Han Cheng stood on the canoe, looked eastward for a while, and then said to his senior brother.
"What?"
The senior brother was stunned for a moment and looked at the sun hanging in the sky, which had not yet reached due south. He thought he had heard wrong and asked a question.
Didn’t the Son of God say that he would wait until tonight and start going back tomorrow? Why did he suddenly change his mind now?
"Go back."
Han Cheng didn't look back and repeated it again.
"Turn around and go back!"
After receiving the exact news, the senior brother seemed a little excited and shouted to everyone.
Although I don't know why Shenzi suddenly changed his mind, being able to go back early is a happy thing for this group of people who have already thought about going back.
After hearing the good news, everyone quickly turned the boat around on the water and headed upstream.
Han Cheng faced the east and the modern civilization in his imagination, waving goodbye.
The direct reason that made Han Cheng suddenly make such an important decision was the roar of a tiger.
He was not frightened by the tiger's roar, but the tiger's roar reminded him of the two saber-toothed tigers he saw in the forest when he was looking for General Fu.
The saber-toothed tiger is a creature that has long been extinct in the long history of history. There will definitely be no saber-toothed tiger in later generations.
It was precisely because he suddenly realized this that he asked his senior brother and the others to return home after being silent for a long time.
There is no need to explore the road behind.
There is a species like the saber-toothed tiger here that should have disappeared long ago, which means that this place cannot be a civilized society.
Should have thought of this earlier!
Han Cheng, who was feeling relaxed and a little lost, patted his forehead gently, thinking with some annoyance.
Four small boats sailed upstream. This time they were called searching for useful species, but in fact their journey to verify whether there was a civilized world outside came to an end.
There was a soft sound of water, and the cheerful people headed towards the place they came from.
"Stop!"
Han Cheng suddenly said.
Everyone was stunned, what happened to the Son of God today? He just said he was going to leave, why did he suddenly stop again?
"Look there!"
Han Cheng pointed to a place on the south bank of the lower reaches of the river and said to everyone.
When the senior brothers and others returned after hearing this, they all faced upstream. Only Han Cheng turned his back to downstream.
When they heard what Han Cheng said, they all looked where Han Cheng pointed, and saw a pillar of smoke rising precariously under the blue sky and white sun.
If there is a plume of smoke, it means there is someone there.
Along the way, Han Cheng and the others had not met anyone yet, so they were naturally surprised to see him at this time.
"Go and have a look?"
The place where the smoke is coming out is not that far from here, just turn around a bend in the river and you'll be there.
Although everyone wanted to go back quickly, they were also quite curious about the suddenly rising smoke column, and the distance was not too far, so after thinking about it for a while, they turned the boat again and headed downstream.
I want to see what's going on there.
It would be best if we could get some nearby information from their mouths.
The speed of sailing along the current is naturally faster, and it didn't take long for us to reach the place.
Everyone chose a suitable place to dock, stopped the boat and docked.
Following the previous example, after tying the boat here, use the pole to push it away from the shore. The oars and pole are all hidden in the grass.
Everyone held weapons, protected Han Cheng in the middle, and headed towards the smoke column that had become much smaller.
I stepped on dead grass along the way and walked through deep weeds.
"them!"
After walking for a while and approaching the place where the smoke column rose, the leading senior brother suddenly stopped and said in surprise.
Han Cheng was short, and he was surrounded by everyone, so he couldn't see what was going on there. When he saw his senior brother and some people who had already seen the situation, they suddenly reacted like this. For a moment, they didn't know what they saw.
Feeling anxious, I asked aloud.
The senior brother hesitated to speak, then thought for a moment, walked over, picked up Han Cheng, and put him on his shoulders. The view in front suddenly became clear.
Not too far away, a large fire was lit, and a group of primitive people wearing animal skins gathered around the fire, as many as eighty or ninety in large and small sizes.
There’s nothing strange about this, right?
Isn't it a normal thing for primitive people to light fires?
Although their behavior around the fire seemed a little weird at this time, Senior Brother and the others shouldn't be so surprised.
Han Cheng thought this, and his eyes were quickly attracted by the movements of a few stronger-looking people there.
They walked away from the fire, came to a certain distance from the fire, bent down, and then walked back.
Not empty-handed, but carrying someone.
Someone in the tribe has died and is being buried at this time?
Han Cheng looked at this scene and thought to himself.
In this era, worship and fear of fire are common.
In addition, the tools are simple and it is difficult to dig the land, so after people die, most of them are burned with fire.
Buried in the soil, it does not exist, or rarely exists.
Han Cheng thought this and suddenly smiled, which was very similar to later generations.
However, as soon as the thought of funeral occurred, it was abandoned by what happened next.
The person being carried, Han Cheng thought, was a corpse. As the distance between the person and the fire got closer, it suddenly became a corpse and started to struggle violently.
Near the fire, he actually broke away from the two people carrying him, staggered, and ran desperately in the direction of where Han Cheng and the others were.
The man had not run very far when he was pressed down and dragged back.
Han Cheng saw that someone seemed to be hitting him with a stone or something similar to a spear, and the person screamed in pain.
What is this being done? Human sacrifice?
Han Cheng looked at this extremely primitive and bloody scene, his face turned pale, and he suppressed the discomfort in his heart and thought.
However, speculation about this aspect soon disappeared.
Not that they got the answer, but that the people from the tribe over there had discovered their existence and looked towards them with some vigilance.
Some people had already raised their weapons in front of them, and an unintelligible voice came from them, apparently shouting at them.
This doesn't seem like a very friendly tribe.
The senior brother and the others also noticed the changes on the other side, and quickly put Han Cheng down, took off the vine shields on his back and put them in front of him, protecting Han Cheng behind him.
There were four more people taking vine shields with him, and the others also took their own weapons.
According to the previous training, the senior brother and other five people holding vine shields formed a protective wall at the front, followed by Shang and other seven people holding spears.
On the left, Junior Brother Sha, who was leading two archery teams, already had bows and arrows in hand, and the two on the right who were using slings also loaded a stone bullet.
The nineteen people on this trip, except Han Cheng and Liang, a half-baked doctor who was far from being a doctor, the other seventeen people were all people who often participated in training.
Among them, Senior Brother, Shang, and Junior Brother Sha are all captains of their respective teams.
The members of the Vine Shield Team and the Spear Team are not very useful in battles that rely on walls for defense. The best place for this combination to be effective is in the wild, so I came here this time.
Among the people led by Han Cheng, the Vine Shield Team and the Spear Team had the most people, twelve in total.
Slings and bows are best for defense.
Especially the slings, which were too noisy and required relatively high requirements on the surrounding environment, such as relatively open areas, so Han Chenggong only brought two members of the sling team and three members of the archery team.
