When they set off again, the team had expanded. In addition to the people from the Pu tribe, there were also travel teams from other tribes.
After the team expanded, it became more lively. Shao Xuan could also hear a lot of gossip from other tribes. When he was resting, he would also ask people about some things.
After a few days, Shao Xuan learned a lot of new information.
Shao Xuan had a map in his hands. He had drawn it himself. The map left by the ancestors could no longer be used. After nearly a thousand years, the mountains had become plains, plains had become mountains and rivers. The changes were too great. The composition and distribution of the tribes had also changed greatly. Shao Xuan needed to draw a new map to bring back, so that the tribe would not have difficulty crossing the river.
At this moment, an experienced traveler was talking to Shao Xuan, telling him what he had seen in the past.
"At first, we did not take this road, but took another one. Later, there was a war between the tribes, and it has not subsided yet. We temporarily changed to this one. The river on that route was much wider than this one, and there were two colors! There was a tribe beside the river. They were very good at making rafts. The rafts over there were the biggest and sturdiest ones I have ever seen! It would be great if we could also have a wooden raft like that. "The man recalled, his eyes filled with envy.
Seeing Shao Xuan's puzzled face, the man gestured to Shao Xuan and explained in detail the "biggest and sturdiest rafts" he had mentioned.
After listening to the other person's description, Shao Xuan paused and said, "Is that a boat?"
"Yes, yes, they call it a boat."
The man continued to recall, talking about what he had seen. Only, a few years had passed, and many of his memories were vague.
Shao Xuan memorized these. If he had time, he wanted to go there and have a look. When the time came, the people of the tribe would need a boat to cross the river. Without metal, how to make a big boat, Shao Xuan was not sure. It would be best if he could learn some technology from there.
"I remember that there are also many tourists over there." Another traveler was unwilling to be left out and came over to chat.
"It seems so, but it's just to help resist the tree and chop the wood. Hey, I heard that the slave owner also went there and took away a lot of slaves." The previous person said.
In order to increase the number of slaves under their command, the slave owners would always go to some places to get people. Those wanderers who had lost their fire seeds or whose tribes had been destroyed were the favorite targets of the slave owners. However, they would not immediately go to those wanderers after their tribes were destroyed. Instead, they would wait for one or two years for the wanderers to see the situation clearly. They would only go to those wanderers when they were close to despair after suffering setbacks. At that time, some wanderers who had suffered a lot would not only not avoid the slave owners, but would also take the initiative to stick to them. Just like Ruthlessness.
In order to get more slaves, the slave owners would move around, and Shi Shu, whom Shao Xuan had met before, was the same. When Shao Xuan listened to the two people, he learned about some of the places Shi Shu had been before.
Shao Xuan secretly remembered those places. He suspected that Shi Shu had seen people like Yan Shuo, or had seen the totem patterns of the Yanjiao tribe. He didn't know if it was possible that he had seen it when he was looking for slaves.
No matter what, Shao Xuan intended to look for it when they passed by those places. After all, according to the words passed down by Yan Shuo's ancestors, there should be a lot of wanderers scattered everywhere. After all these years, if one generation after another lived, there should be a lot of people.
The Yanjiao tribe on the other side of the river did not have a large population. If they wanted to expand, the first thing to do was to call back the scattered Yanjiao tribesmen.
"In addition to those places, there are a lot of wanderers on the grassland we have to pass through. Slave owners often go there." A traveler said.
Shao Xuan looked at the area that was not completely drawn on the map. That was the grassland. The travel team would not go deep, and would only pass by the border of the grassland. There were a lot of tribes on the grassland, and the people there were also very tough. The travel team generally would not go deep.
Just as they were talking, Yu suddenly said, "Look in front!"
Shao Xuan's line of sight left the map and looked at the water in front of them.
On the water in front of them, there were some people floating, and each of them had fatal wounds.
"Is there a war in front?" Someone asked.
"It seems that the scale is not small."
The people around them were talking, and the leaders of several travel teams also gathered together to discuss. Finally, they decided to rest on the shore for the time being.
"Let's take a break first. Send some people to scout ahead. If there is a battle between tribes, we will avoid it first, or wait for it to end before we set off." One of the people in front said.
The people on the raft paddled. After the raft reached the shore, Shao Xuan and the people around him spontaneously tied the raft to a tree or a big rock on the shore. They also took their own bags with them. No one put anything on the raft, because they did not know when they would have to abandon the raft to escape. After all, this was not their own tribe. Especially in a place where there was a war, it was especially dangerous. It was easy to get caught in the crossfire.
Each of the leaders sent a dozen or so people to scout the situation at the front.
"Shao Xuan, let's go and see if there are any wild beasts around. We can hunt one and eat it." Yu said.
