Prehistoric Asian beasts battle the ocean

It took a lot of effort for the orcs to subdue the big cow. They tied a leather rope around the big cow's neck, swimming in front to pull it, and tiger wings behind it.

Fujiyan pulled the little buffalo by himself, and Hami followed him, just walking in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the snowflakes all over the sky dyed everyone's fur hats within a few minutes There was a layer of white flowers, and Hami gathered the animal skin on his body, stretched out his hands to wipe off the ice on the eyelashes and around the lips due to the hot breath, and then breathed hot air into his hands.

They had a hard time walking, but fortunately, they found a bison mother and calf not too far away from the tribe, but even so, they set off early in the morning and returned in the middle of the night under the light of the silvery white moon. to the tribe.

Simply along the way, due to the freezing weather and flying snowflakes, they did not encounter other beasts, so they were able to return to the tribe safely and quickly. Otherwise, they don’t know how long it will take. After all, driving bison on foot is also a very strenuous task. .

When they returned to the cave, the women and Yashou didn't fall asleep even though they were nodding their heads in sleepiness. They were all sitting by the table in the main cave, looking out of the cave with worried faces.

The orcs were even more nervous. Langmu and Zhizhi led the orcs to stand on the moat and looked around until they saw a few small black spots in the white snow under the silvery moonlight. They left some orcs in the tribe to guard them. The tribe and the rest of the orcs followed Langmu and Zhizhi, and ran towards them frantically.

After returning to the cave, Hami and Tengyan, as well as Huyi and You, took a hot bath and drank some water after eating Chiguo and the women's hot meals prepared in advance for them in a pot. Jiang Cha lay on the kang covered with animal skins, and fell asleep soundly.

Fujiyan wiped the water from his hair and entered the cave, and saw Hami wrapping himself into a cute meat dumpling. He looked funny, hooked the corners of his mouth, followed him to the kang, and hugged the cute meat dumpling tightly. In his arms, he placed a light kiss on Hami's hair.

When Hami got up the next day, the first thing he did was to go to the bamboo hut to see the pair of bison mother and child, for fear that they would freeze to death and have not eaten all night. He couldn't break free from the stake, so he could only stand on the spot and walk back and forth, sniffing his nose angrily, as if he wanted to spit out anger from his nose.

At this time, Tengyan also came into the bamboo house with a bamboo basket, which was full of various barks. He picked up the bamboo basket and dumped all the bark in it on the side of the bison. let her eat.

When the bison saw that there was food, she immediately ignored her kicks, bowed her head, and began to eat bitterly. The young bison also followed the cow, picking up the bark it thought was good and eating it.

Hami took a clean wooden bucket and tried to milk the cow, but no matter how Hami tried to milk the cow, the bison kept her face vigilant and prevented him from running under its belly, which was its weak point, and it did not trust Hami. .

In the end, Fujiyan held down the bison's legs, and the tiger's wings grabbed the curvy and sharp horns of the bison, so that Hami could have a chance to milk the cow.

He squeezed a wooden bucket full of milk and put it all in the pot. After it was cooked slowly, he took out a small bowl and handed it to Cai, who asked her to feed it to Suian.

As for the remaining milk, Hami covered it with a curtain and stored it in the kitchen. Now that the weather is cold, it is no problem to store the milk for about a day or two. The main reason is that Suian is too young, and she needs to drink several times a day. It is not easy to express the milk every time, and it requires the cooperation of several people, so it is better to simply squeeze more milk every time and keep it as a spare.

After solving Suian's problem of drinking milk, Hami began to prepare for copper smelting intensively.

The method that Hami thought of to smelt ore into copper was the local method - the coke method to smelt metallic copper.

The coke method to smelt metal copper actually hides a condition, which is to use charcoal to burn the fire. Under the fire conditions, the carbon will react with the oxygen in the malachite to form carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide, because the carbon monoxide will also burn after escaping. into carbon dioxide, so the reaction formula is the chemical reaction principle of malachite plus oxygen, combustion or high temperature to generate carbon dioxide and copper.

But this premise is that charcoal is needed for burning and smelting before chemical reactions can occur. Hami simply tried to make charcoal first.

First of all, Hami thought of the need for a space where a large area of ​​firewood can be placed, that is, a fire kiln. There was a cave dwelling where pottery was fired before, and it had the same function. Hami directly used the cave dwelling as a fire kiln.

When making charcoal, there should not be too much air flow, otherwise the charcoal will burn completely, but some air flow is needed, because the conditions of the fire kiln are very suitable, the sealed cave roof above can block the air, and the ventilation below The stove mouth can also ensure a certain amount of air flow.

