The sunset is dusk.

The forest waves roar like a tide, sometimes mixed with wild animals roaring, making the atmosphere look particularly terrifying.

I can no longer go back today, so I can only camp here.

Xu Chen returned to the area where the indigenous savages gathered, and ordered some people to take care of the prisoners, some people to go nearby to see if they could catch some prey, and arranged for people to collect hay and firewood.

"Mo fire, don't use firewood!" A Ba hunter reminded in surprise.

"Try it, maybe it can make a fire!" Xu Chen waved his hand.

So a group of people scattered.

Although I don’t know how Xu Chen made the fire, he said that no one would object to picking up firewood. This wilderness is in the middle of winter, so it is really hard to bear without fire.

As the group of people got busy, Xu Chen also searched for some dry weeds and moss in the nearby dead holes of the big tree, and found a secluded place to find a tool for drilling wood and making fire that he had made at home.

This tool is actually a hand drill, but the drill is not a bone or ordinary stone, but a piece of flint that is polished into a cone shape.

Flint is a volcanic rock, dense and hard, and its main component is a special structure quartz, scientifically called alpha quartz, which is nodule-shaped, and the cross-section is very easy to form shell-like texture. It is the best stone for making stone tools and is easier to form sharp structures than ordinary basalt. In ancient times, simple ignition devices were made of this stone. The scythe and the earliest flintlock rifles were made of flint and steel sheets with high carbon content.

It is impossible to have steel sheets at the moment, but flint is prone to burst out of Mars during collisions, so Xu Chen used this feature to create a tool for drilling wood to make fire.

In ancient China, Suiren drilled wood to make fire. Many historians believed that it was to drill wood with wood. In fact, there were still great differences and controversies in the geology community.

Because Suiren's drilling wood to make fire comes from an ancient myth, saying that the fire was made by a fire tree branch called fume. However, in nature, this plant was not discovered. Instead, humans used flint after learning to make fire manually.

Therefore, in the geological world, it is generally believed that Suiren used flint instead of flint to drill wood to make fire.

During high-speed rotation and friction, the harder the harder the thing heats up, the faster the hardness of the wood will definitely be much worse than that of the stone.

The tool for making fire by Xu Chen made is very simple. It is a straight wooden stick as thick as an egg. After splitting it below, it is clamped with a very blunt conical flint. The method of use is also very simple. Find a thicker dry hardwood, place the flint stick on it, wrap it around with a rope in the middle, and two people pull the rope forward and back, causing the wooden stick to rotate quickly, allowing the flint and the wood to rub and heat up at high speed.

This structure is very simple, much more convenient and powerful than rubbing back and forth by a person with his hands.

Some people online experimented with hardwood to successfully drill out fire, and he believed that this kind of flint wooden pole was easier to succeed.

Therefore, after all the materials were found, Xu Chen held the wooden pole and asked Gu Heju to pull back and forth with ropes on the left and right. At the beginning, the drill pole would often be pulled back and forth by being pulled. After a small hole was slowly drilled out, the wooden pole would no longer jump back and forth, and the three of them gradually became proficient in the cooperation, and the wooden pole began to rotate back and forth quickly on the wood.

"Fast, faster!"

After seven or eight minutes, although the fire did not come out, under the violent high-speed friction, the wood slowly began to show signs of blackening and carbonization. A burning smell of wood emanating, which made Xu Chen see the hope of igniting the fire seed, so he kept urging the two close-fitting tool people to accelerate.

Gu Heqiu, who had already pulled his arms, felt sore, but he seemed to feel the aura of flame on the wood, so he pulled it harder.

Seeing the three of them doing something indescribable toward a dead wood, some hunters looking for firewood or guarding prisoners were curious and surrounded and watched, but they were all confused and confused.

“Wow, smoke!”

After the unremitting efforts of the three of them, more than ten minutes later, some dry moss placed between the drill bit and the wood began to smoke, and the onlookers suddenly felt a violent commotion.

"Quick, hurry up, fire is coming out!"

At this time, there was no need for Xu Chen to urge him to give him instructions. Gu Heju and the others pulled the rope more vigorously as if they were injected with chicken blood.

“Huhhhhhhhhhh…”

The drill rod rotated back and forth more violently, and the moss smoke around the drill bit became bigger and bigger. Xu Chen kept tearing and stacking large balls of dry moss on it until suddenly a little fire appeared and the moss began to burn.

"Wow~~"

The group of hunters watching suddenly exclaimed violently.

Xu Chen did not dare to neglect it, and kept stacking dry moss and some dry weeds upwards, and kept blowing with his mouth, and soon the flames burned violently.

“Gaga, there’s fire!”

"Hurry up, bring all the firewood and grass here!"

Amid the noise and exclamation of the crowd, Xu Chen quickly ordered to bring more firewood, choose some dry branches from it and gently add them into the flames. Slowly, the flames became bigger and bigger, and eventually turned into a pile of burning flames.

This is not a miracle, it is a miracle.

Looking at the bonfire that appeared out of thin air, a group of Mongolian hunters and Yugong hunters knelt down directly at Xu Chen, lying in the dust and grass chips, and making continuous sounds of ghosts and howling.

