Under the dim light of the oil lamp, the visibility was about ten meters.
On both sides of the wooden steps, there was something more than ten meters away that was completely invisible.
If any magical beast suddenly jumped out from more than ten meters away, the soldiers would not have much time to react.
Sand sea...
A sand sea composed of black iron sand was created by man. Ye Qiong became more and more curious about what it was used for.
Just store up iron?
It seems impossible. After all, there is plenty of this stuff in nature. Being able to extract this black iron sand is enough to prove that the level of civilization at that time should not be too low, and the extraction technology was already very mature.
Even, it is a civilization that is completely beyond the scope of Ye Qiong's cognition...
Ye Qiong walked to the end of the wooden stairs and squatted down, stretched out his right hand and gently grabbed a handful below.
The feeling of holding the black iron sand in your hand is a very strange one, it is cold and heavy.
The light from the wooden barrel grease lamp gave off the feeling of being swallowed by black iron sand.
Black is inherently more light-absorbing, and the light-absorbing properties of these black iron sands seem to be stronger, so if you look forward at this moment, you will feel like you can't see your fingers, but when you put your hands in front of your eyes, you feel like you can't see your fingers. You can see it.
This is not an argument, but a real feeling at this moment.
Ye Qiong has actually been wondering what the purpose of these black iron sands is being stored here.
If it is not for the purpose of building weapons or the like, then there is a high possibility that it is magnetism...
If electricity could be connected, these black iron sands might have some miraculous effects comparable to magic.
After getting up, Ye Qiong asked the warrior behind him to bring ten lantern arrows.
After lighting the lamp arrow, Ye Qiong raised the bone crystal long bow.
"Whoosh..."
"Whizzing……"
As the light arrows were shot out by Ye Qiong, the area further away finally became brighter.
Ye Qiong shot four of the ten lantern arrows directly into the black iron sand sea in front, and shot the remaining six lantern arrows to the left and right sides, three on each side.
This space area, some of the outer areas, finally have light!
The scene now seems to be more open, and it also allows Ye Qiong and the soldiers around him to feel the vastness of this space.
The lantern arrow was shot out by the bone crystal arrow and flew a long distance in the air, at least more than three hundred meters.
Ye Qiong can shoot farther, but the light arrow is a bit unbearable.
The arrow body of the lamp arrow and the small wooden barrel on top are filled with grease. After the top wick is lit, a windproof wooden cover is added to the outer area.
The windproof effect is still good, but there is a certain limit. The force Ye Qiong is shooting now is the current limit speed that the light arrow can keep in the air without extinguishing.
If the force is greater, after the wick is extinguished in the air, no matter how far the light arrow is shot, it will be useless.
The lantern arrow landed on the black iron sand and did not fall. It seemed that it could float on the black iron sand for a while.
The arrows that hit the wall on both sides looked much brighter.
At the same time, a wider cliff scene appeared in front of Ye Qiong and the soldiers.
As far as the eye can see, there is a bare cliff, as if someone has deliberately polished it with sandpaper. If you sprinkle some water on it, it can reflect light.
The thing Ye Qiong wants to determine most now is how wide this area is, that is, the distance from here to the opposite wall. Only by clarifying this can we know the inside of this area from a macro perspective. How big is the scale.
As for how long the length can reach, it is also a difficult thing to determine.
Currently, the biggest difficulty in exploring this area is that there is no place to set foot.
This is very uncomfortable...
Ye Qiong would rather have a big river down here. Even if there is some magma or something, he can accept it.
But these black iron sands cannot move forward through buoyancy. If something slightly heavier falls on it, there will only be one end, and that is to be swallowed up.
The soldiers at the back continued to bring some lantern arrows, and Ye Qiong waved his hand, indicating that no need.
If you want to explore this area, it seems that you still can't rush. You need to rely on manpower and material resources to proceed slowly.
He led the soldiers to climb up the X-shaped wooden stairs again. Without an elevator, it would actually be tiring to climb so high.
