Chapter 84 Verifying the Guess
Following Zhou Xu’s instructions before departure, the current development of the third camp is centered around the camp, and there is no intention to explore further.
However, vigilance work still needs to be done well.
In this way, Ye Jinghong arranged Zhou Zhongshan to the mound outside.
At that time, Zhou Xu chose to build a camp here largely because of the existence of this mound.
In Zhou Xu's opinion, this mound is a natural sentry tower. It doesn't even need to be modified. As long as someone is placed on it, it can play the role of a sentry tower.
And now, Zhou Chongshan was assigned to the top by Ye Jinghong.
It has to be said that now that there is someone dedicated to guarding and ensuring the safety around the camp, everyone will feel more at ease when working.
The current main focus is still on fishing. After all, in this era, food and safety are the two basic guarantees. Only when these two are guaranteed can they have spare energy to do other things.
The river is quite wide, and the depth in the center of the river is probably deep enough. At the same time, there is another place that the fishermen in the tribe are not used to.
That is, the water in the river is flowing! This is completely different from the lake.
For fishermen who are used to fishing on the lake, the fishing environment is suddenly changed to a flowing river, and they are really not used to it.
During this period, a fisherman suggested...
"It would be much more convenient if there was a raft."
The width of the river, Zhou Xu visually estimated at that time, was three or four times. Ten meters, the raft can travel on it without any pressure.
However, making a raft also requires a lot of wood. The amount of wood here in the Prairie Camp is relatively limited. If you want to make a big thing like a raft, you have to wait for the wood to be sent from the Black Moon Camp.
In fact, Zhou Xu is also quite urgent about the manufacture of rafts in the grassland camp.
It’s not just for fishing, but if you encounter those centaurs, they have four legs and have bows and arrows. If they really can’t run away, they can just jump onto the raft and take the waterway to get rid of them.
Of course, Juma also needs it. It will take time for you to escape to the raft and then leave on the raft, right? Deploying anti-horses outside the camp can buy them time at critical moments.
After all, having seen the strength of those centaurs, Zhou Xu had to think more about life-related safety issues.
Zhou Xu stayed at the Black Moon Camp for five days, and then rushed to the grassland camp with two carts full of wood.
The weight of these two carts of wood can be said to completely exceed the sum of the various materials they carried on their backs at that time, but in this case, their moving efficiency has improved.
Zhou Xu had people take turns pushing and pulling the cart along the way. After being familiar with the moving route, it only took him a day and a half to successfully reach their grassland camp.
The tribe members who were busy working in the camp knew they were coming and quickly came out to help unload the goods.
During this period of time, the coachmen naturally took the time to rest, and a fire was specially made for them to cook in the camp. Each coachman could enjoy a whole grilled fish to himself.
But on the other hand, after eating, they had to set off immediately and return to the Black Moon Camp.
These two carts of wood, even if they are fully loaded, are not enough for the grassland camp.
So in the next few days, they may have to frantically travel back and forth between the two camps to deliver wood to the grassland camp.
Even in this primitive era when everyone is a workaholic in order to survive, the workload is huge.
During this period, Zhou Xu, who returned to the grassland camp, naturally asked Ye Jinghong and Zhou Chongshan about the situation.
Ye Jinghong reported the situation inside the camp very neatly and everything was normal.
"Where are those centaurs? Have they appeared nearby recently?"
Faced with this question, Ye Jinghong looked at Zhou Chongshan and motioned for him to report.
After all, during this time, the person responsible for standing guard was Zhou Chongshan.
Zhou Chongshan was not ambiguous about this, and immediately said... "The group of centaurs did not appear nearby."
"The group of antelopes didn't show up either, right?"
No matter what the group of herbivores were originally called, from the moment he saw them, they were called 'antelopes' .
“Yes!”
After getting this answer, Zhou Xu suddenly understood.
【As expected. 】
For any living thing, the basic condition for survival is food.
Just like when they are looking for a camp, they will also check whether there is food around them, and the centaurs, who are also creatures, do the same.
Based on this premise, judging from the situation at the time, the group of antelopes was clearly the main hunting target of the centaurs.
In other words, wherever the antelope herd runs, those centaurs will chase them.
The time in a day is limited. Faced with the herd of antelopes that are always moving, even those centaurs probably don’t have much free time to wander around.
Following this line of reasoning, they only need to avoid areas where wild antelope groups appear, and they can successfully avoid the group of centaurs.
Now it turns out that his idea was not wrong.
At this stage, their tribe does not need to make a living by hunting the group of antelopes. There is no need to expose themselves to the sight of the group of centaurs whose details are not yet clear for this purpose. The risk is high. Too high.
However, you still have to take precautions.
The two carts of lumber sent from Black Moon Camp were not assembled.
If it is assembled into a raft or transported by horse, it will take up too much space and will reduce the transportation efficiency.
Anyway, the assembly itself is not difficult. After comprehensive consideration, it is the wisest way to have the Black Moon Camp directly transport the processed wood.
The wood sent this time is divided into two types. One is sharpened at one end. This kind of wood is used to make horses.
The other type is simply polished log pillars, used to make rafts.
A cart of each type of wood was brought over. At this moment, Zhou Xu had already begun to organize the tribe members to get busy.
The production of the raft and the horse began directly and simultaneously.
During this period, Zhou Xu’s main energy was still on Juma’s side.
After all, they have already made several rafts at the Black Moon Camp, and most of the tribe's fishermen have already mastered some of the techniques.
The most he can do is wait for them to finish and then check it out.
But this is their first time to do this thing of rejecting horses. If Zhou Xu doesn't care about it, they may not be able to build it on their own.
But after Zhou Xu joined, this matter became easier.
Now that the wood has been polished, they only need to follow Zhou Xu's instructions and use bark ropes to tie the wood and fix it.
The production of Juma still requires a lot of wood, and one cart of wood is enough to make one.
As for the location, there is not much emphasis on it.
The current defensive deployment of their camp was, to put it bluntly, leaking from all directions, and there were problems everywhere. As long as there was only one horse to resist, it would basically be the same everywhere.
(End of this chapter)