Chapter Ninety-Three: Black Iron (Three Watches)

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Although Li Qi had been looking forward to being able to smelt the metal, he couldn't help but feel a little dizzy when he actually saw the metal solution flowing out of the hole.

The salt is born in the fruit, and he can barely accept it, after all, salt exists in many forms, and seawater can also be boiled to make salt, but this metal and trees are two different substances, metals are inanimate, and the two cannot be combined.

"Richie, what is this?"

He asked Li Qi blankly.

Li Qi shook his head and said, "For the time being, I'm not sure, I'll not know until it cools down." ”

It doesn't have to be iron, it could be silver.

I saw that the solution kept flowing out of the small hole.

Soon, the inside of the hammer-shaped mold was full. Li Qi hurriedly asked them to turn the mud pot, only to see two rectangular molds on the other side.

Although before this, Li Qi was not sure whether he could smelt the metal, but because the material was very limited, and he had to burn the whole piece, he could not experiment, he had to be fully prepared, after smelting, that is, forging, then hammers, tongs, and anvils were indispensable.

In addition, he also prepared a square clay basin, which was one grid at a time, because if it was made into a large lump of iron, it would be more troublesome to forge, and he didn't need to make a large weapon now, he planned to smelt it into a lump in advance, so as to facilitate the forging later.

Gradually, the light of the solution faded, revealing its original color.

Li Qi bent over and saw that the metal was black, at first, Li Qi thought it was lead, but in the black, he faintly saw a red metallic luster, giving people an indestructible feeling, and couldn't help frowning, what kind of metal is this?

After most of the day, the hole finally did not flow any more solution, and both mud basins were full.

They also looked left and right around, and they were amazed.

"Is this black stone?"

"How can stones burn out of this tree?"

As they spoke, the few of them looked up at Li Qi again.

Li Qi really wants to scold them, you have lived here for so long, you don't know, can I, a traverser, know? He said vaguely: "Since trees can burn charcoal, then it is of course possible to burn stones, what is strange about this." ”

Yu Wenyan nodded solemnly, "Yes!" You can burn charcoal, and of course you can burn stones. ”

Wow! Do you believe this? Li Qi looked at him in surprise.

Nao asked again, "Then what is the use of this stone?" ”

If it can be turned into a solution, then it should be able to be forged. Li Qi frowned and thought to himself, but because of the unsmooth planting, he didn't dare to talk too much now, "I'm not sure at the moment, this will have to be polished before we know, but in addition to this, we still have to make some preparations." Oh, this matter must be kept secret and not let anyone know. ”

"We know!"

They all nodded in unison, although they didn't know why, but before that, Li Qi had repeatedly told them to do it in secret.

This matter must be kept secret, because maybe no one knows that this tree can be smelted into metal, but someone must know about the existence of this kind of tree, otherwise, Ling'er will not lie in it, if those people know this secret, it may be that they have made a wedding dress for others, and the gains outweigh the losses, so he must hide this secret.

After the firewood was burned, Li Qi came to the stove, and when they pried the stone cover open with a stone gun, a wave of heat rushed up, making people feel uncomfortable. After waiting for a while, until the heat wave had dissipated, Li Qi poked his head and looked inside, only to see that there were three colors inside, black was wood, white was dead leaf ash, and there were patches of reddish-brown charcoal, and there were many, many small holes.

In other words, it's still a tree, but it contains a lot of metal.

Richie visually inspects half and half of the metal.

That's a high percentage, and the key is not to use beneficiation, and if you can have such a forest, it's amazing.

"Collect this red charcoal."

Li Qi instructed Hiro.

Hiroshi asked, "Why?" ”

"Have you ever seen this red charcoal?"

"Nope."

"That's not it."

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"Azure is waiting for the smoke and rain, and I'm waiting for you to ......."

Li Qi hummed a little song, leisurely back to the lake, the haze brought to him by the past few days of cultivation, for the time being, is swept away, because the appearance of metal is much more important than planting, planting, you can also slowly find a way, even if the seeds he brought are really not usable, he can still find suitable crops for planting, there are too many plants here.

But as for metal, he didn't have a clue before, although he only had a very small amount of metal, but he at least knew that the plants of this year also contained metal, if this metal could be used to forge weapons and produce tools, then the next step was to find this kind of tree, and then he could come up with his own information.

Without metal, the materials he brought were basically wasted, because his materials were originally divided into eras by metal, at least from the Bronze Age.

Ling'er looked back at Li Qi and said with a smile: "It seems that you have encountered something happy?" ”

"You're right!" Li Qi sat opposite Ling'er and said, "Let me tell you, after my investigation this day, it is really true." ”

Ling'er was stunned and said, "What is really like this? ”

Li Qi said seriously: "It's rain!" You're right, the water in the lake is used to nourish fish and aquatic plants, and only rain can nourish the earth, I asked a lot of people, and everyone said that. ”

Ling'er was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said nothing.

