Chapter 59: Prelude to the Hunt
The nameless continent where Wu Xuan is located also has obvious four seasons. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw.
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There are more than 100 days in the hot season every year, 70 or 80 days in the cold season, and more than 80 days of lukewarm days between the hot season and the cold season.
In Wu Xuan's opinion, this is similar to the world in his previous life, which has four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter every year.
It's just that Wu Xuan has only been in this world for more than 100 days and less than 200 days, and there is no circulation of words in this world, so naturally there is no record of the calendar and the like.
However, later, Wu Xuan found that every time something happened, Elder Zhihuo would pull out a rope from under his bunk afterwards, rub it back and forth, tie a knot in the rope, and then use all kinds of strange materials of various colors to draw a lot of inexplicable patterns on the stone wall of the cave next to his bunk.
Isn't this the story of the knotted rope in the Stone Age and the rock paintings that Wu Xuan talked about in the history class of his previous life?
Wu Xuan found out that Elder Zhihuo recorded events like this, and he gave up the idea of understanding the four seasons calendar on this continent.
But Wu Xuan didn't expect that Elder Zhihuo's knotted rope account would still play a role one day.
Wu Xuan didn't expect that when that clansman came back that day to report the information about the great migration of herbivores, Elder Zhihuo was not in a hurry to gather the clansmen to hunt.
Instead, he quickly rushed to the side of his bunk, stretched out his hand, pulled out the rope with countless knots from under the bunk, closed his eyes, and carefully rubbed it on the rope.
Elder Zhihuo rubbed the rope, and after a short while, he opened his eyes and said to himself, "Why is this year's herbivore migration a few days early, it seems that the herbivorous beast population has expanded a lot. ”
Wu Xuan saw Elder Zhihuo's movements, and complained in his heart, don't rub it, it's a serious thing to quickly gather the clansmen to hunt more prey.
It's a pity that Elder Zhihuo has experienced more than one herbivorous beast migration and hunting experience, and he already has a set of mature countermeasures.
After rubbing the rope of the memorization, he sent the remaining clansmen to gather the other clansmen who had gone out to work, but he sat peacefully on the bunk and waited.
Not long after the time passed, Hurricane, who had gone out hunting, returned with a dozen or so clansmen who had gone out with him.
As soon as he met with Elder Zhihuo, he knew that Hurricane had also discovered that the herbivore beasts had begun to migrate greatly.
The two of them were not in a hurry to discuss anything, but sat together calmly, waiting for more clansmen to return.
Soon, more than 150 tribesmen of the Xuanhu tribe returned to the cave, except for a dozen clansmen who were mining led by Fengping on the side of the metal mine.
Elder Zhihuo beckoned to Yihe, who was standing in the crowd, and motioned for the two of them to sit next to him and behind him.
Then he motioned for the other clansmen to sit on either side of the elder Zhihuo, the male to sit opposite the elder, the female to sit behind the male, and the dozen or so youngest to sit in their mother's arms, and so on.
Then, Elder Zhihuo opened his mouth and spoke.
Elder Zhihuo said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I think everyone knows that another season of herbivore beasts has begun to migrate. I won't talk about the impact of the Great Migration of Herbivores on our tribe, but I think everyone knows about it. But I think that the time we separated from the ancestral tribe is not long, and there are not enough people, even if they add the wind wisdom of the vassals, they are only more than 150 people, not to mention that there are more than ten people mining in the metal mine, and they have not come back, and they cannot come back. In the removal of the young and old twenty or so, we can have at most more than 100 people go hunting this time. In this way, the danger of this hunt is a bit greater. Ladies and gentlemen, what can you do to allow our tribe to hunt a large amount of prey, and to minimize the danger that we may all encounter? ”
Hearing Elder Zhihuo's request, the clansmen of the Xuanhu tribe looked at each other, but none of them spoke.
The younger ones had only heard that the tribe would send people to hunt when the herbivores migrated, but they didn't know the specific process.
