Prehistoric Widows Survival [Farming]
Chapter 46
This time was a real long-distance trip. It was the first time that Lu Er was so far away from home after he came to this world. The different scenery and different animals made him feel refreshed.
After staying at home for so long in the cold season, although there is a big furry lion masturbating behind him every day, Lu Er is still a little bored.
Being able to travel and relax this time made him feel much happier.
Along the way, Lu Er was observing the nearby geographical environment, looking for new plants with breeding value.
But what made him feel a little weird was that the further he went, the rarer the vegetation on the land, and the lower the water level of the rivers and lakes.
The ice breaks in the first spring, and the melted ice and snow should greatly nourish the land, making the land glow with positive livelihoods. Why does this place look like dry soil on the verge of the Gobi desert?
I asked Jiao, and Jiao also said that it was not like this before, and that the water and soil here should be rich.
Lu You frowned, feeling a bad premonition in his heart.
On the way forward, Su was in charge of flight reconnaissance, Xiao was in charge of pulling the cart, Jiao was in front to open the way, and Lie and Yong were in charge of breaking the rear.
Lu You is in charge... sitting in the car.
Several other orcs turned into beasts and acted, only he sat in the car and didn't have to do anything for nothing.
This made Lu Wei a little embarrassed, but if he got out of the car and walked by himself, at his speed, he would be dragging down the team's actions, so he could only sit at ease and contribute his strength in other areas.
Like cooking.
Jiao can easily catch suitable prey, and Lu Er cooks these prey into delicious barbecues, stews, etc. by himself.
When he was in modern society, his cooking skills were not very good, but the level of home-cooked dishes; but cooking skills such as oil temperature, blanching, ingredients, etc., which the world is still completely at a loss, are enough to conquer all who have tasted his cooking skills. tongue of an orc.
When Jiao was hunting for the first time, he caught an animal that looked like a goat. After cooking it, Lu Er tasted it and found that it really looked like mutton.
This gave him the urge to catch the lamb and bring it back.
Among the six agricultural animals in ancient China, Lu Er only raises pigs now, and has not found suitable breeds for other animals.
Xiaolu and his five little friends also ate very contentedly this winter. Lu Er provided a lot of feed. The bran of millet is especially loved by pigs. The occasional preserved fruit used for teething festivals makes pigs happy Can chew most of the day.
Lu Er cares more about the stove in the pigsty than in his own tent. He goes to see if the charcoal fire is enough to burn three times a day, and he will never let Xiaolu and them freeze.
After the whole winter, these piglets swelled up like blowing up balloons, and the two young boars who had been raped were especially fat.
Lu You estimated that in a few months, he could try to kill them and eat them.
Before going out this time, Lu You entrusted Teng to feed the pigs, and since Teng himself had no time to feed the pigs, Mang and Hong Yun took over.
Lu Wei was very surprised to find a sheep on the road this time, and quickly asked Jiao: "What's the name of this prey? How's your temperament? Can you catch it?"
Jiao was stunned for a moment, thinking that Lu Wei liked this kind of meat very much, and wiped his hands: "This is a curly horn sheep. It is very timid, and it is easy to catch. If you want to eat it, I will catch it tomorrow."
"No, I just want to try raising sheep." Lu Wei explained, shaking the fragrant leg of lamb in his hand, "I think this kind of animal is just like Xiaolu, and it is also very suitable for raising."
Yong frowned: "The meat of the horn sheep has a strange fishy smell."
"The mutton needs more condiments to taste. And the goat's milk tastes very good."
"Goat's milk?" Several other orcs looked at each other in blank dismay, "Isn't it for cubs, can we eat it too?"
They knew that pregnant female beasts would secrete milk, and they had eaten it when they were born, but they never thought about eating that milk when they grew up.
Lu You was stunned for a moment: "Have you never had milk?"
The memory of the original body has long since disappeared when she was a baby. Lu You subconsciously replaced the role of the sub-beast as a woman. Seeing the doubts on the faces of several orcs, she suddenly remembered that the physiological structure of sub-beasts is actually more inclined to human males, and the breasts are not developed. ...
If sub-beasts do not secrete milk, what do newborn cubs eat?
"Father Mu said that when the cubs were born, they went to catch pregnant female animals nearby to feed the cubs." Yong explained, "But after feeding for less than a month, the cubs' teeth can bite the chewed meat." , don’t need milk.”
After listening to the explanation, Lu You somewhat understood that sub-beasts do not secrete milk, and the orcs would catch pregnant beasts after giving birth and come back to feed their cubs.
Because most sub-beasts are pregnant in the cold season when they stay at home, the childbirth period is basically in the second half of the warm season. Many pregnant female animals in the wild are easy to catch.
If the orcs couldn't catch them, or even the orcs died unfortunately, other orcs in the tribe would not hesitate to help.
So orcs grew up eating the milk of various animals when they were young.
Having said that, Lu Er became more determined to domesticate cattle and sheep—it is too unstable to rely on hunting wild animals for breastfeeding, and the nutrition and safety of the milk of wild animals is definitely not as good as that of domestic animals.
This curly horn sheep is very suitable, but they are going to the Heihe tribe now, and it is inconvenient to take the sheep with them.
Although Jiao is very reluctant to have any more "little baa" in the family, he knows that everything that Lu Wei does seriously has Lu Wei's intentions, so he is only upset in his heart, and he still comforts Lu Wei: "When we come back, we will meet again. Catch, there are quite a lot of horn sheep in this area."
Knowing that this sheep is not uncommon, Lu Er felt relieved and wondered where the sheepfold should be built.
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When going to bed at night, Jiao and Lu Er had a little conflict.
Lu Er brought six animal skins, which happened to spread one for everyone; but Jiao thought that Lu Er, as a delicate sub-beast, needed an extra animal skin, and wanted to requisition it from other people.
Lu You was a little helpless: "Jiao, I'm not so fragile, I'm still wearing a sweater."
"It's cold at night, you'll get sick." Jiao frowned and insisted.
Now that the cold season has just ended, it is indeed very cold at night, and there is no heater here, so if you sleep all night, you will definitely freeze to death—and Lu Er refuses to let him sleep in your arms.
Yong looked at the two people arguing quietly there, feeling a little helpless: "Lu Er, you don't have to worry about us, I'll be with Lie Sleeping."
He also pulled out two sweaters from the car, shook them, and added with a smile, "We also have sweaters."
Lu You watched Lie and Yong put on each other's fur-colored sweaters and then lay together on the same animal skin, and turned his head and cornered a bit in a daze.
If he remembered correctly, the tribe has always said that the sweaters woven from the fur of the orcs are given to their favorite sub-beasts, right?
What is the operation of Lie and Yong exchanging sweaters?
Did they get together?
But Kanyong's expression is open and frank, not like Genie at all...
Lu You, who considers himself a straight man of steel, is also a little confused: Is it normal for straight men to exchange sweaters and sleep together?He was still worried about the identity of himself and Jiao, and tried to keep a distance from Jiao...
Is he thinking too much?
Lu You, who was thinking about this issue, did not refuse Jiao's request to sleep next to him at night.
The corner of the eyes that originally thought that Lu You would politely keep a distance was brightened, so he just kept on doing nothing, staring at Lu You and said seriously: "A piece of animal skin may not be enough to keep you warm."
"is it?"
