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It was already half a month later when the big witch led them to find a place to use as the tribe's land. They had encountered several ferocious beasts along the way, and if they could beat them, they would fight them.

There have been a lot of injuries, but not as serious as Ji Mo imagined. The improvement of physical fitness seems to include the skin, not to mention the exaggeration of invulnerability, but this kind of ordinary fighting is at most minor scratches and scratches. Not serious.

It was straight hit by the beast on the ground, as if the fall was not light, and in a blink of an eye, people could jump up again, ride on the beast and punch to the flesh.

Fighting, fighting, and under the cruel environment, the survivors have the survival instinct, including the resistance to fierce beasts and beasts, as well as a certain inexplicable aura.

Ji Mo is practicing meditation every day. He found that when men fight with ferocious beasts, the people involved in the fight are like dancing flames. The flames may surround or gather, and occasionally disperse and quickly close together. This feeling is like a variant of sacrificial dance.

It seems to be this, it seems to be that, maybe the original sacrificial dance evolved from these movements in daily life.

Ji Mo felt that he had touched something similar to the source, but related to the ghosts and gods he wanted to find, it seemed that there was still a thousand miles away, and it was too early to say the outline.

The clan land where they settled was not the first one, but another one. It seemed that this place was also used as clan land before, whether it belonged to them or someone else. In short, it belonged to humans. You can see the traces of living in the past, and the surrounding trees, the tall ones, can also be seen to be the one they love to plant most.

Cleaning and tidying up, the hard-working women started working together to work on the rotten leaves. Taking advantage of the dawn, they dug up the sand below to dry again, so that they could live there at night, and the men also concentrated on planting trees. Plant grass, and some go to the surrounding area to be vigilant, dig pits to make traps, and bring back some food.

The sky became dark, and there were several piles of fires that were lit first, surrounding the clan grounds, and the big witch danced in the open space surrounded by several fire piles. The movements were actually like the men Ji Mo observed before hunting and killing ferocious beasts. Gathering and beating.

The last movement of the big witch is with his hands facing the sky, which seems to be a lifting gesture, and it seems to be stretching his arms to pray for blessings from heaven, or to embrace gifts from ghosts and gods that may exist around him. Cheers.

It coincided with the scene many years ago in his memory, and Ji Mo remembered that he had actually seen such a scene before, but he didn't think about it that much at the time, only when everyone moved to a new house and was warming the house, watching it now is another kind of feeling , Did you settle here after proclaiming to the heaven, earth, ghosts and gods?

The scattered fires are gradually synthesized into one. This is a slow process. Every time you add firewood, you will selectively shift a little distance, and then pull out the wood that is burning right inside and place it on the set forward route. In this way, when the fire finally merged into one, the surrounding ground was left with black marks that had been burned by the fire, and the sand mixed with black ash that was still heating became the best bed material.

They spread out some of them and placed the animal skins on top. They could still feel the infinite heat coming from them, which just neutralized the coolness of the night, and they slept very comfortably.

The fire did not know when it was extinguished. In the morning, Ji Mo followed the big witch to observe the surroundings of the clan land. The big witch would explain some areas that needed to be adjusted, telling the clan leader where to go out, where to find out, and jumped on it early. The big witch looked at the surrounding scenery from the top of the big tree, obviously there was a gap in his chest, and after arranging these important things properly, he began to check some small places.

The first is to get the brine.

Daily life is inseparable from salt. If there is no salt water, they can only absorb salt from the blood of animals. However, few people will like the taste of raw blood unless they are forced to.

There is always a difference between humans and beasts.

Dawu took some people to walk the salt road in person.Ji Mo also followed.

Because it was once a place where human beings lived, Dawu can be sure that there is a place to get salt nearby. They just need to look for it slowly. Even Dawu missed the road, and it took a few days to find the place to get salt.

Even though many things are different, many things are still the same, such as the necessity of salt.The salt land is a place with little vegetation. On the way here, you can often see some small animals coming and going here. They will consciously lick the rocks, which are stained with weak salt.

After finding this place, the big witch took a look again, made a judgment, and led people to move the rock, and quickly opened a hole. The inside was dark and cold, and the thin stream of water was shone by the light from the outside, shaking a piece of broken light. Here That's where the salt water comes from.

After taking the salt, the men will move the rock again to block the hole, and they will open the hole again when they come back next time.

