Primal Power

"Winter is coming early," Hu said to everyone in the tribe with a dark face. Everyone has always judged the arrival of winter by the fallen leaves in the forest, changes in the weather, and the number of animals.

Tiger had estimated his life before, and no matter what, it would take about 10 days for winter to come and heavy snow to fall, but when he went hunting today, he found that the number of wild animals in the forest decreased rapidly, and the perception of animals was much more sensitive than that of humans. Such a sharp decrease means that the snow season is coming, and the animals are preparing food for the winter.

It seems that the heavy snow will fall within three days, and hunting will be much more difficult at that time. Although Lin Luode has joined in these days, the tribe has discovered a lot of new ingredients one after another, and has stored a lot of them. In the past, there were many more, but Tiger was still very worried. Every winter, many people would not be able to survive.

Lin Luo saw that the prey brought back from the stone hunt was similar to usual, but Hu Hu and the others were quite different, half of the usual. When he heard that winter is coming, is it going to snow? Lin Luo lived in the south since he was a child. The number of times I have seen snow can be counted on the fingers, and I am still looking forward to the arrival of the snow season, but looking at Hu's worried face, I can't express my happiness on it.

"Is winter really hard?" Lin Luo asked curiously. Although the original owner's memories of winter were all spent by starving and freezing, he didn't have such a miserable time when he came here. Besides, this winter was cold. Besides, I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

"Envoy, you don't know that winter is not only very cold, but also it is difficult to hunt food. Although the food we hunt is easy to preserve, it will also be frozen into ice cubes, which is difficult to swallow. Every time we eat Roasting on the fire for a long time is not only not tasty, but eating too much is not good for the body and will cause fatigue, which makes us very tired when hunting, and we can't hunt much prey. However, the envoy found that cooking and If it's salt, this winter will be much better," Yi explained, not forgetting to give Lin Luo a compliment.

"It's too cold in winter, there's not enough animal skins in the tribe, and there's no place to live in the cave, and the cave is too small to light a fire at all. Although this winter has more food than before, it's still hard," Hu continued. , With so much food stored, the wheat fruit alone can be used for a long time. What really worries the tiger now is the problem of keeping warm in winter.

Lin Luo put the remaining prey in the square into the warehouse as usual. After thinking about it, the mountain tribe's cave is really too small. He and Shi live in a cave of more than ten square meters, and there is still room for a fire to keep warm. However, it would be much more difficult for Hu and the others to squeeze together more than a dozen of them.

What's more, Hu is the head of the patriarch, and the caves he lives in are much better. Others may be more crowded, and it is even more problematic to keep warm. With modern stoves and air conditioners, Lin Luo doesn't need to worry about these problems at all. As for things, I seem to have heard that there is a warm kang in the north. I can try my own stone bed, but it is not suitable for other caves because the space is too small.

There is also the brazier, lighting a fire in the basin also saves space, but it is best to burn charcoal for this thing. Now that there is no coal, I can only make charcoal to burn by myself. This is relatively simple, as long as it is in a sealed space. It can be burned into charcoal, and there are caves here, and it is easy to seal.

"Well, let me figure out a way." Thinking about burning charcoal, Lin Luo's mind became more active. The most important thing the tribe lacked was firewood. Prepare some and start burning charcoal tomorrow.However, the matter of the caves is a little troublesome. Now there are more than ten caves in the tribe that are inhabited.

"I need a cave," Lin Luo asked.

"How long will this cave take?" It's convenient to ask for a cave, and there are many in the tribe, but it depends on the time, winter is coming soon, and if the tiger doesn't say anything else in other seasons, he can give up his cave. In other seasons, most people can't bear the sweltering heat in the cave, so they just spread some thatch and sleep outside.

"Five or six days." Lin Luo roughly calculated that a furnace of charcoal would take at least seventeen or eight hours. Even if he burned one furnace a day, with so many people in the tribe, he would have to burn three or four furnaces to be sufficient.

Winter will come in three days at most, and five days is a bit long. The only cave that can be used is the cave for storing food.

"I have a solution." Hu was about to order someone to free up the food in the cave for Lin Luo's use, when he heard Shi say from the side.

"What's the way? Use the cave I lived in before to burn it? That's too big." Lin Luo thought that Shi had a solution that was this. After all, this is the only cave Lin Luo can think of that no one lives in.

