Shen Nong had already punished him, and then she got down to business, "Da Hei, you uproot five giant trees, I have a use for them."
Dahei rubbed its belly and cautiously looked up at Shen Nong.
The meaning was clear: he was too hungry to have any energy.
Shen Nong knew exactly what the bear was up to, and he said nonchalantly, "If you can't do it, I'll have Ze pull it out."
Shen Nong turned her head to look at Ze, who had been following her.
With his mind preoccupied with the idea of needing lots of fur in his beast form, Ze suddenly heard Shen Nong call his name. "Hmm, pluck."
Then, Tuanzi let out a loud "squeak." Shen Nong stared at the panda fur in Ze Yi's hand and couldn't help but laugh out loud. "I told you to pull up the tree, not to pluck the fur."
Ze held a handful of fur, glanced at Tuanzi who was crying because she had lost her beloved fur, and pressed the fur in her hand onto Tuanzi amidst Shen Nong's laughter.
"Here you go."
Tuanzi cried even louder as she looked at the fur that had fallen to the ground.
Its fur!
Shen Nong touched the spot where Tuanzi's fur had been plucked and gently comforted her, "Don't cry, Tuanzi. I'll give you an extra can of sugar water when we get back, okay?"
Tuanzi nuzzled Shen Nong with its head, whimpering and acting cute.
Ze looked at Tuanzi and the priest, wiping away the remaining hairs from his palm.
I counted the time until I awakened.
...
Big Black was afraid of being robbed alive, so he didn't dare to negotiate any terms and uprooted the giant tree very quickly.
Shen Nong used charred wooden strips to draw blueprints for crossbows and catapults on smooth wooden boards.
I remember in my past life, my master always said that he was blessed by God with the ability to remember everything he saw, which is something that many people dream of.
But apart from his master, everyone else would overlook his own efforts and only think that his talent helped him.
Out of respect for her master, Shen Nong listened twice and didn't hold it against him.
Later, when he got tired of hearing it, he would use his own talent to crush the other person's strengths whenever someone said he relied on talent.
While others take ten years to master a subject, Shen Nong can recite it fluently in just one month.
Many people were so depressed by the job that they threatened to quit.
Later, it was the master who stepped in and said that Shen Nong could only recite it but did not understand its meaning at all.
This offered some consolation to the experts whose confidence had been undermined by Shen Nong.
Shen Nong didn't expose his master's well-intentioned lie; he simply knew how to memorize it, and he didn't need a month at all.
However, what his master said was indeed true; God had indeed blessed him with talent.
If he didn't have a photographic memory, he really wouldn't have been able to draw the ancient weapon based on a disassembly diagram he'd only glanced at.
Mark the required size of the wooden boards and hand them over to Hu Xiao and Tu Feng for sanding.
"Priest! All the bricks you requested are ready!" Tu Dong ran over with a basket on his back. "The bricks are piled up like a small mountain, I can't even count them all!"
Shen Nong exclaimed happily, "That's wonderful!"
He had long wanted to improve the tribe's defenses, and with ballistae and catapults, walls would definitely be a must.
The bricks for building the brick kiln have already been fired. Once the surrounding wall is completed, the village's earthen houses can be replaced with brick houses.
The brick kiln is three meters high, with a dome-shaped top that looks like a large steamed bun, and it is covered with mud so that it is airtight.
Because they had detailed blueprints, and the orcs were energetic and incredibly strong, the brick kiln was built very quickly.
Shen Nong had people put the prepared and air-dried adobe bricks into the kiln, lit the split tree roots in the fire pit, and sealed the kiln door.
Only a small opening was left for adding more tree roots, and the smoke from the fire pit traveled into the kiln chamber through the fire channel below.
The earthen bricks are heated evenly and slowly undergo changes.
Smoke began to rise from the vent outside the cave dwelling, and the people of the Mu tribe gathered in front of the cave dwelling, watching the smoke rise slowly.
Rabbit Flower held a bamboo tube filled with water infused with persimmon jam in her arms and asked curiously, "Priest, can this big house really produce a lot of bricks?"
Before Shen Nong could answer, Catgrass interrupted, "If the priest says it can be burned, then it definitely can be burned!"
Shen Nong smiled and said, "Autumn is coming soon, you should go and pick some fruit to eat in winter."
Catgrass, along with Rabbit Flower and a few others, carrying baskets on their backs, skipped and hopped away into the distance.
