Chapter 5 Respected as a God

Author: flying de lazy cat

Chapter 5 Respected as a God

After picking up names as if they were taken from local materials, Zhou Xu subconsciously looked behind him and saw that at this moment, more than a dozen simple animal skin tents had been set up.

It's really not that difficult in itself.

[That’s pretty much it for primitive tribes.]

Regardless of this for the time being, Zhou Xu's attention is still focused on the work in front of him at this moment.

That’s making a fire!

Just at this moment, Feiqiao and the others also came back holding the branches.

"Put it all here. Anyone who has time can come over and help. Tear off the bark. Then find a suitable stone or weapon or something and start scraping the branches. I want to scrape off these scraps."

Including Feiqiao and the others 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 tore it apart!

The spear of this era was, to put it bluntly, a piece of wood with a relatively sharp bone tied to it, commonly known as a bone spear.

This one is rather strange. It is tied with a tube bone...

The original owner of this tube bone must be quite large, so the thickness and length of this tube bone are basically comparable to his forearm.

Because the fracture at one end is sharper, it was used to make bone spears.

"Take this bone and wash it. I'll use it later."

After handing the bone to the tribe member next to him, Zhou Xu took the animal skin rope used to bind the bone in his hand.

Then find a branch with suitable length and toughness, tie the two ends, and a simple living tool is completed.

Needless to say, he planned to use a bow drill to make fire. Compared to drilling wood to make fire, Zhou Xu felt that this was more efficient.

He piled some of the wood chips that everyone had scraped off during this period on top, then wound the firestick he carefully selected around the bowstring, and all the preparations were done.

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Xu felt really nervous at this moment, wondering if it was because so many people were looking at him.

【I can’t let my hair fall!】

This is not just a matter of face, but in this primitive world, if he cannot make a fire, he will be completely plunged into darkness when it gets dark.

And no one can guarantee how many terrifying threats are lurking in this dark night!

Without any hesitation, with the pulling force of both hands and the continuous pulling of the bow string, the fire stick in the middle soon began to drill at high speed, causing a burst of exclamations from the surrounding tribe members.

Although this is only a very simple structure, it is completely beyond the scope of their common sense and brings them a brand new impact.

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Xu maintained his high speed.

To be honest, this was quite a strenuous job. After one high-speed thrust, his entire arm began to feel sore.

But he didn't dare to relax at all.

【Please, please. Burn it for me quickly!】

Compared with the tribe members who looked exhausted and skinny, Zhou Xu thought he was in better condition.

Now he was trying his best to make a fire.

He didn't know if God heard his prayer. As a wisp of green smoke rose, Zhou Xu's heartbeat accelerated.

Tensing his nerves, Zhou Xu lay directly on the ground after taking away the fire stick, holding his breath and carefully stirring the wood chips around him.

It was like protecting the most fragile baby in the world.

Gradually, the smoke grew larger and larger, and the small spark produced by the friction finally turned into a flame and burned after it came into contact with the igniter.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu quickly moved the flame to the nearby stone stove where wood had been stacked and sawdust scattered.

Seeing the flames rapidly expanding and getting stronger, the excitement he had been suppressing finally turned into a cheer and was vented.

His rapid breathing caused his chest to rise and fall violently. 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 completed something.

What a feat!

After a cheer, Zhou Xu seemed to have remembered something and looked around subconsciously.

At this moment, the tribe members surrounding him had already knelt down and were kneeling towards him while cheering, with expressions on their faces full of fanaticism!

For primitive people, if they want to obtain fire, they can only pray to God 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 status as the 'Chosen One', the tribe members now looked at him as if they were looking at a god!

Zhou Xu, who took a deep breath to calm down his emotions, was still very satisfied with the results in front of him.

"Everyone, get up."

As Zhou Xu spoke, he handed the largest nutshell pot to Dashan.

"Go fill up the water."

At the same time, Fei Que had also followed Zhou Xu's wishes and gathered all the insects they had caught together.

"These insects, everyone cuts off their heads like this, and these are their internal organs..."

Although it was his first time to do this, it really felt like that at this time.

"Don't throw away the cut off heads and internal organs. Put them all on the bird's side. The remaining body of the insect can be threaded with these twigs."

As soon as he finished speaking, the mountain came back with a pot full of water.

At this moment, he had already set up a simple shelf on the stone stove, and at the same time, he used a mountain animal tooth dagger to cut two small holes in the nut shell pot.

You can take a thin bone and pass it directly through the two small holes, then place the pot on the stone stove to boil water.

Of course, this is not enough. Even if the water in the salt lake is boiled, it cannot be drunk. What he needs is to obtain fresh water through distillation.

But right now, he doesn't have any reliable equipment, so he can only rely on his divergent thinking to come up with ideas.

He found a reasonably suitable bone plate to put on it, and kept the bone plate tilted to a certain extent.

In this way, water vapor will rise and condense on the bone plate, and water droplets will condense on the bone plate. Because the bone plate is tilted, the water droplets will slide down to the bottom of the bone plate.

At this position, Zhou Xu directly connected the cleaned barrel bone as a water supply pipe. The distilled water flowing down will flow into the nutshell bowl below.

This whole thing is not very efficient, but it is the best way he can think of.

During this whole process, the surrounding tribe members were also stunned by the 'fresh water extraction device' that Zhou Xu had created.

Although they had no idea what it was, they were shocked!
Chapter completed!