Prehistoric Calendar

Chapter 1258 The Shadow of War
During the torrential rain, thunder and lightning flashed, and some riders ran towards the gate of the tribal camp from the darkness of the rainy night.

Gu Hechan is the assistant guarding the gate today. Besides the two ten-year-old boys, there are two other adults on the corridor of the gate. However, the two adults are sleeping at the moment, and they will only be dispatched when something urgent happens.

Gu Hechan was sitting under the rain shield on the gatehouse, both of them were actually a little drowsy, but when several riders rushed from the darkness, the two of them immediately woke up and stood up immediately. Standing up and looking down, they also knocked on the hollow bamboo pole on the gate tower, waking up the adults in the aisle of the gate tower.

Soon, two adult men rushed out from the gatehouse. They looked at the riders below with vigilance. These riders were all human, and each of them had a horse as a mount. What they didn't have, the Pan tribe didn't have the knowledge of raising horses and domesticating horses, and neither did the surrounding tribes. Obviously, these riders came from large tribes.

The two adults did not open the gate of the camp immediately. One of them shouted and ran into the tribal camp, while the other adult held a spear and looked down. Talking, just standing quietly below, the distance between several riders is about three meters, each holding a spear in hand, despite the wind and rain, they did not move at all, and the horses they were riding stood quietly. in place.

Gu looked at the riders below in shock. This kind of silence, this kind of order, and this kind of stillness all gave Gu a huge sense of shock. This is a kind of power. It is only a few riders, but Gu feels it from them There was a breath of bravery rushing towards us.

In fact, only Gu kept looking at these riders, and the little partner beside him began to feel weak all over his body, his hands and feet were trembling slightly, even the adult holding the spear was trembling all over, they didn't understand What was he shaking? Except for Gu Ji who felt the shock, the other two felt fear and fear.

This is a murderous aura. These riders carry an invisible murderous aura. It is the aura that only people who have come out of the corpses have. It is invisible and qualityless, but it is really enough to make ordinary people dare not even approach.

After a few minutes, several people came running quickly from the tribal camp. The leader was a strong middle-aged man with a beard, who was the chief of the Pan tribe. He ran to the gate and looked down, and immediately ordered The tribe opened the gate, and these riders entered the tribe camp one by one. The chief of the Pan tribe immediately greeted them and muttered something to them.

Gu still wanted to get closer, but was immediately held back by his little friend, pray. Gu looked back, only to see that pray's face turned pale, and at the same time his whole body was trembling, which was actually frightening. After a while, he held onto him and prayed: "What's the matter? Is it too cold? Go to the fire to warm up."

At this time, the rider, the patriarch, and the adults all walked away, and prayer's face gradually turned red. He looked at the rider's back with straight eyes and said, "Don't you feel it? It's terrible. How are those people doing?" Terrible..."

"What?" Gu was a little puzzled, he also looked at the riders, and then he asked prayers: "What's so scary?"

Qi pointed at the rider and said, "Those people, they trembled all over their bodies when they approached me, I didn't even dare to look at them, I thought if I looked at them more, they might rush up and kill me, really Kill me...you don't see anything, don't you feel anything?"

Gu scratched his head, and after thinking about it carefully, he shook his head and said, "I don't know what you're talking about, those people are human beings, not monsters, so what's so scary about it?"

Zong looked at Gu with an inexplicable gaze. The little boy thought about it carefully. It seemed that Gu had never shown any fear. Scary-looking insects, or when the clansmen were injured or even died, he would move the corpses with the adults, and go to bury the clansmen with the adults...

Koo never seems to be afraid? ?

big fool.

These three words suddenly came to my mind. Gu was taller than him by more than a head, and his body was as strong as an adult. Although his muscles looked only slightly smaller than their peers, all the friends who knew Gu knew that , Gu's strength is greater than any adult in the tribe.

"I...forget it." Pray was speechless, but Gu was his little friend. He played with him since he was a child, so he still said a word: "Anyway, don't run over to join in the fun. Something is... not right."

