Chapter 1 Drilling wood to make fire(1/2)
"Help! Help--!"
In a dark and dense jungle, a young man in his twenties was running forward frantically, and his pretty face became distorted because of fear.
The "rustling" sound from the lush grass and bushes not far behind him was like a shadow, and it was getting closer and closer.
The young man seemed to have felt something, and his face was covered with sweat. His physical strength seemed to be a little exhausted, his steps gradually slowed down, and his eyes began to show a desperate look.
And at this moment, a light appeared in front of the young man, and he couldn't help but feel refreshed. Although he didn't know what the beam of light actually represented, he still used his last little strength to run towards the light like crazy.
Seeing that the light was right in front of him, he suddenly tripped under his feet, and heard a "Ouch" sound. He saw him pounce on him and rolled several times before he stopped. A bright light happened to shoot in his eyes. He subconsciously squinted his eyes.
However, this light is not the way to heaven, nor does it represent the dawn of escaping from the ascension, it is just an ordinary sunlight, and he is just outside the jungle he came to, no, he should have rolled outside the jungle.
It was a while since then, there was a loud noise in the grass, and then a roar was heard, and a huge gray-haired beast with two long fangs flew out of the grass and rushed towards the young man.
"ah--!"
The young man screamed in fear.
Whoosh!
In the flash of lightning, the young man felt a white light passing by his eyes, hitting the fanged beast above him, and heard another painful wail. The fanged beast seemed to be hit by a powerful force and flew backwards.
The young man who escaped from death seemed to be exhausted, lying on the ground weakly, gasping for breath. Suddenly, his eyes darkened, as if something blocked the sun. He used all his strength to move his eyes upwards, as if he saw a naked man staring at him coldly.
"Save me..."
He tried hard to raise his hand, but he quickly let it go, his eyes turned dark and fainted.
......
"ah!"
When he opened his eyes again, what caught his eye was a wrinkled old face, and it was so close that he was as scared as a frightened girl and screamed.
"ah.....!"
He suddenly screamed, as if he was scared of the old face, and he also opened his mouth wide and started screaming. While screaming, he shivered and retreated quickly, staggeringly, almost falling to the ground several times.
The young man then saw this person clearly. He was an old man who looked like a seventy or eighty-year-old man with his hair and beard as white as snow. There were some bones between his fluffy and messy hair. With the withered white hair, he was shaking like a pendulum. His eyes were sunken, but he was energetic and his face was rosy. His old eyes were bright and bright, with his upper body naked, and a "short skirt" around his waist. In fact, it was just a piece of simple sewn animal skin. His long legs were bent outwards, as thin as firewood. The ribs clouds protruding from both ribs might be able to play a wonderful melody. He held a dead wooden stick in his right hand, which was very compatible with his figure.
Before the scream fell, the young man heard a rapid sound under his feet. He subconsciously glanced down and couldn't help but scream again. It turned out that there was a young man squatting under his feet. He looked fifteen or sixteen years old, and his hair was also covered with thick and shiny. His eyes were pure and flawless, with black and white, and particularly agile. While running forward, the young man secretly looked back at him. Unlike the old man, the young man's shiny eyes were not filled with fear, but with curiosity.
"Who are you?"
As soon as he spoke, the young man suddenly felt unable to move all over. He looked down and realized that he was tied to a big tree by a vine. He couldn't help but be shocked and angry, and raised his head: "Who are you, why do you want-!"
Halfway through the words, it stopped.
The young man opened his eyes wide, his eyes filled with horror and looked ten steps ahead.
Dozens of people were quietly watching him, including children, girls, women and strong men. The children were almost naked, and most of the men had a piece of animal skin or leaves hanging in front of them to cover up the ugly things. Compared to the comparison, the old man seemed to be wearing a more decent dress just now, at least it looked like an extremely simple short skirt. There was nothing wrong with that. The key is that of women. There were actually many women who were naked on their upper bodies, and the two large pieces of meat on their chests were still in the breeze, and they were very weighty. Of course, some were wrapped in animal skin.
They also wear all kinds of jewelry, but they are all made of bones.
"Am I coming to an African tribe?"
