Original War

Chapter 386 The boss, it’s him!

Every year when winter is approaching, the tribes will go out hunting more frequently. If it is not because of limited manpower and unable to bring more things, they will definitely hunt for a longer time.

Because every year when winter is approaching, the tribe will prepare animal skins, and then people will take them to the slave owners to sell them, and then buy some other things. When the weather is cold, the demand for animal skins by the slave owners who live far from the deep mountains and wild forests will also increase. Their slaves alone cannot prepare much good goods, so they have to get them from the tribesmen.

Especially for those with good coat color and good leather, the selling price is more than double than other times.

Some tribes, such as food, copperware, etc., that cannot be produced by themselves, will be exchanged in this way. If it is a family with conditions, they will buy some rare things from the slave owners to bring them back.

All of this requires prey to support.

Before going to bed yesterday, Shao Xuan heard that many people in the team were discussing what to exchange for fur. They also asked Shao Xuan. Shao Xuan had never been to the slave-owner’s site and couldn’t tell why. I can see it again.

On the second day of the hunt, before the sun was fully exposed, the teams had already set off.

Following Tao Zheng’s team, Shao Xuan quickly walked through the mountains and forests. Sometimes when there was a short pause, Tao Zheng would introduce to Shao Xuan some of the surrounding landforms. This is the route that their team often hunts. Shao Xuan remembered all the dangerous places around, the beasts, the dangerous or medicinal plants, and so on.

When passing a dry creek, Shao Xuan paused sharply and looked over there.

Seeing Shao Xuan stop, everyone else also stopped. After yesterday’s hunting, the people in the team would not underestimate Shao Xuan, he was better than his strength, even the stubborn Qi had to admit that Shao Xuan was a little bit better than them.

“What’s wrong?” Tao Zheng asked. Looking at the dry river bed over there, they didn’t find any weird place. They had walked here many times and were familiar with it.

Shao Xuan stared at that side, “You are waiting here, I’ll take a look.” After speaking, he walked over there quickly.

There were no dangerous beasts around here, Tao Zheng simply walked over and asked, “What have you found?”

Shao Xuan said nothing, he was not sure.

The riverbed here is twenty to thirty meters wide, and the one in the distance seems to be wider, but not deep.

“The river will rise during the rainy season here, but at the end of the year, the river will drop and become dry.” Tao Zheng introduced to Shao Xuan, “There is water here for most of the year, and it won’t dry until the end of the year. It’s like this. But when there is water here, we won’t be near here. Because there are some more dangerous fishes here.”

Shao Xuan walked to the side and did not go down, watching the river bed dry and crack, but if he stepped inside, it would sink directly. The bottom was soft mud, only the mud on the top was dried and cracked, cracked mud cracks. A lot of weeds have grown out of the area, and they are growing well.

However, Shao Xuan was not interested in these, his target was the rocks exposed on the river bed.

“Do you have a spear? Borrow it.” Shao Xuan turned and asked someone to borrow a tool.

“Use mine!” Duoli quickly passed the spear he was carrying.

“Thanks.”

Shao Xuan took the spear and picked up the stone closest to him on the river bed.

The rock exposing the riverbed was raised high by the spear of the spear and flew towards Shao Xuan. After catching the stone, Shao Xuan wiped off some of the dry mud on the surface of the stone, looked at the stone carefully, rubbed his fingers on the stone, and felt it.

“Are these stones different?” Tao Zheng asked. In his opinion, these stones are no different from other stones, and they are not too big, even if they are stone tools.

Shao Xuan shook his head: “It’s just a guess.”

Picking up two more stones, Shao Xuan put the three fist-sized stones in his hand into the animal skin bag, and then walked along the river bed and looked into the distance.

“The kind of terrifying fish you are talking about is a fish with hard scales, big mouth, sharp teeth, four claws and long tail, can swim in the water and walk on the shore?” Shao Xuan asked.

Before Tao Zheng answered, Duoli and the others even nodded: “Yes, that’s it. Have you seen Shao Xuan?”

At first they wanted to hunt some kind of fish, but then they found that the kind of fish was too dangerous and there were a lot of them. So when the weather was warm and the water in the river was rising, they would go around this place and wait until the end of the year when the river dries up. They all leave, they will go here again.

Touching the animal skin bag containing the stone, Shao Xuan asked, “Where does this river lead all the time?”

Others don’t know this question, but Tao Zheng knows a little bit. He has heard the old hunter who walked here before.

“It is said that there is a wider river ahead. That river can pass through the entire forest. If you walk along that river, you might see the sea. But it’s too far. No one in the tribe has seen it, just listen to it. Some tribesmen who came from there said.”

Into the sea? Shao Xuan lowered his head to think about it.

Shao Xuan stopped because he felt that the stones on the bed were familiar, and when he took a look at the stones, the texture was also familiar. Back then, when he took the tribe across the river and left the Mae Tribe, a crocodile gave him a stone. It is said that the water and moon stone of the Mae Tribe came out of that kind of stone.

