There are many savages in the cave who are curled up and sleeping in their nests.
He opened his eyes drowsily and saw the savage girl squatting next to his straw nest with an excited face.
"What's the matter..."
Xu Chen quickly sat up and while speaking, he realized that the savage could not understand either and could only look at the girl with a confused face.
"Chen Ga~"
The girl pulled him hard.
Xu Chen had no choice but to reluctantly get up from his hut, then glanced down, and in embarrassment quickly pulled down the black and dirty fur skirt a few times to cover something that was at stake, and then
Staggering and limping, he followed the girl out of the cave.
At this time, the morning light appeared slightly on the horizon, the morning birds were jumping for joy, and the surroundings of the cave were full of life.
A female bus wearing feathers on her head and a group of women were chatting lively near the fire pit.
Seeing Xu Chen coming out, the mother came forward excitedly with a long bark rope in her hand.
“&*#@……”
Xu Chen was confused.
"Chen Ga..."
The girl excitedly shook his arm and pulled him to the writing position, pointing to the string character he wrote yesterday.
This hieroglyph is two s's intertwined, one positive and one negative. It looks like the structural state of a rope. Therefore, according to the intelligence of primitive people, it is easy to identify that what he drew should be a rope.
As for the crescent moon at the back, you should be able to recognize it.
During the exciting introduction of the girl's drawings, Muba became more and more excited. She turned around and picked up a few tree barks from the ground and handed them to Xu Chen.
Xu Chen had no choice but to nod helplessly and began to demonstrate how to tear the bark into thin strips. The girl helped him while a group of women gathered around to watch carefully.
Soon Xu Chen rolled the torn filaments into long bundles, and then twisted them together with his hands to form a rope.
"Shengga, Shengga!"
A group of women, big and small, suddenly exclaimed.
The bustle outside the cave also woke up a group of men and children sleeping inside the cave. One after another, some people came out yawning and rubbing their eyes. When they saw so many people gathered around, they didn't know what they were doing, so they all gathered around to watch curiously. Waiting
Seeing clearly the rope twisted in Xu Chen's hand, each one screamed as if they were seeing ghosts.
For a moment, hundreds of birds flew away in front of the cave halfway up the mountain, and even caused the roar of wild beasts in the mountains in the distance.
More than ten minutes later, Xu Chen had already twisted out a half-meter-long bark rope. At this time, the entire tribe gathered around to watch. Everyone was surprised and excited, especially the look in Xu Chen's eyes, which was obviously different from yesterday.
Different, all with a sense of awe.
Although they are primitive people and are still in a semi-savage state, they are already standard intelligent humans and have an unusual passion for creation.
Ever since ancient humans learned to use stones to make sharp stone axes, humans have embarked on the path of civilized evolution from the state of beasts.
But they were stagnant for millions of years during the Stone Age.
In these millions of years, there has been almost no progress, and development has been extremely slow. The biggest obstacle is that we have not created enough tools and learned to grow livestock to improve our living conditions.
Once new tools and ways of survival appear, human civilization will evolve by leaps and bounds.
For example, the ancient Three Emperors of Chinese legend.
Suiren invented the method of drilling wood to make fire, which changed the human use of fire from a natural random state to a normal state, and the diet structure began to undergo tremendous changes.
In addition, Shennong identified grains and various plants and led mankind into agricultural civilization.
Farming and animal husbandry can be regarded as the watershed between ancient and modern human civilization.
After this step, we entered the Neolithic Age of slash-and-burn cultivation.
The geology major and the archeology major are inseparable.
Although Xu Chen studied mineral geology, he is still very clear about the connection between the age of strata and the evolution of human civilization.
Knotting to record events can be regarded as the greatest invention before the birth of writing.
At present, Xu Chen's primitive tribe has not yet invented rope, and they still eat raw meat and drink raw blood. This shows that the current civilization has not yet entered the Neolithic civilization.
But after all, human beings have accumulated millions of years of experience from ancient times to the present, and are very familiar with the natural environment. With the guidance of a wise man, they can easily overcome this hurdle.
At least based on just one day of getting along, this tribe is no longer much different from the primitive African tribes in the past. The only difference is an opportunity for evolution.
But today, Xu Chen twisted out a rope, and the tribe suddenly came to life.
This group of primitive people who already had the ability to communicate through language could easily understand the benefits of things like ropes.
After all, bundling items is the most common behavior in life, including the fur around everyone’s waist, which is still bundled with straw vines.
Xu Chen was twisting the rope, and the girl was helping to tear the bark off the tree. The mother and a group of women looked at it and also helped, finding more bark to help tear it into thin strips.
After Xu Chen finished rubbing more than one meter long in one breath and shook his hands to rest, he looked at the pile of bark piled in front of him, his eyes darkened and he almost hit the ground.
He couldn't finish rubbing such a big pile in one day.
Even after rubbing, it is estimated that these rough hands will wear off a layer of calluses, and then thicker calluses will grow.
I don't even have a beard on my body, so I guess I'm only twelve or thirteen years old.
How can you secretly be happy in the middle of the night with a pair of calloused hands?
Thinking about Xu Chen, he suddenly felt the urge to urinate. He quickly dropped the rope and stood up, limping straight to the small woods on the side of the cave.
