Could these things in the box be eaten?
No.
But! These were extremely precious spiritual food for the tribe. The Shaman would rather starve to death than throw them away. Just like the people who were willing to die here.
After careful consideration, Shao Xuan decided to leave these things here for the time being. When he went back, he would call some people to bring back the ancestor's body and the important "history" of the tribe.
There were too many things, too precious. Shao Xuan alone and Chacha could not guarantee that they could bring all these things back in good condition. If they encountered some troublesome ferocious beasts, not to mention bringing people and boxes back, they might even lose them. This risk could not be taken.
The strange power that existed in the cave before had disappeared. Perhaps it would not appear again. Its guarding task had been completed.
In order to prevent other creatures from destroying the ancestor's body and the precious "history" after the power disappeared, Shao Xuan set some traps at the entrance of the cave before leaving. He also went to the forest to find a lot of insect repellent plants and sprinkled them in the cave. For these insect repellent plants, Shao Xuan even fought with a giant bear. His arm bone was almost broken. That giant bear was much bigger than the two he saw in the old haunt.
Sure enough, the deeper they went into the forest, the stronger the ferocious beasts.
After dealing with the things in the cave, Shao Xuan left and went in the direction that Chacha told him.
The original goal of this trip was to find the stone that Chacha found. He did not expect to have an unexpected harvest. It was not a waste of a long trip.
More than half of the stone found by Chacha was embedded in the mountain wall. Its color was a little different from the surrounding stone, and its hardness was also very different. There were scratches and marks caused by various animals or other natural phenomena on the surrounding stone walls, but there were very few on this stone.
"Good, very good!"
Shao Xuan spent some time to dig out the stone. The hardness of the stone was good. It was at least a high-quality stone. It was big enough. Standing on the ground, it was estimated to be nearly two meters high and one meter wide. It was oblong. Shao Xuan tested it. The deeper he went, the harder the stone became. Although it wasn't easy to find high-quality stones, they weren't rare either. However, Shao Xuan was interested in better stones. Perhaps the core of this stone could reach the highest grade.
He was out of stock, so he had to prepare more good stones to bring back and grind them into tools.
Shao Xuan was heavier than a normal rock, but with the Yanjiao people's superior strength, he could carry the rock and even jog for a while. However, his speed was greatly reduced in the forest. Sometimes, Shao Xuan would have to throw the stone down first and find an opportunity to carry it away.
Carrying the stone back was indeed a difficult experience, but it was worth it to be able to find such a stone.
Because carrying one more stone consumed a lot of energy, and he had to save enough energy to deal with all kinds of creatures that might attack him, Shao Xuan didn't have time to study knot divination this time.
He wasn't used to carrying a heavy stone for the first few days, but gradually he got used to it. Sometimes he could even use the stone as a shield to block the attacks of those ferocious beasts. Now the weight he could carry was getting heavier and heavier.
In this way, he walked and stopped. When Shao Xuan returned to the tribe, it had been 29 days since he left the tribe.
Shao Xuan didn't expect to be away for so long. He said that this trip wouldn't take three or five days, but he didn't expect it to take nearly 30 days.
"Jiao —"
Chacha flew down from the air and called a few times to Shao Xuan.
"There are outsiders in the tribe?" Shao Xuan was puzzled. Could it be the Wan Shi tribe?
But now it didn't look like a war.
Shao Xuan made a gesture to let Chacha continue to pay attention to the situation in the air. After a short rest, he carried the stone with one arm and the dead prey with the other hand, and walked back to the tribe.
The prey was a python, nearly 20 meters long. Shao Xuan encountered it when he woke up in the morning to look for food. He was almost attacked by it, and it took him some effort and time to deal with it. Thinking that he should be able to return to the tribe before dark, he didn't throw the python away, but dragged it back by its tail. There were many snakes bigger than this one in the forest. Shao Xuan had seen several snakes over 30 or 40 meters long, but Shao Xuan always avoided them. He wouldn't provoke them before he was fully prepared.
When he came to the border, he met the warriors guarding here.
"Xuan, you're back! You got a good harvest this time! "A warrior said when he saw Shao Xuan carrying and dragging.
"It's okay. How's the tribe? Did anyone come? "Shao Xuan asked.
"Oh, you've been away for too long, so you don't know." The warrior thought of something and lowered his voice, saying, "Some people came. I heard that they are from the big tribes in the central region … The people who went hunting recently didn't go out."
"No wonder I didn't meet them along the way. They didn't go out hunting." Shao Xuan understood and asked about the people from the central region.
"I don't know why. You have to ask the Shaman and the Chief. But I don't like those people. They are so arrogant." The man curled his lips and said.
After listening to them, Shao Xuan walked back to the tribe. Now the sun was about to set. He had to go back in time for dinner. After eating in the morning, he didn't stop except for two short breaks.
The tribe looked a little different from when he left. The leaves of the trees became denser. There were some farmlands not far away. The seedlings in the fields had grown a lot taller. When he left, they just showed their tips.
Because he was carrying the stone and dragging the prey, Shao Xuan didn't go directly to a crowded place. He took a little detour.
At this time, many people who came out to work had already gone back, so there weren't many people in the places where Shao Xuan passed.
As he walked, Shao Xuan heard someone talking in front of him. The voice was very strange. There was more than one.
"Alas, that's why I said, this Flaming Horns tribe, in fact, is not as exaggerated as other people say!"
"Qu Ce and Xu also said that they are very powerful. I don't think so."
"That's right. When I heard those rumors before, I thought that they were all monsters. I was disappointed when I saw them." A soft female voice said.
"There's nothing special about them except that they are a little stronger. So what if they are a little stronger? Do you think you can kill people by throwing stones at them? "The man couldn't help but laugh.
Others also thought that this was funny and laughed.
The man continued, "How do you think they can fight when they're carrying rocks? Like this? Like this? Or like this? Well, I've seen this before, hahaha! "
However, he soon found that everyone's laughter had stopped, and the atmosphere was a little strange. He heard a sound approaching behind him, but he didn't care. So what if the people of the Yanjiao tribe heard him? At worst, he would fight. He wasn't afraid. However, everyone's faces were stiff, as if they had seen something incredible. There was also a person who had a good relationship with him winking at him and motioning him to look behind him.
The setting sun fell diagonally in front of him. He couldn't see who the person behind him was from the shadow. Just as he was thinking about whether to turn around and take a look, he heard a voice behind him.
"Hey, you're in the way."
Shao Xuan looked at the person in front of the road with feathers of various colors on his head. He was standing there like a monkey holding a watermelon. He thought: Where did this idiot come from?
The person in front of him turned around and the first thing he saw was a big stone. The pressure was so great that he couldn't help but move to the side.
Shao Xuan didn't say much. He carried the stone and dragged the snake home. He glanced at the people present and didn't find anyone he knew, so he didn't look at them anymore. If he wanted to fight, he could wait until he was full. In any case, these people wouldn't leave for a while. He was hungry now and was considering whether he should roast or boil the snake when he got home.
Looking at the person who left as if nothing had happened, the young people who stood there were silent for a long time. Then one of them asked, "Who was that person just now?"
The others didn't answer. They didn't know either.
At this moment, they only had one thought: Damn, that person just now looked about the same age as us, but he was so strong! It was as if he wasn't carrying a big stone, but a bucket, and he wasn't dragging a big python, but a dead fish. His footsteps … were quite light.
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