The Survival of the Wild Tribe

"Found it?" Luo Zhen and Lu Zhan looked at each other.

Horn bamboo took off the outer coat of animal skin covered with snowflakes, put his frozen hands together near the fire, and said, "In a mountain about a day away from here, there is a cave. Those people I live in a cave now."

"Isn't there their original tribal residence?" Lu Zhan said with certainty despite doubts.

Hei Fu nodded, and he scooped a big bowl of meat in the stone pot. They ran in the ice and snow for more than two days, and they could only eat some cold food. Now they came back and found these cooked meat with salted fruit. How delicious it is.

"They should have moved here only after the winter. They don't even have animal skins. Many soldiers have to maintain animal shapes to withstand the cold after they leave the fire."

"A lot of fighters? How many of them are there?"

"I don't know, except for the soldiers, no one has ever stepped out of the cave, but there are about twenty soldiers guarding the cave in turns."

Twenty people, the warrior alone is almost equal to the number of their entire tribe. Even if they have walls and weapons such as bows and arrows, if they are really matched, they may not be able to get any benefits. If the other party really takes a fancy to it. If their tribe wants to **** it, they may not be able to hold it.

Lu Zhan's face sank, and other people's expressions were not very good, obviously they all thought of this level.

"Did they find you?" Luo Zhen changed a stone pot, put a few meaty bones in, and then filled a large stone pot with water to continue cooking, and threw a few pieces of wood into the fire. The charcoal fire made a few crackling noises, and then it burned more vigorously.

"No, we are very careful." They didn't get close to the cave. They were even found out by those people because they were worried that they would leave traces. They didn't dare to make a fire in the wild, because they were wearing thick animal skins, or otherwise. According to the temperature at night, soldiers who are not animalized can be frozen and sick.

"Then do you think they followed the staghorn horse to this neighborhood, and even found signs of our tribe?" Luo Zhen continued to ask.

Heifu and Kadotake glanced at each other, "We didn't notice any movement of them when we were there, and even the soldiers did not go out hunting."

"But I found the bones of some beasts that had been bitten not far from the cave. They are still very fresh. They should have just hunted them not long ago, so there is no need to go out hunting." Kakutake guessed.

The fierce beasts in this season are much more brutal than usual. If the tribe has hunted fierce beasts not long ago, I am afraid that some soldiers will be injured more or less. It is normal not to go out at this time and to hide in the cave. However, if this is the case, the number of their fighters would be far more than twenty.

Luo Zhen bowed his head and thought for a while. After Heifu and the others had said something about the tribe, Luo Zhen looked at Lu Zhan, "Should we make some traps nearby?"

"Trap?" The three people who were talking all stopped.

"Yeah." Luo Zhen nodded and briefly explained the effect of the trap to the three of them. Luo Zhen is not very good at traps that are too difficult. The ones he knows are also used to catch some small animals, but they don't know if they are useful against powerful orc warriors.

But having a trap is better than doing nothing.

Several people discussed it and thought this method was feasible, but in order not to accidentally hurt the tribe members of his tribe, Luo Zhen suggested going to the river at the foot of the mountain tomorrow to catch fish that are enough for the whole tribe in winter, except for the warriors who go out on patrol. Apart from us, before the arrival of spring, no one else should step outside the ice city wall.

In addition to the previous human face bird, there is now another threatening tribe, and their small sun tribe can be said to be enemies everywhere.

After sending away Heifu and Horn Bamboo, it was almost late at night, and the two cuckoo birds and staghorn horses in the family had closed their eyes and fell asleep.

After Luo Zhen packed his things, he dragged the animal skin quilt he was sleeping a little closer to Lu Zhan, and after running hot water to warm his cold feet, he retracted into the quilt. The quilt had been placed on the fire. While baking, it was warm at the moment, Luo Zhen sighed comfortably before poking out his head.

"A Zhan, do you want to expand our tribe?" Luo Zhen thought for a long time, but still asked his own thoughts.

"How to enlarge?" In order to let the fire in the fire illuminate, the two people's beds should have been on the left and right of the firepit. Now Luo Zhen pulls the bed over and it becomes head-to-head next to each other. , The distance is so close that you can hear the other person's light breathing even if you are lying on the bed.

"Assimilate the tribe living in the cave into our tribe."

Lu Zhan, who was about to lie back under the covers, heard the words and acted. He raised his head to look at Luo Zhen, and the other party didn't mean to be joking at all. "why?"

"Now there is still a long time before the end of winter. They should be short of food. In addition, they have lost their original tribal settlement. We have a whole river of fish. As long as we provide them with food, there will be this place. A safe place to live, they should be willing to join our tribe."

