Currently, only Ye and the little witch can understand the text in the letter.
After listening to the little witch read the contents of the letter, the entire Ba tribe was once again in a state of shock.
Just a few days after they separated from Feng, they actually regained a tribe downstream.
Xu Chen did not elaborate on the problems faced by the Five Ghost Tribe. He only said that they were in trouble and needed to migrate some of their people to the Gonghuo Basin. Because tribes such as the Lei Tribe and Gonghuo Tribe lacked food, they needed to requisition three thousand kilograms of food from the Ba Tribe.
Quickly transport it to ThunderClan for emergency treatment.
Such a large amount of food is also very huge for the Ba people, enough to feed the entire tribe for more than a month.
But Muba and everyone else did not hesitate at all and got busy preparing animal skin bags and rattan baskets to pack the food. However, the biggest difficulty they faced now was how to transport it.
Xu Chen suggested in the letter that Feng lead the team to use rafts to cross the waterway. It took more than a day to arrive, but the Ba people did not have enough rafts at the moment. They only had a few small rafts, which were used in training and were used by a group of hunters to cross the river on weekdays.
For hunting on the other side of the river, not only the carrying capacity is not large, but also a bit tattered, so it is not suitable for long journeys.
In addition, this trip requires a lot of people who are familiar with the water and can row. Basically, the Ba people who are good at water followed, leaving most of them landlubbers.
Faced with this problem, the little witch thought of Xu Chen's instructions to her before leaving, so she wrote a simple letter with an animal skin, stamped it with her Great Witch's seal, and asked Feng to arrange for someone to send it to the Wu tribe to give it to her sister.
This was the first time she used the power of the Great Witch to recruit hunters and tools from the alliance tribes to complete Xu Chen's mission.
After receiving the animal skin letter from her sister, the little witch sister of the Wu tribe immediately summoned the tribe leader and a group of tribal leaders to explain the great witch's request. Before the leader of the Wu tribe had time to think clearly about the relationship between this matter and the Wu tribe, Long
Already excited, Aowao jumped up and shouted, indicating that he would definitely follow the orders of the Great Witch and the Witch King and complete the task of delivering food.
Ever since Xu Chen led people to explore downstream, a group of hunters from the Wu tribe have been in a state of restlessness.
Not long ago, Feng brought people back and brought back the news that Xu Chen had conquered a huge tribe with a powerful witch on the other side of the lower river. This restlessness became more and more obvious. In recent days, Long and a group of hunters felt uncomfortable even training for hunting.
There is a feeling of being abandoned by the Witch King.
Especially when he just received the news, Xu Chen conquered another Five Ghost tribe downstream with a powerful witch in the blink of an eye, and gained more than a hundred people.
These two conquests had almost nothing to do with the Uzbek and other Ba ethnic alliances.
What made him even more depressed was that he had participated in the two conquests of Zhan Lei, and he was also a main officer and had made great contributions. The purpose of escorting the grain this time was to help the Thunder Tribe and other tribes survive the winter and spring.
Seeing that the Gonghuo Alliance tribe and the Lei tribe were recruiting people from the tribe, and the Lei tribe was constantly being reused by Xu Chen because of their special status and status, the sadness and bitterness in Long's heart was self-evident.
These credits should have been his, but Lei, the guy he defeated, actually repeatedly robbed him of his credits.
Although transporting food cannot be compared with fighting, Long believes that as long as he is more active, the Witch King will definitely take him with him next time he goes out.
Several other Uzbek training commanders and hunter teams also felt the same way, always feeling a sense of frustration and loss.
Therefore, after receiving the news, the collective emotions were high. Before the leader of the Wu tribe and the little witch sister could give the order, a large group of people headed upstream to the Ba tribe on more than a dozen rafts of various sizes.
For them, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. They are eager to join this new round of conquests to open up new territories and cannot be left behind by the Thunder Tribe and the Gonghuo Tribe.
One was a conquered enslaved tribe, and the other was a weak tribe that was defeated and left. They were actually more important than the core tribes of the Ba tribe alliance with their upright roots, and received more captives and wealth. This was theirs.
What self-esteem cannot tolerate.
As for the Wu clan chief and a group of tribal leaders, although they were a little helpless towards the actions of Long and others, they did not have much resistance.
At present, the Wu tribe has fully recognized its identity as a subordinate tribe of the Ba tribe, and it is natural for them to obey the call and arrangements of the great witch. In addition, if they want to get more benefits, they must fully support Xu Chen's external expansion.
Especially the newly appeared salt gave the entire Uzbek tribe a feeling of surprise and nervousness. They were in urgent need of it but at the same time they knew that this thing was rare and precious. If they didn't hug Xu Chen's thigh tightly, it would be difficult to handle.
With the full help of the Uzbek people, three thousand kilograms of grain were quickly shipped.
Feng, who had just returned home for only ten days, once again served as the commander of the food transportation. He led Long and more than 40 Uzbek hunters, and rowed more than a dozen rafts filled with food and pottery along the mighty Wulong River.
Get off and go straight to the mouth of Jicang River downstream.
Everything went smoothly with the arrangements here, but Xu Chen has been in trouble in recent days.