Then, Hami asked the orcs to bring some firewood, and they picked relatively large and thick tree trunks. In this way, the collected charcoal is relatively large, which can be used more times, and it can better ensure that the firewood will not burn. Complete burn.

After preparing the firewood for burning charcoal, Hami hugged a handful of wheat stalks to use as firewood for nodding. The wheat stalks are easy to stick and can ensure the burning of the firewood.

The next step is to ignite the fire. First light the wheat straw, then put it into the fire kiln, then slowly put some small firewood into it, and then put the big thick tree trunk next to it, let the fire spread slowly, Then wait for the slow burning of the thick trunk, which takes a long time.

Hami simply made lunch, and when everyone had eaten and drank enough, the thick tree trunk inside the kiln was also burnt red, which meant that the outer part of the thick tree trunk was almost burned, and it could be taken out to make charcoal.

There are many ways to make charcoal, and Hami chose the fastest and easiest one, that is, to take out the red-hot thick trunk with tools made of bamboo with the orcs, take out the red-hot thick trunk, Put it into water to make charcoal. Since the temperature inside the thick tree trunk is very high, the residual temperature on its surface will dry out the moisture on the surface of the charcoal, so don't worry about the charcoal being wet.

Hami burned a lot of charcoal in one go. Charcoal is much more convenient than firewood from trees. These charcoals can not only be used to smelt copper, but also can be used for cooking and heating. Hami asked the orcs to transport the firewood to the bamboo house for storage. After that, the coke method was used to smelt copper.

The coke method for copper smelting was something his teacher taught him when he was in school, and he even practiced it on the spot, so Hami remembered the steps of copper smelting very clearly.

He asked Fujiyan to divide the orcs into three groups on average, and all clansmen voted to elect a group leader for each group. The final voting results were Fujiyan, Langmu, and Tiger Wing.

In fact, everyone chose You to be the team leader, and You's animal body is also very powerful, but You showed a respectful expression on his face, and quickly shook his hand to refuse, "I'm just a guy with no ambitions, I don't want to bother others every day, I don’t even understand my little cat.”

Zhizhi glared at him fiercely.

You smiled and patted Zhizhi's arm, "Hey ghost, why are you looking at others with such affection? They will be embarrassed~"

The veins on Zhizhi's forehead were popping, and he couldn't help stretching out his hands to crack them, and said word by word with gritted teeth, "Didn't your beast father teach you to speak human language!"

Immediately went up and scratched his paw!

You didn't suffer any disadvantage, so he hurried up to fight back.

The two quickly scratched into a ball.

Everyone has long been used to the love-and-kill drama between You and Zhi, one is willing to tease each other, and the other is ready to blow up, it will be strange if they stop fighting someday.

Later, everyone simply chose Huyi. Huyi didn't have any objection to his alternate status, and he was still happy, but Chiguo curled his lips and said unhappily, "My Huyi can fly and jump. Being a group leader and leading the orcs is well deserved."

Hami followed her words to coax her, "Yes, yes, your tiger wings are the most powerful."

In fact, this time it is not only the selection of the group leaders of the three groups, but also a division of ranks in the tribe. Except for Fujiyan as the patriarch and Hami as the messenger of the beast god, among the orcs in the tribe, it can be said that these three group leaders have the right maximum.

At the same time, Hami thought that the orcs had been divided into groups anyway, so he simply proposed to divide the women and the sub-beasts into two groups at the same time, with Chiguo and Cai as the group leaders of the women and sub-beasts respectively.

Needless to say, Chiguo, Hami knows her very well, whether it is her enthusiastic personality or working ability, people can give her a thumbs up.

As for Cai, Hami was completely moved by her character and maternal love. A woman who disregarded her own safety and knelt at the feet of the winged orcs and begged to let her child go, knew that her character would not be bad.

And this sad scene, no matter how much Hami wanted to forget, he couldn't forget it. In the end, he unconsciously thought that Cai and Suian, the poor mother and daughter, were especially nice. She was killed by the orcs of the winged clan during the ups and downs, and she herself had no fertility. He was afraid that the orcs in the tribe would discriminate against her in the future. Cai left some positions in the tribe to make life easier for the two of them in the future.

But because Cai is now in the postpartum recuperation period and cannot participate in leading the women to work with Yashou, Hami simply took the second option and chose Yashou Dongyu, who asked the question like Fujiyan that day, and asked him to temporarily lead the women in another group. Work with sub-beasts.

Dong Yu nodded excitedly. He never thought that he would be the team leader one day, although it was only a temporary replacement.

The two groups of women were responsible for the aftermath. The groups led by Chiguo and Dongyu took turns to be responsible for three meals a day for all the people in the tribe, and then they were also responsible for making fur clothes, cotton shoes, and fur hats for everyone in the cave. production, and cleaning.

