Chapter Twenty-Three: Gourmet Temptations and Invitations
A few minutes later, the man finally opened his eyes slowly, shouted at Hongjun, and shouted a few times to the clansmen who were fighting for grilled fish behind, one of them who was originally holding the animal carcass suddenly stopped, reluctantly put down the food in his hand, picked up the unknown animal, and moved back to Hongjun and the others step by step.
When he came near, the leader walked briskly, took the animal, and placed it on the coffee table with a clatter, and the man who had brought it ran merrily to the grilled fish. Kazuriki frowned slightly when he saw a ball of bloody meat on the clean coffee table, as if he had some opinion about the gang.
The chieftain, without seeing it, drew a stone from his waist with sharp ends, wrapped in fur at one end and tied with some kind of rope, like a sharp stone knife, and the end that leaked out seemed to have dark red blood stains on it, and it was not known from which predation it had been left behind.
The leader held the animal carcass on the coffee table with his left hand, cut it with a stone knife in his right hand, and after a while, he took a piece of bloody raw meat and handed it to Hongjun, and nodded incessantly, as if offering treasure.
Hongjun stared at the piece of raw meat in front of him, his throat fluttered but he didn't reach out to take it. After thinking for a while, he stretched out his right hand and swung it down. The other party was puzzled, only to see Hongjun's left hand make a gesture of lifting, and the corpse of the unknown animal floated in the air, frightening the other party on the spot. Then Hongjun's right hand moved slightly, and the corpse was divided into pieces along the skeleton. There is a small gap between the divided pieces of meat, but the whole looks relatively complete. And the blood was drained. Then a flame suddenly appeared beneath the corpse, but the flames were confined to an oval range, without a trace of flame or heat coming out. The slices of meat were turned dark from bright red to visible to the naked eye, and the white parts were roasted with a lot of fat, as if something was controlling them, and the fat was evenly distributed everywhere, and the color quickly turned golden brown, and from time to time it made a sizzling sound.
Within a few minutes, the flame disappeared, the oval light film slowly fell, and the barbecue made by Hongjun himself was placed on the coffee table, and as soon as the light film disappeared, a burst of aroma spread with the heat. The aroma not only made the leader who was waiting to be standing swallow his saliva for a while, but even his people put down the grilled fish in their hands and gathered it for the fragrance.
Hongjun stretched out his hand to signal to everyone, nodding under the inquiring eyes of the leader of the other party, everyone grabbed food one after another, and even Hongjun and Feng Lixi were squeezed out, Hongjun sighed, sure enough, the temptation of food is extremely powerful, so that these primitive humans forget their fear of their own people, and they are left with a wolf-like scene.
Hongjun and the others were not interested in those things, first, they didn't know what kind of animal meat those were there. The second is that I don't want to tear it off directly with my hands and stuff it into my stomach like primitive people, which is too unelegant. As long as a few of them want to eat, they can grab some grilled food and sit around and eat it. There is no need to disturb those primitive people who only know how to eat Hecy and forget the existence of a few people.
After a long time, the dozen or so primitive humans lay on their backs on the shore with their round bellies, and the animal that was eaten was only the skeleton, and the leader did not lie down like everyone else, but looked at the skeleton blankly, and occasionally touched the sharp bone spurs with his hands, as if some thoughts were about to flash in his little mind.
Hongjun watched from afar and said to the wind and the others, "You see, after that leader drank the elixir mixed with the qi of chaos, his brain seems to have become better, and he realizes that those bones are also useful to them. ”
"Didn't they find out before?" ”
"In the past, they all ate raw meat directly, and the stone knife couldn't cut the meat completely, and their brains were still relatively primitive and stupid, and they couldn't think too deeply."
Feng Lixi nodded as if he didn't understand, anyway, what the master said made sense.
At this time, Hongjun led a few people to walk over to them, holding some picked fruits and wanting to give them to them. When the leader saw this, he nodded and said something to the people, and turned back to call out loudly to the people lying on the ground. Everyone got up and came to Hongjun and made the only etiquette they knew - kneeling. After Hongjun pulled them up, he handed the fruits to everyone one by one, and everyone nodded and shouted something after getting them, but Hongjun didn't understand, maybe he was expressing his gratitude. It's so simple.
