Ye Qiong took a long breath, raised the torch higher, and then led Ronling and the others inside.
As the team continued to advance, twenty meters later, a Qiongqi warrior placed the long wooden barrel in his arms at the corner of the wall, then took out a fire stick and blew on it to light it.
The faint light of the lamp began to sway in the cave, projecting the reflections of everyone on the wall on the other side.
The dark reflection also swayed gently with the light, adding a bit of a strange atmosphere.
Although the surrounding temperature is slowly increasing, everyone's skin feels colder and colder, with an indescribable and strange coolness.
Continuing to walk forward, there is still a wooden barrel grease lamp placed every 20 meters.
In this world where civilization has not yet sprouted, Ye Qiong cannot understand what he is nervous about. Ye Qiong is not afraid of things like ghosts. If these factors are eliminated, then what Ye Qiong is more worried about now is inside the cave.
There will be lord-level monsters.
After all, on Snow Star, once your strength reaches the lord level, you will spend the winter in your own way. You can go out to hunt, stock up on food in the summer, or choose a cave to hibernate directly.
From a probability perspective, this kind of cave is the easiest place for powerful monsters to appear, so Ye Qiong had to be careful, as the speed of advancement was not very fast.
After walking a distance of two hundred meters, the Qiongqi warrior behind him also lit all the long wooden barrels in his hands and placed them on both sides of the cave.
Now the cross-section of the entire cave has expanded to fifteen meters. The narrow length that entered the cave entrance at the beginning has become more and more rounded.
After putting down the last wooden barrel grease lamp, Ye Qiong held the torch and stood there looking at the still distant and unfathomable cave.
The torch in his hand could hold him up for a while, but looking at the situation ahead, he would definitely not be able to reach the end in a while. It had no real meaning, so Ye Qiong turned around directly.
"Let's go, go back first!"
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If Ye Qiong had an automatic rifle in his hand, or even a rifle, Ye Qiong would dive right in to see how deep the cave is and what monsters and monsters are hidden inside.
But now the only long-range weapon that Ye Qiong can handle is the three-dan long bow on his back. Although it is several times more lethal than ordinary bows and arrows, it is more powerful than ordinary pistols.
It's not weak at all.
But bows and arrows are bows and arrows after all. It takes time to draw a bow and shoot an arrow. If there is an emergency, there will be no time to react.
After leaving the cave, Ye Qiong now has a new plan, which is to make crossbow arrows.
In the wild, crossbows are not of much significance. On the contrary, they are not as convenient as bows and arrows, and they are relatively bulky, so Ye Qiong is only interested in large and giant crossbows.
After all, small crossbow arrows are difficult to make and not portable, and their lethality is not much greater than that of a single-power archer.
Furthermore, the archers in the tribe are already accustomed to using bows and arrows. Each warrior shoots where he points. The accuracy is very high. If you use a crossbow, you cannot achieve that effect.
However, crossbows naturally have the advantage of crossbows, that is, in close combat, they can kill the enemy in the fastest time without having to aim very hard.
Ye Qiong couldn't really make the gun thing for a while, so he did the next best thing and made the crossbow first. In this way, if any emergency situation occurs in the cave, he can immediately form a large-scale
of lethality.
Compared to bows and arrows, crossbows are much more lethal at close range.
Since he wanted to make a crossbow, the first thing Ye Qiong thought of was the Zhuge Liannu, a crossbow that could fire continuously.
Although there are records, in Ye Qiong's memory, the core technology has been lost. If Ye Qiong wants to make a serial crossbow, he can only explore it himself.
However, Ye Qiong has a profound theoretical foundation in weapons and firearms. With his level in this area, he was a professor at the National Defense University in his previous life.
The affairs of the coal mine were left to Ye Tianlong, and the detection of the cave was arranged by Ye Qiong to the Ronngling and Qiongqi teams. After all, they are the highest combat power of the tribe. Now they are here to detect the cave and deal with emergencies relatively speaking.
, is much stronger, Ye Qiong told Rongling, if you encounter an unknown situation, withdraw immediately and don't rush to explore.
After returning to the tribe, Ye Qiong locked himself up. His second uncle Ye Tianling was taking care of the tribe's affairs. If he couldn't solve some trivial matters by himself, he would call Yang Jianxin and Tang Ying from the caravan to discuss them.
Now the backbone of the tribe has actually been highlighted, and the next batch of pillars are slowly growing under Tang Ying's training.
Time passes minute by minute, and years pass by day and night...
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and now there are still four and a half months left before winter ends and spring begins.
These four and a half months are already equivalent to the entire winter on Earth where Ye Qiong lived in his previous life, or even longer.
The winter of Snow Star has come to an end, and some human tribes have gradually begun to fall into madness. After the food in the tribe is exhausted, they slowly transform into madmen.
Within this month, the tribe has been developing quietly and rapidly. The coal mine base has also taken shape, which can accommodate hundreds of people to rest at the same time. On the edge of the coal mine, the soldiers have also built many smaller houses.
Store the collected coal.
Inside the base, it is very warm. There is a coal bonfire burning in the center. Guarding such a large coal mine, the soldiers do not treat themselves badly. The charcoal fire in the center is burning all day long.
Because there are lighting fixtures at night, the working hours of the soldiers who built the city wall have also been strengthened. The city wall on the north side has risen to a height of five meters, and ordinary low-level monsters can no longer jump in.
After the height reaches seven meters, finishing work can be carried out and the other three sides of the city wall can be built.
Today's weather is still good. Since the last Category 3 blizzard, the weather around the tribe has been very good. However, there were a few windless light snowfalls in the middle, which fell lightly and did not create any weather.
In the past month, Ye Qiong, apart from eating, drinking and having sex, spent all his time in the laboratory. He studied crossbows and other things during the day, and meditated and practiced at night. Faintly, he always felt that there were some changes in his body, but where exactly, Ye Qiong
Qiong couldn't say for sure, but Ye Qiong was generally certain that his strength had increased a bit.
On the stone table, there is a crossbow currently placed, which is eighty centimeters long, almost twenty centimeters. It looks much smaller than the giant crossbow, but it still looks a bit bulky.
Ye Qiong planned to understand the core of the Liannu first, and then concentrate on the volume.
Looking at the giant crossbow on the stone table, Ye Qiong picked it up, then opened the wooden door and walked out...