Although a group of Ba hunters and captive legions had long been accustomed to Xu Chen's magic, the appearance of this fire made everyone's awe of him again. In his mind, his image was like a giant, and he began to step on the ground and support the sky to move closer to the real god.

This is no longer a skill that humans can possess.

Fire has been a magical power that can only be controlled by gods since ancient times.

Humans have never found any way to make fire outside of nature.

All are obtained by relying on the gifts of the gods.

Trees burned by lightning, fires caused by drought, or fire rains from the sky formed a huge natural disaster. The source of any fire is extremely scarce, and it is the punishment or favor of the gods to mankind.

The fire of every tribe is the most precious wealth.

If a tribe that has lost its fire seed cannot find a new fire seed, it will soon fall into chaos. Viper snakes, insects, ants, and even wild beasts will begin to invade the tribe, causing various diseases and injuries.

Fire is the greatest security for human survival.

It is not just about roasting food, but also about keeping warm, driving away snakes and insects, driving away wild animals, preventing and controlling plagues and diseases, etc.

Originally, when they were away, everyone was used to this kind of raw and cold diet and sleeping in the open, but whenever they went to a place, they tried their best to find a place for tribes and sleep in the night.

From going out to the present, it is only today that you may not get angry.

But unexpectedly, Xu Chen used a wooden stick and a rope to get the fire from the wood.

This magical power can only be achieved by God.

And this pile of burning flames also made the group of indigenous prisoners frightened to the point of being indescribable, with a dull and confusion on their faces, and even the severe pain and the casualties of their tribe members were completely forgotten.

These humans are completely different from the Mongolian race. They are very different from the Mongolian race in terms of their clothes and weapons.

Yesterday, it was because of underestimating the enemy too much. I thought that like the previous attacks, the Mongolians would hide in an open space to fight them in a not-too-hard fight. If they were lucky, they would cause some casualties and injuries to the other party to calm the anger of the hot spring being robbed.

But unexpectedly, these people rushed into the woods and launched an attack on them, but they caught them off guard and suffered a great loss.

There were heavy casualties and only seven or eight people escaped.

And what I didn't expect was that these terrifying strange humans actually killed their nests directly today.

This situation only happened two or three times before, and most of them eventually retreated at the cost of huge casualties of the Mongolians.

But this time, these strange and powerful foreigners did not give them any chance and took them away.

Hate and anger have always suppressed like volcanoes and dared not erupt. Some of them were uninjured and struggled desperately to escape while the hunters were not paying attention. Then they waited for an opportunity to attack in the dark.

But the appearance of this bonfire completely calmed the group of people, their heads so blank that their souls could not return to their place.

In fact, they also like fire and have had it, but because they cannot save it, they finally get a little fire every time, and it will soon be extinguished due to rain and snow.

They attacked the Mongolians in winter all year round, not only to expel the enemy, but actually also to get fire from the Mongolians. They have succeeded several times a long time ago, but as the Mongolians continue to grow, this opportunity has become less and less.

The valley was filled with joy and bustle due to the appearance of the bonfire. The burning flames illuminated the dark and primitive jungle. The hunters who went out to hunt in the nearby valley were also attracted by the thick smoke. When they learned that Xu Chen had obtained the fire by magical methods, the wind and other groups of hunters also shouted excitedly, screamed and turned around and rushed into the nearby forest to hunt.

Since we had pottery, after getting used to eating cooked food, the habit of eating raw meat has gradually been abandoned, especially the rich and fragrant, warm and appetizing foods such as mixed grain porridge and bone soup and minced meat, which made it difficult for the Ba people to part with it.

We were already ready to suffer tonight, but we did not expect that the great witch king once again created a miracle that only gods could create, bringing them a bonfire in the cold winter.

Around the sunset, hunters who went out to hunt returned one after another. Although the harvest was not too great, they also had several mountain deer and small beasts, with six of them all. Although so many people were not enough to eat, they also brought dry food and meat. After stewing and grilling, they could have a good meal.

Several wild beasts were stolen, and the pots and pots they carried were filled with water and minced meat bones and then stewed.

There is a lot of salt brine nearby. Xu Chen made a lot of salt frost and melted it with a pot of water. Then, filtered out the mud and sand with clean linen clothes and mixed it with a clean linen and clothes, and mixed the obtained salt water into the meat porridge bone soup. Some large pieces of fresh meat were soaked in salt water and then smoked around the campfire.

With salt, the taste of food will become unique.

Even the Mongolians never knew that food could be processed and barbecued in this way.

As the pot pots and pots began to swell, the strong fragrance began to spread in the valley, and the barbecue meat pieces also exude a unique burnt aroma, with a completely different wonderful taste.

A large group of hunters sat around several bonfires, and kept swallowing their saliva while smelling the strong aroma of meat.

A group of indigenous savages were also fascinated by the temptation of this fragrance. Many children couldn't help crying, completely forgetting that they had just experienced a tragic massacre.

For this group of indigenous savages, they are not short of salt, nor do they need to eat a lot of raw flesh and blood to supplement salt. They need fire to grill food.

But the living environment and state greatly limit their desire for fire.
Chapter completed!