At Qin Xiaobai's request, Dumb no longer had to engage in low-level gathering, hunting and other work, but became the first craftsman of the Xiaobai tribe to specialize in making stone tools, making stone tools for the farmers of the tribe.

It will take some time for the first tools of the tribe to be manufactured. There's nothing to hesitate about, go hunting and getting food. The more grain, the more farmers are recruited. The more farmers there are, the more productive the camp becomes.

Qin Xiaobai left Dumb and two female barbarian peasants to build stone tools in the camp, and then he pulled the other six strong barbarian peasants out of the camp to hunt.

He planned to conduct a comprehensive search of the jungle within a mile of the camp, killing all ordinary animals except dangerous beasts, dragging them back to the camp to cut meat, and storing food to recruit farmers.

After leaving the camp and walking for more than ten minutes, Qin Xiaobai led the barbarian peasants to the east and walked out of the sparse jungle to the coast. There are schools of fish in the sea, which jump out of the water from time to time.

Looking into the distance, Qin Xiaobai could see a few nautical miles away, with small islands in twos and threes. Because of the distance, it is very hazy and cannot be seen clearly.

That's the most unique thing about the Empire Starter map, which is a vast expanse of the sea, dotted with islands of all sizes. There are as many islands as there are players.

The shape of these islands is also different, like the island where Qin Xiaobai is located, which is a typical sparse jungle terrain. In addition, there are oases, plains, grasslands, Gobi, Arabian Peninsula, deserts, jungles, beaches, lakes, wetlands, ruins, and many other peculiar terrains.

On each small island, depending on the size, there will be between 1 and 8 novice players. Players have enough territory to build their base on the island, send out barracks, and then attack other players on the island. If he is the only player on the island, he will have to build a ferry and a raft and go on an expedition across the sea.

When the player reaches level 20, they can leave the Starter Map and enter the Strategy Map.

Qin Xiaobai still doesn't know if there are other players on his island, which needs to be searched all over the island to know.

In the mud and reeds near the shoreline, he suddenly heard the roar of animals, and he led the barbarian farmers to search carefully, and was pleasantly surprised to find a bulky adult hippopotamus. The hippopotamus was foraging for food with its mouth pouting, oblivious to the movements around it.

Hippopotamus: Life 400hp; Attack 5; Defense 1. The hippopotamus has extremely thick HP and good offense and defense, so it is not easy to hunt it.

Fortunately, Qin Xiaobai had enough peasants.

According to the estimates, he can kill the hippopotamus at the front, and with the assistance of six barbarian peasants, he can kill the hippopotamus 80 HP in one round, and the hippopotamus will bite him off about 10 HP at a time. After 5 rounds, he will be able to kill the hippopotamus, and he will have more than 20 HP remaining.

Qin Xiaobai fanned out six barbarian peasants into an ambush circle and ambushed them in the reeds on the shore. With a big stick in his hand, he quietly approached the back of the big hippopotamus alone, slammed it at the hippopotamus, and then turned around and ran towards the ambush circle.

The hippopotamus was in pain, screamed angrily, turned around and saw Qin Xiaobai, the "enemy" who attacked it, it immediately turned around and twisted its clumsy body to chase after Qin Xiaobai, and plunged into the ambush circle.

Qin Xiaobai entered the ambush circle, immediately turned around and resisted, shouting loudly for all the barbarians to rise up and attack.

The six barbarian peasants yelled excitedly, jumped up from the reeds, pounced, surrounded the hippopotamus from both sides, picked up the stones from the jungle and threw them at the hippos.

value damage splashes up.

The beast in the game has little intelligence, and whoever attacks it, it bites. If a group of people attack it, it will bite the target with the most damage to it. The beast in Empire has a very low IQ. It's nothing, after all, it's a real-time strategy game, not a monster killing game, and there are very few times to kill beasts, and the main opponent is still the player.

Qin Xiaobai attacked one more round, and the damage to the hippopotamus was always the most, so it kept biting at Qin Xiaobai angrily, and did not attack the barbarian peasants. After five rounds of attacks, there was a "boom", and the hulking hippopotamus fell to the reeds without a blink.

The barbarian peasants happily chirped and jumped around the hippos.

More than ten minutes later, the body of the bulky hippopotamus was dragged back to the camp by them, and Qin Xiaobai and nine barbarian farmers began to cut hippopotamus flesh together to recruit more barbarian farmers.

One by one, barbarian peasants came out of their thatched huts.

This time, Qin Xiaobai no longer recruited "strong" barbarian peasants, but chose other types of peasants.

After 2 hours and 2 minutes, all the hippopotamus meat was cut, and 8 new barbarian farmers were recruited, and Qin Xiaobai's camp now had a total of 17 barbarian farmers.

With the mass increase of barbarian peasants, a "surplus" labor force began to appear. 10 barbarian peasants were assigned to follow Dumb's stone-making tools in the camp to make all the stone-making tools as soon as possible, and the remaining 7 barbarian peasants continued to hunt under the leadership of Qin Xiaobai.

1 hour later.

The first twenty crude stone axes were also made.

The "docile" beasts in the jungle around the camp were all hunted and killed, and a total of 1 deer (150hp) and 5 hares (10hp) were hunted, and they were brought back to the camp to cut meat, and 4 barbarian peasants were added again, and the total number of peasants was as high as 21.

At present, in the "Empire" population ranking, there are only tens of thousands of players in the world who have reached this total population.

In addition, Qin Xiaobai is also exploring a small silver mine, a small iron mine, a small copper mine, and a small stone mine that appeared yesterday, and there are a total of four mining sites within a mile around the camp.

However, each site has several dangerous beasts roaming around them: two wolves near the quarry, a tiger near the silver mine, two leopards near the iron mine, and one elephant near the copper mine, all of which can be destroyed before the ore can be mined.

These mines had to be cleared of the surrounding beasts as soon as possible, and then the farmers were sent to mine the ore. However, that elephant is a necessity for the formation of a war elephant class in the Bronze Age, this class is very strong in high blood and high attack, and it does not need to be killed, it can be captured and domesticated. There are also two wolves, which can be domesticated into dogs, and are used to watch the home and nursing home, but the difficulty of domestication is very high, and it is best to domesticate it, so if it doesn't work, it will be killed.

Qin Xiaobai began to think about his next move.

Now that there are no more common beasts to find around the camp, hunting cannot get more food, and the growth of the tribe has been restricted by the lack of food. Even when it was to collect berries, there were not many berries in the bushes around the camp, and they would be picked quickly.

The barbarian peasants of the Stone Age had not yet mastered the techniques of farming. 6There is not enough food on the earth, and the only place where there is abundant food is the sea, the fish.

If you want to fish, you have to build ferries, make small rafts, and then send barbarian peasants out to sea to fish!

It takes a lot of wood to build a ferry, and a lot of wood to build a small raft.

Qin Xiaobai gave an order, and all 21 barbarian peasants swung stone axes around the camp to cut down wood - while obtaining wood, they cleared the open field and expanded the area of the camp in preparation for the future fence of the village.

Qin Xiaobai didn't go to cut wood, he decided to leave the camp and explore the entire island alone. If he is the only player on this island, he can rest assured and strive to climb the Bronze Civilization in the shortest possible time.

If there were other players, he would probably have to be prepared to build a barbarian barracks at once to increase his military power.