The words "Let's sleep together" swirled around in Jiao's mouth and was finally swallowed by him. Finally, he changed the sentence: "I have become a beast, you can sleep next to me."
Sleeping against a big fluffy lion? !
Before the change, Lu Er may have to worry about whether to keep a distance from Jiao; but seeing the two "straight men" Lie and Yong hugged and fell asleep together, and she was only leaning on the lion's fur, Lu Er felt that she should No more rules!
The body of the big white lion was longer than Lu Yi's straight arms. Lu Yi leaned on the lion and was covered by the white fur of the big lion from head to toe. The familiar orc breath poured into his sinuses again, bringing him a sense of inexplicable familiarity. sense and security.
Holding the big, fluffy Lu You, he happily fell asleep. In his dream, there were small cats, medium cats, big cats, and huge cats neatly placed around him, and many cats surrounded him and begged him to stroke his fur.
For Lu Er, it was simply sleeping next to the big cat; for Jiao, it was the first time that he shared the bed with his sub-beast, skin-to-skin, and the blood flowed all over his body, making his whole lion always in a state of excitement. State, can't sleep at all.
——His sub-beast's body is so soft, I really want to turn around and hug him...
——The temperature of his sub-beast is a bit cold, I don't know if it's freezing...
The lion opened its eyes, and carefully pulled the animal skin covering Lu Er's body with its front paws to ensure that Lu Er's shoulders were also covered, and then lay down with peace of mind.
Standing aside and watching the two couples fall asleep hugging each other, Su and Xiao looked at each other in blank dismay.
——I always feel... I was stuffed with two mouthfuls of sour fruit inadvertently?
The two orcs patted each other on the shoulder reassuringly.
Xiao lay down on the animal skin and fell asleep, while Su Ze stared at the bonfire and was in a daze thinking about Aoba from the Redwood Tribe.
According to the order of vigils discussed before going to bed, today he will watch the first half of the night, and then change the vigil; tomorrow he will change to the other two and continue to take turns.
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For the next few days, Lu You slept leaning on the horn like this, completely adapting to the camping life of sleeping with a big lion in his arms.
Jiao is also very satisfied with the way he can sleep next to his sub-beast every night, and the next day his sub-beast radiates his breath all over his body.
He has even decided that after returning to the tribe, he will immediately use the excuse of "getting used to sleeping together and not being able to sleep separately" to ask Feng to make a wooden bed that is so big that it can fit his animal shape, so that they can hug and sleep together again. .
At that time, you don't have to worry about heating at home, and he can hug his sub-beast when he transforms back into a human form in the middle of the night!
Thinking of this, Jiao suddenly looked forward to ending his life of exchanging salt and going home quickly, and the speed of his journey was a little faster.
Under Jiao's speeding up, they ate the wind and drank the dew all the way, and finally the group of the Redwood Tribe arrived at the Heihe Tribe.
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The Heihe Tribe is five or six times larger in size and population than the Redwood Tribe. It is backed by a large river and there is a saline-alkali land nearby, which can easily produce salt.
For a long time, the Heihe tribe has maintained their main livelihood by exchanging salt.
Because of the large population and relatively strong strength, few tribes dare to come to the Heihe Tribe to make trouble, and small tribes will also trade some special products of their respective tribes in the Heihe Tribe.
Because the Redwood tribe is far away from the Heihe tribe, they seldom bring anything from the tribe, and most of them hunt nearby.
Once entering the Heihe Tribe, Lu You clearly felt that this large-scale tribe was much more lively than the Redwood Tribe; the tents were not as disorganized as the Redwood Tribe, and they were neatly arranged in rows, obviously after artificial planning.
After the end of the cold season, the small tribes that could not make their own salt all came to the Heihe tribe, and the Heihe tribe specially set aside a place for the small tribes to do business.
In addition, they also generously lent out a lot of tents to shelter the orcs who wanted to stay in the Heihe Tribe for a few more days.
It was getting late when Lu Yi and his party arrived at the Heihe Tribe. They asked the orcs on duty at the Heihe Tribe for a tent, and they went to change the salt after a night of rest.
After entering the Heihe Tribe, the trailer they pulled attracted the attention of many people.
At this stage, the orcs haven't done much research on tools, and the transportation basically depends on the orcs transforming into animal shapes and carrying them on their shoulders, and the trailer with wheels rumbling forward has aroused the curiosity of many people.
Find the orc in charge of exchanging salt in the Heihe Tribe, and Jiao acts as a spokesperson to show the orc the corn.
The orc's eyes lit up with the fragrant millet, he grabbed a handful and sniffed it, appraised it in his heart, and asked cautiously, "Can I have a taste first?"
Jiaojiao and Lu Wei have already discussed the problem of tasting, and nodded without any surprise: "Yes."
A small handful of millet was stewed into millet porridge, and the warm heat and aroma made the several orcs watching swallow a few mouthfuls of water.
The orc who was in charge of changing the salt took a sip of the millet porridge and couldn't help breathing out, but his face still showed surprise and satisfaction.
Lu You and Jiao looked at each other and knew that the deal was done.
The exchange ratio of grain and salt was unexpectedly high, far exceeding Lu Yi's psychological expectations.
——With so much salt, they might not be able to fit it in their car, so they had to pile some up for Xiao to carry.
After changing the salt, before they could pile it on the cart, the orc suddenly stopped them: "Can you change this tool?"
Lu Er followed his finger and found that the orc was pointing at the trailer, and was a little surprised.
——The Heihe Tribe wants a car?
Such a large trailer can basically only be used for long-distance heavy-weight transportation, and the efficiency of short-distance small amount of transportation is actually not as good as that of the orcs themselves.
The Redwood Tribe still needs to use this vehicle to haul the salt back, and of course it cannot be exchanged for the Heihe Tribe.
Lu You shook his head: "We still need to use it."
The orc was a little disappointed, but he didn't force it.
Taking the trailer full of salt to their tent, they looked around and asked, "Shall we go back now, or should we stay longer?"
There is still enough salt left in the Redwood tribe, and they have plenty of time.
Except for Jiao, the others have never been to the Heihe Tribe, and they are quite curious about this big tribe; Lu Er intends to find suitable seeds in the Heihe Tribe.
So it was unanimously approved to stay here for a few more days, leaving two people in the tent to guard their salt every day, and the others can go out for a stroll.
On the first day, Lie Heyong stayed behind, and Lu Wei went out to the trading ground.
In the name of personal protection, the horns never leave.
Lu You knew that Jiao was worried about his safety as a sub-beast, so he didn't refuse.
The flow of people in the trading field made Lu Wei return to the familiarity of the vegetable market in modern society in a trance.
On both sides of the flat open space, the orcs who set up a stall spread a piece of animal skin on the ground, and placed all kinds of things they used for exchange on the animal skin.
There are strange things such as animal bones, stone tools, and shells, as well as prey such as berries, animal meat, and fur. There are even a few people selling sub-animals.
When Lu Er knew about the Xiaoshi tribe before, he knew that slavery had sprouted in this primitive orc era, and he was mentally prepared for the emergence of human trafficking, but he still couldn't bear it, so he couldn't help but went forward to ask the price.
The grain they brought out this time was exchanged for salt. If the price of those slaves was not high, he could exchange it in other ways.
The orc who traded slaves was big and round, and he gave Lu Yi a disdainful look. He didn't want to talk to him at first, but he looked at the cold gaze behind Lu Yi, and he curled his lips and said reluctantly: "Three shell coins, one sub beast."
