The World Best Engineer novel - chapter 32

“Oh, I’ll make you Seokbingo.”

hee hee hee. The wind of the wilderness blew. The wind carried sand particles around the snow. Lloyd’s eyes narrowed in front of the aggression. I looked back and forth at the vacant lot with a slight incline.

“What is Seokbingo?”

As expected, Habiel’s counter-reaction came. A smirk came out of nowhere.

“bingo.”

“Yes?”

“No, not that. Have you ever heard of an ice house?”

“Never heard of it.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Seokbinggo. ice house. All of them are historical facilities where ice was stored during the hot season. Seokbingo was like that in Joseon, and Ice House was like that in Europe. In addition, in the Middle East’s Yazd province, an old ice storage facility called Moayedi still remains intact. In other words, facilities for storing ice have been around for quite some time since ancient times. But what about the Laurasia Continent where the novel Iron-Blooded Knight is set? Things were a little different.

‘Because of magic, such facilities did not develop.’

After all, it is the wealthy class who seek ice in the summer. And the world was overflowing with wizards who would do their best to serve the wealthy. It means that even in midsummer, you can enjoy sangria with ice cubes with just one order.

“So. I want to make something like this for the first time in history.”

“For the orcs?”

“uh.”

Lloyd nodded. The sloping site seemed just right for making Seokbingo. He roughly calculated the number of members of the orc tribe, the amount of food they ate, and the size of the prey they hunted on average. We estimated the area of ​​the stone bingo to be built according to its size.

‘It must be made bigger than the Joseon Dynasty.’

While receiving the help of surveying skills and design skills, I suddenly remembered what happened earlier.

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“Instead of skipping lower body workouts, I will build a cool food reserve, so please recognize me as a warrior.”

“Cook?”

Chief Akush’s first reaction to this was to raise his thick eyebrows.

“A food reserve elk, huh?”

“It’s pretty. It’s a warehouse that preserves food.”

“What’s going to change if you build it, Quik?”

“Yes. It will be different.”

“What is it, Quik?”

“The meat you hunt will seldom go bad.”

“Kook? Is that possible, Kuk?”

“Absolutely.”

Acush makes wrinkles on his forehead as if he can’t believe it. He smiled softly at him. In this case, it is important to show confidence. Lloyd said, engraving that fact on his chest.

“Imagine. I couldn’t even eat half of the meat of the large monster I hunted with all my might, but the sight of it already rotting. The sadness of the chunks of natural protein that you can’t even eat and have to throw away.”

“… … Good luck! I’m angry, Kook!”

“Is that right?”

“Yes, Kook!”

“But by keeping it fresh, you can eat it all without throwing away any. All of that firm meat goes into the chief’s mouth, becomes food, and turns into muscle. How about it, isn’t it cool?”

Whoops! Chief Akush let out a harsh snort instead of an answer. Just imagining it was thrilling.

“Is that really true, Kuk?”

“Of course it is. Who am I?”

“It’s a benefactor, Kyuik!”

“Is that right?”

“Yes, Kyuik!”

“good. Thank you for trusting me. Then, shall we start by writing a construction order contract?”

“Construction orders… … Contract, ok?”

“Yes. This is because the contract is the most important thing. Habiel?”

Lloyd looked back. As if he had become quite accustomed to this situation, Habiel quickly handed her a paper and pen. Lloyd wrote a simple order contract on the paper he was handed over.

“It was originally like this. If you just decide and start the construction with your fists, the right relationship is always vague and gossip comes out. How are we? Wouldn’t it be sad for each other if something like that happened?”

“… … Uh, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but somehow it seems like it, Kuk.”

“You thought well. You are wise too. Here you go.”

“Cook?”

“Sign down here.”

“Signature, ok?”

“The great chieftain marks his acceptance of the terms of this contract.”

“Good sign! You’re good at that, Kuk!”

Akush raised a fist as big as a basketball. He slammed it straight down towards the ordering contract. Kua-ang! The order contract was completely locked in the rock. as deep as 10 centimeters.

‘OMG.’

monster. This was a monster in another sense with Habiel. Once again, I realized how powerful the orc chief was.

‘but. In the original story, Habiel was also a difficult opponent to subdue.’

