let go of that priestess

Even if the three white birds woke up, they would not be strong enough to fly away with the stone.

Ji Cheng took another two breaths, came over and sat beside the girl, watched the bonfire with her, and rested.

With food, I feel a lot more at ease.

"Now we can talk about the first problem we said before, we can't let the fire go out, the fire is very important to us."

"But there's no particularly good way to do this." Jiang Hongdou thought carefully and said:

"I can only let the bonfire burn for a while. There is no guarantee that there will be any accidents after going out for a long time. It is best to have someone take care of it.

Of course, there are only two of us, and if we still have one person to watch the fire, it would be a little bit reluctant to go out to gather and hunt. "

"Hmm..." Ji Cheng rubbed his chin, thought for a while and said, "Actually, there is still a solution to this problem."

"Huh?" Jiang Hongdou was a little surprised: "What method?"

"Increase the success rate of ignition."

Ji Cheng said: "The reason why we are so cautious now is because it is not easy to light a fire.

It took a lot of effort to make fire by drilling wood and it was successful by accident. If there is no fire when we need it, it will be a headache.

And if we have lighters, all these problems will not be a problem, and manpower can be freed up. "

Ji Cheng made gestures with the girl, and continued:

"Like this, slide your thumb down and the fire comes out, it's convenient, right?"

"!?..."

Jiang Hongdou stared at Ji Cheng with wide eyes.

She didn't question this kind of thing that sounded more miraculous than a miracle, but was a little excited, serious, and asked earnestly:

"Very convenient! Then how do we get... a lighter!?"

"Ah, if you want a lighter, the most important thing is to get butane gas first."

"Ding, butane gas? Hmm... how do we get butane gas!?"

"Unfortunately." Ji Cheng spread his hands: "We simply don't have the production technology to obtain butane gas."

"Eh!?..." Jiang Hongdou was stunned for a moment, her expression quickly pulling her hips.

Seeing this, Ji Cheng couldn't help laughing: "Oh, don't be depressed, we can lower our requirements.

Butane gas can be replaced by other flammable substances, such as sawdust cut off with a knife, or dry leaves. "

"what!"

Hope ignited in Jiang Hongdou's heart again, and his eyes lit up: "This is possible!"

"That's right~" Ji Cheng shrugged: "But with such a replacement, it is actually not a lighter, but the predecessor of the lighter.

The full set of tools is - an iron ore, flint and steel, and the flammable substance just mentioned, forming a stone striking and lighting set. "

"How do you get the first two?"

Jiang Hongdou understood that Ji Cheng was talking about this, and would definitely not say the same thing as before: Unfortunately, I don't have production skills.

At this time, Ji Cheng also looked at the girl with some expectation and said:

"The first two can be picked up directly, you are familiar with this place, let me describe the characteristics, listen to it, maybe you have seen it before.

The first one contains iron ore. When the skin is scraped off, the appearance has a metallic luster, um, it is luster. In terms of color, black, dark red, and brown are all considered. "

The second is flint, that is, flint, which is hard in texture, gray, black, and red, and has a shell-shaped fracture after being broken. "

"Well, I've seen them all!"

Jiang Hongdou was stunned after hearing this, and hurriedly said: "I have seen the reddish-brown one before, and the red powder was ground with stones and used for sacrificial murals and sacrificial makeup.

I had it on my face, but it was washed away by the river.

There is also the latter, flint, this is the best stone for making stone tools, it is very common in the clan, and there are many by the Danshui River before! "

Chapter 10 Too poor to even have a pair of pants

"Eh? I've seen them all!?"

Ji Cheng was a little surprised by this answer.

If you get the full set of stone striking and lighting, you can stably generate sparks, which is much more reliable than drilling wood to make fire!

And this also means that they don't have to guard the fire carefully.

There is no need to assign a person to look after the campfire, or have to come back every 1 to 2 hours.

Liberated manpower and time limit for going out!

very good!

Ji Cheng quickly nodded and said, "There is flint by the river, right? Well, as for the reddish brown you mentioned, it should be hematite.

But didn't your tribe migrate away, can you still get it? "

"Upstream." Jiang Hongdou immediately said: "Before I was sent to the Water God Road, a priest put on makeup, and the unused ones were thrown there.

It will take about half a day for us to walk there. "

"Ah... a little half a day."

Ji Cheng did a quick calculation, and it took two hours to go there and back, and it was about noon now, so it was too late.

If you leave now, definitely spend the night outside.

No, it's too dangerous right now.

Ji Cheng exhaled, suppressing his fluctuating mood and saying:

"Then go another day, there is no rush for a day or two."

"Yeah." Jiang Hongdou was a little excited: "Is that all right? With these three conditions, it feels very simple!?"