Lu Zhan shook his head after hearing this, "If their leader and great witch are still there, they can't join us as a whole tribe. If they don't handle it well, they can directly occupy our tribe." Lu Zhan sighed. He pursed his lips and asked: "Why do you think we can absorb that tribe?"

Luo Zhen smiled, "Naturally, you are strong enough. As long as the leader is strong enough, you don't have to worry about your soldiers being disobedient."

There are too few people in the Riyao tribe, and more fresh blood must be added to the development. Although there is a certain risk to absorb the cave tribe, why is it not an opportunity? Reaching out a helping hand in times of adversity is always easier to reap the hearts of people.

Luo Zhen understands Lu Zhan, the opponent’s strength cannot only be shown on the surface for them to see. A person who even dared to trade with each other even a huge antler horse cannot be afraid that there are only dozens of people in a small area with enough food and clothing. If it were not for Lu Zhan, he would not have made such a suggestion at this time for the cave tribes who are all difficult.

And there is another reason, if a new tribe joins, then they don't have to worry about the human face bird who might come back for revenge.

Lu Zhan's eyes flashed, "You don't see the significance of a leader and a big witch to a tribe too much."

Luo Zhen was stunned, Lu Zhan stretched out his hand and rubbed the opponent's head, "If you want to grow the tribe, you are not in a hurry. Those people are not forced to give up their tribe."

Luo Zhen thought for a while, and felt that what Lu Zhan said also made sense, "Sorry, it may be that the stable life has been too long recently, I took it for granted."

"No, your opinion is very good. When we have the opportunity in the future, we can try to absorb some small tribes in." As long as there are no troublesome leaders and big witches in those small tribes.

"Ok."

This topic ends here, but what Luo Zhen doesn't know is that Lu Zhan is already concerned about this matter. He grew up when the Black Panther tribe was still weak, and naturally knows the strength of a tribe and the number of people in the tribe. There is more or less a direct relationship, and I understand that only powerful tribes are qualified to survive here.

It is not a simple matter to just want to absorb foreigners into their own tribe. The Black Panther tribe has spent decades, but less than a quarter of the foreigners actually joined.

Now the number of their Sun Yao tribe is less than 30, and the warriors that can be transformed into beasts are only seven people. Such a tribe, no matter how powerful the leader is, it absolutely cannot try to absorb the whole tribe in the form of tribe-to-tribe. Come in.

Lu Zhan looked at Luo Zhen, who had closed his eyes and fell asleep. When it comes to building a tribe, Luo Zhen is obviously more attentive than himself. Perhaps many of the other's ideas are too beautiful, but as long as the process is handled properly, it may not be impossible to achieve.

Maybe even Luo Zhen hadn't noticed that the reason Hei Fu insisted on pushing himself to the position of leader was because the other party was worried that he would abandon this small tribe and leave alone.

However, I don't know when, like Luo Zhen, he will slowly start to think about things for this tribe.

Early the next morning, Lu Zhan organized the soldiers, half-orcs, and some ordinary people with strong bodies to go fishing in the river.

Last night, Heifu prepared the bait and the spicy polygonum powder used to medicinal fish in advance. Because Lu Zhan was worried about Luo Zhen’s body and refused to allow him to travel with him, Luo Zhen could only stay in the tribe today and wait for others. After bringing the fish back, I helped to deal with it, and by the way, I would study with Black Cliff how to arrange traps around the tribe.

There are many simple wooden boxes placed in front of each house, and the processed fish can be put in, and the fish can be frozen as hard as a rock in one night. In order to prevent the fish from sticking together, Luo Zhen People will put some snow and dry weeds inside to block it.

This fishing activity finally ended after the sky fell dark. The large wooden boxes in front of each house were almost piled up on the roof. It was very spectacular. Because there was no need to go out, Luo Zhen simply asked people to put the piece on the ice city wall. Leave a wooden door that is convenient for entry and exit to be sealed with ice. If the soldiers go out, they can directly use the rope ladder on the city wall to enter and exit.

The rope ladder can be put away when not in use, which is very convenient.

After working all day, Luo Zhen had time to go home to change the dressing of the staghorn horse after all the caught fish were processed and packed.

Since the staghorn horse returned to Luo Zhen's house, he has become a lot more well-behaved. Even without tying its four hooves, it will obediently lie on the hides prepared for it, neither screaming nor casually staying. Walking around the room, only when Luo Zhen came back would he stand up happily to greet each other.

The only medicinal herb that can be changed is thistle. There are still a few plantains before the winter, but Luo Zhen has already eaten them as wild vegetables. There are still many reserves of thistle, so there is no need to worry about not being enough. Luo Zhen even planted a few in flower pots, and they are growing well now.

After smashing the big thistle, Luo Zhen cleaned the medicinal herb on the deerhorn horse's wound, and then was surprised to find that the wound with only a little scab last night turned out to be intact.