Author: flying de lazy cat

The importance of maps is undoubted. It not only facilitates them to record, but also facilitates them to locate their location.

Following the train of thought in his mind, animal skins and branches were basically ready-made. As for the plant slurry used to replace ink dye, it was also available in the black forest. At this time, he had already asked people to pick it back.

"Dashan, come here."

Taking advantage of the little time before dinner, he called Dashan over.

"Tomorrow morning, you no longer need to be responsible for collecting supplies in the dark forest. I plan to arrange for you to carry out an exploration mission."

"yes!"

Zhou Xu was not too surprised by Dashan's straightforwardness.

In fact, as the strongest individual in their tribe, it would undoubtedly be a waste to keep him collecting supplies in the dark forest.

He didn't have a choice before, but now he has a choice, and Zhou Xu is more inclined to give Dashan more training opportunities.

"Now let me teach you how to draw a map."

"map?"

Obviously, there is no such concept of map in Dashan.

"You take good care of it."

While talking, Zhou Xu had already laid out the map, then picked up a stone and smashed all the picked plants. While pounding, he explained...

"The sap of these plants is colored. I want to use it as a dye. Just pound it like this and that's it."

While talking, Zhou Xu picked up the branch that had also been prepared long ago.

"Dip the tip of this branch and draw on the hide."

As Zhou Xu spoke, he drew a triangle in the center of the animal skin. However, the branch pen and plant dye were not smooth to use, so it took him a lot of effort to do just a few simple strokes.

Looking at the three triangles stacked together, he drew a small circle around the outside to circle the three triangles.

"This is our tribal camp, and this side is the salt water lake..."

Zhou Xu said and drew a circle next to the tribe, adding a few wavy lines in it, which means lake water.

"This is the dark forest."

While drawing these marks, he was also telling Dashan what these marks actually represented.

After simply drawing the surrounding terrain, he drew a cross arrow in the upper left corner of the map, and based on the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, he marked the directions of southeast, northwest, and explained these to Dashan one by one.

In fact, these things are not complicated. As long as you have a normal brain, it is not difficult to remember them.

It turns out that Dashan learned quickly.

"Very good, Dashan, you can choose two people from the original collection team to form a trio with you and carry out the exploration mission together."

As Zhou Xu spoke, he handed the already drawn animal skin map into Dashan's hand, implying that he had entrusted this task to him.

Then his eyes fell on Fei Que beside him...

"Feiqiao, I have to transfer the five people who were previously transferred from the gathering team. The remaining people in the hunting team will still be led by you, but starting from tomorrow, the hunting area will be completely expanded to an entire black forest.

It’s up to you to confirm the perimeter and specific deployment location.”

The hunting team's activity range is still on the periphery, which is undoubtedly the result of his careful thinking.

This dark forest was not as big as he had initially expected. Under this premise, it was enough to have the spider web in the center area to serve as their hunting trap.

In the past, the big spider could not wait for its prey to come to the door because it had no bait. In the past, in addition to relying on its unique skill of "waiting to death", it mainly relied on the prey's stupidity.

Thanks to the fact that it was the only predator in this area in the past, otherwise it would never be alive today.

This is also the main reason why the difficulty of hunting for large spiders began to rise sharply after they arrived.

Now, they have taken over the hunting spider webs in the mine. As long as they place some bait to attract prey, the spider webs will probably work better than their basket traps.

As for the hunting team, although the number of people has decreased, their hunting area has become larger.

In other words, the 'competition' pressure between each trap has become smaller, and under normal circumstances, they should be able to catch more prey.

After arranging new tasks for Dashan's exploration team and Feique's predator team, Zhou Xu set his sights on the remaining seven people.

The main task of these seven people is still to collect resources, but the difference from before is...

"The three of you will continue to be responsible for collecting supplies in this dark forest. As for the four of you, you will be responsible for mining coal in that mine."

With this personnel adjustment, their Salt Lake tribe has officially entered a new stage.

Early the next morning, the three-person exploration team headed by Dashan officially set off.

Dashan had actually done similar exploration missions before the former leader died, and it was no stranger to them now.

As a result, they had just reached the outskirts of the black forest. With the vision bonus Zhou Xu had given them, Dashan obviously discovered something and quickly issued a warning...

"Hide now!"

Following such a low shout, the other two people reacted quickly and immediately hid behind the main trunk of a nearby black tree.

At this moment, Dashan leaned against the main trunk of the black tree, cautiously sticking out half of his head, his eyes drifting towards the outside.

Soon, two figures wrapped in animal skins came into view.

"They're from other tribes."

The faces of the other two team members who also discovered the other party's presence became obviously cloudy and uncertain.

"Dashan, do you want to take action?"

"It's too far away. It will be difficult for us to catch them if they run away. Let's wait until they get closer first."

Faced with this unexpected situation, Dashan's mind was relatively calm. After making a simple judgment on the distance, he made a wise decision.

However, I don't know what happened, but after seeing this dark forest across a long distance, the two people stopped. After saying a few words to each other, they turned around and left.

This situation made the expressions of the three members of the exploration team darken.

"Do you want to chase?"

"Can't catch up."

Dashan said these three words with a hint of annoyance in his tone.

"Hurry back to the tribe and tell the leader what's going on here. We'll keep an eye on it! Hurry!"

Under Dashan's urging, the tribe member had no time to think and rushed back to the tribe at full speed.

After receiving the news, a few subtle wrinkles appeared unconsciously between Zhou Xu's eyebrows.

From time to time until now, except for the humans of his tribe, he has never seen an outsider.

Of course, he knew that there were other tribes in the world, but that didn't mean he wanted to meet them.

Judging from Zhou Xu's current personal experience, this is a primitive world with scarce resources.

It is no exaggeration to say that he has lost a lot of weight from time to time.

In this case, what does it mean when people from other tribes appear?

This means that they will most likely compete with each other for limited resources! This is not a good thing!

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