The wind and rain swallow the clouds and spit out the fog, and the changing body stretches for thousands of meters.

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Building a small, one-man boat that wasn't too demanding might not be a big deal for an Iron Age civilization, but for a group of moon-praying people with only stone and wood tools at hand, it was enough to cross the sea...... Even a single-use wooden boat is definitely not an easy task. In the past, the wooden boats needed to cross the sea were slowly polished by all the idle people in the tribe with stone knives, which was not only time-consuming and laborious, but also not very strong, so it seemed that letting Mu Xue build the wooden boat by herself seemed to give her a chance, but there was no deliberate meaning in it.

In terms of shipbuilding, it is easier for the Moon Prayer People in the Northern Yuan Continent, and the striated leaf trees distributed there are a kind of balsa wood that is very suitable as a hull material, but most of the trees on the Southern Yuan Continent are relatively dense, and it is very difficult to cut them down.

"So although you were so happy when you agreed, you didn't really have any idea at all......" Xing Lan silently watched Mu Xue try to row around the trunk with that dagger, and felt deeply speechless, "Haven't you thought about what to do if you can't build a boat?" ”

It is true that the high-carbon steel dagger that is ahead of the age is very sharp, but no matter how sharp it is, it is just an ordinary alloy dagger, and it is naturally easy to use it to cut through the bark, but to use this small dagger to cut down the thick and strong trees in those primeval forests......

Well, if you grind slowly, you may be able to grind the trunk of a tree for a few months without the dagger being worn, but it is really impossible to carve the outline of a wooden boat enough to cross the sea in a week.

"Anyway, you have to try...... Mu Xue silently stopped the futile act of sharpening the trunk with a knife, and said in a tone that was not very confident, "As long as you work hard, you can always come up with a solution...... Probably. ”

"Well, it's nerve-wracking, you can't do this kind of thing with this knife alone." Although it is easy for her to send Mu Xue to the Northern Yuan Continent, but this kind of thing must be recognized in front of the entire tribe, so it must not be too outrageous, at least it must be acceptable to other Moon Prayer people.

"Most of the wooden boats that were built in the past took a lot of people a few weeks to build slowly, but even if you find the right balsa wood, it's probably impossible to get it done in a week." Mu Xue finally let go of the tree that had been tossed for a long time, and continued to walk all the way through the forest, hitting the trunk with a dagger all the way...... You can roughly tell how dense the trunk of this tree is by the size of the sound it makes, "Xinglan, do you have any idea of a good idea?" ”

"At least I can't think of any way for you to use that knife to carve a big tree into a wooden boat within a week......" Xing Lan also had a little headache, the dagger was fine, she couldn't just take out a chainsaw and give it to Mu Xue to use, "It's a pity that the resin production of the Moon Tree is too small, otherwise you can try to solidify them directly into the shape of a boat." ”

"But...... There is a way to try it. After hesitating for a moment, Xinglan suddenly spoke again, "I'm not sure if this will work, but at least I can try it." ”

"How?" Mu Xue stopped tapping the tree trunk and looked back at Xinglan with some surprise, "It's better to not have a low success rate than not to have any." ”

Xing Lan narrowed her red eyes slightly, revealing a strange smile: "For wood products, it's better to ...... Let's try it with fire? ”

Fire, an ancient word that will never go out of style. Perhaps the most impressive thing about its first use was always the barbecue of food and the repelling of wild beasts, but few people thought that it played much of a role in the craftsmanship of early civilization: it could be used to make clay into porcelain, sand to make glass, and to smelt ore to forge metal...... There are even ancient civilizations that used flames to burn trees thousands of years ago, and then used the flames to finely empty the interior and make wooden boats.

This is definitely possible, as ancient civilizations on Earth have exploited this for a long time, and while there is no detailed information on how exactly they did it, it seems that the only way to make a wooden boat from flame is in the absence of the right tools at hand.

"Flame ......" However, to Xinglan's surprise, Mu Xue suddenly hesitated, she seemed to be a little worried, "Almost everyone who prays for the moon knows what flame is, but we never use it, it is said that it is a cursed power that cannot be controlled. ”

"Cursed power? Who told you that ......" Xinglan was a little surprised, if it was the Wind Death, he should have taken the initiative to teach them to use flames, and not stop the Moon Prayer from doing so, "How can such a ridiculous idea come about, what the hell is going on?" ”

"No one has said that before, but since that incident the story has suddenly spread." Mu Xue recalled that this matter was just a story she had heard, so she didn't pay much attention to it, "It is said that hundreds of years ago, the Great Prophet taught the method of making fire, and then there was a tribe of Moon Prayer people who first tried to use this method...... But the power of the flames was far greater than they could have imagined, and it soon lost control and even spread all the way to their prayer tree, which eventually burned in the flames for two days, and a large area of the surrounding forest was in flames. Finally, it was the arrival of the rain god, and it was only after several days of torrential rain from the sky that the flames were finally completely extinguished, and after that, no one dared to light a fire in the forest, and the flames were also called blasphemous powers. ”

