different materials.
”Unfortunately, I have no other method except temporary using the modern filtration system to filter the water. Perhaps in the future, I can create my own electricity and chlorine to purify their water source.” Zhang Wu Ji was apologetic to the villagers because no matter how amazing is his system, he still faces difficulties to properly control the amount of cyanide poison inside the lake.
But one thing for sure, the concentration of Cyanide inside of the water is getting lesser. In his estimation, as long he continues this method for another short period of time, he will be able to clear the cyanide poisoning affecting this water source. But his interest in looking for the main water channel did not lessen.
Using the machine previously used by the deceased Blacksmith Department Elder to ground the charcoal into tiny pellets, Zhang Wu Ji created a gigantic water filter that gave the river their first filtration before they went further to the direction of the village. First, he shortened the width where the water from the lake flows, creating a much narrower gap to force the water to come down from a redirected channel.
Second, the bigger rocks scattered around them was cut into a fine piece of blocks before they were arranged nicely like a churning mill and two fish net is thrown inside to prevent the finer gravels to flow outwards. They continued with placing the fine charcoal sand inside, before placing some sand used for certain construction, and layered them with a few layers of textile material, to prevent everything inside to went out of the water filtration channel he crafted.
The only thing that was less satisfying is the filtration system he made is consist of a few parts, which he face difficulties to upgrade them. Although the filter might work better than he expected, this was the first time he felt slightly helpless in his bidding to conduct a goodwill at other people.
[Note: Zhang Wu Ji's upgrade were only applicable at item touchable by hand, one unit at a time. This is why he was powerless to upgrade thing like sand, gravels, but it was fine to upgrade bottled water. As for the fertilizer, he was upgrading last time, it came in a size of a tennis ball, which was to be put on the soil by the side of the plants.]
”Master Senior, what do we need to do now?” a hundred helpers asked.
”half of you return to help them in managing their farms. Another half will help me to prepare the water suitable to water their farm. After everything is done, we will come back to this water source, I want to look for their main water channel to see where is the water came from. Perhaps from this, we can increase the yield of their crops.”
”This means, our food in the Sect is going to become even luxurious, do you all get my meaning?” Zhang Wu Ji convinced them that by helping these people in advancing their initial agriculture skills, the return will come back to them in the future. As in this case, it was better edible meals. And they have to remember that this effort is still a paid employment, they still getting paid to help.
They work day and night, until three days later.
Because all of the work the hundred helpers and villagers, their farm transformed into a brand new appearance. Luckily, the edible food source such as vegetables, fruits, and also roots grow very easily, especially when they were given with a new plot of land that was recently plowed.
With over ten different kinds of plants and fruits, Zhang Wu Ji' responsibility in helping this village is finally over. He now only has one more unfinished aim staying in this village for so long.
To Look for the Main Source of this lake!
With the concentration of the Cyanide inside of the water is only 0.01mg left, it was similar to a normal river water with a slightly higher content of Cyanide. Zhang Wu Ji felt it was safe for him to dive into the lake, thus he undress, leaving only a layer of the thin robe as he dives deeper into the lake. Luckily, it was still afternoon, and the depth of the lake is roughly 20 meters, allowing the sunlight to shine into the lake and illuminates the waterbed.
He searched their surroundings and found nothing useful except some leftover trash, two set of intact human bones, and some gold coins inside, which might be thrown into the lake for fun. But the results of his diving is still the same. He found nothing inside the lake.
”This is impossible! Without a water channel, where did the water supply came from?” the question haunts his mind as he continues to search for their surrounding. It was until nightfall, a dim light of blue came out from a gap hidden behind of the rocks.