Primitive Survival of Mercenaries

Chapter 14 Food is the Heaven

"Brother Xie Yi, you are so powerful, teach me." Last night's game watching completely overturned Kemu's cognition that one cannot hunt because of a thin body. He said this sentence from last night to now.

Xie Yi was annoyed by his reading, and asked: "How is the scimitar practice?"

Ke Mu made an animal skin scabbard for the scimitar, he pulled out the scimitar from it, turned his wrist in front of the wooden post, the scimitar came out smoothly, leaving a shallow mark on the wooden post, and then turned his wrist, turning the curved knife The knife was sheathed.

"How is it?" He blinked, looking like he was waiting for a compliment.

"Well, it's okay." Xie Yi was a little surprised.When he first made a scimitar for Ke Mu, he just wanted to find him a pastime. The kid is too weak and has a somewhat withdrawn personality. Carrying a scimitar can be used for self-defense to some extent, but if he really wants to learn how to behave, he will is not expected.

But now it seems that he has a good appearance. Although the kid Kemu is weak, he is better than talented.It's better to accept an apprentice.

"I'm going hunting today, Ke Mu will be with me." Xie Yi turned around and said to Ke Tu who had just returned from washing his face.

"Hunting? I'll go with you." Ketu said and went to get the stone spear that was put aside.

"You have an injury, let's see how the sweet potatoes are doing today." A patient must have the self-awareness of a patient.

"It's just a small injury..."

Xie Yi made a false pinching motion with his right hand in the air, successfully making Ke Tu swallow the rest of his words.

On the contrary, it was Kemu who followed Xie Yi to the entrance of the cave dilly-dally, and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the hunting clansmen were gone.

Xie Yi squinted at Dolu who was waiting not far away, and asked knowingly, "Why, don't you want to go with me?"

"No," Ke Mu jumped up and retorted, "I really want to go, but Brother Xie Yi, they have already left."

"Really?" Xie Yi waved, "Duolu, come here."

Dolu waited for Kemu outside the cave as agreed between the two, but he didn't want Xie Yi to be there, so he walked over with some hesitation.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Dolu looked at Kemu cautiously, "I... well, Ah Qing said they have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

"Huh?" Xie Yi raised his eyebrows.

"It's because I didn't want to go hunting, so I let Ah Qing and the others go first." Duolu immediately changed his words, his tone was still slow.

"Is that so?"

"En." Ke Mu nodded frantically at the side, lest Xie Yi would not believe it.

Of course Xie Yi didn't believe it. It was probably the first time that the honest boy Duolu had lied, his smiling face flushed red, and he couldn't help pulling the gray fur on the animal fur coat with his hands.It must be that Kemu didn't want to go out with the hunters, so he asked Dolu to follow.

But Xie Yi didn't bother to expose it, "Then where did you find the bamboo leaf you brought back these two days?" I don't know if the two children realized something, and the animal skin bag they brought back at night was stuffed in a mess. All kinds of things, there are fruits, leaves, roots...but some of them are really useful.

Seeing that Xie Yi didn't ask any more questions, Kemu immediately came back to life, "Here, brother Xie Yi, I will guide you."

Xie Yiyi was quite satisfied with the bamboo forest he saw. After seeing the Ketu cheetah, he wanted to make a portable long-distance weapon, and using bamboo to make a bow and arrow is the best choice. However, there is no such thing as hemp rope now. Things can be used as bow strings, but bows and arrows can only be said slowly, it is better to make a crossbow first.

Xie Yi beckoned and asked Ke Mu to bring over his scimitar, "The scimitar is not very powerful when it is used for chopping alone. It is better to assist the extremely fast speed. You are optimistic."

Xie Yi held a scimitar in his hand, sprinted out like an off-string arrow, swung his wrist at the bamboo in front of him, and then used his habitual j□j steps to avoid it.

The bamboo shook a few times in the air, and finally fell overwhelmed.

Xie Yi asked the two stunned children to come over, "When you shoot, you must be fast, and pay attention to the strength of your wrist, otherwise you will easily hurt yourself. Also, look at the fracture of the bamboo, what can you find?"

The two looked at it for a long time, and finally Kemu whispered, "This place seems to be thinner than other places."

"En, not bad." Xie Yi affirmed, "This place has been bitten by insects, and it is thinner than other places, so when cutting from here, the bamboo can be easily cut." He paused, "When fighting and hunting Also, it is most effective to strike back at a weak point."

The two seem to understand but don't understand, but Xie Yi doesn't intend to say too much, let them understand it by themselves.

Xie Yi first cut two bamboo arrows, found a wooden stick of moderate thickness and cut it into a groove-shaped arrow path for arrow clusters, and cut out a slot at the back of the arrow path to place a hook connected to the string. As a whole, he then selected more resilient bamboo segments to make a crossbow, and made strings from animal tendons.

He put down the bamboo arrow in the arrow path, hung the string on the hook, pulled the trigger, and the bamboo arrow flew out with a "swish" and pierced into a bamboo.He pulled out the arrow, checked the arrow hole in the bamboo, readjusted the animal's tendons, and fired again.

Xie was very satisfied with the result this time, and the bamboo arrows he fired almost pierced the bamboo.

"Brother Xie Yi, what is this?" Kemu and Duolu, who were practicing knives, had already rushed over when they heard the movement.

"Crossbow, this is an arrow." Xie Yi demonstrated the operation to them, then handed the crossbow to Kemu, "Take it and play."

Duolu didn't follow Kemu this time, but walked around Xie Yi's side, intervening from time to time to pass something.

"Thank you... brother."

"Huh?" Xie Yi glanced at the shy Dolu while tuning the bowstring.

"This... the crossbow, can you give it to me?"

"It's not impossible to give it to you." Xie Yi teased him, "Tell me why you don't go hunting with Ah Qing."

Duolu looked at the crossbow, then turned to look at Kemu who was having fun, hesitating for a while, "I don't want to go hunting, so ask Kemu to come out with me to find something."

"It's Kemu who doesn't want to go." Xie handed the bowstring crossbow to Dolu.

Dolu took the crossbow and did not leave, "No, no... yes." But his voice became smaller and smaller.

"Don't worry, I won't tell Ketu." Xie Yi waved his hand and let him play by himself.

When Xie Yi went back, he also brought a crossbow to Ke Tu, which was specially found for arrows made of hard-to-deform acacia wood. Ke Tu, who hadn't gone hunting for a few days, had an itchy forehand, so he couldn't put it down after picking it up.

"The sweet potato slices you mentioned, Guoli and the others have already cut them and dried them by the fire." Ketu tried his hand and "reported to work".

"Well, after the sweet potato slices are dry, let them grind them into powder on a stone mill." Xie Yi was still thinking about the bows and arrows that could not be finished, "Last time you said that the cloth for binding wounds was seen in other tribes, can we Want some more?"

"Not now, there is too little food, no one wants to change those things."

"That is to say, if there is food, you can exchange it." Xie Yi muttered to himself, "The food in winter should be able to exchange more cloth than usual."

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, how does this crossbow work?"

"It's so easy to use. I've never seen something made of bamboo that can penetrate wood." Speaking of weapons, Ketu immediately became excited. "You make more and give them to Ah Qing. Hunting will be easier in the future."