1 Chapter 1
During this time, what made Ah Yun even more devastated than tired and hungry was that she really wanted to eat rice so much...... This devastating thought is entangled with a dull taste bud that makes her want to pull her tongue out.
"Alas......" Ah Yun sighed, lowered her head and continued to fiddle with the slender and long earth-colored rhizomes in her hands, which she dug up a little below the hillside this morning, she didn't know what the rhizomes of this plant should be called, but after peeling off the outer skin, there will be a little white soft core inside, which is slightly astringent to chew but a little sweet after returning to the mouth, and very moist.
During this time, Ayun regarded this as a staple food, and as long as he had the strength every day, he would rush to the bottom of the hill to dig some, and if he was lucky, he could pick up some wild fruits, but they were not delicious.
It's been a month, Ah Yun is chewing the soft core with blank eyes, this month she estimates that she has lost more than a dozen pounds, and if she continues like this, she may die of malnutrition, but with a little luck, she may be bitten to death by a carnivore that broke into her cave one night.
"Uh-huh......" she let out a helpless sigh as she chewed on her rhizome.
There's no time to think about it now, and Ah Yun has been very busy every day for the past month...... This place is different from the comfort of your rental home.
The place where she was now stationed was a small cave, which was formed naturally on a low slope. The hillside is covered with lush green grass, and several large jutting white rocks can be seen on the slope.
There are no tall trees, just sparse seedlings and some low shrubs.
The cave where Ah Yun lives is very shallow, but the shape of the cave is unique, the entrance of the cave is very small, and Ah Yun needs to lean down and climb in, about two meters or so, the inside will become relatively open, but it is only enough for her to lie down, and some sundries can be placed around.
When Ah Yun first moved in, she would use the collected stones to block the entrance of the cave every night when she went to sleep, but she often woke up with lack of oxygen, so she didn't block the entrance to the cave now.
The floor of the cave was covered with hay she had gathered, and the roof of the cave was filled with branches by her. Some excess fruits and rhizomes were stored along the cave walls, as well as a bowl of water stored with hard husks.
The cave is pitch black at all times, so Ah Yun won't climb into the cave until night. Outside the cave, looking to the south, you can see tall and rolling mountains, covered with lush rainforest, full of strange animals and plants.
That rainforest is where Ah Yun "landed", and it took her half a month to leave there and find this small cave of her own.
There is no shortage of food on the other side of the rainforest mountains, but there are too many bugs, and they are big and terrifying. Ah Yun's place of residence has to walk for half a day to reach the rainforest, which is a good thing for her.
Looking at the green and beautiful forest in the distance under the sun, Ah Yun felt very powerless.
She wasn't kidnapped or accidentally left in the wilderness. A month ago, Ah Yun died in a sudden collective accident. All she remembered was the screams of the people around her, and the blast swept over her, pushing her and the people around her dozens of meters, followed by a sharp pain that could blow her brain apart.
Ah Yun didn't have any consciousness after that, but when she opened her eyes again...... I found myself lying in a dense forest.
At first, Ah Yun thought that this might be the so-called afterlife, and she was excited about it for a while. But soon she realized that something was wrong, and she was hungry and in pain...... And there are always huge insects scurrying around the surrounding bushes.
This is not an afterlife, nor is it a paradise, and although Ah Yun is not sure where she has been, it is definitely not the world she was originally in.
I have to say...... It feels like the Earth from thousands or tens of thousands of years ago. Why is this so sure? Except for Ah Yun being kidnapped and driven away by a tribe a month ago, the creatures here are all like the creatures of the dinosaur era in his memory. When she came back to her senses, Ah Yun realized that she had finished eating today's rhizome, which meant that she had to start working.
The content of the job is simple - make a fire.
This is definitely a challenge for Ah Yun, and this month she has been rubbing wooden sticks, smashing stones, etc., according to the methods she has seen in short videos...... I've tried them all, and none of them have succeeded.
But if she gives up, she will never be able to eat grilled fish or barbecue, even if she fails many times......
Today Ah Yun planned to use a wooden stick to make a fire, and yesterday she almost smashed her own fingers with a stone fire. She came to the mouth of the cave, where there were piles of sticks and fine pile hay, pulled from the nearby bushes.
Ah Yun chose his work partner today and came to the workbench...... The so-called workbench is a circle of several stones, and the grass in the circle has been plucked by Ayun and covered with a layer of sun-dried weeds.
She placed the pile on the weed, then aimed the flatter stick at the pile and poked the other stick against the flat stick and began to rub it together.
Every day, Ah Yun will insist on this for about two hours, as for the method of calculating the time...... Ah Yun is looking at the shadow of the wooden stick standing next to the entrance of the cave, the time may not be accurate, but it is enough to have a general feeling.