"shell?"
The orc looked at him in surprise, and sneered: "Where did the bumpkin come from, who doesn't even know shell coins?"
He took one out of the animal skin bag at his waist, shook it in front of Lu Er, "I'll give you some insight."
Lu Er looked carefully and found that it was a shell that had been artificially processed, the edges were very rounded, and strange symbols were engraved on the shell.
Unexpectedly, currency appeared before agriculture was developed.
Lu You knew it well, and used the salt of the Heihe Tribe as a reference to roughly confirm the value of the shell coin, and found that the value of a sub-beast slave is basically equivalent to a bag of millet.
A bag of millet is exchanged for almost twice the amount of salt, and then replaced with other things. Lu Er can't give away so many valuable things now, unless he really sells the car.
In the end, Lu Er could only regretfully give up his plan to save those sub-beasts, and focus on his own goal.
Most of the things that the orcs here in the trading place have nothing to do with agriculture, and the few fruits are not attractive to Lu Er.
On the contrary, the sweater and fur coat on Lu Er attracted many people's attention, and several bold orcs came to ask the price of the clothes on him.
There are also blind orcs who think that Lu Er is Jiao's slave, and directly ask Jiao how to sell this slave.
He was so angry that he clenched his fist and almost wanted to hit the orc in the face directly. He was reluctant to restrain himself because he was concerned about the order of the trading field and his image in Lu Wei's heart.
After wandering around, Lu Er found nothing and returned disappointed.
Seeing from the corner, Lu You seemed very disappointed, trying to find a way to comfort him: "Don't worry, we'll take a look tomorrow."
Every day, new orcs will appear in the trading field with new gadgets.
Now there is no better way, Lu You can only give up the deal, and turn his attention to the wild land outside the tribe.
Being able to act together with his sub-beast, Jiao naturally wouldn't have any objections—it would be better to say that he went to the wild, and he was more comfortable without those orcs who dared to stare at his sub-beast.
The vegetation outside the Heihe Tribe is very different from that near the Redwood Tribe.
The black soil here looks more fertile. Although the water source is not sufficient, the plants are still very luxuriant, which makes Lu Wei envious.
If such land is in the Redwood Tribe, their yield per mu can be increased a lot...
Different vegetation produces different crops. Lu Er searched around and let him find a good thing.
chili.
Chili plays an important role in the seasoning of Chinese dishes, and moderate spicy stimulation can also stimulate people's appetite.
Lu You was very pleasantly surprised, and wandered around the chili plant a few times, thinking about what reason he should use to get rid of it.
Unexpectedly, before he could speak, Jiao suddenly stopped and coughed: "I'm a little thirsty, go over there and drink some water."
When he fell asleep, he hugged the pillow. Lu Wei watched Jiao's back stop by the river in the distance, squatted down and carefully lifted off a piece of animal skin finger cot wrapped around the ring - he made it out of the skin that has lost its hair. The finger cot wraps the ring more tightly and is not easy to fall off.
When the ring came into contact with the sun, the splashing spiritual water dripped into the soil of the pepper, causing the pepper to bloom and bear fruit immediately.
Lu Er put away the ring again, and waited for the peppers to fully mature before picking off the peppers, removing the pepper seeds inside, and putting the seeds in the small pocket of the sweater, ready to start cultivating after returning to the tribe.
After destroying the remaining pepper plants, I took a few leaves with a lot of water around them and wiped my hands to get rid of the spicy smell. Jiao also came back after drinking the water.
Lu Wei carefully observed Jiao's expression, and found that his expression was normal, as if he hadn't noticed his small movements at all, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and found an excuse to wash his hands by the river, and began to look for new plants.
Jiao stopped in place and moved his nose slightly, his handsome eyebrows frowned slightly: What kind of irritating smell is this, what is his sub-beast doing with this thing?
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After a whole day, Lu Er harvested four or five kinds of plants with cultivation value, and happily went back to their temporary tent clutching his small pocket.
Seeing that Lu You decided to go back, he breathed a sigh of relief—he used various reasons to cooperate with Lu You, such as drinking water, washing hands, peeing, etc. It was difficult to leave a personal space for Lu You without leaving any traces.
When Lu Er found something new again, he almost couldn't think of an excuse.
He was reluctant to let him leave Lu Er there alone to keep a distance.
The two returned to the Heihe Tribe, but before entering the tribe, a gray bird fell in front of them from the sky and turned into an orc on the ground.
It is fast.
"What's wrong?" Lu You suddenly looked serious.
Huo deliberately came out to find them, did something happen?
He quickly stopped for a rest, and hurriedly said: "The leader of the Heihe Tribe came to our tent and said that he wanted our car, and asked if we could give it to them. If we don't, we won't let us go."
The leader of the Heihe tribe came to ask for the car in person?
Lu You and Jiao looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes.
With the strength of the Heihe Tribe, it shouldn't be necessary to take a car by force.
there is always a solution to a problem.Lu Er hurriedly quickened her pace and walked towards their temporary tent.
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The leader of the Heihe tribe looked a little fat, with a very kind smile on his face.
It's just that the behavior of a group of orcs around their tent doesn't look so friendly.
Lie and Yong's muscles tensed, guarding the front of their trailer vigilantly, ready to attack at any time.
When Lu You and Jiao arrived, they faced such a scene.
According to Jiao's past temperament, when he saw these guys daring to surround his things, he would definitely punch them one by one before talking; but in front of Lu You, he barely restrained his anger, and only stretched out his hand to block theirs. The orc flies.
When the leader of the Heihe Tribe saw Jiao, his expression froze slightly: "Jiao, are you still alive?"
Every time before, Jiao and Teng came together to exchange salt. When they met someone who wanted to take advantage of the Redwood Tribe, Jiao would beat him up mercilessly. He had a bad reputation, and the leader of the Heihe Tribe had long admired his name.
Hearing that Jiao passed away unfortunately in the last beast horde, the Heihe tribe boldly surrounded them.
They didn't want to rob, but they just wanted to use their strength to put a little pressure on the Redwood Tribe so that the transaction would go smoothly.
But I didn't expect that Jiao was still alive.
The leader glared at the orc who was exchanging salt with the Redwood tribe at that time, and saw that the orc was very wronged - he didn't know who Jiao was, so how could he know that this orc was so powerful!
Jiao "hummed": "What do you want to do?"
Now that Jiao was there, the leader's attitude changed subtly. He coughed dryly and put on a smile again: "Jiao, we need your car very much, can you exchange it for us?"
"No." Jiao replied without hesitation, "How can we take the salt back with you?"
"I can send some orcs to help you send it back." The leader said quickly.
Jiao frowned: "What do you want this car for?"
Sending orcs to help him transport salt is troublesome and wasteful. If the Heihe tribe has something that needs to be transported, can't they just send orcs to carry it?
The leader hesitated for a moment, with a look of disappointment on his face: "Our Heihe tribe encountered some problems... Did you build this car yourself? If so, can you rebuild it when you go back? Just leave it to the Let's do it."
Lu Er stood aside and listened for a while, frowned slightly, but did not speak.
Jiao waved his hand impatiently: "Hesitating, don't change!"
The leader looked at his subordinates hesitantly, and finally made up his mind: "If you are willing to exchange it for us, I will tell you why we need your car."
Jiao sneered: "What does it have to do with us?"
