Original War

Chapter 30 Artistic Stone Skills

At the beginning, Shao Xuan tapped a hammer to see Ke’s reaction.

The beating process is laborious, not just a hand and a wave of an arm. Every time you strike, you have to calculate a lot. The angle, strength, how to swing the hammer, where to strike, etc. have to be all decided in a short moment.

For many people in the tribe, they probably beat too much. With experience, they can achieve the best percussive effect based on feelings. But Shao Xuan is only a novice now. He cannot have the experience of an old stoneware master who has beaten for decades. He can only rely on calculations and rough estimates, and then try and improve again and again.

Even if the body is now much stronger and stronger, but the strength is not endless. When I first held the stone hammer, I didn’t feel heavy, but the number of beats increased. As the body’s strength was lost, I felt that I was holding it in my hand. The stone hammer became heavier and heavier, but at this time, it was impossible to make a mistake. When the force of the strike changed, the leaf-shaped stone flakes that were knocked down would completely exceed expectations, and there would be a lot of waste.

Because of this, Shao Xuan didn’t have the energy to pay attention to Ke’s reaction.

At the beginning, the time between the two hammers was a little longer, because Shao Xuan had to think about the shortcomings of the previous one in this moment, so that he could improve with the next one. However, as the hammer was hammered down, Shao Xuan also had a spectrum, became proficient, and the time between the two hammers became shorter and shorter.

Not knowing how many hammers were hit, Shao Xuan felt that the whole person was about to collapse, but Ke did not stop him, but would point out the mistakes from time to time. It’s like running a long-distance race. I feel like I’m almost reaching the limit when I’m running. I want to stop and rest, but at this time someone will urge you behind, “Go on! Go on!”

Knowing Ke’s temper, if Shao Xuan stopped at this time, he probably wouldn’t want to follow Ke to learn stone tools in the future. Even if you are tired, you can only knock down with gritted teeth.

When the last trace of strength in the body seemed to have been emptied, Shao Xuan gradually felt relaxed again after hitting and hitting. For a moment, he still wondered, is it possible to break through the limit once?

What Shao Xuan didn’t know was that when he felt relaxed and his strength recovered a lot, a totem pattern appeared on his face.

Inadvertently, he had already used the power of the totem, but Shao Xuan’s mind was all devoted to the beating, and he didn’t pay attention to the bright totem in his mind.

Ke, who was sitting next to him, flashed surprise in his eyes. He has been a stone tool master for so many years, and many people have come to learn stone tool making from him, but few people will use the power of totem in the process of making. Some people think that the power of totem is Sacred and can only be used for hunting and participating in tribal defense and other more “Sacred” things. Although some people do not have this idea, it is not easy to control the power of totem accurately. , Unless some experienced veterans can have that degree.

But young soldiers like Shao Xuan, or some young fighters like Lang Ga, can rarely control them well. Once the power of the totem is used, it is easy to knock the stone core directly into several pieces, which is not processing, but destruction. If you are impatient and irritable, you just quit. It’s too much trouble, so it’s better to practice hunting skills if you have this skill!

Because of this, Ke was surprised, because Shao Xuan not only used the power of the totem, but he had not directly destroyed the stone core, and even the leaf-like stone flakes that were knocked down were more perfect. Almost every stone that was knocked down A stone leaf is used for further processing, and it will not become a waste!

How rare!

But Shao Xuan didn’t notice the “rare” of owning at all. He was immersed in the beating all the time, thinking about the experience summed up from each beating, and then performing the next beating, which also missed the maintenance on the face of Ke. Surprised expression for several minutes,It is not easy for Ke to show such a look of surprise even if he talks with familiar people and does not smile even if he is usually stern, with few other expressions.

Shao Xuan stopped when the line drawing was finished.

Look at the ground next to the stone core. The small pieces of stone leaves knocked down are gathered into a small pile, and some are scattered on the ground.

Looking at Ke again, he still has no expression.

Shao Xuan put down the stone hammer, breathing heavily beside him, waiting for Ke’s assessment. At the same time, I also sighed that it was not easy for a stone tool master!

No wonder there are so many disabled warriors in the tribe who can no longer participate in hunting, but only a small part of them become stoneware masters. Even if the stone tools are polished, they are only used for the daily life of the owner, and stone tools are provided to the younger generations. , They usually have other things, such as “logistics duties” in charge of transportation, such as Grid, instead of treating stone polishing as a subsistence occupation. Naturally, the technology of polishing stone tools is not as good as a full-time stoneware master like them. .

The astonishment on Ke’s face has long since calmed down, and he has restored the previous dull face, still sitting in the same place, raising his hand to take a slender wooden stick from the side, and pushing away the piled stone leaves and stones, and then The hand shook slightly, and the tip of the thin wooden stick picked out a small piece of pointed stone leaf, and the small piece of stone leaf that was provoked crossed a parabola in the air, and fell onto a place full of various processing to be polished. Stone leaves in a wooden box. The “peeled” stone leaves can be made into scrapers or pointed objects, stone cones, stone arrowheads, etc. according to their shape.

Although the stone leaves knocked down looked like a lot, Ke’s stirring speed was also fast. Shao Xuan watched the stone leaves fly from the ground into the stone plate like a string of connected beads, and was overwhelmed.

