Lack of food is a very urgent and real problem that must be solved as a top priority.
If you don't eat one meal, you will starve. If you don't eat for three days, you will die.
Especially in the cold winter, when the body lacks animal skins to keep out the cold, the body needs more heat to maintain body temperature. An adult may be able to survive for three days, but a child may freeze to death in one or two days.
Because looking at the items prepared by the Five Ghosts, it doesn't look like they have stored a lot of food. They don't even know how to make rattan baskets. They just use some animal skins to wrap a little dried fish and meat and some grains and dry food.
It seems that it can persist for seven or eight days. After eating, it is all about hunting and fishing, and the harvest is unpredictable.
Even the Gonghuo tribe couldn't hold on, let alone these tribes who were unfamiliar with the place.
After some thought, Xu Chen asked Gu Heju to prepare pen and ink, and took out a piece of cut animal skin, brushed it a few times and quickly wrote a letter, then took out his Witch King ring and wrote it.
The ink stamped a seal on it and handed it to Lei.
"You have people take this letter to the Ba tribe to find the great witch and Mu Ba. They will arrange for people to send you three thousand kilograms of grain. These grains will be used as reserves. You will be responsible for external loans. The Gonghuo tribe, the Five Ghost tribe and
Several other tribes can return it after the harvest in autumn next year. Of course, there will be interest. If you borrow three and repay four, then you will have to pay back a total of four thousand catties to the Ba tribe..."
"Xie Ga Xie Ga, we will definitely return it when the time comes!"
Before Xu Chen finished speaking, Lei, who was holding the animal skin letter, was so excited that he was a little incoherent. The eye sockets of a giant bear-like iron tower man were actually a little red at this time, and he was almost moved to tears.
Food is the greatest wealth of each tribe and has always been in scarcity.
Three thousand kilograms of grain is enough to sustain a small to medium-sized family for several months.
Especially in a situation of extreme food shortage, if you mix some wild vegetable roots and cook it into a multi-grain porridge, one person can barely survive by eating half a bowl a day. As long as you survive the winter and spring, it will be much better when the food becomes abundant in the summer.
Already.
Since ancient times, although tribes have communicated with each other, they have never loaned food to outsiders.
This was the first of its kind for the Ba tribe, and like a timely rain, it solved the urgent needs of several tribes such as the Thunder tribe.
"In addition, have someone send a message to the great witch of the Gonghuo Clan, telling her to carefully arrange for these Five Ghost Clan people, and guide them to build houses and reclaim wasteland to resettle them as soon as possible. If this is done, the remaining people who are still in the labor camp will be
The personal ransom and punitive damages for the next ten years will be written off!"
"Okay, I will definitely convey His Majesty the Witch King's command to the Great Witch!" Lei nodded quickly.
"You go ahead and make arrangements. After finishing things here, we have to move on!"
"Follow the order!"
Lei quickly handed over and left, and soon shouted loudly and started arranging the people to go back.
The five family tribes of the Five Ghost Alliance have varying numbers of people and quality. The white ghost and black ghost tribes who like to smear lead ore on their bodies have the smallest number. It is almost impossible to find a normal tribe. In the end, only less than twenty were selected.
People are also individuals with ugly appearance and a few physical defects.
In addition, the situation of the three tribes of green, yellow and red is better.
In the end, the five tribes selected a large migration team of 120 people.
After sending away this group of people, the population of the Five Ghost Tribe was reduced by one-third, leaving almost all the tribesmen with physical and intellectual disabilities.
These people also know that they will stay here to survive for a long time in the future, until they die. Therefore, while crying goodbye to go to Gonghuo Basin to find new members of the tribe, they also have a tragic feeling of seeing death as if they are home. Let them go to Gonghuo Basin.
We must abide by the rules of the Gonghuo Clan, and do not cause trouble to His Majesty the Witch King, etc.
After Xu Chen also had a brief exchange with the great witch of the Five Ghosts, he took a few guides from the Five Ghosts, bid farewell to the old and young of the Five Ghosts, and embarked on a journey of exploration to the east.
According to the information received from the Five Ghost Clan, there is a powerful ethnic group on the north bank of the Wulong River, within five to ten days to the east. In the past, before the Five Ghost Clan was cursed, they had constant relations with those tribes.
Afterwards, they were expelled and migrated to this valley before the contact was cut off. For more than a hundred years, they have been living in isolation, with only occasional transactions with the Jia people.
