Chapter 6 Making a Longbow
But Zhu Xingxing is not Guan Gong who scrapes bones to heal his wounds, if she cuts her flesh like this, I'm afraid she will die of pain.
Just when Duan Mo was embarrassed, his eyes suddenly saw a shrub not far away. There are some raspberry-like black berries growing in the bushes.
Duan Mo slapped his head and scolded, "Why did you forget this good thing?"
He didn't know what the black berry was, but he knew it - it had a slight anesthetic effect and promoted wound healing. Duan Mo once ate several black berries under hunger, but as a result, sleepiness hit and he slept directly for a whole day.
With this kind of thing, Zhu Xingxing's injury can definitely be cured. It's just that this berry seems to be relatively rare, and if it is used to heal wounds, it obviously requires a lot of black berries.
What's more, after activating the Ark system before, Duan Mo's mind already had a method for making anesthetics! Just by placing the rotten pieces of meat and black berries in the grinder and grinding them into a paste, it would have a good anesthetic effect. Rotting pieces of meat are not hard to find, and animal carcasses can often be found in the jungle, and although most of the meat has been eaten by wild animals, there are still some left.
Duan Mo thought for a moment, and decided to collect the wood he cut down yesterday first, and then look for berries for Zhu Xingxing - after healing Zhu Xingxing's injury, she would not be a burden, and with her help, the efficiency of building a camp would be much faster.
After making up his mind, Duan Mo shook Zhu Xingxing awake, and after briefly explaining his plan to her, Zhu Xingxing also seemed quite happy - obviously she had been suffering from pain for the past two days.
The two hit it off, and Duan Mo immediately dragged the wood in the distant woods one by one, and Zhu Xingxing was not idle—she actually used the fibers on the stems and leaves of those ferns to weave a coarse linen dress for Duan Mo.
Zhu Xingxing's craftsmanship is not exquisite, and the clothes woven are also very rough, if you don't look closely, it looks like a straw mat. Despite this, Duan Mo was still very happy - all along, he had relied on a few leaves to hide his shame, and his skin was exposed all year round, often cut by branches and blades of grass. Nowadays, there are clothes, although simple, but they can also play a little protective role.
"It seems that this little girl is not completely burdensome...... Duan Mo muttered silently in his heart, "Maybe she and I can become Adam and Eve on this desert island......?" You shouldn't refuse me, right?"
But soon Duan Mo abandoned this outrageous idea - after all, it was unknown whether he and Zhu Xingxing could survive. So after stacking the trees neatly, he didn't talk nonsense, and plunged headlong into the boundless primeval forest.
As soon as he stepped into the dense forest, Duan Mo felt uncomfortable all over. The vegetation here is so dense that even sunlight can't let in. The soil under his feet was soft, and the ferns that grew wildly seemed to have laid a carpet on the ground, and there was no place to settle at all. Duan Mo held the spear, and every step he took was extremely careful.
The forest was surprisingly quiet, and occasionally a small herbivore would run by in a panic, and Duan Mo didn't have much thought about them—in this hard-to-move forest, he couldn't catch up with any prey at all, and if he provoked some terrifying creature, he might not even be able to escape.
Thinking of this, Duan Mo regretted it a little. He felt that his expedition was a bit reckless—the spear in his hand was his only reliance, and he had no other weapons.
Although this forest is still on the outskirts of the island, there are no large predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex, but there are also things like velociraptors, which are much more dangerous than the beach.
"If you don't find the berries, but instead put your own life into it, it will be too much of a loss......" Duan Mo muttered, and suddenly, he saw the spar on his wrist.
"Wait......" he paused abruptly, recalling for a moment, "I think I've unlocked the crafting of the bow and arrow?"
The sample implant on his wrist flickered with a faint light, as if in response to Duan Mo's doubts.
Indeed, his mind clearly showed the materials needed to make a bow and arrow—and they were not hard to find.
Grass ropes, twigs, and dried hides.
Grass ropes and twigs are common materials, and the hides were previously stripped from Dilophosaurus's body, and over the course of two days, they had become very resilient.
Duan Mo was overjoyed and immediately stopped and began to make bows and arrows. On this pristine island, the benefits of owning a ranged weapon are unimaginable.
