Original God, I am the only designated Red King God Envoy of Xumi

The people of the Sand rarely use tableware, and most of their food can be eaten directly with their hands. Even in the forest, forks and spoons are more commonly used. The flexible use of two wooden sticks is more like the chopsticks in the Rock Kingdom.

But it does look very convenient... I might as well learn it myself sometime.

Compared to Gabriel, little Jade's gaze was much more direct. She stared at the eel meat sizzling on the iron plate with wide eyes, and her saliva unconsciously flowed out.

Compared with other meats, quicksand eel meat is fatter and more tender, and is the best white meat. These processed eels are fried on the iron plate to release the fat, and the fat is sizzling when roasted, making the surface of the eel meat golden, which is very tempting.

Sprinkle a little salt on the amber and pinch some of Abdul's secret spices, and a piece of teppanyaki eel is ready.

The aroma of eel meat mixed with the scent of spices rushed into the nostrils of everyone present, arousing the appetite in their stomachs.

This secret spice is Abdul's proudest creation, but he keeps the production method very secret and tells no one. He only says that he will tell the secret recipe to Amber when she gets married.

It was hilarious. She was a career-focused person, so why would she waste time on romance? Besides, she didn't like men at all.

It can be friendship, family affection or even other emotions, but it will never be love.

"...Hmm." Little Jade swallowed her saliva. She couldn't wait to taste the eel meat. Amber saw all this.

Although she loved the child very much, she could not make an exception in this regard. Amber still grilled the eel meat and strung it into skewers, and then distributed them one by one to the logging and hunting teams who were doing physical work.

This is also a custom among the Sand People. For example, meat is always given priority to members who engage in more physically demanding labor, followed by members who are relatively less tired, and finally children.

There is no other reason. Even though children represent the future, what can guarantee us is that adults are still the present. If the present is gone, how can we talk about the future?

Fortunately, Abdul was really lucky this time. He caught enough quicksand eels. After the logging team and the hunting team each took two pieces, there were still some left, so he distributed one piece to each member of the gathering team, which naturally included the children who also participated in the gathering.

It was not until the end that little Jade got the piece that belonged to her. Little Jade, who had been unable to wait any longer, held the wooden skewer, her eyes shining as she looked at the fragrant eel meat, and she couldn't wait to stuff it into her mouth.

The eel meat was quite large for a child. Little Jade's cheeks bulged and moved as she chewed, like a hamster.

Gabriel also tasted the eel meat. Amber's craftsmanship was indeed great. The eel meat was roasted just right, almost perfectly showing the properties of the eel meat itself, with an excellent taste, and Abdul's secret spices added a lot of color to it.

To be fair, such delicacies would usually only appear on the plates of leaders and important members of the clan in the desert, but now they are used to reward ordinary clan members who have worked hard all day. Amber can be considered generous.

It's natural that eel meat is not enough to fill you up, but Amber had already taken this into consideration. While she was grilling the eel meat on the teppanyaki plate, other meat obtained from the hunt was also being roasted on other fires. Although it was not as good as the eel meat, it was fresher.

After today, these meats can only be processed and dried and stored as jerky. Fresh meat is still more delicious than jerky.

Food has the power to inspire people. After having enough food and water, the Chi Nian clan seemed to have renewed vitality and truly felt like they were living some kind of life.

As usual, several people were arranged to take turns to keep watch, and the camp fell into silence again.

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There are pictures here, which can be viewed after the updated version

There are pictures here, which can be viewed after the updated version

There are pictures here, which can be viewed after the updated version

There are pictures here, which can be viewed after the updated version

Chapter 10: Looking to the Future

"Chief, according to your instructions, the construction of the first batch of houses has been completed."

Maha reported to Amber, who nodded, acknowledging Maha's efforts and contributions, and looked at the settlement in front of her which had become truly full of life.

Those were houses with walls built of a material similar to a mixture of earth and stone, and wooden boards as the structural frame and roof. In order to cope with the temperature difference, the walls were thick and the windows were small.

The temperature difference in the desert is very large. Although the temperature difference here is not as severe as in the desert in the previous life, it is still enough for people to drink a pot of water. It is because the current season is relatively merciful, and there is a large water source around, that it does not seem so troublesome for the time being.

Now, a month has passed since the beginning, and the good season is coming to an end. If we don't prepare houses to withstand the temperature difference, the clan's current material reserves will not be able to withstand it.

In fact, it is difficult to build such a house using only materials from the desert. There are many rock walls around, so stone is not a problem. There are also many thorny sunflower trees, and wood is not a problem in the short term. However, using earth and stone materials will cause a problem, as the soil resources in the desert are difficult to use directly for construction.