The leader blinked and looked a little more serious: "Maybe it really has something to do with it.
"God's punishment is coming."
Jiao's expression froze, and he frowned and asked, "How do you know?"
Then Lu Er's question came out of his mouth almost at the same time: "What is God's punishment?"
The leader glanced at the sub-beast who suddenly interrupted, and subconsciously glanced at the corner: "Is this sub-beast the slave you bought?"
Jiao's face darkened: "This is my partner!"
Kanjiao seemed to attach great importance to this sub-beast. The leader didn't bother with this question very sensibly, and instead replied: "The tribe who came to us to exchange salt told us that their tribe has been swallowed by God's punishment and is migrating. God's punishment It is less than a day away from the Heihe tribe, and I am afraid it will spread to us in a few months—we need to migrate to other places.”
Then he glanced at Lu Yi, and replied reluctantly, "God's punishment is a disaster sent by God. No one can survive in the land of God's punishment."
They needed to get this very convenient looking car, and they imitated and built a few more to carry various utensils and property of the Heihe tribe.
"Wait, God's Punishment is very close to the Heihe Tribe?" Lu Er was slightly puzzled by the leader's expression.
Lu Er originally thought that "God's Punishment" was the product of these primitive orcs attaching totem beliefs to natural disasters, but unexpectedly it sounded a bit wrong.
Is that divine punishment something that exists physically?
"You can see it if you run towards the noon of the sun for a day—well, if you are talking about Jiao, it may not take a day." The leader said frankly, and finally there was a trace of request on his face, "Can you exchange the car for us?"
Lu Er glanced at Jiao, and found that Jiao's eyes were full of dignity, obviously knowing what was going on.
Lu You pondered for a while, then shook his head: "We are also responsible for transporting salt for the car. Let's go see the 'God's Punishment' tomorrow. If it is really serious enough, I can teach your orcs how to build a car."
The leader was slightly taken aback: "You built the car?"
At this moment, Su finally interjected: "Lu Er is the witch doctor of our tribe!"
The leader was taken aback, and the way he looked at Lu Wei suddenly changed. He looked up and down, mixed with suspicion and reverence, and finally said nothing, nodded: "Then I will wait for your news."
After speaking, he took the other orcs and left, as if he was very confident that Lu Er would see "God's Punishment".
After the Heihe tribe left, Lu You asked Jiao about the "God's Punishment".
"God's punishment is a sign that has suddenly appeared in these years. Where God's punishment occurs, the land will become dry and the water will disappear. Most plants and beasts will not be able to survive, and so will the orcs."
After Jiao's explanation, Lu You understood what the so-called divine punishment was - desertification of the land!
It's just that the desertification of the land is not a very long process. How come they describe it as fast as the tide of the river?
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The next day, the horn turned into a beast shape, signaling Lu Er to ride on his back.
The big lion running at full speed is very fast. Lu You lay on the back of the lion and hugged the lion's neck tightly. He could only feel the wind blowing on both sides. Half of his face was buried in the big lion's fur. Although his body was bumping , but my heart is very stable.
Concerned about Lu Er's body, Jiao will slow down after running fast for a while, so that Lu Er can take a breather and replenish water in the river beside the road.
Lu Er noticed that as they moved forward, the water in the rivers on both sides became less and less and more turbid, and the vegetation on the ground began to decrease significantly.
When it was approaching noon, the lion slowed down, Lu Er poked his head out, and saw the dead gray and yellow in front of him at a glance.
It is completely different from the land desertification that Lu Wei imagined.
The ground is a withered yellow color, with cracks and cracks, and the sound of "cracking" when stepped on; the vegetation is all withered and dead, and several completely dehydrated animal corpses can be seen on both sides, and the place that looks like a river is also The dark river bottom was exposed, full of cracks like the ground.
Rather than saying that it is desertification that has evolved over a long period of time, it is more like the water in the entire land is suddenly evaporated in an instant, and the slow-moving animals have no time to escape.
The earth seemed to be dead.
The pure white lion stepped on the edge of the dead earth, and there was a deep sorrow and fleeting hatred in the green eyes.
I don't know if it's Lu You's illusion. When they approached this dead land, the sky seemed to be a little darker, and the sound of the wind revealed a little ominous.
He got down from the lion, stared at the lifeless world in front of him, was silent for a while, and then asked, "Is this God's punishment?"
The lion gave a low growl.
Lu You squatted down, stretched out his hand to grab a piece of dry and hard land, rubbed it lightly, watched the sand crumble and fell on the ground, his eyes suddenly froze slightly, and stared at the ground tightly.
After staring at the ground without blinking for dozens of seconds, Lu You clearly saw that the normal inch of land under his feet suddenly turned yellow, exactly the same as the dead land in front of him.
This drought... moving slowly, no, fast?It seems that the skin disease is eroding the normal skin!
This speed visible to the naked eye is faster than any desert that Lu Yi knows!
Lu You raised her head in a daze, and subconsciously muttered to herself: "This is a bit unscientific..."
Seeing Lu You's shocked look, the lion suddenly stretched out his tail and rolled him up, pushed back two steps, and let out a low growl.
Lu You came to his senses and knew the lion's worry, so he stretched out his hand and patted the lion's back lightly.
At this moment, Lu You suddenly looked shocked, and subconsciously looked at his right hand.
——At the moment just now, his spiritual water ring vibrated!
——Is the spirit water ring related to this terrible divine punishment?
The horn is next to it, Lu You couldn't take out the Lingshui ring to verify, so he could only put his hand back quietly.
The lion turned back into a human form, looked up at the land, then turned to look at Lu Er again, with a very peaceful voice: "Let's go back."
Lu You shook his head: "No hurry, look for any valuable plants."
He took out the animal skin bag used to hold the seeds, took out the seeds inside and put them in the pocket of the sweater, then collected the inexplicably withered and yellowed soil clods into the animal skin bag and tied them tightly, then looked around for any something special.
There is no vitality within the scope of God's Punishment, but the plants that can survive outside of God's Punishment must have strong drought resistance.
Looking at the speed at which God's Punishment moved forward, it was hard to say when it would spread to their Redwood tribe, and early preparations were needed.
Jiao understood what Lu You meant, thought about it, and helped to find it together.
This place is too weird, Jiao doesn't want his sub-beast to stay here for a long time.
Seeing that Jiao started looking for things intently, Lu You turned his back to him, and quietly lifted the leather case of a corner of the spirit water ring, allowing the ring to come into contact with the sun and secrete spirit water.
The sudden restlessness of the ring just now made Lu Wei suspect that maybe Lingshui can save such a land!
The clear spiritual water gushed out and fell into the dry and yellowish land.
To Lu Er's disappointment, there seemed to be no reaction when the spiritual water was poured into the dead soil, and the soil was still the same withered yellow color; Lu Er took a seed and planted it and poured the spiritual water again, but the result was still the same .
He stood up in disappointment, just at this time Jiao also came over, empty-handed: "Nothing."
As expected, he nodded, "Then let's go back."
The horn turned back into a lion for Lu Wei to ride on, and when he left, he stepped on the land watered by the spiritual water.
The lion threw it away at a high speed, and the withered yellow drought behind him was still slowly moving forward.
But no one noticed that after being trampled by the lion's paws, the color of the lifeless land suddenly became darker, and a weak shoot poked out, and soon grew into a complete chili tree, which was planted again. Ripens fruit within a few minutes.
