Chapter 18: Sleeping Rough

A group of people shuttled through the jungle, and after about half an hour, stopped in a clearing.

It is not so much an empty lot as a ruin, where there are traces of human life.

Xia Qi turned his head to look at Pan and found that he and Lu both had sad looks on their faces.

If he didn't guess wrong, then this area was the former camp of the Blackstone tribe, judging from the size of the camp, there were at least more than three hundred people in the former Blackstone tribe.

After a while, Pan put away the sad look on his face and said to Xia Qi: "Let's go, the kind of very hard wood I said before is not far from here." ”

Pan led the way, while the deer remained silent, looking back at the tribe from time to time.

"This is it."

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Xia Qi to go, and the scene in front of Xia Qi suddenly changed.

Unlike the black-brown color of the outer skin of most trees, the bark of trees in this area is white with black spots, and the height is about 20 meters.

"Bang, Bang......"

Xia Qi stepped forward and knocked on the stone spear in his hand, and suddenly there was a sound of gold and iron clashing.

"This can't be an iron birch, right?" Xia Qi guessed.

The good news is that the tree is really hard, and the bad news is that it is really too hard.

Xia Qi remembered that the iron birch was three times harder than the oak tree, and twice as hard as ordinary steel.

"It seems that the bow and arrow will not be done." Xia Qixin said.

This kind of wood is really too hard, with the current level of science and technology of the Xia tribe, there is no way to take this wood, but picking up some branches and bringing them back to deal with it a little is a good material.

Hasn't the little fox always been troubled by the lack of hardness of the handle of the tomahawk? With the hardness of this wood, it is completely competent.

After leaving here, the deer took Pan's place and walked in the front to lead the way.

As they walked, they entered a dry river.

The river is full of rocks, flanked by hills that are getting higher and higher, and the hills are entangled with weeds and vines, and the dense turns look very eerie, as if countless beasts or cannibals may rush out of it at any moment.

Xia Qi, who knew his own strength, couldn't help but lean towards the side of the white wolf, not only affected by Xia Qi but also the surrounding environment, no one spoke, and the entire river seemed to have only the sound of people walking.

The deer suddenly turned his head and said to the crowd: "Turn this bend around, and it will be the camp of those monsters." ”

"Alert!"

Xia Qi shouted, and the white wolf and the remaining ten people raised the stone spears in their hands one after another, carefully observing the surroundings.

After everyone carefully turned the river, nothing happened, and if there was one, it could only be said that it was quieter.

Xia Qi didn't think that those people of the cannibal tribe knew the art of war, but this kind of thing should be an ability that all hunters would have.

Compared to sneak attacks, hiding seems to be a skill that everyone will know in this day and age. After all, whether they can hide themselves well is related to whether they can eat.

In view of this, Xia Qi felt that he should set a fire and let the dead grass on both sides of the river burn to see if there was anyone hiding.

However, in order to prevent the grass and snakes, he did not implement this plan in the end.

After walking for a short time, the smell of the river changed, and it became very unpleasant, as if something had rotted and was disgusting.

After walking a short distance forward, Xia Qi saw a corpse that had been dropped by a vine on a tree.

Xia Qi can't describe the miserable appearance of this corpse in words, if you cannibalism is tough, it is that those cannibals are very picky when it comes to eating people.

Pan and Lu, one of them had red eyes, and tears had already flowed unconsciously in one eye.

Obviously, this corpse was once a member of the Blackstone tribe.

The group continued to walk forward, and in a blink of an eye, it was time to eat, and everyone had no intention of stopping to eat, Xia Qi couldn't help but gag as soon as he remembered the corpse before.

It's not just him, it's almost everyone.

When the sun rose to its highest, they finally walked out of the river, and immediately before their eyes was a stone mountain.

"Those monsters are in that hole." The deer pointed to the cave not far away.

Xia Qi didn't speak, just gestured to the white wolf with his eyes.

The white wolf understood, and led a few people to the cave.

The whole process was very smooth, no one came out of the cave to check along the way, and the white wolf and the others touched the cave very smoothly.

The imaginary shouting and roaring did not appear, and not long after, the white wolf reappeared, and Xiang Xia could come over.

Xia Qi took the rest of the people to the cave, and found that the entrance of this cave was not large, and it was facing the sun, so the cave was very dry, but in the corner of the cave, there were a lot of bones piled up.

This place was supposed to belong to a certain tribe before, but it was occupied by the later cannibal tribe, and the previous tribe, the consequences can be imagined.