Hongjun finally took the rest of the fruit and handed it to their leader, who touched his stomach and waved his hand, as if to indicate that he had eaten enough. After thinking about it and nodding again, Chong Hongjun and the others made a gesture, pointing in the direction of the woods and muttering something. Then all the primitives began to nod their heads in that direction.
Feng Rixi came to Hongjun's side and said, "Are they inviting us?" ”
Hongjun said with a smile: "It seems that this should be the meaning." Then he turned to the three Taishang and said, "You guys clean up here, and then follow." ”
They seemed to be a little embarrassed and said, "Lord, you just rushed to go with them, what if they have other ideas?" ”
Hongjun snorted lightly, "Just them? After a pause, he said, "It's fine if they're good-natured, but if they have other ideas, I don't mind... The latter words Hongjun didn't say, but a killing aura spread instantly, making those primitive humans shiver one after another, and inexplicably looked at the sun in the sky that had not yet set.
The Taishang people stopped talking, walked to the coffee table and a few shelves and began to clean up.
Hongjun came to the leader's face and made a gesture of please, and the leader's face immediately became vivid, and he waved in the direction of the woods and led everyone forward. Before leaving, he did not forget to command the two to take away the scattered skeletons.
Hongjun followed them into the woods, and suddenly felt a damp and stuffy heat, and the idea of isolating the air was suppressed as soon as he mentioned it. Kazuki laughed and followed the men deeper into the woods.
I didn't feel much outside the woods, but as soon as I entered the dense woods, the breath of life came to my face. Along the way, all kinds of red, yellow, blue and green plants were scattered all over the woods, and all kinds of insects and birds chirped into a gorgeous music of life, and on the branches of the trees or in the hidden tree holes, occasionally all kinds of small animals shrank their heads and heads, stopped and looked at these strange creatures walking on two feet from a distance, and then went to look for food. The various insects that inhabit the ground and on the trunks of the trees are directly grabbed and thrown into their mouths by the primitive humans who lead the way, and they are chewed and swallowed after a slight popping sound, which seems to be the most discordant note in this music of life.
Feng Lixi's stomach churned, Hongjun was also a little unable to accept it, and after thinking about it, it was actually a helpless move, after all, survival is the primary task of these people, and talking about civilization without survival is simply a hooligan. No matter how small and disgusting the bug is, it's still meat, not it. As long as they can fill their stomachs, these people are afraid that they will do anything.
After about an hour, the group finally came to the vicinity of a hillside that was no more than ten meters high. On the sunny side of the hillside there is a small river with crystal clear water. The people in front of them crossed the river and climbed to the height of this hillside, and jumped down one by one from the southernmost place, Hongjun looked over, the original direction to the south seemed to be a cliff, in fact, there was a protruding cliff about thirty or forty centimeters from the top of the mountain, and next to the platform was a naturally formed cave, and these primitive humans lived in this cave.
When Hongjun and Feng Rishi came to the cave, they found that the cave was about four or five meters high and nearly twenty meters deep. Inside the cave is a tribe with at least fifty people, but the age is generally not more than forty years old, except for the more than ten people I met today, the rest are some old and weak, women and children, and they look quite clean, and those dozen people seem to be the young and strong women of this tribe, and those on the body should be the paint for courage or deterrence when going out to hunt. The men distributed the fruit that Hongjun had given them to the old and weak women and children, and there was no expression of joy or sorrow on their faces, as if they were satisfied with food. While eating, they looked at Hongjun and Feng Li Xi in front of them, and most of their eyes focused on the beautiful clothes that Feng Li Xi was wearing.
Unable to communicate, Hongjun then focused his attention on observing the cave, which seemed to contain animal bones, sticks, and ropes in the depths, and near the middle of the cave was covered with a large number of yellowed and dry leaves, which seemed to be a place to sleep. Other than that, the cave has no furnishings.
The difficult living conditions made them live in caves that most of the beasts could not enter, and they were extremely lacking in all kinds of living materials, there was no surplus food for them to store for emergencies, and even those old and weak women and children who were not qualified to participate in the hunt only had a food quota of only one fruit.
Hongjun came to the place where those people gathered, this is the place closer to the entrance of the cave, at this time the sun has begun to set, without the sun's rays, the temperature here makes some old and weak put their hands on their shoulders, as if this can make them warmer.