In a piece of withered, yellow and dead land, there is only this emerald green and bright red.
After staying at home for so long in the cold season, although there is a big furry lion masturbating behind him every day, Lu Er is still a little bored.
Being able to travel and relax this time made him feel much happier.
Along the way, Lu Er was observing the nearby geographical environment, looking for new plants with breeding value.
But what made him feel a little weird was that the further he went, the rarer the vegetation on the land, and the lower the water level of the rivers and lakes.
The ice breaks in the first spring, and the melted ice and snow should greatly nourish the land, making the land glow with positive livelihoods. Why does this place look like dry soil on the verge of the Gobi desert?
I asked Jiao, and Jiao also said that it was not like this before, and that the water and soil here should be rich.
Lu You frowned, feeling a bad premonition in his heart.
On the way forward, Su was in charge of flight reconnaissance, Xiao was in charge of pulling the cart, Jiao was in front to open the way, and Lie and Yong were in charge of breaking the rear.
Lu You is in charge... sitting in the car.
Several other orcs turned into beasts and acted, only he sat in the car and didn't have to do anything for nothing.
This made Lu Wei a little embarrassed, but if he got out of the car and walked by himself, at his speed, he would be dragging down the team's actions, so he could only sit at ease and contribute his strength in other areas.
Like cooking.
Jiao can easily catch suitable prey, and Lu Er cooks these prey into delicious barbecues, stews, etc. by himself.
When he was in modern society, his cooking skills were not very good, but the level of home-cooked dishes; but cooking skills such as oil temperature, blanching, ingredients, etc., which the world is still completely at a loss, are enough to conquer all who have tasted his cooking skills. tongue of an orc.
When Jiao was hunting for the first time, he caught an animal that looked like a goat. After cooking it, Lu Er tasted it and found that it really looked like mutton.
This gave him the urge to catch the lamb and bring it back.
Among the six agricultural animals in ancient China, Lu Er only raises pigs now, and has not found suitable breeds for other animals.
Xiaolu and his five little friends also ate very contentedly this winter. Lu Er provided a lot of feed. The bran of millet is especially loved by pigs. The occasional preserved fruit used for teething festivals makes pigs happy Can chew most of the day.
Lu Er cares more about the stove in the pigsty than in his own tent. He goes to see if the charcoal fire is enough to burn three times a day, and he will never let Xiaolu and them freeze.
After the whole winter, these piglets swelled up like blowing up balloons, and the two young boars who had been raped were especially fat.
Lu You estimated that in a few months, he could try to kill them and eat them.
Before going out this time, Lu You entrusted Teng to feed the pigs, and since Teng himself had no time to feed the pigs, Mang and Hong Yun took over.
Lu Wei was very surprised to find a sheep on the road this time, and quickly asked Jiao: "What's the name of this prey? How's your temperament? Can you catch it?"
Jiao was stunned for a moment, thinking that Lu Wei liked this kind of meat very much, and wiped his hands: "This is a curly horn sheep. It is very timid, and it is easy to catch. If you want to eat it, I will catch it tomorrow."
"No, I just want to try raising sheep." Lu Wei explained, shaking the fragrant leg of lamb in his hand, "I think this kind of animal is just like Xiaolu, and it is also very suitable for raising."
Yong frowned: "The meat of the horn sheep has a strange fishy smell."
"The mutton needs more condiments to taste. And the goat's milk tastes very good."
"Goat's milk?" Several other orcs looked at each other in blank dismay, "Isn't it for cubs, can we eat it too?"
They knew that pregnant female beasts would secrete milk, and they had eaten it when they were born, but they never thought about eating that milk when they grew up.
Lu You was stunned for a moment: "Have you never had milk?"
The memory of the original body has long since disappeared when she was a baby. Lu You subconsciously replaced the role of the sub-beast as a woman. Seeing the doubts on the faces of several orcs, she suddenly remembered that the physiological structure of sub-beasts is actually more inclined to human males, and the breasts are not developed. ...
If sub-beasts do not secrete milk, what do newborn cubs eat?
"Father Mu said that when the cubs were born, they went to catch pregnant female animals nearby to feed the cubs." Yong explained, "But after feeding for less than a month, the cubs' teeth can bite the chewed meat." , don’t need milk.”
After listening to the explanation, Lu You somewhat understood that sub-beasts do not secrete milk, and the orcs would catch pregnant beasts after giving birth and come back to feed their cubs.
Because most sub-beasts are pregnant in the cold season when they stay at home, the childbirth period is basically in the second half of the warm season. Many pregnant female animals in the wild are easy to catch.
If the orcs couldn't catch them, or even the orcs died unfortunately, other orcs in the tribe would not hesitate to help.
So orcs grew up eating the milk of various animals when they were young.
Having said that, Lu Er became more determined to domesticate cattle and sheep—it is too unstable to rely on hunting wild animals for breastfeeding, and the nutrition and safety of the milk of wild animals is definitely not as good as that of domestic animals.
This curly horn sheep is very suitable, but they are going to the Heihe tribe now, and it is inconvenient to take the sheep with them.
Although Jiao is very reluctant to have any more "little baa" in the family, he knows that everything that Lu Wei does seriously has Lu Wei's intentions, so he is only upset in his heart, and he still comforts Lu Wei: "When we come back, we will meet again. Catch, there are quite a lot of horn sheep in this area."
Knowing that this sheep is not uncommon, Lu Er felt relieved and wondered where the sheepfold should be built.
……
When going to bed at night, Jiao and Lu Er had a little conflict.
Lu Er brought six animal skins, which happened to spread one for everyone; but Jiao thought that Lu Er, as a delicate sub-beast, needed an extra animal skin, and wanted to requisition it from other people.
Lu You was a little helpless: "Jiao, I'm not so fragile, I'm still wearing a sweater."
"It's cold at night, you'll get sick." Jiao frowned and insisted.
Now that the cold season has just ended, it is indeed very cold at night, and there is no heater here, so if you sleep all night, you will definitely freeze to death—and Lu Er refuses to let him sleep in your arms.
Yong looked at the two people arguing quietly there, feeling a little helpless: "Lu Er, you don't have to worry about us, I'll be with Lie Sleeping."
He also pulled out two sweaters from the car, shook them, and added with a smile, "We also have sweaters."
Lu You watched Lie and Yong put on each other's fur-colored sweaters and then lay together on the same animal skin, and turned his head and cornered a bit in a daze.
If he remembered correctly, the tribe has always said that the sweaters woven from the fur of the orcs are given to their favorite sub-beasts, right?
What is the operation of Lie and Yong exchanging sweaters?
Did they get together?
But Kanyong's expression is open and frank, not like Genie at all...
Lu You, who considers himself a straight man of steel, is also a little confused: Is it normal for straight men to exchange sweaters and sleep together?He was still worried about the identity of himself and Jiao, and tried to keep a distance from Jiao...
Is he thinking too much?
Lu You, who was thinking about this issue, did not refuse Jiao's request to sleep next to him at night.
The corner of the eyes that originally thought that Lu You would politely keep a distance was brightened, so he just kept on doing nothing, staring at Lu You and said seriously: "A piece of animal skin may not be enough to keep you warm."
"is it?"
The words "Let's sleep together" swirled around in Jiao's mouth and was finally swallowed by him. Finally, he changed the sentence: "I have become a beast, you can sleep next to me."
