Chapter 2: The lowly slave
Despite the contempt, Ning Yuan was taken away by these barbarians in the end. After all, in this special period of ancient times, population was also an important resource.
Of course, people like Ning Yuan are basically used as slaves after being captured. He has to do all the dirty and tiring work, and then give him some food to ensure that he can't starve to death.
Ning Yuan is 1.83 meters tall, coupled with years of exercise, and has eight-pack abdominal muscles with clear water horns on his abdomen.
He originally thought that his physical condition was very good, but who would have thought that all the male barbarians here had the same figure as bodybuilders.
Moreover, they are not the kind of protein powder that they eat. Their pimples are all cultivated through repeated life-and-death struggles, full of wild beauty and violent beauty.
Compared with them, Ning Yuan was the only thing he felt relieved about was his height, at least he was not the shortest one inside.
Although most of the barbarians are tall and big, they can still see some existences that are about 1.7 meters tall, so Ning Yuan can only seek some comfort in his height now.
The tribe that captured Ningyuan was called the Grizzly Bear Tribe. There were about 100 people in the entire tribe, and one-third of the strong warriors accounted for more than 30. The remaining ones were the elderly, women and children.
In order to give players more gaming experience, these barbarians are also famous and have names, otherwise just naming their subordinates would be enough for players to drink a pot of food.
The surname of the Grizzly Bear tribe is Xiong, which is very suitable for the name of their tribe. The patriarch is Xiong Shan, who is a strong man in his thirties.
Xiong Shan's body was covered with dense scars, and he looked like a cruel person who had been through many battles.
On the other hand, although Ning Yuan's muscles are also angular, he looks a little thin compared to others.
Moreover, his body was covered with white and clean, and he was not scarred. He looked like a timid waste, so people from the Grizzly Tribe looked at him with contempt. After all, scars were a military medal that demonstrated masculinity in this era.
In ancient times, slaves were divided into several types. The strong prisoners of war would gradually be absorbed into the tribe and eventually become part of the tribe. However, no tribe would think of absorbing him, so he belonged to the most humble slave.
The task assigned to Ning Yuan in the tribe is to collect firewood, which is the kind that goes from morning to night.
People in this period used drilling wood to make fire. In order to ensure the long-lasting extinction of the fire, the fire in the tribe was guarded by a dedicated person, and some firewood was added to it from time to time.
In addition to maintaining the immortality of the fire, the tribe also needs a lot of firewood to make fires every day to make rice. In the rainy season, flames need to remove moisture, and in the winter, flames need to keep warm. In short, firewood is an important reserve resource for the primitive tribes before coal mines are discovered.
If a tribe cannot store enough firewood before the arrival of winter, then the tribe may not have survived this winter. After all, in ancient times when medical conditions were basically zero, winter was even more terrifying than those beasts who were addicted to humans.
Basically, every tribe will lose some of its tribe members in winter, so humans during this period have an instinctive fear of winter.
Ning Yuan’s work is to pick up firewood, but there is no such lot of dry firewood on the ground for him to pick up, so he needs to break the branches growing on the lower part with his hands, and then tie the broken branches and pack them back to the tribe.
The job of picking up firewood was originally done by the elderly, women and children, but who told Ning Yuan to have a weak body?
A big man is mingling with the elderly, and it is definitely annoying between women and children, so this is also the main reason why Xiong Yue comes to trouble him when he is fine.
Xiong Yue was originally a warrior in the tribe. His mission was to hunt and fight. However, during a battle, his left leg was chopped by a stone axe. Although he finally saved his life and returned, he also became a cripple.
After becoming a cripple, he could no longer participate in the hunting, so the patriarch Xiong Shan asked him to stay in the camp to protect the safety of those firewood-picking women.
Although many of these firewood-picking women were slaves plundered from other tribes, slave women are also a valuable resource. They can work during the day and warm the bed at night, so they must not be allowed to be captured by wild animals.
After all, this is an era where wild beasts are everywhere, and they can be seen everywhere. As long as people leave the camp, they may be attacked by wild beasts at any time, so they must be careful and beware.
Although Ning Yuan also wanted to prove that he was not a weak chicken and had the value of being absorbed by the tribe, after seeing those strong men who could carry two or three hundred kilograms of wild boars everywhere casually, he decisively chose to shut up his mouth.
Well, he admitted that he was a weak man, and there was no way, these savages were all perverts.
Compared with them, the only thing Ning Yuan can do is run faster, but in this era it is useless to just run faster.
There are no Asian Games or Olympics here. If you run fast, you can win a medal or something. What's more, he has left the image of Ning Paopao for the people in the tribe. Isn't it uncomfortable to mention that he runs fast?
Ning Yuan had also thought about escaping. After all, a cripple could not catch up with him no matter what, but after thinking about it, he finally gave up this idea.
Escape? What a joke.
You should know that this was in ancient times. The jungle outside was full of all kinds of beasts. It was simply a delusion to survive here with the power of a person. Otherwise, the tribe would not have sent only a cripple and two old men to watch them, such slaves.
They didn't want to prevent them from escaping, but were guarding against wild animals to attack.
After giving up the idea of escaping, Ningyuan had only one way to go, that is, to make the people of the tribe recognize themselves through hard work, and thus absorb themselves into the tribe.
So he worked very hard to chop wood these two days. He broke hundreds of bundles of branches as thick as his wrists. Because he climbed the trees back and forth, his white and clean body was covered with scratches.
Ning Yuan worked hard to work, hoping to use this to arouse the tribe's ideas, but in the end he was deeply disappointed.
Because no matter how much firewood he carried back, the soldiers never looked at him directly. What made him even more desperate was that from morning to night, he only distributed a small piece of barbecue and a bowl of hot water. Not to mention filling his stomach, it was not enough to even stuff the gap between his teeth.
After sleeping on an empty stomach for a night, I had to get up early the next day to work. The breakfast was a bowl of water and a small piece of pig intestines. This was his food for the day today. He had to wait until the night for the next meal, and the portions would not be much larger.
As the saying goes, people are iron rice and steel, and they are hungry if they don’t eat for a meal.
After being hungry for two consecutive days, Ning Yuan really couldn't do anything. In addition, he did too hard the previous two days, so the difference was too obvious in this comparison, so Xiong Yue began to focus on him.
It doesn't matter if you are targeted. In the morning, Ning Yuan's butt was hit seven or eight times.
Ning Yuan originally wanted to find some wild fruits to secretly fill his stomach, after all, there were still many wild fruits in the woods.
However, as long as the wild fruits picked are all property of the tribe, he, a slave, is not qualified to eat at other times, so after Xiong Yue discovered that he was caught in his stomach.
Although Xiong Yue was a cripple, his lumps were not white after all, and he almost didn't get angry with Ning Yuan when he kicked him.
Logically speaking, with the character of players, if they encounter such a situation in the game, they will jump up and curse themselves long ago, and if they don’t accept it, they will die. It’s rare for people as tolerated as Ning Yuan.
After all, death in the game is not real death, and I have just entered the game now, so it is a waste of three months at most. Why swallow your anger so much?
In fact, Ning Yuan didn't want to tolerate it so much. Although the three-month imprisonment was a bit long, he could still grit his teeth and accept it.
What really made him unable to let go was his random attribute. Whenever he was about to endure it, he would secretly take a look at his character attributes, and then he would have the motivation to continue to endure it.
Chapter completed!