Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 58

Chapter 58

Lang Qi and other wolves returned with their prey, and were greeted by a mess of stone pots and a group of frightened little wolves because they saw that the stones used as stoves were on fire! For the little wolves who had never seen a stone burning, this was definitely one of the most terrifying things in their lives, comparable to the day they were chased and stung by a swarm of bees.

After asking about what happened, Lang Qi led everyone to rebuild the stove, quickly prepared a meal, sent the leopard tribe to the unowned territory and let them clean up on their own, leaving the remaining prey to the leopard tribe, and then immediately returned. When passing by Bald Mountain, he dug a few baskets of coal and brought them back to the tribe for Bai Tu.

Bai Tu was silent for a few seconds after hearing this. What was he saying? When he saw the stone pot moving, his first reaction was not to stop the fire and rebuild it, but to boil water before it fell over. This is something that the little wolves can do.

Bai Tu said two things at once. He deserved praise and punished. He found that the coal was worthy of reward, but he continued to add firewood to the fire after seeing that the position of the stone pot had changed. This was very dangerous and should be punished.

If coal is found, each person will be rewarded with 200 points. If a danger is encountered and not handled properly, each person will be deducted 30 points. If the same mistake is made again next time, the points deducted will be doubled.

When they heard the word “double”, the group of little wolves showed fear on their faces, even more shocked than when they were about to be beaten by Wolf Qi.

The pain of being beaten is only temporary, but the points earned from being fined are permanent! And the next time it’s even worse, that’s terrible. The wolf cubs were very self-aware. They knew they would make the same mistake again next time and were already worried about the next punishment.

Lang Qi looked at the panicked little wolves and fell into deep thought. So, it would be better to threaten them than to beat them up? It turned out that he had been beaten so many times that his skin had become thick and tough and he was no longer afraid of beatings.

The little wolves noticed that there was something dangerous in their leader’s eyes, and they felt a cool breeze blowing behind them for no apparent reason, so they quietly moved next to Bai Tu.

Lang Qi withdrew his gaze, too lazy to argue with the little wolves, and discussed with Bai Tu the construction site of the pottery kiln and iron furnace.

After checking the quality of the coal, Bai Tu determined that all the coal produced in this large area could be used as fuel for iron smelting and kiln burning, and began to discuss with Lang Qi.

First, he drew a simple map on the wooden board. On it were the places where the rabbit and wolf tribes currently lived and the location of the coal mining area. According to Lang Qi’s description, he added the residence of the leopard tribe, as well as the surrounding terrain, water sources and other data. Then he began to choose a location.

First of all, there must be a water source nearby. After all, so many orcs are settled here, and they rarely go back to the tribe. The tribe must guarantee their daily necessities, including water and prey. They can catch the prey or raise it and send it over, but it is not possible to rely solely on sending water.

Secondly, it should be closer to the mine to facilitate the acquisition of coal. After all, there is no means of transportation now, and all items have to be carried by orcs. The farther the new factory building is from the coal mine, the more physical strength will be consumed in the later stage.

Finally, we cannot be too far away from the wolf tribe. Only a part of the tribe members are left here, and most of the orcs still live on the other side of the tribe. It is inconvenient to provide support if we are too far away.

After considering all aspects, the two finally decided on a location, south of the wolf clan’s residence, north of Bald Mountain, slightly south of the middle, next to two small hills with mountain spring water.

The two mountains are very small, about half the height of the rabbit tribe’s residence. There are many large and small rocks on the mountains, and you can easily slip if you are not careful. Probably because of the water, the mountains are entangled with vines and trees, making it particularly difficult to walk.

There is a water source on the mountain and the location is safe enough. It is safer to smelt steel with the mountain as a barrier. However, all these advantages cannot cover up what the orcs need most: shelter.

There are many stones so the rabbit tribe can dig caves. However, the stones here are not whole pieces, but pieces. In addition, the trees and vines grow crosswise, and both mountains exude an air of instability. It is no problem to go up the mountain to pick or hunt, as long as you avoid the stones that are easy to fall. But it is difficult to live there. After all, you will live there for not just one or two days, but all the time. Walking back and forth on such a mountain every day, the chance of falling is very high.

Bai Tu looked up at the mountain and decided on the location after confirming that there was no problem with the water source. As for residence, he naturally had a way: “Don’t worry about residence. The orcs here don’t live in caves.”

“Don’t live in caves?” Bai Qi was surprised. Lang Qi also turned to look at Bai Tu. This was the first time he heard of such a statement. Whether it was the flying eagles and other feathered tribes, or the orcs who walked on the ground with four claws, nine out of ten tribes lived in caves. The remaining one did not want to live there, but they just couldn’t find a suitable one.

There are many advantages to living in a cave. It is convenient to observe the surrounding movements. If the hole is dug well, there is no need to worry about rainwater flowing into the cave during the rainy season. The cave is hidden enough and not easily discovered… Now when people hear Bai Tu say that they don’t live in a cave, their first reaction is to live at the foot of the mountain. To be honest, this is not a wise decision.

Many orcs have tried to live at the foot of the mountain, especially tribes with large numbers of people, but these attempts often ended in failure because there are too many inconveniences in living at the foot of the mountain.

The first is the rainy season. During the rainy season, the water flow often exceeds the river bank, and the rain water on the mountain will flow to the bottom of the mountain. Those living at the bottom of the mountain will be the first to suffer. The caves on the lowest level of the Snow Rabbit Tribe are only used to store some unused garbage, because precious things cannot be put in, and there is a risk of being soaked every rainy season.

