Work Prophet
Chapter 240 - 88 New Goals

Chapter 240: Chapter 88 New Goals

After meeting with Marquis Kuren, the matters concerning Rock Snow City had also come to a conclusion.

Afterward, Miss Rabbit, who had long been eager to return, did not stay any longer in the city and set off that very day to head back to Green Field.

Li Yu did not accompany her since, as long as the girl returned to her territory, she would naturally be transported back there when it was time for her to resume work, saving her the trouble of a journey by carriage and boat.

And coincidentally, the first snow of the season in the western territories arrived the day after Ireya got home.

Soon, a thin layer of snow covered the battlements of Teacup Castle, and the trees in the distant forest were all dressed in new attire.

Miss Rabbit, wearing the beautiful clothes she had bought in Rock Snow City, was frantically cooking carrot soup in the kitchen.

Now that the Arias family had money, the Lady could throw a lot more into the pot—petals, honey, and "sweet salt" from overseas, which was actually just cane sugar. She tossed it all in without a second thought.

Particularly with the sweet salt, the aggressive head of the Arias family added it generously, fully replenishing Li Yu, who would only drink zero-degree cola, with the sugar his body lacked.

At that moment, Li Yu was still handling the accumulated work during his absence on the Double Rest Sect’s territory. Actually, most of the miscellaneous tasks were already completed by Hera and Clara, leaving only the issues they couldn’t decide on or handle.

Things such as the future development plan for the Double Rest Sect and the arrangement of new followers.

All these required Li Yu to make decisions, and that’s when the "Game Sunglasses" came into play.

Li Yu first checked the completion status of previous tasks.

For instance, the task he cared most about, [Side Mission 2: Build a New Residence], was now at (189/300), nearly two-thirds complete.

Fairly speaking, this was not a slow progress, but there was still a gap from Li Yu’s initial plan of having everyone settled in new homes by the onset of harsh winter.

This was mainly due to the threat of the Black Dragon, which had forced Li Yu to divert some labor to rush the production of Dragon traps and weapons, thus affecting the general production.

Fortunately, the Black Dragon had now been dealt with, and the winged tribes were yet to attack, allowing Li Yu a precious period of peaceful development.

And he planned to make good use of this time.

First of all, [Side Mission 2] had to continue. Though the lizard people could squeeze together and perhaps even stay warmer during the winter, Li Yu had promised that each family would have a new house, and he was determined to fulfill that promise.

Moreover, with the increase in followers, those three hundred houses might not suffice in the future.

Even after completing the mission, he would have to continue building.

Another task, [Side Mission 3: Building Dry Toilets (30/30)], was already completed, and with Li Yu’s repeated teaching, the act of relieving oneself anywhere on the Double Rest Sect’s territories was gradually becoming less common, providing a source of fertilizer as well.

With labor thus freed up, Li Yu could start building other new things.

For example, [Side Mission 7: Build a Windmill].

This was a useful device. With a windmill, one could harness wind energy, which was abundant in Green Field.

In another universe, the earliest use of this ubiquitous, inexhaustible clean energy source could be traced back to before the Common Era, but subsequent technological developments had been very slow.

The first windmill did not appear until the twelfth century, and it took even longer to become widely popular.

Fortunately for Li Yu, he no longer needed to grope in the dark for so long; the principle of the windmill itself was not complicated, and design blueprints were all over the internet.

Once built, it could replace human and animal power in threshing grain and milling flour, and it could also pump water for irrigation, be used in textiles, paper making... With slight modifications, it could even convert excess wind energy into electrical energy, stored in batteries for use by the electronic devices around Li Yu.

In short, its uses were very wide-ranging, and after construction, it would liberate more labor forces to be deployed in other productions.

Thus, Li Yu put the construction of a windmill on his agenda.

Additionally, Li Yu planned to build another auditorium, or rather a cinema, as the previous cinema was housed in a mansion left by the Trinidad Knights.

In comparison to other residential buildings, its area was already not small, yet it could not accommodate thousands of people watching at the same time, not to mention that more and more adherents were coming to be educated, and the new cinema could also enhance the efficiency of missionary work.

There was also the bathhouse that Li Yu had long had in mind. After resolving the issue of defecating in public, the hygiene situation on his lands had greatly improved; however, personal hygiene was still not given due importance.

Including the rules Li Yu had set on washing hands before meals and after using the toilet, most adherents still saw it only as a ritual.

In Bratis Continent, let alone the common people, even the nobles seldom bathed or washed their hands, although it hadn’t reached the degree the Victorian Historians called ’bathing only twice in a lifetime and being covered in fleas and lice’.

But the notion that bathing could damage health and the protective outer layer indeed still had a fairly large market.

Many nobles bathed only once or twice a month. Li Yu had not been merely trying to scare the young girl obsessed with electronic pets when he said she stank; it was indeed the case.

Miss Rabbit clearly took this to heart; afterward, she bathed very frequently, basically once a week, and this had already set a new upper limit for noble cleanliness on Bratis Continent.

As for the commoners, unable to afford soap - a luxury item - they bathed even less often, almost always in rivers or by just splashing some water in a basin, especially during winter when they could not afford to heat water.

Li Yu certainly did not want his flock, living in clean, tidy homes, to be filthy themselves, and this would affect their health and increase unnecessary consumption of medicines.

So introducing a bathing culture similar to that of Ancient Romans was indeed a very necessary thing.

As Li Yu was assessing what else needed to be built, an unexpected visitor arrived—Jude.

Compared to when he had left last time, the ugly-faced man looked much more spirited and the smell of alcohol on him had faded considerably, indicating he likely had not been drinking excessively recently.

Upon meeting Li Yu, he did not beat around the bush and got straight to the point, "Prophet Merlin, I’ve found my purpose in life!"

"Is that so, congratulations, what is it?"

"I hope to try living a life different from before," Jude said. "Before coming here, I was a cold-hearted, selfish villain who lived solely for himself, but now I want to change my way of life."

"You don’t want to kill people anymore?"

"No, I still want to kill people, but not just for myself anymore."

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