The older ones have participated in hunting, but they all know that it seems to be a large migration of herbivores twice a year, and the danger does not seem to be great, in fact, every time the herbivores migrate, it is a large dinner party for carnivores.
The entire herd of herbivores has undergone a single migration, and the population has been reduced by at least 30%.
The ferocious carnivores would always swim around the herbivorous procession, and when the herbivore showed a flaw, they would rush up and devour it into their stomachs.
In this case, go and take a part of the prey yourself, and the danger is self-evident.
When Elder Zhihuo made his request, Wu Xuan and Qi were also communicating with each other.
Wu Xuan asked Qi, "Qi, do you know the details of the Great Migration of Herbivorous Beasts?" ”
"Wu Xuan, I don't know the details of the migration of the herbivore beasts, I only know that in the past, when I, Elder Grandpa and Brother Yi had not yet separated from the ancestral tribe, twice a year the tribe would organize a large number of clansmen in the tribe to go out hunting at a specific time period. As far as I can remember, there have been nine times. Of the nine rounds, only one of the tribesmen who went out to hunt did not bring back a lot of prey, and the other eight times brought back enough prey for all the tribesmen to eat for more than 20 days. However, every time the tribesmen who went back to hunt, there were always some people who did not come back with them, and the number of people who did not bring back a lot of prey was the least, less than half of the number of people who went out. ”
"Even, is it so dangerous? So why go hunting? ”
"If you don't go, you can't go, Wu Xuan, when I was in the ancestral tribe, I didn't have enough food, and of course, other things like salt, weapons, clothes, and so on were not enough. Finally, I had the opportunity to hunt a large number of prey, so I had to go anyway. The original ancestral tribe has developed and grown because of the hunting that brought back a large number of prey in recent years, and then the patriarch of the ancestral tribe can let the elder grandfather and Brother Yi lead us out to build a sub-tribe. ”
"yes, I see. So, when you were still in the ancestral tribe, you hunted the most prey, and how many people went back to the tribe with the least losses, do you know? ”
"I know, it was the time when the hot season ended last year and the cold season began, and more than 2,000 people from our ancestral tribe went to more than 1,000 at once, and more than 900 people came back, bringing back more than 2,000 prey. There was also a grand harvest ceremony that time, and I ate a whole roasted animal leg, which was so fragrant and full! ”
"Well, yes, I see. I think, my Xuanhu tribe's hunting of herbivores this time is probably not easy, our people are too few, your elder grandfather still doesn't want our people to encounter danger, and wants to get more prey, this is very difficult. ”
"Wu Xuan, is it really difficult? Or I'll go and tell the elder grandfather that we're not going to hunt herbivores, and we'll have enough food anyway. ”
"That's not good, Qi, you're not right, if you have this kind of mentality that you don't want to take risks and move if you have enough food to eat, you will develop the habit of being lazy and timid, and that's bad."
"Wu Xuan, don't talk about me, can't I tell my grandfather? But you can also think of a good way, when the time comes, we will go to harvest prey with Brother Yi. ”
"Solution. There is no good way, our Xuanhu tribe is still very weak, and it is not easy to deal with the situation of such a large team. Unless we are not greedy and withdraw as soon as we harvest some prey, we will not encounter great danger. ”
"Ah, so you've got a solution. Tell me, Wu Xuan, I'll go and remind the elder grandfather, let him not be greedy, just hunt a few hundred prey, anyway, we have a lot of food." ”
Wu Xuan understood Qi's thoughts, and he smiled.
There are still a few hundred heads, and I also reminded the elder grandfather not to be greedy, I think the Qi is the most greedy clansman.
However, Wu Xuan won't say anything.
Isn't it just a great migration of herbivores, I saw the animal world when I watched TV in my previous life, and there is a detailed introduction in it.
According to his own plan, as long as he finds a suitable terrain around the Xuangui Valley at the foot of the Turtle Spirit Mountain, hunts hundreds of herbivores, and protects the clansmen of the Xuanhu tribe from danger, it is not a difficult task to complete.