Xu Chen pinched his chin and looked serious.

Lack of food is a very urgent and realistic problem and must be solved as a top priority.

I was so hungry that I didn’t eat for a meal, and I didn’t eat all of them for three days.

Especially in the cold winter, when the animal skin is lacking to keep warm, the body needs more heat to maintain body temperature. Adults may be able to barely resist for three days, and children are expected to freeze to death in one or two days.

Because the items prepared by the Five Ghosts did not look like they had stored a lot of food, and they didn't even know how to make vine baskets, so they just wrapped some dried fish, meat and some mixed grains with some animal skins. At most, they could last for seven or eight days. After eating, they all rely on hunting and fishing, and the harvest was unpredictable.

Even the Gonghuo tribe couldn't hold on, let alone these tribes that were not familiar with the place.

After some thought, Xu Chen ordered Gu Heju to prepare his pen and ink, and took out a cut animal skin. After brushing it a few times, he quickly wrote a letter, took off his own Witch King ring and covered it with ink and handed it to Lei.

"You have someone take this letter to the Ba tribe and Mu Ba. They will arrange for people to send you three thousand kilograms of grain as reserves. You are responsible for borrowing from foreign countries. Gonghuo tribe, Five Ghost tribe and several other tribes. When the harvest begins next year, it will be returned after the harvest begins next year. Of course, there is interest, and you will borrow three to four, and you will have to repay the Ba tribe in total..."

"Xiega, Xiega, we will definitely pay it back then!"

Before Xu Chen finished speaking, the thunder holding the letter from the beast skin was so excited that he was a little incoherent. A strong man with a giant bear-like iron tower was actually a little red at this time, and he was so moved that he almost burst into tears.

Food is the greatest wealth of all tribes and has always been in a scarcity state.

Three thousand kilograms of food are enough to satisfy the survival of a small and medium-sized family for several months.

Especially in the case of extreme food shortage, mixing some wild vegetables and stalks to cook them into mixed grain porridge. Eating half a bowl per person a day can barely survive. As long as you survive the winter and spring seasons, the food will be much better after summer.

Since ancient times, although tribes have exchanged views, they have never borrowed food from abroad.

The Ba tribe is the first to set aside, and like timely rain, it solved the current urgent needs of several tribes such as the Thunder Clan.

"In addition, please give me a message to the Great Witch of the Gonghuo Clan, tell her to carefully arrange the people of the Five Ghost Clan, and guide them to build houses and reclaim land as soon as possible. If this matter is done, the ransoms of the remaining personnel who are still in labor reform and the punitive compensation for the next ten years will be cancelled!"

"Okay, I will definitely convey the command of His Majesty the Witch King to the Great Witch!" Lei nodded quickly.

"You go and arrange it. After finishing the matter here, we have to continue moving forward!"

"Abide by the order!"

Lei quickly bowed and left, and soon shouted loudly as he began to arrange the people back.

The five family tribes of the Five Ghost Alliance have varying numbers and quality. The White Ghost and Black Ghost tribes who like to apply lead ore to their bodies have the least number of people. They can hardly find a normal tribe member. In the end, they only barely selected less than twenty people, and they are all individuals with ugly appearance and small defects in their bodies.

In addition, the situation of the three tribes Qing, Huang and Chi is better.

In the end, the five tribes selected a huge migration team of 120 people.

After seeing off this group of people, the population of the Five Ghosts Clan suddenly decreased by one third, and almost all the people left behind were tribes with physical and intellectual defects.

These people also knew that they would stay here for a long time in the future, until they died. Therefore, while crying and saying goodbye to the Gonghuo Brainland, they also had a kind of tragic destiny of dying. When they went to the Gonghuo Brainland, they must abide by the rules of the Gonghuo Brainland, and do not cause trouble to His Majesty the Witch King, etc.

After a brief exchange with the Five Ghost Clan Great Witch, Xu Chen brought a few guides from the Five Ghost Clans to bid farewell to the old and young people of the Five Ghost Clans, and embarked on a journey of exploration to continue to the east.

