Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

The slate was very large and thick. Chen Qi saw that the largest one was almost one meter high. Chen Qi could not move it alone. Carlo's strength was stronger than Chen Qi's. The slate was pulled out and neatly placed in one place.

Chen Qi chose relatively complete slates, but because the slates are too heavy, the speed of the two of them is not fast. They only got about ten pieces in an afternoon. These slates can only trouble the females to move them back. Azer's home.

Chen Qi originally wanted to try it out to see if he could make a wooden cart. Later, he seriously considered the feasibility of this plan. Not to mention the distance between the two places, the wasteland overgrown with weeds on the way is not a wooden wheel that can pass smoothly. Yes, it is better to let the powerful females run a few times, and use human power to carry them back faster. So this plan just popped up in my mind, but it was rejected by Chen Qi.

Towards the evening, Chen Qizheng used a simple brush made of hay to clean up the broken stones on a slate, and there was dry sand at the edge. Suddenly, a long howl came from not far away, the movement in Chen Qi's hand. He paused unnaturally, and thought in shock, could it be that a pack of wolves came to this neighborhood?

Carlo stopped what he was doing at this time and came over, "Chen Qi, let's go home quickly."

"Is there a pack of wolves coming?" Chen Qi asked worriedly. Wolves are pack animals. Today, many females in the tribe have gone to the forest. If a group of wolves rushed into the tribe at this time, the consequences can be imagined.

"It's not a pack of wolves, it's a signal from the tribe's guards. This is to remind everyone that there may be danger." Carlo explained, pulled Chen Qi's arm and walked towards the center of the tribe.

"Why use wolf howls to signal? What if a real wolf pack is attracted?"

"Well, I'm not very clear about the specifics. I heard Ake say that the wolf howls can travel far, and the whole tribe can hear the signal outside the tribe, and the wolf howls can drive away many timid predators. "

Chen Qi knew, and when the two returned to Carlo's house, they gathered up the dried meat that had been drying outside for a day and moved them back to the room. After a while, Ali came over, and he was relieved when he saw that the two of them were okay. , "Carlo, after putting away the jerky, take Chen Qi to the ancestral house in front of the rocky mountain, I'll go first." Ali hurried away after saying that.

Carlo speeded up the movements in his hands, and Chen Qi couldn't help but his expression became solemn. Put all the meat into the pottery plate, move it back to the room, and cover it with a layer of animal skin. After finishing all the pieces, Carlo pressed the lower part of the animal skin door curtain tightly with stones, and then took out a few ghosts. The needle flower was crushed, and the flower juice was sprinkled around the door several times, and then Chen Qi and Chen Qi walked to the rocky mountain behind.

The overall color of the rock is reddish-brown, and it looks a bit like shale. The ancestral house was built right next to the rocky mountain. It looked almost two and a half meters high. It was the tallest house in the tribe, but the area inside was narrower than the average house, and it looked more like a tree from a distance. Towering pillars.

The function of the ancestral house is not to avoid disasters. What can really be avoided is the rocky mountain behind. There is a cave of about 30 square meters in the rocky mountain, but it is enough to accommodate people in the tribe who are not able to protect themselves.

Chen Qi followed Carlo into the ancestral house. There were about a dozen people in the ancestral house. Most of them were elderly people with disabilities or gray hair, and there were three or four children who looked like they were only ten years old. When Chen Qi came in, everyone looked at him. Chen Qi naturally gave them a friendly smile as a greeting. The two came to Ali, who was checking whether the entrance to the rocky mountain behind was blocked by stones.

The ancestral house opened two doors one after the other, and the latter one was about one meter above the ground, which could block the footsteps of most enemies who could not climb walls and had poor bounce. The size of the hole can only allow an adult to pass through, and it leads directly to the cave in the rocky mountain behind.

"Uncle Ali, did the guards say what was coming?" Carlo asked Ali who was returning from the cave inspection.

"I've already asked people to ask, and probably there will be information back in a while."

The two were talking about a young female coming in from the door. Chen Qi recognized that person was the female guarding outside the tribe in the morning, named Ale.

A Le was surrounded by everyone as soon as he came in. A Li walked over and asked eagerly, "What's the matter? Today is your turn to guard, can you see what is coming?"

Ale's slightly immature face was full of solemnity, "I saw a letter eagle flying by not far away."

"Letter Eagle?"

"Impossible, how could the letter eagle come here at this time? Winter hasn't come yet."

"Did you read it wrong?"

"Did the Hyena Dragon also come?"

"..."

When it comes to the Hyena Dragon, everyone fell into silence. After all, it was not long before the last Hyena Dragon attacked this tribe. Because of that attack, there were only so few people left in the tribe.

"Ale, are you sure you read it right?" Carlo reconfirmed in disbelief.