At that time, Habiel had reached the status of a God Sword Master. In other words, this muscled orc chief in front of him had, at an estimated level, the combat ability between an advanced Sword Expert and a Sword Master.

‘Even with pure physical strength. Even though I don’t know how to use mana at all.’

The more I thought about it, the more powerful it was. But now there is no need to be afraid. Anyway, this muscle monster in front of me is on my side. Lloyd laughed softly.

“Thank you for your wise judgment, Chief. From now on, you just have to trust me.”

“Of course! I, Akush, believe in the human Lloyd, Quik!”

“Yes, please leave it to me.”

Lloyd also signed a contract locked on the floor. The contents of the contract were as follows. [The Lloyd Frontera makes stone ice cream for the Orc tribe.] [The Orc tribe recognizes Lloyd Frontera as a warrior and pays the construction cost at the same time.] [The construction cost is replaced with the exercise equipment currently in use in the village.] Lloyd Frontera provides the village with new exercise equipment of the same weight made by processing stone.] … … it was In other words, it was a contract with no damage to each other.

‘No, there is nothing to lose, it’s a win-win for each other.’

Valuables and gold coins used as exercise equipment in the village now were unnecessary for the Orcs anyway. Instead of bringing it? It would be a good thing for Orcs if you make a stone exercise machine that is more convenient to use. Besides, they got a large refrigerator, Seokbingo, to store their food, so it was a mutually beneficial deal.

“… … So, you have to keep your trust. You have to make it well. Now, I think we should leave the entrance this way.”

On the one hand, surveying. On the other hand, Lloyd said, recalling what had happened before. In fact, he was planning to make this Seokbingo really well. It was natural.

‘This is because trust is the most important thing.’

Just because your partner looks simple or easy-going shouldn’t be easy. If you go ahead with the construction sloppily to get immediate benefits, you will see blood later. Especially against those muscle monsters.

‘In such a case, it is unconditional benefit to keep trust in the long run.’

The orc tribe was a powerful force. The fighting power of each warrior was immense. In addition, if war broke out, dozens of villages in this area would form a coalition in an instant. An army comparable to the elite corps of any country will be organized.

‘So it’s important to score properly at this time.’

Maybe you can get RP from them too. With that in mind, Lloyd did his best to survey and design Seokbingo.

‘The entrance is to the south. To the cool north of the main chamber where ice and food will be stored.’

Lloyd used the traditional Joseon-style Seokbingo as a basic model. When he was a freshman in college, he had experience in club activities related to traditional architecture. That experience helped me a lot now.

‘By the way, it’s very dry here.’

It was a dry wilderness. When Seokbingo was built, it seemed to be more efficient than that of the Joseon Dynasty. In addition, he meticulously inspected and arranged numerous elements for Seokbingo to function.

‘It’s important to let the hot air go up first.’

The overall structure was ring. Only half of it was buried underground. The other half was constructed to bulge to the ground. That’s how I made the ceiling round in the shape of an arch. We didn’t forget the structure through which the heat would eventually escape.

‘You have to create a recessed and convex space between the red poles that make up the round ceiling. You have to trap the hot air there. In this way, a ventilation hole is also made at each central point of the hollow point. In this way, the heat will be thoroughly discharged out of the stone ice bin. If you put a cover stone on top of the vent to block the sun and rain like this… … done.’

Tsutsutsutsutsutsu… … ! A three-dimensional design screen that appeared like a hologram to be seen only in his field of vision. In the midst of this, the design of the ceiling structure was completed one after another. In addition, he didn’t forget to make the floor inside the Seokbinggo inclined.

‘Otherwise, water from the natural melting of the ice pools at the bottom, and the puddle helps the rest of the ice melt.’

The south, where the entrance is located, is designed to be high, and the north, which is the main direction, is designed low. And at the northern end, a drainage ditch was made for the water to drain. In addition, the structure to dissipate the heat and protect the cold was carefully taken care of. Retaining walls were placed north-south next to the entrance door. The structure was designed to induce cold winds coming down the mountain range in winter to hit the retaining wall and enter the interior of the Seokbinggo. There is also enough space for the insulation to fit. By the time four days had passed. Finally the design is finished.

“Whoa, the drawings are ok.”

With the optional function obtained as his design skill rose to the intermediate level, he drew out the design drawings neatly. The next step to be solved for the construction of Seokbingo was securing construction materials.

