Desert and hills.
Lu Ming selected a few team members and started the motorcycle.
A huge fortress was built with steel. The steel barrier was about five meters high. Soldiers could stand in the shooting position and shoot at any ferocious beast without restraint.
The fourth team had no messenger returning with any news for several days.
Lu Ming decided to go and take a look in person, and the cluster dispatcher did not dissuade him.
After all, willingness to sacrifice is something that big corporate culture strongly advocates.
In the desert, the small iron flag signpost left by the Fifth Squad disappeared dozens of kilometers away.
Ahead is a dense coniferous forest.
There is still thick snow in the forest.
The fifth team may have walked in a certain direction along the edge of the forest, and the road signs were most likely cleared away deliberately by some creature.
Lu Ming pondered for a while, then pointed in the direction of the woods and said, "I'll go take a look inside myself, you guys go back."
Several members of the White Blood Cells were equally indifferent. After receiving the order from their superior, they all started their motorcycles to turn around.
Lu Ming checked his individual equipment and went into the woods.
If I really encounter a danger that can kill me, then I will not set foot in this new continent in the short term.
Moreover, you will know in advance what dangers you will face.
I don't need any road signs to leave any marks.
Of course, every time he walked a certain distance, he would carve marks on the trees with a dagger.
Gradually, we went deeper and deeper into the dense forest.
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For a day and a night, Lu Ming advanced at a speed of about 10 kilometers per hour, which is about 300 kilometers, but there was still no end to the dense forest. What was strange was that except for some cold-resistant insects, there were no other mammals here.
The morning light in the forest is no different from that in the Old World.
After running at a constant speed for a whole day and night, Lu Ming felt physically tired for the first time. He was just about to find a place to rest when he suddenly frowned slightly. He then chose a very tall tree and climbed up, picked up the telescope and looked into the distance.
Although it was a coniferous forest, the densely packed trees blocked the view. I could vaguely see that the trees were gradually becoming sparse a few miles ahead. At this moment, two groups of black goats were slowly approaching. Each group had about a few hundred beasts. The beasts in the front of both sides bent their long horns towards each other and slowly approached.
Suddenly, they rushed towards each other viciously, pushing and biting each other hard, and the scene immediately became extremely brutal and bloody.
Gradually, the sheep on the left could not hold on any longer. The leader sheep suddenly turned around and ran away, and the rest of the sheep-headed beasts also retreated immediately.
The victorious herd of sheep-headed beasts immediately chased after them, but their targets were the injured and the slowest ones, tearing them to the ground, and then swarming over them to eat them.
Lu Ming was startled again, as if he heard a whistle, and slowly turned the telescope.
In the telescope view, a very tall man wrapped in animal skins suddenly appeared, with black hair almost falling to his waist.
When he turned his head, Lu Ming's eyes narrowed slightly. He had a furry face, extremely thick hair on his temples, and prominent cheekbones and cheeks, just like a gorilla that had lost a lot of facial hair.
Judging from the way he called out to the flock of sheep, it was obvious that he could command these sheep-headed beasts.
Looking at him, Lu Ming recalled some restored images of Neanderthals he had seen in his previous life. They were very similar.
There is no doubt that this should also be a branch of Homo sapiens that evolved from ancient apes. According to the scientific species classification of my previous life, it belongs to the genus Homo of the family Hominidae. I just don't know whether there is reproductive isolation between it and humans like me.
Because it was isolated from both the New and Old Worlds, this species of Homo sapiens was not exterminated by modern humans.
And if they can barely exchange genes with humans like themselves, that is, if there is a chance of giving birth to the next generation, then it means that in ancient times, tens of thousands of years ago, the creatures on these continents were able to migrate back and forth, and they all evolved from the same kind of ancient ape.
Lu Ming's eyes suddenly focused again, and he aimed the telescope at the metal mace in the hand of the unknown Homo sapiens.
Obviously, judging from the level of technology, they have entered the Iron Age, rather than the ancient Homo sapiens stage like the Neanderthals.
Moreover, the person who can drive such a ferocious herd of sheep-headed beasts must be very powerful.
Look at the sheep. It was afraid to eat when it saw him, but after his gesture, it started to eat with relish again.
Although he looked tall, he was only about 2.23 meters tall, and probably not the giant barbarian as described in the legends of the Northern Territory.
Lu Ming observed this guy's every move until he left leisurely with his well-fed flock of sheep.
Lu Ming thought about it, slid down the treetop, followed the sheep's paw prints from a distance, and followed them a few kilometers away.
Along the way, this guy led the sheep to fight several times, and he won every time.
In fact, all sheep have owners.
Moreover, I am afraid that all mammals in this world have been eaten up, and the sheep will only be able to devour each other.
The fights always happened in the morning.
But a few days later, when Lu Ming followed this guy back to his "tribe", he was surprised.
In the river plain area, the densely packed wooden stables are filled with sheep-headed beasts. I'm afraid there are hundreds of thousands of them
There are probably thousands or even tens of thousands of thatched huts scattered among them.
The forest-like grain fields stretching for hundreds of kilometers in the distance are even more shocking.
Tribal culture, so many people gathered together, and where did these captive ferocious beasts get food
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Lu Ming was observing the tribe from a distance.
After a few days, they discovered that the so-called grain fields should be a kind of natural tree plant with a large yield. The red fruits were edible by humans and goats.
On this day, there was a loud cheer in the tribe, as if their hunting team had returned, with the sheep pulled on the cart covered with huge leaves.
When they lifted the leaves, Lu Ming slightly tightened his grip on the telescope.
The car was full of dead bodies, and judging by their clothes they were obviously the bodies of White Blood Cell members, but they all looked frozen.
More than a dozen large carts and hundreds of bodies.
Looking at the logo, it is a member of the fourth team.
The tribesmen cheered, and they could have an extra meal because they saw a child pick up the corpse's hand and take a bite, but was scolded by his parents and stood aside in grievance.
Sure enough, a bonfire was lit that night and every household cooked meat.
Unlike the chiefdoms in Southeast Asia that practice cannibalism, this group of Homo sapiens seemed to particularly like the deliciousness of human flesh, just like eating a sumptuous meal.
The meat of the goat is just ordinary food to them.
Most of the goats were fattened by being kept in captivity for a long time, and would be slaughtered when they reached adulthood.
The goat beasts that are often taken out to fight seem to belong to a fighting group and are treated specially.
After a few days of observation, I feel that their social structure is a patriarchal tribal culture. The men take turns going out hunting, and those who stay at home pick food and raise goats with the women and children.
But there was no family engaged in iron smelting.
Moreover, these wise men had a variety of iron weapons, including swords, spears and the like.
But the size is obviously small, and they don’t fit their hands very well.
On this day, another hunting team returned, bringing with them dozens of living people, real humans.
The clothes looked like those from the Middle Ages. There were men, women, young and old, all of them were terrified. The women and children were crying, and even the grown men were begging for mercy, but their language was incomprehensible.
They were all locked in wooden cages, and it seemed that since they had just had a meal the day before, these spoils would be kept alive and eaten in a few days.
Lu Ming looked at this scene and it seemed that his original guess was correct. This new continent also had a human civilization like his own.
They are a bit like the Oenians of the Old World, with particularly high noses, narrow faces, and extremely delicate features, but their skin is whiter than that of the Oenians.