Chapter 25: The Harvest and the Longbow

Chen Xu moved, not far behind him, Ape Man No. 1 and the ape Captain, who were at a 45-degree diagonal angle to him, also shouted, shook the stone tool in his hand, and rushed towards the panicked horned antelope.

In a certain sense, the appearance of the two of them completely filled the emptiness of Chen Xu's flanks, at least from the perspective of the horned antelope group, this time their future is over!

Listening to the whining sound of the wind approaching quickly in his ears, and looking at the running figure not far in front of him, the horned antelopes who had lived in the Stone Age for I don't know how many years quickly pouted their hooves, and their strong force acted on the soft soil under their feet, stirring up a cloud of dust.

In this misty dust, their figures had already risen vertically, and with a very beautiful turn, they ran in the opposite direction to Chen Xu's attack.

It's just that they don't gather together, but show a gradual collapse trend, and if this momentum continues, at most one or two horned antelopes will enter the range of the trap!

"How fast you run!?"

Dancing with a thick wooden stick, although Chen Xu seemed to be imposing, only he understood the pain in it, and this kind of powerful combat method consumed his internal breath so much that it simply exceeded his imagination.

What surprised him even more was the running speed of the horned antelope, he thought that after having light skills, the inner breath had reached the late stage of the double heaven, even if he couldn't compare to the jungle overlord, but at least he could outrun the herbivore animals, but as soon as he ran like this, he found that his previous understanding was very wrong!

"Woohoo!"

Suddenly there was a long roar, Chen Xu's feet were firmly planted on the ground like nails, his body stopped instantly, his arm suddenly moved forward, and the huge force converged with the habitual surname, and the rotating wooden stick in his hand suddenly seemed like a dragon going out to sea, carrying a monstrous sound, and smashed towards the horned antelope.

After this fright, the horned antelope group became more and more panicked, and began to panic towards the grass in front of them, but at this time, seven or eight apes suddenly burst out of the grass not far from the grass on both sides of them, and these apes saw the wooden stick volley, as if they were crazy, and kept roaring at the same time, they also rushed towards the horned antelope group.

Although the damage they did to these horned antelopes was not great, but it seriously affected these horned antelopes in terms of momentum, and in a panic, the horned antelopes had no choice but to continue to run forward, and one by one the four hooves were like flying, and their bodies were like electricity, even if Chen Xu, who threw away the wooden stick, was pulled farther and farther away for a while!

It's just that the faster you run, the harder it is to stop, and the harder it is to resist a sudden attack.

Under the successive blows of this group of horned antelopes, only six or seven of them crossed the apes rushing from both sides and ran into the jungle on both sides, and the other twenty or so horned antelopes all rushed towards the dense forest opposite.

Perhaps, in their simple thinking, that dense forest is their only hope of escape!

"Plop!"

A loud bang was made, and the group of horned antelopes that ran like arrows off the string disappeared from the ground in an instant, and then, a burst of dust like a mushroom cloud rose into the air, and in the dust, there were countless screams of horned antelopes dying in the dust.

These fast-moving animals, relying on their strong speed, instantly crashed into the bottom of the pit three meters below, even without those bamboo spears and wooden sticks, such an impact from fast to sudden stationary is not something their weak hooves can withstand.

At this moment, the horned antelope herd was like shooting the long arrow of the shield, not only could not continue to advance, but because of the impulse transformation, the arrow was directly broken.

Not counting the horned antelopes that were pierced by bamboo spears and wooden sticks, the horned antelopes that broke their legs due to the force of recoil under the rules of the momentum theorem reached fifteen or sixteen in an instant.

The only lucky ones who stepped on the body of their companions, and were able to cushion a little and avoid the misfortune of breaking their legs, were strung with bamboo spears by eight apes who came out of the jungle before they could jump out of the pit.

With the arrival of Chen Xu and other ape-men, the fate of these horned antelopes was completely settled, and this battle, in the cheers of the ape-men, drew a successful end.

"In this way, I can last a few more days, but it is not a long-term plan, those chimpanzees under the cliff must be driven away as soon as possible!"

Looking at the cheering apes around him, and looking at the corpses of the twenty-three horned antelopes in the pit, Chen Xu couldn't help frowning when he was happy.

Soon, however, he turned back from this foresight and joined in the carnival of the apes, who, in any case, were now victors, heroes who had triumphed over nature, and who were entitled to rejoice.

Night soon fell, and after the ape-men had enjoyed the joy of the harvest, Chen Xu ordered each of them to carry a horned antelope and quickly evacuate the place, but he himself did not return immediately.

The figures of the ape-men disappeared into the night, and Chen Xu also jumped down from the pit, picked up all the debris of the branches inside, and reinserted the broken bamboo spears and wooden sticks to restore the trap to its original appearance.