Sleeping against a big fluffy lion? !
Before the change, Lu Er may have to worry about whether to keep a distance from Jiao; but seeing the two "straight men" Lie and Yong hugged and fell asleep together, and she was only leaning on the lion's fur, Lu Er felt that she should No more rules!
The body of the big white lion was longer than Lu Yi's straight arms. Lu Yi leaned on the lion and was covered by the white fur of the big lion from head to toe. The familiar orc breath poured into his sinuses again, bringing him a sense of inexplicable familiarity. sense and security.
Holding the big, fluffy Lu You, he happily fell asleep. In his dream, there were small cats, medium cats, big cats, and huge cats neatly placed around him, and many cats surrounded him and begged him to stroke his fur.
For Lu Er, it was simply sleeping next to the big cat; for Jiao, it was the first time that he shared the bed with his sub-beast, skin-to-skin, and the blood flowed all over his body, making his whole lion always in a state of excitement. State, can't sleep at all.
——His sub-beast's body is so soft, I really want to turn around and hug him...
——The temperature of his sub-beast is a bit cold, I don't know if it's freezing...
The lion opened its eyes, and carefully pulled the animal skin covering Lu Er's body with its front paws to ensure that Lu Er's shoulders were also covered, and then lay down with peace of mind.
Standing aside and watching the two couples fall asleep hugging each other, Su and Xiao looked at each other in blank dismay.
——I always feel... I was stuffed with two mouthfuls of sour fruit inadvertently?
The two orcs patted each other on the shoulder reassuringly.
Xiao lay down on the animal skin and fell asleep, while Su Ze stared at the bonfire and was in a daze thinking about Aoba from the Redwood Tribe.
According to the order of vigils discussed before going to bed, today he will watch the first half of the night, and then change the vigil; tomorrow he will change to the other two and continue to take turns.
……
For the next few days, Lu You slept leaning on the horn like this, completely adapting to the camping life of sleeping with a big lion in his arms.
Jiao is also very satisfied with the way he can sleep next to his sub-beast every night, and the next day his sub-beast radiates his breath all over his body.
He has even decided that after returning to the tribe, he will immediately use the excuse of "getting used to sleeping together and not being able to sleep separately" to ask Feng to make a wooden bed that is so big that it can fit his animal shape, so that they can hug and sleep together again. .
At that time, you don't have to worry about heating at home, and he can hug his sub-beast when he transforms back into a human form in the middle of the night!
Thinking of this, Jiao suddenly looked forward to ending his life of exchanging salt and going home quickly, and the speed of his journey was a little faster.
Under Jiao's speeding up, they ate the wind and drank the dew all the way, and finally the group of the Redwood Tribe arrived at the Heihe Tribe.
……
The Heihe Tribe is five or six times larger in size and population than the Redwood Tribe. It is backed by a large river and there is a saline-alkali land nearby, which can easily produce salt.
For a long time, the Heihe tribe has maintained their main livelihood by exchanging salt.
Because of the large population and relatively strong strength, few tribes dare to come to the Heihe Tribe to make trouble, and small tribes will also trade some special products of their respective tribes in the Heihe Tribe.
Because the Redwood tribe is far away from the Heihe tribe, they seldom bring anything from the tribe, and most of them hunt nearby.
Once entering the Heihe Tribe, Lu You clearly felt that this large-scale tribe was much more lively than the Redwood Tribe; the tents were not as disorganized as the Redwood Tribe, and they were neatly arranged in rows, obviously after artificial planning.
After the end of the cold season, the small tribes that could not make their own salt all came to the Heihe tribe, and the Heihe tribe specially set aside a place for the small tribes to do business.
In addition, they also generously lent out a lot of tents to shelter the orcs who wanted to stay in the Heihe Tribe for a few more days.
It was getting late when Lu Yi and his party arrived at the Heihe Tribe. They asked the orcs on duty at the Heihe Tribe for a tent, and they went to change the salt after a night of rest.
After entering the Heihe Tribe, the trailer they pulled attracted the attention of many people.
At this stage, the orcs haven't done much research on tools, and the transportation basically depends on the orcs transforming into animal shapes and carrying them on their shoulders, and the trailer with wheels rumbling forward has aroused the curiosity of many people.
Find the orc in charge of exchanging salt in the Heihe Tribe, and Jiao acts as a spokesperson to show the orc the corn.
The orc's eyes lit up with the fragrant millet, he grabbed a handful and sniffed it, appraised it in his heart, and asked cautiously, "Can I have a taste first?"
Jiaojiao and Lu Wei have already discussed the problem of tasting, and nodded without any surprise: "Yes."
A small handful of millet was stewed into millet porridge, and the warm heat and aroma made the several orcs watching swallow a few mouthfuls of water.
The orc who was in charge of changing the salt took a sip of the millet porridge and couldn't help breathing out, but his face still showed surprise and satisfaction.
Lu You and Jiao looked at each other and knew that the deal was done.
The exchange ratio of grain and salt was unexpectedly high, far exceeding Lu Yi's psychological expectations.
——With so much salt, they might not be able to fit it in their car, so they had to pile some up for Xiao to carry.
After changing the salt, before they could pile it on the cart, the orc suddenly stopped them: "Can you change this tool?"
Lu Er followed his finger and found that the orc was pointing at the trailer, and was a little surprised.
——The Heihe Tribe wants a car?
Such a large trailer can basically only be used for long-distance heavy-weight transportation, and the efficiency of short-distance small amount of transportation is actually not as good as that of the orcs themselves.
The Redwood Tribe still needs to use this vehicle to haul the salt back, and of course it cannot be exchanged for the Heihe Tribe.
Lu You shook his head: "We still need to use it."
The orc was a little disappointed, but he didn't force it.
Taking the trailer full of salt to their tent, they looked around and asked, "Shall we go back now, or should we stay longer?"
There is still enough salt left in the Redwood tribe, and they have plenty of time.
Except for Jiao, the others have never been to the Heihe Tribe, and they are quite curious about this big tribe; Lu Er intends to find suitable seeds in the Heihe Tribe.
So it was unanimously approved to stay here for a few more days, leaving two people in the tent to guard their salt every day, and the others can go out for a stroll.
On the first day, Lie Heyong stayed behind, and Lu Wei went out to the trading ground.
In the name of personal protection, the horns never leave.
Lu You knew that Jiao was worried about his safety as a sub-beast, so he didn't refuse.
The flow of people in the trading field made Lu Wei return to the familiarity of the vegetable market in modern society in a trance.
On both sides of the flat open space, the orcs who set up a stall spread a piece of animal skin on the ground, and placed all kinds of things they used for exchange on the animal skin.
There are strange things such as animal bones, stone tools, and shells, as well as prey such as berries, animal meat, and fur. There are even a few people selling sub-animals.
When Lu Er knew about the Xiaoshi tribe before, he knew that slavery had sprouted in this primitive orc era, and he was mentally prepared for the emergence of human trafficking, but he still couldn't bear it, so he couldn't help but went forward to ask the price.
The grain they brought out this time was exchanged for salt. If the price of those slaves was not high, he could exchange it in other ways.
The orc who traded slaves was big and round, and he gave Lu Yi a disdainful look. He didn't want to talk to him at first, but he looked at the cold gaze behind Lu Yi, and he curled his lips and said reluctantly: "Three shell coins, one sub beast."
"shell?"
