Chapter Twenty-Five Harvest and Longbow

  Chen Xu made this move, and not far behind him, the Ape No. 1 and the Ape Captain, who were at a 45-degree angle to him, also shouted out loud, waving their stone tools and rushing towards the panicked horned goat group.

  In a certain sense, the emergence of these two has thoroughly filled the void on Chen Xu's flank. At least from the perspective of the Angle Deer group, their path ahead is now completely blocked!

  Listening to the whizzing wind sound approaching by my ear, looking at the figure running like flying in front of me not far away, the horned antelopes that lived for unknown years in the Stone Age quickly lifted their hooves, and the powerful force acted on the soft soil under their feet, stirring up a cloud of dust.

  In this hazy dust, their figures have already risen, a very beautiful turn, and they rushed in the direction opposite to Chen Xu's attack.

  They are not gathering together, but instead showing a trend of gradual dispersal. If this continues, at most one or two Tibetan antelopes will enter the trap's range!

  "How can you run so fast!?"

  Wielding the massive wooden staff, Chen Xu seemed invincible, but only he himself understood the bitter toil behind it. The enormous energy consumption of this grandiose combat method far exceeded his imagination.

  What surprised him even more was the speed of the Saola's run. He thought that with his agility and internal energy reaching the late stage of the Second Heaven, he might not be able to surpass the Lord of the Forest, but at least he could outrun herbivores. However, as soon as he started running, he found out that his previous understanding was completely wrong!

  "Ugh!"

  Suddenly a long whistle, Chen Xu's feet were nailed to the ground, his body stopped instantly, his arms suddenly propped up, and with the combination of great power and inertia, the wooden stick in his hand suddenly became like a dragon coming out of the sea, carrying a deafening roar, and struck the horned goat group.

  After this fright, the horned antelope group became more and more flustered, starting to rush frantically towards the grass thicket in front of them. At this time, seven or eight apemen suddenly rushed out from the nearby grass thicket on both sides of them. These apemen saw the wooden stick hovering in mid-air, as if they had gone mad, constantly roaring while charging towards the horned antelope group.

  Although the harm caused to these saiga antelopes was not great, it had a severe impact on them in terms of morale. In their panic, they had no other choice but to continue running forward, with each one's four hooves flying and body shape like lightning. Even Chen Xiang, who had thrown away his wooden stick, was left far behind for the time being!

  The faster you run, the harder it is to stop, and even less able to withstand sudden attacks.

  Under the continuous blows, only six or seven of these horned antelopes crossed over the rushing apemen on both sides and fled into the thickets on both sides. The other twenty or so horned antelopes all rushed towards the dense forest in front of them.

  Perhaps in their simple minds, that dense forest was their only hope for escape!

  "Bang!"

  A loud noise was heard, and the group of pronghorns ran away like arrows shot from a bowstring, disappearing instantly into the ground. Then, a cloud of dust rose up like a mushroom cloud, and amidst the swirling dust, there were countless desperate cries of the dying pronghorns.

  These rapidly advancing animals, under the support of their powerful speed, instantly crashed into the bottom of a three-meter-deep pit. Even without those bamboo spears and wooden sticks, the impact force from rapid to sudden stillness was not something that their fragile hooves could withstand.

  With this one move, the horned beast group was like a long arrow shot onto the shield, not only could they no longer advance, but also because of the conversion of momentum, the arrowhead directly broke off.

  Not counting the saiga antelopes that were pierced by bamboo spears or wooden sticks, only those that broke their legs due to the force of recoil under the law of conservation of momentum reached fifteen or sixteen in an instant.

  Only a few lucky ones stepped on the bodies of their companions, which had some cushioning effect and avoided breaking their legs. The gazelles that managed to jump out of the pit were immediately skewered by eight apes emerging from the forest with bamboo spears.

  With Chen Xu and other apes arriving, the fate of these saiga antelopes was sealed. This battle ended with a perfect period in the cheers of the apes.

  "This way, we can hold on for a few more days, but it's still not a long-term solution. Those black apes at the foot of the mountain must be driven away as soon as possible!"

  Looking at the cheering apes around, looking at the twenty-three corpses of saiga antelopes in the pit, Chen Xu's heart was filled with joy and also furrowed his brow.

  But soon he turned back from this distant thought and joined the revelry of the apes, no matter what, at this moment they were the winners, the heroes who conquered nature, they had the qualification to cheer.

  Night fell quickly, and after the apes enjoyed the joy of harvest, Chen Xu ordered them to carry a horned goat each and withdraw from this place quickly, while he himself did not return immediately.

  The figures of the apes disappeared into the night, and Chen Xu also jumped down into the pit, picking up all the branches and debris inside, and reinserting the broken bamboo spears and wooden sticks, restoring the trap to its original state.

