Chapter 6: The next challenger
There are more than 30 households in the river, on average, about four people per household, and the settlement of more than 100 people is moderate in this area, they have built simple huts out of thatch, fenced the settlement with logs, developed their own agriculture on the riverbank plain, women knit nets to collect fruits, and hunting teams go out every day to bring back meat.
Patrilineal societies led by patriarchs were well established, and powerful tribal hunters or warriors were usually able to possess more than one woman, and naturally had a larger number of offspring.
If nothing else, Hayabusa would have been the next patriarch, not because he was the eldest son of Bison Neck, of course, but because he was the most capable warrior in the tribe right now.
Just now, of course.
Because before him, there were stronger warriors in the Riverlands.
According to Yang Li's visual measurements, most of the men in Hewandi are about 1.6 meters tall, which should be a normal level in this era, and modern people like themselves stand out among them.
Hayabusa was already tall and strong, but he was still half a head short of himself.
can compare himself with the giant man in front of him, this figure suddenly has a feeling that a bricklayer meets a strong man, this is not just a difference in height, because this guy's skeleton is obviously two laps larger than himself, and the stone hammer in his hand is heavy, and he is afraid that he will be a player who pulls a passenger plane in the flesh in the future.
The giant man's hair is pale yellow, his eye sockets are a little big, and the arm circumference of his small arm is actually two times thicker than his big arm.
Now, this giant man walked into the settlement, furious, shouting, he did not accept Yang Yu to be the patriarch.
Falcon Wing stood between the giant man and Yang Li, and propped up his spear: "Tiger Tooth, stand back!" ”
The giant man named Huya casually threw the stone hammer on the ground, smashed out a cloud of dust, opened his empty arms, and smiled contemptuously: "Falcon Wing, this is how you welcome me?" That's how you watched the alien take the position of patriarch? That's how you gave your dad a lifetime of hard work to someone else? My, brother? ”
As if facing a great enemy, Hayabusa swallowed hard: "Vault Dweller, stand back." ”
Huya put away his smile, turned around, took a step, and then turned back: "I'll step back, big brother." ”
The entire settlement was silent, and a bead of sweat the size of a bean slid down the forehead of the falcon wing.
"Do I have to back off again, do I need to back off again, big brother!" Huya roared suddenly, his face was hideous and terrifying in the firelight, his huge figure swayed wildly with the light of the big bonfire, and the black shadow flickered left and right, enveloping the heads of different clansmen, he stretched out his long thick fingers and pointed at the nose of Hayabusa, "You exiled me five years ago, and I, have I ever given up on you!" ”
Yang Li understood that this was one of the sons of the bison neck, and he could see a very faint trace of the bison neck from the eyebrows of the tiger teeth, but it was not obvious.
Huya became a little calmer, and looked around: "That old thing in the bison neck is dead?" ”
"Yes." Hayabusa said.
"He died like a patriarch?"
"Fight to the death like an old hunter."
"It's good to die," Huya untied a deerskin bag from his waist and threw it in front of Falcon, "This is the bear heart I took from the lame body, and I wanted to give him a drink, but unfortunately it was half a day too late and he couldn't eat." ”
The lame is a grizzly bear that roams the west side of the settlement, and has been injured by a trap on its front paws, so it cannot run fast, so it attacks humans for a living.
Hayabusa slowly picked up the bag, handed it to the subordinates behind him and told him to keep it, and then turned back: "So you want to challenge the patriarch?" ”
"That's right. For five years, whenever the Iron Mane invaded, I was here to help you expel it, but this time, I was late," Huya picked up the war hammer on the ground, flipped his wrist, and swiped it around, "and then Dad died." ”
Hayabusa refused: "The new patriarch has the ...... of the gods"
Huya did not hesitate to interrupt his brother's argument: "You used your life to fight the iron mane this time, what about next time?" Let me tell you, in the depths of the jungle, there are pythons that can strangle tigers and leopards, and in the valleys of the mountains, there are short-faced bears that can give birth to cave lions. Only I can keep the riverbend safe! ”
"The new patriarch has the power of God."
"Phew," Tiger Fang spat and pulled open the animal skin that wrapped around his upper body, revealing the scars crisscrossing underneath, "I've been in the wasteland for five years, and I've seen half of the gods protect me. ”
"I won't let you hurt the patriarch." Hayabusa clenched the spear in his hand, his gaze determined.
"Very well, I'll step on your corpse." The mallet arced and whistled towards the top of the falcon's head.
Yang Jiao didn't even react, he originally wanted to wait for the two brothers to finish speaking, and then explain the reason for the matter and Huya, and everyone can discuss it together, and it is best to have a vote...... Well, it is estimated that the second place in the vote is Yulia.
But why did these two brothers start fighting immediately, and they said that they were a neat family.
The advantage of the falcon wing is that the pace is flexible, the movement speed is also very fast, his spear sometimes pokes out of the thrust, sometimes lightly tentative, like a poisonous snake pounce, but the advantage of the tiger tooth in strength and explosive power is too obvious, the giant mallet may be considered a heavy weapon in the hands of others, and in his hands it does seem to be a light and fluttering straw, just a knock in his hand, the spear head can be knocked crooked.