Why is the desert environment so harsh? A large part of the reason is that the surface cannot hold water. Without water, there is insufficient water to participate in the ecological cycle, resulting in the loss of vegetation and the drying up of the land. Without vegetation to protect it, strong winds can rise, further stripping away moisture from the land and eroding the soil into small fragments, which then become sand.

If we plant a wide range of plants to block the wind, then consolidate the sand, and then slowly transform the sand into soil, then everything will gradually get better.

This is not a very comprehensive statement, but the water problem is indeed the biggest fatal problem. The role of water in regulating temperature can be seen by comparing coastal cities with inland areas and desert areas. The climate in places with abundant water always tends to be more suitable.

Amber had been researching ways to solidify desert soil in the past few years, and in fact, she had achieved some results, but... the cost was not low enough to be used on a large scale, and the effect was somewhat off. It was not suitable for desert control, but it could be used to change some soil that was not suitable for construction into soil that was suitable for construction.

It was using this method that Amber successfully built these houses. Otherwise, they could only carve rocks for construction, which would be a very slow process and there would be no time to build the shelters before the fatal temperature difference came.

If wood is used, it is definitely not enough, and its thickness is also unable to withstand the impact of temperature differences.

This is another reason why the victorious clan allowed them to migrate. Even if they were lucky enough to find a place to settle down, it would be difficult for them to resist the impact of the temperature difference. The most likely possibility was that they would seek refuge with the clans along the way, but how could those clans have so many extra resources to accommodate so many refugees?

"It's hard to believe... Your skills have once again exceeded my expectations, Chief." Gabriel stood beside Amber, watching all this in a daze.

In fact, not long after that day ended, he learned that the Chi Nian clan had no houses to live in, only some temporary tents, and he began to think about running away. He thought they had already found a place to live, such as abandoned ruins or something... but it turned out there was nothing.

Amber's confident look that she had a solution made him choose to believe it. He even wondered if he was crazy. This didn't seem to have much possibility at all.

As a result, she surprised herself again, and again.

Using gravel and sand, water, shells and bones obtained from hunting, some mineral powder, and the soil solidifier she prepared, she actually mixed them into a material suitable for construction, which Amber named concrete. However, this material cannot be used directly for construction... It can't be cast into ugly pillars, right?

Then Amber used wooden boards to make rows of containers, poured concrete into them and solidified them into blocks, which he then used as bricks and stones to build houses, using wood as the frame and concrete bricks as building materials. In the end, he actually built 20 houses, which was simply a divine skill.

Although the house is not big, with an interior area of ​​less than 20 square meters and is relatively low, it is very crowded for five people to live in one house. However, this was completed in just one month. Compared to any other clan, even in the rainforest, this is absolute efficiency and absolute wisdom.

Gabriel was constantly admiring Amber in his heart. Amber's ability really refreshed his cognition, but only Amber herself knew that it was not entirely true.

Although she called this material concrete, its strength was actually not as good as the modern concrete in her previous life. She was not a professional in this field in her previous life and only had a superficial understanding of it. She just relied on her vague memory and conducted many experiments to finally get a decent result. Now she was rushing to build the house.

Fortunately... she did not let herself down in the end. After ensuring that the hunting team had enough people and the logging team had cut enough wood, she put all the manpower into the construction. Even the children had to carry small buckets to pour concrete into the containers to make concrete bricks.

For the house, she also chose a structure that was connected horizontally like a "field" shape. This way, with doors on both sides, she could build fewer walls. It took her a month to build it, which was really not easy.

As for the so-called "soil solidifier", it largely relied on the characteristics of the "grass element". Sometimes elemental power is really convenient, allowing someone like her who doesn't know much about chemistry to make this kind of thing after some green-skinned thinking.

Then spend some time to make changes to the ratio, and this thing can be used to solidify the sand and slowly improve the soil, which is what they have to do.

To expand the clan, more land is needed. Naturally, the land can be plundered from other clans, but this is not an easy job, especially since the Chi Nian clan does not have an advantage in military strength now, and the land in the hands of other clans is also fundamentally limited.

In the long run, desert control is an inevitable part of the process, and Amber already has a general idea of ​​this kind of work.

Gabriel didn't know what Amber was thinking. If he knew, he would be even more surprised. This idea was undoubtedly extremely advanced, and even completely fantastic at the moment. Even the sages in the House of Lords, where scholars gathered, would say it was crazy when they heard about Amber's idea.

Amber naturally wouldn't mention these things lightly. She would rather use this time to think about what to do. Her next strategic focus has already shifted to increasing the manpower for excavating the rock wall, obtaining resources from the stone while opening up a shortcut to the previous ruins.

At the same time, we can slow down the construction of new houses and study how to obtain a stable source of food.

