famine queen

Chapter 10 Iron Base Wood

Jin Mang pursed his lips and silently followed his parents.

For her who is only two years old, it is not impossible for her to walk more than ten kilometers alone.

—— In terms of physical fitness, Jinmang is truly unique. Whether it is strength, physical strength, flexibility or reflexes, she can stand out from the crowd. Most people who keep exercising.

And in this life, her physical fitness is even better than in her previous life.

But the premise is that she doesn't need to keep up with Qingfeng and Qingsui.

Even if Qingfeng and Qingsui stopped to wait for her from time to time, Jinmang had a hard time following her, when she saw her own cave, her legs gave way and fell to the ground, but she couldn't get up anyway.

Qingsui put down the prey, picked up her daughter with some distress, and said with a smile, "Mangmang did a great job."

One must know that she and Qingfeng had considered giving up part of their prey for Mangmang on the way.

But unexpectedly, the child persisted.

Jin Mang panted heavily, and when he recovered, he got off Qing Sui, ran to the lake, broke through the thick ice, poked his head and began to drink water in big gulps.

The lake is very icy, but it is very refreshing to Jinmang who is sweating from too much exercise.

——In fact, she also wanted to let Qingfeng and Qingsui develop the habit of drinking cooked water, but she quickly gave up, they didn't have that condition.The jars made from zhisui eggs are strong, but they cannot be heated.The only way for ADRA humans to heat food is to bake, and there is no pot at all.

By the time Jinmang had recovered completely, Qingfeng and Qingsui had already handled the prey, and then poured water on it continuously, forming a thick layer of ice on the surface, and then hung it to the entrance of the cave.

In the following days, Qingsui began to teach Jinmang how to handle prey and tan animal hides.

"Most of the time, we don't eat the internal organs of prey, because we humans don't eat raw like other beasts, and the taste of the internal organs after being roasted..." Qingsui frowned and said: "But in fact, compared with meat, internal organs The nutritional value is actually higher, and it can provide our body with more strength. So when the split season begins, when the food starts to be insufficient, no matter how unpalatable the internal organs are, we have to eat them. What I want to teach you today is how to Properly process the internal organs of the prey to make the taste more acceptable..."

Regardless of what Qingsui taught, Jin Mang studied it very seriously.

She still doesn't know the whole picture of Split Season, but the extremely low temperature has given her a sense of crisis.

Because many animals do not hibernate, such as squirrels and hares are also active in winter, Jin Mang and his family did not have enough food.

But even so, the entrance of their cave was still covered with frozen meat.

Qingfeng went out again for some reason, this time it was not as long as the salt change time, he came back after only five days, holding a piece of wood as thick as an arm, no injuries on his body, but he looked very embarrassed, his eyes Medium is unmistakably exhausted.

However, Jin Mang's gaze fell on the piece of wood. After a moment of hesitation, she said, "This is... the Tieji tree?"

The reason why I can recognize it is because there is a small knife at home that is made of Tiejishu. Usually, Qingfeng and Qingsui would use that knife to deal with their prey. Jinmang also used it under the supervision of Qingsui. It is very sharp and very good. use.If the knife wasn't too small, it would definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort when used in battle.

But Qingsui told her that Tiejishu is very rare, and the knife in her hand was an adult gift given to her by her mother at that time.

Qingsui's expression was not surprised, obviously she knew what Qingfeng was going out for.

In fact, in order to obtain this piece of iron base wood, they started planning before they reached adulthood, and the reason why they settled in the current territory is probably because of this.

Seeing her daughter's surprised face, Qingsui explained with a smile: "Actually, iron-based trees are rare, but they are not uncommon. It's just that iron-based trees cannot be easily broken due to their own hardness, and special underground molten liquid is needed to break them. It can be truncated bit by bit. Your father and I have been saving for three years before we have enough molten liquid."

Flame melt?
Jin Mang felt that the word sounded familiar, and after thinking for a while, he remembered that he once explored along the inside of the cave, and saw a stalactite shining with orange-red light, with transparent red water dripping from it.Just when she was about to touch it with her hands, Qingsui appeared to stop her and warned her not to touch the molten liquid.

"Is it the flaming liquid under the cave?" She looked surprised.

Qingsui nodded, "The temperature of the molten flame is extremely high, and it is the only existence that can intercept the iron-based tree."

Jin Mang tilted his head, and asked strangely, "What should I use for the flame melt?"

"Of course it's a stalactite." Qing Feng smiled softly: "When I formed a family with your grandmother, your grandmother gave your grandmother a knife made of iron base tree and gave me a knife. Vessels made of stalactites made of molten stalactite."

As he said that, he took out a strange...bowl, to be precise, it was a molten stalactite shaped like a bowl.

After getting the Iron Base Tree, Qingfeng and Qingsui's hunting frequency has slightly decreased, and they spend a lot of time every day forging the Iron Base Tree.

Jin Mang watched them make a long stick and a short knife slightly longer than a dagger from the iron base wood.

She was amazed that iron base wood looked like wood, but its essence was no different from metal, and it could be forged at high temperature.

Even iron-based wood is much more useful than real metal. After all, as far as Jinmang knows, the ancient weapons forged with primitive methods are simply not comparable to modern weapons.

And Qingfeng and Qingsui didn't even have a blacksmith's furnace when they forged, and their forging skills can be said to be unskillful, but the long sticks and short knives they forged, no matter how crude their appearance, were no harder and sharper than she had seen. The modern cold weapons used to be poor.

Just as Jinmang was concentrating on watching Qingfeng and Qingsui forging weapons, she didn't realize that the weather outside was getting colder and colder, and it was so cold that few animals could be seen outside. The animals that hibernate are all her hallucinations.

The family began to eat the food they had stored before.

Qingfeng and Qingsui's cooking skills are extremely primitive. As for the meat that was frozen in lumps of ice, they directly roasted it on the fire. The process...

After the ice cubes melted, the water dripped into the fire, and the fire became smaller and larger for a while, and thick smoke came out. In the end, the roasted meat did not know whether it was roasted meat or bacon.

It's just that Jin Mang didn't care about that anymore. She never thought that it would take two hours to roast meat, and she was about to starve to death.

(End of this chapter)