The original battle of the barbarians brought back the first batch of building stones and prey with the Awu warriors.
Among the sixteen people, none of them was in good condition. Frostbite was common, and there were scratches and bites from animals, as well as some bruises and scratches.
Yan Mo found that the Awu warriors who followed Yuanzhan looked at Yuanzhan differently. If they only had awe and gratitude for Yuanzhan, now they have more trust, admiration and love for Yuanzhan.
Under such difficult conditions, it was extremely difficult for Yuan Zhan to be able to bring back all these people one by one. What's more, he did the most things, not only to mine stones, but also to help resist wild beast attacks and hunting.
Yan Mo took over the wounded and still ranked the wounded according to the severity of the injury. He didn't treat Yuan Zhan first because he was the leader, and Yuan Zhan didn't even ask for it. While everyone else was resting and receiving treatment, he ordered people to put the stones of the plank into his designated place.
Yan Mo went out to see it on the way, only Yuan Zhan was able to dig the hole, and the others could only watch.
"A Zhan."
Yuan Zhan raised his head in the pit, his head and body were covered with snow, but the falling snow soon turned into water droplets due to the heat from his body, and even some icicles hung on his animal skin clothes.
Yan Mo squatted down by the pit, "Try to loosen all the ground in this piece, it's as soft as the ground in spring."
Yuan Zhan was stunned, standing in the pit without speaking, as if he was thinking about the feasibility of Yan Mo's words.
"You can gather the soil into soil walls and soil pillars, so you try the reverse? You treat the soil under your feet as a solidified soil wall and try to break them up?" Yan Mo didn't understand Yuan Zhan's idea either. To what extent the ability can be achieved, he is just using the information he has accumulated to help Yuan Zhan develop more uses of the ability. Whether it is successful or not, it is not a bad thing to try.
"Since you can make hard rocks crunchy under your hands, and you can mine them however you want, then these frozen soils shouldn't be a problem."
Yuan Zhan seemed to have figured something out, he turned to look at the half-dug earth pit, and put his hand on the soil that was as frozen as a stone.
After a while, that piece of soil suddenly collapsed, and the loose soil slid into the pit and buried Yuan Zhan's feet.
"Yes!" Yuan Zhan shouted in a low voice suppressing his excitement.
Yan Mo looked at Yuan Zhan, who was sweating in the winter, and frowned, "Don't be so loose, you try to control your ability, as long as you make the soil easy for ordinary people to dig, and you need to control the ability to reach For example, you can loosen one cubic meter of soil at a time, you can take your time for the latter, but you should think about the former.”
Yuan Zhan nodded, and waved to Yan Mo, his priest seemed to open another door for him, and Yuan Zhan didn't feel tired when he was busy verifying how far he could do it, so he just tried again and again.
Yan Mo stood up, pointed to the loose soil and said to the people around him: "You guys have work to do."
Hu Hu and other Awu warriors, who had been embarrassed for a long time and just watched Yuan Zhan working alone, immediately understood what the priest meant, and immediately those who took the stone pick took the stone pick, and those who took the stone shovel took the stone shovel, one after another. Get busy.
At night, Yuan Zhan, who was exhausted all day, shook off the snow from his body, opened the curtain of the tent and got in.
Yan Mo glanced at him, and knew that this person would come, but now there are not many tents, everyone sleeps crowded, and he occupies a tent by himself, who else can Yuan Zhan look for if he doesn't look for him
"This is not the way." Yan Mo was brushing the barbecue with bee milk.
"What is not a solution?" Yuan Zhan sat down in front of the fire pit, drooling as he stared at the strangely scented barbecue.
"The defensive wall cannot be built entirely of stones, so you may not be able to build a wall until spring."
"What can you do?"
Yan Mo murmured, "I don't think you have used your abilities thoroughly enough. Since you are all using abilities, why don't you try to develop more usages? If you train properly, you may be able to improve your abilities during the whole winter. upper level."
"I thought so too." Otherwise, how could he mine stones and dig pits by himself without complaining? "Do you have any good ideas for training my abilities?"
