Chapter Seventy-Five: Change
Autumn had come again, and in the morning the plains were shrouded in a thick white mist, and the huge trees at the foot of the mountain were in the white mist, and only the tall canopy was faint and faint.
In a stone cave high on the mountain, just above the dense fog, Su Ming stood at the edge of the cave and saw the boundless sea of clouds at his feet, blowing in the autumn wind, like sea water. The sun that had just risen in the distance in the sky was now no longer as dazzling as it used to be, and under the obstruction of layers of dense fog, it hung in the distant sky like the cold and graceful full moon.
Su Ming's ears suddenly moved, and there were bursts of footsteps in the thick fog, and after a while, he saw the black ears and white teeth slowly showing their figures in the thick fog, only to hear them complain again and again as they walked.
"It's such a fog, and we can't see a single reference, we've been walking for so long, and we haven't reached the place yet. And I don't know where we've gone now, I'm afraid we've already walked there, right?!" came the characteristic voice of the black ear in the thick fog.
"Probably not, I remember there was a big rock next to the cave, and I had been carefully observing it all the way, but I didn't see it. We shouldn't have arrived yet," White Fang said, also a little uncertain.
"Don't guess, you're here. Say, is there something urgent about coming to the cave to find me so early?" Su Ming directly interrupted their conversation and asked why they came.
"When you arrive, you hear Su Ming's voice. That's right, I'll just say it's not there yet, right. "I didn't hear the reason, but heard the excited voice of White Fang. There hasn't been a big war in the past few years, and they're starting to become less alert than before.
"Su Ming, Priest Hui and Leader Lie are waiting for you in the council hall, there is some very bad news coming, and now we need to discuss and formulate the next tribal response plan. It was still Hei Er who came to explain Su Ming's confusion and answered the purpose of their arrival. "Let's go to the council chamber first, and on the way we'll tell you about the news the tribe has gathered recently. ”
"Alright, let's go down first. Su Ming said, the person had already entered the fog, and after walking for more than a dozen steps, he saw the two of White Tooth and Black Ear, this fog was indeed too thick, only such a little distance, and he couldn't see the situation on the other side.
After the three of them converged, they walked directly down the mountain, during which White Fang and Black Ear kept explaining the situation.
Due to the fact that the Fire Tribe produces and can trade a large number of sharp and high-quality black iron weapons, with the continuous accumulation of reputation for strong and sharp weapons and the rapid spread of the trading team, it is not only known by those surrounding tribes, but also has been known by many distant tribes.
Those weapons can move a tribe from the primitive Stone Age to the metal age in advance, although their own tribe can't smelt and build, but they can be traded, and it can be regarded as entering the pseudo-metal age.
Not to mention the functions of those weapons, the efficiency of hunting alone has increased several times compared to before. And now with the increase in the concentration of air aura, the beasts have become stronger and more cunning and more difficult to capture, and the efficiency of the previous stone weapons to hunt prey has plummeted, and now it is necessary to rely on those metal weapons to hit enough prey to maintain the livelihood of the tribesmen, which also leads to the rapid elimination of stone tools.
And the large demand for metal weapons prompted those tribes from all over the world to come to the Fire Tribe thousands of miles away in order to trade some rare and scarce materials, especially various black iron products of the Fire Tribe.
After a few years of development, the current Fire Tribe Gathering Place has developed into a trading market that can rival or even be larger than the Water Tribe (clan).
Through these caravans, the Fire Tribe also learned some information about the distant regions, especially the areas that the Fire Tribe had not reached.
And now it was a meeting that the chief Lie urgently convened after confirming some very important circumstances.
A few months ago, through the caravan, the Fire Tribe knew that some tribal wars had begun in distant regions, how it happened, there was no unified statement, and the two warring parties were also different tribes, and it was impossible to confirm the authenticity of the news.
But after the battle, the punishment for the losers was strangely unanimous, killing the rebels and the management of the tribe, and reducing the rest of the population to slavery.
Because the distance is very far, these gossips told during the after-dinner conversation and laughter cannot be confirmed, and such treatment of the tribes that failed in the war has never appeared, and it is absolutely not allowed by the tribes, so after hearing such news, the leader Lie also regarded it as a joke and did not take it to heart.
But this morning, the arrival of a fleeing tribal party confirmed the authenticity of the news, and they brought with them very bad news. The tribe that invaded and expanded, and the direction of their current attack and aggression was coming straight towards the Fire Tribe.
As for the reason, you don't have to think about it, you can know it by speculation, that is, because after they destroyed a tribe, they got a few black iron weapons of the Fire Tribe, and through the captives, they knew that these weapons were the unique specialties of the Fire Tribe.
In order to be able to master such an important weapon of war, they gathered a large army and swept towards this side, and all the tribes in their path were either conquered and enslaved or destroyed and turned to ashes.
This fleeing tribe is the former He tribe (clan), and it is also their luck that they have been sending out a trading team, and accidentally found that the army of the strange tribe is surrounding the station of a tribe.
After realizing that the situation was not right, the trading team immediately brought the news back to the tribe without stopping. The He tribe who got the news also immediately gathered all the tribesmen to migrate, because they had a branch tribe that happened to be in the Fire tribe, so there would be a group of people from the He tribe to take refuge, but most of them went to other places.
On the migration route, the tribes that heard the news along the way, they all went to the water tribe (clan), after all, there was a natural danger, and a huge and narrow waterway could be defended.
Although the strength of the Fire Tribe is very strong, the population is their hard wound, and the Fire Tribe is directly crossed out of the list of refuge or refuge. Therefore, even the He tribe who understands the fire tribe has only one clan tribe rushing to gamble and directly go to the fire tribe, and the other branch tribes are also like other tribes, going to the water tribe (clan).
The sooner he takes refuge, the higher his status will definitely be, as a priest in the tribe, He Sui is a very wise person, after analyzing the current situation, especially when the other party breaks the rules for dealing with defeated tribes, he knows that there is a fierce beast that has awakened, and will bring the entire human race into that great turmoil, and the future is unpredictable.
Now that the tacit understanding between the tribes has been broken, the precious trust will disappear quickly, in order to survive, for the continuation of the tribe, in order to keep the vast living space, then we must hold together closely, unite together to survive this is about to fall into the most chaotic era.
The integration between the tribes has now reached the point where it is imperative, but the small tribes or the weak tribes have to integrate into the big tribes and the strong tribes in order to survive.
Now be the first to bet and take the risk of taking refuge in the Fire Tribe, not only can you gain the trust of the Fire Tribe, but also strengthen the strength of the He tribe that previously took refuge in, and achieve a better position in the future United Tribe. Therefore, Hesui feels that everything is worth it, and if you want to gain, you must have to pay, which is an unchanging truth.