C15 Digging a Well to Fetch Water

Popit quickly gathered everyone.

Arslan handed the two shovels to Popit and said, "Take this and dig the soil later!"

"Golden Weapon!" Popit's eyes narrowed. Only the big tribes had gold weapons!

The surrounding people looked at the shovel in Arslan's hand and revealed expressions of extreme shock. In their eyes, a golden weapon was no different from a divine weapon.

"Grand Sheikh..." Someone couldn't help but swallow his saliva and asked in disbelief, "This is... is this a gold weapon?"

The way he asked the question reminded Arslan of the time when he had only had one dollar as his pocket money. When he saw other children holding a hundred dollars, he was shocked.

Arslan's head throbbed. In the primitive society, tools were mostly made of stone and bone, and metal was extremely rare. It was no wonder they were so shocked.

"Yes, it's a golden weapon!" Arslan was too lazy to explain, "Now that it belongs to our Beautine Clan, we'll use it to dig the soil!"

"Dig the soil..." Popit exclaimed in disbelief, "This kind of gold weapon should be placed in the ancestral land to be worshiped!"

Arslan did not know whether to laugh or cry. He hurriedly said, "This is a shovel, it's used to dig the soil!"

After pausing for a moment, he added, "This is the guidance of my Grand Sheikh!"

However, no one in the surroundings had any objections.

Popit respectfully received the shovel and carefully walked over.

Arslan was helpless and could not be bothered to argue with him. He led his men to the big tree beside the firethorn wall. He wanted to dig a well beside the firethorn wall.

There were two reasons why he dug the well.

First, the water source was too far away from the tribe. If he used the animal skin to fill the well, he would lose a lot of water and the water quality would not be good.

Second, Arslan looked carefully at the west side of the tribe. It was a place where water would flow out — the place where the Beautine Clan was located.

This location was famous for its geography. It was also the best place for water to flow out. The underground water would flow from the three mountains to the mouth of the well — which was the west of the tribe.

Especially the forest on the west side of the tribe indicated that there was a sufficient amount of underground water!

In the past, when Arslan was still in the modern world, he had explored the mountains. The experienced old men in the mountains had dug wells like this, and it was very effective.

Arslan chose a spot near the big tree and drew a circle with a wooden stick. He stood in the middle of the circle and said, "Here, dig a well!"

"Drilling a well?" Someone asked in confusion, "What can we do with a well?"

Arslan laughed and said, "If we dig it deep enough, the underground water will automatically flow out. In the future, we won't need to go far to fetch water!"

After pausing for a moment, Arslan added, "And the water that flows out of the ground will taste a little sweet!"

"But isn't the ground underground? How can there be water?" Popit could not help but ask.

Arslan felt his head hurt again. He thought about it for a long time, but he felt that with Popit, or rather, the intelligence of the people around him, it would be difficult for him to explain it clearly.

Therefore, he decided not to explain further. Instead, he reached out and took the shovel. He said, "As long as you dig deep enough, there will be water!"

Popit immediately shut his mouth. He knew that he had to follow the decision of the Grand Sheikh.

The surrounding people no longer said anything.

Arslan held the shovel with both hands and stepped on the ear of the shovel. He used his two hands to push the shovel and used the shovel to dig the soil out.

He raised his hand and threw the soil to the side.

These actions were extremely normal in his eyes, but in the eyes of the surrounding people, they were filled with shock.

"The Grand Sheikh is actually using a golden weapon like this!"

"He's stepping on the golden weapon under his feet!"

"That's a golden weapon!"

...

Arslan did not know what the people in the surroundings were thinking. After digging for a while, he handed the shovel to Popit. "Hey, there are two shovels here. There are more than twenty people... Uh, there are more people... Dig in the circle I dug. Dig out all the soil in there!"

"Find a few people to hang the beast skin with vines. When the soil is dug deep enough, hang the soil from the bottom!"

However, he glanced at the twenty or so people around him and thought for a moment. He then drew a circle that was about the size of the previous circle. "You guys split into two groups and dig down separately. One shovel for each group. The others use the bone blade! If one person is tired, he can switch to another person. It's a rotation!"

"Yes!"

Therefore, Arslan stood at the side and commanded. He was like a foreman inspecting the construction site.

It was unknown whether it was because of the power of the shovel or the pressure of his identity as a Grand Sheikh, but every single person who took the shovel and started digging was like a person who did not care about their own life.

The shovel and the bone blade flew up and down, and the soil was also being thrown out of the well.

Arslan watched as the people digging gradually revealed only their heads, and in the end, only the soil was being thrown out. He could not help but be stunned.

"This speed of digging!" Arslan was dumbstruck, "It's almost as fast as the digging machines in my previous life!"

More than a dozen people dug a well, and in less than half a day, they had already dug six or seven meters!

However, the more they dug, the less people there were. In the end, only four people could go down at the same time. Even so, the speed of digging was still not slow.

What made everyone extremely excited was that the soil at six or seven meters had already started to turn wet, and the soil that was thrown out was also clearly wet and sticky!

"There's really water!" Popit could not help but exclaim.

The people who were hanging the beast skin on the vines at the mouth of the well were also extremely excited, and they looked at Arslan with eyes full of admiration.

After another two hours, the vine that was hanging the soil was already twelve or thirteen meters long. Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from the bottom of the well, "Ah, there's water!"

When the people at the mouth of the well heard this, they hurriedly pulled up the vine, and then they saw four muddy people who hurriedly climbed out of the vine.

At the bottom of the well, there was the sound of flowing water!