"The Monkey King is amazing! Is there really an underworld and a dragon palace in the world? Xiao Shi asked curiously.

Yang Chuangrui scratched his head and said hesitantly:

"The underworld... I don't know, but maybe there is an undersea city similar to Ryugu, so you can look for it later. ”

"Well, there are a lot of people in the tribe who want to go out and see." Then Xiao Shi's steps slowed down, and his tone became a little low, and he continued: "But the tribe stipulates that no one can go out casually. ”

"Why?" Yang Chuangrui asked suspiciously.

"Only the exploration team and outsiders in the tribe are allowed to go out, and the exploration team may not always come back every time they go on a mission." Xiao Shi's voice became lower the more he spoke, "It's very dangerous outside, but in order to prevent the relatives in the tribe from going hungry, the exploration team still has to go outside again and again to find crystals. ”

"Because those steel monsters are hard to deal with when they gather?" Yang Chuangrui was still very puzzled, he thought that when they walked back yesterday, they were very calm all the way.

"No, it's not." Little Stone continued with a little anger: "It's a human! Those in the west will not allow us to set foot on their territory, and those who are found outside will be taken into slavery by them, and those who are wounded will be put to death. ”

Yang Chuangrui never imagined that the answer to the question would be like this, he had thought that the enemies of the town were only those robots.

"Actually, it's good that we live here, but now that the tribe population is getting more and more, there are fewer and fewer four-legged monsters in the east, and there is no way to increase production without crystal food."

"So now the exploration team has to go further away to hunt the four-legged monsters, the other steel monsters are too strong for us to kill at all."

Yang Chuangrui asked suspiciously, "Then why do you still accept outsiders?" Wouldn't that make food even more insufficient? ”

"We've been hiding here for too long, outsiders can bring new information and technology, most of them are escaped slaves, and Uncle Blacksmith is an outsider." Xiao Shi pointed to the area where Yang Chuangrui rested last night, and then said:

"Outsiders who live outside the town and don't have the skills or specialties are assigned to work in dangerous places, such as widening caves, digging rocks, and so on."

"Do valuable people deserve a name? This must be a rule set by the former slave owners to control these people, and it has been passed down in this way for so many years! Yang Chuangrui thought with emotion.

It's no wonder that the treatment of the exploration team here is so good, because they are an indispensable link, and these respects are piled up with human lives.

Looking at the depressed little stone, Yang Chuangrui opened his mouth and comforted:

"We have so many warriors who are willing to give for the tribe, and one day the tribe will become stronger."

"At that time... Everyone can go where they want to go, do what they want to do, and choose where they like to live. ”

"Let's work together for this goal!"

Xiao Shi was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and reluctantly squeezed out a smile at Yang Chuangrui.

Seeing this situation, Yang Chuangrui could only change the topic:

"Coming soon, are you the huts by the lake in front of you?"

"Hmm."

The two walked silently along the lake for a short while, and finally reached their destination.

Xiaoshi asked Yang Chuangrui to wait outside, and he walked into the hut in the middle, and after talking to someone, he walked out with two small buckets.

"The gunpowder you mentioned, the barrel on the left is very flammable, and the barrel on the right is very powerful." Xiao Shi carried the two small kegs in his hand, and then continued: "Don't mind, Grandpa Feng doesn't like people outside. ”

Yang Chuangrui took the barrel and didn't care about the old man inside, he carefully checked the contents of the barrel and compared it with the gunpowder in his memory.

emmmm… I don't understand it at all.

"Can you... Show me the recipe. Yang Chuangrui said awkwardly.

"I'll ask." With that, Little Stone walked into the hut again.

Yang Chuangrui wanted to test the power of this gunpowder, so he walked to the lake with a small barrel, took out a roll of animal skin paper from the blacksmith shop, and began to fill it with gunpowder.

After Xiao Shi, who had just come out of the house, saw Yang Chuangrui's movements, he rushed all the way and began to shout:

"Be careful, don't put that much in there."

Hearing the sound of small stones, Yang Chuangrui turned his head to look at the small stones that were rushing over, and then looked at the half-made firecracker in his hand and thought:

"Did you get too much gunpowder? I added it according to the amount of firecrackers I bought when I fried cow dung when I was a child, which is a little thicker than two thumbs. ”

He had no idea about the power of gunpowder, and the two thumbs were still his impressions when he was a child, and he didn't notice at all that the big firecrackers he played with when he was a child were actually wrapped in many layers of very thick paper, and the actual gunpowder was very small.

Yang Chuangrui, who was stopped by a small stone, could only retreat and made a small firecracker the size of a small thumb.

After the production was completed, Yang Chuangrui inserted the firecracker into the ground, lit the fuse, and quickly ran away a few steps before paying attention to the movement of the firecracker.

I just hear, bang! With a loud bang, a small crater was blown out of the ground, and only then did Yang Chuangrui realize how dangerous his actions just now were.

"This Nima, the power of otherworldly gunpowder is so great! Fortunately, I didn't insist on doing that big one, and sure enough, I still have to be rigorous in doing experiments. Yang Chuangrui thought with a little surprise.

Later, Yang Chuangrui tested the power of another gunpowder, compared the characteristics of the two gunpowders, and found that none of them could be used as bullet propellants.

"I know it's not that simple, it seems that I still have to make my own deployment." He thought.

Yang Chuangrui asked Xiao Shi to read him the gunpowder formula, and after writing it down, he was ready to leave with Xiao Shi and go back to the town.

He didn't take the gunpowder with him, but brought several barrels of raw materials, and he planned to go back to a remote courtyard to do experiments by himself, and find the most suitable gunpowder ratio for propellants.

On the way back, Little Stone said embarrassedly:

"It's a boring journey this far, or else... Go ahead and tell me about the Monkey King. ”

"Okay." Yang Chuangrui kept agreeing, and began to speak:

"It is said that after the Monkey King made a fuss in the underworld to revise the book of life and death, he returned to Huaguo Mountain from the underworld......"

…………

It was close to noon.

The two returned to the center of the town, received food, and after eating, Xiaoshi took Yang Chuangrui to find a new place to live in the town.

They found a small yard by the brook not far from the blacksmith's shop, and after helping to clean it up, the little stone left.

Yang Chuangrui was alone in the room sorting out his memories of gunpowder, and then he began to tinker with his own propellant formula.

A day passed, Yang Chuangrui's research still did not make any progress at all, and he went to the blacksmith shop halfway and told the blacksmith brother not to be in a hurry to make the cartridge case first, because he was still not sure of the final proportion of the propellant charge.

On this day, no matter how the materials he brought back, they would leave a lot of residue after they burned out, and he couldn't clean the chamber every time he fired a shot.

And the excitation of the primer is also a problem, he can't find the materials on the earth here, and he won't synthesize them himself, the names of the finished materials are all in his memory, he can only find similar substitutes.

Yang Chuangrui lay on the bed and thought about today's experiments and solutions, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

The next morning, Yang Chuangrui was woken up by a knock on the door, and he always felt that he hadn't slept enough, because the town was the same day and night, and he didn't know when he fell asleep last night.

"It's coming, it's coming." He shouted as he walked out in a daze.

As soon as he opened the door, Yang Chuangrui was stunned, only to see a group of children standing at the door, not to mention seven or eight, the largest was a small stone, and the smallest was a little higher than his knees.

"I told them about the Monkey King yesterday, and they kept pestering me to talk about the follow-up." Xiao Shi looked at Yang Chuangrui innocently and said, "But I don't know the content of the rest anymore, so I ......"

"So you brought them all to me?" Yang Chuangrui replied angrily. ”