Making javelins itself isn't that tiring, but making twenty a day is quite a workload.
He felt that he certainly couldn't finish today.
He walked into the nearby forest to search for suitable branches.
The straighter the branches, the more they met the requirements.
He made a stone axe, which could be used to chop branches; although very inefficient, it saved many times the effort compared to breaking them by hand.
While working, he would place a fire basin behind him to prevent an ambush.
His biggest fear was an ambush. And both tigers and leopards prefer ambushing and dislike direct combat.
Tu Jun had told him that as long as he held the javelin and took a defensive stance, if the tiger was more than ten meters away from him, it basically wouldn't attack.
If it got closer, it would surely fight.
The fire basin served as his defense measure.
