Chapter 39: New Function

Zhao Hai did not pay much attention to how well Merlin and the others were teaching. Zhao Hai knew that Merlin and the others would not let him down. Besides, Merlin was an eighth-level great mage. Mages of such level had very few students in the Aksum Empire. Merlin had a few students in the past, but they all died in battle when they followed Adam’s father to war.

Therefore, Merlin had a lot of teaching experience. It was best for her to teach those slaves. What Zhao Hai was now worried about was the food problem for those slaves.

Yes, as long as the corn matured, they would have firewood. There was also rice and flour in the warehouse, so there was no need to worry about food. However, Zhao Hai thought of a problem: after the fire burned, there would definitely be smoke. The space here was only so big. If the smoke could not be discharged, it would eventually stay in the space, which would not be a good thing.

What Zhao Hai feared most was that if the smoke polluted the space, what could he do? But he could not say this. He could not let the slaves eat radishes every day, could he? He could only let them try cooking first. If it really did not work, he would try to reduce the number of times they cooked. When people could leave the space, he would find a way to discharge the smoke from the space.

However, Zhao Hai had another concern: the situation outside. Now he did not know how the castle outside was. If it was destroyed by those magical beasts, they would have no place to live after they went out, which would be even more troublesome.

After pacing around the room several times, Zhao Hai did not think of a good solution and could only walk to the display screen by the bed. The display screen was not turned on, looking dark.

Zhao Hai did not know how to turn on the display screen and could only say softly, "Open."

The display screen did not react at all, which made Zhao Hai feel difficult. There was no obvious switch on the display screen, and he really did not know what to do.

Zhao Hai could only reach out to touch the display screen. Unexpectedly, as soon as his hand touched the screen, it lit up immediately. Then, various icons of tools, shops, and warehouses in the space appeared on the screen.

This made Zhao Hai a bit stunned. He remembered that the last time he opened this screen, there was only one shop icon and a brief introduction to the farm. He did not expect that this time, there were more icons on the screen.

Zhao Hai did not pay much attention to the things on the screen. He could easily control them with his mind, so there was no need to look at them.

When Zhao Hai was about to turn off the screen, he suddenly noticed an icon. This icon was not any of the things on the farm but rather looked like a camera icon.

Zhao Hai could not help but be stunned. If this icon appeared on a computer, it would not be strange, but it was a bit strange to see it on this screen.

Zhao Hai was stunned for a moment and then touched the icon. He wanted to see what this icon was. As soon as his finger touched the icon, it immediately emitted a beam of white light, which shot into Zhao Hai’s forehead. Zhao Hai’s mind suddenly filled with a lot of information.

Because too much information entered at once, Zhao Hai had to close his eyes and lie down on the bed to digest it properly.

After a while, Zhao Hai finally digested all the information and opened his eyes, saying不满地: "It's just a surveillance device, why write so much?"

Zhao Hai finally understood what the icon was for. The icon appeared because Zhao Hai had been to many places, and it could be considered a surveillance device. However, its range was larger than that of a surveillance device. Now, because the space level was still too low, it could only monitor things within a hundred meters of where Zhao Hai entered the space. In other words, wherever Zhao Hai entered the space, he could see everything within a hundred meters of that location on the display. As the space level increased, the range he could see would also increase.

This was truly a timely solution. Zhao Hai was just worried about how to know the situation outside, and this thing appeared, solving his urgent problem.

Zhao Hai immediately got up from the bed, walked to the screen, and touched it again. The screen immediately lit up. Then Zhao Hai touched the camera-like icon, and the scene on the screen changed. A three-dimensional image of a castle appeared on the computer.

Below the image of the castle was a scale, which compressed the image of a hundred-meter square area onto this not-so-big screen.

Zhao Hai noticed that there were many green dots moving on the three-dimensional image. He could not help but touch one of the green dots. The screen flashed, and the image zoomed in quickly, showing a large rat-like magical beast on the screen. This large rat-like magical beast was looking around suspiciously, and Zhao Hai also noticed that it was standing in the castle’s living room. Next to the large rat was a pile of rotten wood, which, from the texture, was the sofa originally placed in the living room.

