Guo Sen suddenly wanted to change his name for these creatures who had been determined to be intelligent creatures.

The name Big-Headed Monster is too vulgar and ugly.

As......

How about changing to "Armored Orcs"?

They had large scales covering almost all of their bodies, and they looked like they were covered in armor, though they didn't seem to be very hard.

But it's better than calling "digging orcs" and "burrowing orcs", right?

Guo Sen saw that these armored beasts seemed to be very satisfied after eating the roasted insect eggs.

When they got up, they walked slowly towards the stone houses.

The whole group was lazy and didn't seem to have any desire for all sorts of things.

Guo Sen glanced around and found that there were no weavings, no pottery, or even animal bones.

The armoured orcs did not make weapons such as stone spears, let alone have the desire to hunt other animals.

Guo Sen noticed that in addition to eating the eggs, they seemed to have stored a considerable amount of plant roots in a slightly larger house.

As soon as his consciousness moved, the thing the size of a human head instantly tore into several pieces, and a large amount of juice fell, but inside it was a strange purple color.

It seems that this is another staple of their diet.

Guo Sen searched around, and found that there were a lot of similar things growing in several places on the outer side of the mountain near the river, and there were indeed a few armored orcs digging them up there.

Digging with metal tools?

For a moment, he thought he was mistaken, but when he looked closely, wasn't it a tool that shimmered with golden metal in the light of the stars?

At first, Guo Sen thought it was dark golden bronze like the birdman and the primitive man, but if you look closely, the color of this tool made into a short knife seems to be brighter.

Is it gold?

He checked the nearby geology, and suddenly found that this hollow mountain contained quite a lot of gold ore!

Unlike the ores on the earth with a fairly low gold content, almost all of them are high-quality gold ores of the size of "dog's head gold"!

Could it be that this was once a relatively dense meteorite bombardment site?

Guo Sen looked at the bottom of the stratum, and there were really traces of the huge impact of the ancient period.

However, do these armoured orcs really know that gold is a precious metal, or do they just think the color is beautiful and they mine it as a tool?

Some of the armored orcs rested in the stone house for a while, then took their tools in their hands and went to an area with a lot of gold ore that Guo Sen had just checked, and ping-pong worked.

However, contrary to his imagination, Guo Sen discovered that the tools used by the armored orcs to mine gold were not gold, but iron tools that he had seen in the dwarven tribe before.

Do they have advanced iron-smelting technology?

However, if you think about it, even tools made of gold can be made, and iron smelting is nothing.

He checked again, and found a crude smelting factory by the river, not far from the armoured orcs who were collecting plant roots.

There are quite a few people busy there, too.

Guo Sen took a brief look, the process of iron smelting seemed to be worse than that of the dwarves, and the iron pieces produced contained quite a lot of impurities, but there was no shortage of things like blast furnaces and forging tables.

The difference with the dwarves is that even the blacksmith is made of iron, and it is full of details, and many places are carved with patterns and decorated with gold wire.

It seems that in the cognitive concept of the armored orcs, gold seems to have more decorative effects.

Then, Guo Sen really found a lot of unedged knives made of gold and rings like crowns.

Huh.

It's really the same as I thought.

As for the smelting of gold, Guo Sen also saw that they just put the dog-headed gold in the blast furnace to melt it, and then poured it into a rectangular abrasive tool that seemed to be made of iron to let it take shape naturally, turning it into thin gold bricks, and then tempering and polishing it into various shapes.

It seems that they have a very high knowledge of gold in this, compared to other races.

Guo Sen suddenly thought, what should the civilizations on this sphere use as currency in the future?

Gold and silver have been the main precious metals on earth since ancient times, and in modern times, they have become monetary reserve assets, playing an important role in this field.

Now that the armoured orcs who discovered gold were the first to discover it, will it become a form of currency and be widely used in the future?

Guo Sen remembers that in the history of currency on earth, things like natural marine shells as general equivalents first appeared, and then various precious metals.

However, the most basic barter of these civilizations on the sphere only existed between the sheep and the dwarves on that continent, and it was destroyed by itself.

As for the other interracial ones, there is not even any budding that has yet to begin.

Money, a more advanced form of exchange, is far from being able to take the stage.

If that time comes, the Orcs will probably become the richest race, right?

Their civilization is actually quite simple.

Relying on the large number of eggs produced by the mother worm as the main food, and then planting the purple root plant as supplementary food, the small tribe of several hundred people was fed.

Aside from smelting, this race has nothing else to be commendable.

If it has to be said that what can make Guo Sen's eyes shine, in addition to their long tongues, is the development and practicality of gold.

If he wanted to interfere with their civilization, he thought about it, and there really was nothing he could do.

Because it seems that something else, is of little use to them either.

Weapons? These guys don't even have enemies.

Nested inside the mountains, no one can find it unless something goes wrong inside of them.

Guo Sen really hadn't seen a weapon like a stone lance, and if he hadn't seen the golden knife they made, I'm afraid he would have strong doubts about whether they knew what a weapon was.

This is also ironclad evidence that they cannot find an enemy at the moment.

However, being able to make knives also proves that they made something related to these nutrient-rich eggs before they encountered them, otherwise it would not explain their appearance.

Guo Sen thought about it for a while and decided to first go and see what kind of civilization the giants had, and then take the time to see if there were any other areas worth paying attention to.

However, before he could take his eyes off the smelter, he saw a crimson-skinned visitor very close to here.