The orc looked at him in surprise, and sneered: "Where did the bumpkin come from, who doesn't even know shell coins?"
He took one out of the animal skin bag at his waist, shook it in front of Lu Er, "I'll give you some insight."
Lu Er looked carefully and found that it was a shell that had been artificially processed, the edges were very rounded, and strange symbols were engraved on the shell.
Unexpectedly, currency appeared before agriculture was developed.
Lu You knew it well, and used the salt of the Heihe Tribe as a reference to roughly confirm the value of the shell coin, and found that the value of a sub-beast slave is basically equivalent to a bag of millet.
A bag of millet is exchanged for almost twice the amount of salt, and then replaced with other things. Lu Er can't give away so many valuable things now, unless he really sells the car.
In the end, Lu Er could only regretfully give up his plan to save those sub-beasts, and focus on his own goal.
Most of the things that the orcs here in the trading place have nothing to do with agriculture, and the few fruits are not attractive to Lu Er.
On the contrary, the sweater and fur coat on Lu Er attracted many people's attention, and several bold orcs came to ask the price of the clothes on him.
There are also blind orcs who think that Lu Er is Jiao's slave, and directly ask Jiao how to sell this slave.
He was so angry that he clenched his fist and almost wanted to hit the orc in the face directly. He was reluctant to restrain himself because he was concerned about the order of the trading field and his image in Lu Wei's heart.
After wandering around, Lu Er found nothing and returned disappointed.
Seeing from the corner, Lu You seemed very disappointed, trying to find a way to comfort him: "Don't worry, we'll take a look tomorrow."
Every day, new orcs will appear in the trading field with new gadgets.
Now there is no better way, Lu You can only give up the deal, and turn his attention to the wild land outside the tribe.
Being able to act together with his sub-beast, Jiao naturally wouldn't have any objections—it would be better to say that he went to the wild, and he was more comfortable without those orcs who dared to stare at his sub-beast.
The vegetation outside the Heihe Tribe is very different from that near the Redwood Tribe.
The black soil here looks more fertile. Although the water source is not sufficient, the plants are still very luxuriant, which makes Lu Wei envious.
If such land is in the Redwood Tribe, their yield per mu can be increased a lot...
Different vegetation produces different crops. Lu Er searched around and let him find a good thing.
chili.
Chili plays an important role in the seasoning of Chinese dishes, and moderate spicy stimulation can also stimulate people's appetite.
Lu You was very pleasantly surprised, and wandered around the chili plant a few times, thinking about what reason he should use to get rid of it.
Unexpectedly, before he could speak, Jiao suddenly stopped and coughed: "I'm a little thirsty, go over there and drink some water."
When he fell asleep, he hugged the pillow. Lu Wei watched Jiao's back stop by the river in the distance, squatted down and carefully lifted off a piece of animal skin finger cot wrapped around the ring - he made it out of the skin that has lost its hair. The finger cot wraps the ring more tightly and is not easy to fall off.
When the ring came into contact with the sun, the splashing spiritual water dripped into the soil of the pepper, causing the pepper to bloom and bear fruit immediately.
Lu Er put away the ring again, and waited for the peppers to fully mature before picking off the peppers, removing the pepper seeds inside, and putting the seeds in the small pocket of the sweater, ready to start cultivating after returning to the tribe.
After destroying the remaining pepper plants, I took a few leaves with a lot of water around them and wiped my hands to get rid of the spicy smell. Jiao also came back after drinking the water.
Lu Wei carefully observed Jiao's expression, and found that his expression was normal, as if he hadn't noticed his small movements at all, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and found an excuse to wash his hands by the river, and began to look for new plants.
Jiao stopped in place and moved his nose slightly, his handsome eyebrows frowned slightly: What kind of irritating smell is this, what is his sub-beast doing with this thing?
……
After a whole day, Lu Er harvested four or five kinds of plants with cultivation value, and happily went back to their temporary tent clutching his small pocket.
Seeing that Lu You decided to go back, he breathed a sigh of relief—he used various reasons to cooperate with Lu You, such as drinking water, washing hands, peeing, etc. It was difficult to leave a personal space for Lu You without leaving any traces.
When Lu Er found something new again, he almost couldn't think of an excuse.
He was reluctant to let him leave Lu Er there alone to keep a distance.
The two returned to the Heihe Tribe, but before entering the tribe, a gray bird fell in front of them from the sky and turned into an orc on the ground.
It is fast.
"What's wrong?" Lu You suddenly looked serious.
Huo deliberately came out to find them, did something happen?
He quickly stopped for a rest, and hurriedly said: "The leader of the Heihe Tribe came to our tent and said that he wanted our car, and asked if we could give it to them. If we don't, we won't let us go."
The leader of the Heihe tribe came to ask for the car in person?
Lu You and Jiao looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes.
With the strength of the Heihe Tribe, it shouldn't be necessary to take a car by force.
there is always a solution to a problem.Lu Er hurriedly quickened her pace and walked towards their temporary tent.
……
The leader of the Heihe tribe looked a little fat, with a very kind smile on his face.
It's just that the behavior of a group of orcs around their tent doesn't look so friendly.
Lie and Yong's muscles tensed, guarding the front of their trailer vigilantly, ready to attack at any time.
When Lu You and Jiao arrived, they faced such a scene.
According to Jiao's past temperament, when he saw these guys daring to surround his things, he would definitely punch them one by one before talking; but in front of Lu You, he barely restrained his anger, and only stretched out his hand to block theirs. The orc flies.
When the leader of the Heihe Tribe saw Jiao, his expression froze slightly: "Jiao, are you still alive?"
Every time before, Jiao and Teng came together to exchange salt. When they met someone who wanted to take advantage of the Redwood Tribe, Jiao would beat him up mercilessly. He had a bad reputation, and the leader of the Heihe Tribe had long admired his name.
Hearing that Jiao passed away unfortunately in the last beast horde, the Heihe tribe boldly surrounded them.
They didn't want to rob, but they just wanted to use their strength to put a little pressure on the Redwood Tribe so that the transaction would go smoothly.
But I didn't expect that Jiao was still alive.
The leader glared at the orc who was exchanging salt with the Redwood tribe at that time, and saw that the orc was very wronged - he didn't know who Jiao was, so how could he know that this orc was so powerful!
Jiao "hummed": "What do you want to do?"
Now that Jiao was there, the leader's attitude changed subtly. He coughed dryly and put on a smile again: "Jiao, we need your car very much, can you exchange it for us?"
"No." Jiao replied without hesitation, "How can we take the salt back with you?"
"I can send some orcs to help you send it back." The leader said quickly.
Jiao frowned: "What do you want this car for?"
Sending orcs to help him transport salt is troublesome and wasteful. If the Heihe tribe has something that needs to be transported, can't they just send orcs to carry it?
The leader hesitated for a moment, with a look of disappointment on his face: "Our Heihe tribe encountered some problems... Did you build this car yourself? If so, can you rebuild it when you go back? Just leave it to the Let's do it."
Lu Er stood aside and listened for a while, frowned slightly, but did not speak.
Jiao waved his hand impatiently: "Hesitating, don't change!"
The leader looked at his subordinates hesitantly, and finally made up his mind: "If you are willing to exchange it for us, I will tell you why we need your car."
Jiao sneered: "What does it have to do with us?"
The leader blinked and looked a little more serious: "Maybe it really has something to do with it.
"God's punishment is coming."
