Chapter 29 New Stage
The importance of maps is unquestionable. Not only does it make it easier for them to record, it also makes it easier for them to locate their current location.
Following the thoughts in his mind, animal skins and branches are basically ready-made. As for the plant slurry used to replace ink and dye, there is also one in the Black Forest. By now, he has asked someone to pick it back.
"Dashan, come here for a moment."
Taking advantage of the time before dinner, he called Dashan over.
"Tomorrow morning, you will no longer be responsible for collecting supplies in the Black Forest. I plan to assign you to carry out an exploration mission."
"yes!"
Zhou Xu was not too surprised at Dashan's decisiveness.
In fact, as the strongest individual combat force in their tribe, it is undoubtedly a waste to keep him collecting supplies in the Black Forest.
He had no choice before, but now he has a choice. Zhou Xu is more inclined to give Dashan more opportunities to exercise.
"Now I will teach you how to draw a map."
"map?"
Obviously, they do not have the concept of maps yet.
"You're welcome."
While talking, Zhou Xu had already spread out the map, then picked up a stone and crushed all the plants he had picked, explaining as he did so...
"The juice of these plants is colored. I'm going to use it as a dye. It will be fine if I mash it like this."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu picked up the branch that he had also prepared long ago.
"Dip the tip of this branch and paint on the hide."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he began to draw a triangle in the center of the animal skin. However, the branch pen and plant dye were not smooth to use, so it took him a lot of effort to draw just a few simple strokes.
Looking at the three triangles stacked together, he drew a small circle on the outside to enclose the three triangles.
"This is our tribal camp. This is the saltwater lake..."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he drew a circle next to the tribe and added a few wavy lines inside, which meant the lake.
"This is the Black Forest."
While drawing these marks, he was also telling Dashan what these marks represented.
After briefly drawing the surrounding terrain, he drew a cross arrow in the upper left corner of the map, and based on the premise that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, he marked the directions of east, south, west and north, and explained these to Dashan one by one.
These things are actually not complicated. As long as you have a normal brain, it is not difficult to remember them.
As it turned out, Dashan learned it quickly.
"Very good, Dashan, you can pick two people from the original collection team to form a three-person team with you to carry out the exploration mission together."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he handed the drawn animal skin map to Dashan, implying that he had entrusted the task to him.
Then he set his sights on Fei Que standing beside him...
"Fei Que, I have to withdraw the five people who were transferred from the gathering team. You will still lead the rest of the hunting team. However, starting tomorrow, the hunting area will be completely expanded to the periphery of the entire black forest. You will be responsible for confirming the specific deployment locations."
The hunting team's activity range is still on the periphery, which is undoubtedly the result of his careful consideration.
This piece of black forest was not as big as he had initially expected. Under this premise, the spider web in the central area was enough to serve as their hunting trap.
The reason why the big spider waited so long for its prey to come to it was because it had no bait. In the past, when it hunted, besides relying on its unique skill of "waiting", it mainly relied on the prey to be stupid.
Fortunately, it was the only predator in this area before, otherwise it would definitely not have survived until now.
This is also the main reason why the difficulty of hunting giant spiders began to increase sharply after they arrived.
Now, they have taken over the hunting spider webs over at the mine. As long as they place some bait to attract prey, the spider webs will probably be more effective than their basket traps.
As for the hunting team, although the number of people has decreased, their hunting area has become larger.
In other words, the 'competition' pressure between each trap has decreased, and under normal circumstances, they should all be able to catch more prey.
After arranging new tasks for Dashan's exploration team and Feique's hunting team, Zhou Xu turned his attention to the remaining seven people.
The main task of these seven people is still to collect resources, but the difference from before is...
"You three will continue to be responsible for collecting supplies in this black forest. As for you four, you will be responsible for mining coal in that mine."
Along with this personnel adjustment, their Salt Lake Tribe officially entered a new stage.
Early the next morning, a three-member exploration team led by Dashan officially set out.
Dashan had actually done similar exploration missions before the previous leader died, so he was not unfamiliar with it now.
As a result, they had just walked to the outskirts of the black forest when Dashan, who had obviously discovered something thanks to the increased vision Zhou Xu had given them, quickly called out to warn them...
"Hide!"
Following this low shout, the other two reacted quickly and immediately hid behind the trunk of a nearby black tree.
At this moment, Dashan leaned against the trunk of the black tree, carefully poked out half of his head, and his eyes drifted outside.
Soon, two figures wrapped in animal skins came into their sight.
“They are people from other tribes.”
The other two team members who had also discovered the other party's existence had noticeably uncertain expressions on their faces.
"Dashan, do you want to take action?"
"It's too far away. If they run, it will be hard for us to catch them. Let's wait until they get closer."
Faced with this sudden situation, Dashan remained calm. After a simple judgment of the distance, he made a wise decision.
However, for some reason, the two men stopped after seeing the black forest from a distance, and after saying a few words to each other, they turned around and left.
This situation made the three members of the exploration team look gloomy.
"Do you want to chase?"
“I can’t catch up.”
When Dashan said these three words, there was already a hint of annoyance in his tone.
"Run back to the tribe and tell the leader what's going on here. We'll be watching from here! Quick!"
Under Dashan's urging, the tribal member had no time to think and rushed back to the tribe at full speed.
After receiving the news, Zhou Xu's brows unconsciously wrinkled a few times.
From the time he traveled through time until now, he had never seen an outsider except the humans in their tribe.
Of course, he knew that there were other tribes in this world, but that didn't mean he wanted to meet them.
Based on Zhou Xu's current personal experience, this is a primitive world with scarce resources.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he has lost a lot of weight since he traveled through time.
In this case, people from other tribes appear. What does this mean? This means that they will most likely form a competitive relationship over limited resources! This is not a good thing! Updates are here. Thanks to the book friend 'Selling Teemo's Little Boy' for the reward and 'H Water Bottle' for being the leader. The mechanism for adding more updates has been released. For details, please see the top post in the book friend circle. Thank you for your support!
(End of this chapter)
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