[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

Dan felt like he was in a dream.

The silver light of the moon shone beside him, and the long grass scraped lightly on his legs and knees, making a rustling sound.

In front of Dan was Yi Nan's back, her black hair scattered behind her head like a waterfall, shining brightly under the moonlight.

Both Ku and Huan warned Dan not to leave the station at night and not to go into the wilderness—there are wild beasts and unpredictable dangers hidden there.

But Yi Nan was there, and Yi Nan walked ahead of him.She doesn't seem to be afraid of any danger, and the night is not a taboo for her at all.

What's more, there is such a beautiful moonlight tonight.

"Come on, sit here!"

Yinan takes Dan to the middle of the mountain.The view here is very good, a full moon hangs brightly in the sky.The tribe had already cleared a large vacant lot here in order to determine the location of the barn.

Yi Nan sat down in the middle of the open space, and the cat in her arms meowed and jumped to the ground.The cat then arched its back and jumped into the grass to catch the grasshopper.

Dan obediently sat down beside Yi Nan, followed her gaze, and looked at the bright moon in the sky together.

"Is the moon beautiful?" Yinan asked Dan.

Dan nodded: "It looks good!"

Tonight's moon is round and bright, white and fat.

"Is the moon the same every time you see it?" Yi Nan asked again.

Dan shook his head. He knew that the moon was different every night. Sometimes it was round, and sometimes it was so thin that it only had a thin curve... Sometimes it was nowhere to be seen.

Wu said that when the moon cannot be seen, the moon god is shy and has gone to other places, unwilling to appear.

Dan was thinking about it when Yi Nan asked him, "Do you remember what the phase of the moon was like yesterday?"

Dan: ...?

He became flustered, his eyes rolled around, and he secretly guessed how to answer the goddess's heart.

Unexpectedly, Yi Nan stared at him: "But if I ask you this question tomorrow, you will know how to answer, right?"

Dan felt that Yinan's question had a deep meaning, but he could only answer blankly: "...Yes, I will definitely remember it well. If you ask me tomorrow, I will be able to answer it."

Yi Nan tilted his head and looked at Dan: "What if I ask you again the day after tomorrow, what if I ask you again the day after tomorrow?"

Dan: "Ah this..."

He suddenly understood, and jumped up suddenly: "I see, Yi Nan... I, I will write it down, no matter when you ask, I will remember it."

Dan jumped up and looked around to see if there was anything that could help him remember, but he couldn't find any suitable material when he looked around. Suddenly he saw his kitten squatting next to a dead branch half as thick as an arm, and hurried to hug the branch. Come here and carefully peel off the bark.

Just when Dan didn't know what tool to use to record on the branch, Yi Nan handed over a broken pottery shard with one side smooth and the other sharp.

There was an encouraging smile on her face. Seeing her heart warming for no reason, Dan quickly took it and drew a line on the branch, indicating that this was his first day recording the phases of the moon.

Then Dan used pottery shards to draw a fat shape on the surface of the wide branches, and raised his head to the sky from time to time to compare whether his drawings were "realistic".

Yi Nan was sitting beside Dan, holding a stone knife borrowed from Huan, carefully polishing a thick piece of wood in her hand.

"It's finished!" Dan was elated, and pointed to Yi Nan the phase of the moon he had drawn on the half-branch.

Yinan nodded and asked, "Will you draw the moon every day?"

Dan asked suspiciously, "...every day?"

If it is raining or cloudy, and the moon is not visible, how should I draw it?

But when he saw Yi Nan staring at him intently, he immediately straightened his chest, stretched out his hand and patted his chest twice, and agreed first before saying, "No problem!"

Yi Nan let out a "hmm", then turned his head and continued to polish the wood chip in his hand.

Dan was a little bored, so he simply lay back, put his hands behind his head, and looked at the stars in the sky.

"How many stars can you recognize here?" Yinan's voice sounded beside him.

"...Can you recognize them?" Dan thought: They recognize me, but I can't recognize them!

He only knew that when the sun just set and before dawn, when the sun did not rise, there would be an extraordinarily bright golden star hanging near the horizon.In addition, not only can he not recognize the vast galaxy that is densely covered in the night, even if he wants to recognize any star, he can't remember it!

"Think about it, what do they look like when they are placed together like this?" Yi Nan interjected.

like what? ——Dan went to look at the stars with this thought, and the stars were different again.

"This one is very similar to the billy goat that Ku brought back from hunting last time. It has a pair of long horns..."

"Isn't that our cat over there? Meow, come quickly, see for yourself if you look like it!"

The young man's power of association is obviously very rich: "Oh my god, it looks like a big snake there, my God, why do I think it can still swim!"

Yinan's voice sounded beside Dan: "If you come here again tomorrow night, do you think you can still recognize the ram, meow and big snake?"

Dan: "Absolutely! ... But will they look the same every other day, like the moon?"

