Now that he has arrived at the Teng Snake Tribe, he must at least shed his skin.

Anyway, the relationship between Teng Snake and the Black Feather tribe is like that, and it won't get better if you let him go, so it's better to try to ask something out of his mouth, as for the food consumption in the back, give him some scraps to burn, as long as he doesn't die of hunger.

"Hey, God's Messenger, I didn't catch up with ......"

It didn't take long for Shi Yong to return to the tribe with a few people, and at the same time said to Song Xuan with some dejected eyes.

"It's okay, just run~"

Although the two sides met relatively suddenly, the place where they were at that time was relatively empty, and the distance was not close, and it took a lot of effort to catch up with this person, if it wasn't for a few stumbles on the way he escaped, it was estimated that he wouldn't be able to catch any of them.

Now even if they escape, if they want to return to the Black Feather Tribe, they will have to suffer a lot of torture, and it will be at least more than half a month from Teng Snake to Black Feather, and the snow will definitely come down by then, and it will still be difficult to survive with their equipment.

Tie up the captive's hands and feet, and put him in a separate room, and then he didn't continue to care about him, but the old routine came, starving for a few days.

Regardless of whether you listen to it or not, this "killing stick" still has to be given as usual.

……

After a few days of excavation and burning, the field has now become bare, there are almost no traces of trees on it, and as for the rhizomes below, they can only be processed slowly, but the big trees that are easier to find have been burned almost completely.

Of course, for such a large area, it must be a drop in the bucket, and the rest can only be processed slowly after the winter, and hopefully it will be easier to clean up next spring.

Just when everyone was having fun, the first heavy snow of winter finally came.

This year, everyone's mood is obviously better, not only thwarting the invading enemy of the black feather, but also doubling the number of the tribe, and the strength of the Teng snake has almost reached the highest time before.

After the snow, all the people quickly returned to the tribe, and the sacrifice of the Teng Snake tribe this year officially began under the leadership of Shi Jiu and the two witches of the Water Witch.

After the witch, all the rituals became more complicated, but everyone had no complaints, because in everyone's opinion, this was a necessary step to communicate with the gods, and with the blessing of the gods, next year would be better.

According to the past, Song Xuan was naturally a staunch proletarian warrior, but this incident had happened, and the others were not difficult to accept, and now Teng Snake is also in a state of multi-tribe mixing, and it is still very necessary to have a unified faith, although the totems of everyone's beliefs are different, but the concept of the gods is still relatively unified.

Even if Shui Yun and the others had already joined the Teng Snake, Song Xuan did not let them give up their beliefs immediately, and the totem of their tribe was also put aside during the sacrifice.

However, although the Blackwater tribe also fled, the preservation of these things is still better than that of the Teng Snake, and a relatively exquisite fish-shaped statue is a bit noisy.

As for those captives, we have to fully accept the belief of Teng Snake, but for their status, most of the captives are still quite self-aware, and it is already quite good to be able to mix up so much as a captive, as for faith or something, it is still the second thing in front of life.

As the main purpose of the annual festival, the main purpose is to report the harvest and results of the year to the gods, so in addition to the totem, some new things produced in the past two years, such as fishing nets, bows and arrows, and rattan armor, are placed on the altar.

At the same time, the newly captured captive was also tied up as a representative, kneeling in front of the altar, although he had been hungry for a few days, his mouth was still quite hard, and he basically didn't reply, it just so happened that the sacrifice needed a candidate, so Song Xuan thought of him for the first time.

The representative of the water tribe is Shui Yun, although a grand ceremony has been held before, but this time the sacrifice is of a summary nature after all, so he still has to inform the gods as a representative.

As for Song Xuan, it was arranged in a more conspicuous position, that is, the center of the altar, when Song Xuan first heard about it, he also felt very embarrassed, this was like a Chihuahua being watched by everyone, somewhat embarrassed, but the two witches were very strong, and repeatedly expressed that this was a necessary step to sacrifice to the gods, Song Xuan was not easy to refuse, so he could only sit in the center of the small altar, and what was placed in front of him was the totem stone statue polished by Shi Jiu during this period of time.

The steps of the entire sacrifice were discussed repeatedly by Shi Jiu and Shui Wu, basically covering the two tribes, most of the rituals, but even if they were different tribes, the sacrificial process was roughly the same.

