Volume 1 First Advent Primal Chapter 17 Flying Rope and Longbow

When seeing the prey, the ring is held in the hand and the flying stone rope is thrown to the target, and the rotating rope is driven by the stone ball to wrap around the leg or body of the prey and hit the target's head to achieve the purpose of hunting the prey.

The size and weight of the stone ball determine whether it kills the target, injures the target or just entangles the target to catch it alive, and there must be a limit to the weight.

Tinch had only one goal in making the Flying Rope, and that was to capture live small animals. The cutie needs milk, so he has to catch a lactating sheep or antelope that can provide milk. The sheep haven't been seen yet, but this afternoon I saw the antelope running back and forth in the pasture.

Ding Qi made this flying stone rope, it was already late at night, packed up the things around and threw them in the trunk of the car, and brought the bamboo bowl that had been kept warm next to the fire, and fed the rice oil to the little cutie who woke up. Seeing it obediently sleeping, Ding Qi felt very happy in his heart, just like looking at his own children, although he had no marriage and no experience in raising children, it did not prevent him from treating Xiaocai as a child.

The night grew darker and darker, and there was no light at all, except for the light from the bonfire in front of him, which shone on the surrounding scene, flickering and disappearing, but it was quickly swallowed up by the darkness. After adding a large piece of firewood to the fire, Ding Qi quickly took out his sleeping bag and went to the car, laid the seat flat and slept in the sleeping bag. There was no shelter in place, so he had to settle in the car first, and there were no suitable trees around for him to use as a house or a platform for a temporary rest.

The night is very quiet, occasionally the mountain wind blows, the bamboo forest and the pine sea are blowing, and there are one or two wolf howls in the distance, which soon disappear with the wind. Only a huge beast roar came from the top of the mountain behind the bamboo forest, and Ding Qi sat up directly, his voice was like a tiger and a bear, making people indistinguishable, and his heart was full of fear. Fortunately, after this beast roar, the whole world fell silent, and the nervous Ding Qi fell asleep again.

In the morning, before dawn, the whole sky was gray, but Ding Qi was woken up by the screams of the little cutie. Since he couldn't sleep in, he got up quickly, and after cleaning up, Ding Qi prepared a fairly hearty breakfast.

The cutie is a large portion of rice oil, and she is a thick porridge, half a piece of roasted lynx hind legs, and roasted shiitake mushrooms with chili peppers. The lynx baby is obviously very fond of rice oil, and when it eats, it doesn't need to be fed by Dingqi, gobbling it up, so happy, and feeling that the weight has increased.

After breakfast, Tinch focused his day on the construction of the shelter, having decided to settle down here, so it was necessary to build a sturdy and durable house, which did not need to be large enough for his own use. The initial plan is a small wooden house five meters long and three meters wide, divided into two rooms, one for the bedroom and the other for the living room and storage. The location is slightly higher on the flat ground between the bamboo forest and the creek, so you don't have to worry about flooding in the rain.

There are two things that are needed to build a house, one is the foundation and the other is the material. The foundation needs to dig a pit to bury stones and bricks, but now the amount of work is a bit large, and it can be used without filling stones or bricks, just bury the deep point; In terms of materials, it is nothing more than wood, brick, stone or adobe, and the fastest material at present is to cut down trees. All you need to do is cut down the trees and bury them one by one in the foundation, and then build another one that is more sturdy when it is completely settled. So, the work of cutting wood comes first.

Ready, Tinch took his knife, axe, hand saw, wooden spear, and flying rope and walked to the pine forest on the right side of the stream, where he was going to cut down some more pine trees to build a house. Before chopping, he walked around the edge of the pine forest, using the parachute rope on the knife to make a few elastic traps, and put some wild fruits as bait, which was enough to catch small animals such as rabbits.

Ding Qi specially selected pine trees about 20 centimeters thick as a target, tossed until more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and cut down more than 30 trees, which was more than enough to build a house. During the break, I also fed and fed the little cutie with water, and I also filled my stomach. According to the size of about three meters, Ding Qi used a saw to cut off all the pine trees, and then dragged his tired body to check several places where the traps were set, and actually harvested a hare and a pheasant, which made Ding Qi very excited, and even his tired body was full of vitality. The pheasant is still alive, and his neck was broken by Ding Qi, who is suspicious of the trouble, and there will be a chance to catch a living creature in the future, and he doesn't care about that.

Humming all the way back to the campfire against the two pine tops, he quickly cleaned up the pheasant, cut it in half and put it in the hanging pot, plus some shiitake mushrooms and fungus, and put some salt less, the rich taste of chicken soup lingered throughout the camp, and a dinner that satisfied Ding Qi himself quietly ended in a cheerful atmosphere, and of course did not forget our little cutie.

After dinner, Tincch returned to the campfire with a yew from the trunk of the car, where he prepared to make the English longbow, which was simple and quick to make and capable of forming combat effectiveness in a short time.

First, the piece of wood is simply trimmed with a mountain opener, and the side without branches is selected as the bow arm, which is not too much processing, mainly as the side of the bow belly needs to be carefully cut and polished.

Then use an axe to roughly chop the wood into shape, thick in the middle, extending ten centimeters to both sides and then thinning abruptly, and the thickness of the thinned part transitions from two centimeters to 1.5 centimeters until the top. The length is about 1.8 meters, which is basically the same height as Ding Qi's height. Then take out a straight knife to slowly remove some uneven and smooth places, and even take out a multi-functional Swiss Army knife and polish it with a frustration until the entire bow body is cut and polished into a D shape that is constantly smaller to both sides, the straight edge of the letter "D" is the sapwood, that is, the bow arm, and the curved part is the core material, that is, the bow belly.

Finally, two indentations are carved at the bow head to bind the bowstring, and a longbow is about to take shape, which can be used after the final hanging and tuning.

While there was still time, Ding Qi intercepted a one-meter-eight long paracord, took out the seven umbrella cores in the middle, and braided them into a strand of rope as a bowstring for backup.

Life in primitive times was both laid-back and intense, and it was entirely up to one person to spend it.

Ding Qi, who was woken up by the cutie early the next morning, hurriedly prepared breakfast to feed himself and the cutie, but added some compressed biscuits to the breakfast to provide more energy for himself. And the little cutie is a little resistant to the porridge containing oil, but after tasting a few bites, she quickly eats the rest, and she is even more impatient than drinking rice oil yesterday, as if it is a very delicious food, which is incomprehensible to Ding Qi, who is tired of the taste of compressed food, is it so delicious?

After breakfast, Ding Qi did not rush to mop the pine wood, but cut a piece of wood about one and a half meters long from the two pine tips he dragged back yesterday, and chopped it into a rectangular piece of wood with an axe, with a cross-section of about 10×5 centimeters in length and width. Then take out the hand saw and cut a rectangular notch at the top, about five centimeters wide, so that you can put the middle of the longbow body. Finally, a slot is made under the wood every three centimeters or so to place the bowstring.

Tinch prepares to tame the bow, something he'd heard before but never done.

In fact, there was no need for him to do this work, and when he was engaged in field training, the quickly made longbow could already meet his hunting needs. But now he has time, and he hunts not only small animals, but also other large animals such as wolves, and possibly even hostile hominids. He wants to survive in this primitive age full of crises, and crafting equipment is one of his important means of survival.