Chapter Seventy-Two: In the Direction of the Sunrise
It was just dawn, and Long Qiupeng had already packed up and was ready to go. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The people who have started work on weekdays gather on the altar square of the Dragon tribe, and they heard that the leader is going to take people to find a land more suitable for everyone's life, and they all gather here to see him quietly.
Although from the experience of later generations, the place they were going to go was a hilly area, although it was somewhat undulating, but it was not large, and then forty or fifty kilometers later, large and small mountain ranges began to appear.
But this is only a vertical distance, Long Qiupeng and Wolf Fang will face an unknown distance with no road and no goal, so if they want to search for a suitable target and route, they will probably have to spend some time on the road. So this journey is not as simple as Long Qiupeng said to Xi.
However, in order to prevent the tribe from suddenly sinking into the water and disappearing one day, like many prehistoric civilizations, Long Qiupeng must find a safer place to live, so that his people will no longer have to be displaced.
Long Qiupeng hugged the stream affectionately before getting on the horse, and then told him some important things with the deer and the big lake, and stepped on the horse. Now he is becoming more and more proficient in equestrianism, and he gradually has some of his own experience in taming horses, and riding a horse has also become Long Qiupeng's first choice.
He waved his hand at his people one last time, and with a clamp between his legs, he set off in the direction of the sun. He hoped that his trip would bring more hope to the Dragon Clan.
Long Qiupeng, who had not left the tribe for a long time, thought that this road would be very difficult, but after walking out for a while, he found that in addition to being longer than he expected and the journey was longer, the others were like returning to his modern life, especially this trip, Long Qiupeng put on the hiking boots that he had come to the prehistoric society with him again.
Although there was no road, it was not particularly difficult for the team to cross the large grassland. The only thing to watch out for is that there may be people from barbarians or other tribes in ambush, and there are not many people in the team you lead, so you should try to minimize hand-to-hand combat.
At that time, there were no roads between the tribes, let alone a post station. Although horses are much faster than humans in short distances, after a certain distance of running, horses have to stop to rest and replenish their strength, so all things considered, they may not be much faster than a marcher.
Although time is also precious to them, but it is not enough to rush their lives, Long Qiupeng is also happy to stop and rest after walking for a while, and listen to Yi and Wolf Tooth tell some interesting stories about their past.
In their story, Long Qiupeng learned that the story of the Classic of Mountains and Seas was not entirely deceitful, but because it was too old, some things in it were just deformed.
However, compared to that, Long Qiupeng was more concerned about the problem of the great flood. Originally, in Long Qiupeng's imagination, this flood and Noah's flood were the same thing, both of which were flooded and all landed.
In the description of Langya and Yi, he gradually figured out the truth of the great flood, it turned out that the rivers in the whole north of prehistory were very rich, in addition to the ancient Yellow River called the Wei River, there were countless rivers of all sizes such as Jishui, Zhanghe, Luohe, Ziya River, Dawen River, etc., and the name of one place was directly called Jiuhe.
These rivers are connected to the Guhuai River in the south through large and small tributaries such as the Huiji River and the Hui River.
At that time, the weather conditions were still relatively humid, and heavy rains fell every summer. The rivers overflow year after year and cannot be evacuated, and over time, these flood areas are connected and become a flood of water.
These floodwaters do not go away, and they can still be exposed at that time each winter. But even so, the water content of the land is still very high, and these places have gradually become wetland swamps, and many wild birds and animals live in them. But there is no way to farm and live.
Survivors who had lived in flood areas have fled their hometowns and moved to new addresses. It is likely that the Kongsan tribe is the survivors of the displaced tribes, and the new tribes have converged there.
"Which tribe is the largest right now?" Long Qiupeng didn't ask these questions because he felt that there was no closed-circuit television or Internet in prehistoric society, how could they know these things, but later he found that even without these things, the news about him was still spreading in a nearby area, and the two of them might know something after walking through so many places.
It's a pity that when Yi left his hometown, his tribe was still a small tribe and almost didn't communicate with foreign tribes, and Long Qiupeng even felt that this was the reason why Yi's tribe was finally wiped out. And the wolf's teeth are even simpler, they only inquire about where there are small tribes nearby in order to grab food, and those big tribes are too late for them to hide, who will inquire.
After getting such a result, Long Qiupeng still felt a little depressed, but there was no need to rush this kind of thing.
After resting almost, seeing that he was about to enter the forest again, Long Qiupeng decided to take it safe and check whether the supplies were complete. But just as he was about to mount his horse, his horse seemed to feel something unusual, and became a little agitated.
