Chapter I
The craftsman tribe is not a large tribe in the Desolate Mountains, but almost all the men in the tribe are good at making stone tools, whether it is weapons or various utensils used in life, although the tribe is not large, but it is also a well-known tribe in the Desolate Mountains.
Yuan Hehe is serious about his work, so the stone tools he makes are very popular in many tribes, but today he is obviously not as familiar with polishing stone tools as usual, and he seems a little absent-minded, and when he polishes stone tools, he still looks at the gate made of huge elm wood from time to time.
Outside the door, there were some roars from time to time. Listen closely, it's not the roar of animals, it's humans.
Yuan Hehe's master, Shi Ermeng, gently touched Hehe's head and comforted: "Don't be afraid, the new leader Mu Ling will solve it, you have to trust the leader." ”
Shi Ermeng looked at the cabin used for the meeting, a fine light flashed in his eyes, the new leader didn't know if he could solve the dilemma of the craftsman tribe this time?
"If it weren't for the fact that the leader of Shi Zhi was seriously injured and unconscious in order to protect the tribe from the impact of the steppe wolf, the warriors in the tribe would have died and been wounded,...... These tribes don't dare to bully us! I hope that Wu can cure the leader of the stone, and the gods are above......"
Yuan Hehe said a little sad again, and then wiped away the tears on his face with his hand.
If the Artisan Tribe can't survive this crisis this time, the Artisan Tribe will be finished! All will become slaves and lose their freedom!
"Don't be sad, the ancestral god will definitely bless the old leader."
"Yes, the old chief will be fine! The ancestral gods will bless him! If it weren't for the old leader, I would have died at the hands of the steppe wolf......" said Yuan Hehe's voice with a little choked.
If it weren't for the old leader Shi Zhi leading the warriors of the clan to fight and defeat the steppe wolf king and the wolf pack, the entire craftsman tribe might have disappeared from this continent long ago!
……
In the corner of a tall fence wall of elm and licorice, the boy had a fair face, beautiful black hair, chestnut gilding in the fierce sun, and a small jacket made of black bear skin.
Unlike the people of the craftsman tribe, the black bearskin jacket on the young man's body is strung with three yellow-brown round pieces of wood on the right side, and the other side has three corresponding openings, and the buttons are buttoned through the buttons, like a modern fur coat, but this bearskin coat has not undergone any modern treatment.
There was a sparse sound outside the wall, and the black-haired boy frowned deeply, hunched over, and looked out from a small hole in the wall that could only be climbed out on his stomach.
I saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy wearing a bearskin suit similar to that of a black-haired boy, with a tuft of dog's tail grass hanging from his ear, and a big man full of muscles next to the boy, who stretched his body because he felt uncomfortable because he had climbed out of the hole.
"Ah Chi, let's leave like this, won't it be good? If they ...... Yan Yi people" Yuan Mengshu stretched out his body, lowered his head slightly, and asked with a slight hesitation in Shi Chi's ear.
"What could be the problem? Didn't you say you love me?! Take me away Are you afraid? Shi Chi was a little apprehensive, afraid that Yuan Meng would regret not taking him away, a pair of beautiful eyes stared at Yuan Meng tightly, and his voice was hoarse.
Yuan Meng was flustered by the question, and was silent for a while, but it was still difficult to hide his hesitation in his voice, "But...... I'm afraid that the tribe will annoy the Yanyi tribe because of this, the Yanyi tribe you know is originally two or three layers more than the warriors of our craftsman tribe, plus this time the tribe is injured and killed in order to defend against wolves, at least half of the entire tribe is killed, if it fights, the tribe will definitely not be an opponent......"
"Do you really want me to marry Yan Yi, that Wu Chen, who is going to die? He is lying in bed half dead now, if I marry him, it will be okay if he doesn't die, it's a big deal that I will take good care of him for the rest of my life, and it doesn't matter if I don't have enough food and clothing. But if he dies, I will definitely be buried in the earth by his Abba, who is the leader of Yanyi, and bury him with him! Shi Chi said this, his eyes were shining, and the more he talked, the more sad he became.