Gu nodded, but he was still extremely curious about who those riders were, where they came from, and why they looked... so powerful?
The next day, Gu learned about the origins of these riders from his father.

They come from the large tribe far away from the Pan tribe, and they are the "soldiers" of that large tribe. They are ordered to contact all the human tribes around the desert sea and tell these human tribes that war is coming.

"...Small tribes need to recruit [-] strong hunters, and medium-sized tribes need to recruit [-] strong hunters..." Gu's father was sharpening his stone ax, and while talking, he put down the stone ax and sighed slightly. After a long time, he picked up the stone ax and sharpened it, then put it down again and sighed.

Gu looked at his father, and it was the first time he saw such a sad face. In Gu's mind, his father was a man as hard as a rock. He didn't wrinkle, but now he was moaning and sighing, which made Gu unbelievable. Is that thing called war really so terrible?

Gu's father said to his wife: "Today at dusk, the patriarchs and elders will gather hunters at the campfire in the center of the tribe. Witnessed by the stars in the sky and the sun and moon in their hearts, whoever gets the lottery will go to Far away, maybe...may never come back."

Gu's mother is a strong woman. She has always smiled and prepared food for Gu and Xing, prepared parcels for her husband, kneaded leather, and collected weeds and fruits. At this time, she carefully pulled Gu and Xing. On the corner of his father's clothes, his worry was beyond words.

Gu's father sighed and said, "If I go..."

At this point, he was speechless, and the couple fell silent. At this time, Xing stood up and said loudly: "If Dad wins the broken lottery, I will take my father's place to participate in the war!"

The couple looked at Xing at the same time, and Gu Ye looked at Xing stupidly, and his father said in a deep voice: "Nonsense, you are a woman, you are 14 years old, and it will be serious to find a man to marry in a few days."

Xing was angry in her heart, but this was indeed the universal thought of everyone in the tribe. She rolled her eyes, pointed at Gu and her younger sister, Li, who was only three years old, and said, "Then what should they do? If Dad goes In the distance, Gu Ye is only ten years old, so he is not qualified to participate in hunting. If he does not participate in hunting, he will not be able to get enough food. My mother must also marry another tribe. If I marry, I will be the same as other men It’s impossible to bring food here, Dad must wait for Gu to be 14 years old at least if he wants to go to war, right?”

Father was stunned, then sighed heavily, and silently began to sharpen his ax again.

Xing smiled and said: "I am 14 years old. Although I am not a qualified hunter in the tribe, I can also hunt. Mom and Dad, you all know that I am accurate in archery. If the soldiers of the big tribe disagree, I will Just show them the archery on the spot, if I am more accurate than them, then they will definitely be willing to recruit a sharpshooter, won’t they?”

"Nonsense..." Father didn't say anything else, only these two words were different.

Gu is still a little ignorant, he doesn't understand what happened, the war, the soldiers, and his father are going to a far away place, maybe he won't be able to come back for the rest of his life... These are too far away from him.

At dusk that day, my father really won the lottery.

The entire Pan tribe is only a few thousand people, about half of them are women, and the remaining half are children and the elderly. The real strong adult hunters are actually only five to six hundred people, which is equivalent to two people who will be drawn one , this probability is already very high, and being drawn is a matter of course.

The patriarch and elders looked at the three hundred strong hunters who were drawn, their faces were bitter, and their hearts were almost bleeding. These three hundred strong adult hunters were conscripted to the battlefield, and it was almost as if they were gone. With only half the adult males left in the clan, and with game harvests set to plummet in the next few years, their hard days are at hand.

But they couldn't say no. Unlike ordinary clansmen, the patriarchs and elders were well-informed, and almost all of them had seen the horrors of thousands of clans.

Ten thousand races regard human beings as livestock and ants. Although the large tribes occupy the place with the most abundant aquatic plants, they also block the entrance of ten thousand races into the desert sea. The reason why these tribes can survive and reproduce comfortably is also thanks to The large tribes stood in front of them, blocking the sporadic Ten Thousand Race pioneers or Ten Thousand Race colonists.

