Before continuing the hunt, the chief discussed with the old patriarch the issue of "paying" for the amount of meat: if the area of excavation needs to be expanded, the difficulty and time of "surveying" will definitely increase, so that more meat will need to be delivered to meet the other party's requirements. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info calculated a little, and they thought that they still needed to hunt 3 more beasts to achieve this goal, so they sent 12 "Yijun" to Hadu to help carry the hunted animals.

The addition of the "Yijun" made Hadu adjust the structure of the battle formation slightly: 2 hunters were added to each part, the extra 2 hunters controlled by Hado stood on both sides of the battle formation to protect, and the rookie hunters were changed to the middle to increase their chances of facing the enemy.

The forest is not a completely flat hard land, but there are undulating hills and low-lying areas, and sometimes small rivers and puddles that look shallow but can actually swallow up a whole person. The entire forest has been explored in its entirety, and it is the tribes that inhabit the vicinity of the "Fare" mountain range that initiated the exploration. The chieftain also participated in the exploration of the forest, and after the exploration was completed, several tribes agreed to place tribal flags and tokens marking their territory in the depths of the forest.

Hado and the others made good progress, and in half a "rise and fall" they hunted 8 long-haired sheep and 1 thylacine - hungry and skinny, without any meat on their bodies, but they were still able to make do with a hunter behind him as a prey.

A short time further on, we came to a small river about five paces wide, and there was a cleared rocky beach for safe crossing, and on each side of the rocky beach were trees with a bearskin with wooden nails stuck in each - this was the territorial border of "Ka-Sin-Ki" in the forest.

Looking across the river, you can see a team of hunters from another tribe with a small piece of straw pinned to their waists, and they are the "Bi-Man-Sje" tribe who worship the god of rice, "Sju-Sun'ne". This tribe has begun to grow rice on a certain scale, reaching double cropping in the fertile grasslands, and has begun to exchange rice for other food in the surrounding tribes. According to Bi-Man-Sje's advice, the outer layer of rice is removed with a stone mortar, and then the peeled rice is mixed with water and put into a wooden tube, which is roasted on a flame until it smells fragrant. After tasting it, it was found that this plant-grown food was much more satiety than meat, and it was more energetic after eating. However, after further inquiry, other tribes found that this rice, which tastes good and has a high filling efficiency, is not necessarily suitable for all tribes for three reasons:

1. The amount of rice used for seed retention in "Bi-Man-Sje" is not large in each season, and the requirements for manpower and material resources are high for rice planting, and special personnel are required to take care of the planted rice, which is a big challenge for the tribes who are accustomed to going out to hunt and fish for a living;

2. Now all known rice species are all upland rice, and the requirements for soil quality, humidity, planting density and other conditions are relatively harsh, even in the "Bi-Man-Sje" there are not many people who know how to serve these delicate plants, so it cannot meet the sufficient and necessary conditions of "professional dispatch teaching" required for large-scale promotion, and other tribes send people to learn it is not something that can be learned in one or two years, and the material and time consumption of this is not something that the tribes can bear;

3. It is also possible to select rice from the wild environment, but the distribution of wild rice is very sparse, and even if it can be found, then transplanting, breeding and continuous cultivation are problematic, of course, the key is that farmers cannot achieve it quickly.

Since there are many obstacles to the promotion of rice, the tribes can only exchange food first, and see if these obstacles can be broken in the future, and it is not too late to promote it. Of course, the leaders of the "Bi-Man-Sje" tribe promised to share some knowledge and techniques of searching for wild rice if they encountered a team sent by their tribe in the field to find wild rice - in which case crossing the tribal border was allowed.

Speaking of which, Hadu despised the selfish behavior of the other tribe -- the so-called "lack of manpower," and the key to this was to treat the "peasants" as a strategic resource, and was unwilling to leak this strategic resource to other tribes. The knowledge of rice cultivation is not something that can be stolen by standing by and watching like domesticating horses, cattle and sheep, so sending spies to the opposing tribe will not help.

Before entering the forest to hunt, the leader told everyone in the battle formation that under no circumstances should Hado's "divine power" be revealed. If the other tribes were to know that Hadu could plunder their knowledge and experience as a "reward for the gods" at will, they would immediately unite and wipe out the "Ka-Sin-Ki" tribe - a terrifying ability for the other tribes.

Hadu and the hunters on the other side of the river greeted each other in a friendly manner, except for a few runes that would have tribal characteristics, and the rest of the expressions were interconnected on the grassland. After knowing that the other party was the hunter team that came out to find wild rice, Hado decided to learn the basics of finding rice with the other party first, and not to plunder the relevant experience of the farmers in the other team, otherwise once the other party found out that he had no experience, the first person to suspect must be Hadu's battle formation.