"Chen Ga..."
The girl caught up nervously.
"Don't follow me, I have to pee!"
Xu Chen dove into the woods, lifted up her fur skirt and started shushing. Amidst the sound of running water, a burst of laughter came from behind.
After a full two minutes, Xu Chen came out of the woods waving his hands refreshed.
At this time, the sun had already jumped over the mountains in the east. The sky was clear and clear, fresh and clear, and it looked like another good weather that I had never seen before.
A group of men gathered around where Xu Chen was twisting the rope to study, while a group of women dispersed and began to work on making breakfast.
Fang Yun went to the water spring to wash his face and hands. When he saw the dark face of a charcoal burner in the puddle, he was stunned for a long time. He shivered and drank a few sips of cold water to calm down his shock, then limped away.
Go to a group of men.
"Chenga!"
A group of men were as respectful and enthusiastic as welcoming a returning king.
A bunch of guys who just follow the wind and laugh at me last night.
Xu Chen curled his lips in disdain, then sat down and continued to rub the rope, while a group of wild men squatted or stood in a circle, looking at each one without blinking.
As the sun gradually rose, the smell of barbecued food slowly spread from the front of the cave.
Xu Chen's belly started rumbling and he kept rubbing it for more than two meters. When the mother's mother began to call for the banquet to begin, she quickly threw away the rope and ran straight to the fire pit.
Soon, dozens of savages, men, women, old and young gathered around, and a group of women began to distribute food, but the first one was placed in Xu Chen's hand, and it was a hot piece of barbecue, which was obviously much more exquisite than the one he roasted yesterday.
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And all the savages seemed to think that this should be the case, and responded to Xu Chen with a respectful and warm smile.
It seems that being a skilled worker is very popular.
Xu Chen felt at ease and found a stone to sit down on and started eating.
A group of men gathered around him, chatting and communicating while eating, and he suddenly felt like he was seeing stars holding the moon.
After breakfast, the tribesmen went out hunting and gathering one after another under the arrangement of Mother Ba. Xu Chen could not go down the mountain because of inconvenient legs and feet, so he could only continue to transform into the Rubbing Clan. Mother Ba also arranged for a few frail men and women to help with the gathering.
Bark followed and learned to twist the rope.
This kind of bark is found near the cave. It is very strong, but the fiber is relatively thick, so it is not a big problem to twist the rope, but Xu Chen actually thinks more about weaving.
In the past, when Xu Chen saw a woman without clothes on the street, no matter how beautiful or ugly she was, she would definitely stare at them intently.
But in front of him was a large group of naked women, but he was not interested at all. He only felt embarrassed. They were all dark and slouched around with two eggplants. After seeing too many of them, he felt bad about his whole body.
He decided to be a leader of civilization and lead this group of primitive savages onto the path of development with ample food and clothing.
At the moment, he can't afford enough food, but it doesn't seem difficult to get enough clothes.
And I don’t know if this damn place gets cold in winter. If I run around naked in vacuum fur even in the middle of winter, I’m afraid there will be indescribable sequelae from the cold.
However, given the current conditions, it is not easy to advance from the Rubbing Clan to the Weaver Clan. First, you need to find a plant similar to hemp.
So in the morning, after Xu Chen taught several men and women how to twist ropes, he used a wooden stick as a walking stick and decided to wander around the cave to see if he could find a material suitable for spinning and weaving.
The savage girl almost became his royal follower, following him step by step, and there were also several bare-butt little savages running around him, cheering and swarming.
It should be safer near the cave. In addition to a rugged path down the mountain, the woods are also relatively open. In many places, thorns have been cleared. In some open spaces and slopes, stones are even used to form terraces, with some species growing inside.
There were fruit trees or plants that I didn’t recognize at all. Some fruit trees still had green and red fruits hanging on them.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Xu Chen began to overturn his previous thoughts and judgments.
It’s not that these savages don’t know how to plant, but they have learned planting techniques, but they are still very primitive. They just transplanted some edible plants according to local conditions, and have not evolved to a state of conscious large-scale sowing and cultivation.
This is on the mountainside, and the trees are very tall. It takes several people to hug any tree. Even on the edge of the cliff not far from the bottom of the cave, you can see a large tree with a trunk diameter of at least five meters.
, rooted in the cracks in the rocks, the branches are as jagged as a dragon, the bark is cracked and covered with thick moss, growing slantingly on the cliff, with thick vines wrapped around it, hanging down like a python, and densely packed on top.
It is covered with bunches of green fruits.
"Valley... Valley..."
A group of children swarmed happily up the sloping tree trunk. The speed was very fast. In the blink of an eye, some people climbed to a height of seven or eight meters. If they went further out, they would accidentally fall to the bottom of the cliff. Xu Chen was so scared that he looked at it.
Cold sweat.
However, a group of children seemed to be very measured. They basically stopped when they climbed to this height, and then climbed on an ancient vine that was thicker than their own waists and shook vigorously. As a result, there was no movement at all like earthworms shaking a big tree.
This fruit seems to be the one the girl gave me last night, and it tastes very good.
But unfortunately, the tree is too tall, too big and too dangerous. It is difficult to climb up. If you are not careful, you will fall to the bottom of the cliff, and your bones may not be found.