Li Qi rolled his eyes, waved his hand and said, "Come on, let's play the next game and see how your practice results are on this day." ”

Ling'er smiled confidently: "You have to be serious today." ”

Li Qi pulled out his helmet and said, "Put it on." ”

Ling'er was stunned for a moment and said, "Why?" ”

Li Qi said: "If you want me to concentrate on playing chess with you, then you must at least cover your face, otherwise, I will not be able to concentrate on it." ”

Ling'er didn't react for a while, and after a while, her cheeks were dizzy, and she snorted: "It seems that you have made a good excuse for failure!" ”

"It's impossible to fail, if you can play me in one day, then my chess over the years has really been played... The stone went inside. ”

Li Qi wanted to talk about the dog's belly, but suddenly remembered that Ling'er was an animal protectionist, so he changed his words.

The stone is really innocent!

Ling'er stretched out her hand slightly and said, "Please." ”

"Hey! It seems to be a little interesting, okay, I'm going to show you some real skills today. ”

Li Qi fell directly in the middle.

Ling'er immediately opened her beautiful eyes and said, "No... Isn't it necessary to go down to the four corners first? ”

"Did I say that?" Li Qi said with a smile.

In fact, this pioneer Tianyuan is purely a way to pretend to be forced to abuse vegetables.

Ling'er glanced at Li Qi, and then fell to the right corner.

Yikes! This woman is not a good man! Li Qi was a little surprised, he thought that Ling'er would have a backgammon contest with him, and then the two sides immediately returned to the corner battle.

The more this happens, the more surprised Li Qi is!

Although in the situation, Li Qi has the advantage, but it looks like a rookie, the number of roads is to kill in the big circle, and Ling'er is always Gujing Bubo, as if she is still with herself, even if she loses the lower right corner, she is not surprised, as if her son is born for the overall situation, especially when fighting for the middle part, every time Li Qi wants to besiege her, the chess pieces born from the four corners can always help her save the day, and finally the whole game of chess is alive.

Looking at her chess move, she is not at all like the apprentice I taught, there is always room for room everywhere, which is somewhat similar to the civilization of their big tree tribe! Li Qi secretly glanced at Ling'er, only to see that she was still engrossed in the chessboard.

In the end, of course, Li Qi won, but compared to yesterday's big victory, today he is only a small victory.

You must know that Ling'er only learned Go yesterday, and although Li Qi is not a top master, he has been to the Song Dynasty after all, it was an era when Go was popular, and he was definitely the top among his amateurs.

"Next game."

Ling'er raised her head and looked at Li Qi.

Her eyes were very calm, but she saw that Li Qi was a little empty in her heart, and she only felt that if she added another game, she would definitely lose, and said, "Let's go down here today, and you can think about it again." ”

"It's good!"

Ling'er nodded, and said, "But the people of your tribe are really smart enough to invent such an interesting game. ”

Li Qi rolled his eyes and said, "I'm willing to take this invention and exchange it with you how to communicate with the worm." ”

Ling'er was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "You can't learn this." ”

"Why?"

Li Qi really felt very puzzled, "Everyone is human, why is it that your Big Tree Tribe can, our Huaxia Alliance can also raise a lot of beasts and live with them every day, even if I can't, our next generation can too!" ”

Ling'er's cheeks suddenly turned red, and she blurted out: "Who will follow your next generation." ”

Li Qi was stunned, and suddenly laughed, "You really misunderstood me, I mean the next generation of our Huaxia Alliance, not the next generation of the two of us." "A flash of inspiration suddenly occurred in my head, yes! Genes! Genes are the most buggy thing, what to learn, just give birth to a child, or you will know everything!

Ling'er was embarrassed for a while, and her snow-white cheeks turned red.

Li Qi looked at her like this, but he couldn't bear to tease her anymore, and said: "Regarding this and ** flow, I really think that if you are willing to guide us, we can be like you." ”

He was really not joking, after last night's scene, he wanted to get this skill more and more, at least there was no electricity, he could still work at night, at least he knew the weather at all times, this was really too good.

Ling'er shook her head and said, "You can't learn it. ”

Li Qi was puzzled: "Why? ”

"Because... Because only by living in our Big Tree Tribe can we do it, and I won't teach. Ling'er said.

What kind of crooked reasoning is this, since you know, then why can't you teach it, I just don't have a high talent in Go, and my language talent is first-class. Li Qi only thought that she didn't want to teach, but she could understand in her heart, after all, he would also hide the black metal.