Chief don't slap in the face

Chapter 247 Iron Age ([-]rd watch)
boom!
First, a black bird the size of a buffalo smashed into the smoke and flew out of it, followed by Gong Shuxing, spraying blood, and fell out.

boom!
Gongshu fell to the ground and rolled a few more times. His chest was sunken in a large area, and he had only one breath left. Obviously, he couldn't survive.

"I'm fine!"

Xia Ye came out and coughed twice. His body was not injured, but his clothes were torn to pieces. If it wasn't for absolute defense, even if he didn't die this time, he would be seriously injured.

"I told you earlier, the mechanism master's fighting methods are very strange!"

Seeing someone approaching Gong Shuxing, Mo Wuheng hurriedly stopped him: "Wait a minute, let me do it!"

Even if the mechanism master is dead and only the corpse is left, he can still set up traps, fight back and take away a few buried with him.

"Mo Wuheng, even if I'm a ghost, I won't let you go!"

Gong Shuxing roared.

The skin on his back against the ground broke open, and a mechanism beetle the size of a fingernail crawled out, trying hard to burrow into the ground.

"Trying to distract me? No use!"

Mo Wuheng kicked Gong Shuxing away, listened attentively, then plunged the wooden umbrella into the ground, and crushed it vigorously.

Haw!

The beetle was crushed.

"I lost!"

Gong Shuxing looked dejected.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything to your body!"

Mo Wuheng promised.

Some mechanism masters, after killing their enemies, are still not relieved, and even make the opponent's corpses into combat puppets, which can be regarded as using the value to the limit.

"Izumi, treat everyone!"

Only a few female soldiers were slightly injured, and Xia Ye was very satisfied with the result.

Gong Shuxing's exploration team was almost completely wiped out, only Gong Shujian and Gong Shuchou remained, and Gong Shulin was seriously injured and still groaning miserably.

"Please, help me!"

Gong Shulin begged, "I don't want to die!"

"If you let us go, I will tell you a shocking discovery!"

Gongshuchou swallowed a mouthful of saliva, pretending to be calm and set out the conditions.

"You found iron ore?"

Xia Ye asked back.

"Iron...iron what?"

Gongshuchou was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses: "That kind of metal is called iron?"

"Your shocking discovery, my elder brother already knew about it!"

Song Guo rolled his eyes, jumped onto a big rock, and looked around, this canyon is really huge, and there is almost no vegetation growing, and the red soil covered is indeed like blood.

"No, how do you know it's called iron?"

Gongshuchou thought of another question. He originally thought that Xia Ye was talking nonsense, but he found that copper and iron really go well together!

Xia Yezhi said, the periodic table of chemical elements, how about I recite it for you?
"It's so poor!"

Song Guo squatted next to Mo Wuheng, watching her rummage through the package of Gong Shuxing, and found that there were almost no valuable spoils.

"It's normal. Mechanism masters are not short of money, but they can't save money. They are all used for experiments and building mechanism war beasts."

Mo Wuheng explained that the essence of a Mechanism Master is condensed on their Mechanism Beast.

For everyone in Xia Ye, those damaged mechanism war beasts are useless at all, but they are a precious asset for any mechanism master.

"Eh? This guy is the son of the ancestors!"

Song Guo had sharp eyes and saw a bronze medal, which was the same as the one he got before.

"By the way, I have already slaughtered the two ancestors' sons. If I kill too many, will they come to me?"

Xia Ye was just teasing, he wasn't afraid.

"Are these two going to be silenced?"

Jia Duo asked.

"Quiet!"

Mo Wuheng is not a cruel person, but it is related to new metal, so he must be on the safe side.

In Elena's expedition group, there were ten blacksmiths accompanying them, but after so many years, only two of them died, and because they lived in no fixed place all the year round and did not have ore, so the craft wasted a lot.

Xia Ye's blacksmith came from captives after Xia Mingyu's tribe was wiped out, and his level is average, that is, the level of repairing damaged swords.

As a mechanism engineer, Mo Wuheng is well-educated and capable of refining common sense, but has very little practical experience.

"Forget it, let's make do with it!"

Xia Ye sighed.

"Look what I found!"

Song Guo came running with an iron lump, which was picked up from Gong Shuxing's crucible.

Mo Wuheng snatched it over, and after studying it carefully, there was uncontrollable excitement in his voice.

"Sure enough, it's a new metal!"

"Congratulations, Great Chief!"

The two slave blacksmiths knelt down and flattered them.

On the first day, the forging team headed by Mo Wuheng just did some simple experiments to confirm the existence of iron and test various attributes at the same time.

"No need to test, the melting point and boiling point of iron are higher than that of copper. After being made into weapons, iron weapons will surpass bronze weapons in terms of sharpness and hardness!"

Xia Ye introduced.

"Melting point?"

Mo Wuheng blinked: "Boiling point?"

"The temperature at which iron melts into molten iron is called the melting point, and the temperature at which molten iron evaporates into gas is called the boiling point!"

Xia Ye said this on purpose, he wanted to keep Mo Wuheng as Chaoge's engineer.

"Did you learn it from a certain ruin?"

