Chapter 66: The Hunt

The morning sun was rising, and under a hillside, the tribesmen of the He tribe were gathered, and the chaotic noise kept coming out, most of them were discussing what was happening in the tribe now.

Yesterday, the rye that the tribe had worked so hard to grow was eaten up overnight by a herd of triangular cattle that suddenly emerged from the forest, and now only a mess of wheat fields remained.

As the leader of the tribe, He Liu also died in that accident, and the He tribe suffered two heavy blows in one day, and now the entire He tribe has become unstable, and people's hearts have begun to float.

Especially about the division of the He tribe, it pushed the pessimism within the entire tribe to the peak. At the beginning, because Heliu took out rye seeds, everyone only had to open up a piece of land to plant it, and when it was autumn, the harvested rye could feed all the current tribesmen, and the division of the tribe was put on hold and did not continue.

Now the matter of division has been raised again, after the rye harvest has failed, the tribe's grain has fallen into a serious shortage again, and food has become the main problem of the tribe now, and all contradictions have arisen around it.

There are almost no more people in this area to feed so many people, and if the food were distributed evenly among each tribe, everyone would starve to death in winter. Concentrate on some of the clansmen, and the rest of the clansmen will also starve to death, no matter what is done, there are many clansmen who will not survive this winter.

So dividing the tribe became the only way out and the way to migrate the surplus tribe to other places where there was food to produce and could feed them. But now it is not easy to make a migration, the selection and construction of new settlements will take up most of their time, and there will not be enough time to hunt and gather food, and the winter will still be difficult.

The priest Hesui also had a headache about this matter, and the division of the tribe must be carried out, which is imperative. But where should the divided people go, and what should they rely on to survive?

"Priest, I heard that the Fire Tribe has subordinate tribes, do you see this?" said the former deputy leader, the current leader, He Li, softly.

"You mean...... Well, it's a good idea, let's do it, at least let the people survive, you can arrange this matter. The priest, who had pondered for a moment, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said, as if he had laid down some heavy burden. Although it is not good to be a subordinate tribe of others, and it has to serve them wholeheartedly, it is at least a way out for the people to live.

The tribesmen began to divide into two groups according to their own wishes, the larger group continued to stay as the suzerainty tribe of the place, and the smaller group joined the Fire tribe under the leadership of the new leader and became its subordinate tribe.

And the Fire Tribe, which they are about to defect to, is now also troubled by the lack of population of the tribe.

The Fire Tribe has already started the autumn hunting operation, and most of the adults have been mobilized to participate, resulting in the city construction on the Deer Tribe's side has been in a low state during the hunting period.

This time the Fire Tribe's hunting intensity and scope were so great that it could be said to be the largest in the history, and the advance force of the hunting team had already reached the distance of ten days away from the tribe.

The field of view widened to the vast plains, and one after another of the tribe's newly built four-wheeled carriages were driven, and in the huge oversized crates on top of those carriages, neatly stacked with large pieces of salted animal meat.

The carriage, under the control of the coachman, galloped quickly on the road that had been pressed out by too many round trips, and never stopped from morning to night. People are tired of changing people, horses are tired of changing horses, maintaining all-weather uninterrupted transportation, and even in order to facilitate the rapid replacement of personnel and horses, the Fire Tribe has also built houses and shacks along the roads to provide comfortable resting places for people and two-horned horses.

Truckloads of food were stored by the Fire Tribe, new warehouses were built one after another, and now there was too much food to eat. But in this hunt, the Fire Tribe's access to food has been placed in the last place, and their main purpose is to achieve the strategic purpose of large-scale reduction of beasts and wild beasts in this area, and the massive amount of meat obtained is only a subsidiary harvest to achieve this purpose.

The leader Lie followed the direction of Su Ming's exploration in the wild, and continued to hunt, oh no, it should have been nearly a month since the slaughter, and the animals on this half month journey can be said to be almost killed.

Along the way, all the creatures you encounter have only two endings. One is that the people of the deer tribe think that they can be domesticated, and a small number of them are left to live, and the other beasts, whether they are wild beasts, or reckless giant beasts, all of them are killed.

All of a sudden, the plains were covered with blood, giant crossbows dragged by the two-horned horses could be seen everywhere, and the black iron arrows of Mitsubishi that flashed with cold light shot at those prey as if they didn't want money.

Killing has become simpler, whether you are a beast or a wild beast, if you meet, it is all the bow and arrow giant crossbow that comes first to a rain of arrows, and if there are still standing and not dead, then do it again.

Because the predetermined hunting area of the Fire Tribe was too large, the number of men in the Fire Tribe and the Deer Tribe was seriously insufficient, so those women who had some strength and could operate the giant crossbow also joined in.

A month of continuous killing has exercised the mind and perseverance of each participant, improved everyone's tacit understanding in teamwork, and improved their personal combat level. They are also contaminated with a strong evil aura, which has been accumulated through one killing after another, and has a kind of majesty that cannot be offended, and ordinary people will unconsciously be a head shorter when they see them, and their voices must be lowered by three points when they speak.

"Calculate the time, it will be less than two months at most, and the winter snow is coming, so Su Ming and the others should be on the way back. Before they knew it, they had been gone for almost five months. Standing on a stone, Lie couldn't help but sigh in the direction of Su Ming's departure.

The sun was about to set, and Lie had to discuss tomorrow's cleanup plan with the other squad captains, and the time was also very tight, so there was not much time left for him to think about it, so he walked down the stone and walked towards the tent that had just been set up.

And Su Ming and the others, who were thinking about it, are now in a bad situation, and they are being tracked and hunted by the white-clawed wolves.

"There's no time, the white-clawed wolf is tracking over, everyone don't care about those animal skins, except for the few that are necessary for the night on the road, all the others are thrown away, and the burden of the two-horned horse should be reduced as much as possible. Su Ming was now throwing the rare and exquisite animal skins on his horse's back to the ground one after another, shouting loudly over and over again.

"Look at it, it's still not moving, and the street lamp tree, except for the few small ones, all the others have been thrown to me. Seeing that everyone was a little confused by the change in his sudden influx, and his reaction was a little slow, Su Ming had to shout again to remind.

It turned out that after the loss of the wind grass, the leader of the white-clawed wolf never gave up the search for the thief, and constantly expanded the search area. Finally, a week after Su Ming and the others left, one of its clansmen found Su Ming and their temporary camp.

Here it smelled an unfamiliar smell, the scent of a new creature that it had never smelled before. Trusting its instincts, it concluded that the creatures had stolen its own wind grass and killed two of its own people.

So it followed the trails they left behind and tried to pursue, and finally after tracking for a night, by the river, it found the soil that Su Ming had accidentally dropped when they were watering the river for fear of dying of the wind weeds, which proved that his guess was correct, these creatures were thieves.

So overnight it returned to the forest, gathered all the people of its own people, and began a full-scale pursuit......