The mammoth ivory that Xu Chen was very interested in was not from where the Five Ghosts had exchanged it, but that it had brought wealth from downstream for more than a hundred years before they migrated here.
Because several generations have passed and there are no written records, the specific situation cannot be restored. However, according to the great shaman's speculation based on the inheritance left by the previous generations of great witches, this huge beast tooth came from a lake and swamp area downstream. It should be a
What's left of the huge beast after it fell into the swamp and died.
And this statement also coincides with Xu Chen's speculation.
The terrain downstream is flatter, and there should be mammoths, elephants and even rhinos and other very large herbivorous beasts. After all, species that have not become extinct in later generations should be everywhere now.
Compared to the size of the earth, the current scope of my activities is only half the size of a mountainous county, and I am still far from being able to understand the information from the outside world.
However, the greater the scope of exploration and the further the distance, the greater the danger.
Mammoths can stumble and fall into the swamp of death, and people can die after entering it.
And the further you go to the plains, the more unknown dangers are hidden in rivers, lakes, swamps, and wastelands, which are far more complicated than the situation in the forest.
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In the next few days, Xu Chen led people to trek through mountains and rivers, climb over mountains and ridges, observe the stars and the sun, and explore along the Wulong River to the southeast.
The Five Ghost Clan has not had any contact with the tribes in the lower reaches for hundreds of years, so he does not understand the situation downstream at all. However, based on the inheritance left by the great witches of the previous generations, he still got some simple information from the great witches of the Five Ghost Clan.
According to the geographical information, we groped forward according to this information. Although we turned back several times along the way, we did not go wrong in the general direction and scope of exploration.
As we move toward the southeast, the mountains become lower and lower, gradually entering a large area of hilly and mountainous areas with a height of less than a hundred meters.
Standing in these hilly areas and looking back to the northwest, you will find that there are mountains and mountains in the distance, and the peaks are numerous, getting farther and higher, and finally there is a feeling of towering into the sky. Even on the farthest horizon, it seems that you can still see the highest peak.
There is a slight glistening white above, but I don't know whether it is clouds or snow.
From a geological analysis, the possibility of finding more metallic minerals becomes less and less as you go south, and more non-metallic minerals are preferred, such as coal, gypsum, kaolin, etc.
Most metals are minerals formed during volcanic eruptions and orogeny in the Archaean period. The more intense the early volcanism, the more abundant various metal minerals are, such as the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and South America.
The larger the atomic weight of a metal mineral, the earlier it was produced.
Iron ore is a product of the final stage of elemental decay, so it is the largest and most widely distributed in the earth's crust. Stable metals with relatively high atomic weights, such as gold, silver, copper and lead, are basically products of the most intense period of earth's crust activity.
Xu Chen regretted that he might not have the chance to find the urgently needed tin this time.
Standing on the top of a hill, Xu Chen sighed slightly as he looked at the Wulong River that meandered toward the southeast and the surrounding environment.
However, the unexpected discovery of salt this time was a powerful harvest.
Compared with the urgent need for bronzes, the significance of salt is actually greater.
Without bronze and stone tools, he could barely sustain his current development, but without salt, his large-scale farming plan would be greatly hindered.
So overall, the rewards of this trip far outweigh the regrets.
Based on the time and distance traveled, they were about to enter the living area of another powerful ethnic group.
There should be several tribes in this ethnic group, which are closely related to the Five Ghost Clan. According to the great shaman of the Five Ghost Clan, these tribes did not actually live here in ancient times. Their ancient ancestors also migrated from far away places.
It's just that it was so long ago that there is no record even of the Great Witch's inheritance, only some simple legends passed down by word of mouth.
It is said that the earliest ancestors of the Five Ghosts and Southeast tribes suffered huge disasters due to the battle between gods and demons. The ground shook and cracked, mountains collapsed and forests were destroyed. A large number of animals fled to the southeast, and their ancestors had to
After escaping from his ancestral home and wandering for countless years, he arrived here.
They came to live in this area much earlier than the Gonghuo tribe.
Although the stories handed down from tribes such as the Five Ghost Tribe, Gonghuo Tribe, Yu Gong Tribe, and Ba Tribe are all different, especially the Five Ghost Tribe and Gonghuo Tribe, they are obviously different from the Ba Tribe and Yu Gong Tribe, but
Whether in records or legends, they all mentioned that the ground shook and cracked, and mountains collapsed.