After a while, the young man reacted and muttered to himself in disbelief, his heart skipped a beat again, "No, they don't look black... Are they uncivilized Americans and Indians? No, they have neither wide noses nor bulging eyes, nor high noses and deep eyes, and their hair is also black, and they are clearly yellow people like me."
Suddenly, he suddenly remembered the monster, which was still the strange jungle. "Is it possible———!" A trace of fear suddenly flashed in his eyes, and his eyes suddenly stared at one place. It was a stone gun in the hand of a strong man. "Is it possible——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
As he said that, his emotions suddenly became extremely excited and he struggled desperately, "Let me go, let me go, I'm going to Da Song."
Obviously, he couldn't accept everything in front of him.
However, there was death silence around him, which made him feel a chill from the soles of his feet and head. When he calmed down, he couldn't help but feel extremely frightened. He saw three or five strong men holding a stone gun at him indifferently. The gun head, which was not sharp at all, exuded a murderous aura, which made people feel scared.
But the children seemed to be frightened by him, hugged the adult's thighs tightly, just stared at him with a slanted eye, and looked at him secretly. Seeing him, they turned their little faces over, intertwined with fear and curiosity.
Although the three or five strong sweat pointed the gun at the young man, his eyes were all looking at an old woman with a slightly fat body in the middle. The old woman also had silver hair, and looked fifty or sixty years old, with a rosy complexion and a kind face. She was also the one who wore the most among these people. In addition to a fur skirt wrapped in her lower body, she was also wrapped in a fur short jacket on her upper body, at least she couldn't see anything she shouldn't have seen.
The old woman stared at him for a while and suddenly asked, "Who are you? Why did you break into our territory in Black Stone Valley?"
The young man was shocked. She...why is her language similar to me? This is impossible. If this was the primitive era, there was no reason why she would have such advanced language, or is it not the primitive society at all. He couldn't help but ignite another glimmer of hope in his heart. At the same time, he calmed down and said word by word: "My name is Li Qi. I came from... from the east, but I lost my direction on the way and came here."
Although the languages between them are extremely similar, there are still quite different pronunciations, which are somewhat similar to the dialects between the two provinces in later generations. Therefore, young people deliberately speak slowly, for fear that they will not be able to hear clearly.
The old woman's brows were slightly heavy when she heard it, but she didn't say anything, as if she was thinking about something.
Li Qi didn't know if she understood it, but he had no time to care about these things now, and immediately asked, "Where is this?"
"This is Black Stone Valley!" said the old woman.
"Black Stone Valley?"
Li Qi was stunned for a moment. Who asked you this? He asked again: "Ask a little more, what era is it now?" As he spoke, he looked extremely nervous.
"Era?" The old woman was a little stunned and said curiously: "What is Era?"
The young man's eyes were immediately filled with disappointment. She didn't even know what the era meant. It seemed that I had come to primitive society, but why did our language look so similar? Is our language born in the Stone Age? This is really incredible. Wait, I seem to be carrying a heavy responsibility. No matter where I am now, I must live first, and must live. He took a deep breath, raised his head, and asked the old woman: "Why do you tie me up? I have no malice." But I thought to myself, I think so many of you, I think it's hard to have malice!
The old woman suddenly looked at the old man.
"So scary! So scary!"
The old man was still trembling there.
Did I scare him just now? No, it was obvious that he scared me. He looked like this and came to me. I woke up from a coma again. How could I not be afraid? Forget it, they are so crowded, just think that I scared him.
This man was under the eaves and had to bow his head! Li Qi explained in a gentle tone: "Old man, I was scared by you just now. Actually, I was not scared at all. I got lost in the woods in front of me, and later I was chased by wild beasts. If I were scary, would I faint by wild beasts?"
After hearing this, the old woman whispered a few words to the old man.
The old man looked at Li Qi from bottom to top and from top to bottom again. His innocent eyes suddenly appeared in his sunken eyes, as if he saw the young man's face was kind at this moment, and he felt that he was not scary. After thinking for a while, he finally nodded to the old woman.
The old woman said to Li Qi: "I can let you go, but you must leave our territory immediately."
"Okay...ah?...leave...this..."
