Ten days after the battle of the valley, shouts of excitement echoed in a cave in the mountains lower reaches of the Grass River.

"Mom! Mother! The Meteorite Tribe was finished, I went to see it, and the village was burned down, and many people's heads were piled up under the mountain, attracting a lot of crows, and they stinked to death. ”

A woman with loose hair was looking for insects to eat from rotten wood, and when she heard her son's screams, she couldn't contain the excitement in her heart, and inadvertently pinched and crushed the insects that were easy to pick out.

"Really? Do you see it all? ”

"If you see it clearly, you can't go wrong. I also went to the tribes by the river and asked, and they saw a group of people carrying black and white flags and combing their hair passing by, and many of them were arrested. ”

The man said excitedly, and the whole cave cheered, and many people combed their hair again, and no one would force them to disperse, and no one would wipe the black and white bear painted on the stone wall!

They had seen the gods come down in winter, so that they could eat acorns that were not bitter, and saved a few people who were distended. From that time on, they were convinced that the gods and ancestors would not give up on them and would surely bring them out of suffering.

And after waiting for so long, this day has finally arrived, and there is no longer a need to pay tribute to the Meteorite tribe for food.

A few days ago, Falling Star came here with a group of people, and the leader offered a small amount of food, but this time Falling Star also took more than twenty women from the tribe and fled north, everyone was skinny, and many people always looked back, as if something was chasing them.

At that time, the leader suspected that something was wrong with the Meteorite tribe, and sent his son to check, but he didn't expect this to be the result.

The son let go of his palm, and inside was a pile of small grains of sand.

He put all the grains of sand on the ground and said, "There are so many heads there!" The stargazing platform of the Meteorite tribe also burned, and the women were taken away, and they never returned. ”

The leader looked at the grains of sand gathered together and was terrified.

There are so many heads more than all the men and women of their own tribe combined.

"How many of those tribes died?"

"I don't know, maybe so many people died, right?"

"Do any of the tribes by the river know where they have gone?"

"You know, they're walking along the river. The tribes by the river were about to move away, and the fire of the other day had burned near their cave, and they wanted to go along the river to find the tribe that was protected by their ancestors. Mom, shall we move out too? Although the fire didn't reach us, but the woods in the distance were burned, we can go to the former village of the Meteorite tribe to live, maybe ...... Will we be sheltered by the stars? ”

The leader shook his head and said, "The protection of the stars? Don't think so, think like this, we'll be killed too, do you think we're stronger than the Meteorite Clan? ”

"So what do we do? Like the tribes on the banks of the river, do you go to their tribe? ”

While they were talking, there was a whining sound outside the cave, and it was the other tribes making overtures.

A few people hurried out and saw men from several tribes in the north, carrying wicker baskets that they had learned when it snowed, and they didn't know what they were inside.

The men all wore their hair combed, though the Meteorite Clan had forced them to disperse before they were destroyed.

Far away, the men shouted, "Do you know? The Meteorite Tribe is finished. ”

"I know, I saw the falling star a few days ago and took away the women of our tribe."

"So did we, they fled deep into the mountains."

"What are you doing here?"

"Go and thank that tribe."

"What are you carrying?"

"Fawn, lambs, and one of our sweet thatch roots."

Another important point is that they are worried that the tribe will not know that they have combed their hair, and even the meteorite tribe will be completely destroyed as powerful, and they know that they can't stop it at all.

These people knew the outcome of the battle of the valley in different ways.

Some guessed, some saw it with their own eyes, and some heard what other tribes said, but all of them, the meteorite tribe that was once so powerful that it made them tremble disappeared overnight.

They wanted to see for themselves, to see for themselves how powerful the settlement that had defeated the Meteorite tribe was, and to see if their lives were as rich as Snow Sky Pine had claimed.

So some people carry the young of the animal on their backs, while others may carry just a pile of acorns or even just a beautiful stone.

They carried what they thought was the most precious thing they could find, and offered it to their ancestors, to that tribe.

