Rong carried the two iconic axes and walked over with a bright smile on his face.
Not far behind her was a group of people carrying prey, and as they approached, the smell of blood became stronger and stronger, and the harvest was quite fruitful.
Rong and Jing are husband and wife, and Black Lie originally planned to assign her to Jing. She didn't agree, and applied here by herself, and was responsible for the food and safety here.
Although there are also couples who stay together for life here, they are probably affected by the environment, and they are not as inseparable as couples on Earth, and they will be more independent.
After the wood is dry and settled, the couple can often see each other.
Since Velvet got the battle axe, his fighting power has become more and more ferocious, and he has made great progress. Now he has been promoted to a third-level fighter.
This is also the reason why he doesn't want to be with Jing, she feels that she has the ability to guard one side.
Now that the pottery group can eat well, it has a lot to do with her.
She is an excellent hunter, what she likes most is the use of force, and she has endless energy in her whole body. I also learned how to unite the masses from Black Hunt, and every time the hunting team travels, there will be a lot of gains.
Hei Lie came forward to say hello to Rong with fists and shoulders. The soldiers all followed the same method, and there was no taboo between men and women.
"God's envoy, I promise that I can protect everyone here!" Rong was very confident about this.
This is not blind confidence in their own force, but that they have specially chosen this place, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
"I have found my way to the swamp. If there is an enemy we can't bear, run away from it. No one can catch us."
The swamp looks the same, but there are traps everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will fall into it and never get out.
They originally thought about how to pull these animals out as food, but found it very difficult.
Especially those animals have been struggling desperately, accelerating the sinking speed, and most of the time, they can only watch the huge lump of meat gradually disappear before their eyes.
In addition to hunting, Velvet went to study the swamp every day.
There are too many old, weak, sick and disabled in their team. It is a last resort to confront the enemy directly face to face.
Although Velvet is very powerful, he looks carefree, but he is actually very delicate and cautious.
Especially before leaving, Yang Yi told her that things are not important, but talents are the most important, which made her more clear what her main task is.
Their team is destined to have a large number of people, but their combat effectiveness is not strong.
Therefore, on the first day when I came here, I began to study how to use the surrounding natural environment when encountering danger, and led a group of people to escape quickly in critical moments.
Yang Yi became interested: "Take us to have a look later."
"Let's go now!" Rong couldn't wait for a while, and immediately set off to let everyone see her discovery.
The evacuation route is not far from the crowd gathering place, which is more conducive to rapid evacuation.
It is backed by the swamp, which avoids the enemy from the front and back, and there are hillsides on both sides. As long as the col is guarded, the enemy can be blocked.
If you feel unbearable, you can quickly let people retreat first.
They also have watchtowers and telescopes, and they can detect the strangeness at the first time.
"You have to be careful, you must follow my footsteps, if you make a mistake, you will fall into it." Rong led the way in front, and warned carefully.
Yang Yi tried to poke it with a stick, and found that the stick soon sank in by itself, and he couldn't pull it out by pulling hard. He could only pull it lightly, and couldn't compete with the swamp.
Yang Yi walked tremblingly, afraid of taking a wrong step.
"Don't worry, I won't let you fall into it." Black Hunter promised behind him.
The deep and gentle voice has a healing effect, which gradually made Yang Yi feel at ease, but walking was still very difficult and the speed was very slow.
"Will this be too dangerous? Can you recognize it in a crisis? If it's night, it will be even more difficult to recognize?"
Rong was very informative about this: "No problem, I'm ready to let everyone train together how to escape, until everyone can walk through here with their eyes closed."
Crisis rehearsals are very common in later generations. Children will be taught how to escape in the event of a fire, earthquake, etc. from kindergarten onwards.
But here, Rong came up with this method by himself, which is very remarkable.
The group walked for more than an hour before reaching a relatively safe place.
"There are two forks in front of me. I haven't chosen which one yet. Angels and chiefs, you are here so you can help me see."
