"The tribe has collected some sinews from beasts, but not many remain. We will use them to satisfy our hunger when we are hungry, and there are only a few left..."
Pihu didn't look embarrassed at all. Filling his stomach was the most important thing in the wilderness, and everything else was empty.
When famine comes, tribes will eat everything they can eat. Even in the earliest and worse times, when there was no human emperor to lead the human race, cannibalism would even occur.
Most of the time, they are vassals of some powerful races, following behind them and picking up some food scraps.
Not to mention being at the bottom of the food chain at that time, it was possible to become the blood food of other powerful races at any time.
It was an era of extreme fear and disgust, and it was also a tragedy for the human race, because the human race at that time was unable to capture prey.
Tang Xuanming asked for animal sinews, but after searching the entire tribe, he could only find three, and the others were all eaten.
The black scale horse captured before does have animal tendons, but it has not been processed yet and cannot be used now.
"These three are enough, it's just an experiment!"
Tang Xuanming waved his hand, indicating that there was no problem.
Tang Xuanming made the good wooden stick curved and tied the treated animal sinews to both ends of the wooden stick to form a weird half-moon shape. Pihu was very puzzled.
Tang Xuanming tried bending the bow, and the powerful rebound made him couldn't help but nod.
"What is this? A toy for those children? It takes so much effort!"
Pihu has always been eager to learn, and he can always inquire carefully about items he doesn't know or understand.
"This is not a toy."
Tang Xuanming fully drew the bow string, took out an arrow that had been prepared, put it on the bow, aimed at a big tree fifty feet away, and shot an arrow.
"this……"
Pihu's pupils shrank, and with his sharp eyes he could see a large transparent hole in the big tree fifty feet away.
Tang Xuanming was very satisfied with his expression. He stared at the big tree that he shot through and said calmly: "This is the best hunting tool."
At the same time, he also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. There is still a long way to go before the Mohist organ technique can take root here.
He had already tried to make a crossbow three days ago, but the lethality made him shake his head.
The lethality of crossbow arrows cannot be said to be insignificant. The Qin State swept the world, and crossbow arrows accounted for a very important proportion.
But here, every child is like Xiang Yu, not to mention the adult hunters, each of whom has a strength of more than ten thousand catties.
For them, the lethality of crossbow arrows is not as good as that of ancient spears thrown casually, and ordinary crossbow arrows cannot even break the defense of ferocious beasts.
Only primitive tools like bows and arrows, combined with their inhuman strength, can unleash unparalleled power.
"Can you give me a try?"
Pihu was very excited, and he was even more grateful for the decision to bring Tang Xuanming back to the tribe that day. With such a hunting tool, there was no need to take huge risks in many cases.
Sniping from a distance is much better than fighting at close range.
"promise!"
Tang Xuanming casually threw the huge bow in his hand to Pihu, and the rough man took it in a hurry.
Then he used extremely jerky movements to bend his bow and nock an arrow, aiming at a large tree about fifty feet away that was about the size of a man's arms, and shot out an arrow.
Well, the shot was cheating! The arrow didn’t even leave the string. This is not a bow with various sights and auxiliary equipment in later generations.
It was the most primitive and rough handmade arrow. There was no groove on the arrow to catch on the string, so the arrow just caused the bowstring to bounce heavily and hit Pihu's hand, making a snapping sound.
This rough man's face did not change at all, he just showed a look of doubt, and then he carefully asked Tang Xuanming for advice on bow bending and archery skills.
Tang Xuanming carefully explained some things that beginners need to pay attention to (in the world of Mingyue in the Qin Dynasty, bow and arrow was one of the subjects that the giants had to learn, and it would be a joke if the machine master could not use the machine he created), Pihu
Soon there were bows and arrows in a decent shape, aiming and shooting.
Shoot through a large tree seventy feet away that is as thick as a man's arms.
"awesome!"
Tang Xuanming was not stingy with his praise, but Pihu scratched his head in embarrassment, pointed at the big tree fifty feet away and said, "That's what I was aiming for."
Although he was a little embarrassed, there was undisguised joy on his face.
After trying several more times, the hunter, who was familiar with hunting, quickly mastered the art of archery. He held the big bow with joy on his face and refused to let go.
Tang Xuanming didn't bother to ask for it back, so he simply gave it to Pihu. It was just a shoddy product.
There is no tuning, no careful carving of the bow strings, and even the bows and arrows have not been strictly adjusted, and there is no unified style.
It is an original product from the exploration period. After seeing exquisite crossbows and neatly styled bows, items like this look like toys.
Although this toy was as powerful as a bed crossbow in the hands of primitive people, this could not hide its roughness.
After Tang Xuanming prepared to further fine-tune it, he made a standard style and handed it over to the hunters in the tribe. Among them, the technology transformed by the Pre-Qin Dynasty after decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years did not require them to understand too much. They only needed to copy the cat and paint the tiger.
That’s it.
Primitive tribes don’t need to understand too many things, they just need to implement them.
Do they need Tang Xuanming to teach them the principles of engineering?
Don't be ridiculous, even the heart, liver, spleen and lungs need Tang Xuanming to teach with great effort, and it is even harder to teach others.
The food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the road must be walked step by step. Nothing can be achieved in one step.
"Should we call them writing? There is no writing in the tribe. God knows how they succeeded in practicing the Ant King Method."
During these days of teaching, Tang Xuanming deeply realized the poverty and backwardness of the tribe. Apart from hunting, eating, and giving birth to babies, these people did not know how to do anything else.
Eating and giving birth are normal behaviors and don’t need to be explained.
A careful analysis of the tribe's behavior can be divided into hunting in progress and hunting preparation.
It can be said that these savages are either hunting or on the way to prepare for hunting.
The daily training is all about how to hunt. After completing the training, you can just go crazy in a group of naughty kids.
"Writing is not easy to teach. Judging from the spread of the Ant King's Law, the human race in this world should have a corresponding set of writing. It's just that people in this primitive tribe don't know how to record the Ant King's Law by rote memorization and passing it down from generation to generation.
Just come down!"
These days, Tang Xuanming has discovered that the children of those tribes have to memorize the Ant King's method by rote, and there are adult hunters who carefully teach them.
Their language is not standardized, but they all use common examples in the wilderness, and they often point to the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, etc. to introduce the operation process of the Ant King Method in detail, which is similar to the teachings of Tang Xuanming.
Although the learning efficiency is extremely low, it still takes a lot of time to stop the tribe!
I have been chanting the Ant King's method all day long, and no matter how stupid I am, I can still learn it.