Unexpected Joy

As dinnertime approached, with the tribe's population having doubled and some personnel shifts, under normal circumstances, they would definitely encounter some difficulties with food at this hour.

But Zhou Xu wasn't in normal circumstances.

Don't forget, they had just killed a spider monster a few days ago, and there were still spider legs left to this day, plus the fish caught by the Black Moon Tribe throughout the day.

It was still easy to provide enough to eat for everyone in the tribe.

However, this kind of life couldn't last forever.

After all, there were only eight legs on that spider monster...

Once the spider legs were finished, their food pressure would definitely increase.

To solve the food pressure, in Zhou Xu's view, the most direct and effective method was actually to upgrade the fishing nets and improve their fishing efficiency.

In fact, he had already taught the tribal members here how to upgrade the fishing nets the morning after he arrived at the Black Moon Camp.

But this was, after all, a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, and it was too difficult to complete in a short period.

Under this premise, the arrival of Zhuang Mengdie and the others could be said to have brought a huge boost to the labor force at the Black Moon Camp.

But Zhou Xu didn't plan to have Zhuang Mengdie and the others help weave fishing nets.

The reason was simple: while inspecting the surrounding environment today, he discovered wild rabbits.

This made Zhou Xu quickly weigh things in his mind.

The idea of raising wild rabbits, there was no need to elaborate. From his perspective, the sooner they could be caught, the better.

With this as a premise, even though the efficiency of upgrading the fishing nets couldn't be increased, which would affect the food distribution after the tribal population increased, they still had the old fishing nets made by the former chief.

The people of the Black Moon Camp had survived until now with these few old fishing nets, and they could still make do for the time being.

At most, the food distribution would be slightly reduced periodically due to the population increase, but it would absolutely not lead to them starving to death.

Zhuang Mengdie's handicraft efficiency was absolutely high, even compared to the veterans in their Salt Lake Camp, let alone the novices in the Black Moon Camp, who were no match for her.

From the afternoon she arrived here, starting from when she received Zhou Xu's order, to casually working for a while before sleeping, Zhuang Mengdie had already woven three baskets of suitable size for wild rabbits.

This also took into account the considerable time she spent teaching three newcomers.

Regardless, the matter of setting traps to catch wild rabbits could officially be implemented tomorrow.

The next day, Zhou Xu got up very early. After handing over the work of plastering the stove with mud to the veterans transferred from the Salt Lake Camp, he excitedly took the traps and headed for the rabbit burrows.

Their arrival inevitably disturbed the rabbits hiding in the surroundings.

This could be confirmed when Zhou Xu activated the 'Eye of Insight' and quickly located the rabbit burrows.

Because of their arrival, several rabbits fled back into their burrows in panic.

But it didn't matter; this was something that could not be avoided at all.

Ignoring this issue, Zhou Xu, having located the rabbit burrows, walked directly forward and began to deploy their rabbit traps, taking out tools while explaining to the members of the hunting team beside him.

"Unlike catching mice, for these wild rabbits, we don't really have good bait to lure them into the trap. However, unlike mice, given the rabbit's size, it can generally knock down the branches supporting the trap by itself."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu began to deploy traps around the rabbit burrow.

"So our strategy for deploying traps must also change. For these wild rabbits, our traps must rely on quantity."

Speaking of which, Zhou Xu had already skillfully set up three basket traps around the rabbit burrow.

This ensured that as long as the rabbit came out of this burrow or returned to it, there was a high probability that it would trigger one of their traps.

Of course, it was not impossible for them to escape through other connected burrows.

With enough basket traps, they could completely surround every rabbit burrow in the vicinity with traps.

But with limited traps now, they had to rely on a bit of luck.

"You stay here and watch."

After assigning one person to watch this rabbit burrow, Zhou Xu took the remaining traps and walked towards another rabbit burrow.

He was indeed very excited about catching wild rabbits.

However, as the chief of the tribe, there were ultimately many things waiting for him to do. Naturally, he couldn't waste a lot of time staking out a single prey now.

Therefore, according to his original plan, after teaching the tribal members how to set up these traps, he would leave first.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the traps were deployed here, the somewhat excited shouts of the tribal members came from the other side...

"Caught one, caught one!"

This all happened too suddenly. Let alone Zhou Xu, who was preparing to leave, even the tribal member who personally witnessed the wild rabbit sneakily emerge from the burrow, then knock down the supporting branches, and get covered by the basket, couldn't believe his eyes!

After being covered by the basket, the panicked wild rabbit's mobility was undoubtedly much stronger than that of a mouse. With a series of jumps, the basket was almost overturned.

Fortunately, in this regard, the members of their tribe's hunting team were experienced. They quickly rushed forward and pressed down the basket, completely extinguishing the wild rabbit's hope of escaping.

In such a short time, they successfully caught a wild rabbit, which indeed brought Zhou Xu some unexpected joy and also marked a good start to the new day.

Taking the wild rabbit out of the basket, controlling his hand that almost habitually twisted the creature's neck, Zhou Xu, with a wild rabbit in hand on the way back, was in a very cheerful state.

And as the chief of the tribe, his presence was undoubtedly the focus of the tribal members' attention.

Basically, as soon as he returned, they noticed.

No one expected that their chief would return with a wild rabbit just moments after leaving.

This was especially true for the original members of the Black Moon Camp.

They knew that their previous chief, and themselves included, had been helpless against the wild animals on the prairie.

At this moment, they were utterly impressed with their new chief.

In contrast, the members of the Salt Lake Tribe were much calmer.

After all, in their eyes, this was just a basic operation for their chief.

Zhou Xu had originally planned to start making rabbit cages after returning to the camp, but he hadn't expected to bring back a rabbit on the spot.

Since he didn't have a suitable cage on hand, he could only use a basket to cover the wild rabbit, pressing a stone on top to prevent it from being pushed open.

Afterward, Zhou Xu went all out to make the rabbit cage.

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