The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 495 Hunting, Fishing, Building, Land Reclamation

The first step in land reclamation is to build a house.

"Chief, there are too few trees in this place that can be used to build a house."

After the soldiers of the engineering team came to the New World, faced with the problem of building a house, all of them were frowning.

Because they just came here, everyone urgently needs a house to settle down. It is impossible to wait for the brick kiln to be opened and bricks to be fired before building a house.

In Nanhuang, it is usually possible to build a wooden house at this time, which is convenient and fast.

However, the trick of building a wooden house will not work in the Rhinoceros Continent.

Because most of the area here is grassland, only a small part of forest.

The forests here are not as dense as those in the Southern Wilderness. The ancient trees are towering. Most of them are shrub-like trees. The characteristic of these trees is that their trunks are small and crooked. They are not good wood at all.

"There are trees, but they may not be useful."

Chen Bei thought of the huge baobab tree. When he first came to this continent, he and Thorn Willow had sheltered from the rain in the huge tree hole of the baobab tree.

"Leader, take me there to have a look."

Hong Tu, the captain of the engineering team, also came over this time. It is very difficult to build something from scratch. Hong Tu is worried about letting other people come over.

"Okay, I'll take you there to have a look."

Chen Bei blew a bone whistle, called the flamingo over, and then sat on the back of the flamingo with Hong Tu, and flew towards the nearby baobab forest.

Baobab trees, which thrive in many parts of the continent, are long-lived and some can live for thousands of years.

They have been standing on the savannah, providing food for some animals.

Soon, Chenbei's flamingo landed in the baobab forest.

"That's the tree I'm talking about."

Hong Tu was also shocked when he saw such a big tree, but then he took out a bronze ax and chopped a few times on the baobab tree. After looking at the cut debris, he shook his head in disappointment. shook his head.

Because baobabs are light and soft, they are not suitable for building wooden houses at all.

Even if it is built, it will quickly decay and have little value.

"Boss, this kind of tree is really useless, forget it, let's go back and think of a way."

"Since you're here, don't come in vain, pick some monkey bread and go back."

Chenbei and Hongtu picked two big sacks of monkey bread, and then returned to the river by flamingo.

These monkey breads were divided, but most people ate a few pieces with a frown. Compared with the various fruits in the Mang tribe, the monkey bread was really unpalatable.

Hong Tu walked around, and finally, he said helplessly: "Since there are no suitable trees, we can only make houses out of mud and grass."

Hongtu did what he said, and immediately called a large number of people to start building houses.

At this time, don't divide the engineering team and other teams. In order to live in the house as soon as possible and not be exposed to the wild, everyone has to do it.

Fortunately, the grass by the river was similar to reeds, very thick and tall.

People in the laterite belt cut down the grass and weaved it together to form a grass wall. Then, they used some dead wood to support the grass wall, and added a mud wall outside the grass wall.

The mud wall is pasted layer by layer after mixing mud and grass clippings.

Because the mud is relatively soft when it is wet, every time you paste a few layers up, you need to wait for the mud below to dry before you can continue to paste it up.

This is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. If there were not so many people from the Mang tribe, it would take a lot of time to complete it.

During the construction of the mud hut, the soldiers of the original hunting team and fishing team also got busy. They needed to provide enough food for everyone.

"Woooooooo..."

On the grassland, a hunting team soldier grabbed a sling with his right hand, one end of the sling was tied to his finger, and the other end was held in the palm of his hand.

At the center of the sling, there is a net pocket in which some stones can be placed.

After placing the stone, the hunting warrior will quickly turn the sling, and then suddenly release one end.Throw the rock out.

The stone in the sling has gained a lot of power after being continuously rotated. When it is thrown, it will carry a huge force, smashing the target to death, and even killing it.

There is also a kind of sling, which has net pockets at both ends. After loading stones, people can rotate the rope in the middle, and the sling will spin quickly.

This double-ended sling is not as powerful as a single sling. Its main function is to entangle the feet of animals and trip them, and then the hunting warriors rush up to end the prey with spears or knives.

"Snapped!"

After a hunting team warrior swung the sling, he accurately hit an antelope on the head.

Immediately after the antelope suffered the blow, his head was bleeding. Although he didn't fall down immediately, he couldn't walk steadily.

The warrior retracted the sling, rushed forward, and stabbed the antelope in the neck with his spear, ending its life.

"I can have a full meal when I go back."

The warrior tied up the antelope's legs, put them on his shoulders, and walked back.

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Along the big river, the soldiers of the fishing team took fishing nets and harpoons, found a bend in the river, and first tentatively cast a net into it.

"Crash."

After the fishing net was thrown out, it stretched rapidly, and finally fell into the water like a spider web.

The fish in the river had never been caught with a net, and they sensed something falling into the water, and even leaned over to see if it was food.

"Pull it up!"

The leader of the fishing team shouted, and then everyone pulled the fishing nets.

With the shrinking of the fishing net, the fish covered by the fishing net panicked and bumped around, but when they hit the fishing net, they couldn't escape at all.

Soon, dozens of catties of fish, large and small, were pulled to the shore by the fishing net, jumping constantly.

"A lot of fish, more than in the lobster river."

The soldiers of the fishing team were amazed as they quickly took out the fish from the fishing net.

One of the soldiers said: "It used to be the same in the Lobster River. It is said that there were a lot of fish in every net at the beginning, but in recent years, more fish were caught, so there have been fewer fish."

Another warrior said: "This river is so big, it should be able to catch fish for a long time, right?"

"Not necessarily. The leader said before that we should not overcatch. I think it is right. Let's put the small fish back. There is no meat anyway."

The others nodded.

Then they left the big fish in the net and put all the small fish back into the river.

The small fish that escaped by chance swam away quickly after entering the water. They didn't know that when they grew up, they might be caught.

Because there were too many prey and fish, the fishing team and hunting team had little effort, and they had a rich harvest on this prairie.

A day passed, and several thatched huts had been built on this grassland, and the mud walls outside were half-pasted.

Chen Bei and the others grilled fish and meat around the fire, looking at the simple thatched huts, he felt very comfortable.

This is the first trace left by the Mang tribe on this continent.

(End of this chapter)