Chapter 175 The number of tribe members continues to increase

Xu Que's health has deteriorated significantly compared to before, which has left him somewhat puzzled.

He calmed down and thought about it carefully: Could this be heatstroke? The weather and other aspects of the Black Deer tribe have indeed been quite different from before lately!

Early in the morning, several thousand members from unfamiliar tribes arrived at the entrance of the Black Deer Tribe's cave, holding their credentials and waiting for the pre-entry verification and registration.

The tribe's chief was completely bewildered and asked the deputy chief, "Did you summon these people outside the cave?"

The heavily portly deputy leader looked utterly bewildered: "What do you mean? I have no idea!"

“Several thousand people have gathered outside our cave entrance, waiting to be integrated into our tribe! If you don’t know what’s going on, it’s probably the Black Goose tribe’s doing! I suspect that it’s led by Ba Han and Ji, the Black Goose tribe’s leader, who swindled all the resources from the members of the upper, middle, and lower tribes! They’re impersonating our tribe by using our name!”

"Now look what's happened! They've all come to our tribe one by one! These swindlers from the Black Goose Tribe are really going too far! I have to report them to the Primordial Barter High Priest later! This can't go on forever! Our Black Deer Tribe can't accommodate so many people!"

The deputy chief rubbed her round, bulging belly, waved her hand, and said to Hua, "Five words floating in the sky are nothing! It's a good thing that people are coming to our tribe every day! Our tribe needs to grow stronger! Now that we've taken in all these people from outside, our total tribe members are estimated to be 20,000! My goal is to build a tribe of 50,000! This is barely 20,000 even including the primitive people who came to our tribe today, which is still more than half short of our goal of 50,000!"

"Han Xin's strategy: the more the merrier! The more the better! I'll take as many as they come! We should thank those swindlers from the Black Goose Tribe! They've made us stronger! In my opinion, we shouldn't bother with this. We should just complain to the high priest of the Primitive Barter Conference! We can just take in those primitive people at the cave entrance and be done with it!"

"Besides, our tribe is going to build houses in a few days, so we'll need even more manpower. I'll go out now and tell them to enter the cave!" The deputy leader of the Black Deer tribe said, about to leave the cave.

Hou was sitting at a stone table in the cave, drawing a stone slab commemorative album of her and Xu Que.

Upon hearing that the deputy chief was going to inform the people from the unfamiliar tribes outside the cave to enter, they were alerted.

He quickly stood up and interjected, "This method can indeed strengthen and develop the tribe! At this rate of development, it won't be long before our Black Deer tribe becomes the number one tribe upstream!"

"But isn't it too careless to let these strangers from unfamiliar tribes enter our tribe without doing anything else?"

"You can't be too careful, but you can't be malicious! How can you be sure that these people outside have been completely deceived by the Black Goose tribe members? How can you be sure they aren't lying? What if they are from another tribe, staging a ruse to undermine our tribe from within?"

"And also! We need to find out if they are carrying any viruses, bacteria, mutated insects, or anything like that!"

Upon hearing what Hou said, the deputy leader suddenly realized and looked at Hou with great admiration: "Wow! Thank goodness for you! Otherwise, I wouldn't even know I made a big mistake! Hou is really too smart!"

Hearing the Black Deer Tribe's deputy chief praise him like that, Hou pouted and thought to himself with a touch of arrogance, "Hmph! All of this was taught to me by Brother Xu Que! I'm not that smart on my own!"

"So what should we do now? Let them go back first? Let them stay in their own caves for ten days or half a month? After the observation period is over, then notify them to come to our tribe?" The deputy chief asked Hua and Hou for their opinions.

“That will work! But it’s the only option we have! You can go out and ask them how far or near their tribe is from ours. If their tribe is a bit far, I’ll have our Black Stone tribe members vacate some of our original Black Stone tribe caves for them to stay in! They can squeeze in for ten days or half a month!”

"If their tribe is relatively close to ours, let them return to their tribe temporarily and stay there for a while before coming to ours! It's possible that the Black Goose tribe has swindled all their supplies, but that's not a big problem. Let them come to our tribe's designated food and drink station during the day for free, and then they can go back to their original tribe to sleep!"

Hearing Hou's analysis and explanation, the deputy leader of the Flower and Black Deer tribe nodded in agreement.

"I'll go out and explain the situation to them right away!" The deputy chief of the Black Deer tribe said as he stepped out of the cave and began talking to the chief and members of the unfamiliar tribes outside: "Our Black Deer tribe is receiving so many large numbers of members from other tribes every day! Our cave can no longer accommodate so many people!"

"Huh? So you're saying you don't want us anymore? Fine, fine! But you should have said so earlier! Why did you send the Black Deer Tribe to take away all our supplies if you didn't want us? Please give our supplies back, and we'll go back right now!"

"No! That's not what I meant! I haven't finished speaking yet. You'll understand when I do! Our Black Deer Tribe, after unanimous approval from the elders, has decided to accept you into the Black Deer Tribe! However, the Black Deer Tribe doesn't have a place to stay for the next few days! We do have places to eat, drink, and relieve ourselves! If your original tribe is far from our Black Deer Tribe, we will provide you with a cave in the Black Stone Tribe for you to live in! The condition is that other strangers from tribes you don't know will also be staying in the Black Stone Tribe cave!"

“If your cave is close to the caves of our Black Deer tribe, then all of you can eat and drink at the Black Deer tribe during the day and go back to your original caves to sleep at night! You can come and live here after our Black Deer tribe’s new houses are built! How does that sound?” said the deputy chief of the Black Deer tribe.

"I'd like to ask, when will the construction of the houses begin? Approximately how long will it take to complete? When will we, the members of this new tribe, be able to move in and have new houses to live in?"

"About fifteen days! Starting tomorrow! After fifteen days, I guarantee that every member of your tribe will be allocated a single wooden cave!"

"A wooden single-room cave? What does that mean?"

"The meaning of a wooden single-room cave is: each person has their own cave! Unlike the caves you live in now, where the entire tribe is crammed into one cave! If one member of the tribe accidentally farts, the whole cave will smell like farts! A wooden single-room cave can solve this problem very well!"