Chapter 042: Scouting
As the leader of a weaker civilized tribe, Lytton lamented that he was born in a remote and impoverished mountainous area instead of being born in a city...... He had already accepted his fate, and he lived in the reality of a primitive society, but he didn't expect ...... That's not the case at all. Moreover, the city people with a high civilization are actually hostile to the mountain tribes. This quickly shattered his desire to go to the city.
The appearance of the intruder has already sounded the alarm bell for him.
Time is the most luxurious thing for him. In the absence of sufficient time, the only thing he could do was to send the largest force of the Bull tribe to reconnoiter the situation of the invaders. And actively prepare alternate camps, which can be transferred at any time.
Lei Ju, Thunder Tiger, Aoki, and Meng, four warriors formed a reconnaissance team and secretly sneaked to the camp of the Goshawk tribe to find the footprints of the Fire Demon. There weren't many warriors in the Bull Tribe, but in order to find out the intelligence of the Fire Demons, Lytton thought that it would be worth sending all the warriors out.
Five days, according to the scheduled time, the reconnaissance fighters should be returning.
And Lytton was a little uneasy, did the reconnaissance succeed?
Have you been discovered by the other party?
A series of crises made Lytton begin to think crankily, and even affected the effect of his contact with archery. On the contrary, Gesang did not seem so impatient when his injuries gradually improved. The smell of gunpowder gradually faded a little, and Litton was sure that it would only take four or five days, and by the time this guy could jump up and down in the forest, it would be time for Gesang to say goodbye without saying goodbye.
Unless......
Unless, Lei Ju and the others brought enough news that Gesang had no reason to leave.
And Lei Ju?
May he not let himself down. Lytton began to pray deep down.
That evening, no one showed up, which made Lytton even more irritable. He was the leader, and the leader's mood changes soon affected the mood changes of the entire Brute Bull tribe. Litton also knows this, but it may not be easy for him to restrain his emotions.
Chief Wu leaned over to Lytton and muttered, "The people are very resistant to the migration, and most of them are reluctant to leave. ”
"Even if there is resistance in my heart, when I finally order the transfer, I can't discount it. Anyone needs to do it to the letter, to tell the tribesmen that a huge, surprisingly powerful team of slave hunters is less than three days away from the tribal camp, and that they don't want to become slaves, so they pack up their backpacks and prepare to abandon the camp. And the goshawk tribe has fallen prey to slave trappers, warriors are killed, and women and children are to be sold into slavery. Lytton said in an unkind tone, the current situation did not allow him to do ideological work for his people one by one. He can only use thunder means.
Manager Wu sighed: "That's all it can be." ”
"I want to make it clear to everyone that children don't matter, mainly adults, the tribe is just hiding from the sneak attack of the slave catchers, and when they leave, the camp will still be ours. And the slave catchers will not stay in this area for too long, so they will spend the winter in another place. Lytton deliberately said it more relaxed, running away from his hometown, whether he would be able to come back, even he didn't know in his own heart.
Speaking of which, even he didn't want to run, after all, it was a very troublesome matter to transfer the entire tribe.
This is a natural phenomenon, the Manniu tribe finally got enough food, coupled with the familiar environment, it is believed that Si'an's thoughts will be in everyone's heart. Not to mention the tribesmen, even Lytton didn't think so. At one point, he even thought about expanding the camp, but he had to give up on it. At least not until the Fire Demon is gone. Of course, he also had an idea to simply move the Wild Bull tribe to the city.
What is the scale of the wild city, he took some out of Gesang's mouth.
There are thousands of people, even tens of thousands. But these people were not urban populations, but urban freedmen, and slaves and vassals were not counted among the urban population.
The collection of this information surprised Lytton as well, and it seemed that the scale of the wild city was still not small.
A city of a few thousand people, in fact, might have one or two thousand people, because slaves and vassals were not counted among them. Of course, it is not a problem for a city of this size to accommodate dozens of people from the Xiamanniu tribe. The only problem is identity, if they appear in the city as a tribe, Lytton and his tribesmen have only one identity, fugitive slaves. The end that awaits them will be the liquidation of the city guards. This is an outcome that Lytton cannot accept in any way. He even scolded secretly: "The master is just a little wrong in rebirth, and he doesn't even give him a rural hukou, and he directly sticks a slave label on his body, and this evil slave society should be overthrown." ”
After dinner, there was no entertainment in the Wild Age.
Most of the people of the Barbarian Tribes began to prepare to rest, but in the past few days, because the Fire Demon people have attacked the Goshawk Tribe, Lytton has begun to arrange sentry posts to prepare for possible crises.
The sentry that night was the former warrior rock, and the sky outside had completely darkened, and it was no longer realistic for Lei Ju and the others to come back to their lives.
Walking at night in the mountains is even more dangerous than facing wild animals.