Making a fire is definitely a physical task, and after about five hundred rubs, Ah Yun felt that his arm was starting to swell and sore, and he was a little frustrated. She threw the wooden stick on the ground in anger, raised her hand and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Damn, why can't you give birth!" ”
After scolding, she felt even angrier, stood up and ran around on the hillside, and when she was tired of running, she fell directly on the grass and cried.
Mental breakdowns like this are also daily tasks for Ah Yun, who will get up when she is tired from crying and ready to go get water. Actually, I should have gone to fetch water this morning, and there was only one bowl of water left in the cave...... But Ah Yun slept lazily.
"Alas......" she got up, patted the grass clippings off her knees, and went to the cave to pick up her drinking tub. This drinking tub...... In fact, there are two insect shells the size of soccer balls.
When he first picked up this thing, Ah Yun was very excited, thinking it was a turtle shell. But when I saw a worm that also carried this shell and had countless arthropods...... Of course, she will not throw away this shell, the water holding tool is very important to her now, it is just to take the shell and wash it many times in the river water to carry out some psychological remedies.
The journey to fetch water is relatively long, and you have to go down the hill in the direction of the rainforest mountains. She hadn't been going into the rainforest to fetch water from the river lately, and although it was quicker and easier, she had found huge animal footprints and some blood stains mixed with the mud by the river the other day.
The frightened Ah Yun no longer enters the rainforest easily. These days, she spends the days fetching some rain from broadleaf plants on the periphery of the rainforest or getting some water in puddles in the grass, which is troublesome but safe......
Rain, caves, plant roots, fires that can't be burned...... These things make up Ah Yun's life for more than a month.
Got used to it? Of course, there was no habit and I was forced to be numb.
Ah Yun took his insect shell and took a wooden stick for self-defense and went out. It's about one o'clock in the afternoon, and I should be able to get home in time for dark.
It is undeniable that the scenery along the way is very good. When it doesn't rain, the sky overhead is as blue as a jewel, the sun shines on the green slopes with a layer of mist, and there are many small colorful flowers in the green carpet-like grass.
When Ah Yun saw it, she would pick the flowers and store them in her simple fanny pack made of her old short sleeves, these wildflowers tasted sweet and had moisture, which could help her moisten her mouth on the way.
Picking flowers while going downhill was the only thing that made Ah Yun feel relaxed and happy after coming here, she pinched off a pale yellow, dandelion-like flower and threw it directly into her mouth, a little sour, but after a while, the sweetness returned.
Birdsong can be heard from time to time in the rainforest stretching in the distance...... Just as Ah Yun relaxed and began to hum a song, a strange sound was heard in the distance.
Isn't it like an animal's sound, deep but penetrating, if Ah Yun heard it correctly, maybe it was the sound of a horn?
"......" was blown by the group of savages, Ah Yun stopped and looked in the direction where the sound came from, it was the eastern periphery of the rainforest, and the horn sounded three times, two short and one long.
What does that mean? In terms of Ah Yun's knowledge reserves, blowing the horn means that something is happening to warn or celebrate.
While he was still thinking, the horn sounded several more times. Now Ah Yun can be sure that this is a warning...... She carried the insect shell and ran some distance to the east, where she could see the edge of the rainforest, but the rainforest side couldn't find her because of the height difference, so it was safe.
The horn continued, and it became more and more urgent, and the birds were frightened by the sound of the horn and flew away from the canopy. Soon, in addition to the sound of the horn, Ah Yun heard the sound of hurried footsteps, which could not be made by humans, but by quadrupeds.
A huge quadruped animal rushed out of the rainforest...... When he saw the animal, Ah Yun realized that it was not the sound of a horn, but the wail of the animal. It was covered with many "people" dressed in leaves. Although she couldn't see it clearly, Ah Yun was almost certain that those people were the wild people who had kidnapped her before.
The fight with the quadrupeds didn't last long, presumably in the rainforest after all the prey's energy was consumed. The great four-legged serpent let out another wail and fell to the ground. The victorious savages raised their spears or stone knives and cheered.
Is it hunting...... After coming here, I saw the locals hunting for the first time. Although Ah Yun knew that those people couldn't see him, he still instinctively lay on the grass and poked out half of his head to observe the situation below.
The hunted creature looked like a giant crocodile to Ah Yun, and she couldn't estimate its size because of the distance, but according to the locals next to her...... Maybe 7 to 9 meters long, the locals are busy around the body of the giant crocodile after it falls, and it is impossible to drag all the prey of this size back to the village, they probably have to break down the most valuable parts and take them away.