"Yes. I think you need systematic and purposeful training, not just digging holes and mining stones."
"Just like what you told me during the day today, not only must you be able to control the soil, but you must also be able to control the range that the ability can reach?"
"Smart, that's called subtle manipulation. In addition to trying to use all aspects of your abilities, you also need to train yourself to release and control your abilities. How much can you do at the maximum? How far can you do at the smallest level? Because we If you need it now, you might as well train the subtle control first. The training method is also very simple. You can draw a range for yourself first, and then see if your control of the soil is just within this range, and then increase or decrease little by little until you You can control as much range as you want in your heart.”
Yuan Zhan looked at his hands with brilliant eyes.
Yan Mo glanced at him, "In addition to directly controlling with hands and feet, you can try to use only your mind... I mean directly using your thoughts, that is, to control with mental power."
"I've tried, but that doesn't seem to be possible, at least not now." Yuan Zhan said: "Now I can only manipulate the soil and rocks that my body is in direct contact with."
"But it's not just the little bit of your body that you can manipulate, can you?"
This sentence suddenly lit up Yuan Zhan, "You mean I've actually used... the mental power control you mentioned?"
"Where does the source of your ability come from? I'm researching this." Yan Mo didn't know what to think of, and temporarily changed the subject, "The current construction speed is too slow, tomorrow you can try to directly gather the loose soil to the foundation of the wall In the middle of the pit, let them form an earthen wall, and there are spaces on both sides of the earthen wall to put stones on."
Yuan Zhan immediately understood what he meant, "You mean to use earthen walls as the internal organs and stones as the outer skin?"
"That's what it means. If you are worried that the earth wall will loosen after a long time, you can add some colloidal mud ash to the soil before gathering the earth wall after loosening the soil, then mix in the snow water, and then stir them. Forming the mix into an earthen wall before it dries should give it some solidity."
Yuan Zhan's head lit up, "If it's feasible, then I'll just add crushed stones to the mixed soil, won't I not even use the stone wall on the surface?"
"You can try."
Yuan Zhan was so excited that he wanted to run out and try it immediately, but after Yan Mo cut open the bee milk barbecue with a knife, his ass immediately seemed to be stuck, and he refused to get up again.
Yan Mo kicked him, "Go and dig some clean snow and come back to make soup. You can't just eat barbecue at night."
After eating and drinking enough, the two leaned against the fire, rolled together and fell asleep.
Yan Mo swore that he was two feet away from that guy when he was sleeping, but the bastard rolled over when he fell asleep.
Although it is very warm to hug and sleep like this, but... Yan Mo grabbed the big paw that touched his buttocks and threw it outside.
Yuan Zhan looked at the gold needle on his wrist and wanted to pull it out with his other hand.
"If you refuse to sleep honestly, you will roll to another tent to sleep from tonight!" Yan Mo threatened him with another gold needle.
"Can't you just rub it?"
"no."
Yuan Zhan looked at the little slave who was showing off his power with a golden needle, and wanted to beat him up, but what he said was: "I have worked so hard. As a priest, you should reward me. You have rewarded the Awu people!"
"Didn't you eat tonight?"
Yuan Zhan was silent for three seconds, then furiously said, "The mutton was brought back by me!"
"Not bee milk, nor are those herbs. Do you think anyone can eat a special meal I baked and cooked by myself?"
Yuan Zhan was so angry that he turned over, and after a while he probably felt that he was at a disadvantage, so he turned back and hugged Yan Mo tightly with his moving hand.
Yan Mo struggled, "Hey!"
"I, am, sleep, sleep!" Yuan Zhan forced out word by word.
Yan Mo saw that people were already on the brink of explosion, so he endured it. Pulled out the golden needle, turned over, turned his back to Yuan Zhan and closed his eyes to sleep.
Yuan Zhan stared at his neck, moved his movable left hand, covered it in the fur for a while, and slowly stretched it between his legs...
Listening to the undisguised panting behind him, Yan Mo tried to figure out what the other party was doing with his knees.
