back to prehistoric savage

Chapter 204 Hostility at the End of the Grassland

"call out!"

"call out!"

Zhang Tian put his two fingers under his tongue, folded his tongue back, closed his lips against his two fingers, and whistled loudly.

This is the signal to go.

Everyone extinguished the fire, packed their bags, and the three little lynxes rolling in the meadow heard the whistle and the call of the mother Twolegs. .

Xiaodi imitated Zhang Tian's hand gestures and whistled countless times. He puffed up his cheeks and tried to suck, but he only made a hoarse whining sound.

He wasn't the only one who failed.

Everyone is curious about Tian's unique way of whistle blowing and extra loud whistle, but only a small number of people have learned it, and they always seize every opportunity to show off the "encrypted communication" they learned from the sky priest.

According to the sky priest, according to the length and frequency of the whistle sound, whistling can also convey information like language and gestures.

For example, two high-pitched and long whistles mean departure.

Everyone continued on their way.

More than two months had passed since the day they left the Hegu camp, and the sun was still fierce. Zhang Tian and Lin Yu reckoned that even if it hadn't entered August, it was already at the end of July.

Excluding the [-] or so days they stayed on the way, they had already trekked for a month and a half. According to the optimistic estimate of traveling [-] miles a day, they should be eating delicious food in the capital at this time, but the fact is that they have not yet left the grassland.

The road is flat and not difficult to walk, and their speed is not too slow. Even if they can't walk fifty miles a day, there are still 34 miles.

It is the river that hinders their progress.

The grassland is not only rich in meadows, but also rich in water systems. Rivers run across the entire grassland from west to east, like vicious tigers, no, they are much more terrifying than tigers. No matter how fierce the beast is, it is still flesh and blood, and the river is Invincibility is every landlubber's nightmare.

Some shallow and narrow rivers, people can also walk arm in arm.

When encountering a large and wide river, there is no other way but to build a boat to cross the river.

It takes a lot of time to build a boat to cross the river every time, and it needs repeated motivation and mobilization to make this group of landlubbers overcome their fear.

For the people who live in the mountains all year round, the boat is a novelty.When they saw the raft made by God thrown into the river and jumped onto the raft, the woman screamed and the man rushed to rescue him.

Then they were surprised to find that Tian was standing firmly on the raft, showing no sign of falling into the water.

Zhang Tian's personal demonstration proved the carrying capacity of the raft, but even so, it still took him a lot of talk to persuade the tribe to row across the river.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, after taking the first step, and then encountering the same situation, without Zhang Tian's instructions, the clansmen consciously and proactively cut wood and built ships.

Forests usually grow in places with sufficient water sources, and it doesn't matter if they don't have them, and Mr. Wizard, just plant trees on site.

Fortunately, along the way, the widest river encountered is only about 20 meters, and the current is mostly slow. As long as the operation is done properly, it is difficult to overturn the boat.

Not long after leaving the mountain tribe, they encountered a "blocker" again.

Lin Yu sowed a handful of seeds, and a small forest was born in a blink of an eye.

Aba, who saw the sowing of seeds for the first time, was stunned and almost wanted to kneel down and kowtow to the wizard.

Then he saw the men take out their stone axes and start cutting trees.

Aba noticed that the man named Tiger Claw cut the fastest. The knife in his hand reflected a dazzling silver light, which was very unusual. Cutting trees was like mowing grass, it was amazing!

The strong man named Hutou was holding a shovel made of unknown material, and its efficiency was not too high.

The trees were cut down one by one, and then their branches and leaves were removed, and they were cut into small logs.

The women took the ropes from the panniers and tied the logs into rafts.

Crow, Leopard Gan, and Aba looked at the busy crowd in bewilderment.

After inquiring, they found out that they were making something called a "boat", which could carry them across the river.

"You...can't swim?" Aba asked the crow.

"What do you mean by swimming?"

Looking at the bewildered crow, Abba grinned.

When the raft was launched and everyone boarded the boat, Abba suddenly plunged into the river, causing countless splashes.

Everyone is dumbfounded.

The crow closest to Aba quickly raised his hands and explained loudly: "I didn't push him! He jumped by himself!"

I'm afraid this old man is tired of living...

As soon as everyone had this idea, they heard a "crash", and a round head emerged from the water, five meters away.

