Although this was merely Chuck's guess, as the muscle soreness persisted from early morning until the afternoon—even after the scorching heat outside had completely faded—this soreness served as further confirmation.
The physical recovery ability brought by the potion enhancement actually had no effect on this soreness at all. This meant that the recovery ability granted by the potion did not consider this state to be an injury...
Since it wasn't an injury, what it was needed no further explanation.
With this thought in mind, Chuck didn't continue his "training" the next day. He even significantly reduced the physical labor he originally planned to do that day, only doing some simple daily chores before getting into bed early.
Of course, aside from resting well, bodily repair also required nutritional supplementation. Under Chuck's instructions, Yitong slightly increased the portion of meat and staple food for his dinner, leaving him highly satisfied after eating.
As night fell, amidst splashing juices and rolling moans, after thoroughly fucking and satisfying all the women, Chuck ended another fulfilling day surrounded by their fragrant, soft, naked bodies.
The next morning, when he woke up from his sleep as usual, the moment he opened his eyes, he saw an unfamiliar light screen floating in his line of sight that he had never seen before.
The message on the light screen was extremely brief, but just glancing at it made Chuck instantly snap awake in sheer ecstasy.
[Detected that the host's physical attributes have received a minor improvement through exercise. Base value +0.02]
[Current base physical attribute value: 1.02]
As expected!
It actually turned out exactly as he had anticipated!
Sitting up abruptly from the bed and looking at the slowly disappearing light screen in front of him, Chuck's entire body trembled with intense excitement and thrill.
The so-called base value was naturally the number before the potion's percentage bonus was applied—that is, Chuck's original physical fitness.
And on this foundation, after just one workout session and less than two nights of rest, Chuck gained 0.02, which was a 2% enhancement!
Compared to taking potions, although the magnitude of improvement was relatively small, this was an enhancement with absolutely zero cost or risk!
Although Chuck knew very well that this physical enhancement gained through primitive exercise would definitely have an upper limit, and the margin of progress would inevitably get smaller each time, this feeling... was almost comparable to discovering a massive vein of precious ore in a mine previously thought to be depleted.
It allowed Chuck to hold more chips and capital in his hands when facing upcoming challenges!
The women around him, roused by Chuck's excited reaction, rubbed their sleepy eyes and sat up one after another, casting puzzled glances at him.
Riding this wave of excitement, Chuck jumped straight out of bed. He did some simple stretches and, unsurprisingly, felt the subtle changes in his body. He then turned around like a hungry wolf, casting a gleaming gaze at Janet and Yitong, who were still groggy with sleep, lazily stretching their bodies on the bed.
He scooped up the two mature women from the head of the bed, one in each arm, and hoisted them directly onto his shoulders amidst their startled cries.
"Starting today, all of you are going to work out with me!"
...
The little morning farce ultimately ended with the women's helpless compromise. They got up and cooperated with Chuck, once again engaging in a somewhat crazy "workout-fucking hybrid" session.
The result was that the mature woman trio acting as "weights," along with Julia and Jiang Qi, exhaustedly went back to sleep. The household chores had to be temporarily managed by the survivors: Kaoru, Kaede, and Momo.
However, "working out together" wasn't just empty talk from Chuck.
Since his own physical attributes could still be improved through exercise, the same naturally applied to the other women in the house. Especially Valentina, who served as combat support, and Kaede, who was responsible for physical labor. Both of them also carried varying degrees of physical stat bonuses. Once their base attributes improved, their combat power and work efficiency would naturally increase in tandem.
Therefore, while mixing workouts with fucking was great, treating the women as weights every time still carried certain risks. So when he had time next, he needed to figure out how to specifically craft some weight training equipment and even set up a dedicated training ground.
Coincidentally, emptying out a room inside the residence to build a deserted island gym was originally a plan Chuck had already thought of.
