Chapter 81 Learning to Ride a Bike
Xu Que determined the diameter of the wooden bicycle wheels based on Hou's height.
He found half a cowhide, calculated the diameter, and determined the size of the circle, which was the outer diameter of the wooden bicycle.
He fixed one end of the leather rope to the wooden board, and held the other end in his hand along with the rope and the twig pen. He pulled the leather rope taut and drew two circles with the rope as the radius.
I used a lumber saw to cut out the approximate outline of the wooden bicycle wheel on the plank, and then took out a multi-functional power automatic drill from the system warehouse to finely carve and polish the wooden wheel.
After finishing one wheel, Xu Que used a multi-functional power drill to make a shallow groove in the middle of the wheel where the axle was mounted. He then placed small wooden balls made of white sturdy wood in the groove instead of steel balls, and added animal fat as a lubricant to the groove filled with the white sturdy wood balls.
Xu Que used the same method to treat the other wheel in the same way.
After doing all that, he picked up his tools and quickly assembled the frame and other components for the wooden bicycle.
The pedals are made directly from wood. Wooden pulleys and drive shafts are connected together and pass through to the rear wheel. Finally, the wooden seat, after being scraped, is fixed together using mortise and tenon joints, and a layer of animal fur is laid on top. This completes the wooden bicycle seat!
Xu Que pushed the wooden bicycle he was sitting on up and roared, "I'll solve all your doubts now! Watch closely!"
"Look at you! Don't you have to put your two legs on the ground all the time? If you don't put your legs on the ground for even a second, won't you fall to the side or fall down?" Hou grabbed Xu Que's wooden handle, squeezed the brake on the handle, and stepped on the foot pedal, looking at Xu Que with a worried expression.
"Watch closely! I'll let you ride it first!" Xu Que said, and started riding in front of Hou.
This wooden bicycle was noticeably heavier and more strenuous to pedal compared to the bicycles Xu Que had ridden before! But for the primitive people of the Black Deer tribe who spent their lives hunting and running outside, that was no problem at all! After all, the physical condition of all primitive people was what it was!
"The shock absorption on this kind of all-wood bicycle isn't very good! So it's bound to be a bit bumpy when you ride it! I hope you're prepared! Hahaha!" Xu Que said as he pedaled.
Xu Que rode his bike around the large blue stone in front of the Black Deer Tribe's primitive cave entrance three or four times before giving up. He jumped off and pushed it to Hou's side: "See? Just ride like this! Try it!"
"Ah! I feel like this is a bit difficult! I feel like I can learn it at first glance, but I fail as soon as I try! Should I just get on and ride like this?" Before getting on the bike, Hou turned around and asked Xu Que.
Xu Que encouraged him: "Just keep riding! No matter how many times I tell you, it won't help! You'll only see results if you practice yourself! Practice riding first, and then I'll tell you more!"
Hou imitated Xu Que's mannerisms, riding on the wooden seat of a wooden bicycle, with one leg supporting him on the ground and the other leg padding back and forth on the ground!
When the members of the Black Deer tribe saw Hou trying to ride a wooden bicycle in a funny way, they all dropped what they were doing and came over to watch.
The deputy chief of the Flower and Black Deer tribes also came forward to watch.
Just as they were clapping and praising, members of the Black Deer tribe carried ten of their own members, who had been injured by other tribes, toward them!
All the primitive people who were watching the monkeys learning to ride bicycles were astonished to see their own tribesmen being beaten up by other tribes.
For a moment, no one knew what to do, looking at the Black Deer tribe members who had been injured by members of other tribes.
"What should we do? Will he die from this kind of open wound? I don't think he'll live much longer! Based on our Black Deer tribe's past experience, we would have thrown him away as soon as possible after such an injury! Even if he doesn't die immediately, the wound will get infected and he will die after a while!"
With no other option, in order to save lives, Xu Que took out the tourniquet, hydrogen peroxide, tetanus vaccine, and wound suturing machine that he had prepared beforehand from the system's inventory.
Xu Que selected the tribe members whose wounds were more severely lacerated, administered tetanus vaccines to them in advance, then repeatedly cleaned their wounds with hydrogen peroxide, and finally used an automatic skin suture machine to suture all their lacerated wounds.
He then instructed the deputy chief of the Flower and Black Deer tribes: "I'm giving you these disinfectants! Use them to disinfect the tribe members whose wounds were just stitched up once a day! This way, their wounds will heal faster and won't leave scars or have any aftereffects!"
"Okay! I understand! I'll arrange for someone to take care of these seriously injured tribespeople right away!"
"Which tribe attacked our Black Deer tribe members? I'm going to confront them!" Ha Gang and Ping Yao said to the Black Deer tribe members who were carrying people back, rubbing their fists together.
“It was some people from the middle reaches of the tribe who attacked us! It wasn’t just one tribe that attacked our members! It seems like it was people from several tribes! We were in a lot of chaos at the time, so I can’t remember exactly which tribe it was! I was hit on the back of the head with a stick! You can still see it’s swollen! It hurts!” said a member of the Black Deer tribe with a big bump on his head.
Xu Que took out a spray-type medicine for reducing swelling and relieving pain from the system warehouse and sprayed it on the caveman whose head had been swollen from being punched.
"Anyone else with a swollen head or other parts of their body?"
"I! My chest got punched! It hurts here!"
Xu Que picked up the anti-swelling and pain-relieving spray and sprayed it on the swollen areas of the members whose chests had been swollen from being beaten up by other tribes!
"My leg was hit twice! It's still swollen! I guess I'll have trouble going to the toilet in the future!" A middle-aged man from the tribe limped over to Xu Que with his injured leg and stretched it out so Xu Que could spray him with medicine to reduce swelling and pain.
Those whose arms were so badly beaten they couldn't get up or felt anything came to Xu Que so he could spray them with a medicinal mist!
Xu Que readily complied with every request, and after doing so, he also redeemed several bottles of similar anti-swelling and pain-relieving spray from the system's exchange shop, storing them all in the system's warehouse. He hoped to distribute them to the Black Deer Tribe members in need someday.
“This won’t do! From now on, you must go hunting with a hunting party! They have warhorses, armor, spears, and bows and arrows! They can protect you! It’s more dangerous for you to go out alone!” Hagang continued rubbing his hands as he spoke to the group.
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