Chapter 86: Sudden Situation
Picking up the thing called the 'coronagraph', Zhou Xu walked towards a part of the camp while talking.
During this period of time, while polishing the coronagraph, he compared it with the trajectory of the sun's movement in the sky. He had already found a suitable deployment position and placed it directly there.
"I divide a day into 24 hours, each hour has 60 minutes, and the numbers from 1 to 24 are engraved on this coronagraph, representing different time periods in a day."
"After the coronagraph is lowered, as the sun rises, sunlight shines on the bone needle of the coronagraph, forming a shadow pointer."
Standing next to the coronagraph, Zhou Xu spoke while gesturing to Zhuang Mengdie, telling her the function of this thing.
"Wherever this shadow pointer points to, that's roughly what time it is. For example, now..."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu confirmed the position of the coronagraph's shadow pointer.
"The sun is now in the west, and the shadow pointer is pointing to the middle between 2:00 and 15:00, which means the current time should be 2:30."
"We usually start cooking after 16:30, which means we still have two hours left to work today."
Listening to Zhou Xu's detailed explanation, Zhuang Mengdie nodded frequently, her eyes highly focused, her face full of unconcealable interest.
The thing their leader made, called a coronagraph, had a very simple structure, but the tricks inside it were much more complicated than she had expected.
The most important thing is this amazing idea! In fact, in this era, primitive people could already judge how much time it would take until dark based on the position of the sun in the sky.
But who would have thought that their leader could actually use the shadows cast by sunlight to make a more accurate judgment!
To Zhuang Mengdie, this idea was simply amazing.
At present, the people in their tribe, influenced by Zhou Xu, have a concept of time that is limited to morning, noon and afternoon at most.
Due to the limitations of their original knowledge, once the specific setting of 24 hours was added, it became a little complicated for many tribal members.
Of course, there are also people like Zhuang Mengdie who quickly grasped the tricks during Zhou Xu's explanation.
If you want to establish a clear concept of time, this is a hurdle you must overcome.
With this coronagraph, the tribal members will probably be able to better arrange their working and rest time when they are working in the future.
It's no longer all about feeling as it used to be.
One was also arranged for the Salt Lake Camp, and as for the one at the grassland camp, he would bring it there personally.
It has been only eight and a half days since we left. Due to the special circumstances at the grassland camp, there have not been many changes. At most, there are two more barricades.
The chevaux de frise is not complicated to assemble as the equipment department has already prepared the parts for them.
After assembling twice under Zhou Xu's command, the tribal members learned how to do it on their own, so Zhou Xu naturally didn't need to worry about what happened next.
Now, many barricades have been deployed on the outskirts of the grassland camp. At first glance, it really looks like a military camp.
After returning to the grassland camp, Zhou Xu immediately installed the coronagraph he brought with him.
Afterwards, after confirming the time, the task of popularizing this knowledge was given to Ye Jinghong.
It was still a little after ten in the morning. It was no exaggeration to say that the day had just begun. Just as Zhou Xu was thinking about what to do in the future.
On the mound, Zhou Chongshan ran over with a serious expression.
"Oh no! There's a lot of dust blowing up in the distance. This is exactly the same as when the antelopes ran by!"
Hearing this, everyone's expression changed noticeably.
It was not because of the antelopes, but because of the guys who were likely to appear with the antelopes! Without time to think, Zhou Xu rushed up the mound, occupied the high point, and looked into the distance.
At this moment, the herd of antelopes was still quite far away from them. According to Zhou Chongshan and his friends' eyesight, they could basically only see the sand that was constantly raised by their wild running.
But Zhou Xu is different...
【Eye of Insight! 】
Once the power of the mantra was activated, Zhou Xu's vision suddenly became clear.
Looking through the rolling dust, he saw the antelopes running wildly.
In the prairie full of dangers, running all the way like this requires a lot of physical strength. Under normal circumstances, wild antelopes will not do this unless their lives are threatened!
In fact, chasing behind the antelope herd, the expected figure soon entered Zhou Xu's field of vision. It was the group of centaurs he had seen before.
[These guys really make a living by hunting antelopes! ]
Their hunting methods are still as sophisticated as ever.
With their excellent archery skills, they quickly made two of the antelopes bleed. This was also their way of locking on to their targets.
The injured antelope will bleed faster and faster during the intense running process, becoming weaker and slower, and eventually being stabbed to death by the centaur chasing behind! Zhou Xu had witnessed such a "performance" once before, and thought that there would be no surprises this time.
The only thing that made Zhou Xu and his team nervous at the moment was that the herd of wild antelopes were fleeing in their direction.
If the centaurs caught up to them, there was a possibility that they would discover the existence of their camp! This was undoubtedly what Zhou Xu did not want to see now.
However, just as he was thinking this, the speed of the two antelopes that were shot by arrows and bleeding began to slow down significantly.
Seeing this, the Centaur spearman chasing behind reacted immediately to speed up and rush forward to deal a fatal blow to the prey.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, from the lush grass nearby, a series of burly figures suddenly rushed out! Two of them moved swiftly and directly pounced on the two injured antelopes, and with their sharp claws, they tore open the antelope's fragile abdomen, exposing its internal organs completely to the air.
At the same time, several other figures directly blocked the two antelopes and centaurs, and at the same time issued a deterrent roar to warn the centaurs rushing up.
This unexpected situation was completely beyond Zhou Xu's expectations, and he couldn't help but blink twice, and then he opened his eyes wider to watch the show.
At this moment, the beasts that came out from the middle of the road and intercepted the centaurs were actually humanoid beasts standing on two feet! They were covered with brown fur, covered with dirty black and brown spots.
It has thick legs, a slightly ugly dog head, ferocious fangs on its lips, and exudes a dangerous aura in the sun.
Looking at this group of guys who looked so peculiar, Zhou Xu was in a trance and three words subconsciously emerged in his mind.
[Hyena man? ]
The update is here, and I would like to thank my book friend '永恒星辰-Da' for the reward!
(End of this chapter)
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