According to the information obtained from the Five Ghosts Clan, there is a powerful clan within five to ten days of going east on the north bank of the Wulong River. In the past, the Five Ghosts Clan had contacts with those tribes for many years before they were cursed. Later, they were driven to migrate to this valley and only cut off their contacts. Over the past hundred years, they were almost isolated and lived in a state of isolation and only occasionally had some transactions with the Jia tribe.

The mammoth ivory that Xu Chen was very interested in was not where the five ghosts exchanged it, but that it had brought wealth from the downstream before migrating here, and it had been more than a hundred years.

Because several generations have passed and there is no written record, the specific situation cannot be restored. However, according to the inheritance left by previous generations of great witches, the teeth of this huge beast originated from a downstream lake and swamp area, which should have been left by a huge beast after it fell into the swamp and died.

This statement coincides with Xu Chen's speculation.

The downstream terrain is flatter, and there should be super-large herbivorous beasts such as mammoths, elephants and even rhinos. After all, species that have not been extinct in later generations should be everywhere now.

Compared with the size of the earth, the scope of my activities is only half of the size of a mountainous county, and I am far from being able to understand external information.

However, as the scope of exploration is larger and the distance is longer, the greater the danger.

A mammoth can fall into a swamp of death, and people may die after entering.

The more you go to the plains, rivers, lakes, swamps, and wastelands, the more unknown dangers you hide, which is far more complicated than the situation in the forest.

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In the next few days, Xu Chen led his men to travel through mountains and rivers, cross mountains and ridges, watch stars and debate the sun, and explored the southeast along the Wulong River.

The Five Ghosts Clan has not been in contact with the downstream tribe for hundreds of years, so they have no understanding of the downstream situation at all. However, based on the inheritance left by the previous generations of great witches, he still obtained some simple geographical information from the Five Ghosts Clan Great Witches, and followed this information to explore and move forward. Although he had gone back several times in the middle, the general direction and exploration scope were not wrong.

As we head southeastward, the mountains become lower and lower, slowly entering a large hilly and mountainous area with a height of only 100 meters.

Standing in these hilly areas and looking back to the northwest, you will find distant mountains, with mountains standing taller and higher, and finally you will feel like you are towering into the sky. Even in the farthest horizon, you can still see a slight whiteness above the top of the highest peak, but you don’t know if it is clouds or snow.

From a geological analysis, the possibility of continuing to find more metal minerals southward is getting smaller and smaller, and it tends to be more non-metallic minerals, such as coal, gypsum, kaolin, etc.

Most metals are minerals formed during volcanic eruptions and orogenic movements in ancient times. The more violent the early volcanic movements were, the richer the various metal minerals were, such as the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and South America.

The larger the atomic weight, the earlier it will be produced.

Iron ore is the product of the last stage of elemental decay, so it contains the largest content and is the most widely distributed in the earth's crust. Stable metals with relatively high atomic weight, such as gold, silver, copper and lead, are basically the products of the most intense period of crust activity.

Xu Chen regrets that he may not have the chance to find the urgently needed tin this time.

Standing on the top of a small hill, looking at the Wulong River that was winding and continuing to the southeast and the surrounding environment, Xu Chen sighed slightly.

However, this accidental finding of salt is a powerful gain.

In addition to the urgently needed bronzes, salt actually has a greater significance.

Without bronze, stone tools are barely enough to maintain the current development, but without salt, his large-scale farming plan would be greatly hindered.

So overall, the gains from going out this time are much greater than regrets.

Based on the time and distance of travel, they are about to enter the living area of ​​another powerful ethnic group.

This tribe should have several tribes, which belong to races with some close relatives to the Five Ghosts. According to the Great Witch of the Five Ghosts, in fact, these tribes are not living nearby. Their ancient ancestors also migrated from far away places, but it was too long. Even the inheritance of the Great Witch has not been recorded, and there are only some simple legends passed down by word of mouth.

It is said that the earliest ancestors of the Five Ghosts and the Southeast tribes, caused a huge disaster due to the battle between gods and demons. The ground shook and cracked, the mountains collapsed, the forest was destroyed, and a large number of animals fled southeast. Their ancestors had to escape from their ancestral residence and arrived here after wandering for countless years.

They lived in this area much earlier than the Gonghuo Clan.

