Chapter 71 Ancient Relics

Heading west, the Fifth Xuan was not completely without a destination.

From the Fire Tribe warrior who found him, he knew that the Fire Tribe was now at the junction of the grassland and the desert.

So as long as he went west to find the desert, and then went south along the border between the grassland and the desert, he would find the Fire Tribe.

The little turtle moved very fast in the water, and he could even move forward while sleeping.

The Fifth Xuan asked curiously, and the little turtle explained to him: This is an instinctive control of water.

To this, the Fifth Xuan could only understand that this was the talent of the divine beast, just like the brain of a genius, which ordinary people would never understand.

On the way to the west, the little turtle would occasionally poke its head out of the water and go ashore to play.

His play mainly consisted of eating land creatures. After he tasted the fish in the river, he found that they were not to his taste.

Along the way, the Fifth Xuan was led by him to fight tigers and leopards and kill jackals.

The day before yesterday, Diwu Xuan was talking nonsense and mentioned that bear paws were a delicacy. As a result, the little turtle took it in and searched for three days in this jungle without sleep. As of today's sunset, he still couldn't find it.

"Ba Xia, you know, I am a totem and I don't have a mouth. I really don't know whether this bear paw is delicious or not."

Diwu Xuan persuaded him earnestly. He had never eaten bear paws in his previous life. He just said it casually. Who would have thought that the little turtle would take it seriously.

"Yeah..."

The little turtle replied perfunctorily and started his exploration again.

The sun had set and the moon rose. There was a silver glow between the sky and the earth. It was not bright, but Diwu Xuan and the little turtle had good eyesight and could see clearly even in the jungle.

After circling left and right, I don't know how long I went deep into the jungle. Diwu Xuan suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the terrain nearby.

If it were an ordinary mountain range, it would be fine to have a flat area occasionally, but if you walk for a long time, there are flat areas on both sides, which is a bit weird.

"Little turtle, walk slower. I think this place... is not right."

The Fifth Xuan looked around. Such flat land always felt like it was left by humans.

The little turtle was a little confused. He didn't feel any threat, but he still slowed down his pace obediently.

"Over there, in the direction of the moon, see what that is."

The Fifth Xuan suddenly discovered something and guided the little turtle forward.

When they arrived at the place where the Fifth Xuan pointed, half of the skeleton was exposed on the ground. The little turtle was a little confused.

In primitive society, it was normal to see bones on the roadside. After the little turtle ate wild animals, the bones were thrown everywhere. He didn't understand why the Fifth Xuan was curious about this bone.

"Dig it out, be gentle, don't damage the vines, and try to let me see its original appearance."

Diwu Xuan's voice was a little excited, because the shape of this bone was very similar to a shovel.

In his previous life, he saw a bone hoe in a museum near Hangzhou. It was said to be a tool used by ancient ancestors to cultivate the land, similar to the shovel of later generations.

The shape of this bone is very similar, and some vines can be vaguely seen on the ground. Maybe it is really a bone hoe.

"Puff puff puff..."

The little turtle used its sharp claws to dig up the land around the bone, revealing the overall shape of the bone.

Diwu Xuan looked at the shape of the bone, and felt more and more that this was a bone hoe, because the shape of this bone was very similar to the shoulder blade that the little turtle had bitten when he ate a buffalo a few days ago.

The bone hoe is made of shoulder blades, sticks, and vines.

As Little Turtle dug, the area under the shoulder blade finally came out. It was a bunch of vines that had loosened a little. Under the vines was a broken stick.

"It's really a bone hoe. Could it be that there was once a farming tribe here?"

Such a discovery really surprised Fifth Xuan. Farming, that is a way of survival that surpasses all the tribes Fifth Xuan has seen so far.

Hunting can only support a few people. If you want the tribe to become bigger and stronger, you have to farm.

"Just search around and see if there's anything else."

Fifth Xuan said to Little Turtle, and he also looked around excitedly.

If you can find the secret of farming and bring it to the Fire Tribe, then the Fire Tribe will be upgraded to a higher level, and it will be much easier to expand the tribe.

When Fifth Xuan was educating the fourth generation of witches, he thought about increasing the speed of the tribe's progress and changing the hunting and gathering survival mode to farming. Unfortunately, he couldn't find good seeds, so this idea had to be shelved.

It would be great if seeds suitable for farming could be found here.

One man and one turtle searched carefully and found many tools similar to bone hoes. These discoveries all confirmed Fifth Xuan's guess.

"Why did the tribe that entered farming disappear? Did they move forward, or were they annexed by other tribes?"

Fifth Xuan wanted to explore the secrets of the past from these discoveries, but unfortunately he was not a history graduate and knew very little about archaeology. Although he found a lot, he couldn't make any effective judgments.

"Look at this broken wall, it seems to be built with stones and mud, which is more advanced than the houses built with pure stones. The civilization that once existed here was indeed more advanced than what I have seen, but where did they go?"

Diwu Xuan was puzzled. It is said that the speed of advanced culture transmission should not be slow, but the tribes he saw seemed to have reversed history. The

original Fire Tribe, Grass Tribe, Earth Tribe, and Water Tribe did not even have stone tools, and hunting was not their main responsibility. They mainly relied on picking.

The generation gap is too big, and why did such an advanced tribe disappear, and finally the territory became a jungle.

If it weren't for the greed of the little turtle, he would not have found such a place.

"Look for seeds. Since it is an agricultural tribe, there must be seeds. Seeds are the most important."

Diwu Xuan couldn't wait to describe the appearance of seeds to the little turtle: a pile of small round things.

He didn't know what kind of fruit berries were, but they were difficult to store. They had to be made into pulp before the weather got cold, and if the weather was hot, they had to be picked and eaten right away.

It is impossible to support the stomachs of primitive tribesmen with berries. It would be great if we could find wheat, sorghum or even soybean seeds.

After a tense search, until noon the next day, one man and one turtle could not find a single seed.

Although he did not find any seeds, Diwu Xuan found a magical place.

The layout there is very much like an altar, with broken stone pillars on the left and right, and some incomprehensible marks on the rocks on the ground.

The marks look very much like text. One of the clearest ones is a Y-shaped shape with two more forks on the left and right, and the front is obviously oracle bone script.

"A civilization with writing is indeed more advanced than the tribes we see now. Maybe... the Dragon Tribe may have writing?"

I heard the fourth-generation witch say that the Dragon Tribe people speak very differently. Unlike the Fire Tribe, they all make a howling sound. Their pronunciation is more complicated.

More complex pronunciations can certainly communicate information more accurately, and the corresponding hieroglyphics are not an exaggeration.

"Could this be the residence of the Dragon Tribe?"

Fifth Xuan shook his head, unable to make an accurate judgment, and began to observe this thing that looked like an altar.