Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 68 It’s Children’s Day, let’s add an update
"Don't worry, let me test the water spraying force of this nozzle first."

Batunan jumped into the pit and felt the splashing water on his face.

"Yes, this impact force is undoubtedly caused by the water outlet on the high ground."

The hole quickly filled up and the water overflowed.

Flowing along the hillside towards the dry riverbed.

"Have you found the spring so soon?"

Broly and the others heard the noise and came over to ask.

When the people around them knew that they were the financial sponsors of the event, they all gave up their seats.

“This is a high-lying water vein, but it is hard to say whether it can serve as a new spring for the Katisi River. We need to continue digging to see the amount of water and the stability of the flow of the underground water vein.

If only this part of the water vein is high in terrain, but the overall underground water vein is still downward, then it is possible that after some groundwater flows out, the underground water vein will lower its height.

And this place will only become an ordinary well instead of a spring..."

Batunan called on everyone to start digging the water outlet. Each of the hired well diggers brought professional tools. They were professionals in digging deep wells and each of them had the ability to work underwater.

As the water pit was enlarged and the outlet was deepened, these people began to take turns to breathe and go into the water to work. This behavior lasted from noon to afternoon. As the outlet could no longer be dug down, a group of people stopped and sat on the ground next to it to rest.

"It seems like it's all in vain again."

Looking at the puddle where the water flow had completely calmed down, someone sighed.

It has been more than four hours since the water was excavated, and the flowing water has not even completely wet the riverbed within 500 meters.

Although water was still overflowing from the puddle and flowing down the hillside into the riverbed, it was visibly decreasing.

Such an outlet cannot become a new spring. Even if a special slope is dug to let it flow, the water may run out after a few days.

It might be able to moisten the nearby riverbed, but compared to reviving the Katisi River, it is a drop in the bucket.

"Sell the location of the water outlet here to people in the surrounding gathering places, recoup the funds, and then move to another location."

"There are many people who believe in the Oasis Church in the nearby gathering place, and the private water outlet business is not doing well. If we are discovered and harassed by the Oasis Church guys, we will be in trouble."

The introduction of a bill prohibiting private well digging has had a great impact on these well diggers, but the well digging business has continued. Some villages that cannot afford daily water due to the high cost will privately hire them to dig private wells.

Although they could be hanged if caught doing this, people who needed water would pay high prices, and generally no one would betray them, so their lives were still acceptable.

Until the rise of the Oasis Cult, that sect believed that it was the people who once lived on this land who dug the ground excessively, which caused the divine punishment. They, the well diggers, were also labeled as the culprits of the divine punishment and one of the heretics.

This resulted in fewer and fewer people coming to them to dig private wells, and the well diggers could only make a living by transporting water from the secret wells they dug and selling it.

This behavior is called private water business in the Katisi area. Compared with regular water, the water sold by well diggers is cheaper, but it is easy to be suppressed by the authorities.

The business of directly selling water outlets is called smuggling water outlets business. Compared with smuggling water business, this kind of business has higher risks, and in places where there are many believers of the Katisi Oasis God, it is also more likely to be reported by believers.

After some discussion, Batunan and the others came to ask Broly for his opinion. Strictly speaking, this water outlet belongs to Broly, the financial sponsor, but the current laws of the Katisi region do not recognize this.

"You want to sell this water outlet. Why?"

Broly was a little confused.

"The water output is too small to become a new spring. Selling it can at least make up for the loss."

Batunan explained that the people who came to dig today had to be hired for money.

"The amount of water coming out is not large. Can't you just make the hole bigger?"

Broly still didn't understand, and he had just seen today that digging underground could really dig out water. "It's not that simple. Places that can store water at high altitudes are often relatively solid geologically. Just like here, most of the underground has some large pieces of hard rock. Even at the water outlet over there, we dug into the hard rock underneath, and we stopped when we couldn't dig any further."

The technology in this world is both advanced and backward. Advanced means that the people here were able to create humanoid imperial devices and even imperial devices similar to Gundam thousands of years ago. Backward means that most people are still using primitive tools for production thousands of years later.

Take this group of well diggers for example. They have fairly professional digging tools, but the power for digging basically comes from manpower.

Human power is powerless in the face of the huge rocks underground. Unless they can find more powerful digging tools or underwater explosives, they can only give up.

Someone had dug up the soil around the stone under the puddle in an attempt to float it, but there was no end in sight.

Some experienced masters believed that the stone might be connected to the mountain below, and it would be difficult to accomplish even if they wanted to make large tools to demolish it.

Even if it is demolished by force, it remains a question whether the water veins underneath can allow the outlet to become a new spring.

"So, it's just that you can't dig any further, not that the water outlet can't be dug any further, right?"

Broly asked.

"We believe that if we stop digging, we can stop the loss. If we continue digging, we may face a situation where we pay a huge cost but gain nothing. This is our judgment."

Batunan reported seriously that he was more responsible to Broly, the financial sponsor who was willing to support his spring digging business. Money that should not be wasted should not be wasted. However, Batunan wanted to split the funds into two halves. More than 20 million may seem a lot, but in fact, it is just that.

"Since you guys don't want to dig anymore, let me continue digging, okay?"

Broly asked again. He felt that he was not a professional spring digger, so he had never intervened.

But now that the professionals have given up, it's time for him, a non-professional, to try.

If possible, Broly would like to learn the skill of well digging so that he can dig his own well when he returns to Wampa.

If there was water beneath the surface of Wampa...

"Well, that's fine, but how are you going to dig it yourself?"

Batunan asked, although the boy was strong and had extraordinary strength, what use was this physical strength in the face of the huge rocks blocking the road underground?
"Well, all of you run away."

Broly thought about it and decided to dig the water outlet in the same way he dug a home on Wampa, but before that, he needed to get the people on the hillside to leave.

"What's wrong? Why do you suddenly want us to run away?"

Marin was a little confused, she was still cutting vegetables.

"Hurry up and grab the ingredients and go. Big brother should be planning to blow up this little mound."

Akame was holding the pot, Kurome was holding a bowl, and the other children were also holding something in their hands.

Put them on the carriage and drive away.

"What little mound? Isn't this a hillside?"

Main felt a little strange, but still followed the team. Esdeath and Merad also followed, they were all a little confused.

Until, when they were at the foot of the mountain, they saw a sudden green light appear on the mountain, followed by a loud bang and the ground shaking violently. After it stopped, they looked at the mountain that was half missing, and their mouths opened wide.

"Is this something a human can do?"

Not far away, Batunan and other well diggers who had also come to the foot of the mountain were watching this scene, and some of them began to murmur to themselves.

"Crash..."

With half of the mountain missing, the huge opening allowed the underground water inside the mountain to gush out, irrigating the dry riverbed within several kilometers below the mountain in just an instant.

　Happy holidays to all the minors and adults!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)