The old tribesmen stood here, looking at the broken bone in confusion, wondering what this person was going to do with it.
I didn't understand what she meant.
"@#¥TYYU..."
Under the puzzled gaze of the old tribesmen, this primitive woman, who had slept with the old tribesman many times in the past, began to speak.
She told everyone in the tribe that she did not see the leader throwing bones outside.
And after waking up last night, I vaguely saw that the leader seemed to be eating something there, and there was a crunching sound.
After she said this, everyone in the old tribe couldn't help but be stunned, then they all came closer to look at the bone, and looked at the surrounding ground to look for bone residue.
Just as the female primitive said, there was no bone residue on the ground.
The leader of his tribe had been smashing the bone with stones in recent days. The noise was so loud that many people in the tribe heard it.
But they didn't care too much about it.
Because they all thought that the leader of their tribe wanted to use this bone to make a more useful weapon.
Until this time, when the leader of their tribe made unusual behavior and the female primitive said such a thing, the people of the old tribe examined the bone again and immediately found something unusual.
The gap on this bone appears uneven.
Although a lot of it had been smashed off, the outline of the weapon was still not visible.
It looks like it was smashed randomly.
This discovery, combined with what the primitive woman said, made the people of the old tribe immediately realize that something was unusual.
Everything points to one thing.
The thing is, the leader of his tribe was not smashing the bones to make any weapons, but was eating the broken bone residue!
After coming to this conclusion, everyone in the old tribe felt incredible and couldn't help but stare in amazement.
If food is extremely scarce in the tribe and there is nothing to eat, it is understandable and justifiable for the leader of the tribe to do this.
But the problem is that our tribe is not short of food now!
Although in recent days, due to rain and luck, the leader of his tribe and his people had only managed to catch that one prey, but with the large amount of food obtained through exchanges with the older female primitive people, his tribe would not have any food crisis in the short term.
Although it is impossible to eat and drink to your heart's content, it is still possible to keep people from going hungry.
Moreover, as the leader of his own tribe, he could give himself more when distributing food.
No matter what, he was not so hungry that he had to chew on bones that were impossible to bite.
But now, what they thought was absolutely impossible to happen, just happened.
"@##¥WE..."
Reminded by such things, some people quickly remembered some small things that they had not noticed before, but when they thought about them at this time, they seemed very abrupt.
Someone thought of their tribal leader. In the past few days, it seemed that most of the meals were clear soup, and he didn't seem to have touched anything thick.
This situation started when the prey caught by the leader and the others was eaten, and the tribe began to eat the food obtained by the older female primitive people through exchange...
More and more things are being remembered.
But the more this happened, the more confused the people in the old tribe became.
They couldn't understand what had happened to the leader of their tribe. Why did he suddenly stop eating the food brought back by the older female primitive people?
Is it because the food brought back by the older female primitive people doesn’t taste good?
Many people think so in their hearts.
However, this thought only existed in his mind for a short time before it was thrown out of his mind by the old tribesman.
The older female primitive people ate all the food they brought back. They found it very delicious and there was no way it tasted bad at all.
But after ruling out this possibility, the people of the old tribe became even more confused.
Because apart from this more likely reason, they couldn't think of any other reasons...
While the people of the old tribe who stayed in the cave were full of confusion and constantly making guesses, the old tribal leader, who was the protagonist of their topic, was walking in the wild with weapons in his hand.
At this moment, he no longer had the agility he had when he rushed out of the cave with his weapons.
The animal skin on his body was almost completely soaked and his hair was stuck to his face.
Rain flowed down his hair and cheeks, making him look extremely disheveled.
It is late summer and the temperature is not too low.
But continuous rainfall for several days has also caused the temperature to drop a lot.
In addition, the leader of the old tribe had not had a proper meal in the past few days and was weak, so the rain had caused him great harm.
His face was pale, his lips were a little black, and his whole body was shaking slightly and uncontrollably.
But even in such a situation, he was still trying hard to open his eyes wide, twist his neck, and search around hard, trying to find some traces of prey.
However, under such weather conditions, a large number of prey have hidden their bodies and hid themselves to avoid the wind and rain, and few are walking outside.
So along the way, the leader of the old tribe basically didn't encounter any prey.
“Chirp, chirp, chirp~”
There was a bird singing on a tree not far away.
While singing, it also jumps back and forth between branches and leaves from time to time.
Many of its feathers looked like they had been wet by the rain.
Such movement attracted the attention of the old tribal leader.
He stopped where he was and turned his head to look here slowly.
Then he paused for a while before taking another step and walking towards here.
I don’t know if it was because he saw the prey, but the old tribal leader who seemed numb now looked much more energetic. He tiptoed and quickly approached the bird that was named.
But even so, the bird had already discovered him.
"Bang!"
Seeing that the bird wanted to fly away, the old tribal leader stopped moving forward and immediately used all his strength to throw the stone in his hand towards the bird.
The stone flew out and hit the tree trunk, making a sound.