On the left side, in the huge space inside the cave, some proposed residential areas have been built, which are somewhat similar to the wooden bunk beds of the train. After sufficient supplies and food are provided, the soldiers can live here.
As for whether it will be boring or something, in fact, there is no need to consider this issue at all. Human beings who have not been brainwashed by electronic information can live a very fulfilling life in this environment, and can find some fun and some traditional games.
For example, small games such as backgammon and Huarong Tao, which have been popularized by Ye Qiong.
Ye Qiong has thought about making chess. This thing is really not difficult, but Ye Qiong's mind has always been on other aspects, and there is not much motivation for the development of these puzzle games in the tribe.
Some traditional tribal games are passed down from generation to generation, and there are still many interesting ones.
There is really no need for Ye Qiong to worry about this aspect.
Letting the soldiers find their own places to live, Tang Li also returned to the right space.
Ye Qiong came to the entrance of the waterfall cave alone.
As the wind increased, the blizzard also arrived. Although it was a little brighter at the entrance of the waterfall, the visibility was not high. Now we could no longer see the magnificent scenery like before.
The base of the waterfall looks a little lonely under the snowstorm.
Inside the waterfall cave shrouded in a snowstorm, you can see the swaying lights inside from a distance, so it gives people a rather warm feeling.
Before the blizzard stopped, Ye Qiong had to spend time with the soldiers in the waterfall cave.
He personally built a wooden bed at the entrance of the waterfall, and Ye Qiong slept directly here. Generally speaking, he still didn't like to be crowded with the soldiers.
There are many reasons, including age and status, and Ye Qiong himself prefers to be alone. If he is with the soldiers, if he doesn't speak, the soldiers will have nothing to say, and the atmosphere will be very depressing.
Without Ye Qiong, the soldiers could rest and relax after a tiring day.
At this moment, the two architects from the Na Ning tribe were still in the waterfall cave, and Ye Qiong gave them a very challenging task this time.
That is to find a way to expand the wooden stairs.
As much as possible, build a wooden bridge that can run through to the other side on top of the black iron sand!
These things cannot be done in a day or two. Although Ye Qiong cannot help them physically, he can give them some suggestions in terms of construction.
Although Ye Qiong has no research on modern architecture, he has never eaten pork and has seen pigs running away. The suggestions he made are definitely helpful.
Those black iron sands can withstand only a limited amount of force, mainly because heavier objects will gradually move downwards. If the depth of those black iron sands can be measured, building things on top will not be a problem.
After Ye Qiong asked about it, he realized that he was not the first person to have this idea. When the soldiers in front were repairing the wooden steps to the bottom, they had already started to measure the depth of the black iron sand.
It can be said that you don’t know what to expect, and you will be shocked when you test it.
The depth of the black iron sand below is a bit astonishing...
At first, the soldiers tried with wooden sticks, but when a wooden stick was pressed down by the soldiers with some difficulty, there was no sign of bottoming out.
So the soldiers bound two wooden sticks together, then three...
The length of each wooden stick was two meters, and the soldiers soon realized that it was impossible to measure the depth of the black iron sand using this method of measurement.
It's not that the wooden stick is not enough, but the further down the wooden stick is, the greater the resistance it encounters. This means that if you rely solely on human power, you can push the wooden stick down to a depth of more than ten meters.
If you want to continue to detect, you must have something denser. The warriors with their imaginations thought of the long weapons in the space on the right side of the Waterfall Cave.
So dozens of long weapons were tied together and carried over by the soldiers.
The long weapons were tied together end to end and sank directly along the black iron sand.
After the depth of detection reached thirty meters, they once again fell into a bottleneck and could not continue. However, the soldiers did not feel that they had reached the bottom. Instead, the friction between the long weapons and the black iron sand made them feel that they had reached the bottom. It couldn't go any further.
Based on the areas that have been explored so far, the amount of black iron sand stored is already amazing!
If the space on the left side of the waterfall cave is long enough, Ye Qiong even thinks that if all the black iron sand inside is removed, a Great Steel Wall might be built...
