Narrow, curvy passages lead to deep and dark caverns.

The damp and sticky rock walls seeped with water, the smell of erosion hit the face, and the sound of hurried footsteps sounded in the silent air.

"Witch doctor, are you looking for me?"

The middle-aged man with a beard and as strong as an ox stood respectfully at the mouth of the cave, his face half hidden in the shadows.

The old man was as thin as wood, his skin was like the bark of an old tree in autumn, his chest was not covered and shriveled and drooping, and only a black animal skin was around his waist.

She closed her eyes tightly, held the turtle board with both hands, and said nothing.

There was a fire burning in front of him, and the light of the fire swayed in the wind, flickering and flickering, leaving a terrifying shadow like a demon on the rock wall.

The air was half silent.

The old man opened his eyes suddenly, and the turtle plate was placed on the flame and burned, and soon it was hot and red, and quickly cracked into small pieces.

She shuddered and fell backwards, her arms as thin as old roots propped up on the ground, and a strange incantation sentence came out of her mouth.

"Witch doctor, what's wrong?"

The middle-aged man hurriedly took a few steps forward and asked eagerly.

The witch doctor's voice was hoarse, as if his throat had been blocked, "I'm afraid this continent is going to face an unprecedented calamity, and our snake tribe is about to disappear. ”

He was shocked: "Witch doctor, what should I do? Is this the result of your divination? Is there any way to stop this calamity?"

She looked up at the middle-aged man suddenly, her eyes glowing with a strange light, "This calamity is a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster, the forest tribes have disappeared one after another, you don't know about this matter yet." The Barberry tribe has been hiding this news in order to take the opportunity to strengthen the tribe, hoping to prepare for the disaster before it comes. ”

"What? the forest tribes are disappearing one after another?" he stared at in disbelief.

The witch doctor's wrinkled face let out a strange smile: "If I hadn't divined, the barberry tribe would have been able to hide this news for much longer." Tomorrow you go to the barberry tribe and tell them that the last place where the wild oxen will appear is by a huge lake, where there are mountains, forests, and grasslands, and they will find it. ”

The middle-aged man didn't understand her intentions, nodded blankly, and walked out of the cold cave quickly.

......

Barberry tribe.

In the middle of the huge cave stood a strong man with bull horns, twice the size of the others, and the cave trembled with a loud roar.

"Haven't you found the cow yet?"

"Chief, the wild cow took the people to the opposite place of the jungle, there are not a few tribes in the mountain tribe who dare to oppose our barberry tribe, could it be the people of the Xiong tribe and the black wolf tribe?"

In front of the barberry leader stood a thin young warrior, who made a solemn expression of his guess.

"Wild Ox, they will not easily clash with the people of these two tribes. The barberry leader frowned and shook his head.

"Will it be bitten by a wild beast?"

"How could the best warrior of our barberry tribe be bitten away by wild beasts?" the barberry leader looked proud, since he raided several small tribes and increased the tribe's population, the barberry tribe was already the head of the three major tribes.

For the other two big tribes, he never paid attention to them, and the wild cow is the best warrior of the barberry tribe, one fist can kill the beast, they have lived in the mountains for generations, they have seen countless beasts, megalodon and mammoth they have hunted, how can the wild cow be incompetent?

"The wild cow suddenly disappeared, maybe something in the forest came out, you go to the forest to look for it, you must find the wild cow. The barberry leader snapped.

"Yes, Chief. ”

The young warrior walked out of the tribe with a group of people with stone spears, staring blankly at the vast jungle beyond the mountains in the distance.

"Chief, someone from the Snake tribe has arrived. ”

The person said in a respectful tone.

"Let them in. ”

The leader of the barberry stepped forward and sat down on the rocks covered with tiger skins, and looked at the group of people who appeared in the cave, and the leader was holding a wooden stick with a small cyan snake wrapped around the top.

......

There were more than 20 people in the tribe, and the mud houses were not enough to live in all of a sudden, and the people of the Yanhuang tribe, who were accustomed to bright and loose houses, were also not used to living together with other people.

Unlike before, when a bunch of people were crowded in a dim and damp cave, they were also satisfied, Qin Yue couldn't help but sigh, it was really difficult to go from luxury to frugality!

It happened to be a good time for spring flowers to bloom, and the sky was clear for several days, and the red, yellow, and purple wildflowers bloomed all over the grassland, fragrant, and everyone laughed and went to the forest to cut down trees and prepare to build houses.

"Great, we also have our own house to live in in the future. ”

It was a little boy of seven or eight years old, and the cheerful sound of the child made everyone laugh, and there were several more children in the tribe, the youngest of whom was only a few months old, and was held by his grandmother all the way.

His aunt's name was Dita, and her husband was bitten off the neck by a saber-toothed tiger during a hunt and died on the spot.

Later, she came here with Yanu, originally Qin Yue saw that she was working hard to raise her children, so she let her rest in the tribe, but Di It had a tough personality and wanted to do more for the tribe even if she held the child.

Qin Yue thought about it, so she made up a Miao kind of carrying a baby's basket, and she kept carrying the thin rattan basket in the back, and followed everyone in and out.

The group walked into the forest, walked through the bushes and grasses, and saw all the towering trees, and occasionally could bump into a few towering giant trees that did not know the year, the branches of the trees were intertwined, and the dense branches and leaves stretched out were like green clouds, spreading to cover the clear blue sky.

Qin Yue was a little nostalgic for the sparse forest leaves in autumn, when the sunlight shining in was dappled, not as dark as now, and it seemed that there was no day around.

"Cut down this tree, the trunk is straight and even, and it is best to use it for building a house, and stay away from it for a while, so that you do not get crushed by the fallen tree." ”

Qin Yue pointed to a tree a few meters away and admonished everyone.

They took up the stone knife as they were told and slashed at the trunk of the tree, leaving a deep dent.

Liang Jian led people to hunt, riding back and forth very fast, and before noon, he came back with Ah Yan and others, followed by Yanu who was staggering on the horse with great interest.

Just as the tree was almost cut down, the horse came back and served as labor, Liang Jian rode a horse to drag the burned trunk and transport it back to the tribe, and several other people rode horses, one person transported back and forth several times, and soon there was a pile of tree trunks in the tribe's clearing.

There were ten mud houses to be built, the foundations had been dug a few days ago, and the stones near the river had been collected, and the people ran to the upper reaches of the river in the distance and brought a large pile of horses upstream.

The wild horses had recently been tamed so badly that they were honest and docile on the hillsides, ropes tied far away to sticks stuck in the mud.

This is a leisurely vacation given to them by Qin Yue, otherwise they have been selling coolies and worrying that the wild horses will not be able to bear it.

Liang Jian agreed with this, bluntly said that it was good to combine work and rest, and asked him when he could take a vacation.