186. Plant Growth Technique
Before leaving, Mona gave Xiao Chen a small wooden sign, which recorded a plant-based magic skill. After learning it, Xiao Chen could control the growth rate of the plant, which looked useless, but Xiao Chen was very happy because this was the first magic skill he had come into contact with.
This magic is very useful to Xiao Chen. He is already preparing to reclaim a piece of wasteland around the village and then plant some plants on it to see what kind of plants will be helpful to his future or to the village.
Mona rode away on the bird and said to Xiao Chen, "Don't worry, we will meet soon. When our two tribes negotiate, I will invite you to my house as a guest."
Xiao Chen watched Mona fly away and then returned to the village alone. At this time, he found that many people were gathering at his doorstep. It turned out that the villagers wanted Xiao Chen to cook fish for them, which made Xiao Chen smile bitterly.
At this time, the old village chief and the old witch doctor appeared in front of everyone. They asked everyone to go back and do their own things and not bother Xiao Chen to eat fish every day. This is really bad.
The villagers had to disperse in depressed mood. They were all very obedient villagers. The village chief and the old witch doctor did this to ensure order in the village. Otherwise, people would come to Xiao Chen to make fish soup every day, so Xiao Chen would hardly have to do anything else.
Xiao Chen was very grateful to the old village chief and aunt for helping him to help him rescue. Then, he learned the green magic that Mona gave him - [Plant Growth Technique] alone in his small wooden house.
Xiao Chen smiled and said to himself, "I haven't slept all night. I've been tossed by this little female elf for a night. I've not gained anything. I found a primary magic skill, which is not bad."
After saying that, Xiao Chen felt sleepy. He had almost never slept for the whole night. He was tossed by Mona. Now he could finally sleep quietly. He lay on the bed and covered himself with a quilt. When he was about to go to bed, Shitou suddenly knocked on his door. Xiao Chen stood up helplessly and opened the door. When he saw that it was Ahua and Shitou, don’t ask in anger. "What’s the matter with you for me?"
Shi Tou looked at Xiao Chen's listless look at his last look and asked curiously, "Why are you still sleeping in broad daylight? Didn't you sleep well last night?"
Ah Hua also looked at Xiao Chen in confusion. Xiao Chen had no choice but to wave his hand and said, "It's nothing. I had insomnia last night, so I didn't sleep well. I won't talk about this for now. What's the matter with me?"
Shitou said, "We collected many places near the village, but there is another raw material that cannot be collected now, and we have collected the others," said Ah Hua. "The last raw material is relatively rare, and it is also dangerous to get it."
Xiao Chen was very curious, "What kind of raw material is it? It is so scarce and difficult to find, and where is the danger he is? Can you tell me, I'll think of a solution."
Ahua lowered his head and said, "This is the purpose of our coming here. The last material of your musket, chlorite, is located underground. It is in a huge cave. It is the nest of cryptworms. If we want to go in and look for chlorites, we may have conflicts with cryptworms. This kind of worm is very dangerous and we are probably not its opponent. So I want to ask, there is no other alternative to chlorites, so we can save a lot of trouble."
Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "The recipe for making muskets is this kind of raw material. I can't change it. Let's study how to deal with these crypt worms, wait for me." After that, Xiao Shan returned to the house, found a little gunpowder left over from the fish that day, and handed it to Shi Tou and Ahua, and said to them, "This is my newly developed gunpowder. You can see if you can use it to deal with crypt worms."
"Gunpowder," Ahua and Shi Tou had heard of Xiao Chen before, and mentioned this dangerous thing, but had never seen the real thing, so they looked at each other and asked, "Is this kind of thing really amazing? We want to give it a try."
"Of course, I just want you to see the power of gunpowder. I believe you will be very surprised after seeing it." After Xiao Chen said that, he brought the two of them outside the village.
Xiao Chen lit a small gunpowder jar in his hand and threw it into the river. Then he heard a loud bang. The feeling of the earth shaking mountains shocked Shi Tou and Ahua. Both of them ran far away, fearing that they would be hurt.