And the three orc groups also take turns. For example, the group led by the wolf eye is going out to hunt now, and they will go to the pit trap to see if there is any prey falling in, and bring the prey back. Then tomorrow, the group led by the wolf eye will stay. In the tribe, another group goes out to hunt.

This method not only allows all orcs to have time to breathe and rest, but also allows everyone to participate in the development and construction of the tribe, fully exerting the role of each person to the extreme, and hunting and development without delay.

As long as there are orcs hunting every day, no matter how much they hunt or how little they hunt, everyone will have confidence in their hearts, and everyone will feel at ease. At least there will be no more like what Dongyu asked Tengyan that day, is there enough food for three meals a day? The problem of eating.

And the remaining two orc groups smelted copper with Hami.

Hami asked the orc team led by Fujiyan to crush the malachite with a stone mill, and he said to Fujiyan, "It's fine to grind the malachite into a finer powder."

Then let the team led by Hu Yi dig a large pit on the ground, and then use firewood to light a fire in the pit. After the fire is burning, add large pieces of charcoal, and then sprinkle the crushed malachite powder on the hot water After adding more charcoal to cover the malachite powder completely, a lot of white smoke came out of the pit, which was very choking.

Hami covered his nose and choked twice. Now he needs a blower to blow the air into the pit to send itching, otherwise the burning speed would be too slow.

But now there is no blower at hand, so Hami simply decided to blow it with his mouth, anyway, there are enough people in their tribe now.

He asked the orcs to find dozens of thick branches more than one meter long, dug out the pith in the thick branches to make a blowing pipe, and then made a seal with clay, inserted it into the big hole, and then put it on the big hole. A layer of turf, after stepping on the turf a few times, let the orcs lie in a circle around the big pit, and then each of them holds a blowing pipe in their hands and starts blowing air against the pit, and the blowing pipe blows air into the pit , this raises the temperature in the pit, creating a simple furnace.

The more the orcs blew, the more thick smoke came out from around the turf. The choking orcs coughed again and again, their eye sockets were red, and even tears came out.

Hami sees the suffering of the orcs, but he has not yet figured out how to make a blower, so he can only maintain the current situation, otherwise the malachite powder in the pit will be useless.

After several hours of maintaining the thick smoke, a reducing atmosphere occurred in the pit. The carbon monoxide produced by the charcoal burning combined with the oxygen in the malachite to form carbon dioxide and metallic copper. It was also because of this chemical reaction that the malachite It turned into metallic copper instead of the temperature in the furnace. The current temperature is not that high, and then the bark was turned over. Hami observed the color change of the flame emerging from the pit. The color change of the flame indicated that The progress of smelting.

Looking at the color of the flame now, the metal copper has been smelted.

Hami and the orcs took off the turf cover, took out a large piece of metal copper lump, put it in a large basin of cold water, a lot of steam came out in the water, and then exposed the brownish yellow metal copper.

Hami asked the orcs to take out the remaining things in the pit and wash them. Using the simplest washing technique, they can wash out small pieces of metal copper, collect these small pieces of metal copper, and put them in Return the clay pot to the furnace to fuse them together.

And from the soil pit where the copper was just smelted, it can also be seen that after the smelting is completed, the soil in the pit is hardly changed by the heat, only the surface layer is affected.

After smelting the copper lumps, Hami struck while the iron was hot, directly using the temperature, bought a hammer in the space, and smashed the copper lumps into the shape of a bronze sword.

It is modeled after the bronze knife of the Shang Dynasty. The shape of the knife is wider, the edge of the blade is mostly upturned, the handle is short and long, with a thick spine and a sharp blade. The head of the handle is oblate. His method is like a stone knife.

Such a thick bronze knife can be used to chop utensils, slaughter cattle, sheep and beasts, or self-defense, all of which have very good effects.

Hami took the bronze knife that had been smashed for a long time to test the sharpness of the blade. Although it was also very sharp, due to the current limited technology, the produced bronze knife was relatively brittle and lacked a bit of toughness, so it was easy to break when chopping.

Moreover, it was made by hand, and Hami was not a skilled craftsman, so the bronze knife he made was somewhat different from the bronze knife he had imagined in his mind.

For example, the workmanship of this knife is rough and its shape is clumsy. It can't even compare with modern kitchen knives, let alone modern daggers with exquisite and sharp blades.

But this bronze knife was considered the first cold weapon in prehistoric times. Although Hami had a lot of dissatisfaction with it, Fujiyan and the orcs couldn't put it down, and the bright smiles on their faces couldn't be stopped. A mouthful of big white teeth, smiling so hard that you can't see your teeth.

After seeing the finished bronze knife, even though the orc was very tired physically, he was full of vigor and energy.

