Chapter 347: The Forest of Horror
The only words on the letter in the entire tribe can understand are Ye and Xiao Witch.
After listening to the little witch reading the letter, the entire Ba tribe caused another sensation.
After only a few days of breaking up with Feng, they actually regained a tribe downstream.
Xu Chen did not explain in detail the problems faced by the Five Ghosts, but only said that they were in trouble and needed to migrate a group of people to the Gonghuo Basin. Because the Thunder Clan and Gonghuo tribes lacked food, they needed to collect 3,000 kilograms of grain from the Ba tribe and transported them to the Thunder Clan for emergency treatment.
Such a large amount of food is also very large for the Ba people, enough for the entire tribe to have a full meal for more than a month.
But Moba and everyone did not hesitate at all, and they all started to prepare the animal skin bag and rattan basket to pack the food, but the biggest difficulty facing them was how to transport them.
Xu Chen's letter suggested that the wind lead the team to go down the waterway with a raft. It will take more than a day to arrive. However, the Ba people do not have enough rafts at present, only a few small rafts, which were used in the first training period. A group of hunters used to cross the river to hunt on the other side of the river. Not only does the load capacity be large, they are also a little broken and are not suitable for traveling far away.
In addition, this trip requires many people who are familiar with water and can row. The Ba people have good water and are basically following, and most of the ones left are landslides.
Faced with this problem, the little witch thought of Xu Chen's explanation to her when she was leaving, so she wrote a simple letter with the animal skin, stamped her own Great Witch's seal, and asked Feng to arrange for someone to send it to the Wu tribe to hand it over to her sister.
This was the first time she used the power of the Great Witch to recruit hunters and tools from the Alliance Tribe to complete Xu Chen's mission.
After receiving the letter from his sister's animal skin, the little witch sister of the Wu tribe immediately summoned the clan leader and a group of tribe leaders to explain the request of the witch. Before the Wu tribe's clan leader could think about the relationship between this matter and the Wu tribe, the dragon was already excited and jumped up, indicating that he would follow the orders of the witch and the Witch King to complete the task of transporting food.
Since Xu Chen led his people downstream to explore, a group of hunters from the Wu tribe have been in a state of restlessness.
Not long ago, Feng brought people back and brought back the news that Xu Chen had conquered a huge tribe with a great witch on the other side of the downstream river. This restlessness became more and more obvious. In recent days, a group of hunters such as Long and others felt unsuccessful even in training for hunting, and felt like they were abandoned by the Witch King.
Especially when he just got the news, Xu Chen conquered another Five Ghost Tribe with a Great Witch downstream in the blink of an eye, and got more than 100 people.
These two conquest battles had almost nothing to do with the Ba tribe alliances such as the Ukrainian tribe.
What made him even more depressed was that the Lei Lei participated in these two conquest battles, and he was also the main officer and made great contributions. This time, the food was escorted to help the Thunder Clan and other tribes spend the winter and spring seasons.
Seeing the Gonghuo Alliance tribe and the Thunder Clan embrace people in a lot of ways, and the Thunder Clan is constantly being reused by Xu Chen because of its special status and identity, the bitterness and bitterness in Long's heart are self-evident.
These credits should have been his, but Lei, the guy who was defeated by him, repeatedly robbed him of credit.
Although transporting food cannot be compared with fighting, Long believes that as long as he is more active, he will definitely bring him with him next time the Witch King goes out.
Several other training commanders of the Ukrainian tribe empathized with the hunter team, and always felt a sense of aggrievance and loss.
Therefore, after receiving the news, he was very excited. Before the leader of the Wu tribe and the little witch sister gave the order, a large group of people carried more than ten rafts of all sizes and went upstream to the Ba tribe.
For them, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. They are eager to join this round of new conquests that expand territory and cannot be left behind by the Thunder Clan and the Gonghuo Clan.
One was the conquered enslaved tribe, and the other was the weak tribe who was defeated and left. They were more valued than the core tribes of the Ba tribe, which were well-rooted, and received more captives and wealth, which was beyond their self-esteem.
Although the U tribe leader and a group of tribe leaders were helpless towards Long and others' actions, they did not have much resistance.
At present, the Wu tribe has fully recognized its identity as an affiliated tribe of the Ba tribe, and it is natural to obey the call and arrangement of the great witch. In addition, if they want to get more benefits, they must fully support Xu Chen's external expansion.
Especially the salt that just appeared made the entire Wu tribe feel both surprising and nervous. While in urgent need, it also knew that this thing was rare and precious. If you don’t hold Xu Chen’s thigh tightly, you’re afraid it’s not easy to get it.
With the full help of the Wu tribe, three thousand kilograms of grain were quickly transported.
Feng, who had just returned home for ten days, served as the grain transport commander again. He took Long and more than forty Wu hunters, paddled more than ten rafts filled with grain and pottery, and rushed down the Wulong River and headed straight to the mouth of Jicang River downstream.