Not only that, after thinking about it on the spot, after Chen Xu jumped on the ground, he went into the jungle again, cut down many thick branches from the trees, cut them with a stone axe, and inserted them into the pit.

It wasn't until the trap was densely inserted and there was no obvious gap that Chen Xufang stopped moving, and after returning to the ground, he simply covered it with thatch and branches.

"Hehe, I hope to come here tomorrow and have a good harvest!"

Grinning and looking at this simple trap, Chen Xu couldn't help but nodded, although the trap was full of flaws, but under the cover of the night, it was difficult to find, I believe that if there were any creatures passing by, it would definitely leave an indelible impression here.

After doing this, seeing that the moonlight gradually brightened and the moon climbed to the branches, Chen Xu no longer stayed, ran his internal breath, stretched his body, and in the dark night, like a phantom, quickly scurried in the dense jungle, waking up a lot of lurking beasts along the way.

It's just that under the full force of his internal breath, before these beasts are ready, his body disappears from the field of vision of the beasts, and the beasts with strict regional concepts will naturally not rashly trample on the territory of other beasts for the sake of an unwarranted prey.

In this way, in less than half an hour, Chen Xu returned to the hill and caught up with the apes who had set off earlier on the mountainside.

It's just that what made Chen Xu frown was that there were originally twenty-three prey, but when they arrived here this time, there were only eighteen left, and the other five were all snatched by the fierce beasts in the jungle.

Fortunately, although the ape-men had many wounds on their bodies, they were not fatally bitten, so there was no damage on the human hands.

This made him breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he was secretly wary of the jungle in the dark night.

On the top of the mountain, the apes who stayed behind were already anxious, and when the hunting party appeared in their field of vision with eighteen horned antelopes, they all jumped for joy.

Of course, the first place is the admiration for Chen Xu, the great god of fire.

At this time, the bonfire had already been lit, and after such a long time of adaptation, the fear of flames had disappeared, and they began to enjoy this gift of the god of fire.

With enough dry firewood collected, the bonfire on the top of the mountain was able to expand rapidly to more than five meters long.

In the darkness of the night, the flames on the top of the mountain were like bright lights, breaking the gloom of the sky, and its brilliance was enough to illuminate the whole hill.

After taking a break, Chen Xu inspected the results of the work of the ape-men, and then ordered everyone to pick up the newly hunted beasts, and brought the remaining beasts from the cave to start the night carnival.

Because of the huge harvest today, considering that everyone still needs to pay a lot of labor, Chen Xu was very merciful, and this dinner made every ape-man eat a big meal, and all the beasts that were originally left in the cave were consumed at once.

However, with the addition of the eighteen horned antelope, their food reserves are still very good.

After they were full of food and drink, the apes chose their mates in pairs, and found a suitable position on the top of the mountain to carry out the great cause of human reproduction.

But Chen Xu didn't start cultivating this time, he sat by the fire, holding a few thick deer tendons in his hands, and kept thinking, these deer tendons have now gotten rid of their original slippery after a few days of drying and roasting, and have become soft and full of elastic surnames.

"It looks like it can be used, but I don't know how powerful the bow and arrow can be!"

Muttering, Chen Xu put the deer tendons aside, took four pieces of shaved thick bamboo from the other side, bent them with his hands, felt the strong elasticity of the bamboo pieces, and nodded with satisfaction.

Then, put the bamboo slices on the bonfire and began to bake, slowly bent into the shape of a long bow, and when a piece of bamboo slices was formed, Chen Xu greeted, and the ape-man No. 1, who was always following him, immediately covered up, and according to his instructions, held the bamboo and prevented it from returning to its prototype.

"Yes, that's it!"

With a sigh of admiration, Chen Xu continued to bake the second piece of bamboo, and with the power of flame baking, he slowly coiled the piece of bamboo on top of the first piece of bamboo, like two entangled DNA chains, showing a simple spiral curve.

After Ape Man No. 1 re-anchored the spiral bamboo slices, Chen Xu began to play with the third and fourth bamboo slices, and after a while, the third and fourth bamboo slices were also wrapped around the first two bamboo slices.

At this time, the four bamboo pieces are coiled together in a spiral shape, and under the baking of the flame, the shape is slowly stabilized, forming a model of a longbow, at both ends of the longbow, there is a perforation at both ends of the four bamboo pieces at the same time, this time it is overlapped together, forming a hole that can be tied.

Chen Xu rubbed up the three dried animal tendons at hand to make a simple and usable bowstring, then stretched the bowstring into the hole on one side of the longbow model, tied a knot, and then took the longbow from the ape-man No. 1, and began to bend it vigorously, and when it was bent to a certain extent, he tied the other side with a bowstring.

At this time, as soon as he let go, the bowstring made of deer tendon tightened, and a simple but extremely powerful longbow was made.

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