There are only two options: planting and breeding. According to Gabriel, some clans in the north breed crocodiles. That place is close to the city of Gur, a brilliant civilization that once existed in the desert. Therefore, the existing oases are considerable and relatively dense, with breeding conditions, and therefore the ability to breed crocodiles.

But after Amber's consideration... considering only the edible purpose, the feed input for farming crocodiles is far greater than the meat they produce, and this is just the feed cost.

Those clans raise crocodiles simply because they have the conditions to trade with the outside world. The crocodile's skin and meat can be sold at a very good price, which can bring economic value. In addition, they have the conditions for breeding, so they choose to raise crocodiles.

Caravans from outside the desert rarely enter the desert, and the possibility of xenophobic desert people robbing foreign caravans is quite high. Most caravans are clan caravans formed by the desert clans themselves, or some gilded brigades that also serve as caravans.

Obviously, the Chi Nian clan does not have a caravan with which they can establish a stable relationship, nor does it have the conditions to form its own caravan. In addition, the cost and danger of raising crocodiles...it would be better for them to give up this idea in the short term.

Raising common herbivores like in other places is also a problem... because the crops they have are not even enough for themselves to eat. If there is no lack of plants in the desert, it will not be called a desert. Add to that the possibility of acclimatization... frankly speaking, it doesn't look like they can be raised.

Then the only thing left is planting. Amber can improve the soil solidifier, and since there are sufficient groundwater resources here, we can really try planting, although they don't have seeds.

But this brings up a new problem. The fertility of the soil and its ability to retain water are one thing, but whether it can feed crops... is another.

Maybe... it's time to build some toilets quickly; Amber thought, she knew a little about composting, so she could give it a try, it would be necessary in the long run.

Regarding breeding, she also has to look for organisms that can be used for breeding, preferably those that are found locally in the desert, so that there is no need to worry about the problem of acclimatization.

If you think about it carefully, the problems that need to be solved are far beyond your imagination. Amber smiled bitterly to herself, and she felt more deeply the responsibility of being a leader.

A newly born clan, a clan that can only rely on itself for everything, faces an unimaginable challenge. Not many people have the experience to face such a challenge. It is also the first time for Amber to be a leader, and she can only grope her way forward on her own.

Looking back, she had indeed been blessed with many strokes of luck. If only it hadn't been a favorable season, if only she had encountered the marauding Gilded Brigade during her migration, if only she hadn't discovered the strangeness of the water here, if only this place hadn't possessed all the necessary materials...

Any problem, any mistake, would be fatal and would lead to the collapse of the Chi Nian clan. To have come this far, we can truly say: God bless us.

This is even more incredible in the eyes of the members of the Chi Nian clan. Even someone like Amber who has such knowledge and technology feels that reaching this point is a blessing from God. In their eyes, it is even more unimaginable that they can reach this point.

It's simply... a "miracle".

Chapter 11: The Contact That Will Come

"This symbol is shaped like a spoon and is pronounced 'bo'."

Compared with the other houses that are built next to each other, this independent and larger house looks more imposing. Its space is equivalent to that of four small houses. It was originally built to cope with possible receptions in the future, and now it is used by Amber as a place to teach children to read.

Among the more than 80 people in the Chi Nian clan now, there are more than 20 children. It was not so few originally, but the long-distance migration... the children and the elderly with weaker constitutions were always the first to collapse, and many of them were buried in the yellow sand.

Amber had tried her best to take care of the children along the way, but casualties were still unavoidable. Now, as the official leader, she had the responsibility to protect the new generation of the clan. In addition, she had already promised Gabriel that she would educate little Jade herself, so she simply called the children together to teach them.

It is very strange that although the writing and language on the continent of Teyvat are unified, the phonetic symbols are not unified. There are many phonetic symbols on the entire continent from ancient times to the present.

It just so happened that the modern writing of Teyvat was almost the same as that of the previous life, so Amber simply took the pinyin set that she was most familiar with and used it to teach the children to read.

From the perspective of efficiency alone, this is very irrational. If these children need to contact the outside world in the future, this new set of phonetic symbols will only increase the time for adjustment for no reason, but everything has two sides.

In the early years, even in the House of Religion where knowledge was prevalent, there were not many books teaching children to read. Most of them relied on word of mouth from person to person. This was not only inefficient, but also prone to various fallacies. Since we must pay attention to education in the clan in the future, we might as well add some work and compile a book by ourselves. After all, it is better than those shoddy books.

Xumi is known as the country of wisdom. The holy place for scholars, the Academy of the Order, basically only focuses on high-end education. In the early years, most of the students here were young people, most of whom were from wealthy and well-off families.