Li Qi was overjoyed when he saw that the other party was willing to let him go, but before he could even think to himself that if this was the primitive era, what is the difference between asking me to leave and asking me to die? I don’t even have weapons on my hands now, and I will feed the beast sooner or later. I will stand here at least the same kind, and the language is exactly the same. No, I must never leave now, at least I have to wait for me to figure out what is going on. He smiled flatteringly: "Can you do it well and take me in, I...I am homeless now."
"No!" the old woman looked firm, "If you don't leave immediately, I will kill you first and throw it out of our territory according to the rules of our Black Stone Valley."
Wow! This old lady looks amiable. It turns out that she is so cruel and wants to kill people at any time. Li Qi finally understood the difference. Leaving or leaving for a lifetime, and staying for ten deaths will definitely lead to ten deaths. Obviously, he was not willing to choose either, and his eyes suddenly turned around. Since everyone is human, he would never leave his sect and said, "Nah... Otherwise, I won't live with you in vain. I can help you work---by-by-way, I'm actually a chef."
“What is a chef?”
"Uh...I can cook, delicious food."
“What is food?”
"This---I'll make the food you eat." Li Qi was sweating profusely. Although the language was similar, because of many words, the other party couldn't understand it, so it was still very difficult to communicate.
The old man said, "Food is for eating, not for making."
Li Qi was almost fainted and said, "Food is eaten, but it is also divided into delicious food and not delicious. Cooking food means making the food more delicious." As he said, he felt that these primitive people might not be able to understand, and said, "So, the prey you brought back must be roasted first before eating. This is cooking!"
As soon as these words came out, almost everyone looked at Li Qi in shock.
Li Qi was so sad that he was so sad that he said in his heart: "I... did I say something wrong again?"
The old woman suddenly asked in an incredible tone: "You...you can make a fire?"
"Make a fire?"
Li Qi opened his eyes and saw the rest of the people looking at him in shock, thinking to himself, could his cooking skills still be in the stage of ignition? Thinking of this, he almost laughed out loud, but then he smiled and thought to himself, wait a minute, I won’t be able to make fire without fire!
Huo? Huo? Suddenly, he seemed to remember something again. The only finger that could move slightly secretly rubbed the side of his pants a few times, and his eyes gradually showed confidence. He nodded slightly and smiled, "I know this method of making fire."
As soon as these words came out, an uproar sounded in the crowd, communicating in groups of three or three, with incredible eyes in their eyes.
The young man who was squatting at Li Qi's feet suddenly turned his eyes and ran to the old woman quietly, whispering something in her ear.
This kid is a little weird, so he has to be wary of him. Li Qi glanced at him slightly and secretly cheered up.
After hearing this, the old woman nodded slightly and communicated with the women around her who were considered "well-dressed" and nodded after hearing this.
The old woman suddenly said, "Rong!"
"exist!"
I heard an extremely thick voice and saw a strong man with a body shaped like a hill, steel-like skin, but very honest appearance, walked out from the end.
When Li Qi saw this person, he couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning. I'll go! What kind of monster is this?
The old woman said: "If you can make a fire faster than him, we may let you stay."
Fortunately, it was a fire-making competition, not a martial arts competition, otherwise I could leave! Li Qi looked around and said, "This... if you tie me up, I can't make fire."
The old woman thought carefully for a moment before saying, "Let him go!"
Rong, as burly as a hill, immediately stepped forward, but his eyes were full of disdain and he had no fear of Li Qi.
Li Qi understood his disdain very much and thought to himself that if I had these steel-like chest muscles, I could ignore everyone whose breasts were smaller than me, including women.
After Na Rong came to the tree, he passed for a moment and heard a bang.
Li Qi felt his whole body relaxed, and his arms suddenly felt a numbness. He couldn't help but rub each other with his hands, and looked down at him. He found that his clothes were still there. He breathed a little relieved in his heart and said to himself, this primitive man is still quite good. Although they were naked, they did not strip me naked. He looked back and found that Rong had no sharp weapon in his hand. He thought to himself, was it broken? Is this impossible?
The old woman asked, “Can you start?”
Li Qi was stunned and nodded quickly and said, "It's almost done! Brother Rong, let's first."
The old woman looked at Rong and nodded confidently.
To be continued...