Chapter 11 Termite Forest
"The people of the crops are not idle, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, but I hope that the harvest of the five grains will be good, and every household will celebrate a good year. God, are you playing with me? Hong Yi roared angrily, thought about it, and still didn't have the courage to raise his middle finger to the sky.
Hong Yi discovered a very bad thing.
Bees and butterflies danced in the field of spiritual rice next to him, and the rice, wheat, corn, etc. he brought were also in full bloom but no one appreciated them...... Phew, no bees and butterflies, all pollinators are far away from these things, like this rice flower, wheat flower, corn flower, etc.
Well, he admits that these may be really poisonous, after all, he doesn't know if the seeds of these crops are genetically modified.
In desperation, Hong Yi had to be a bee and pollinate artificially, if he relied on wind media, he felt that this year's output was worrying.
Hong Yi finally realized what it was like to watch bees buzzing happily in other fields, but disdainful of his own fields.
"This is called the present world newspaper, coming quickly?"
However, Hong Yi is really busy now, so naturally he doesn't have time to slowly manually pollinate here, so he is hand-in-hand to teach Ji to be artificially frightened...... Phew, artificial pollination.
There is nothing difficult about artificial pollination, you just need to be careful, Ji happens to be a careful little girl, and she learns it quickly, as for the other children, Hong Yi shook his head, they will only kill the crops.
After teaching Ji to be pollinated manually, Hong Yi took Hong Er to Hongjiu to go to the Xuantie tribe, a tribe, it is not possible to have an elder in charge, and the elder who has not survived the hundred-year-old tribulation will lead the hunting, and 90% of the hunting team will run into a fierce beast.
When Hong Yi stepped into the circular valley of the Xuantie Tribe, it was in full swing.
Jie and Ni are commanding the clansmen to build earthen stoves, these earthen furnaces are used to forge dark iron weapons, Zhang Hua and Tao Fei have figured out the detailed process of casting dark iron weapons, a very ancient method, Bai Xuan.
There are not enough people on the Blue Star side, and it is impossible to create Xuantie weapons and Xuantie armor that meet the needs of more than a thousand people, so if you want to have enough Xuantie weapons and armor, you can only build them by the Xuantie tribe themselves.
There are three minor problems, though.
First, no one in the Xuantie tribe knows how to strike iron, but it can't be learned, it should, probably, maybe, maybe it can be learned, right!
Second, there is no fuel, the dark iron is also a metal, and it becomes as soft as it is when it is red, but this requires a very high temperature, ordinary wood, and even the wood of the flood wilderness cannot reach such a high temperature, Hong Yi plans to find out if there is coal in the flood world, it should, probably, probably, maybe, maybe there is, right!
Third, a stable source of dark iron, the dark iron comes from the gold eating beast, Zhang Hua thinks that the black iron is the excrement of the gold eating beast, so Hong Yi intends to try to establish a long-term trade relationship with the gold eating beast herd, with his armor, the friendly attitude of holding the well in the moon, and the low IQ of the gold eating beast group, should, maybe, probably, maybe it can succeed, right!
Hong Yi said that these three small problems can be overcome soon, of course, this is what he cares about ~ lewdness.
But in any case, it's right to prepare first, it's called being prepared.
Today, Hong Yi is ready to solve the third problem.
Jie's eyes today seemed to be sick, and she kept watching Hong Yi blink and wink, blink and wink.
Ni looked at Hong Yi resentfully, like an abandoned little daughter-in-law.
Hong Yi was confused, not knowing what they meant, until Jie asked, "How does Princess Ji taste?" ”
Hong Yi's face immediately darkened, and he roared angrily: "I'm not a pervert~ pervert. ”
"Oh hehehe!" Jie let out a strange smile, and looked like she believed that you had a ghost.
"Actually, I can too." Ni grumbled.
Hong Yi: "......"
Unable to stand the eyes of the two, Hong Yi took people out to do things, but as soon as he stepped out of the valley, he came back and asked with a dark face, "Where are there termites around here?" ”
If you want to visit the gold-eating beasts, you naturally have to have gifts, and if you ask for someone and visit empty-handed, it's good not to be beaten out by others.
"You're going to the termite forest?" Jie and Ni exclaimed at the same time.
"Termite forest? A lot of termites? I did go catch some termites. Hong Yi nodded.
Jie immediately said, "You wait, I'll go with you." ”
Jie returned to the cave, and when she came out again, she had already changed into a battle suit, carrying a big axe on her back, with a small axe stuck in her waist left and right, and leather armor made of unknown animal skins to protect important parts.
"We're here to catch termites, not to hunt beasts."
"You'll soon learn that it's more terrifying than hunting beasts."
Hong Yi followed Jie with doubts, the so-called termite forest was half a day's journey from the Xuantie tribe.
When he saw the termite forest, Hong Yi only felt that his scalp was numb.
Termite forests are made up of two things.
The first is termites, the smallest of these termites are the size of a fist, and there are many the size of a puppy, Hong Yi even saw termites the size of a calf, and as far as the eye can see, the entire termite forest is white.
The second is a tree like the Blue Star Camphor Tree, but most of them, the small ones are more than ten meters in diameter, more than 100 meters high, and the large ones are dozens of meters in diameter and hundreds of meters high.
The most strange thing is that these trees are eaten by termites, but instead of dying, they seem to have reached a perfect symbiosis with termites.
"Termites are so dense, why don't gold-eating beasts come and hunt for themselves?" Hong Yi asked suspiciously.
"Do you smell the scent of termite forest?"
Hong Yi nodded, and there was a calming aroma in the termite forest.
"This aroma is good for humans and many fierce beasts, but it is poison for gold-eating beasts." Jie explained.
She pointed to a stone the size of a millstone and said, "Hong Er, throw this stone over." ”
Hong Er lifted a stone and smashed it into the termite forest.
The next moment, Hong Yi instinctively warned him, he was terrified, and he ran back without thinking about it, and he noticed that Jie ran away when Hong Er smashed the stone.
After running a long way, Jie stopped, pointed behind her, and said, "Look back." ”
Hong Yi turned around and saw a scene that made him shudder.
There are many termites in the termite forest, including flying termites and crawling termites, and there is no grass where these termites pass.
Hong Yi saw with his own eyes that a fierce beast that was running very slowly was surrounded by termites, although it killed a lot of termites, but there were more and more termites surrounding it, and finally the fierce beast with thick skin and thick flesh was bitten alive by termites, and then it turned into a pile of dry bones in the blink of an eye.
"What the hell is this termite? It's a man-eating ant! Hong Yi shuddered.
"See, this is the termite forest, one of the several dangerous places in Mangshan, and legend has it that there is even a termite king who survived the catastrophe in the depths of the termite forest." Jie knocked on Hong Yi's helmet and continued: "Just you, this guy, still dare to fight the idea of termite forest, don't you know how to write dead words?" ”
Hong Yi suddenly felt that the easiest of his three small problems to solve seemed to have become a moat.