Chapter 43 An unexpected surprise
At dinner time, with the tribe’s population doubling and some personnel transfers, under normal circumstances, they would definitely be better at food at this time. Encountered some difficulties.
But Zhou Xu’s current situation is not normal.
Don’t forget that they just killed a spider monster a few days ago. As of today, the spider legs are still left, plus the fish caught by the Black Moon tribe in the whole day.
It is easy to do just to make everyone stutter.
But this kind of life cannot last forever.
After all, the spider monster only has eight legs...
Once the spider legs are eaten, they will definitely feel pressured by food.
To solve the food pressure, according to Zhou Xu at this time, the most direct and effective way is to upgrade the fishing nets and improve fishing efficiency.
In fact, he had already taught the tribe members here to start upgrading the fishing nets the morning after he arrived at Black Moon Camp.
But after all, this is a time-consuming and laborious task, and it is too difficult to complete it in a short time.
Under this premise, the arrival of Zhuang Mengdie and the others can be said to have brought a huge improvement to the workforce in Black Moon Camp.
But Zhou Xu had no intention of letting Zhuang Mengdie and the others help weave fishing nets.
The reason is simple, because when he inspected the surrounding environment today, he discovered a hare.
This made Zhou Xu quickly weigh in his mind.
Needless to say, this idea of hare breeding, from his point of view, it is definitely better to catch it as early as possible.
Based on this premise, the fishing net upgrade efficiency cannot be improved. Although it will affect the food distribution after the tribe's population increases, the broken fishing nets made by the former leader are still there.
The people in Black Moon Camp have survived on these broken fishing nets, and they can actually make do with it now.
At most, the food distribution will be slightly reduced in stages due to the increase in population, but it will definitely not starve them to death.
Zhuang Mengdie’s manual efficiency, even compared with the veterans from their Salt Lake Camp, is absolutely efficient. As for the novices like Black Moon Camp, they are even surpassed by her. .
From the time he arrived here in the afternoon, after receiving Zhou Xu's order, to catching up on some work before going to bed, Zhuang Mengdie had already knitted three baskets that fit the size of a hare.
This also has to be taken into account that she spent a lot of time teaching three newcomers.
Anyway, the matter of setting traps to catch hares can be officially implemented tomorrow.
Zhou Xu got up early the next day, and after handing over the job of muddying the stove to a veteran transferred from the Salt Lake Camp, he happily put on the trap and rushed towards the place. Gone to the rabbit hole on the other side.
Their arrival will inevitably disturb the rabbits hiding around.
This was confirmed when Zhou Xu activated the 'Eye of Insight' to quickly locate the rabbit hole.
Because of their arrival, several rabbits fled back to their holes in panic.
But it doesn’t matter, this is something that is simply unavoidable.
Ignoring this question, Zhou Xu, who locked the location of the rabbit hole, walked forward directly and began to deploy their rabbit trap. While taking out the tools, he explained to the members of the hunting team beside him.
“Unlike when catching mice, for these hares, we actually don’t have good bait to lure them into the trap. But unlike mice, depending on the size of the rabbit, it can usually hit it by itself. The branches that support the trap are turned upside down.”
While talking, Zhou Xu began to deploy traps around the rabbit hole.
"So our strategy for deploying traps must also be changed. For this hare, our traps must be based on quantity." At this point, Zhou Xu had already moved neatly around the rabbit hole, setting up Three basket traps were built.
Make sure that as long as this rabbit comes out of this rabbit hole, or when it goes back to the rabbit hole, there will definitely be a high probability of touching one of their traps.
Of course, it is not ruled out that they may escape from other connected holes.
With enough basket traps, they can completely surround every rabbit hole around them with traps.
But now that the traps are limited, you have to gamble a little bit on your luck.
"You stare here."
Assigning one person to stare at this rabbit hole, Zhou Xu took the remaining traps and walked towards another rabbit hole.
He was indeed very interested in catching hares.
However, as a tribal leader, there are many things waiting for him to do. Now, of course, he cannot waste a lot of time squatting on a prey.
So according to his original plan, after teaching the tribe members to set up the trap, he would take the first step himself.
I never thought that the trap had just been deployed here when the slightly excited shouts of the tribe members came from the other side...
"Caught, caught!"
All this happened so suddenly, not to mention Zhou Xu who was about to take the first step, even if he witnessed the hare sneaking out of the rabbit hole and knocking down the supporting branches, The tribe member who was covered by the basket couldn't believe his eyes!
After being covered by the basket, the panicked hare's athletic ability was undoubtedly much stronger than that of the mouse. With a sudden jump, the basket was almost overturned by it.
Fortunately, at this stage, the members of their tribe’s hunting team were quite experienced. They rushed forward and grabbed the basket, completely killing the hare’s hope of escaping.
In just a short time, he successfully caught a hare. It really brought some unexpected joy to Zhou Xu, and it also gave a good start to the new day.
Caught the hare out of the cover, controlled his hand that almost broke the opponent's neck habitually, and on the way back, Zhou Xu had a hare in his hand, and his whole state was also happy. Very loud.
As the leader of the tribe, his existence is undoubtedly the focus of attention of the tribe members.
Basically as soon as I came back, they noticed it.
No one expected that as soon as their leader went out with his front legs, he came back with a hare on his back legs.
Especially the original members of the Black Moon Camp.
You must know that their previous leaders, including themselves, were helpless against these wild animals on the grassland.
At this moment, I was filled with admiration for their new leader.
On the contrary, the members of the Salt Lake Tribe were much calmer.
After all, in their opinion, this is already the basic operation of their leader.
Originally, Zhou Xu wanted to wait until he returned to the camp before starting to make the rabbit cage. Unexpectedly, he brought a rabbit back from the scene.
There is no cage suitable for it at the moment, so I have no choice but to use a basket to cover the hare inside, and then put a stone on top to prevent the basket from being pushed open by it.
After that, Zhou Xu seized the time and started building a rabbit cage with all his strength.
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