Chapter 21 Slipping away
Since being summoned, as long as I am awake, I must be busy for the survival and development of this tribe. I really haven’t even had a second. waste.
With not even enough to eat, this day was definitely too fulfilling for Zhou Xu.
【Well, I feel it’s almost done, I can start trying to make pottery. 】
Looking at the small clay bowls with dried clay bowls, Zhou Xu didn’t have much experience in making judgments. Anyway, he just relied on intuition. This kind of thing must be done through constant trial and error before he can slowly succeed.
"Go and bring some wood."
Needless to say, Zhou Xu is ready to start the furnace.
"Butterfly, come here and help."
Hearing the call, Butterfly said nothing, put down the newly polished stone ax in his hand, and ran over.
After experiencing the polishing of stone axes, Zhou Xu has summed up some experience.
That is, when faced with something that neither he nor Butterfly knows how to do, he can trust Butterfly's skillful hands more. She will do her own research and maybe she can do it better than you.
The butterfly running over undoubtedly knew that the work of their craft team was about to increase again.
Although Butterfly didn't say it, Zhou Xu knew in his heart that the workload of the crafting team was indeed a bit heavy. There were too many things in this tribe that they needed to do.
But there is nothing you can do about it. Doing these things requires some talent, and it is difficult for those who are clumsy to do well.
For this reason, Zhou Xu could only reduce their work burden in other ways.
For example, at the beginning of the craft team, there were two people who specially helped them tear bark and twist string.
Now Zhou Xu has made some adjustments and increased the number of people responsible for helping with chores to five.
Every chore, such as picking rocks and moving things, is left to these five chores.
Counting the five members of the manual team, nearly one-third of them are already here.
At this time Zhou Xu was introducing the stove to Butterfly.
Referring to the old stove he saw on the Internet when he was researching tea cups, he built it according to the pattern of a gourd.
However, the conditions were limited and the ride was not very good, and he knew this.
"This stove is roughly divided into two areas. I built a platform in this area. The bowls are placed here, and the wood is placed on this side to make the fire."
Zhou Xu As he spoke, he began to put the dried clay bowls into the stove.
When Butterfly saw this, Zhou Xu didn't need to say anything. Based on the experience she had accumulated in the past two days, she naturally stepped forward to help.
Turn on the fire and the stove will soon start burning.
After adding enough firewood and making the fire strong, Zhou Xu began to pick up the stones that had been prepared and blocked the mouth of the furnace. He then covered the seams of the stones with mud to seal the furnace to ensure the stability of the internal temperature.
Only a hole is left at the top of the furnace mouth to facilitate them to confirm the fire and allow them to add some firewood if necessary.
"Find someone to watch this stove all day long, and let it burn for three days before we start."
This time was something he had planned for a long time.
According to the little knowledge he accumulated from playing with tea cups in the past, modern tea cups are generally divided into electric and wood fired.
To put it bluntly, electric burning relies on equipment. The advantages are stability and high efficiency. Basically, a batch can be burned in more than ten hours.
Wood burning is commonly known as the ancient method. The production rate and efficiency are not as good as electric burning, so it often requires more time and energy.
He had zero practical experience in this matter, and he was already prepared to fail the first time.
After arranging things here, Zhou Xu sat directly aside, rubbed the bark rope, and tinkered with something new. Needless to say, he was going to prepare to kill the big spider.
To deal with such a dangerous big guy, as a human being, under these limited conditions, what was Zhou Xu’s first thought?
Of course it is a long-range weapon!
While ensuring your own safety, kill the big guy through long-range attacks.
When it comes to long-range weapons, the first thing that comes to mind in this cold weapon era is of course the bow and arrow.
But the fool also knows that he simply cannot do it now.
Even if he managed to do it, he could not ensure the power and range of the arrow. What use could the soft arrow be used for?
Based on this premise, in this primitive society, besides bows and arrows, what other long-range weapons are easy to make and can exert sufficient value?
The answer is ready to come out, that is the sling!
It just so happened that they had been eating rats for the past two days, and the skins they had saved were just the right size.
Using this leather and putting on a bark rope of appropriate thickness, a slingshot was soon born in Zhou Xu's hands.
In fact, in order to improve the attack range and stability, it is best to polish the stones used.
But how can they have that time now?
First find some rocks of suitable size and make do with them.
Bringing the stone and the sling he had just finished, Zhou Xu found a spacious place outside the tribe and started testing.
With the help of the centrifugal force caused by the high-speed rotation, after two attempts, he easily made the stone bullet wrapped in the rat skin bag rotate at high speed.
Then he looked in one direction and waved his arms! The stone bullet immediately flew out in a long parabola.
By visual inspection, it flew almost fifty or sixty meters before landing. Zhou Xu was undoubtedly quite satisfied with this result.
This is the first time he has used it. There must be many things he did not do well. If he practices a few more times, he should be able to do better.
However, considering the environment of the black forest, they actually do not need such a long attack distance at all.
Of course, he had not thought about luring the big spider out of the dark forest and launching an attack in the open wasteland.
But is fighting in an empty wasteland really a good thing for them?
Those black trees are indeed obstacles when they launch long-range attacks, but on the other hand, when the big spider attacks, they can also be used as a cover for them to avoid.
While he was pondering this, the collection team headed by Dashan came back.
"Da Shan, you came back just in time, come over and try this new weapon."
Because of what happened in the morning, Dashan, who was feeling depressed at first, suddenly lit up when he heard about the new weapon, and ran up to Zhou Xu in two steps at a time.
Without any nonsense, Zhou Xu directly told him how to use it.
This thing itself is not difficult. After listening to it, Dashan got started easily without even trying.
I don’t know if his talent as a weapon master came into play there, but he broke his previous record on the spot with a wave of his hand.
Fortunately, no one noticed the distance he had just thrown. At the same time, they were not sure what kind of mountain he was doing, and they looked at him with a slightly uneasy expression.
Faced with this situation, Zhou Xu coughed twice and patted Dashan's shoulder appropriately.
"Considering that it is your first time to use it, it is not bad. Bring a few people from your team and practice more when you have time. This weapon will definitely come in handy in the future!"
"Don't worry, leader, I will lead everyone to practice hard!"
"Well, keep it this way, I'm optimistic about you!"
[Slip away...]
An update is sent, and thanks to the book friend 'The Dodo who is afraid of heights' for the reward~
(End of this chapter)