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Chapter 271 Black Stone
From Jiang He's perspective, the Sky Clan and the Star Tribe have one more thing in common.

But Zhang Tian knew full well that the iron tools in his home were made of industrially produced high-carbon steel, and the star core used by the Star Tribe must be meteorite iron.

Iron meteorites falling from the sky are different from mined iron ore. The main components of the former are iron, nickel and silicon dioxide. Most of the iron elements exist in the form of simple substances, while the latter is a compound of iron.

Iron ore cannot be directly processed into iron tools. It must first be smelted to reduce the iron compounds into elemental iron.

Meteoric iron eliminates this process. Meteoric iron of suitable size can be directly forged. The temperature required for forging is much lower than that of smelting, which greatly reduces the technical threshold.

Therefore, meteorite is one of the earliest metals used as tools in human history.

According to Jiang He's description, the Star Tribe should have mastered the most primitive forging method.

As an extraterrestrial object, meteorite is a gift from the sky. Only God knows when it will fall and where it will fall.

It was originally a random event of luck, but the Star Priest used the power of the black stone to turn it into a stable source of elemental iron. With a continuous supply of materials, it was only a matter of time that the corresponding processing technology was developed as time went by. thing.

Zhang Tian said: "I am now 90.00% sure that the Black Stone is in the hands of the Star Priest!"

"Indeed." Lin Yu agreed. "It seems that the function of the black stone is not to summon meteorites, but to summon the most important metal in the history of human civilization: iron. As we guessed, the five-color stone really corresponds to the five elements."

From a functional point of view, the correspondence between the five-color stones and the five elements is very clear: white stone belongs to water, blue stone belongs to wood, red stone belongs to fire, yellow stone belongs to earth, and finally the black stone. The two of them had guessed long ago that it might be related to metal. .

Because the corresponding relationship between the five colors and the five elements was not completely consistent with the later generations, the two of them were still not sure, and they did not think about meteorite. They thought that the function of the black stone was either to explore metal deposits or to process metals. In short, they were all related to metals. Mineral related.

Zhang Tian sent various tribes to act as his eyes, searching for ores all over the mountains and plains. In fact, he also had a chance to find the black stone.

It is true that I think too much.

"Then we have to take time to go to the beach?" Lin Yu was a little excited, "The correspondence between the five-color stones and the five elements is not meaningless! Do you think it is possible that the story of Nuwa patching up the sky is true? The reason why the sky is The crack is actually because we used the power of the five-color stone to open the time and space tunnel in order to travel back!"

"This……"

Zhang Tian didn't know how to answer it for a moment.

It can be seen that Lin Yu has high hopes for the power of the five-color stone, but Zhang Tian is not so optimistic.

"The five-colored stones in the story are used to mend the sky, not to open it. Besides, if the story is true, then the sky will be split open followed by a world-destroying flood. I don't think this disaster will happen." It was caused by our own hands, neither you nor I would do this, would we?"

Lin Yu was silent, and the light in his eyes dimmed little by little. After a long time, he sighed quietly.

Along the way, she hid herself so well that Zhang Tian thought she had gotten used to the life here and no longer missed her hometown 1 years later as she did when she first traveled through time.

It wasn't until this moment that she unreservedly revealed the emotions she had suppressed for many years. However, the fire of hope was like a shooting star across the sky, fleeting.

She suddenly became depressed and tired.

Zhang Tian couldn't bear it, and changed the topic: "You are right, the existence of the five-color stone cannot be meaningless. Wolf Boy and the others are at the seaside now, and they must be closer to the Star Tribe than us. When next spring, I will let them Let’s go get some news first.”

It has been almost a year since the Wolf Boy and his party arrived at the beach. Judging from recent prayers, they are enjoying the golden sunny beach and the sea breeze blowing all night long. Not only are they not tired of playing, they even have the idea of ​​​​staying there for a long time and have begun to learn the language of the locals.

fair enough.

Since the Black Stone is in the hands of the Star Tribe, they will have to meet each other sooner or later. Having a few "seaside connections" is not a bad thing.

……

After burning the straw, the tribesmen began to cultivate the Akita fields. Zhang Tian claimed that cultivating the land was also a kind of learning, and openly arranged a group of foreign students to work as free labor force.

Although Zhang Tian was not involved, the work he did was much harder than cultivating land.

He became a mother.