Animals' perception is much more sensitive than that of humans, so they can often feel some abnormalities that ordinary people can't feel, he immediately looked up at the wolf fang, only to find that the wolf fang also found that his horse was not in the right state, and the "human flesh detector" on the other side of the "human flesh detector" Yi has habitually opened the bow and arrows into a defensive state.
Long Qiupeng frowned, and motioned for the wolf tooth to dismount first. But looking at the horses and Yi again, it seems that everything is back to normal again.
Ma said he couldn't speak, so he looked at Yi. Yi listened vigilantly to the surrounding voices for a while, then shook his head and said, "It should be gone, I'm not sure if it's someone or something." ”
They watched in place for a while, but it seemed that the other party still did not show up.
It is still early in the morning, and you can enter the forest to continue your progress, but the forests in the temperate hilly areas cannot be compared with the mountain forests, these forests generally grow more sparsely, there are not many wild animals, and the danger factor is much smaller.
But if the other party is a human being, the complexity will increase, and the potential dangers will become different. Long Qiupeng hesitated for a long time, feeling that he was not completely sure that he would be able to pass through the deep forest at night, so they decided to simply stop and wait until tomorrow morning to continue their journey.
The requirements for a temporary rest were different from those for the night, so Long Qiupeng immediately asked them to clear the thatch around the habitat that was nearly more than a person tall. On the one hand, this prevents the other party from suddenly setting fire in order to kill people, and on the other hand, it is also to make your surroundings as empty as possible to reduce the probability of the other party's sneak attack.
Because no one will bring a sickle when they go out, the efficiency of cutting grass is not particularly high, and it is basically completed until the sun sets in the west.
However, the grass that was cleared was not wasted, and in addition to providing fodder for the horses, they also helped with thick straw mats for sleeping at night.
Although they didn't move in place, they also consumed physical strength and supplies, so Wolf Tooth sent two people out to see if they could come back from hunting some game, and by the way, to see if they could find a water source for supplies, and Wolf Tooth and Yi were in charge of guarding by Long Qiupeng's side.
Long Qiupeng lay on the straw mat leisurely, looking at the sky in a daze, but it was another pleasant. He took a deep breath and said, "If you think about it, my original dream was to stay in the wilderness all the time without having to go to work, but now it seems that it can be regarded as a dream come true." ”
But Yi was different, every time he and Long Qiupeng acted alone, he was extremely nervous. I'm afraid that if I make a mistake, my curse will come true.
As soon as Long Qiupeng wanted Yi to relax, he saw that the horses suddenly stopped grazing, and Yi also pulled in his bow and arrow, pointing in one direction. Immediately, Long Qiupeng also bounced up from the straw mat and pressed his hand on the short knife behind his back.
But the familiar cry of wolf teeth came from the grass, and he relaxed and said to Long Qiupeng and Yi, "It's okay, it's your own people." ”
The wolf fang replied, and the man who had just gone out to forage for food came out of the grass.
They caught two hares, which were not much, but they could make up for the loss of food, and the water source seemed to have been found, and the water bags were still hung with droplets of water after the water had been drawn.
The only discord was that one of them was carrying something on his shoulder, or to be exact, a person.
Long Qiupeng looked at each other blankly, and the other party put down the person on his shoulder, everyone looked at each other, and drank, it was still a woman. "What's the situation?" Long Qiupeng asked while going to search his body, although it was already spring, most of the time he was still wearing animal skins, and the animal skins were thick, if he didn't touch them himself, the small weapons that women carried with them might not be found at all.
Wolffang's men said that they saw a fainted woman on the way, and they picked it up.
Wolffang's men don't lie to themselves, but this woman's movements are a little suspicious no matter how you look at them. She was unharmed, she didn't have anything with her, she just lay there in the wilderness, very suspicious.
It stands to reason that the girl is slender, if she was just in modern times, there must have been many girls who cast envious eyes on her, but at this time in primitive society, if the girl's figure is not related to good birth, she will not be favored, and it is very normal to be driven out of the tribe.
Long Qiupeng thought like this while continuing to search her body, hoping to find something related to her identity.
Just when his hand reached behind his waist, the woman's body seemed to move, Long Qiupeng subconsciously withdrew his hand, and watched the woman wake up leisurely.
"It happened...... What ......" The woman sat up and looked at Long Qiupeng and his party with an ignorant and frightened look.
Yi glanced at Long Qiupeng very cautiously, but the wolf tooth seemed to be very fond of this, and said to the other party in a soft voice: "Don't be afraid, girl, we are just passing by the travelers here, and when we saw that you fainted, we brought you back." ”
But the girl didn't talk to the wolf fang, but turned her eyes to Long Qiupeng. But the latter always felt that there seemed to be something hidden behind her pitiful appearance.