However, when they found that there was nothing wrong with him, the two of them then placed next to Xiao Chen in fear. Seeing the hiking fish in the river, they were blown into pieces. They were stunned in surprise.
These fish were all killed by gunpowder, and Ahua and Shi Tou couldn't believe it. They had just heard Xiao Chen say that they used gunpowder to fry fish, but they didn't expect that they could kill a large piece of fish if they were so powerful.
If this explosive is thrown into the nest of the underground insect, it will definitely blow all the crypt worms to death.
"Great," Ahua waved his fist hard and said excitedly, "With these gunpowder, we don't have to be afraid of cryptworms anymore," Shi Tou also smiled, "Xiao Chen, you are so awesome. You know everything. You can make more gunpowder quickly, and then we will deal with cryptworms."
Xiao Chen nodded and said, "Okay, I will tell you the formula for making gunpowder now. You should prepare gunpowder according to this ratio, but you must pay attention to safety and avoid fire candles. Gunpowder is an item that is easy to burn and explode. If you are not careful, you must be careful."
Ahua and Shi Tou nodded, then immediately returned to the village to gather people and began to prepare gunpowder according to the recipe given to them by Xiao Chen. The day passed and the gunpowder was finally prepared successfully. Amid the cheers of people, a loud bang, and the gunpowder smashed a big tree. Many elderly, children and women were frightened, and they were shocked because they had never seen such a dangerous thing before.
The old witch doctor and the old village chief looked at the big tree that was blown up and needed three people to hug, and their faces changed slightly. The old witch doctor said to the old village chief, "This kind of thing called gunpowder is really terrifying. It is even more powerful than some low-level magic."
The old village chief nodded and said, "No, fortunately, until the person who developed the gunpowder was on our side. If the enemy mastered this skill, then our village would be in trouble."
Xiao Chen filled all the gunpowder into a small container and made a small detonator. This detonator is about the length of a palm like a grenade. Then Xiao Chen also specially made a lead wire, and placed it at the bottom of the lead wire. As long as the lead wire is pulled and the fire stone is rubbed, the explosive inside the explosive will be ignited, and the explosion will eventually occur. Xiao Chen used this method to more effectively avoid casualties. As long as the lead wire is pulled, the person escapes from a distance and avoids the time when the explosive explodes, there will be no problem.
Everything was ready, and everyone was about to set off to deal with the crypt worms. Xiao Chen was worried and followed Ah Hua and Shi Tou to go to the underground worm's nest to see the situation, and guided people how to use gunpowder correctly.
When he arrived at the door of the crypt worm's nest, Xiao Chen saw huge deep pits appearing on the ground. These were bottomless. Someone threw a torch down. The torch fell in the air for a long time, but it did not fall to the ground. Xiao Chen estimated that the depth was about a few hundred meters deep, which was simply too terrifying. If it could fall, it would definitely die!
Shi Tou said to Xiao Chen, "The crypt worms are at the bottom of this deep pit. They are very large in size and the body fluids on their bodies are highly corrosive. If they are not done well, they will directly corrode our bodies and not even bones left. So we dare not use swords to chop it. If we hurt it and splash it directly on our bodies, we will be injured."
"Now with Xiao Chen's explosives, we don't have to go down and take risks. We just need to throw it down and blow them all to death, and we will be much easier."
Xiao Chen nodded and approved Shi Tou's method. Then, under Ahua's order, a group of people tied up 10 bundles of explosives, then pulled the lead and threw it to the bottom of the deep pit with force.
"Everyone, dodge away." Xiao Chen shouted loudly, everyone was avoiding from a distance. Seeing that some people were not hiding far enough, Xiao Chen shouted again: "Farther a little, farther a little," the rest had to dodge a little more, but they were all thinking in their hearts, "Is it really necessary that we have gone so far? The power of that explosive is really so terrifying?"