Black Hunter asked: "What's the difference?"
"There is still a swamp in front of this road, and it is more difficult to walk than before. To be honest, I can't guarantee that I can walk through it safely every time. If I am not careful now, I will fall into it."
Rong's mood was obviously depressed a lot, "But I'm still trying, it will take some time."
Black Hunter: "What about the other one?"
"It's a place of death. As long as you walk in, you will sink into it. Many beasts died in it, including the giant spiny dragon."
A soldier accompanying him laughed: "Rong, are you confused? What kind of road is this?"
"The land of death is actually not wide, only about 30 meters, and the other end is hard soil. As long as we can cross it, we will be completely safe."
Rong Rong cast his eyes on Yang Yi, his attitude was obvious.
We can't think of a way, but it doesn't mean that God's envoys can't do it! He is a man of great wisdom.
The others understood, and looked at Yang Yi one after another.
Yang Yi was not in a hurry to answer: "Let's go and see the place of death first."
The so-called land of death is a place where the soil is more viscous.
The soil there is obviously different from other soils, mixed with strange bright red lines, although not much, it is enough to make people feel vigilant about it.
This kind of Tu Yangyi has never been seen before, and it feels like there is no such thing on earth.
It is obviously softer and stickier than ordinary clay, and the terrain is also lower, with a subsidence of about one meter.
Yang Yi stepped on the soil on the ground, the soil here was still very hard, and there was a dense forest on the other side of the land of death.
"We could build a bridge in the middle."
"bridge?"
No one understood what this was.
"Yes, like this, this is a bridge, to be precise, this is a suspension bridge." Yang Yi roughly drew the appearance of the bridge.
Two thick wooden piles are erected at both ends, and in the middle is a bridge made of ropes and planks, which is hung on the wooden piles.
"With the suspension bridge, we can walk over it. When all of us are gone, we can cut the ropes of the bridge, and the people on the other side can't get through. Even if they can make a suspension bridge, we have already Run away and disappear, or come and fight one by one."
Rong immediately cheered: "I knew that the envoy would have a solution! When I saw this, I knew that the envoy could solve this problem!"
Some people also reacted: "This is the same as the hammock of the angel, why did we forget it!"
Black Hunter was curious: "Then how do we build such a bridge? We can't get across?"
"With arrows."
"Arrow?" Hei Lie was stunned. Before Yang Yi could explain, he had a flash of inspiration, "I understand!"
"Wait, what do you understand? I don't understand, please tell me."
Rong asked anxiously, and the others were also at a loss.
Black Hunt did not answer directly, but took off the recurve bow on his back.
"Envoy of God, please give me a safety rope."
Yang Yi took out a bundle of safety ropes from the mountaineering bag on Hei Lie's back and handed it to him, marveling at how fast this man's mind was, but he immediately understood what to do after a little bit.
Black Hunter tied one end of the rope to the tail of the arrow, and then drew the bow towards the other end of the 'land of death', with the arrow pointing slightly upwards.
"Whoosh—"
The arrow quickly shot to the opposite bank with a heavy safety rope, and deeply penetrated into the trunk of a big tree on the opposite bank.
The other end of the rope was held in Hei Lie's hand, and with a slight pull, the rope became taut.
"Wow-"
Everyone was shocked.
All the long arrows went into the tree trunk, and even substituted a section of the rope, what a powerful force it was.
Yang Yi has nothing but envy besides envy.
"You can inject some more ropes to ensure safety and let lighter people slide over there. You can go over there to see if there are any suitable trees as stakes. If not, you can cut down and dig holes to make them yourself."
First arrange the ropes, and then lay wooden boards on it, and a suspension bridge is made.
Of course, there are still many details that need to be adjusted and studied. Yang Yi only knows the general idea, and everything needs to be explored through practice.
"But before that, it's best to test in a safe place to see how much the suspension bridge weighs, how many people can cross the bridge at the same time, and whether it's safe. We can't just start building it, and we can't lose a person because of it."