The equipment and the gym weren't urgent for now. After Chuck finished his morning workout again, although his body was slightly tired, due to the principle of "delayed onset muscle soreness," he didn't experience too much discomfort and continued his daily work. Not long after, the women who had been tossed around by Chuck early in the morning also got up one by one.
As time passed, the silkworms in the artificial cave completed another cycle of spinning silk and forming cocoons. After another round of selective breeding, the silk was visibly whiter and neater. Although the color was still a bit yellowish, it wasn't much different from the domesticated silkworm silk in Chuck's memory.
Momo and Julia absolutely loved the silk robes he had previously made for them. They loved them so much that they couldn't bear to wear them while doing chores. They only wore them as nightgowns right before bed in the evening, or when resting at home during heavy rain or extreme heat. The robes hugged their curves, comfortable yet unabashedly sexy.
Chuck had no objections to this. After all, they were clothes made specifically to be gifted to the two women; how they wanted to wear them was entirely up to them.
All Chuck needed to do was make their living conditions as affluent as possible. When the clothes and fabrics at home became so abundant in the future that a mere piece of clothing no longer needed to be cherished so dearly, they would naturally change their habits.
Because the quantity of silk was a bit insufficient during the previous weaving, he could only make one for the most petite Momo first. Therefore, before selecting the silkworms this time, Chuck communicated with Janet in advance, asking her to slightly increase the quantity of the next batch of cocoons. As a result, the silk this time was noticeably more abundant than the last.
Coupled with a better silk quality than the previous generation, after some effort, the sizes of the two new silk robes Chuck made turned out a bit larger than expected.
However, Chuck fully utilized this point during the tailoring process. He intentionally made the chest and hip measurements much looser than the previous ones, perfectly using up the extra fabric. After finally creating two similarly sized short silk robes...
He handed them over to the only two women in the house capable of filling out these two robes.
"Oh my god, thank you baby! I love you to death!!"
"Eh? I have one too... Thank you hubby..."
Looking at the silk robes in their hands, Janet and Yitong couldn't hide their pleasant surprise. Then, like all women, they impatiently began to size them up against their bodies, and finally went straight back to their rooms to try them on.
Chuck just stood outside, waiting patiently. Not long after, two voluptuous figures stepped out one after the other...
The scene that appeared before Chuck was so stimulating that it gave him a slight illusion, making him feel as if even the air was tinged with a seductive milky scent.
The natural silk short robes, glowing with a soft grayish-white hue, were worn on the two top-tier mature women with massive breasts and fat asses. They looked like a second layer of skin being forcibly stretched. Even with the loose bust measurement Chuck intentionally altered, they were still completely filled by the explosively plump, massive breasts on their chests. It was so tight that through the fabric, one could clearly see the two seductive crimson points of the mature milk cows' nipples.
Chuck couldn't help but raise his hand and rub the bottom of his nose.
Damn... these clothes worn on these two seem even more lethal than I imagined.
Janet's explosively hot figure almost stretched the collar of the robe to the point of tearing, and her snowy-white fat ass made the hem bulge out tightly. With every step she took, distinct ripples of flesh shook visibly. Beside her, although Yitong didn't look quite as strained, her soft, voluptuous body similarly filled the front and hem with plump roundness. The grayish-white silk clung tightly to her gentle, smooth curves, revealing a delicate fleshiness.
Coming before Chuck in their new clothes, the two mature women had entirely different thoughts.
Janet excitedly spun in a circle, her massive breasts and fat ass swaying violently under the silk. Her azure eyes gazed moistly at Chuck, the corners of her lips curling into a sexy, bewitching smile.
"Hey baby, did you intentionally make these clothes wrap so tightly? Mommy's nipples are rubbing against it and getting a little itchy~"
As she spoke, wearing a seductive smile, she used both hands to gently cup the two giant mountains of meat on her chest through the fabric. Along with this action, the distinct, protruding points at the tips subsequently bloomed into two wet patches. The faint milky scent in the air instantly thickened into something tangible.
