Chapter 5: Worship as if they were gods
After picking up names based on what was available, Zhou Xu subconsciously looked behind him and saw that at this moment, more than a dozen crude animal-skin tents had been erected.
It is indeed not that difficult in itself.
[That's pretty much what a primitive tribe is like. ]
Regardless of all this for now, at this moment, Zhou Xu's attention is still focused on the work at hand.
That is to make a fire! Just at this moment, Fei Que and the others came back with branches.
"Put them all here. Anyone who is free, come and help. Tear off the bark. Then find a suitable stone, or a weapon or something, and start scraping this branch. I want to scrape off these debris."
Including Feique and his friends who had just returned, the tribe members who received the order were hungry and tired, but they still carried out the order obediently.
He planned to save some wood scraps first so that it would be easier to start a fire later.
During this period, Zhou Xu himself was certainly not idle. He asked for a spear and then dismantled it!
To put it simply, the spear of this era is a piece of wood with a relatively sharp bone tied to it, commonly known as a bone spear.
This one is quite strange, it has a bone tied to it...
The original owner of this bone must have been quite big, so the thickness and length of this bone are basically comparable to his forearm.
Because the broken end at one end is sharp, it is used to make bone spears.
"Wash this bone. I'll need it later."
After casually handing the bone to the tribe member next to him, Zhou Xu took the animal skin rope used to tie the bones in his hand.
Then find a branch of suitable length and toughness, tie the two ends together, and a simple life tool is ready.
Needless to say, he planned to use a bow drill to make fire. Compared with drilling wood to make fire, Zhou Xu felt that this method was more efficient.
He piled some of the wood chips that everyone had worked hard to scrape off during this period on top, and then wrapped the fire stick that he had carefully selected around the bowstring, and all the preparations were done.
He took a deep breath. Maybe it was because so many people were looking at him, but Zhou Xu felt a little nervous at the moment.
[I can't let you down! ]
This is not just a matter of face. In this primitive world, if he can't make a fire, then once it gets dark, he will be completely plunged into darkness.
And no one can be sure how many horrific threats are lurking in this darkness!
Without any hesitation, with the pulling and exertion of both hands, under the continuous pulling of the bowstring, the fire stick wrapped in the middle quickly moved at high speed, causing exclamations from the surrounding tribal members.
Although this is just a very simple structure, it is completely beyond their common sense and brings them a completely new shock.
Holding his breath, Zhou Xu maintained his high speed.
To be honest, this is really a very strenuous job. After a round of high-speed movement, his entire arm has started to feel sore.
But he didn't dare to relax at all.
[Please, please, burn it for me! ]
Compared with the tribe members who looked exhausted and skinny, Zhou Xu thought he was in better condition.
Now he tried his best to make a fire.
He didn’t know if God heard his prayers, but as a wisp of green smoke rose, Zhou Xu’s heartbeat quickened.
With his nerves tense, after taking away the fire stick, Zhou Xu lay directly on the ground, holding his breath, and carefully moving the wood chips around him.
It was as if he was protecting the most fragile treasure in the world.
Gradually, the smoke became thicker and thicker, and the tiny spark produced by the friction finally turned into a flame and burned after coming into contact with the ignition material.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu quickly transferred the flame to the stone stove next to him which was already piled with wood and sprinkled with sawdust.
Watching the flames expand rapidly and burn more and more vigorously, the excitement that he had been suppressing for a long time finally turned into a cheer and was vented out.
His chest rose and fell violently due to his rapid breathing. Before this, Zhou Xu had never thought that simply lighting a fire could give him such a strong sense of excitement and accomplishment! He felt as if he had accomplished some kind of feat!
After a cheer, Zhou Xu seemed to remember something and subconsciously looked around.
At this moment, the tribesmen around him had already knelt down, kneeling and cheering towards him, with fanatic expressions on their faces! For primitive people, if they wanted to obtain fire, they could only pray to the gods for it.
In their common sense, it is impossible for humans to obtain fire by their own strength.
But Zhou Xu did it! Combined with his identity as the "chosen one", the tribe members now looked at him as if they were looking at a god! Zhou Xu took a deep breath and calmed down his emotions. He was still very satisfied with the result.
"Everyone, get up."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he handed the largest fruit shell pot to Dashan.
"Go and fill it up with water."
At the same time, Feique had also followed Zhou Xu's instructions and gathered all the insects they had caught together.
"These insects, you just pinch off their heads like this, and these are their internal organs..."
Although this was the first time he did this, it really looked like the real thing at this moment.
"Don't throw away the head and internal organs you cut off. Put them all on the flying bird's side. As for the remaining insect body, string it up with these thin branches."
He had barely finished speaking when Dashan came back with a full pot of water.
At this time, he had set up a simple rack on the stone stove, and at the same time, used Dashan's animal tooth dagger to chisel two small holes in the fruit shell pot.
Take a thin bone and pass it directly through the two small holes, then you can place the pot on the stone stove to boil water.
Of course, this is not enough. The water in the salt lake cannot be drunk even if it is boiled. What he needs is to obtain fresh water through distillation.
But right now he had no reliable equipment and could only rely on his divergent thinking to come up with a solution.
He found a fairly suitable bone plate to put on top of it, and kept the plate tilted to a certain degree.
In this way, the water vapor rises and condenses into water droplets on the bone plate. Because the bone plate is inclined, the water droplets will slide down to the bottom of the bone plate.
At this position, Zhou Xu directly connected the cleaned tubular bone as a water supply pipe. The distilled water would flow along the pipe into the fruit shell bowl below.
The whole process was not very efficient, but it was the best solution he could think of.
During this whole process, the surrounding tribal members were also stunned by the "fresh water extraction device" that Zhou Xu had made.
Although they didn't know what it was, they were shocked! (End of this chapter)
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