Chapter 149 New Stage, New Discovery
Take the hyena queen and the wild antelope corpse and return to the camp first.
Zhou Xu returned to the camp and called people over.
"You can start processing the hyena queen's body, and take the wild antelope's body with you as well."
After giving the order, Zhou Xu turned around and went back to his animal skin tent.
At this moment, the baby was still sleeping soundly in its cradle in the tent.
Zhou Xu also had a weird feeling in his mind.
Zhou Xu entered the tent and sat cross-legged in front of the baby. He opened the swaddling clothes. The baby, who had been sleeping since birth, had grown thicker hair over the two days that had passed.
Zhou Xu tried to fiddle with it a few times to see if he could wake it up. During the process, his movements became more and more vigorous, and in the end, he simply grabbed one of the cub's hind legs and lifted it up.
However, it was of no use. The little guy was sleeping like a dead pig. No! He was sleeping more dead than a dead pig! If he hadn't been able to hear the steady breathing, he would have suspected that the little guy was dead.
"Forget it, go back to sleep."
Zhou Xu muttered something speechlessly and wrapped the little guy back into the swaddle.
"I want to see how long you can sleep. A newborn cub really doesn't need to eat?"
When he got out of the tent, it was just past noon. Although he had just finished a battle and reached an agreement with the Centaurs to form an alliance in the morning, Zhou Xu had no plans to relax and rest this afternoon.
As mentioned before, this situation is rare and hard-won. He must seize the time, develop himself, and enhance the strength of the tribe!
Under the pretext of searching for hyena people, Zhou Xu arranged for Li Ce to stay in the grassland camp and coordinate matters in the camp. He personally led Zhou Chongshan, Ye Jinghong, and a group of tribal members who were still able to move around to explore the grassland.
After all, there was nothing going on in the grassland camp at this moment that required him to stay in the camp, and having Li Ce in charge was more than enough.
Under this premise, he personally leads the team, and with his "eye of insight", it can clearly improve the efficiency of exploration, which is the best solution at present.
The core purpose of this operation, of course, is not to find hyena people, but to find livestock to improve the transportation efficiency of their tribe.
In this area, wild antelopes are grassland animals that they have discovered, and they exist in groups of a certain size and size.
But Zhou Xu's target this time was not the wild antelope.
Although wild antelopes are fast, their endurance and strength are not good enough. Let alone asking them to pull goods, even if they were asked to carry a person, they would probably not be able to run more than a few steps before they would have to gasp for breath.
Of course, these did not prevent Ye Jinghong and his team from hunting it.
This is not just to obtain leather and meat from the wild antelope, but more importantly, their leader has his eyes on the long horns of the wild antelope.
When Zhou Xu discovered the centaurs before, he had already noticed that the bows and arrows in the centaurs' hands were horn bows made of antelope horns.
The antelope horn is strong and tough, and is a good material for making bows.
Now that the materials are right in front of him, Zhou Xu certainly doesn't mind taking some back to study.
If nothing unexpected happens, the performance of this animal horn bow will definitely be better than that of the bamboo bow.
It’s just not as cheap and easy to mass-produce as the bamboo bow.
As for whether we should capture a few of these wild antelopes and raise them artificially...
Zhou Xu had no such idea at all.
On the one hand, the reason is that he has limited manpower, and he wants to use the limited manpower to raise livestock to improve transportation efficiency, and wild antelopes do not meet his needs.
On the other hand, Zhou Xu believes that raising wild antelopes has very limited cost-effectiveness.
If we only talk about the fact that the meat can be eaten and the skin and bones can be used, most animals in the world meet this requirement.
As for what else the wild antelope can be worth, apart from these common basic values, it is the pair of horns that can be used to make animal horn bows.
However, Zhou Xu had already thought about this clearly before.
If he had the materials, he wouldn't mind making a few animal horn bows, but they were not as cheap and easy to mass-produce as bamboo bows.
In the future, he will form an archer unit of hundreds or even thousands of people. Can he use animal horn bows?
For now, we will definitely have to use bamboo bows. After upgrading, we will also choose wooden bows with suitable materials.
In this case, the value of the pair of horns of the wild antelope is far from enough in Zhou Xu's eyes.
Under this premise, it is still troublesome to raise it.
It is definitely not possible to keep it indoors, but as for outdoors...
This wild antelope has excellent jumping ability and can easily jump out of a fence.
If they want to get artificially raised meat sheep like the ones before the time travel, they must first find a good breed and then domesticate them for a long time. Wild antelopes are not a good choice in any way.
If you encounter them in the wild, just kill a few and get some related resources. There is no need to waste energy on getting them specifically.
During this process, Zhou Xu and his companions inevitably had several encounters with the Centaurs.
There is no way. The wild antelopes on the grassland are the main food source for the Centaurs.
Although they had already agreed to form a partnership before, this kind of partnership itself has no binding force and basically depends entirely on the ideas and character of both parties.
Now that they met again, Zhou Xu calmly signaled Zhou Chongshan and the others to be on their guard.
Fortunately, the centaurs led by Drogo had no intention of going back on their word. After seeing Zhou Xu and the others, they just nodded and greeted them from a distance and then continued to chase their prey.
During this period, they did not touch the wild antelopes shot by Zhou Xu and his team. The overall performance was very harmonious, which made Zhou Xu feel more at ease.
"Okay, everyone hurry up and try to explore more areas before dark."
After watching the centaurs chasing the herd of antelopes away, Zhou Xu continued exploring with his subordinates.
【Eye of Insight! 】
When entering a new area, with Zhou Xu around, they would naturally open the "Eye of Insight" to scan the area first, which would be enough to greatly improve their exploration efficiency.
But even so, they basically didn't find anything new in the first three days, until noon on the fourth day...
At this time, the exploration team led by Zhou Xu had already traveled a considerable distance.
Under Zhou Xu's 'Eye of Insight', a group of creatures covered with black fur, with broad chests, strong limbs, and a pair of curved horns on their big heads, passed through the thick grass and entered Zhou Xu's field of vision, causing his heart to beat faster...
[Found it, a herd of bison living on the grassland! ]
Due to an unexpected situation, there has been some delay. Here is the update.
(End of this chapter)
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