Chapter Nine Creation

  With a glance at the low hill, Chen Xu's eyes couldn't help but reveal a hint of surprise. It seemed that it had been a long time since it last rained in this primitive forest, and withered trees and rotten branches were as common as stones in his own era. After all, in this era, the entire earth was covered with oceans and forests, without any other landforms!

  Withered branches are all over the ground!

  However, Chen Xu was still relatively satisfied with the work of this group of apemen. Speaking in his own very awkward apeman language, Chen Xu had a simple exchange with the ten apemen and barely managed to express his appreciation.

  This scene got a fierce response from ten apemen. It seemed that Chen Xu's gestures of praise were the first to appear in the entire primitive society.

  If there were historians here, they would certainly know that this kind of eulogistic language originated in the Neolithic era! This ornamental language is a product of social groups reaching a certain stage and initially producing classes after the emergence of primitive societies. It can be said that Chen Xuan has advanced it by tens of thousands of years!

  He waved his hand to signal the ten apes to quiet down, Chen Xu untied the rough rope from his waist, pulled it with his arm, and pulled it to both sides, feeling the toughness of the rope.

  As Chen Xu's arm muscles bulged, without him mobilizing his internal energy, the rope creaked and groaned under the pull of Chen Xu's peak strength, but did not break.

  Having come this far, Chen Xu understood that the toughness of this rope was already sufficient. It had to be said that the tenacity of these old vines in the mountains was really something. If he remembered correctly, the rattan armor of the Rattan Armor Troops in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was woven from such old vines.

  It's just that the old vines they used to weave were in the remote areas of the Three Kingdoms, which is considered to be quite rooted. However, compared to these mountainous old vines, it's really a small trick seeing a big one. After all, the mountainous old vines on Chen Xu's side are indeed authentic ancient varieties.

  "If there is oil, I'm afraid I'll have to make a few sets of rattan armor to use, but according to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, making rattan armor requires more than a decade of work, which is really too time-consuming. However, perhaps I can make some simplified versions!"

  Loosen the rope in his hand, Chen Xu's mind was turning with these endless thoughts, but his hands did not stop moving. Instead, he divided the firewood collected by the apes into several large parts, then selected a large part, weighing about 300-400 catties, and tied it up with this rope.

  He tightened the knot, and Chen Xu raised his arm to test its weight, feeling a bit strained. With his current physical strength, if he didn't use internal force, he could lift about 150 kilograms with one arm; if he used internal energy to assist him, he estimated that he could lift around 250 kilograms.

  At present, this bundle of firewood can be lifted up with both arms by Chen Xu, but if he wants to carry it on his shoulders, that is simply impossible!

  He took a slight breath, slowly handing down the bundle of thick firewood, along the gentle slope at the top of the mountain, and slowly lowering it down until Chen Xuan placed it at the entrance to the cave between the mountains, only then stopping his movements.

  He beckoned to Number One and the other ten apemen, Chen Xu held onto the rope while using crude ape language to convey information to these people. After a long time, he finally made these apemen understand his meaning.

  Then, when the apes caught the rope and worked together to pull the firewood back up, not letting it continue falling down, Chen Xu finally could let go of his hands.

  They kept saying and gesturing that these apes should not relax, Chen Xu immediately moved his body, along the vines on one side, quickly climbing down from the top of the mountain to the entrance of the cave.

  There, the remaining three in the hunting party, named No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 by Chen Xu, were looking at the large pile of firewood hanging at the entrance of the cave with a curious expression, somewhat at a loss!

  Although he had long known that the apes' brain capacity was a problem, but really seeing that they couldn't even understand such a simple intention, Chen Xu still found it somewhat amusing.

  With a slight exertion of his arm, Chen Xuan's body swung up, and using the momentum, he sprang out from among the vines like a squirrel, startling several apes in the cave so much that they trembled with fear!

  Wave goodbye, indicating that these apes are watching, Chen Xu's arm stretches out, pulling the swaying firewood in mid-air, and suddenly uses force to pull it into the cave.

  They gestured to the apes below to lift up the pile of firewood, Chen Xu opened the knot on top, scattered the wood, and then gestured to the apes with shocked expressions to send the piles of firewood deep into the cave, thus completing the first transportation in history.

  Afterwards, Chen Xu demonstrated this process several times again. Under his demonstration, these eleven apemen all participated in this labor, combining specific actions, they finally remembered this way of transporting goods, and to a certain extent, it was also a big step forward, crossing the distance of millions of years in evolutionary history.

  After all the wood was transported into the cave, the apes returned. Chen Xiang lit a bonfire in front of everyone and took his homemade bamboo spear to the fire pit for final drying and solidification, hoping to obtain a usable weapon.

  Soon, under the gaze of eleven apes, Chen Xu utilized this raging fire to carbonize the old bamboo that had grown for who-knows-how-many years, root by root, gradually evaporating its water content and revealing its unparalleled sharpness.

  After drying the thirty or so bamboo spears completely, the sun had risen to a westward angle in the east. According to Chen Xu's estimate, it should be around 9:00 to 10:00 in his past life.

  Similar to the previous time, Chen Xu still used a rope lock to tie up these bamboo spears and then led the way out first, arriving at the top of the mountain, and then pulling the bamboo spears up.

  As the crowd of apes climbed up, Chen Xu finally opened the lock, took out the bamboo spear, and then hid this rough rope in the middle of the bamboo forest to prevent it from being lost by unknown creatures.

  Later, Chen Xu distributed the bamboo spears and let each ape in the hunting team carry five on their back, tied with vines. Chen Xu himself carried ten, and the remaining ten elderly, weak, sick and disabled people also carried some with all their might. In this way, everyone took most of the bamboo spears on themselves.

  In front of the crowd of apes, Chen Xu lightly raised his arm and picked up a bamboo spear. He first made some gestures to demonstrate the use of the bamboo spear for close combat and throwing it far away.

  After a while, when these apemen had basically grasped this weapon that was far more advanced than the stone tools in their hands, Chen Xu knew it was time to set off.