Chapter 20: Halfway Through Winter

The wolves retreated, and a new beast arrived.

The leader understood that it was no longer suitable to stay outside, and that once the number of beasts was too large and the safety of the people could not be guaranteed, he ordered a retreat and made some arrangements.

The place where the food, especially the fish, was piled up with snow, and the food was placed in piles and placed in a pile with snow, and the nose of the beast was at most the pile where the people had just taken the fish.

The bonfire was extinguished with snow, and some fruit was brought back to the cave just in case, and when the last of the clansmen entered the cave, the chief, Dali, and Fierce Face moved a large stone to block the entrance to the cave, and the whole cave was dark again.

In the cave, the people silently ate their food while listening to the voices of the outside world.

After a while, a big cat suspected of being a leopard jumped down from the tree and jumped directly into the open space inside the wall, it walked around in the clearing, and sniffed the fish bones with its nose, perhaps because the weather was relatively cold and covered with ice and snow, it did not find the food buried under the snowdrifts, ran a few times in the snow, and easily jumped on the wall to leave here.

Without the voices of the tribesmen, and without the smell of food, the number of beasts coming and going to the Snake tribe's habitat was greatly reduced, and only some wild beasts passed by occasionally, and when the snake tribe had their next meal, some wild beasts were attracted to it.

This year is a very lucky year for the snake tribe, in this year, only five people from the snake tribe died, one was a disabled person who died because of illness, Su Yan knew how to heal but could not cure him without herbs; One was a boy younger than Su Yan, and the cause of death was most likely food poisoning; Two younger children, one may not be yet one year old and the other is between two and three years old, who died of illness; Finally, a pregnant woman, dystocia, one corpse and two lives.

However, in primitive times, (in the eyes of primitive people) even a baby who did not survive a day after birth could not be counted as life, let alone a fetus that had not yet been born, in such a poor environment, whether the baby could survive after birth depended on luck, adults because of regular work and the body was very healthy, and the probability of death was not high when giving birth to a child.

The reality is very cruel, but there is nothing to be done, Su Yan can only change all this as much as possible in the future.

Su Yan didn't count the children who died at birth, only counted the newly added little lives, a total of seventeen people, and then subtracted the five dead clansmen, now the total population of the snake tribe has reached one hundred and sixty-five, and children have become the main part of the snake tribe, but their death probability is also the highest, more than the adults who go out hunting.

The death of a child is not the most important thing, the people of the snake tribe have become accustomed to it, relatively speaking, the most important thing in the snake tribe is the adults, they are responsible for obtaining food to feed the whole tribe, and it is indeed a happy thing that not a single adult laborer dies in a year.

Not only this one, the appearance of the fish cage made the snake tribe completely free from the threat of hunger, in just one morning, the snake tribe can get enough food, the tribe can be fed, even the elderly and the disabled will not starve, and in the autumn to get a lot of food can the whole tribe survive the winter.

Thinking back to the previous winter, because there was not enough food, the hunting team braved the cold winter wind to go out to hunt, they were hunters, or they could be prey, the hunting operation in winter was the most serious time of the year for the snake tribe, this year because of the abundance of food, there is no longer a need to brave the cold wind to go out hunting.

Making bricks and building walls can make the snake tribe's residence resist the invasion of wild beasts, although the height of the brick wall is relatively reduced because of the thick layer of snow on the ground, but the effect of the wall against the invasion of wild beasts is still there, Wu and the leader can see it, there is no need for Su Yan to say, the leader has decided in his heart to continue to make bricks and build walls at the end of this winter, and increase the height of the brick wall.

In the name of God, the fish cage, give the snake tribe plenty of food; Build a wall of bricks to defend against wild beasts and the Serpent Tribe's settlement.

These two technologies have brought great changes to the snake tribe, and just by mastering these two technologies, the snake tribe will also grow rapidly.

Seeing the great changes in the snake tribe, the witch, the leader and even all the people of the snake tribe believed that all this was given by the god of the snake tribe, and the witch prepared to hold a solemn sacrifice after the ice and snow melted and the winter passed, asking the god to bless the snake tribe in the new year.

Su Yan obviously doesn't believe in God, but Su Yan is only a half-grown child now, and it is expected to take about four years to reach the adult standard of the snake tribe, which is still the case of Su Yan's rapid physical development, but fortunately, now the snake tribe has a sufficient food supply, and if there is no sufficient food supply, the physical development will slow down.

A minor doesn't have much say in the snake tribe, if you take the initiative to talk to the leader, there is a chance that more than 95% will be ignored by the leader, unless you have a certain strength, how can a half-grown child who can't eat enough to eat have too much force.

It is Su Yan's luck to be able to be regarded as a messenger of the gods, in the name of the gods, Su Yan can bring more changes to the snake tribe, fish cages, brick making and building walls are just the beginning, burning pottery, building houses, collecting herbs to cure diseases, etc.

From being an observer to really controlling this body, Su Yan has completely integrated into the snake tribe in just a few months, which is a sense of identity, Su Yan has all the memories of his body, without any discomfort and abruptness.

Su Yan even guessed that this body belonged to him in this life, but because of the crossing (crossing syndrome), he was temporarily unable to control the body, and he could not control the body that belonged to him until he got used to it.

In the dark cave, Su Yan, lying on the animal skin, has become a thinker, quietly thinking about what to do in the future.

When the body develops to a certain extent, cultivate internal strength, and the strength will increase rapidly, and even defeat the leader to gain actual control of the snake tribe, and let the snake tribe develop and grow according to their own ideas.

The world was full of countless dangers, ferocious beasts, hunger, cold, disease, and so on.

It is impossible for the snake tribe to survive in this dangerous world by relying on a non-existent god, man will conquer the sky, and human beings can only survive in this dangerous world by relying on their own strength.

In the blink of an eye, half of the cold winter has passed, this time is also the coldest time in winter, if the snake tribe does not block the entrance of the cave, maybe someone will freeze to death the next day, in order to keep warm, everyone will be as crowded together as possible, as for lighting a fire in a closed cave, this is a choice to find death.