Chapter 28 The so-called ‘happiness’

Author: flying de lazy cat

Chapter 28 The so-called ‘happiness’

You can call Black Forest a poor place. Not only does it produce salt, but it also definitely produces coal mines. Just relying on the output of these two resources, you can never say that it is poor.

But if you think about it, it's okay. It's surrounded by wasteland and there are no sufficient and stable fresh water resources. Animals don't come here to drink water. Only mice and insects with strong vitality can survive here.

Every tree looks weird, and it looks like a ghost movie when you look at it at night.

If you stay here, you can only survive by eating rats, bugs, and bark and roots.

According to Zhou Xu's initial thoughts, this was a temporary settlement 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 lot 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 made him reluctant to part with them.

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 than tree branches, saves space, and is easier to burn.

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 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.

Within the tribe, the task of supplying this resource falls on Dashan and others, which makes their collection tasks 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 they can do about it, 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.

If exploration and survival are put together, survival is of course priority, and survival comes first.

Previously, he had 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 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 has sorted out a rough plan in his mind, and now he is 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 ax, 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 I would be able to eat it one day.

However, he had no experience in cooking such a big thing, so he could only rely on intuition.

After sniffing and guessing that the roast was almost done, I 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.

After removing the broken shell, Zhou Xu couldn't help but grin out loud at the scene that followed.

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.

"Yeah, it should be done."

While muttering to himself, Zhou Xu directly used the knocked-off shell as a plate. He picked out a piece of leg meat, which was as big as a fist. The meat was white, tender and steaming, which was so tempting.

It was tempting, making his stomach howl incessantly.

Sprinkled with a little coarse salt, he took a big mouthful without saying a word.

At that moment, Zhou Xu couldn't help but look up at the sky as his whole mouth was filled with meat.

[This is probably what the so-called ‘happiness’ is, right? 】

This is his truest thought at this time.

"Let's all divide 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. Without the prerequisite of being full, if it is just to get rid of 'hunger', basically, two spider legs are enough for them all to get rid of one person.

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 time, Dashan, Feiqiao and others had already set off with their hunting and gathering teams, while Zhou Xu remained in the tribe, asking the crafts team to polish their 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 can't 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 had basically completed their exploration of the entire black forest.

What is certain now is that the cracked cave in the ground, which is the lair of the big spider, is located in the center of this dark forest. Other than that, there is nothing new to discover.

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, and the paper. It is definitely not possible to make it now, but you can also use animal skin first...]

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