The next day, there was no snow in the sky, and Tinch arranged for someone to focus their work on the mine. Especially after the heavy use of axes, pickaxes and shovels, the rate of ore mining and crushing has increased considerably.

After mastering the smelting speed of the metal copper juice, Ding Qi started another ash kiln at the same time, and the bronze alloy obtained from this ash kiln will be mainly used to make machetes that imitate Ding Qi's mountain knives, while the first ash kiln will continue to be used to make some production tools, including Ding Qi's newly made scissors and tongs.

The scissors were made for cutting animal skins, which was what he promised Qiao'er, and they were about the same size as the kind of scissors used in the countryside before.

As for the tongs, they are ready to be used for the next step of weapon building, and the current weapons are all cast, although they are much stronger than stone weapons and bone weapons, but they are still slightly lacking in toughness and hardness compared to real bronze weapons. Moreover, it contains a lot of impurities, and if you want the weapon to be more durable, it must be forged and quenched to meet the requirements. However, the degree of forging needs to be well grasped, so as not to damage the weapon after forging, the gain outweighs the loss, after all, the texture of bronze weapons is brittle and hard, and it is not suitable for excessive forging, so you can hit it twice. Unlike iron, which can be refined into steel, bronze weapons can be strong and hard enough, but not tough enough.

Of course, if Ding Qi had put in copper and tin of a fairly high purity when making the bronze alloy liquid, then he would not have to carry out subsequent forging and quenching operations. Due to the level of smelting, he can only reprocess some important tools to achieve durability. For example, the blade of the knife and axe can be forged to a certain extent, which can enhance the toughness of the blade, and can even reach the level of sharpening iron like clay.

The model of the two tools of scissors and tongs is that Ding Qi uses the straight knife on his body to cut the wood little by little, press it into the clay to make a pottery mold, and even the link between the two handles is used as an eye, leaving an eye when casting, and finally nailed in with a bronze nail made in advance, which is considered complete.

Over the next three days, Tinch slowed down the smelting and casting process, crafting each tool. In the end, a total of 60 axes, 80 saw blades, 50 pickaxes, 65 shovels, 300 arrowheads, 60 mountain knives, 2 tongs, and 6 scissors were made, with a total weight of about 300 kilograms. These tools and weapons can basically meet the daily needs of the tribe, and at the same time can arm the hunting party. In particular, the metalization of weapons will quickly increase their instant combat power.

In the following week, Dingqi, who had been vacated by the White Fang team, dragged them together to polish and process the newly made tools and weapons in the shack. The mine was directly handed over to Fox to continue smelting copper ore, and the copper juice obtained was cast into copper plates and stored, and then pulled back to the Ding tribe after Ding Qi had disposed of the tools and weapons he had obtained so far.

The team members are very excited about the polishing of these tools, and they know how convenient these tools will be for themselves. In particular, the weapon will be the first metal weapon they use, sharp, strong, durable, and capable of causing great damage to their prey and the human body. can do these jobs, but they envy the charcoal burners of the bear team and the rat team, and they ask for rotation.

There was no way, Ding Qi had to let everyone take turns to operate these things, and they enthusiastically devoted themselves to this work, even the crutches and wrestling activities that they liked very much

Throw them all aside, forget to sleep and eat.

Taking advantage of the snow stopping, Ding Qi called out to the rest of the bear team to come to the forest with weapons such as bows and mountain knives, as well as newly made bronze arrows, to search for prey.

The newly made bronze arrowhead is sharp and slightly heavier, and when shot with Ding Qi's bow, it can reach a distance of one hundred and twenty steps, and the effective killing distance is also more than a hundred steps, which is much stronger than before.

In the sky, Xiao Jin, who had been stuffy for a long time, was pointing out the direction of his prey after scattering joy. Judging by its rotating posture and the size of the circle, it should be a small herd in front of it, about twenty heads.

Slowly approaching, I found that the animal in a jungle was a small herd of horned deer. Tinch commanded the bears to spread out, surround their prey in a semicircle, and choose some male horned deer as their targets. These horned deer, with their slender limbs, allow them to run fast even in the thick snow without being overtaken by some predators, which also becomes their means of survival in the snow.

This second black snow made the entire snowfield nearly one and a half meters deep, crushing some of the grass that the horned deer could eat underneath. The horned deer can only use its hooves to cut through the black and white snow layer, dig out the grass buried in the snow, shake off the ice slag, chew it twice and swallow it in its stomach, and then bow its head and continue to plan, eating as much as possible to feed itself, at least worthy of the energy consumed by digging the snow layer by itself.

Each horned deer was trying to shave snow and graze, and the leader, a male horned deer, was standing on the periphery, vigilantly observing whether there was danger around him, taking two steps from time to time, looking up and twice, and then quickly bowing his head and taking out two sticks of grass from the snowdrift, chewing and swallowing them into his stomach, and continuing to look back and forth around his wife and children.

