The Sims Evolved from Goblins

Chapter 19 Ironmaking Experiment

"Let's go, let's go out!"

This cave is very large, there is no need to go deeper.

The space here is enough.

With wind and water, it is simply an excellent place for ironmaking.

Then Li Meng led the goblin brothers out of the cave.

Outside the cave, Li Meng began to give tasks to the goblin brothers.

"You, you, you, go to the forest to pick up stones like this."

Li Meng showed the goblin brothers the stones in his hand.

The stones in his hand were picked up by Li Meng from the river in the cave.

It is gray and dark, and it is iron ore.

This shows that the cave is a natural iron ore cave.

The three goblins pointed by Li Meng hurriedly ran into the forest.

"Goborg, you go find dead wood!"

Goborg nodded and ran into the forest with the remaining goblins.

"Benben, let's find clay!"

Benben followed Li Meng obediently.

In the forest, Benben, who was following Li Meng, reached out and poked Li Meng's back.

"What's wrong?"

Li Meng looked back at Benben.

Benben pointed at himself and made a strong sound in his throat.

"Bang bang?"

Li Meng smiled and pointed his right hand at Benben.

"Benben!"

Then Li Meng pointed at himself again.

"Boss!"

Benben looked at Boss and then looked down at himself.

It pointed its right hand at itself.

"Benben?"

Li Meng nodded.

Benben pointed at Li Meng again.

"Boss!"

Li Meng nodded again.

In this way, Benben knew his new name under Li Meng's teaching.

In the next few days, Li Meng only did one thing.

That was to prepare for the iron smelting experiment.

On the fourth day, the river bank under the cave.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

Seeing Boss neatly overlapping the chopped wood, Gobger asked curiously.

"Look carefully, you have to do the same thing in the future!"

After laying the firewood flat, Li Meng took a piece of iron ore and put it on top.

"Put all the iron ores on top!"

The boss's order made the goblin brothers quickly put the iron ore piled on the side and began to pile the firewood.

"Just lay one layer, don't overlap!"

After giving the instructions, Li Meng knelt on the ground.

This kneeling scared the goblin brothers.

Li Meng ignored the startled goblin brothers.

He took the dry wood and plush that had been prepared on the side and started to make fire.

The wooden stick was rubbed by Li Meng and it made a "swooshing" sound.

Benben sat aside and looked at the busy goblin curiously.

In less than ten minutes, Li Meng smelled a smell of smoke.

Not long after, billowing white smoke came out of the plush.

Li Meng quickly put down the wooden stick, held the plush in both hands and blew it carefully.

After a while, a flame appeared in the darkness.

"It's fire, the flame of human beings!"

The appearance of the flame made Gobbo scream.

"Shut up!"

Li Meng glared at Gobbo, and quickly held the flame to light the dry grass in the firewood pile.

As the dry grass was ignited, the flame burned vigorously.

Benben was also frightened by the flame, and his huge body trembled.

In a moment, the firewood pile was burning fiercely.

The rolling heat waves hit the surroundings, making the goblins look curious.

They never expected that the boss would get the human flame just by rubbing for a while.

"Benben, get water!"

Clapping his hands, Li Meng pointed to the bamboo bucket next to Benben.

That was some bamboo that Li Meng found in the forest when he was looking for clay.

Those bamboos were very huge, and several people had to hold hands to hold them.

Li Meng made some bamboo buckets with those bamboos.

Benben stood up and drew two buckets of water from the river with a bamboo bucket in each hand.

Not far away, there was a pile of yellow mud.

"Pour it in and stir it with your hands!"

Under Li Meng's hands-on instruction, Benben stirred the yellow mud with his huge hands.

Soon the yellow mud gradually turned into clay.

Seeing that it was almost soft enough, Li Meng began to make a blast furnace with clay.

"Gob, continue to pile up the wood, just like I did just now."

Seeing that the first pile of firewood was about to burn out, Li Meng instructed Gob.

Gob nodded as if he understood.

A group of goblin brothers began to spread the firewood in a hurry.

After a while, a pile of firewood was barely piled up.

The goblin put some iron ore on it.

"Don't use your hands, use a stick!"

Seeing that Gob wanted to pick up the charcoal in the campfire with his hands, he was scolded by Li Meng.

Gob's hand trembled and he quickly withdrew his hand.

It carefully picked up a piece of charcoal with two sticks and put it in the pile of firewood.

As the dry grass was ignited, the second pile of firewood began to burn.

At this time, the first pile of firewood had burned out.

Only charcoal and burnt iron ore were left on the ground.

"Put the burnt iron ore on the stone nearby and smash it into powder. Remember, don't take it with your hands."

The goblin followed suit and took away the hot iron ore with a wooden stick.

The goblin put the burnt iron ore on a smooth stone nearby and began to smash it with the stone.

Because the iron ore was burnt brittle by the high temperature, it broke into pieces with a slight smash.

Small pieces of gravel can also be easily smashed into powder.

Iron ore is iron ore powder after it is crushed into powder.

Because it is an experiment, the first blast furnace is not big.

It took Li Meng five hours to make a 1.5-meter-high blast furnace.

It took another two hours to dry the blast furnace.

"It should be OK!"

Looking at the blast furnace in front of him, Li Meng nodded repeatedly.

Although the surface is not very smooth, it is his first time to make a blast furnace after all, so some flaws are acceptable.

The blast furnace is small at the top and large at the bottom.

There is only a small smoke outlet and feed port on the top.

In order to supply oxygen and increase the temperature in the furnace, there are three vents at the bottom of the blast furnace.

Each vent is connected to a bamboo tube.

On the other side of the bamboo tube is a simple bellows made of animal skin and bamboo.

The bellows are simple in structure and did not take Li Meng much thought.

"Let's start, Benben, put the material!"

Benben, who had been waiting for a long time, took the bamboo bucket and poured the charcoal in the bamboo bucket into the blast furnace through the hole on the blast furnace.

Then there is iron ore powder, and then pour charcoal on the iron ore powder.

Finally, the feed port was closed, leaving only a chimney made of bamboo.

Finally, Li Meng opened the iron outlet, and a piece of burning charcoal ignited the dry grass at the bottom.

As the dry grass was ignited, the blast furnace gradually burned.

"What are you still standing there for? Send air!"

Li Meng hurriedly called the goblin brothers to pull the bellows.

The goblin brothers worked in groups of two, wheezing and pulling the wind direction.

As the bellows were pulled, billowing smoke came out of the chimney.

Soon, the blast furnace became hot.

"Keep pulling, don't stop!"

If you want to smelt iron, temperature is the most important thing.

The temperature must be raised to at least 1300 degrees to melt the iron ore powder into molten iron.