First, they strayed into a poisonous forest, and the entire team was poisoned.
He also knew the plant that was poisoned, it was sumac.
This lacquer forest is not far from the ancestral home of the Five Ghosts. It occupies a vast area. Several mountains and ridges are the growth range of lacquer trees. Among them, the largest lacquer trees are tens of meters high and hundreds of thousands of years old.
These are ancient sumac trees that only a few people can hug together.
Because the leaves fall in winter, Xu Chen did not recognize it as a sumac tree at first.
Although he had seen many wild sumac trees in the wilds in the Southwest Sichuan, Chongqing and Yunnan-Guizhou areas before crossing, he had never seen such tall sumac trees appearing in such a large area.
While traveling through the forest, they picked up dry sumac branches to make a fire for cooking, and also cut some live sumac branches to build a tent for the night. However, this move brought huge trouble to the entire team.
Rhus is a poisonous plant. The whole plant is poisonous, especially the sap. Once it touches the skin, it will quickly become red, swollen, painful and itchy. Severe allergies can even lead to kidney failure and death if not treated promptly.
Therefore, after entering this huge lacquer forest, Xu Chen and others' unintentional actions caused lacquer allergy. Most people began to vomit and have diarrhea. Their skin was itchy and red, swollen and ulcerated when scratched.
This situation frightened several hunters and guides from the Five Ghost Tribe, and they cried and screamed that the curse of the gods was coming again.
But Xu Chen certainly didn't believe these bullshit curses. Instead, after some careful research, he discovered that most of the plants on the surrounding mountains and slopes were lacquer trees.
And this also solved the mystery of everyone's poisoning.
He even roughly surmised that when the Five Ghosts lived nearby, it was most likely due to skin ulcers caused by allergies to sumac trees. They were mistaken for a curse from the gods, and were expelled by other tribes.
Although lacquer is a very good economic forest tree, raw lacquer can be harvested and has great value for future development.
But at the moment, everyone was trapped in it and felt uncomfortable. Xu Chen had no intention of getting rich, so he could only lead a group of people to find a way to leave.
After wandering in this huge lacquered forest for three full days, a group of people finally escaped from this nightmare-like forest.
Ahead, a sparkling vast lake appeared, running east-west. It was more than ten miles wide at its widest point. It was surrounded by undulating mountains and endless virgin forests, with several islands in the middle.
According to the tips from the great shaman of the Five Ghost Clan, the Five Ghost Clan originally lived near this big lake, and several other tribes also lived scattered in the woods on the hillsides around the lake.
A large number of wild beasts and abundant plants live here, and it is also a paradise for wild birds. Whether hunting or gathering, it has unique advantages.
Looking at this huge and majestic lake, Xu Chen's symptoms of poisoning seemed to be relieved a lot.
The more he explored to the southeast, the more he felt that places like the Ba and Wu people were unsuitable for human survival and development.
According to the characteristics of human gatherings in later generations, a large-scale lake like this with abundant water, beautiful environment, and abundant fish and shrimp, must be the most suitable for human survival.
But unfortunately, it is too difficult to move to this place.
Regardless of the actual situation or population size, Gonghuo Basin is still the first choice, and it is impossible for the Ba and Wu people to abandon these places.
And it is impossible to change the status quo for a long time.
One is that there are mines in the mountainous areas, and the other is the living habits.
We rely on mountains to eat, we rely on water to eat, and with such a large lake, we can only eat from the lake. But for the conquered tribes, except for the Five Ghosts, almost none have the habit of living near such a large lake.
Even if you move here, you will face many problems.
Because the flora and fauna that grow in this large lake are very different from the river area, and there are also a large number of venomous snakes and mosquitoes, as well as giant water beasts and foraging beasts that are impossible to fathom during their lives.
Therefore, this big lake has become a landmark and knowledge at most.
In the next two days, Xu Chen and others encountered greater trouble.
Just as he had guessed, this huge lake had a very wide range of rising and falling tides throughout the year, thus forming a huge meadow swamp area covering an area of several hundred miles.
Although it is winter, a large number of green aquatic plants and plants are still lush, and the large areas look green and full of unique tropical and subtropical style.
Some places may look flat and solid, but in fact they contain hidden dangers. If you accidentally fall into the mud, people will be dead if you fail to rescue them in time.
This happened several times before and after.
Once, I saw a huge bison straying into a swamp area while being chased by a pack of wolves. It got stuck in the mud and was unable to break free. It was eaten alive by the pack of wolves and finally sank into the ground after a large amount of flesh and blood was eaten alive.
Another time, someone got stuck in the mud on the way forward. Fortunately, rescuers were able to pull him out of the mud in time.
In addition, you can see the skeletons of giant beasts half-floating and half-sunken in the mud everywhere. They are white and entangled with thorns, weeds and vines. When a large number of wild birds are inhabited, it makes people feel numb all over.
Because the terrain environment is too weird, once you enter the meadow area, you will be surrounded by densely growing aquatic plants with no end in sight. There is basically no way to pass except to identify the direction. Therefore, after several dangers, Xu Chen
People could only tie each other with ropes to move forward, and when they were about to cross the swamp, they encountered a group of strange humans.