Currently, defensive weapons can be mass-produced. Next, as long as arrows are mass-produced, the tribe should be able to defend itself under the leadership of its chief.
Now that everyone's strength has improved significantly, it's time to return to the area where we encountered Haru before and explore it further.
Haru isn't coming to us now, but we have to go find them and see what they're up to in the shadows. If they pose a threat to our survival, we'll destroy them while we're at it.
That day, I discussed the plan with the leader and other high-ranking officials. We planned to send a small number of people this time, otherwise, we would be too conspicuous and attract the attention of the other side.
The leader did ask for my opinion on how many people to bring, since this mission is mainly about reconnaissance, so I think it's not about quantity, but quality.
After discussing it, I only took Dante and Susu with me to form a reconnaissance team and went there together.
In terms of supplies, we must prioritize meeting our needs. First and foremost, each person needs a repeating crossbow.
Secondly, each person needs five drumsticks and a large bag of iron arrowheads. These arrowheads are specially treated; they can be used simply by drilling holes in suitable wooden sticks with a diamond-shaped tool and then securing the pins at the back of the arrowheads with resin.
In addition to these weapons and equipment, each person also prepared a package containing hemostatic herbs, herbs for setting bones and treating bruises, and herbs that can detoxify, to be used as an emergency medical kit.
The rest is our reserve of dry food, which is mainly vegetarian, with the most abundant being naturally dried potato starch.
This refined powdered food provides us with plenty of carbohydrates, is not only portable but also provides an excellent feeling of fullness.
As for meat, we only brought a small amount, but it's not lacking in the jungle and can be replenished at any time.
The rest are seasonings like salt and some practical small tools that can be used in daily life.
These items are neither a lot nor a little. For ease of movement, I didn't use a basket this time, but instead made three leather backpacks from the crocodile leather I had hunted before.
The crocodile skin armor offers better protection than a backpack, and it's also lighter, allowing us to carry more supplies in certain situations.
In addition, the crocodile backpack has a rope lock opening. Once you put your items inside, you can tighten and knot the rope at the opening of the backpack so that the supplies inside will not fall out, no matter what extreme situation you encounter.
In addition, I used the remaining crocodile skin to make three soft armors and a headgear. The hard back armor can be used to defend against the arrows that Haru shot at me.
It's a pity there weren't enough materials, otherwise I would definitely have made a full set of crocodile skin protective armor.
However, for safety reasons, I used some dry, hard wild boar hides and pieced them together with fish scale armor to make three pairs of soft leather pants suitable for us to wear.
There's no way around it, I'm just insecure. If I don't take good care of myself, even with considerable skills, I still feel like something's missing.
After all, I'm afraid of dying, and I'm the professional one. If I'm second, no one dares to claim first.
This time, I brought all my weapons except for the crossbow I used before. Dante noticed that I was carrying a lot of equipment and even offered to carry my blowgun for me.
Under certain conditions, blowguns can still accomplish things that ordinary weapons cannot.
First of all, its firing sound is the quietest of all my weapons, making it an excellent choice for assassinations in certain situations.
Furthermore, blowguns don't take up much space and are easy to hide.
Now that everyone is capable, it's natural to upgrade our self-defense tools; we can't always rely on wooden spears to fight enemies.
Besides the basics, I also made a Nepalese kukri for Dante and Susu, as well as a spearhead with a three-edged spike for each of them.
With everything prepared, we left the tribe early the next day, heading towards the unknown mountains near the brine spring.
This time, we returned to our original tribe to rest for a day, and then headed towards the brine spring again the next morning.
Because we were traveling light, and everyone's physical fitness had improved dramatically, I moved very quickly, reaching the vicinity of the brine spring where we had previously collected brine in less than three hours.
At this moment, we did not feel any fatigue. Compared to chopping wood with stone axes and clearing land with stone picks on the mountain, it was no different from a vacation.
However, this is, after all, the territory of those Haru. We had explored this place several times before but had not found any trace of them, but we still dared not be careless.
We've been ambushed by them before, so just because we didn't encounter them last time doesn't mean they won't show up this time.
Top remained at the front of the group, keeping watch for any potential disturbances. Pat's mission this time wasn't surveillance; he had excellent aerial visibility from high above.
All it has to do is find Haru's trail. Pat remembers the Haru that attacked us before, and it will immediately warn us if it finds even one Haru.
But we walked through the woods for a long time with our crossbows in hand and did not find Haru again.
Not only that, Pat, who had been circling and searching within a radius of 100 meters in the air, also found nothing. These guys seemed to have vanished overnight, disappearing without a trace.
However, I am certain that those Haru must have returned after we left, because the bark boxes we left near the brine spring to boil the brine are gone.
If Haru's body is missing, then it could be said that it was eaten by wild animals.
But these wild beasts wouldn't be interested in those bark boxes; even if they needed to replenish their salt, they wouldn't drink that concentrated salt water directly.
Even wildebeest wouldn't do that, because it's more deadly than drinking seawater directly; consuming too much could lead to kidney failure and death.
Even if they insisted on drinking that brine, they wouldn't necessarily eat all that bark along with it, would they?
So the only thing I can think of is that our concentrated brine was taken back by those Haru. I'd heard before that this guy was very curious and had a good learning ability.
Those bows and arrows were captured on the battlefield when they fought with humans, and they learned to use them by imitation.
Now they can even make some bows and arrows themselves. Although the strength is average, the quantity is large. In addition, the arrowheads may be coated with poison, which will cause us a lot of trouble.
Since there was still no news of Haru, we could only continue to expand the search area in the direction in which the previous group of Haru had retreated.
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