my stealth fighter

Chapter 1373 Excavation
When it comes to digging, apes are the best at it. Even these warriors who are born for fighting seem to do a lot of digging work. Their proficiency in using digging tools is not inferior to their proficiency in weapons. , whether it is weapons or excavation, relying on recklessness can only get twice the result with twice the result, and skills are very useful.

Jiang Chanji stood for a long time and was already tired. He sat down on the stone where he had just stood and looked at them, watching their work like a supervisor.

The digging site chosen by the apes was the nearby swamp. It was said to be a swamp, but in fact it was more like a wetland. It was by no means the terrifying deep pool that one usually imagines where one could sink into the top. If one stood in the deepest part, it would be impossible to survive at most. Just the waist.

They first dug a ditch next to the swamp according to the terrain, and drained as much water as possible out of the swamp. This was a very smart approach. As long as the water was drained, the remaining silt would be easy to dig out. .

In the dim light that is unique to extreme daylight, the apes just work like this, just like when eating. They do not communicate with each other unless necessary. They are all skilled workers and know what they should do. There is no need to communicate at all. It was when the ape-man in charge found that another beast was coming, that he put down his tools and picked up his weapons. Only at this time did the sleepy Jiang Chanji feel a little more energetic, because after watching the excavation work for a long time, the freshness had worn off. It was really boring after that.

An hour or two passed, and the apes, waiting for their prey, had caught more than 20 beasts alive, and there were also about a dozen scavenging birds of prey. It was estimated that almost all the carnivorous and scavenging animals in the vicinity had been caught.

Their method of catching raptors is simple and efficient. They tie two stones to the two ends of a straw rope. They use local materials. When the raptors swoop down to seize the internal organs, they can throw them at the raptors with great accuracy. Wrapping the wings of a raptor - it seems simple, but in fact it requires countless practice, and Jiang Chanji can't learn it anyway.

Taking advantage of the raptor's flight being hindered, other ambushing ape-men came out with diagonal stabs. They struck the raptor's neck, wing roots and other fragile joints with a stick. They also wounded but did not kill, completely depriving it of its ability to fly, leaving only Next breath.

Their indiscriminate capture of all comers seems to be beyond the scope of necessity. Even if it is for reserve rations, there is no need to keep even scavenging raptors, right?This thing was too dirty and had all kinds of germs on it. Jiang Chanji didn't even want to get close. He didn't believe that the apes had reached the point where they were invulnerable to all (diseases)... If that were the case, the effect of the microorganisms might be worrying.

Seeing the apes digging and digging like this, Jiang Chanji had begun to seriously consider the option of going back to eat and drink water first. Food could wait. Anyway, he was used to starving before, but water was life. He was so thirsty that he couldn't bear it anymore. He neither wanted to grab the water from the ape-man's water bag nor drink the water from the swamp.

After another hour or two, the number of prey increased again, and the excavation work also progressed rapidly. Not only was the water in the swamp drained, but also the underwater silt layer was removed. The apes seemed to have dug underneath. The permafrost layer is a little more difficult to dig than before, but it's okay. As a crater, there can't be large rocks or entire rock layers within a depth of at least tens of meters on the surface. Frozen soil is easier to dig than rocks.

Their digging tools are all homemade from wood cut on the road. Although it can be seen that they use relatively hard wood, and then cut the head into a wedge shape with a weapon to facilitate shoveling and digging, but after all, it is not a metal head digging The heads of the tools were worn out while digging, and they could only be cut again with weapons. Seeing the wood being cut shorter and shorter, Jiang Chanji couldn't help but worry about them. There were no strong trees in the tundra for them to replace.

He planned to leave here temporarily and go back to eat and drink water when they stopped working. They couldn't stay without rest, right?Fu Su has conveyed everyone's concerns during the contact window more than once. If he doesn't go back, I'm afraid Yi Xing will really have to bring water and food. Although that is not impossible, the key is that he stays here to watch the boring excavation work. It doesn't make any sense either.

At this time, the apes suddenly stopped one after another. Jiang Chanji thought that they were finally going to rest. After all, their expressions showed obvious fatigue. As long as they sat down, he would leave immediately.However, he had already stood up from the stone, but the situation seemed different from what he expected.

The apes did not seem to stop working on their own initiative, but as if... they had dug something. They gathered together somewhere at the excavation site, lowering their heads or squatting on the ground to observe silently.

Jiang Chanji became more energetic, and his curiosity was aroused. He wanted to know what they were looking at. He also wanted to see it, but they were so crowded that he didn't have a chance to watch for the time being.

One of the apes said something briefly to the other apes. It seemed to be the one who had taken the map before. He was not sure, after all, they all looked the same.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but some... indescribably complex expressions appeared on the faces of the apes to varying degrees, but they basically disappeared in an instant and returned to their previous coldness.

They dispersed, and Jiang Chanji finally had a chance to get a closer look.

The apes dug out a large pit from the previous swamp that was nearly the size of a basketball court and with an average depth of several meters. Of course, since water and silt accounted for almost half of the depth, the actual amount of excavation work was not particularly exaggerated, although it was already very large. Exaggerated.

The apes all went up to the outside of the pit. Jiang Chanji did not dare to jump down, so he could only stand by the pit and observe, because if he jumped down, he would definitely leave footprints. The bottom of the pit was a mixture of ice and soil, and there was dirt everywhere. Damn it, if you jump down, you will definitely leave traces. Then something will happen. Could it be that he wants to kill all the ape-men and then dig them out himself?

From his position and angle, he could only see the place where the apes were just watching. There was slightly more ice than soil, and there was a vague black shadow under the ice, which was a few centimeters deep under the ice, but this was mixed with soil. The transparency of the ice was so poor that he couldn't see the specific shape clearly. Even if he jumped down to look, he probably wouldn't be able to tell the reason.

The bottom of the pit is not flat, but rather hemispherical like the bottom of a bowl. The arc is not that big. That position is roughly the lowest point of the hemisphere.

Jiang Chanji thought that this was probably the end of the first phase of excavation. After the apes rested, they would start the second phase of excavation. No matter what was under the ice, they would definitely have to dig it out, right?

(End of this chapter)