Lei Ju is an old hunter, and he definitely won't take risks. It can be said that another day has been waited in vain, and the rock will also begin the night's work, acting as a tribal sentry. However, he accidentally found Litton and secretly told him a message: "Chief, Gesang is secretly hiding food. He left some of the food for dinner uneaten, and apparently, he was ready to run away. ”
"When did it start?" Lytton was about to lie down, probably not resting for the next few days, and he took almost every opportunity to keep himself well asleep. Hearing that Gesang was hiding food, he removed the animal skin mattress from his body. Actually, it was his coat during the day, but when the weather turned cooler, he used it as a mattress at night.
"Started yesterday."
"Who found out?" Lytton asked.
After the rock beckoned behind him, Li Zao appeared on the edge of the fire pond: "I found it, this guy must run." ”
"He's not a member of the Brute Bull tribe, so it's normal for him to want to leave." Litton has been dragging Gesang to rescue the goshawk tribe captives for several days because the reconnaissance team did not come back, and as time went by, he was a little dodgy in the face of Gesang's anxious gaze: "He should be preparing to rescue the captured captives of the goshawk tribe, most of them are women and children." It's just that he went alone, and there was almost no chance of success. ”
Lytton then asked, "Do you know when he hid the food?" ”
"Probably started yesterday." Li Zao sniffed, this guy has the appetite of a pig, and at the same time has a nose like a pig. Needless to explain, Li Zao was able to find out that Gesang began to secretly hide food, and thus found that he was about to leave, it should be this guy's nose meritorious service. Being able to smell the taste of cooled food with his nose, Li Zao has broken through the limits of people, you must know that after the food is cooled, there is not much fragrance. Even Li Ton privately suspected that Li Zao's child was not the same breed as him.
After estimating the amount of food that Gesang would eat, it would take at least a week to secretly prepare three days' worth of food for him to eat on the road. Even if he eats half and hides half of it, it will take three days. After all, this guy has injuries on his body, and he is not good enough to hunt and get enough food on his own. Gesang needed to get enough food from the Manniu tribe to store, and there was no way to do it.
In other words, there are at least two days left before Gesang can say goodbye without saying goodbye.
Lytton said, "It should be in time." ”
If Gesang really took a risk, facing hundreds of fire demons, the basic outcome would be to throw himself into the net, and there would be no other possibility at all.
However, Lytton also knew that he could not persuade on this issue, which would add fuel to the fire. can only wait for the right opportunity to let Gesang stay by himself. And this suitable opportunity is the news brought by Lei Ju and others.
Early the next morning, there was still no news of the return of the reconnaissance team.
In fact, there is no news, if Lei Ju and the others were nearby, they would have rushed back last night. If you are camping outside, you will need to spend some time after dawn to eat and then travel, and it will be impossible to reach the camp until noon.
But it was obvious that Gesang couldn't wait any longer, he walked around anxiously, and his eyes stayed in the direction of Daddy Ji.
There is a bow in that position, and it is a temporary longbow that Daddy Ji has built in the past few days. Not as strong as Lyton's sandalwood bow, but for tribal warriors, it was a rare weapon. With a bow and arrow, the warriors of the tribe could be freed from close combat, extending the combat distance to thirty or even fifty meters. Before the enemy is aware of it, kill with one blow.
When Gesang passed by Lyton, Lytton spoke: "You are leaving?" ”
"Nope." Gesang looked a little flustered, but his fist clenched the wooden stick in his hand tightly, as if he was afraid that Litton would not let him go.
But then, Gesang found out that he was wrong, and Lytton was not like any other tribal leader he knew, selfish, greedy, and wary of people outside the tribe. In contrast, Lytton's performance was simply bold: "Wait two more days, two days at most, and I won't stop you if you leave......" Lytton paused for a moment, and then said: "Now you can also go, and I can even prepare dry food for you on the road." And, if you need a bow and arrows, I can prepare one for you. ”
Gesang was a little confused, Litton was going to let him go, didn't he want to enter the megalithic ruins?
Of course he wanted to enter the megalithic ruins, but only to.
No matter how attractive the ruins are, they contain a staggering amount of treasure, but they also hide great dangers. In fact, Lytton was also hesitating in his heart whether to enter the megalithic ruins, because for him, it was a gamble. And the result of losing the bet is likely to be losing even your life.
Faced with a life-and-death decision, even if Litton hesitated, he would not laugh at his cowardice.
Because, life is one's own, and everything else is outside the body.
Throughout the morning, Gesang was allowed to use a bow and arrow, and Lytton, as the inventor, naturally began to teach Gesang how to use a bow and arrow properly. Soon, Gesang fell in love with this magical weapon, especially the moment the arrow pierced into the arrow stack, the trembling of the arrow cluster made him tremble with excitement.
With the bow and arrow in his hand, he can hide in the shadows and hunt down the fire demons one by one.
In the evening, the sunset came as promised, and the camp was as quiet and peaceful as ever, and as the gathering tribesmen returned to the camp, the fires were lit one by one, and the day's work was coming to an end.
"Lei Ju is back, and he has captured a person."
Suddenly, Li Zao's immature voice came from outside the camp, and the shouts broke the peace of the entire camp, and Gesang jumped up and rushed out of the camp.