I am a Primitive Man-Chapter 639: Dou, who has a desire to hunt

On the walls of the Green Sparrow Tribe, Han Cheng stood atop, gazing around.

This time, he wasn't just admiring the tribe's rapid development; he was surveying the surrounding terrain for future planning. According to the current situation, doubling the area would be necessary. This would prevent the hassle of demolishing and rebuilding the walls every few years as development continued.

There was no awareness of such a need when the walls were built. However, tearing them down for expansion would be a monumental task. Furthermore, with the expansion of the walls, nearby farmlands would inevitably be encroached upon.

The farmlands near the walls were some of the earliest cultivated lands within the tribe, having become highly fertile after years of cultivation. Losing such lands would be a significant blow to the Green Sparrow Tribe, which was still expanding its farmland.

Despite the heartache, expansion was necessary. The initial construction with as much space as possible was no longer sufficient for today's needs. A rethinking of the planning was required. Delaying expansion until the tribe's population and other elements nearly overflowing would only complicate things.

As Han Cheng pondered how to expand, former Huang Guo Tribe leader Dou and several other former members of the tribe, along with some of the elders from the Green Sparrow Tribe, arrived at a spot not far from the east wall, carrying farming tools to start plowing.

After spring arrived, this entirely different lifestyle offered Dou and the other former Huang Guo Tribe members a more tangible sense of life within the Green Sparrow Tribe. During winter, they experienced the tribe's wealth, comfort, and tranquility. Now, all they felt was fatigue.

Digging, digging, digging—this exhausting, repetitive work of turning over the soil and breaking it apart was enough to make those new to such tasks feel utterly drained. Before this kind of labor, Dou thought the most tiring thing was hunting.

Hunting required searching for prey in the wild, chasing it down, and sometimes battling it. By the end of the day, Dou would feel exhausted. But after a few days of digging, he preferred hunting in the wild.

Blisters formed on his hands, and by the end of the day, he was too sore to move. Getting out of bed the next morning, he felt ached all over. The endless nature of this work seemed to have no end.

Hunting was different; it only got tiring during the chase and the fight. The rest of the time was relatively easy. However, what bothered Dou most was that hunting didn’t happen often. The tribe had many animals to hunt, and they would only hunt a few occasionally to improve their diet.

Dou missed the old ways of hunting within the tribe. Compared to the Green Sparrow Tribe's hunting methods, having participated once, he found it more comfortable to stay in the tribe’s fields, digging.

When Dou was first invited to go hunting by the Green Sparrow Tribe, people were thrilled after days of digging, which left their hands sore. He almost bounced up, putting his digging tool aside to look for weapons.

Then, he was told not to bring any other weapons. Just a bronze-digging tool would do. Innocent Dou weighed the bronze digging tool and remembered its sharpness, thinking it would also make a fine hunting tool.

If swung hard on prey, few could withstand it.

Carrying the bronze digging tool, Dou felt finally relieved from the exhausting work of digging and happily joined the hunting party of the Green Sparrow Tribe…

Upon arrival, Dou discovered he had completely misunderstood.

The hunting method used by the tribe was completely different from anything he was familiar with.

In the wild, there was no chasing down prey; instead, after selecting a few locations, several groups formed, using bronze digging tools and shovels to enthusiastically dig holes.

This digging method was much more laborious than ordinary plowing, leaving Dou at a loss and whispering to himself about the tribe's unusual hunting method.

It was a style of hunting he had never heard of before.

How could a hole like this catch a prey?

These animals were not stupid; why would they jump into a hole like this?

However, the next day, when a prey with a broken leg fell into the hole, Dou understood that these animals liked to jump into such pits.

Like everything else, this efficient, safe, and unique hunting method once again made Dou deeply realize that one should not underestimate any method of the tribe.

Since then, Dou's eagerness for the Green Sparrow Tribe’s hunting had waned, as it was not as comfortable as plowing the fields.

After nearly ten days of adaptation, Dou and the other former Huang Guo Tribe members gradually became accustomed to the intensity of the labor.

At this point, Dou and others truly understood why the tribe had so many precious foods and items—they were not obtained by chance but rather required significant effort, painstakingly earned bit by bit.

Only through today's hard work and sweat could everyone live in prosperity, free from the worry of hunger.

This way, even during harsh winter when other tribes mostly went hungry, they could sleep on warm beds and enjoy food that was even more abundant than usual.

After a day of hard work, Dou, along with the other new members of the Green Sparrow Tribe, was not deterred by the arduous labor.

Instead, reflecting on the tribe’s wealth and comparing it to their previous lives, they felt inspired to work hard like the elders of the Green Sparrow Tribe.

Indeed, labor was a source of wealth and a means of becoming more intelligent.

Since arriving in the Green Sparrow Tribe, Dou has experienced many surprising, shocking, and bewildering things.

Today was undoubtedly another one of those experiences.

As they were still not digging long, the young and wise Divine Child of the tribe walked out and came to them smiling, telling them that the fields did not need to be dug anymore.