Volume 2 Playing with the Tribe Chapter 119 Snow Treading and Snow Climbing Plow

Another reason why their tribe is jealous of the Ding tribe is the news brought by the Graystone tribe, and the leader of the Ding tribe is called Aragami. The name Aragami has been spread for a long time after the Great Fire of Destruction, but this person has never been found. Aragami is believed to be a god who changes the status quo of the tribe and allows everyone to live a well-fed and clothed life and a messenger from heaven.

But some of the big tribes don't agree with this, they think it's a lie that some small tribes can't live with to comfort themselves, and even want to kill these tribes or what they call Aragami to put an end to this rumor. But this lie has not been exposed, but has intensified, and has been spread to be divine, becoming the object of search for many small and medium-sized tribes, and also becoming their spiritual symbol.

And now that this person named Aragami has appeared in the Ding tribe, I am afraid that there will be a turbulent period in the entire Great Wilderness World, and this turbulent period may be death and killing, or it may be hope and new life, such as breaking out of a cocoon and becoming a butterfly.

Therefore, the two most important people in the Blackwater tribe decided: wait and see what happens, first do their best to change more pottery, and then decide how to deal with this Ding tribe after obtaining the greatest benefits, if they can develop into their own subordinate tribes, presumably their tribe will grow stronger and stronger.

Although his tribe ranks last among the five surrounding tribes, if he can master the method of making pottery, the tribe's strength will reach the first place, so that the Shenhuo tribe, which is now the first in strength, can feel the taste of being humiliated by his own tribe.

The Witch and the Leader smiled at each other, as if they had incorporated the tribe into their own. The idea of drinking two bowls of broth would make you happy to think about it, no, three bowls, this broth tastes so delicious!

Regardless of where the two leaders of the Blackwater Tribe are, Ding Qi has been thinking about how to improve the existing clothing design to make everyone warmer, just like the people of the Ding tribe. However, this problem was solved by the original Yu tribe's animal skin inventory and the six or seven women who survived, because the original Yu tribe had a lot of animal skins in stock, and these six or seven women were very skillful.

Therefore, Ding Qi made it according to the style of pants and clothes of the Ding tribe, and used the assembly line method.

Nearly twenty men were there to sort and tann the hides, soften and clean them, and then give them to Dingqi, Ben, Moo, and Zhuang, and cut the large hides with knives and divide them into fixed sizes; Small hides were cut off from the narrow limbs and sewn into large pieces by the women, making it easy to cut the clothes into suitable clothes.

Except for the regular daily dispatch of people to fish and cut down trees, everyone else stayed in the cave and made clothes together, day and night.

After ten days, everyone had a proper suit of clothing, including shoes, hats, gloves and belts. Everyone put on these clothes and ran out into the snow to play and have snowball fights, no longer afraid of the cold weather.

After this matter was dealt with, Ding Qi led this group of healthy men to the surrounding jungle to find suitable vines and branches, ready for everyone to make a pair of snow shoes suitable for walking in the snow, commonly known as snow walking shoes, which were first woven by the Eskimos using wooden frames and hemp rope, so that they could move more freely on the snow without worrying about being stuck in the snow.

These things are simple to make, each person makes a pair, and it takes a day to make them. Ding Qi specifically asked everyone to weave strongly, to run in the snow for a long time, if this kind of walking shoes are not strong, if they are broken, there is no suitable place to repair them.

After the snow walking shoes were ready, Ding Qi arranged for everyone to put on these walking shoes, tie the straps tightly, and walk in the snow for half an hour, so that everyone could get used to this way of snow walking.

Then Ding Qi instructed everyone to start making animal skin backpacks, one for each person. The animal skin backpack is mainly for everyone to carry some food, such as divided fish and meat, and the amount of ten days must be at least thirty catties. In addition, each person should bring their own animal skin mat and, if possible, a large animal skin quilt. Fortunately, the Yu tribe does have a lot of animal skins in stock, which is enough for everyone to squander.

As for the skillful women, they went to sew the hides used to build the conical tents, and only their care and dexterity were able to put the skins together one by one with bone needles and strings, without too many gaps. This type of conical tent is a replica of the tent used by the Indians, and it is very effective in the snow to protect against the wind, but it is less cold-proof. However, everyone wears animal skins, and there are animal skin mats and animal skin quilts, so they are not afraid of freezing.

While they were doing the work of sewing hides, Dingchila went up and down into the jungle again, looked for some pine trees or other species that had grown up in the past two years, and cut down ten of them, which were seven or eight centimeters thick at the bottom, about five centimeters thin at the top, and about three meters long.