‘The mud and lime that will form the waterproofing layer of the ceiling can be obtained here. Rice husks, straw, and sawdust to be used as insulation materials can only be obtained by sending ten engineers of the engineering corps back to their territory and having them airlifted. The final grass to be covered outside should be replaced with thorn grass that grows in this area. There is only one problem, granite.’

Lloyd’s gaze turned to the west. The Eastern Mountains are located between the Frontera estate and the wilderness. The eastern slopes of it were shining brightly in the morning sun. It was partly exposed granite bedrock.

‘You need that granite in order to build a Seokbinggo.’

Granite was a rock formed by the slow cooling of felsic magma. It was so hard and the rock was homogeneous. This meant that the material was hardly warped or split because the internal structure had no grain.

‘That’s why even in the modern world, granite is often used as a backing stone for semiconductor equipment or measuring equipment that requires precision.’

Like granite, it was hard and did not deform. It is advantageous for buildings that have to endure a long period of time. This is especially true for buildings that require long-term insulation and waterproofing performance, such as stone ice. However, granite was not the only advantage.

‘Too difficult to process.’

Hard to break as hard as it is. Even the stone has no grain, so it cannot be split in the desired direction. In other words, it was granite that was extremely difficult to quarry or process into the desired size and shape.

‘That’s why the old Buddha statues in Korea were so crude.’

The Korean Peninsula is full of granite. Thanks to this, our ancestors had to deal with granite by literally ‘carving it one by one’. It was a long, long, long, hard work. Of course, Lloyd had no intention of doing so. It was an orc village, not his own estate. He didn’t want to spend a lot of time thinking that he would build a stone bingo on someone else’s land. So it was. Thinking of a solution in his heart, he looked back. He called out the silver-haired knight who was behind him without a word.

“Hey, Habiel?”

“Did you call?”

“Oh, I called. Let me ask you something.”

“Say it.”

“Can you cut stones with a sword?”

“Yes.”

“how much?”

“I have succeeded with a single sword up to a meter or so.”

“A one-meter rock?”

“Yes.”

Habiel nodded as if it didn’t matter. It was amazing. Even a sword made of iron is, in the end, only a few kilograms of blades. But with that, you can do two things at once with a rock that is 1 meter tall, close to the weight of a ton. However, Lloyd snorted at Habiel like that.

“okay? It’s worse than I thought.”

“… … .”

“I thought that if I cut it with a sword again, it would be cut by a few meters, and there would be holes and chaos, sir.”

“… … The state you mentioned seems to be difficult even for any Sword Master.”

“Yeah?”

“Yes.”

“Aren’t you making excuses for nothing because you can’t?”

“no.”

“no?”

“Yes.”

“really?”

“That’s right.”

Did you think that this one was tenaciously biting and drooping? The temperature of Habiel’s speaking voice became slightly cooler than usual.

“I don’t know what Lloyd-sama is thinking of asking me such a question right now, but if he is trying to make unreasonable demands on me by abusing his position, I will politely decline in advance.”

“Oh hey. A strike declaration?”

“I am just telling you in advance that I cannot fulfill an impossible request that is beyond my ability. If we ignore it and insist on it, we will both be unhappy.”

“Are we unhappy with each other?”

“That’s right.”

“What if I force you to do something you can’t reach?”

“It is, too. Can I be honest with you?”

“try.”

“Now, Lloyd-sama is trying to get stone to build something called Seokbingo.”

“Oh, right.”

“And Lloyd is trying to use me to get the stone. To make me cut stones with my sword. I said this because I expected it early.”

“So you’re going to refuse to be a quarryer who isn’t on sale?”

“It’s impossible to do with a sword in the first place.”

“Twitch, that’s cheeky.”

“thank you.”

Habiel nodded her head. Maybe he thinks he won this fight. Lloyd raised the corners of her lips. He threw a meaningful smile at Habiel, who was sure of his victory.

“What if I make it possible?”

“Yes?”

“If I teach you the art of making a hole several meters in a rock with a single sword and exploding it, will you grant my request?”

“What… … .”

Habiel muttered. Lloyd laughed softly. Already in his head, in the middle of the novel Iron-Blood Knight, a destructive technique that Habiel had completed was already in his mind. He was planning to teach it to Habiel early.