Beasts Are Boundless

It would be much faster if there were tools that could be used to mine coal.

I can only think about it, but after I go back, I have to quickly produce more hammers and chisels. When I was collecting stone materials, the tribe stepped up to produce some, about 20 or 30. Now that there are coal mines, those are definitely is not enough.

Gotta get a little more out.

Fortunately, it is not far from the tribe, about eight kilometers, a half-day journey, and it is more convenient to mine and transport.

Ye Qiong is now ready to build a road. According to the current distribution of human and material resources in the tribe, only a small number of people can be temporarily recruited to collect coal.

Due to the limitation of technical level and the influence of technology, now the tribe has mined coal back, and its role can only be used for cooking or heating for the time being.

Ye Qiong wants to build something like a steam engine, and there is still a long way to go. Although Ye Qiong is very clear about the principle of the steam engine.

But the process is definitely more troublesome, because enough iron elements, molds and various precision carriers are required.

This has to be accumulated over time.

Haste is not enough, now Ye Qiong continues to burn the coal, as the temperature outside gradually rises, the speed of melting the ice and snow is already very fast at this moment.

It is rising almost at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although nothing unusual could be seen from Ye Qiong, but in the outside world where Tang Ying was, looking at Ye Qiong's position, you could see faint white smoke coming out of the arrow holes.

The high temperature of the coal burning not only melted the snow accumulated on it, but also evaporated a lot of water. Because there are only a few small holes where the air comes out, it is clear from the outside that the white smoke floating from the hole is very clear.

With a distance of several kilometers, there is no way to transmit the sound by shouting through the mouth, especially now that Ye Qiong is in the snow cave.

Tang Ying had shouted a lot just now, but she didn't get a response from Ye Qiong. Now she can only sit on the ground with Danny and look at the four smoking holes. She can't figure out what happened inside. .

The heart that had been put down was suspended again.

Duan is a little anxious now, and just ran out to dig snow for a while, but soon it found that the snow that was several kilometers long and tens of meters deep on average was like the sea. power is simply impossible.

But Duan didn't think about it so much, and still ran over from time to time to continue digging. When he got tired of digging, he would stay by Tang Ying's side to rest...

Time soon came to the evening, and after digging for a long time, only one passage that was two meters wide and ten meters long was dug.

According to its current digging speed, the distance of several kilometers, it is not necessary to dig to the position where Ye Qiong is located until the spring of next year, and the snow on the outside is relatively shallow, starting from a few meters deep and slowly rising until it reaches dozens of meters even hundreds of meters deep.

In terms of its dumb physique, if it fell into the snow hundreds of meters deep, it would be very difficult to climb out by brute force.

After nightfall, the temperature gradually dropped, but inside the pit where Ye Qiong was, it was still very warm.

As the snow gradually melted, the thickness of the topmost snow was only more than two meters.

Ye Qiong looked at the small openings above, and then picked up a stone from the ground.

Then he gently shook his arm, and then threw the stone diagonally upwards. "Hey... dong!"

The friction between the stones and the snow produced a low sound. The bullet-like stones directly pierced through the snow more than two meters thick, and then continued to fly towards the sky for a long distance before this began. Under the action of gravity, it falls down.

Ye Qiong didn't mean to stop, raised his head and threw a few stones out, and suddenly there were more fist-sized holes in the snow above.

Tang Ying has been observing the situation on Ye Qiong's side. At this moment, she saw several fist-sized holes appearing on the snow surface, much larger than the previous ones. A few light red rays shot from the holes. came out.

The light from burning coal was red, while the light from burning wood was a little more yellow, so it was the first time Tang Ying saw the red shimmer emitting from the holes.

"What's going on inside..." Tang Ying hugged her legs, still staring at Ye Qiong's position.

Xue Xing had already entered the night, and danger began to come. Because there was Dawn around, Tang Ying was not worried that a scavenger would attack her. The only thing she was worried about was Ye Qiong.

Dian is busy digging a hole now. Although Ye Qiong is not directing it, Dian is still very clear. If Tang Ying doesn't sleep in the snow cave at night, he will freeze to death, so there is no need for Tang Ying to direct it. After it got dark, Danny started digging snow caves.

Ye Qiong, who stayed in the big pit, doesn't have to worry about whether he will freeze to death at this moment. The temperature in the big pit is still very high, and the king of wild horses is still lying on the ground. He is probably hungry. , but their tolerance for hunger is far greater than that of humans, and this guy just lay there motionless, without any energy consumption, so it's not a big problem if he doesn't eat for two days.

Ye Qiong is very hungry now. He has done physical work all day and needs timely energy supply.

The jerky on his body could last for two days. Ye Qiong raised his head and took out the jerky, chewed it in his mouth, and looked at the king of wild horses.

I hope after two or three days, I can go out.

otherwise……

"Ugh……"

Ye Qiong sighed softly, he is not a bad guy, if he didn't go out after three days, the Mustang King probably wouldn't be able to go out.

Shaking his head, Ye Qiong temporarily stopped the mess of negative emotions in his head.

After eating two pieces of jerky, Ye Qiong got up and climbed out of the pit, grabbed some snow from the outside, chewed it in his mouth and swallowed it.

At the same time, I also got some and put them in front of the Mustang King.

Wild Horse King has not eaten or drank for a day. The long-distance raid from morning to noon is also very physically exhausting. Seeing the snow in front of him, he sticks out his tongue and licks it without any hesitation.

Ye Qiong couldn't get the food for Ye Qiong for the time being, but if there was a water source, in Xuexing's winter, there would definitely be no shortage of water.

There are as many as you want. Although the snow is not clean, some dust and bacteria will be trapped in the air, but for the humans and creatures on the snow star, it will not cause any health problems.

Xuexing itself has no pollution, so relatively speaking, the snow here is more than a little cleaner than the earth where Ye Qiong lived in the last life.

When night fell, Ye Qiong had been busy all day and was a little sleepy, so he buried the charcoal fire in the hole with soil, and left a little gap.

In this way, the charcoal fire inside can burn for a long time. One of the great advantages of the charcoal fire is that once it is burned, even if it is all buried in the soil, it can still burn for a long time, because its own temperature is enough to support the internal spontaneous combustion. The demand is not great.