Volume 1 The First Advent Chapter 11 The Three Harvests
The night passed, and Ding Qi, who had rested all night, was refreshed and revived, while the ancient people who had tossed all night were in even worse condition. In order to avoid becoming a meal for the wolves, the leader shouted to the other two as soon as the bonfire went out, took up arms and set off.
And when Ding Qi passed by the place where the primitive man confronted the wolves last night, he saw in the grass on one side of the primitive man who had been eaten clean and only a pile of white bones remained, and the hollow eyes on the skull seemed to accuse nature of how unfair it was.
Ding Qi followed the primitive man in front of him, and at the same time made a general note of the surrounding terrain and vegetation.
The doom of the primitives in front of them did not seem to be over, and after two hours of travel, they met a family of three bears who were out foraging, and the mother bear and the two baby bears just stood in the way of the primitives. Just when the three of them were about to find a place to hide their bodies, one of the primitives rushed to the location of the baby bear in a daze.
As you can imagine, this person was divided by his beloved mother's mother, and another primitive who was a little close to him also suffered, and was stunned to death by a claw across his thigh and missing a large piece of flesh, but it also allowed him to dodge the killing blow.
However, the leader was lucky, he was not taken as an attack, and he picked up a life and came back, and only after the mother bear left with the baby bears, did the leader come out of the bushes next to him to check the injuries of his other fallen companions, and as for the one who became a fragment, the leader had no intention of going to see it at all.
Fortunately, the wound is not deep.
The leader, after sprinkling some dirt on the wound to stop the bleeding, helped him away from the direction the bear had left, and walked towards their own tribe.
Dingchi followed the group of primitive people, and his initial idea was to wipe them out in the jungle, but as time went on he gradually changed his initial idea and decided to follow them to find out where their tribe was, to observe how primitive people lived, to see how high their lives were and their productivity levels, hunting abilities, and most importantly, their ability to make tools.
Ding Qi, who was hidden in the tree, watched the two primitive people who had returned to the tribe after many difficulties, and he did not have the desire to kill them all three days ago in his heart, and calmly observed them for two days, without disturbing their lives, just like watching a documentary, putting himself out of the way.
Towards night, a group of thirty or forty primitives returned to the cave not far away, which made Ding Qi even more afraid to act rashly. After two days of observation, Ding Qi learned that the total number of people in the tribe in front of him was between eighty and ninety, with about fifty young and middle-aged people, about twenty children, and fifteen elderly primitives. Nearly half of the women gather for food, while the men go hunting some deer and other animals to supplement their food. If it weren't for the previous conflict between the two groups of primitives and the killing of Ding Qi, there would have been about seventy young adults in this group. But there are a dozen people in this tribe who are a little special, men and women, who are thin and weak, but who do more work than the others, and when they work, there are always three or four people around them who stare at them like overseers.
Now that human beings are still in the Paleolithic Age, with a little rudimentary form of polished stone tools, most of the elderly will guard the entrance of the cave and make some stone weapons for hunting, including wooden spears, stone axes, stone hammers, flying stone ropes, and even bone knives and bone spears, without bows and arrows. In terms of the number of hunting weapons equipped, spears and throwing stone ropes are basically one per person.
During these two days, Tinch watched their hunt from afar. When they saw the deer, twenty or thirty people surrounded it and threw it with a flying stone rope, which was overwhelming, frightening the deer to flee in all directions, and the target who was hit could only struggle in vain on the ground, and finally the primitive man who caught up smashed the skull with a stone axe or stone hammer in his hand. Their hunting targets are basically deer, antelopes and other non-dangerous animals, while bison, wild boars and other more aggressive animals occasionally hunt.
But upon seeing some of the gray human skulls scattered around the tribe, Tinch was even more certain that it was a cannibal tribe. Although they have not been seen to prey on other humans, if there is a lack of food, cannibalism will definitely occur, and this behavior will definitely make every normal human feel frightened and spurned. Especially the dozen or so primitive people with special behavior, Ding Qi wondered if they could be stored humanoid food.
After a basic understanding of the situation of the tribe, Dingqi embarked on the journey back to the location of the buggy, and the three-day road Dingqi completed in two days, reaching the hillside in the evening of the next day. But these two days also made Ding Qi, who was walking alone in the jungle, extra cautious and cautious, and even encountered a lot of dangers from the jungle. The roaming saber-toothed tiger, the lurking jungle leopard, the poisonous snakes and spiders hiding in the grass, such as the thigh-thick python, and especially the small insects such as ants and locusts are the main targets of his attention. They even encountered the five wolves that attacked the primitive people a few nights ago, but fortunately they had just captured a red deer and were tearing their powerful muscles there, and Ding Qi who suddenly entered their sight only gave a curious glance and then stopped paying attention and continued to bury his head in eating.
For them, Tinch is a mobile food in the jungle that can be eaten by them one day.
Ding Qi walked around from a distance, unwilling to touch the moldy heads of this group of fierce-looking wolves, and buried his head in a hurry. Of course, in addition to these dangers, Ding Qi, who walked carefully in the jungle, gained a lot.
The first harvest consisted of the collection of edible mushrooms and fungus, as well as the discovery of walnut, oak and chestnut trees, as well as some fruit trees, which, if possible, would have served as a place for Tinche to harvest dried fruit in the fall, adding to his food reserves.
The second was the accidental discovery of a yew tree that had existed on Earth for 2.5 million years, which made Tinch ecstatic. Yew, also known as yew, is a good material for making bows and arrows. He used the saw he carried with him to cut off three branches about two meters long and about ten centimeters thick, trimmed them, tied them to his back and brought them back, and when he settled down, he made them into bows and arrows. With long-range attack weapons, believe that you will be better able to survive in this world.
The third is to find a condiment plant - wild mountain pepper. Although the chili pepper is a borrowed product in a broad sense, there is more and more evidence that there are some varieties of chili pepper that belong to the local pedigree in the vast land of China, but the development of history has also obscured some facts under its great footprint.
The peppers that grow on the shrubs are not large, about five or six centimeters long, and some of them are round. There are two kinds of chili peppers found, one is the old chili pepper that grows on the wilted pepper vine; One is the newly grown green chili peppers. As soon as he discovered the wild mountain pepper, Ding Qi tasted a little fruit growing on the top of the green plant with the tip of his tongue. The spicy, hot sensation and burning pain on the tip of his tongue made Ding Qi so excited that he would have to jump up if it weren't for the fear of attracting the attention of the beasts in the jungle. This adds another flavor to Tinchi's daily primitive life, a taste of pain and pleasure.
After carefully picking a few red peppers and putting them away, and picking seven or eight green peppers and stuffing them into the top layer of the backpack, Ding Qicai set off again with the yew branches and the backpack.
When passing by the place where the primitive people fought, there were no remains of the primitive people on the ground, only a newly grown grass and vines scattered around.