As mentioned earlier, the Moon Tree is not the name of this huge tree, but the name of a class of trees. Out of belief in the moon god and some aspects of life, the moon worshippers may be able to form small groups, but only a settlement built around a moon tree of more than 10 meters can truly be called a tribe...... If the Moon Tree dies due to various accidents, then the tribe will be dead in name only, and the hearts of the people will soon be scattered, so sometimes when the Moon Prayer people are fighting each other, they will destroy their Moon Tree in order to completely disintegrate the other clan. Of course, they didn't have the guts to do anything about the largest moon tree, which was said to be the embodiment of the moon god's guards, and it was usually to annex the small tribes around the young trees.

That's right, that's what Xinglan saw with the fallen Moon Tree, which was the result of a civil war between the Moon Prayers, where the Moontree on the loser's side was destroyed and the population was completely swallowed up...... Some also chose to die with the Moon Tree.

"It sounds like a complete accident, but I don't know how to control the fire, so I completely played with it." After hearing this story, Xing Lan once again felt deeply entangled, "So because of a failed ignition attempt, your entire race was so scared that they didn't dare to start a fire for hundreds of years?" ”

Mu Xue was stunned for a moment, and then felt a strangeness: "It seems that something is really wrong when you say this...... However, it is probably because the tribe even burned the Moon Tree together, so everyone does not dare to repeat the mistakes of the past, after all, no one can afford this risk. ”

And what is the rain god in this story, has anyone really seen the rain god? How do they know it's not natural rainfall? Xinglan asked again, but she soon noticed something unusual, Mu Xue's expression suddenly became very serious, and she showed strong dissatisfaction with her slightly ridiculous tone.

"You can't say that about the gods, the rain god really exists, it is even more real than other gods, this is naturally different from ordinary rain!" Mu Xue seemed to be a little nervous and raised her head to look at the sky above, but the sky at this time was a clear and cloudless sky, "Legend has it that the rain god has an incomparably large body, capable of swallowing clouds and spitting mist, and when it exhales the air current, heavy rain falls from the sky. ”

"Able to swallow clouds and spew fog? How big does it have to be...... "Even a big guy of the level of a thousand winged dragon doesn't dare to say that he can swallow clouds and spit mist, Xing Lan silently complained in her heart.

"It's true, it is said that the ancestors once saw the rain god casually devouring a large cloud in the sky when passing by above......" Mu Xue was convinced when she said this, and even stronger than the recognition of the moon god, "It is said that the shape of the rain god is uncertain, but it is very large, and according to the legend, it stretches for at least a dozen kilometers. ”

"Stretching for more than ten kilometers...... Xinglan silently looked up at the sky, she really didn't know how to evaluate this statement, unless it was a cosmic creature like the Lock Star Capsule that was completely beyond common sense, how could a creature living on a planet grow to a size of more than ten kilometers was really a little brain-...... The hundreds of meters of sea disc alone already shocked her, if there really is a creature that can stretch for more than ten kilometers, then how it just moves is a big problem, and how long is this guy's brain reflex arc......

Anyway, she didn't believe that such a huge creature could exist on Lanxing, which was no longer within the range of ordinary animals, but close to the size of a small mountain range. Xinglan silently classified the existence of the rain god into the strongly exaggerated myths and legends in her heart, but a sudden signal made her stunned for a moment, and then waved her hand to Mu Xue in a hurry: "Let's split up for the time being, I'll go over there to see if there are any suitable materials for making wooden boats, and I'll see you later." ”

"Huh?" Mu Xue blinked a little suspiciously, watching Xing Lan speed up her pace and walk towards the depths of the forest next to her, and soon disappeared from view.

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"How did you get here, did something happen?"

After confirming that Mu Xue couldn't see the situation here, Xing Lan stopped and said lazily against the tree.

There was a rustle in the canopy above, and soon, a figure jumped down from above and landed lightly on the forest floor covered with dead leaves, it was an adult male moon prayer, his skin was gradually changing from the same green as the leaves to a brown closer to the ground: "You seem to be in some trouble......

"You should be aware of the development of things now, but everything is still under control." Xinglan sighed faintly, her tone was relaxed, "Regarding shipbuilding, if you are familiar with the biosphere here, you should be able to give some useful advice...... The wind is gone. ”

"Of course, it's all a minor issue." The Moon Prayer Man...... No, it should be said that Feng Yu showed a smiling expression, "You, you should have already met people of that race, the third race, Xin Yu ......"

(Recently, I have been suffering from a low-grade fever, and I have an uncomfortable headache to death, by the way, the body of the rain god is actually Xiao Jingteng [Fog])