Chapter 13 The teacher is not good
The project is huge, and the consumption is naturally very huge, and now the food consumed every day is three times that of before, not only Chu Wenle can eat, but the key is that the energy consumed by physical labor is too large, and if you want to have the strength to work, you must have enough food to replenish it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
At present, the harvest of the trap in the daily day is no longer enough to break even, and it can be said that it is the best description to make ends meet, and now it has begun to be replenished from the rabbit pen.
There must be a way to get more food to support this large-scale consumption, and although there is no need to worry about food shortages for the time being, there will be a day when there will be a food shortage, and it will be too late to find a way to increase the food reserves.
Consumption continues every day, Mo Ran is anxious in his eyes, but he is bound to not be able to make any shortage in this regard, if he can't eat enough, he will have no physical strength, and if he doesn't have physical strength, his work efficiency will naturally be low, and if the cycle continues, he is wasting food every day.
At lunch time on this day, Mo Ran looked at the rabbit meat in his hand in a daze, and he had no appetite at all, and even Chu Wenle, who was gobbling it up, found out that he was abnormal.
Wiping the greasy corners of his mouth, Chu Wenle asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing, I'm just thinking about how can I get more food, and now the benefits of the traps around here are dwindling, and the wild rabbits around us are almost all gone, and we will lose our food source in the long run. Chu Wenle's voice woke Mo Ran up from his contemplation, paused, and decided to talk about his worries, after all, one more person would have one more source of inspiration, and it would be much better than pondering and meditating alone.
Hearing Mo Ran say such a heavy topic, Chu Wenle also lost the appetite to eat, the problem of survival is always the biggest hidden danger in front of the two, if it can't be solved smoothly as soon as possible, even if this place is built into a White House, what can it be?
You can't always eat fruit to make a living, that would really kill you.
It may be fine in a short time, but now that the physical exertion is so great, if there is no food security, the two of them can only stop all the work at hand and concentrate on chasing animals.
Although there is no shortage of animals on this island, judging from the current hands-on ability and scarce weapon resources of the two of them, it is impossible to catch other animals at all.
"The research and development of new weapons must be put on the agenda, and we must do everything possible to settle the problem of food first and then talk about other things, if there is no other food source, we will only be herbivores in the future. Mo Ran said with a wry smile.
Chu Wenle hadn't thought about this problem, but his experience in surviving in the wild was pitiful, far inferior to Mo Ran, a teenager who had survived independently for more than half a year, so he had no clue about the serious problem of food shortage at this time.
In urban life, he could have obtained it by other means, whether it was mental or physical work, he could think of a way, but not now, this is not a place where he can get food through work.
If you want to eat, you have to find your own way and do it yourself.
"Why don't we get a bow and arrow?" This was the only way Chu Wenle could think of, he had been immersed in academic research all these years, and he could get very little knowledge in this area, and the only way he could obtain food was hunting.
Making bows and arrows for hunting in order to obtain food is indeed a method, but it is not so simple to implement.
First of all, the manufacture of bows and arrows is a big problem. Again, there is no shortage of materials here, only the corresponding tools.
There are resilient trees, but what are they used for? And what is the substitute for a tough bowstring? Ordinary vines are not good, even if you use the bark to condense a rope, you must find the kind of flexibility and strength that can pass the test.
If you don't use a bow and arrow, what do you use? Do you catch fish? If you don't have a tool that can be used as a fishing net, how can you catch fish, how can you use your hands or what you have left?
Traps may be possible, but the current situation will still appear in the future, and it is still not a long-term solution, and we must think of a solution to the current dilemma.
After thinking about it, Mo Ran still felt that this problem should be handed over to Chu Da to solve it, it was not that he was lazy, and there was a basis for thinking so.
First, all I can think of at present is nothing more than the previous ones, if I could think of it, I would have thought of it a long time ago, and I wouldn't wait until half a year later to still worry here.
Furthermore, Chu Wenle is a professional in this area, although he has no experience in weapon making, but his understanding of the material must be much higher than his own, what kind of wood to choose, what kind of material is more suitable for making bowstrings, these will determine the manufacturing results of bows and arrows in the future.
Therefore, Mo Ran decisively handed over this arduous task to Chu Wenle.
Chu Wenle didn't have any opinion on this, after all, it was his own profession, and there was really no one on this island who knew more about plants and animals except himself. Even though there are only two people on this island.
