Orc Girl's Tribal Daily Life

Chapter 157

Jiang Luoluo tried to understand what Chief Jing meant.

Before Jiang Luoluo could figure out the reason, Chief Jing had already explained it to himself.

“Lo, I originally thought this telescope would only help us see further and let us see what’s in the distance. But after this morning’s hunt, I realized that the telescope’s usefulness far exceeds my expectations.”

"It allows us to know what we're going to encounter before we even face danger... No, that's not the right way to put it. It allows us to see those dangers earlier and have enough time to react."

"Just like those powerful wild beasts with the ability to hide, we often only notice them after they have gotten a certain distance away. But if we have this telescope, we can spot them and see them before they get close when we are hunting, so we can take timely action and detect danger much earlier."

“And…” Chief Jing continued.

"It can also help us cooperate better when hunting. Before, once the hunting team was far apart, we could not sense the condition of others and could only judge each other's location and condition by whistles... And some tribesmen who could not use the whistle but were in danger might miss timely support and help."

"But through this telescope, even from a great distance, we can observe each other's condition and know what's going on. Combined with whistle guidance, we can communicate very well. This allows us to cooperate more during hunts and reduce more dangers."

Jiang Luoluo scratched her head, because she had never gone hunting before, so she had never thought about this kind of thing, and she never imagined that a telescope could have such a function.

In fact, Jiang Luoluo thought from the beginning that using a telescope in the forest was useless.

After all, it's a forest. Just thinking about it makes it clear that it's full of all kinds of trees and plants, and the view will definitely be blocked. Unless it's some kind of infrared night vision device or something, how could it possibly be of any use?

But when Jiang Luoluo raised this question, Chief Jing laughed and explained to her that the Taz Forest was very large, much larger than Jiang Luoluo had expected.

The edge of the Taz Forest that Jiang Luoluo can see now looks like the trees and plants are already very tall and lush. In fact, the closer you get to the center of the Taz Forest, the larger, taller and more lush the plants will become.

The plants are so large that the gaps between them are naturally not crowded. Especially as you get closer to the interior of the Taz Forest, the wild animals living there become larger. The gaps between the plants, which are tens of meters long, are often comparable to large open spaces compared to the size of the tribespeople.

This is why it becomes more dangerous the further they go into the middle of the Taz Forest—many large wild animals have already seen their group, but they haven't noticed their approach because of their poor eyesight.

Furthermore, the leader, Sheng Jing, said that they usually use methods such as climbing to the top of trees to occupy a high position, in order to broaden their field of vision and conduct reconnaissance.

Even though the view from below is mostly blocked, once you stand on higher ground, you can naturally see more.

Jiang Luoluo nodded as if she understood, knowing that telescopes were indeed useful for hunting, and that it was only right for all the tribesmen to be equipped with telescopes.

Actually, shrinking a telescope isn't difficult. After all, they're already making eyeglasses, and eyeglass lenses are small. Just modifying them to make a smaller telescope is no problem at all.

However, binoculars are not that sturdy. If everyone carries one, it seems difficult for everyone to exert their full strength in order to protect the binoculars.

After all, it's impossible to find a place to properly store your binoculars after encountering prey and fighting with it. Besides, the place you choose in a hurry is not necessarily safe. If some wild animal walks by, it could very well break the binoculars.

Chief Jing was taken aback and realized that he had been too excited. He had indeed taken things too seriously, focusing only on equipping the hunting team members with all the good stuff without considering the consequences.

However, this problem is actually quite simple to solve. Just divide them into small teams of a few people each, with one person usually responsible for carrying the supplies and the others mainly responsible for fighting, just like how a hunting team would always split into several transport teams.

However, compared to these problems that will only be encountered later, the most important and priority issue is the production capacity of telescopes. When can we produce enough to supply one to everyone?

Jiang Luoluo smiled and told Chief Jing some good news: before Chief Jing came to find her, she and Zao had already prepared to mass-produce telescopes.

The goal wasn't to produce more copies, but rather to create more "magnifications" to continuously improve the telescope's field of view.

Of course, these extra telescopes that were made were eventually exchanged with the people in the tribe.

The items exchanged will be distributed according to each person's contribution; it's impossible for everyone to work for nothing.

Jiang Luoluo initially thought of the telescope as something similar to a toy, hoping it would help everyone earn some hard-earned money and ensure food supplies. She never expected it to suddenly become hunting equipment.

The value has increased significantly – if Chief Jing ordered these telescopes, the cost would definitely be borne by the tribe, and then Chief Jing would distribute them to the members of the hunting team.

Of course, it could also be like the Stone Age, where each tribesman who wanted a telescope could come and exchange it with Jiang Luoluo.

These are all possible... Freeloading has never been popular in the tribe.

Even if Chi takes away the transparent lens that Jiang Luoluo gave him, he will turn around and send him a lot of prey, or transparent stones that Jiang Luoluo needs, or even other plants that are not common in various tribes.

As for having Qing and Heng make transparent lenses, which affected the tribe's ability to exchange for stone tools... there are more than just a few people in the tribe who can make stone tools.

Furthermore, in a tribe of more than two thousand people, how many orc warriors need to fight and hunt, and how many stone tools would be needed for each person?

Qing and Heng kept making stone tools, not because they didn't have enough, but because they wanted to make higher quality stone tools. But those kinds of things were not easy to make.

To be honest, even if she didn't make any ordinary stone tools for a year, she could still make them without any problems.

This is also why they have never gained recognition.