The tribe that Aze belongs to is called the Rock Mountain Tribe, which got its name because it was backed by a small rock mountain. Twenty years ago, several small tribes around it were merged, and the scale once reached about a thousand people. It is a relatively well-known medium-sized tribe nearby. Three years ago, the hyena group was suddenly attacked by a group of hyenas in a month of winter. More than one-third of the females in the tribe died in order to protect the group. After all, the tribe was too close to the Loya Forest. Before the next winter, many males were worried that hyena dragons would come in the winter, and suggested that the patriarch leave this place. Finally, the patriarch decided to lead the tribe to seek refuge in a nearby big place far away from the Loya Forest. Tribe, lion wolf tribe.
Of course, there are still people in the Yanshan tribe, but most of these people who are left behind are injured, old, or females who have lost their partners. People from this place where they grew up. Most of the young children and male sons will not choose to stay.
The Rock Mountain Tribe has no city walls, only a few dry tree trunks as a fence. A middle-aged female sits on the canopy of a tall fig tree outside. When it came to Chen Qi, he was a little more surprised.
When Chen Qi walked into the tribe, all he saw was a mess of square-shaped houses, without any plan. Some of them were crowded together, and some were far away from each other. Overgrown with weeds, some houses were half-collapsed, and the doorway without the animal-hide curtain was like a dark hole. All the houses have no windows, and the area of the house is only half the size of A Ze's house, and the height is only a little higher than A Ze's. Chen Qi can touch the roof by standing on tiptoes and stretching out his hands.
Chen Qi looked at these houses that were completely unsuitable for people to live in for a long time. He couldn't imagine what it would be like to live in such a low and narrow house for several months in winter. If it is more comfortable, I can only build another house by myself, "Ah Ze, let me build a new house next to your house." Chen Qi sighed and said to the people next to him while walking.
Aze stopped in his tracks and looked at Chen Qi's back in surprise.
Chen Qi turned his head and asked strangely: "Why didn't you leave?"
"Come on, I'll take you to Uncle Azhang first. Anyone who lives here needs to report to Uncle Azhang." Aze quickly walked a few steps to hide his overflowing joy, like Her tightly pursed thin lips slightly raised as if remembering something, "I will help you build the house."
Chen Qi smiled, "Okay." Of course he won't ask Aze to help him build a house like him. I don't know if those house designs can be copied from the previous designs, but no matter what, I never People from a civilized society would at least be better than those made by these primitive orcs. Thinking of this, Chen Qi became a little eager to try.
Most of the surviving people moved to live at the foot of the rocky mountain, and the only ones who insisted on living in the center of the tribe were Aze’s younger brother Carlo’s family, a female named Ali and a female named Azhang.
Azhang is now going to take Chen Qi to look for Azhang. Azhang is the current acting patriarch of the Yanshan tribe, responsible for leading the females to hunt and arrange defense and other work.
As he walked in, Chen Qi found that only the houses on the outskirts of the tribe collapsed more seriously. Most of the houses near the center were still intact, but it looked like no one lived there.
A female wearing a gray animal fur coat is breaking a pile of branches into several equal-sized sections in front of the house. These are firewood for winter use. The more firewood you store, the greater your chance of surviving in winter.
But this large pile of firewood was not prepared by Ah Zhang for himself. Females have the ability to turn into beasts in winter, but those who are seriously injured will lose the ability to turn into animals. Ah Li's right foot was seriously injured. However, walking is not easy, and in recent years, even animalization has become difficult, so when Chuxue first arrived, Azhang began to prepare a lot of firewood, on the one hand for Ali, and on the other hand for those who still stayed in the forest. The elderly females in the tribe who have limited mobility and the few young children who are reluctant to leave.
"Uncle Azhang." Before the two approached, Aze yelled when he saw each other's figure.
The hearing of the female and the son is very sensitive. Although there is still a distance between them, A Zhang stopped his hands when he heard the shout and raised his head. Seeing that it was A Ze, he showed a slightly honest smile.
uncle? Chen Qi looked at the orc in front of him, he looked about thirty, he had short brown-black hair, and his face was very rigid, but when he smiled, he gave off a simple and honest feeling, his hands were very muscular, more Aze was a little taller, and when he got close, he felt like a wall.
Azhang threw the firewood in his hand aside, and tapped Chen Qi next to him with his chin, "Is he the son you brought back?"
"Yes, his name is Chen Qi." Aze nodded helplessly. It seems that Carlo has come to greet him in advance, otherwise Azhang would not know that he brought it back as soon as he saw Chen Qi people.