Aba spat out the water in his mouth, turned his head and saw the slightly flustered faces in astonishment, and was very happy.

"I'll be waiting for you on the shore!"

He laughed a few times, cut the river like a pair of scissors, and paddled away in a not-so-elegant but powerful posture.

Everyone stared at Aba who was swimming away in the water like a fish, dumbfounded.After this fight, when people saw this old man who was smiling all day long, they all had a bit of respect in their eyes.

It was also at this moment that the crow understood the meaning of swimming.

After crossing the river and ashore, the hearts of Crow and Leopard Gan finally fell back into their stomachs.

The two felt very fortunate that they crossed many rivers in cold weather. At that time, the rivers were frozen and as solid as flat land. They never considered how to cross the river after the thaw.

Fortunately, they were traveling with fellow villagers, otherwise they would never have walked out of this grassland.

……

When they crossed the river again and came ashore, the seemingly endless grassland finally revealed its end.

At the end of the grassland is the forest.

Abba proudly declared: "Forest! As I said, the forest ends at the end of the grassland! I'm not wrong!"

After studying hard during this period of time, his language level has improved by leaps and bounds, and daily communication is no longer a problem.

In fact, no one questioned his words, because the wizard had already said that after crossing the grassland, he had to pass through a forest to reach the Land of Peach Blossoms.

Arriving in this area, he entered the geographical environment that Lin Yu was familiar with.

Located in the north of Yanshan Mountain, the prehistoric sites in Chifeng and western Liaoning are one of the most important and representative archaeological cultures in northern my country.

From Xiaohexi culture 8500 years ago, to Xinglongwa culture, to Zhaobaogou culture, to Xiaoheyan culture, and then to Hongshan culture, thousands of ancestors settled here, built houses and camps, and inherited It lasted for more than 4000 years, and developed a highly developed jade production process, as well as the worship of heaven and earth and ancestors.

It is also here that the earliest dragon-shaped jade in my country was unearthed, the jade pig dragon known as the first dragon in China.

Even Zhang Tian, ​​a layman, has heard about these things, and Lin Yu, who was born in a major, knows it all by heart.

However, the topography and vegetation of this era are different from what Lin Yu remembered.

The Horqin Sandy Land formed by overgrazing and insufficient precipitation is still a vast expanse of grassland, which shows that the precipitation in this era is more abundant than 1 years later, and the climate is in a warm and humid period, so forests and swamps are developed and peat is accumulated. , the warm-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest expanded northward.

Lin Yu once discovered a large number of plant remains here, including walnut nut cores, birch bark, and seeds of trees and shrubs of the genus Prunus. Cypress spores.

These findings indicate that warm-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forests once grew extensively here, and the forests extended northward to the grassland area, indicating that the climate 1 years ago was warmer and wetter than it is today.

As it turned out, her findings were correct.

Lin Yu looked at the layers of forest in the distance, the corners of his mouth gradually raised.

Nothing pleases her more than when research results are confirmed.

Since the day they landed, the weather has not been sunny.

Waking up the next morning, the cloudy, low-hanging sky faded into mist rising from forests and meadows, the moisture in the air coalescing into tiny droplets on hair, body, and fur.

The faint morning light was blocked by thick clouds, the sky and the earth were dark, and things a little further away were shrouded in misty mist. Only when they approached, did the trees and rocks appear from their hazy outlines.

The howling wind swept past, and the large meadows bowed down.

Seeing that the torrential rain was approaching, everyone settled down under the huge rock and stopped rushing.

By the time they pitched their tent, everything was soaked in damp moisture.

Lin Yu used red stones to help the tribes light a fire.

If it rains, it rains, but we still have to eat.

The women took out the spare food, mainly nuts, as well as some dried meat, fruits and plant roots, buried the nuts in charcoal and plant ash and smoldered, and boiled the plant roots.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky!
Bright silver-white lightning fell from the clouds, branching into terrifying spider web-like tentacles, which were fleeting and followed by earth-shattering thunder.

The crowd was startled.

The rain seemed to be frightened too, and it was frightened out of the clouds, and it poured down, hitting the exposed rocks and tents, bursting out like a waterfall.

The three little lynx got into their respective baskets and shrank into a ball.

