In the end, the tentacle monster was eliminated by Akeem, using a kitchen knife.
It's not that there are no other knives. There are dozens of people in a group and there are twenty knives, but they are all short knives used to dismantle prey. Since the length has no advantage, of course kitchen knives are more useful.
The kitchen knife didn't belong to Wang Qi. It belonged to the exploration expedition team. I didn't know what I would do with a kitchen knife when I went out.
Anyway, with the help of the kitchen knife, the tentacle monster failed to withstand it and was crushed to pieces by Akeem.
The tentacle was taken back for a section, which was confusing.
This tentacle has no suction cups or horny hooks, just a strip of flesh. It's a bit like the things that are often seen in some games and are good at dealing with female adventurers.
There is no biological division of labor, and there is no need to leave the tentacles as samples and roast them directly for eating.
The specialty of the terrifying upright ape is to eat everything that can be killed and eaten. The mage used magic on the spot to check that the tentacles were not poisonous, and its end was already doomed.
There is mucus on the surface, so grab some salt and rub it in. It will look beautiful when grilled. The taste is between grilled bullfrog and grilled squid, lacking the seafood flavor. If it is not too aggressive, it is also good as a source of meat.
This passage was explored again and new discoveries were made.
One of the tentacles of the tentacle monster can chase dozens of meters. Even if the other tentacles are not that long, they are still very large. Being huge means more food. At least there is no evidence that mages do not need to eat. Magical creatures should also have to eat.
During later exploration, it was confirmed that the food sources of the tentacle monsters were divided into two types.
One is the fruiting body of a certain fungus. This thing only grows near water sources. There are also some in the fifth hall where Wang Qi and others are guarding, but they are few and very small. The area where the tentacle monster is located has a very mature biological iteration system, and a relatively thick soil layer has been formed, and the fungi grow more happily.
Another food found underwater is fish.
From the shape of the fish caught, it can be seen that the underground water here is connected to the surface water somewhere.
Although there are two food sources, the overall living conditions of the tentacle monster are still relatively difficult. After all, there are not many giant fish that swim into the closed ecosystem, and the whole body still has to rely on fungi.
Of course, as long as it is not a warm-blooded animal and uses the ambient temperature as power underground, the energy consumption will not be too high. One meal for several months will be enough to sustain it.
There is a dead end behind the tentacle monster. Except for a new mushroom that seems to be used as a magic material and another ancient settlement ruins, there is nothing special.
In the next week, a total of five settlement ruins were discovered deep in the cave complex, and three water areas that may lead to the same underground lake.
There is nothing special about the ruins except that ancient cavemen had access to steel materials.
Unfortunately, there is a lack of dating capabilities. We don’t know how many years ago the steel came from. Otherwise, we can guess at the development of productivity.
In Wang Qi's view, the biggest discovery this week was the discovery of the originator of the cave ecological chain.
This is a type of bacteria that uses geothermal heat and sulfide to reproduce. It lives in underground hot springs with higher temperatures. No surprise, it was found that their directions were all towards the north.
I didn't bring a microscope, so of course I couldn't see the bacteria directly, but they did support some small bugs that were visible to the naked eye, about only one or two millimeters.
What completes the transfer of nutrients between water and land is a new thing that has never been seen before. I don’t know whether it is a lichen, a coral polyp or an anemone.
For ease of understanding, we will temporarily call it an energy transmitter.
Lichen is a symbiosis of bacteria and fungi. The fungus is responsible for isolating the external environment and maintaining internal moisture. The bacteria is responsible for converting energy and providing nutrients. This thing should not grow in caves because lichens need light.
But the water-free part of the energy transmitter does have obvious lichen characteristics. It is flat and close to the ground. It is porous and soft inside, and juice will flow out when squeezed.
The underwater part is an oversized polyp that relies on lichen. The sampled dead body is about 15 mm in size.
For reference, no other large creatures have been found except for tentacle monsters in the past week. The underground caves have been abandoned. It is possible that the species that feed on the energy transmitters have become extinct, causing the subsequent ecological chain to be unable to maintain.
