chapter 38 This man is mad
"You're going out of the mountains?"
The old man standing in front of Lin Yuan said angrily.
Lin Yuan looked up and down at the two primitive people in front of him, an old man who was as thin as firewood, but he was full of energy, although he looked like a weathered old face and a mediocre appearance, but Lin Yuan found a pair of cunning eyes on that face, this old man was not simple.
Beside the old man, there stood a teenager, wearing only a simple animal skin, with the same dark skin, but a pair of big eyes that kept blinking revealed a simple taste.
With only a dozen eyes, Lin Yuan had already made a basic judgment on the two people in front of him, he nodded lightly, and said to the old man:
"Yes, we are going out of the mountain, it looks like we should be able to walk out along this river, I wonder if the road ahead is easy to walk? How far is it going? ”
The young man just wanted to say something, but was dragged behind by the old man, only to see him raise his eyebrows, and asked:
"You guys, this ...... Yan people, what do you want to do here? ”
Lin Yuan was slightly surprised, it seemed that this old man was quite wary of himself, and he didn't know what it was.
I had heard the investigation report of the industry before, saying that he saw two aliens in the mountain pass, one old and one young, and he was a little surprised, because according to common sense, the sooner you get to the place where you leave the mountain, the fewer primitive people should be, in this valley mouth that is about to go out of the mountain, there are simply birds and beasts extinct, and the population is sparse, right, how could two primitive people appear out of thin air?
It's a little weird to think about, but now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I think this old man is even weirder, I don't know what they are......
"We just want to get out of the mountains, we don't have any other thoughts, I wonder what you two are doing here?"
The old man's wrinkled nose twitched, and he replied forcefully:
"Oh, we happened to pass by here, too, and my grandson said that he hadn't seen the world outside the mountain, so he took him to see it, and we will be back soon."
After speaking, the old man turned around and was about to pull the young man to leave, and the moment he turned around, he suddenly saw the members of the Yan clan all over the mountains, and couldn't help but be stunned, then turned his head and asked Lin Yuan again:
"That...... I don't know why you want to leave the mountains? The Dead Wilderness isn't a good place to be......"
Dead Wilderness?
Lin Yuan thought about it for a while, it seemed that the world outside the mountains was really in danger for these native-born primitive people, which could be seen from the place name.
In fact, Lin Yuan knew that this was not a ghost name like the Death Wilderness at all, and the plains beyond the mountains were estimated to be the birthplace of the descendants of Yan and Huang, the Guanzhong Plain through which the Yellow River flowed.
Because Lin Yuan observed through this trek for several days, combined with the law of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, he found that the rivers in the mountains were all flowing to the north, whether it was a stream or a small river, after merging together along the mountain, they all flowed out to the north.
And the vast mountains that spread for hundreds of miles, whether it is the characteristics of vegetation or the temperature change, are in line with the standard temperature of our country, neither cold nor hot, neither south nor north.
If we extrapolate this way, it is very likely that this mountain is located in the middle latitudes of China, and the largest mountain in this vicinity is the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province.
Since ancient times, the Qinling Huai River generation is the dividing line between the north and south of China, here is not only suitable for primitive life, more importantly, there are rich animal and plant resources here, and to the north out of the Qinling Mountains, is very suitable for farming and planting Guanzhong Plain, the birthplace of Chinese civilization is here.
This is not a wilderness of death, but a fertile field of the future.
Lin Yuan smiled secretly in his heart, but he didn't show anything.
"We don't want to live in the mountains anymore, so we want to move our tribe to live outside the mountains."
"Ahh You can't go out, there's a ghost ...... there."
The young man beside the old man suddenly couldn't help but scream, but before he finished speaking, the old man covered his mouth tightly.
Anna and Eggplant, who were standing beside Lin Yuan, couldn't help frowning.
"What's there?" Lin Yuan asked.
"Ah, haha, there's nothing there, kids, ignorant, nonsense, it's all a deceitful ghost story!" The old man snorted, then turned around and wanted to leave.
Lin Yuan felt a little strange, this old man was weird and weird, could it be that there was some conspiracy in his heart?
Seeing that the old man had taken two steps, he stopped, walked back again, hesitated for a moment, and then said tentatively:
"Hmm...... By the way, I forgot to show you the way, did you see that stone, there is a yellow spot on it, yes, along the bottom of the stone, there is a path to step out, you can walk out of the valley along there, don't go along the river, there are too many of you, there is a deep ditch in front of you, I am afraid you will not be able to pass. ”
Lin Yuan rolled his eyes, looked into the old man's eyes, and asked:
"Okay, how long will it take to get out of here, and will you be there before dark?"
"Yes, yes! You'd better go out of the mountains before dark, out of the valley, and not far away there is a river beach, which is close to the water, and it is convenient to set up camp, and the mouth of this valley is so narrow, and there are so many of you that there is not even a place to sleep here at night......"
The old man said as he looked around at the Yan clan on the entire hillside.
Lin Yuan frowned, what the old man said was right, the reason why they came to ask for directions was to find a way out of the valley as soon as possible, this valley mouth, the road is narrow, is there a natural cave, so many people have already stood on the hillside, let alone how to set up camp.