After having the experience of making coke copper for the first time, the orcs cooperated a lot faster and had a better understanding.

Because when smashing copper to make bronze knives, you need to smash it with a sledgehammer and burn it in a brazier, Hami simply put it in a bamboo house to make bronze knives.

There are many orcs in the room who are training bronze knives, and there are correspondingly many braziers. The temperature in the bamboo room is soaring, and the orcs who get hot after a while can't bear it.

They simply took off the animal skin clothes they were wearing and worked shirtless.

The same goes for Fujiyan, he tore off the animal skin on his body, threw it on the ground, then raised one leg to step on the bamboo stool, bent over and began to smash and forge the bronze knife with a sledgehammer.

Every time he hit the sledgehammer, the muscles in his arms swelled up, and on the bronze-colored skin, sweat dripped down his back, and finally flowed down the dimple of his back into the gap between his buttocks.

Hami's eyes shifted from staring at the copper lump under his sledgehammer, and then involuntarily turned to the back of his neck, back, waist, and finally to the round and powerful butt wrapped in animal skin.

Suddenly, his face started to turn red, and Hami quickly reached out to fan his face to cool down, begging Fujiyan not to notice anything strange.

But it was not what he wanted. After realizing Hami's gaze staring behind him, Fujiyan hooked the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, then turned his head and asked innocently, "Hami, what's wrong with your face? Why is it so red? It's because you're sick." Yet?"

Then he put the semi-finished copper piece into the brazier for calcination, turned his head and stretched out the back of his hand to touch Hami's forehead.

The moment Fujiyan's big hand was attached to his forehead, Hami felt as if he had been hit by an electric shock, his whole body was shocked, and then he took half a step back unconsciously, and said stammeringly, "No, no, no Yes, I'm not sick, hurry up and work, I'll go to the kitchen to see what the women have prepared for lunch!"

Seeing Hami running away in a panic, Fujiyan narrowed his eyes, and was very satisfied with his reaction.

He believed that Hami would be taken down by him in the near future.

Thinking of this, there was a burst of heat in Fuji Yanxin's nest. From the moment Hami gave him the ability to transform into a human body again, there was no reproductive moat between them, and they could mate normally. There is no reason to back down. Every night before going to sleep, Fujiyan tosses and turns, thinking about how to get his person and his heart.

Although they live in the same cave now, Tengyan doesn't want to take Hami rashly. He wants to take it step by step, form a small family with him, and live happily together with a litter of cubs.

***

The orcs worked in full swing for about half a month, and refined all the malachite into bronze swords.

The birth of the bronze knife made the tribal people ecstatic. They thought it was the beast god's preference for their vine tribe. All the tribesmen gathered in the main cave, and they were proposing with Fujiyan and Hami to hold a ceremony to worship the beast god. During the activity, Hami was dealing with a headache when he heard mournful cries for help from outside the cave.

Fujiyan and the orcs immediately ran out of the cave, and Hami also ran out. After falling out of the gate of the bamboo yard, he saw a scene that made him jump in fear.

That bloody yellow leopard with black spots, if he's right, it should have leopard ears!

Especially when Leopard stared at Tengyan and Hami with fixed eyes, and let out a weak cry for help again, Hami was absolutely sure that he was Leopard Ears!

Teng Yan and the orcs quickly put down the bamboo suspension bridge, quickly ran to the side of the moat, picked up the leopard ears, and quickly returned to the cave.

Leopard Ear shook his head and said weakly, "Leave me alone, please save our tribe!"

"What happened to the leopard clan? What attacked your tribe?" Hami asked anxiously.

"Alien beasts and winged orcs!"

Leopard's eyes showed hatred, and then he said through gritted teeth, "There is also Yasongsijia who has a snake clan!"

"He united with the Alien Beast Clan and made our tribe miserable!" Leopard Ear couldn't help clenching his fists and crying as he spoke.

Hami suddenly felt a thunderbolt from the blue sky, he didn't expect Sijia to be such an ungrateful sub-beast!

"How many of them are there!" Teng Yan's voice was tense, and when Leopard Ear said that it was Sijia who caused the tragedy of their tribe, anger rose in his heart instantly!

"About 60 people! Originally, the orcs in our tribe could resist, but in the middle of the night, Ke Sijia tricked the people who watched the night and put the alien beasts into the tribe. When we were caught off guard, the alien beasts killed most of the orcs in our tribe , even the patriarch, also..."

After all, Bao Er was still young, after experiencing such a tragic thing, he couldn't stop crying while talking.

"It's Yichun. She asked the other three orcs to run out with me to seek your rescue, but we encountered a Tyrannosaurus rex on the way, and all three of them died trying to protect me..."