Seeing the corpses of these four-horned monster oxen, the cobbler said excitedly: "So many cowhides, enough for more than forty sets of refined leather armor!" ”

The carpenter looked at it and said, "This batch of tendons and horns can make forty horn bows!" ”

Only the cook cried and said, "Your Excellency, so many four-horned monster cows can make at least 40,000 units of grain." There are only two chefs in the restaurant, so it's too busy! ”

Meng Chen said with a smile: "Tomorrow I will add two chefs to the restaurant, and I must finish processing these beefs within three days!" ”

"Yes! Your Lord! ”

After leaving the slaughterhouse, Meng Chen returned to the town hall.

"With these eighteen four-horned monster cows made into food, there will be no food crisis in the city of hope anytime soon. The problem of food has been solved, and now there are gold coins and metals! Meng Chen said secretly.

Meng Chen came to the center of the town hall and ordered the True Sight Eye to turn on the detection function.

As the azure light flickered, a flat map marked with various points of light appeared beneath the Eye of True Sight.

"The yellow spots in the northern part of the basin have been cleared, except for the vajra orangutan on the eastern edge. In the future, hunting squads can hunt freely, and as long as they do not get close to the mountains in the northeastern part of the basin, there will be no danger. The search for metal ore cannot be delayed any longer! Meng Chen muttered.

Early the next morning, after Meng Chen woke up, he immediately summoned 10 civilians and sent them to the academy.

Two of them were trained as cooks, two as tanners, two as carpenters, two as butchers, and finally two as miners.

After leaving the academy, Meng Chen sent three hunting teams consisting of 1 swordsman instructor, 1 archer instructor, 5 swordsmen, and 5 archers to hunt small and medium-sized animals on the east and west sides of the river.

Meng Chen himself, on the other hand, led 2 quarrymen, 5 swordsmen, and 5 archers towards the western edge of the basin.

According to Meng Chen's plan, starting from the northwestern edge of the basin and following the clockwise direction, searching to the northeastern edge of the basin and ending at the end of the basin, about one-third of the edge of the basin can be walked.

An hour later, Meng Chen led two quarrymen and ten guards to the rock face on the northwestern edge of the basin.

Looking at the gray-white rock wall, Meng Chen shook his head and said secretly: "The most common metal ores are generally lead gray, dark red, iron black, golden yellow, etc., and have a metallic or semi-metallic luster. The rock walls here are obviously just ordinary stones! ”

Walking north along the rock wall, every few tens of meters, Meng Chen would order the quarrymen to dig up a few stones to see the color.

For a whole day, Meng Chen searched for a distance of several kilometers, but unfortunately did not find a single stone that could be an ore.

When Meng Chen returned to the city, he found that the two miners had already been trained.

Meng Chen asked one of the miners, "Do you know how to prospect?" ”

The miner shook his head and replied, "Honorable lord, we will only mine!" ”

Meng Chen continued to ask: "Dig out a stone, can you judge whether it is a metal ore or not?" ”

The miner nodded and replied, "Yes, my lord!" ”

"Excellent! You go and rest first, and then come out with me tomorrow to find metal ores!" Meng Chen said with a happy face.

For the next four days, Meng Chen led two quarrymen, two miners, and ten guards along the edge of the basin in search of metal ores.

For four days, the miners had not been able to find the metal ore, but the quarrymen had found a stone mountain in the northwest of the basin where white quality stone could be mined.

This is also a bonus!

After Meng Chen wrote down the location of the stone mountain, he continued to search for metal ores.

Today is the fifth and last day, if he still can't find the metal ore, Meng Chen can only go to the mine to pick up metal, or go to the blackheart trading market to buy it.

After a morning of searching, Meng Chen and the others did not find any signs of metal ore.

Meng Chen sighed helplessly: "It seems that there is no metal ore in the northern part of the basin!" Ahead is the territory of the Vajra orangutan, and it is too dangerous to go deeper! ”

Roar~! Roar~!

Suddenly, two loud roars were heard in the distance.

"Not good! Hide! Meng Chen shouted.

The one who made these two loud roars was none other than the overlord of the mountains in the northeastern part of the basin, the vajra orangutan.

Just as Meng Chen and the others had just hidden, two tall black shadows appeared a hundred meters away.

The two vajra orangutans, which are about three meters tall and full of muscles, roared fiercely while fighting.

One of the adamantine orangutans is tall and has the upper hand in the fight.

The other vajra orangutan, although relatively thin, did not show weakness in terms of momentum.

To Meng Chen's surprise, this thin Vajra orangutan actually held a "weapon" in his hand!

Officially, because of the existence of "weapons", this made the thin Vajra Orangutan not fall into disadvantage in the battle with the strong Vajra Orangutan.

Although the battlefield of the two vajra orangutans was a hundred meters away, Meng Chen could clearly see that the "weapon" in the hands of the thin vajra orangutan was an iron ore hoe used by humans in this world for mining!

"How is that possible? How did this vajra orangutan get this mining hoe? Could it be that there are caves in the mountains of the northeastern part of the basin? Who's going to open a mine here? ”

For a while, countless questions popped up in Meng Chen's mind.

However, since this orangutan has an iron ore hoe, there must have been someone nearby who had mined here.

As for what kind of mine was being dug up, Meng Chen didn't know, but it was probably a metal mine. If you just mine ordinary stones, you don't need to venture into the basin full of wild beasts.

Thinking of this, Meng Chen's heart was on fire.

At this time, the battle between the two vajra orangutan ended with the emaciated vajra orangutan winning.

Oh~Oh!

The emaciated vajra orangutan, wielding an iron mining hoe, jumped up and down triumphantly.

Seeing the two vajra orangutans go away one after another, Meng Chen secretly said in his heart: "If there is really a metal mine in the territory of the vajra orangutan, then no matter what means are used, this group of vajra orangutans must be killed!" ”

However, thinking of this population, there are enough twelve reduced versions of "King Kong", Meng Chen couldn't help frowning.

If you want to deal with the vajra orangutan, the wooden thorn trap obviously doesn't come in handy.

The Orangutan is three meters tall and has a pair of thick, strong, and long arms that allow them to jump out of the wooden spike trap with just one push.

As for toughness, this idea had never crossed Meng Chen's mind.

With the size and strength of the Vajra orangutan, if he wanted to pile up a Vajra orangutan, Meng Chen might need to pay the lives of more than ten soldiers.

With Meng Chen's current capital, he really can't afford to fight such a war of attrition.

With a sad face, Meng Chen returned to the core area of the city on the west side of the river.