Jian couldn't believe it, but he couldn't help but look forward to it: "It's true that animal skins cannot be eaten. Could it be that... animal skins can also be grown?"
Breed a frightened deer?
"no……"
He Chen was speechless.
The prehistoric humans in the elf world were indeed foodies.
Just know how to eat!
"Anyway, let's go find Uncle Mao first!" He Chen said, "Xiao Di, take these things and put them away first."
He gave the fruit in his arms to Di, and Jian also handed the core to Di: "Let's go."
As he said that, he lifted up He Chen's neck and let He Chen feel hard again.
But Jian was very fast, and he arrived at the entrance of a cave in just a short time.
This is Mao's cave.
Mao is a middle-aged tribesman who was originally a warrior. Later, his butterfly died in an accident and he also broke a leg.
After that, he just did ordinary work for the tribe and never went into the forest again.
During the long process of handling corpses, everyone discovered that Mao's craftsmanship was very good. Both the stone bowl and the stone jar were made strong and durable, and the elf fur was also made extremely smooth.
Later, Mao specialized in this work.
A stone pot of water was boiling at the entrance of the cave, filled with deer skins.
"Mao!" Jian shouted into the cave.
"Jian, you're here."
A hoarse voice came from inside the cave.
A rickety figure slowly came out of the cave.
The man's hair was disheveled, and only his left leg was intact. Only half of his right leg was left, and his calf was missing.
He Chen was silent, his original excitement calmed down a bit.
There are many tribes with people like this who are missing arms and legs.
Of course, most people with missing arms and legs died due to excessive bleeding, infection, and other factors. Mao was relatively lucky to survive.
Mao was holding a wooden stick and holding a small sharp stone knife in his hand. It looked like he was grinding a horned deer hide just now.
"What's wrong, Jian, and Chen, why are you here?" Mao laughed.
"It's like this kind of hair. I have a new idea in the morning. I want to use deer skin." Jian explained.
He Chen said: "Just one piece is fine."
"Come on." Mao walked in again.
He Chen and Jian followed him in.
The light inside the cave is not bright, but it is quite spacious. Next to the flat haystack in the innermost part, there are two polished animal skins stacked on top of each other.
Mao pointed at the animal skin to signal He Chen.
He Chen stepped forward to pick up the animal skin, tinkered with it, and made it into a cross-body package.
"Look, you can load things from here." He Chen gestured at the animal skin in his hand.
"Oh?" Jian stepped forward and tried it, his eyes lit up.
"If you punch some more holes in the animal skin and connect them with the silk spun by green caterpillars, you can make it very big."
He Chen briefly explained the usage of expansion.
Jian couldn't help but nodded, this thing is indeed very useful! If you sew a big package, you will bring back a lot more prey every day.
Mao folded the bundle and said happily: "What a smart boy!"
Some things are like window paper. If you pierce it, you will pierce it. If you don't pierce it, you may always be kept in the dark.
Things like baggage are not that complicated.
He Chen didn't think about it that much before, but he didn't remember it until today. Besides, besides animal skin backpacks, it can also be used to make other things, such as clothes! Animal skin boots!
In He Chen's memory, winter was very cold, and they just tied them randomly with grass blades or animal skins, which basically didn't have much protection against the cold.
Many people die from cold every winter.
Several died this past winter.
Therefore, they are very precious about their hair and do not clean it until the hottest day. They cut their hair with a stone knife once in summer and then leave it until winter to keep out the cold.
Well, it keeps your hair warm, which is great.
He Chen looked at Mao Hejian again.
"The green caterpillar is very useful!" He touched Xiaobai on the top of his head, and Xiaobai screamed in comfort.
"Chen, you... you are... very... amazing!" Jian wanted to praise He Chen, but after holding it in for a long time, he could only find the adjective "awesome" in his mind.
He Chen smiled and didn't take it seriously.
Think of more adjectives, there will be a lot of great things in the future!
"Uncle Jian, I'm leaving first. I have to get some leaves and berries in the afternoon. By the way, I took these two animal skins."
…
After getting the two packages ready, He Chen and Di picked a lot of fruits and various leaves in the afternoon.
No matter what Xiaobai liked to eat or not, He Chen brought them all back.
It's not okay to be picky about food.
Anyway, He Chen just knew that those leaves were not poisonous.
It was getting dark, and He Chen and Di returned to the cave.