In the waterfall cave, Qing Zhi is not here at the moment. In the last battle with the Thunder Madman King, several forest apes were injured, so Qing Zhi and Qing Lie stayed in the central tribe for a while. Time, after the injuries of the forest apes recovered, they returned to the tree palace.
Ye Qiong did not go over there. Qing Lie and Qing Zhi have been very busy since the waterfall base was established, and they have not had much rest until now.
So this winter, Ye Qiong planned to give them a long vacation and just wait at the waterfall base. He would come over when the two men were almost rested.
Although Qingzhi is no longer in the waterfall cave, Ye Qiong now has no shortage of translators.
After such a long period of contact, both the Ye Qiong tribe and the Na Ning tribe have each trained some people who can serve as translators.
Most of them were female warriors. With the help of these translators, Ye Qiong and the two Na Ning tribe architects could still communicate.
What needs to be done now in the space on the left side of the waterfall cave is to continue to expand the wooden stairs towards the front and both sides while mining the black iron sand.
As for the problem, the main problem is how to leverage on the black iron sand.
There was originally no good solution.
But the long weapons that the soldiers got down to measure the depth of the black iron sand were a good choice.
It's just a bit of a waste of weapons.
In between...
There is a trade-off to be made!
Although black iron sand can now be mined freely, in terms of weapons, the weapons currently produced by the Ye Qiong tribe are not as good as those in the right space. It is not that Kuang Baichi's technology is not good, but the materials!
Those weapons and equipment were not made from black iron sand, and were different in color.
The weapons and equipment in the space on the right are black, a deep black.
And these black iron sands, after being made into weapons by Kuang Baichi and his disciples in the central tribe, tend to be silver.
Or maybe...
Something else needs to be added. In short, as the population base of the tribe increases, the number of warriors increases, and the weapons required also increase.
The weapons and equipment that seem to be very abundant at the moment, if too much is consumed in the black iron sand area on the left, the weapons will start to be stretched after the tribe develops for another year or two.
The snowstorm continued to rage. During the day, Ye Qiong would stroll around the spaces on the left and right sides of the waterfall cave. Occasionally he would stand in front of the mural in the middle for a moment, wanting to feel the ancestors of the Na Ning tribe and the century-old bird. What kind of scene is the Madman King fighting?
Judging from the murals, the mount under the Centennial Madman King is at least at the king level. It is not known whether it is a king-level scavenger beast or an ordinary king beast.
Ye Qiong has been looking for two figures on the mural, but he has looked at them many times in the past few days and has not seen them.
It is the figure of Lord Forest Ancient Ape and Lord Dimain...
At that point in time, it's hard to say whether these two lord-level monsters were present or not.
At night, Ye Qiong will come to the entrance of the waterfall and sleep on the small wooden bed he built.
Listening to the cold wind outside the waterfall cave and looking at the gently swaying wooden barrel grease lamps inside the cave, it's quite a different mood.
Half a month later...
The snowstorm has stopped, and the wooden steps on the left side of the waterfall cave are expanding to the outside every day.
The stress-bearing point of the main body is still on the cliff. The black iron sand below, within a certain distance, can temporarily not consider the stress. There are no people living on it. It is mainly for traffic, even if it accidentally collapses. , and there is plenty of time for the soldiers to evacuate.
When the sky cleared up, Ye Qiong came to the entrance of the waterfall...
"Chirp!"
After whistling at the waterfall, Ye Qiong jumped directly onto the wall at the edge of the waterfall cave.
Soon, a huge figure flew directly from the base of the waterfall.
Thunder still did not sleep at the altar. It seemed that it had adapted to life with the soldiers, and it also had feelings for the arrow tower where it had lived since childhood.
Ye Qiong looked at the thunder soaring into the sky and couldn't help but smile. When the figure of Thunder was about to reach the entrance of the waterfall, Ye Qiong suddenly jumped up and jumped out directly.
The body hung in the air for a moment, and then was pushed up by Lei Ting's neck!