Hutou held the bow and arrow and stared at the distant sky, staring at the roaring thunder beast hidden behind the clouds, with a fierce look like don't blame me for being rude if you dare to come.

The bows and arrows of him, Gu and Songzhen all fell on the mountain. After returning, Zhang Tian redeployed resources. Archery tiger head and others.

Everyone looked at the rain curtain all over the sky and the thunder beast showing off its long legs from time to time, without saying a word.

Xiao suddenly said: "I found that Thunder Beast's predation habits are different from other wild beasts."

"What's the matter?" Zhang Tian asked casually.

"Ordinary beasts don't growl when they are preying. Roaring is usually a means of threat and intimidation. It is only used when facing enemies and competitors. When facing weak prey, it is enough to approach quietly and kill them quickly. But I found that Ultralisk growled loudly after every prey, isn't it afraid to scare other prey away?"

Zhang Tian smiled, but didn't tell him that the reason why Thunder Beast roared loudly every time it preyed was because sound travels slower than light.

Xiao Xiao's observation ability is very good, but he will never know the answers to some questions.

Zhang Tian looked through the rain curtain and looked somewhere in the distance.

After going through it personally, I feel that Abba's rhetoric is too outrageous.

Even without the time of crossing the river, they still walked for half a month to get here. This distance is at least two to three hundred kilometers, not to mention whether there is such a long underground cave in this area, even if there is, Aba will It is absolutely impossible to go there in just a day or two.

He asked Abba for more details.

Although he was underground at the time and had a weak perception of time, Abba judged from his eating and physical strength during that period that he would not stay in the cave for more than three days.

Even if it is calculated in three days, walking a hundred kilometers is already very impressive, but it is less than half of the distance. The difference between the numbers is too far.

The rain gradually stopped, the dark clouds dissipated, the sky was like washing, the water droplets were crystal clear on the tops of the green grass, and the air was filled with a faint earthy smell.

"rainbow!"

The children jumped up and rushed out of the tent with joy, pointing to the rainbow hanging in the sky and laughing loudly.

Everyone looked up to enjoy the beauty after the rain.

Zhang Tian also walked out of the tent, but his eyes still fell somewhere in the distance, and he immediately moved away.

"Abba."

"My lord priest."

"I remember you saying that you didn't meet anyone in the forest that night, and you didn't meet anyone on the way back to the tribe."

"Yes."

"It means you are lucky."

"what?"

Abba was confused.

Zhang Tian didn't say any more, and called Tiger Claw, Gu, Pine Needle, Boa, Coyote and Sandstone from the Juyan Tribe.

He had sensed a hint of hostility as early as they were crossing the river.

After landing, the trace of hostility slowly approached.

Zhang Tian couldn't tell whether the hostility came from a beast or a human, but last night, the other party didn't take advantage of the darkness to approach, but just observed from a distance, and part of the hostility left, heading in the direction they came. This is obviously not a beast Operations that can be done.

Most of them were targeted by the local aborigines. Hundreds of people built boats to cross the river with great fanfare, and it was difficult not to be discovered.

The other party sent out scouts to investigate the situation, but there were not many of them. If the hostility of one person left last night, there would not be more than three people left behind.

It's really hard for them. It's raining so hard and they lie motionless in the grass like a toad for several hours.

"Touch them quietly, bring them here to warm up by the fire, don't hurt their lives." Zhang Tian ordered.

Tiger Claw and the others were good at sneaking, so they immediately hid their tracks with the help of the meadow, and slowly surrounded them in the direction indicated by the sky priest.

Zhang Tian raised his head to look at the rainbow, deliberately acting as if he was not aware of it, and relaxed the opponent's vigilance.

Not long after, there was a strange cry in the ground!

Everyone immediately looked towards the source of the sound, and saw two people jumping up from the grass, one of them was knocked down by Tiger Claw and Gu on the spot, and the strong man locked the man, while the other pulled out the tubular weapon from his waist, put it to his mouth and blew hard .

The boa constrictor subconsciously raised his hand to protect his head, and suddenly felt something piercing his skin and piercing his muscles, as painful as being stung by a wasp.

At this time, Pine Needle, Coyote and Sandstone had knocked each other down, collected their weapons, and punched them hard.

After a few shouts, it quickly quieted down.

(End of this chapter)