Chapter 11 Walking into a Trap

The area of ​​the black forest is not too large, but it is definitely not something they can clear out in a short period of time.

In the process, they undoubtedly discovered again the mice that were scurrying around in every corner of the black forest. Many tribal members wanted to rush up to catch them, but were stopped by Zhou Xu.

"Okay, don't waste your energy. These rats run very fast. If we could catch them with our bare hands, we would have caught them yesterday instead of waiting until today. Let's save our energy for now."

As he spoke, he picked up a flat stone that was slightly larger than his palm from beside his feet.

"Look at this, you need to pick up stones like this."

As Zhou Xu spoke, he gestured to the tribal members who were responsible for collecting supplies.

During this process, every tribal member had branches picked up along the way in their hands, and some even held them in both hands.

This is one of the reasons why they are so inefficient in picking up branches.

If they continue to carry the baby the way they are doing, they will soon run out of room and have to go back, which wastes even more time.

When Zhou Xu saw them, he waved at them.

"Come here, everyone, and bring out the bundle of bark rope I gave you before I set out."

Zhou Xu took the bark rope handed to him by the tribe members and spread it on the ground.

"Put the branch up there."

After receiving the order, the tribal members did as they were told without giving it much thought.

They quickly piled up the branches they picked up on the ground. When they saw that the pile was almost full, Zhou Xu stepped on the branches, pulled the bark rope with his hands and feet, and quickly tied the branches into a bundle.

In the past, my family would always save up some cardboard boxes produced in daily life and sell them. Now the technology used in this bundle of cardboard boxes is enough to be used here.

"Look, like this, you can just carry the bark rope on your shoulders, and one person can carry so many branches at a time."

Before, it would take at least five or six people to carry those branches back, but now, Zhou Xu used a bark rope to easily lift them up with one hand.

The tribe members who were watching couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

This binding technique itself is not difficult, the difficulty lies in who can be the first to think of doing it!

"Okay, the team responsible for collecting supplies, you split into two groups of five, go to the two areas to collect supplies, and don't go near this area. Everyone else, follow me."

Although the members of the collection team were curious about what their leader would do next, now that the leader had given the order, they naturally did not dare to delay and quickly split into two teams and moved towards the two areas.

Zhou Xu only took action after the two collection teams had gone far away.

"Fei Que, put the insect heads and internal organs here. You don't need too much, just a little is enough."

"yes."

After receiving a response, Fei Que quickly did as he was told and placed some insect heads and internal organs at the location Zhou Xu pointed out.

"Okay, now take out the forked branch and the basket you just picked up and arrange them like this."

A small basket trap was quickly set up.

Of course, Zhou Xu couldn't just hope that the mouse would knock down the tree branch or hit the basket when it came in, causing the basket to fall down.

For this purpose, he had already tied a thin bark rope on the small branch.

Last night he taught Butterfly and the others to weave two kinds of bark ropes. One kind was thicker and required weaving multiple pieces of bark together. It was now used to tie branches for the collection team.

The other type is the one he has now, a simply twisted thin rope, which is used as a traction rope to trigger the trap.

In order to avoid pulling the branches in advance, Zhou Xu carefully retreated while letting the rope fall, and hid behind a big tree not far away.

"All of you hide nearby and don't make any noise. What we need to do now is to wait for the prey to come to us."

Zhou Xu's words made Fei Que and the others not know what to say for a moment.

But considering the miracles their leader had brought them before, everyone obeyed the order and hid nearby.

To be honest, Zhou Xu himself had no idea about this matter.

It's not just a question of whether the trap can catch the mouse, but also the question of whether the mouse can be eaten.

According to his modern concept, mice mostly carry viruses, and eating them is too risky.

But on second thought, the environment of this primitive world is different from that of the modern world.

Simply put, in this primitive world that tends to be completely pristine, there are not so many bacteria and viruses. The food these mice eat is clean, so their bodies will naturally be much cleaner as well.

[There are quite a lot of rats in this dark forest. Also, no one in this world has ever used this trap to catch rats before, right? They might be easy to take the bait.]

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At this moment, Zhou Xu was analyzing the situation in his mind, but wasn't he also comforting himself?

In this barren land, the food they could get was too little. If they couldn't catch any, they would starve. They had no choice at all.

Just as he was thinking this, Zhou Xu quickly discovered a mouse sneaking around within his field of vision.

[Speaking of which, my eyesight has improved a lot. I was a little nearsighted before, but after crossing over, I don’t need glasses anymore, but I can see so clearly. At the same time, my observation ability has also improved. ]

[I might not have noticed the mouse hiding in the corner before, but now I can see it at a glance. Not only has my field of vision become larger, but it has also become clearer.]

[Is this an improvement that comes with the Eye of Insight? Even without using this ability directly, my vision and observation skills have been passively improved? ]

There was no time to think about it. The mouse in the distance obviously smelled the odor coming from the insect heads and internal organs. After carefully observing the surroundings, it trotted into the trap.

Just as it grabbed the bait and was about to start, Zhou Xu gently pulled the thin rope in his hand.

As the twig was pulled down, the basket fell down and covered the mouse.

At that moment, the mouse was obviously frightened and rushed around in the basket, causing the entire basket to shake.

The basket itself is not heavy, and the ground in the wild is not 100% flat. With the mouse inside struggling violently, there is a chance that it will not escape.

Therefore, after catching the prey, Zhou Xu moved quickly. He exerted force on his legs and rushed forward. Amid the slightly incredible exclamations of the tribe members, he grabbed the violently shaking basket.

Obviously, none of them had expected that the mouse that they had tried their best to catch would actually crawl into their leader's basket by itself.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, the logic here is not difficult to understand.

But this did not affect the shock they felt when the mouse fell into the trap.

At this moment, they seemed to see the door to a new world slowly opening towards them.

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