The black snow provides them with a certain degree of protection, so that predators will not easily detect them, but sometimes it can hide some predators who also have dark hair, so it is not easy to relax.

For example, Ding Qi, who was surrounding them at the moment, was using the cover of black snow to close the distance between them and the deer.

Ten minutes later, the leader of the male horned deer, who was once again bowing his head and grazing on the grass, suddenly heard a strange sound of wind, and just as he was about to look up to see what it was, he suddenly felt a pain in his neck, and then felt as if a thick wooden stick had been smashed on his neck, and suddenly swung to the side. A tent of warm blood spilled out and splashed onto the black snow below, pulling the strength of the male horned deer away, and its slender and thick limbs could not support its body, and it fell to the ground in an instant. The four hooves kicked back and forth, but in vain, lifted up a black mist of snow, like a black veil, covering its eyes that were gradually losing their lustre, bringing eternal darkness.

As soon as the leader of the horned deer fell, his wife and children scattered, hoping to stay away from the land of death. But some of the horned deer's wishes were ultimately frustrated, and when their hooves pressed down to leap, sharp arrows tore through their flesh and plunged into their bodies, leaving the trail of their lives there.

Suddenly, a stag second only to the leader dodged the attack of the bronze arrow and ran to the woods not far away, as long as it rushed in, the chances of survival were very high.

Ambushed in the surrounding crowd, a sturdy figure was like an arrow from the string, stepping on a ski and waving his hands quickly, rushing parallel to the body of the deer towards the woods, quickly closing the distance between the two sides.

When the distance is closer to within fifty paces, that

The figure quickly inserted his ski pole behind his back, and with a swift bow, he shot a sharp arrow at the head of the horned deer. The sharp bronze arrow swirled, shattering its dark eyes the moment the horned deer turned its head to look at the man, and plunged headlong into it. As soon as it was slightly blocked, it broke through the barrier of the bone and pierced into its brain, cutting off its connection with the rest of its body.

In an instant, that is, in the blink of an eye, I saw that the deer fell to the snow with its front feet when it was hit by the arrow, and the strong kinetic energy quickly lifted the back of its body, and then rolled and fell to the snow, motionless.

Suddenly, the crowd in the distance erupted in enthusiastic cheers, as if to praise the figure's might.

This figure is none other than Ding Qi.

Ding Qi, who had tested the power of the bronze arrow, was very satisfied with this, and the sound of the arrow's flight became smaller and more stable, giving full play to the power of the metal arrow, and the tribe's long-range attack ability was greatly enhanced.

He beckoned, and soon two men came running over on skis and dragging the snow plow, dragging the fleeing horned deer up, and then followed Ding Qi, his face flushed with excitement and a smile of adoration, as if he was praising the leader's unparalleled archery skills, and looking forward to the day when he could improve his archery skills to such an extent like the leader.

Joined the crowd, cleaned up the harvest, and hunted a total of eight male horned deer, as well as a female horned deer who was injured by mistake. If you add dozens of white-haired rabbits and more than a dozen grouses hunted halfway, the harvest of this hunting activity is really a lot. Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, each with a rabbit in their mouths, put their prey aside, tightly surrounded Ding Qi, jumping back and forth, and they finally came out like a little gold in the sky, and they needed to vent well.

Ding Qi asked everyone to transport all the prey to the cave of the Qing tribe as food for these slaves. In two days, he will lead his men back to the Ding tribe, so he must leave enough food for this group, including the five hunting members, and their daily hunting income, to keep them alive until next year's snowfall.

The fox wants to lead these 16 male slaves, under the supervision of five hunting team members, to dig copper ore, smelt and collect metallic copper, and prepare sufficient resources for the development of the mother tribe. They even had to learn to make pottery and charcoal under the guidance of a potter, and in addition to supplementing their daily needs, they stored more pottery and handed it over to the mother tribe for the tribe to exchange.

These are all tasks assigned to them by Dingqi. Of course, there are two very important tasks that are carried out by the fox, that is, learning Chinese characters and numbers, and at the same time changing his habits.

The processing of the tools went smoothly, and with the active participation of everyone, all the tools and weapons that had been cast were polished and stored separately on the snow plows. As for the axe and saw, shovel and pickaxe, five each were left for the development of the tribe here. Not to mention those mountain knives, five are assigned to the remaining team members, and one is allocated to the fox, which can be regarded as an affirmation of his achievements.

Ding Qi told Fox that in order not to distract him, he would take his brother Tanuki back to the tribe without worrying him. But this is actually Ding Qi's selfishness, which can be regarded as a kind of proton in disguise, so that he should do things steadily and not produce unnecessary thoughts and behaviors.

With a huge harvest, Ding Qi led everyone on the return journey and went home!