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He just used the newly made wooden bowls and supervised them to slowly drink the fish soup, and then the group set off back to the tribe.

Excited, the group walked faster and faster and arrived at the tribe two hours later.

Relatives and friends who had not seen each other for a long time immediately hugged each other and kept telling each other about their experiences. The unfamiliar Wu Yue naturally attracted the most attention.

People who had never seen him didn't know his temper or personality, so they didn't dare to approach him. They could only look at him carefully and whisper to the people around them.

Wu Yue didn't even say hello to them. He told Xiao to quickly fetch the wounded so he could apply medicine and bandage them. Primitive people didn't pay much attention to hygiene, and they didn't know if there was any dirt on the hyena tribe's weapons. If they got infected and developed a fever, it would be troublesome.

Xiao shook his head and pointed at Xia's back: "Your medicine is very precious, you'd better keep it. They only have some minor injuries to their arms and legs at most. Let the witch apply some herbal compresses on them."

Wu Yue frowned. Herbal medicine, can this thing work?

Xiao leaned close to him and whispered in his ear, "Let Xia do something. She's been feeling bad these days."

Wu Yue was stunned. Indeed, there seemed to be something wrong with the sky these days.

But after thinking about it carefully, he understood that Xia didn't cure Xiao, but he did. Xia said that it was a sacred spring that couldn't be desecrated, but he said it was a naturally formed hot spring and asked everyone to go and bathe. Isn't this a slap in the face?

Although he did not mean to do so, everything he did and said challenged Xia's authority as the Great Wizard.

He still remembered that at the beginning everyone asked Xia for many things, but later these trivial matters gradually became his.

The great wizard who was once the center of attention must be in a bad mood when he is suddenly ignored.

Wu Yue understood, but he also knew that Xia was just a little disappointed and didn't mean any harm. These days, she followed everyone to weave rattan armor, make wooden bowls, and look for wild vegetables and herbs, doing what she could.

He looked at Xiao, and was surprised that this primitive leader was so thoughtful.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "All the supplies and knowledge I have were obtained by my compatriots and predecessors. I'm nothing special, but Xia is different. Although her knowledge has some errors due to the limitations of the times, she learned it all through her own exploration and study. She is much more capable than me."

Xiao smiled and thought Wu Yue was a truly magical person.

Would an average person behave like this if they were mistaken for a divine messenger? Would they frankly admit they didn't believe in God, praise the chief witch of a small tribe for being more powerful than themselves, and confess that they relied on the creations and knowledge of others?

He is a primitive man, but he is not a fool. Those who come from other tribes to exchange salt are all smart people. If he is not smart enough, he will suffer.

He had never met someone as frank as Wu Yue. It seemed that the place where he lived was really good.

Not knowing what Xiao was thinking, Wu Yue began to check the headquarters of the Sharp Fang Tribe with the help of the light from two stars, one large and one small, above his head.

This seems to be a sloping valley. To the west is the river flowing from north to south, to the north are continuous mountain ranges, and to the northeast, separated from the mountains by a canyon, is a lonely hill. To the east is an open area, and to the south, which is the direction they came from, is the entrance to the tribe, which is also spacious and flat.

Wu Yue pointed at the hill and asked Xiao, "Is that the salt mountain? The whole mountain?"

Xiao shook his head. "No, there's a cave on the mountain. Deep inside the cave is a large, deep pool. The water is salty. If you dry that water out in the sun, you'll get salt."

Wu Yue nodded. It sounded like a natural salt well? Or was the pool connected to the sea?

Thinking of this, he asked, "By the way, do you know the ocean? It's a very big, endless body of water, and the water is salty." If this pool is connected to the ocean, it means the ocean should be not far from here.

Xiao was surprised, but shook his head: "Is there such a place? The tribe there must be living well!" They were already living well with just this pond. If there were endless salt water...

It doesn't seem to be connected to the sea, but it doesn't matter. Even if it is a salt well, since the Sharp Tooth Tribe has taken root here for so many generations and has not used up the salt, it means that there should be plenty of salt in the pool.

I'll go check it out tomorrow to confirm.

Because the Sharp Fang Tribe had plenty of salt, the hyenas had stored a lot of pickled meat. Now that the hyenas had been driven away, everyone took out the meat without hesitation and happily built a bonfire in an open space to grill the meat.

Wu Yue smelled the meat and felt it hadn't been well-preserved, with a slightly rotten smell, so he lost his appetite. He took out a large pot to cook the meat for them, instructing them to cook it thoroughly before eating. Having not slept all night, he felt a little sleepy.