It’s impossible for the Huo Tribe to have anything to do with this side, but the crocodiles are different. Maybe the Huo Tribe’s crocodiles won’t come here, but what about other crocodiles? Are there any crocodiles in the same tribe who pick stones from the sea and spit stones into the river?

This is still uncertain.

“Let’s go.” Shao Xuan said. The team has to continue hunting, and can’t be delayed just because of him.

Duoli looked at the leaving team, and at the rocks exposed on the river bed, ran over to pick up a stone with a spear and put it on. Since seeing Shao Xuan single-handedly picking up the bone stone beast, Duoli has admired this young Elder who is not much older than himself, and believes in Shao Xuan’s strength. Since Shao Xuan thinks the stones are weird, he also brought one. Research and research, maybe you can find something?

When other people saw Dori’s behavior, they actually thought about whether to bring a piece of their own, but the team had already left and it was hard to go back. Forget it, come again next time, anyway, there will be another hunt before the winter.

Except for Shao Xuan’s special way of hunting bone and stone beasts on the first day, he resumed his previous hunting methods in the next few days. Yanjiao people advocate individual ability, but also value teamwork. Together with Tao Zheng and others, Shao Xuan hunted a lot of good prey. In addition, Shao Xuan also woven a net with vines and netted a few tapirs.

The tapir caught is a relatively small species of tapir, and it is an ordinary beast that can be eaten. They have little courage, and if they move a little bit, they will flee, hiding in a hidden place with lush branches and bushes, and wait until the crisis has passed before they come out. There are also some patterns of different colors on their skins, which look like they are wearing a camouflage uniform. When they are hidden in the bushes, it is difficult to spot them by sight.

The cubs of this kind of tapir are less courageous, so they will not be as curious as the cubs of other beasts, but will always follow the mother beast and will not leave alone. This way of survival allowed this seemingly innocent population to continue to survive to this day.

Tao Zheng and the others didn’t like such prey, but Shao Xuan caught it. It was a female tapir with a litter of cubs. When they found it, they were being chased by predators and directly hit Shao Xuan’s nest. It was in the net, and Shao Xuan was stunned.

Shao Xuan himself didn’t eat such ordinary beasts very much, and caught them as a gift.

After the hunting time passed, the prey of each team was almost the same, and it was time to return to the tribe.

The crowd gathered at the resting place, sorting out the prey of their respective teams and carrying them back.

A section of the route from the resting place to the tribe coincides with the route of the Taihe tribe. Although the territories of the two tribes are different, and the hunting areas are different, the road is shared. Because it is flat enough and easy to walk, it is suitable for teams with prey.

The road came out. The two tribes and hunting teams often stepped on them. The trees and weeds that blocked the way were already cut off.

Probably because of the fruitful harvest and the smooth hunting, Duokang was in a good mood and roared openly. Others sang along.

Many people sang in a chorus, and the burst of momentum would also have a certain deterrent to the nearby beasts, and no beasts would approach it. They will not be so arrogant when they go out, because they don’t want to drive away their prey, but when they come back they don’t have to worry and they can vent as much as they want.

At the “Y”-shaped intersection, people from the Tay River tribe were carrying hunted prey and embarking on the shared road. Hearing the sound of singing from Yanjiao, the leader of the team was not well deserved, “Why touch it again? On them?!”

The great mood is ruined!

“Boss… Yanjiao and the others…”

“Don’t worry!” The leader said with a blank face, “Keep going, when they don’t exist!”

However, the people of Yanjiao have a strong sense of existence, and they can’t be ignored.

The people waiting for Yanjiao took another fork and walked onto the common aisle, and the two teams also met.

Duokang glanced at the prey carried by the Taihe team and let out two weird laughs.

Taihe’s team leader immediately became cold: “Why, look down on it?”

“Oh, no, I didn’t look down on it, really not.” Duokang said, turning his head and yelling at the back: “Dori, take your prey and go quickly! Even that little prey is walking so slowly. !”

The people behind did not say anything, it seemed that a tacit understanding had formed. After Duokang said this, Shao Xuan found that the people in the team were shocked, and then he saw Duoli and others carrying the bone-rock beast, hurried forward to the front of the team.

Seeing the huge bone and stone beast, the people on the other side of Taihe were also dumb, and the leader’s face was twitched twice, and his face turned green.

Shao Xuan was also happy when he saw this, and quickly chased after carrying the prey.

Over there, the leader of the Tay River Tribe Hunting Team was about to stab him a few words, and suddenly he heard “Ah” behind him, so that he had forgotten everything he wanted to say.

“Ah what?!” The leader turned his head and shouted.

Ignoring the boss’s ugly face, a young soldier jumped out and pointed at Shao Xuan: “The boss! It’s him!”