Shen Nong instructed the person guarding the brick kiln: "The temperature inside the kiln is very high. After the kiln is fired, it needs to cool down for a few days before it can be opened. Don't be impatient, or you will get burned."
"Understood, Priest!"
The brick kilns were not small in scale; Shen Nong built three brick kilns.
A single kiln can produce over a thousand bricks, and the hope is to complete the wall before winter arrives.
Everyone in the Wood Tribe has been very busy lately.
The wood needed for the ballista and catapult was also prepared. Shen Nong tried many animal sinews and finally decided to use the sinew of a giant ox-shaped beast to make the string of the ballista and the launching part of the catapult.
This tendon is very resilient and the right size.
Shen Nong processed the giant ox tendon and loaded it onto the crossbow cart.
Since there was no iron for the arrowheads, the arrows used by the crossbow were simply sharpened wooden sticks.
Feathers were glued to the end of the wooden arrow to increase its stability.
"brush!"
The arrow pierced the air and embedded itself in a tree trunk a hundred meters away.
The wooden arrow made a buzzing sound at the end due to the great force.
Tiger Roar chased after the wooden arrow, and when he saw the tree trunk, his eyes widened in surprise.
My Beast God...
"Priest! The tree trunk has been split open by a wooden arrow!!"
It split open?
Shen Nong looked at the crossbow; its power was quite impressive.
"Try the catapult again."
The projectile arm was made from a giant tree, and even Dahei would have to exert all his strength to break it.
It's perfect for making a shooting arm.
Shen Nong's catapult is an upgraded version, with specially made gears that allow the launching arm to be lowered.
A stone of suitable size was placed inside the catapult. Shen Nong pulled the hemp rope that secured the launching arm, and the rope, along with the wooden hook at the top, slid down.
The projection arm broke free of its restraints, drawing an arc in mid-air, and the boulder in the trough flew out the instant the projection arm went vertical.
"Boom!"
The boulder landed with a loud thud, creating a deep crater.
Tiger Roar was shocked by the power of the ballista and was eager to know the power of the catapult.
He ran toward the spot where the boulder had fallen.
Staring at the crater left by the boulder, Hu Xiao thought that during the next beast tide, their Mu tribe could simply push their ballistae and catapults to hunt many giant beasts.
The ballista and catapult were successfully tested. Shen Nong looked at the blood-filled stomach bag that Ze had left on the ground in the system warehouse.
He instructed Hu Xiao to lead his men to continue building the wooden planks according to the specifications they had used before. Once the long wall was completed, he planned to place a catapult and a crossbow every two meters.
The blood of cannibal priests can suppress orc transformations, so Shen Nong had to make preparations in advance.
Just as Shen Nong returned to the entrance of the tribe, he heard a voice calling him from not far away.
The catnip in his basket scattered as he ran, waving his arm. "Priest! Our gathering team caught someone over at the waterfall!"
A note from the author:
For information on brick kilns and catapults, please refer to Baidu.
Chapter 22 Blood Pact (Bug Fix)
Don't rub it, it itches.
The people the collection team captured at the waterfall were imprisoned in an abandoned cave in the back mountain.
The cave was very well hidden; even the people of the Mu tribe had to search for a while before they could find the entrance.
When Shen Nong arrived, the hunting team's two brothers, Niu Mu and Niu Shan, were standing outside.
Although it was bright outside, the cave was very large and became darker the further you went in.
Niu Mu sent someone to fetch a torch from the hearth, saying, "Priest, the person is inside."
The firelight illuminated the road, which turned several corners, and footsteps echoed in the empty cave.
Just when Shen Nong was starting to lose her sense of direction, she finally saw the people who had been captured.
"Leopard Autumn?"
It's no wonder Shen Nong was surprised; if he remembered correctly, Bao Qiu was a level seven orc warrior.
The gathering team consisted of unawakened teenagers, old people, and children. The only one who could fight was Rabbit Winter, who was only a level one orc warrior.
Even if the entire gathering team were combined, they wouldn't be enough to defeat Leopard Autumn with a single punch.
How could Leopard Autumn have been captured by the gathering team?
Looking at the unconscious Leopard Autumn, Shen Nong asked, "Cat Grass, where did you find him at the waterfall? Tell me about the situation again."
“The orchard not far from the waterfall,” Catgrass recalled. “I was picking fruit when I saw a lot of fruit pits on the ground. There were also bloodstains on the nearby grass. I followed the bloodstains and found the person.”
So, he was already seriously injured before he encountered the gathering team?
Shen Nong took the torch and used its light to examine Bao Qiu.