It was his own fault. He exchanged a bunch of cubs with the Dayan tribe, but he forgot that poultry cubs are very dependent on their mothers. A motherless baby would not even dare to go into the water.

The young geese are relatively fine, while the ducklings are especially timid and fearful of people. Whenever Zhang Tian walks into the duck pen, they will run away from Zhang Tian without exception and huddle tightly in the nearest corner, looking weak and helpless.

Little swan geese will regard the first creature they see after birth as their mother, but little mallard ducks do not. They don’t care what their mothers look like, but they will instinctively respond to the calls of the same kind, as long as they can make the right call. All animals are regarded as mothers by ducklings.

This is why there are stories about ugly ducklings, but there will never be stories about ugly gooses, because it is impossible for ducks in nature to mistake aliens for their mothers.

Until they meet the cunning Twolegs.

"Quack! Quack!"

Zhang Tian squatted at the entrance of the circle, trying his best to imitate the sound of a wild duck mother calling her chicks, and quacked at them.

He had no choice but to take care of them himself. Who told him to understand the language of birds!Although the communication method of chaffinches is not the same as that of ducks, it is enough to imitate the mother duck's call using the pronunciation method of bird language. There is no need to spend faith points to learn duck language.

He has to quack like his mother to get the ducklings to run after him.

After calling like this for a long time, the ducklings' eyes gradually changed when they looked at Zhang Tian, ​​becoming full of trust.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Tian walked away slowly, and the ducklings also moved obediently, huddled together, and trotted after him.

He walked in a figure-eight path, quacking, and turning his head to look back from time to time. The ducklings shook their heads and tails, following closely behind him, just like their mother ducks.

You must remain in a squatting position during this process.

Once he stood up, no matter how he called, the ducklings refused to follow him.They looked around and searched for him, but they would not raise their heads to look at him. After a while, they began to "cry" and make the kind of shriek that a stray duck would make, which was heartbreaking.

The stepmother suddenly became so tall that the ducklings couldn't adapt.

So if he wanted them to follow him all the time, Zhang Tian had to squat on the ground and move forward slowly.

This position is very uncomfortable, and what's even more uncomfortable is that a competent duck mother must quack all the time. As long as his sweet call stops, the ducklings will stretch their necks in less than half a minute. It's getting longer and longer, like a human cub pulling its face down.If Zhang Tianruo remains silent at this time, the ducklings will think that he is dead or that their mother no longer loves them, so they burst into sharp cries, begging their mother not to die, or begging her mother to love them again.

In order to train them to enter the water and make them familiar with the surrounding environment, Zhang Tian had to walk with these little guys for two hours every day. It was torture!
Since becoming a duck mother, Zhang Tian has deeply realized that being a mother is not easy whether it is a human or an animal!
The most distressing thing is that whenever he leads the ducklings through the streets and alleys to the nearest pond to find food and get into the water, a large number of troublemakers will always gather along the way. Seeing the sky priest acting like this, everyone falls down laughing. .

However, they were not happy for long. In the name of learning to raise ducks, Zhang Tian captured every man who laughed freely to play the role of mother duck.

As a result, the number of male mothers increased, and they even overshadowed the ducklings.

Every afternoon, I see a group of bearded men squatting on the ground, walking a figure-eight route and quacking, followed by a group of ducklings. I don't know if they think the ducks are herding the crowd.

Whenever this happens, the wolves will lie down not far away, lazily basking in the sun, and watching these fools with interest.

The number of wolves in the pack has increased from a dozen at the beginning to more than 50. The young wolves born in the camp have grown up one after another and become the backbone of the wolf pack. They have been raised by Twolegs since they were young, and they have become closer to each other.

The best hunters in the tribe were assigned their own hunting wolves. They gradually learned how to train the wolves, and gradually became accustomed to hunting together with the wolves.

The international students were frightened when they first saw the big-tailed wolf wandering around the camp. The wolf was not polite to this group of strangers. It roared in warning and even chased some people for hundreds of meters.

After getting along with each other for a few days, I discovered that this group of wolves was not a threat. As long as they did not actively provoke them, they would not even bother to look at them.Seeing that the Taoyuan people and the wolves were living in harmony, everyone couldn't help but marvel.

Jiang He asked curiously: "Is it also the power of the sky to make wolves obedient?"