Jiao's expression froze, and he frowned and asked, "How do you know?"
Then Lu Er's question came out of his mouth almost at the same time: "What is God's punishment?"
The leader glanced at the sub-beast who suddenly interrupted, and subconsciously glanced at the corner: "Is this sub-beast the slave you bought?"
Jiao's face darkened: "This is my partner!"
Kanjiao seemed to attach great importance to this sub-beast. The leader didn't bother with this question very sensibly, and instead replied: "The tribe who came to us to exchange salt told us that their tribe has been swallowed by God's punishment and is migrating. God's punishment It is less than a day away from the Heihe tribe, and I am afraid it will spread to us in a few months—we need to migrate to other places.”
Then he glanced at Lu Yi, and replied reluctantly, "God's punishment is a disaster sent by God. No one can survive in the land of God's punishment."
They needed to get this very convenient looking car, and they imitated and built a few more to carry various utensils and property of the Heihe tribe.
"Wait, God's Punishment is very close to the Heihe Tribe?" Lu Er was slightly puzzled by the leader's expression.
Lu Er originally thought that "God's Punishment" was the product of these primitive orcs attaching totem beliefs to natural disasters, but unexpectedly it sounded a bit wrong.
Is that divine punishment something that exists physically?
"You can see it if you run towards the noon of the sun for a day—well, if you are talking about Jiao, it may not take a day." The leader said frankly, and finally there was a trace of request on his face, "Can you exchange the car for us?"
Lu Er glanced at Jiao, and found that Jiao's eyes were full of dignity, obviously knowing what was going on.
Lu You pondered for a while, then shook his head: "We are also responsible for transporting salt for the car. Let's go see the 'God's Punishment' tomorrow. If it is really serious enough, I can teach your orcs how to build a car."
The leader was slightly taken aback: "You built the car?"
At this moment, Su finally interjected: "Lu Er is the witch doctor of our tribe!"
The leader was taken aback, and the way he looked at Lu Wei suddenly changed. He looked up and down, mixed with suspicion and reverence, and finally said nothing, nodded: "Then I will wait for your news."
After speaking, he took the other orcs and left, as if he was very confident that Lu Er would see "God's Punishment".
After the Heihe tribe left, Lu You asked Jiao about the "God's Punishment".
"God's punishment is a sign that has suddenly appeared in these years. Where God's punishment occurs, the land will become dry and the water will disappear. Most plants and beasts will not be able to survive, and so will the orcs."
After Jiao's explanation, Lu You understood what the so-called divine punishment was - desertification of the land!
It's just that the desertification of the land is not a very long process. How come they describe it as fast as the tide of the river?
……
The next day, the horn turned into a beast shape, signaling Lu Er to ride on his back.
The big lion running at full speed is very fast. Lu You lay on the back of the lion and hugged the lion's neck tightly. He could only feel the wind blowing on both sides. Half of his face was buried in the big lion's fur. Although his body was bumping , but my heart is very stable.
Concerned about Lu Er's body, Jiao will slow down after running fast for a while, so that Lu Er can take a breather and replenish water in the river beside the road.
Lu Er noticed that as they moved forward, the water in the rivers on both sides became less and less and more turbid, and the vegetation on the ground began to decrease significantly.
When it was approaching noon, the lion slowed down, Lu Er poked his head out, and saw the dead gray and yellow in front of him at a glance.
It is completely different from the land desertification that Lu Wei imagined.
The ground is a withered yellow color, with cracks and cracks, and the sound of "cracking" when stepped on; the vegetation is all withered and dead, and several completely dehydrated animal corpses can be seen on both sides, and the place that looks like a river is also The dark river bottom was exposed, full of cracks like the ground.
Rather than saying that it is desertification that has evolved over a long period of time, it is more like the water in the entire land is suddenly evaporated in an instant, and the slow-moving animals have no time to escape.
The earth seemed to be dead.
The pure white lion stepped on the edge of the dead earth, and there was a deep sorrow and fleeting hatred in the green eyes.
I don't know if it's Lu You's illusion. When they approached this dead land, the sky seemed to be a little darker, and the sound of the wind revealed a little ominous.
He got down from the lion, stared at the lifeless world in front of him, was silent for a while, and then asked, "Is this God's punishment?"
The lion gave a low growl.
Lu You squatted down, stretched out his hand to grab a piece of dry and hard land, rubbed it lightly, watched the sand crumble and fell on the ground, his eyes suddenly froze slightly, and stared at the ground tightly.
After staring at the ground without blinking for dozens of seconds, Lu You clearly saw that the normal inch of land under his feet suddenly turned yellow, exactly the same as the dead land in front of him.
This drought... moving slowly, no, fast?It seems that the skin disease is eroding the normal skin!
This speed visible to the naked eye is faster than any desert that Lu Yi knows!
Lu You raised her head in a daze, and subconsciously muttered to herself: "This is a bit unscientific..."
Seeing Lu You's shocked look, the lion suddenly stretched out his tail and rolled him up, pushed back two steps, and let out a low growl.
Lu You came to his senses and knew the lion's worry, so he stretched out his hand and patted the lion's back lightly.
At this moment, Lu You suddenly looked shocked, and subconsciously looked at his right hand.
——At the moment just now, his spiritual water ring vibrated!
——Is the spirit water ring related to this terrible divine punishment?
The horn is next to it, Lu You couldn't take out the Lingshui ring to verify, so he could only put his hand back quietly.
The lion turned back into a human form, looked up at the land, then turned to look at Lu Er again, with a very peaceful voice: "Let's go back."
Lu You shook his head: "No hurry, look for any valuable plants."
He took out the animal skin bag used to hold the seeds, took out the seeds inside and put them in the pocket of the sweater, then collected the inexplicably withered and yellowed soil clods into the animal skin bag and tied them tightly, then looked around for any something special.
There is no vitality within the scope of God's Punishment, but the plants that can survive outside of God's Punishment must have strong drought resistance.
Looking at the speed at which God's Punishment moved forward, it was hard to say when it would spread to their Redwood tribe, and early preparations were needed.
Jiao understood what Lu You meant, thought about it, and helped to find it together.
This place is too weird, Jiao doesn't want his sub-beast to stay here for a long time.
Seeing that Jiao started looking for things intently, Lu You turned his back to him, and quietly lifted the leather case of a corner of the spirit water ring, allowing the ring to come into contact with the sun and secrete spirit water.
The sudden restlessness of the ring just now made Lu Wei suspect that maybe Lingshui can save such a land!
The clear spiritual water gushed out and fell into the dry and yellowish land.
To Lu Er's disappointment, there seemed to be no reaction when the spiritual water was poured into the dead soil, and the soil was still the same withered yellow color; Lu Er took a seed and planted it and poured the spiritual water again, but the result was still the same .
He stood up in disappointment, just at this time Jiao also came over, empty-handed: "Nothing."
As expected, he nodded, "Then let's go back."
The horn turned back into a lion for Lu Wei to ride on, and when he left, he stepped on the land watered by the spiritual water.
The lion threw it away at a high speed, and the withered yellow drought behind him was still slowly moving forward.
But no one noticed that after being trampled by the lion's paws, the color of the lifeless land suddenly became darker, and a weak shoot poked out, and soon grew into a complete chili tree, which was planted again. Ripens fruit within a few minutes.
In a piece of withered, yellow and dead land, there is only this emerald green and bright red.
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