Falling into a trap

Author: flying de lazy cat

Falling into a trap

The area of ​​​​this dark forest is not too large by visual inspection, but it is definitely not something they can clear out in a short time.

In the process, they undoubtedly discovered the rats scurrying around in every corner of the dark forest again. Many tribe members wanted to rush to catch them, but they were all stopped by Zhou Xu.

"Okay, don't waste your energy. These mice run very fast. If you can catch them with your bare hands, you would have caught them yesterday. You won't have to wait until today. Let's save some energy now."

While he was talking, he picked up a stone from his feet that was about the size of a palm and generally flat.

"Look at this, you have to pick up rocks like this."

As Zhou Xu spoke, he gestured towards the tribe members responsible for collecting supplies.

During this process, each tribe member had already picked up branches along the way, and some were even holding them with both hands.

This is one of the reasons why their efficiency in picking up branches is so low.

According to their holding method, they will soon be unable to hold her anymore and have to go back, which will waste more time going back and forth.

Zhou Xu saw them and waved directly to them.

"Come here and get the bundle of bark ropes I gave you before setting off."

Taking the bark rope handed to him by the tribe members, Zhou Xu spread the bark rope on the ground.

"Put the branches up."

After receiving the order, the tribe members did not think much and followed it one after another.

The branches they picked up were quickly piled up on the ground. After seeing that the pile was almost complete, Zhou Xu stepped on the branches, pulled the bark rope with his hands and used his hands and feet to tie the branches into three pieces.

A bundle.

In the past, my family would always save some cardboard boxes produced in daily life and sell them. Now the technology of this bundle of cardboard boxes is used here, and it is enough.

"Look, like this, you can just carry the bark rope on your shoulders. One person can carry so many branches back at once."

Before those branches were placed, it would have taken at least five or six of them to carry them back, but now, Zhou Xu could easily pick them up with one hand using a bark rope.

The tribe members who were watching couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

This binding technique itself is not difficult, the difficulty lies in who can think of doing it first!

"Okay, the team responsible for collecting supplies, you are divided into two groups, five people per team, and go to the two areas to collect supplies. Don't go near this area. The others are coming with me."

Although the members of the collection team were curious about what their leader would do next, but now that the leader had given the order, they naturally did not dare to neglect, and quickly divided into two teams and moved towards the areas on both sides.

After the two collection teams had gone far away, Zhou Xu took action.

"Fei Que, put the insect head and internal organs here. You don't need too much, just a little is enough."

"yes."

In response, Fei Que quickly followed suit and placed some insect heads and internal organs at the location indicated by Zhou Xu.

"Okay, now take out the branch and the basket that you just picked up, and place them like this."

A small basket trap was quickly set up.

Of course, Zhou Xu couldn't completely expect that when the mouse came in, it would knock down the branch or hit the basket, causing the basket to cover down.

For this reason, he had already tied a thin bark rope on the small branch.

There are two types of bark ropes he taught Butterfly and the others to weave last night. One is a thicker rope that requires interweaving multiple barks. Now they are used to tie branches for the collection team.

And the other one is what he has now, a simple twisted rope used as a traction rope to trigger the trap.

In order to avoid pulling off the branches in advance, Zhou Xu carefully placed the rope while retreating and hid behind a big tree not far away.

"You all go hide nearby and don't make any noise. What we have to do now is wait for the prey to come by itself."

Zhou Xu's words made Fei Que and the others not know what to say for a moment.

But considering the miracles their leader had brought them before, everyone still obeyed the order and hid nearby.

To be honest, Zhou Xu himself had no idea about this matter.

Not only is the problem of whether the trap can catch the mouse, but also the question of whether the mouse can be eaten.

According to his modern concept, most rats carry viruses, and eating them is too risky.

But then I thought about it, the environment of this primitive world is different from the modern world.

To put it simply, in this primitive world that prefers a completely original ecology, there are not so many bacteria and viruses. If these mice eat clean food, their bodies will naturally be cleaner.

[There are quite a lot of rats in this dark forest. At the same time, no one in this world has ever caught rats with this trap before, right? It’s probably easier to get hooked.]

At this moment, Zhou Xu was analyzing the situation in his mind, but wasn't he trying to comfort himself?

In this barren land, the food they could get was too little. If they couldn't catch it, they would starve. There was no choice at all.

Just as he was thinking this, Zhou Xu quickly noticed a mouse sneaking up nearby within his field of vision.

[Speaking of which, my eyesight has improved a lot. I was a little short-sighted before, but after traveling through time, I don’t have glasses, but I can see so clearly, and my observation ability has also become stronger. 】

[I might not have been able to notice the mouse hiding in the corner before, but now I can see it at a glance. Not only has the field of vision become wider, but it has also become clearer. 】

[Is it an improvement that comes with the Eye of Insight? Even without using this ability directly, my vision and observation ability have been passively improved? 】

There was no time to think about it. The mouse in the distance obviously smelled the smell emanating from the insect heads and internal organs. After carefully observing its surroundings, it trotted into the trap.

Just when it was grabbing the bait and getting ready to move, Zhou Xu gently pulled the string in his hand.

Along with the torn down twigs, the basket immediately fell down, covering the mouse inside.

At that moment, the mouse was obviously frightened and rushed inside the basket, causing the entire basket to shake.

The basket itself is not heavy, and the ground in the wild is not 100% flat. Under the fierce struggle of the rat inside, there is no guarantee that it will not escape.

Therefore, after catching the prey, Zhou Xu moved very quickly. He rushed forward with a force of his legs, and held down the violently shaking basket amidst the slightly incredulous exclamations of the tribe members.

Obviously, none of them thought that the mouse that they could not catch despite all their efforts would actually get into their leader's basket.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, the logic here is not incomprehensible.

But this did not affect the impact it had on them at the moment when the mouse threw himself into the trap.

At this moment, they seemed to see a door to a new world slowly opening towards them.

An update is sent, thanking the book friends for their rewards of "turning the dust back to dust", "sending you a little chrysanthemum", and "breeze slowly"!
Chapter completed!