In the past two years, a device called "Void" has emerged, and it seems to be ready for popularization. This convenient device allows the wearer to obtain corresponding knowledge as long as he asks questions to the so-called "Void" - at least that's what it says on the surface. With such a useful thing, the development of basic education is really no longer important. Anyway, those who are interested can learn basic knowledge by asking questions to the Void.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the desert, Amber still has a lot to consider.

If I want to become strong... I still have a long way to go, Amber thought secretly.

The teaching continued for a while. Amber spent an hour teaching only a few initial consonants and helping the children understand the significance of pinyin before dismissing them from the class.

There's no other reason. Even if they are just some children, the clan still needs them to contribute some effort. It's a special period and there's nothing we can do about it.

In the evening, Amber will ask them to consolidate what they learned in the morning and teach them some new things. Adults who are busy with work during the day can also come and learn, but I guess only Gabriel will be there for the time being.

The rest of the people had either already learned it or simply didn't want to learn it. Due to various factors, only the newcomer, Gabriel, needed to learn it and was willing to swallow his pride and learn it.

Watching the children rushing out of the reception room like a swarm of bees, Amber pinched the bridge of her nose to relieve the fatigue in her eyes.

She was sincerely glad that the children of the Sand People were sensible, usually did not have those bad habits, and would not easily isolate themselves or use cold violence. Little Jade had already integrated into the group and got along well with the girls.

They always seemed to have endless topics to talk about, or perhaps the other girls simply thought it was fun to play with a child much younger than themselves like Jade. In short... everything seemed pretty good.

"I have to find time to go to Kawanyi..." Amber said to herself.

The so-called Kawan Posthouse is a gathering place for merchants at the border of the forest and the desert. It is also the only place currently available for trading with the people of the forest. The huge sand-proof wall has left a relatively wide road here, which makes it possible for caravans to pass through.

Over time, a small town-level building complex has developed here. If you want to purchase a large amount of supplies at a fair price and don’t want to travel too far, this is the best choice. In addition, the review process required for the Sand People to enter Kawanyi was relaxed a few years ago, and now there are more Sand People caravans shuttling between the two places.

Now she can only rely on writing and drawing on a piece of wooden board, which is ultimately limited. Without the support of textbooks, it is not conducive to the consolidation of knowledge. Moreover, there is only one person, but there can be many textbooks. It can significantly improve the efficiency of education.

In fact, Amber has never really left the desert. Most of the time, she has no need to do so. Her understanding of the forest is just hearsay. She is still a little looking forward to her first trip to Kawanyi.

Now that the clan is on the right track, there will be no problem in handing over the task of teaching children to read to him in a short period of time.

After careful consideration, Amber decided to go to Kawanyi and told her idea to several deputies of the clan.

Yi, Abdul and Maha all expressed their understanding of Amber's idea. They had been with Amber the longest and had truly experienced the convenience of knowledge. They thought about Amber's decision for a moment and then approved of it, but reminded Amber to be very careful.

Gabriel had not yet fully adapted to the rhythm of the Chinanian clan, and he was still surprised at first. It was a big deal when the clan leader left the clan, and they usually stood together with the clan members.

Someone like Amber... maybe on the one hand she is indeed incredibly powerful because of her incredible strength, which does not only refer to her martial arts, but more to her skills and wisdom, but on the other hand it is enough to reflect the trust others have in her.

Considering that the deputies who were always by Amber's side had no objections, and considering that Amber had previously demonstrated abilities that were ahead of her time, Gabriel finally chose to be convinced.

After discussion, the departure time was set for tomorrow morning.

There are still not many people available now, and Amber is not going there for anything big, so it was finally decided that Amber would go alone.

Not long after, the Kerchi Nian clan returned to their daily lives. The news that the leader had something to do and needed to leave temporarily did not cause much commotion, and this situation continued until noon.

Amber, who was planning her itinerary on the map, received news: a gilded brigade was approaching the clan's base, and judging by the brigade's logo... it was Thutmose.

Many Gilded Brigades would design a unique logo for themselves to promote themselves, such as the famous and veteran mercenary Gilded Brigade, the Blazing Beast Hunters, or the standard Gilded Brigade like the Eye of Akhmar.

Compared to other Gilded Brigades, Thutmose's reputation is indeed relatively low. Rather than engaging in mercenary work, they are more focused on pursuing the remains of the Red King. Amber had cooperated with a small team of the opposing team for a period of time during an exploration of the remains nearly two years ago, so she still had some impression of this brigade.

If Amber had not met Gabriel, her reaction would not have been so great. Thutmose was not a plunderer and was usually easy to talk to - as long as you did not get in the way of him; but now Amber had Gabriel by her side.

The Gilded Brigade he previously belonged to was none other than Thutmose, and he was one of Thutmose's most powerful "double blades".