After searching the entire tribe, Song Xuan found more than 20 feathers. The rest were either inappropriate or too precious. When he participated in the exchange meeting with other tribes, Teng She received a lot of feathers. There are more than a hundred roots.
And every one of them is very beautiful. In this era, feathers are also a very important decoration, especially beautiful feathers. Just these more than a hundred feathers replaced three or four Teng She's bowls.
If they didn't like Shi Yong very much, and the tribes really didn't have anything more, Song Xuan really wouldn't trade with them.
If such a valuable thing was used to make arrow feathers, Song Xuan would probably not be able to help but slap himself and then scold him as a "prodigal son". Therefore, Song Xuan was very surprised when he saw the feathers that Shipi brought. asked:
"Shipi, where do you get these feathers from?"
Seeing that his collection seemed to be really useful to the divine envoy, Shipi smiled and said:
"Hehe~ Divine Envoy, I usually shoot these down with a sling, but most of the time the birds run away!"
"But there is usually a lot of hair falling out, and I will collect the good-looking ones!"
In this regard, Song Xuan could only say that he was the chosen one. Shipi's sling not only improved the tribe's combat effectiveness a lot, but now it can even play a big role in making arrows.
Shipi was praised a few times by Song Xuan, and he jumped up and down happily and was about to leave. When he turned around, he heard Song Xuan shouting:
"stop!"
After saying that, Song Xuan picked up a feather from Shipi's butt, then patted Shipi's butt and said:
"Okay, let's go. No matter how urgent you are, you have to get dressed!"
Shipi was so ashamed that he covered himself up and fled back to the river in a hurry to continue fishing.
With enough feathers, Song Xuan can experiment boldly with confidence.
Carefully split the feather into two halves with a bone knife, and then tied it with the thinnest animal skin rope. Although the best materials in the tribe were used, even so, the arrows made were It's very rough, especially the part tied with animal skins that has raised a small hill.
It seems that there is still no way to use the animal skins in the tribe. The animal skin ropes cut using the most primitive methods are still too thick. The little finger-width animal skin ropes are as thick as chopsticks even if they are thinned. They are tied to the arrows. It will naturally become very obvious later. The power of the arrow produced in this way will not increase but decrease. It is better not to increase it.
But there was no better material in the tribe for a while. Suddenly Song Xuan thought of the hemp he had seen before. There was a patch of hemp not far from the tribe. Although the area was not very large, it was still okay to use a little. .
This piece of hemp Songxuan was originally planned to be harvested after they matured and the seeds were harvested. After all, hemp of this scale is not easy to find. If you miss it and want to cultivate it again, you don't know how long it will take to wait.
But now that it is necessary to make arrows, we can only temporarily take a few trees for testing. For Song Xuan, these two things are related to the future of the Soaring Snake Tribe, and they are both very important. The arrows can only remain the strongest. The power can make it easier for everyone to fight against the enemy.
It is not difficult to take out the hemp. After peeling off the outer skin, gently beat it to remove the impurities, then rinse it several times, and after drying, you can make hemp rope.
Because Song Xuan was very careful when doing it, the utilization rate was quite high. He did not hammer the hemp into pieces, so that the rope would be more complete. After drying, Song Xuan found the best rope-twisting person in the tribe. Shihua came over to help, and through her hands, she finally made the thinnest rope in the history of the Soaring Snake Tribe.
The hemp rope, which is as thick as a toothpick, has a pulling force that is not inferior to that of a thin animal skin rope. However, Song Xuan naturally does not dare to try hard. If it breaks, it will be troublesome to try again. Just these five hemp ropes can It took three days to complete.
Let the bow fix the three feathers, Song Xuan carefully tied them to the arrow shaft.
But even so, Song Xuan was very dissatisfied with the current arrow tail. No matter how Song Xuan tied it, the arrow feathers and arrow shaft could not fit perfectly.
"It would be great if there was glue! Give me a bottle of super glue and I'll stick all the RMB away for you!"
Thinking of the advertisements he had heard before, Song Xuan also smiled, but looking at the arrow tail in his hand, he could only helplessly lower the corners of his mouth. The Tengshe tribe must not have any glue.
However, there is still strength in numbers. After Song Xuan told him about the problems he encountered, many people still gave him advice. Some people said that they used spider webs to make it. It is true that spider webs have a certain stickiness, but they are used to stick arrows. Yu is definitely not suitable.
Everyone talked about the plans they had come up with. Although few of them were reliable, they were all trying their best to think about whether they could help the envoy. Shi Lin stood up after thinking for a while and said:
"Angel, there is a tree in the tribe. The sap that flows out after being cut is very sticky to the hands. I wonder if it can be used to stick... stick arrow feathers!"
"Oh, Stone Forest is the kind of tree you're talking about, right?"
Shi Lin's words aroused the resonance of many people, but Song Xuan seemed very helpless at this time. You can tell me what kind of tree it is.
"Come on, take me to see you?"
After that, Shi Lin took Song Xuan out. Although there were not many of the trees they mentioned around the tribe, they were not difficult to find. After wandering around, he found a tree as thick as a person.
After finding it, Shi Lin took out the ax behind him and chopped it down. As expected, white juice flowed out of the wound as soon as he chopped it down.
"Look, look, it's coming out, it's coming out"
"The white one is out!"
Song Xuan pretended not to hear the dirty words in his ears, and carefully dipped a little with his finger. It was indeed very sticky. He took out the bowl he just picked up and carefully collected it, but the sap leaked out of every wound. It wasn't much, and I had to get another one every now and then, until the bark of the tree was almost smashed, and then I managed to collect only half a bowl.
As soon as he returned to the tribe, Song Xuan went straight to the arrow making room. Although the arrow feathers tied before were not perfect, fortunately Song Xuan did not take them off.
After untying the other parts of the rope, Song Xuan left only the front section, carefully lifted up the feathers, and then dipped some bamboo chips into them and carefully applied them to the feathers and arrow shafts.
After the application was completed, the rope was quickly tied back. In addition to the two ends, two ropes were also tied in the middle for fixation, which must be removed later.
First, the arrows produced in this way are not perfect enough. Second, too much rope is tied, which has a greater impact on the balance of the center of gravity of the entire arrow. As for the sap proposed by Shi Lin, we can only wait until it is completely solidified. See the effect.