Although the sayings passed down from the Five Ghosts, Gonghuo Clan, Yugong Clan, and Ba tribe are different, especially the Five Ghosts and Gonghuo Clan, which are obviously different from the Ba tribe and Yugong Clan, they all mention the ground shock and cracking and the collapse of mountains in both records and legends.

Therefore, Xu Chen could easily judge that there had been many severe earthquakes in the northwest direction.

The ancestors of the Five Ghosts migrated southeast during an earthquake.

Then it is the Gonghuo Clan.

Then there are the Wu tribe and the Yu Gong tribe.

The migration time of the Wu tribe should be between 300 and 500 years, and it also accurately records the fireballs falling from the sky and the earth burning.

Then the ancestors of the Wu tribe may have experienced a meteorite landing or a volcanic eruption.

From an earthquake perspective, the possibility of volcanic eruption is greater.

There are two major areas with severe magma activity in China, and they are also areas with frequent volcanic activities in China. One is Changbai Mountain in Jilin, and the other is Tengchong in Yunnan.

Volcanic eruptions of a scale like Changbai Mountain can destroy areas with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers at one time, and the original forests and animals and plants within an area of ​​nearly 8,000 square kilometers are completely destroyed.

For the primitive savages of this era, if they live near volcanoes and encounter eruptions of this scale and earthquakes, they will inevitably think that it is the wrath or war of the gods or demons. Apart from the fear and scattered flight, they will not have any unnecessary thoughts to observe and judge.

Judging from the ability of human migration in this era, this kind of escape distance cannot be too far. Perhaps hundreds of miles or thousands of miles may be the limit. After all, a tribe is only a scale of dozens or hundreds of people, and there are rare primeval forests everywhere. In an environment where food is extremely lacking and safe survival, it is impossible to wander thousands or tens of thousands of miles to find a new home.

In other words, the Five Ghosts, Gonghuo tribes, Wu tribes and Yu Gong tribes, these four different tribes migrated from the northwest like tides in different geological activities.

The reasons for their migration are roughly the same, both because of earthquakes or volcanic activities.

But migration times may vary by hundreds or even thousands of years apart.

In the end, they all took root in this relatively safe area and survived one after another. While becoming new neighbors, their living habits gradually shifted from the primitive and ancient deep mountains to the low hilly and mountainous areas.

Because they have not learned to build houses, they are unable to escape the shackles of the mountains for the time being.

But the further southeast, the more livable living environment is actually changing according to local conditions.

The southern natives on the other side of the river imitate animals to dig burials to live and survive.

The Five Ghosts use big trees and terrain to dig tree holes to survive.

Because the southward direction becomes flatter and the cave becomes more difficult to find, it becomes inevitable to manually dig caves or build shacks.

From this we can also see that the earlier the race migrates to the hilly plains, the stronger the ability to adapt and do things in survival, adapt and move faster, and the faster the speed of evolution.

This conclusion also conforms to the laws of the development of civilizations of all ethnic groups on earth.

Especially in China, it is most obvious.

Starting from the Yanhuang tribe, China expanded and migrated from the upper Yellow River Plateau area to the Guanzhong Plain, gradually opening up agricultural civilization, and then developed the brilliant Qin and Han culture. Those races that stayed in the mountains and plateaus and did not migrate to the plains, such as the Qiang people and some ancient tribes in the Greater Xing'an Mountains in the Changbai Mountains in the northeast, were still in the semi-barbaric stage during the Qin and Han dynasties. Even in the Song and Ming dynasties, their way of survival was still in the Stone Age.

Therefore, the tree moves dead and the people move alive.

The words of our ancestors are summarized very well with a philosophy of survival.

Only by constantly migrating and looking for a more suitable living environment can humans develop step by step to a more advanced civilization.

From the early Homo sapiens leaving Africa and finally spread to every corner of the world, exploration and migration movement have always been the greatest driving force for the progress of human civilization.

And those races that do not like migration will eventually become extinct and become the backward appearance of Africa who is lazy and lazy.

Therefore, facing the area that is about to enter, Xu Chen was excited and a little nervous.

These tribes with the same ancestor as the Five Ghosts should be more advanced and powerful than the previous Gonghuo tribe and Wu tribe. Their witches should have accumulated more means and methods of survival.
Chapter completed!