Amid the desolate singing, suddenly a Jia tribe guide pointed at the valley and shouted excitedly.
Everyone looked over and saw a large group of people carrying several huge things. They were laughing and laughing all the way. It looked very lively.
Several Jia tribe guides ran as fast as they could into the valley. Soon, their extremely excited shouts were heard: "Death to the devil!"
"Wow!"
There was a violent commotion among the Five Ghosts who gathered at the entrance of the valley, and a large number of hunters rushed towards Xu Chen and others who had returned from victory.
The remaining group of women, children, old and young, were all so happy that they burst into tears.
This group of cannibal demons were like a heavy mountain that could not be overturned on their heads. The entire tribe was breathless and completely unable to live a normal life like other tribes.
Now that the devil is dead, they can finally live the same peaceful life as before.
And they also believe that without the demons, the curse imposed on them by the gods will soon disappear, and the tribe will once again usher in happiness and light.
"Your Majesty the Witch King!"
Xu Chen and others walked to the mouth of the valley surrounded by a large group of Five Ghost hunters cheering. The great shaman, women, children, old and young, all lay down on the ground. They bowed to the ground to welcome his return with great piety, and the name also changed to what the Jia tribe calls him.
honorific title.
Although no one understands what His Majesty the Witch King means.
But this is Xu Chen’s exclusive name.
It is said that the great shamans of the Ba, Wu and Gonghuo tribes call him this way to express their highest awe.
Xu Chen, who had returned victoriously from slaying demons, still felt very pleased when he saw such a grand welcome ceremony by the Five Ghost Clan.
Although I wasted two days just to kill these man-eating beasts, it was all worth it.
It can be seen that this ghostly tribe has finally fully accepted and recognized its future status, and is willing to collectively bow down under its big linen pants.
But when he came closer and raised his hand to help the big witch up, he realized that blood was flowing on her face and body, making her look even more terrifying.
Several Jia tribe guides hurriedly explained with pictures and pictures that this was the great witch who was praying and blessing for them to slay demons through self-mutilation. This made Xu Chen's remaining anger for concealing the will-o'-the-wisp incident when he entered the valley disappear.
This once powerful tribe has become so miserable that it is understandable even if it does even more unreasonable things.
Besides, this old witch is not bad, she just wants to rid her tribe of demons and curses.
"Look, these are the cannibal demons that scare you, five of them in total..."
Xu Chen asked the hunters to throw the five-headed giant dead on the ground.
When looking at these terrifying demons that were larger than humans, with a ghostly face but the body of a giant bird, the men, women, and children of the Five Ghosts fled in fear, and at the same time, some people started throwing stones at them angrily.
Someone took the lead and got out of hand. Countless stones hit the giant withers like hail, so the five giant withers, which were originally messy, were soon messed up beyond recognition.
"Wait, don't smash it, I still have some use for the feathers!"
Xu Chen quickly shouted to stop him.
After the Jia Clan guide translated the paintings, the people of the Five Ghost Clan seemed to have found a way to relieve their anger. They swarmed up and began to tear the huge withered feathers. After a burst of feathers flying all over the sky, when hundreds of people had finished venting, the five ghosts
The giant wilted birds have become unbearable to see, and each of them has turned into an ugly pheasant with bare wings.
However, this still couldn't let the Five Ghosts vent their hatred. They wanted to carry these demons back and eat them, so a large group of people helped Xu Chen pack up his feathers, and then carried the five scarred and featherless giant birds back with joy.
Home.
Several adults and children who acted as bait were all handed over to the chiefs of several tribes unscathed to be taken back for comfort.
Next, of course, there is a grand bonfire dinner.
After the five large birds were disemboweled, they were placed on the bonfire and started to be grilled.
However, Xu Chen had no interest at all in this giant man-eating bird. He asked the hunters who were accompanying him to take out earthenware pots and start cooking dry food such as wheat, beans, meatballs, etc. to satisfy their hunger. As for whether the other people accompanying him ate it or not, he didn't care.
, being able to eat a meal of demon meat is worth a lifetime of boasting about their awesomeness.
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Three days later.
Devil's Valley.
More than ten large and small piles of rocks that used to be piled in the grass have been cleared away.
All the skeletons remaining in the grass were collected and buried collectively at the foot of the mountain not far away.
The bones were buried with the stones from the former stone pile.
But they are piled together on a larger scale, like a huge tomb.
The demon has been eliminated, and this place has become a safe place. This huge tomb will also represent the burial of the fearful past and the prospect of a happier and more peaceful future.
After cleaning up the river stall, a two- to three-acre site was built with wooden and stone circles, in which several wooden houses and several smelting furnaces were built.
Xu Chen and a group of Ba hunters are leading the men, women and children of the Five Ghost tribe to participate in this hot project.
Xu Chen not only helped the Five Ghosts kill the demons entrenched here, but also helped the Five Ghosts find a way to get rid of the curse.