The two teams merged together, and the other party was very curious about Hado's battle formation, but also asked rhetorically if the wheel battle would increase the battle damage. For this question, Hadu just smiled and didn't explain much, and the other party thought about it for a while, thinking that maybe it might be a particularly effective herb, or their combat skills are more special, so they can reduce the battle loss rate.

Since they couldn't find out any effective information from Hadu and them, they began to make false promises about sharing the knowledge of wild rice. The combined team walked and stopped, and from the time the sun crossed the top of the "Fare" to the time the sun set in the middle of the sky, they did not actually find any wild rice. Without seeing the rice plants with his own eyes, Hadu had no way of knowing what the rice actually looked like based on the words that the other party lacked.

As noon approached, the hunters had worked hard all morning, and were a little hungry, so they prepared to go back to their tribes to fill their stomachs. The team of the other tribe is also leaving, but this is not the best time to plunder the knowledge and experience of the other party, thinking that the other party will definitely come to the forest to look for rice plants, Hadu decided to carefully "steal" the next time he comes to the forest alone to hide and hide.

However, Hadu did not seize the opportunity to go to the forest again in the afternoon: the old patriarch summoned the whole clan to the center of the tribe and directly announced the appointment of Hadu as the high priest.

In this era, the designation of ceremonial duties was a very "practical" thing, and this is the difference between primitive worship and religious worship: the needs of vested interests are different. For primitive tribes, the high priest's role of communicating with the gods was secondary, and his main duty was more to make life in the tribe "normal", or "boring" and "boring". Just like the "Ka-Sin-Ki" tribe, they believe in the god of hunting, yearning for the balanced development of man and nature, taking what they need, not wasting, not fearing, neither humble nor arrogant. For them, ensuring that the tribe can thrive in a safe environment after they have eaten and drunk enough is the direction of development, so at this time, the high priest has to do to maintain this "safe environment".

Hado's recent performance is obvious to the people, and his achievements are more than enough for him to become a high priest, and it can be regarded as the result of all expectations. After becoming the High Priest, Hado needs to choose one or more gods to protect his people on the basis of the god of hunting, but since Hadu is not old enough to be a hunter, this matter is temporarily postponed - of course, as you think, even if you want to choose a god, Hado will not hesitate to choose the dream god "Ye-Dun".

The whole afternoon was filled with tedious and serious appointments – as boring for modern people as award ceremonies, opening and closing ceremonies, and important speeches by leaders. The ceremony lasted until midnight, and Hado was covered in various totemic patterns, and he had one more task to complete: to go to the cave he had chosen to pray for the first blessing to ensure that the rest of the survey would proceed smoothly.

Hado's battle array escorted him to the cleared cavern, and he went back to his tribe - the steppe tribes generally believed that the beasts were very afraid of the power of the high priest. Well, at least Hado was very convinced that the beast couldn't beat him. After the hunters who had escorted him had gone away, Hado had a quiet place of his own. Putting down the soft fur he had brought with him in the innermost part of the cavern, he lay down and thought quietly.

After a period of temptation, he found that he could only plunder the consciousness, emotions, knowledge, and experiences of other people or animals, which were "invisible and intangible" but could be "clearly explained"; on the contrary, things that others carried with him, such as the straw carried by the farmer in the forest in the morning, or the gods believed in by the tribesmen, were not allowed to be plundered, and the surrounding objects in the natural environment could not be plundered. To sum it up: only the living things can be plundered, and the "wealth plunder" is completely useless against the dead.

And his range of predation is actually very dangerous: 10 steps is a leap from the horse, and if it weren't for the severity of the riders of the "Mo-Ruq-Fa", he would have been dead to the netherworld. However, for Hadu today, the danger is much reduced: the explosive power of the brown leopard can get him out of danger in an instant, the strength of the side bear makes him enough to incite all the opponent's horses away, and the hidden experience of the fang tiger allows him to ambush the enemy anywhere without the enemy being able to distinguish it. These new physical enhancements even gave Hadu the confidence to compete with the cavalry ranks, which could easily bring the entire cavalry to a fight with each other with the use of combat tactics. Even if he accidentally enters a dangerous situation, he can plunder the other party and give himself enough room to break through and play.

After being appointed High Priest, he had to take care of the logistics of the hunt more often, and his battle formation also needed to change from the image of fighting directly at the front - although this was the most efficient and the least damaged. Now there is a certain tacit understanding between him and the members of the battle formation, but this tacit understanding may gradually cool down due to the reduction of front-line fighters. In addition, Hado must have gained more knowledge and experience and continued to strengthen his physical fitness in other aspects, which will inevitably lead to a large distance from the members of the battle formation - and he has not yet figured out how to give his physical fitness that has been strengthened after plundering to the members of the battle formation. His battle formation is not easy to change, and how to smoothly transition during this period is Hado's biggest headache at present.

