Spore Story

Chapter 149 Do You Want To Make Pottery?
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This is a key point of human civilization, which enables human beings to obtain the ability to control the shape of creations more freely, and greatly expands human creativity.

Once a human being, Gaga, who watched her roommates take a pottery class out of interest in college, knew that the first thing she needed was clay.

But what is a pottery class in college?It is to use the prepared clay to let the students make various strange-shaped objects according to their creativity, and then the school is responsible for making pottery.

Therefore, all Gaga knew was clay and fire.

Quack, who began to realize that the main contradiction of the ethnic group at this stage is the contradiction between the ever-growing demand for living utensils and the lack of utensil-making capabilities, discovered clay in the quarry.

Then, through the clay, I thought of the mud I played with when I was a child, and finally I thought of the quack in the pottery class, and finally remembered the important thing of pottery.

Looking at the soil that has become sticky after the muddy water, and thinking about the plasticine he played with when he was a child, Gaga showed a warm smile.

Although the memory is blurred or even incomplete, at that time I put all my pocket money into plasticine and made strange "handicrafts" one by one, but finally disappeared in the dust of history one by one because of the constant moving. Gaga was satisfied.

"Well, in addition to clay as a raw material, pottery needs a kiln, which seems to be a furnace or something."

He ordered the two quack apes to collect this clay here, and quack himself took the remaining quack apes and started digging holes on the side of the road not far from the quarry.

Now it is only in the experimental stage, and there is no need to test large-scale cave dwellings, so it is enough to burn a few small pottery in a small pit to explore the pottery making method.

Gaga's idea is simpler, "Anyway, as long as the temperature and uniform performance are satisfied, it should be fine."

With this "probably" attitude, a simple small cave dwelling appeared on the side of the road and became an excellent site for roadside bombs. Of course, this is based on the premise that there are mold and uncles here.

This is a small ring-shaped pit with a diameter of three meters. It is covered with large stone slabs left over from paving, and the stone slabs are filled with soil to facilitate heat preservation.Of course, there must be no shortage of air channels.

The pit is two meters deep and can be descended along a slope.Stones are used to set up two shelves inside the small pit, which are used to place the prototype in clay state, while the central open space is set to stack firewood for baking.

Excitedly, it took two days to carefully knead a few exquisite small pottery, and Gaga eagerly put them into the cave.

In the past two days, the cave has not been left idle, but a few quack apes have pasted a layer of clay on the inner surface, and then baked and dried it with fire to test the method of making water tanks in advance.

Although the interior was full of cracks, Gaga was still satisfied and placed several small pottery on the internal stone shelf one by one, and then stacked firewood, ignited, closed... and opened the kiln (- -).

It's not that the time skipped a few days and finally baked it, but because Gaga suddenly remembered that these few pieces of dry firewood would burn out in half a day. At that time, there was no firewood, but the temperature in the kiln rose again. manage?
We should be thankful, at least Gaga still knows not to open the kiln halfway.

"No coal mines have been found around here, and I don't know what can be used to increase the temperature and combustion durability? It's painful!" Obviously, Gaga has not yet realized that there may not be coal mines formed on the Double Moon Star at this time.

After thinking about it carefully, Quack, who has not found the reform method for the time being, can only choose to pile more dry firewood in, pile the large firewood into tower shapes, and then light them in the kiln, hoping to increase the durability.

After feeling that it should be about the same, Gaga finally closed the cave again with anxiety.

On the first day, Gaga stayed by the side of the cave, always wanting to open it to see what's inside.

Itching to be unbearable but trying to suppress the inner impulse is a great test of self-control, and Gaga can only look here and there, and use the method of diverting attention to disperse the inner desire.As for the quack apes in the team under him, they habitually held chat meetings on the sidelines without any sense of tension.

The next day, when he got out of class early in the morning from the apprentice's dream, Quack used his palms and tentacles together, grabbing some hot roast meat, and ran to the small kiln to guard it.Looking at the gloomy sky, Gaga, who is the "god" of the dream, prayed in his heart that it would never rain.

"I didn't think about it before. It seems that the future kilns must pay attention to avoiding rain!"

That night, looking at the moonlit sky, Gaga returned to the lair with peace of mind.

On the third day, Gaga rushed to the cave early in the morning to feel the temperature of the cave.

"It seems to be about the same as yesterday, neither hot nor cold (= =). Maybe we have to wait for a few more days, after all, the temperature of the firewood is not high." After calming down a little, Gaga decided to wait a day or two until the temperature of the cave dwelling Then start the kiln after a little lower.

At this moment, Gaga suddenly remembered something and felt that he should sort out his thoughts, "First of all, I don't know how to make pottery; secondly, it is now an experiment instead of manufacturing. The experiment is to keep failing, and then choose thousands of pottery pottery A successful case that happened by accident in a failure, and then compared to find the reason for the success, and then continue to experiment, and finally come to the correct method.”