"Is this the camp for the monsters you were talking about?" Xia Qi looked at the deer beside him.

The deer looked a little frustrated, nodded when he heard this, and said in a low voice, "I saw them here with my own eyes before. ”

When Xia Qi heard this, he just patted him on the shoulder as comfort.

Under normal circumstances, this was a good camp, and the cannibal tribe couldn't easily give up such a good hiding place, but they did.

Or, they are encountering a more formidable enemy; Or, or find a better place to hide.

Combined with the environment of the scene, Xia Qi is more inclined to the latter situation.

I thought that this operation would be in vain, but there was a noise outside the cave.

"Let's go, go out and have a look." Xia Qi was startled, and hurriedly led people to run towards the entrance of the cave.

Not far from the entrance of the cave, four warriors of the Xia tribe were fighting two primitives. However, it seems that the people of the Xia tribe have fallen into a disadvantage, and they have a hard time resisting.

The two people on the opposite side were tall, more than a head taller than the people of the Xia tribe, and their skin was different from yellow, but a fair color, obviously not the same race as Xia Qi.

Seeing a few more people coming out of the cave, the two men were startled at first, and then turned around and ran.

"Quick, keep up!"

The two men skillfully cleared the messy grass, and a path suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and it was obvious that by following this path, they would eventually be able to reach the cannibal tribe.

"White wolf, deal with them."

Now that the way has been found, this man is of little use.

The white wolf suddenly exerted his strength, and in an instant, he caught up with a cannibal, and the stone spear in his hand stabbed forward, instantly stabbing the opponent in the back of the heart.

"Ahh

The cannibal screamed and threw himself on the ground without moving.

Seeing this, the remaining cannibal stopped and attacked with the weapon in his hand. However, such an attack is nothing more than pediatrics in the eyes of the white wolf.

As soon as he turned around, he dodged the stabbing bamboo spear, and the stone spear in his hand was sent forward, hitting the opponent's throat.

The cannibal clasped his hands around his neck, trying to plug the hole, but the blood was still pouring in, and in the blink of an eye, he followed in the footsteps of his companion.

Walking along the path, before they knew it, they were out of the mountain forest where they were, and appeared on a plain.

"It should be full of food, not grass everywhere." Xia Qixin said.

The others didn't know what the food Xia Qi was talking about, but they still nodded their heads in agreement.

Walking on the plain with barren grass, the wind blows continuously, and the barren grass that has turned golden rises and falls with the wind, like a wave.

Such a scene reminded Xia Qi of the boundless wheat field when he was a child, but unfortunately, with the progress of industrial society, that field was also replaced by a steel cell.

If you light a fire in such a place, you may have to burn for days, or even months, and the main land will become a sea of fire.

But thinking about it, it is impossible for Xia Qi to do this, because once this place burns, their group of people will not be able to escape, not to mention, the plain is connected to the jungle, and if there is a fire here, the jungle will inevitably be affected, and it is impossible for him to set his lair on fire.

Wen Haoxun once said that there is no road in this world, but it becomes a road when there are more people walking.

The so-called road is just a trace of being stepped on.

This plain is very large, and a group of people walked along the road until evening, and still did not go out.

It was too late to turn back, so they had to spend the night here, and they couldn't even light a fire to avoid being discovered by those cannibal tribes.

At night, a group of people flattens the surrounding grass to form a small circle.

The white wolf took the men out and brought back a few pheasants and a nest of wild eggs. Because there was no way to make a fire, he could only eat it raw, and Xia Qi couldn't stand the smell of blood, so he asked for a few wild eggs.

With a slight knock on the stone spear, the egg liquid inside flowed out, but fortunately, he didn't find any blood in it.

Enduring the fishy smell and forcing himself to eat some, Xia Qi lay down on the ground, his arms resting on his head, looking at the starry sky in the sky and stunned. Because there is no air or light pollution, the stars in the sky are very bright and conspicuous, and they look very beautiful.

Although he has not learned astronomical knowledge, he still knows several of the more famous constellations in the northern and southern hemispheres on the blue star, but none of the stars in the sky match those constellations.

Before he knew it, Xia Qi closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Because of the long journey, the people were so tired that they soon fell asleep.

The night vigil is in groups of several people, and when someone is too sleepy to stand it, they will wake up the other group.

"Hmm~"

When Xia Qi woke up, the sky was just bright, and he reached out and wiped the dew on his face, even if he had washed his face.