Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger

Mountain Eagle did not take the children to visit the rescue of the wounded; instead, after sending Lilith to the cabin prepared for the wounded, he took the two children back to Xiao Wan and the others' wooden house, went to the tool room to find a bunch of tools and water buckets, then pulled along Tiffany and Marta, who had finished chopping wood, and rode a motorcycle to the big lake...

Recently, the extreme cold outbreak has caused the big lake to form a thick layer of ice.

Mountain Eagle initially tried using the oil saw, but with a meter-thick layer of ice, the oil saw was of no help. They could only drill several holes first, then use the oil saw to break a part of the upper ice layer, followed by using a steel chisel to penetrate the lower ice layer.

What sounded simple took the three of them nearly an hour!

While Tiffany was fetching water, Mountain Eagle stuck a deadwood branch into the snow around the drilled ice as a marker. Before leaving, he filled the ice hole with snow to prevent the mouth from freezing again...

By the time their three sleds dragged more than a dozen large plastic buckets back, the first bucket of hot water was almost ready.

Mountain Eagle placed the hot water bucket on the ground, then set up the second bucket on the rocket stove...

After getting these things done, he set up a ladder and climbed up to a steel-structured water tank rack on the side of the wooden house to check the water tank.

In fact, the house constructed by Razer's granddaughter was quite good...

Originally built as a guest house for a sightseeing campsite, it had 8 rooms, six upstairs and two downstairs, but due to environmental reasons, there were only two public restrooms, one on each floor.

The internal facilities of the wooden house were complete, and a generator room was specifically built next to it, with a sizeable septic tank dug for storing domestic sewage.

The wooden house used a mode of fireplace plus electric heater for heating internally, ensuring the temperature of every room as much as possible.

The only issue here was the inconvenience of water usage because it was located in the permafrost zone, making well drilling quite unlikely; they could only supply water to the house in the form of a water tank.

However, once summer was over, the outdoor water tank and pipes would easily freeze.

Mountain Eagle glanced at it simply, decisively dismantled the frozen water tank, and threw it off...

In fact, the so-called water tank was just a large oil barrel with a water pipe connected at the bottom and a three-way joint connecting two water pipes leading to the bathrooms on the first and second floors.

After this water tank froze, even washing for the people in the wooden house became a problem.

However, even under such conditions, it was already much better than the other houses in the village. From what Mountain Eagle previously observed, the other villagers didn't even have a so-called bathroom indoors, let alone anything like a water tank.

Most of them had to melt snow and boil water themselves in the winter. Diligent ones needed to boil many kettles of water daily for routine use, while the lazier ones struggled with even washing their faces, let alone bathing.

Mountain Eagle discarded the old water tank, stood on the ladder, and thought while looking at the water tank rack...

Now with temperatures below minus sixty degrees, even if they replaced it with a water tank with hot water, if they couldn't keep heating the water tank, it would freeze again by the next morning.

Installing an electric heater at this moment was definitely too late, so they'd have to think of other ways.

The angle steel-welded water tank rack wasn't only very solid underneath, but also had three sides of welded protection around where the water tank was set up...

After pondering, Mountain Eagle had an idea, then entered the wooden house's tool room and found a large piece of patch and several new water pipes and fittings.

He first called for others to wrap the water pipes with insulation material, then returned to the water tank rack to clean the frozen tank thoroughly.

He replaced the frozen fittings, removed the frozen water pipes, and connected new water pipes to the upstairs and downstairs bathrooms.

When everything was ready, Mountain Eagle reinstalled the cleaned water tank, then made a partition in the rack under the water tank.

Using tin and wire, he wrapped the surroundings below the water bucket, then cut open half the tin and connected it with wire to form a door.

After finishing this, Mountain Eagle used newly wrapped water pipes to replace the old ones, installed a new three-way joint on the oil barrel connecting it with water pipes, then returned to the wooden house to find two brand new small water pumps. After connecting the pipes and powering them, he pumped both hot water and freshly fetched lake water into the elevated water tank.

Soon, cheers could be heard from inside the house, and shortly afterward, several large washing machines started operating.

However, Mountain Eagle's work wasn't finished yet. While Xiao Wan and others started handling accumulated dirty clothes, he went outside the main door to find some wooden stumps about 30 cm in diameter. He skillfully drilled holes about 8 cm in diameter in the center and lower sides of the stumps, creating several very durable 'Swedish Torch Furnaces.'

A 'Swedish Torch Furnace' with a 30 cm diameter and 40 cm height could burn for about 10 hours. Placing one of these beneath the water tank could form a heating and insulation system.

As long as it was replaced continuously, there would always be warm water available in the tank for use.

Of course, if a bath was needed, extra hot water would still have to be added, which was rather inconvenient, but in a place with temperatures below minus sixty, this was already quite luxurious.

Using a stick and fuel, he lit a 'Swedish Torch Furnace' and then stuffed it under the water tank.

Mountain Eagle repeatedly confirmed there was no issue with the air intake below, and with the torch furnace's flames directly beneath the oil barrel center, he let out a long sigh.

Looking at the now completely darkened sky, Mountain Eagle checked his watch and found it was already half past eight in the evening.

But when he entered the wooden house, dinner was not yet ready. Xiao Wan had brought a large copper pot and placed it on the dining table; charcoal burned inside with water heating, but various kinds of meat and vegetables were not yet prepared...

