I became a planet

Chapter 92 Precious Metals

Guo Sen suddenly wanted to change the title he gave to these creatures that had been confirmed to be intelligent.

The name Big Head Monster is too vulgar and ugly.

Rather than...

How about changing to "Armored Orc"?
They have large scales covering almost the whole body, which looks like they are covered with armor, although that thing doesn't seem to be very hard.

But it's better than being called "earth-digging orcs" or "burrowing orcs", right?

Guo Sen saw that these armored orcs seemed very satisfied after eating the roasted eggs.

After they got up, they walked slowly towards the stone houses.

The whole group of people are lazy and seem to have no desire for various things.

Guo Sen scanned around and found that there was no weaving, pottery, or even animal bones.

The armored orcs didn't even make weapons like stone spears, let alone have the desire to hunt other animals.

Guo Sen noticed that in addition to eating insect eggs, they also stored a considerable amount of plant roots in a slightly larger house.

As soon as his consciousness moved, the thing about the size of a human head was instantly torn into several pieces, and a large amount of juice fell down, but the inside was a strange purple color.

It seems that this is another main food for them.

Guo Sen searched around and found that there were a lot of similar things growing in the land near the river on the outside of the mountain, and there were indeed a few armored orcs digging them hard.

Digging with metal tools?

For a moment, he thought he had misread it, but when he looked carefully, wasn't it just a golden metal tool shining under the light of the stars?
At first, Guo Sen thought it was a dark golden bronze like the birdman and the primitive man, but after a closer look, the color of this short knife-shaped tool seemed to be brighter.

Is it gold?
He checked the nearby geology, and suddenly found that this hollow mountain contained quite a lot of gold ore!

Unlike those ores with a relatively low gold content on the earth, here are almost all high-quality gold ores of the size of "dog head gold"!

Could it be that this was once a relatively dense meteorite bombardment site?
Guo Sen checked, and there were traces of the huge impact in ancient times at the bottom of the strata.

However, these armored orcs really know that gold is a precious metal, or do they just mine it as a tool because they think the color looks good?
Some armored orcs rested in the stone house for a while, then took tools in hand, went to an area with a lot of gold-bearing ore that Guo Sen had just inspected, and began to work hard.

However, unlike what he had imagined, Guo Sen discovered that the tools used by the armored orcs to mine gold were not gold, but iron tools he had seen in the dwarf tribe before.

Do they have advanced iron smelting technology?

However, think about it, even gold tools can be used to make it, and iron smelting is nothing.

He checked again, and found that there was a crude smelting factory by the river not far from the armored orcs who collected plant roots.

There are also quite a lot of people busy there.

Guo Sen took a quick look, and found that the technology of iron smelting seemed to be worse than that of the dwarves. The iron blocks produced contained quite a lot of impurities, but things like blast furnaces and forging tables were not lacking.

The difference from the dwarves is that even their smithing platform is made of iron, and it is full of details. Many places are carved with patterns and decorated with gold wire.

It seems that in the cognitive concept of armored orcs, things like gold seem to be used more for decoration.

Then, Guo Sen really found a lot of unsharp knives made of gold and rings like crowns.

hehe.

It's really the same as I thought.

As for the smelting of gold, Guo Sen also saw that they just melted the dog's head gold in a blast furnace, and poured it into a rectangular abrasive tool that seemed to be made of iron to let it form naturally, turning into thin pieces. The gold bricks are then hammered and polished into various shapes.

It seems that they already have a very high awareness of gold in this respect, compared to other races.

Guo Sen suddenly thought, what should the civilizations on this sphere use as currency in the future?

Gold and silver existed as the most important precious metals in ancient times on the earth, and after modern times, they have become currency reserve assets and play an important role in this field.

Now the armored orcs who discovered gold were the first to use it as a currency in the future?
Guo Sen remembers that in the history of currency on the earth, things like natural marine shells as general equivalents first appeared, followed by various precious metals.

However, for these civilizations on the sphere, the most basic barter only existed between the goatmen and dwarves on that continent, and they were destroyed by themselves.

As for other interracial ones, that hasn't even begun to have any germs emerging.

Money, a more advanced form of exchange, is far from reaching the point where it cannot be staged.

If that time really comes, the armored orcs will probably become the richest race, right?

Their civilization is actually very simple.

Relying on the large number of eggs produced by the female worm as the main food, and by planting the purple root plants as supplementary food, this small tribe of hundreds of people was fed.

Apart from smelting, this race has nothing to praise in other aspects.

If there is anything that can make Guo Sen's eyes shine, apart from their long tongues, it is the development and practicality of gold.

If he wanted to interfere with their civilization, he thought about it, but there was really nothing he could do.

Because it seems that other things are of no use to them.

arms?These guys don't even have enemies.

Nested inside the mountain, no one can find it unless there is something wrong with them.

Guo Sen had never seen weapons such as stone spears. If he hadn't seen the golden knives they made, he might have strong doubts about whether they knew what weapons were.

This is also an ironclad proof that they can't find the enemy at present.

However, being able to make a knife also proved that they had made related things before encountering this nutritious egg, otherwise, this would not explain their appearance.

Guo Sen thought about it, and decided to go to see what kind of civilization the giants had, and then take the time to see if there was anything worth paying attention to in the armored orcs in other areas.

However, before he could take his eyes off the smelter, he saw a visitor with crimson skin very close to here.

(End of this chapter)