Tinch was ready to make a good thing: a snow climbing plow, a tool often used in rural Northeast China. This snow plough is very simple to make, two main materials for dragging and contact with the snow, four auxiliary materials for carrying objects, and the other are bits and pieces of material to support the entire snow plow.

The bark of the main material is first stripped to make the wood smooth and can be used without further cutting. Choose a one-and-a-half-meter position on the main material that has been peeled and bend it over the fire to form a suitable bend. Two holes are chiseled out on the main material, four short sticks with a tenon-like structure that are 20 cm long are installed, and a horizontal auxiliary material with two holes is chiseled on the left and right two short sticks. After these are done, the last two auxiliary materials are pressed longitudinally on these two horizontal auxiliary materials, and the main materials intersect, and then the two auxiliary materials are tied together with the main material and the two transverse auxiliary materials, and the skeleton of this simple snow plow is made.

Then tie some branches and lay some pine branches on top of the auxiliary materials, and the snow climbing plow can be used. A total of three were made, mainly to put the animal skins and long wooden poles on which the conical tents were built to facilitate carrying, and three tents were enough for everyone to use. There are also three long animal leash belts tied to the snow plow, in addition to one used by the person who pulls the plow, the other two people also pull the snow plough together with an animal leash in front of them, reducing the pressure of one person pulling.

After three days, all the preparations were done. After a feast in the cave, each of them put on their own backpacks full of food and two animal skins tied to them, put some extra fish and meat and three tents on the snow plows, and the group of nearly thirty people set out for the Ding tribe.

Walking on the snow, Zhuang pulls a snow plow in front, and the other two follow closely, and two people on the left and right sides of each snow plow help pull together. The others divided into two teams and walked in the footsteps of their predecessors, which was also light.

Ding Qi and Ben rode their skis and patrolled back and forth in front of the team, leading the team forward, and preventing anyone from falling out of the group, and at the same time expanding the scope of the patrol to detect some risks from predators in advance, or to find some suitable places to camp.

With Xiao Jin on guard in the sky, the danger of the beast is also greatly reduced, and it can be avoided in advance or shot directly by Ding Qi without posing a threat to the team.

The marching team walked forward on the vast snow, but everyone in the Yu tribe was in a sad mood, and turned back three times in one step. Leaving the place where they have lived for a long time, their hometown, everyone is reluctant to leave. They don't know what the future holds, they can only trust their companions, their current leaders, and they can only unswervingly go to another unknown tribe, join it, and let themselves survive.

Before leaving the Feather Tribe, Ding Qi came to the place where the Feather Tribe's doctor and witch stayed in the cave before his death. There is a stone wall with white lines depicting various patterns, animals and people, lightning and thunder, flames, hunting scenes, and inter-tribal wars. The lines are simple and the meaning is direct, but some of the content is obscure and I don't know its name.

But there is only one figure painted with green paint, and the image of Aragami jumps out of the stone wall.

Looking at this Aragami image, Ding Qi had a question, who spread this Aragami image. None of the tribe's healers had ever seen Aragami, but the meaning they expressed in their drawings was very consistent.

From here, another problem arises, if the Yu tribe saw their own image and drew it, but the primitive world is inconvenient and the exchange of information is greatly restricted by geography, so it is impossible for the image of Aragami to spread so quickly. Ding Qi specifically asked the people of the Yu tribe, because they were well prepared, except for the cannibal tribe, they basically did not have contact with people from other tribes before the snow.

Could it really be that there is a powerful being who conveys his image to the healers of each tribe and then draws the image of Aragami?

Ding Qi has been thinking about this problem, the word Aragami is now like a veil, as if he can see through it at a glance, but the information and secrets it contains are not something that Ding Qi can dig out in a short time.

Maybe he will never get the truth.

With the help of snowwalking shoes and a snow climbing plow, the crowd traveled a third more that day than Tinch had estimated. The route they chose was the same as the route that Ding Qi had taken to find the Peach Blossom Paradise alone, but it was more direct than Ding Qi's route, walking along the edge of the front line between the forest and the snowfield. This allows the team to have plenty of wood fuel, and the forest to block it, making the wind less impactful of the cone.

In the evening, in the tent of the camp, everyone laughed and laughed around the fire in the middle to roast fish. There are vents above the tent, so it doesn't look uncomfortable in the tent, and the smoke is lighter. After a while, the tent warmed up, the frozen hands and feet began to slowly recover, and with the replenishment of food, everyone's physical strength and spirit were greatly improved.

Ding Qi specially boiled two pots of dandelion tea, which replenished water and improved everyone's body resistance.

Kim was the most tired member of the team, so Tinch prepared a fat rabbit for him as his dinner, and arranged for him to have the warmest resting place in the innermost part of the tent.