Before Shao Xuan breathed a few breaths, Ke had already picked it up.

Putting down the stick, Ke said blankly: “Trash!”

Shao Xuan’s eyelids twitched, but he quickly realized that this “waste” was not referring to him, but referring to the stone pieces on the ground that were knocked off but could not be used for further processing. These are waste materials.

Obviously, Ke was not satisfied with the amount of discarded stone leaves knocked off.

“Originally I planned to make a stone ball, but now it seems that I can barely make an adze.” Ke looked at the stone core that was knocked off with disgust, and said a long sentence.

Shao Xuan suddenly felt relieved and worried that Ke would let him go directly, but since Ke said that, it meant that he was not opposed to teaching him.

“Come here.” Ke pointed to the stone core that Shao Xuan had knocked on.

Shao Xuan hurriedly put down the stone hammer, took the stone core that was horribly knocked over, and placed it on the stone anvil in front of Ke.

“I’m optimistic.”

Ke picked up the stone hammer that Shao Xuan had used just now, took the stone core twice as wide as his palm in his other hand, held it firmly, and looked at the stone core.

Shao Xuan only heard the scream of the wind, and the shadow of the hammer flashed by.

“Ding!”

The stone hammer hit the stone core with a crisp sound.

At the same time, a stone leaf has been knocked off and peeled off the stone core.

The knocked stone leaf did not directly fall to the ground, but fell into a wooden box hung on the wall.

From swing to percussion, it is very neat. It seems that before swinging the hammer, it has already determined which piece and which piece of the stone core will be knocked off. Unlike Shao Xuan who was waiting on the battlefield just now when he was beating, instead he wielded a kind of casualness when he swung the hammer.

This is the real “peeling the stone leaves”, which is like Shao Xuan just now, it’s just hitting the stones, and most of the waste is still knocked down.

After the first hammer, Ke did not give Shao Xuan too much time to think, followed by the second, third, and fourth…

The shadow of the hammer flashed continuously, and the tinkling sound was endless. With the faster and faster hammer shadow, Shao Xuan even felt that the sound had been connected, and he could hardly hear the interval between the falling hammers.

The stone leaves that were peeled off the stone core and knocked off also fell into the wooden box one by one. At first glance, it looked like a rainbow bridge connecting the stone core and the wooden box.

Shao Xuan’s eyes turned straight. He used to know that he was very capable of making stone tools, but he still didn’t expect that he had far underestimated the old stone tool master, and he had such extraordinary skills!

This is stone leaf peeling, this is simply slicing the noodles! !

Obviously, when Shao Xuan came here to observe in the past, he did not see Ke’s true ability.

So subtle! So accurate!

When Shao Xuan recovered, Ke had already peeled off the stone leaf, and the stone core left in his hand was already in the shape of a stone adze.

Then it is drilled and polished, a wooden handle is installed, and the tool is shaped.

Perfect.

“Take it.” Ke handed the finished adze to Shao Xuan.

“Give it to me?” Shao Xuan took the stone adze and looked at Ke. Seeing that Ke had turned around to work on others, he swung the stone adze twice.

This stone adze has been processed by himself. Although the technology is rough and unsightly, it almost destroyed the stone core, but after all, it is the first time that he has participated in the production seriously. extraordinary.

The stone core used to make this adze is fine, compact and high in hardness. It is not obvious when you look at it, but you can clearly feel the weight in your hand. It is a medium-upper stone. Unexpectedly, Ke gave it to himself.

“Peeling a piece of stone, even the simplest beating, to achieve the most satisfactory results, it takes time and there is no shortcut. You have to anticipate the peeling of each piece of stone, and then think about the speed, the weight of the stone, the strength, Consequences, etc., and associate them with the quality of the stone core. The amount of force, the best angle, and the ever-changing situation from the raw material to the finished product are unspeakable. How to use force, at what angle, and how to use it Percussion… only you can understand through practice after practice.” Ke said with his back to Shao Xuan.

Yes. Stone tools, unlike iron tools, cannot be restored with one wrong step, and cannot be reversed. A hammer down is either a success or a failure. The final word.

Shao Xuan took the stone adze and bowed respectfully to Ke, “Yes, I know.”

“But,” Ke said, he raised his finger to the dead fishes in the corner who were staring at Caesar. “When practicing, you must also know how to summarize. If you fail, you can, but you must know how to learn your lesson. You can’t follow these fish. Same!”

“Understood.” Shao Xuan can hear what Ke means.

Ke means to make Shao Xuanbie be like this piranha, a tendon, no long memory, a mistake to the end, and a death without looking back.

“Take one away.” Ke said. This is going to drive people.

“Oh.”

Since Ke told Shao Xuan to take a fish back, it was useless for Shao Xuan to refuse, not to mention too much. He picked up a fish, took the stone adze, and asked Caesar to leave.

Carrying the fish out of the door, Shao Xuan looked at the fish in his hand. Thinking of Ke’s words just now, he couldn’t help but smile and poked the fish’s head with a stone adze: “Stupid!”

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Fish: “Bite me?”

There is one more tonight.