"God reassures you, I understand everything, I will definitely make the suspension bridge."
The big problem was solved, Rong was very excited, and he was already thinking about the specific production steps of the suspension bridge in his mind.
Before Yang Yi walked to the place of death, he found a relatively low place, lay down on the ground and grabbed some weird clay with his hands.
"This stickiness is too high!" Yang Yi was amazed, it could be called glue, not like mud at all.
Rong Rong hurriedly said: "God's envoy, hurry up and wash your hands, it's hard to get rid of it when it's dry. Someone accidentally got a little bit of hair on it before, so I had to cut it in the end."
Hei Lie quickly took out the kettle and washed Yang Yi's hands.
"Can't it be melted with water after it dries up?"
"No, it's as hard as a rock after it dries. I also soaked it in water for a long time, but it hasn't changed at all. I'll show it to you when I go back later."
Some animals got out of here by chance, because they didn't know how to wash them quickly, and finally died because the hard shell couldn't be removed.
Yang Yi's eyes lit up immediately, isn't this natural cement! And not afraid of pollution!
Go back and test it. If there is no substance that is harmful to the human body, it can be used instead of cement.
"When setting up wooden piles, you can dig a big hole first, then use the soil to build up the surrounding area, insert the wooden piles into the soil, and it will be very firm after it dries."
Yang Yi thought about stability before, so he thought about using trees.
Now that there is ready-made cement, you can make it yourself, and plant whatever you want.
"When we go back, we can take some back to build wells."
In Yang Yi's opinion, their wells are still unqualified, because the walls of some wells are not built up, and their land is relatively soft, which can easily lead to turbid water.
It is too laborious to use stones, and the stones have to be drilled far away and transported.
Now with natural cement, everything is much easier.
Not only wells, but also many other places where these natural cements can be used.
This discovery made Yang Yi very happy. Otherwise, limestone, iron ore, coal, etc. would be needed to make cement, which would pollute the environment very much.
Moreover, river sand has to be matched, and natural cement saves this process.
But for the specifics, we have to take it back and study it to know what this natural cement can do.
This harvest made Yang Yi very excited. When he went back, he was not so trembling, and the speed was much faster, so there was no need for Black Hunter to carry him.
As soon as he returned to the pottery base, Yang Yi went to find Hui, and continued the unfinished topic with him.
Most of what they make now are pottery bowls, or relatively small jars and other containers, and it is not yet possible to make large pottery jars.
Yang Yi also wanted to wait for the small pieces to mature before teaching them how to make large pieces.
Pottery jars are still very important in life and can be used to store a lot of things.
They are now planting a large number of vegetables, which should be very impressive when the harvest is good.
Although Yang Yi has never experienced winter here, judging from the spring temperature here, it should be quite cold in winter here, and there may be snow.
In this way, it is very difficult to find green plants in winter.
They also need to prepare vegetables in advance. In addition to dried vegetables, they can also have pickled vegetables, which can enrich the table.
"The fired pottery jar is different from ordinary pottery, because it is relatively large, we need to divide it into two sections, and then join them together, and beat the inside and outside with a mallet to make them firm."
Hui suddenly realized: "It turns out that this is the case. We also thought about making some big ones before, but the discs can't be made too high, so we can only pinch the strips with our hands, but we forgot that we can do this!"
"This requires a lot of practice, otherwise the size will be different. Also, if the opening is relatively small, you can first fire a tile ring to support the inner wall, and hit it with a mallet from the outside."
Hui listened carefully, memorizing every word in his mind.
It is a pity that I didn't learn too many characters at this time, otherwise I would not have to worry about missing something when I wrote it in the notebook.
"Is the method of firing clay pots the same as small pottery?"
"It's not the same. Pottery jars are not built on flat ground, but on the slope of a hill. If several are built, they must be connected together. One kiln is higher than the other."
