Those years when I led the Fox Clan

Chapter 148 Little Yula's Whereabouts
After leaving Elvi's residence, Duge left the tribe and walked towards the high-temperature furnace located outside the tribe.

It has been 5 or 6 days since he came back. In addition to daily inspections to maintain the factory and training the future queens, he also tidied up the warehouse.All the resources are classified and put away, and those that should be allocated are allocated.

Just yesterday, the pangolin tribe sent a batch of iron ore.

In the past period of time, Mo's gray wolf clan has been sending coal mines continuously, and a warehouse has been piled up.In addition to coal mines, there are also animal skins and salt, and some rare living materials.The fox family can't afford these things for the time being, but they only choose to keep accounts.

"Use it first, and talk about the ledger later."

This is the note that Mo sent with the transport team.

Du Ge smiled and put away the note, accepting the wolf clan's kindness.

Walking out of the tribe, Du Ge looked left and right while walking on the road.Under the scorching sun, the glare of the sun makes it hard to open your eyes.Usually those children who chased and frolicked hid under the shadow of the big tree.

Only the farmers in the fields are working hard with straw hats.

Du Ge looked around, especially looking for the little gray figure on the children who were enjoying the shade under the trees.

He was looking for little Yura, the boy who had given him the wreath.

Since his return, he has been in and out of the tribe many times.Little Yula, who was often encountered on the road in the past, has not been encountered once after returning this time.As time went by, Duge became worried.

Did something happen to her?
Carrying it in the base camp of the Silver Blood Tribe, according to common sense, there is no danger.

Then why didn't she come?
Du Ge's worries became more and more serious, and he made a special trip to bring this little guy a gift from the sea.But she didn't show up.Walking under the ancient silver flower tree, Duge couldn't bear it any longer since he didn't see the little gray figure.

He walked up to a group of children enjoying the shade and catching bugs, and knelt down to ask them.

"Has any of you seen little Yura?"

Seeing the royal family coming, these ordinary children became nervous.But soon someone recognized Duge.More than a month ago, the kind big brother who played with little Yula.

A girl who looked like 3 or 4 years old answered in a childish voice with an inarticulate voice:
"Sister Yula, you have been chosen."

"Who was chosen?"

"Those priests, they said that Sister Yula is amazing, so they were taken away."

"Do you know where she was taken?"

"Of course it's a temple. Don't all the priests live there? They are so strict that sister Yula can't even come out to play with us..." The little girl said at last, raised her mouth and waved her arms.

"That's right, thank you."

Duge smiled, and touched the little girl's head. The latter squinted her big eyes, enjoying herself.After tactfully rejecting the little girl's request to play together, Duge got up and left.

After learning of Little Yula's whereabouts, Du Ge breathed a sigh of relief.

The other party did not encounter any danger, but encountered a good thing.It is likely that she was checked out for her excellent sacrificial talent, and was taken away by the people of the temple for training.

Du Ge knew almost nothing about the sacrifice, but only knew that the training management was quite strict.It can be seen from this that the fox priests are powerful, not just their natural talents.There are still many later efforts.

"It's good to be chosen as a sacrifice."

Du Ge cracked his lips into a smile, turned around and looked at the ancient silver flower tree, and couldn't help but think of the scene where little Yula put a wreath on him under the tree by himself a month ago.

"Come on, little Yura."

Following the winding road, Du Ge came to the high-temperature kiln next to the laboratory.A lot of people have already gathered there, and a lot of materials have been piled up at the same time.

The half-human, half-mechanical magic pattern painter walked up to Duge and reported to him in a strange voice:

"Reporting sir, the adiabatic magic pattern has been drawn, the completeness of the magic pattern is 96%, and the expected use efficiency is 99%, which has reached the use standard."

Du Ge nodded, and went into the kiln to check in person.

This large high-temperature kiln has been specially modified for iron smelting, and the inner walls of the gray pore stones have been printed with complex black and purple magic patterns.Several magic pattern apprentices were studying the magic patterns drawn by the robot, and when they saw Du Ge coming, they all bowed and gave way.

When Duge looked at those magic patterns, the system prompt popped up at once, the data stream rotated rapidly, and the 3D stereogram of the kiln emerged, which was analyzed comprehensively by Duge.

Duge just glanced at it briefly, without in-depth research.

After confirming that it was correct, Du Ge nodded, ready to officially start his iron-making plan.

And the beginning of all this is the basic raw materials for making iron: coke and limestone.

Coke is finally made by heating coal to 950-1050°C under the condition of isolation from air, and going through stages of drying, pyrolysis, melting, bonding, solidification, and shrinkage. This process is called high-temperature coking.The carbon element in it is an important reducing agent for ironmaking.

The coal sent by the wolves was sufficient, and Duge directly filled the furnace, sealed all the air holes, and ordered the workers to start heating up.

Three workers wearing special protective clothing (exchanged from the system) lit the kiln and began to heat it up.

Others were pushed aside for safety. When the temperature is above 1000 degrees, the invisible heat radiation is very deadly, and without any protective measures, it is easy to be injured.

The blower is connected to the water wheel, and under the power provided by the water flow, it continuously blows air into the kiln to accelerate the combustion, so that the temperature of the kiln increases rapidly.

Through systematic investigation, Du Ge can clearly know the situation of the coal in the kiln.

While instructing the workers to control the temperature, Duge ordered another group of people to prepare limestone powder.

As for the source of limestone, this type of stone containing calcium carbonate is very common in nature and can be found almost everywhere.After they are fired, lime can be made, which can be used as one of the raw materials for cement.The main function in ironmaking is to combine with impurities that cannot be reduced to form slag and discharge it.

The first day was all spent making raw materials, burning coke and grinding limestone.

In the evening, the iron ore, coke, and limestone particles were proportioned.

After a tiring day, Du Ge also let the workers rest, and the iron smelting officially started the next day.

Inject the configured raw materials from the kiln mouth, and the blower is connected to the two blast ports.One is responsible for supplying air to the heating kiln below, and the other is supplying air to the ironmaking blast furnace.

Duge controls the temperature precisely through system monitoring.

Inside the kiln, coke reacts with oxygen to form carbon monoxide, which oxidizes iron ore.After a series of cumbersome reactions, crimson molten iron flowed out from the iron mouth, and the crowd of onlookers suddenly burst into cheers.

As time went by, the molten iron continued to flow out, filling the molds one by one. After the raw materials were burned, Duge ordered to stop heating.

After the long natural cooling was over, Duge picked up a heavy clay mold and smashed it to pieces.

When the square iron ingot appeared in everyone's sight, cheers resounded throughout the laboratory again.

(End of this chapter)