Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 252 Anti-Tribal Personality (Supplement to Chapter 15)

"I've made a little bit too." The tribesman being questioned answered Jiang Luoluo's question while picking up his wooden water cup to drink water—Jiang Luoluo had ordered many water cups and containers from the carpenter Cong, and some tribesmen, out of curiosity, had tried using them themselves.

They discovered that wooden water cups were much better than animal skin water bags, so many tribespeople now use wooden water cups instead of animal skin water bags.

The first advantage over animal skin water bags is that they don't have any odor.

Even if there is some wood scent, it is a pleasant fragrance, unlike animal skin water bags, which always carry a strong animal smell and an inescapable bloody odor.

The second advantage is its sturdiness and better sealing.

When Jiang Luoluo discovered that the carpenter Cong had the ability to hand-craft spiral patterns... the wooden water cup suddenly had a lid that could be screwed on very tightly.

—Carpenter Cong was still trying to add this kind of screw-on lid to other wooden containers, but he found that the smaller the size of this thing, the less likely it was to leak, and the larger the size, the more difficult it was to seal.

The current limit is to make a lid that can cover the wooden bucket, but it is still difficult to determine the appropriate size for the opening of the wooden basin.

The last and most crucial reason is that wooden water cups have a much better heat retention effect than animal skin water bags, and they can be placed directly on a fire to heat up, serving as temporary cooking utensils.

Animal skin water bags won't work.

It's not that the animal hide water bag isn't sturdy enough... it's because fire has a damage bonus against items related to wild animals, so if you put the animal hide water bag on fire, it will explode in no time.

The fire provided the tribe with great protection and care in some ways, but it also had some inconvenient effects in others.

For example, fire can help protect against wild animals, but it also prevents the tribe from using local materials to make use of some of the animals' resources.

"Did you do it? Where?" Jiang Luoluo looked around curiously.

“It’s been melted down again,” the tribesman replied.

Currently, the efficiency of the kiln is limited, and the amount of various metals that can be extracted is also limited. In order to make more weapons for the tribe members to use, they can only choose some shapes that consume less metal.

For example, the hammer Jiang Luoluo made before was so big that it could have made several knives. So when he saw the finished product, he immediately had someone disassemble it for him.

He didn't even blink.

As for these defective products on the ground, they can all be recycled and reused. The reason they are left here is to observe their failure characteristics in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

Once the cause of the failure is resolved, they will be thrown back into the furnace.

Since this topic has been brought up, Jiang Luoluo was inevitably asked a lot of questions about her thoughts on the new weapon design.

Jiang Luoluo didn't hold back at all and listed all the weapons she could think of.

Knives, spears, clubs, axes, hooks, forks...

Jiang Luoluo didn't mention it when she used Earth Star Stone to polish weapons before because many weapons were not suitable for the manufacturing process.

But now that we have forging technology, although this technology is still very basic and many things have not been fully mastered, it is at least possible to try it.

Although not everything she said would necessarily be useful, Jiang Luoluo would be very satisfied even if it only gave others a little inspiration and allowed them to think of more directions.

When Jiang Luoluo was halfway through her story, the other clansmen gathered around, putting down what they were doing to listen attentively.

Including manufacturing.

Although Jiang Luoluo herself may not always be clear about what she is saying or what kind of results it can achieve.

But the tribespeople who heard these things could really understand the feeling of enlightenment, as if their minds were being opened and something was being slowly unlocked.

However, the reactions of the clansmen were somewhat different this time after Jiang Luoluo finished speaking.

Indeed, they were inspired, and everyone looked thoughtful, though their expressions were somewhat hard to describe.

Finally, she spoke up, frowning and looking at Jiang Luoluo with some confusion, "...Did you hear too much from the python?"

Jiang Luoluo scratched her head in confusion. What did what she was saying have to do with pythons?

Although she has indeed been getting quite close to Python lately, often exchanging ideas and such, Python hasn't told her anything about Python yet.