"No, I can make a cave out of it." Shi said, his cave was punched out by him before, although it took a long time, now that his ability has improved, it doesn't take that long , and if you just build a cave that is about the same size as now, it only takes one afternoon.

"Ah" Lin Luo yelled, not quite understanding what Shi meant by making a cave out, but knowing that there are stone walls all around, Lin Luo couldn't figure out how to make a cave out in such a short period of time.

Shi didn't explain, and directly signaled Lin Luo to follow him for a while, came to the stone wall, petrified his arm, and punched it down, the stone wall was as soft as tofu, and Shi sank into it with one fist, and then Shi pulled , brought out some gravel, and left a hole in the stone wall.

Before Lin Luo could say anything, Shi turned both arms into petrification, punching the stone wall one after another, so fast that Lin Luo couldn't see clearly, only the sound of fists hitting the stone wall could be heard. When the people eating meat heard the sound, they all turned their heads to look this way.

After waiting for more than 20 minutes, Shi's speed slowly slowed down. When Shi stopped, there was already a small depression two meters high, one meter wide, and half a meter long in front of him. Shi retreated to Lin Luo and said He said: "I'm hungry, let's continue later"

He just pulled Lin Luo, leaving the crowd in a mess in the wind. Why did Shi hit the big hole so easily? Chuan stepped forward in a daze, clenched his fist and hit the stone wall, and then let out a loud cry Voice: "Ah, it hurts so much. It hurts so much." He clasped his fist and stomped his feet.

Ling stood on the side and supported his forehead. He didn't have such a stupid brother. He didn't see Shi's arm petrified, so he punched out this big hole. My brother didn't even look at his mortal body. How could he be so stupid to beat the stone wall with his fist? .Looking at the tiger standing aside, the patriarch's bloodline power seems to be the same as that of Shi's, they can turn their arms into stones.

After Humu saw Lin Luo and Shi go far away, he eagerly walked towards the depression that had been beaten by the stone. His arm was petrified, and he also punched it. However, only a fist mark was left on it, not like a stone. A hole can be left directly on it.

Hu was not angry, he was still beating with one punch after another, and he also punched a small hole on Shi Yuan's foundation. After five or six minutes, he couldn't gather his strength, and his arm returned to its original shape, so Hu stopped. , said hello:

"What are you looking at here, why should you go?" He also ran back to the cave to eat barbecue, regain some energy, and continue.

There is no need for Lin Luo to worry about cooking now. Yue and the others are very quick to learn. Lin Luo taught them two or three times, and they knew how to do it. As long as they regularly put the ingredients in the bamboo basket outside, they will do it well. corresponding food.

When Lin Luo and Shi went back, they could eat the ready-made ones. After they were full, Shi planned to continue digging the caves. Lin Luo saw that Shi was working hard and didn't suffer any injuries, so he just let him go. , but still have enough food ready.

Lin Luo went to Xianghu to pick up two more stone pots, plus his own total of three, and asked Xing Hechen to move to the vicinity of the stone and cook the meat directly on the spot, so that it was convenient to eat.

Shi and Hu have been busy working until night, when the moon was in the sky, they dug out a cave of more than ten square meters. Seeing that it was going to continue, Lin Luo hurriedly stopped it. If you don't go to bed, you will not only disturb the sleeping person, but your body will also be unable to bear it.

"Brother, I still feel that there is endless energy in my body, can you help me find out what's going on, and the time for my petrified arm has also been extended." Hu stretched out his arm in front of Lin Luo, happily Said.

"I'm not a witch doctor, and I don't know how to see a doctor. It's useless to ask me. You can ask other people to look at it for you, but seeing you look like this, I know there's nothing wrong." Lin Luo was not polite to Hu, and directly refused. But he doesn't know how to see a doctor, and he doesn't even know how to feel his pulse. If he makes a random diagnosis and treatment, what should he do if something goes wrong? It's better to refuse directly.

"Okay, then you guys go to bed first, I'll do it by myself for a while" Hu planned to practice on his own, being an older brother by himself, not as strong as a younger brother, so he can protect his younger brother like this, it seems that this can improve his own strength ability, then work harder.

After scooping up the soup base, the meat was all eaten. After making sure that all the food he had hunted these days was cooked for him by the slaves, Hu returned to the cave disappointed. Hey, the food he has been eating for so long is not as good as his younger brother. The prey that was hunted back in one day, being the patriarch himself is quite aggrieved.