The Sharp Fang Tribe didn't seem to know how to build houses; some lived in caves, others in tents. Seeing that he was feeling sleepy, Xiao took him to a large tent and said, "This is the hyena leader's tent. It's been cleaned. You can rest here."

Wu Yue looked up and saw that the tent was very simple, just a cone-shaped tent made of branches and fur. The things that originally belonged to the hyenas should have been taken away, and it was empty.

Although the conditions were not very good, they were much better than sleeping in the wild. Wu Yue nodded, took out his lazy sofa and fur, wrapped himself in them and went to sleep.

He fell asleep immediately after not sleeping last night, but he was still cold because the tattered tent did not block the wind.

Xiao, who brought him here, hesitated for a moment, but still walked up to him, lay down beside him and hugged him.

Feeling the heat, Wu Yue unconsciously snuggled into the other person's arms, hugged him with both hands, and rubbed the warm big pillow with satisfaction. He hummed comfortably twice.

Like some kind of baby animal, Xiao thought.

After a good night's sleep, Wu Yue woke up a little late the next day, stretched, and exercised his sore muscles. While sighing that the lazy sofa was not working and he had to get a bed as soon as possible, he went out.

It was a bit similar to the second day he came into this world. There were many people standing outside the tent, some of whom he knew but some of whom were strangers.

"Um... good morning, everyone." Wu Yue felt a little embarrassed when he got up again and was watched by others.

"God's messenger!" Yun walked up to him and said, "Everyone in the Sharp Tooth Tribe has heard about you, so they all want to come and see you."

Well, let’s meet. Wu Yue then made a brief self-introduction in front of everyone, and then asked their names one by one. Of course, his memory was not good enough to remember the more than 200 people from the Sharp Tooth Tribe.

However, Wu Yue took this opportunity to count the number of people. There were 85 adult men in this tribe, 126 adult women, 4 elderly people who had basically lost their labor force, and 6 children, a total of 221, which, including him, made up 222.

It's really a very small tribe.

An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. With so few people guarding so much salt, there is no guarantee that other hyena-like tribes will not be jealous and attack. It seems that these more than 200 people must be armed as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, he simply took the powerful magnet and went to the river. The river flowed down from the continuous mountains in the north. If there happened to be iron mines on any of the mountains, there should be some iron in the river.

Unfortunately, after dragging the magnet around in the river for quite a while, not many iron particles were sucked up, only a little more than what Xiao and his friends had collected when they were hunting before.

A little bit is a little bit, it adds up to a lot. Putting the iron particles into the space, Wu Yue continued to drag the magnet along the river until he reached the foot of the mountain at the back of the tribe.

Looking up, the mountain is quite high and steep, with sparse vegetation, and looks like a stone mountain.

Perhaps because they were afraid that something would roll down the mountain, the tribe's tents were not placed right next to the mountain, leaving a large area of ​​land empty. Wu Yue squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil and took a look, and felt that this place was quite suitable for him to farm.

The soil is good and there is a river nearby for easy irrigation.

Spring is coming, so I have to tell Xiao to plant the land as soon as possible.

Circling the mountain range, he planned to see how the Sharp Teeth Tribe made salt. From a distance, he could see people working outside the salt mountain. They dug large pits in the ground, then pumped brine from the cave into the pits, waiting for the sun to dry them.

It was a very primitive method. Wu Yue vaguely remembered that even in modern society, there were still people making salt in this traditional way. However, the pits dug by modern people were shallow and square, and the brine was directly pumped into the water pump.

He walked forward quickly and bumped into Xiao. Xiao took him to the salt mountain to look at the pool of salt water. It seemed that there was plenty of it and the water was relatively clean.

Wu Yue casually told him the modern method.

"If the pits are large and shallow, the drying process will be faster and the yield will be higher." Noticing that they were all using fur or leaves to draw water, and could only draw a little at a time, Wu Yue said, "And that's too slow. We can make wooden barrels, which only use wood."

"Okay, you teach everyone how to dig holes and make wooden barrels later." Xiao nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

Wu Yue then told them about his plan to grow vegetables in the open space at the foot of the mountain.

"Sure, that mountain is very barren, with few birds or animals around, so it shouldn't bother you." Xiao agreed again, "You can ask for help from anyone. We usually go hunting every two days."

The tribe is small and has a small population, and now with sharp weapons and sturdy protective gear, hunting is no longer a difficult task.

Wu Yue's eyes lit up: "If everything is fine, let's build a house after we finish planting the land!" He couldn't stand the tent that was leaking wind and rain.