Therefore, Xu Chen could easily determine that there had been many violent earthquakes in the northwest.
The ancestors of the Five Ghosts first migrated to the southeast during the earthquake.
Then came the Gonghuo Clan.
Then there are the Wu tribe and the Yu Gong tribe.
The migration time of the Wu people should be between 300 and 500 years, and they also accurately recorded the situation of fireballs falling from the sky and the burning of the earth.
So what the Uzbek ancestors encountered might have been a meteorite landing or a volcanic eruption.
From an earthquake perspective, a volcanic eruption is more likely.
There are two major areas with intense magmatic activity in China, which are also areas with relatively frequent volcanic activity in China. One is Changbai Mountain in Jilin, and the other is Tengchong in Yunnan.
A volcanic eruption of the scale of Changbai Mountain can destroy an area hundreds of kilometers in diameter at one time, destroying all virgin forests, animals and plants covering an area of nearly 8,000 square kilometers.
For the primitive savages of this era, if they lived near a volcano and encountered an eruption of this scale and an earthquake, they would definitely think it was the wrath of gods or demons or a war. Apart from running away in panic, there would be no other reaction.
Spend extra time observing and judging.
Judging from the migration capabilities of humans in this era, this kind of escape distance cannot be too far. Perhaps a few hundred miles or a thousand miles may be the limit. After all, a tribe only has dozens or hundreds of people, and there are primitive forests everywhere that are inaccessible.
, in an environment where there is an extreme lack of food and safe survival, it is impossible for people to wander tens of thousands of miles looking for a new home with their children and children supporting the elderly and young.
In other words, these four different tribal groups, the Five Ghosts, the Gonghuo, the Wu and the Yugong, migrated from the northwest to the southeast like a tide during different periods of geological activity.
The reasons for their migration are roughly the same, both due to earthquakes or volcanic activity.
But migrations can take place hundreds or even thousands of years apart.
In the end, they gradually took root and thrived in this relatively safe area, becoming new neighbors. At the same time, their living habits gradually shifted from the primitive and ancient deep mountain forests to the low hills and mountains.
Because they have not yet learned how to build houses, they cannot escape the shackles of the mountains yet.
But the further you go to the southeast, the living environment is actually changing according to local conditions.
The southern natives on the other side of the river imitate animals and dig burrows to live in.
The Five Ghosts use big trees and terrain to dig tree holes to survive.
Because the farther south you go, the terrain becomes flatter and caves become more difficult to find, so it becomes inevitable to dig caves manually or build shacks.
It can also be seen from this that the earlier a race migrates to the hills and plains, the stronger its survival adaptability and hands-on ability will be, and the faster it will evolve.
This conclusion is also in line with the past laws of the development of civilizations of various races on earth.
This is especially evident in China.
China started with the Yanhuang tribe, and expanded their migration from the plateau area in the upper reaches of the Yellow River to the Guanzhong Plain, gradually starting a farming civilization, and then developed the splendid Qin and Han culture. However, those ethnic groups who stayed in the mountains and plateaus and never migrated to the plains, such as the Qiang and Northeastern
Some ancient tribes in the Daxingan Mountains of Changbai Mountain were still in the semi-savage stage during the Qin and Han Dynasties. Even during the Song and Ming Dynasties, they were still in the gathering and nomadic stage, and their way of living still remained in the Stone Age.
Therefore, the tree removes the dead and the person lives.
This sentence from our ancestors sums up the philosophy of survival very much.
Only by constantly migrating and looking for a more suitable living environment can human beings develop into a more advanced civilization step by step.
From the time when early Homo sapiens left Africa and eventually spread to every corner of the world, exploration and migration have always been the biggest driving force for the progress of human civilization.
And those races that don't like migratory movements will eventually either become extinct, or they will become the lazy and backward people in Africa.
Therefore, facing the area he was about to enter, Xu Chen was excited and a little nervous at the same time.
These tribes with the same ancestor as the Five Ghosts should be more advanced and powerful than the previous Gonghuo and Wu tribes, and their witches should have accumulated more means and methods of survival.
At least in Xu Chen's opinion, the great witches of the Five Ghost Clan are obviously wiser and wiser than the previous great witches of the Gonghuo Clan and the Wu Clan, and know how to assess the situation.