"That's it, let's go!"
Lin Yuan's eyes flashed, he waved his hand, took out the bone knife on his body, and blocked the old man's way with an arrow step.
"Wait!"
The old man stood on the spot, Lin Yuan walked over slowly, and he saw that the old man's eyes were rolling.
"Why are you here? In this place where birds and beasts are extinct, the sun is about to set...... Could it be that you are hiding something from us?? ”
Lin Yuan slowly walked to the old man's side, and his Yan clan warriors had already surrounded the other two.
Beads of sweat were already on the old man's head, and he hurriedly explained:
"Not really, this chieftain! I'm really just an ordinary person who came out with my grandson today......"
Lin Yuan snorted impatiently and said:
"Tell me, then, where is your tribe? Where are you going? ”
Lin Yuan's question actually choked the old man for a while.
The old man didn't understand, he was clever, and seeing that it was not easy to get out, he rolled his eyes and said:
"I don't have a tribe, only a family of 6 people, our tribe was slaughtered by the barbarians in Shannan, only a few of us remained, fled here, barely survived, in fact, just like you......"
The old man almost burst into tears when he said it, but Lin Yuan sighed in his heart.
The acting is really bad!
There must be something strange in the old man's heart.
"Well, don't go back, how about you help us be a guide? I won't treat you badly! When you take us out of the mountains, you can come back! ”
Lin Yuan suddenly had an idea, he said with a smile.
When the old man heard Lin Yuan say this, his old face was even more crying and laughing, his eyes rolled several times, and finally blurted out:
"No! No way! I'm going back to deliver ...... Food, the family is waiting for the wild fruits I picked, so if you really need a guide, let my grandson accompany you! Go, Avo! ”
The old man took advantage of the situation and pushed the young man Ah Fu to Lin Yuan's side, the young man's face was red and green, and he just wanted to say something but was glared back by the old man's eyes.
Lin Yuan saw all this in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, raised his hand, and the warriors surrounding the old man made a way, intending to let the old man leave.
The old man stood there straight, motionless.
"Hungry, there's one more thing."
Lin Yuan frowned and looked at the old man, but the old man simply said:
"You can rest assured, then what should I do, if you go out of the valley and don't let my grandson come back, where will I go to find you?"
Lin Yuanqi said:
"Hey! You, how can you say that you let your grandson be a guide, and you have changed again, so why don't you come? ”
"No, no, no! What I mean, is that something needs to be guaranteed. After speaking, the old man's eyes fell on the Yan crowd behind Lin Yuan, where there were a few slaves, carrying heavy supplies, those were all necessary for the Yan tribe to migrate.
"What do you mean?"
Lin Yuan asked.
The old man pointed with his withered yellow fingers at a prey carried by several slaves, which was the saber-toothed tiger that Lin Yuan had just killed in the Pod Valley a few days ago.
"Well, but it's a big flower worm?"
He nodded, and the bone knife in his hand did not move at all, still stopping at the old man's chest.
"Yes...... Can you give me some bones? The old man prayed with a hippie smile.
Lin Yuan was a little surprised.
The saber-toothed tiger, normally speaking, is actually not any edible prey, except for the fur, maybe it can be made into a tent, and the rest of the meat is sour and rough, not delicious at all.
But right now, the Yan people are in the midst of a hungry migration, not to mention tiger meat, even rat meat, can be used as food to satisfy hunger.
So Lin Yuan let the slaves carry the tiger all the time, and when there was really no prey along the way, he cut some to satisfy hunger, and as for the animal skins to make tents or something, Lin Yuan postponed it indefinitely, and waited for everything to settle down.
But now, it is strange how this old man would actually ask for any bones, it is obvious that this old man knows the saber-toothed tiger, and the purpose is very clear, it is to ask for bones.
What can this bone do? Lin Yuan frowned, no matter what, it's just a few bones, if you want it, just give it.
He called some of the slaves, asked them, and then said to the old man:
"This ...... We've been eating it for a few days, and there's not much meat left, and there's no way the skin can be given to you, as for the bones...... We were meant to keep it for bone knives, and if you need it, it doesn't hurt to give you one. ”
The old man was worried at first, but when he suddenly heard Lin Yuan agree to give him bones, his eyebrows instantly rose upward, and he shouted happily:
"Ahh Hahahaha, so good!! One piece will do, one piece will do. ”
Lin Yuan waved his hand and asked the slave to pick out two palm-sized bones from the leftover scraps of noon and handed them to the old man.
"Yes, give you two pieces, you can go quickly, your grandson, don't worry, as long as we are fine, he will be fine, and when we find our destination, we will let him come back......"
The old man didn't listen to Lin Yuan's words at all, only to see him holding two saber-toothed tiger bones in both hands, as if he had seen a treasure, rubbing them back and forth on his face, and muttering in his mouth:
"Have you given me both? It's like a collarbone...... Oh, the collarbone of the big flower worm ......"
This man is crazy......
Lin Yuan shook his head helplessly, waved his hand, and lifted the arm of the young man Ah Fu, and the group of people quickly followed the path that the old man said, and went down the mountain.
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