Really... so energetic after a busy day!
Yan Mo felt that the man was secretly rubbing his buttocks and waist there, and he had nothing to say to this wretched savage with brains like sperm.
Forget it, as long as it's not too much, it's a reward for him. Yan Mo silently said in his mind for the Nth time that he still needs this person.
In order to get rid of that weird feeling, Yan Mo looked at his right palm.
His scum value had been reduced to 5,000 points before he set off, and indeed, as he expected, new rewards came out.
But this time he dragged on until now without choosing his reward, yes, choosing. There are two rewards this time, but only one can be chosen.
One reward is that the volume of the herbal bag is increased to 10 cubic meters; the other reward is the basic training method.
The first reward is clear and clear, so that people can see the reward content at a glance.
However, what this primary training method is training, the guide did not say clearly, only added a note "This is a double-edged sword, and the practitioners should be cautious."
Because of this comment, Yan Mo hesitated until now.
Sensing the more and more unbridled movements of the bastard behind him, Yan Mo made up his mind in an instant, he chose this elementary training method, and then he didn't train according to the method, but taught it to the little bastard behind him who hugged him vigorously!
It won't be too late for him to learn when the bastard in the back practiced without any problems.
The next day, Yuan Zhan ordered Hu Hu and another warrior named Daze to take people out to find food and cut grass and trees respectively.
According to Yuan Zhan's instructions, Hu Hu didn't go to the huge lake, but went to several nearby small lakes to break ice and catch fish. Daze led another group of people to rummage through the snow to find dead grass buried in the snow, cut it off and brought it back, and gathered firewood in the sparse woods by the big lake.
There are only a few Warriors defensive housekeepers left in the temporary residence.
Yan Mo assigned homework to the three brats and ignored them. He still had to spend time thinking about the elementary training method, which he didn't understand himself, and couldn't teach Yuan Zhan.
Yuan Zhan accepted Yan Mo's suggestion and started directly working on the earth wall.
On the first day, Yuan Zhan mixed colloidal mud ash, snow water, gravel and soil together, and made more than twenty soil thorns in different proportions. He didn't find anyone else. If there are thorns, kick the soil thorns with your feet a few times to see how firm the soil thorns are.
When he got out the fifth soil thorn, Yuan Zhan went to Yan Mo, he felt that he was about to forget the ratios, so of course he had to go to his priest for such a mind-consuming matter.
Yan Mo also wanted to know the exact optimal blending ratio, so he followed. It’s just that he doesn’t have pen and paper to record, so he can only use the old method, let Yuan Zhan make him a suitable slate, he takes charcoal notes on the slate, and when the best ratio comes out, he will let Yuan Zhan adjust the ratio according to his The writing is engraved into the slate. And he has accumulated nearly ten stone slabs to record important events like this.
The next day, Hu Hu saw that the leader needed gravel, and remembered that there were countless large and small stones in the stream they saw on the road, so he told Yuan Zhan about it and asked him if he wanted it.
"Yes, of course. As much as you can get back."
Hu Hu and the group he led were happy. It felt awful to see the leader and the priest busy before, but they could only get some food and not be able to help. As soon as he heard that the leader needed those stones, Hu Hu immediately dragged them onto the big plank and led others to pull the stones. They can't chop rocks and soil in winter like the leader, but picking up stones on the bank of the stream, isn't that a trivial matter
After Hu Hu and the others brought back the first batch of cobblestones, the whole residence was arguing about it, Daze stopped mowing the grass and collecting firewood, and insisted on picking stones with Hu Hu and the others until Yan Mo praised them Bottom line: Keeping the fire going is also important. The group of people in Daze continued happily to work as backwood workers.
On the third day, after many attempts, Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo finally worked out the most suitable blending ratio together.
The original battle resumed a little bit, and immediately he couldn't wait to build an earthen wall about two feet wide, one meter high, and two meters long. He couldn't wait for the earth wall to dry naturally, so he had people light fires on both sides of the earth wall in an attempt to speed up the drying process.
