"Pterosaur?" Duo Kang was confused. Obviously, this was the first time he had heard of this name.
"What's a pterosaur? A bird?" Duo Kang looked curiously at the skeleton that wasn't very detailed. The more he looked, the tighter his frown became. "This doesn't look like a normal bird. If it was bigger, it could be very dangerous."
This was only a rough skeleton. As for what the bones were like, how hard they were, and how the muscles were distributed, all of these would affect their judgment of the beast. Therefore, Duo Kang could only give a vague guess.
"They are different from birds. They probably existed even before the formation of the tribes." Shao Xuan didn't know when the tribes were formed in this world. What he said was still just a guess.
Shao Xuan had once wondered if there were other creatures living here in the distant past, before the tribes were formed and before humans occupied the majority of the land.
Because there were no records, Shao Xuan didn't think too much about it. After all, the present and the future were the most important.
And now, they discovered these things from the ice floes on the sea. All of them reminded Shao Xuan that a long, long time ago, there might have been things that no one knew about. There might have been creatures that no one knew existed. Maybe because of the limited civilization back then, the people who existed back then couldn't record those things.
There might be more ice floes in the sea than the ones they found, and it might not have happened this year. It might have happened often, but no one had ever scooped them up. They just let the ice melt and enter the stomachs of the fish beasts in the sea.
And this batch was fished up by a passing fleet.
The other insects and beasts in the ice were also from the same time period as this pterosaur.
Then, in the extremely cold place that Yu You mentioned, were there more frozen animals that existed in the ancient times?
If there was a chance, Shao Xuan wanted to go and take a look.
There might be dinosaurs!
Of course, now wasn't the time to think so much.
Since he could roughly guess what was in the ice from the skeleton, Shao Xuan thought about his future plans. When he returned, he would definitely try it out on this creature.
"What's the matter?" Shao Xuan asked Duo Kang.
Duo Kang looked away from the wooden skeleton and snapped back to reality. "It's the Taihe tribe. I showed them the map of the Flaming River Trading Point and the headquarters of the tribe. I asked them where they wanted to live. They said they wanted to live in a place similar to the Flaming Horn tribe. They would also let some of their people enter the trading point. After all, they have a lot of things to trade throughout the year."
The people of Taihe were good at discovering and growing herbs. In the past, they would only travel two or three times a year to trade because they were too far away from the cities. Only in the cities could they trade for more goods. Therefore, every year, they would process the herbs and store them. Then, they would wait until a certain time to sell all the accumulated herbs.
But now, there was no need for that. Yanjiao had its own trading zone, and the people from Taihe could bring the goods over to trade whenever they had any. It was very convenient.
"Oh, that's it?" Shao Xuan didn't think that Duo Kang would come over just because of this.
When they decided to persuade the Taihe tribe to move over, the higher-ups of the tribe had already predicted their choice. Everything was within their expectations.
"Hey! There's one more thing. " Duo Kang smiled and rubbed his hands together in anticipation. "You said that our Yanjiao Trading Point would expand?"
"That's right." Shao Xuan nodded.
"With the Taihe people joining us, can we expand?" Duo Kang's eyes were filled with anticipation.
"That depends on whether the Trading Point can be stabilized. We will definitely expand, but there's no rush. We've already put up Yanjiao's stone tablets wherever the king stoneworm passed. We've marked out the territory and built the foundation. It would be a waste if we don't use it."
Wherever the king stoneworm passed, a large part of the ground had already turned into stone. It was very stable to build houses on top of it. They could even use the stone to build roads.
Of course, the plan was beautiful, but it had to be done step by step. It had to be stable. They didn't want others to take advantage of the expansion.
Duo Kang understood Shao Xuan's concerns. He just wanted to confirm how long the plan would take.
After the fleet arrived at the Longboat tribe, they rested for a few days in the Longboat tribe. They still needed the Longboat tribe's ships, so they continued to sail along the river.
Mu Fa and the others brought back many plants and beasts from another continent. Even though they didn't like the taste of the plants and the size of the beasts' meat, they were all treated as rare treasures by the Longboat tribe because they were brought back from another continent by the fleet.
The Longboat tribesmen who returned from the sea looked very different from the Longboat tribesmen who stayed in the tribe. They were more arrogant, fierce, and dangerous. When they joked, their eyes shone with undisguised ambition. That was the change after the sea. In the near future, as more and more Longboat tribesmen left the tribe for the sea, this change would spread to the entire tribe. The Longboat tribesmen would no longer be the Long Boat tribesmen everyone knew.
Mu Fa and the others didn't continue to follow the fleet. Instead, another group of people followed. Before the fleet set off again, Mu Fa reminded the Longboat tribesmen not to forget to bring back more wood from Yanjiao.
"Don't worry, Chief. We won't forget!" The leader promised. They also wanted to sail far away. They definitely had to continue building ships, so they wouldn't neglect the wood used to build ships.
After setting off from the Longboat tribe, the fleet continued to sail along the river towards the Flaming River. During this time, many mid-sized tribes in the central region had successfully merged their fire seeds. However, there was also one that failed. Failure meant the extinction of the tribe.
Shao Xuan didn't know why they failed. He only heard from the Longboat tribesmen that there was an accident during the merging process. The tribe's shaman was killed at the most crucial moment too. There wasn't enough time to choose a successor.
"Our shaman said it might be the people from the desert," said the Longboat tribe warrior who led the team.
His first reaction would be to guess that it was the people from the other side of the sea. However, if he thought about it carefully, the possibility of it being Rock Hill City wasn't small either. After all, they needed slaves. A tribesman who lost his fire seed would become a wanderer. Wanderers were the best slaves.
Shao Xuan didn't know the truth for now. Before he knew the details, he felt that the people from Rock Hill City and the other side of the sea were very likely to be the culprits. The Longboat shaman naturally had his reasons for guessing. However, what the Longboat shaman didn't know was that even totemic warriors could be turned into monsters after death. Wanderers weren't absolutely necessary.
When they finally returned to Yanjiao, the weather was much warmer.
To show their welcome to their old friends, Yanjiao hosted another banquet at the trading point. However, they didn't invite the big tribes this time. The main guests were Yanjiao and Taihe.
Wu He and the other four who were locked up in Yanjiao were finally released. The Taihe tribe had come over. According to their agreement, they were free too.
Wu He and the other four were overjoyed to finally regain their freedom. Although they tried their best to negotiate terms with Yanjiao in exchange for a more comfortable environment, that was only compared to the beginning.
Although they still felt cold during this past winter, Yanjiao's animal hides were good and kept them warm. Even so, it couldn't alleviate their boredom and loneliness.
Being trapped in a cramped cave was a great torture for the Chang Le people.
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