“You… never mind.” Zao sighed. “Luo, what you’ve said is all very good, but it’s not suitable for the tribe’s current situation.”

"Huh?" Jiang Luoluo scratched her head again, feeling like she was about to grow a brain.

The weapons she mentioned were all common and ordinary weapons from her previous life. Although most people may not have used them, they have certainly seen or heard of them and know their basic usage.

After letting others continue with their work, he thought it over carefully before explaining to Jiang Luoluo.

"The weapons in the tribe were made for hunting wild animals."

The only consideration has always been the lethality to those wild animals.

Zao looked at Jiang Luoluo and gave her a meaningful look.

What about those weapons you mentioned?

Jiang Luoluo reacted for a moment, her eyes widening instantly—Holy crap! All those weapons she mentioned were for use against people!

However, only the tribe's own members were present; there were no other people there.

In other words, in the eyes of these tribesmen, all the vicious weapons Jiang Luoluo mentioned were meant to be used against their own people!

In the peaceful environment of the tribe, Jiang Luoluo's behavior just now was tantamount to the sudden appearance of an "anti-tribal personality".

No wonder everyone was looking at Jiang Luoluo with those strange eyes.

No wonder Zao sighed so obviously and even talked to Jiang Luoluo in private.

—Don't go astray.

Jiang Luoluo saw this thought in Zao's eyes.

A bitter taste suddenly filled his mouth... This was not her fault at all; he hadn't thought that far ahead.

Fortunately, everyone believes that Jiang Luoluo was influenced by the python because she got too close to it, and that she is still a good child who loves peace.

Jiang Luolu silently apologized to Mang a few times in her heart for making Mang take the blame, but on the surface she accepted Zao's advice very calmly.

—Yes, that's right, she's a good girl. She doesn't know anything about those messy things. It's all the python's fault! The python corrupted her!

This doesn't really count as slandering the python. If the python itself didn't have this inclination, the other members of its tribe wouldn't have misunderstood it like this.

Jiang Luoluo recalled the scene where the python exuded murderous intent towards Xing, and nodded firmly in her heart. No matter who talks about this in the future, the reason she could think of these weapons is because the python wanted to attack Xing!

It's not because she has an "anti-tribal personality".

After promising that she would never go astray or do anything bad for the tribe, Jiang Luoluo left somewhat embarrassed.

That was a miscalculation. Next time, she should think things through carefully before doing anything, even though she might not have thought of these mistakes.

"Think thrice before you act"—this saying, which can be regarded as the words of a sage, does indeed have its merits. However, most people don't listen to it, and even if they do, they can't put it into practice.

After leaving Zao, Jiang Luoluo turned to find Yuan, and it was from Zao that she learned that Yuan was pregnant.

So, for the first hunt after the snow season ended, Gen didn't go with Mamoru, but stayed at home instead.

Yes, that's right. During the three-plus months of the snow season, Yuan and Shou, who had just gotten married, had their own child.

After all, it's inconvenient to go anywhere except their own home during the snow season. They've just gotten married and are in the midst of a sweet and loving relationship. It's normal for them to have a child together, as both of them are in good health.

Moreover, it wasn't just Yuan and Shou who had children.

After the snow season ended, a count revealed that more than a dozen tribespeople had become pregnant, as the snow season has always been a major season for the tribe to reproduce.

To ensure the smooth continuation of the tribe's next generation, pregnant women will not participate in large-scale hunting activities until the child is born.

Because of these large-scale hunting activities, it takes several days of all-out travel just to return to the tribe. If any accident occurs during the hunt, there is simply no time to return to the tribe for rescue.

They will still participate in small-scale hunts that only take place around the tribe and last for less than three to five days, without placing all the pressure of survival on their partner.

After all, they were already powerful orc warriors, but they chose not to engage in too many activities during the first few months of their pregnancy so that the next generation could pass on their skills smoothly.

Once the fetus has grown and stabilized in the womb, they will continue with their normal lives.

Of course, Yuan is different from other women in the tribe. Yuan doesn't actually have to participate in hunting—because she has a main profession that allows her to support herself: she is a "stone toolmaker" in the tribe.