Chuck swallowed hard, shifting his gaze to the other side. Yitong noticed his stare and immediately tugged at the hem of her robe with a blushing face, but no matter what she did, she couldn't conceal her overflowing breasts and round buttocks.
She lowered her head gently, her dark eyes filled with shyness, yet she couldn't help but lightly bite her lip. Unprecedentedly, she revealed a maiden-like bashful expression, her voice so soft it sounded like water could drip from it.
"Thank you hubby... it's very comfortable to wear."
This contrasting demeanor immediately made the already restless giant dragon in Chuck's crotch rear up proudly and fully erect. Looking at this tantalizing, erotic scene before him, the smile on his lips grew increasingly wicked.
"It looks great. Give it a twist, give it a shake, or better yet, take a few steps for me."
"..."
"..."
...
Although Chuck loved looking, perhaps due to shyness, or perhaps because they didn't want to be fucked back onto the bed again, the two mature women exchanged a glance and returned to the bedroom together, changing out of the new clothes they had just received.
Chuck expressed his regret at this but didn't push the issue.
The various chores in the house continued in an orderly fashion. After lunch, Chuck didn't return to the bedroom to nap with the women. Instead, he went alone to the back of the residence, ignited the furnace, and brought out a large, elongated mold he had prepared long ago.
It was precisely the mold for the other previously unlocked new material in the current residence upgrade sub-blueprint: the "Steel Beam."
After all, with the blueprint designed by Yitong, per Chuck's request, all required steel beams had a uniform size. This was something he had thought of in advance for the sake of future smelting issues.
However, similarly, since it was material required for construction, the length of each steel beam was not short. Therefore, the mold used for the initial casting needed to be a size larger than that.
Thus, after Chuck took the prepared mold and fiddled around the inside and outside of the furnace for a long time, he finally discovered a grave mistake...
"Fuck... I can't put it in, it's just a bit off."
However, Chuck was troubled for a moment but didn't stress over it too much.
He opened the construction light screen, clicked into the blueprint interface he hadn't opened for a long time, and among the few options, found the upgrade blueprint he had set aside for ages.
Ever since Chuck finished all the upgrade blueprints for the residence and unlocked the DIY construction mode, the blueprints for other facilities in the house hadn't been upgraded for a long time. But these blueprints remained quietly in the construction options of the light screen.
Among them was the next upgrade blueprint for the Advanced Furnace—the Forging Furnace.
[Blueprint Name: Forging Furnace, Type: Tier 7 Upgrade Blueprint, Description: On the foundation of the Advanced Furnace, adds a core bellows to further increase the maximum forging temperature. Maximum temperature can reach 1800°C, and heat utilization efficiency is improved by 40%. Increases inner furnace space, while significantly boosting heating speed and reducing fuel consumption. Required Materials for Upgrade: Iron Piping x10, Stone Brick x50, Concrete x20, Bellows x1, Quartz Crucible x1]
He would need to mass-produce smelted steel beams next, which was bound to consume massive amounts of ore and fuel. Upgrading to the Forging Furnace would not only increase the heating speed but also reduce fuel consumption.
Looking at it now, this was an upgrade blueprint that needed to be completed in advance anyway. Furthermore, after further increasing the inner furnace space, it would naturally be able to accommodate the steel beam mold, while also making subsequent mass production more convenient. It was a win-win situation.
Back when he unlocked this blueprint, the various required materials had dazzled Chuck, but now these materials were no longer unfamiliar.
Iron piping, stone bricks, and concrete were all materials Chuck was well acquainted with. Although he had never made a quartz crucible, he had carved similar quartz feed troughs using steel wedges; it was nothing more than changing the dimensions and size.
