Emperor Penguin Bird Breeding Online

Chapter 159

There are more mountains here than Song Wen imagined, one after another, stretching into the depths of the mainland, even if flying high in the sky, it is difficult to see the situation of the forest in the distance.

The cave with red stones that Ah Que mentioned happens to be over a mountain peak, just behind the cave where the Black Crow tribe lives now. When the weather is warm, the cubs in the tribe also like to live in these places with few trees. Playing on the rocky mountain and practicing flying by the way.

With Ah Que leading them, the three of them quickly found the place. The stone cave was in a very secret withered grass. After pulling it apart, they could see a hole less than half a meter high.

"That's right here." Ah Que said and got in first.

Although the entrance of the cave doesn't look big, the space suddenly becomes spacious after climbing a certain distance inside. With the dim light coming in from the entrance of the cave, one can barely see the surrounding situation.

Those beautiful red crystals hidden in the stone wall.

Even Ah Que couldn't break these red crystals with his bare hands. He rummaged through the broken stones on the ground and found a red spar that was half the size of a fist and half wrapped in ordinary gray-brown stones. The spar was passed to Song Wen.

"Ruby?" Song Wen took it over and looked it over carefully. The stone is not translucent as a whole. Except for the beautiful bright red on the surface, the inner color is turbid than expected, only near the outermost edge. It looks crystal clear.

He had the black stone he got before, and he took it out and smashed the beautiful red spar a few times. The sound of "bang bang" echoed in the cave, and the stone wrapped outside They were all smashed down a lot, but only the red spar remained motionless, not even the slightest trace of being smashed on the surface.

Although Song Wen was pleasantly surprised that the stone was hard enough, it was obviously not easy to polish.

"Can it be used?" While Song Wen was observing the red spar, Ah Que found several stones around, each of which was bigger than the last, the largest one was almost as big as a basketball, holding it in his hand It was heavy, heavier than a black stone of the same size, and Song Wen almost fell to the ground without holding on to it.

Song Wen was secretly surprised, "So many?" And it was so big, Song Wen had never seen a natural spar of this size even in the original world.

Ah Que smiled embarrassingly, "These are actually saved when I was young, but they have been kept in this cave for some reason." If it weren't for the spars hidden in the stone wall If it doesn't come down, the number should be even more.

Although the spar is hard and there are many in number, in this primitive world with simple tools, it is not very useful if it cannot be polished.

Song Wen regretfully chose a few pieces of suitable size, and finally packed two bags of ordinary stones and half a bag of black-brown stones suspected to be iron ore and went back.Anyway, whether it is ruby ​​or iron ore, people in this world don't know their functions at all, so they can't be thrown away if they are left here.

The huge black crow raised its neck and croaked before returning to the shore. Wing, who was carrying the chopped wood to the side and stacked it, stopped and looked up at the sky.

Because it was against the light, Yi only saw a huge black shadow, and soon the black shadow flapped its wings a few times and landed on the clearing they had just cleared.

"Xiaoji." Song Wen put down the heavy rattan basket on his back, looked at his dazed wing and waved.

Yi was stunned for a moment, threw the wood on his shoulders aside, and rushed to meet him.

"Song Song." Yi Yi indistinctly separated Ah Que, who had just transformed into a human form, from Song Wen, and looked at the stones in the rattan basket. He had also made stone axes before, and knew the general manufacturing steps.

"This kind of stone may be iron ore. If iron can be smelted, we will have metal in the future." Perhaps the harvest this time was beyond Song Wen's expectations. Song Wen introduced the dark brown stone to Yi. There was a bit of excitement in his tone.

The current temperature is actually not very suitable for iron smelting, but Song Wenke can't wait for the temperature to gradually heat up in a few months before getting out the metal. He handed those ordinary stones to Yi and asked Yi to teach The people of the Black Crow Clan made stone axes, while Song Wen himself started to figure out how to smelt iron.

Throughout the winter, they accumulated a lot of charcoal, and there is still a lot of clay by the river, which can be used to build a simple furnace. Song Wen also generously dismantled an animal skin backpack to make a bellows, which was hunted before For the wild boar skin, Song Wen was still worried that one bellows would not be enough, so he combined the animal skin a few times to make two smaller ones.

At the end of the day, with the help of the Black Crow tribe, a lot of trees were piled up on both sides of the newly cleared road. The trees in this forest are relatively sparse, and the wood can be piled aside and moved to the Snake Turtle Island after the Snake Turtle landed. , and then transported to the wasteland to build wooden houses.

Naturally, the newly built wooden houses can no longer be crowded into a small space like now, and there are animal sheds for keeping animals in captivity. In peacetime, a lot of wood is needed for cooking and heating. The trees are piled together, at least for a long time they don't have to worry about wood.

The stones used to make the stone ax are all specially selected by Song Wen. To make the stone ax sharp, it takes a lot of effort to polish it. This is a long and boring job.