When they were resting, the people in the team could hunt nearby, as long as they did not go too far. If they went too far and the team did not see anyone, they would not wait.
"Okay." Shao Xuan said to the people next to him. If the team set off, he would let them greet them.
After leaving the tribe, Shao Xuan ate less fearsome beasts. Generally, they only hunted wild beasts, and these people did not go to places where there were fearsome beasts.
He kind of missed fearsome beast meat.
He did not know where Chacha had gone to hunt. That guy had high requirements for food and did not like ordinary wild beasts. However, Chacha had never been left behind. Even if it left temporarily, it could quickly catch up with the team. Shao Xuan was not worried about it.
"Look, there's a deer over there!" Yu pointed in a direction and said excitedly. Then he quickly took out his hair dryer and used the poisonous thorn as an arrow. He put it in and carefully approached the deer.
He had to hurry. Otherwise, if the other members of the travel team got there first, there would be no food.
Yu quietly approached the deer, and Shao Xuan followed. However, Shao Xuan felt that there was something wrong with the surroundings. It was not necessarily a crisis, but something seemed to have happened. He was more careful when he sneaked around.
When he was about the same distance away from the deer, Yu pointed the end of the blowpipe towards the deer and put the other end into his mouth. While he was blowing, his cheeks puffed up.
Whoosh!
The speed of the arrow was very fast, and the arrow that was blown out accurately hit the deer.
The poison in the arrow needles was not a lethal poison, but a very powerful paralyzing poison. When a deer was shot, the arrow needles would pierce through the deer's skin, and the poison would spread.
After the deer felt that it was being attacked, it wanted to run away quickly. However, after taking two steps, it staggered and fell to the ground after a few steps.
"Hey! It's done! "
Yu was very excited. He was about to go and collect the prey, but he was stopped by Shao Xuan.
"What's wrong?" Yu looked at Shao Xuan in confusion.
Shao Xuan did not answer. Instead, he raised his chin in a direction.
Yu looked over.
In the woods not far from the deer, some birds flew up. They were probably alarmed by the deer's running and falling.
"What's wrong with those birds?" Yu still did not understand. He thought about it and said helplessly, "You don't want to eat those birds, do you? Although those birds are not too small, they are not easy to catch. Why would we eat those birds when we have a deer? "
Shao Xuan looked at Yu in silence for a few seconds and said, "Those are scavenger birds."
"Scavenger birds?"
"They eat corpses." Shao Xuan pointed over there, "There are quite a few of them."
Because of the deer's movement, some birds were startled, but Shao Xuan believed that it was only a small part of them. There were many that did not fly at all. The birds that flew up just now quickly flew back down.
If there was no food to attract them, why would they stay on the ground?
Yu's face turned serious, and he put away the hair dryer. He did not care about the deer. Compared to his life, food could be put aside first.
Because of the direction of the wind, when they came over, they did not smell anything strange. In addition, there were many flowers blooming near the river bank. The fragrance of the flowers interfered with the sense of smell, so they did not notice it at first.
"Let's go and take a look?" Yu said.
Before Shao Xuan could answer, Yu had already taken out his stone knife and went over.
Shao Xuan looked around and did not see anyone else for the time being, so he also followed.
They were getting closer and closer. Because of the dense trees, they could not see the situation there. However, as they got closer, Shao Xuan could already smell the unpleasant smell.
In addition, there were also the sounds of the scavenger birds pecking at food. Probably because there were too many of them fighting with each other.
Carefully pushing aside the branches in front of them, Shao Xuan saw the source of the smell.
Dead people, a lot of dead people. Compared to those floating on the river, there were more here. Moreover, because there was no river water to wash them, there was a layer of red blood on the ground.
Their clothes were similar to those on the river, so they should be from the same tribe. Looking at the situation, it was obvious that they had been slaughtered.
"These people …"
Yu was about to say something when he suddenly found that there was an arm moving in the pile of dead people.
"There's still someone alive?!"
Hearing Yu's voice, the person who was pressed down struggled and pushed the person on top away, revealing a face full of blood. There was only one wound on his body, but it was almost fatal. Most of the others had fatal wounds on their bodies.
The birds that were pecking on the ground flew up when they sensed the presence of the living people, but some gluttonous birds stayed on the ground.
"Help … help me!" The man did not care about the birds pecking around him and crawled towards Yu and Shao Xuan.
Yu frowned and took a step back. He did not know these people, and he did not want to get involved in the struggle between tribes. He was just a traveler, not looking for trouble.
"Let's leave …" Before Yu could finish, there was a whoosh.
Puchi!
The man who was crawling towards them was pierced by a spear and nailed to the ground.
Shao Xuan raised his head and looked in one direction. There was a person standing on a tree.
A man wearing a mask.
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