I became a planet

Chapter 42 The Difference Between Cloud and Mud
Guo Sen is always very interested in unexpected things.

Just like everything in front of you.

Nearly a hundred short humanoid creatures are pounding stones with tools in full swing.

The cave was brightly lit, and a torch made of unknown wood was fixed on the rock wall, illuminating this rather wide cave brightly.

This also allowed Guo Sen to see the appearance of these working humanoids more carefully.

Guo Sen is always interested in unexpected things.

Except for the beard and hair, the hair of these humanoids is extremely sparse, and his light brown skin can even be seen clearly.The muscles full of lines are extremely developed, and the waist like a bucket is surrounded by blue fur.

They have human-like faces, with black and brown eyes, but relatively higher cheekbones, upturned nostrils, and unkempt beards, making them look like rough men.

The palms and toes are all five fingers, and judging from the posture of holding those fruits, they seem to be very flexible.

Tail?Guo Sen took a closer look, but there really wasn't one.

Oh wow.

Guo Sen looked at this creature that was almost similar to humans on Earth, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of satisfaction in his heart.

This guy is the ideal "primitive"!

Compared with this, those black-haired and red-haired people below the plateau are all messed up!

However, there are still disadvantages.

This group of people seems to be a little...short?

Guo Sen estimated their height, and found that he was only about 1.2 meters tall. Looking at his figure, he really looked like a short-bodied kind, with extremely stubby hands and feet.

Guo Sen is extremely excited now.

This is a real humanoid creature!
Compared with the werewolves with lizard heads and white hair, this is a serious primitive man!
In Guo Sen's subjective imagination, only creatures similar to people on Earth can be called "humans", and the rest should be called "humanoids".

This is also because it is originally a psychological adoration of earthlings.

If he had been a dinosaur head in life, he might have favored those lizardmen more.

Guo Sen felt that if possible, he would like to make more efforts for the civilization of this race and make a small difference.

Then, call them "dwarves"!

However, judging from the metal tools in their hands, even if they didn't do anything, these dwarves were far ahead of those two tribes.

With metal, it means that they have mastered fire. With fire, they can basically be sure to eat cooked food, and weapons are not bad.

The tribes capable of mining have already reached a large part of the civilization of the Slinger Age!
So how far can they develop?

Guo Sen was very interested and continued to observe.

The division of labor among the dwarves is quite clear.

There were dwarves who were in charge of mining, and they almost all acted in teams of two. Both of them used metal sledgehammers and things similar to chisels to cut and smash the rock mass, and they looked unusually skilled.

Some are also responsible for passing the ore that has been knocked down, passing them from the cave to the outside of the cave.

On the other side of the cave, there are obviously a group of female dwarves, sitting in a group, picking and picking among the stone piles full of ore with a small hammer.

Guo Sen carefully identified the ore, and found that it was crimson as a whole, and the sound of tapping was extremely crisp and pleasant.

The female dwarves also chose this kind of stone.

Of course he knew what this thing was.

Hematite.

As an important raw material for iron smelting, this ore can usually produce fairly high-quality iron.

It seems that these dwarves have stepped over the copper and directly used the iron.

This has to be said to be a great leap in civilization.

Ironware is harder and lighter than copperware.

It is also more extensive in making various utensils.

However, iron smelting requires more advanced technology, which is completely different from copper making.

So, do the dwarves have such technology?

Guo Sen's eyes gradually moved away, and he began to scan the surroundings carefully.

Soon, he saw the bank of a big river not too far away, where a thick smoke had just emerged.

Narrowing the scope of his vision, he also saw a long tube-shaped thing emitting thick smoke and flames, and dwarves walking around it carrying something.

This long tube-shaped thing seems to be made of something similar to clay. There is an opening on the side of the bottom, and charcoal is burning inside. air supply.

And there is a crack in the back, with crimson residue, constantly flowing out of it.

There is no doubt that this is a blast furnace for ironmaking.

Guo Sen was amazed by the powerful smelting technology of the dwarves. How many times has this seemingly complicated blast furnace been improved by them?

After a while, the dwarves picked up the hammer again and smashed the blast furnace into pieces!
The dwarf who had been waiting by the furnace for a long time used an iron object like a large shovel to take out a hot object emitting red and white light, and then put it into a small blast furnace next to a slightly flat boulder. among.

Beside the boulder, two dwarves waited with sledgehammers and chisels.

Guo Sen nodded, is this time to start training?
Sure enough, soon the large piece of red iron ignited into white again and was placed on the boulder. After splitting it into two pieces with a chisel, the two dwarves immediately raised their sledgehammers!
Sparks fly!

The dwarves who had blown the blast furnace before also came over and kept blowing the furnace.

In the process of constantly turning red and black in the boulder and furnace, the black impurities on the surface of the iron block were continuously knocked down, and gradually became strips, and then gradually flattened.

Guo Sen also noticed that those people started to pick up new clay by the river, knead it into strips, and started making new blast furnaces.

Looking at all this now, he really couldn't believe that the dwarves actually possessed such superb smelting technology.

This is much more powerful than the simple and abnormal smelting method he taught the lizard people!

The civilization of the dwarves is much higher than Guo Sen imagined, and it is also far ahead of the lizardmen and the white wolves.

On Guo Sen's planet, many civilizations have begun to be quite out of sync.

This is a good thing?or bad thing?
He also couldn't judge for a while.

At that time, Guo Sen wanted to push the dwarf civilization with partiality, but it seemed that there was no need to bother so much.

From the aspect of smelting alone, if it develops naturally, the lizardmen and the white wolves may have to catch up for hundreds of years, or even longer.

However, what about other aspects of the dwarves?

Guo Sen also noticed that the number of dwarves seems to be quite large.

In that cave, there were roughly 60 to 50 people, including the female dwarves who screened the ore outside, and there were nearly [-] people in the smelter by the river.

This is not counting as being in charge of handling in the middle.

Guo Sen conservatively estimated that this dwarf tribe had at least two hundred laborers.

What is this concept?If the two hundred laborers were to be fed, there would be at least a team of more than 200 people getting food.

Coupled with some children with little labor and logistics personnel, this group has a population of more than [-]!
Unlike the extinct black wolf tribe, this six hundred is the real deal.

The black wolves are lazy and have strong fertility, but most of them are just surviving and have to attack the white wolves to continue the group.

As for the dwarf tribe, they should have developed productivity that matches their population growth.

Two concepts.

The degree of civilization is also different.

Guo Sen thought of this and shifted his gaze.

He wanted to see what it was like in the tribe of the dwarves, and how they got their food.

(End of this chapter)