Chapter Sixty-Seven: A Big Step for Humanity Gets Stuck
This incident really started because of fish balls.
Remember the two black-brown rocks that Yukumi played with on the mountain on our way home? Yes, she picked it up on the mountain where she met the big cat, and since then she has never let go of her hands and used it as her own toy.
One morning, I was going down to the field with my balls and fish balls to turn the soil for the planting season in the next month, when one of the stones accidentally came out of her pocket, and the smooth surface of the stone put the harsh sunlight into my eyes, which made me uncomfortable, and I wanted to get angry with the fish balls, because I had asked her not long ago to throw away the glaring thing, and she did not obey my orders, which made me very angry.
But when I picked it up and threw it into the mountains so that she would never find it again, I found that it was surprisingly heavy in my hands, and that one stone weighed two or three stones combined.
It made me curious again, and even though I had vowed not to be curious about anything again after my last sea adventure and return to the desert island, this stone was so strange.
It felt as warm as jade, but its quality was clearly higher than that of any other stone I had seen, and its black-brown color added to its mystery.
At first, I thought it was probably a meteorite, but I didn't think it was right, because the mountain was full of rocks, or rather, the whole mountain could be made of this kind of stone, if there was a mountain-like meteorite that crashed into the earth hundreds of millions of years ago...... Hehe, whether the earth still exists is a big question.
Maybe it's a mineral, this is my second thought, it's a pity, my culture class only went to junior high school, I was sent to the military academy by my father when I should have been in high school, resulting in my chemistry knowledge only staying at an extremely shallow level, and more knowledge comes from the accumulation of later life.
But I believe that not only me, but most people will not be able to understand at a glance what is hidden in this black-brown stone, but I know that there is a way for me to get the answer, and this method is actually not difficult, but I need some gadgets, and once my experiment can be successful, that is, what minerals I guess are really in this stone, then, for me and the four of us, there will be a qualitative change in life.
For example, we will no longer worry about the work tools such as pickaxes, hoes, and sickles, and I have even begun to think about how to make an axe to build a real wooden house for myself to see more trees, and on the way back to the cave, every time I think of this, I will kiss the black hairy head of the fish ball, which is enough for me to celebrate.
But what about the actual results? Well, although I don't want to mention it, but after all, I still have to say, "the fart didn't turn out"!
I did put these two stones on a broken pottery shard in the same way I used to learn from watching TV, and then put them in the same kiln I used to build, remember? This kiln is what I used to burn the clay pot, but who knows that this broken stone and its resistance to burning, I burned all night, never left for a moment, kept filling in the wood and blowing air, but it is like a monkey can not be refined, but the surface of the stone is a little red, which makes me even more convinced that this stone is rich in minerals, but the temperature of the furnace in my earthen kiln is not enough.
But I really can't think of any other way, if only I had some coal, but on this desert island, where am I going to dig a cart of coal?
Of course, I also tried to throw this slightly reddish stone on the ground, and hurriedly smashed it with a random large stone on the mountain, hoping that it would be slightly deformed in the heat so that I could use it, but unfortunately, this broken stone that killed a thousand knives did not even lose a tooth, and its density was very high, which can be seen.
After going through a few experiments, I finally gave up all ideas about the two stones of the fish ball, of course, my experiments also caused the fish ball to pout when I saw me, because I ruined her beloved "toy", although I promised to make it up to her, but in the blink of an eye the season for planting seeds on the island has arrived, and as soon as I got busy, I threw it out of the clouds, and never remembered it again, after all, who would remember the promise to a little fart child, not to mention, this little fart child is still a slave of my slave!
But within a few days I knew what a mistake I had made, that the world of children would never be understood by us adults, for she had disappeared into her own mud house with a few pieces of jerky and some fried rice that I had given her the night before.
And the fancy shells and turtle shells that she loved, she didn't bring any of them, just clothes and food, and disappeared into our lives.
This made me feel a lot of uneasiness in my heart, and in my analysis, there were several possibilities, for example, this child was broken by me, so he returned to the tribe of the Medusa Enchantress, of course, this means that Lao Tzu must immediately strengthen our defenses, and be in a state of war readiness, and we will have to give up the cultivation that we have already started, this possibility is the last thing I want to see, because I don't know when she left, and I don't know which way she went, everything is unknown.
There is also a possibility, of course, that the premise is that she was heartbroken by me, so she moved to a new place to live, such as the "paradise" that I once took her to.
In fact, there is a hidden danger in my heart, and it is also the last thing I want to think about, that is: the fish balls are actually the spies planted by Medusa by our side, and this time they may have collected some very important information for them, so they think that they must leave, otherwise, I really can't understand how she bypassed the lookout post in the tree and escaped under the close surveillance of Huya.
The more I thought about it, the more I worried, and I was a little panicked, and I was to blame, and maybe it was that damn curiosity that led to this result.
I asked Huya to immediately bring more jerky to chase them out, and let Dan Dan go to the "paradise" to see if there were any traces of fish balls going or hidden, and I hid in the cave that afternoon and drank alone, smoking my big mouth while drinking, and muttered in my heart: "Old Wu, old Wu, when will you be able to have a snack!" ”