Prehistoric Calendar

Chapter 1257 Teaching
"Red Sage, I have heard of your name a long time ago. It is rumored that you have traveled among human tribes all over the world, bringing them knowledge and teaching them words. Because of your help, many tribes have entered civilization. I I hope that the Red Sage can also teach my people, so that our tribe can also step into civilization."

These were the words that Gu heard before leaving the former Tribe Square. The person who spoke was the chief of the Pan Tribe, and he didn't hear the next words.

Red Sage, is this old man's name?

The ancients knew what it meant to be a sage.

The elders in the clan occasionally talk about the distant places of the tribe. In their descriptions, the world is very, very big. One of the oldest elders in the clan is said to have left the Pan tribe for more than 30 years when he was young. , left the tribe when he was a teenager, and only returned when he was middle-aged and old.

In the old man's description, he traveled thousands of miles away. He has seen hundreds of human tribes, the largest human tribe even has tens of thousands of people. The tribal camps they live in have high stone walls. The houses they live in are large and spacious, and their tribes even organize caravans to trade with surrounding human tribes and so on.

The "sugar" that I ate when I was a child came from a large human tribe far away.

The world that the old man said was too vast, too gorgeous, and too miraculous, so Gu always kept the old man's words in his heart, and he even went to those gorgeous worlds to play in some dreams.

According to the old man, a large tribe can not only be achieved with a large number of people. The more people, the greater the burden on the tribe, and the more food it needs, and the prey that a piece of land can produce, wild vegetables , catches, etc. are limited. If the population is too large, it will not be able to carry it. Some people will starve to death, and some people will starve to death. If you have to travel long distances to hunt and gather in wider places, this will increase the danger. , and consumption of food, etc.

Therefore, the number of almost all tribes usually does not exceed 3000. This is still the case when there is more local food, and this is the case for the Pan tribe.

The birth of a large tribe is inseparable from the word civilization.

According to the old people, the so-called civilization is a very magical thing. Civilization can make food grow in the ground, not the kind that is collected in the jungle and grassland, but people can designate a piece of land to grow food , this land can even be land next to the tribe, so that you can get a lot of food just by walking a few steps away from the tribe camp.

Civilization can make the soft soil solid in the fire.

Civilization can make sugar out of some leaves, some flowers, some weeds.

Civilization allows people to get salt from water instead of looking for salt in some dangerous pits.

Civilization can also turn spears into hard things called "metal", make bows and arrows shoot farther and more accurately, and change camp walls from wood to stone.

Civilization can also heal sick people, prevent worms from growing in people's stomachs, keep people who have been seriously injured by hunters alive, and greatly reduce the chances of women dying after giving birth.

The ancients did not know what civilization was. In the words of the old people, civilization seems to be omnipotent, and civilization can be taught by those who know it to those who do not know it. However, the Pan tribe has developed to the limit of the number of uncivilized tribes. In the past few years, the patriarch and the old people in the tribe have tried everything possible to obtain civilization, but it is too difficult. Civilization cannot come out of thin air. The Pan tribe is already the largest tribe in the surrounding area. There is indeed a large tribe with civilization, but it is too far away from the Pan tribe, so far that it may take half a year or even longer to walk.

Moreover, the Pan tribe couldn't afford the price of acquiring civilization. Civilization is probably very expensive, and it is impossible for a large tribe to teach the Pan tribe for free.

The so-called sages refer to human beings who have mastered civilization. They usually exist in some legends handed down from the old. There are also some sages who are said to be alive in the world. They walk among various human tribes and teach these tribes about The mysteries of civilization, and this is the only way for many medium-sized tribes to obtain civilization.

This strange old man is actually a sage. No wonder the patriarch and the old people in the clan lit the bonfire in the square just for him. He deserves to be treated with such respect.

Gu was very curious about this old man named Red Sage, but as an underage teenager, he was not qualified to participate in the bonfire meal for distinguished guests, so he kept pestering his father to ask about Hong Zhishen that night. all sorts of things.

