Chapter Seventy-Eight: Using Water to Shelter from the Wind
After eating enough, Will decided to go to the waterhole to have a look, because he deduced from the time that it should be the afternoon of Purple Cloud Star. It won't be long before darkness comes back here, and Will hopes that he will find a way to combat the terrifying night winds of the night here during this time.
When Will decided to go to the waterhole, Stoss said that he was willing to sacrifice his strength for the true God to carry Will there. Stos's body had grown a lot bigger after another shedding of its shell, and its compound limbs had become very strong. In addition, as a crustacean, it has a strength beyond other creatures, and it is very easy for Will, who is smaller than his own weight, to carry Stos.
Will, who was carrying the corpse of another beetle in his hand, sat on the back of Stos, and walked quickly towards the waterhole not far away. Will sensed through Stos's mental consciousness that Stost felt very relaxed and pleasant when carrying himself.
It didn't take long for Stostos to carry Will to the waterhole, and Will looked at the tiny crustacean bugs in the waterhole. A question suddenly occurred to him, and that was why these bugs that lived in the waterhole were not killed by the night wind. Are these insects just as unafraid of the night wind as the grass?
After some wasted effort, Will managed to catch several bugs in the waterhole, and when he researched them, he found that they didn't seem to be able to resist the night wind head-on. This means that these bugs have not been blown by the night wind, and they hide in some places in the waterhole at night, or the night wind cannot directly attack these creatures in the water.
After some research, Will found the answer. Both of these situations happened at the same time~!
The bugs use some of the cracks in the rocks in the waterhole to avoid attacks, and it seems that the water is able to withstand the night wind. Will was a little excited to get this answer, as he seemed to have found a way to hide from the night wind.
It's just that this method still needs to be experimented~!
Will then made a sketch of the beetle Stoth in the ground with a stone and told Stost to make a hole in the waterhole according to the sketch.
Having received the baptism of wisdom from Earth's civilization, Stoth could easily understand the meaning of Will's sketch. And it can also clearly know the original purpose of this sketch, the toilet S-shaped pipe~!
Stoss quickly followed the sketch provided by Will and made a stone hole by the waterhole. The entrance to this cave has an S-shaped passage, and after passing through the passage, there is a ramp and then you can enter the interior. Inside, there is a large space that is large enough to accommodate Will and Stoss activities.
It's just that they can't stay overnight in it yet, because they still need to be tested.
Will asked Stostos to open the entrance to the waterhole and the cave~!
When the waterhole and the cave are opened, the pool water begins to enter the passage of the cave, but because the passage of the cave is S-shaped, the pool water does not enter the interior of the cave. It is just that the entrance of the cave is formed into a closed waterway.
Will broke off one of the beetle's compound limbs, and he swam down the entrance to the cavern. He threw the beetle's compound limbs into the belly of the cave and swam back again.
Will Jean Stos, who swam back, used a large amount of rubble from digging the cave to block the ditch between the waterhole and the cave, so that the beetles in the waterhole would not swim into the cave.
Will and Stos, who had done this, returned to the boulder pillar, and they needed to wait until tomorrow morning to check the situation in the cavern to see if the beetle's compound limbs had been cut off by the night wind.
Returning to the pillar, Will asks Stost to continue digging in the cave where they had spent the night, and this time Will hopes to dig directly inside the pillar to find a vein of iron ore inside the pillar.
However, when the excavation began, Will still asked Stos, in the same way that he had excavated the cave by the waterhole, to dig an S-shaped passage first. If the method of sealing the door with water can really block the attack of the night wind, then you can directly fill the passage with water to block the night wind.
Of course, if Will first spent the night in the cave sealed with water, there is a problem that needs to be solved, that is, how to make the cave have enough oxygen.
This question is not difficult at all in front of [science fanatics]~!
While Stoss kept digging caverns, Will continued to collect the dark red grains of stone in the iron ore beneath the boulder pillars.