Zhao Hai carefully examined the screen and found that in the upper left corner, there was still the initial three-dimensional image. Zhao Hai roughly understood how to use it. He touched the three-dimensional image again, and the screen immediately returned to the three-dimensional image, with many green dots still moving.

Zhao Hai understood that the green dots represented either magical beasts or undead creatures. He touched the living room again, but this time he did not touch the green dot. Indeed, the scene changed, and the screen showed the entire living room. There were two large rat-like magical beasts in the living room, one of which was the one Zhao Hai had seen earlier, and the other was gnawing on the sofa. The sofas and small tables in the living room had all been destroyed, and several sofas had disappeared, apparently gnawed by the rats.

Zhao Hai looked at the large rats and inadvertently swiped his finger on the screen. The scene changed, and it turned to a room next to the living room.

Zhao Hai was stunned. He did not expect that this thing could be used in such a way, that he could change the scene by swiping his finger on the screen. This seemed to be even better than the surveillance devices on Earth.

Zhao Hai swiped his finger down on the screen, and indeed, the scene on the screen changed to the courtyard. The courtyard was now quite lively, with various undead creatures and magical beasts causing chaos. The already woven straw mats or un-dried hay were scattered all over the courtyard by these creatures.

Seeing this, Zhao Hai could not help but sigh and turned off the screen. Now that he knew the outside world was still dominated by magical beasts, he could not rush to go out.

At this moment, the space prompt sounded again: "The corn has matured, please harvest it as soon as possible."

Zhao Hai immediately walked out of the room and found that Merlin and the others were still teaching, but they were all looking at him with puzzled expressions.

Zhao Hai did not pay much attention. He knew that they had also heard the space prompt. He did not care about them and said softly, "Harvest the corn, separate the corn stalks, corn cobs, and corn kernels."

As soon as he finished speaking, the basket for collecting things immediately flew up, and the corn in the field flew toward the basket. In a short while, the two acres of corn were harvested.

Although the slaves had seen Zhao Hai harvest radishes before, they were still quite surprised to see him harvest corn.

After Zhao Hai finished harvesting the corn, he immediately took out the corn stalks and corn cobs and placed them next to the field kitchen. He then took out some rice and flour and planted corn again on the ground.

Merlin understood Zhao Hai’s intention. Now they could cook. She put away the papers with writing and said to the slaves, "Alright, everyone, let’s cook and eat. After we eat, we will continue learning."

The slaves looked at the papers Merlin put away with some reluctance. For them, learning to write was more important than anything else. They would not mind even if they did not eat for a day.

Zhao Hai did not know what the slaves usually ate, but he had been eating bread for several days, which made him a bit tired of it.

However, there was no oven in the space, so it was impossible to bake bread. Zhao Hai really wanted to see what Merlin would cook today.

Sure enough, Merlin looked at the things Zhao Hai took out and turned to him, saying, "Young Master, we need to take out some vegetables, ham, and fruit oil."

Zhao Hai immediately took out the things Merlin asked for. Merlin left the rice and some vegetables for the slaves and took the flour, some fruit oil, vegetables, and ham into the straw hut. She remembered that Zhao Hai’s straw hut had a kitchen with many kitchen utensils she had not seen before.

Zhao Hai did not know what Merlin was going to cook. He followed her into the hut. As soon as Merlin started kneading the dough, Zhao Hai roughly understood that she might be making pancakes.

Pancakes were a type of food that Zhao Hai liked to eat. He did not stay in the hut any longer, as he could not help much anyway, and turned around and went out of the hut.

When he came out of the hut, he was stunned. He thought the slaves were making rice, but it turned out to be something completely different. The slaves were lighting a pot, pouring fruit oil into it, and then putting the rice in to fry. Zhao Hai felt his scalp tingle; he had never seen anyone eat rice like this before.

However, Meg and the others did not seem surprised at all. They were just watching the slaves cook. Zhao Hai understood from their expressions that the people here must often eat rice this way, which was why Meg and the others did not show any surprise.