I am a Primitive Man
Chapter 239 – Slingshot
Many tools, such as slingshots and catapults, can throw stones far. However, those with high requirements are not what Han Cheng intends to make for Second Senior Brother. What he wants to create for Second Senior Brother is a convenient and powerful tool like a slingshot, which has few restrictions on usage.
The power of a slingshot is not inferior to that of a bow and arrow, but its accuracy is not as good. Han Cheng once saw data about slingshots in his past life, claiming that the farthest distance shot by a slingshot was close to five hundred meters, even farther than the farthest distance of a bow and arrow. Of course, such distances were more like legends, and not many people could achieve them. Nevertheless, Second Senior Brother could quickly shoot stones seventy to eighty meters away with a slingshot, comparable to a bow and arrow.
The Second Senior Brother was ecstatic after receiving accurate information from Han Cheng. He didn’t want to wait any longer and immediately wanted to get the new weapon the Divine Child mentioned.
When Eldest Senior Brother, Third Senior Brother, and others saw Second Senior Brother, who was radiant and completely different from before, they were amazed. They wondered what the Divine Child had done to Second Senior Brother in such a short time to transform him completely.
Second Senior Brother was not one to keep his words to himself, especially regarding good news. When the Eldest Senior Brother and others inquired, he immediately revealed what Han Cheng had just said about creating a new type of weapon.
After understanding his meaning, everyone was skeptical. After all, dealing with stones was very different from dealing with arrows. They knew how difficult it was to throw a stone as far as an arrow. It was somewhat unbelievable.
Eldest Senior Brother could no longer contain his excitement and approached Han Cheng to inquire further, followed by the others. When they received confirmation from Han Cheng, led by Eldest Senior Brother, they couldn’t help but cheer.
The appearance of the bow and arrow had already completely refreshed their understanding, greatly enhancing the overall strength of the Green Sparrow tribe. Now, knowing about a new weapon that could throw stones even farther, how could they suppress their joy and excitement?
Compared to the bow and arrow unfamiliarity, more than half of the people were inclined towards a weapon that could make stones fly even farther. After all, they were more familiar with stones, and most people tended to have a psychological aversion to unfamiliar things.
The shaman hurried over after hearing the news, eagerly asking Han Cheng. The matter of the slingshot had only occurred to Han Cheng last night. After eating, he had planned to discuss it with the shaman and Eldest Senior Brother, but seeing the Second Senior Brother’s appearance, he first told him about it. Therefore, the shaman did not know in advance.
After confirming the news, the shaman quickly had someone call Stone, who had been staring at the clay board on the heated bed in a daze, to come and watch the Divine Child create the new weapon. Stone understood these things faster than the shaman and recorded them better.
By now, the shaman rarely wrote anything down.
The emergence of news about the slingshot was like throwing a boulder into a lake, immediately stirring up the Green Sparrow tribe. Eldest Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, Shang, and others looked spiritedly at Han Cheng, pounding their chests, indicating their readiness to do whatever the Divine Child commanded.
Even Lame rolled up his fur, revealing his arms, signaling he would closely follow the Divine Child’s footsteps.
As the top carpenter of the Green Sparrow tribe, Lame was not the first to complete the bow and arrow, which stimulated him. So today, he was full of energy and eager to compete.
Even Han Cheng, accustomed to leadership, was somewhat surprised by the momentum displayed by everyone at this moment, resembling a group ready to tackle a tiger on the mountain or capture a dragon in the sea.
How could making a slingshot stir up such a commotion?
As everyone prepared to make a considerable effort and produce this new type of weapon, Han Cheng began to give orders.
This lifted everyone’s spirits, making them feel it was time to exert themselves.
However, Han Cheng’s following words almost made the eager crowd stumble. Instead of assigning tasks like chopping wood or splitting stones, which required a lot of strength, he had people bring in some ropes.
The weaving of a slingshot was not complicated. Under Han Cheng’s guidance, Lame combined ten ropes into five pairs, then interwove these five pairs to create a thick rope, leaving a loop at one end to be worn around the wrist to prevent the slingshot from flying out.
In the middle of the rope, about ten centimeters were left unbraided.
Here, the five ropes were separated and used as warp threads, while under Han Cheng’s guidance, Lame used a thinner rope as a weft thread to weave back and forth, creating a net-like structure.
This net was used to hold the stone projectiles.
Of course, there were different methods of making a slingshot, but this one produced a sturdier result because it was a unified piece.
Compared to a bow and arrow, making a slingshot was much easier with the presence of ropes. In less than half a day, the slingshot was completed under Lame’s hands and presented before the people of the Green Sparrow tribe.
Seeing this thing, which was vastly different from their imagination, the people of the Green Sparrow tribe appeared somewhat quiet, quite different from their previous enthusiastic preparations to take action.
They found it hard to imagine throwing a stone far with such a thing.
If it weren’t for the Divine Child’s words but someone else’s, they would have left long ago, shaking their heads.
Faced with this completely new weapon, Han Cheng naturally took the lead.
He first deliberately slipped the loop left on one end of the slingshot onto his wrist, wrapped it around, and secured it.
Then, he selected a stone the size of an egg from the ones Second Senior Brother had prepared in a bamboo tube and placed it between the net in the middle of the slingshot. Folding the slingshot, he gripped the other end in his hand.
Then he ordered everyone to move far away in front and behind.
Unlike with a bow and arrow, where Han Cheng could ensure that the arrow would go forward, he couldn’t guarantee anything with the slingshot until familiar with it.
Han Cheng, the Divine Child, began his performance with no one within thirty meters.
Gripping the slingshot with his right arm, he suddenly exerted force, rotating the slingshot with his hand before letting go.
Leveraging this strong inertia, the stone flew out.
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