Chapter 45

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Chapter 45: New Tribe and New Development

“As for the people who will go with you this time, I have already selected them.”

“At the same time, there are now seven wolf warriors and three ordinary warriors stationed at the location where the branch city needs to be built.”

“Later, I will have a portion of them stay there to protect the safety of the branch city.”

Without unnecessary talk, Luo Ji directly spread out the map and pointed out the location where the branch city needed to be built to Zhou Tao.

“It’s this place.”

“Once this branch city is built here, your main task will be only one, to dig this kind of coal…”

As he spoke, Luo Ji placed the piece of coal he had brought back with him in front of Zhou Tao.

Zhou Tao subconsciously picked up the black stone in front of him, and the next second, he found that the palms of his hands that had touched the black stone were noticeably stained black.

“This is…?”

“This thing is called coal.”

“It’s a very important fuel.”

“Simply put, you can use it instead of wood to make fires.”

“The wolf warriors stationed there will explain the specific situation to you.”

Luo Ji said, taking a sip of water and catching his breath.

“As for the tools needed to dig coal, I will have someone make them as soon as possible and send them over.”

“You don’t need to worry about food either.”

“I will send a few people to deliver food to the branch city every few days and bring the dug coal back to the Mirror tribe.”

“Of course, if anything unexpected happens, and it comes to a last resort…”

Luo Ji said, drawing a line on the map with his finger.

“This location, within this area, there are still crop resources. You can dig up some white radishes for emergencies. It’s not far from the location of the branch city. These are all the things I need to say for now. Do you have any questions?”

“Are we leaving first thing tomorrow morning?”

Zhou Tao wanted to confirm the time.

“Yes.”

Luo Ji nodded seriously.

“You should have also felt it, the temperature has dropped significantly recently. At this rate, the weather might get colder and colder. I just said that this coal can be used instead of wood for fires. It can burn longer and at a higher temperature. Therefore, considering the change in weather, I want to supply coal within the tribe as soon as possible.”

“I understand. I have no questions for now. If I encounter any difficulties later, I will have the person responsible for transporting ingredients bring a message back.”

“Okay.”

Luo Ji nodded with satisfaction.

It was easy to talk to smart people.

After seeing Zhou Tao leave, Luo Ji, sitting in the tent, couldn’t help but curve his lips into a smile, his expression revealing a hint of unsuppressed joy.

Just now, Zhou Tao’s loyalty had increased by 5 points, meaning that the other party had now officially become a loyal subject with 90 points of loyalty.

As the only member of the entire tribe with management and development talent, being able to raise Zhou Tao’s loyalty to 90 points was clearly something to be happy about.

However, Luo Ji didn’t celebrate for too long.

He still had many things to busy himself with.

He immediately made a list, confirmed the people he planned to send to the coal mine one by one, and then had someone notify them individually to prepare themselves mentally.

Under Luo Ji’s rapid adjustments, everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the entire tribe’s development plan was back on track.

At the same time, for convenience, he didn’t forget to give the newly established branch city a name.

Although he wasn’t good at naming, rest assured, Luo Ji wouldn’t be so careless as to give the branch city a lame name like ‘Coal Tribe,’ even though, for now, the characteristic of this branch city lay in producing coal resources…

Thus, after a little thought, Luo Ji named this branch city ‘Blackrock.’

Coal is a black stone, so it was called ‘Blackrock.’

Perhaps because Zhou Tao had rich development experience and his talent ability was taking effect, the development of the Blackrock tribe went very smoothly.

According to Luo Ji’s previous assumption, the coal that could be found or dug by hand on the outskirts had been taken by the people of the original tribe.

If their tribe wanted to continue obtaining coal resources, they could only expand that mine and slowly dig it out over a long period of time.

However, the actual situation was that less than 5 days after the Blackrock tribe was established, Zhou Tao had someone carry back a basket full of coal.

To be honest, considering the size of the tree vine basket, even a full basket didn’t actually contain much, but it still surprised Luo Ji.

At least it was a good start.

Days passed one by one.

During this time, in addition to confirming the progress of defensive structures and farming every day.

Luo Ji concentrated all his remaining time and energy on the research and development of bows and arrows.

However, the research and development weren’t going smoothly at all…

Looking at another broken bow body, Luo Ji frowned slightly, his mood appearing somewhat poor.

“This one doesn’t work either?”

Rubbing his brow forcefully, he found that the difficulty of researching and developing bows and arrows far exceeded his expectations.

This feeling of hitting a bottleneck, not knowing how to break through, and finally becoming completely stagnant was both irritating and frightening.

“Where exactly did things go wrong?”

He had basically found and tried all the materials he could find nearby, but the results were all unsatisfactory.

Of course, if he used less force when drawing the bow, it was possible, but the flimsy arrows had no power whatsoever.

Without exaggeration, 15 meters away, if he stood there and let an arrow be shot at him, it might cause some damage if it hit his eye, but if it hit the trunk of his body, the arrow would only make him feel a slight pain and would not cause any substantial damage at all.

It was completely a failed product!

He forcefully grabbed his somewhat messy hair, and Luo Ji tried to find the problem and the reason, but he found nothing.

In the end, he could only come to one conclusion.

“Perhaps the material of the bow body is not suitable.”

Alright, it was undeniable that he had encountered setbacks in the research and development of bows and arrows.

Luo Ji was not a stubborn person.

After clearly realizing that he couldn’t solve this difficult problem in the short term, he slowly regained his composure and gently patted his forehead.

“Don’t rush, take it one step at a time…”

After speaking, he decisively took a step back, in all senses of the word.

He had realized that in this era completely without ranged attack weapons, wanting to make bows and arrows right away was a bit like wanting to run before learning to walk.

So, he had taken a step back and planned to properly learn to walk first.

He quickly picked up the charcoal pen he had casually made a few days ago, spread out a blank animal hide, and buried himself in drawing another design blueprint.

This time, he didn’t draw for too long, nor did he struggle too much.

He finished the design blueprint in just a few moves.

Then, in front of the five members of the armament department, he pointed with his hand.

“Put the research on bows and arrows aside for now.”

“Next, we’ll make this.”