From Chief to Ball

"The enemy's head is cut off, and the body is burned. Let's burn our people too, and take the bones back."

Not long after the flames started, Acorn and Tanuki also came back with a gloomy expression.

"Jian, Luo Xing has escaped, and there are nearly a hundred men left."

"Run away? They can't run away from you."

"There is a swamp over there. They know the way. When we ran over, two tribesmen fell into it. They almost drowned and couldn't chase them."

A group of people were panting, holding human heads or iron objects they had retrieved in their hands. It seemed that they had tried their best. This was not their home field, and the nearby terrain was unfamiliar.

The civet cat asked timidly, "Jian, am I too late?"

"It's a bit late. Next time, remember to be early. Okay, let's not talk about this, and we will talk about it later in the village. How many people are left by Luo Xing's side?"

"A hundred at most."

Chen Jian was a little worried. Of course, 100 people were not afraid, but he was worried that Luo Xing would follow him to kill women.Of course Luo Xing doesn't know where his tribe is, but he can guess that he doesn't even have food now, and he will definitely plunder the rest of the tribe. Come up with some clues.

"Civet cat, find the fastest runners and go back to the city immediately. Tell the people from the seven villages to retreat to the city and take away all the food and women. Tell our women not to go out to collect these days, Hang up the bridge, and I’ll talk about everything when I go back. Go now, those guards in the wheat fields can’t beat Luo Xing, I’m afraid he will run into our village.”

The civet cat was a little flustered, but the bluegrass was still in the village, he turned around and was about to run, but was stopped by Chen Jian again.

"After you go back, ask people to put all the food packed by the tribe down by boat. We will go back along the river bank. If we can't eat enough to support these people, we can go back. The lambs and fawns in the village don't need to drink milk anymore. The clansman squeezes...uh, let them drink milk on their stomachs, which can save a lot of food."

"How much food do you want to prepare?"

"You go back and let Yuqian do the math. You have to prepare 300 people to eat for ten days. The more people there are, the slower they will go."

"so many people?"

"There are also those women on the mountain. They can work, and they are all taken back. Remember, you must be fast! After you go back, hang up the bridge directly, and don't go out of the city until I go back."

The civet cat took a few people and left in a hurry along the river bank, and Chen Jian was relieved.

The civet cat had a pig's tooth pendant on its neck, and it was the fastest runner in the tribe. The remnant soldiers under Luoxing's men needed to find something to eat, so they couldn't be faster than him.

……

The next morning, on the mountain.

The food had run out, and the women began to throw the animal skins into the water to soak for food. Some women cut their own wrists and fed the blood to the two- and three-year-old children, constantly telling themselves that the men in the clan would soon They will come back, and those people down the mountain will definitely be killed.

At dawn, the women habitually looked into the distance, hoping to see signs of the tribe's return, and then they screamed.

The clansmen did come back, but the way they came back was different from what they thought.

At the foot of the mountain, two piles of human heads were piled up, like two hills, on both sides of the intersection up the mountain, and the stench wafted up the mountain.

The people down the mountain didn't speak, and the people up the mountain could only cry, crying to the point of complete despair.

The priestess glanced down the mountain, turned around silently, and told the few remaining men: "When the observatory burns, open the fence."

The clansmen were stunned, and the priestess climbed to the top of the mountain alone, took a last look at the place where she grew up, stepped into the observatory, and lit the firewood.

In the thick smoke, astrolabes, stone statues, oracle stones, and everything in her mind burned along with her.

The sky can be divided into east, west, north and south; the stars in the sky are related to heat and cold; every 350 days is a reincarnation; there is a star that is always in the north; the big Mars disappears at dusk to prove that the peaches are ripe...

All this is known to me and my clansmen after spending 20 years observing the starry sky. Just the star that is always pointing to the true north has been observed by myself for a year... All this will be reduced to ashes with myself, and will not let the enemy In vain, I know the hard work of my people in the past 20 years.

From scratch, these ridiculous things in Chen Jian's eyes are the pride of this tribe, 20 years of hard work, and 20 years of deformed necks.

She is a priest, she holds these secrets, she has no daughter, only a son, so she will not tell others, she will only tell her son when she is old, so that he can be both a leader and a priest.

But now, she knew that she couldn't wait for her son back.Besides, what good were leaders and priests without tribes?

In the thick smoke, she grasped the astrolabe tightly, looked at the fence that had been opened, and watched those women kneeling at the feet of the enemy, begging for mercy and life.

And she laughed wildly in the smoke, threw the astrolabe and divining stone into the air, yelled frantically at the sky, begging for the response of the stars, just like she did decades ago.

Decades ago, our own tribe was also facing such a dilemma. Hungry wolves surrounded the village, just like now.

It was a night, and nights belong to wolves.

In the trembling of despair, countless meteorites fell from the sky, and the loud noise and flames scared away the crazy wolves. Since then, the tribe believed that the stars would protect them.

After the stars fell to the ground, she and her brother discovered that the falling stars not only ignited the woods, but also ignited a kind of black stone on the east mountain, and the fallen stars softened and turned red in the burning black stone...

She and her brother kept this secret, and used the iron sword to lead the tribe to prosperity in the following years, but only a few people knew the secret of the burning black stone and meteorite.

Now those people are all dead, and the tribe no longer has new iron swords, only she is left, and she wants to tell her son before she dies.

And now, she was about to die, the fire had burned her hair, but her son did not appear.

He hugged the stone statue of stargazing tightly, expecting the stars to create miracles again and save his tribe again.

Laughing wildly, wanting to see the falling meteors destroy all those people below.

But then she burst into tears again, it was daytime, there were no stars...

Chapter 55 Silk Jade

After the flames were extinguished, Chen Jian asked his tribe to look at the captives, and took a few people up the mountain to find traces of the meteor tribe's wrought iron.

But after turning around, I found nothing, only a few iron rings and burnt stone statues on the ashes of the observatory.

Wolfpi picked out the bone from the iron ring and threw it away, and asked, "There's not even a furnace nearby, how did they forge the iron?"

Chen Jian shook his head, kicked away a blackened skull, and dug out a few broken stones from the ashes, without any clues.

"Let's go, maybe this woman took the secret with her."

"Let's go back now?"

"Going back, there is not much to eat. There is a net on the boat. We have to walk along the river and get some fish to eat as we go, otherwise we will not be able to last for another three days."

"Those slaves can starve for two days without giving them food."

"It's useless, it won't save much. There are more than 500 women and nearly [-] men. Even if we only give them a little food, we can't make it back home. If we starve to death halfway, we might as well kill them here. This battle was fought to capture slaves, not to kill people."

Wolfpi looked around, made sure there were no other tribesmen, and asked in a low voice, "How do we divide these slaves? We should keep more male slaves, as many live women can't do it."

"A few months ago, other tribes would agree to such a division. Now the harvest of wheat and beans is about to be harvested, and other tribes also want men, so they will not agree. Just as agreed before, according to the number of troops sent and the battle Die points. You take some people to the river first, fishing and hunting, and I will take these captives over slowly, walking slowly."

"it is good."

The wolf skin hurried down the mountain and took away seven or eighty people.