"But...... My mother and abba are still in the tribe, and the Yue Lin I picked up, even if we escape, they will really die, and they will definitely be given to the Yanyi people to extinguish their anger......" Yuan Meng looked at Shi Chi's beautiful face, and then looked at the tribe in the fence, and then sank his face, and hesitated in his heart.
One is the person you really like, and the other is the tribe that gave birth to yourself and raised you......
Shi Chijiao sighed, "You yourself know what the situation of your father and mother is, if my father hadn't raised you, you would have starved to death a long time ago!" ”
"My Abba is unconscious now, and the new leader Mu Ling is in a hurry to send me to the Yanyi tribe, so that he doesn't have to worry about someone competing with him for the position of leader in the future, as long as I leave, he will definitely not embarrass your mother and Abba, as for that Yuelin, I don't think they will embarrass him as an outsider......"
"Finally, I ask you if you want to come with me! If you don't come with me, if I meet a wild beast, even if I die on the road, it is my own choice, and I will never marry a waste man to bury him!" Shi Chi took a dose of fierce medicine, and tears fell down his cheeks, and Yuan Meng's heart hurt as if he had been stabbed in the heart.
Yuan Meng nodded, "Okay, listen to you, I hope the leader won't embarrass them." Let's go! ”
The backs of the two of them grew farther and farther away from the fence of the craftsman tribe until they disappeared.
The grass swayed a few times, and the black-haired boy finally propped up his lying body, climbed into the fence from the grass pile, stood in the fence, tilted his neck from side to side, and then stretched his waist, looking at the sky with a pair of eyes and not knowing what he was thinking.
The atmosphere of the artisan tribe in the fence is strict, and everyone is always vigilant about the movement outside the fence.
In the conference room, there were more than a dozen people sitting, all of whom were wearing animal skins of different shapes, perhaps because they had not been cleaned for a long time, the conference room emitted a foul smell, but the people sitting in the conference room did not care, because their bodies did not look much cleaner than this place.
"I don't agree, even if Shi Chi is handed over to the Yanyi tribe can solve this siege, but what do you make Shi Zhi think? He's hurt for the sake of the tribe, and we're treating his son like this now, do you think he'll let us go when he wakes up?! If you want me to say, he Yanyi tribe will fight if they want to fight! A rough voice came out of a dirty mouth, and the man's voice was very rough, and his face was full of beards, and he wore a jacket made of tiger skin, and he was a complete primitive person.
As soon as Shi Yimeng's words landed, the two people of the Shi Yuan clan on the side immediately agreed.
"Yes, we can't do this, don't we make Shi Zhi's heart cold?!"
Mu Ling had a cold face, sneered twice in his heart, looked at his own people and the other four people who were silent, with an unknown smile on their faces, coupled with the scar on their faces, which made people's hearts tremble, and said: "I know that you defend Shi Zhi, after all, you are all members of the Shi Yuan clan, but you have to think clearly, this time the matter is not the business of your Shi Yuan clan, but the survival of our entire craftsman tribe!" ”
"Our original warriors are not as good as the Yanyi tribe, and a few days ago, in order to deal with the steppe wolves, at least half of the warriors were injured and died! You say war? What do we use to fight the Yanyi tribe? ”
"Do you want them to die? You go and ask, which of them would want to?! Now the Yanyi tribe just asks for the return of the salt mine adjacent to us, and send Shi Chi over to marry Wuchen, if there is a fight, once the tribe is defeated, it will be a slave! ”
Mu Ling's younger brother Mu Sen on the side continued: "That's it, if you fall, you have to be a slave, I don't want to be a slave, I think the leader is right!" ”
"yes......"
"Yes, although I'm a little sorry for the old leader, it's better than exterminating the clan and becoming a slave, right?"
