Chapter 2 This Simple Life
Shao Xuan's destination was not always walking up the mountain, but after walking up a little, he went along a road with stones toward the back of the mountain.
When you come to the other side of the mountain, look up from a distance and see the endless forests. Several of the bare mountains with no plants are used for training by the tribe warriors. They are also the main source of stone tools used by hunting warriors today. The stone there is not suitable for plant growth, but it is a good training place.
The place where Shao Xuan is standing is now a piece of gravel. These gravels are not formed naturally, but are broken by people. The useful stones that can be processed have long been picked up by people from the tribe. The rest are some useless gravels, and no one comes here usually.
The surroundings are very quiet, but you can also hear the roar from the nearby mountains. Shao Xuan has never seen the training of totem warriors with his own eyes. He heard that the totem warriors are too destructive when trained. Weak groups like Shao Xuan are not allowed to approach them now. There are many people who have been accidentally injured after going over to observe without saying a word.
Withdrew his gaze, Shao Xuan let go of the straw tie in his hand: "Go to eat your 'noodle'."
Caesar, who had been unable to hold back, immediately ran on the gravel floor, jogging while still smelling his nose. When he smelled something, he quickly used his forelimbs to dig and quickly thrust hard from the digging place. After a while, he pulled out a bug about one foot thick from the adult's thumb to eat it, and then continued to search for the next one.
Those insects were called "stone worms" by people in the tribe. They looked very similar to earthworms, but they were much larger than earthworms. The one that was eaten by Caesar just now was quite small. Shao Xuan had seen a stone worm with a thick arm. He heard that there were even bigger ones, but the bigger the stone worm, the deeper the ground, so there were only small ones left on the surface.
Stoneworms are very difficult to eat, and many people will suffer from severe diarrhea after eating them, so people from the tribe will not list stoneworms on their own recipes, which makes Caesar, who is very interested in stoneworms.
As a wolf, it’s so miserable that he’s so down and eating bugs.
He carried the bundle of weeds and found a suitable place to dry. Shao Xuan spread the bundle of weeds to dry, so that he could sleep more comfortably when he went back to the hole at night.
After laying the grass, Shao Xuan observed the surroundings and confirmed that there was no one else. He came to the side of a short tree on the edge of the gravel, opened a layer of gravel on the surface, took out a stone knife with extremely rough workmanship tied to his waist and excavated it. Soon, a stone bowl buried below, which was more coarse than a stone knife, was exposed, and a piece of jerky was filled with the stone bowl. Shao Xuan quickly took out the jerky and buried the stone bowl back to its original place.
The jerky meat is only half a palm-sized size, hard and fishy. If it were Shao Xuan in his previous life, he would not have looked at it again. But now, after experiencing a real long period of hunger, "taste is just like chewing wax" can also become "worldly delicacies".
Look, life is so simple... it is forced.
After eating something, he suddenly felt much more energetic and had strength. Shao Xuan stood up and moved his muscles and bones, and practiced fitness boxing that he had often practiced in his previous life several times. This is what Shao Xuan had to do every day, because when he woke up in this body, his body was quite weak.
On the other side, Caesar was still digging food everywhere, but he did not lower his vigilance. He paid attention to the surroundings and looked around from time to time. This was also the reason why Shao Xuan dared to eat directly. Otherwise, some of the same hungry people in the tribe discovered that the meat would have changed hands. Shao Xuan is now isolated and has a pale face and a thin skin. He is a battle scum. If it weren't for some experience in his previous life and the ruthlessness he forced out after coming here, it would be possible to know whether he could have the energy to go out and walk around.
After hitting fitness fists several times, Shao Xuan stopped to gasp, but found that Caesar, who was biting a stone worm, suddenly turned his head and turned his head. The sudden turn made the stone worm that was not completely pulled out be pulled in half. The half of the ground quickly retracted back into the soil. Even if it was only half, they could grow and survive for a period of time. The half of the stone worm bitten by Caesar was twisting its body and whipping Caesar's mouth violently.
Caesar did not eat the stone worm directly, nor did he pay attention to the stone worm's whipping. Instead, he stared in one direction and made a gurgling sound in his throat, which was to remind Shao Xuan that someone was coming.
Caesar did not directly bare its fangs. Shao Xuan knew that the person who came should be the one he knew.
Staring over there, Shao Xuan soon heard a very slight sound, like the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves on the ground. Gradually, a figure appeared in Shao Xuan's vision.
He was a very tall and burly man, wearing simple animal skin clothes and high-quality skin, but with a layer of stone shavings. There were a few scars on the face of the person, which added a little bit of evil spirit. The part of his body that was not covered by the animal skin also had scars of different sizes. There were a circle of stone objects hanging on his waist, which were selected stones to be processed into stone tools.
Those stones are of different types as well as those gravels under Shao Xuan's feet. The stones are much harder and are more conducive to hunting after being made into tools. They are much more advanced than the rough stone knife in Shao Xuan's hand. If they are replaced with meat, the smallest rough embryo will be enough for Shao Xuan to eat for several days.
