The expedition team left from another river in the Pu tribe, and also took the waterway.
There are not so many lotus leaves in this river, and people are standing on the rafts one by one.
Shao Xuan and Zha were on the same raft, listening to other people around them telling Zha about their long journey.
In the sky above the raft procession, Cha Cha followed. This Shao Xuan had already told the leader of Fanning.
At that time, Fanning also hoped that Shao Xuan would pay an extra piece of water moon stone, but Shao Xuan refused. Zhacha could give an early warning in the sky, which could reduce the chance of the Pu tribe encountering danger. With such benefits, you still charge? Now the business here is not developed, but these people already have the potential of profiteers.
In the end, although Fanning's face was not very good, he did not insist.
Since it is a long trip, naturally it will not be a matter of one or two days. Sometimes it takes dozens or hundreds of days to go out.
Probably because there are many human tribes in this area, there is no dangerous situation like the hunting area on the other side of the river, and sometimes there are some troubles from underwater, or harassment from other tribes, but in general, still Calm and safe.
Because they often travel far, the people of the Pu tribe are very clear about which waterway and which direction is safe and convenient, and Shao Xuan also silently memorizes these routes in his heart. Finish drawing the map. If one day the Yanjiao tribe on the other side of the river returns, they will always need these maps.
Nearly a thousand years have passed, and the changes have been very great. It is no longer what the ancestors recorded.
As you move forward, the river gets wider and wider. Near the river, there is always some trace of human activity. Listening to the people next to you, there is a small tribe not far ahead, but that small tribe does not like to be in contact with people from outside tribes, and it is withdrawn. I am very unhappy about this, but it will not delay the speed of the long journey.
"Be careful," reminded someone with several years of long-distance travel experience nearby.
On the bank ahead, there were several women in animal skins washing things. After seeing the raft team, they hurriedly dragged their things and ran away. And when the raft team passed by, some arrows were shot from the woods on the slightly higher hills on the shore.
This kind of strength is nothing to Shao Xuan, or even to the warriors of the Yanjiao tribe, and it can be easily caught and broken. But a lot of these arrows are annoying.
The people of the Pu tribe held wooden shields to block the arrows, and Shao Xuan chopped down the wooden arrows with a knife.
If it was a big tribe, maybe the Pu tribe would back down and communicate in the past, but with such a small tribe, the people of the Pu tribe would be too lazy to pay attention to those eccentric people.
The speed of the raft increased, and when the raft team left the area, the arrows stopped.
In fact, those people hiding in the bushes may not really want to shoot the people passing by. They are just trying to frighten them. If they really want to kill, they should be able to use tougher methods, rather than sharpening their heads. of wooden arrows.
There are many tribes around, the presence of small tribes is very low, and most tribes have only a few hundred people, their abilities are not strong, and their emergence and demise are fast, and the Pu tribe does not spend too much energy to pay attention.
The people from the Pu tribe around Shao Xuan didn't want to talk about it at all, they only cared about what was closely related to their own interests.
Two days later.
"There is a fork in front of us, and we will stay there for two days." A person next to him said, looking at the darkening sky.
In the front, the river is divided into two branches in a "Y" shape. There, there are also many people from other tribes who traveled to the central part. The Pu tribe and many of them know each other. Grow up, so that there is more security.
There are too many powerhouses in the middle, and they can only compete with numbers.
Shao Xuan looked over.
On both sides of the river, there are no mountains, no dense forests, and it becomes flat, and here, many houses are built, including wooden houses and stone houses, and the architectural styles are also diverse, oval, triangular, and flat-roofed wooden shed. Yes, thatched-roofed... Just by looking at this one can tell that this is not a tribe.
Looking at people, although the characteristics are not as obvious as houses, everyone who sees them will have an idea: these people are too mixed, like a mess of loose sand. Each grain of sand comes from a different watershed and then gathers here.
Although there are many people, many of them seem to be in very poor physical condition, some are skinny, some have dull eyes, regardless of adults and children, they are all the same, children are slightly better, in addition to their physical condition, some can laugh With a smile, the adults are more dazed and depressed.
What the hell happened to make these people like this
"Who are these people?" Shao Xuan asked the few people who were very experienced in long-distance travel beside him.
"You talk about them." Several people from the Pu tribe glanced over there, some sighed, some didn't care, "They are 'tourists'."
The "tourists" in their mouths are not tourists, but those who are displaced and have nowhere to live. They are like duckweeds without roots, they often walk around and do various things for survival.
"They are the ones who lost the fire," said a person from the Pu tribe next to him.
A person who has lost the fire, no matter where he goes, his life will be in darkness. Without the fire, where will the power come from
"Lost the fire?" Shao Xuan was curious about such a statement.