"No." Ale shook his head, took out a white feather from his arms, and a faint mist was wrapped around the feather, "In order to confirm whether it is a letter eagle, I went to check it, and I picked it up on the way. A feather."

"Why did you bring the feathers of the letter eagle into the tribe?" Ali scolded. You must know that the feathers of the letter eagle are used to transmit information. If the companion of the letter eagle finds the tribe after searching for this feather, and then attracts the dragon, it is not a joke.

Ale disturbed his head a little embarrassedly, "I'm afraid you don't believe me, so I brought it back to show you. I'll throw it away from the tribe now." After Ale finished speaking, without waiting for Ali to reply, a gust of wind As he rushed out of the room, a few ups and downs turned into the corner of the house and disappeared.

A Li calmed down everyone's emotions before saying apologetically to Chen Qi, "I'm going to check the situation nearby. You and Carlo stay here, A Zhang and the others are about to come back, don't worry."

Chen Qi nodded, "I'm fine, you can go."

"Uncle Li, don't worry, I will take good care of Chen Qi." Carlo assured with his chest out.

Ali smiled and rubbed his hair, then turned and left.

A-Zhang and A-ke came back after the sun had completely set. When A-ke entered the door, he saw Carlo sitting in the corner intact as before. In his arms, he was not busy taking a bite on the other's face.

"I'm fine." Carlo lightly patted Ake's back, comforting.

"Ok."

In the evening, the people in the tribe were concentrated in the ancestral house for the night. Only then did Chen Qi know that the number of people in the entire tribe was no more than 30. Among them, there were only 10 young and strong people plus Ali, and the young male even more. Only Carlo one.

Worrying that the Hyena Dragon would be nearby, A-Zhang arranged for the females to take turns to watch the night around the tribe. Chen Qi, a scumbag in combat capability, plus his identity as a male by default, naturally did not need him to watch the night. After a hard day's work yesterday, and today's scrabbling of slates in the ruins for a long time, Chen Qi's body has long been exhausted. After eating the simple barbecue that was distributed to him, he took the animal skin that Ake brought from home. Spreading it on the ground, I originally wanted to raise my spirits and pay attention to the development of things, but I didn't expect to fall asleep not long after sitting down.

When I woke up the next day, I found that all the people in the room were gone. Only Ake and Carlo were whispering together. Most of the time, Carlo was talking. Ake listened carefully, and occasionally gave a soft hum as a response. . Seeing that Chen Qi was awake, Carlo came over and asked worriedly, "You're awake. Are you feeling unwell?" You must know that Chen Qi just sat down and fell asleep last night, and the sound of falling to the ground was frightening. Everyone jumped, and fell asleep and didn't even wake up, Carlo didn't know how Chen Qi did it.

Fortunately, an old woman checked it and found that Chen Qi had really fallen asleep, and Carlo was relieved.

"Yeah." Maybe it was because of the thin animal skin that he slept in last night. Chen Qi felt that every bone was sore and uncomfortable after waking up. Then he seemed to remember something, and blushed a little embarrassedly and apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't I fell asleep all of a sudden when I thought about it." And he slept until dawn, Chen Qi silently spurned himself in his heart. Fortunately, he didn't know what he was doing last night, otherwise he would have to dig a crack and get in at this time.

"It's okay, you're exhausted too."

"Where's the hyena?"

"I haven't found any trace of it. It is estimated that the letter eagle just passed by yesterday." Ake handed Chen Qi a bamboo tube with broth and a piece of barbecue in the pu leaf, "Let's have something to eat first, it's almost here. By noon, you should be hungry."

"Noon?" Chen Qi choked and took the food stiffly, but he didn't expect to sleep for so long.

The broth in the bamboo tube smelled like sheep, and there was still a little bit of temperature left in the barbecue, which tasted very ordinary. Perhaps the salt stone was refined by the method of refining the salt itself, and the broth and barbecued meat did not have the unique bitterness of the salt stone.

"Ake doesn't have to go hunting today. We will arrange all the stones you need for your house. When my brother comes back, we can move the stones back."

Chen Qi looked at Ake, "Is it because of the Hyena Dragon?"

Ake nodded, "Today, the people of the hunting team will stay in the tribe to observe the situation. Uncle A Zhang has already taken people to a place some distance away from the tribe to investigate. After confirming that there is no problem, they will resume hunting."

Chen Qi finished eating in two mouthfuls and stood up, "Then I will trouble you today, let's go."

A Li is going to burn the pottery he made yesterday, so only the three of them have the job of pulling the slate. With Ake's participation, the job is obviously much easier. A slate needs the joint efforts of Carlo and Chen Qi to lift, Ake One person can easily move it away, and in the end, it becomes Carlo and Chen Qi cleaning the slate, and Ake is responsible for moving the slate to the same place and tidying it up.

In the evening, the three of them sorted out three piles of slate, enough for Chen Qi to build the outer wall of the house into two layers thick.