Chapter 25: The Power of the Slingshot

  "Wow, it's really different!" The women took the spider silk in their hands and pulled it, feeling a texture that was unlike tree vines, grass ropes, or silkworm threads, which made them very fond of it. Afterwards, everyone followed Mo Yi'er step by step to learn how to make slingshots, and all the women subconsciously made ones that were roughly the same size as Mo Yi'er's.

  Mo Yi'er hastily stopped them: "This slingshot requires a lot of strength, you'd better make it smaller!"

  As soon as this was said, Si Fen Ni burst out laughing: "Mo Yi Er, everyone knows you're the weakest in the tribe. Even little kids have about the same strength as you. If you can use something, of course we can too."

  Xīn Niè's straightforwardness made Mò Yì'ér want to strangle her, but that was in the past, okay?! Now she's actually very powerful! "In short, you guys try a little smaller, if you don't believe me, you come and try this first, pull the slingshot open really wide, like this." Mò Yì'ér said while demonstrating, pulling the slingshot open really wide, then handing it to the women one by one for them to try.

  Everyone was no longer holding on to their previous ideas, and they were amazed at Mo Yu'er's increased strength. Xī Fǎng Nī couldn't help but ask: "Mo Yu'er, why did your strength become so great after being away from the tribe for such a long time? What happened?"

  "This is a secret!"

  Everyone was a little disappointed with her answer and wanted to know what had happened during this time. But Mo Yi'er didn't want to say, and even more wouldn't tell them that she was with Jin Shi.

  Women are all clever and resourceful, making a bow is not a difficult task. The difficulty lies in practicing the accuracy of shooting with the bow, in order to avoid accidentally injuring other people in the tribe, Mo Yi'er specially designated a place for them to train, which was a grassland not far from the front of the cave, with several trees on the edge of the grassland. Mo Yi'er hung a stone block tied with vines on the tree, and the target was that stone block.

  Mo Yi took advantage of everyone's practice break to shoot down a few small birds perched on nearby trees, not too big, but enough to make a pot of bird meat soup.

  "Mo Yi'er, you're so impressive." The women exclaimed in surprise and started practicing with the slingshot even more energetically. By the time Chu Huo brought the men back in the evening, they were still practicing on the empty ground.

  Chu Huo walked over, the sunset stretching his shadow very long. Mo Yi'er gazed at him as he approached and said a sentence: "You're back!" The plain words made Chu Huo's heart feel warm all over.

  "Ah, I'm back."

  This ordinary conversation is just like a couple who have been together for a long time!

  In Chu Yan's eyes, there was no one else, only Mo Yier standing in front of him. The two looked at each other for a long time before being interrupted by Ba Jin walking over from behind. "Huh? Mo Yier, what are the women doing? And where did this bird come from?"

  Chu Yan and Mo Yier both withdrew their thoughts, and Chu Yan only then noticed the half-dead bird in Mo Yier's hand.

  Mo Yu'er held up the bird and shook it a few times, saying very proudly: "This is the bird I caught, tonight we'll use it to make a meat soup."

  "What did you hit? How did you manage to hit it?" Ba Jin's mouth was agape with surprise. Although the birds weren't ferocious beasts, they could fly, and even skilled hunters couldn't hit them!

  "Haha, isn't it great? We'll use this one." The women finally put away their slings and decided to practice again tomorrow. The men all came back, and they had to start making dinner, as well as deal with the game they had caught.

  "What is this?" Ba Jin snatched the slingshot from Sang Zhen's hand, and Sang Zhen was relatively stronger than other women, so her slingshot was not much different in size from Mo Yi'er's.

  "This is called a slingshot, Mo Yu'er taught us to hunt with it. From now on, we women can also go hunting and prepare food ourselves." Sang Zhen said proudly, her already upright chest puffed out even more. If the weather weren't still cool at this time of year, she would be wearing animal hide clothing, what a stirring scene that would be!

  "Can this thing really bring down a bird?" Ba Jin rubbed the slingshot in his hand, hardly daring to believe it. But since Mo Yi had taught the women how to use it, he couldn't help but trust it. "Mo Yi, let me take a look at how to shoot!"

  "Good!" Although this slingshot wasn't prepared for men, it's still possible to let them see the power of the slingshot.

  Mo Yu'er found a bird on a nearby tree, and made everyone in the tribe be quiet and not move. She slowly approached, took aim, and with a "thud" sound, the stone hit the bird's head, and it fell to the ground.

  "Wow, it's real! So cool!" Bakkin couldn't help but shout out loud, the first time he saw a bird being knocked down, and the impact was still quite strong.

  "Hehe, alright, go prepare dinner. What did you hunt today?" Mo Yier said with a smile, while Xiao Jie had already run over to pick up the birds that had just been shot down from the tree.

  "Today's harvest is not bad, with two wild goats and over a dozen wild rabbits." Spring has arrived, the grass and trees have just sprouted, but they are still not lush, so the animals can't eat their fill and don't run as fast. So Chu Yan and his group caught quite a few small things. However, they didn't go near the ferocious prey, unlike herbivores, this is the mating season for ferocious beasts, which makes them particularly aggressive and not suitable for capture.

  "It's great, tonight we have delicious roasted rabbit meat to eat." Most importantly, since returning to the tribe, there has been salted pork to eat, and Mo Yier's bland bird mouth finally has something to enjoy.

  At night, she personally cooked a pot of bird meat soup with fresh and delicious flavor, tender meat quality, making everyone in the tribe praise it. It's just that there was too little, only enough to drink the soup, and one mouthful of bird meat per person wasn't even enough!

  As he ate, Chu Yan said to Mo Yu'er, "This slingshot of yours can let women also hunt, from now on our tribe will never go hungry again."

  "Yes, I won't let everyone suffer from hunger and cold again. Our days will definitely get better and better."

  "Uh-huh!" Chu Yan nodded, completely trusting Mo Yi's abilities. He didn't know when it started, but he had also become reliant on Mo Yi bit by bit. As long as Mo Yi was around, anything could be resolved.

  "Mo Yi'er, I promised Wang Ge, you go back and inform him." Chu Yan thought for a moment, but the question was who to send to Lang Tuan tribe. After all, Wang Ge is not in the tribe now, if he also leaves the tribe, what should the tribe do?

  "Uh-huh, I should go tell him." Mo Yier also thought it would be better to see Fang Ke, otherwise he would continue to worry about himself.

  At this time there was no phone, no internet, even writing a letter was impossible. The only way was to go once.