Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 108 Visiting the Stone Tool Expert "Zao"

Jiang Luoluo really did see a lot of new things here.

Take a saw, for example.

This tool with sharp serrations is used to cut small items.

While the tribespeople were physically strong and powerful, they could divide many things using only their strength.

However, it's not as accurate in grasping the details, so a saw can help with some very delicate operations.

The inspiration for the tools probably came from the serrated blades of grass, which were the most likely to cause harm to the tribe and cut their skin with each step.

There aren't any tools shaped like axes here, since stone knives can be used as substitutes.

To Jiang Luoluo's surprise, there were hammers of various sizes here.

Of course, the shape was different from the hammers Jiang Luoluo had seen; most of them were oval-shaped, with round hammer heads.

Or rather, it's basically a shape with one end larger than the other, and the smaller end is fixed with a wooden stick. It's roughly similar to a hammer, and its function is also roughly the same.

Jiang Luoluo didn't know which shape of hammer was better, but she still drew the shape of the hammer she was familiar with for Cong. She also extended it and drew the shape of a claw hammer. She didn't know if it would be useful.

After all, Jiang Luoluo remembered that the main purpose of the ram's horn hammer was to pull nails, but there was no place in the tribe where nails were needed, nor were there any nails.

What should have shocked Jiang Luoluo, but she had become accustomed to it and even had a sense of "I knew it" was that she actually saw vernier calipers here.

Although it was called a vernier caliper, it didn't actually look like the familiar ones Jiang Luoluo had seen before. It only had a similar function, so Jiang Luoluo only recognized it after Cong demonstrated how to use it.

Jiang Luoluo wasn't sure if this was something passed down from the tribe or if the tribe had developed it themselves over a long period of time.

But since it was already there, Jiang Luoluo helped to further improve its accuracy.

Then there were some other scattered exchanges, such as the mortise and tenon structure, which is the most crucial part of woodworking.

Cong has some knowledge about this, for example, the connection between wooden frames uses this structure.

Because the tribesmen had relatively low requirements and no higher needs, they did not conduct further in-depth research and only retained the most basic assembly function.

Although Jiang Luoluo didn't know much about the exact structures, she had more extensive knowledge and could provide key directional guidance, giving Cong a clear goal to pursue in his research.

This already saves 90% of the time.

When Jiang Luoluo and Ge left, Cong still looked deep in thought, and no one knew what he would come up with or what he would do in the end.

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After leaving the Cong family, Ge did not take Jiang Luoluo home, but instead changed direction and headed to the next clansman's house.

Jiang Luoluo looked in an unfamiliar direction, not worried that Ge was taking her to some dangerous place. She just looked at the water that was above her ankles and wondered what kind of people lived in such a remote place.

The entire tribe lived on Silver Peak Mountain. From the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, as well as the two adjacent mountains, there were wide man-made stone roads connecting them. The breadth of the roads had initially shocked Jiang Luoluo.

However, after seeing her people return with those enormous prey that were over ten meters long, Jiang Luoluo finally understood why the roads were built so wide.

If the road weren't wide enough, these prey wouldn't be able to get to the top of the mountain.

Because the road is a top-down structure with an inherent sloping angle, even if the rain is heavy, like a waterfall, it will not accumulate on the road surface but will flow down the mountain.

However, it's normal to have a layer of flowing water on the road surface; as long as it's not too deep, it won't affect walking.

However, the place Ge brought Jiang Luoluo to was no longer on the main road, so the water flow was obviously not as smooth, and more rainwater had accumulated than in other places. It even went above Jiang Luoluo's ankles, making it difficult for her to lift her feet with extra effort.

Jiang Luoluo didn't recognize the clansmen she was going to meet this time, and had never met them before. However, she had actually heard some news about them, so they weren't completely without anything.

This tribeswoman is called "Zao," and she is a very famous stone tool genius in the tribe... no, at her age she should be called an expert.

No one in the tribe could surpass Zao in Stone Age-related matters, and other so-called Stone Age geniuses all needed to be respected as teachers.

The saying "Genius is merely the threshold to my understanding" couldn't be more fitting for Zao.

It's just that perhaps the emergence of Zao exhausted the luck of the stone tool geniuses in the tribe, so that over the years, although the tribe has still produced many geniuses in making stone tools, no one has been able to gain Zao's recognition and succeed her.

Zao is already over sixty years old, an age he should have retired long ago.