Ji Mo believes that this is to prevent animals from sneaking in, and it may also be to maintain the temperature in the cave so as not to affect the quality of the salt water.

The clear salt water looks very pure. Take a sip and savor the salty taste carefully. It seems that you can still taste some stone taste. It is hard to say whether it is astringent or what, but fortunately this taste is already very weak. , so as not to affect the taste too much.

Is the salt of this purity born naturally?

Ji Mo inevitably has such doubts in his heart. He knows that salt from the outside world needs to be purified. In ancient times, it should be boiled salt, and later there will be sun-dried salt, but the salt obtained in this way still seems to have impurities. Later... well, modernized How the salt came from, he was not quite sure.

"Are all the salt fields the same?"

The previous clan land also had this kind of salt harvesting land, which seemed similar. If it was the same, would it be some kind of coincidence?Or is it that the land where the salt water flows also has a sense of continuity, and all the choices of clan lands are based on this salt vein?

"Almost the same."

The answer given by Dawu is affirmative.

"Why is there such a place?"

Ji Mo knows the weight of salt. In ancient times, this kind of existence could not be bought and sold privately. The so-called "official salt" and "private salt" can easily know its value, what is needed for survival, and the beginning of strength. So indispensable, it cannot be obtained so easily.

If we talk about the geological characteristics, the distance between the migratory tribes is more than a month. There are similar salt extraction fields in two places so far away. It is always too far-fetched to say that it is a coincidence.

"Blessed by ghosts and gods."

The topic went back to the original routine, and Dawu's answer was nothing new.

Sure enough, I knew it would be like this. When Ji Mo asked a question, he knew it would be fruitless, and the result was exactly the same. All the reliable and unreliable, and the explainable and unexplainable can all be put on the head of "ghosts and gods" In fact, this reason is really no more correct.

The answer ends here. Even if you continue to ask "Why do ghosts and gods bless you", the answer will probably be "sincerely praying" and "ghosts and gods are merciful". is perfunctory others.

Ji Mo has not yet converted to theism, unless he sees ghosts and gods, it is always difficult to convince him. Even if it is an explanation such as a magnetic field or a change in the earth's crust, he can nod seriously, saying that it is so, and How could it be possible to attribute everything to ghosts and gods.

Even if you encounter some unfamiliar and unmaterialistic situations, you will not attribute all your brains to ghosts and gods.

Some people sometimes feel that the scene in front of them has happened before, and some people feel that something has been dreamed before it happened.

There are more than one or two scientists who get enlightenment from dreams. They think day by day and dream at night. The knowledge accumulated in the daily life is smashed and rearranged in dreams, and unimaginable and wonderful results are obtained. If you wake up and remember, go to If the verification is passed, can this result be said to be given by ghosts and gods?

If there is no accumulation in daily life, and the attachment that is brought into the dream from the heart, I am afraid that there will be no such wonderful results.

And more often, the revelation in the dream is not reliable, and the correct result cannot be obtained.

The omens of the subconscious mind may not be explained by some realistic and scientific things, just like some people’s memory is too amazing, and their analytical ability is too superhuman, what they see will draw conclusions that normal people can’t reach. How can it be said that Was it given by ghosts and gods?

The strengths and weaknesses of individuals, the existence of those so-called "talents", are gratifying, but more often, acquired learning and hard work will bridge the gap caused by "talents" and let them see Not out of reach.

This kind of "talent" can also be said to be a degree of brain development. Different degrees and different emphases result in different talents and different upper limits of talents. Such scientific explanations seem to make sense of.

If all these are applied to ghosts and gods, did ghosts and gods screen humans first?Is the individual's excellent talent bestowed by ghosts and gods?All of these processes are black-box operations, which are some kind of process or work that humans cannot understand.

At that level, it is no longer possible to use human concepts to understand ghosts and gods, so what should it be like?

Ji Mo thought a little far away for a while, and then came back to his senses, only to realize that he was walking by the hand of the great witch at some point. The old man's generous palms were covered with calluses, rough and uneven, and the dry places even had some cracks Ji Mo looked up at him, and the great witch looked down at him, their eyes met, and there seemed to be some concern in those wise eyes.

"I'm fine." Ji Mo replied, showing a smile, and temporarily let go of those unreasonable things, such as beliefs, which cannot be forced, perhaps, he was too anxious.