Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 110 The Bow and Arrow That Are Not Found in the Tribe

If you don't treat Jiang Luoluo as an heir, but instead communicate with her as an equal member of the clan, then you get along with her quite well.

After the conversation, he generously showed Jiang Luoluo the weapons he had made.

At first, Jiang Luoluo's understanding of stone tools was very simple—it's just about grinding stones to make them sharp, the biggest difference being that some people can grind them to be sharper.

But after seeing the finished weapon she had made, Jiang Luoluo realized that she had been naive.

Different stones can be very different, like a kitchen knife used at home versus a scalpel used in a hospital.

They do have the same function, but their effects are worlds apart.

Jiang Luoluo sharpened her own stone knife, and you had to press your finger on the blade and apply slight pressure to cut her skin.

The finished stone knife, once brought close, exudes a sharp, piercing sensation. Even though you feel like you haven't touched the blade, when you raise your hand to look, you find that you've already been cut.

How did they do that?! Jiang Luoluo was completely shocked.

"Talent," Zao replied calmly.

Truly talented people are like her, able to "see" the sharpness hidden within every stone.

Where those sharp edges reside, there lies the sharpest, strongest, and most powerful weapon itself.

Or rather, creation is never about polishing weapons, but about digging out weapons hidden in rocks.

That's why she looked down on those stone tool geniuses in the tribe.

This is why the leader urgently needs someone to inherit his mantle.

The same weapon, when made by others, can only pierce the prey's body by one palm's length, but when made by others, it can pierce two or three palm's lengths.

In a real hunting scenario, this could very well be a matter of life and death.

If possible, the chief even hoped to equip all members of the hunting teams with such weapons.

However, she was too old to bear the task of making weapons for so many people. Even when she was young, she could only provide stone tools to a few dozen people at the same time.

It falls far short of meeting the needs of the tribe.

When Chief Jinggang ascended to the throne, he shamelessly declared that he would cultivate more stone tool geniuses during his long reign and provide the tribe with more high-quality stone tools.

But reality slapped him hard in the face. Even as Zao grew old, he couldn't find a successor for him.

Now, Chief Jing no longer harbors the same grand ambitions as before. He only hopes to successfully pass on the ability to create, so that at least his next generation will not lose their connection to stone tools.

Once something is lost, it becomes extremely difficult to regain it. The tribe has suffered too many losses in this regard.

He had initially thought that Jiang Luoluo's sudden appearance was a glimmer of hope for the tribe, but the result disappointed him.

Fortunately, the leaders Jing and Wu did not place all their hopes on the cub Luo; they were merely trying it out as a last resort.

This result was expected and not too surprising.

……

Jiang Luoluo was building there when she looked through most of the weapons in the tribe and found that the variety was really monotonous, although they were all different in appearance and each had its own characteristics.

In fact, if you take them all together, you'll find that they are just different shapes of the same weapon, and their functions are exactly the same.

Compared to the many complex weapons she remembered, such as "swords, spears, clubs, axes, hooks, and forks," Jiang Luoluo was actually more concerned about the fact that she had never seen a bow and arrow before.

Moreover, bows and arrows should be the standard equipment for hunting.

But such a useful weapon has left no trace in the tribe.

When the hunting party returned, Jiang Luoluo carefully observed the tribesmen. Not only did they not carry similar weapons, but there were also no signs of approach on the prey.

Every prey was captured by the tribe through sheer strength and direct confrontation.

Why? Is the bow and arrow not working properly?

Yes.

When Ge returned home and saw the cub asking such a question, he thought about it carefully and nodded affirmatively.

As the cubs indicated, those wooden sticks, no longer than an arm and as thick as a finger, even if sharp enough, would have enough force to penetrate their prey—but they were too small.

For prey of such large size, this amount of damage is not much different from having a large splinter stuck inside a person's body.

It needs to be at least the size of a stone spear weapon like Ge's to deal enough damage.

Jiang Luoluo's gaze lingered on Ge's stone spear, which was over two meters long. She estimated the size based on the proportions, wondering how big the bow would have to be if the arrows needed to be that long... and finally arrived at a rather exaggerated figure.

And there's another problem.

That is, is the draw weight of the bow stronger or weaker than the strength of the tribe members?

If the force with which an arrow is shot is less than the force with which a tribesman casually throws it, then the bow and arrow are indeed quite useless.

Instead of making bows and arrows, it would be better to sharpen a few wooden sticks and throw them as disposable javelins.

Jiang Luoluo sighed, "Change is so difficult."

I originally thought that with her knowledge, she could easily bring something to the benefit of the tribe.

Reality, however, told Jiang Luoluo that many things were not impossible for the tribe, but simply unnecessary.