Chapter 43 An unexpected
surprise It was dinner time. With the exponential growth of the tribe’s population and some personnel changes, they would have encountered some difficulties in food under normal circumstances.
But unfortunately Zhou Xu's situation is not normal at this moment.
Don't forget that they just killed a spider monster a few days ago. To this day, the spider legs are still left, plus the fish that the Black Moon Tribe caught in a day.
If you just want everyone in the tribe to stutter, it's very easy to do.
But this kind of life can't last forever.
After all, that spider monster only has eight legs...
Once the spider legs are eaten, they will definitely face food pressure.
In order to solve the food pressure, Zhou Xu believed that the most direct and effective way to solve the problem was to upgrade the fishing nets and improve fishing efficiency.
In fact, he had already started teaching the tribal members to upgrade the fishing nets the morning after he arrived at the Black Moon Camp.
However, this is a time-consuming and laborious task after all, and it is too difficult to complete it in a short period of time.
Under this premise, the arrival of Zhuang Mengdie and others can be said to have brought a huge increase in the labor force at the Black Moon Camp.
But Zhou Xu did not plan to let Zhuang Mengdie and others help weave fishing nets.
The reason was simple, because he discovered a hare when he was inspecting the surrounding environment today.
This made Zhou Xu quickly weigh the pros and cons in his mind.
There is no need to say much about the idea of raising wild rabbits. From his point of view, the sooner they are caught, the better.
With this as a premise, the efficiency of upgrading the fishing net cannot be improved. Although it will affect the food distribution after the tribe’s population increases, the broken fishing nets made by the previous chief are still there.
The people in the Black Moon Camp have survived until now by relying on these broken fishing nets, and they can be used to get by for now.
At most, the food distribution will be slightly reduced temporarily due to the increase in population, but it will definitely not cause them to starve to death.
Zhuang Mengdie's manual efficiency is absolutely high even compared with the veterans in their Salt Lake Camp. As for the novices in the Black Moon Camp, they are defeated by her in seconds.
From the time she received Zhou Xu's order in the afternoon to the time she worked casually before going to bed, Zhuang Mengdie had already woven three baskets that fit the size of the hares.
This also takes into account that it took her a lot of time to teach three new people.
In any case, the matter of setting traps to catch rabbits can be officially implemented tomorrow.
The next day, Zhou Xu got up early. After handing over the task of pasting mud on the stove to the veteran transferred from the Salt Lake Camp, he excitedly took the trap and ran towards the rabbit nest over there.
Their arrival inevitably disturbed the rabbits hiding nearby.
This was confirmed when Zhou Xu activated the 'Eye of Insight' to quickly lock onto the location of the rabbit hole.
Because of their arrival, several rabbits fled back to their holes in panic.
But it doesn't matter, this is something that cannot be avoided.
Ignoring this question, Zhou Xu, who had locked the location of the rabbit hole, walked straight forward and began to deploy their rabbit trap. While taking out tools, he also explained them to the members of the hunting team beside him.
"Unlike when catching mice, we don't have a lot of good bait to lure rabbits into the trap, but unlike mice, rabbits are usually able to knock down the branches supporting the trap by themselves due to their size."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu began to set traps around the rabbit hole.
"So we have to change our strategy of deploying traps. To target this hare, our traps must win by quantity."
At this point, Zhou Xu had already quickly set up three basket traps around the rabbit hole.
It ensures that whenever the rabbit comes out of the rabbit hole or goes back to the rabbit hole, there is a high probability that it will touch one of their traps.
Of course, it is not ruled out that they may escape through other connected holes.
If they have enough basket traps, they can surround every rabbit hole with traps.
But now that there are limited traps, you have to take a bit of a chance.
"You keep your eyes on here."
Arranging someone to watch this rabbit hole, Zhou Xu took the remaining traps and walked towards another rabbit hole.
He was indeed very interested in catching hares.
However, as the leader of the tribe, there are many things waiting for him to do. Now, of course, he cannot waste a lot of time waiting for a prey.
Therefore, according to his original plan, after teaching the tribe members to set up the trap, he would go ahead.
Unexpectedly, the trap had just been deployed when the tribe members' slightly excited shouts came from the other side...
"Got it, got it!"
It all happened so suddenly. Not to mention Zhou Xu who was about to take a step ahead, even the tribe member who witnessed the hare sneaking out of the rabbit hole and then knocking down the supporting branches and being covered by the basket could not believe his eyes!
After being covered by the basket, the panicked hare was undoubtedly much more athletic than the mouse. It jumped so hard that it almost overturned the basket.
Fortunately, at this stage, the members of their tribe's hunting team were quite experienced. They rushed forward and pressed down the basket, completely eliminating the hare's hope of escaping.
In just a short while, they successfully caught a wild rabbit, which really brought some unexpected surprises to Zhou Xu and also marked a good start for this new day.
After grabbing the hare from the cage and controlling his hand that was about to twist the hare's neck out of habit, Zhou Xu was in a very happy state on the way back with a hare in his hand.
As the leader of the tribe, his presence is undoubtedly the focus of attention of tribal members.
Basically, they noticed it as soon as they came back.
No one expected that their leader would come back with a hare as soon as he went out.
Especially the original members of the Black Moon Camp.
You have to know that their previous leaders, including themselves of course, were helpless against these wild animals on the grassland.
At this moment, they were full of admiration for their new leader.
On the contrary, the members of the Salt Lake Tribe were much calmer.
After all, in their opinion, this is already the basic operation of their leader.
Originally Zhou Xu wanted to wait until he returned to the camp before starting to make the rabbit cage, but he didn't expect to bring back a rabbit on the spot.
There was no suitable cage to hold it at hand, so I had no choice but to use a basket, cover the hare inside, and put a stone on the top to prevent the basket from being pushed open.
After that, Zhou Xu seized the opportunity and started to build the rabbit cage with all his strength.
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