After looking around, Tang Zhen stretched out his hand and waved lightly, and then a brown rock the size of a fist fell in front of him.
After reaching out and breaking off a piece of rock, and grinding it into powder, Tang Zhen gently shook his head.
Tang Zhen had already discovered these scattered iron ores, and I believe the abandoned people were also very familiar with them.
However, because they do not understand the smelting technology and lack sufficient knowledge inheritance, the abandoned people do not even know that these ores can extract pig iron, which is definitely more than enough to make weapons!
The main reason why war can cause civilization to regress is that it destroys productivity and cuts off a large amount of knowledge inheritance!
"What's so good about this broken stone? Can it be turned into food?"
Morris felt very strange when he saw Tang Zhen checking the iron ore in his hand, but he did not ask.
During the past two days, Tang Zhen asked them many questions and seemed to be very interested in many things.
What puzzled Morris was that there were many issues that every abandoned citizen knew, but Tang Zhen seemed to be unaware of them and listened with interest.
God knows where he lived before, but he didn't even know these things?
Although Morris was full of doubts, because of Uncle Jim's warning, he could only keep his mouth shut to avoid arousing Tang Zhen's dissatisfaction.
"Maurice, do you want a metal weapon of your own?"
Tang Zhen tossed the iron ore in his hand a few times, turned to Morris and asked with a smile.
"I want it, of course I want it!"
After Morris heard these words, his eyes immediately flashed with light, and he looked at Tang Zhen with extremely expectant eyes, seemingly full of longing.
Living in such a world, every boy longs to own a metal weapon of his own. Unfortunately, for the vast majority of people, this is just a wish that is destined to be unfulfilled.
Unless they have enough courage and luck, they can obtain materials from the monster city and then make a weapon of their own!
Upon hearing this, Uncle Jim and others kept looking at Tang Zhen while working. The abandoned people had already learned about his mysterious power in the past two days and knew that he had special abilities beyond ordinary people's imagination.
Since you said you want to give Morris weapons as a gift, you can definitely do it!
Their hearts were filled with envy for Morris, and at the same time they were also filled with deep curiosity. Everyone was waiting for the moment when Tang Zhen would take out his weapon.
However, Tang Zhen did not conjure a weapon out of thin air as they imagined, but instead handed the ore in his hand to Morris.
"I need such stones. If you want your weapon to be longer than Jim, then try to collect as many as possible!"
Morris glanced at the iron ore, immediately jumped up from the ground, ran to the entrance of the cave, and started rummaging around.
There were a lot of broken iron ore in the big crater formed by the explosion. Morris had seen a lot of them, but unfortunately they were mostly just scattered outside. Before this, no one paid much attention to them. At most, they regarded them as thrown.
Weapons use.
As for the iron ore in the cave, it was just brought in by the abandoned people unintentionally and then left in the corner.
Morris rummaged for a while, then returned with a pile of finely divided special ores of different sizes in his clothes, and carefully placed them in front of Tang Zhen.
"Sir, this is the only thing in the cave. I have brought them all!"
At this point, Morris showed a regretful expression and said in a somewhat unwilling tone: "There are many such stones outside. If you had told me earlier, I could definitely find a lot of them!"
"These are enough, just stand aside and wait."
As soon as Tang Zhen finished speaking, he picked up a piece of iron ore and crushed it into powder.
After seeing this scene, everyone gasped. They naturally knew how hard these stones were and how difficult it was to crush them easily.
Uncle Jim's heart was beating wildly. After seeing Tang Zhen's terrifying power, he was even secretly glad that the knife he stabbed in desperation did not hurt Tang Zhen, otherwise he would have probably turned into a corpse.
Ignoring everyone's shocked looks, Tang Zhen crushed the iron ore in front of him one by one, and soon a large pile of powder appeared in front of him.
Using his mental power to hold up the powder, Tang Zhen snapped his fingers, and then a ball of flame appeared out of thin air in the cave.
This flame did not seem to emit any temperature, but for some reason, Uncle Jim and others felt that it was extremely dangerous, as if it could easily burn people to ashes.
Under Tang Zhen's control, the flame slowly approached the ore powder and then completely enveloped it.
Immediately afterwards, everyone seemed to see cold fireworks being set off, with sparks constantly splashing out, and the powder floating in the air quickly turned into a ball of orange-red liquid.
Under normal circumstances, the refining of iron ore would have been completed, but for Tang Zhen, this was just the beginning.
The smelted residue fell to the ground, and the flames enveloped the metal solution, and then the refining process continued.
What Tang Zhen wanted was not high-purity iron, because its texture was too soft and not suitable for making weapons.
After the metal solution changed color again, Tang Zhen took out a crystal from the storage space, reached out to crush it and threw it into the flames.
As these powders penetrate, the color of the metal solution changes rapidly, and even a faint light shines through from the inside to the outside, making it look like a transparent pearl.
Ignoring the metal solution suspended in the air, Tang Zhen stretched out his hand and wiped it on the rocks on the ground. Suddenly the ground became as smooth as floor tiles.
The abandoned people, who had been stunned for a long time, felt their hearts twitching when they saw this, and subconsciously touched the rocky ground under their buttocks.
In a burst of dust, a simple mold appeared on the ground, which seemed to be in the shape of a sword. It seemed to be very ordinary.
Control the metal solution to fall into it, and after completely filling it, a combat knife has been completely formed!
Because conditions were limited, Tang Zhen chose the casting method, and after refining it with his special technique, the elements in the sword were arranged extremely evenly, no less than a forged sword.
Even compared to powder steel, it’s not much different!
What's more, Tang Zhen added special materials from the Loucheng world into the metal solution, which greatly enhanced the toughness and elasticity of the sword, and its sharpness was greatly improved.
No matter how you look at it, this is a precious sword, which can definitely cut through iron like clay!
Morris had been watching Tang Zhen's forging process intently. When the sword gradually cooled in the mold, he couldn't wait to rush forward and take it in his hands to admire it.
Uncle Jim and others also recovered from the shock, and their eyes were also full of anticipation. They wanted to see how sharp this weapon was?
Tang Zhen didn't let everyone wait for too long. As a ball of cold air enveloped the sword and the temperature of the metal surface dropped rapidly, he reached out and took the sword out of the mold.
To be honest, the appearance of this sword is really unflattering. If it weren't for the obvious shape of the knife, outsiders would probably regard it as a piece of iron!
The sword was long and slender, and the handle and blade were integrated into one piece. Tang Zhen asked Uncle Jim for a piece of cloth, simply wrapped the handle around it, and then casually threw it to Morris.
"From now on, it belongs to you!"
Morris was extremely excited after receiving the sword. He didn't care about its ugly appearance at all, and looked like he couldn't put it down.
In fact, the machete that Uncle Jim regarded as his life was even uglier. It was just a piece of iron polished. However, the sword that Tang Zhen forged out of boredom was much better in terms of quality and shape.
The greedy and envious expressions of other abandoned people just illustrate this point!
Just when everyone gathered together and caressed the sword as if they were admiring a treasure, a burst of exclamations and screams suddenly came from outside the cave entrance that was blocked by rocks.
After Uncle Jim and others heard the sound, their expressions suddenly changed, and they all looked at the entrance of the cave, looking very nervous.