Chapter 144: Human Jigsaw Puzzle

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Guided by the solar bug lamp and with night just beginning, none of the powerful spirits or demons had yet appeared. The three of them and their two dogs encountered no dangers along the way and safely returned to the stone house.

“Huh?” Ye Da, holding the half-remaining Chu Ping, paused as he stepped through the door of the stone house. “This… doesn’t seem like my stone house.”

“It is your stone house,” Zhang Ya said directly. “When I took out your stone house, it prompted me that I could merge my wooden house with it, which would add an extra room to the stone house.”

“I figured since my wooden house couldn’t really be set up here, it’s better to merge it with your stone house so we’d have a private room to rest.”

“So I combined your stone house orb and my wooden house orb, and unexpectedly, it created a courtyard.”

As Ye Da listened to Zhang Ya’s explanation, he used the solar bug lamp to dispel the black mist in the courtyard, examining this small yard carefully.

Soon, he saw the information about the stone house:

[Name: Basic Small Quadrangle Courtyard (Level 7 Refuge in Mist World)]

[Top-level Upgrade: 500 units of fine stone, 50 units of quality timber, 10 units of premium mud, 100 units of glass; can be upgraded into a top-level quadrangle courtyard (also known as Level 9 Refuge. After upgrading, a two-story building, warehouse, hot spring pool, livestock area, and toilet can be constructed...)]

“Unexpectedly, by chance, it upgraded into a small quadrangle courtyard!” Ye Da exclaimed.

Though this quadrangle courtyard wasn’t as large as the inn he had in the sinkhole world, the key point was—this was Ye Da’s own quadrangle courtyard.

And most importantly…

He could finally build a toilet and a warehouse!

This was no minor matter; whether or not there was a toilet directly affected the quality and standard of living!

Especially since Ye Da now had two villagers under his care, and all three of them shared the house… using the toilet in the room—

Just thinking about it made Ye Da shudder at the thought of such a scene.

“Small quadrangle courtyard?” Zhang Ya suddenly realized. “Is that a shelter above the stone house?”

“Yes, a Level 7 shelter,” Ye Da nodded. “If the mobile stone house is considered a Level 6 shelter, then the small quadrangle courtyard is one level higher, mainly because it adds a courtyard that can be used for planting crops and, during the day, for reconnaissance!”

“Of course, what I value most is the ability to build a toilet—it can directly raise our living standards!”

Sure enough…

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As a man, Chu Ping might not care much about privacy or personal hygiene, but for Zhang Ya, as a woman, hearing the word ‘toilet’ instantly unsettled her!

“Toilet!!!” Zhang Ya’s voice shot up eight notes. “Upgrading to a quadrangle courtyard means we can build a toilet?”

“First, close the courtyard gate,” Ye Da said, sensing her excitement and anticipation. “Let me tend to Chu Ping’s wounds and prepare dinner first, then we’ll discuss the toilet. Don’t rush.”

“Alright!” Zhang Ya’s tone brimmed with expectation.

This time, Ye Da didn’t even need to read her little thoughts to know just how much she had suffered without a toilet since arriving in the Mist World.

“Bang!”

With the courtyard gate shut, the black mist outside ceased to surge inward.

Combined with the solar bug lamp's ability to disperse fog, the small courtyard finally became bright and clear.

Though the yard only had primitive stone walls, earth, and no decoration, Zhang Ya saw the toilet she had long dreamed of within the courtyard.

Meanwhile, Ye Da envisioned abundant crops and a hot spring pool to dispel fatigue.

Though none of it had yet come to pass…

Just imagining it was enough to fill them with hope.

Inside the stone house, the bonfire blazed brightly.

After unfolding the stone house, Zhang Ya fussed over the fireplace, adding plenty of firewood to keep the flames strong. The entire stone house glowed warmly, driving away the cold and gloom brought by the black mist.

This was the advantage of the stone house: with a roof and walls made of beautiful white jade stone reflecting light, the interior became very bright.

Unlike the treehouse, whose rough wooden walls absorbed light and had no roof.

Whenever Ye Da lay in the treehouse and looked up…

He could only see darkness; he never knew how high the top was or where it ended. It felt like something was watching him in the gloomy pit, giving a sense of insecurity.

“Zhang Ya, please help me piece Chu Ping back together.”

Ye Da placed Chu Ping’s upper body and two legs by the fireplace, then began stuffing the internal organs back inside, calling Zhang Ya over for help.

“Try to put them in the correct positions, or he might grow crooked.”

“Wh-what?” Zhang Ya froze for a moment.

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Though they were both enduring the trials of the Mist Forest, Zhang Ya always felt that with Ye Da, the amount of things happening in a single day could surpass what she experienced in a week or even a month.

It was absurd!

Today, she had only stolen a treasure chest, so why was she being punished like this?

And now she had to act as a forensic specialist—no, a mortuary makeup artist.

Wuwu, it was terrifying.

She pinched a sticky chunk of flesh, trying hard to figure out which part of Chu Ping’s body it came from.

“If there’s too much sand, rinse it with water.”

Ye Da kindly brought over a bucket of water to help her.

Zhang Ya was utterly bewildered; if Ye Da hadn’t called her, she might have continued working mechanically like a numb assembly line worker.

But at this moment, when Ye Da called her, Zhang Ya snapped back to her senses, terrified, and quickly threw a severed hand aside, saying, “No, no, I really can’t do this—it’s too scary!”

“Then… do you want to switch with me?”

Ye Da was holding a bottle of life elixir, preparing to feed it to Chu Ping.

Though Zhang Ya didn’t understand why the lord would feed medicine to a corpse, the idea of just feeding medicine seemed manageable.

“I’ll switch with you, as long as it’s just feeding medicine, okay?”

“Right!” Ye Da nodded. “But Chu Ping is unconscious now, so to make sure he swallows the life elixir, you have to feed him mouth-to-mouth.”

“Feed small sips, and only once you’re sure he’s swallowed the previous one should you give him the next.”

“Remember, you have to finish the entire bottle!”

“Understand?”