If it weren't for the desire to better research suitable stone tools and personally test the effects of those weapons, Yuan wouldn't have participated in the hunting activities.

Thinking of this, Jiang Luoluo suddenly felt a little guilty, because she suddenly realized that once the forging and smelting technology came out, the tribesmen who originally made a living by making stone tools would be affected.

They may very well lose the job they rely on to make a living.

For these tribespeople who don't often participate in hunting battles, losing their means of livelihood is even more dangerous than Jiang Luoluo's unemployment in her previous life.

After all, unemployment simply means not being able to find a suitable job. If you are willing to do some hard work in a factory, you can actually survive.

You might not make that much money, but you definitely won't starve to death.

However, in a tribe, if you can't hunt prey, you'll definitely starve to death.

However, Jiang Luoluo quickly realized that she had been overthinking things.

Leaving aside the forging and smelting technology, it would take many more years for it to truly take shape and reach a mature stage where it could be used by the entire tribe, allowing all tribesmen to use new weapons that could replace stone tools.

The development of forging and smelting technology itself could not possibly have relied solely on building and currently building a group of elderly people from that area.

To be honest, so far, none of the tribesmen who built that place are under forty years old—it used to be fifty. Chief Jing promised that once the finished product is completed and the effect is confirmed, he would arrange another batch of younger tribesmen for him.

...Forty years old is indeed younger than fifty.

The younger members of the tribe were simply burdened with more responsibilities, and Chief Jing was unable to assign them to this place.

Especially in the past two years, too many tribesmen have died unexpectedly, which has increased the pressure on the tribe. The new generation of tribesmen has not yet grown up smoothly, so Chief Jing has to prioritize the overall situation before he can spare the energy to upgrade the technology.

Rather than teaching the younger tribesmen forging and smelting, it is more important to let them hunt, acquire greater power, and ensure that the tribe has a sufficient food source.

The leader, Jing, was able to identify a few younger, middle-aged tribesmen who had suffered from old injuries and were no longer suited for hunting; this was the limit of what he could do.

Once the situation in the tribe stabilizes somewhat, and the new generation of tribesmen, such as Ge, grows up smoothly and has a sufficient safety net, they will naturally be assigned suitable and talented young tribesmen to learn from Zao.

Compared to the tribespeople who are better at fighting, it is naturally more suitable for stonemasons like Yuan, who already have a certain foundation, to take over and learn.

Therefore, they will not lose their jobs directly as Jiang Luoluo thought.

Another point is that Yuan and his team are currently still in charge of making the telescope.

Before Jiang Luoluo developed mechanization, the role of manual labor was irreplaceable. So, just the act of hand-rubbing transparent lenses to make concave and convex lenses of different prescriptions was enough to ensure they had enough to eat and wear.

A person with a skill can exert their strength and play a role in any place.

Furthermore, these are not sudden changes; there is ample time for them to adapt and transform.

Therefore, Jiang Luoluo's idea was really a bit of an overreaction.

Clearing her mind of all sorts of random thoughts, Jiang Luoluo entered the Yuan family's cave.

A discovery that was both logical and unexpected; there were significant changes inside.

First, the interior space of the cave has been expanded once again, and it appears to be much larger than when the wedding ceremony was held.

Secondly, in the cave where Yuan and Shoujia lived, where the stone bed used to be, a large kang (heated brick bed) had been added, and Yuan was sitting on it making something.

Indeed, during the snowy season, the bricks produced by the brick kiln were not enough for all the tribesmen. Priority was given to families with children and elderly tribesmen with old ailments or injuries.

Young and strong clansmen like Yuan and Shou could not get in line or apply for bricks—the brick kilns produced too few bricks, and families who wanted to build kang beds had to wait in line.

However, the snow season is now over, and some people no longer have an urgent need for heated beds. In addition, there are many things to do after the snow season, so many people have given up queuing.

Yuan and Shou successfully obtained the bricks to build the kang (heated brick bed).