"Yeah, their tribe no longer exists, the fire has been extinguished, and they have lost the source of their strength." That humane said.
In the year Shao Xuan awakened, Wu told them that the source of their power was in their bodies, and under the call of fire, it would gradually wake up, that is, the totem in their minds.
If the fire is extinguished, it means that the tribe no longer exists, the totem will naturally dissipate, and the source of power in the body will naturally fall into a deep sleep or even disappear.
No wonder those people are in that state. The tribe is gone, the power of the totem is gone, and they have become "tourists".
However, Shao Xuan was very surprised that the fire was extinguished. He originally thought that that special flame would exist for a long time. Now it seems that it can still be extinguished. However, when it is extinguished, the tribe will be gone.
According to the people of the Pu tribe, after the fire is extinguished, the tribe disappears, and some people will use their special survival skills in exchange for food. such as hard work.
Perhaps, they will be in such a wandering state for the rest of their lives. Some people will abandon their beliefs and join other tribes, and their descendants will naturally awaken the totems of other tribes under the call of fire from other tribes. However, if the totem power in the blood of the body is too mixed, the awakening is successful. Even if there may be some discrimination, at least there is a safe place to stay and a place to belong. But if the awakening fails, they will be expelled from the tribe and continue the tourist life of their ancestors.
"Why don't they go hunting?" Shao Xuan asked. But after asking, Shao Xuan realized the various situations that might exist, the power of the totem was gone, and the risk of going hunting was too great.
"Hunting?" Zha smiled, "Unless absolutely necessary, they won't go hunting by themselves."
Even if this place is not like the mountains and forests on the other side of the river, but in many places, it is impossible for one or two people to resist at all. At least one team is needed to survive, especially those who have been abandoned by the fire, those who have no faith and strength. , ten to nine dead.
"If both parents are not wandering children, what will happen to the offspring?" Shao Xuan asked.
"Generally speaking, many tribes do not require that they must combine with people within the tribe, such as our Pu tribe. As long as the descendants accept the guidance of the fire, there is only one choice, either accept the fire of this tribe, or accept the other, He can only awaken one source of power, otherwise, if both powers are awakened, it will cause conflict. People from small tribes are more inclined to marry people within the tribe. However, this also has disadvantages. If there are too few people , easy to get confused."
The experienced traveller from the Pu tribe also said that some small tribes had committed many unimaginable and promiscuous phenomena in order to increase the population, which caused the whole tribe to be suffocated. The people of the Pu tribe despised this.
Shao Xuan thought about it, when the Yanjiao tribe lived in that place, there were not many people, but there were records of personnel in the hands of the witches back then, and according to the records Shao Xuan had seen, the population of the tribe grew very slowly. But it was very stable, and there was no chaos like what Zha said.
When he was in the tribe at that time, Shao Xuan felt that the witches of the Yanjiao tribe were very difficult. Now that he heard about the situation of other tribes, if it wasn't for the leadership and control of the witches from the Yanjiao tribe, they might have become like that.
Under such circumstances, it is really not easy to face all kinds of beasts in the surrounding mountains and forests, and it is not easy to grow to the scale of nearly 2,000 people today.
A good witch and a good leader are indeed very important.
The Pu tribe's long-distance team came ashore one after another, and Shao Xuan saw a ten-person team coming quickly to help the Pu tribe's raft team to carry things and take care of the raft on the water. There was someone next to him holding a whip and staring viciously.
"Who are they?" Shao Xuan asked the person next to him.
"You talk about them." The same words as before, but now the eyes of the people of the Pu tribe are no longer indifferent or sighing, but with extreme contempt, solemnly: "Those are, slaves!"
Shao Xuan's eyelids jumped.
At this moment, Shao Xuan only heard a wanton laughter in front of him, the laughter was a bit harsh.
Looking up, Shao Xuan saw a man casually dressed in leopard skin, walking slowly with a smile, tall and thin, with a white face, not as dark as those around him who were busy with work. A pair of eyes squinted slightly, and they seemed to be smiling happily, but the sharp light that flashed between the eyes told Shao Xuan that this person was not easy to get along with.
"Hahahaha! We meet again!" When the man came over, Fanning, the leader of the expedition team, quickly walked up to him. Fanning, who had always had no good feelings for Shao Xuan, smiled like a flower at the moment, and went to talk to the other party in the past. speak up.
"Who is that person?" Shao Xuan asked the person next to him.
This time, the voices of the people from the Pu tribe were not so loud, and they suppressed their voices slightly: "He is the master of those slaves."
In other words, the one wearing the leopard skin was a slave owner.