The next day, because he was thinking about burning charcoal, when Shi got up to hunt, Lin Luo also got up, took care of it, and rushed to the cave where Shi played yesterday afternoon. Lin Luo thought he got up early enough Unexpectedly, Hua and the others got up earlier, and when they arrived, they were already waiting there.

The most important thing for burning charcoal is airtightness. Lin Luo asked people to move the stones used to block the entrance of the cave. After thinking about it, he asked people to dig two buckets of soil back in case there was any air leakage. After the hole is blocked, a layer of mud is pasted on it, which will be more secure.

Lin Luo first asked people to spread a layer of flammable bamboo and fallen leaves in the cave, and arranged the firewood according to the unique method of burning charcoal. Live at the entrance of the cave.

Although burning charcoal needs to be well-sealed, there must also be ventilation holes. Lin Luo had someone dig a small passage at the bottom in advance to keep the air at the bottom unimpeded. When the hole was sealed, the ventilation hole was not blocked.

During the carbonization process, a large amount of white smoke will be produced, which can be seen from the vent, which means that the water vapor in the firewood has been removed, and Lin Luo will not block the vent until the white smoke turns blue. Yes, make sure that no air enters the entire cave.

After sealing the entire cave, all he could do was wait. Lin Luo looked at the time and found that the time to seal the cave was around 12:[-] noon. Lin Luo remembered that the time to burn the charcoal should be about one day, until the next day.

Lin Luo asked Hua and the others to knock open the entrance of the cave, and moved the stones, revealing the red burning coals inside, and asked people to pour water thoroughly, and after cooling, people moved them one after another to the cave where the food was stored. Leave and start firing the second furnace.

Because it is the second firing, after the first experience, as long as Lin Luo guides them, Hua and the others can do a good job, but there is something wrong with the clay, Hua thinks not to waste it The principle is to beat the previously used soil with stones on one side and plan to use it again.

But the soil had been burnt hard, and it took a lot of effort to beat the flowers on the side. Lin Luo still couldn't see it, so he asked them to go outside the tribe to bring two buckets back, and then reconciled with the mud. After thinking about it, Lin Luo also felt that No, no matter how hard the soil is burned, the sound cannot be so crisp.

That's right, it's crisp and clear. When the flowers are being tapped, the sound is a bit like the sound made by Lin Luo's porcelain bowl, and even surpasses the dull sound of pottery.

Stopping the female who wanted to throw the stone out of the tribe, she beckoned and asked the female to bring the bamboo bucket containing the stone to herself. Lin Luo took out a piece of soil, weighed it in her hand, Break it open with a stone on the side, and take a look. Why does this thing look like pottery? for a moment.

Only one scratch was left, and no sand was scraped out at all. The quality is super good, and it is a bit biased towards porcelain. This is a big surprise. I just wanted to make charcoal, but I didn't expect to find this clay for pottery.

"Hua, come and have a look, what is this?" beckoning Hua who was directing from the side.

"Isn't this the clod just now? What's so interesting?" Hua waved her hand indifferently, and continued to direct the others to move the firewood into the hole, and was about to seal it.

There was no other way, Lin Luo could only get up, came to the side of the flower, and handed the pottery piece in front of the flower: "You are looking, have you seen this thing before?"

Hua took over the pottery piece in Lin Luo's hand, looked at it carefully, and touched it again. It felt like she had touched it from somewhere, why couldn't she remember it, Hua Zou raised her eyebrows, she really seemed to have seen it before. , just can't remember it all at once.

"This thing seems to be, it seems to be..." The words came to my lips, but I couldn't get out.

"It's very similar to the pottery pot that the great witch boils medicine in, isn't it?" Lin Luo was so excited that he didn't wait for Hua to say anything, so he gave the answer.

"Yeah, it's very similar. The clay that the envoy told us to find before is not the same, but the clay is red. The clay that the envoy told us should be white." Hua wondered. The envoy asked himself to help find a kind of white clay, saying that it could be used to make clay pots for big witches, but Hua had never seen white clay near here, and then it was nothing.

"As long as you can make pottery, that's fine." Lin Luo coughed lightly, and said in a disguised manner. Lin Luo knew that clay with a relatively high viscosity was used to make pottery, and he also knew the steps of making pottery, but Lin Luo didn't know how to get high-viscosity clay at all. Judgment, I have seen that the pottery products on TV are all made of a kind of white soil, so when I asked them to look for them, I told them to look for white soil.

I never thought that the red soil in front of this gate could also be fired into pottery.