The water witch is so old, and the various processes of the sacrifice must be much better than Shi Jiu's preparation witch, and he has also learned a lot of things with the water witch Shi Jiu, from various ritual details, footwork, to totem making, and even the design of clothes, these are things that Shi Jiu has had little contact with before, even if it is a preparation witch, the things that can be learned will be reserved.

These details are generally only told to the next witch before the old witch returns to the embrace of the gods, so Shi Jiu naturally did not learn, not long after he participated in the war of the black feather tribe, the two tribes fell out, and the witch also returned to the arms of the gods at that time.

"Woo-hey!"

"Woo-hey!"

The whole process lasted from morning to noon, and half a day was spent on the sacrifice, although they all looked a little tired, but it could be seen that everyone's belief in the gods had become stronger.

Since it's winter, it's time to start doing some work, although you can't go out, but there are a lot of things that need to be done to get snakes all winter, and it takes a lot of time to make and polish various weapons, as well as training.

Teng Snake is not just for hunting and gathering to survive now, although the spring repelled the Black Feather Tribe, but there will still be large-scale wars in the future, so you still have to be prepared accordingly for this.

War and hunting are still a little different, although the beasts are ferocious, they will try to hurt people when they are in a predicament, but they are still a lot worse than people, especially people like Song Xuan, who have more eyes and eyes, and can use all kinds of means.

Although we won that war before, there are still many things that need to be improved in the middle, after all, the battle plan was improvized, and naturally there are many omissions in the middle.

And now the weapons of the Teng Snake have also changed a lot, just a few dozen bows and arrows have brought about a lot of changes, although the hunting is almost in a state of stagnation during this time, but Shi Ban and Gong Yi They have not stopped making new bows and arrows, at least the current number of bows and arrows is still far from enough for the Teng Snake.

Even if you use it yourself, there are still dozens of them, but there is no big problem with hunting and defending against enemies, and dozens of bows can also form a small rain of arrows when shooting arrows at the same time, which is still a relatively large threat to dense crowds, and Shi Yu can also be used as a marksman to accurately shoot important enemies.

But whether it is in defense or attack, long-range weapons and short-range combat are equally important, especially when it comes to tribal defense, and not all tasks can be handed over to Shi Meng.

Song Xuan's idea was that after the enemy reached a certain distance after all, if according to the existing conditions, the bow and arrow could be handed over to others to use, Shi Meng and they were still responsible for hand-to-hand contact with the enemy, so the women in the tribe were naturally the best choice, and this weapon would not be handed over to the captives for the time being.

Bows and arrows are not a new thing for Shi Hua, and they can usually play a few when they have the opportunity, but after all, they have not done systematic training, and this time, under the leadership of Shi Yu, they have trained them fiercely, which has made a group of women miserable.

It wasn't until Song Xuan ordered him to slow down the pace a little, it was a little better, although Shi Yu had outstanding ability, but after all, he had never practiced this aspect of the manager, even if he led the archery team, it was also as part of the hunting team, and every hunt was also dispersed, Shi Yu was even more because of his excellent archery skills, usually fighting alone, choosing the best position to shoot.

This time let him lead dozens of women to learn bows and arrows, facing a group of women who are warblers and swallows, it does increase a lot of difficulty, and it can only be done in the usual way of training the hunting team, but most of the people in the hunting team have better physical strength, and they have all adapted to it in advance, and the foundation is better.

The women are a little worse in all aspects, and according to this set of rhythms, they are naturally a little unbearable, and then Song Xuan also gave Shi Meng time to guide some appetite-related experience, after all, the Teng Snake tribe is also growing, the population will definitely increase, and the demand for the leader will also increase.

In addition to the women, more than a dozen children over the age of 10 were also involved, all of whom had previously participated in hunting training.

After training for more than half a month, the response was still very good, and many people were also very interested in bows and arrows, so Song Xuan asked Shi Ban and them to make a batch of smaller bows and arrows during this time, and the small bows should be more material-saving, and three is basically the amount of two big bows used to be.

Although they are smaller, they are still quite lethal, at least more threatening than the small slings and small javelins in their hands.

In this era, except for the babies who can't take care of themselves, the rest of the people are all combatable soldiers, especially when the tribe defends, these children can also play a big role, last time they performed very well, there are good people in their hands, and the stone skin is even more smashed, bringing a very big threat to the enemy.