Yi Nan pursed his lips and chuckled: "We'll find out tomorrow night, won't we?"

Dan hastily gave a "hmm", continued to look up at the starry sky, and divided the whole night into pieces in his mind, one piece for the goat, one piece for the kitten, and one piece for the big snake... trying to remember their positions and shapes.

Thinking about it, Dan couldn't help turning his head to see what Yinan was doing.

Yi Nan still hung his head, polishing the wood chip in his hand very patiently.Her side face was reflected by the moonlight, glowing with a soft and lustrous color, which was extraordinarily radiant.

Dan suddenly felt his heart move: the ancestral wizard Dan only met Yinan once, and he got such an important oracle and achieved such an achievement.

But Yi Nan in front of him had already been with them and spent so many happy days.He is really much luckier than his ancestors.

Dan is a cheerful young man, he opened his mouth as soon as he thought of it: "Yinan, I want to ask you something—"

He wanted to ask: Yinan, will you be with us forever?

Just as he was about to speak, Yi Nan suddenly raised his head and raised the wood chip in his hand: "It's finally done!"

Dan's words retracted again, and the young man's attention was attracted by the novelty in Yi Nan's hand.It was a thin piece of wood, but it was polished into a very special shape by Yi Nan.To Dan it looked like the outstretched wings of a swallow in flight.But Yinan said it was "V-shaped".

It's a strange vocabulary that I don't understand, but since it was said by the goddess, Dan will remember it for the time being.

"Let's have a try!" Yi Nan held the piece of wood in his hand, raised his hand, and threw it out.The splinter spun flat and flew into the night sky.

"Oh!" Dan slapped his head: Oops!

Yi Nan just threw the thing out. It was so dark in the night, where should he find it.

But this is Goddess stuff.

Dan's chest felt hot, and he turned around immediately, looking for something to hold in his hand to defend himself, and then rushed into the night to retrieve the thrown thing for the goddess.

Unexpectedly, Yi Nan gently pressed his shoulder, and raised his head to the night sky: "Look!"

Dan heard a thin buzzing sound, and sure enough, the next moment, the spinning piece of wood flew back spinning and was about to pass over his head.

As soon as Yi Nan stretched out his hand, he caught the piece of wood and handed it to Dan: "Take it, I gave it to you."

Holding the object in his hands, Dan raised his head and asked Yi Nan: "My dear God, what is this called? Why can it fly back after seeing it fly out?"

Yinan: "This is called a 'boomerang', also known as a 'boomerang'. The principle... involves aerodynamics, and it's a bit too complicated. I'll explain it to you slowly in the future."

Yi Nan polished it for a long time, and the "boomerang" given to Dan really shouldn't appear here and now.This is actually a hunting tool invented by Aboriginal Australians.Seeing that Dan practiced very hard in throwing stones, Yinan had a whim and wanted to give Dan a gift, believing that the boy would soon be able to master the use of boomerangs.

It was Yi Nan's plan to bring Dan to observe the starry sky and the phases of the moon tonight.

If in this tribe, there is one person who can master and master astrology...or astronomy.This person must be Dan without a doubt.

Observing the starry sky has a major impact on the development of the calendar, agricultural planting, and even ocean voyages in the future.

Inan comes from modern times, and naturally knows that the Mesopotamian culture has a tradition of observing the starry sky, but standing at the time point of nearly 7000 BC, all that Inan can do is to plant a "seed" for astronomical observation. Then sit back and watch how it takes root.

It's just that Dan didn't know about these things. He just asked Yi Nan when he was going down the mountain: "My God, Yi Nan, if you do what you say, will I be able to become a great witch like Wizard Dan in the future?"

Yi Nan answered affirmatively: "Of course—"

"But you need to persevere every day, rain or shine. Can you do it?"

"I can!" The young man puffed up his chest and made a promise to Yi Nan, but he was thinking in his heart: Rain or shine... When it is windy and rainy, you can't see the starry sky, do you want to come to this mountain?

Later he realized that rain or shine, more refers to the determination to persevere and the endurance to do the same boring thing repeatedly.

From then on, young Dan began to record the phases of the moon and the starry sky he saw every night. When encountering days that could not be observed, he would note the reason on the wooden block used for recording:

The dots are raining; the chaos is the sky covered with thick clouds; the branch-like figures represent the lightning crackling from the sky...

When recording every day, he will draw a deep line on the wooden block to indicate that a day has passed.

In this way, the days passed one day, two days, three days...

The moon became thinner and fatter, once, twice, three times...

After three months passed, the unnamed tribe got a piece of news: the brave "white head" of Kashan had returned.

The author has something to say: Gossip:

Among all civilizations in the world, boomerangs are only developed by Australian aborigines.It is said that Yinan should not have allowed this hunting tool to appear in prehistoric civilizations in West Asia.But if it can come in handy, it doesn't matter if it shows up, right?