There is no shortage of food in the city, and they just got two bottles of growth potion, barely able to last for a while, now, they need another thing more, that is iron. With iron, they can not only make the ship completely, but also make many new weapons.
If Lu Yu's conjecture is true, then new weapons are extremely important to them, and they need more powerful weapons to face powerful and treacherous enemies.
After thinking for a while, Lu Yu entered iron into the game panel, and the panel quickly gave feedback.
A light blue transparent direction mark that only Lu Yu could see appeared, pointing out the direction for him.
Lu Yu, "Let's go!"
Everyone responded loudly, "Yes!"
Following the direction signs, everyone started to hurry.
This is an inconspicuous hill. There is only a small mouth outside the mountain, which cannot be called a cave. It is only about two steps deep, and its height is about the same as that of a Matai. The direction indicator disappears after pointing here, indicating that this is the Lu Yu and the others wanted to find a place.
Lu Yu had already told them what they were looking for on the way.
Shan Pu said in surprise, "Wu, I have been to this place before!"
Other Matai chimed in, "Yeah, we go here a lot!"
Matai Village, no, it is Matai City now, and its geographical location was also carefully selected by Lu Yu. Behind it is a circle of high mountains and a large basin, and in front is surrounded by forests. The small rivers that they use every day, the small rivers will converge into a large river.
The location of the hill pointed by the direction indicator is on the left side of the forest, and Leshui and they sometimes pass by here when hunting.
A Matai hesitated, "But, Wu, we haven't seen the iron stone you mentioned here."
After Lu Yu said it last time, they paid special attention to the surrounding stones. This place is really ordinary.
Could it be that they ignored it? The Matai feel guilty.
Lu Yu smiled, "It's not your fault. Sometimes the iron and stone are hidden in the mountain, and they can't be seen from the outside. We need to dig them out."
Digging requires tools, usually with a shovel, but Lu Yu and the others do not have a shovel now, and the few dropped from the treasure chest are also weapons, which is very difficult to use for digging. They can only choose the bone shovel made by the Basin people from the hardest animal bone.
Lu Yu looked at Tai Lie who was holding the bone shovel, and asked worriedly, "Be careful, don't use too much force and the bone shovel will break, um, don't use too little force, or you won't be able to dig it out, Tai Lie, can you please?" Pass the strength through the bone spade to the stone..."
Tai Lie glanced at him, "...OK."
Other Matai: ? ?
Is it so hard to dig? !
Tai Lie picked up the bone spade and waved it towards the position Lu Yu pointed at.
The bone shovel landed lightly on the stone, making a clicking sound.
Lu Yu, "Tai Lie, is it too light—"
Before he finished speaking, he heard the stone under the bone shovel fall down with a bang and fell to the ground, kicking up high dust.
Lu Yu was dumbfounded. He just said it casually, did Tai Lie really come to fight cattle across the mountain? !
The Matai people collectively became little fans (in the first place), clapping like seals, "The king is awesome! The king is amazing!"
Tai Lie's expression was still very calm, "I practiced in my dream."
The learning progress of other Matai people is not as fast as that of Tai Lie. After watching this trick, they are immediately full of fighting spirit and wish to go back to learn now.
Lu Yu closed his mouth, pretending to be calm and nodded slightly, "It's great, very powerful."
Tai Lie's expression loosened, and there seemed to be a smile on his face.
The teeth of the Mattai who saw this scene were a little sore.
It's too much, Wang, you didn't hear us praise you, Wu just repeated what we said, so you are so happy!
Lu Yu went to the stone wall that Tai Lie had pried open, and checked it out.
"No." Lu Yu said softly, but he was not disappointed. Maybe the iron ore was hidden a little deeper.
Sure enough, after Tai Lie swiped a few more shovels, a little gray appeared.
According to Lu Yu's instructions, Tai Lie knocked around the gray, and more and more iron ore was revealed. These grays are as conspicuous as the stars in the night sky on the earthy yellow stone wall.
Tyre struck it with a bone spade.
Ding!
The bone shovel, which had opened its teeth and grinned, was broken!
Iron ore also fell out of the cracks in the stone.
"What a hard rock!" Shan Pu exclaimed in surprise.
Lu Yu picked up the palm-sized piece of iron ore, patted off the loess on it, and checked it.
Just now, Tai Lie used the bone shovel without leaving a single scratch.
The iron ore here seems to be particularly hard? Lu Yu thought.
"Wu, how can such a hard stone be made into a weapon?" Shan Pu thought of this very quickly and was very worried. Not even the king can break this iron stone, and surely no one else can either.
Lu Yu thought for a moment, and then told what he knew, "The most convenient way is to use a high-temperature iron-smelting furnace to smelt this iron stone into molten iron, but we can't build a high-temperature iron-smelting furnace for the time being, so we can only use a more primitive...um …there's an easier way.”