The people of the Black Crow Clan also knew that Song Wen was going out today to bring back stones to make stone axes. They were all very curious about these tools, and after getting a demonstration, they were not afraid of the cold, so they began to polish them in the river water.

Song Wen didn't make stone axes with them. He went to the river to dig some clay and came back. There was a lot of hay in the newly cleared space. He crushed the hay and mixed it with the clay to make a crude furnace.

Today, there was only time to dry the furnace, and Song Wen moved the charcoal to the shore early the next morning.

The clay stove attracted the curiosity of the Black Crow people. Song Wen was using this kind of clay stove for the first time, and he didn't know how effective it was, so he didn't explain it too much to others, lest he didn't succeed in the end and instead taught them Wrong ironmaking method.

"Are you going to put the stone in and burn it?" Yi led people to continue cutting down trees, only Ah Da helped Song Wen, Ah Fatty also wanted to come and watch, Song Wen was afraid that the flames in the stove would burn Ah Fatty The feathers on his body drove him away.

"Yeah." Song Wen nodded, "The temperature of the stove is not enough, we need to burn it with wood for a while."

Emperor penguin Ahen doesn't like fire, on the contrary, he is the only one who has no interest in making iron. He asked Song Wen to prepare the fishing rod and bait for him early in the morning, and then he started his day's fishing without hesitation. The river fish is not big, just enough for Ah Hen to swallow one by one. Although it is almost spring, because there is no shortage of food, Ah Hen's whole penguin has a round circle, and its fur is fluffy and soft to the touch.

Maybe it's because this is the Danshui River, Ah Hen doesn't like going into the water very much now, but after the ice on Snake Turtle Island melts, the pool can be cleaned out, so that Ah Hen can take a good swim in the sea water.

Ahen's favorite thing every day is to stay on the shore and fish. It can stand for a whole day without moving. Song Wen didn't let the snake and turtle go ashore so early because he wanted them to stay in the water for a while longer until they reached the wasteland. After getting on, you can't soak in the water all the time like now.

Fortunately, whether it is an emperor penguin or a snake turtle, they are creatures that can live on land. If Xiao Yi and they are still there, they probably don’t need to enter this inland area. They can only find a suitable place to settle by the sea up.

Song Wen told Ah Da something about metal, after all, it was something Ah Da had never seen before. Even if Song Wen described it to him in detail, Ah Da couldn't imagine what it was.

Although I don’t understand, the movements of Ah Da’s hands are unambiguous. Song Wen asked him to do what he did. Before the wood in the furnace was burned, he followed Song Wen to make two wooden mallets, and waited for the iron ore to be calcined. It was later used for beating.

"Song Song, can I help?" Fatty couldn't help with tree cutting, and he couldn't hold back his temper to go fishing like Ah Hen, so he could only follow Song Wen step by step, and saw Song Wen paste a tree with clay. The hollow bamboo pole was on the animal skin bellows, and finally couldn't help asking.

"Of course, can you help me blow the wind?" Song Wen thought for a while, but did not refuse the cub's request for help.

Hearing this, Fatty nodded his head quickly, and took over the strange animal skin bellows.

The bellows is cylindrical, with wooden boards sewn up and down. When it is pressed down, the wind will be sent into the furnace along the bamboo tube. The flames in the furnace get fresh oxygen and burst out of the furnace mouth at once. The exuberant flames Those who secretly looked at this side were startled, and some people secretly exclaimed.

Although Ah Fatty was also taken aback for a bit, but feeling the gazes of the people around him, his small chest couldn't help puffing up, as if he was doing something important right now, and his expression became a bit more dignified.Song Wen made a buckle on the top of the bellows, and Fatty grabbed his claws on the buckle, and could easily pull the bellows up and down.

When the temperature was about the same, Song Wen threw those finely divided dark brown stones into it. He didn't pick up those big stones. After laying the stones, he filled the furnace mouth with charcoal. The rest was a long wait.

On the way, the elders of the Black Crow Clan came. This was the first time Elder Cui went out in the whole winter. He was obviously frightened when he saw the scene of busy work here. Now the members of the Black Crow Clan could not go out except for those with injuries on their bodies. Yes, except for the cubs who haven't yet learned how to fly, almost all of them came here to help Song Wen with work.

After using so many people in vain, Song Wen was a little embarrassed to see the elders of the Black Crow Clan coming over, so he hurriedly welcomed the elders to the furnace to warm up.

Elder Cunyu Songwen was very interested in the stones he brought back. Yesterday, he saw the semi-finished stone axes brought back by the tribe, and the animal skin clothes worn by the women. It never occurred to me that they had other uses.

But the elder didn't just come here out of curiosity, he came here for those animal skin clothes. If they had these warm clothes, even in winter, they would be able to go outside when they turned into human forms.