Secondly, the area below the mountain is basically soil, and the hole will collapse if you dig it deep enough, so living underground is not a good decision.

Some people have tried to build wooden houses, using wood to build houses the size of caves, but they were shivering with cold before the snow season even arrived, and lighting a fire could easily burn the house down.

In short, living at the foot of the mountain is always the first option that the tribe eliminates, as it is simply not possible to live there.

After hearing Bai Tu’s decision, everyone couldn’t help but start to worry. Even if they built a house with wood, they could only live in it now. There were only two months left until winter. What would they do then?

Bai Tu used facts to tell everyone that they had guessed wrong from the beginning. He did not plan to build the house with wood, nor did he abandon the stones and soil that everyone had guessed. Instead, he chose bricks, lime and sand, which was similar to the way he built a pottery kiln. The difference was that the house was taller and the orcs could go in directly, unlike a pottery kiln, where pottery blanks were placed and pottery pots were taken, either with bamboo clamps or by letting smaller children go in.

The orcs of the rabbit tribe are already very familiar with building pottery kilns, and building a house is even simpler because there is no need to close the top, just build the four sides.

The glass has not been made yet, and the technology does not allow it, so Bai Tu did not leave too large a window, but left a small vent at a short distance. Bai Tu explained that the house would be a little dark after the roof was completed. The orcs who were used to living in caves did not care about these things at all, and they were looking forward to the completion of the house since the foundation was laid.

The roof is made of two layers, one layer of wood and one layer of tiles. The tiles are also fired in a brick kiln. Unlike bricks, the tiles are larger and thinner. They are placed on the roof with the middle higher and the front and back lower, and fixed with lime and sand. There is no need to worry about leaks when encountering rainy or snowy weather. The rainwater will flow down the tiles to the ground. The same applies when it snows.

The entire house was elevated, and drainage ditches were built to prevent the arrival of the next rainy season. In order to make life more convenient for the orcs living here, Bai Tu led the spring water on the mountain to the first house at the foot of the mountain. In the future, they no longer had to run down the mountain to get water, but could come directly to this house.

The finished product of the house naturally did not disappoint the orcs. The orcs who had previously hesitated whether to move to a new location decisively agreed. The new house is bigger than the cave and has a matching stove and bed. Who wouldn’t like that?

What the orcs thought was a bed was actually a kang. Bai Tu knew the orcs’ habits very well and knew that even if there were cabinets and other furniture, they would be filled up within a few days after moving in. So he decided to go all out and set up a kang. Anyway, with the coal, the bricks and tiles produced in a day would be twice as many as before. It would be better to do it all at once to avoid the need to move them back and forth later, which would be troublesome and waste time.

The temperature is high now, so there is no need to heat the kang, so the space between the kang and the stove is blocked with stone slabs, and the fire is only used for cooking. In winter, remove the middle stone slab and use the stone slab to block the upward flue from the stove, so that the kang can be heated while cooking.

I don’t know the advantages of a kang in winter, but that doesn’t stop everyone from liking the new house. Compared to a cave, the biggest advantage of a new house is its convenience, as there’s no need to go up and down. As for safety issues, the new house is located in the center of the Blood Wolf tribe’s territory. Unless some tribe is in a bad mood, no outsiders will come here.

Bai Tu arranged the orcs who were best at firing pottery to the new residence, and at the same time, he sorted out a new route between the four locations: the rabbit clan’s residence, the wolf clan’s residence, the new house and the mining area. The previous route was trampled out during hunting, and the route was winding and uneven. It would take at least a quarter more distance to get to another place than walking in a straight line. It would not be obvious after one or two trips, but with the transport team running back and forth, the difference between the detour and the straight road would be huge.

After arranging the accommodation, several newly built brick kilns immediately began to fire pottery and bricks, which were then transported to the foot of the mountain where the two tribes lived. Just when the orcs in charge of the construction work thought that Bai Tu was going to take out the design drawings of the breeding area, Bai Tu asked everyone to wait.

Before, there were few prey cubs, so they were driven into the caves on the mountain. Later, when their numbers increased, Bai An asked people to vacate the cave at the bottom of the mountain for breeding. But now the cave can no longer accommodate them. And just as Bai Tu thought, there is no way to flush them all the time. Even if they are cleaned every day, there is still an indescribable smell.

The rabbit tribe, which has less prey, already has nearly two hundred prey cubs, and the number of wolves is more than twice that of the rabbit tribe. So many cubs will be a disaster for the surrounding orcs no matter where they live. What’s more, orcs have a keen sense of smell. When everyone heard that Bai Tu was planning to build a breeding area, they were overjoyed. Why are they suddenly not in a hurry now?

Bai Tu was not in a hurry, but the orcs were extremely anxious. The captain of the construction team found Bai Tu and discovered that he was playing in the mud. They were immediately surprised.

“Tu?” The other party wiped his eyes, suspecting that he had seen the wrong person, but judging from his hair color and body shape, it was definitely Bai Tu, not Langze or any other wolf clan.

“Huh?” Bai Tu looked up and asked the other party, “What’s wrong?” ”

Aren’t you going to build the breeding area?” the other party said anxiously, “Dong and the others are almost fainted by the stench.”

“Wait a moment, I’ll study the cement.” Bai Tu replied. The breeding area needs to be cleaned every day, so how can it be done without waterproof materials.

“Where is the water and mud?” Langze, who was passing by, rushed over quickly.