Chapter 120: First Hunting Experience
The material Su Ran used for the bow body was shrub branches about as thick as her thumb.
This kind of shrub was the same type used before at the seaside to weave the basket.
The shrub’s toughness is very good and won’t break easily. Slightly thicker shrubs require some strength to bend, making them very suitable for bow body material.
For the bowstring, Su Ran directly used sheep wool yarn.
She carried this woolen thread with her every time she went out, in case there was a place outside where it could be used, like stringing two fish or something.
Today, it came in handy!
Actually, Su Ran also knew that the best bowstring material was animal back tendon.
But right now, Su Ran had no materials on hand, and fresh animal back tendons needed to be dried before use, so she could only make do with the woolen thread for now.
She first used the multi-tool axe to cut the shrub branch to about the right size, then used the saw blade to saw shallow small pits at both ends of the branch.
These two small pits were for tying the woolen thread, to prevent it from sliding off the bow body.
After sawing, she cut two pieces of sheep wool yarn of the same length and twisted them into one rope.
Then she first tied the sheep wool yarn into the small pit at one end of the shrub branch, then used both hands to forcefully bend the shrub branch. She tied the other end of the sheep wool yarn into the small pit at the empty end of the shrub branch.
While tying the string, Su Ran pulled the sheep wool yarn very tightly to ensure the bow and arrow had enough propulsion.
Once the sheep wool yarn was tied, a simple bow was complete.
While Su Ran was making this bow, Xiao Ju had been watching curiously on the side while eating something.
Only after seeing Su Ran finish and set the bow down did she curiously point at the bow Su Ran had placed aside and mi wu mi wu at Su Ran: “Ran Ran, what is it meow~~”
While whittling the branches in her hand to make arrows, Su Ran looked at her little face smeared from eating roasted bird meat and smiled: “This is a bow, it can be used for hunting oh~”
“Mi wu?”
Xiao Ju was not as familiar with human language as Hui, so after hearing this sentence from Su Ran, she clearly didn’t understand much.
Su Ran didn’t continue to explain. She reached out to rub Xiao Ju’s golden orange hair on top of her head and casually touched that small triangular ear.
That soft and smooth texture was so cute that she almost couldn’t resist turning into the big bad wolf grandma and pulling the little cutie into her embrace for a vigorous rub!
At this time, Hui and A Jin also returned from the seaside.
When they ran back, they hadn’t brought things to use for seafood, so the seafood they were holding now was cradled in leaves picked from the vicinity.
When Hui saw the thing Su Ran was making in her hand, curiosity like Xiao Ju’s appeared in his eyes.
But he didn’t rush to ask Su Ran.
Because he already knew that even if he didn’t ask, after Su Ran finished making this thing, she would tell him what it was for.
The branches Su Ran selected for arrow shafts were all naturally very straight.
She just needed to remove the bark and some branch knots from the branches, then whittle one end of the arrow shaft a bit thinner.
She made sixteen or seventeen such arrow shafts at once, then used the hammer to smash the scallop shells she had just picked up.
She didn’t use much force, so the scallop shells wouldn’t get smashed into powder.
Then she carefully picked through the smashed scallop shells, found all the long thin shell fragments inside, and used the file to grind these fragments sharp and pointed.
Finally, she firmly tied these fragments to one end of the arrow shafts, and a complete set of bow and arrow was done.
After finishing this set of bow and arrow, Su Ran didn’t even want to eat the seafood that was already roasted. She stood up, wanting to go into the woods to find a couple small animals to test it on.
As soon as she stood up, Hui would definitely follow her immediately.
Xiao Ju and A Jin looked at the seafood that was almost done roasting and hesitated for a while.
In the end, Xiao Ju’s curiosity overcame her greed for the roasted seafood, and she ran over following Su Ran.
When she got up, she conveniently picked up a raw scallop.
A Jin saw Xiao Ju follow Su Ran, so had no choice but to run over behind Xiao Ju’s tail.
There were quite a few small animals in this woods. Su Ran and the beastmen had only walked in about two hundred meters when they could hear sounds of things running away from the nearby shrubbery.
But because these animals were all relatively small, the three beastmen heard the noises but didn’t react much.
On the contrary, Su Ran always couldn’t help but look around.
She planned to start practicing this set of bow and arrow on small animals, after all.
Unfortunately, the shrubs were too dense. If a small animal ran away, Su Ran couldn’t even see what it looked like within her line of sight in time.
But fortunately, after walking in the woods for ten minutes, Su Ran finally spotted a flock of those red birds that resembled chickens from Earth that she had seen before.
These birds were two sizes larger than pigeons but a bit smaller than normal chickens.
Su Ran thought for a long time and felt that if she had to describe it, these birds’ size was about the same as silkie chickens.
They were entirely fiery red, and each one had two red feathers erect on its head like antennae standing on top of the head.
Their tails were also very long and curved, just like a rooster’s tail.
Su Ran looked at those fiery red tail feathers that shimmered finely in the sunlight and thought these feathers would surely be both beautiful and practical as chicken feather dusters!
She had carefully observed this kind of bird before.
These birds could fly very high when they took off, but their bird’s nests were made in the middle of the shrubbery.
They also liked to walk on the ground with their claws.
Before, she hadn’t thought about eating this kind of bird, so she hadn’t paid attention. Now that she wanted to eat them, she subconsciously observed these red birds’ habits.
Su Ran looked at this flock of red birds and made a stopping gesture to the few beastmen beside her.
Then she kept her gaze fixed on those red birds on the grassland in front, lifted the bow in her hand, and carefully reached with her other hand for the seashell arrow tied to her waist, afraid of startling the flock of red birds ahead.
In the end, a big surprise happened at this moment!
Su Ran’s seashell arrow at her side hadn’t been drawn out yet when she suddenly heard three “whoosh whoosh” sounds beside her!
The next second, the flock of red birds ahead exploded like a pot boiling over!
Bird calls, wing flapping sounds, and shrub branches breaking sounds all mixed into chaos!
By the time things calmed down over there, not a single red bird was left on the grassland ahead!
Oh, no!
Hui, Xiao Ju, and A Jin each held two or three red birds in their hands as they ran back toward Su Ran.
Even A Jin’s golden head had a tuft of red bird feathers stuck to it!
The three beastmen’s actions were like they had planned it together. They all held out the few red birds in their hands in front of Su Ran with expressions of “You wanted them, we caught them for you!” that left Su Ran on the verge of tears!
