The Wulong River in November is the quietest and calmest in the year.
But it is said that sailing with good wind and current is easy. Xu Chen and others did have good wind and current when they went out. The northwest wind was blowing and they were heading southeast.
But the return trip was difficult, because it happened to be against the wind and current, and there were very few opportunities to take advantage of the wind. Most of the journey could only be done by manual oars. The journey could only go a few dozen miles every day, and it could not be much faster than the strength of the feet.
Fortunately, most of this trip was in the middle and lower reaches of Wulong River. The river is gentle and there are no rapids and rapids. Therefore, we did not encounter much trouble along the way. It was just that the weather got colder every day and I fell into the river.
It was freezing and uncomfortable afterwards.
After nearly ten days of non-stop retrograde travel, they returned to the exit of the Great Lake near the Cicha Tribe.
But they did not stop here, but continued upstream.
During the first part of the journey, due to the support of thousands of kilograms of beef stored in storage, we rarely stopped for hunting. However, as the beef was consumed, the rest of the journey went even slower. We could only sail for most of the day every day, and the remaining time was needed.
We came here to hunt and replenish food, so we stopped and walked along the way. It took us nearly half a month to reach the mouth of the river near the Jia tribe.
Counting the time, it is now the end of November, and in three days it will be December, the coldest month of the year.
After arriving here, everyone finally breathed a long sigh of relief. After dragging the bamboo raft to the shore, they decided to go to the Jia tribe to repair it for a day.
As for the return of Xu Chen and others, the Jia people were overjoyed and at the same time, they also let go of a huge stone in their hearts.
More than a month has passed since Xu Chen left the Jia Clan and went to the Five Ghost Clan that day. The latest news is that a month ago, they helped kill five grimaced demons in the Five Ghost Clan, and arranged for a large group of demons to be sent away.
The Five Ghosts went to Gonghuo Basin, but there was no news after that.
Although the Jia people and the Ba people are far apart, people who have been to the Ba people admire the Ba people very much. There are not only various advanced technologies, compound grain fields and ponds and kilns, but also great witches and the Goddess of the First Mother.
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If the Jia people want to develop, they cannot do without the guidance of the Ba people.
And the pottery they urgently need in large quantities is only available to the Ba people.
Moreover, Xu Chen had just shown them a way to make money before he left last time. Recently, they were digging holes on a large scale to plant tung trees in nearby mountains, hoping to make a fortune from these tung trees in the future.
If Xu Chen dies, all these efforts will be in vain. I am afraid that in the future, without the guidance of the great witch and the care of the mother goddess, the family will once again return to the previous situation of being hungry and cold for thousands of years.
Fortunately, Xu Chen and others came back unscathed despite the fearful expectation.
Moreover, they also brought more shocking news.
After eight days of walking over mountains and ridges to the east, you will find a huge lake. Nearby is the Cicha tribe, the former neighbor of the Wugui tribe.
There were a lot of bamboos near the Cicha tribe, and the bamboo rafts they made were light and buoyant, much better than wooden rafts. After dealing with the Cicha tribe for two or three days, they left the lake on a bamboo raft.
Continuing downward along the Wulong River, there is a huge plain, countless times larger than the Gonghuo Basin, and it is almost impossible to see the edge at a glance.
Hundreds of miles further down through this impact plain, there was another river that was more than ten times larger than the Wulong River. There, they encountered the giant mammoth with long tusks and long nose.
A strange tribe that was hunting wild beasts, but because their living habits and language were almost completely incommunicable, they left without any direct contact.
On the Azabu map, the middle and lower reaches of the Wulong River have been almost completely marked, and then another large river from west to east appears at the far downstream.
Barbeques were set up on the bonfire, and multigrain meat porridge and bone soup were cooked in clay pots. The aroma filled the air. None of the men, women, and children of the Jia tribe paid much attention to the food. Instead, they all gathered around Xu Chen and listened to his instructions.
With the map spread out, he loudly recounted the places explored this time and some interesting or dangerous experiences.
This is an era of extremely limited information, and there is almost zero news from other tribes.
The closed environment has not only created increasing differences between different tribes, but it has also filled all tribes with a desire for external exchanges, because only through exchanges, complementarity and intermarriage can tribes thrive for a long time.
Although knowing and contacting strange tribes is very dangerous, it is an essential process for the development of tribes.
No tribe can survive in self-isolation, because all such tribes have only one ending in the end, and that is death.
Just like the Five Ghosts, the result of their self-isolation is the accelerated degradation of the human race.
Therefore, even in the face of war, communication between tribes will still be the theme.
And through war, some powerful tribes will become more and more powerful.
The Ba broke the traditional war model among all previous tribes and turned expulsion and plunder into conquest and population gathering.
But whether it was the conquered Gonghuo Clan, Yu Gong Clan or even the Five Ghost Clan, they all benefited greatly from this mode of conquest.
Although they lost part of their population and wealth in a short period of time, the transported population will bring back a large amount of advanced technology in the near future, leading the tribe to develop rapidly.
