The village is small, with only seven or eight houses, with round walls and pointed roofs, earth walls and thatched roofs. The huts have no windows, only door openings, and no doors. There is a big bonfire in the center of the village, and there is also a water tank carved out of stone, which contains more than half of the tank of clean water.
Behind the village, there is a totem pole several meters high. It is wrapped with colorful cloth strips and painted with bright colors. There are paintings on the pole, which depict a group of tribal warriors chasing and killing ferocious beasts.
But at this time, the entire village was empty, and there were no traces of animal activity, as if no one had ever lived in it.
However, in Chu Jungui's eyes, although the bonfire had been extinguished, the temperature was still much higher than the surrounding environment. It was obvious that it was still burning not long ago. So where have all the people in this village gone?
Chu Jungui slowed down and slowly approached the village, monitoring all the movements around him.
Just as he was about to enter the village, several bone arrows suddenly shot out from the forest, one of which was in the direction he came from! These arrows shot fast and hard, and the hollow arrow tips whizzed, which was breathtaking.
Chu Jungui didn't even know how these guys hid under his nose, but in his eyes, these attacks were slow, and he could easily avoid them by moving sideways. Then he turned around, opened his bow, and shot an arrow in the direction of the attack!
Chu Jungui's arrow was very hard and much faster. The long arrow made an explosion and caused the crown of a big tree to shake wildly. There was a scream in the forest, and a figure appeared from the tree and fell to the ground.
Chu Jungui fired a series of three arrows, two of which were effective, but the last one was dodged.
Seven or eight figures appeared in the forest. They were only 1.4 meters tall. They had heads about the same size as humans, but their bodies were quite thin. They had long arms and legs. They looked somewhat similar to humans, but they were dragging behind them. A long tail.
Their skin was dark, with pale white stripes on their faces and bodies, and their eyes were a strange green. Some held bows, and more held spears, and they were approaching Chu Jungui little by little.
Chu Jungui did not take action immediately, but asked: "Who are you?"
He asked this question several times in multiple languages, but the villains didn't respond at all and just kept silent as they approached little by little.
Suddenly, the villain holding the spear threw the spear in his hand hard! But the whistling spear only hit one shadow. Chu Jungui jumped up and passed over their heads. Then the sharp arrows fell in the air and shot into the heads of each of the villains.
After landing, there were only two little men with bows left in front of Chu Jungui. They were not afraid of death and drew out their bone knives and rushed towards them, but Chu Jungui appeared behind them and pinched the back of their necks, knocking them out.
After dealing with this group of ambushers, Chu Jungui waited for a while and saw that there were no more ambushes, then he put the corpses of the villains in a place, then carried the two unconscious villains into the village and began to search the entire village. village.
Most of the houses are paved with hay, and dried animal meat is hung under the eaves. One is a warehouse, and the other is a handicraft workshop, which contains a large number of animal bones and several grindstones used to grind bone tools. These bone and stone tools were nothing to see, but a strange-shaped stone jar aroused Chu Jungui's interest.
The stone jar was filled with rot, and a piece of ore was buried in the soil. Chu Jungui knew at a glance that it was iron ore, which can be seen everywhere in real dreams. As for the mulch, it can only be seen that it is rich in microorganisms, but the smell is not very good.
There was an opening under the stone jar, and some clods of soil rolled out and piled on the ground. Chu Jungui picked up the clod of soil and looked at it. He rubbed it casually and crushed it into pieces. Then he found that there were many hard particles inside. He brought the particles to his eyes, turned on the microscope field of view, and then switched the spectrum, and found that these particles were actually iron, and the purity was over 98%.
Chu Jungui pulled out the ore from the stone jar again, and saw a large number of holes in the part buried in the soil, like a sponge. It seems that the microorganisms in the slush eroded and devoured the ore, and then expelled the metal elements, resulting in those extremely pure particles. These particles don't even need to be smelted anymore. They can be used directly by washing away the soil with water, sifting out the particles, and melting them into molten iron in the furnace.
What is this stone jar? Biometallurgy?
It seems that this is where all the metal parts of this small village come from. No wonder, judging from the bone arrow hut, they should still be in the Stone Age, but they have high-quality steel blades in their hands.
However, the metallurgical efficiency of stone jars is obviously very low, so only three or four villains can use steel blades, and the other villains can only live by stone knives, bone arrows. But the idea of biometallurgy is just right for Chu Jungui now. The 2% impurities in these metal particles are mostly rare metals with extremely high melting points, so when these particles are smelted into ingots, they are not iron, but alloy steel.
Chu Jungui is not short of iron or copper now. With the thermal power furnace, most basic metals can be stably supplied, but he is short of rare elements, and the microorganisms in this stone jar can obviously deal with rare elements. At this stage, Chu Jungui’s needs are not large.
"Kaitian." Chu Jungui began to call Kaitian. In terms of cell-level operations, Kaitian is obviously more experienced than Chu Jungui.
After dealing with the tool shop, Chu Jungui came to the totem pole. After looking at it carefully, he suddenly let out a light sigh. This totem pole has four sides, and a large symbol is painted on each side of the top. They are different. They don't look like simple patterns, but like hieroglyphs.
