Volume 2 Playing with the Tribe Chapter 297 The Moon is the Hometown Ming
"Hahaha~"
Everyone sat on the ground and laughed heartlessly, which was to completely eliminate the oppressive energy just now.
Soon, the temporary camp, everyone gathered around the campfire to prepare to make tea, everyone was tired all afternoon, especially the lizard king made everyone sweat like rain, and urgently needed to replenish salt and nutrients. There is also a clay pot with dried meat boiled, which can be eaten at any time when you are hungry.
Half an hour later, after eating and drinking, everyone went to retrieve the bronze arrows under the leadership of Ding Qi. They brought so many bronze arrows, and they still had to save some of them, and besides, these bronze arrows were better than stone arrowheads.
After recovering the bronze arrows, everyone took the mountain knife in their hands and began to skin these lizards, which were the main purpose of Ding Qi's adventure to kill them. When they return to the tribe, they can be tanned into suitable leather armor so that the tribe's warriors can have better protection.
It's summer, and it's getting dark late, and it's not until about nine o'clock in the evening, under the reflection of a large bonfire, that everyone peels off all the lizard skins, stacks them one by one, and looks at a large pile. As for the meat of those lizards, Ding Qi didn't care, there would be carnivores in the wilderness running over to feast, and even the lizards in the caves on both sides would come over to get a piece of the pie.
After the lizard skins had been simply tanned with plant ash, they were hungry and started again to roast the jerky around the campfire.
There is a breeze blowing in the valley, which is extremely cool, and people who have been tired from a long day quickly fall asleep. Someone was on duty at night, and the chirping of various insects outside the camp, as well as the annoying acquaintance, made Ding Qi unable to sleep. He had no choice but to recline on the backpack next to the animal skin cushion, his head resting on his arms, looking at the familiar Big Dipper above his head and the curved moon on the horizon, and his mind drifted back to the era he had lived in.
A starry sky like this, Ding Qi knew he had only seen it when he was in elementary school. After that time period, there are only a handful of days when you can see a starry sky. When I was a child, there was no air conditioning or electric fan in the summer, and at night I would lie on the roof with my father and watch the stars. Father would point out to himself which was the Big Dipper, which was Vega, and which was the North Star.
Slowly, I grew up, went out to study, looked for a job, and before it was time to marry a wife and have children, I crossed into this society. I don't know what the situation at home is, but it will definitely be very sad, but fortunately, there are other siblings in the family who can take care of their parents, and I can only continue to struggle to survive in this society, and strive for the survival of my tribe.
The moon is the hometown of Ming!
How much sorrow is pinned on this bright moon, although it is only the first quarter moon, the moonlight that can be sprinkled is particularly bright
Unconsciously, a sentence came to mind:
"Survival is a kind of luck, and this was true on Earth in the past, and it is everywhere in this cold universe now. But at some point, humans have had the illusion that survival has become a low-hanging fruit! ”
Ding Qi scoffed at the humans in this sentence, and if those people were thrown into this primitive society with no high technology, it was not known how many days he would be able to hold out. Ding Qi will not deny a person that he may not be able to hold out for even a day, but he believes that the other party will definitely believe the first sentence of the above sentence very much and empathize.
The fact that human beings are able to survive is a blessing in itself, especially in the long run
In the long course of time, this kind of luck is even more precious, not to mention that human beings have been chosen as the lucky ones to become the creators of civilization. But don't take this luck for granted, it's not impossible that the earth, or nature, can also choose other species to create civilizations.
"The earth has been like this for billions of years, destroying only species, and only human beings. So it's how humans save humanity, not how humans save the planet. ”
Human beings have been constantly taking, asking from nature, taking from the whole earth, and finally turning the earth into a miasma, with frequent disasters and raging viruses.
Some people say that in fact, human beings are the most harmful virus to the earth. This statement is somewhat one-sided, somewhat arbitrary, and does not even speak of this issue from the standpoint of humanity as a whole. It's only because of the excesses of human beings that all this has happened. Therefore, human beings have to find a way to save themselves, if they do not save themselves, sooner or later they will become an endangered species, or be wiped out by another species, or even be extinct by the earth.
And this process of self-help is actually a process of survival, and survival is never easy. Just like now, survival is still and long term the only goal in his life. As for these primitive humans, he only provided them with some survival skills, tools and supplies as far as he could. As it is now, give them some lizard skins to protect them.
But human beings, as the head of all things, still have to maintain a certain sense of reverence for nature, and the lizard king who appeared last this afternoon, if it hadn't had any scruples, then it would be impossible for everyone to stay in this valley now.
