Chapter 540, The Perfect Substitute

Translator: Silavin

Yu Ying had no idea what had happened, tilting her head and asking: “Shaman, what major problem have you solved?”

“It’s the problem of heating water. Our Tribe won’t have to keep using wood to burn fires anymore.” Su Bai’s lips kept curling upwards.

The method he had suddenly thought of truly filled him with joy. He had not expected that the best solution had been right in front of him all along, only he had forgotten about it.

“Hmm…” Yu Ying looked rather puzzled, her expression quite confused.

“Come and see what’s different about this device?” Su Bai handed over the blueprint he had drawn.

Yu Ying took the blueprint and began to look through it, carefully examining what was drawn on the paper.

She looked for quite a while, following the annotated arrows until she finally understood, saying. “Shaman, these pipes are all used for water, right?”

“That’s right. These pipes all transport water from the large containers to our toilets, where it falls from the shower heads for us to bathe under.” Su Bai nodded.

“Shaman, one of these two large containers is for holding hot water, and one is for holding cold water, right?” Yu Ying continued to ask. It could be said that Yu Ying was rather sharp this time. Or perhaps, it was because the blueprint was drawn very simply and clearly, so she understood it very quickly.

“Yes, these two containers are for hot water and cold water, but what if the water in both storage tanks freezes? What should we do?” Su Bai asked.

“Use fire to melt them.” Yu Ying did not know why he was suddenly asking this question, thinking that everyone would know the answer to this question.

“Then when we’re not bathing, do we still have to keep using wood to heat this water?” Su Bai continued asking.

He thought that rather than explaining everything to her at once, it would be better to tell her bit by bit, so she would understand more clearly.

“If we don’t like bathing, then we should not use wood, because it would be very wasteful of firewood.” Yu Ying said directly, though she was still quite puzzled.

“Everything you’ve said is correct, but when we want to bathe, wouldn’t it be very time-consuming to use wood to heat the water then?” Su Bai continued to ask.

“Yes, we can only start burning very early in advance, wait until it melts before we can bathe, but this wastes time and also wastes a lot of wood.” Yu Ying continued.

“Exactly. The method I just thought of solves this problem.” Su Bai knew she had sorted it out clearly.

Yu Ying instantly had a moment of realisation, immediately widening her eyes and asking: “Shaman, what method have you come up with?”

She now understood why the Shaman had kept asking very obvious questions – he wanted to explain things clearly to her.

“Didn’t we discover Kerosene Fruit in the forest? Wouldn’t using that as a substitute be perfect?” Su Bai smiled.

That was right, the solution he had thought of was exactly this – using Kerosene Fruit to replace wood.

Moreover, Kerosene Fruit burned for a very long time. One fruit could match more than ten pieces of wood, and most importantly, the flames it produced when burning were very vigorous, incomparable to ordinary wood.

Ordinary wood might require adding more than ten pieces to burn vigorously, but one Kerosene Fruit could burn extremely vigorously.

Not to mention refined Kerosene Fruit’s fruit juice was no weaker than wood in intensity, and the duration would also be very long.

Using more than ten fruits to heat one storage tank would be more than enough for a whole day.

Most importantly, before the snow season arrived, Su Bai had sent large numbers of people to harvest Kerosene Fruit, and the Tribe now had many of these fruits stockpiled.

It was just that previously they had extracted a lot of juice to use as fruit oil lamps, and it had been some time since he had touched those fruits, so he had seen them even less, which was why he had temporarily forgotten about them.

But just now, when he was drawing and thinking of solutions, he looked up and saw a fruit oil lamp. The inspiration instantly flooded into his mind. He was still annoyed at himself for forgetting such an important thing.

“Oh yes, if you hadn’t mentioned it, Shaman, I would have forgotten about this thing too. Kerosene Fruit really is an amazing item. This way, we can save up on a lot of wood.” Yu Ying said excitedly.

Yu Ying was now excited about being able to use shower heads for bathing, and also being able to save a lot of wood.

She had looked at that device and felt it was truly very convenient. She was already looking forward a bit to seeing it completed.

“When this device is finished, we’ll have people refine the Kerosene Fruit. The purer the fruit juice, the better.” Su Bai said happily.

He was a bit annoyed at himself for not thinking of making shower heads earlier, so he could have used water heaters sooner.

“Shaman, who should make this device?” Yu Ying asked curiously, as she felt that device was quite complex.

“Let Uncle Gu Mu and Shan Qiu do it. After all, this device requires both of them working together to complete.” Su Bai said.

The only people he could think of were these two elders of the Tribe – one was very old with extremely rich experience, and the other, though in his thirties, was also very capable.

“Shaman, shall I take it to them now, so the device can be made earlier?” Yu Ying immediately said.

“There’s no rush. Let me draw some more details into it, so they can see it more clearly. This way it will be easier to make.” Su Bai raised his hand.

He was thinking of drawing more precisely, so those two people could understand better, since this was their first time encountering this type of device.

Moreover, the shower head had not been drawn yet, and this was a crucially important component.

“Alright, then I’ll wait a moment.” Yu Ying said happily.

Su Bai saw how happy she looked and felt happy himself, as who would not like life to become more convenient.

He rubbed Yu Ying’s head and began to pick up his pen to continue drawing, wanting to materialise this device as soon as possible.

When Yu Ying’s head was being rubbed, she hunched her shoulders and squinted her eyes, looking very much like she was enjoying it.