Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!-Chapter 72: Filtered Water

Cheng Xiaoxiao finished setting up the structure and started to chase people away, "Since Liangmu helped, I won’t report you. If you don’t leave now, I might have to."

Cheng Ran: "Sister Xiaoxiao, just let us take a look!"

Cheng Jia: "We’re really curious, Sis, please satisfy our curiosity!"

The others all nodded eagerly.

Cheng Xiaoxiao continued working without lifting her head, "Dahua, I saw Second Brother not far from our house when I went out just now. Why don’t you call him over?"

Dahua smiled, "Sure!"

Pretending to get up, the kids dashed off and vanished in no time.

Cheng Xiaoxiao and Dahua exchanged a smile.

Those playful kids thought they could slack off, no way.

Cheng Xiaoxiao focused on making the water filter, and with Dahua’s help, it was soon done. It had two layers of filtering and slightly resembled an hourglass.

She brought over a bucket of water and started filtering it. Dahua scooped the water spoon by spoon, while Cheng Xiaoxiao observed. The flow was slow, and the filtered water still had impurities; it wasn’t clear enough. It seemed they needed to filter it multiple times.

At noon, everyone returned and saw a few girls tinkering with something in the courtyard.

As they walked in, they were confused.

There was a support frame of some unknown shape, with white gauze. Dahua was slowly pouring water over it.

Cheng Qiang, full of curiosity, spoke first, asking his daughter, "Dahua, what are you and Xiaoxiao working on?"

"Dad, it’s a water filtration device. This way, everyone can drink clean water. Look at the water tank over there," she said, pointing towards the kitchen water tank.

Dahua was quite proud, as she and Xiaoxiao had managed to make such clean water.

Everyone turned to look and indeed, the half tank of water was as clear as the water they fetched before the rain.

Mr. Cheng: "Girl, did you really make this?"

Cheng Xiaoxiao’s eyes crinkled into a satisfied smile, "Of course. Water filtration is actually similar to the principle of sedimentation you’re familiar with. Only, after filtering, about eighty percent of the impurities and bacteria can be removed."

Cheng Hao: "What are bacteria?"

Dahua happily chimed in, "I know this! It’s the stuff mixed in water that causes stomach upsets, that’s bacteria."

Haha! Second Brother is baffled by something, while she knows the answer. For once, Dahua who always felt overshadowed intelligence-wise, felt vindicated, her grin revealing all her eight teeth, was quite bright!

"Stuff mixed in the water... material... bacteria." Cheng Hao muttered to himself.

After a while, a realization dawned on him, "So what Xiaoxiao means is the stuff called bacteria in the water is alive. If you drink raw water, bacteria enter the stomach, causing a stomachache?"

Cheng Xiaoxiao was speechless, realizing her Second Brother was quite the natural science ace, though born in the wrong place to do much with it.

Why didn’t he delve deeply into physics and chemistry when at school? She just spilled a bit of info, and he deduced the crucial points.

A genius’s focus is really different from others.

Cheng Xiaoxiao could only nod, "It’s more or less like that."

Qi Fei: "Boss Xiao is clever indeed." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

It seems he wasn’t wrong; of all these things, there was nothing Boss Xiao didn’t know.

Everyone praised Cheng Xiaoxiao, who responded with an awkward smile. They were real geniuses, while she was merely a ’fake’ one.

The system consoled, "Host, you’re amazing too."

She never said she wasn’t impressive; did the system misunderstand something? Everyone has their strengths, she didn’t need minor things to prove herself.

System: "..."

The host pretends to be humble but flaunts too.

With so much water, taking a bath isn’t excessive, right? Tonight she must have a relaxing hot bath; the past few days have been unbearable. Cheng Xiaoxiao thought beautifully, ignoring the system’s muttering.

In the afternoon, when people heard Cheng Xiaoxiao invented a water filter, they all came to have a look. Seeing a whole tank of clear, clean water, they opened their mouths wide and their eyes rounded in disbelief.

It was truly incredible.

The village chief beamed with joy, "Xiao, could you teach everyone this water filtration method?"

Everyone else immediately chimed in, wanting clean water too, "Yes, yes! Xiaoxiao is the most capable person in our village."

"Xiaoxiao is very blessed, indeed."

"Xiaoxiao is beautiful and insightful. Whoever marries her is indeed lucky."

Cheng Xiaoxiao’s mouth twitched, wasn’t it just to gain benefits? Was such flattery necessary?

Seeing Cheng Xiaoxiao’s unimpressed expression, some women switched tactics promptly.

"Xiaoxiao, you see, my child has diarrhea from drinking dirty water. Please be kind and help us!"

"Yeah! My dog is whining from stomach pain; could it be the water?"

"Exactly, these past few days the food has had a strange taste, and my Niu Niu ate half a bowl less than usual." A few women started discussing, realizing that perhaps everyone had been dealing with foul water causing stomach issues for the past few days.

The village chief pondered, "It seems the drinking water is unclean. Kids with weak stomachs can fall ill more easily."

The women all nodded in agreement.

Looking at Cheng Xiaoxiao, the village chief asked, "Xiaoxiao, given the current situation, if this continues, the villagers might all get sick."

Could the water source really be contaminated, with the kids’ diarrhea being a sign?

Though it had stopped raining, the outside situation was uncertain. An epidemic could break out, making it crucial to avoid using river water, be it for washing clothes or feeding livestock, as it might contain rotting corpses.

Cheng Xiaoxiao earnestly told the village chief, "Chief, I think the river water outside isn’t clean. Please advise everyone not to use it, not even for feeding animals."

The village chief seemed thoughtful.

"Think about it, our village’s children are getting diarrhea just from water seeping in from the river. What if animals drinking directly from the river water die?"

Hearing this, everyone exclaimed, "No way, I only have one donkey, it can’t die."

"My chickens can’t die; I rely on them for eggs."

"My cow cannot have issues either; a dead cow is a serious matter, and responsibility would follow."

"My dog is trustworthy; I rely on it to guard the house."

One after another, everyone expressed concern about their livestock.

"If you don’t want anything to happen to them, the best choice is not to use outside water."

The village chief sternly stated, "I’ll assign more young men to remove the excess water from the well, so everyone can use underground water."

Now, river water is a hazard and should be avoided. The system’s scanning range is limited, unable to detect outside conditions, which was truly inconvenient.