Chapter 298: Outwitting the Salt Lake
The problem of eating salt is urgent, if Wang Village is still a small village as it was at the beginning, then there is nothing, a few people dig out the salt stone every day, and the salt extracted from the excavated salt soil is enough for a village to use. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But now Wang Village has long been famous, and the villages within a radius of hundreds of miles know that they have a crystal clear taste, authentic snow-white and beautiful table salt, so they all come to Wang Village to exchange.
Salt in Wangcun can now only be purchased with copper coins. Many villages did not send people to work in Wang Village, and naturally there were no copper coins.
But they were able to exchange with those who came to work in Wangcun.
It is precisely because of this that the salt accumulated in Wangcun has become more and more scarce, and by now, it has almost bottomed out.
The formation of the new army was handed over to Gu Mu to handle, and as for the candidates, Wang Hao would choose them.
With the help of a panoramic map provided by the system, the loyalty of the new army is not at all to worry about.
Only those who have lit up their own points of light will be able to enter the new army at the very beginning.
And Wang Hao, on the second day after he returned, took ten slaves to solve the problem of salt.
The giant tortoise of the salt lake, God knows how long it has been in the salt lake. Anyway, when it moved from Wang Village, it was already living in the salt lake.
There are also strong and weak third-level creatures.
And the salt lake giant tortoise is obviously the top existence among the third-level creatures.
When Wang Hao was a child, he had heard that in Wang Village, the third-level white tiger in the west had gone to the salt lake to lick the salt water.
It's just that he got into a fight with the giant tortoise in the salt lake, and since then, the white tiger has never been to the salt lake again.
Whenever the white tiger lacks salt in its body, it would rather hunt the rest of the creatures and get salt from their blood than step into the territory of the giant tortoise.
The salt lake is not far from Wang Village, and if you run there, you can get there in half a day.
The area around the salt lake is covered with reddish-brown salt stones. The original Wang Village obtained salt from these salt stones. Take a bite and it's fishy and smelly.
Around the salt lake, there are not many salt stones that have been exposed to the wind and sun and have spontaneously split. The village has almost collected all the salt stones in the past few months.
It is precisely because of this that the production of salt has decreased, and it has become a state of making ends meet.
After such a long period of development, Wangcun already has strong strength.
But his strength is only relatively strong compared to other villages in the Great Wilderness.
If compared to the best of the third-level creatures, the Salt Lake Giant Tortoise, then his strength is not worth mentioning.
Because of the giant tortoise's domineering character, Wang Hao had thought of many ways to get rid of it.
For example, dig a pit and set a trap, and wait for it to fall into it.
Either weave a huge net out of twine, lure it ashore, and then use the net to trap it, etc., etc.
It's just that after a night of thinking, all the methods he thought of were finally overturned by himself.
In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is useless. Because it doesn't even need to pay attention to your plots, it just needs to crush it and overturn everything about you.
In the end, after thinking about it, Wang Hao still decided to outwit.
The third-level creature already has extraordinary wisdom, but Wang Hao believes that no matter how smart it is, it is just an animal.
If you are a few hundred meters away from the salt lake, find a low-lying place and dig an underground passage to the salt lake. It should be possible to bring water from the lake underground.
The more Wang Hao thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible.
The environment of the salt lake is different from the rest of the place.
The salt stone at the edge of the lake is a stone that resembles volcanic rock.
Although it is stony, it is not too hard.
If you use the alloy shovel produced by the system, the people of the Great Wilderness can dig and move.
This kind of salt stone is simply inherently suitable for the construction of underground passage geology.
After digging out the channel, its own quality is able to withstand the pressure. Unlike the soil, there is still a need to worry about landslides.
Once the passage is opened, the flow of water that will pour in in an instant must be very large, and there is no need to worry that this kind of tunnel dug out of the salt stone will be washed away by the lake.
As long as it's all underground, the giant tortoise won't find out.
After all, for so many years, except for dealing with those creatures who steal the lake water, Wang Hao has never heard that the giant turtle will take the initiative to go ashore. Even during this time, the tribesmen went to the salt lake every day to mine the salt stone from the lake, but they could not attract the giant turtle to land. You know, for the sake of convenience, they all use sledgehammers to mine salt and stone, and the sound is not very small.
In addition to the ten slaves, Wang Hao also brought another clansman over.
The main role of this clansman is to take care of these ten slaves and be responsible for overseeing the work.
And Wang Hao, the reason why he went over was because he was very curious about the giant tortoise and wanted to see it with his own eyes again, although he had seen it before, but that time it was too far away and he didn't know much about the strength of the giant tortoise.
In the afternoon of the next day, Wang Hao and the others rushed to the salt lake.
Since it is called a lake, the area of the salt lake is quite large.
At least Wang Hao couldn't see the other side of the lake from one side of the lake.
Directly east of the salt lake is a rolling mountain range.
In the middle of two straight cliffs, a small river about 10 meters wide carries the water into the lake.
The cliff stretches out from the mountain, from high to low, and when it reaches the lake, there is only about ten meters left.
Wang Hao stood on the edge of the cliff, used a rope and a wooden bucket to draw a bucket of water from the river below the cliff, tasted it and had no salty taste, and after systematic identification, there was no salt in the river water.
What made Wang Hao puzzled was that the river water did not contain salt, so where did the salt in the lake come from. And, why, for so many years, the salinity of the lake has not been reduced by the dilution of the river water?
To the west of the Great Lake, there is a muddy field that resembles a swamp. The environment there is treacherous, and any piece of seemingly safe ground that can be stepped on can turn into a mire and swallow people.
Therefore, like a cliff, it cannot be passed.
Therefore, the only place in Wangcun that can mine salt stone is this small area in the south.
This is also the reason why Wang Village was able to pick up the salt stones scattered around the lake in just a few months.
Because of the terrain, they can't get past the cliffs and the lake on the other side of the mire.
Perhaps by luck, when he came to the salt lake that day, Wang Hao found a location that was very suitable for digging tunnels that day.
The place is located not far from the salt lake, about three hundred meters.
There is a large pit the size of a pond. After observation, Wang Hao suspected that the big crater was smashed out by a meteorite. (To be continued.) )