Chapter 33: The length of a finger
After the hunting party left, the tribe resumed its usual rhythm of life.
However, compared to last year, the difference is that the riverside is very lively. After the initial fear of the unknown creatures in the river, the fear of the creatures in the river has dissipated a lot because of the benefits of the large-mouthed piranhas.
It turns out that the things in the river are not so scary, and as long as you are careful, you can harvest enough food.
On the cave side, under the joint management of Tu and Stammer, life is relatively stable, and the daily fish pulling action and enough food make each small body not as thin as in previous years. At the same time, the children of the cave are becoming more and more united, and if they are not united, they can only be external all the time, and the ability of a single person is too small, and they do not have an advantage when fishing.
As for the stone insects, now Shao Xuan will only take Caesar to catch the stone insects every two days, and after catching enough stone insects, he will save them for the children in the cave first.
Stones could not bind stone insects, and someone used a stone jar to put many stone worms in it, but the next day there was a hole in the stone jar, and the stone worms were gone. But the slaughter is not as hard as the stone wood and straw rope, but it can trap them better than the stone tools, even if it still can't be trapped for too long, but a day or two is absolutely fine. This solved the problem of Caesar running that way every day.
Shao Xuan still went to the training ground in the morning to find the stone core, and then went to Lao Ke to learn stone skills in the afternoon.
After more than ten days in a row, Shao Xuan felt that his strength was much greater than when he first awakened, and his control of the power of the totem became more proficient, and the switching between the two abilities in his body was more comfortable.
It seems that learning stone techniques is also very beneficial for controlling the power of totems.
Shao Xuan shuttled between the woods like a spirit monkey, and walked towards the place he was optimistic about yesterday. The figure flashed, the branches swayed slightly, and the sound was very small, as if it was just a breeze blowing.
Caesar ran after him.
This place still hasn't left the tribe's guarded range, so Shao Xuan doesn't have to worry about any fierce beasts appearing, and the reason why he deliberately controls the sound is just for future hunting activities. Hunting often involves stealth, quietly approaching the prey, hiding the breath, and a little louder movement can alarm the prey or other invincible beasts.
Shao Xuan had seen Lang Ga and Mai's stealth ability, and Mai was even more silent when he walked, and he was still some distance away from them.
In the mountains of the training ground, Shao Xuan also saw many awakened children like him, including Sai.
"Hey, that's Ah Xuan?" said Syta's father, looking at the figure that flashed in the woods. For people who don't have the power of awakening totems, Shao Xuan's degree is naturally fast and difficult to capture, but it is nothing to other totem warriors who have awakened for many years.
Sai was holding a large stone and jumping on the spot, and he had already jumped more than a hundred times with the stone. Hearing his own words, Sai looked sideways, and Shao Xuan's figure was no longer on the other side of the woods.
"What are you looking at?!Keep dancing yours!" Saida's father knocked a stone stick on Sai's ass and scolded, "You can't even compare to Ah Xuan, who is two years younger than you!"
"What can't be compared?" Sai was not convinced.
"Hey, you're still stubborn, I said yes, jump! Jump until you have two hundred jumps before you can rest. As he spoke, Daddy Satta knocked over with two sticks.
"It's already one hundred and seventy-two!" Sai said in his heart, thinking that he was still a little happy, whether he was going to catch the flying squirrel during the rest later, or to find something to eat? I don't know if there are any more crunchy green fruits that I ate two days ago.
Sai swallowed his saliva, and was thinking about it with anticipation, when he heard his father stare at him and say, "You can't count when you are Lao Tzu?!
In a fit of rage, he almost threw the big boulder he was holding. It's just that his father's style of acting is like this, and what is wrong is also right, and he has to admit it if he doesn't admit it. Debating with him will get beaten.
Ma's!
Sai couldn't glare at him, so he put this grudge on Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan, who didn't know that he had been recorded again, was busy picking stones. There are many stones in the training ground, but there are very few that can be used to make zuò stone tools. Even if he relied on his special ability to distinguish the grade of the stone, he could not quickly find the most suitable one, because even a good stone may not be suitable for filming. Therefore, every morning, Shao Xuan had to spend several hours selecting stones, and then go back with stone cores that were good and suitable for filming.
Following Lao Ke these days, Shao Xuan's identification of stones has also improved a lot, unlike in the past, when his eyes were black and he looked at any stone.
When Shao Xuan was looking for the stone core, Caesar was bored, so he went to block the stone flying squirrels that were digging holes in the mountains and jumping around.
Sometimes Shao Xuan looked at Caesar and felt very guilty, a good wolf, stunned to raise himself like this.
In the afternoon, Shao Xuan went to Lao Ke with the selected stone core.
Lao Ke taught Shao Xuan how to judge the best angle of stone and hit the countertop, and what kind of stone is suitable for what. Then, Lao Ke sat next to him and watched Shao Xuan knock on the stone leaves.
Taking off his animal skin clothes, Shao Xuan was naked, picked up the stone hammer and began to knock.
