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Chapter 2 The Winter is Coming
Part of today's harvest should be reserved to meet the needs of tomorrow morning, at least to meet the needs of the men, so that they have the strength to go hunting.

But Zhang Tian checked every corner of the cave, and found no food except for a pile of bones.

Not only did they not set aside any food for tomorrow morning, even for tonight's meal, they only ate a few bamboo rats, birds, winter bamboo shoots, and plant roots. The men were half full, like Zhang Tian and Xiao. Almost all the children are hungry.

Recalling again, the food shortage has lasted for several days!

Grandma said: "Xiao, if you are hungry, go to sleep."

Xiao Xiao shook his head: "Not hungry!"

How could he have the nerve to sleep alone when everyone was working hard?
Grandma raised her head and looked around, seeing that the children were all tired and lacking in energy, so she put down the bamboo sticks in her hand and said, "Okay, everyone, sit down."

Everyone stopped what they were doing, the men leaned over, and everyone sat around the campfire, quietly waiting for the routine storytelling session every night.

Grandma said: "I know that everyone is not full. This is because the cold weather has come and the beasts are hiding. I have experienced many cold days without enough food. This is normal. I remember the coldest and most hungry At that time, there was no grass on the ground, and the river was frozen with thick ice. There was no food, so we had to peel off the bark to eat."

Grandma has no concept of seasons, so she uses cold weather to refer to winter.

Everyone listened carefully, and when they heard that they could only peel the bark and eat it, they all showed surprise and pity.

Xiao asked curiously: "Can I survive by eating bark?"

Grandma shook her head: "Eating bark can satisfy your hunger, but it's hard to survive. Many people died, and almost all the old people died."

Everyone exclaimed.

"We finally survived that cold day, the grass grew again on the ground, and the wild animals came out to feed, and the food was everywhere. We survived and lived well. It is the same now, as long as we survive the cold weather , you will wait until there is food everywhere, and you will be full every day.”

Grandma showed a kind, firm and hopeful smile.

Encouraged by everyone, Hutou waved his thick arms and cheered up: "Grandma is right! We still have bamboo rats and birds to eat now, which is much better than Grandma's back then. If Grandma can survive, so can we!" "

"That's right!"

"We can too!"

Once the high emotions occupy the high ground of thinking, the hunger in the stomach has to retreat temporarily.

The crowd was excited, only Zhang Tian looked solemn and didn't say a word, and only he knew that according to the background setting of the game, the current cold is due to the impact of the asteroid that caused the global temperature to drop sharply, and the real winter has not yet come!

This winter will be colder and longer than previous winters.

To make matters worse, due to the sudden cold weather, the tribe does not even have the most basic winter food reserves, and will face the crisis of food shortage and starvation every day in the future.

bad luck!It turned out to be the start in the north!
Staying in the north let alone developing, even survival is a problem. If you want to survive, you must migrate to the relatively warmer south.

Zhang Tian didn't pour cold water on them.

The tribe has lived in this cave for generations, and the living range does not exceed a hundred miles. No one has been to any place farther away. It is impossible for grandma to gamble the fate of the entire tribe just because of a child's words, and lead everyone on the journey. A completely unknown journey.

I can only figure it out slowly, the risk of going on the road alone is too high, it is best to persuade everyone to go with him, if it is really impossible, even if he is alone, he will leave this place.

"God, why is your complexion so bad?"

Xiao asked Zhang Tian at this time, he lacked vocabulary and couldn't express the meaning of sadness, so he pinched the tip of his eyebrows with his hands, imitating Zhang Tian's sad face.

Everyone also noticed Zhang Tian's depression. When everyone was drunk, the sober person looked particularly eye-catching.

"Is something uncomfortable?"

Xiao's mother also asked Zhang Tian's aunt Lan Hua who had brought him up.

Zhang Tian shook his head and said, "I just feel that there is a lack of food now, so I should go hunting with Hutou and the others."

"Yes! I think so too!"

Xiao stood up, picked up the stone ax and slashed a few times in a decent manner, showing off his strength and proving that he was up to the task of hunting.

Hutou laughed loudly and said, "Okay! If you want, you can go hunting with us tomorrow!"

Owl cheered.

Zhang Tian also smiled, and walked behind the women, where lay a bundle of fine bamboo cut down during the day, not thicker than a wrist, slender and straight, he tried it out, the hardness and elasticity were very good.

After choosing, he took out a bamboo that was nearly four meters long, put it aside, and said to Aunt Lanhua, "Leave this bamboo to me."

"Bamboo is not suitable for making weapons. You ask the tiger's head to cut a piece of wood for you."

"I don't use it as a weapon."

After Zhang Tian left this sentence, he walked towards the pile of bones in the corner. Lan Hua gave him a strange look and didn't ask any more questions. Bamboo is the most important thing in the mountains, so it's okay to leave one for him.

Zhang Tian rummaged through the bone residues. The women picked out the better bones. The big ones were ground into bone knives, and the small ones were ground into bone needles or various accessories. Crooked melons and dates.

Pulling out the general from the box, he finally picked out five broken bones. I don't know if they were the skulls of bamboo rats or birds and beasts. In short, they were all flat and narrow, only two fingers wide. Even so, I wanted to grind these broken bones into pieces. The hook shape also requires a lot of work.

He is going to make a fishing rod.

The cave is located on the mountainside. The forests in the mountain are mainly broad-leaved forests with dense green leaves and thick branches. Fortunately, there is also a small bamboo forest growing in it.

There is a river under the mountain.

He remembered that he went to fetch water from the river with Xiao yesterday, and the flow of the river showed signs of slowing down and the water level dropped, but some deciduous trees in the mountains were only slightly yellowed. It should still be autumn, but it was almost as cold as in previous winters. It's really the twelfth lunar month, that's okay.

Man has evolved wisdom over the long years, learned to observe and summarize the laws of the development of things, and learned to transform past experiences into life experience.

But wisdom also brings inertial thinking. People begin to be limited by experience and stick to conventions, ignoring animal instincts and losing their keen sense of potential crises.

This is where beasts are stronger than humans.

Successive hunting failures were not because the beasts were hiding, but because most of the beasts sensed the sudden drop in temperature and the sudden decrease in food, especially large herbivores such as deer and sheep, which began to flock to warmer places. Migrate where food is plentiful.

For a long period of time in the future, they will not come back, and it will be difficult to have a good harvest when hunting. This has nothing to do with the number of people or the advanced level of tools.

Zhang Tian planned to go to the river to try his luck.

Fish don’t like to move when it’s cold, and it’s not easy to get a good harvest, but hunting may return empty-handed, and fishing has never been empty-handed, so he still has some confidence.

The clansmen fell asleep one after another.

Zhang Tian offered to take charge of the vigil tonight.

In the dead of night, someone needs to watch the bonfire to prevent poisonous snakes and beasts from sneaking in at night. Of course, under the current situation, his uncles may wish to be attacked by poisonous snakes and beasts. show you!
(End of this chapter)