Gu's father is a tall and rugged man, he has always been very taciturn, like this when eating, and on weekdays, he often arranges his spear, stone axe, and a long black wooden long Gong, other than that, he silently looked at Gu and Xing, and looked at his wife from time to time.

When Gu asked about the red sage, Gu's father was silent for a long time before he said: "I don't know about the red sage, that's what the patriarch and elders care about...but when entertaining the red sage , He promised to stay for a period of time to teach the clan people about farming and aqueducts, and at the same time teach the children in the clan about writing, ancient, Xing, and you should also learn the knowledge of writing."

Xing was helping his mother sort out the skins of the prey harvested today. She didn't speak, but just nodded with a bright smile. Gu had more questions. He asked curiously: "What are words?"

Gu's father shook his head slightly and said: "The elders said that they can record information on the leather, and they can read it when needed. They will never forget it. I don't know what the text is, but the elders value it very much. , explaining that this text is very useful, so you and your sister must learn it carefully."

Gu nodded ignorantly, and then he began to imagine what the text was.

The days that followed were as peaceful as usual, the only change was that there was an old man with vicissitudes in the tribe. He often lay in the shadows of the tribe camp and slept late during the day. He would walk around the tribal camp and observe everywhere, and only then would he teach the people of the Pan tribe how to farm the land, how to build aqueducts and other knowledge.

At the same time, he will also teach the children in the clan to write in the morning, dusk, and night. Gu and Xing are also learning to write, which is something that looks very complicated. According to the old man, writing was originally imitated Things that exist in nature, such as the word 日, originally imitated the image of the sun, which is a circle.

Xing is very smart, as long as she is taught every word, she can understand it, but Gu can't, he has to keep understanding and memorizing every word, just like other children in the tribe.

In addition to teaching characters, the old man will also tell stories to the children, talk about the scenery of far away places, and also talk about things that many Pan tribe people in this world do not know.

Gu knew from the old man that besides humans, there are other intelligent races in this world, and there are many, many intelligent races. They are not the same species as humans, and they are called Wanzu.

The Wanzu is not friendly to humans. They are not like the Pan tribe and other tribes. Everyone guards their own land and their hunting grounds. Occasionally, conflicts are mostly negotiations. Of course, the relationship between tribes There are also fights among tribes, and there are even dead people, but generally speaking, they communicate more with each other. If they have to pay, they can also take out food, leather, stone tools and other things to seek help from other tribes.

But the old man told them that this is not the case for Wanzu. Wanzu regards human beings as prey. They hunt and kill human beings. Intelligent creatures, they call human beings beasts, and they also regard humans as beasts.

When Gu heard this for the first time, he was very shocked, because in the tribe that Gu lived in since he was a child, he has also seen people from other tribes. Although everyone belongs to different tribes, they are all human beings. They will not treat each other as food, nor will they hunt each other. Human beings are not prey, nor are they beasts, nor are they livestock.

The people of all races are very bad and terrible. Gu had such a hazy concept.

The old man also said that there are not many Wan tribes around the Pan tribe, but in places with dense water and grass, in non-desert, non-alpine fertile plains, fertile alluvial plains, etc., there are many Wan tribes there. They can hunt and hunt , or to capture the surrounding humans, gradually, only savages are left in those places, and no human tribe can survive in those places.

The old man also said that at a large human tribe far away from the Pan tribe, they were engaged in a war with a small ten thousand race force. Small human tribes have formed a large army, and are breaking out wars with the colonists of the ten thousand races who invaded this area, but the human race is much weaker than the ten thousand races, and the human race's army is retreating steadily.

So another concept was born in Gu's heart, that is, the ten thousand races are very powerful, but human beings are weak.

Before this concept was fully born, Gu heard some stories from the old man, and one of them shocked Gu for a long time.

That is the story of a great human hero, and it happened a long, long time ago...

That was before the past has become history, history has not become legend, and legend has not become myth...

That's the story of an invincible human named the Highlord!

At the moment after listening to this story, Gu felt his blood surging in his heart.

At this time, Gu Xin had another concept, a concept called a hero.

A concept called invincibility.

(End of this chapter)