But now the large tribes can't stop it anymore. There are already many thousands of tribes who have entered the desert sea, and they have even appeared on a large scale. The clan was razed.

Then, Gu Guoran saw his sister Xing Zhan stepping out and loudly demanded to replace his father in the war.

This is naturally impossible, the patriarchs and elders yelled loudly, and the riders of those large tribes all showed disdain.

Then Xing randomly took a bow, the most common wooden bow, and shot an arrow at the gate of the camp more than 200 meters away. The arrow directly pierced through the gate, but hit the gap in the gate. This kind of sharp shot shocked everyone all at once, even the soldiers from the large tribes all opened their mouths wide open, as if their eyes were about to fall out.

In the end, Xing took his father's place in the war, which was the common request of all the large tribal soldiers. Although his father's face was ashen, after returning home, he kept sharpening his ax and spear to serve Xing. He prepared the hardwood longbow that he has always used, and put the best and straightest arrows next to the longbow, as well as a leather suit, which he also put together, all of which he prepared for punishment. battlefield equipment...

His mother was crying all the time, pulling Xing to say some sweet words, but Gu and his younger sister Li were a little ignorant. Although Gu knew that Xing was going to participate in the war far, far away, he didn't have the personal experience of leaving his relatives. It's just that I feel uncomfortable in my heart, but I can't say much for a while.

That night, Gu and Xing dug out the tribe and came to the place where Gu was exercising. Xing lay down on the rock humming a song, while Gu sat beside Xing hesitantly.

Xing patted Gu on the shoulder and said: "Okay, why do you look like a woman? I just went to participate in the battlefield, and I didn't come back after running far away, and I didn't force it at all. Very happy, very excited.”

Gu sullenly said: "Why? It's a war. I heard from my father and the adults that many, many people are fighting against all races, and people will die every moment... Sister, can you not go? ?”

"Fool." Xing was moved in his heart, knocked on Gu's head and said: "If I don't go, then Dad will go, you know how powerful I am, I can survive on the battlefield, but what will Dad do? So rest assured, wait for my name to spread throughout this desert, no, spread it throughout the world.”

When Xing said this, he was smiling brightly. This smile was flawless, and Gu's heart gradually calmed down. He also lay down beside Xing, and Xing simply hugged Gu sideways.

The two lay down quietly, and after a while, Gu suddenly asked: "Sister, you have to be careful, war... war is very scary."

Xing just smiled, and the two of them talked about the words of the siblings. When it was late at night, when the two were about to go back, Xing said to Gu seriously: "Gu, I'm leaving, father, mother, and Sister, you have to protect them, understand?"

Gu nodded seriously, and Xing said again: "Also, you can't stop physical exercise. After so many years of physical exercise, you can also slightly manipulate your muscles, bones, blood vessels, and the deeper bone marrow and blood vessels. You can't control your nerves yet, but you can exercise your body at your limit and you can't stop, you know?"

Gu Yiran nodded seriously, Xing thought for a while and said: "Also, you have very little combat experience, and I'm also to blame for protecting you too little, so in the next few days, you must exercise, While hunting by yourself, if you don’t eat enough meat, you won’t be able to continue such high-intensity exercise, so after I leave, you have to hunt secretly by yourself every day, starting with small animals, then big animals, monsters, etc... …Don’t mess with it for the time being, and you can also enter dense forests and high mountains, but you can only enter the periphery, not go deep, you know?”

Gu still nodded.

Xing said a lot of things to pay attention to, and said a lot of things to take good care of his parents and sisters, and the two returned home under the darkness of night.

Xing was so excited that he couldn't sleep, but Gu couldn't sleep because he thought about Xing going to a distant place.

It's late at night, and both siblings are thinking about the future, tomorrow...

Tomorrow is coming.

(End of this chapter)