By the time he returned to Tudenan, it was already late at night. Zhang Lisheng continued to cultivate his secret method and when the sky turned bright, the black fog behind him dissipated. He finally felt that the wizard power in his body had reached the limit of a Rank-8 Wizard.
"I can only make a breakthrough now …" The young man opened his eyes happily and jumped down from the animal leather chair.
After walking out of the bark house, he looked at the rising bright spring sun and told the Tudenan headman who had been waiting outside, "Tugra, go gather the warriors who are going to accept the gift ceremony today." With light footsteps, he walked into the newly expanded and incomparably huge Blessed Tree House not far away and began a new day of life.
Time passed by slowly. The bark house that was called the Blessed Tree House was actually an operating room. The stone table that had been increased to 200 had allowed 400 Gold Core fragment transplantation surgeries to be successfully completed before evening.
After washing his hands, Zhang Lisheng breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the more than 120 Hellfire tribesmen who had successfully received the fragment transplantation in the big house, a smile crept upon his face as he shouted, "Come in and carry these blessed warriors out."
"Yes, Raider!" A respectful response resonated from outside the door. Then, somebody opened the curtain and several hundreds of strong indigenous women walked in one after another, carrying the warriors who were sleeping like corpses on the stone table away.
At the same time, the Tudenan headman and the fat chores chief of the tribe brought more than ten aborigines who were holding large wooden plates to serve fragrant barbecued meat, fresh sweet wild fruits, fat fried worms, and thick and delicious fish soup to Zhang Lisheng.
"Tugra, the fat worms raised by the tribe have been cultivated so quickly?" When Zhang Lisheng saw the skewers of worms that smelled sweet and delicious in the food, he took a skewer and took two bites. With his mouth full of oil, he nodded and said, "They taste good. With these worms, we should be able to have tens of thousands more warriors, right?"
'Fat worm' was the Hellfire tribesmen's collective name for edible worms on Shrimp B1 Island. There was a special skill to identify, capture, and raise this kind of worm. It had always been passed down in the three tribes of Samru, Pelungia, and Eruya, but now, it was mastered by Tudenan.
"Raider, the Fat Worm eats all kinds of trees. It's very easy to raise, but most of the worms raised are poisonous.
The key method for the Samru, Pelungia, and Eruya tribesmen to raise the 'fat worm' is to feed it with different amounts of mixed and dried leaves of the Tusang mulberry tree, ancient alkali tree, and big feather tree before slaughtering it. You'll be able to master this once you learn it. I've calculated that with the 'fat worm', the Tudenan tribe can have at least 65,000 more warriors! "The Tudenan headman kneeled on the ground and replied respectfully.
Zhang Lisheng sat directly on the ground and said while eating and drinking, "You're really good at everything now, Tugra. How's the construction of the tribe's separation? The Kamando people didn't harass us, right?"
"Without the Raider, there's another batch of giant millispiders in the tribe that have grown up. The number of warriors with partners has already recovered to 48,000 people. Half of them are patrolling near the separation so the Kamando people don't dare to provoke us at all."
"The strength of the Kamando people hasn't actually lost much. The more they are like this, the more we can't be careless."
"Yes, Raider!"
"It's good that you understand. You may leave now. Now is the time when the tribe is the most busy so don't waste your time by my side," Zhang Lisheng said and drew a circle in the air with his finger. "All of you may leave as well."
The Tudenan headman could not answer the Raider's words. He could only stand up and silently leave with the others with his head lowered.
Looking at their backs disappearing out of the door, Zhang Lisheng swallowed a beast leg that was as thick as a fist that was roasted to a golden yellow. With a frown, he muttered to himself, "400 Super Hellfiremen and 48,000 indigenous warriors with war partners are still not enough …" Wiping his hands on the animal skin wrapped around his body, he took out the communication device from the animal skin bag on his waist.
This time, when the screen changed from a bald eagle to a map of the foreign world's island, before the young man could even speak, Cole's deep voice resonated from the communication device. "Compass, you've finally turned on the communication device."
Upon hearing the tone of the supreme commander of the US army stationed on Shrimp B1 Island, Zhang Lisheng asked curiously, "What's wrong, General?"
"In the past three days, there have been hundreds of terrorist attacks in the human gathering place. A kind of monster, I think it should be some kind of mutated earthworm-like monster, would drill out of the ground from time to time to devour the patrolling soldiers on the ground.
At first, we thought that it was a missing incident, but it was only until last night that the technicians captured the image of it attacking the soldiers on the surveillance screen. Its movement is very fast, so fast that it's unimaginable … "
"King of the Sierras …" Upon hearing Cole's description, the young man froze and blurted out.
Cole was stunned for a moment before asking loudly in the communication device, "You know this kind of monster?"