Everyone did not believe that the power of explosives was so great, but when the explosives exploded at the bottom of the pit, a huge gray mushroom cloud rose. The explosion scene was too shocking, and everyone around was frightened and fell to the ground, stunned and pale. For them, I have never seen such a scene in my life, and now I have seen it for the first time. It feels like the end of the world.
It was not until the thick smoke was basically gone that people dared to approach the past. They looked inside quietly and saw that the huge crypt worms had been blown to pieces. The dark red juice was sprayed everywhere, and there was a pungent smell that hit the face, choking people couldn't open their eyes and coughing continuously.
Xiao Chen also walked over and smelled it. It was a bit like the smell of disinfectant in the hospital, which was indeed very choking. Some villagers wanted to go down to see the situation, but Xiao Chen stopped him. He thought it was not safe enough now.
Xiao Chen asked Ahua and Shi Tou to continue preparing explosives and throw them down. Because he was worried that there were still insects that were not dead. If the person went down and was attacked by the insects, it would be troublesome.
Shi Tou and Ah Hua also thought Xiao Chen had made sense, so they shot more explosives, pulled the leads, and threw them out of the pit. Everyone immediately hid far away, knowing that they heard the explosion.
Another storm was shaking, and thick smoke rose into the sky. This time everyone finally believed that the insects in the pit should be dead. Just as they were about to go and take a look, the earth suddenly shook again, everyone's faces changed drastically, and they didn't know what was going on.
Shi Tou Ahua was also confused. They looked at Xiao Chen and wanted to ask him what happened. Xiao Chen was also confused. Logically speaking, this should not have happened after the explosion. Could it be that the explosion caused the earthquake?
Or it detonated the underground natural gas. Just as Xiao Chen was thinking about it, many deep and large insects with a length of more than ten centimeters suddenly appeared in a deep pit, which looked very terrible.
After seeing the bugs, Ah Hua hurriedly shouted, "These are crypt worms, everyone should avoid them quickly, there is danger."
It seemed that the insect didn't want to hurt people. After crawling out of the hole, it crawled in one direction, as if it was avoiding something, which made Ah Hua and others breathe a sigh of relief.
It was not until seven or eight insects crawled out of the crypt that everyone relaxed and finally knew that the crisis might have passed. Xiao Chen also reacted. He finally understood why these insects suddenly came out of the subway. It must be because the explosion caused them was scared and the explosion continued to occur. So he ran out of his nest and ran far away. Unexpectedly, just some ordinary explosives scared them away.
In the eyes of Shitou and the others, a lot of explosives must be prepared to be prepared, and they can only go down to mine ore after they die. It may take a long time to complete this work, but unexpectedly, the crypt worms are very brave and run away immediately when they see the danger, without any nostalgia for their homes.
"Okay, that's great, we've saved a lot of trouble." The Shitou Police Station laughed, and the others came to their senses. Now Ah Hua breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't expect that these big bugs were coming out of the ground, thinking that they might be attacking people. He didn't expect that the crypt worms were already scared to death.
Now, the crypt worms are gone, and the pits are safer. Xiao Chen and Ahua have stones and did not organize people to mine ore immediately, but Xiao Chen decided to wait for a while, and he was worried that he would not come out of it. This is to ensure everyone's safety, he must strive for victory in a steady manner and must not have any problems. This is his responsibility, otherwise the consequences will be very serious.
In this way, they didn't move for a whole morning. At around 1:00 p.m., there were indeed no bugs coming out from it. Only then did the three people agree to put the workers down. In order to ensure that the workers below had a smooth work, Shi Tou also went down to the ground with everyone.
Ahua and Xiao Chen stayed on the shore as a support to prevent special conditions. In this way, the mining operation lasted for an afternoon. When it was almost dark, the people who went down into the trench slowly climbed up. Their bags contained the raw materials needed by Xiao Chen to make gunpowder - earth crystal stone.
Chapter completed!