Chapter 20 The First Night of Ancient Times
The book says that the Shangdingdong people had a thick skull, a long head, a sloping forehead, a low upper face, low eye sockets, and prominent cheekbones.
At this moment, the typical caveman was standing naked twenty meters away, staring at them with sharp eyes.
The wild, primitive aura made him look particularly fierce.
Zhong Jialing and Cheng Yaoyao instinctively hid behind Feng Qi and Luo Jiu, and asked nervously: "What is he looking at? Is he wondering why we look different from him?"
"No." Luo Jiu answered softly. She could feel the hostility in the eyes of this ancient ancestor. Did he regard them as enemies?
"Hello, we have no ill intentions..." Luo Jiu stretched out his hand to show that he was not carrying any weapons as a gesture of goodwill.
"Yes, we're just looking around." Feng Qi was afraid that the other party couldn't hear him clearly because the distance was too far, so he took a few steps forward. Unexpectedly, the caveman's face changed and he immediately threw the stone in his hand over.
Feng Qi dodged quickly, "No, why are you hitting someone?"
Suddenly, the trees shook, and eight or nine heads popped out from behind the trees, raising the stones in their hands towards them.
"Run!" Luo Jiu shouted, and everyone turned around and ran.
The cavemen howled a few times, and the stones behind them fell towards their feet like raindrops, crackling.
The four of them ran down the slope without looking back. The cavemen were chasing them relentlessly, and they were more familiar with the terrain than they were, getting closer and closer to them.
As soon as Luo Jiu arrived at the foot of the mountain, she quickly took out the Xiaomi electric car she had stockpiled, "Hurry up and get in the car!"
The car started quickly, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Cheng Yaoyao turned around and saw the cavemen halfway up the mountain looking at the steel behemoth, frozen in place, staring blankly at them as they went away.
Zhong Jialing was sitting in the passenger seat and asked Luo Jiu in surprise: "When did you learn to drive?"
"I was on night duty a few nights ago, so I learned some skills when I had nothing to do. Besides, driving is not complicated."
The road is not complicated, and the trams are highly intelligent. In addition, the area is incredibly wide, with no traffic lights or solid or virtual lines, so there is no need to worry about breaking the rules.
Luo Jiu drove for more than ten kilometers in one breath and stopped at a wider river.
She stood on a high place, looking at the vast desolate world, with mixed feelings.
Back in the car, she and the other three people sorted out the current information.
Luo Jiu: "At present, we can be sure that we are in a primitive society. According to the internationally accepted view, it belongs to the ancient period. The appearance time of the Upper Cave Man is 10,000 to 30,000 years ago, but the exact time is unclear. The Upper Cave Man belongs to the late Homo sapiens, and the brain capacity is similar to that of modern humans."
"What? Almost?" Feng Qi couldn't believe it. "We could recognize them at a glance, but they didn't distinguish friend from foe and just started fighting. It's totally inexplicable. And they were not wearing any clothes. It was so embarrassing to see them."
Luo Jiu couldn't help but smile, "According to history, they should wear animal skins. But that was to keep out the cold. Now that the weather is hot, they have no sense of shame, so it's understandable that they don't wear them.
As for attacking us, maybe they have a strong sense of territory and think we are invading enemies. However, they just drove us away with stones and mostly hit our legs and feet. It seems that they don’t mean to kill us.”
Cheng Yaoyao sighed, "They don't seem to be able to speak, so there's no way for us to communicate. But this place is big enough, so we should stay away from them and we should be able to keep to ourselves."
Zhong Jialing frowned, "Really? But there are not many people here, where can we go to replenish supplies? And where is this? Are we safe here?"
Luo Jiu thought for a moment, "From the perspective of the river's direction and veins, it is very similar to the Yongding River on the ancient map."
Zhong Jialing: "Where is the map? Let me see it."
Luo Jiu pointed to his head and said, "I have read in an extracurricular reading before that this should be the Yongding River. And the remains of the Upper Cave Man are located at Longgu Mountain in Zhoukou, Beijing. Generally speaking, it belongs to the Yellow River Basin, and more specifically, it belongs to the Yongding River Basin.
The hill we just climbed should be Dragon Bone Hill. This is Beijing, we have arrived in the capital, my friends.
After some discussion, everyone decided to find a place to set up camp first, wait ten days, and then check the next upgrade conditions.
During this period, our primitive ancestors either built nests in caves or in trees. In short, their lives were very primitive.
It is impossible to find a house to live in, but if they wanted, they could build the first house in the history of the human world.
Zhong Jialing asked: "Should we drive the RV out?"
Luo Jiu looked at the dense forest nearby. For some reason, these tall tree trunks gave her a deep sense of uneasiness. She always felt that there might be some unknown danger in them.
Luo Jiu said, "We'd better not stay here. This place is close to a water source, and the cavemen must know that. But they must have a reason for not living here. Who knows what kind of terrifying ancient creatures there are in such a dense forest? Let's go back to Dragon Bone Mountain and find a cave nearby to live in."