All arrangements here went smoothly, but Xu Chen had been in trouble in recent days.
First of all, they accidentally entered a poisonous forest and the entire team was poisoned.
He also knew the poisoned plant, which was sumac.
This sacred forest is not far from the ancestral home of the five ghost tribes. It covers a vast area. The continuous mountains are all the growth range of sacred trees. Among them, the large sacred trees are dozens of meters high and hundreds or thousands of years old. Each tree is a paleogene sacred tree that only several people can embrace.
Because of the fallen leaves in winter, Xu Chen did not recognize that it was a lacquer tree at first.
Although he had seen many wild sumacs in the wild in the southwest Sichuan, Chongqing and Yunnan and Guizhou areas before traveling through time, he had never seen such a tall and large-scale sumacs.
While traveling through this forest, they picked up dried tulip branches to make fire and cook, and cut some live tulip branches to set up tents overnight. However, this behavior caused great trouble to the entire team.
Sulu is a poisonous plant. The whole plant is poisonous, especially the juice is even more severe. Once it is stuck on the skin, it will be red, swollen, painful and itchy. If it is severe allergic, it can even lead to renal failure. If it is not treated, it may die.
Therefore, after entering this huge sumac forest, Xu Chen and others' unintentional actions caused allergies to sumac trees. Most people began to vomit and have diarrhea, and their skin was painful and itchy. When scratched, they would become red, swollen and ulcerated.
This situation frightened several hunter guides of the Five Ghosts tribes, and cried and shouted that the curse of the gods was coming again.
However, Xu Chen certainly did not believe these bullshit curses. But after careful research, it was found that most of the plants around the mountains and slopes were sumac trees.
And this also solved the mystery of everyone's poisoning.
He even roughly speculated that the five ghost tribes lived nearby, and it was most likely that their skin ulcers were ulcerated due to allergic to sumac, and they were mistaken for the curse of the gods, and then expelled by other tribes.
Although sumac is a very good economic tree, it can harvest raw paint and has great value for future development.
But at the moment, everyone was deeply trapped in it and felt uncomfortable, which made Xu Chen not have the slightest concern about making money. He could only lead a group of people to find a way to leave.
After three days of wandering in this huge sumac forest, a group of people finally escaped from this nightmare-like terrifying forest.
In front of me, a vast vast lake appeared, showing east-west direction. It was estimated that the widest part was more than ten miles, surrounded by undulating mountains and endless primeval forests, and there were several islands in the middle.
According to the tips of the Five Ghost Clan Great Witch, the Five Ghost Clan lived near this big lake, and several other tribes were also scattered in the hillsides and woods around the big lake.
There are a large number of wild animals and abundant plants here, and it is also a paradise for wild birds. Whether it is hunting or gathering, it has unique advantages.
Looking at this super huge lake, Xu Chen's symptoms of poisoning seemed to have alleviated a lot.
The more he explored the southeast, the more he felt that the Ba people and Wu people were not suitable for human survival and development.
According to the characteristics of human gathering in later generations, around large-scale lakes such as this, there are abundant water sources and beautiful environments, and the fish and shrimp are fat and sufficient food. This is definitely the most suitable for human survival.
Unfortunately, it is too difficult to move to this place.
Whether from the actual situation or population size, Gonghuo Basin is still the first choice, and places like Ba and Wu people cannot be abandoned.
And it is impossible to change the status quo for a long time.
One is that there are mines in mountainous areas, and the other is living habits.
Relying on the mountain and relying on the water to eat water, you can only eat lakes with such a large lake. However, for the conquered tribes, except for the Five Ghosts, almost no habit of living near this big lake. Even if you move here, you will face many problems.
Because the animals, plants and rivers that are nurtured and grown in this large lake are very different, and there are also a large number of poisonous snakes, mosquitoes, giant water beasts that cannot be understood at all and foraging beasts during their lives.
Therefore, this big lake has become at most a landmark and insight.
In the next two days, Xu Chen and others encountered greater trouble.
As he speculated, this huge lake has formed a huge meadow swamp area in a radius of hundreds of miles because of its large range of tides that have risen and fallen year by year.
Although it is winter, a large number of green aquatic plants and plants are still lush, and large areas look green and full of unique tropical and subtropical styles.
Some places look flat and sturdy, but in fact they have hidden murderous intent. If you accidentally fall into the mud, you will be gone if you don’t rescue them in time.
This happened several times in advance.
Once, I saw a huge bison who was chased by a wolf and accidentally entered the swamp area, trapped in the mud and could not break free. The wolf pack ate a lot of flesh and blood and finally sank into the ground.
Another time, someone was stuck in a mud while moving forward, but fortunately, he was pulled out of the mud pit in time.
In addition, you can see the skeleton of giant beasts half floating and half sinking in the mud everywhere, mixed with thorns, weeds and vines. During the inhabited large numbers of wild birds, it makes people feel numb all over.
Chapter completed!