Chapter 1 Men are money losers
"Wow-oh-oh-oh-"
Under the blue sky, surrounded by vast forests and trees, the occasional tiger roaring ape echoes in it. In a sparsely wooded and empty place, the first cry of a baby was heard, and a new life was born.
"Guy. Male Guy. "A child came out of the cave where the baby was crying, announcing the sex of the newborn to the surroundings.
Outside the cave, there are twenty or thirty low, herringbone shacks built haphazardly. Some shirtless women and children with straw skirts and skins were drying hides and some wild fruits by the shacks. Outside the shack, there are several large hugging trees, surrounded by lush grass and shrubs, which stretch to the small river not far away. Far from the shack, a man with feathers on his arms was hung under a tree, and several flies flew around him.
With the announcement of the child, the people around him stopped their work, raised their heads, and showed some regretful looks: "Another man?" One, two, three, four after the snow. Why can't you have a girl? ”
One, two, three, and four are indexed.
"It must be Ji Zu who blames him."
"Maybe Kurigami is to blame too. This year there are squirrels everywhere, and the hairy chestnuts are gnawed before they hit the ground, and now they have boys again......"
"Did those people come back?"
"It doesn't matter, does it? Won't they just be fools when they come back? ”
This kind of regret and discussion is like the scene of giving birth to four female babies in a row in the era of patriarchy. It's just that someone jumped out and said that boys are all losing money.
In the grass and trees by the river, a few bare-assed, dirty half-grown boys looked for wild fruit rat holes, digging earthworms, sweat dripping down the messy hair of their shawls, looking like mud monkeys. Hearing the news, they also showed some concern: "Another man? What do you say? ”
The trail was a boy with a birthmark on his arm. He's suddenly become very smart these days, and he can tell the truth about everything, so they all like to talk to him.
"I don't have sex reassignment surgery, how do I know what to do? Having a boy is not enough for you to be beautiful? ”
On the grass on the other side, a twelve- or thirteen-year-old half-year-old child was lying bored in the shade of the bushes with grass roots in his mouth. Unlike other children, he was cleanly washed all over his body, wore a freshly braided knee-length skirt around his waist, and tied his hair in a ponytail and hung behind his head. It's just that he is quite thin, and his face still has the sickly appearance of recovering from a serious illness.
He is the trace of the children's mouth, and the trace of the forest.
Lin Ji complained. I didn't think about where these people were worried, and continued to look at the sky in a daze.
It has been more than ten days since I came into this world to be this child. I didn't expect him to just say a few words in front of the ruins, and he was really brought back to history. I don't know who to talk to.
The people of this era and later generations look roughly the same, with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin. These traits are said to have been formed by Homo sapiens after they entered East Asia 10,000 years ago. And people who did not form these characteristics before that.
Lin Zhi also recognized a number of familiar plants in the surrounding area, indicating that he might be in the vicinity of his hometown. The memory of this body retains the memory of the frozen earth for several months each winter, and in the afterlife, although it snows, this place will not freeze for months in a row.
In addition, the people of this era were still using beaten and polished stone tools, and they were still drinking blood...... From these inferences, it should not be wrong to be 10,000 years prehistory.
I don't know what kind of madness the god who got him here, and he really got the county seat for him. As long as he has a thought, he can enter the small county town. The people, the poultry, the rats, the insects, and all the living things in the town were gone. Houses, cars, and other goods were preserved except for living creatures. As long as he can move the materials in the entire county, he can move them out.
In prehistory, it really took a small town. But Lin Ji couldn't go out to hunt all kinds of prehistoric beasts as promised, and he didn't even dare to go a little farther, let alone become a prehistoric overlord. Because he's still a kid in this body.
In the surrounding forests, there are all kinds of tigers, leopards, bears, wolves, snakes and poisonous insects at any time. As long as the people of this era can live to adulthood, they are excellent hunters and cold-blooded warriors. Even if he has some materials for the future in his hands, he is just giving away people's heads in the wild.
The beast may have eaten him. Hunters from other tribes could have killed him. Cannibalism is nothing new these days.
Because of this, the materials of his entire county are also like gold bricks in the arms of a child, which is also a dangerous thing for him. Not to mention eating hot pot, he didn't even dare to get out his clothes and shoes.
This is a prehistory without legal constraints, and as long as he dares to show a little white, he may suffer all kinds of disasters.
The danger of seeing money is one thing. The fact that he can conjure things out of thin air may also frighten these primitives, and then he will be burned to death as demons and monsters.
The carvings on the rock walls have a pattern of people on a fire, and if it wasn't some kind of magical witchcraft, Lin Rui wouldn't believe that anyone would make a fire like that. Burning evil demons and monsters, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, is actually very marketable.
