The Sims Evolved from Goblins

Chapter 20 A New Beginning

"It won't fail, will it?"

Looking at the blast furnace in front of him that was emitting amazing heat waves, Li Meng frowned slightly.

The larger the blast furnace, the easier it is to store heat, and the higher the pressure will be.

Higher pressure can lower the melting point of iron.

If the blast furnace is too small, the heat will quickly dissipate through the furnace wall.

If the wind is insufficient, it will be difficult to quickly raise the temperature in the furnace to 1300 degrees.

"Boss, are you done?"

The goblins pulling the bellows were sweating profusely.

Not only were they hot, but their hands were also sore and painful.

"Keep going!"

The goblins had to keep pulling with a bitter face.

"Boss, my hands are going to be broken!"

"Can't stop!"

Time passed by little by little as the goblin brothers wailed.

Five hours later, the river bank under the cave.

The blast furnace on the bank was emitting amazing heat.

Even five meters away, you can feel the rolling heat waves.

Standing next to the blast furnace, Li Meng felt the temperature of the blast furnace with his hands without contact.

An hour ago, the temperature in the blast furnace stopped rising.

Li Meng knew that the temperature in the blast furnace had reached its limit.

"Then let's open the furnace!"

Looking at the blast furnace in front of him, Li Meng thought to himself.

Whether it can succeed is important, but it is not important.

This is just the first experiment, and Li Meng is not afraid of failure.

Even if it fails, you will gain experience, and you will never fail again next time.

Li Meng took a few steps back, bent down and picked up the mold placed aside.

Then he placed the mold at the iron outlet.

He used a wooden stick to poke the stone at the iron outlet.

As the stone at the iron outlet was removed, the hot molten iron flowed out.

This scene made Li Meng's eyes light up.

He didn't expect that the first blast furnace ironmaking was successful.

Molten iron like magma flowed into the mold continuously.

With pig iron, there is the possibility of steelmaking.

Pig iron can produce a lot of rust by chemically reacting with air and water in a humid place.

Rust and pig iron can be smelted to obtain low-carbon steel.

There is more than one way to make steel.

You can also break the pig iron into pieces for secondary smelting. By stirring the pig iron water to increase the contact surface with oxygen, the carbon in the iron can be oxidized.

By controlling the carbon content in the iron through experiments, medium-carbon steel and high-carbon steel can be obtained by stopping the smelting.

You can also directly smelt carbon oxidation to obtain low-carbon wrought iron.

You can use pig iron water to pour the red-hot wrought iron to melt and obtain high-carbon steel.

"Strange, such a small blast furnace should not have a temperature that can reach the melting point of iron."

Looking at the molten iron flowing out of the iron outlet, Li Meng muttered in his heart.

Could it be that the oxygen content in this world is different from that on Earth?

The higher the oxygen content, the more vigorously the fire will burn.

The more vigorously the fire burns, the higher the temperature will naturally be.

I didn't think much about it. Success is success, and the result is the most important.

With the success of the first experiment, there was a good start.

In the next few days, Li Meng only did one thing.

That is to teach the goblin brothers to be familiar with the process of iron smelting.

There are also some knowledge about how to make iron, tempering, quenching, forging, etc.

Although goblins are not very smart, they have strong imitation ability.

Li Meng does not need the goblin brothers to think about the principle of iron smelting.

Li Meng just wants them to follow the steps to do every step of iron smelting.

Half a month later, the river bank under the cave.

"This is an hourglass. When the hourglass inside is empty, it is time to open the furnace. Do you understand?"

On the river bank, Li Meng held a simple hourglass made of bamboo in his hand.

Goblins have no concept of time.

To be precise, there is no counting to measure time.

The goblin brothers on the river bank nodded.

"Okay, from today on, you will make your own blast furnace and smelt iron by yourself. If you can produce molten iron, it will be considered a success. If you succeed, each of you will get the right to mate for one day. If you fail, you will never reproduce in your life."

Hearing that you can get the right to mate if you succeed, the goblins on the river bank have bright eyes.

They looked at the boss eagerly.

Their saliva was almost flowing from the corners of their mouths.

Because the goblins on the river bank had eaten the meat of the cave ogres.

In just over half a month, the seven goblins had evolved into big goblins.

Facing the excited goblin brothers in front of him, Li Meng waved his hand.

"Go, you have five sunsets!"

Upon hearing this, the goblin brothers on the river bank turned around and ran to the cave entrance.

They had to select iron ore with a high iron content from scratch.

They also had to find clay for making blast furnaces and firewood for burning charcoal.

Looking at the backs of the goblin brothers running towards the cave entrance, Li Meng grinned.

Li Meng intended to train these seven goblin brothers into blacksmiths.

Once they become blacksmiths, their descendants will inherit their legacy.

By then, the tribe will have a large team of blacksmiths.

"System, start the Simulation Life!"

Unconsciously, another month of cooling time has passed.

Li Meng is full of expectations for the development of his future life.

[Start the Simulation Life]

[You start your career as a blacksmith, your efforts are rewarded, and the tribe enters the Iron Age]

[You make the first spear]

[You make the first crossbow]

[You start to arm your tribe, and your tribe thrives]

[One of your hunting teams was ambushed by lizardmen and wiped out when it went to the Ghost Spider Forest to obtain spider silk]

[Traces of pigmen were found in the east, and a tribe of pigmen entered your territory]

[Due to the rapid increase in the population of the tribe, the pressure of food made you decide to wage war against the outside world]

[Please make the following choices]

[1. Revenge on the lizardmen]

[2. Annihilate the pigmen who entered the territory]

[3. Cross the river and march to the south bank to expand the hunting territory]

Li Meng sat down on a big rock on the river bank.

How to choose among the three options?

Sitting on the rock, Li Meng stared at the water in a daze.

The lizardmen have lived in the swamp for who knows how many years.

This is a hard bone, and it is not rational to gnaw on this hard bone.

But the Ghost Spider Forest is near the swamp.

If the lizardmen are not eliminated, obtaining spider silk will become a big problem.

The second option is a big pit.

Li Meng has not forgotten the future predicted by the last Sims.

In that future, the Pigmen tribe grew stronger because of the iron blast furnace he made and gave birth to the Golden Pigmen King.

This shows that the Pigmen tribe is a large social tribe.

Eliminating the migrating Pigmen tribe may attract the tribes behind the Pigmen tribe.

As for the third option, it may cause a civil war.

Once you cross the river, you will enter the territory of Gobba.

Li Meng is not confident that he can defeat Gobba yet.

Once he loses in the leader duel, he will lose everything.

For him now, the third option is also a big pit.

"Choose revenge on the Lizardmen!"

In the end, Li Meng chose to take revenge on the Lizardmen.