Lu Yu didn't notice it for a while, and blurted out the word "primitive", and quickly realized that they are already the most primitive...
"What method, what method?" Shanpu asked curiously.
Lu Yudao, "We need to find a place with natural ventilation. After all, the wind is strong enough to build a smelting furnace with clay. If there is no suitable place, we can only blow the wind manually, and then burn the iron ore and charcoal together to make a furnace. You will get the soft iron stone after all, and finally you can forge it according to the shape you want."
Shan Pu nodded pretendingly, "It's really very simple."
A Matai bumped his arm and teased, "You understand?"
Shan Puli said bluntly, "I don't understand! Anyway, I can do what the witch tells me, why do I need to understand!"
Mattai was shocked, what he said made sense!
Lu Yu smiled, "Alright, let's go back and discuss about mining and refining."
In fact, this matter is really not easy to handle.
At the joint meeting of Matai and Basin, Lu Yu explained the importance of iron ore to everyone, and then said with some embarrassment, "Now everyone has their own work, I don't want to take up everyone's free time to do this thing."
The two assistants selected by the basin before, one is an old man who has been communicating with Lu Yu before, and the other is relatively young, named Wu Ba, whose job is to make daily utensils. His craftsmanship is very good, and he is also the fastest to learn.
Hearing Lu Yu's words, Wu Ba said without hesitation, "We can process it! Wu, we're fine! Everyone is full!" It's Wu Ba's thinking to work when you're full. , he himself did it completely. After completing the assigned tasks every day, he would continue to work until he went to bed at night.
The deputy leader protects them, does not rob them of food, and allows them to exchange what they learned from him for meat. Of course, they should be grateful, how can they be lazy, how can they rest! Wu Ba thought firmly.
Lu Yu smiled, "Wu Ba, I know your kindness. Our wish has always been to let everyone live a stable, satisfying and comfortable life. If we let everyone work every day and night, wouldn't it be a violation of my commitment to everyone? The original intention brought back from the Blackwater Tribe, iron smelting is important, but it is not so important."
Wu Ba hadn't woken up from the fact that the deputy leader knew his name, which made him happy and at a loss, when he heard what Lu Yu said later.
Did the deputy leader want to lead them to live a stable, full and comfortable life? He always felt that it would be great if he could eat enough... It turned out that it could be better...
Wu Ba was stunned, and stupidly didn't speak any more.
The old man sitting next to him shook his head amusedly. This child is just too young to understand the deputy leader's intentions.
In fact, many people in the basin have the same idea as Wu Ba. Even though Lu Yu has repeatedly told them that life will get better and better, and let them drink and rest after work, they still have fear in their hearts, fearing that they will be abandoned, so Don't dare to relax at all.
Lu Yu was about to talk to Wu Ba when suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and thought of a way.
Lu Yu changed his tone and said seriously, "However, I still need your help."
Wu Ba suddenly came back to his senses, sat up straight, and said seriously, "Deputy leader, tell us, we can do whatever we want."
Lu Yu cleared his throat, "I'm going to let people from the Blackwater Tribe be in charge of mining and smelting."
U Ba, "Huh?"
Lu Yu and Tai Lie looked at each other, and continued, "I suggest that the Blackwater Tribe be relocated here, but not in the city for the time being, it's nearby, let's see how they behave."
Lu Yu had already thought about it in his heart. From the perspective of the war ten years ago, ironware is no longer a rare commodity, so there is no need to keep the method of ironmaking secret, and this is a very labor-intensive job. In terms of bias, Lu Yu certainly thinks It's better to leave this hard work to the Blackwater Tribe than to let the Basin people work overtime.
Neither the old man nor Wu Ba was stupid, they could tell the painstaking work of iron smelting just by listening to it, how could they fail to see that Lu Yu didn't want to tire them out.
The old man laughed, "We agree."
Needless to say, Xiacaoshan Pu is in favor of it.
So, the matter was settled.
Without further ado, Lu Yu sent the fast-moving Shanpu to the Blackwater Tribe to inform them.
Speaking of which, last time, Mao Pu returned to Heishui and carried out a big cleaning. He also brought a lot of slaves with him. These slaves are not as good as the perverted Matai, but they are considered to be in good shape, so There is no fear of resistance at all.
The essence is very bad, rather than being forced to follow the previous leader to do bad things, he found them all and drove them out of the tribe.
Soon, the Blackwater Tribe became the "Whitewater Tribe".
However, after being kidnapped, even after leaving Wanshou, Mao Pu was still worried and couldn't sleep well every day. He deeply found that only with the people in Lu Yu's tribe could he feel safe.
Sigh... When will I be able to move in and live with Lu Yu and the others? Mao Po rested his chin, thinking sadly.