During this period, based on the pottery room where the pottery was burned, Chen Xu envisioned many small furnaces for copper smelting according to the impressions of later generations, all of which were built with clay bricks and sealed with clay developed by the old ape-man, which can be said to be very strong and have some postmodern characteristics.

After all the experiments of the old ape-man, some of them seem to be able to be used, but whether they can effectively refine the red copper still needs to be determined after real practice.

The weather has begun to change, and the crisp autumn day is approaching day by day, this day, a group of apes gathered in front of the high gate of the Vulcan tribe, among which there are many heavily armed apemen, which are the four brigades of the ape-man army, and many other miscellaneous ape-men, totaling seven or eight hundred.

Chen Xu stood at the front of the queue, like the head of a later generation, patrolling the ape-man queue with his eyes, and to his left and right were the captains of several brigades, as well as the Toba ape-man who was the captain of the hunting team.

This time, they will be the first to mine the bronze artifacts, going to the Black Rock Tribe to establish a settlement.

The ape warriors in the team are naturally used to protect the safety of the trip and explore the underground space by the way, while the other apes are holding the ready-made tools of the tribe and preparing to establish a new settlement in the territory of the original Black Rock tribe, so that it can be used for copper mining.

After the food and water were prepared, the apes all gathered, and with Chen Xu's order, this strong team began to set off.

Soon, they left the territory of the Vulcan tribe and entered the territory of the lion and tiger.

After a few months of jungle hunting, these ligads have also thoroughly understood the power of the ape, and now a path directly across the territory of the liger has been developed by the apes.

Walking from this straight road to the territory of the Black Rock Tribe saved nearly two days compared to the old road.

With the speed of the apes, it only took a little more than a day to reach the Black Rock tribe.

It's just a pity that this road was mined from the territory of the lion and tiger and the territory of other jungle overlords, although these jungle overlords were frightened by the apes and did not dare to come out to attack when they moved in groups, but once the apes were alone, this road became a desperate road.

Moreover, the road was in very bad condition because it had just been opened, and the trees were growing everywhere, and although the road was shortened many times, it also greatly limited the speed of the ape-man's travel.

If this road can be completely widened and all the trees on it can be felled, with the physical strength of the apes, at full speed, it may only take about half a day to reach the Black Rock Tribe.

Therefore, in addition to preparing to explore the situation of the Black Rock Space first, Chen Xu will establish a temporary settlement there after determining the situation there, and then plan to start burning mountains and logging from the Black Rock side, and must completely widen this road that cannot be called a road at all.

In fact, when they left, Chen Xu explained to the old ape man who stayed behind, and asked him to do his best to lead the four groups of ape warriors and the members of the hunting team in the tribe to burn the mountains and open up the wasteland while ensuring the normal activities of the tribe.

Starting from the border between the Vulcan tribe and the Lion and Tiger Territory, it is necessary to ensure that the new road is unblocked, and to start widening it immediately, at least to the extent that it is ten meters wide.

Even, Chen Xu also planned to transport a large amount of mineral salt from the valley after the road was opened up, and the road would be completely salinized.

But that's all for later, for now, it's better to widen the road first, and get rid of the big trees that stand in the way, and by the way, keep driving away the beasts on both sides of the road.

Of course, these will be a long-term project, but for Chen Xu, who has the concept of building roads first if he wants to get rich, it seems that this cannot be a problem.

After more than a day, the mighty ape-men emerged from the dense woods with torches in hand, and the march went well.

In the face of the clustered Vulcan apemen, the jungle overlords did not attack rashly, only a few ordinary beasts jumped out, but not only could not harm the ape warriors, but added a dish to their recipes.

Instructed the ape-man to move around, build a bonfire, put down some of the supplies brought from the Vulcan tribe, and start building the basic house building, while Chen Xu went straight to the largest cave.

Now, several months had passed since he had lured the little silver wolf into this space, and even a summer had passed, and he was now in a mood of impatience to see what the underground space that had completely burned at that time would look like now.

Perhaps, what he wants is to see the corpse of the little silver wolf with his own eyes, although the judgment of the surname of reason has made him determine the death of the little silver wolf, but he can't see the evidence with his own eyes, he is still a little uneasy, after all, these guardians are too powerful, he can't be careless.