Could the cause be caveman-induced extinction?
The value of cave ecology and ruins is limited, and it basically does not help the development of forces. Some resources have been discovered.
As of the twelfth day when Wang Qi arrived in the cave, including bat poop fossils and fire magic crystals, a salt water pool, mined gold veins and pyrite were also found inside.
Pyrite is a sulfide. It is very close to the volcanic activity area and there are active hot springs. It is not surprising that pyrite appears.
This thing is also quite special because it is gold and can be easily mistaken. It is also called fool's gold.
The pyrite and gold veins found in the cave are not in the same channel, but the restored map shows that they are very close to each other in a straight line, so there is a high probability that the pyrite here is accompanied by gold.
Unfortunately, it is unqualified as an iron ore. The high sulfur content is the natural enemy of blast furnaces and it is easy to agglomerate in the exhaust gas area. It is generally used to make sulfuric acid. The problem is that chemistry has not developed in this world, and no one seems to have black powder. There is so much sulfur in the north of the royal city that there is no end to it. Using pyrite to refine sulfur is purely unnecessary.
But Wang Qi still decided to use it to see if the gold content in it was worth the whole life, and maybe there were accompanying cobalt, nickel and the like?
But the problem came, he didn't know how to deal with pyrite, so he could only leave it to the iron factory and research institute to figure it out slowly.
Because of the existence of gold veins, the cave development work still requires a certain degree of confidentiality. The fifth hall needs to set up an outpost to station a group of city defense troops to facilitate the management of access to each branch of the cave and to guard against possible tentacle monsters such as tentacle monsters in unexplored areas. Such threats.
You can easily drill holes on the surface to determine the reserves. The bat poop and magic crystals at the entrance of the cave are not structural structures. You need to be careful when mining the gold and yellow iron inside.
Is it possible to specially train a tunnel and culvert reinforcement and rescue team?
This work is related to the knowledge of architects. At least Wang Qi also knows several tunnel rescue methods. It's just that the king is a little weird teaching people, and he's afraid that a group of people will block him at the door and ask questions later.
Get a relevant booklet and study while working, the effect will not be much worse.
There is another element of material that needs to be solved for emergency rescue guarantee-concrete.
Wang Qi is not specialized in making concrete, but architects need to understand the properties of various concretes, and Uu will gain some knowledge of production methods by reading books. For example, volcanic ash or limestone plus iron slag can be used to make high-quality cement.
It has long been possible to simply make cement, but the problem is the lack of sand.
There is cement that can be condensed into a seamless solid body without sand, but the technical level is high and the usage requirements are also high...it cannot be produced now.
But cave rescue is absolutely impossible without cement.
For example, in certain types of cave dangers, several meters of steel bars need to be inserted into the loose area. If there is no cement, soil and rocks can only be filled. Once an earthquake occurs, the steel bars may be pushed out again!
Everyone was exploring the cave, Wang Qi recorded various development needs and bits and pieces, and asked the mage or his entourage from time to time.
Mages can cast spells, but Caroline's answer is not satisfactory: "Your Majesty, magic can turn a pile of mud into a solid, but our three-ring mages can only transform it into a very brittle mudstone."
Caroline is done with the mages she can mobilize and cooperate with the working people without complaint. Even if there is a fourth-ring mage, she can't be sent to various places for rescue every day.
You also have to use cement.
If sand is imported, the current land transportation conditions are poor and there are bandits, so the procurement cost is really unacceptable.
Just rely on local methods.
Isn't the main component of sand just silica? The entire dark place is sitting on silica, so why don't you worry that there is nowhere to get it?
It's just that we need to find some way to crush it. Now we need people in all aspects, the external population is not replenished quickly enough, and the labor force is also slightly tight. If we need more manpower to make sand and gravel artificially, tens of thousands of people may not be enough.
It seems that the steam engine equipment with new functions needs to be worked on.
But don't worry, let's get the cement out first.
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