This is a good thing for Ah Yun, and the matter of getting water will be put aside for now...... She plans to wait for the locals to finish work and rush to pick up the leak.
The locals are also very nimble, probably to avoid the smell of blood attracting other, larger beasts. They bound up the flesh and scales with huge leaves and vines and began to walk towards the rainforest. Ah Yun: At this distance, it can already be seen that the oversized crocodile has even taken away a lot of bones.
After making sure that the locals had withdrawn, Ah Yun dragged the turtle shell and ran down the hill quickly, which was probably the fastest she ran...... If she could pick up some pieces of minced meat, or some skin and scaly bones, it would be of great help to her.
Although she can't make a fire yet, she can try to air dry the pieces of meat...... She has meat to eat! Thinking like this, Ah Yun is faster.
It was probably more than an hour before Ah Yun came to the vicinity of the wreckage. At this time, there were already many birds and insects on the wreckage, and Ah Yun didn't care about carrying so many insect shells to go over to harvest his own things.
The huge crocodile, which had been running and wailing not long ago, was now unrecognizable, and all that was left in the grass was a pair of ribs two years high, and the blood and internal organs had stained the surrounding grass a cloudy dark red.
The locals shaved all the flesh off their stomachs, took away all the skin and scales on their backs, cut off their tails and took them away, their limbs remained, and the crocodile's jaw was also broken off and taken away. The teeth in the roof of the jaw are sparse and pulled...... The eyeballs were also gouged out.
The sight in front of her was undoubtedly shocking to Ah Yun, she had never seen the corpse of a huge animal, let alone disemboweled. She was so smoky with the smell that she half-crouched on the ground for a moment before she decided to step forward and fight the birds and insects for the wreckage.
The minced meat is easy to obtain, and the locals handle it quickly and not meticulously, so there are many small pieces of minced meat left in the surrounding grass. Ah Yun quickly picked up a pot, during which she had to kick the ankle-high bugs that came to grab the minced meat.
She clasped the flesh-filled shell upside down on the clean grass next to her, then returned to the wreckage and began to look for bones, the thick ribs that she didn't have to think about, she kept breaking, and Ah Yun focused on the few still sharp teeth left in the roof of the jaw.
After coming here, Ah Yun realized how handy knives and scissors were...... Behemoth's teeth are not as sharp as knives, but they are also very useful. Yun found a rock nearby and began to pound at the beast's teeth, and when it was all knocked out, she began to rummage through the wreckage for broken bones that she could take away.
She wasn't used to it at first, but now she's comfortable navigating the entrails, for the giant beast had been injured during the hunt, and in the guts heap, in addition to scattered fragments of bones, she could also find some stone arrowheads that had been sharpened...... It's lucky. Ah Yun held up one of the arrows, which was a relatively blunt diamond.
Tie this to a branch and she'll have a spear! That's a lot better than a stick.
A bowl of minced meat, the teeth of a giant beast, and several fragments of bone and stone arrowheads. That's almost enough, and there's the next step to deal with after transporting these back to the cave, and she can't afford to delay too much time. And more and more birds and bugs are gathering on the wreckage.
She sorted out her trophies, put all the small things in her fanny pack, and put all the larger ones into the insect shells.
“………!!”
Just as Ah Yun was about to return, a strange sound came from behind him, not an animal...... It's a sentence made up of strange syllables and intonations, and it's the voice of those natives!
The loot was gone, Ah Yun directly threw the insect shell on the ground and began to run wildly towards the place where there were bushes, and the shouting behind him became louder, as if he wanted her to stop.
Before he could run a few steps, Ah Yun felt his arm being grabbed by a large rough hand. But because he had been in contact with the locals briefly a month ago, Ah Yun knew that his life was unlikely to be in danger.
The local who was holding Ah Yun was talking about something, and he turned Ah Yun around and stared at it for a while.
"......" because of the language barrier, Ah Yun didn't have to speak hard, and the man in front of him was taller than those locals a month ago, with darker complexion, black unkempt half-length hair tied back his head, and his limbs looked more slender and flexible. She didn't know what the man was going to do when he caught her, so she could only stay where she was.
After the man muttered for a while, he pointed to the insect shell that Ah Yun had thrown on the ground, and then pointed to Ah Yun.
I don't know what it means, so I just nodded.
Seeing Ah Yun nodding, the man seemed to be more energetic, he pulled Ah Yun back to the edge of the wreckage, helped her take the minced meat scattered on the ground back into the worm shell, and muttered something.
If you don't understand, what should I do! Ah Yun recalled some speechless events a month ago......
A month ago, Ah Yun had not yet accepted the fact that she had traveled back tens of thousands of years after her death, but the dense rainforest and the huge insects that continued to attack her forced her to accept it sooner......