Only Yuliy, along with Griffin, Red Sparrow, and Hummingbird, were washing vegetables; everyone else was busy with buckets in the backyard and in the bathroom on the first floor...

Mountain Eagle watched Marta giggling as she ran into the bathroom with a bucket of lake water, soon after, Yue Yi's distressed shout echoed from inside...

"Get out, all of you get out..."

Mountain Eagle curiously approached to see, but was blocked at the door by Tiffany wrapped in a towel...

Tiffany, her shoulders bulging, looked up and down at Mountain Eagle, smiling as she said, "Boss, Mrs. Li and Tessa are helping a few kids take a bath inside. I'm about to go in for a rinse, want to join?"

Mountain Eagle looked at Tiffany's armpit hair, which was even more lush than his own, and disdainfully shook his head, moving her aside, then pushed open the bathroom door to take a peek inside...

Although called a bathroom, it was divided into two sections: on the right were several toilet cubicles and a row of washbasins, and to the right there was a sauna room and a communal shower. Yue Yi's yelling was coming from the sauna...

As Mountain Eagle peeked in, he happened to see Selena, wrapped in a towel, carrying a clean 'perfect baby' and almost three-year-old Eva out...

The two little ones looked flushed and radiant, they must have been thoroughly cleaned.

Through the crack of the door, Mountain Eagle saw his own son and Luna being scrubbed clean by Xiao Wan and Tessa in two steaming wooden tubs...

Judging by the two women's car-washing demeanor, it seemed like they were going to scrub an entire layer of skin off the two kids at once.

Watching his son yelling wildly, Mountain Eagle clicked his tongue, suppressing the urge to rescue him. Just as he was about to pull back and pretend he hadn't seen anything, Selena walked over, stuffed the 'perfect baby' into his arms, and carried Eva out...

"Come up and help dress the kids..."

Selena's tone was natural, but Tiffany's strange gaze made Mountain Eagle quite annoyed...

Looking down at the chubby baby with brown hair and black eyes in his arms, Mountain Eagle clicked his tongue again and finally followed Selena's lead...

In the house, only the areas near the fireplace were warm, other places maintained only about twelve or thirteen degrees with the help of electric heaters.

Selena, this Mao Mei, was quite bold; she led Mountain Eagle to her room without caring about the brief exposure from her movements. She laughed and played with Eva while directing Mountain Eagle to dress the perfect baby in a one-piece warm pajama...

Mountain Eagle was determined not to make any mistakes at this moment. He dressed the baby and decisively exited the room to return to the first-floor dining area.

At this point, everyone was anxious to bathe, delaying the preparation of dinner.

Mountain Eagle took on the role of Chef, pulling out the beef and lamb he brought, went to the tool room to find a planer used for shaving wood, and shaved the large chunks of beef and lamb into thin slices.

With so many people, it was quite a big task...

Luckily, Zack and Angel, who had already finished showering, volunteered to help, allowing Mountain Eagle to prepare all the beef and lamb before everyone finished washing.

While busy, Mountain Eagle looked around at the chaotic scene, a bit dissatisfied as he said to Yuliy, who was washing vegetables, "Xiao Wan absolutely can't tolerate living in a place like this. Didn't Razer arrange for someone to help?"

Yuliy was already aware that her sister's salary had been docked this year, so she consciously avoided the boss...

Upon hearing Mountain Eagle's question, Yuliy said helplessly, "Sir, Razer previously arranged for his wife and women to help tidy up, but if you've seen their living hygiene habits, you'd understand that we'd achieve better results ourselves.

Today, Mrs. Li asked us to do a general cleaning and personal hygiene check, which is why the house is a bit messy.

It wasn't too bad before; as long as we hid the dirty clothes and such, we were considered clean!"

Thinking about his cleanliness-loving wife living with a group of rough women who have military service experience, and in a house without hot water, Mountain Eagle nodded helplessly...

"Don't let Mrs. Li handle the laundry, you take charge..."

Yuliy pointed at herself, asking, "Me alone?"

Mountain Eagle frowned and said, "What's wrong? There's a washing machine and a dryer, what's the problem for one person?"

Yuliy, with a difficult expression, said, "Sir, Mrs. Li doesn't allow us to mix underwear with other clothes in the wash, requires hand scrubbing..."

As she spoke, Yuliy glanced at the small Hummingbird washing vegetables, and disdainfully said, "Boss, Hummingbird, this bitch's panties have already molded. I absolutely won't touch her underwear with my hands."

Mountain Eagle didn't understand women's habits either; after hesitating for a bit while glancing at the mature Hummingbird, he decided not to interfere with Xiao Wan's habits, and decisively waved his hand, saying, "Then everyone wash their own...

fuck, fortunately, I'm clever and brought enough underwear, I can wear one and toss it aside, lasting a month."

In saying so, Mountain Eagle pretended not to see the bright eyes of Yuliy and the others, turned and patted Zack's shoulder, saying, "I've brought quite a lot of underwear, and inside are yours and Fist's as well. Tonight you come to my place, I'll give you the underwear, wear them and toss them secretly, don't trouble Mrs. Li to wash them for you."

As Mountain Eagle was speaking, the wooden house's door opened, and Razer stood at the door without coming in but gestured to Mountain Eagle, saying, "Mountain Eagle, come with me...

The injured person has woken up, come with me to take a look, I need your advice on some things!"