As for the bellows, although Chuck had no experience making one, he understood its purpose. Deducing the structure in reverse from its purpose was something practice had made perfect for him. It was simply an air-blowing tool using a wooden structure combined with a leather drum surface. To some extent, this thing was actually a tool independent of the furnace. But since it was judged as a necessary part of the upgrade blueprint, crafting one via the synthesis table would suffice.
However, although it couldn't compare to upgrading the house, upgrading this forging furnace wasn't something that could be done in a short time. Chuck stayed busy until two in the afternoon. After taking a brief rest, he grabbed the items Yitong had prepared in advance, stepped onto the stone slope platform once again, and headed straight towards the north of the island.
The negotiations with the women in the north of the island had come to an end. The only thing left for Chuck to consider was how to bring them all over. And since he was originally planning to kill the giant bird on the volcano to divert the water source anyway, Chuck no longer considered any options other than that.
Therefore, before the next storm arrives and Chuck takes care of the giant bird, he only needed to ensure that these women in the northern part of the deserted island stayed alive and well.
...
Stepping once again into this cave that had been dyed red with blood not long ago, Chuck's figure instantly attracted the attention of all the gazes inside.
Except for the Lee sisters, everyone, including Tang Yumo, stood up from the fire immediately, came before Chuck, and expressed their welcome to him.
However, compared to every time he arrived previously, the tone and demeanor of the majority of the women showed obvious differences...
Sofia, Nicole, Matsuzaka Emi, and He Xiaoyu—the four original Dedication Faction members who had intended to defect to Chuck from the start and had now completely laid their cards on the table—now displayed a bit more shyness and intentional or unintentional flirtation in both their tone and demeanor in front of Chuck.
Especially the flight attendant He Xiaoyu. As the first person to show goodwill to Chuck on the day he stayed over, even yielding food that was extremely precious to everyone at the time to Chuck, she now received the exact same treatment as the rest of the people. This inevitably gave her some sense of crisis. So much so that right now, she wished she could plaster herself onto Chuck's body, urging him to immediately drop his pants and take her virginity on the spot.
And the Henan girl Wang Xinrui, who had previously declined Chuck's invitation. Having gone through the prior riot and witnessed Chuck's decisiveness in killing, she realized that this man was actually not the ordinary, everyday older brother compatriot she had originally thought, but a truly ruthless character. Thus, although she still maintained a passionate and simple attitude, her occasional glances at Chuck now held a bit more fear.
As for Tang Yumo, she was a bit more tactful than before. Knowing that Chuck didn't like her, she didn't take the initiative to step forward and strike up a conversation.
Exchanging pleasantries one by one with the women surrounding him, Chuck handed the two palm baskets filled with various foods in his hands to the women, immediately drawing a chorus of cheers and thanks.
These were the relief supplies he had prepared for the remaining few people here for the next few days. With this food, at least they wouldn't suffer from malnutrition again. As long as they could hold on until the next storm ended, everything would no longer be a problem.
Finally, Chuck passed through the women crowding around, came to the fire, found a random spot, and sat down leisurely. His gaze then crossed over the fire, looking at the Lee sisters who were sitting side by side opposite him, both completely expressionless.
Chuck first glanced at Lee Na-eun. After seeing the despair in her eyes, he shifted his gaze to the side, and then saw relief in Lee So-yeon's eyes.
He couldn't help but sneer.
"To be able to reach this point in my initial plan, Lee Na-eun, your sister is indeed not a simple woman."
Chuck's voice was calm, carrying a hint of coldness. His gaze swept over the two sisters and finally rested on Lee Na-eun.
"However, I have one flaw. I cannot accept being threatened, and I especially cannot accept that the person threatening me is a woman."
As Chuck's words fell, he slowly raised his hand. Amidst the sisters' gradually astonished gazes, while maintaining eye contact with Lee Na-eun, he pointed at Lee So-yeon's face.
"Therefore, I promise you, on the day I bring everyone here back with me..."
"I will fuck your sister until she passes out, right in front of all of you."