As soon as He Chen put down the package, he heard chaos outside.
"The leader is back!"
He Chen and Di looked at each other happily and then ran out happily.
Especially He Chen. He had eaten some tree fruits at noon, and now his stomach was empty and he was very hungry.
The wings are back, which means it’s time to eat!
The people on the mountain suddenly gathered halfway up the mountain to welcome the return of the hunting team.
However, He Chen felt vaguely that something was wrong from a distance.
There was no cheering or laughter.
Jian, Mao, and the others all looked sad.
He Chen and Di couldn't help but slow down.
The two of them squeezed through several people and came inside.
He Chen saw a huge corpse, three meters high.
Ivory pig!
He Chen's face was solemn.
The ivory pig is very powerful. Under normal circumstances, it may be stronger than the Abo monster next to the tribe in He Chen's memory.
The ivory pig is the final evolved form of the mountain pig.
In front of the ivory pig carcass are the people of the hunting team, and in the front are the wings.
There is a person that Wing is holding, that man is called Shi.
There was a collapse in his chest, with a terrifying stabbing hole on it, his eyes had been closed, and his arms were hanging softly on both sides.
The man was dead, and there was a big butterfly flying and whining next to the man.
The entire mountainside was silent, except for the mournful cry of the big butterfly.
He Chen suddenly felt heavy in his heart, his chest felt like it was blocked, and he couldn't breathe.
"Shi was killed by this monster..."
Wing slowly opened her mouth, and her originally magnetic voice became low and hoarse.
"Let's cremate him and then get rid of this monster together!"
It seems that this is the first time the green insect tribe encountered ivory pigs.
He Chen's heart was filled with panic, and the green caterpillar above his head was also infected by the atmosphere, staring motionlessly at the whining butterfly.
Xiaobai seemed to know that the owner of the big butterfly had left this world.
If He Chen also leaves...
It couldn't help but hold He Chen's hair tightly.
Feeling that Xiaobai was a little nervous on the top of his head, He Chen raised his hand and patted its head gently.
Everyone in the Green Worm tribe moved silently. Some people collected firewood, some went to the water tank to get water, and some went to cut up the carcasses of the ivory pigs.
Shi's body was placed on a bonfire in the middle.
Shi has no spouse yet, so he has no heirs.
The members of the hunting team went to a cave to get wound medicine for themselves and their butterfly.
Wing gently placed Shi's body on the pile of wood and stood up, remaining silent the whole time.
Only He Chen, Jian, Di and Yi remained.
The huge Bada butterfly lay on top of its wings, looking a little languid.
At this time, He Chen heard a faint sob. He turned around and saw Di's face covered with tears.
Di looked at Shi blankly.
That's his uncle.
Uncle.
He Chen also saw the figure of Shi in the memory of "Chen". He was a simple and honest man who would bring back any fresh fruits he saw and give one to Chen and Di.
He is very kind. He was the one who went out looking for "Chen" two days ago.
He Chen suddenly turned around and hugged Di.
"Chen...Chen...is he my Uncle Shi..." Di asked blankly.
He Chen didn't speak, and two lines of tears flowed from his eyes.
He suddenly felt a kind of cruelty coming towards him.
This feeling is so real.
In prehistory, people would die.
"Chen... you talk... you talk, Chen! My uncle, my Uncle Shi..."
Di's voice was quick and hoarse, and he shed more and more tears. Then he hugged He Chen tightly and began to cry bitterly.
Shi is his father's younger brother and he often hugged him when he was a child.
After my father and mother died, it was my uncle who loved him the most.
Looking at the two people crying, Chi walked over and patted their heads.
In this era, there is no such thing as a man bleeding without crying.
If you are sad, of course you will cry.
It's just that if you see them more often, they won't howl and cry.
…
After crying for a while, Di fell asleep directly, with tears on her face.
Jian carried Di back to the cave, then came back and briefly talked to Qi about He Chen's two discoveries today.
One is for planting fruit trees and the other is for parcels.
By this time, the bonfire had been lit, the ivory pig had been taken care of, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
Listening to Jian's report, Wing slightly dispelled the haze in his heart, told the people sitting around the fire about He Chen's discovery, and concluded:
"...So, the forest will eat people at any time! But we also have to survive! Green Insect Tribe!"
"Stay alive!"
