Chapter 15 Salt Mining
The bee flies out of the burrow, then ...... There was no more, they were squeezed by an invisible force, as if they had entered the deep sea from the air, and all the body tissues such as wings, fluff, and flesh were crushed into a ball.
In the end, the helplessly crawling queen bee in Hong Yi's hands was also crushed into a ball of slimy.
Hong Yi took a deep breath and suppressed the fear in his heart, he was now deeply glad that he was fortunate not to take people through the gate of time and space, crossing the gate of time and space would not cause harm to creatures, but the different environments on both sides were the most deadly danger.
He was able to survive unharmed in the two worlds by himself, Hong Yi guessed, it should be related to him being struck by lightning.
Hong Yi thought about it, returned to Blue Star, dug a grass in front of the door and brought it back to the Flood World, and planted it in the black soil, the grass grew taller and thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye, without any abnormality.
"The bee is going to bear the invisible pressure when it comes over, this weed is not a fart, what the hell is this?"
Hong Yi thought for a while, and after making sure that he couldn't figure this out with his IQ, he shook his head, threw this question out of his mind, and decided to try it with other animals and plants in the future to see if this was the result.
"Hong, what are you doing?" Ji walked over with a fur bag about as tall as hers.
Hong Yi looked at the animal skin bag, the animal skin bag was very coarse, not to mention the water, even if it was filled with grains on the earth, I was afraid that it would leak, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What are you doing here?" ”
"The tribe is out of salt, we're going to dig up some salt crystals." Ji pointed behind her, and sure enough, there were many children like her who were carrying animal skin bags...... Well, rock-muscled kids.
Hong Yi learned from Ji that in addition to her, the other children in the tribe are growing up very fast, at the age of sixteen, they can almost grow to one meter nine, and then they will enter the stage of accumulating strength.
Even a person like Hong Yi, who has lived for two hundred years, is only two meters tall.
"Wait, I'll go with you."
Hong Yi returned home and got an axe, a basket and a snakeskin bag, and followed the mighty salt mining procession, which was full of underage children, and once the children in the tribe reached the age of sixteen, they would go out hunting with the hunting team, of course, those who had just reached adulthood were generally to observe and learn, because they could also beat the animals at the bottom of the food chain such as the feather chicken that Hong Yi killed the day before yesterday.
But such animals, because of the lack of 'nutrition', Hong Yi and they do not hunt without lack of food.
The team walked out of the gourd valley and walked to the left along the mountain wall, stepping on the thick fallen leaves and making a popping sound, Hong Yi couldn't help asking: "Ji, is the place where the salt is mined far away?" ”
"It's close, you can see it from the corner in front of you." Himedo.
Hong Yi nodded, if the salt mine was far away, Ji would not be relieved to lead these children who did not have much combat power.
Along the way, Hong Yi could encounter ginseng notoginseng from time to time, and this time he didn't let it go, he dug it all out, and at the same time taught Ji how to dig these ginseng notoginseng.
Of course, he also taught other children in the tribe to dig ginseng and notoginseng, but no matter how those bear children taught them, their first reaction when they saw ginseng notoginseng was to pull the vine out, breaking a lot of ginseng the size of a radish, and Hong Yi's heart was dripping blood.
Then, Hong Yi no longer dared to let them dig ginseng.
By the time he reached the corner of the mountain wall, Hong Yi had already filled a basket full of ginseng and notoginseng, the smallest of which was five or six times larger than the so-called hundred-year-old wild ones on the Blue Star.
Anyone with insight on the Blue Star would go crazy when they saw this basket of carrot-like ginseng.
Turn the corner of the mountain wall and enter the ...... It was still an endless forest, but the forest here was sparser than on the other side, and Hong Yi found something that interested him again, a piece of sugar cane, with very dense knots and shiny black skin.
Hong Yi picked up the axe and chopped one, couldn't wait to take a bite, and then ...... He broke his teeth, this sugarcane was harder than expected, Hong Yi used an axe to split the sugarcane in half, tore off the skin, and took it and chewed it twice.
Sugar cane is very sweet, sweeter than he imagined, but it is not as sweet as sugar, but like the sweetness of young men and girls when they fall in love, so sweet that people can forget their sorrows.
Hong Yi peeled the other half and handed it to Ji, Ji took a bite and subconsciously narrowed her eyes, compared to him, the little girl preferred this sweet.
"Hurry, hurry! Pull it all back! Ji pointed to the sugar cane forest and said, although she is a wise man of the tribe, she is only a nine-year-old girl after all, and sometimes she is very willful.
The children put down the stone axes in their hands and pulled them up with all their strength in their hands holding the sugar cane.
Seeing their flushed faces, Hong Yi felt amused and beckoned: "Let's go pick salt first, I'll help you cut this thing when I come back later." ”
I have to say that the desolate land is full of the gifts of nature, and the place where the salt crystals are mined is in a cave, and the blue star is located in the natural salt crystal rocks below five thousand meters, which are directly exposed to the surface.
The snow-white salt crystal rock in the cave is full of traces of excavation, and it can be seen that the tribesmen have been mining salt crystals here for a long time.
There was a ding-dong sound in the cave, and the children took stone axes and slashed at the rock wall, but the stone axes were not too sharp, and their efficiency was not high, Hong Yi was much more efficient with an iron axe, and after a while, he filled a bag of salt blocks.
Seeing this, Ji threw away the stone axe in his hand to pick up the salt that Hong Yi knocked down, and the other children seemed to have opened their minds at this time, put down the stone axe, and looked at Hong Yi with blank eyes, it turns out that it is really human nature to be lazy.
Hong Yi had no choice but to be a hard-working miner, but with his current physical strength, this was not hard.
When most of the children's hides were filled with salt cubes, there was a click, the handle of the axe broke, Hong Yi scratched the bright bald head, and felt very distressed, and the things on the blue star became more and more impatient.
The tears of the child who had not yet filled the salt cube were rolling in his eyes, and he was about to cry, Hong Yi immediately said: "Don't, let's help you pick it." ”
Hong Yi picked up the stone axe and slashed towards the salt crystal rock, and immediately felt the difference between the stone axe and the iron axe, the stone axe naturally can't be too sharp, because if it is sharpened too sharply, the stone axe will become very brittle, and it won't take long at all.
After a long time, everyone's skin pockets were filled with salt.
Everyone began to return to the gourd valley, and when they passed by the sugarcane forest, Ji Yuan's big eyes stared at Hong Yi, as if to say, "You know." ”
Hong Yi was helpless, the axe was broken, and he had to learn from other children to hold the sugarcane and pull it out, but fortunately, now his strength is much greater than that of these children, although it is very difficult, but he can also pull it out.
When the sun was about to set, everyone got three bundles of sugar cane from the sugar cane forest, and Hong Yi taught the children to sing the most glorious labor while returning home.