Chapter 65: Making a Stone Axe
"What on earth is Master Chu doing?"
Chu Qiao put away the knife and started digging next to the banana tree with his bare hands. The red fluffy soil was not difficult to dig. After a while, Chu Qiao dug a hole with a diameter of about half a centimeter.
She picked a banana leaf, covered the hole, and pressed the leaf down hard until it formed a large bowl shape.
"bite--"
A drop of crystal clear water dripped from one end of the bamboo tube. The water droplet that entered the banana leaf kept spinning on the leaf and finally flowed into the lowest point in the middle.
Chu Qiao wiped the sweat from his head and admired his masterpiece before explaining, "You can see that there is a large bulb under the branches of the banana palm tree. This is where the water is stored."
"Its roots continuously absorb water from the ground and transport it to the large bulb. We just need to insert the bamboo tube into the right position, and a constant flow of water will flow out. This water will replenish the minerals lost by the body."
After Chu Qiao finished speaking, he scooped a mouthful of water from the center of the banana leaf and put it into his mouth.
She nodded, her brows relaxed, she wiped her mouth, gave a thumbs up and said, "This water is very sweet, much better than the unripe coconut water."
"Little Chicken gave Chu Qiao 500 bottles of Coke—Master Chu is so awesome, even this is acceptable?"
"The mountain people gave Chuqiao 100 bottles of Coke—Professional 666."
"I learned it. I'll try it next time."
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"Brothers upstairs, I think you're going to die there."
Chu Qiao interrupted everyone's teasing with a smile and said, "While it's still light, I plan to make a hammock so I can spend the night."
When everyone heard the word hammock, they became interested, and all that came to mind were the comfortable hammocks used for travel and vacation.
However, Chu Qiao thought completely differently from them. She looked at the plants around her, which included big banyan trees, bamboos, palm trees...
She now had two plans in her mind, one was to use vines and the other was to use bamboo.
It would be more comfortable if vines were used, but collecting and weaving the vines would take at least a day.
If bamboo is used, the comfort will be slightly lower, but it will be simpler and more convenient.
In between, Chu Qiao tilted her head, thinking about how much effort she would have to put into weaving something that only took four days, she shook her head, thinking it was not worth it.
Chu Qiao chose the latter without hesitation. It didn't matter whether it was comfortable or not, he could even sleep in the wild. The key was to complete the task quickly.
Having an idea in mind, Chu Qiao immediately took action while explaining.
"This time I'm going to use bamboo to make a suggested hammock."
She took out her only sharp weapon, a dagger, from her backpack.
Walk straight to a bamboo with a diameter of 30 cm.
Chu Qiao chopped it down at an angle, but the thick bamboo was almost undamaged. A faint white mark grew inside, as if mocking Chu Qiao's weak knife.
She picked up her dagger, which had a blade less than 10 centimeters long, and looked at the bamboo that was thicker than a bowl, feeling both amused and helpless.
She patted the bamboo and spoke to the camera, "If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools. It seems that without the right tools, I can't do anything. I can only make a stone axe for now."
"Master Chu, change the knife."
"That's right, it's not like I can't afford it."
"Master Chu has money to buy a drone, but no money to buy a knife?"
Chu Qiao agreed with the netizens' ideas very much, but the system was just so annoying.
But complaining is useless. If there are no conditions, then create them.
Chu Qiao walked into the forest, sometimes lifting stones with his feet, sometimes picking up stones, looking left and right.
It rains frequently here, and most of the stones on the ground have been washed round and smooth by the rain. If you want to make a stone axe, you need a very thin and hard axe blade.
"Master Chu, why don't we stop doing this? I feel very comfortable sleeping on the beach."
“Strongly agree.”
Chu Qiao shook his head. "You think you have rheumatism? The sand is indeed warm and comfortable when it's exposed to the sun during the day, but when it gets damp at night, the moisture will enter your body."
"What should we do then?"
Chu Qiao picked up a stone with a black surface. This stone was much larger than the one he had found before, with a diameter of about 20 centimeters.
"Is this round like the other stones?"
"And it's so... big."
Chu Qiao didn't explain, but suddenly picked up the stone and raised it above his head.
"tie--"
Chu Qiao smashed the stone hard onto a huge rock.
The black stone suddenly shattered into several pieces.
Chu Qiao lowered his head and looked at the broken stones. He looked at one, shook his head, then looked at another, and shook his head.
When she picked up the last piece, her eyes lit up and she said to the screen, "This one's good."
This piece of stone happened to have a sharp blade when it was dropped. Chu Qiao picked up the stone, stepped on the big rock with one foot, and rubbed the flat stone back and forth on the rock with his hand to make the thin part sharper.
"A stone axe needs to be both hard and sharp. This stone knife has both. We just need to find a suitable branch to press it onto."
Chu Qiao originally wanted to pick up some loose branches on the ground to save the trouble of cutting branches, but in this forest, almost all the tree trunks lying there were rotten beyond recognition and could not be used at all.
Chu Qiao failed to find a bargain, and although he was reluctant, he had no choice but to take out his knife.
She did not use the knife to cut the not-so-thin branch directly, but formed an obtuse angle between the knife and the tree, and cut the branch on one side. As expected, the knife only sank two or three millimeters.
Chu Qiao calmly found a stone from the ground and smashed it into the blunt side of the knife like a nail, and the blade gradually went deeper and deeper.
Chu Qiao explained: "If you are in the forest and you only have a small knife and you need to cut down a tree, you can do what I do, like hammering a nail, by smashing the blade into the branch and cutting it open."
Brother Feng suddenly posted a comment: "Master Chu, I'm not trying to be picky, but what's the point of you making a stone axe?"
"Brother Feng, you don't understand. Master Chu is showing us how to make a stone axe."
"No, no, he's showing off his abilities."
Chu Qiao quickly shook his head and defended himself: "It's really not true. It's because to make a hammock, I need to cut the bamboo along the fibers. I only have this knife, so I feel bad."
While saying this, Chu Qiao was actually complaining in her heart that it was because the system was too stingy and refused to give her two more. If this one broke, she would be completely finished.
Although he had used the most energy-saving method, when Chu Qiao had chopped more than half of it, he began to pant slightly as the resistance became greater and greater.
In the end, Chu Qiao pecked around in the tree like a well-fed bird doing its job.
This is certainly not Chu Qiao's true strength. The physical weakness caused by diarrhea and the fact that he had just climbed a tree and consumed a lot of physical strength are the more fundamental reasons.
“Snap—”
Half an hour later, the branch finally broke.
Chu Qiao wiped the sweat from his temples and shook his hands.
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