LSLFBW: Chapter 87

Lang Ze continued, “But only the beastmen warriors who have defeated a red bird alone can have their own long sword.”

Xi Zhou hurriedly asked, “What is a long sword?”

The horned beastmen had strong physiques, and they usually fought by relying on the power of their beast form. They rarely relied on external forces.

The tools used in the tribe, such as the stone knives and bone knives, were only for daily life. Few people actually used them to fight.

Therefore, the long sword proposed by Lang Ze made them all full of doubts.

Of course, everyone instinctively knew that it must be something extraordinary.

Qi Bai also turned to look at Lang Ze. After obtaining so many bird bones, he wanted to help the tribe enrich their weapon styles, but he didn’t have time to explain it to Lang Ze in detail.

It seemed that more lethal weapons had appeared on the Beastman Continent, but they hadn’t been popularized among the ‘rural’ tribes.

Lang Ze didn’t explain, but directly took out a long piece of wing bone from the rattan basket.

Xi Zhou just blinked, and the bone was already across his chest.

Lang Ze looked at him calmly. “If this is a bone knife, what will happen to you now?”

Xi Zhou felt that the wing bone seemed to be emitting a chill. “I…”

He shuddered.

If Lang Ze was holding a bone knife in his hand, there would definitely be a hole in Xi Zhou’s chest.

Qi Bai silently added in his heart, ‘One inch longer is one inch stronger, one inch shorter is one inch more dangerous.’

It could be seen that once they had suitable weapons, the combat effectiveness of beastmen in human form would be greatly improved.

Lang Ze withdrew his hand. “Whether you want such a long sword is entirely up to you.”

“I want it! I want to go to Red Bird Island!”

Bao Yu shouted loudly the moment Lang Ze finished speaking. Out of fear that Lang Ze couldn’t distinguish her voice in the crowd, she stood on tiptoe and raised her hand high.

“I want to defeat a red bird too!”

The second person to react was Sun Qing. He had seen Qi Bai pierce the black bear’s eye with a bone knife. At that time, he finally realized that even sub-beastmen could possess such powerful strength.

Ever since he saw the two red birds in the sheepfold, he had always dreamed of getting a bird bone knife of his own.

However, Sun Qing didn’t know that the bone knife could undergo such changes. If he had a long sword, he would dare to fight against the beast form of a horned beastman.

Yang Luo was so frightened that he almost dropped the bear bone staff in his hand.

Yang Luo certainly knew that Lang Ze could make bone tools with the bird bones, but he never imagined that Lang Ze would be willing to make bone knives for other members of the tribe.

Yang Luo stood up straight, looked carefully at Lang Ze’s sharp eyes and the unwillingness in his heart finally disappeared.

No matter what Lang Ze’s identity was in the past, he and Qi Bai were already the most important people in the Black Mountain Tribe. This was something he and Hou Yan could never compare to.

Qi Bai hadn’t expected such an enthusiastic response from the tribe members. He had just told everyone how dangerous Red Bird Island was.

However, no one among the Black Mountain Tribe felt afraid. Even Xiong Feng and Huan Ping were scrambling to step forward.

It was just that the necks of the two of them were a bit red. After all, they were so scared at that time that they didn’t notice these things at all. This led to Qi Bai and Lang Ze going to investigate again.

Among the crowd, only Zhu Ya stood there in a daze as he stared at the entire rattan basket full of bones with an expression of disbelief.

He was the only beastman in the tribe who had ever exchanged food for the bird bone knife, so compared to the other tribe members who only cared about having fun, Zhu Ya knew how much weight Lang Ze’s words contained.

In his mind, the most powerful tribe was the Pig Tribe, but only four or five people possessed bone knives, and his was obtained using five bison.

Soon, everyone in the Black Mountain Tribe would be able to obtain an even more powerful bone knife. This… how many bison would it be worth?

Lang Ze naturally couldn’t take everyone out at once. Therefore, he turned to look at Yang Luo and Hou Yan and said, “I want to bring a six person team with me. We will bring the bones and eggs of the red birds back to the tribe.”

Hou Yan naturally agreed.

Hu Huo clapped and said, “It is a good opportunity to test out the cart we just made.”

Qi Bai’s eyes lit up. “Hu Huo, have you made the cart?”

Hu Huo smiled in a slightly embarrassed manner. “Ma Shu and I polished the other wooden boards according to the one you left. I tried to make the two horizontal clips that can just fix the wooden boards so that they won’t fall off when pressed on the wooden wheels.”

How to fix the wooden board on the wooden wheel was exactly what Qi Bai was studying before leaving the tribe. Unexpectedly, in just a few days, Hu Huo and Ma Shu had completed this headache-inducing task.

Qi Bai quickly grabbed Lang Ze and said to Hu Huo, “Take us to see it!”

Hu Huo smiled. “Okay, the cart boards are piled up outside my cave.”

Hu Huo’s cave was on the right side of the Black Mountain. After coming out of the children’s cave and turning to the side, they soon saw the cart board placed under the wooden shed.

The moment Qi Bai entered the tribe, he noticed the building that suddenly appeared. However, he hadn’t expected Hu Huo to build a carport without any instructions.

At this time, several car boards and wheels were neatly placed under the carport.

Everyone else in the tribe had already seen how Hu Huo and Ma Shu put the pieces of wood together. Qi Bai was the designer of the cart, so he could naturally guess the shape.

In the entire tribe, Lang Ze was the only one who had never seen even the shadow of the wheels.