Zhong Jialing suddenly remembered, "Dragon Bone Mountain? I went there when I was a kid. My parents took me to Beijing for a trip and I went to Dragon Bone Mountain. There are many natural caves of different sizes. The remains of the Upper Cave Man are in the largest cave. We can choose a small cave far away from them. I guess they won't be able to find it."
Cheng Yaoyao exclaimed: "You've actually been there?"
"Yes, when I was about six or seven years old. But I can't remember the location of those caves, I just remember that the ticket was 30 yuan per person."
Luo Jiu smiled and glanced back at everyone, "Then we saved a hundred and twenty today, let's go to Longgu Mountain in Zhoukoudian."
The car stopped two kilometers away from Longgu Mountain. Luo Jiu looked through the telescope and found that the cavemen on the mountain should have gone down.
They put the car into the space, changed into dark clothes, and quietly approached the foot of the mountain. Soon they found a natural cave on the east side of Longgu Mountain.
The cave was small in size and about two meters in diameter. The inside was about four or five meters high and seven or eight meters wide. In addition to weeds and dust, there were also some dead bones of animals.
Luo Jiu said: "No need to drive the RV, the RV is too big and too obvious, we can put a tent here, light a fire at the entrance of the cave at night, and take turns sleeping."
So everyone started to clean up, clearing away the debris and sweeping the ground. Zhong Jialing also took out her Chanel No. 5 perfume and sprayed it. Then they set up a tent in the cave and put an inflatable mattress on it. Soon they had a place to rest.
Feng Qi and Zhong Jialing took a long nap in the afternoon, and when they woke up the sun was about to set.
Cheng Yaoyao set up the folding table and chairs, and she and Luo Jiu drank hot tea while admiring the ancient sunset.
The four of them had dinner and it was getting dark. They turned on a camping light hung high up, and the whole cave was as bright as day.
Feng Qi took out firewood and charcoal and started a fire at the entrance of the cave.
"Jia Ling and I will keep watch, you two can go to sleep."
Cheng Yaoyao couldn't help but smile, "We've never divided into groups like this before, okay? I'll guard with you."
Zhong Jialing was not convinced, "What? You don't trust us, the last and second to last?"
Luo Jiu patted Cheng Yaoyao on the shoulder and said, "Forget it, it shouldn't be a big deal. Let them stay here and we'll come tomorrow."
Luo Jiu and Cheng Yaoyao were sleeping in the tent. Feng Qi kept his double-headed sword and Xuanhua axe at hand, and played poker and ate snacks with Zhong Jialing, adding a few pieces of charcoal to the fire from time to time.
The two people felt tired sitting on the simple folding chairs, so they soon changed to lazy sofas.
The fire burned very vigorously, and the flames were about one meter high.
The two of them were so sleepy from the roasting that Feng Qi just dozed off for a while when Zhong Jialing suddenly pushed her awake and said in a low voice with a nervous look on her face, "Look!"
Feng Qi opened her eyes and saw a black bear about 1.78 meters tall standing at the entrance of the cave, looking at them angrily across the flames.
Feng Qi immediately came to his senses, grabbed the double-headed sword at hand and prepared to fight.
Zhong Jialing whispered, "Don't move yet, I'll go call Jiu to come and take a look."
Feng Qi waved his hand, "No need, you see it's just standing there, it's afraid of fire and doesn't dare to come in."
Zhong Jialing was puzzled, "Why is it standing here? If it doesn't want to eat us, why doesn't it leave?"
"Yes, why not leave?" Feng Qi also became puzzled.
The two people began to chatter excitedly and speculate, even suggesting that the animal might be interested in fire and was coming to warm itself by it.
Suddenly someone came out of the tent: "This is its home. It came back and found that we have occupied it."
Luo Jiu listened in a daze and couldn't help but interrupt.
Feng Qi and Zhong Jialing looked at each other and shut up in embarrassment.
Zhong Jialing simply cleared her throat and started communicating with the black bear.
"Well, this is the situation. You have lived in nature for so long, you must have occupied other animals' holes, so it is reasonable for your hole to be occupied by us. Anyway, it is not convenient for us to move around, so you can find another hole by yourself. We will give you some compensation, and you can leave now."
She took out a raw fat chicken from the space and threw it outside the cave. Feng Qi said, "It would be strange if it could listen to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the black bear actually picked up the chicken and walked away.
Zhong Jialing was so proud, "What do you think? I am still a little smarter than you."
Feng Qi gave in, threw away her sword, and continued to doze off. She woke up several times, but nothing happened, so she simply lay down and slept without any worries.
It was five or six in the morning, the sky was just getting light, and the sky was dark blue. Zhong Jialing pushed her awake again, "Look!"
Feng Qi made a confused “hmm” sound, thinking it was still a black bear, and muttered, “Why don’t you give it a chicken skeleton?”
Zhong Jialing said anxiously: "No, it's the caveman!"
Feng Qi suddenly opened her eyes and saw a naked woman, probably less than 20 years old, standing at the entrance of the cave, looking at them from afar across the fire.
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