She was wearing tattered short-sleeved trousers, and her shoes were already open, and she stumbled and tried to get out of the rainforest, if only there was a gentle plain for her to rest a little and adjust her mood.
It was also when he kept running away that Ah Yun unfortunately bumped into three locals.
With just a glance, Ah Yun knew that he was decisively different from these people, and it wasn't even a matter of race and skin color, it was just a matter of ...... It's not at all.
They are very tall, basically about two meters tall, their complexion is a relatively dark wheat color, their limbs are strong and slender, and they have human-like facial features, but they give people the impression of being more like beasts, and their eyes are large...... Two of them have strange heavy pupils, and their ears are pointed and long, the tips are as thin as rabbit ears, and red and blue blood vessels can be seen. The nose is high, the mouth is large, and the teeth are sharp.
When he was caught and taken away by these three people, Ah Yun had a lot of scripts in his head......
The first, through the female body system, led the ancient savage agricultural science and technology double leap.
The second, the crossing woman carries the martial arts system, and after being tied back to the tribe, she uses powerful physical skills to defeat the leader and become the leader of the tribe.
The third, the crossing woman was made into a big barbecue by the cannibals.
The third one is very feasible no matter how you think about it.
Isn't that exactly the development of a low-budget R-rated film? Ah Yun screamed desperately on the wild man's shoulder, and thanks to her scream, it made the scene look cheaper.
But then Ah Yun didn't turn into a big barbecue, and the direction of things was simpler and more plain than she imagined.
To put it simply, Ah Yun was brought back to their gathering place outside the jungle by the three wild men, and this place can indeed be called a tribe, or even a village.
There are walls of wood and stone that separate the tribe from the wild woods. The houses in the tribe were a mixed pack, with rows of stone and mud houses, small tents sewn of animal skins, and even stilted buildings in the area slightly closer to the center.
Have their own language, have decent villages. These people are more civilized than Ah Yun thought at first. She didn't speak the same language as these people, their language was very strange, very primitive, with few syllables, but Ah Yun could also draw it from their expressions and body language...... They were very puzzled by their appearance.
The first appearance is different, Ah Yun feels that in the eyes of these locals, he is probably an ugly deformity. Ah Yun did guess this correctly, and the three locals carried Ah Yun to the stilted building in the center of the village, and met a person who might be more respectable.
After the man chattered for a while, Ah Yun was thrown out of the village. There was no special plot development at all, and it was thrown out directly.
What exactly did they say? Now what did the man in front of me say to me?
Ah Yun looked at the man in front of him in confusion, who was still talking: "I don't understand......" Ah Yun made a little sound, and the man's eyes widened in surprise.
He is also a double pupil, with three pupils on each eyeball, amber in color...... It looks scary. Ah Yun looked away, these locals didn't look like savages in textbooks, nor did they look like humans he was familiar with, which made Ah Yun a little afraid to look at it.
The man was still holding her insect shell, the insect shell that Ah Yun had to hold with two arms, and the man held it in his hand like a plate. He seemed to be full of interest in Ah Yun, pulling her arm and talking. When he said that he was excited, he let go of Ah Yun's hand and poked Ah Yun's lips with his long rough fingers.
"Do you want me to speak......"
Listening to Ah Yun's words, the man's eyes widened again, and his ears were pricked up to look excited: "Yi Agulu! The man began to repeat such sounds.
Ah Yun felt inexplicable, but she was not too worried because the man did not seem to be hostile to her...... His current behavior is very similar to Ah Yun's previous wandering on the side of the street, when he suddenly saw a squirrel rushing down from a tree.
It turns out that the man is not only not hostile, but also full of enthusiasm for Ah Yun. He suddenly bent down slightly, scooped up Ah Yun, and put it on his shoulder: "Hu Zi!" ”
“…… What are you doing. Suddenly two meters off the ground made Ah Yun a little flustered, and she began to think crankily, what is this guy going to do? She began to struggle, but the man's strength was too strong, and she was pressed to the shoulder.
Something strange happened, the man carried her, took her shell, and began to run in the direction of the hillside. The speed is very fast, Ah Yun is blown by the wind and can't open his eyes, this speed is the same as riding a horse. It didn't take long for Ah Yun to find out that the man had actually sent her back to the mouth of her cave.
"How do you know I live here!?" Ah Yun felt hairy on her back, she always thought that she lived in this place, and those locals didn't know about it...... The man was still very happy, he muttered Hu Zi Hu, put down the worm shell and Ah Yun, and then patted Ah Yun's back with his hand and walked away......
Ah Yun looked at the man's back running downhill in a daze, and didn't know how to feel for a while.