The man hanging from a tree not far away is also a living example. The man was just a little funny, thinking he was an eagle, and he jumped from a tree with a lot of feathers hanging on his shoulders, and broke his leg. The leader of the tribe, Dahime, probably thought that he had been attacked by a ghost or something, and he was so angry that he wanted to burn him to death. Later, he felt that his sin was not serious, so he sentenced him to starve to death by hanging himself under a tree. It's been two days now, and one day this man is expected to die.
In view of this, he only used food for the supplies in the small town. He hides in it every day to eat his fill, and then disguises his own food sources through fishing and other tricks.
As for moving the contents out and using them? Lin Ji felt that at least he could protect himself.
There's a lot of stuff that just looks like it's a torture. I don't know when such a day is a head? He has to be in this tribe until he is at least sixteen or seventeen years old to survive on his own, right? What to do then? Move supplies from a small town out and build a kingdom here, or take these tribes out to be prehistoric overlords?
Lin Ji felt a little annoyed. Still, it's a refreshing feeling of having a choice. He's at least a few years away from adulthood, so he's slowly annoying.
The child who dug the earthworm next to him didn't understand the stalk of sex reassignment surgery, and was still struggling with the problem of giving birth to a boy: "However, our tribe can't pass it on if we only give birth to boys." ”
"Uh-huh, when we grow up and go out, who will stay in the tribe and have children?" The child next to him agreed.
"Huh? What the? Lin Ji was attracted by their logic, and quickly remembered that something didn't seem right.
After he became this child, he inherited all the memories of this child, so that he could understand the language of these people, and probably know the past of this tribe.
But the child's focus is strange, and some memories are occasionally remembered and not studied deeply. It occurred to him now that perhaps he could not live in this tribe until he was sixteen or seventeen years old. Maybe the choice is not in his hands.
It is now a matriarchal society, and women live with their mothers. However, people's understanding of fertility is still in a relatively ignorant stage, and the group marriage system is still practiced within the tribe. Recognizing the drawbacks of consanguinity—or rather evolving—tribes instinctively expelled and excluded tribe-born sexually mature boys, like elephants or lions.
Faced with a hostile environment, the tribe needed a certain number of warlike men to protect it, and at first the tribe maintained the number of men by absorbing wandering wildlings, and over time, the expulsion evolved into an exchange between several tribes. It has now become customary.
Lin Xi remembered that the boys of the tribe would have a rite of passage when they were fourteen or fifteen years old. I'll probably go out hunting on my own. Then, led by the elder woman of the tribe, they will take their prey to the nearby tribe for exchange.
The boys who returned from the exchange would be treated and educated like pigs and sheep for a few years, until they made a certain contribution to the tribe, and their status would not change. Almost half of the population will die in the process, that is, they will not live to adulthood.
The men after the exchange will experience this because first, men have to face cutthroat competition, and secondly, because men have a low status.
In a harsh environment, only the best and strongest men are qualified to live.
With the end of the Great Ice Age, the population increased rapidly, the range of tribal activities shrank, and hunting became difficult to survive, and men often had to rely on gathering women to survive. Naturally, the status of adult men within the tribe is not very high.
There are more men, and the burden on women is heavier, so they naturally become money-losers. This is also the reason why the tribe is worried about the birth of four boys in a row.
Now Lin Ji and the children around him are the eldest children of the tribe. That is, probably next year, they will be thrown out for exchange. After that, according to common sense, Lin Xi will live like pigs and sheep in other tribes, and may even die at any time.
Thinking about these clearly, the leisurely forest trail is gone. His eyes widened and his face became terrified.
How so? What about the primitive and simple prehistory? What about the promised primitive commune of common labor and equal distribution of materials? Shouldn't that be like no strife, working together with the outside world, fighting against nature together?
A child next to him dug out a big earthworm and said loudly: "Trace, let's go fishing, I want to eat strong, so that I can change to the Youda Department like a wolf, and sleep with three women every day." ”
The wolf is said to be the strongest man of the tribes in this vicinity, and he is from the Jilin tribe where the forest ruins are located. Legend has it that after he entered the Youda Division, he was often contested by women, and sometimes the three women who stayed overnight could not settle the dispute, and were rumored by the nearby tribes. has also become the idol of many boys.
Similar to the values of later generations, men also have to have the ability to exchange for a good tribe, if they don't have any ability, they are still thin, and they can only be expelled from the tribe and wander in the wilderness when they become adults.
The child's words made Lin Ji even more frightened. The thought of having to deal with savage women who were crawling with lice and grinning blood from fifty to teens, made him feel his heart pound.
No, I can't be exchanged like an animal, even if I can't be the overlord of this era, I have to control my own destiny. Lin Ji thought about this clearly, and suddenly sat up from the grass.
At this moment, another child came running from the cave, and shouted angrily: "Oh no, Da Ji is going to kill the man." ”