Xu Chen's long-distance exploration with a large number of hunters also opened an unprecedented window for all the alliance tribes, allowing them to see the scenery thousands of miles away and the lives of other humans.
Although what he is currently exploring is only a very small narrow area on both sides of the Wulong River.
But in the not-too-distant future, the Ba people's exploration will be even broader, and this huge world will eventually be revealed to everyone.
Every story about Xu Chen's adventure will make the Jia people exclaim and shout with excitement. Especially when they heard about Xu Chen's discovery of elephants and rhinos at the mouth of the Wulong River, it made people even more excited.
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At the beginning, the Jia people used pottery from the Five Ghosts to get a huge beast tooth. To the Jia people, that tooth was as incredible as a divine object, and the Five Ghosts were not able to explain this giant beast clearly.
After all, the origin of teeth happened hundreds of years ago.
But they didn't expect Xu Chen and others to see such a living giant beast hundreds of miles away.
A group of hunters who followed them out were also devouring meat and soup. They were dancing with joy and describing the appearance of those giant beasts with pythons on their faces. They were bigger than the bird's nest house built by the Jia tribe and could take the shape of a giant beast.
The huge bison rolled up and ran, with two long teeth that could stab a rhinoceros to death.
What, it’s impossible to have a python on your face. What’s so special about you is that the horns of a rhinoceros are still growing on your nose.
How big is a rhinoceros? Well, it's not that big, just a little smaller than your house.
What, you don’t believe in beasts with horns on their noses? Come on, let me tell you the story of how we hunted five man-eating demons in the Five Ghost Clan. Their faces looked like this...
Although they were exhausted, hungry and sleepy, a group of hunters who had returned from an outing to gain more knowledge were so excited that they couldn't sleep, and they were salivating even as they compared and drew pictures.
The Jia people were even more excited and couldn't sleep.
There are so many novel stories that they can brag about for the rest of their lives.
You must know that they have obtained first-hand information. During this trip to the southeast by Xu Chen and others, the Jia clan is the most important node. It starts here and ends here.
To the southeast, as long as you pass the Jia tribe, you will find the territory of the foreign tribes, and to the northwest, as long as you pass the Jia tribe, you will find the territory of the Ba Alliance.
Now in the minds of the Jia people, the Gonghuo Alliance has actually died in name only, and the Ba people are the only orthodoxy.
The great witch of the Gonghuo tribe accepted the inheritance of the great witch of the Ba tribe. Her influence is far lower than that of the great witch of the Ba tribe. In the eyes of all Gonghuo alliance tribes, the real great witch is in the Ba tribe, and the highest one in everyone's mind
The leader has become His Majesty the Witch King.
Because it was his sudden emergence and the blessing and guidance from the gods that finally created a new situation in which all tribes are prosperous, allowing all tribes to see a happy future with plenty of food and clothing.
His Majesty the Witch King is the highest spiritual leader in the eyes of all tribes. He is well deserved and irreplaceable.
And this trip will push his reputation to an unparalleled peak.
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Gonghuo tribe.
There is light snow falling in the sky.
This is the first snow of the year. Although it is not heavy, it makes primitive humans wearing only thin animal skins feel unusually cold.
But even in such a cold weather that cannot be resisted in previous years, the construction of the tribe is still in full swing.
At the foot of the hillside near the mountain col and the river beach, for several miles up and down, you can see wooden or masonry houses being built everywhere.
From the Thunder Clan in the far west to the new territory planned for the Five Ghost Clan in the south, five tribes, large and small, have gathered within an area of only three or four miles.
On the river beach, there are densely packed mud bricks. At the foot of the mountain, there are a lot of wood piled up. There are several large and small earthen kilns, which are billowing thick smoke day and night, and are constantly firing pottery bricks and lime. There are rows of simple kilns.
In the thatched wooden shed, a large number of clay bricks or fired quicklime were piled up. In addition, there were many kiln workers making bricks and carrying large bundles of firewood back and forth.
In several planned housing construction areas, more men, women, and children are coming and going, sweating profusely as they carry stones, soil, and mud bricks. Many houses have begun to take shape, and brick walls have been built as high as a person.
In addition, there are many restored wooden houses on stilts, which form a lively scene during the mixture.
On the river beach not far from these houses, there is a large area of wasteland where the weeds have been burned away, revealing a black empty ground. Inside, people are clearing stones and digging ditches in preparation for spring sowing.
On both sides of the Jicang River facing the Gonghuo Mountain Col, there are simple docks built of wood and stone. More than a dozen large and small rafts are docked near the dock.
In the river beach on the other side of the river, there were hunters running around with bows and arrows chasing wild animals, and shouts and shouts to convey news could be heard one after another.
Not far upstream and downstream of the river, there were people rowing rafts and setting nets for fishing in the river.
Although the weather is cold and the river is icy, they cannot stop the lively and busy atmosphere.
It is completely different from the previous lifeless atmosphere when winter comes. This winter, the Gonghuo clan is a little too lively.