The big bird, which was regarded as prey by the chief of the old tribe, cried in panic, flapped its wings vigorously, flew up from the branch, and flew away, leaving a few tiny feathers in the air, which slowly floated away and finally fell to the ground.
The old tribal chief, who had just perked up his spirits, looked at the feathers floating on the ground and the stones that rolled down among the trees and were covered with wet mud after missing the target. He suddenly became depressed again.
It was as if all the energy and spirit disappeared completely with the throwing of this stone.
The sky is gloomy. Calculating the time of dawn today, it is not too far from dark.
Judging from today's situation, I won't be able to catch any prey.
Even if there are no prey to hunt, there is enough food in the tribe to fill the stomach, so the people in the tribe will not starve.
But it is precisely because of this that he feels even more resentful.
An indescribable feeling of frustration enveloped his heart.
Ever since that day when he was scolded by the older female primitive and had to bow to her under the coercion of the tribesmen, the leader of the old tribe has been dissatisfied with the older female primitive.
As the leader, he felt extremely humiliated by this kind of thing.
After this incident, he began to think about why things had turned out like this.
The result is that the older female primitive people can lead the people in the tribe and bring back a lot of food to the tribe.
After understanding this, the leader of the old tribe secretly made up his mind that he must bring plenty of food with the people who stayed in the tribe so that everyone in the tribe could have enough to eat and feel his kindness. He could surpass the older female primitive people again and still live a good life without eating the food brought back by the older female primitive people!
So as soon as the older female primitive people left the tribe with their people, he began to take the rest of the people who remained in the tribe to get food.
However, all his stubbornness and persistence were shattered by the cruel reality.
Except for the first day, we didn’t catch any prey in the following days. Then it started to rain…
The old tribal chief, who felt cold all over and could not help but tremble slightly, recalled these things. He felt so depressed that he could not help but roar loudly to the sky, wanting to ask why it was so difficult for him to do something.
The cold, hunger, fatigue, and extreme depression and frustration made him feel extremely uncomfortable and he didn't have the strength to muster any strength.
He dragged his weapon, walking forward without any spirit or purpose. The rain falling from the sky kept falling on his body, and then dripped down along his wet hair...
"@##@#?"
Here in the cave of the old tribe, there is chaos, tension and anxiety.
At the beginning, the people in the tribe just thought that their tribal leader would not be away for too long and would come back soon.
After all, it was still raining outside, so it was not suitable for people to stay outside for too long.
However, as time went by, their leader never returned.
After waiting for a while, someone finally couldn't wait any longer.
Someone spoke up and decided to go outside to find the leader.
After a while, more than a dozen people, holding weapons in their hands and wearing large pieces of animal skins on their heads and bodies, left the tribal cave, headed quickly outside, and went into the rain to look for their leader.
Time passed by little by little in this situation, and the sky gradually darkened. Because of the rain, the sky, which was already dark, became even darker...
“##¥@##!”
There was a noise outside, and the people guarding the cave entrance looked outside. They saw some people coming back and couldn't help shouting.
The cave, which seemed tense and quiet, suddenly became lively.
Many people rushed to the cave entrance impatiently, wanting to know more about the leader as soon as possible.
There was also an older person who hurriedly picked up some firewood from a place not too far away from the fire and added it to the fire, making it burn more vigorously.
He wanted to warm up the tribesmen who had gone outside and were coming back in the rain by the fire.
While everyone was waiting, the people who appeared in sight quickly came to the edge of the old tribe’s cave and walked in.
They were brought hot soup from clay pots and told to come over to the fire so they could warm themselves.
As they settled down, the excitement brought by these people's return was quickly fading.
Because this time they went out, they didn't find the leader of their tribe.
It was indeed a rainy day, but not every place could leave traces of human footsteps.
For example, in places where Asakusa grows thicker.
Another example is some rocky ground where no grass or trees grow.
At the beginning, they were able to find the footprints left by their tribal leader, but later, these footprints disappeared.
“@#@##!”
After a while, an old tribesman who had just returned with wet hair put down the empty soup bowl in his hand, stood up, and said this to the people in the tribe.
What he meant was that he was ready to set out from here again and continue looking for the leader of his tribe.
Several people stood up hesitantly, ready to follow him to do this.
This is the leader of their tribe, they can't just ignore him.
However, these people still did not leave the tribe to do this.
What stopped them was the darkness outside, the rain, the mud, and the foragers whose whereabouts were unknown.
Of course, there were also many people in the tribe who advised...
Raindrops kept falling, and fire shot out from a small hole in the entrance of the old tribal cave and fell on the ground outside.
It was a low-lying area with some grass growing on it, and a shallow pool of water gathered in it.
Raindrops fell from the sky, landing inside and creating ripples.
Occasionally, some water droplets gathered on the leaves would fall from above, hit the water, and form some bubbles that float on the surface.
The bubbles were half bright and half dark in the firelight.
In the old tribe, most people would have gone to bed at this time in the past, but now, except for a few minors, no one else was asleep.
Everyone was waiting here, feeling anxious and worried...