  Not only that, after thinking about it on the spot, Chen Xu jumped onto the ground and entered the thicket. He cut down many thick branches from the trees, simply trimmed them with a stone axe, and inserted them into the pit.

  Until the pit was densely packed with no obvious gaps, Chen Xu stopped his movements. After returning to the ground, he simply covered it with straw and branches.

  "Hehe, hope tomorrow will come here, there will be a good harvest!"

  He smiled slightly, sizing up this crude trap. Chen Xu couldn't help but nod his head in approval. Although the trap was full of loopholes, under the cover of night, it would be difficult to detect. He believed that if any creature passed by, this place would definitely leave an indelible impression on it.

  After doing all this, the moonlight gradually brightened, and the moon climbed to the top of the branch. Chen Xu no longer lingered, circulated his internal breath, moved his body shape, and under the dark night sky, he seemed like a virtual shadow, quickly rushing through the dense thicket, and along the way, he startled many hidden wild beasts.

  It was under his full force of internal energy that before these beasts were ready, his figure had already disappeared from the beasts' field of vision. And with their strict territorial concept, they naturally wouldn't rashly tread on other fierce beasts' territory for a non-existent prey.

  In less than half an hour, Chen Xu returned to the top of the small mountain and caught up with the apes who had set out a little earlier on the halfway slope.

  What made Chen Xu frown was that the original twenty-three prey, this time when they arrived here, only eighteen were left, and the other five had been snatched away by fierce beasts in the jungle.

  Fortunately, although many of the apemen had wounds on their bodies, none of them were fatal bites, so there was no damage to human hands.

  This made him involuntarily let out a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he became more vigilant about the dark forest.

  At the top of the mountain, the anxious monkeys who had been left behind were overjoyed when the hunting party appeared in their line of sight with eighteen heads of saiga antelopes.

  Of course, first and foremost is the admiration for Chen Xu, this great Fire God.

  The bonfire had long been lit, and after such a long time of adaptation, the crowd's fear of the flames had disappeared, and they began to enjoy this gift from the fire god.

  With enough dry firewood collected, at this moment, the bonfire on the mountain top expanded rapidly and reached a length of over 5 meters.

  Under the dark night, the flames on the mountain top are like a bright lamp, breaking through the dullness of the sky, and its brilliance is enough to illuminate the entire small mountain.

  After a short rest, Chen Xu inspected the results of the crowd's labor for the day and ordered them to skin the newly hunted beasts and take out the remaining beasts from the cave, starting the night's revelry.

  As they had a huge harvest today, considering that everyone would still have to work hard tomorrow, Chen Xu was very generous and let every ape eat until they were full, instantly consuming all the remaining wild beasts in the cave.

  However, with the addition of eighteen Tibetan antelopes, their food reserves were still quite good.

  After getting drunk and full, the apes paired up with each other and chose their own objects on the mountain top, finding a suitable location to carry out human reproduction.

  Chen Xu, however, had not yet begun to cultivate. He sat beside the fire pit, holding several thick deer tendons in his hand, constantly pondering. After several days of drying and roasting, these deer tendons had shed their original wet smoothness, becoming soft and full of elasticity.

  "It looks like it can be used now, but I don't know how powerful the bow and arrow made will be!"

  Muttering to himself, Chen Xu put the deer tendon aside and picked up four thick bamboo slices that had been cut and prepared from the other side. He bent them with his hands, feeling the powerful elasticity of the bamboo slices, and nodded in satisfaction.

  Then, put the bamboo slips on the bonfire and start roasting them. Slowly, they bend into a long bow shape. When one bamboo slip is formed, Chen Xu calls out, and the ape No. 1, who has been following him closely, immediately covers it up and comes forward, holding the bamboo in place according to his instructions, not letting it return to its original shape.

  "Not bad, just like this!"

  With a sigh of admiration, Chen Xu continued to roast the second bamboo strip and, using the power of the flames, slowly coiled it onto the first piece of bamboo, like two intertwined DNA chains, presenting a simple spiral curve.

  After the Ape No. 1 re-fixed the spiral bamboo piece, Chen Xu began to serve the third and fourth bamboo pieces, and after a while, the third and fourth bamboo pieces were also wrapped on top of the first two bamboo pieces.

  At this time, the four bamboo strips are twisted together in a spiral shape. Under the heat of the flame, they slowly stabilize their shape and form a model of a long bow. At both ends of the long bow, there is a hole at the same time on both ends of the four bamboo strips, which just overlap each other to form a hole for binding.

  Chen Xu took the three dried animal tendons on his side, made a simple and usable bowstring, then stretched the bowstring into the hole at one end of the longbow model, tied a knot, and then took over the longbow from Ape No. 1, starting to bend it with force, until it was bent to a certain extent, he tied the other end with the bowstring.

  At this time, a bowstring made of deer tendon was tightened, and a simple but extremely powerful longbow was made.

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