"As long as you put it bluntly, it's a very simple matter. In fact, your tribe is only a small step away from discovering the stone and fire."

Ji Cheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "I heard you just said that the red powder of hematite that was ground with a stone was used for sacrifices, but this stone does not use flint?"

"It's useless...Although flint is common, it is an important tool and cannot be easily worn away. Only ordinary stones are used to grind red powder."

Jiang Hongdou paused and said, "If you grind it with flint..."

"It will wipe out sparks."

Ji Cheng continued: "If sparks splash on the combustibles again, you will find a new way to ignite the fire other than the sky thunder striking the big wood, so it's just a little bit of a coincidence."

"Well... what a pity..."

"Don't be depressed."

Seeing the girl's changing expression, Ji Cheng smiled and said:

"Don't look at it as a small step, in the process of human history, sometimes a small step will trap human technology for decades, hundreds of years, or thousands of years.

There are even times when technology regresses due to some accidents and misunderstandings.

In general, this is an unpretentious and slow accumulation process. "

"but......"

Jiang Hongdou thought for a while, looked sideways at Ji Cheng, her eyes sparkled and said, "But following you can speed up this process!"

"For the time being, yes." Ji Cheng said strictly.

The girl didn't care about these things, her eyes sparkled, and Ji Cheng's shadow was reflected in her pupils, with a hint of admiration:

"In short, you are amazing! In short, we will be able to obtain better ignition tools soon~!"

"Cough...that's fine, that's fine."

Standing on the shoulders of giants is also stressful.

Ji Cheng blushed slightly after being praised, and pointed to the chained white bird to change the subject: "Let's eat, how many will we kill?"

"Hey." When it came to food, Ginger Red Bean was quickly distracted.

Looking at the fat white bird, she smacked her lips and swallowed: "Is it okay to kill 1...no, but 2?"

"2?"

Considering Shiratori's size, isn't this a small appetite?

Ji Cheng looked at the girl's slender figure, and then at her belly:

"Are you very hungry?"

"It's okay to kill one..."

"No, I'm not reluctant to eat."

Seeing the girl say this, Ji Cheng was a little ashamed:

"There are a lot of birds, even if we finish eating, we can definitely get about two more birds before dark, so we won't be hungry.

I just didn't expect that your appetite is not small. I thought that you, a priestess who usually doesn't move much, should eat about the same as me. "

"Well... I don't usually eat much, this is just an exception, an exception..."

Jiang Hongdou looked at the fat white bird, swallowed again and said, "I haven't eaten since the night before yesterday."

"Huh?" Ji Cheng was surprised: "Didn't eat anything? From the night before yesterday?"

"Well, because of the sacrifice, I am a sacrifice, and I need to cleanse my body, and the ones offered to the gods must be clean."

Jiang Hongdou snapped her fingers and said, "You want to be beautiful, have fair and tender skin, and be a virgin, take a bath to wash off the dust all over your body, get new clothes, and you can't eat food but drink water."

"... no wonder."

So, did I pick up a big deal instead of the gods?  …

Ji Cheng sniffed his nose and said, "Let me just say, why people in your age haven't smelled the smell, but you can still smell a little scent from your body."

"Hey, let me smell good~ Well, no... The point is not, it's not this." Jiang Hongdou emphasized: "I mean, I haven't eaten for a long time!"

"I know, I know."

Ji Cheng waved his hands and got up on his knees: "Kill 2, you will have the strength to work after eating, and there are things to do after dinner."

"Great!"

......

chirp...

The white bird wailed.

The sharp mouth of the shell, which was swung vigorously, cut the neck of a white bird, and there was blood.

At the last moment of the bird life, it broke free from the stun buff and let out a shrill bird song, which woke up its other two companions.

One of them quickly followed in the footsteps of the previous one, and the last one flapped its wings vigorously, but it couldn't fly high.

Ji Cheng untied the ropes around the necks of the two dead white birds, and left the rest alone, walking back with one in his hand and throwing one to the girl.

"Come on, let's pluck the bird feathers together. Remember to keep the big bird feathers intact as much as possible, and don't worry about the smaller fluff. Just scrape them casually and pile them up in a pile."

"OK, got it."

Jiang Hongdou responded, and also took a shell that he used to decorate earlier.

These small decorative things have now become the sharpest utensils on hand for both of them.

Jiang Hongdou plucked and shaved while thinking, and asked after a while: "Keep these feathers, and send them to the new tribe in the future?"

"Ah?" Ji Cheng paused, and asked strangely, "Is it for the new tribe?"

"Yes, you will develop more new clan members in the future, right? The clan won't always be just the two of us, right?"

"Well, this is true. When we develop and grow stronger, the development of civilization will definitely need population."

Ji Cheng paused and said, "But what does this have to do with bird feathers?"

"As a symbol of my own people."