A bone arrow as thick as a thumb was inserted into his neck. The half-foot arrow shaft penetrated his body and almost penetrated his neck. The blood stained the weeds under him, exuding a strong smell of blood in the sunlight.
A half-human-tall colt had one of its legs bitten by a wild wolf. Before it could stagger far, it was excitedly thrown to the ground by two wild men. One of them hugged it tightly, and the other was already there.
He raised the bone dagger and was about to stab it down.
For these primitive people, any animal was just food.
There are those who are full and bloated, but those who are not hungry.
This foal is enough to feed the entire tribe.
"stop!"
He rushed fifty meters in one breath. When the bone dagger was only 0.01 centimeters away from the pony's neck, Xu Chen relied on the support of his calloused soles to finally rush to the horse. With a loud roar, he knocked off his companion's hand.
Hold on tight.
"Haga?"
The savage who was about to kill him looked confused.
"If you can't kill it, you can't kill it. Take it back and raise it!"
Xu Chen used all his strength to pry his companion's hand away, and then quickly took out a bark rope from the backpack, tied it around the colt's neck three times, and tied it tightly at the same time.
A dead end.
The two savages looked at each other, staring at each other for a moment, then let go and stood up.
Although they didn't understand Xu Chen's words, they fully understood the meaning.
The foal got free, struggled to get up and tried to escape, but was held tightly by Xu Chen and was unable to break free, and it neighed helplessly.
At this time, the wind had already led the archers and spear throwers to chase the wolves, and the sound of yo hoo hoo hoo could be heard in the distance, which seemed to be getting farther and farther away.
All that is left are a few logistics and support personnel. As for Xu Chen, he is only suitable for squatting in the grass.
But at this time, several assistants were lying on the corpse of the alpha wolf, licking the blood.
One by one, their heads and faces were all muddy.
After Xu Chen tied the pony under the shade of a tree, a group of people finally got up with blood on their faces.
"Chen Ga, Hu Ga!"
A silly guy burped to greet Xu Chen. As he spoke, blood dripped from the corners of his mouth.
Huh, onomatopoeic language, meaning to drink.
Xu Chen's face twitched violently and he shook his head vigorously.
It is impossible to drink blood, not in this life, unless it is made into something rich in blood, fragrant and spicy.
And he now understands why these primitive people like to eat raw flesh and blood even though there is fire in the cave.
That's because blood contains a lot of salt and tastes salty.
Drinking blood is to replenish the salt the body needs.
The same goes for eating raw meat, and sometimes even the skin and fur are swallowed.
Because animal fur also contains salt.
As for cleanliness and hygiene, that doesn't exist. They never wash their hands when pooping or eating.
The alpha wolf that had been drained of blood looked extremely miserable. After being licked by several savages, it looked like a prostitute who had just come out of a nightclub after spending too much money. The color of its fur turned pale.
"Luck, this is definitely luck!"
Xu Chen kept muttering as he looked at the arrow that was half-entry into the wolf's neck.
This arrow is accurate and hateful, and kills with one arrow.
It far exceeded the skill value that a savage who had just trained for three days could achieve.
In the distance, the shouts of Feng and others were getting farther and farther away, and a group of people seemed to be chasing them towards the canyon.
Xu Chen found some grass roots, thistles and other weeds nearby, smashed them with stones, and briefly applied the wound to Pony, then dug up the nearby soil slope with a wooden hoe.
The main purpose of going down the mountain today is to look for clay.
He was very lucky. He dug more than a foot deep under the soil slope. After peeling away the humus layer and plant roots on the surface, a layer of yellow-brown soil appeared underneath.
In fact, from the perspective of pottery making, any non-humus soil containing silt can be used to make utensils.
For example, yellow soil is commonly used for making bricks and tiles, and it does not need to be too fine. It does not matter if the soil particles are coarser.
But when making pottery, the most common one is bentonite. The main component is a silica-aluminum montmorillonite structure, and it must be of sufficient purity. There should not be too many impurities and large particles, otherwise the properties will change and cracks will occur during the firing process.
etc.
As for porcelain, it is more particular and requires the use of kaolin with a more balanced proportion of silicon and aluminum.
At the moment, Xu Chen just wants to make ordinary pottery that can be used for cooking and eating, so he doesn't need too fine clay.
The yellow-brown sand in front of us can be concluded to be clay, and it is also very fine.
So he dug deep and selected some fine soil without large grains of sand and gravel. He asked a few assistants to empty two backpacks, put a layer of large leaves inside, and then filled two large baskets to take them back for experiments.
Xu Chen was almost busy here, and the people chasing the wolves began to return one after another.
Most of them were lost empty-handed, but the overall gain was not small, and two more wolves were killed.
Among them, Feng Feng and a group of people also brought back five wolf pup carcasses of different sizes.
The larger half-sized wolf already weighs one to twenty pounds, and the smaller one is probably this year's wolf cub, but it has also grown to seven or eight pounds.
Wolves, like humans, live in packs and hunt collectively to feed their offspring.
This group of wild wolves is not a big one, with only six or seven adult wolves. Now three of them have been killed together with the first wolf. With so many wolf cubs, Feng and others probably took over the wolf den.
A wolf pack without a leader will either be swallowed up by other wolf packs or have no choice but to escape from the habitat.
Because the power displayed by humans this time has far exceeded that of wolves, it is actually impossible to survive here.
Therefore, in this valley, the only predators that live in groups are humans.
As for leopards, such beasts that live alone, they generally avoid humans when a group of savages come down the mountain to harass them every day.
By the time all the companions returned, it was already noon, the sky was starting to get gloomy, and it seemed like it would rain soon.
A group of people washed themselves in the river, and when their physical strength was almost restored, they set off back to the cave with all the harvest.
Wolf carcasses of various sizes were carried, and two baskets of clay were also carried on people's backs. Xu Chen was holding the injured foal among them.
Although the little pony struggled and resisted all the way, pulling on the rope and refusing to walk, and kept turning around and neighing to call its own kind, unfortunately, a group of wild horses had long since disappeared. Under the pull of a group of people, it could only follow the team and leave.
The familiar river beach is getting further and further away.
There was muffled thunder from the southwest, and then lightning illuminated the gloomy sky.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the whistling was mixed with raindrops as big as peas.
As soon as a group of people reached the foot of the mountain, heavy rain came down.
"Yo ho ho ho~~"
Although they were soaked by the heavy rain, the group of primitive people who returned home with a loaded load were extremely excited. They began to cry and howl as usual at the top of their voices, reporting to their families on the mountain that they had returned safely with their harvest.
And from the mountain came the echoing shouts of women, children, and children.
A group of people braved the heavy rain and carried the prey straight to the top of the mountain along the rugged and narrow mountain road. The pony couldn't walk fast because of a leg injury. In the end, two hunters tied up its hooves and carried it up the mountainside with a spear.
By the time a group of people returned to the cave like drowned rats, the heavy rain was already pouring down. Amidst the thunder and lightning, the sky and the earth were plunged into a vast rain curtain, making it almost impossible to see clearly what was happening ten meters away.
From the top of the cave, the rainwater fell down like a waterfall. The entire cave was like a water curtain cave. The rainwater gathered into a stream and flowed freely together with the overflowing spring water, flooding the open space in front of the cave.