The thirteenth bow
Around a huge blazing bonfire, there were more than a dozen children of thirteen or fourteen years old, all of whom were holding small stone knives and carefully tending to the small tree trunks in their hands.
They said that they were small poles, but each one was at least half a wrist thick, and they were cutting the trunk from the top to the middle thickness, and tapering it to the sides, so that they could make the bow.
Su Ming will also make simple hunting bows, as for other bows and arrows, he doesn't know at all, so he has to make them first now and use them, and then slowly study the process of upgrading the bow in the future.
Today, Su Ming and the others selected a total of eight kinds of tree materials, not that they were unwilling to choose more, but they only found these eight kinds of trees in the forest now, and all of them were cut down and brought back.
All the trees are made in a trial bow to select the most suitable tree species, and then the staff is organized to cut down them on a large scale and transport them back for bow and arrow making.
Each person is responsible for the handling of one or two bows, although the tools are a little rudimentary, but they are not unusable, or they are inefficient, but they still finish the bows before resting.
White Fang, Black Ear and Su Ming put the final shape on the processed bow body, pressed it into an arc, and then firmly fixed the bow body with a thick rope, and put it outside the cave to prepare a fire for fire roasting and smoking, so that it can be completely shaped.
The whole process of smoking lasted for seven days, and during these seven days, Su Ming processed the arrows, and most importantly, the bowstrings, all using the tendons of large beasts hunted by the tribe's hunting party. The arrows are still all wood, because the current tools are not yet up to the level of processing and installing arrows.
For the feathers of the arrows, Su Ming and the little hunters searched through the forests where they were active before they found feathers that could make more than a dozen arrows, and now most of the arrows could only ensure the accuracy of the arrows at close range.
On a sunny morning, Su Ming led a dozen selected little hunters to test their arrows on the edge of the forest.
To test the arrow, Su Ming also thought of a very simple method, using the same angle, pulling it into a full moon, shooting towards the mountain, and looking at the position of the arrow to determine which material is most suitable.
Of course, in order to eliminate some of these errors, the three bows made by each tree have to be tried, and the five bows that shoot the farthest are selected, and the most bows of the same material are selected, so the tree that makes the bow is the most stable and the most suitable tree for bow making at this stage.
Duh-duh-duh-du
Wooden arrows shot quickly from the bow and nailed hard into the wood, making a nice vibrating sound.
Su Ming took the white fangs and they practiced archery outside the cave, and around the fire next to them, they circled around it, all of which were newly made bows.
A few days ago, after a day of repeated experiments and comparisons, Su Ming and the others selected a kind of tree from eight tree species to make a bow, and that kind of tree had not been given a name like the spear tree used to make spears before.
But now it has it, because it looks like the mountain mulberry that Su Ming had seen in his previous life, so it was named Mulberry Tree.
And the day after the bow test, Su Ming went to the area where mulberry trees grew, searched for and cut down a large number of mulberry trees, and he was going to make a bow for each hunter.
In the winter, you can organize everyone to practice archery, and when the next spring, when the large-scale hunting begins, the hemp grass cultivated by Hui can be used.
With the function of hemp grass and the long-range killing of bows and arrows, the hunters of the tribe can try to hunt down those dangerous large beasts.
After all, bows and arrows greatly increase their attack range, so even if the attack fails, it can still ensure the safety of the hunting party, so it is necessary to give it a try.
But if it succeeds, then there will be no shortage of food in the tribe for a long time. Hunting a large beast is enough for the tribesmen to eat all the meat, and it will take several days to eat it. The benefits are huge, and everyone will be excited.
Call......
After practicing the Intermediate Body Forging Technique, the sky outside the cave began to brighten, and Su Ming and the others began to sort out their materials and began to set off towards the other side of the cave.
This time, due to the need to smoke the bow, the time was over, and in the middle of the night, a huge cold wind blew out several fire ponds near the entrance of the cave, and the tribesmen had to brave the strong wind to block the entrance of the cave, otherwise they would not be able to sleep.
The indiscriminate blockade will be on the night, and today the sky is just slightly light, some of the tribesmen got up to re-seal the cave, and others began to transfer supplies.
Fortunately, the timber had already been transported first, so it was all transferred in a day's work, thanks to the help of the pestle.
Winter has gone to spring, and throughout the winter, the food in the tribe has been sufficient and worry-free, with a large supply of meat and plenty of time to practice, and now the members of the entire tribe of the appropriate age have completed the cultivation of the primary body forging technique, and have reached the limit of the primary body forging technique, and they have all begun to practice the intermediate body forging technique.
And Su Ming's cultivation speed of more than a dozen of them was even more in the forefront, and they had already completed the cultivation of the intermediate body forging technique, and everyone's internal organs were strong to the limit. The strength of the physical body can be fully exerted, and the strength has been increased several times.
Both the primary body forging technique and the advanced body forging technique Su Ming had already cultivated to the limit, and the potential of the physical body had been fully brought into play. However, the deduction of the advanced body forging technique is in a predicament, and it is only 5% now, if it continues to be deduced at this rate in the future, then it will take almost ten years to deduce the advanced body forging technique.
When he first discovered this situation, Su Ming ate as much beast meat as he could, hoping to provide more energy for the deduction so as to speed it up.
But after persisting for a while, Su Ming found that it had no effect, and the progress was still growing so slowly, and there was no improvement in the slightest.
Su Ming was a little anxious, but there was nothing he could do in a hurry, the system was prompting that the energy was insufficient and could not improve the deduction speed.
Putting aside all his worries, Su Ming was going to hunt with the hunting team on the plains below the mountains to see what kind of effect the bow and arrow and hemp grass could play together.
Today, the hunting party chose the largest beast on the plains right now, the one-horned black iron ox. It was a four-meter-tall, six-meter-long, cow in a herd, bull general solitary and grumpy big guy. But its eyesight was very poor, which gave Su Ming a chance for them to sneak attack.
Su Ming selected six hunters with the best archery skills to shoot, and due to the production of hemp grass, the amount of juice extracted now was enough to equip six arrows.
The six hunters lurking around the one-horned black iron bull slowly approached the solitary bull, and they had to be careful, because the lone bull was not more temperamental, and would erupt at the slightest disturbance, attacking the surrounding things.
Su Ming was also among the members of the action, he lay on the ground and slowly moved in the direction of the cow, one meter and two meters...... Gradually, he had reached the best attack position about fifty meters away from the one-horned black iron bull.
But instead of attacking, he waited for the signal from the White Fangs standing on high places, and only after everyone had reached the optimal attack distance did he attack, so that he could kill with one hit.
Time passed slowly, and the one-horned black iron bull who was grazing casually may have felt some small abnormalities in the surroundings, and began to feel a little uneasy, and began to listen to a lot of movements around him.
Suddenly, it stopped grazing and stood motionless in the grass like a huge stone sculpture......