Ye Feng turned around, looking at her thoughtfully, a playful smile still lingering on his lips…

"I didn't realize you knew anything about cast iron. I thought you were a complete novice when it came to survival."

Liu Sisi took a hasty bite of a piece of pork crackling, then waved her hand sheepishly…

"No, no, I'm a complete newbie. I've read quite a few books, but since coming to Amazon, I've realized..."

I'm all talk and no action; I'm completely incapable of doing anything practical.

Ye Feng raised his eyebrows slightly…

"Heh...it's good to have knowledge, after all, you can better put it into practice with theory..."

But from what you just said, are you saying I can't make arrowheads?

Liu Sisi stopped chewing, thinking Ye Feng was angry, and quickly apologized...

"I'm sorry, Brother Feng, I didn't suspect you. I was just worried you'd waste your time..."

After all…after all…that’s what the book says…”

"Eh~"

Ye Feng patted her shoulder...

"I'm not angry... That's what the book says, but you don't seem to be very rigorous in your reading."

To melt steel, the temperature needs to be around 1,400 degrees Celsius, not just over 1,000.

Since you question me, then I need to prove to you just how powerful humanity's creative abilities really are.

"How about we... make a bet?"

Liu Sisi looked puzzled…

"What kind of bet?"

Ye Feng held up two fingers…

"Within two days, I will melt the knife into molten steel and make 30 steel arrowheads."

If you don't meet the requirements, I'll take you to kill wild boars. Of course, you can also make other requests.

Anything I can do, whatever this jungle has, I'll grant you.

However, if I succeed, you must sew me three complete sets of leggings and sleeves within two days.

And from now on, you're not allowed to question my decisions again! And also! You're not allowed to startle and scream like that anymore!

Liu Sisi paused for a moment, then nodded and agreed…

She felt that although Ye Feng was very strong, it was impossible for him to create a furnace with a temperature of 1,400 degrees Celsius using only some mud.

This is utterly wishful thinking…

"good!"

The two high-fived and spoke at the same time…

"It's a deal."

After saying that, Ye Feng looked at Fu Changxiong and Qi Xiaojie...

"Why don't you two join in and raise the stakes?"

"No, no, no..."

Both of them waved their hands repeatedly...

"I don't know anything about casting or arrowheads, and I don't use bows and arrows, but I trust you."

"Yes...I...I also believe you...Feng...Brother Feng."

Ye Feng smiled slightly and glanced at Liu Sisi again.

He knew that the girl meant him no harm. She was just trying to remind him out of kindness.

But Ye Feng wouldn't easily change his mind once he had made up his mind...

Since we're going to have to do it anyway, we might as well take this opportunity to make this girl admit defeat wholeheartedly.

He wanted Liu Sisi to know that this jungle was not a place for empty talk.

Human beings have existed for more than 3 million years, and their experiences cannot be contained in just a few books.

The group devoured the entire pot of stew in no time...

The meat of the harpy eagle tastes somewhat like chicken, but it's not as dry.

After absorbing the pork bone broth, the meat became tender, chewy, and incredibly delicious…

Everyone was stuffed after the meal, because they had practically finished all the soup...

The next morning, just as dawn was breaking, Ye Feng sat up...

He checked on Qi Xiaoyan's condition. Although she was still unconscious, her wounds had clearly begun to scab over.

Then he went outside to wash his face and clear his head...

Unexpectedly, just as I stepped onto the second rung of the ladder, a sudden sound...

"Click!"

The wooden ladder snapped in two, and Ye Feng suddenly lost his balance, falling flat on his face...

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and braced himself on his elbows beforehand…

The camp was surrounded by mud, otherwise he would have been seriously injured.

He rubbed his arms. How could this perfectly good wooden ladder suddenly break after only a few days of use?

Ye Feng turned around to examine the ladder, and upon closer inspection, he discovered obvious bite marks on this section of the ladder.

Judging from the familiar teeth marks and the surrounding footprints, it wasn't a wild boar that did it, so who could it be?

Ye Feng guessed that these wild boars must have come in the middle of the night…

Last night, after eating the stew, the group carelessly left the leftover pork and fish bones outside…

That's why they were circling around the treehouse...

Ye Feng had considered hunting them at night, but these creatures were elusive and anyone could tell when they would appear. He couldn't just keep waiting.

Moreover, the nights in the Amazon are so dark that you can't see your hand in front of your face, and if you take out a torch, the pigs will be scared away.

To shoot entirely by hearing is risky, as it's easy to miss and the arrows are easily lost...

Ultimately, it all came down to not having enough arrows…

If conditions allowed, Ye Feng could draw the bowstring until it smoked.

Thinking of this, Ye Feng's face darkened...

He cursed and swore as he switched to another ladder, washed his face, and plunged into the surrounding woods.

His goal today is to build a furnace…

But as Liu Sisi said, she did not have any modern tools related to smelting.

To melt a knife into molten steel, the most primitive method must be used…

That is, charcoal smelting...

This stuff is an essential material for smelting, and its temperature is 200 to 300 degrees higher than that of an open flame.

Especially when placed in a sealed smelting furnace, the temperature can reach over 1000 degrees Celsius.

However, if it is only this level, it is far from meeting the expectations for melting steel.

Therefore, Ye Feng plans to make a smelting vessel, preferably a sealed one.

This allows the temperature to be locked in to the maximum extent, slowing down evaporation and maintaining a consistently high temperature inside the container...

His general plan was...

The removed knives were placed into a melting pot, and then the pot was placed into a furnace filled with charcoal.

As long as all the charcoal is ignited and the operation is performed correctly, with double temperature locking, the smelting furnace can easily reach temperatures above 1600 degrees Celsius, and can even reach as high as 1800 degrees Celsius…

This makes melting steel very promising…

But you have to eat one bite at a time. You have to do things one step at a time.

The best wood for making smelted charcoal is willow and pine...

Willows are relatively hard to find in the Amazon, but pine trees, with their many varieties, are much easier to spot…

Ye Feng quickly arrived at the base of a pine tree 300 meters away from the camp...

Without saying a word, he pulled out a saw and started sawing...

The tree was still young, only as thick as a calf. It only took him a little over half an hour to drag the tree back to the camp.

He then quickly woke up the three of them and they started getting up to work...

Considering everyone's physical condition, after giving brief instructions, Fu Changxiong was responsible for sawing the tree into blocks to make it easier to chop.

Liu Sisi was responsible for removing the excess branches...

Because Qi Xiaojie suffered internal injuries, he was not suitable for strenuous activity, so he was simply asked to take good care of Qi Xiaoyan.