The rebirth of the evil woman is not easy to mess with

Chapter 962 This Village Is Abnormal!
The village Li Mubai mentioned is far away, located in the deep mountains at the junction of Hezhou and Meizhou, the mountain roads are difficult to travel, and the delay on the road alone has already passed three days.

Three days later, the three of them finally arrived at a village in the deep mountains.

The village looks normal from a distance, green smoke curls up, it is quiet and peaceful, and there are even occasional dogs barking in the village.

But it was not time for lunch, and the village was still smoking, and the amount of smoke was a bit heavy, and Li Qingmu smelled a pungent smell in the smoke, not the smell of ordinary firewood.

He grew up in a mountain village, and he is still very familiar with the smell of cooking smoke.

"Uncle Huang, did you find anything?" Qi Jingyu asked curiously when he saw Li Qingmu's expression was wrong.

With his knowledge, he naturally didn't see any problems, and felt that the village was quite normal.

Li Qingmu frowned and said: "The smell of this smoke is wrong, it's not the smell of burning firewood..."

He talked about his discovery, and Li Mubai praised unexpectedly: "This brother is very careful, we didn't find any problems when we came last time, and we didn't find anything wrong until we entered the village."

"Go, go to a high place to check the situation." Li Qingmu didn't rush into the village, this time he was going to catch all these people. Since the matter was important, it was better to check the situation first.

The three of them climbed up the mountain, and stopped when they reached the top of the mountain. There was a big raised rock, standing on it, they could just see the whole village.

Since there are many trees planted around the village, it is impossible to see the inside from the outside, but you can stand here.

The whole village is roughly in the shape of an oval, built on the mountainside, and there seems to be traces of digging the mountain. According to Li Qingmu's guess, it is likely that their ancestors discovered something here, and then dug out a flat area on the mountainside. place, and then the village was built.

In the center of the village, there is a large melting furnace about two people high. At this time, the chimney of the furnace is emitting green smoke and flames are still whistling.

What is this burning, the firepower is so fierce?

Li Qingmu was very puzzled, he had never seen a blacksmithing stove, but this was the first time he had seen such a strong firepower, generally speaking, if it was just burning firewood, it would not be so strong at all.

There didn't seem to be many people in the village. They all wore blue clothes, with the word iron printed on their chests. I don't know what the purpose was. Could it be because they smelted iron here?
After a rough estimate, there should be about [-] people in the whole village. Everyone has a clear division of labor and is busy in an orderly manner. In order to further investigate and understand, Li Qingmu decided to go in alone to take a look.

"Uncle Huang, do you want to act alone again?" Qi Jingyu asked a little dissatisfied.

Every time, Uncle Huang is alone, leaving him aside, anyway, he is pretty good at it, at least he won't be easily dragged down, so why always leave him behind.

Li Mubai didn't know about Li Qingmu's real strength, so he persuaded him from the side: "Brother, they are numerous and powerful, and they all know kung fu. It's too dangerous for you to go alone. Let's come back at night?"

"No, one person is enough for me. If there are too many people, it will be easy to be discovered." After Li Qingmu finished speaking, he went down the mountain alone, and asked without looking back: "You wait here. If I don't come back in an hour, you Just go to the inn in the town and wait for me!"

Li Qingmu couldn't guarantee what he would meet in the village. If he found a windfall, he might not be able to make it back in an hour, so he told Qi Jingyu in advance.

After arriving at the edge of the village, Li Qingmu was just entering, when suddenly a big black dog ran towards him crazily and barked loudly, so he had to retreat quickly in order not to startle the snake.

The big black dog should have been specially trained. After seeing Li Qingmu leave, he didn't chase him out and went straight back.

Soon, two people in blue clothes came out to check the situation. After finding that there was no one there, they cursed at the big black dog a few more times, and gave up continuing to search.

It turned out that the dogs in the village were used to guard against outsiders. After being mentally prepared, he picked up a fist-sized stone and entered the village again. This time he walked very lightly, but his speed did not slow down at all. The dog was lying on its stomach outside a private house, and immediately threw a stone over it.

The big black dog was silent after whining, and then Li Qingmu secretly said sorry to the big black dog, hid the dog in the haystack, and quickly walked towards the center of the village.

There was more than one dog in this village, and they were scattered in different directions for vigilance. After Li Qingmu followed the same pattern and got rid of a yellow dog, he finally entered the core area.

Even if he was more than ten feet away, he could still feel the roiling heat wave from the big furnace, and then he saw several people throwing a few black stones into the furnace.

Under the continuous blowing of the bellows, the black stone quickly burst into red flames.

Li Qingmu was greatly surprised by this, this kind of stone can be burned?What is the principle?
According to common sense, it is absolutely impossible for a stone to catch fire. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that this black stone could replace firewood and emit higher and hotter firepower.

He secretly noted the appearance of this black stone, and decided to secretly take a few back to study it later.

In addition to the black stones that can burn, he is familiar with the gray iron ore powder used by the other party. I saw those people pouring the iron ore powder into the furnace with a bucket made of wooden boards for preliminary smelting, and then poured the iron ore powder into the furnace The iron block is repeatedly beaten to remove the impurities inside. This process has to be repeated many times before it is smelted into rough iron embryos.

Then they put the rough iron billet into another container to heat it, and then forged it again.

He suddenly understood the intention of these people, it was clearly refining steel.

At present, the technology of steelmaking is mainly in the hands of the Ministry of War of the Great Zhou. The forged steel is very hard. If a sword is made of hundred-steel in combat, its strength will rise to a higher level.

It was precisely because of the steel-making technology that Da Zhou was able to look down on the other barbarians around him, but he didn't expect that these people not only mastered the steel-making technology, but even appeared to be a level higher.

Especially that kind of black stone, the temperature of burning is extremely high. You must know that the fineness of the steel is largely related to the temperature of the furnace fire.

"They have mastered more powerful smelting technology than the Ministry of War, and they are still hiding in such a secret place. What are the origins of these people, and who is the black hand behind them?"

The more Li Qingmu looked at it, the more frightened he became, and he wished he could catch someone alive and ask the truth, but he knew that it was not time to make a move, and the weapons refined by these people could not be stored in the village forever.

As long as you wait for the person who comes to pick up the weapon, you can follow the clues to find the mastermind with a high probability!
(End of this chapter)