Yan Mo saw it, and thoughtfully said: "You can loosen the frozen soil and make the soil gather, so it shouldn't be difficult to let the excess water in the soil drain out. Try it?"
Yuan Zhan now trusts Yan Mo's suggestion almost unconditionally in terms of developing his own abilities, and immediately goes over to try it when he hears his suggestion.
But until he succeeded, he didn't understand what he had done.
"When you did this, what were you thinking?" Yan Mo asked him.
Yuan Zhan thought for a while, "I just want the earth wall to dry quickly, drain the water, and make it the hardest stone wall."
"How did the water disappear, do you know?"
Yuan Zhan shook his head.
Yan Mo also couldn't figure it out, if Yuan Zhan's ability was to simply manipulate the soil, would the moisture contained in the soil also be under his control
In a broad sense, metals and many other substances belong to soil.
If Yuan Zhan can manipulate soil, can he also manipulate other substances contained in soil
If he really has this ability, it will be convenient to open mines in the future. Yan Mo's thoughts began to run wild. He fantasized about various applications of Yuan Zhan's ability, and the more he thought about it, the more evil he became. After thinking about it, even he himself thought it was impossible.
After the earth wall mixed with a lot of cobblestones was made, Yuan Zhan asked several warriors to attack the earth wall with various stone tools.
Yan Mo directly pointed to the trunk of a tree that Daze led someone to cut down yesterday, and asked everyone to hug the trunk and hit it against the earthen wall.
Looking at the tree trunk, Yuan Zhan felt a little confused.
When it hit, the earthen wall didn't move.
Hit again, the earthen wall is still motionless.
Three hits, a few pieces of soil fell from the place directly hit by the tree trunk, but that's it.
Yan Mo's eyes fell to the bottom of the wall, "A Zhan, look at the bottom of the wall, it's a little loose."
The original war was also discovered.
"In order to be strong, the ground must also have a foundation according to this blending ratio. The roots must be deeper. You can first lay three parts of the bottom, and then build a wall on this third part of the foundation, and then lay the remaining seven parts of the foundation. The wall is directly contained in the foundation, so that the earth wall is directly rooted in the foundation and becomes more stable."
"What about the joint?"
Yan Mo said slowly: "That's something you have to consider. It shouldn't be difficult to use your ability to make the joint part into one." He is only responsible for giving opinions and suggestions.
Yan Mo's suggestion made Yuan Zhan's work several times more at once, but it is undeniable that the foundation and mixed soil wall made in this way will be very strong.
Yuan Zhan regards the process of building the tribe as a process of training ability, and he doesn't feel it is bitter. Instead, he can make it as strong as possible, no matter how complicated the process is.
Yan Mo, who is used to enjoying life, sees the hope of building a house, so he urges Yuan Zhan not to build a defensive wall first, but to build a house to live in first. His reason is: "Since the earth wall made by this method is so strong, even if it is There is no defensive wall, and when the beasts come, we can hide in the house directly, and we are not afraid of them breaking the wall."
"What about the gate? And the window you want? What if the beast guards us? Are you going to starve to death in the house?"
Yan Mo shut up, and went back to the house bitterly. He has to quickly research that elementary training method, and teach it to this little bastard who doesn't give him face tonight!
The author has something to say: Aggrieved Little Theater
Yuan Zhan: How many golden needles are there on the body of my priest? Where is he hiding
——Yuan Zhan, who secretly threw the herbal package aside, wanted to climb up Yan Mo's body, but when he saw Yan Mo's golden needle froze.
Yuan Zhan: It is not advisable to steal golden needles, if you are soft, you can only come to hard ones, you have to train yourself to grab the golden needles!
- I catch! The first golden needle was taken down. Before he bowed his head and kissed him, he quickly grabbed the second golden needle that was stabbing at him. Wait, the third one is coming too!
——Yuan Zhan, who had captured eighteen golden needles in a row, was furious, no, it's still the fastest to tie it!
Yuan Zhan grinned ferociously: Little boy, you wait for me, I'm going to rub the hemp rope now!