Blackfoot led his tribe's hunting party away in a grand procession, but what Blackfoot was really thinking was something only he himself knew.
Seeing that all the people from the Baiyu tribe had left, Li asked Li Qing with a serious expression, "Maizi, what do you want to do?"
Not only Li and Chu, but the entire hunting team behind Li Qing heard everything he said. Li's question was like a fuse, and the hunting team erupted instantly, bombarding him with questions one after another.
"Wheat, you traitor! If you think so highly of the White Feather Tribe, then go to the White Feather Tribe!"
"What a coward! How did the Red Flower Tribe produce a guy like you?"
"After hearing what you just said, I wanted to hit you!"
Pan and Gu were the loudest shouters. Li Qing had no doubt that if Li and Chu hadn't been there, they would have already started throwing punches.
Of course, this is understandable.
Li seemed particularly sensitive to the word "traitor." Hearing the arguing in the hunting party getting louder, he shouted for everyone to quiet down, and then asked Li Qing, "You'd better explain yourself."
Clearly, Li's tone had also become very unfriendly, as if his feelings for Li Qing had returned to what they were when he had just transmigrated and was treated as a traitor. If it weren't for his drastic change in personality, he probably would have done something like pinning Li Qing to the ground and questioning him, just like the other members of the hunting team.
Li Qing said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone, "None of us know how long the river is. What if we go downstream and the situation is no better than here? Since this whale is here, it doesn't matter where we go or where we cross the river."
"So in order to avoid being hurt by the whale, we'd better not come into contact with the water," Li Qing said. "And that way, it doesn't matter where we cross the river."
Chu: "What you say sounds simple, but how do we do it? Neither Li Ke nor I can jump over that width, and Black Foot probably can't either. Do you want us to find a vine to swing over? But... what does this have to do with what you just said?"
Li Qing laughed and said, "Those words just now were just an excuse to get rid of them."
Li sighed: "But Mai Zi, you've seen the surrounding terrain, this place..."
Li Qing smiled mysteriously and said, "That's not what I meant."
Li looked puzzled and asked, "What does that mean?"
Li Qing stretched out his hand and said to Li, "Lend me your stone axe, and you'll know immediately."
Chu pointed to Li Qing's waist: "But don't you have your own weapon?"
"I don't want to borrow a weapon, but my weapon is a blunt instrument, and I need a sharp one now."
"Blunt weapon? Sharp weapon?"
Li seemed a little confused about what Li Qing wanted to do, but after thinking for a moment, he handed the stone axe to Li Qing: "Take it."
Li Qing took Li's stone axe. It seemed to have been specially forged, and it felt heavier than the stone hammer. Li Qing found it a bit difficult to use, but fortunately, he wasn't going to use it for combat.
Li Qing turned and walked into the jungle.
"wheat?"
"What are you doing? Are you really going to look for the cane? Didn't I tell you, here..."
Li Qing tossed two words to the two men who had followed him: "Cut down the tree."
Cutting down trees?
What's going on?
The important thing now is to find a way to cross the river, why cut down trees?
Seeing that the others hadn't followed, Li Qing, regardless of whether Li and the other two understood, directly explained the theory to them: "When cutting down trees, the first thing to look for is wood that can float on water. You see, different types of wood have different densities. Wood with a density less than water floats, wood with a density greater than water sinks, and wood with the same density as water floats. What we need to find is wood with a density less than water. By cutting down several of these and combining them with other materials naturally found in the jungle, we can build something called a 'raft.' With our current conditions, the final product might be rather rudimentary, but it should be sufficient for this moderately wide river."
Chu didn't understand terms like "density" or "raft," but he did understand the word "float." When he heard Li Qing say that some logs could float on the water, he didn't care what Li Qing said next. He hurriedly grabbed his stone axe and ran into the jungle. Just as Li Qing finished speaking, Chu, right in front of Li Qing, used his great strength to casually chop a piece of wood off a tree and threw it forcefully into the river.
"Damn! It sank? Wheat, are you kidding me?"
Chu, still cursing, turned around and chopped off a piece of wood from another tree. Just like before, he threw it into the water.
This time, the wood was less dense than water, so it floated on the surface.
"Huh? It actually floats on the water! That's amazing!"
"Is this even possible?!"
"How did they do that? Even a shaman couldn't do that! It's unbelievable!"
The hunting party was stunned when they saw the piece of wood thrown from the jungle at the river mouth.
It's not fair to blame them for being ignorant; after all, this was their first real encounter with "water." They only went to that place outside the tribe from time to time to fetch water, so they had no idea that wood could float on water.
"So that's how it is!" Li exclaimed in a low voice. "But, Mai Zi, how did you know that?"
this……
Li Qing couldn't very well say that he dreamt about it, or that he saw someone on the way who told him this, so he had to change the subject, saying, "One piece of wood is definitely not enough. What we need to build is a raft! That way we can avoid a lot of accidents."
"A raft?"
Li Qing squatted down, found a tree branch, and gestured slightly.
Raft making is quite simple—for these primitive people, it's just a matter of moving their wrists a little. As for whether it's tiring? They really don't find it tiring at all. Besides, they'll soon see food, and with food comes hope. They're willing to put in the effort.
“It does look quite simple,” Li nodded after understanding Li Qing’s drawing, and instructed Chu, “Let’s begin now. You and I will go find the kind of wood you just chopped and cut down a few pieces first! Then…”
Li Qing stood behind the two and laughed, "You two go ahead and chop. You're both level two warriors, so you'll definitely be faster than me. This task is yours."
After saying that, he looked down and patted the head of Big Black, who had followed him, and said with a smile, "Big Black is in charge of delivering the wood to the river mouth. It can work with the hunting team to build rafts. Then we can pick some more people and have them find vines of suitable hardness. This will be much faster than us scrambling around aimlessly!"
Chu stared at Li Qing in disbelief, shocked that he had actually finished what he and Li were about to say, and... what Li Qing had just said was even better than the plans they had each come up with.
Chu said blankly, "Okay, I'll do as you say!"
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