Chapter 88 Moving Matters (Please collect and recommend)
"Of course, the sooner the better. We just had a battle here. Although the enemies are dead, we don't know if they will send more people, so it's better to move as soon as possible." Luo Chong said.
"Then where will we live first when we arrive at the Han tribe? I remember that your cave is no longer large enough." Rat Da asked.
"Also, how do we cross the river?" Rat Witch also asked.
"When we arrive at the Han tribe, we can first set up some tents inside the wall for you to live in. Now that the weather is warm, it's no problem to live outside. We can build better houses before winter.
We can also swim across the river, or build a simple wooden bridge, or take a wooden boat across, but we have to wait until our boat carrying stones comes back." Luo Chong solved various problems for them.
"Wooden boat? What is a wooden boat?" Rat Witch was very puzzled.
"It's something that can float on the water. It can hold people or other things. It's made of trees." The wooden barrel next to him explained. As long as he talked about carpentry, this guy would talk a lot.
"Really? So magical? Where should we go to take the wooden boat?" Rat Big asked out loud, he was also very curious.
"Go to the place where you went in winter. If you don't want to swim over there or build a bridge, you can camp by the river there first and wait for a few days. When we come back from collecting things, we will take you back with us." Luo Chong arranged.
"Well, then all right!"
"How about this, let Beast Fang and Stone stay with you, let them lead you to the river to live first, the rest of us still have to collect things, and we can come back to join you after the collection." Luo Chong said worriedly.
"Chief, what are you going to collect? You actually have to go so far." Rat Witch asked, maybe he didn't notice it himself, he had directly changed his address to Luo Chong to chief.
Luo Chong thought about it for a while, and felt that there was no need to hide this matter from them. Anyway, they are now his own people, and they will know about copper smelting sooner or later. If he doesn't tell them now, it will seem that he treats them differently and doesn't treat them as his own people.
So he explained: "We need to collect a kind of stone. There is metal in that stone. It can be used to make sharp weapons and more tools, which is what we are using now." Luo Chong knocked on his bronze spear and the golden hair crown on his head while speaking.
"What? This thing is actually made of stone. It's incredible. It's amazing. Chief Khan, can I go with you to see it?" The Rat Wizard said in surprise.
"You should wait until we get the things back before you see them. Now the Black Rat Tribe needs to move. You need to lead the tribesmen there. If you are not there, the tribesmen will be uneasy. You are their witch." Luo Chong politely refused. This old man is so old, and he still follows him to mine? You were traveling at that time. The
Rat Wizard thought about it and it was right. Now he still had business to do, so he no longer asked to follow Luo Chong to mine. However, he was still very curious about the stone that could make metal.
Clean up the battlefield, dismantle the tents, and take down the fences and walls and pile them together to use as firewood for burning corpses.
The billowing black smoke went straight to the sky, and the bodies of the enemies and the members of the Black Rat Tribe who died in the battle were all floating in the air along with the billowing smoke.
Rat Da led his people, took their only animal skins and pottery, and embarked on a journey of moving.
Food? There was no food. The tough winter had just passed, and they had no food left. Now they could only hunt while walking.
Fortunately, Luo Chong left behind Shouya and Shitou, and the bows and arrows in their hands. Together with the men of the Black Rat Tribe, they caught a lot of animals along the way, so that the more than 100 people did not starve.
Shu Da and Shu Wu were very curious about bows and arrows. Shu Da took the initiative to ask Shouya for advice, but Shu Wu was powerless. He was so old that he couldn't even pull the bow.
Luo Chong also temporarily said goodbye to the people of the Black Rat Tribe and continued his mining journey with the remaining eight people.
There were no more accidents on the road this time. Everyone was busy on the road. When Luo Chong and his group met up with Da Shu again, it was already two days later.
Da Shu and his group were stationed on the east side of Babao Mountain, on the edge of the wetland. There was plenty of water and grass here, and there was a lot of food for bison, meaty gray mountains, and humans.
When Luo Chong saw them, the eight people including Dashu were roasting a pony. Although Luo Chong said at the time that they could kill a cow if they had nothing to eat, they had several bows and arrows. There was no reason why they couldn't catch prey in a place with plenty of prey.
Du'er's injury had improved a little, but he was still unable to move. It was probably because of internal injuries. The wound on his chest had been disinfected and was healing well.
Dali had survived the concussion and was no longer retching. However, three large molars were knocked out of his face. Now his whole face was swollen like a pig's head. If it weren't for his tall stature, Luo Chong might not have recognized him.
Huishan's gums were no longer bleeding, and there was no local necrosis at present. It seemed that there was no big problem, but the tooth that fell out would probably never grow back. The two baby elephants were very happy to see Luo Chong again, and they played with Luo Chong for a while.
"Chief, Fang and Stone, they too?" Dashu asked sadly as he saw two more people missing from the team. He thought Luo Chong and his team had sacrificed two more tribesmen to cover their evacuation.
"Oh, no, there's something I forgot to tell you. Those enemies chased us all the way south and hit the Black Rat Tribe. We killed those enemies together with the Black Rat Tribe. Now the Black Rat Tribe has agreed to join our Han Tribe to protect itself. We will be one family from now on." Luo Chong fed Huishan with fresh grass and turned to Dashu.
"Really? Our tribe has joined the Han Tribe. That's great. I can see my family again." Several teenagers from the original Black Rat Tribe brought by Dashu said excitedly.
"Ask them if you have anything you want to know. Eat more and rest well. We will go mining in the afternoon. If we finish these early, we can go home early." Luo Chong washed his hands in the stream and tore a piece of horse meat from the campfire and shouted to everyone. Everyone had a hearty meal of
barbecue and started collecting various minerals in the afternoon.
The main ones are copper and tin. Realgar was also collected, but not much. However, this time Luo Chong also focused on mining some lime and iron sulfide, which is flaky pyrite.
The sulfur content in Babaoshan is too high. Arsenic sulfide (realgar), iron sulfide (pyrite), azurite and copper ore (copper sulfide), most of the things contain sulfur, and the lower the altitude, the higher the sulfur content.
Luo Chong collected a lot of iron sulfide this time, and he did not intend to use it for iron smelting, but to use its high sulfur content to refine sulfuric acid to solve the purpose of opening the small hole in the salt mine.
(End of this chapter)
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