Mo Wuheng speculated that after all, she would never have guessed in her dreams that Xia Ye was the lucky one who survived the spore catastrophe.

"Yes!"

Xia Ye didn't hide anything, and called the forging team over, and popularized the knowledge he still remembered.

"If you want to smelt iron, you must use a higher temperature, so you need to use a blast furnace and coke!"

As soon as Xia Ye finished speaking, several hands were raised in unison.

"I can literally guess the blast furnace, which is a very high furnace, so what is coke?"

Mo Wuheng asked.

"Coke is a substance obtained after incomplete combustion of firewood or coal. It provides higher heat and is more resistant to burning!"

Xia Ye explained.

"What is coal?"

Mo Wuheng continued to ask questions.

"A dark mineral, which is a combustible substance that was gradually formed by ancient plants buried underground after thousands of years of changes in the earth's crust!"

Xia Ye said this, and added another sentence: "This time I went out on Friday and found an open-pit coal mine. Everyone will see the real thing soon."

In fact, there is no coal, and firewood can also represent it. Anyway, tall trees are the most indispensable thing in the ancient forests of the barren land. As for deforestation and environmental damage?Sorry, no one cares about this in this day and age.

Mo Wuheng took out a small notebook and recorded it carefully.

The reserves of iron ore are much larger than that of copper ore, and its versatility is wider. The most important thing is that through iron ore, steel can be smelted. This is the metal that Xia Ye wants.

Xia Ye loves to read historical novels about farming, and when he was a child, he also heard adults say that in the past, every family built a blast furnace, made iron and steel, and held production competitions.

Ironmaking technology is not difficult.

After Xia Ye finished telling what he knew, he became the hands-off shopkeeper and handed everything over to Mo Wuheng.

A temporary camp was erected, and a captive group of more than a hundred people was brought in. Their task was to mine ore, grind it into powder, and after screening, send it to the blast furnace.

On the third day, the first furnace of molten iron flowed out, but it was not enough to smelt iron ingots that could be used to make weapons.

The molten iron has a lot of impurities and must be removed.

Lu Lingxi is very interested in new metal, so she put down her breeding business and came to visit. For so many years, she has been traveling all over the world, exploring various ruins, and collecting those lost knowledge.

Among them is some knowledge about forging. Lu Lingxi didn't seem to understand it before, but after listening to Xia Ye's popular science class, he suddenly realized it.

With the addition of a Mohist genius, Chaoge's pace towards the Iron Age has become more and more stable.

I haven't seen my younger brother for nearly 20 days, Xia Lingyue misses him very much, so when Elena came to report to Xia Ye about this expedition after her triumphant return, she followed her.

Death Canyon, Song Guo disliked the name, so it has been changed to Red River Valley, and a large flag has been erected, with the corpses of the public losers hanging on the nearby trees to warn intruders.

In fact, in order to keep it secret, Xia Ye pushed the cordon to ten miles away. In addition, there are few people in the wilderness, so it is still very safe.

As soon as Xia Lingyue approached the Taniguchi, black smoke and dust billowed up and drifted into the distance with the summer wind.

A sneeze!

Elena sneezed.

There was a pungent smell in the air, which made the nose a little uncomfortable.

"Take this!"

Song Guo distributed the linen masks to everyone.

After going deeper into the canyon for tens of meters, everyone saw a camp with more than a dozen tall furnaces erected on the west side.

As soon as it got closer, a heat wave hit our faces.

"Add charcoal! Add charcoal!"

Mo Wuheng commanded.

"Molten iron is about to come out, if you have anything to say, we can talk about it later!"

Xia Ye was shirtless, and was sweating profusely at work. There was a giant spirit god next to him, and he was temporarily working as a blacksmith.

Elena shook her head, putting the Giant Spirit God on the battlefield is definitely an overwhelming force, but Xia Ye is lucky to let it do odd jobs, it is a waste at all.

"The Great Chief can do it!"

Eileen murmured, but she didn't complain at all. With Chaoge fully upgraded, now a giant spirit god can be born in ten days, and as long as it doesn't face those big tribes, the appearance of five giant spirit gods will completely crush the situation !

The blast furnace was opened, and a stream of red molten iron slowly flowed down the stone trough.

The blacksmiths immediately started to process the molten iron.

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As it cools, pieces of iron ingots take shape.

"Looks good!"

Mo Wuheng nodded, at least the quality of the iron ingots produced a dozen times before was much better.

Fortunately, iron ore and coke don't cost money, otherwise Xia Ye would be so heartbroken if it wasted like this
Next, it's Guinevere's performance time, she is the swordsmith of Timeless Isle.

There was a tinkling sound, and no one felt annoyed. Instead, they watched the iron ingot with great interest, gradually turning into a sword embryo.

Xia Ye took a moment to meet the summer moon.

"Don't get tired!"

Xia Lingyue felt distressed, and took a towel to wipe Xia Ye's sweat.

"Wu Heng and Lu Niang are more tired than me!"

In addition to Xia Ye's popularization of knowledge, Mo Wuheng and Lu Lingxi took over the specific operations. To be honest, without these two, Xia Ye would not have seen an iron sword after working on it for a year.

"Is this iron?"

Elena picked up an iron sword curiously.

(End of this chapter)