After knocking on it in the first few days, the animal skin clothes were soaked with sweat, and the water could be wrung out with a slight twist, and then Shao Xuan directly threw the animal skin clothes aside, saving sweat and a smell.
Bite!
Bite!
Bite!
......
The banging that would ring every afternoon began.
One hammer, two hammers............ Fifty, fifty-one...... One Hundred Hammers...... 500 hammers......
As if tireless, Shao Xuan kept beating on the stone core, and the huge stone core became smaller and smaller as the stone leaves that were smaller than the previous days fell.
After knocking one, Shao Xuan did not rest, and then knocked the second and third ......
When the three were knocked out, Shao Xuan's whole person fell into the water tank and was fished out.
After replenishing some water, Shao Xuan stood beside him and listened to Lao Ke explain the details to be paid attention to when polishing later, what shape of stone leaf should be polished, and how the remaining stone core should be polished.
Lao Ke said that each stone has its own story, and even the best stonesmiths may not be able to interpret every stone. But every time Lao Ke explained to Shao Xuan, he still tried his best to teach the knowledge he had excavated and mastered so far.
Shao Xuan listened carefully, many seemingly indifferent words actually hid many skills.
After resting for a while and listening to Lao Ke's professor, Shao Xuan continued, but the next step was not to make a film, but to grind.
Whether it is a piece or a later grinding process, if you want to meet Lao Ke's high standards, you have to be more careful, more refined and more accurate in the grinding process to control the power of the totem.
This is not an easy thing, Shao Xuan was immersed in it when grinding, all his consciousness was focused on the stone tool being polished, the feeling was not obvious, once the polishing was completed, the consciousness was restored, and his head was swollen and painful, and sometimes it was like being pierced by an awl, and the pain was so painful that his forehead continued to ooze bean sweat.
Lao Ke said that this is normal, and that's how he came back then.
Although it is hard, the effect is also remarkable, and Shao Xuan's control of the power of the totem is also more accurate.
Lao Ke, who was sitting next to him, had a look of satisfaction in his eyes. Shao Xuan's growth is far beyond his imagination, over the years, Lao Ke has seen many people who learn to polish stone tools, but no one can do Shao Xuan's way!
Many people may not be able to do Cheng Dù like Shao Xuan in half a year or even a year or two, of course, there are also people who do well, like Lang Ga who only took less than fifty days back then, and Lang Ga's grandfather still swayed in front of Lao Ke.
However, how long has Shao Xuan only been learning?
Lao Ke actually wanted to go up the mountain immediately to find the old guy who made the earth bow to have a good "chat", but it was better to wait, wait......
Just as he was thinking that the old guy would find out what kind of "good-looking" face he would have, Ke's eyes suddenly froze, and his eyes widened suddenly, as if he had seen something incredible.
Shao Xuan's body showed totem patterns, which is not unusual, during this time when learning stone skills, Shao Xuan will use the power of totem, and the totem on his body will naturally appear.
And what Lao Ke was shocked was not the totem pattern, what he saw in front of him was even more unbelievable than when he saw Shao Xuan playing a film and using the power of totem!
The people of the tribe know that the newly awakened warrior, only at the moment of awakening by the fire pond, will show all the totem patterns on the body, and after the sacrifice is over, the totem pattern will shrink, and the totem pattern that originally covered the entire arm will shrink to the upper arm, slightly over the shoulder, and the totem pattern on the leg will also shrink.
Therefore, when you use the power of the totem after awakening, the totem patterns displayed are no more than the elbow and no more than the knee, which is the sign of the junior totem warrior. When the totem is tattooed over the elbow and over the knee one day, it is time to upgrade from a beginner totem warrior to an intermediate warrior. This is the most direct and effective way to identify the level of a totem warrior.
Warriors in the hunt, in the face of countless dangerous beasts and threats to life, breakthroughs have been made again and again, the totem pattern will be extended, but the length of the extension is also limited, many people have decades of hunting experience, the totem pattern can not be over the elbow and knee, that is to say, they are still in the stage of junior totem warriors, and the progress is extremely slow.
But what about Shao Xuan's body now?
Lao Ke's eyelids twitched. He clearly remembered that when Shao Xuan first came over to learn stone techniques and use the power of totems, the totem patterns displayed on his upper arms were just slightly over his shoulders like other people who had just awakened.
And now, the totem pattern on Shao Xuan's upper arm has extended the length of a little finger to the front of the arm!
Before this, Lao Ke didn't pay attention to the totem pattern on Shao Xuan's arm, just now he was just thinking about when Shao Xuan would be able to reach the Cheng dù of an intermediate warrior, and glanced at the totem pattern on Shao Xuan's upper arm, but he didn't expect that there would be such a appearance. He could see the slightest error on the stone tools, how could he not see the length of the totem pattern on Shao Xuan's arm?!
Don't underestimate the length of your fingers, it's something some people may not be able to do for years!
But how long has it been since Shao Xuan awakened?
At this level, how far will the intermediate totem warrior go?
Lao Ke only felt that his eyelids were beating even more.
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