The Unicorn Saber-toothed Tiger

"Not bad. This bow's range is much greater than the bows the tribe had before."

Lin Feng watched the arrow in the distance and nodded with satisfaction.

The tribe's previous bows had an effective range of only about 50 meters.

This bow made by Liubai Dianmo seemed to have an effective range of nearly 100 meters.

Almost twice as far!

Liubai Dianmo was delighted to receive the chief's praise.

So the chief was testing the bow's range. I thought he was trying to shoot that big tree and missed.

I really underestimated the chief!

Liubai Dianmo thought.

"Chief, I'm not just bragging. Give me a little more time to find more suitable materials, and I could even make a Recurve Bow! Its range and power would be a great deal better than this Straight Pull Bow."

Liubai Dianmo spoke confidently.

A Recurve Bow required better materials and was more difficult to make than a Straight Pull Bow.

But that wouldn't stump him.

Forget a Recurve Bow—if he had the right tools and materials, he could even make a Compound Bow by hand!

Of course, making a Compound Bow wasn't realistic given the tribe's current circumstances.

But a Recurve Bow was worth a try.

A Recurve Bow?

Lin Feng's eyes lit up at that.

"Excellent! From now on, you'll be in charge of making bows and arrows for the tribe!"

Lin Feng said, patting Liubai Dianmo on the shoulder.

The task of improving the bows and arrows was completed successfully, and Liubai Dianmo's level immediately rose to 1.

At the same time, a new repeatable task appeared in his task list.

Bow and Arrow Crafting.

For every bow or arrow he made, he would receive a certain amount of experience and Contribution Points.

The better the bow, the greater the reward.

"Mission accepted!"

Liubai Dianmo said excitedly as he looked at the task in his list.

The rewards for crafting bows and arrows were just as good as those for hunting!

He didn't need to go out and fight monsters. All he had to do was stay in the valley and keep making bows and arrows, and he could earn experience and Contribution Points nonstop.

This was awesome!

Out in the wilderness, Da Qing and the other four moved cautiously through the underbrush.

The stone spears in Su Ziye's and Ranger's hands had disappeared, replaced by a couple of wooden sticks they had found somewhere.

Ranger's left arm was wrapped in a piece of animal hide, with blood seeping through it.

Three claw marks, each half a foot long, crossed Tyrannosaurus Warrior's shoulder. He had treated them as best he could, but blood still seeped out.

At first, they had been feeling quite relaxed.

But just over half an hour ago, a cheetah had ambushed them.

It was a cheetah, but it was a whole lot bigger than the ones back on Earth, nearly the size of an average lioness.

After a fierce fight, the five of them had managed to drive it off, but two of them had been injured in the process.

Su Ziye's and Ranger's stone spears had also broken during the fight.

They had Da Qing's rise to level 1 to thank for it. With a Strength of 9, he had been able to hold the beast off a little in a head-on fight.

Otherwise, all five of them might have been wiped out by the cheetah's savage attacks!

That ambush had given them a clear understanding of just how dangerous the Savage World was.

As they walked, they no longer dared to be as careless as before. Instead, they did their best to use the plants as cover.

They also kept a much closer eye on their surroundings.

"Roar!"

A sudden roar came from up ahead.

Amid the roar came a jumble of shouts, spoken in a language they couldn't understand.

"Something's happening up ahead!"

The five stopped and warily watched in the direction of the noise.

"Let's sneak over and take a look. Be careful, and try not to let them spot us!"

Da Qing said.

From the sound of it, a group of people seemed to be fighting some kind of beast.

The language they were speaking sounded familiar to him. He thought the chief and the tribe's five children spoke the same way.

It was probably the common language of this world.

The five kept out of sight as they crept closer, then peered out through the underbrush.

"Jackalmen!"

Ranger, who was in the lead, whispered. A flicker of delight crossed his eyes.

They had finally found their target!

Da Qing and the others crept up beside him and peered through gaps in the brush.

More than a dozen Jackalmen were surrounding a black beast.

The beast looked a lot like the saber-toothed tiger from Ice Age.

Unlike a saber-toothed tiger, it had deep-black fur and a single horn growing from its head.

The horn was sharp, like a curved blade or a dagger.

This saber-toothed tiger was clearly much fiercer than the cheetah they had encountered. Surrounded by more than a dozen Jackalmen, it charged back and forth without the slightest fear.

Two Jackalmen lay dead on the ground. One of them was still twitching faintly in a pool of blood, clearly not quite dead yet.

Each Jackalman carried a wooden club more than a meter long, thick at the top and narrow at the bottom.

Sharp, slender stones or pieces of some unknown bone had been fastened to the clubs, turning them into crude Wolf Tooth Clubs.

The Jackalmen had the Unicorn Saber-toothed Tiger tightly surrounded. As they kept it from escaping, they struck it repeatedly with their Wolf Tooth Clubs.

Each blow left several bloody scratches on the beast.

"These Jackalmen are strong!"

A look of surprise crossed Ranger's eyes.

The Jackalmen were clearly faster and stronger than players at level 0 or 1!

If a dozen or so players tried to surround the Unicorn Saber-toothed Tiger, they would probably be lying dead on the ground by now, while the tiger happily chowed down.

Yesterday, the chief had led a hunting party out and, reportedly, had taken down three Jackalmen without breaking a sweat.

He had thought the Jackalmen must be weak fighters. Now he realized it was probably because the chief was so strong.

That made sense. As the NPC leader of their faction, the chief had to be strong.

"What should we do? Should we help the saber-toothed tiger?"

Su Ziye asked in a quiet voice.

An enemy's enemy was a friend. The Jackalmen were their enemies, so the saber-toothed tiger was naturally their friend.

Ranger didn't see it that way.

"How are we supposed to help? If we go over there, two or three Jackalmen could take all of us out! Even if the saber-toothed tiger finds a chance to escape, it might not help us."

Ranger said.

"Let's wait and see. After the Jackalmen kill the saber-toothed tiger, they'll take their prey back to their tribe. We can follow them and find out where the Jackalmen Tribe is."

Da Qing said quietly.

Judging by how things were going, it was only a matter of time before the Jackalmen killed the saber-toothed tiger.

The main goal of their reconnaissance mission was to locate the Jackalmen Tribe. The secondary goal was to determine how many Jackalmen there were.

As long as they found the tribe, they would have completed most of their mission.

"But that saber-toothed tiger is so pitiful."

Su Ziye said sympathetically, watching as the tiger failed to break through the Jackalmen's encirclement.

"Heh. If you ever run into it alone in the wilderness, you won't feel sorry for it anymore."

Tyrannosaurus Warrior chuckled.

Su Ziye shot him a glare and said nothing more.

The five watched from the sidelines as the Unicorn Saber-toothed Tiger suffered more and more wounds under the Jackalmen's assault.

More than ten minutes later, after the Jackalmen lost two more of their companions, the fierce tiger finally reached the end of its strength and crashed to the ground.

The Jackalmen cheered and rushed forward, raising their Wolf Tooth Clubs and pounding the tiger in a frenzy.

The saber-toothed tiger let out a series of anguished roars. They grew weaker and weaker, until it finally fell silent.

The Jackalmen cheered in victory, then lifted the dead tiger together and carried it west.

The four Jackalmen corpses on the ground, however, were left behind.

"Follow them!"

Once the Jackalmen had gone two or three hundred meters, Da Qing waved for his companions to follow.

He didn't know how alert the Jackalmen were, so he made sure to keep as far back as possible.

The dozen or so Jackalmen were carrying a huge saber-toothed tiger carcass. Even from a distance, they were easy to keep track of.