Then he sat up, feeling refreshed.

The body was still Su Youzong’s. It was not weak, but not strong either.

His spirit, however, retained the strength rooted in his interstellar human body in the real world.

Unsure whether he had run into some kind of bug, Su Mo did not care. He went straight to wash up before heading out into the courtyard.

The courtyard, once dilapidated and abandoned, had been completely revitalized after a period of living there.

There were three large rooms.

Su Mo lived in the main house in the middle, while Huang Xiaojuan lived in the side house on the right.

Another room, originally meant to be a laboratory, had been converted into a temporary storage room.

There were two small rooms as well.

One was Huang Xiaojuan’s kitchen, and the other was a storeroom filled with firewood.

Entering the storeroom, Su Mo picked up the axe in the corner, selected several large pieces of wood and returned to the center of the courtyard.

“Hey, Brother Zong, we still have enough firewood at home. Don’t chop any more.”

Huang Xiaojuan poked her head out of the kitchen and waved repeatedly.

Ever since Wang Qian and his people had moved in next door and started freeloading meals, they had taken care of even the smallest chores, like chopping wood or sweeping the street.

The small trees along the entire Gutian Third Road had been trimmed clean by these people, and the desolate, gloomy feeling was completely gone.

“It’s all right. I’ll just chop some material and make a few little gadgets.”

Boom.

While chatting and laughing, Su Mo had already rolled up his sleeves and split a piece of wood neatly in two.

In theory the Pillar of Creation had been modified, but if he wanted to use it to answer the problem, he at least needed to build a decent finished product.

Considering that using alloy would mean a trip to the Lane and finding an excuse, Su Mo simply decided to use wood as a substitute.

Made of ordinary wood, this tower structure could bear a hundred times its weight.

Made of alloy, it would go without saying.

After fiddling around for a while, and soon after collecting enough wood, Su Mo pulled up a small stool and sat down in the yard.

Then he began to refine the rough pieces of wood according to the proportions.

Partway through, Sun Quan strolled in through the open courtyard gate looking carefree. Su Mo ignored him and focused on adjusting the tower-like structure in front of him, which resembled the Eiffel Tower.

“The eight hundred seventy-first piece of wood, twenty-one centimeters thick, placed at position three hundred fifty-five.”

“...”

“The one thousand three hundred fortieth piece of wood, zero point nine centimeters thick, placed at position one hundred nineteen.”

“...”

Once the initial framework was set up, every subsequent adjustment and addition demanded extremely high precision.

Fortunately this was not the first time Su Mo had done this kind of work, and his hands remained incredibly steady from beginning to end.

Sun Quan, standing to the side, gasped softly, then held his breath and did not dare make a sound.

“The one thousand six hundred forty-ninth...”

“Huh? It’s finished?”

His gaze was still scanning the markings on the drawing paper when Su Mo reached out to his side from habit, only to find that the prepared wood had all been used up.

And the tower-like structure in front of him, made from a total of one thousand six hundred fifty pieces of wood of various kinds, was officially a complete success.

In appearance the wooden pagoda was only about sixty centimeters high and even narrower, only forty centimeters wide.

Inside it and around its edges were countless tiny thorn-like structures running through it, making the originally simple tower incredibly complex.

The most eye-catching feature was the central pillar running straight to the top of the pagoda.

It looked like a pillar holding up the sky, but in fact its angle was not a perfect ninety degrees. It bent seven times along the way!

Look closely and you could see traces of dried glue between those seven bends.

It was clearly not one piece, but assembled from pieces!

“Brother Zong, what are you doing? Playing with a model?”

“This little thing looks quite unique. Put it away quickly, or a gust of wind will blow it away and you’ll have to put it together again.”

Seeing that Su Mo had finally raised his head and was wiping the sweat rolling down his face, Sun Quan at last dared to speak.

At least forty minutes had passed since he had come in.

For those forty minutes, Su Mo had not even wiped his sweat. His gaze had never left the wooden tower.

Never mind anything else, that terrifying level of concentration alone was enough to make anyone envious.

“Blow it away?”

“Haha, you’re really bold, kid.” After wiping the sweat from his face, Su Mo squatted down and picked up the small tower.

Seen in the sunlight, this small wooden tower, made of more than a thousand parts, was full of a unique beauty of craftsmanship.

Especially when a gentle breeze blew, the central pillar trembled slightly to relieve the pressure.

That unparalleled, exquisite detail made it even more captivating.

“I was just using a figure of speech. With so many parts, even if dozens fell off, we might not even notice.”

“Brother Zong, how about I find you a transparent box to put it in?” Following behind Su Mo, Sun Quan looked on with admiration, his eyes overflowing with affection.

The more sophisticated something was, the more precious it became in the wasteland.

This was the first time in eight years that he had seen anything like the small tower before him.

“Wait, so you actually think this thing is an ornament?”

“Come on, I’ll find you something to try it with.” Looking around, Su Mo brought out a flat wooden board and a small wooden box about as tall as the tower.

He placed the board on top of the box so that the other end hung down naturally onto the top of the tower, forming a suspended platform.

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