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Chapter 166 Suspicious
Crow breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew very well that at the moment he arrived, Hutou led a team of hunters to search around under Tian's instructions.

The other party made no secret of his distrust.

The young sky priest seemed to be questioning him constantly, but he was actually waiting for the tiger head to return to confirm that there was no ambush nearby.

As soon as the tiger head came back, the sky priest immediately fulfilled his promise.

From this point of view, how much will the other party believe in the story I have tried so hard to tell?
How cautious, obviously still so young... If Leopard Pi was half as cautious as him, it wouldn't be...

Crow suddenly regretted it. If he knew this, he shouldn't have said it so specifically. There is no need to talk about those humiliating experiences. Isn't this a self-exposed scar?

However, it doesn't matter anymore.

There is nothing wrong with speaking more vividly, it can make his "information" sound more real and valuable, and in exchange for more food.

After that, they will continue to move south, leave this vast grassland, and will have nothing to do with him.

Hutou brought a basket covered with animal skin cloth and put it in front of the crow.

The crow lifted the cloth and looked at it, then frowned and said, "Is that so? That mirror is made of the finest holy stone, which was polished and made by the most outstanding stone tooler, that is, me, for a whole cold day. Even in the tribe on the mountain, it is a very precious thing...the price has to be increased."

At the end, Crow remembered that he was facing a fellow villager, and people who grew up in the valley camp liked to open the skylight to speak frankly, so he changed the subject and made a straightforward request.

"That mirror is of no use to us."

Mirrors are not high-tech. In the future, there will be more opportunities to produce them by ourselves and exchange them at high prices. Isn't that being taken advantage of?

Zhang Tian smiled and said, "You can take the mirror back. Correspondingly, we will take out half of the food from it."

"Half?!" The crow almost jumped up, "I brought you so much news, is it only worth this little food?"

Profiteer!A profiteer who specializes in pitting fellow villagers!
The crow was indignant.

Words to make him jump even more are yet to come.

"No, your story isn't worth a dick."

Zhang Tianzheng said: "If we hadn't met you, we would have set off a long time ago, and now we may have left the territory of the tribe at the foot of the mountain. Without your reminder, we would not be close to that mountain range. That is not our route. These foods , I gave it to you for free because of my love in my hometown."

"what……"

The crow wanted to argue, but opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

He knew what Tian said was reasonable, but he was still very depressed. He dared to talk about it for a long time, which was purely in vain. In the end, he got a basket of food and thanked the other party for his generosity.

The more you think, the more angry you are.

Zhang Tian went on to say: "This basket of food is enough for you to eat for many days. You are a hunter. Have you completely forgotten the hunting skills when you dug a stone in cold weather?"

This time, the crow didn't even come out, picked up the basket without saying a word, and left.

The sky was dim, and it was already dusk, so everyone camped on the spot, lighting a fire and cooking.

Lanhua planned to keep the crow in the camp overnight, but Zhang Tian shook his head, stopping Lanhua's kindness.

When the crow was far away, Zhang Tian called Tiger Claw and Pine Needle. One of them used a machete and the other used a bow and arrow.

Tiger Claw and Pine Needle were a little surprised, but they left without asking further questions.

Looking back, Zhang Tian couldn't help laughing when he saw Lin Yu tidying up his appearance in front of the stone mirror as if no one was there.

If anyone wants this mirror the most, it must be Dr. Lin.

Zhang Tian walked over and asked casually, "You should know what kind of stone this is?"

"Obsidian, if I don't know about this, don't get mixed up in the archaeological circle in the future. You have heard of the Helongdadong site, a well-known Paleolithic site, where almost all the stone tools unearthed are made of obsidian. It is more common in the Mediterranean and Western Asia."

Lin Yu finally straightened her bangs. The road was full of dust and dust, and her hairstyle was already messed up. When there was no mirror, she could pretend not to know, but now that she sees her frustrating appearance in the mirror, she can no longer love beauty. .

She looked at the beautiful figure in the mirror, and rubbed her fingertips against the smooth mirror surface, the more she looked at it, the more she liked it.