Human beings are physically weak, but they are able to reach the top of the food chain thanks to a variety of powerful weapons.
The steps of making bows and arrows were incomparably clear in Duan Mo's mind, he didn't have any relevant experience before, but now he looked very skillful in his hands, like a master craftsman.
He first picked up a small sharp stone around him, cut the skin into long strips, and tied it into a rope. Then Duan Mo searched a little in the dense forest, and found a few oak trees—this kind of wood was moderately hard, and it was the most suitable material for making bows and arrows that Duan Mo could find.
The materials have been processed, and the rest of the things are quite simple, Duan Mo doesn't even need to think about it, the blueprint in his mind clearly points out the specific actions of each step, Duan Mo draws a scoop according to the gourd, assembles several parts, and makes a simple bow and arrow in a short time.
It's a pity that after all, the materials are limited, and the lethality of this bow and arrow is really small compared to modern industrial products. Rao was like this, and Duan Mo was also very satisfied.
The next step was to make some arrowheads, and according to the drawings, he needed to sharpen the flint and set it on the branches, which was a very time-consuming task. Duan Mo was not in a hurry, he continued to search for black berries in the jungle, and at the same time looked for suitable materials for making stone arrows.
Unconsciously, Duan Mo had already walked a short distance in the jungle, and also found a few straight branches and some flints. After simple processing, these materials are barely enough to make a few stone arrows. However, during this time, he never found the black berries.
Duan Mo was a little disheartened, he wondered if he was going in the wrong direction - maybe he could only find the black berries in another jungle?
At this time, after Duan Mo's tossing, most of the day has passed, and Duan Mo can be said to have achieved nothing in this half day. He turned back rather dejected—because if he walked any further, he would enter the depths of the jungle, where it was even darker, and Duan Mo was likely to get lost.
However, at this time, the goddess of luck was finally willing to favor Duan Mo.
He had barely taken a few steps back when he saw a clearing behind a few stout kapok trees. There was a patch of tsubaki growing in the clearing.
The stunder is a tall fern shaped like a small coconut tree with thick stems, and has survived millions of years without becoming extinct. At this moment, under the broad leaves of these robes, they were actually full of black berries.
According to Duan Mo's knowledge, the robe will not bear fruit - but seeing the berries in front of him, Duan Mo was not too surprised. There are enough surprises on the island that the fruit is not a spectacle at all.
Duan Mo roughly estimated that there were a lot of these black berries, and there would be a lot left after healing Zhu Xingxing.
He was overjoyed and walked over at once, but as he drew closer, he suddenly heard an unusual noise in the bushes.
The rustling sound sounded like something was walking through the bushes.
Duan Mo's nerves immediately tensed, he held the spear and stood motionless, wishing that he could even stop breathing.
A moment later, a Dilophosaurus emerged from the bushes and slowly walked to the side of the robe. It came out of the bushes opposite Duan Mo, and there was a dense robe between it and Duan Mo, so Duan Mo was not found.
It looks like it's just had a good meal and looks very laid-back. It paced up to the robe, and seemed to think it was a good place to escape the heat, so it lay down.
Duan Mo scolded in his heart-he finally found the robe, but he didn't expect to kill a beast halfway.
If Duan Mo was allowed to give up like this, then he would definitely not be reconciled, but he didn't want to rush up and fight to the death with the Dilophosaurus - although the Dilophosaurus was small, it was a carnivore after all, and its habits were fierce, and if Duan Mo was injured, it would not be easy in the future.
"Get out of here, get out of here......" Duan Mo muttered in his heart, he hoped that this two-spine dragon could get acquainted with each other and leave quickly.
But the other party didn't seem to be willing to give Duan Mo face, he was lying on the ground, like an old man enjoying the shade.
One man and one beast were in such a stalemate, and more than half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and Duan Mo's heart became more and more anxious.
At this time, it was four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun had just shown the momentum of setting in the west, but the light in the forest had already become very dim, and if it was delayed for a while, Duan Mo would most likely not be able to find his way back.
Anxious, Duan Mo tightly grasped the bow on his back that had just been made.
"Why don't you try shooting it?"