Yuan pouted and said pitifully, “Rui… I won’t be unable to walk for the rest of my life, right?”
“Don’t worry.”
Fu Rui patted her butt and smiled. “I’m here. I won’t let anything happen to you.”
“Meow, meow, meow…” Yuan wagged her tail, still a bit worried.
“The wound seems to be healing pretty well.” Fu Rui thought for a while and instructed her, “As long as you pay attention to the hygiene of the injured area, don’t get it wet after cleaning it, and keep it dry, it shouldn’t be infected.”
“Is that so, meow?”
“What? You don’t believe me?” Fu Rui smiled.
“No! Meow! I believe you!” Yuan sat up straight and wagged her tail. “I’m just a little scared, meow…”
Then, Fu Rui turned to look at everyone. “I called you here to talk about resisting the invasion of the porcupine tribe.”
The beast-eared females immediately became serious.
This was what they cared about the most.
Ever since Fu Rui had gone to rescue the dog-eared girls, everyone had left a lot of traces in the forest. As a result, there had been traces of porcupine tribe activity near the beast-eared tribe recently.
This was a serious threat to everyone’s safety.
Fortunately, the village was built in a more secluded place. Otherwise, they would have already been attacked.
This was also a problem that Li had been worried about.
Fu Rui stood up. “Firstly, we need to equip ourselves with weapons and armor. The porcupine tribe is very strong. Thus, without equipment, we are definitely not their match.”
As he spoke, he walked to the corner of the room and picked up a wooden stick, which was being processed into a bow.
“You usually use spears to fight in close combat, but you can’t bear to throw them, right?”
Xia nodded. “We were indeed like this before. After all, spears are not easy to make. Our entire team only has a few of them, and if we throw them out, we might not be able to hit our targets. If we miss, we won’t have any weapons to attack our prey.”
As she spoke, she smiled. “However, ever since the village chief brought that whetstone, we’ve been making things much faster. Now that every member of the hunting party can carry a spear when they go out, it’s much safer than before.”
“Back then, the hunting party would lose a sister every time they went out… Sigh…”
Li Li knew this very well. She and Wei Wei were born with outstanding exploration abilities. Thus, they were both the eyes of the tribe. Almost every time the hunting team went out, one of them would follow them.
Every time they saw their fellow tribesmen die under the claws and teeth of the wild beasts, their hearts ached.
“It’s all in the past.” Wei Wei pursed her lips. “After the Village Chief arrived, no one in our tribe has died during this period of time. Moreover, our lifestyle has changed. We no longer need to risk our lives for food and clean water.”
“That’s right. Rui has brought great changes to the beast-eared tribe.”
Li was slightly emotional. As the Village Chief, Fu Rui had done much better than her. He had even done more than the previous generation of witches.
Meanwhile, Fu Rui didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Why are you praising me? We’re talking about serious matters.”
Yuan smacked her lips, not knowing what to say.
Fu Rui coughed lightly and continued talking about the porcupine tribe.
“This time, when we went to salt lake to gather salt, we encountered porcupine scouts. When I escaped back, I didn’t have the time to deal with the traces we left behind. They will definitely chase after us in the near future, so we have to be prepared in advance to deal with the porcupine tribe’s invasion.”
Li frowned. “Rui, do you have a solution?”
Fu Rui smiled and raised the bow in his hand. “Here. This is the solution.”
Li Li studied the thing curiously. “How… does this work?”
“It hasn’t been completed yet.” Fu Rui explained, “This thing will be called a longbow after it’s made. It needs to be used together with arrows. It has a very powerful penetrative ability, which I believe is more than enough to deal with the porcupine scouts.”
“Really?” Xia’s eyes were filled with doubt. “Everyone in the porcupine tribe has thick skin. It’s difficult for me to pierce through them with a spear. Can I really use this?”
“The longbow isn’t used for stabbing!”
Fu Rui glared at her. This girl had an inflexible mind. She felt that any weapon could be used for swinging, stabbing, chopping, and hacking. Thus, he reprimanded her, “Furthermore, you’re not strong enough. Of course you can’t pierce through the skin of those porcupines.”
“But can such a small thing produce even more strength than me?” Xia began to find it hard to understand.
“…”
Fu Rui didn’t know where to start explaining the principles behind the longbow to her, so he simply didn’t bother explaining. Instead, he went to a corner and took out a beast tendon, which he tied at both ends of the bow.
Then, he nocked an arrow and shot it towards a tree outside the window.
Swoosh!
The flint arrow easily pierced through the tree bark and pierced deep into the tree trunk.
“Wow, how impressive.” Yuan exclaimed in admiration.
Wei Wei’s eyes lit up. “Its accuracy is also very high. The Village Chief was aiming at the center of the tree just now, but the arrow only deviated his target by a little bit.”
Fu Rui smiled and said, “It won’t work if it’s very far away.”
“It’s already very good, and it looks very lethal.”
Li pondered for a moment. “Although it’s not as powerful as a spear, if it can be mass-produced, just one arrow from each person can easily injure a porcupine scout.”
Meanwhile, Li Li said happily, “If the porcupine tribe invades us, will we be able to defeat them with this?”
Previously, the entire beast-eared tribe had been bullied by the porcupine tribe. Even if they encountered a small force from the porcupine tribe, they could only retreat.
It was to the extent that they left their home, away from clean water.
“Our objective isn’t to defeat them.” Fu Rui laughed lightly while his eyes revealed a wisp of ruthlessness. “What I want is to annihilate them completely! I want to make the porcupine tribe lose the qualifications to compete in this forest!”