On the way up the river, the footprints and traces of the previous day were still there, winding in the direction of the setting sun, and they followed the grass marks that had been trampled.

When the village of the wild people appeared before them, they thought it was the tribe.

A neat row of wooden houses, very low, with hollowed-out ground inside. But in their eyes, this is beyond nature.

In the most respectful tones and words, they greeted several people who were cutting down trees and thanked them.

But the tree cutters told them that the one they really had to thank was far away, and that there was a city there.

"What is a city?"

With such doubts, they moved on.

On the calm surface of the river, several people stood on a piece of bark, and just floated on the river, shedding a kind of rope, and a moment later the flash of fish scales stung their eyes.

The men knelt on the ground, thinking they had seen a miracle and that they would have fish to eat with a wave of their hand. Perhaps, the city is floating on the water?

But the people on the river told them that this was not a city yet, and that they had to continue up the river.

The mood of those people who had been apprehensive was now only shocked, and even a little reverent, imagining what the city would look like......

Soon, several riders riding horned deer surrounded them.

Those people were not afraid, they had seen this animal in the winter, and at this time they only felt a little familiar.

The shiny blue-gray weapons in the riders' hands made them a little uneasy, and they trembled to make it clear what they meant, and the riders led the way after checking that they had only a few stone tools on their bodies.

After turning the bend, the rider pointed to the distance and said, "That's our city." ”

The people behind covered the sun with their hands, looking at the black city wall and the surrounding river in the distance, as if a beast hundreds of steps big was lying there, and columns of blue and white smoke rose, and from time to time there was a mooing sound.

"The city is a crouching beast? You live in the belly of the beast? ”

The rider smiled, did not speak, and led the men around the wheat field.

A strange scent of flowers wafted through the air, and those people thought it was the smell of the beast called Chengyi, which smelled good, not ashamed, and sweet and intoxicating.

Not far away, a group of people were digging the ground with stone hoes.

They were dressed in tattered animal skins, some with ropes tied to them, and several followed behind them with something like an animal's tail.

One person did it slower, and was slammed on the body by the person behind him, let out a miserable scream, and sped up.

Those people recognized the one who was beaten, it was the tribe to the east of them, and they were secretly glad that their tribe was not involved in that big war, otherwise they might have been beaten today.

Beyond this land that is still being cultivated, there are gradually more people.

It was no longer the gray-faced people who slowly ploughed the ground, but a group of cheerful people singing ballads, who were also working, but did not follow behind and whip.

Some were dressed in sackcloth, some were still wrapped in animal skins, but their faces were clean. It's not fast or slow, and when you're tired, you can take a break, or chat a few words, or sing a few voices.

Some carried the wild beasts they had caught into the city, while others carried the clay pots they had bought downstream.

A flock of sheep that should have run away when they saw someone was quietly grazing beside them. There is also a group of pigs that arch the ground with their mouths, making a grunting sound, and are not afraid of people, as if they can reach out and grab when they want to eat.

All this subverted their cognition, until they saw the flag erected on the battlements of the city wall, and it dawned on them that nothing was impossible under the protection of their ancestors.

Two wooden bridges lay across the ditch outside the city wall, one in and one out, in an orderly manner.

The rider turned around and said, "You guys wait here, I'll go tell Ken." ”

"Kin? Who's that? ”

The rider showed an inexplicable look and said proudly, "The man who led us to defeat the Meteorite Clan, our war leader. ”

A man finally asks the question he's always wanted to know.

"You ...... How many people died? ”

The rider thought for a moment, grabbed a handful of hairs from the horned deer that was shedding, counted dozens of them, handed them over, and said, "So many dead." ”

The man who had once grabbed the grains of sand froze there, looked at the small mass of deer hair, and sat down on the ground.

A moment later, a thunderous sound came from the city, and the men looked up at the sky, but found that there were no dark clouds.

The rider hurried out and said, "You can go in." ”

The group swallowed their spit, and with an indescribable mood, stepped on the bridge board and walked into the ...... that had plagued them all the way Cities.