Looking back at the ground of a small cave dwelling, Gaga realized her mistake, that is, there were too few test items. "We need to build a few more cave dwellings, and then experiment with different fire volumes and different times, which can greatly save the experiment time! Meow, why didn't I think of doing it before?"

At noon, Quack was called away by Lingxue, leaving a few quack apes at a loss, looking at the dozen or so cave locations marked by the road, and after chatting for several hours, they finally started to work according to the previous excavation experience.

"What's the matter? There are still many treasures in my kiln!"

"Boss, Lingyun said that it is too troublesome to climb the mountain during the sacrifice, can you build an altar in the place where the house is built this time?"

"That's it?" Gaga looked at Lingxue strangely, shaking his head and said, "This is not acceptable, the altar is a sacred thing, how can you say that you can change the place if you change the place! Unless there is an extremely important reason, the built altar It must not be relocated! Yes, this must also be included in the priest's tutorial."

Seeing Lingxue's embarrassed expression, Gaga, who was taking out her notebook and started to record, flashed doubt and dissatisfaction in her eyes, "Where is Lingyun? This is her priest's business, how can I let you, the leader, ask?"

Since the three-level system has just been implemented, for the quack apes who are used to being undisciplined, the changes brought about by this system are just more things, which makes the boring life more fulfilling.They have just begun to understand the social division of labor, and they are still unable to distinguish the differences in responsibilities.

A system is like a commodity, the designer is the manufacturer, and the user is the buyer of the commodity.No matter how perfect the product is, if it cannot meet the needs of buyers, it is just a product that is eliminated.

Therefore, the three-level system that Quack is currently implementing has little change compared to the original composition of the nest, which is acceptable to the quack apes.At the same time, a new concept of social division of labor was introduced to allow the quack apes to adapt slowly, instead of letting them do it overnight, which would be forced buying and selling.

So Gaga's dissatisfaction at the moment is just that she feels wrong about Lingyun's behavior of asking others to do her own things.But Gaga still seems to lack understanding of his subordinates, or caring.

"Little Lingyun said that she has to teach apprentices, take care of children, and get herbal medicine to heal the injured members of the building. Now she can't get away." She looked at Gaga carefully, although she didn't know that she or Lingyun had something to do with her. What's wrong, but Lingxue doesn't want to be imprisoned like Lingyun was last time.

"Eh!" After thinking about it carefully, recently, due to busy with various things, the relationship between the other members and me seems to have become a little estranged, and even the members of the Gaga team and Lingyun Lingxue When I saw myself, I became a lot more cautious. "This is also the inevitability of history."

Shaking his head helplessly, the so-called lonely family is exactly what he was talking about.It's just that Quack is relatively better now, because the current Quack apes are very simple, and even if they become more rigid in communication, it's just an appearance.

However, the future is hard to say.

"It seems that the priest's plan needs to be accelerated." After thinking for a while, Quack looked in the direction of the cave with a little apology, and then said to Lingxue, "Little Lingyun is indeed too busy, it seems that it should be in the little quack ape, Choose a few smarter apprentice priests for her to become the apprentice priests of this lair. This can also be used as the back of the priests in the future, helping Lingyun share some work."

Lingxue thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Ling Yun shook her head and objected halfway through listening, "No! Big boss. I'm living a good life like this, so I don't want to be separated!"

Seeing Lingyun spread her wings to block the movements of the little quack apes behind her, Quack was speechless, "Looking at this situation, why does it look like I'm going to be the eagle that snatched the chicken? It's not that I want to grab you. "

Going forward to touch the one horn on Xiao Lingyun's head, Quack waited until Xiao Lingyun showed a kitten-like expression before explaining her previous proposal one by one. "First of all, I don't want to share anything with you..."

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Listening patiently to my Quack's explanation, Lingyun carefully looked at Quack and said: "So, the big boss didn't want to let the little ones leave, nor did he want to stop me from being a priest (Quack: ...). Choose a few of the guys to follow me all the time, let me teach them to be priests and become my helpers?"

"Yes, you understood really quickly this time!" Glad that her language ability seemed to be on the rise, Gaga looked at Lingyun who was suddenly enlightened, and naturally ignored Lingyun's resentment for being punished before.

She looked at Quack in embarrassment, and Lingyun quickly lost her expression, and looked at Quack with dissatisfaction, "It's still that the big boss didn't make it clear, huh!"

Turning around and taking the little guys with him, Quack stared at Lingyun dumbfounded, and realized that the so-called restraint that he thought these guys had when facing him... Maybe it was just his own psychological delusion.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Gaga quickly put on a satisfied smile.

"We don't want to be alone."

(End of this chapter)