She has seen mirrors made of obsidian before, but after all, they are all cultural relics that have been silent for thousands of years, so how can they smell good?And it is true as the crow said, the maker spent a lot of thought on polishing, it really is a lesson to others!
"This mirror, leave it to me for safekeeping?"

"What else are you keeping? If you like it, I'll give it to you."

"That won't work. This is exchanged with everyone's food, and it still belongs to everyone in name."

Lin Yuzhen carefully put away the obsidian mirror, and looked at Zhang Tian: "Do you think the story of the crow is true or not?"

"What do you think?"

"I asked first."

"Half-truth, half-false." Zhang Tian suddenly smiled, "At least the experience of being locked up in a small black house by the barbarian doesn't sound like a fabrication."

Lin Yu also laughed: "Indeed, most people can't make it up."

"His description of the two tribes under the mountain and on the mountain, and what he saw and heard during this period, are detailed and reasonable, and should be true. But, I will start to talk about them in general later. During the whole cold day, he unexpectedly Just two or three sentences. The process of escaping is also vague."

"In short," Zhang Tianxia concluded, "what he said may not necessarily be a lie, but he must have concealed something."

Lin Yu took it for granted.

According to Crow's description, the two tribes at the foot of the mountain and the tribe at the top of the mountain have obviously developed primitive pastoralism, which is earlier than Lin Yu's perception of the origin of pastoralism, but within an acceptable range.

The progress of civilization is sometimes very long and needs to wait for the right time and place, and sometimes it is very fast and only needs a certain person's flash of inspiration.It will be a matter of time before the tribes who have settled on the grasslands for a long time develop pastoralism.

Moreover, they only domesticated sheep, and have not yet expanded to other species such as cattle and horses. They also need to supplement food through hunting and gathering, which shows that they are still in a very early stage.

Crow knew little about the situation of the tribe at the bottom of the mountain, and Lin Yu had no way of analyzing it, but the camp of the tribe at the top of the mountain must have been stationed near the volcano for the winter, and the camp for mining obsidian was at the foot of the volcano.

The crow said that the more he went up the mountain, the hotter he felt. In fact, it was not because he was approaching a volcano, a heat-retaining rock mass formed by volcanic activity. These rock bodies continuously release heat energy, so the temperature is higher than other places. .

Obsidian is the best evidence.

Obsidian is a volcanic glass rock, the product of the rapid condensation of acidic volcanic lava.Many modern hunter-gatherers, such as the Aboriginal people of Australia, see the shiny black stone as a manifestation of supernatural powers, and it is only natural for ancestors of this era to have the same association.

So they set up a camp on the lava platform at the foot of the volcano, mined and processed obsidian, which they regarded as a sacred stone, and made it into various weapons, tools, and even daily necessities.

"specialized!"

After listening to Dr. Lin's analysis, Zhang Tian couldn't help giving a thumbs up, and said with a smile: "The hero sees the same thing, and I think so too. Now that we know that there is a volcano nearby, can we analyze where we are now? "

"It's hard to say. In the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, volcanoes are a very common landscape. There is a volcanic eruption belt here: from the Nuomin River Volcanic Group in the Daxing'an Mountains in the north to the Ulan Hada Volcanic Group in the south, it stretches for nearly a thousand kilometers. And in In our era, all these volcanoes have eruption records, and they are all active volcanoes."

Lin Yu spread her hands, expressing that she was studying archaeology, and she only knew a little about geography and geology, so she couldn't know the details.

"Speaking of which, why did you send someone to follow the crow? Do you suspect that he is colluding with the local aborigines to harm us?"

Zhang Tian shook his head: "Probably not. If he wants to harm us, he should encourage us to conflict with the local aborigines, but he specifically reminded us not to get close to that mountain range. However, I am more concerned about a few things. Don't you think the crow Is your behavior unusual?"

"you mean……"

Lin Yu tilted his head, not quite understanding.

"You think, he is a hunter who was able to travel long distances to reach this place in the winter when there was no grass growing. Now that the weather has warmed up and everything has recovered, isn't it strange that he is short of food?"

"Well... makes sense."

"Also, according to what he said, he took the opportunity to escape. At this time, instead of running for his life, he asked us for food. He would rather increase the burden and risk in exchange for more food. This is really unreasonable. In the end One point is also the most crucial point, do you remember in which direction he walked when he left?"