The crater at the end of the cavern still existed, showing no signs of invasion, and a thick layer of dust had now accumulated in the area as a result of the huge smoke that had burned that day.

As soon as Chen Xu stepped on it, the dust was everywhere, almost burying the soles of his feet, but it was also because of this that he was able to judge that no creatures had come out of here, because there were no footprints of other creatures here except his footprints.

Seeing this, Chen Xu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, there were no footprints of the silver wolf, otherwise, even if the silver wolf practiced light skills and floated on the water, it would definitely leave a mark on the soft dust.

"That kind of fire is that even if an adult silver wolf comes, he will definitely die, not to mention, that little guy has been injured so badly before, there is really nothing to worry about. ”

Thinking about it, Chen Xu found the hole that was piled up by dust, and with a few light strokes of the silver horn, the original passage in and out was completely exposed.

After cultivating to reach the level of internal breath and release it, and holding the incomparably sharp silver horn, Chen Xu could now easily sneak out of this hollow into the underground space without the help of the ape's rope.

It suddenly went dark in front of him, and Chen Xu slipped into the area where the copper ore existed in a few clicks, but he saw that the original flickering unknown crystals still existed, and those copper ores were not damaged at all, and they were still glowing with a strong metallic light.

It's just that after crossing the cuprite area, Chen Xu found that the original weird light-absorbing space had completely disappeared, not only disappeared, but also revealed some crystalline snow-white rock formations underneath.

If it weren't for the previous copper mines, he would have mistakenly thought that he was in the wrong place.

"It's so weird, the original absorbent objects seem to have burned out, tsk, even this layer of pulverized coal has been burned clean, can it be said that the substance is very flammable?"

Reaching out and wiping the white rock, Chen Xu only felt a cool breath hit the palm of his hand, bringing a rather refreshing feeling, and when he sensed it carefully, he was able to twist a smear of white ash from the stone, which seemed to be the residue of the original pulverized coal burning.

Stepping through this white rock area and turning a corner, the originally mysterious spider cave reappeared in front of Chen Xu's eyes, but perhaps because of the fire, this spider cave has been completely unrecognizable.

Not only are the cobwebs that used to crisscross the country gone, but even the visibility has become much stronger, just equivalent to four or five o'clock in the morning.

On the top of the cave, I don't know when several large holes appeared, and the sunlight from the outside directly penetrated down, which seemed to bring some vitality to this dim underground space.

With Chen Xu's eyesight, he could clearly see everything in the spider cave, only to see that the original fine pulverized coal had been burned almost away, leaving only the black coal blocks in the ground, it seemed that what he expected before was really good, this is a huge open-pit coal mine.

The spider eggs that had been everywhere were gone, and there were not even scorched spiders, and the place was empty, as if it had been completely swept away by something.

Chen Xu searched around, and even went into the largest spider cave where he was originally hiding, but there was nothing except for a thigh-thick spider silk hanging in mid-air.

Not to mention the little silver wolf he was looking for, he didn't even find a spider leg, and now it can be said that it has completely become an open space.

"How can it be burned so cleanly?

Holding this thick spider silk, Chen Xu walked out of this place with a frown, came to the edge of the spider cave, and looked into the underground space farther away.

It turned out that his previous prediction was still a little wrong, this refined coal space should stretch for a very long time, not only in the place occupied by this spider, but further on, a long distance is the territory of pulverized coal.

At that time, he completely ignited these pulverized coals, and when they were not completely burned, all living things would suffocate to death even if they were not burned to death, so starting from the spider cave and extending to the underground space far away, there were no living creatures, and they were completely burned to the ground.

As for the disappearance of the remaining corpses, it may be caused by the creatures in the underground space coming to investigate after the fire stopped, after all, the underground space that can breed human-faced spiders must be more than just having a human-faced spider.

However, these don't seem to be reasons to worry, looking at this piece of burnt black rock, under the blinding light, Chen Xu can be sure that the living environment here has been completely destroyed by a fire.

The biological chain has also been directly cut off, and now it seems to have become a ghost completely, without any breath of life, perhaps, the creatures that can walk have left here far away.

Not to mention that there are no terrifying creatures in this underground space, at least, the apes have become safe to mine copper ore now, which is completely enough for Chen Xu at this stage.

(To be continued)