Chapter Seventy-Four: Gifts and Blessings

Pure one-sided killing is boring and boring, even if the birdmen's fighting talent is on full display in this hunt.

Even if this feast of blood even attracted the predators of the forest, they did not stop.

Of course, they are not afraid of anything.

Those fierce beasts who were hungry for food did not dare to move forward, and even if they were hungry, they could only wait and see from afar.

No one wants to be the next victim after the boar.

The animals' peculiar perception of danger tells them that the blood-soaked birds are the most dangerous creatures in the jungle.

Time is unusually slow at this point.

The smell of blood was pervasive, and there was no more sound in the jungle except for the screams and running of the giant pigs.

"Thank you for the blessings of the gods of Inuth! Great Inute God! However, after the giant pigs were less than twenty left, the birdmen did not continue the hunt.

They shouted the name of the god in their hearts, and let the cubs of the smaller giant pigs fall into the jungle.

Guo Sen was a little surprised.

They didn't kill them all—they had the strength and time to do so.

Is there an idea of "ecological balance"?

Leave the young ones behind, kill the mature boars, and when those have grown, hunt again......

Guo Sen thought for a moment.

This should also be considered a kind of "animal husbandry", right?

For the Birdmen, when to kill these giant pigs is just a matter of thought.

They have more than enough room to do so.

All that is done after the hunt is to transport a huge amount of prey back to the tribe, but these birdmen alone will certainly not be able to do such a thing.

Even if they have incomparable combat power, if they can carry it......

However, a birdman army of five or six hundred people suddenly approached from the far side of the forest, and they seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, answering Guo Sen's questions.

Follow-up transport troops......

Guo Sen couldn't help but approve in his heart.

This number of people can completely remove all the fur and flesh of the prey, and even if there are no means of transportation, their numbers make up for a certain shortfall.

It didn't take long for the transport troops to reach the battlefield they once were.

They gathered, and Guo Sen saw the figure of the priest again.

So, what will be the next step......

"Thank you for the gift of the god Inuth! Great Inute God!! ”

Sure enough, these devout believers......

Guo Sen watched them shout the name of the god over and over again, and suddenly felt that he was not doing more in the cave.

It seems that the so-called "manifestations" and "oracles" really gave them great power......

At least psychologically, considerable results have been achieved.

After the birdmen performed their rituals, they began to divide their prey with sharp blades in their hands.

Thick layers of fat and skin are cut open, slices of meat are constantly stripped from the skeleton, and internal organs are thrown aside.

The movements of the birds are skillful and simple, and there are no superfluous movements.

As fast as they could, they sorted the most useful things on the boar, the pieces of meat and fur, and discarded the remaining useless things, without any delay.

"Thank you for the gifts and blessings of the gods of Inuth!"

The priest had been watching the labor of the people, and he, holding a wooden staff studded with precious stones, led the people in a high voice when it was all over.

"Thank you for the gifts and blessings of the gods of Inuth!"

Five or six hundred birdmen shouted in unison!

Having received many prey, their voices were even more high-pitched and powerful at this time.

Inuit God ...... Could it be something like the god of protection and the god of harvest?

Guo Sen couldn't help but guess.

But seeing them so respected, it may be their main god.

The birds finally carried all the meat of their prey on their shoulders and returned along the path they had come.

Guo Sen followed them, and couldn't help but glance at the former hunting ground, which had become a place for blood, bones, and internal organs.

There are already a large number of predators and countless flying insects......

It suddenly seemed to him that this seemed a little familiar.

Yes, isn't that the biological chain of the seed of nature?

This is also an eternal law that has been immutable for thousands of years.

Whether on land or in the ocean, similar scenes repeat themselves endlessly.

The Bird-Man army advanced slowly, their steps much heavier than they had come.

This is also because the prey harvest is much more than they expected.

However, when they reached the boulders, trees, pits, waterfalls, etc., they would bow down again as before, and put a small part of their prey nearby as a sacrifice.

However, when they were far away, the pieces of meat became a meal for the nearby predators, and the hides were torn to shreds, becoming a breeding ground for insects.

Guo Sen watched the Birdmen finally return to the tribe.

They smashed the salt in the storeroom, smeared it on top of the meat that had been processed into slices, and put it on the roof to dry.

As for the skins, they were hung from the branches of the trees with ropes, and they were exposed to the wind and the sun.

The fascia in the meat was pulled out and beaten, and then dried, and Guo Sen also understood that this was probably a material for making bowstrings and the like.

After observing the series of hunting processes of the Birdman Tribe, he could indeed understand why the Birdman tribe could still survive with such a large population.

Almost perfect combat skills and the best matching weapons make them almost invincible when hunting.

The salted jerky made by pickling and drying ensures the storage time of the food to the greatest extent and solves this problem.

This also gives the Birdman tribe a more reasonable amount of time to hunt, freeing up this labor for other work.

Like smelting, mining, and so on.

The civilization displayed by the birdmen was far ahead of any race Guo Sen had seen before, and even a few hundred faces might not be able to catch up.

However, this civilization is not without its shortcomings.

The population of the birdmen is also too large, and the forests that cover almost all of the land provide them with an almost unimaginable abundance of animal resources.

But what if their population continues to expand in the future?

Problems arise when consumption power is greater than productivity, and this is almost the same situation faced by the human race with strong troops.

However, the birds don't have to worry about this happening too early, because the animal resources here are much more abundant than those on the human side.

Guo Sen also saw a point.

That's the so-called "sense of crisis."

What would happen to the Birdman Tribe, as an existence that had almost no opponents in the forest, if it really encountered some unsolvable problem?

For example...... What about breaking up their tribes?