Shao Xuan had been keeping an eye on the river to see if there were any changes that needed to be made, and if there were any additions that needed to be made, it would be much more difficult to make any changes once the river was cleared.
As for the pterosaur's movements, as long as it didn't go up the mountain and attack Yanjiao's people, Shao Xuan wouldn't bother with it for the time being. After all, he was pressed for time.
When no one was paying attention, the withered leaf birds started to lose their original temperament day by day and started to become strange.
However, Shao Xuan didn't know about that. He only knew about the pterosaur's movements. As for the withered leaf birds, Shao Xuan thought that with the Yanjiao's people keeping an eye on them, nothing major would happen.
Just two days before the river was completed, Shao Xuan was drawing some defensive tools that needed to be built when someone came to look for him.
Shao Xuan thought that something had happened to the pterosaur, but unexpectedly, the person who came to look for him said, "There are strangers here. The chief said that if Great Elder is interested, you can go and take a look."
"Strangers?" This meant that they were either from an unfamiliar tribe or from the other side of the sea. However, since Guigou sent someone to look for him, it definitely wasn't something ordinary.
Shao Xuan temporarily put aside his matters here and walked towards the headquarters. When he crossed the stone bridge, he noticed that there were some Mu Fa tied to the side of the bridge. Shao Xuan had never seen the wood used to make Mu Fa here. There were also things that looked like sails on the rafts, but they weren't made of cloth. They were made of intertwined leaves.
There were some ornaments on the Mu Fa. When he saw one of them, Shao Xuan's eyes narrowed. After taking a closer look, he more or less knew why Guigou was looking for him.
The ornament on the Mu Fa was a small conch. The conch's growth pattern and color didn't seem to be from the river, but more like something from the sea!
Were they from the sea?
Looking at the spot where the Mu Fa stopped, Shao Xuan asked the person next to him, "Did they come from downstream?"
"Yes. I heard from the people on the other side of the stone bridge that this is the case. " The soldier looked around and whispered, "It seems that those people brought a lot of things, including shell coins."
Shell coins?
Due to the medicinal properties of seashells and their rarity, these seashells were also used as a form of currency in many places.
If those people came from the desert, Shao Xuan would not be so surprised. Most of the inland shellcoins came from there. The reason why the Rain tribe could have so many shellcoins was because they worked as a middleman to get them from the desert.
However, after the situation in the desert changed, coupled with the effects of the natural disaster, shellcoins became less and less popular in the inland. There were expedition teams that came to the trading point that guessed that the tribes near the sea had either been exterminated or moved away. Anyway, they heard from others that when they went there, they didn't see anyone from the sea and no new shellcoins came out from there.
However, the sea was not only in one direction. Shao Xuan had said before that if they walked down the Flaming River, they would definitely see the sea. The last time he brought the fleet out, he wanted to see the sea before coming back. However, he didn't expect to have to come back early because of Caesar's eye.
Now, they could actually see a tribe from the sea downstream.
Shao Xuan didn't tell the others about his guess. If people from the sea were carrying shell coins, this information would arouse other expedition teams' suspicions.
"How many of them are here? Where are they now? "Shao Xuan asked.
"I think there are about fifty of them. Their wooden rafts only stopped when they reached the stone bridge. Our people brought them ashore, but after they got ashore, more than half of them fainted and are now being brought up the mountain."
Only fifty people?
Most likely, the others had died in an accident on their way here.
When Shao Xuan went up the mountain, he heard some people in the tribe talking. Every time they saw someone from a new tribe, there would always be a discussion. Everyone had different beliefs, different customs, different outfits … There were too many differences and they were all topics of discussion.
"I heard that those people have horns on their heads!"
"What horns? They're wearing horns!"
"Are those really horns? Why haven't I seen horns like that before? They don't look like horns … "
Shao Xuan listened to the Yanjiao people's discussion and was confused.
Horns?
Guigou arranged for those people to stay in the reception area on the mountain. It was a big place with rooms and beds. The people of the Feather tribe were arranged here before.
When Shao Xuan went in, he found Guigou and Gui Ze, as well as the two retired shamans. Guigou was talking to a person lying on the bed. That person looked very excited. He looked very tired, but he didn't fall down. He was dark and skinny, with many injuries on his body. His accent was heavy. Probably because the sea was too far from the central area, and there were no other tribes there, his language began to have its own characteristics. Therefore, it was difficult for Guigou to communicate there, and he spoke slowly.
There was something similar to a horn on the table next to him. It should be the "horns" that people in the tribe were talking about. However, it wasn't a beast horn, but a kind of snail from the sea.
Seeing Shao Xuan come in, Guigou asked the wounded person to rest first. He walked out of the room and motioned for Shao Xuan to follow him.
Those people took up six rooms, but there were many rooms here. Guigou took Shao Xuan to a room farther away.
"Which tribe are they from?" Shao Xuan asked.
Guigou's expression was complicated. He looked at Shao Xuan and said helplessly, "I don't know."
Seeing Shao Xuan's confusion, Guigou explained, "I didn't hear what they said clearly."
He could only guess what they were talking about. When those people were excited, they spoke faster, so Guigou couldn't understand what they were talking about.
"However, there should be people in their team who can speak better. It's just that most of them are in a coma now. The rest of them are just keeping their eyes open because they are alert. However, after Gui Ze gave them the medicine, their attitude was obviously much better. Moreover, it seems that there is something they haven't said. Their emotions are more complicated. They are excited and happy, but they are also very alert. Of course, I know this should be a normal reaction. However, Xuan, you don't know. The way they look at us is very strange. This is something that has never been shown by people from other tribes. "
Thinking of something, Guigou took out a shell, "They brought a lot of things. There are beautiful stones and this extremely rare shell money. No, this is different from the shell money in the past. It hasn't been polished, and there is even rotten meat stuck on it. "
Shao Xuan looked at it carefully. He had learned from Yang Sui how to distinguish the valuable shell money. Some shells looked very beautiful and seemed to be very valuable, but in fact, they had no medicinal value at all. They couldn't be used as shell money and couldn't be deceived by experts. However, some shells looked inconspicuous, but could be exchanged for more things from people who knew the value of the shells.
At this time, the shell that Guigou took out not only had a very beautiful pattern, which was in line with the preferences of some people who cared more about the color pattern, but also belonged to the kind of shell that had medicinal value.
"These things are enough to be shell money. The quality is even better than the shell money in the past." Shao Xuan said.
"That's true. But the strange thing is that those people don't seem to value these things very much. You know, if they need to trade materials, they will definitely protect these shells very well. However, those people didn't do that. What they value is a big shell. "
"A big shell?"
"Yes, I have asked people to move the big shell into a room. The people in the team who haven't fallen down are all guarding the big shell. I can feel that there is someone in the big shell! "
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