Chapter 84 Verifying the guess

Author: flying de lazy cat

Chapter 84 Verifying the guess

According to Zhou Xu's instructions before departure, the current development of the third camp is carried out in a circle around the camp, and there is no intention to explore further.

However, vigilance work still needs to be done well.

In this way, Ye Jinghong arranged Zhou Chongshan to the mound outside.

At that time, Zhou Xu chose to build a camp here largely because of the existence of this mound.

In Zhou Xu's view, this mound is a natural sentry tower. It doesn't even need to be modified. As long as someone is placed on it, it can play the role of a sentry tower.

And now, Zhou Chongshan was assigned to the top by Ye Jinghong.

It has to be said that with someone dedicated to guarding and ensuring the safety around the camp, everyone will feel more at ease when working.

At present, the main energy is still focused on fishing. After all, in this era, food and safety are the two basic guarantees. Only when these two are guaranteed can they have spare energy to do other things.

The river is quite wide, and the center of the river is probably deep enough. At the same time, there is a place that the fishermen in the tribe are not used to.

That is, the water in the river is flowing! This is completely different from the lake water.

For fishermen who have been accustomed to fishing on the lake, the fishing environment is suddenly changed to a flowing river, and they are really not used to it.

During this period, a fisherman proposed...

"It would be much more convenient if there was a raft here."

The width of the river was estimated by Zhou Xu to be thirty or forty meters at the time, and the raft could travel on it without any pressure.

However, making a raft also requires a lot of wood. The amount of wood here in the Prairie Camp is relatively limited. If you want to make a big thing like a raft, you have to wait for the wood to be sent from the Black Moon Camp.

In fact, Zhou Xu was also quite eager to make rafts at the grassland camp.

Not for fishing, but if they encounter a group of centaurs with four legs and bows and arrows, and they really can't run away, they can just jump onto the raft and take the waterway to get rid of them.

Of course, Juma are also needed. It will take time for you to escape to the raft and then leave on the raft, right? Deploying Juma outside the camp can buy them this time at critical moments.

After all, after seeing the strength of those centaurs, Zhou Xu had to think more about life-related safety issues.

Zhou Xu stayed at the Black Moon Camp for five days, and then rushed to the grassland camp with two carts full of wood.

It can be said that the weight of these two carts of wood completely exceeded the sum of the various supplies they carried on their backs at that time, but in this case, their moving efficiency was improved.

Zhou Xu had people take turns pushing and pulling the cart along the way. After being familiar with the moving route, it only took him a day and a half to successfully reach their grassland camp.

The tribe members who were busy working in the camp knew they were coming and quickly came out to help unload the goods.

During this period, the coachmen naturally took the time to rest, and a fire was specially made for them to cook in the camp. Each coachman could enjoy a whole grilled fish to himself.

But on the other hand, after eating, they had to set off immediately and return to the Black Moon Camp.

These two carts of wood, even if they are fully loaded, are not enough for the grassland camp.

So in the next few days, they may have to frantically travel back and forth between the two camps to deliver wood to the prairie camp.

Even in this primitive era where everyone is a workaholic in order to survive, the workload is huge.

During this period, Zhou Xu, who returned to the grassland camp, naturally asked Ye Jinghong and Zhou Chongshan about the situation.

Ye Jinghong reported the situation inside the camp very neatly and everything was normal.

"Where are those centaurs? Have they appeared nearby recently?"

Faced with this problem, Ye Jinghong looked at Zhou Chongshan and motioned for him to report.

After all, during this period of time, the person responsible for standing guard was Zhou Chongshan.

Regarding this, Zhou Chongshan was also unambiguous and immediately said...

"The centaurs weren't around."

"The herd of antelopes didn't show up either, right?"

No matter what the group of herbivores were originally called, from the moment he saw them, they were called 'antelopes'.

"Yes!"

After getting this answer, Zhou Xu suddenly understood.

【As expected.】

For any living thing, the basic condition for survival is food.

Just like when they are looking for a camp, they will also check whether there is food around them, and the centaurs, who are also creatures, do the same.

Based on this premise, judging from the situation at the time, the group of antelopes was clearly the main hunting target of the centaurs.

In other words, wherever the antelope herd runs, those centaurs will chase them.

The time in a day is limited. Faced with the herd of antelopes that are always moving, even those centaurs probably don't have much free time to wander around.

Following this line of reasoning, they only need to avoid areas where wild antelope groups appear, and they can successfully avoid the group of centaurs.

Now the facts have proved that his idea is not wrong.

At this stage, their tribe does not need to make a living by hunting the group of antelopes. There is no need to expose themselves to the sight of the group of centaurs whose details are not yet clear for this purpose. The risk is too high.

However, you still have to take precautions.

The two carts of lumber sent from Black Moon Camp were not assembled.

If assembled into rafts or transported by horse, it would take up too much space and reduce transportation efficiency.

Anyway, the assembly itself is not difficult. After comprehensive consideration, it is the wisest way to have the Black Moon Camp directly transport the processed wood.

The wood sent this time is divided into two types, one is sharpened at one end, and this kind of wood is used to make horses.

The other type is simply polished log pillars, used to make rafts.

A cart of each type of wood was brought over. At this moment, Zhou Xu had already begun to organize the tribe members to get busy.

The production of the raft and the horse were carried out simultaneously.

During this period, Zhou Xu's main energy was still on Juma's side.

After all, they have already made several rafts at the Black Moon Camp, and most of the tribe's fishermen have already mastered some of the techniques.

At most, he could just wait for them to do a little inspection after they finished.

But this is their first time to do this thing of rejecting horses. If Zhou Xu doesn't care about it, they may not be able to build it on their own.

But after Zhou Xu joined, this matter became easier.

Now that the wood has been polished, they only need to follow Zhou Xu's instructions and use bark ropes to tie the wood and fix it.

The production of Juma requires quite a lot of wood, and one cart of wood is enough to make one.

As for the placement location, there isn’t much emphasis on it.

The current defensive deployment of their camp is, to put it bluntly, air leakage from all sides, and there are problems everywhere. As long as there is only one defensive horse, it will basically be the same wherever it is placed.
Chapter completed!