The goblin minions rushed forward to grab the fish on the ground.

Li Meng stepped forward and went to the water's edge to wash his hands.

"Wow!"

As soon as he squatted down, a huge creature suddenly rushed out of the water in front of him.

A 1.5-meter-long black rockfish opened its sharp mouth and bit Li Meng.

Li Meng rolled his eyes at the attacking black rock fish.

A punch was thrown, hitting the fish's chin.

The huge force directly caused the black rock fish to fly up and hit the stupid person next to it.

Benben subconsciously caught the black rock fish.

It looked at the boss beside it, and then looked at the black rock fish in its hand.

Somewhat confused, they started eating the fish.

How did the fish fly into its hand?

Li Meng picked up a stone from the river bank and stood up.

Chapter 19 Ironmaking Experiment

"Let's go out!"

This cave is very large, there is no need to go deeper.

The space here alone is enough.

With both wind and water, it is an ideal place for iron smelting.

Li Meng then led his goblin minions out of the cave.

Outside the cave, Li Meng began to assign tasks to his goblin minions.

"You, you, you, go to the forest and pick up stones like these."

Li Meng showed the stone in his hand to his goblin brothers.

The stone in his hand was picked up by Li Meng from the river in the cave.

It is grayish in color and is iron ore.

This shows that the cave is a natural iron ore cave.

The three goblins pointed at by Li Meng hurriedly ran into the forest.

"Gobug, go find the dead tree!"

Gobbug nodded and ran into the forest with the remaining goblins.

"Stupid, let's go find some clay!"

Benben followed Li Meng obediently.

In the forest, Benben, who was following Li Meng, reached out and poked Li Meng on the back.

"what happened?"

Li Meng turned around and looked at Benben.

Benben pointed at himself and a deep voice came out of his throat.

"Bang?"

Li Meng smiled and pointed at Benben with his right hand.

"Stupid!"

Then Li Meng pointed at himself again.

"Boss!"

Benben looked at the boss, then looked down at himself.

Its right hand pointed towards itself.

"Stupid?"

Li Meng nodded.

Benben pointed at Li Meng again.

"Boss!"

Li Meng nodded again.

In this way, under Li Meng's teaching, Benben learned his new name.

In the next few days, Li Meng only did one thing.

That was to prepare for the iron smelting experiment.

On the fourth day, the underground riverbank of the cave.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

Seeing the boss placing the chopped wood neatly in overlapping layers, Gobug asked curiously.

"Look carefully, you will have to do the same thing in the future!"

After spreading the firewood flat, Li Meng took a piece of iron ore and placed it on top.

"Put all this iron ore on top!"

The boss's order made the goblin brothers quickly move the iron ore piled aside onto the firewood pile.

“Just lay one layer, don’t overlap!”

After giving the instructions, Li Meng knelt on the ground.

This kneeling scared the goblin brothers.

Li Meng ignored the frightened goblin minions.

He took the dry wood and plush that had been prepared on the side and started to make fire.

Li Meng rubbed the wooden stick, making a rustling sound.

Benben sat aside and watched the busy goblins curiously.

In less than ten minutes, Li Meng smelled smoke.

Soon, billowing white smoke came out of the plush.

Li Meng quickly put down the wooden stick, held the plush in both hands and blew it carefully.

After a while, a flame appeared in the darkness.

"It's fire, the fire of humanity!"

The appearance of the flames made Gobbug scream.

"Shut up!"

Li Meng glared at Gobug, then quickly took the flame and lit the dry grass in the firewood pile.

As the dry grass was ignited, the flames burned vigorously.

Benben was also frightened by the flames, and his huge body trembled.

In a moment, the pile of firewood was burning fiercely.

The rolling heat waves that hit the surroundings made the goblins look curious.

They never expected that the boss could get the human fire by just rubbing it for a while.

"Stupid, get some water!"

Clapping his hands, Li Meng pointed to the bamboo bucket next to Benben.

That was when Li Meng found some bamboo in the forest while looking for clay.

Those bamboos are so huge that it takes several people holding hands to hug them.

Li Meng used the bamboo to make some bamboo buckets.

Benben stood up and drew two buckets of water from the river with a bamboo bucket in each hand.

Not far away, there is a pile of yellow mud.

“Pour it in and stir it with your hands!”

Under Li Meng's hands-on instruction, Benben stirred the yellow mud with his huge hands.

Soon the yellow mud gradually turned into clay.

Seeing that the clay was almost soft enough, Li Meng began to make a blast furnace with it.

"Gobug, continue piling up the wood, just like I was doing just now."

Seeing that the first pile of firewood was almost burned out, Li Meng gave instructions to Gobuge.

Goborg nodded, not quite understanding.

A group of goblin minions began to spread the firewood in a hurry.

After a while, a pile of firewood was barely piled up.

The goblin put some more iron ore on it.

"Don't use your hands, use a stick!"

Seeing that Gobug wanted to pick up the charcoal from the campfire with his hands, Li Meng scolded him.

Gobug's hand trembled and he quickly withdrew it.

It carefully picked up a piece of charcoal with two wooden sticks and placed it in the pile of firewood.

As the dry grass was ignited, the second pile of firewood began to burn.

By this time, the first pile of firewood had burned out.

All that was left was charcoal and burnt iron ore.

"Take the burnt iron ore and smash it into powder on the rocks nearby. Remember, don't pick it up with your hands."

The goblin followed suit and used a wooden stick to remove the hot iron ore.

The goblin placed the burnt iron ore on a smooth stone nearby and began to smash it with the stone.

Because the iron ore has become brittle due to high temperature, it will break into pieces with a slight hit.

Small pieces of gravel can also be easily crushed into powder.

Iron ore powder is produced when iron ore is crushed into powder.

Since it was an experiment, the first blast furnace was not large.

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Li Meng spent five hours making a 1.5-meter-high blast furnace.

It took another two hours to dry out the blast furnace.

"It should be fine!"

Looking at the well-organized blast furnace in front of him, Li Meng nodded repeatedly.

Although the surface is not very smooth, it is his first time making a blast furnace after all, so some flaws are acceptable.

The blast furnace is small at the top and large at the bottom.

There is only a small smoke outlet and feed port left on it.

In order to supply oxygen and increase the temperature inside the furnace, there are three vents at the bottom of the blast furnace.

Each vent is connected to a bamboo tube.

On the other side of the bamboo tube is a simple bellows made of animal skin and bamboo.

The bellows has a simple structure and did not take Li Meng much time to design.

"Then let's get started, idiot, and show us the secrets!"

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