Leading over thirty Dwarves to the place prepared for building the paper factory, Eric first told everyone to mix concrete, while he and Arthur were in charge of pulling bricks and cent over.
Papermaking also creates quite a noise, especially since Eric intended to expand the scale of production. Later, it wouldn’t just be for use within the tribe but would also be sold as a commodity, so the necessary quantity would naturally increase.
Previously, it was due to low demand, and indeed a lack of conditions, that the Dwarves could only make paper in their living quarters, trying to avoid the tribesn’s rest tis.
Otherwise, just the sound of crushing reeds was noisy enough. To make smooth and even paper, the paper pulp had to be ground many tis. Therefore, based on the principle of the grinder he made for Eric, Luban remade several machines specifically for making paper pulp, comparable to the multi-purpose blender Eric used in his previous life; the ground pulp was extrely fine.
Arthur alone could effortlessly pull a cart full of bricks or cent. Eric was only in charge of directing him to stack the bricks neatly so they wouldn’t fall on the road.
With a main laborer, other tasks weren’t so strenuous anymore. The iron pipes needed to build the house were also all transported back and forth by Arthur.
Currently, although the tribe’s paper needs increased production, manpower was limited after all. They had to gather raw materials, grind, and filter; the processes involved were both complex and trivial.
Greed leads to ruin, and besides, he only intended to sell toilet paper. High-quality paper that could be used for writing would still only be prepared in a small amount for the people in the tribe; otherwise, he feared it would cause waves.
So initially, the paper factory was only built as three rooms resembling warehouses: one for grinding materials, one for settling, and the remaining one for the Dwarves to research and conduct experints - recently they were planning to research paper bleaching technology.
Moreover, Eric had said long ago that papermaking didn’t use just one type of raw material. Since ancient tis, people had discovered that dry grass, tree bark, and bamboo could all be used to make paper; the ti required varied, and the paper produced also had differences.
There was also a type of paper specifically to win over the literati and refined scholars; inside, there would be beautiful leaves and flower petals. Writing on it was also a kind of enjoynt, like various types of letter paper in modern tis.
The paper factory sounded fancy, but in reality, it was just three large houses. Apart from being big, they weren’t even as elaborate as the Dwarves’ houses.
But the wall definitely had to be built. Regardless of whether it could prevent theft, at least it could block the view of most people, preventing others from easily peeping.
Once the paper business bood, the toilet paper transported to the human continent would definitely sell very well. Whenever interests were involved, it was inevitable that people would covet it; it was better to be careful.
As for whether they could sneak in, Eric said that the paper factory would naturally have dormitories built for staff. Besides the papermaking staff, warriors would also be rotated to stand guard here every night. Furthermore, the paper factory was not far from the tribe. Once bad guys had ideas, with the speed of beastn, the opponents absolutely couldn’t escape.
The Dwarves were like worker ants in a nest, busy holding bricks and building.
Eric wasn’t idle either. Since building the new house, he also knew how to build walls. He rembered back then he and Leo also helped quite a lot; so curved walls in the yard were made by the two of them.
This ti his skills were much better. The bricks were stacked in the Dwarf way, staggered in an orderly manner, and the cent was plastered smoothly, looking decent.
Hard labor was fine, but letting Arthur do this was a bit difficult. However, he also wanted to sit next to Eric to help, only to help clumsily, making Eric so angry he wanted to take a brick and knock it on his head.
It was just that Eric thought again, if he used a brick to hit Arthur, the thing that would break would definitely be the brick, so he abandoned that idea.
Unexpectedly, the Tiger tribe helped out. Eric thought the paper factory would have to be postponed for a while before it could be built, delaying quite a bit of ti.
Now that there was quite a lot of extra manpower, taking advantage of the Tiger tribe still being here, he planned that after the paper factory was finished, it would be best to build public restrooms as well.
"Say, what do you think Eric and the others are doing? Will they go crazy with joy when they see us later?"
Not far from Hadu tribe’s territory, a few hundred Snow Wolves hurried over, carrying bags and bundles. Judging by the direction, they were heading straight to the Hadu tribe.
After being out for many days, Thomas walked in front, smiling more broadly the closer he got to the tribe, revealing white teeth as he turned his head to talk to Luci.
Right at this mont, they stepped into the territory. Luci stepped onto a higher mound, looking into the distance, only to see that the fields surrounding the tribe seed to have changed a bit.
"They’re probably planting. Didn’t Eric say they could sow seeds when the weather ward up?" Luci answered casually.
A female Snow Wolf beastman stepped up. She looked about Luci’s age. Standing there looking into the distance, what struck her eyes were vast, flat fields, almost no different from the Ox-Head tribe’s side.
She took a deep breath with eyes full of astonishnt:
"Now I feel that following everyone here wasn’t a wrong decision."
Throughout this journey, her heart had been extrely anxious. She wanted to believe Luci and Thomas’s words so her tribesn could live days with full bellies and warm clothes, but with the Golden Kingdom’s precedent, she was extrely afraid of leading her tribesn down a path of no return.
If it weren’t for Chief Karin, a neighbor for many years, also advising her earnestly, she wouldn’t have brought her tribesn out to take the risk.
But since experiencing an attack by a high-level magical beast, the Queen tribe had few warriors left, and the tribesn only numbered a few dozen. In recent years, life had beco increasingly difficult; every winter they had to endure hunger and cold.
Luci and Thomas saying that the Hadu tribe didn’t go hungry in winter now had really touched her heart.
In the Queen tribe these past few years, warriors had to patrol the territory and hunt at the sa ti. Those few warriors were too tired. A few months ago while out hunting, a warrior was almost critically injured by a magical beast due to exhaustion; luckily the others reacted quickly.
In such a situation, the prey the warriors hunted each ti was only enough for the tribesn to eat their fill; there was almost no surplus to save for winter.
Other tribesn didn’t have such high combat power. To help, besides gathering edible greens and wild fruits every day, everyone also hunted so rabbits and guinea pigs to fill their stomachs.
This kind of small prey - in other Snow Wolf territories, apart from cubs, no one actively ate them. Or only in winter when there was no food would Snow Wolves go catch them. But because these prey were small and knew how to hide, catching them to eat often wasn’t enough to compensate for the physical energy expended.
But in the Queen tribe, low-level magical beasts in the territory were about to be eaten clean. People had no choice but to gather more people to hunt so low-level magical beasts, sharing the burden for the warriors.
This continent was full of dangers; who knew which day they would encounter dium and high-level magical beasts.
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