Beasts Are Boundless

Chapter 91 Barrel Grease Lamp

The surrounding temperature began to drop, Ye Qiong looked at the direction of the coal mine, and the soldiers over there should have rested. Before Ye Qiong came back, he specially instructed Ye Tianlong.

If there is no blizzard, don’t spend the night in that cave for the time being. Before the entire cave is fully explored, the cave is an uncertain thing and has a certain degree of danger.

So to be safe, the soldiers continued to sleep in the snow cave.

Standing up from the stone city wall, Ye Qiong couldn’t help rubbing his hands. The cold winter night on Xuexing was really long and hard, very cold.

The cold is unbearable. If you don’t dig a snow hole in time and get into it, your body will start to tremble in a short time without a fire source. If you wear thinner clothes, you will easily freeze to death.

There are no down jackets and cotton clothes that can keep warm on Xue Xing. Although the thermal insulation performance of animal skins is really good, it is not convenient. It is better to wear one layer.

After continuing to move his muscles and bones, Ye Qiong ran back into the tribe in a hurry.

From afar, he saw the only light source in the tribe, which was inside the snow cave Ye Qiong used for his experiments.

Ye Qiong was stunned for a moment, it seemed that Tang Ying and the others had already started the experiment, so they didn’t plan to go back to the sleeping place, but ran towards the light source.

After walking in, I saw a lot of solidified grease on the stone table, which was held by the utensils that Tang Ying took out, and the wick was made of linen in the middle.

In the middle of the stone table, there is a burning one at the moment. Although it is not particularly bright, it is enough to see things in the dark.

Ye Qiong picked it up and looked at it. There was a smell of meat in the air. There was no way to avoid this. After all, it was extracted from animal fat.

“Well… it looks pretty good. Let’s go back and rest first, leave someone to watch the night, and help me calculate how long a lamp of this size can burn.” Ye Qiong looked at Tang Ying and the rest. said a middle-aged woman.

Although they are middle-aged, they are in very good shape. In addition, the humans on the snow star are already very white. The soldiers will be a little darker because of the wind and the sun. It is not very good to stay in the snow cave every day. Women who go out have very fair skin.

Moreover, the human lifespan on Xue Xing is very long, and a woman in her thirties still has a long period of youth.

In summer, they dress more boldly, a tight animal skin suit is enough, but in winter, they are more tightly wrapped, because they are afraid of cold, and there is nothing to keep them warm in the tribe, so they don’t need to. I don’t need to facilitate my limbs, so I wrap it very thickly.

After Tang Ying nodded, Ye Qiong turned around and walked out. He didn’t care about how to arrange such a thing, as long as he recorded the data tomorrow.

After returning to his snow cave, Ye Qiong slept until dawn, and then went to the snow cave laboratory to ask about the data.

The lamp that burned yesterday was five centimeters wide, seven centimeters long and three centimeters high, and it burned for two and a half hours in total.

Ye Qiong looked at the data recorded by one of the women last night, and nodded with satisfaction. It looked good. If the wick was made thinner and the capacity continued to expand, the burning time could be doubled. Increase. Five soldiers were arranged to connect with Tang Ying and the others, and the prepared solid grease was packed in wooden barrels and transported to the coal mine.

Three days later, ten barrels of solid grease were stored in the cave, and the five soldiers who sent the grease had another task, which was to transport back the corpses of the fat-rich ocean ice sculptures, and hand over the meat to the tribe responsible for cutting the meat and cooling it down. The meat is dried, and the fat is handed over to the women in the laboratory to extract solid fat.

Ye Qiong stood at the entrance of the cave, looking at the ten barrels of solid grease, and then called Rong Ling over, followed by Rong Ling, and ten soldiers from Qiong Qi.

Instead of digging into the depths of the cave, Ye Qiong chose the safest method, which was to explore little by little.

Starting from the outermost periphery, Ye Qiong will put a bucket of solid grease on the ground every twenty meters. After hanging the whole wooden bucket, it becomes a grease lamp. The wooden bucket is treated, very slender and only wide. Ten centimeters, but the height on the ground is one meter five.

The gravity on the snow star is very strong, so the penetration effect is also very strong. In order to allow the light source to spread out well, these wooden barrels designed by Ye Qiong are slender.

Ten wooden barrels can travel a distance of 200 meters. For a cave, it is actually a long distance, but for the Dinglong Mountains, it is nothing…

With a torch in his hand, Ye Qiong took Rong Ling and the others and walked into the cave.

Each soldier holds a wooden barrel in his hand, and puts one down and ignites it every 20 meters.

After calculation, according to the burning consumption recorded in the previous grease, the burning time of these wooden barrels can reach one hundred and eighty hours, about eight days.

The entire wooden barrel can also play a good role in thermal insulation, so that the top layer of grease inside can be dissolved into a liquid, so that it can be penetrated.

It was fine at first, but as they gradually got deeper into the cave, everyone’s heartbeats began to speed up slowly.

Ye Qiong performed several cave rescue missions in the last life, and also went in and out of some ancient tomb ruins, but the experience is different from now, although it is still an unfathomable cave, on the earth in the previous life, Ye Qiong’s hands He was carrying a semi-automatic rifle, and he knew in his heart that no matter how deep he was, nothing would come out.

The caves on Xuexing are different. There are too many unknown areas that humans have never explored, and there are countless creatures that humans have never come into contact with.

So Ye Qiong himself started to get nervous at this moment. The whole cave was very quiet, as if he could hear the heartbeats of everyone.

The further you go in, the larger the cross-sectional area of the cave, and there are some stalactites in the middle.

And the temperature is now slowly rising.

After walking forward for about 100 meters, half of the wooden barrel grease lamps were placed in front of the wall. There was a light source behind them, but after turning around, it was dark again.

Where Ye Qiong and the others are now, the cross-section is about ten meters wide and twenty meters high.

A group of more than a dozen people walked inside, and it didn’t seem crowded at all, and the temperature also rose a lot. Ye Qiong estimated that if they walked inside for a while, the temperature might rise to above zero degrees Celsius.