In the early morning of this morning, after a simple breakfast, a group of men packed up their backpacks and ropes, took their spears, stone axes, wooden sticks and bone sticks, and prepared to go down the mountain to hunt in the wild.
Xu Chen put on his rattan armor in the grove, carried a quiver, a long bow, and a specially woven small backpack on his back. There was also a bone dagger tied with a leather sheath and a leather rope around his waist, which was a mess.
His hair was tied back with a string, and he appeared in front of a group of people, fully armed and energetic.
Looking at Xu Chen's outfit, all the clan members were shocked.
"Chen Ga, @#￥..."
A group of wild men surrounded him excitedly, stroking the rattan armor, quiver and long bow, obviously very surprised.
"Bow!" Xu Chen raised the wooden bow in his hand.
"Bow?" A group of wild men looked confused.
"Ye Ga, target!"
Xu Chen turned around and ordered in high spirits. Ye very excitedly ran to the woods and carried out a straw man tied with branches and weeds and vines, and inserted it into the open space in front of the cave.
Looking at this strange thing, a group of savages became even more confused.
Xu Chen signaled the crowd to disperse, then pulled out an arrow from the quiver with his backhand, put it on the bowstring, took a deep breath, raised it and pulled it away, and let go after a moment.
"Whoosh~"
Amid everyone's exclamations, the arrow cut through the bright morning sunlight and stabbed firmly into the straw man's belly.
"grass"
Xu Chen wiped his forehead indiscriminately.
The original target was the head, but I didn't expect it to sag so much, even worse than the breasts of a primitive woman.
"Ouch~~"
After a brief silence, a group of savages collectively howled and rushed toward the straw man. Looking at the arrows with tail feathers still trembling violently, it was as if they had seen the most novel and terrifying thing, and they let out various strange screams one after another.
A group of children also jumped and screamed excitedly, and the scene was filled with excitement and mania.
Xu Chen strode up, reached out and pulled out the arrow from the straw man, and handed it to the strongest leader.
This guy’s name is Feng, pronounced like that, but I don’t know if it was because it was windy when he was born. However, he is missing a front tooth and his speech is a bit leaky. Therefore, his speech is slightly different from other people’s speech, and he can’t hear clearly.
Feng took the arrow with trembling hands and his eyes widened.
He was completely stunned by this special weapon with a strange style.
There is a sharp animal tooth in the front, a smooth and straight wooden pole in the middle, and two feathers wrapped around the tail.
In all his life, he has never seen such intricately crafted items.
Most importantly, this is a weapon that is obviously very lethal.
Although Xu Chen was just demonstrating, and the shooting target was only a dozen steps away, the power was obvious. He saw the birth of an extremely convenient and powerful attack weapon.
The same was true for the others, who squeezed in from all around to watch, and their excitement was completely uncontrollable.
They have been practicing sticks and spears with adults since they were seven or eight years old, and they have to go down the mountains to hunt when they are eleven or twelve years old. They have encountered all kinds of wild beasts and dangerous situations, and life and death are also commonplace.
The larger the prey, the more dangerous it is. Even if it is a herbivore, once it is injured and struggling, if you accidentally get too close and get kicked or hit by a horn, the person will basically be disabled. Good luck to survive, bad luck.
He will die on the spot.
The best way to hunt is through long-range attacks. Currently, the only options are throwing stones and spears.
Stones are easy to find, but their attack accuracy and power are insufficient. Basically, they can only be used as an auxiliary to intimidate prey, and are useless.
Although throwing spears are very lethal, good spears are difficult to make and very inconvenient to carry. Often, several or even more than ten spears are lost in one hunting, and there is no guarantee that they can kill prey, such as some large beasts.
If you don't hit the vital point, you won't be able to kill him.
In addition, throwing a spear accurately requires repeated practice and great arm strength. If you want to throw a spear from a long distance and hit the prey, you need a lot of strength and superb technique.
There are only a few people in the entire group who have this kind of long-range throwing hunting skills. There are less than five people, and the rest can only cooperate with each other.
The bow and arrow invented by Xu Chen seems to be very simple and easy to use, and it is also very accurate and does not seem to require much strength.
After all, Xu Chen is not yet fully grown up, and his arm strength is considered the weakest among the group.
But it was this weakness that allowed them to see the power of this weapon.
"Chen Ga..."
Feng held the arrow and drooled while looking straight at the long bow in Xu Chen's hand.
"Try it!"
Xu Chen readily handed the bow to Feng's hand, and then signaled everyone to step back from the target position.
Then a group of primitive people dispersed with excited cheers.
Xu Chen led Feng to the position where he was standing, and personally demonstrated the process and basic essentials of archery. After Feng nodded vigorously to show that he had learned it, he handed the bow and arrow to him again, indicating that he could start.
So Feng's hands and feet trembled with excitement. After taking a deep breath, he imitated Xu Chen's way of nocking an arrow and drawing a bow. He felt that he was aiming and then let go.
With a "swish" sound, the arrow came out of the string. Under the gaze of more than a dozen pairs of eyes, it flew half a meter away from the side of the straw man and fell directly into the woods far away.
"Ouch~"
A group of savages collectively exclaimed.
Although the wind missed, the arrow flew out of sight, which made them even more excited and excited.
Don't be afraid if you miss the target, it's really powerful if you shoot far.
This weapon is thin and long, with sharp teeth on the front, which will cause damage to the prey as long as it is shot. Although it is not as powerful as a spear, it is not the same in terms of use and convenience of carrying.
