Beasts Are Boundless

Chapter 89 Lighting Appliances

Throwing the ice sculpture corpse on his shoulder into the big pit, Ye Qiong jumped off the snow wolf.

The big pit is 30 meters long and 15 meters wide. It is about the size of a basketball court. Now it is full of ice sculptures. There are all kinds of corpses. The bigger ones are more than three meters, and the smaller ones are only ten After a few centimeters, Tongtong was picked up by the soldiers.

On Snowstar, food is definitely not wasted.

Ye Qiong found a higher position and looked at the surroundings.

The location where the food is stored is the highest in this area. After the spring of next year, there is no need to worry about being flooded.

Immediately below here is the snow that fell from the avalanche. It is very huge. Now there are many ice sculpture corpses inside. It takes a lot of time and manpower to take out the ice sculpture corpses. Take your time, food is plentiful so far.

Wait until all the holes are filled.

In the outer area, there were still many ice sculptured corpses, so Dakui and Duan Dug dug a second big pit, and the soldiers continued to throw the ice sculptured corpses into the new big pit.

The workload here is still not small, and when the surrounding ice sculpture corpses are processed, the construction of a coal mining base can begin.

The seventy warriors were divided into three waves by Ye Qiong. One wave continued to collect those ice sculpture corpses in the periphery. After this wave went to the periphery, they had to be careful of scavengers, because the corpses of the ice sculptures attracted a lot of scavengers. So Ye Qiong called Danny to be their bodyguard and manual worker.

The second wave of people is responsible for building the base, and it is necessary to build a place that can accommodate a hundred people at the same time in the shortest time, and can withstand the blizzard.

On Snow Star, there are grades of blizzards, which can be roughly divided into five grades. Generally, a slightly larger blizzard, when the wind reaches grade ten, is a grade one blizzard.

The blizzard in the battle with King Fierce a while ago was classified as Level 2, characterized by thunder and lightning, and the wind was above Level 12.

As for the scene with the ice-carved corpses a few days ago, it belonged to a third-level blizzard. Not only was the wind and snow heavy, but the main disaster was the ice-carved corpses that fell from the sky.

There are even bigger blizzards, but they are rare once in decades or even hundreds of years. A blizzard of that level can be ignored for the time being. After all, if you are unlucky, you can only blame bad luck. If you find a place to hide in advance, in all likelihood, your life will be lost.

Now Ye Qiong’s building requirement for this base is that it can withstand a level 3 snowstorm.

After the soldiers accepted the task, they started to build. Because there are not many people, it can only be accumulated by time for the time being.

The third wave of teams is responsible for maintaining the channel excavated in the front. The currently known coal mine area is the location of the big pit. Now it can only be mined with the big pit as the center and slowly extend to the surrounding area, because of manpower and material resources. , if you want to find a new mining site in another place, the workload may be larger.

However, for the sake of efficiency, we still have to find a good mining area later, which is closer to the base here.

Because the snow level of the passage was high again, Ye Qiong called Da Kui over. This kind of work is more suitable for Da Kui.

In addition to these work, Ye Qiong is more concerned about the cave. If it wasn’t for that night, Ye Qiong felt a sense of crisis in the depths of the cave, then the best mining base would be the natural cave.

So Ye Qiong has already started to go in and explore, and the first problem to be solved is the light source.

In this world without electricity, light sources are all emitted by burning, and it is a bit impractical to find ever-bright gems such as luminous pearls.

The fire box is a relatively portable light source at present, but due to the material, if the fire box is used as the light source, the fuel is insufficient. If a fire box keeps burning, it can last about fifteen minutes.

In addition to the huo zhezi, it is the fat of animals. If the animal fat can be refined to obtain the oil, the burning time will be greatly increased. Double the burn time.

At night on the snow stars, humans don’t need lighting, just sleep when it’s dark. Maybe some large tribes store some things that can be illuminated at night, but small tribes like Ye Qiong don’t deliberately store these things.

but……

There may be a caravan. Ye Qiong sat on the ground and thought about the caravan’s material list that Tang Ying had counted for him before.

I almost forgot about it now, so Ye Qiong rode directly on the snow wolf, galloped in the direction of the tribe, and asked.

The wolf ran into the tribe without stopping, and Ye Qiong came to the caravan’s position.

After jumping down from the door of Tang Ying’s snow cave, Tang Ying heard the movement and came out from inside.

“Didn’t you just leave in the morning, why did you come back again…” Tang Ying looked at Ye Qiong and said.

Ye Qiong patted the head of the Demonic Wolf in the Snow Region, let it go to one side, walked into Tang Ying’s room, poured a cup of hot tea for himself, then looked at Tang Ying and said, “You guys Is there a candle by the side…that’s something that illuminates.”

After Tang Ying heard the words, she nodded: “Well, there are some, but not many, I’ll take a look, you wait for me for a while.”

After speaking, Tang Ying ran out, and after a cup of tea, Tang Ying came over with a leather bag that looked worn out, placed it directly on the stone table, and raised her chin at Ye Qiong: “Hey. It’s all here…”

Ye Qiong opened the purse and looked at it, and saw a pile of strange things. It could be seen that they were some burning tools, but most of them were empty. It is estimated that the caravan exchanged things in some tribes. .

After looking at it for a while, Ye Qiong closed the leather bag, shook his head and said, “These are not enough, the equipment is good, but there is still a shortage of fuel, come with me, I will teach you how to extract oil, after you learn it , arrange a few more powerful women in the tribe, and let them do this thing in the future.”

Exploring karst caves requires lighting equipment and fuel, but also lighting is the mining of coal mines.

Now that the big pit Ye Qiong and Ye Mawang fell into, open-pit mining can be done in a short period of time, but it is not a long-term solution. It will definitely be transferred to the ground in the future. The limitations of open-pit mining are too great. After summer, as long as After a heavy rain, the entire mine can be declared scrapped.

If you want large-scale long-term mining, you must never.

After Tang Ying nodded, she was pulled out of the snow cave by Ye Qiong’s little hand.