Maybe he was used to sneaking in the forest during hunting. The person who came to walk on weekdays was like this, and there was basically no sound. This was his unintentional result. If he really wanted to hide, Caesar might not be able to find him immediately, and Shao Xuan would not even hear a slight sound.
The grunt in Caesar's throat had not stopped. When the person came to look at it, Caesar immediately tense up, his mouth opened, revealing the four particularly long fangs. The half-stone worm that fell on the ground was about to penetrate the ground and escape without distracting it, but just stared at the man.
For the warriors of the tribe, wild beasts are just prey and food, and Caesar is naturally one of the food. Even if the visitor just glanced at Caesar and did not really want to hunt, the instinct of long-term hunting would make him reflex after seeing the beasts, revealing a dangerous aura that Caesar was very afraid of.
Seeing this situation, Shao Xuan had to speak out first.
"Uncle Mai, good morning!"
The middle-aged strong man staring at Caesar turned his gaze from Caesar to Shao Xuan. When facing Shao Xuan, the knife-like aura that was exposed just now was much restrained, and it would not make Shao Xuan feel too much pressure. In fact, most of the soldiers in the tribe will not be too bad when facing young children, unless those children take the initiative to cause trouble and anger them.
Mai looked at Shao Xuan, and then looked at the traces left by the gravel layer under Shao Xuan's feet because of his boxing and moving his hands and feet just now. There was a smile in his eyes, but because of the scars on his face, the hideous face did not make the hideous face much softer.
Shao Xuan knew that Mai was kind and not as scary as he looked. Moreover, Mai and his father, who is now in the same hunting team, have helped Shao Xuan a lot on weekdays.
"A Xuan came out so early? It's okay to practice in advance." Mai said.
People in tribes do not have surnames, and most of them have single-character names. Perhaps for easy memory and convenience, the real name of Shao Xuan's body is "Xuan". After following the customs, Shao Xuan gradually got used to it. As for the title, because the ancestors of the tribe had a high-ranking elder who liked to say "Ah" first, and then to the name of the person. Later, the younger generation learned it. To this day, some people in tribes still like to take the character "Ah" in front of the person's name when calling people. Of course, they would not be so casual about elders and some people with special status in the tribe.
Among the people living near the foot of the mountain, including the children who are "Kid Cave", they cannot awaken the power of totem in their childhood. Few people come out to exercise. Basically, they eat and sleep, eat and at most they can go out to play. After all, exercise and exercise are very physically exhausting and are prone to hunger. For the poor group near the foot of the mountain, less consumption is consumed, and even adults agree that their children can move less.
But obviously, Mai agrees with Shao Xuan's behavior more. Practice now and you will benefit more in the future.
"Uncle Mai, are you back from the training ground?" Shao Xuan asked.
"Yes." Mai nodded slightly.
The warriors of the tribe will not specify a specific time when going out for training. As long as they don’t miss hunting, they will arrange their time freely.
"It seems that you are lucky this time Uncle Mai. By the way, Uncle Mai, it's your turn to go out to hunt? I wish you a smooth and a full load!" Shao Xuan said.
Langga is a soldier in a hunting team with Mai, and Caesar was picked up by Langga for Shao Xuan. The pronunciation of the word "Langga" means the earth bow in the tribal language. People are as their name.
Mai Bing smiled and responded when he heard Shao Xuan's words, because he had to go out to hunt tomorrow, and it might take several days to go there, so he had to rush back and rest more so that he could go out to hunt in the best condition tomorrow. Mai didn't say much and planned to leave.
After walking two steps, Mai stopped again, turned around and shouted: "A Xuan!"
Shao Xuan looked at Mai and saw Mai pouring out a piece of jerky meat from the animal skin bag and throwing it over.
The soldiers will bring their own food when they go to training. After all, the training area is almost all rocks, with few plants and fewer animals. In order to supplement the physical loss caused by training, they will prepare food in advance. The jerky meat that Mai gave to Shao Xuan was prepared before, and there are still some left. In the end, the small piece was planned to be eaten on the way back, but unexpectedly, she would meet Shao Xuan, so she gave it to her directly. Shao Xuan does not have the ability to go out to hunt, and the tribe does not allow them to go out to hunt. This is also one of the ways for the tribe to protect young children.
"Thank you, Uncle Mai!" Shao Xuan said.
The tribes are not adequate in terms of food, especially during this season, not everyone can give meat generously like Mai.
After giving the meat to Shao Xuan, Mai said: "The place I trained is on the hillside of that mountain, and I can see the sun set..."
He told Shao Xuan the specific location of the training and told him to be careful before Mai left. When Mai disappeared, Caesar also relaxed and looked at the ground. He found that the half of the stone worm had already escaped. He paved the ground like anger, carefully distinguished the smell with his nose, wanted to continue tracking, and caught the escaped prey again. However, Shao Xuan did not intend to make it happy, Mai gave him a chance to fill his stomach today.
He put the dried meat given by Mai into the previous stone bowl and buried it. He then spread a layer of stone chips above the soil layer and made a disguise. Shao Xuan looked at the direction Mai pointed just now and called Caesar.
"Leave Caesar! Go and have a big vote!"
Chapter completed!