Before Chen Qi could say hello to the other party, Azhang clapped his hands and turned to enter the room, "Come in."
The two followed into the house, Azhang's house was smaller than Aze's, but there were much more things in it than Aze's, the only thing in common was that there were a lot of pottery plates and pots here, almost belonged to Aze's double.
Azhang walked to a white clay pot beside the bed, reached out his hand and took out a round white stone, then walked to Chen Qi's side, grabbed Chen Qi's hand, a long nail suddenly appeared on the index finger of his right hand, gently Lightly stroked Chen Qi's palm.
Chen Qi gritted his teeth in pain, and said angrily, "What are you doing?"
Azhang didn't wait for Chen Qi to retract his hand, he took a white stone and rubbed it against Chen Qi's injured area, the stone gave out a light that was invisible to the naked eye, and the blood stained on it changed rapidly, slowly turning into a silhouette of a dragon . Azhang stared at the blood-stained silhouette for a while, and asked a little doubtfully, "Are you from the snake clan?"
Naturally, Chen Qi also saw the change in the stone, and before he had time to be surprised, he jumped to his feet when he heard A Zhang's question: "That's a dragon." You are a snake, and he is the descendant of a dragon. Well, in fact, Chen Qi didn't understand why the stone turned into a silhouetted dragon flying into the air after being stained with his own blood.
But dragons, it's not a pretty thing here.
Without saying anything, Azhang took the stone back to a red clay pot beside the bed and put it in, waved to the two of them and said, "You can go."
Heartbroken, Aze took out the animal skin he had prepared long ago and wrapped Chen Qi's injured palm, explaining: "This is a stone that records information, it can record the most original taste in your blood, even if you disappear in the future, I can find you by following the smell in the stone." After speaking, he handed a piece of animal skin to Azhang, and Azhe carried a dozen animal skins when he went out. Chen Qi almost thought he was going to move, "Thank you, Uncle Azhang , then Chen Qi and I will leave first."
Azhang was not polite, took it and knocked Aze on the head casually, cursing: "How many times have I told you not to call me uncle, I am only 55 years old, and I am still young, I should call you brother."
Chen Qi rolled his eyes, at the age of 55, he still needs to be called brother, it's shameless, don't think that you won't be old if you have a young face. Well, Chen Qi just resented that the other party cut him without saying hello, it hurts. But speaking of age, orcs seem to have a lifespan of more than two hundred years. Chen Qi silently envied him, wondering if he could have such a long lifespan.
After leaving A Zhang's house, the two went to A Li's house next door. A Ze wanted A Li to help Chen Qi make some animal fur clothes. Chen Qi's thin set of clothes could not withstand the severe winter here.
Because of his inconvenient legs and feet, Ali stayed in the house for many years. His skin color was whiter than that of ordinary females. He looked gentle and gentle, giving people a very gentle feeling. I heard from Aze that Ali was almost eighty years old. Yes, but it looks like thirty-five or sixteen. Because of the harsh environment, the orcs will not enter the aging period until they are 150 years old. Too early aging is not conducive to the survival of this race.
When the two came in, Ali was weaving. Yes, that's right, he was weaving, but his weaving method was different from what Chen Qi knew. In front of him were a few basketball-sized cloths. Cocoon, the lines are a bit rough, but it looks very soft. Use a few stones to press one side of the woven fabric, and then keep cross-adjusting the positions of several cocoons, and stop from time to time to check the weaving. Is there any place that is too loose, if it is too loose, compact it manually and then continue. The area of the cloth woven in this way is not large, and the speed is very slow.
Chen Qi leaned over in surprise, looked curiously at the small piece of cloth that had already been woven, then looked at the few cocoons, stretched out his hand to touch it, it was soft, a bit like woolen yarn, but thinner than woolen yarn a little. No wonder Aze was not surprised at all when he saw the clothes he was wearing. It turned out that there was already cloth here.
"Do you like this cloth?" Ali's voice was as gentle as his appearance.
Chen Qi took a few steps back in embarrassment for his impolite behavior, nodded, and asked expectantly: "Can you weave a few pieces of cloth for me? I can give you a reward."
A Li didn't answer him, but turned to look at the tall orc who was putting the hide beside him with a smile, "This is the male you brought back?"
Aze nodded, "His name is Chen Qi."
"It's a good name." Ali turned to look at Chen Qi, "I knitted this for Ake's unborn child. You want cloth now because you plan to have a child?"
"Child?" Chen Qi looked at A Ze suspiciously.
Aze explained: "Only orc babies will wear clothes made of cloth here."