Chapter 28 The so-called 'happiness'
You can call Black Forest a bad place. Not only does it produce salt, but it is also certain to produce coal mines. Just relying on these two resource outputs, it is absolutely I can't say that broken word.
But if you want to say it, it is okay. It is surrounded by wasteland and there is no sufficient and stable fresh water resource. Animals do not come here to drink water. Only mice and insects with strong vitality can survive here.
Every tree looks strangely shaped, and it looks like a ghost movie when you look at it at night.
Staying here, you can only live by eating rats, bugs, and chewing bark and roots.
According to Zhou Xu's initial thoughts, this was a temporary foothold for their tribe. At that time, they had no choice but to temporarily settle here.
They may stay here for two or three months. After they have accumulated a wave of food, opened the surrounding map, and found a better place to live, they will leave.
But now...
The existence of these two resources really makes him a little reluctant to let go.
The emergence of coal mines was too important for the subsequent development of the forging industry.
In fact, even if we leave aside the forging industry, speaking more closely, as a combustion material, coal ore is easier to store, more space-saving, and more stable to burn than tree branches.
With coal ore as the main burning material, they can further reduce the time spent picking up branches and use limited manpower elsewhere.
For example, explore the outside world!
Why was the exploration efficiency so low before?
Because they don’t have a dedicated exploration team!
When Dashan and the others were exploring the black forest, they had to collect supplies, pick up branches, stones, and catch insects.
In the tribe, the task of supplying this resource falls on Dashan and others, which makes their collection task very heavy.
Under this premise, they collected while walking. After collecting to a certain point, their actions were affected, and they had to return to the tribal camp.
But this time, a lot of time is wasted, and it is difficult to improve the exploration efficiency.
But there is nothing that can be done, because if they cannot collect enough materials to bring back, the internal operation of their tribe will be affected, and it will be directly related to the survival of all tribe members.
Putting exploration and survival together, of course survival comes first, living first.
Before, he braided bark ropes and tied them with bark ropes so that Dashan and the others could bring back more branches at one time, thus improving the overall work efficiency.
But even so, this improvement is not big enough to allow them to carry out exploration missions regardless.
The emergence of coal ore has undoubtedly made everything different.
However, in order to collect coal ore, the crafting team will undoubtedly have to face a new task, which is to polish stone pickaxes.
At this moment, Zhou Xu had already sorted out a rough plan in his mind, and now he was waiting to be implemented step by step.
Of course, let’s eat a big meal first today!
The legs of this spider are very thick. The thickest part is as thick as an adult man's waist. It is impossible to roast the entire leg.
In fact, even if you pinch the joints and cut them off section by section with a stone axe, the spider legs are still too big.
But they obviously won't be distressed by this, they will just stare at the thick spider legs with joy.
There were five stone stoves in the tribe, and the fire was quickly lit. Without any further ado, they started roasting.
Zhou Xu had only seen that kind of ingredient in some anime before, but it didn’t exist in reality.
I never thought that I would be able to eat it one day.
However, he has no experience at all in cooking such a big thing, so he can only rely on intuition. After sniffing and guessing that it was almost done, he used a stone ax to smash the shell into pieces.
In an instant, a heat visible to the naked eye floated out, carrying with it a clearer aroma of meat.
Peering away the broken shell, the next scene made Zhou Xu couldn't help but grin.
The tribe members surrounding them couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
I saw that the entire inside of the carapace was really stuffed with white leg meat, and the entire flesh was visibly tight to the naked eye.
Use two branches of suitable length with the bark torn off as chopsticks, and tear the leg meat into large pieces to see if it is cooked inside.
"Well, it should be cooked."
While muttering to himself, Zhou Xu directly used the knocked off shell as a plate. A piece of leg meat he picked out was as big as a fist. The meat was white, tender and steaming, so tempting that it made his stomach howl incessantly.
Sprinkle a little coarse salt, and he took a big bite without saying anything.
At that moment, the feeling that his entire mouth was filled with meat made Zhou Xu couldn't help but look up to the sky.
[The so-called ‘happiness’ is probably just like this, right? 】
This is his truest thought at this time.
"Let's share it."
There was no crowding. After getting Zhou Xu's permission, everyone began to divide the food in front of them in an orderly manner.
There is really an unexpected amount of meat on this spider leg. It does not depend on eating to fullness. If it is just to get rid of 'hunger', basically, two spider legs are enough for them. They all settled down to have a meal.
One meal a day, eight spider legs is enough for them to eat for four days.
In these four days, they can make all the rats they caught into bacon, increase their food reserves, and prepare for the next operation.
It’s a new day. I don’t know if it’s because of the big meal before going to bed yesterday, but everyone is in good spirits.
At this moment, Dashan and Feiqiao had already set off with their hunting and gathering teams, while Zhou Xu remained in the tribe and asked the crafts team to polish the stone pickaxes.
After all, if the stone pickaxe is not made, they will not be able to mine coal, which will have an impact on subsequent plans.
Of course, this matter can be easily solved. Now that the stone axes have been polished, there is no reason why they cannot polish the stone pickaxe.
At this point in time, the demand for stone axes in their tribe has begun to decline, which allows Zhou Xu to smoothly allocate manpower to polish stone pickaxes.
During this period of time, Dashan and the others basically completed their exploration of the entire black forest.
What is certain now is that the cracked cave in the ground, which is the nest of the big spider, is located in the center of this dark forest. Other than that, there is no new discovery.
Considering the increase in the scope of exploration, Zhou Xu has inevitably been thinking about making a map recently.
[Although there is no ink dye, it should be replaced by some colored plant slurry. The pen can be made of branches. As for the paper, it is definitely not possible to make it now, but you can also use animals first. Leather...】
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