Chapter 28 The so-called 'happiness'
You may say that the Black Forest is a poor place, but it not only produces salt, but it is now confirmed to produce coal mines. Just based on the output of these two resources, it cannot be called a poor place at all.
But if you say it's good, there's wasteland all around and no sufficient and stable fresh water resources. Animals don't come here to drink water. Only rats and insects with tenacious vitality can survive here.
The trees all grow in strange shapes, and it looks like a horror movie when viewed at night.
If you stay here, you can only survive by eating mice, insects, and gnawing on tree bark and roots.
According to Zhou Xu's original idea, this was a temporary place for their tribe to stay. They had no other choice but to stay here temporarily.
They might stay here for two or three months, until they have saved up some food, looked at the surrounding map, and found a better place to live, and then they would just leave.
But now...
The existence of these two resources really made him reluctant to give them up.
The emergence of coal mines was extremely important for the subsequent development of the forging industry.
In fact, even if we leave aside the forging industry, speaking more generally, as a combustible material, coal ore is easier to store and takes up less space than branches, while also being more durable.
With coal ore as the main fuel, they can further reduce the time spent on picking up branches and use limited manpower elsewhere.
For example, external exploration! Why was the efficiency of exploration so low before?
Because they didn't have a dedicated exploration team! When Dashan and his team were exploring the Black Forest, they also had to collect supplies, pick up branches, pick up stones, and catch insects.
Within the tribe, the task of supplying this resource falls on Dashan and his people, which makes their collection task very heavy.
Under this premise, they collected as they walked. After collecting to a certain extent, their movements were affected and they had to return to the tribal camp.
A lot of time is wasted going back and forth, and it is difficult to improve the exploration efficiency.
But there is no way around it, because if they cannot collect enough supplies and bring them back, the internal operation of their tribe will be affected and will be directly related to the survival of all members of the tribe.
When putting exploration and survival together, of course survival comes first, and you should stay alive first.
He had previously woven bark ropes and used them to tie branches so that Dashan and his team could bring back more branches at a time, thus improving the overall work efficiency.
But even so, this improvement is not so great that they can carry out the exploration mission regardless of the consequences.
The emergence of coal ore undoubtedly made everything different.
However, in order to collect coal ore, the manual team will undoubtedly face a new task, which is to polish the stone pickaxe.
At this time, Zhou Xu has already sorted out a rough plan in his mind, and now he is waiting to implement it step by step.
Of course, let's have a big meal today! The spider's legs are very thick. The thickest part is as thick as an adult man's waist. It's impossible to roast a whole leg.
In fact, even if one pinched the joints and chopped them apart section by section with a stone axe, the spider's legs were still too big.
But they obviously didn't feel distressed by this, they just stared at the thick spider legs and laughed.
The tribe quickly lit up the five stone stoves, and without further ado, they started grilling.
Zhou Xu had only seen that kind of ingredient in some anime before; it didn't exist in reality.
I never thought that there would be a day when I would be able to eat it.
However, he had no experience in cooking such a big thing, so he could only rely on his intuition.
He sniffed and when he thought it was almost done, he used a stone axe to break the outer shell.
In an instant, a visible heat wafted out, carrying with it an even clearer aroma of meat.
After peeling off the broken shell, the next scene made Zhou Xu couldn't help but grin out loud.
The tribal members surrounding them couldn't help swallowing their saliva.
I saw that the entire shell was filled with white leg meat, and the meat was visibly firm.
Use two branches of appropriate length with the bark peeled off as chopsticks to tear the leg meat into large chunks to see if it is cooked.
"Well, it should be cooked."
While muttering to himself, Zhou Xu used the shell that had been knocked off as a plate. He picked up a piece of leg meat as big as a fist. The white and tender meat that was still steaming looked so tempting that it made his stomach groan.
After sprinkling a little coarse salt on it, he took a big bite without saying anything.
At that moment, the feeling of his entire mouth being filled with meat made Zhou Xu unable to help but look up at the sky.
[So-called 'happiness', is this probably what it is? 】
This was his truest thought at the moment.
"Let's divide it up."
There was no crowding. After getting Zhou Xu's permission, everyone began to divide the food in front of them in an orderly manner.
The amount of meat on this spider leg was unexpectedly large. If they did not eat too much and just wanted to get rid of hunger, basically, two spider legs would be enough for all of them to have a meal.
One meal a day, eight spider legs are enough for them to eat for four days.
During these four days, they can make all the captured rats into pickled meat to increase their food reserves and prepare for the next action.
It's a new day. Maybe it's because we had a big meal before going to bed yesterday, but everyone is in good spirits.
At this time, Dashan, Feique and others had already set out with the hunting team and the gathering team, while Zhou Xu stayed in the tribe, asking the handicraft team to polish the stone pickaxes.
After all, if they don’t make the stone pickaxe, they won’t be able to mine coal, which will affect their subsequent plans.
Of course, this problem is easy to solve. Now that stone axes have been polished, there is no reason why they cannot polish stone pickaxes.
At this point in time, the demand for stone axes within their tribe has begun to decline, which allows Zhou Xu to easily allocate manpower to sharpen stone pickaxes.
During this period of time, Dashan and his team basically completed the exploration of the entire black forest.
What is certain now is that the cave in the ground that serves as the giant spider's nest is located in the central area of this black forest. Apart from that, there are no new discoveries.
Considering the increase in the scope of exploration, Zhou Xu couldn't help but think about making maps recently.
[Although there is no ink dye, it should be possible to use some colored plant slurry instead. The pen can be made of branches. As for paper, it is definitely impossible to make it now, but animal skins can be used first...]
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