From the above, Hadu was a little entangled in the next direction: one direction was to strive to strengthen himself, nothing more than to go to the wild to plunder wild animals more frequently, and infiltrate other tribes to plunder unique knowledge and experience, and finally become invincible in the grassland, and the other direction was to bring enough shade to the tribesmen to assist the leader in completing the unification of the grassland, the only final task after the leader was selected.

The two paths can be said to be the same: both lay a solid foundation for the complete survival of the clansmen, but the former is "becoming a god" and the latter is "mortal dust". Speaking of which, Hadu himself didn't know which path to take—he was only 12 years old this year, and it was unusual to think about it.

Hadu was still trying to think quietly about the strange level of difficulty and skill, when he heard a murmuring sound outside the cave. He got up and looked over, and it was raining, but there were no clouds in the sky, and the crescent moon shone on a rain-soaked earth. The weather conditions were unprovoked, but Hadu didn't think much of it, and began to bend down and hurriedly carry the firewood piled up outside the cave into the cave. By the time he had finished moving it, the firewood was actually a little damp, but it was still usable, but it would be a little difficult to make a fire - and by this time the rain had stopped. Hadu blinked speechlessly, and could only go back to the cave to do the boring work of "blessing".

The blessing was carried out until the morning when the sun crossed the "Falie" - in fact, Hadu fell asleep shortly after the blessing began. By the time he woke up, it was already noon. Hearing the sound of someone outside the cave, Hadu cautiously walked towards the entrance of the cave, only to find that the hunters who had come to pick him up had come to pick him up. Seeing Hadu come out, the hunters saluted him reverently, and he immediately returned the salute. By this time, Hadu had entered the role of high priest, and he now had three things to do: 1) pray in the forest to bless the hunters with a greater harvest at the beginning of spring, 2) check the food consumption of the tribe and plan the next hunt, and 3) curse the nearby hostile tribes so that they would not be blessed by the gods in their next attack. In fact, everyone can see that only the second item is more reliable - the other two are completely classics of primitive worship.

"Whoa... Hadu heard a shrill birdsong, and when he looked up, it was a stone-billed eagle with a wingspan of two arms flying over their heads, as if it had fallen back into the nest built in the "Falie". Hadu suddenly had an idea: he was going to find the eagle and plunder its physical fitness to see if he could soar in the sky.

This thought took over all of his mind: the stone-billed eagle was called "the closest animal to the gods", and was even considered a sacred bird by some tribes - even the "Ka-Sin-Ki" tribe, which believed in the god of hunting, did not dare to disturb these sacred creatures, and sometimes even left some prey to feed the sacred birds.

So, after Hadu came up with the idea to the hunters, everyone else looked at him like a madman. But even if they were shocked, the hunters would not refute or stop Hadu - neither his status as leader of the battle array, nor his position as high priest, could refuse orders.

The cave where Hadu and the others are now located is not far from the summit of "Falie", but the stone-billed eagle will mostly live in the nest in places that are difficult to reach. Hadu led the hunters to the direction where the eagle had flown to, and when he looked up, he could see an eagle's nest built with values on a cliff jutting outward. The eagle then left the nest and flew out, and the nest fluttered and shed some fluff - this must be the fluff of the young Stone-billed Eagle.

To get to this Eagle's Nest, you have to climb up the cliff of the Fare, jump over two or three crevasses, and then cross a 20-step cliff at the same level as the Eagle's Nest - and then cross a 20-step rock. Such a dangerous path can only be carried up by a body like Hado, and those hunters are not up to it. In order to make his companions less worried about him, he explained that during the blessing prayer, the gods told him that they needed to have some "communication" with the stone-billed eagle in order to be approved by the gods. Hearing this lame excuse, the hunters did bow to Hado on their knees very reverently, not thinking that there was anything wrong with this statement. Motioning for the hunters to stand on guard, Hadu began to climb up from a gap suitable for landing. The road was smooth at first, but the higher up it became, the more thrilling it became: after climbing 20 people high, Hado was blocked by a jutting boulder, and to continue the climb he had to pass through a sharp corner on the right.

The hunters looked very thrilling below, but it was not very difficult for Hado: with his current strength, he could easily hook two fingers into the small pit in the mountain without falling, and just like that, he turned around, and the hunters were in a cold sweat.

At last he reached the stone gate, and before he could stand firm, he saw the stone-billed eagle rush towards him with a sharp chirp, and knock him off the cliff in one fell swoop.