Will knew that there must be something in these dark red stone grains that would facilitate the evolution of the giant beetles and give them the ability to manipulate fire. It's just that what he needs now is to figure out the specific properties of these things, and whether they can give him the same abilities as the giant beetle Storth.
When time passed little by little, the giant beetle had already excavated a large space inside the cave. And Will also found a lot of dark red stone grains and some iron ore of high purity.
Will and Stoss hid together in the cave and waited for the night to fall, this time again with Stoss in goal. The difference was that Will's body had almost recovered at this time, and he clearly felt that the flesh of the giant beetle could make his body recover quickly.
In the middle of the cave, Will leaned on the faint red light emitted by a handful of large dark red stone grains in his hand, and looked at these dark red stone grains in his hand, Will suddenly had a very good idea. He went up to Stos, placed a few dark red stones in front of Stos, and then asked Storth, who was blocking the door with his back armor, to heat the stones with his pincers to see what would happen. Because the amount of stone grains is very small, Will doesn't feel too dangerous~!
Storth happily did so, as Storth's huge pincers became red-hot. The stones on its pincers began to turn red, and then slowly began to melt. The melted stone grains began to coalesce, and Will made Stoss stop heating. Soon after, the melted stone began to solidify and turn dark red again. When Will removed the large congealed stone from Storth's pincers, he noticed that the surface of the stone seemed to be cracked. As Will crushed him, the cracks began to fall off. Inside the stone grain formed by this fusion, a smaller and redder stone grain is formed.
The small stone was as red as a ruby, and it emitted a faint heat of heat, and the red light it emitted was a little brighter. Will was very happy to see this, because if he did, he would be able to condense the stones. This condensed stone grain clearly contains a purer energy.
Will first found a slightly larger pit in the ground, and then placed all the stones in his hand in the pit. Ask Stoss to put pliers in the pit to add the stones in the pit, and the stones begin to melt and merge little by little as they are heated. Eventually, the grains fused into a small pool of lava-like liquid. As the liquid began to cool, Will simply slammed the small dark red stone on the ground. Then the skin of the dark red stone began to peel off, and soon an oval-shaped red stone with a smooth surface appeared in Will's hand.
The red stone emitted a fiery sensation in Will's hand, as if the stone had just been fished out of boiling water. Will was scalded and then he immediately placed the stone on the ground, and the red light emitted by the stone was enough to shine about two or three meters away.
After feeling excited for a while, Will suddenly thought of a question, whether this kind of stone, which can emit heat radiation, will contain a lot of radioactive elements. This is very likely, and Will, who thought of this, immediately took a few last steps, and at this moment, Will looked at this crimson stone as if he was staring into the eyes of a devil.
In Will's cognition, only minerals containing radioactive elements emit light on their own, and minerals that can produce thermal radiation contain as many radioactive elements as you can imagine. Under such circumstances, Will felt that carrying these stones for a long time was likely to cause serious damage to his body. However, just as Will was thinking this, Will was asked by Stos.
Storth called out to Will in his consciousness in the hope that he would receive the gift of the true God. It was eager to devour the little stone, and it subconsciously seemed that the little stone would be of great help to it.
Will did not immediately respond to its request, instead asking Stoss to recall memories of radioactive elements and radioactive ores. Storth gradually began to develop a fear of the stone in front of him in the midst of his memory, because the minerals that appeared in front of him were extremely dangerous in the knowledge he had learned from Will's memory.
When Will pays attention to Stous's mental activity, it becomes clear that there is a contradiction in Stowe's meaning. This contradiction is on the one hand the fear of the stone in the knowledge of the earth, and on the other hand, the desire for the stone that exists in the subconscious. The two contradictions were constantly entangled in Stous's mind, and Will was curious about what choice Stoth would make at this time.
Although he now knew that this kind of stone should be of great help to Stos, he didn't mean to help Stoss choose~!