"It's not this kind of monster, it's this one," Zhang Lisheng recalled the horrifying experience of the rainy night not long ago and the exclamation of the tribal alliance's guardian spiritual monster when he returned to the battlefield. With a deep voice, he replied, "If I'm not mistaken, the monster that attacked you should be the spiritual leader of the Kamando tribe and also the most powerful god on Shrimp B1 Island, the King of the Sierras."
"But some of the attacks happened at the same time, so there should be more than one monster."
"Maybe it has two heads, or even three or four, or maybe it's not its mouth that swallows people but its hands, feet, or tail instead. General, since it's a monster, who knows how strange it would be?"
"You're right, Mr. Zhang." Cole digested the young man's words. "What else do you know about the King of the Sierras?"
"You already know everything that I know, General. This monster is very mysterious, but since it launched an attack from the ground, perhaps the earthquake monitor can detect it in advance or lay a layer of electric fence or tough rubber under the concrete floor to prevent it from appearing naturally."
"This is indeed a good idea, but we're elite professional soldiers who came for revenge, not seismologists or construction workers," Cole said coldly.
"Oh, so you're planning to attack Kamando, General?" Zhang Lisheng asked with his eyes wide open.
"I do want to do so, but the order given to me by the Department of Defense is to continue to cooperate with your action.
Mr. Zhang, I must say that you've done a great job so far. "
"Thank you for your compliment, General. I hope to be able to do a better job in the future, but unfortunately, the Tudenan's leader thinks that the tribe doesn't have the strength to conquer the Kamando tribe for the time being. We'll have to wait for the victory of the tribal alliance to be digested first before we can …" Zhang Lisheng's heart jolted as he sighed.
"The terrorist attack will be carried out at any time, so we can't wait too long."
"General Cole, I understand the anxiety in your heart, but please understand my helplessness as well. It's not up to me to decide when the Tudenan tribe will go to war."
"But you can talk to the people who have the right to decide. Aren't you the tribe's councilor?" Cole's impatient voice resonated from the communication device. "Tell those aborigines that as long as they can attack Kamando within ten days, no, five days, I'll give them five large twin-cylinder steam-engine iron ships regardless of the outcome.
If they win, I'll give them ten ships, plus two steam ships with steam turbines. "
The steam engine on Earth and the magical steam technology mastered by the foreign world's Karlado people who invaded South Africa could not be mentioned in the same breath. It had only taken more than 200 years in the process of industrialization from its emergence to its elimination. Compared to the internal combustion engine, electric motor, or the most advanced nuclear power engine, it seemed to be very backward.
However, in fact, it was precisely because of the emergence of the steam engine that the industrial revolution of the western world on Earth was triggered, allowing the Earth civilization to enter the chapter of modern society.
From the perspective of navigation, the emergence of the steam engine caused a fundamental change in the ship's power, completing the transformation of the ship's driving force from human and natural forces to mechanical forces.
The revolutionary transformation of the ship's direction from being partially controllable to being completely controllable, at the same time, it provided a greater power for the ship, making it possible to build ships larger than giant sailboats.
The twin-cylinder steam engine, on the other hand, was the standard power source in the early industrial revolution. It was also the earliest steam engine used on civil ships.
The steam turbine, on the other hand, was a rotary power machine that converted the steam energy into mechanical work. It could be directly used to drive the ship's propeller. Of course, it could also be used to drive pumps, fans, compressors in mechanical production. It could also be used as a prime mover for generating electricity, so its kinetic energy was undoubtedly much more powerful.
Zhang Lisheng could give the Tudenan craftsmen a few blueprints to let them build wooden sailboats, but it was impossible for him to let the craftsmen build steam-driven steel ships based on the blueprints. He also did not dare to rashly buy a 'fire ship' to drive to Shrimp B1 Island and hand it over to the aborigines. Now that he heard the conditions proposed by Cole, he could not help but be ecstatic.
However, on the surface, he smiled wryly and said, "General Cole, even I don't know what a twin-cylinder steam engine or a steam turbine is, let alone those aborigines …"
"You can explain it to them in a language that they can understand, Mr. Zhang. If they attack the Kamando tribe in five days, they'll be able to get five iron ships that can carry, erm, about 2,000 aborigines sailing. If they defeat the Kamando people, the number of iron ships will increase to 12, and two of them will be large ships that can carry 3,000 to 500 people.
I believe such a condition will definitely make them tempted. "
"I'm not as confident as you are. I'll give it a try, sir, but for the sake of my future academic career safety, I'd like to ask one more thing. It shouldn't be easy to produce this kind of antique ship from one to two hundred years ago, right? If it's 12 ships at once …"
"Don't worry, with the full support of the country, this is not a difficult thing. It's very easy to build this kind of steam ship that has a low precision requirement in a modern shipyard.
One month! In just one month, all of the steam ships will automatically appear on the coastline closest to the C1 tribe. Of course, whether it's five or 12 will depend on their own efforts. "
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