But Chu Jungui recalled that the calls of these villains were relatively simple, and the syllables were mostly repeated. They did not look like they had a highly developed language, let alone writing.
There is a faint light on this totem pole, but you can't see it unless you look carefully. Chu Jungui's heart moved, and he stretched out his hand to touch the totem pole. Suddenly, his vision became blurry, and a piece of information rushed directly into his consciousness!
Chu Jungui saw a dozen little people dancing primitive dances in front of the bonfire, making hoho sounds, and a few people were kneeling and worshiping in front of the totem pole. Little bits of spiritual light continued to rise from the kneeling figure and merged into the totem pole. Then the totem pole shot out a ray of light that shot straight into the sky, while pieces of brilliance fell from the night sky and landed on the totem pole. These brilliance then turned into symbols, flickered and then disappeared into the totem pole.
An elderly villain smeared his eyes with blood, stared in the direction of the totem pole, and then used charcoal to draw a symbol on the ground. It was one of the symbols that appeared on the totem pole, but it was somewhat specious.
The illusion dissipated, and most of the light on the totem pole disappeared. Chu Jungui looked up and saw that one of the four symbols at the top was exactly the same as the one drawn by the elderly villain in the illusion.
Chu Jungui turned around and stared at a corpse outside the village, which was the villain who drew the symbols in the illusion.
"Kaitian?" Chu Jungui called again.
Kaitian finally responded: "Wait, Master! There is another one here... ah!"
Chu Jungui was startled, jumped up, and rushed into the woods in an instant. He saw a small man lying on the ground, with most of his hands and feet cut off, while Kaitian lost his human form and turned into a ball of mist. Stained with large areas of milky white juice. These juices seemed to be extremely corrosive, turning large areas of Kaitian's body into gray particles.
Seeing that Kaitian's body shrunk sharply, Chu Jungui didn't care so much anymore. He took off all the milky white liquid stained on Kaitian's body and held it into a ball. Then flames emerged from the palm of his hand and took all the white liquid away. Burnt to ashes.
Kaitian groaned again. There were some of his cells in the liquid. Now they were out of control and turned into ashes in Chu Jungui's flames.
The little man on the ground struggled to hold himself up, opened his mouth, and spat out a thin stream of venom, which was naturally avoided by Chu Jungui. Then it slumped and fell to the ground, unable to spew anything more.
"what happened?"
After Kaitian recovered a little, he sent a piece of memory over.
When Chu Jungui annihilated the ambushers, Kaitian always felt that something was wrong in the forest, so he lurked and observed quietly. When it got close to a big tree, a small man emerged from the trunk, and when it opened its mouth, a ball of white poisonous juice sprayed all over Kaitian. This kind of venom is extremely overbearing, and Kaitian's cell-level defense cannot withstand it. If Chu Jun hadn't returned quickly, it might have become the first Mist clan to die in the real dream.
Now Kaitian only has 500 grams left in his body, which can be described as a heavy loss. But as long as you recover, you can regain the weight within a few days. Chu Jungui paid great attention to a detail in Kaitian's memory.
"Did it come out of the tree?" Chu Jun returned to the big tree that Kaitian pointed out, climbed up the tree, and came to a position close to the crown of the tree. This is where the little man appears.
There are no traces of human activity on the surface of the big tree, and no smell remains. If Kaitian hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chu Jungui would never have believed that the villain appeared from this position.
After thinking for a moment, Chu Jungui pulled out his saw and peeled off the bark, revealing the trunk behind it. However, the surface of the tree trunk is very smooth, and there is not even a big hole, let alone an object as big as a small person.
Chu Jungui took out his hoe and ax again and dug deep into the tree trunk. In a blink of an eye, he dug a big hole, but found nothing. Finally, he simply felled the big tree and cut it into several sections, only to find that it was a solid and well-developed tree.
Chu Jungui tried to interrogate the villain, but the villain's hands and feet were almost strangled by Kaitian, and he spit out a lot of venom. Chu Jungui didn't even finish asking a question, and it already lost its life.
Chu Jungui woke up the two stunned villains one by one and tried to interrogate them, but in the end he found that they only had very simple language and their ability to communicate with each other was very limited, let alone understand what he said and what he said. Answered the question.
It was getting late at this time, and when Chu Jun returned and asked nothing, he tied the two villains to wooden stakes and prepared to spend the night in the small village. Having learned from the past experience of being attacked, Chu Jungui did not let Kai Tian keep vigil anymore. These villains could obviously see through Kai Tian's disguise and cause great harm to Kai Tian. Although Chu Jungui could not detect them, as long as these villains showed up to attack, Chu Jungui could instantly counterattack and kill them with one blow.
After lighting the bonfire, Chu Jungui sat by the fire, cooked a pot of porridge, and drank it slowly. At this time, Kaitian suffered a heavy blow and could only drink one bowl.
While drinking porridge, Chu Jungui recalled the vision he saw on the totem pole. This method of directly sending data into human consciousness is a technology that humans have not yet mastered.
Happy New Year to everyone!
(End of chapter)