"Green Worm Tribe!"
"Green Worm Tribe!"
The people of the Green Insect Tribe roared one after another, and He Chen couldn't help but roar along, and the crowd's voices spread in the night sky.
Some Bada butterflies were flying in the mid-air at night, making a neighing sound.
Xiaobai also straightened up and raised his head, learning to shout:
"What-!"
All of a sudden, various sounds came and went on the mountain.
…
After the meat was cooked, Yi cut off a piece of fat meat again and gave it to He Chen: "Your contribution is great."
This time He Chen did not hesitate, took nearly a kilogram of meat, tore it apart and chewed it.
It's like avenging Shi.
He knew that the fault was not with the ivory pig. After all, the ivory pig was only protecting itself.
Of course, it wasn't Shi who was wrong.
Both sides are just trying to survive.
In order to survive.
But He Chen still felt very uncomfortable and could only relieve the pain in his heart by eating like crazy.
Halfway through eating, Di also woke up.
He walked out of the hole silently, then took the meat handed to him by Wing and bit into it hard.
It doesn't feel like eating, but like attacking the piece of meat.
"Eat quickly. If we don't become stronger quickly, we may be the ones who die in the future." He Chen said in a deep voice.
Di's body trembled, then his biting turned into gnawing, tearing off the meat and chewing hard.
"Uncle, I have a few things to tell you."
He Chen spoke.
Wing wiped a handful of oil from the corner of his mouth, wiped it directly on the animal skin skirt, and then picked up the next piece of meat: "Tell me."
He Chen's frequent outstanding performances have greatly improved his status in Yi's heart.
"The first thing is, starting tomorrow, I hope women can stay and plant fruits and look for new food."
He Chen didn't believe that there were no other edible plants nearby, maybe he just didn't find them.
Wing didn't expect the first thing to be so important.
You must know that their hunting team has a total of eighteen people, six of whom are women.
A third of the people are missing for no reason!
"The role of women when they stayed to plant and find new food was no less important than hunting. Moreover, women's physiological structure destined them not to be suitable for hunting."
Although the women of the Green Insect Tribe are all big and round and look like mountains of meat, they are not very tall, and women are naturally weaker than men in combat.
For example, two burdens on the chest will greatly affect the battle.
"Well, let me think about it." Wing lowered his head in thought, but as if he thought of something, he raised his head again:
"But looking for food... we have tried it before, but many people were poisoned to death, and even the medicine could not save them."
He Chen was a little speechless.
Do you always use people to taste the food? Come on, there are white mice everywhere, oh no, is Ratada any good?
"We can catch a Rattata, imprison it in a gabion, and feed it plants first. If it is fine, we will eat it. I will teach you how to use the gabion."
"That's right! Why didn't I think of that!" Wing shouted and slapped his head hard.
He Chen felt his head hurt just looking at it.
As for why it was a gabion instead of a wooden cage, He Chen was worried that the wooden cage would be easily damaged.
"The second thing is, why didn't the hunting team capture some live monsters and bring them back?"
He Chen was confused.
If you capture live elves and raise them, over time, the elves in the green insect tribe will definitely not be that single.
Being single means being easily restrained.
Like the Green Insect Tribe, whenever a group of Pidgeots, Pidgeots, and Pidgeots arrive, it is simply a disaster for the Pidgeot population.
And even if they are not domesticated, they can be bred to eat meat, so you don’t have to go into the jungle all the time.
"It's useless to catch them. My father and his friends tried it a long time ago. After they were caught, they were not obedient at all. In the end, they basically went on a hunger strike and starved to death. Only our green bugs were the most obedient." Wing said helplessly.
He also added: "Unless it's a Rattata, but a Rattata doesn't have much meat."
Rattata is too small.
"Is that so..." He Chen lowered his head and thought for a while.
He guessed there might be two reasons.
First, elves can only accept one-on-one combat, and will only be conquered if they are defeated in one-on-one combat.
Just like Pokémon in the previous life, it can only be conquered after being defeated one-on-one.
Of course, it doesn't matter whether you defeat the elves or humans.
He Chen remembered the time when the red-haired devil from Team Rocket beat up Snake and subdued him.
The second is that the elves have their own tribe to protect, so they cannot be trapped in the tribe willingly.
"Okay, let's talk about this later." He Chen could only make a corresponding judgment after knowing the true situation.