At this time, Lang Ze watched Hu Huo and Ma Shu assemble several huge, long wooden boards together with the mortise and tenon structure to form a large cart more than two meters long.

The two wooden wheels with a diameter of around 1.5 meters were connected with an axle, and the cart board was fixed in the middle of the wooden wheels. Then the thick straw ropes specially made by Hu Huo were put on.

In just a few minutes, a simple cart that completely broke the beastmen’s cognition was assembled.

Ma Shu took off his animal skin coat, transformed into his beast form, and put on the reins made of straw ropes.

As Lang Ze vaguely guessed the purpose of this tool, the children had already started to make noises beside Hou Yan.

Children knew best which adult would spoil them and meet their needs.

Sure enough, the next second, Hou Yan crouched down and carried all the five or six year old children onto the cart.

Ma Shu shook his tail gently and started walking on the open space in front of the Black Mountain.

Even though everyone had seen Hu Huo and Ma Shu conduct experiments several times, they still couldn’t suppress their excitement.

Ma Shu walked slowly in front, and the children stood up on the cart and waved their hands happily. The tribe members gathered around the cart, touching the edges of the wooden wheels and wooden boards gently with their hands, reverence on their faces.

Qi Bai followed closely behind the cart. He ran back and forth, checking the connection between the wooden wheels and the wooden boards.

Lang Ze saw the function of the cart at a glance. As long as the road was flat enough, the beastmen wouldn’t be too slow in pulling the cart.

The horse, who could only carry two large rattan baskets in the past, could now carry at least eight rattan baskets.

Of course, this was because Lang Ze didn’t pull the cart himself. If he tried it himself, he would know that the cart didn’t just improve the carrying capacity. Most importantly, it was quite labor-saving.

The cart of the Black Mountain Tribe was currently only the simplest model, without even a baffle on the edge of the cart, but this was a start. As long as the wheels could turn on the land, everything else was just a matter of time.

The crisis and panic brought by the red birds quickly dissipated in the tribe.

The reason the beastmen were able to survive on a continent full of dangers wasn’t just due to their beast form. More importantly, they had the courage to take risks and fight hard without fear of difficulties.

It wasn’t so much that they were afraid of the flock of red birds, but that everyone didn’t want to leave the place they had come to consider their home.

Everyone played around the cart in the square until it was dark.

This time, the red bird bones that Qi Bai and Lang Ze found were handed directly to Lang Ze by Yang Luo in front of everyone.

No one had any objections, and everyone was looking forward to the appearance of the first long sword.

There was another large basket of red bird eggs. Yang Luo gave one to each of the tribe members so that everyone could have a taste. The rest were given to Qi Bai.

Qi Bai wasn’t polite. He took out three extra eggs and gave them to Shu Lin to thank him for helping take care of Chuan Chuan and the duck eggs.

Speaking of Chuan Chuan, Qi Bai had been busy at the foot of the mountain since he returned to the tribe. Once he walked onto the platform in front of the cave with half a basket of red bird eggs, he heard the sound of Chuan Chuan anxiously knocking on the door of the bamboo nest.

Qi Bai smiled and put down the rattan basket. Then he opened Chuan Chuan’s bamboo nest and pulled him out.

“Son, did you miss your father? Come on, sleep with me tonight.” Then he led Chuan Chuan into the cave.

The bamboo pavilion outside Qi Bai’s cave now only had a few supporting pillars. There was no shelter on all sides, so its safety couldn’t be guaranteed.

Qi Bai lifted the animal skin covering the duck eggs, checked the little ducks that were still hatching, and started to deal with the remaining red bird eggs.

The cave was quite cool, so it should be fine to keep these eggs for ten days or half a month. However, they must be processed in some way if he wanted to keep them for longer.

Of course, Qi Bai admitted that he did want to eat salted eggs.

Under the stone cabinet on the right side of the cave entrance, there were five pottery jars. Four of them were filled with sour bamboo shoots.

Qi Bai took out the last unused pottery jar, cleaned it, and poured mountain spring water into it.

Qi Bai took out the bamboo tube containing salt and discovered that there was only half a tube of salt left.

He simply poured all the remaining salt into the pottery jar, stirred it evenly, and started to put the washed bird eggs into the pottery jar.

Crack, crack.

Qi Bai said without even turning his head, “Chuan Chuan, you can’t bite the straw rope.”

Chuan Chuan, who was watching Qi Bai be busy, tilted his head. He didn’t understand QI Bai’s words and just bleated obediently.

Qi Bai closed the lid of the pottery jar and poured a layer of water on the outside to seal it.

The red bird eggs were so big that only seven or eight eggs could fit into a pottery jar like this.

Qi Bai took out two red bird eggs and some dried bamboo shoots from the basket.

Qi Bai wanted to give the two red bird eggs to Lu Guo to ask for her help in making a few more pottery jars.

The dried bamboo shoots were used to exchange for salt. Salt was the most abundant thing in the tribe now. The salt exchanged for a piece of dried bamboo shoot was enough to last for a long time.

“Chuan Chuan, Dad has to go out for a while and will be back soon.” Qi Bai touched Chuan Chuan’s head. “You have to be good~”

The bamboo door of the cave was closed. Through the window, Qi Bai’s back could be seen as he walked down the stone steps.

Crack, crack.

Chuan Chuan tilted his head, walked to the bamboo bed, and lifted the animal skin covering the stone with his mouth.

“Baa?”

“Quack!”