As long as there are materials that can be used to make bows and arrows, I believe that with the ingenuity of these two people, it is not too difficult to make them.
With a plan, naturally there was no longer any delay, and the two of them ate something hastily and went their separate ways.
Chu Wenle did not live up to Mo Ran's expectations, and came back with a bunch of things in less than an hour. It's very professional, with a variety of branches of different thicknesses and vines of different colors.
Mo Ran also put down the work at hand, and the two worked together to make a curved bow.
Ancient Chinese bows and arrows are generally composed of elastic bow arms and tough bowstrings, which are naturally not so professional here, at most a curved and flexible wood plus a bowstring that can withstand pulling, and the conditions are limited, so it is suitable for use.
In order to prevent failure, the two of them peeled all the wood suitable for making the bow, soaked it in water, and roasted it on the fire after a few days, so as to speed up the formation of the bow and prevent it from burning.
The bow body cannot be made at the moment, but it does not prevent the production of the bowstring.
Extract the tendons from the vines or other tree bark, pick out the most resilient kind, a few and twist a very thin rope together, although I don't know if it works, but this is the only feasible way for now, if this time can be successful, then this thing can have a greater effect in the future.
For two days in a row, the original project was put aside, and the two of them concentrated on the production of bows and arrows, and often couldn't stop for a moment at the critical moment, so although the consumption in the two days was not large, the two of them were more haggard than before.
Chu Wenle, a creamy little girl-like figure, was covered with stubble, so you can imagine how much effort they have put in in the past two days.
However, the results were still there, and the three curved bows were made by them, which was not beautiful, and could only be described as vulgar and vulgar, but it made them feel genuinely excited.
This is in addition to the trap, their most direct food acquisition tool, can it be done in this move, when he first made the first one, Mo Ran tried it, the bow body can support the tension and stretching force, but the bowstring looks a little dangerous.
How powerful it is will have to be tested in actual combat to know.
If you have a bow and no arrows, you will be in vain, so you will continue to work overtime to make arrows, and after a day, seven arrows consisting of stone arrows and wooden shafts will be formed.
The first real hunting began on this island! This time it was the only hunting team that went out to hunt, including the captain and vice-captain, and the team members did not.
The two of them each had a curved bow, the deputy captain Chu Wenle had three arrows, the captain Mo Ran had four arrows, and they brought dry food for a meal, and the two faced the morning sun and drank the morning dew to embark on the road of conquest.
"Oh, hold the grass, what do you see? What kind of head? It's not as good as me!" I heard Mo Ran's angry roar from the forest, startling a large number of birds.
Chu Wenle, this guy not only has no strength, but his archery accuracy is simply to the point that heaven and earth cannot tolerate it. What a big antelope is grazing with its head down, almost stationary, only about ten paces away from him, and it can't even be shot?!
The good one also shot the arrow on the stone, and the already fragile arrow was directly shattered, not only that, but it also scared the prey away, who is this Nima to reason with?!
Mo Ran rushed forward, picked up the damaged arrow, and strode to the place where the antelope was waiting just now.
Three steps, what do you have to be blind to achieve this kind of "godlikeness"? He glared at Chu Wenle viciously, and didn't say a word, but the meaning was already self-evident.
Chu Wenle stood in place with a stumbling face and didn't dare to speak, it seemed that he also felt that he was too embarrassed by his hand, he had no place to embarrass himself, he had nothing to say, and no explanation could hide the fact that this was seriously deviated.
Mo Ran shook his head and sighed for most of the day, but he couldn't find any way to punish him, he was speechless and looked up at the sky, and finally had no choice but to give up.
It wasn't until the evening that the two of them returned to their residence without getting anything, and the whole day was wasted, the bow and arrow were very powerful, but no one could do anything if they didn't give power, Mo Ran could be accurate, but the strength was not enough, and the arrows often shot at the animal did not even hurt a little and fell to the ground with a click.
Chu Wenle's strength was sufficient, otherwise he would not have shattered all the arrows of the three arrows, but he really didn't dare to compliment it.
This is not the way to go, although there are many prey, but the inability to inflict effective damage is no different from the power of farting, and in the end you still can't get food.
After thinking about it carefully, Mo Ran decided to go hunting alone tomorrow and let Chu Wenle, a guy with vision problems, stay at home and make new tools, which Mo Ran had an idea before, and now he has a good reason to hand it over to him.