Because the Five Ghosts have been cursed by the gods, the sick people will not be able to fully recover. However, as long as they live in a different place, they can gradually get rid of the curse and be able to give birth to healthy and normal offspring in the future.
In addition, lead ore is a stone contaminated by demons and contains terrible toxins. Although it can cure skin diseases when applied to the body, it will cause deeper poisons in the body, bring various diseases, and make people ugly and scary.
, and to get rid of this toxin, in addition to not applying it to the body in the future, it is necessary to completely burn the ore with fire and refine it into another metal.
This new metal can be used to make weapons that are sharper and stronger than stone knives, stone axes and animal teeth and bones, which is the kind of dagger given to the great witch.
This is also a skill taught by the gods, which can prevent the curse from spreading, or even turn the poison into a treasure.
After receiving the two methods proposed by Xu Chen to completely eliminate the curse, the Great Witch of the Five Ghost Clan and all the clansmen were grateful and expressed their willingness to mine and smelt the cursed stone for Xu Chen free of charge in the future, but hoped that Xu Chen could help find a suitable one.
new territory.
Naturally, Xu Chen was eager to ask for it, and said that he could help find a place with rich water and soil in Gonghuo Basin, and guide them in building houses and farming so that they could settle down.
Now the people of the Five Ghosts were even more grateful. The great witch even said that as long as the tribe could get rid of the curse in the future and give birth to perfect and normal tribesmen to reproduce and survive, the Five Ghosts would be willing to help him mine and smelt this metal for generations to come.
As a result, the two sides hit it off immediately, resulting in the current bustling construction scene.
The melting temperature of lead is very low. The metal can be melted at more than 300 degrees. The smelting temperature of the ore is even lower. It can be melted and smelted quickly with ordinary firewood temperature.
The Ba people can even smelt copper now, so smelting this low-temperature metal is no problem.
Therefore, after three days of construction, this simple metal smelting plant was completed.
On the fourth day, with all the men, women, and children of the Five Ghost tribe watching, Xu Chen personally guided a group of men from the Five Ghost tribe to start the first furnace of lead ore smelting.
The smelting furnace is not high, only more than one meter. Because there are no bricks, it is built with stones and earth. Below is the stove, and above is a round semi-closed blast furnace. The inner wall is smoothed with clay to collect heat and facilitate adding
For processes such as ore and slag extraction, the smelting furnace is surrounded by a circle of earth made of stone and soil. The entire smelting furnace looks like a small furnace-like structure.
After the inner furnace is smoked and dried, the cleaned galena is put in, and firewood is placed below for continuous burning.
Because there is no charcoal and coal, this closed smelting furnace can only be used to smelt sulfur-containing galena, and is useless for cerussite that needs to be reduced with carbon. cerussite is caused by galena being oxidized in the air for a long time.
There are not many mutated ores after desulfurization. The lead ores in nature are almost always dominated by galena, so this small earthen blast furnace can only be used for desulfurization and reduction.
But this is enough for now.
Although this consumes a lot of wood and causes a waste of heat, the least valuable thing at the moment is wood.
The melting point of lead is indeed very low, so low that even Xu Chen was surprised.
It only took about an hour for the lead ore to be put in and burned before it began to melt. Once the melting started, the aggregation effect would produce more concentrated heat. All the ore would soon melt in one furnace. Use a wet wooden stick to continuously turn it to pick up the slag on the surface.
Come out, and then continue to add lead ore into it, using the melted lead water to continuously melt the lead ore behind it. With such continuous accumulation, after three hours, the inside of the stove is like a pot of red soup, and the stock is full.
The onlookers who were writhing and watching kept exclaiming.
"about there!"
Xu Chen was drenched in sweat at this time and could no longer hold on. After giving the order to cease fire, he used a spear to pry open a stone at the juice outlet, and then a stream of red metallic liquid flowed out from the juice outlet, and then
It flows down slopingly along a groove into the simple sand mold that has already been made.
The temperature in winter is low, and the original temperature of molten lead metal is only more than 300 degrees, so it cools down very quickly. Soon after the molten metal flows into the sand mold, it quickly changes from bright red to dark red, and then turns to green.
White, but as the temperature drops further, it quickly turns to dark gray.
Lead should originally be bluish-white, a nice-looking color, but it is easily oxidized when exposed to heat in the air, and an oxide film will quickly form on the surface. Therefore, the lead pendants you usually see are gray and can only be broken open.
Only then can you see the true color.
Because the melting points of lead and tin are extremely low, they will inevitably become the earliest metals that appeared in the history of human smelting, and were discovered longer than copper.
The extremely large atomic weight of lead also determines that it is a very dense heavy metal. All elements with greater atomic weight than it are radioactive. Therefore, lead is a strange thing in the metal world. It is heavy, toxic, non-radioactive, and has an extremely melting point.
Low, weak and weak, unable to do anything.
But for Xu Chen right now, the emergence of lead is undoubtedly of epoch-making significance.
Even without tin, copper-lead alloy already has very practical value, but it is far less easy to smelt and process than copper-tin alloy, and its performance is also much worse.