"Whew!"
A wolf howl could be heard in the distance, and the sound was getting closer. From time to time, there would be some fights and roars from the place where the lizards were killed, and it was different carnivores driving each other. There are so many lizard corpses, and they can't satisfy their appetite, so they still have to choose to fight.
The beasts that pass by avoid the campfire when they see it, and have no interest in these humans and horses for the time being, and do not clash with humans until there is a food crisis. They threw themselves into the piles of meat one after another to feast on them, for fear that they would miss a bite in their mouths.
Noisy, the night passed quickly.
Early the next morning, the people who were cleaning up encountered a trouble. I don't know how to transport the lizard skins I caught, eighty-three skins, on average, each horse has to carry five or six skins, a skin is more than fifty catties, rolled up are old and thick bundles, it is really not easy to carry them. If they are not transported and stored in place, the skins will be destroyed by the carnivores.
This stumped a group of people, and they were in a hurry. This is the leather they have worked so hard to get, and they plan to let the craftsmen of the tribe cook it and make it into fine leather armor, and throw it away like this, which is even more uncomfortable than not letting them eat!
Fortunately, Ding Qi finally thought of a way, that is, to hang these skins and hang them on a tree, away from the coveting of some carnivores, and at the same time, to dry the skins in the shade, and then bring them back on the way back, and the weight at that time can be reduced a lot.
Soon, everyone set off again. When I passed by the pile of lizard carcasses, there were more than a dozen jackals and five or six hyenas around around and tearing at the lizards, and the internal organs and stumps were everywhere, and more than 80 lizards were eaten in one night
Drop most of it. There was also a leopard lying next to him, presumably because he had not been able to do anything to other carnivores last night, and died here, how cruel the competition was!
These jackals and hyenas who still stay here have round stomachs and feel like they can't run. A warrior drove his horses and killed several slow-running jackals with a spear in his hand, making everyone laugh.
Coming to the big rocky area where these lizards were basking yesterday, not a single lizard dared to bask around it anymore. After this battle, the lizard group is also broken, and they will have to keep a low profile in the future.
The crowd was led by Tinch and soon walked through the valley and came out of the valley. As far as the eye can see, there is a large hilly area of sparse trees and shrubs, and a rushing river winds its way through the hills, flowing into the distance. And between this shrub and the jungle of savages, there is a clear trail that leads into the distance.
Standing at a high position, as far as the eye can see, there seems to be a large open area on the horizon, and there are no tall forests and trees in sight.
The weather was hot, and in the past, they were all shirtless, and their lower bodies were only wearing a straw skirt. But now they are wearing deerskin coats and deerskin shorts underneath, so they are hotter than usual. They walked and stopped, and when they came out of the hilly area, they were already soaked from head to toe, even the horses. Fortunately, they brought enough water, and the water that boiled at night was packed in water bags made by the cobblers.
At present, there are not many water bags made by the tanners, but there are probably more than 30 of them, all of which are made of deerskin. Except for Tinch's group, one for each person, the rest remained in the tribe for those in need.
The sun was already in the west, and everyone needed to find a place to rest at night. Everyone loses a lot of water and salt during the day, and urgently needs to find a place with water to replenish.
Just as everyone was looking around for a suitable place, Cang suddenly pointed in his direction and said in surprise:
"Look, Boss, there's smoke there!"
Everyone looked in the direction of Cangzhi, and there was indeed a column of smoke rising. Because of the wind, it twisted around, and the light smoke swirled and rose, and the light smoke was like fog, fluttering with the wind. It doesn't look like a forest fire, it seems that someone is burning a fire there to barbecue meat.
Ding Qi saw that there was a relatively high hill next to him, and rushed up with a light grip on the horse's belly, and then he took out a very strange thing in everyone's minds from his backpack, stood on the tall little Erhei's back, put it in front of his eyes, and observed it in that direction.
This is the telescope in Ding Qi's backpack, no matter where he goes, as long as he goes far away, Ding Qi is still the habit of carrying his own backpack with him. When others asked, they only said that they were animal skin bags made by their original tribe, because the beast was not easy to catch, and the entire tribe only had two or three such backpacks.
Everyone didn't ask much, and the magical items on Ding Qi's body were always endless, and they were no longer surprised when they saw a lot.
The camera zoomed in, and Ding Qi saw that the smoke came from a clearing in the forest, and there were many shadows, as if some tents made of animal skins were set up in it, and he vaguely saw shirtless people walking around, and even shirtless women, shaking their tits and holding the child, so that Ding Qi was not embarrassed.
It seems that this is a small tribe and they are preparing dinner.