Lin Yu recalled a little, and exclaimed: "North!"

"That's right, the north. He went south to escape the curse of Xue Ling, but now he turns back to the north. This is completely contradictory."

Lin Yu couldn't help admiring Zhang Tian's keen observation skills, these were the details she had overlooked, after listening to his analysis, she immediately felt that the crow was behaving suspiciously.

"Then what does he want to do?" She couldn't help asking.

"I don't know." Zhang Tian shrugged, "I'll know when Tiger Claw and the others come back. Let's eat first!"

……

The crow was somewhat depressed.

To be honest, seeing such a huge crowd on the vast grassland at first glance, he was shocked, thinking that the pursuers were coming.

When he found that the team was full of familiar faces, he could hardly believe his eyes, and then he was ecstatic.

Good luck!
They hadn't eaten meat for a long time in order to flee for their lives, and they didn't dare to hunt large herbivores on the grassland rashly, so as not to expose their tracks. They didn't even dare to start a fire at night. Birds and pikas can even improve their food.

He was fine, but there was a wounded person in the group, and he didn't know what was going on. His body was getting hotter and weaker every day, and he even started talking nonsense yesterday. They clamored for meat and mutton.

He thought, perhaps it was because of poor food and insufficient nutrition that the situation went from bad to worse. If there were good vegetables and meat to eat, maybe it would be better?

Today, he ventured out of his hiding place and ran to such a far place, originally for hunting, but how could he come from heaven!

He immediately gave up hunting and showed his figure, intending to blackmail the fellow.

However, the food given to him was not as good as expected, and he even put in a precious holy stone mirror. This mirror can be taken down the mountain or the tribe on the mountain, and it is no problem to exchange it for seven or eight sheep!

The fellow only gave him one basket of food, no, half of the basket, and the other half was a gift from friendship.

Really blind!

The crows were very heartbroken, but it made them feel a little better when they thought that this crate of meat was safe and enough to feed them for a few days.

A gust of wind came.

The wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.

flock!

The crow immediately lowered its body and hid in the waist-high meadow.

The sheep wandering in this area are most likely related to the Shanxia tribe. If the sheep are present, the people of the Shanxia tribe are probably also nearby.

How did they travel so far to graze?
That's right, it must have taken the benefits of the tribe on the mountain, and searched for our whereabouts while herding sheep!
The crow poked out half of its head and looked around cautiously. With this look, its heart suddenly rose to its throat!

The location of the flock is exactly the location of their hiding place!

Damn!

The crow sighed that he was so lucky, he was obviously unlucky!
How to do?
He glanced at the sky, it was getting dark, if he was alone, if he fled far away in the night, no matter how fierce the barbarian was, he would not be able to catch up with him.

The crow looked at the flock of sheep in the distance, and the other party obviously also spotted the grove where they were hiding, and was approaching there.

Even if I go back now, it's too late, it's over, everything is over.I shouldn't have been involved in the first place, so what does this have to do with me?I just want to live, yes, as long as I'm alive... he thought to himself.

……

"Sheep day!"

The shepherd, Atu, spit out a mouthful of phlegm, and spit it out into the meadow with a loud bang.

"We've come far enough, we've never been this far before, I think we should go back."

Being far away from the familiar life circle, Ah Tu felt a little uneasy.

"You don't want the holy stone anymore? The people on the mountain said that as long as they find their traces, they will give ten high-quality holy stones. If they can be captured, they will be given 100 yuan and mammoth skin!"

Aniu, Amu, and Ada were also traveling together, and it was Aniu who said this.

"But we have traveled so far and still haven't found any trace of them. Maybe someone else has found them. We are still wandering around like fools."

All three were silent.

They had to admit that what Atu said was reasonable. Almost everyone in the tribe at the foot of the mountain was encouraged by the high rewards to start a carpet search on the prairie. Perhaps the rewards had already been taken away, but they were so far away that they had no way of getting them. Just know.

Amu thought for a while, pointed to not far away and said, "There is a forest ahead, spend the night there tonight, and go back tomorrow."

His proposal was unanimously agreed.

The four drove the sheep towards the grove.

(End of this chapter)