Hui was surprised: "There is such a particularity?"
"Doing this avoids pooling of water and allows the fire to gradually seep upwards."
"Fortunately, there are mountains near us. No wonder you chose this place as an envoy before." Feeling ashamed, he asked again, "Is there any difference between that kiln and the kiln we are making now?"
"It's roughly the same. After the round arch of the kiln roof is built, a layer of fine soil about 10 centimeters thick should be laid on it. An extra smoke window should be opened every two meters. The kiln door is opposite to each other. of."
"Okay, I've made a note of it."
"Also, the smallest pottery pieces should be placed in the lowest kiln, and the largest ones should be placed on the top. Place the pottery embryos in this order. Remember, start firing from the bottom kiln upwards."
Clay pots require more hands to complete and require more firewood.
If there is no additional manpower, Yang Yi probably won't have the idea of making tanks for the time being.
"Besides this, you guys are going to start burning some tiles."
"What is that?" Hui had never heard these two words before, and Yang Yi also said it in Chinese.
"They are all used to build a house and make the house stronger."
With cement, brick houses can be built, and floors can be made strong and smooth.
Although Yang Yi doesn't plan to use bricks yet, he still uses soil to ram the walls and build houses according to the previous plan.
After all, burning bricks is still too time-consuming and laborious for now, and they still don't have such a luxury.
Earth walls can also be very strong, and the earliest ancient city walls were also built with rammed wood.
However, Yang Yi still wants to make tiles for the roof, and the grass is still not strong enough to prevent rain and snow.
The process of making tiles is relatively easier than making pots, but it is also a very laborious process and requires several processes. The entire cycle takes about ten days.
"Making tiles is similar to firing pottery. A specially made mold will be used to print the blanks. The tiles are very thin and need to be piled up when firing. When stacking and drying in the shade, remember to sprinkle some fine soil so that you won't worry about sticking. gone."
"Okay, then I will arrange for a special person to make it."
After a while, Hui understood what was going on, and he had an arrangement in his heart.
Although everyone is very serious about making pottery embryos, it is inevitable that there will be people with poor craftsmanship, and these people are very suitable for making tiles.
Yang Yi was not worried about the skills of these people, even the black pottery was fired, and the tiles were no problem.
"Your tasks will be very heavy, and you can't share them even if you send new people. Thank you for your hard work."
Hui laughed: "It is very important for us to have a place where we can work hard."
Yang Yi left the place where the pottery embryos were made, and walked to the place where the clay was being dug. A group of people were sweating profusely at work.
Those who do this are basically ordinary people who have no fighting power.
They found their place here, and they didn't find it hard. Everyone had a relaxed and happy face.
Yang Yi saw that the pottery group had already reached a preliminary scale in just a short period of time, and it would soon be possible to make further progress according to the situation, so he couldn't help but sigh:
"It's not always enough to rely on trees as fuel."
Black Hunter doesn't think so: "We have enough trees, and clearing some trees will also make our surroundings safer."
Yang Yi looked at the dense forest in the distance, not to mention their small number of people, even if they doubled several times, they don't have to worry about it.
However, Yang Yi still hopes that there are other ways:
"It would be better if there was coal."
I don't know if the underground here will have rich coal resources like the earth
"coal?"
"It's a black solid combustible mineral buried underground. It's a rock that can be burned. It can be used as fuel and is very resistant to burning."
Black Hunter is also interested in coal: "That's really a good thing, no need to cut down trees and dry them."
Yang Yi nodded: "But there are also disadvantages. It pollutes the environment very much."
"Environmental pollution is important?" Hei Lie had heard this word from Yang Yi several times.
"The environmental pollution in the world I live in is very serious, which can lead to diseases, biological extinction and so on."
"But your world is still in use."
"Yes, because they are indeed a good thing. They are of great benefit to development, and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. It's just that everything should not be excessive, and a solution must be found."
After Yang Yi finished speaking, he couldn't help smiling. With their small population, it would not be easy to pollute this place.