"No, this is the power of humans." Zhang Tian said, "As long as the right method is used, humans and many animals can get along well with each other."

Jiang He didn't quite understand it at the moment, until after winter came, he saw monkeys and birds running to the Taoyuan people's territory to beg for food and avoid the cold. They were completely unafraid of people, and he couldn't help but be filled with emotion.

Later, I met three big cats in the camp that I had never seen before. Their bodies were as slender and strong as leopards, but a few times smaller.

The three big cats were wandering near the breeding farm, sneaking around without knowing what they were doing. When they saw the river, they turned around and ran away.

After asking, I found out that the three big cats were lynxes raised by the wizard and came from the far north.

Zhang Tian said hello to the wolves. There was no need to worry about them poisoning the ducks and geese. The only ones who needed to be wary were the three lynxes.

The three lynxes that Lin Yu picked up were already free-ranging. Hunters would sometimes encounter them in the mountains. Occasionally, they would go back to the camp for a walk and pick up a few rabbits to honor their human mothers.

They have never shown a tendency to attack humans, but they have a history of sneaking into farms to eat bamboo rats, so they have to be on guard.

While the men were taming ducks and geese, Lin Yu took the women to collect insect wax in the mountains and forests.

There are many maiden and ash trees growing in the nearby mountain forests. These two trees are the habitat of ash insects, and the secretions of ash insects are good materials for making candles.

Whether they are candles made of beeswax or oil lamps burning grease, they are all very luxurious lighting tools. Now there is only one school, which can still meet the demand. When the school is expanded in the future and young people from various tribes come in droves, these candles and oil lamps will Not enough.

So prepare early.

After autumn, the male insects stop secreting wax. At this time, the wax layer wrapped on the branches is six to seven millimeters thick and appears in the shape of white crumbs.

Use a large pot to boil the collected insect wax. After the wax melts, it floats on the surface, while the insect corpses and impurities sink to the bottom. Pour the upper layer of molten wax into a thin bamboo tube, cool it and take it out to get a columnar shape. candles.

Zhang Tian purified the salt several times and gave the brine to Lin Yu to order tofu.

Jiang He tasted the new salt and found that it had no bitter taste at all!
And test the new rice with new salt, boil the newly harvested millet, stew the delicious fish soup, roast the plump bamboo rat, season and sprinkle with salt, and the mellow salty aroma gushes out.

The tribesmen were overjoyed to eat salt again after many years, and tears of excitement kept flowing from the corners of their mouths.

After eating Taoyuan people's delicacies, Jiang He felt that he could never go back.

In the early morning of this day, a biting cold wind blew away flakes of snow, and the ground was covered with snow.

Zhang Tian convened his clan members as always to conduct a year-end summary and reward advanced individuals.

Then a sacrificial ceremony was held, during which people tasted tofu for the first time, and the first salty-sweet battle in human history broke out.

Rivers don't like winter, because in winter everything freezes, the weather becomes bad, the river stops flowing, and even the boundless Sky Lake cannot escape the fate of freezing.

He is a person who can't sit still, but in winter he can't go anywhere and can only live in the same place. He only eats and sleeps every day. Just thinking about it makes him feel uncomfortable.

In his heart, winter has become synonymous with suffering.

This winter has completely changed his perception.

Taoyuan people are so good at playing!
Drinking, playing drums, flutes, dancing, swinging, playing hide-and-seek, hawks catching chickens... It seems like winter is the time for eating, drinking and having fun!

The third sports meeting was held as scheduled. International students formed separate teams, and seven teams competed fiercely.

Some new events have been added this year, including a chess competition: beast chess.

This is Jiang He's favorite entertainment activity. Various animals are carved from wood: elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, foxes, cats, rats. It is said that these wood carvings were carved by children when they were in school last year. It's so lifelike!

The rules of beast fighting chess are very simple, the big one defeats the small one, and both of the same kind suffer. The only exception is that the rat can defeat the elephant.

Jiang He learned quickly, but as a beginner, he passed all the tests and reached the finals. In the end, he lost to Xiao Xiao and won the runner-up!

Although Jiang He was defeated, he felt proud, and the sense of accomplishment that arose when he received the award even made him more happy than reaching the end of the river.

The sky priest said that playing chess is a test of wisdom. Before that, he had never realized that he was so smart!

I'm going to bring all these fun things to Hedong so that no one will be bored in the winter... Jiang He thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)