Behind the main hall of the temporary cabin, there is a small compartment of ten square meters.
In the small compartment, there is a small square podium with a diameter of two meters.
As soon as they entered the compartment, everyone behind Xia Chuan first glanced at the black-clad Xia Hong on the small podium and then looked up, their expressions suddenly shook.
The corresponding roof with the small podium has a hole, where snowflakes drift in from outside, and moonlight pours through, just enveloping Xia Hong.
Strangely, those palm-sized snowflakes vaporize and rise a few inches away from Xia Hong’s body, as if his body is emitting an intensely high temperature.
Xia Hong’s silk black clothing faintly glows, and his delicate skin becomes ever more crystal clear like jade, making him seem as if he is glowing.
In everyone’s hearts, Xia Hong’s image is already grand, and seeing him now, with a hint of divine appearance and posture, made their gazes even more fervent.
"You may all rise. I’ve heard what was said outside just now. You’ve all worked hard during this period."
"To serve the Leader, to serve Great Xia, we do so without hesitation!"
Xia Hong, hearing their words, quickly guessed that Xia Chuan had taught them to say this. He slightly raised his eyebrows but didn’t comment. Instead, he turned to Mu Dong and Cheng Feng and asked, "Is there something you want to show me?"
Upon hearing this, Mu Dong’s expression flashed with excitement and signaled the five people to step forward. He first walked to the front of the first person and opened a tray, taking out a white soft item, handing it to Xia Hong.
Xia Hong fully unfolded the item, and his eyes immediately lit up.
The item turned out to be a piece of cotton cloth over two meters wide.
"Is this made from Bamboo Silk?"
Xia Hong examined it for a while, immediately identifying the raw material of the cotton cloth.
"Leader, you have a keen eye. Recently, you mentioned three things to me. I’ve researched them for a while and finally managed to create all of them."
As Mu Dong spoke, he opened two more trays.
The tray on the left contained a silky fabric with a rich texture, and the right tray held a sheet of white paper emitting bamboo fragrance.
Unexpectedly, the things I casually mentioned before, Mu Dong actually produced them. Xia Hong inspected the three items, his expression somewhat excited.
Upon first seeing Bamboo Silk at the Mirror Immortal Camp, he thought of these three items, but thinking and creating are entirely different matters.
Within just a month, Mu Dong managed to produce them?
"Leader, it wasn’t just me who created these. Recently, the Craftsmen Department recruited many people, and many talents have emerged. The three things you mentioned to me before, I initially had no clue, but several Logging Realm folk from the Mirror Immortal Camp suggested ideas, and after many experiments, we finally succeeded!"
Xia Hong nodded slightly and turned his gaze towards the remaining two trays.
Mu Dong opened the fourth tray, which contained a bunch of white crystalline substances.
Seeing that, Xia Hong was momentarily startled, with a hypothesis arising in his heart.
Xia Hong extended his finger, dipped a little, and put it in his mouth, and a long-missed taste rushed from his tongue to his mind, making him close his eyes in delight.
It was actually salt.
Mu Dong actually managed to create salt!
Xia Hong was a bit stunned, but his face mostly displayed uncontrollable excitement.
The importance of salt to humans is self-evident, even in the Ice Abyss World, it is no exception. As Xia Hong’s power grew stronger, he gradually figured out why the human average lifespan was so short in this world.
A lack of salt was one of the important reasons.
The only way to obtain salt in Great Xia was from Beast Meat, but the salt content in the meat was too scarce to meet human needs.
Even now, with an abundance of Beast Meat in Great Xia, in the past, during meat shortages, those consuming Crystal Fruit couldn’t get any salt intake, hence their average lifespan couldn’t be high.
"What are the raw materials of this salt, how was it made, and what about the production volume?"
Mu Dong had already experimented with salt and knew its importance, promptly replied, "Interestingly, our camp has many Beast Bones, and only a few can be ground into powder for medicine, the rest, unused Beast Bones, are made into carvings or ornaments.
Usually, after carving, there’s a lot of leftover Bone Powder. We would gather these and dispose of them deep to the east of the valley.
Half a month ago, someone from the Craftsmen Department, while throwing away Beast Bone Powder, discovered the earliest batch of Intermediate Cold Beast Bone Powder had turned into yellow-brown crystals, which looked magical, so they brought it back to show me.
At the time, I couldn’t determine what it was, so I asked Director Cheng to take it to the Medicine Workshop for an analysis, and it was identified as edible medicinal material.
Even though no formula was produced, I still took the material back and tried a taste, finding it unbearably salty.
At that moment, Lord Minister had just brought back a large batch of fresh supplies from Five Ape Mountain, including an edible item called Frozen Pearl, which had an incredibly mild and balanced taste. I combined it, out of curiosity, with the fermented Bone Powder.
After two days, we ended up producing salt!"
Hearing this series of coincidences leading to the production of the salt before his eyes, Xia Hong’s eyes grew brighter, but he quickly discerned the key points from Mu Dong’s words.