There is enough self-healing ability here, but it is better to be careful in everything, otherwise it will still hurt the body.
Originally planned to stay in the pottery group for one day before leaving, it was temporarily decided to assist the people in the pottery group to make the suspension bridge before leaving.
The rope is the safety rope provided by Yang Yi. He also wanted to take out the iron chain, but in the end the experiment found that the safety rope was strong enough, and it would be easy to cut off when the time came, so he gave up.
The wooden boards of the suspension bridge are made of golden nanmu boards that have been sun-dried before, and they are fastened one by one, and they are wobbly when walking on it.
But everyone walked very smoothly, and there was no need to hold on to the waist-high rope.
When Yang Yi saw the suspension bridge, he sighed in his heart. If this bridge were placed on the earth, it would definitely become a scene. See how extravagantly this group of people used top-grade golden nanmu to make a suspension bridge that could be discarded at any time.
Before leaving, the transportation team also came, ready to go with Hei Lie and Yang Yi and his party to transport pottery to the tribe.
According to Yang Yi's instructions, they bundled the finished pottery with hay bales and piled them on the carts that were padded with thick hay.
The trolley has also been modified. The previous body was a flat plate, which is convenient for placing long logs.
Now a high guardrail has been added to facilitate the transportation of pottery.
Because they are pushing fragile items, many of the people pushing the carts are ordinary people, and the speed is much slower than when they came.
There are many people along the way, and generally there will be no fierce beasts attacking, so everyone is more relaxed, laughing and laughing all the way.
"Put me down, I can go by myself."
Seeing this situation, Yang Yi didn't want to be special.
"Your feet are not suitable for walking such a long distance." Black Hunter directly dismissed it.
The corners of Yang Yi's mouth twitched. This is how weak he is. He also climbed Huashan Mountain at night when he was in college.
The next day, I walked for another day. Apart from my own things, I also helped the female classmates carry the big padded jackets that they had rented out in advance.
Although his feet are nothing compared to these feet whose soles are like steel plates, they are not so tender.
Yang Yi also considered making shoes for them before, but these people felt that they were not as comfortable as bare feet. Only the elderly and infirm who couldn't stand the cold would like it.
"You're asking me to be special and separate myself from the masses."
"You are special, this is a fact." Black Hunter said seriously, "You are an envoy of God, so you should be special, especially your force is almost zero."
Regardless of Yang Yi having so many strange things, even if he has nothing, he is very different standing in the crowd.
First of all, the appearance is very different. Although they are similar, there are still obvious differences.
What's more, he was horribly weak, not as strong as Mao, but he looked healthy.
Their skin looks similar, but it is obvious that these people are just like those hares, much thicker than his skin.
Scratching them with the same force has completely different effects.
In this world where force is paramount, it is too dangerous.
Even if the people around him are not dissatisfied, the animals around will be keenly aware that he is the weakest person in the crowd. If there is a beast attacking, they will definitely rush to him first.
Every time he thought of this, Yang Yi kept roaring in his heart.
The God of time travel is really capable of cheating him!
"I thought you didn't like the Western Continent."
"It's not annoying." Black Hunter said frankly.
"And you are different. You are the envoy of the gods, representing the gods. The envoys of the gods are supreme and completely different from humans. You are his envoy, and of course you are different from ordinary people."
Having said so much, Yang Yi is no longer hypocritical.
To be honest, he didn't want to walk that long.
He has been an otaku since his junior year, and even stayed at home for several months after graduating from university.
It's not that he still has a little sense of shame, so he put on a show.
Since people don't care about it, and other people don't mean to despise it, he accepts it.
The people in the pottery team were much better than the accompanying guards. They helped him adjust the back chair and set up a sunshade umbrella, which made him more comfortable to sit on and even had a good night's sleep.
"Then it's hard work for you."
Black Hunter disagreed: "You are not as heavy as two rabbits, no hard work."