Because there are more than a dozen of these arrows in Xu Chen's quiver. If he makes enough, it's not a problem for one person to carry dozens of them.
There are more than ten adult men in the tribe. If each man made a bow and carried dozens of arrows, the attack power would be terrifying.
Although these people are primitive, they are definitely not fools.
Years of hunting experience made them all drool over bows and arrows in an instant. Some looked at the bow in Feng's hand eagerly, while others ran to the woods looking for arrows.
When the arrow was not enough, Xu Chen took out another arrow and handed it to Feng's hand.
As the most powerful hunter in the group, I was very ashamed of my first mistake in shooting. This time I was more serious and cautious. I took a deep breath with my bow and arrow ready, then took aim and let go.
"Whoosh~"
This time the arrow was stably inserted into the straw man's body. Although it was only at the shoulder, it was obvious that he had basically mastered the essentials of archery.
Soon Feng shot a third arrow, and this time it still hit the target, and it was even closer to the center.
"Yo ho ho ho~"
The wind excitedly raised its bow and jumped and screamed, like a crazy beast.
"Okay, it's getting late, it's time to set off!"
Xu Chen felt ashamed and decided to blow out the lamp and pull out the wax, not giving this leaky guy a chance to show off.
After all, archery is still a physical activity.
With the same bow, Xu Chen could only pull it open three or four times before his arms became weak. Therefore, every time he shot an arrow, in order to save energy, he would always pull it open and then take aim briefly before letting go. In addition, because of his thin body and lack of arm strength, the result was
The bow and arrow are not stable and will tremble and shake, making it difficult for the arrow to shoot accurately.
But the wind is completely different. In addition to being very unfamiliar, he is extremely strong and can pull this bow easily. He also hunts and throws spears all the year round. He has great strength, stability and stability. As long as he masters the essentials of archery, it will be easy to shoot arrows.
Hit the target.
The most important thing is that the target distance is very close, more than ten meters is far from being comparable to the distance of throwing a spear.
Therefore, hitting the target at such a distance puts no pressure on him.
Seeing Xu Chen asking for the bow and arrows to go back, Feng felt very regretful. He held on to the bow and refused to let go, but in the end he had to let go due to Xu Chen's firm pull.
The group of men also understood what Xu Chen meant, sighed in unison with disappointment, and then began to carry rattan baskets and weapons in preparation for departure.
The sun was already very high at this time, and except for a group of men, the mother bus had already taken the women down the mountain to collect, so it didn't cause much of a sensation.
However, Ye and a group of children were reluctant to leave. They followed Xu Chen and wanted to go down the mountain, but were scolded and driven back by a group of men.
"Chenga!"
Seeing that the team had entered the woods, Ye caught up from behind and thrust something wrapped in leaves into Xu Chen's hands.
Xu Chen opened it and saw a few milk fruits and a group of roasted grain balls inside.
"Ah Qi!" Ye secretly made a gesture of eating.
Xu Chen was suddenly moved. He reached out and touched Ye's dirty hair and said thank you. He rewrapped the leaves and put them into his backpack before striding to follow the team.
Soon, accompanied by roars of bang, bang, bang, bang, a group of people disappeared along the rugged mountain road on the way down the mountain.
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In the blink of an eye, it has been almost half a month since Xu Chen traveled through time.
He had almost figured out the environment near the cave, but the foot of the mountain was still very unfamiliar to him.
According to his daily observations and understanding of this group of primitive people, their activity range is actually quite large. The area near the mountain and the river beach below the mountain are almost their territory.
Even based on some simple exchanges on weekdays, they actually had occasional exchanges and contacts with several nearby tribes, but it was not very frequent.
He could roughly guess the reason for the lack of communication, that is, there was not much need.
Because each territory has sufficient food, except for hunting and gathering, there is nothing that can be traded, so they live in peace with each other.
In this era, most of the interactions between tribes were marriages.
But the married man throws away the water.
In this tribal era where women are in leadership positions, married men do not need to go back to their parents' homes to visit relatives. At most, they occasionally meet each other when hunting at the junction of territories and simply exchange feelings.
However, most of these exchanges are not pleasant. You can clearly see the disdainful or even angry tone and expression when they communicate on weekdays.
And what they often talk about the most is a tribe called Wu.
It should be the most powerful tribe nearby, and every time they talk about it, most men feel indignant.
Because he didn't understand much and the language was simple, Xu Chen could only understand so much.
But for him right now, it is very important for Xu Chen to understand the environment and conditions of the tribe's survival as soon as possible, as well as the situation of the surrounding strange tribes, for Xu Chen's next plan.
If human civilization is to progress, this tribal system of family units must be broken. Only by gathering the power of more people can we conquer the wild nature and control our own destiny.
Otherwise, once a crisis occurs in a small tribe of dozens of people, it may be wiped out overnight.
But you still have to eat the food one bite at a time.
It is too early to contact other tribes at the moment. He still needs some time to accumulate strength and arm this tribe so that it has the ability to conquer other tribes and open up a larger living space.
His purpose of going down the mountain today was not hunting.
He doesn't have much interest in hunting. It would be great if he could shoot a rabbit, but if not, it would be good to pick up some useful flowers and plants to take back.
Therefore, he followed a group of men and looked around to observe the environment on the way down the mountain. When he saw some strange plants, he would ask a few questions. When he encountered plants or medicinal materials that looked familiar, he would also stop and observe.
A group of men were not in a hurry, chatting and laughing loudly all the way. In this way, the group of people almost played for more than half an hour, and slowly arrived at the foot of the mountain.