Chapter 11: Throwing oneself into a trap
The area of this dark forest is not too large by visual inspection, but it is definitely not something they can clear out in a short time.
During this process, they undoubtedly discovered the rats scurrying around in every corner of the dark forest again. Many tribe members wanted to rush to catch them, but they were all stopped by Zhou Xu. .
"Okay, don't waste your energy. These mice run very fast. If you can catch them with your bare hands, you would have caught them yesterday. You won't have to wait until today. Let's save some energy now."
While he was talking, he picked up a stone from his feet that was slightly larger than a palm and generally flat.
"Look at this, you need to pick up stones like this."
As Zhou Xu said this, he gestured towards the tribe members who were responsible for collecting supplies.
During this process, each tribe member had already picked up branches along the way, and some were even holding them with both hands.
This is one of the reasons why their efficiency in picking up branches is so low.
According to their holding method, they will soon be unable to hold her anymore and have to go back, which will waste more time going back and forth.
Zhou Xu saw them and waved directly to them.
"Come here and take out the bundle of bark ropes I gave you before setting off."
Taking the bark ropes handed to him by the tribe members, Zhou Xu held the tree The leather rope spread out on the ground.
“Put the branches up.”
After receiving the order, the tribe members did it without thinking too much.
The branches they picked up were quickly piled up on the ground. After seeing that the pile was almost complete, Zhou Xu stepped on the branches, pulled the bark rope with his hands and used his hands and feet to tie the branches into three pieces. A bundle.
In the past, at home, we would always save some cardboard boxes produced in daily life and sell them. Now the technology of this bunch of cardboard boxes is used here, and it is enough.
“Look, like this, you can carry the bark rope directly on your shoulders, and one person can carry back so many branches at once.”
Place those branches in front, It took at least five or six of them to carry it back, but now, Zhou Xu used a bark rope to easily pick it up with one hand.
The tribe members who were watching could not help but exclaim in surprise.
This binding technique itself is not difficult, the difficulty lies in who can think of doing it first!
"Okay, the team responsible for collecting supplies, you are divided into two groups, five people per team, and go to the areas on both sides to collect supplies. Don't go near this area. The others come with me."
Although the members of the collection team were curious about what their leader would do next, now that the leader had given the order, they naturally did not dare to neglect, and quickly divided into two teams and moved towards the areas on both sides.
After the two collection teams had gone far away, Zhou Xu took action.
"Feiying, put the insect head and internal organs here. Don't use too much, just a little is enough."
"Yes."
With a response, Fei Que quickly followed suit and placed some insect heads and internal organs at the location indicated by Zhou Xu.
“Okay, now take out the branch and the basket that you picked up just now, and place them like this.”
A small basket-covered trap was quickly set up got up.
Of course, Zhou Xu couldn't completely expect that when the mouse came in, it would knock down the branch or hit the basket, causing the basket to cover down.
For this reason, he had already tied a thin bark rope on the small branch.
He taught Butterfly last night that there are two types of bark ropes they can weave. One is a thicker rope that requires interweaving multiple barks. Now they are used to tie branches for the collection team. Used. And the other one is what he has now, a simply twisted string used as a traction rope to trigger the trap.
In order to avoid pulling the branches in advance, Zhou Xu carefully placed the rope while retreating, and hid behind a big tree not far away.
"You all hide nearby and don't make a sound. What we have to do now is to wait for the prey to come by itself."
Zhou Xu's words made Fei Que and the others not know what to say for a moment.
But considering the miracles their leader had brought them before, everyone still obeyed the order and hid nearby.
To be honest, Zhou Xu himself had no idea about this matter.
It is not just the question of whether the trap can catch the mouse, but also the question of whether the mouse can be eaten.
According to his modern concept, most mice carry viruses, and eating them is too risky.
But then I thought about it, the environment of this primitive world is different from the modern world.
To put it simply, in this primitive world that prefers a completely original ecology, there are not so many bacteria and viruses. If these mice eat clean food, their bodies will naturally be cleaner.
[There are quite a lot of rats in this dark forest. At the same time, no one in this world has ever caught rats with this trap before, right? It’s easier to fall for the bait if you’re not sure. 】
At this moment, Zhou Xu was analyzing the situation in his mind, but was he trying to comfort himself?
In this barren land, the food they can get is too little. If they can't catch it, they will starve. There is no choice at all.
Just as he was thinking this, Zhou Xu quickly noticed a mouse sneaking up nearby within his field of vision.
[Speaking of which, my eyesight has improved a lot. I was slightly nearsighted before, but after I traveled through time, I didn’t have glasses, but I could see so clearly, and my observation ability had also become stronger. 】
[The mouse hiding in the corner, I might not have noticed before, but now I can see it at a glance. Not only has the field of vision become wider, but it has also become clearer. 】
【Is it an improvement that comes with the Eye of Insight? Even without using this ability directly, my vision and observation skills have been passively improved? 】
There was no time to think too much. The mouse in the distance obviously smelled the smell emanating from the insect heads and internal organs. After carefully observing the surroundings, it trotted into the trap.
Just when it was grabbing the bait and getting ready to start, Zhou Xu gently pulled the string in his hand.
With the torn down twigs, the basket immediately fell down, covering the mouse inside.
At that moment, the mouse was obviously frightened and rushed inside the basket, causing the entire basket to shake.
The basket itself is not heavy, and the ground in the wild is not 100% flat. Under the fierce struggle of the rat inside, there is no guarantee that it will not escape.
Therefore, after catching the prey, Zhou Xu moved very quickly. He rushed forward with just one movement of his legs. Amid the somewhat incredible exclamations of the tribe members, he held down the violently shaking animal. basket.
Obviously, none of them thought that the mouse that they could not catch despite all their efforts would actually get into their leader's basket.
Actually, if you think about it carefully, the logic here is not incomprehensible.
But this did not affect the impact that the mouse had on them at the moment when they threw themselves into the trap.
At this moment, they seemed to see a door to a new world slowly opening towards them.
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(End of this chapter)