……
The next day –
Around a room made of wood and withered grass, there were seven or eight people on the floor, all of whom had nervous and concerned expressions on their faces.
In the eyes of everyone's concern, an old man dressed in a heavy bear skin came out of the house, holding a dead wooden cane in his hand, and a few small shells hanging from the handle of the cane.
"Wu, how is the chief?"
Wu shook his head and turned to leave the room.
The man in the room had gray hair, his upper body was not wearing animal skins, there was a scratch on his chest ten centimeters long and three centimeters wide, the location of the wound had obviously begun to decompose, and a white rib could even be faintly seen, and the wound was smeared with a strange white powder, which was mixed with blood to form small lumps.
There was a stone bowl on the ground, and the bowl also emitted a foul smell of medicinal herbs, and the freshly pounded herbs were in the form of liquid, black-green medicinal juice.
Next to the man, a woman sat on the ground, the woman's figure was very fat, the chest seemed a little unpreservable, and the woman was not the same as the craftsman tribe, she had long chestnut hair, her hair was randomly entangled, and her face was very fair, much whiter than ordinary people.
Shi Wei opened his eyes in a panic, a feeling of thirst hit, and he used all his strength to finally say a word.
"Water."
Ellie, who was originally listless, jumped up from the ground, quickly took out the water that had been prepared, put it in a semi-circular wooden scoop like a coconut husk, and handed it to Shi Zhi's mouth.
Shi Zhi was very weak, and after drinking a little water, he lay on the ground covered with the fur of the beast, looked at his wounds, and asked Ellie on the side, "Where did Shi Chi go?" ”
Ellie's white hands held Shi Zhi tightly, and when she heard Shi Zhi's question, she hesitated for a moment, and then she shook her head, indicating that she didn't know.
"Ellie, I don't have two days to live, you see the flesh has begun to rot, you listen to me, don't cry......" Shi Zhi stretched out his dark and powerful hands, brushing Ellie's long chestnut hair, his voice softer than ever.
"Ellie, if I die, you will take Shi Chi back to your tribe, I know that your tribe is better and bigger than the craftsman, you have more warriors, I think you can live better than the craftsman tribe when you go back, you know that I have offended a lot of people before, I dare not do anything to them, but I am about to die, you ......"
The chubby Ellie twisted her body, took the fist-sized barbecue that was placed on the side and handed it to Shi Zhi, "Eat, eat it and you'll be fine, you'll be fine!" ”
"Ellie, you keep it, I'm a dying person, I'm dead, you can bring my meat with you, I remember that there are still three pieces of meat at home, you sell all the furs in the family to the tribesmen, exchange some meat, and take it with you on the road to eat, I remember that the caravan of the Mapo tribe is coming the day after tomorrow, you can follow them to your tribe." Shi Zhi's hands trembled, but he said to Ellie with a smile on his face.
Ellie shook her head frantically, "No, I won't eat you!" ”
"I know you don't eat human flesh, you can let Shi Chi and Yuan Meng eat, Yuan Meng is a simple child, in fact, if he is willing to take care of you instead of me, you don't have to leave." Shi Shi touched Ellie's head and said gently.
"Actually...... Shi Chi and Yuan Meng ran away, Mu Ling became the new leader, he asked Shi Chi to marry Wu Chen of the Yanyi tribe, he was unwilling, and when everyone was not paying attention, he ran away. Yesterday the tribe held a meeting and said...... said that he was going to eat Yuanmeng's mother's stupid flower and his stump leg Abba Yuansha......"
"Because I'm not Shi Chi's mother, and I still have to take care of you, so they didn't say they wanted to eat me......" Ellie lowered her head and said with a trembling voice, looking at Shi Zhi carefully over and over again, paying attention to Shi Zhi's expression.
"This bastard ......"
Shi Zhi clenched his hands into fists, was so angry that he couldn't say a word, and fainted.