Falcon finally grasped a flaw and circled to the side of the tiger's fang, and the spear poked into the empty door, piercing straight into the ribs.
The speed of the tiger's teeth was proportional to his massive size, and he sideways over the spear, and the hammer spun around and swept towards the falcon wings.
This blow will inevitably hit the head, and seeing that the second warrior of the Hewan tribe is about to burst his brain, and he is killed on the spot, Yang Jiao took out the tactical dagger that Yulia gave him and threw it towards the tiger teeth.
At that moment, the blade was clear.
The warhammer snapped back, blocking the flying dagger, the steel blade collided with the warhammer, the sparks splashed, and the special steel actually pierced into the rock.
Hayabusa gasped for breath and threw down his spear, signaling that he had been defeated by Tiger Fang, who stared at the dagger on the warhammer with incredible eyes, as if he had seen something beyond his knowledge.
What is this knife made of!
Stone Tools-Bronze Age people have never seen the power of iron, this kind of metal with both toughness and hardness, until a few centuries BC slowly used and popularized on this planet, although it appeared occasionally, but it was only used by very small minorities, and the raw material used was meteoric iron.
Iron Age swords were already able to crush bronze, let alone stone tools?
Huya stared at Yang Li with complicated eyes, pulled out the dagger, put it on his finger and pulled it lightly - a few drops of blood came out, he no longer bothered with the falcon wings, went straight to Yang Li, and actually returned the dagger to him: "I understand why you can sit here." ”
It's not what you think, Yang Jiaoxin said, I'm just responsible for using that knife to pull hatred and attract monsters, the real main force is the Mao Mei behind me, her rate of fire is 350 rounds per minute, armor piercing, blasting, burning, instantaneously completed, is the hero of Maozi.
Looking back, Yulia had a playful expression on her face, hey, you asked me to be the village chief, now it's okay, someone's son came to the door and wanted to beat me, you are still very happy.
"So take your divine weapon," Huya's eyes flashed with excitement, as if he felt that life was as lonely as snow, and today he finally met a decent opponent, "Come, today, one of me and you, one will be put on a shield and carried out." ”
Ah, yes, Yang Li is in a hurry, when he stabbed the pigs, he was a group of wild bosses, hatred and confusion, and it was not the same to go heads-up, even if you let me put on armor and take a serious steel sword, I may not be the enemy of your triad.
Yulia pursed her lips and got up to come over.
No, how can you let a woman get on this kind of thing between men alone?
Yang Li gritted his teeth and stood up, picked up the dagger and glared at Huya: "Okay, let's compete in the last game." ”
How to compare?
Yang Li quickly thought about the starting point of the giant man in front of him - he didn't seem to be here for his personal desire for power, nor did he want to be a patriarch to collect tribute and live a rich life, so what was his purpose.
It's more like some kind of responsibility to protect the clan, and of course a lot of it is influenced by his biological father, the neck of the bison.
For this reason, he can even kill his own brother.
So what am I going to prove to him?
I don't have to prove that I can fight better than him, but I can prove to him that I can lead the tribe to strength better than he does.
That's enough.
"What are you waiting for? Are you scared? Huya walked to the clearing in the middle of the settlement and began to move his muscles, knowing that the sharp knife could easily cut through his hides and pierce his internal organs, so he acted extremely seriously.
Yang Jiao inserted the dagger back into the scabbard, walked to Huya empty-handed: "If you really think that you are a pure master, you should duel in the most direct way." ”
"Come on, there's no challenge I can't handle."
"Let's compare strength."
Huya was silent for a while, and then let out an uncontrollable laugh, he put the warhammer to the side, and held his stomach for a long time before relieving his breath: "Outsider, I have to remind you that although I am the best hunter in the river, my strength has always been my strongest place, and you are stronger than your weapons. ”
"I don't deny it." Yang Li said.
"So you don't use your knife?"
"It's like you don't need your war hammer," Yang Li finally showed his fox tail, "I can lift the stones that you absolutely can't move, and overwhelm you in absolute power." ”
Huya thought that Yang Jiao was going to wrestle with him, you must know that wrestling is also a very skillful skill, if he is experienced in a hundred battles, there is indeed a little possibility to win himself, but this foreigner with fine skin and tender meat actually does not know whether to live or die, so he chose to move stones.
Pure strength, Huya has not been afraid of people since he became an adult.
Huya, with long hair and a wild shawl, shook his huge head, stretched out his hand to retract his fingers, pinched out a fist the size of a sandbag, nodded and smiled: "Compared to being killed by my own hands, maybe it is more cruel to drive you out of the settlement and be eaten by wolves." ”
There is a boulder in the field of Hewan, which Yang Jiao paid attention to when he killed the pig.
It was a well-developed piece of granite, which was left in place when the plot was lifted and cut down by the river, perhaps until the next few geological changes, and it was flattened, about a meter high, irregularly shaped, and weighed between three and five tons.
Granite occupies a gap of more than 10 meters from the riverbank, and if it is removed, then a piece of land suitable for cultivation can be reclaimed.
Yang Li had considered killing the rock before, and this time, Huya came to challenge.
Two things can be solved together.