Chapter 137: Clearing the Wasteland

Two days later, the task sent by Su Yan to the tribesmen was completed, and a large net with a width of two meters and an indefinite length of more than three hundred meters was weaved.

Rolling up the big net, Su Yan led a group of clansmen to the outside of the residence about three meters away from the house.

Under Su Yan's command, several clansmen cooperated to pull a large net apart, one end of the net was tied to the trunk of a big tree with hemp rope, and the other end was pulled forward along the range of the residence, trying to stick the big net to the trunk of a big tree every five meters or so, and then fixed the net with hemp rope.

In this way, in addition to the four entrances and exits in the southeast, northwest and northwest, the dragon tribe's residence has been surrounded by a large net, and there is still a little left of the woven net, as for the entrances and exits, it is good to use branches or rattan to weave four gates.

With the wall made of this big net, a hidden danger of the dragon tribe disappeared, and Su Yan was relieved.

The dragon tribe has stabilized, and has entered the same life again, fishing, renovating houses, and going out to hunt every few days to improve food, Su Yan also led the exploration team to explore the outside world every day, mainly to collect herbs, and at the same time to find metal veins and new crops.

In fact, Su Yan could have found a metal vein, which is the area near where he went out to find dog-head gold before, since there is dog-head gold, it means that there are gold mines nearby, and gold mines rarely exist alone, and there will be associated ores such as silver, copper, lead, zinc, tungsten, antimony, and molybdenum.

However, even if there is an associated mine, Su Yan will not go to the mining vein, not to mention the difficulty of mining the mining vein, even the separation of various metal ore smelting is not possible under the current poor conditions, so Su Yan directly left the gold ore behind and stopped thinking about it.

The area that Su Yan explored was mainly the more than 1,000-meter-wide forest between the dragon tribe's residence and the big river, and he wanted to collect all the more precious herbs growing in it as soon as possible, because Su Yan was going to burn this area as a wasteland area.

The area between the dragon tribe's residence and the big river as the wasteland was decided by Su Yan after careful thinking, and the most important thinking was that the dragon tribe fishing team had to go to the big river every day to fish, and there were fewer beasts in this area because of primitive human activities, but there were also accidents, and the fishing team had to be careful and vigilant every time they went out fishing.

If all the woods in this area are burned, the people of the dragon tribe will quickly find themselves ready for battle as soon as a wild beast arrives, and the open terrain is more suitable for primitive people to fight in teams.

Before setting fire to the wasteland, Su Yan needs to determine whether there are precious herbs growing in it or new crops that have been burned, and the possibility of finding a new crop is relatively small, but it is also necessary to explore it, maybe he will be lucky to find a new crop.

In this way, time passed day by day, in a blink of an eye, the spring is coming to an end, the rainy season is coming, during which the planting team and the salt mining team go out again, the planting team goes to the hemp planting area to weed, the salt mining team picks salt, almost every two months the salt mining team has to go out, the planting team is not necessary, just remove the weeds before the hemp harvest.

The rainy season is coming, Su Yan is observing the weather changes every day, not every time it is cloudy, it is suitable to set fire to the wasteland, sometimes it is just cloudy and it will not rain, sometimes it will only rain lightly, and there are not many times when it rains heavily, anyway, there is no heavy rain this spring, and the rainfall is a little less than usual.

Su Yan doesn't know much about the weather, and it is impossible to predict whether there will be light rain and wind the next day, so Su Yan can only make a simple judgment through the dark clouds in the sky, the sky is full of dark clouds, and the darker the sky, the higher the probability of heavy rain, but sometimes it will be wrong.

The new home of the dragon tribe and the hometown of the dragon tribe can not be compared, at the beginning, the hometown of the dragon tribe is surrounded by open space, and you can directly set fire around the wasteland without worrying about the fire burning the residence, the new home is different, the residence built by the monkey tribe is directly connected to the woods, and there are fewer trees inside the residence, but the outermost layer of the residence is directly connected to the jungle, once the fire spreads, it may burn half of the new home of the dragon tribe.

Therefore, before opening up the wasteland, Su Yan made a lot of preparations, such as making artificial isolation belts, those big trees with the thickness of a child's waist are very difficult to cut down, but the thinner trees and weeds can be removed, Su Yan directly asked the tribesmen to create a separation belt with a width of more than 20 meters in the east and north of the Dragon Tribe's residence.

There is no standard calendar, and Su Yan cannot determine when the rainy season will begin, and often Su Yan will use the first heavy rain three months after the beginning of spring as the time to enter the rainy season.

Another three days passed, and when he got up this morning, Su Yan looked at the sky, most of the sky was covered by dark clouds, and there might be rain today, I don't know how much rain it will be, but Su Yan still asked the clansmen to make some preparations.

After a quick breakfast, Su Yan set off with a team of people and a fishing team to the river.

Originally, there was no road from the dragon tribe's residence to the big river, and there were more people walking, and a road was stepped out, through which the fishing team could walk from the place of residence to the big river in half an hour.

Coming to the big river, Su Yan ordered a team of people he brought to make a fire by the river first, and then went to help the fishing team to fish together, although there is a lot of reserve food in the tribe, enough for everyone in the dragon tribe to eat for a month, but they can't sit and eat empty, as long as the weather allows, they have to fish every day, and they have to hunt.

Su Yan has been observing the changes in the sky, more than an hour has passed, the sky has been completely covered by dark clouds, and it is inevitable that it will rain today, but I don't know how much rain it will be.

"Caution, let's call it a day, it's going to rain, let's go home." Su Yan shouted towards Shen.

Hearing Su Yan's words, Shen hurriedly asked the fishing team to call it a day, and after five or six minutes, the fishing team had already packed up all the things used, the people of the dragon tribe each held fishing nets and weapons, and the slaves carried the fish on their backs.

"Shen, you take someone first."

"No."

Shen led the fishing team back first, and then Su Yan made the final arrangements for his team, a group of three, scattered in this wood, starting from the side of the big river, and advancing in the direction of the tribe's settlement, constantly setting fires along the way.

There is no need to worry about the lack of ignitions, there is still a layer of rotten leaves and plants on the ground, as long as they are lit, a fire will soon appear.

"Let's go!"

One person held a burning torch in his hand, and more than a dozen groups of people scattered, and they immediately went into the woods by the river, and used the torch to light a thick layer of rotten leaves and plants on the ground, and they walked all the way forward, but behind them slowly turned into a sea of fire.