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In the small room where the meeting was held, Mu Ling sat on a stone chair like a stone pier, looking at Yuanmeng's foolish mother and the lame Yuansha who were kneeling on the ground.
The young man was wearing a black bear skin, and there were three buttons on the bear skin, just like the young man who saw Shi Chi and Yuan Meng fleeing that day, and the young man was also kneeling on the ground.
"Chief, I can marry instead of Shi Chi, my figure is most similar to him, as long as the people in the tribe keep it a secret, the people of the Yanyi tribe will not know, please let go of Brother Yuanmeng's mother and father!" Yue Lin felt that he was definitely a delicate white lotus now, or a pearl white kind!
Mu Ling was obviously thinking about Yue Lin's words, and after staring at Yue Lin carefully over and over again, Mu Ling obviously made a decision.
Mu Ling stretched out a hand and clamped Yue Lin's chin, and his face looked even more hideous because of a scar, "You'd better be honest with me, I'll let someone accompany you to the Yanyi tribe, from now on, you will be a craftsman's stone!" ”
"Okay, chief, I will be honest and obedient, don't worry!" Yue Lin nodded firmly.
Mu Ling glanced at Yue Lin and walked out of the hut.
Why did Shi Chi run away, Yue Lin knew the reason, Wu Chen of the Yanyi tribe is now in a similar situation to Shi Zhi, but the Yanyi tribe has a certain hierarchy, and the people in the tribe are divided into three levels, and Wu Chen, as the son of the black wolf, the leader of the Yanyi tribe, is naturally the first level person in the tribe, and Shi Chi is married, once Wu Chen is angry, that is, when Shi Chi is buried.
I should be able to cure that Wuchen......
Yuan Meng saved himself in the wild, and he naturally couldn't report the escape of the two of them, but what Yue Lin never expected was that the primitive tribe was a primitive tribe even if it didn't eat living people, and it could turn into a cannibal African tribe at any time......
On the first day of traveling to this primitive world, Yue Lin felt that this was simply a cosmic joke played by God on him, this joke was too big, and we couldn't make an appointment
On the first day he came here, Yue Lin met the tribe eating the corpses of dead warriors, and Yue Lin was very frightened at that time.
Just when Yue Lin thought that he was going to be eaten, he was miraculously taken to Shi Zhi's house by Yuan Meng, and after being taken care of by Ellie for two days, he followed Ellie to learn to pick wild fruits, and lived tremblingly for a month before confirming that the craftsman tribe does not eat people at any time.
Cannibalism is also divided into two situations, one is that after someone in the tribe dies or dies of natural injury or death, he will be cut into many pieces by the tribe and eaten by everyone; There is also a situation in the cold winter...... Don't eat your own children and the elderly......
After crossing into the primitive world, the only thing Yue Lin said was that it was summer and not winter, otherwise it was estimated that he would have no bones left at this time!
Yue Lin held the lame Yuan Sha with his left hand, and led the crazy fool Mother out of the hut with his right hand.
"Thank you......" Yuan Sha suddenly burst out of his mouth.
Yue Lin, who had long been accustomed to Yuan Sha's cold treatment of him, was a little surprised, nodded to Yuan Sha, and after sending the two back to the house, Yue Lin walked to the sundries circle next to Shi Shi's house, which emitted a foul smell, and all kinds of feces and rotten meat were piled up here.
Yue Lin jumped over the fence and pulled out a small basket made of dry yellow dead grass from the depths of the fence, but the basket was not hard, but soft, and it was obvious that the dead grass that made the small basket was not a special grass.
In the basket are several plants, the stems are cylindrical, the surface is greenish-brown or tan, there are several longitudinal ridges, covered with filamentous hairs, the capitate inflorescence is apical, spherical or elliptic, the total bracts are yellowish-brown, the pinnate crown hairs are grayish-white, sniffed with the nose, and there is a faint breath.
Thistle, hemostatic drug.