"Let's go, let's go back."

Han Cheng stood on the canoe, looked to the east for a long time, and then spoke to his eldest brother.

"What?"

The eldest brother was stunned for a moment, looked at the sun hanging in the sky which had not yet reached due south, thought he had heard wrongly, and asked back.

Didn't the Son of God say that he would wait until tonight was over and then start to go back tomorrow? Why did he suddenly change his mind now?

"Go back."

Han Cheng repeated it without looking back.

"Turn around and go back!"

The eldest brother, who had received the exact news, seemed somewhat excited and shouted to everyone.

Although no one knows why the Son of God suddenly changed his mind, being able to go back early is a happy thing for this group of people who have been wanting to go back so much.

Upon hearing the good news, everyone quickly turned the boat around on the water and headed upstream.

Han Cheng waved goodbye to the East and the imagined modern civilization.

The direct reason that made Han Cheng suddenly make such a major decision was the roar of a tiger.

He was not frightened by the tiger's roar, but the roar reminded him of the two saber-toothed tigers he saw in the mountains when he was looking for Fu Jiang.

The saber-toothed tiger is a creature that has long been lost in the long river of history. There is absolutely no sign of saber-toothed tigers in later generations.

It was because he suddenly realized this that he asked his senior brother and the others to return after being silent for a long time.

There is no need to explore the road ahead.

The fact that there are saber-toothed tigers, species that should have disappeared long ago, means that this cannot be a civilized society.

I should have thought of this earlier!

Han Cheng, feeling both relaxed and somewhat lost, patted his forehead lightly and thought with some regret.

The four boats went upstream. This time, the journey, which was supposed to be to search for useful species but was actually to verify whether there was a civilized world outside, ended here.

There was a soft sound of water, carrying the happy people towards where they came from.

“Stop!”

Han Cheng suddenly spoke out.

Everyone was stunned. What happened to the Son of God today? He just said he was leaving, so why did he suddenly stop?

"Look there!"

Han Cheng pointed to a place on the south bank of the lower reaches of the river and spoke to everyone.

When the eldest brother and the others heard it, they all faced upstream. Only Han Cheng had his back to the downstream.

Hearing what Han Cheng said, everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a column of smoke rising up under the clear sky and broad daylight.

If there is a column of smoke, it means there are people there.

Han Cheng and his friends hadn't met anyone along the way, so they naturally felt it was strange to see him.

"Go and have a look?"

The place where the smoke came from was not far from here, just around the bend of the river.

Although everyone wanted to go back quickly, they were also quite curious about the sudden rise of the smoke column. Plus, the distance was not far, so after thinking for a while, they turned the boat around and headed downstream to see what was going on there.

It would be best if we could get some information about the surrounding situation from them.

Going with the flow, the speed naturally goes fast, and it didn't take long before we arrived at the destination.

Everyone chose a suitable place to dock and moored the boat.

Following the previous example, after tying the boat here, it was pushed away from the shore with a pole, and the oars and poles were hidden in the grass.

Everyone held weapons, protected Han Cheng in the middle, and headed towards the smoke column which had become much smaller.

We walked along the way, stepping on dead grass and moving forward in the deep weeds.

"them!"

After walking for a while and approaching the place where the smoke column was rising, the leading eldest brother suddenly stopped and said with some surprise.

Han Cheng was short and was surrounded by a crowd, so he couldn't see what was going on there. He saw the eldest brother and some people who had already seen the situation suddenly reacted like this. For a moment he didn't know what they had seen, and he became anxious and asked.

The eldest brother wanted to say something but stopped himself. After thinking for a while, he walked over, picked up Han Cheng and put him on his shoulders. The view in front of him suddenly became clear.

Not too far away, there was a big fire burning. A group of primitive people wrapped in animal skins gathered around the fire, about eighty or ninety of them, big and small.

There's nothing strange about this, right?

Isn’t it normal for primitive people to light fire?

Although their behavior around the fire seemed a little strange at this time, the eldest brother and the others should not be so surprised.

As Han Cheng was thinking this, his eyes were quickly attracted by the actions of several strong-looking men there.

They walked away from the fire, came to a certain distance from the fire, bent down, and then walked back.

Not empty-handed, but carrying someone.

Someone in the tribe died and is the funeral being held now?

Han Cheng thought to himself as he watched this scene.

In this era, the worship and fear of fire were universal.

In addition, the tools were crude and it was difficult to dig the soil, so most people were burned after death.

Buried in the soil, it does not exist, or exists very little.

Han Cheng thought about this and suddenly smiled. This was very similar to later generations.

However, the idea of ​​a funeral was dispelled by what happened next as soon as it came up.

The person being carried, whom Han Cheng thought was a corpse, suddenly came back to life and began to struggle violently as the distance between them and the fire shortened.

Near the fire, he actually broke free from the two people who were carrying him, staggering and running for his life, heading exactly where Han Cheng and the others were.

The man had not run far when he was caught and dragged back.

Han Cheng saw that someone seemed to be hitting him with stones and something like a spear, and the man screamed in pain.

What is this doing? A human sacrifice?

Han Cheng looked at this extremely primitive and bloody scene, his face turned pale, and he suppressed the discomfort in his heart and thought.

However, speculation in this regard soon disappeared.

It was not that they got the answer, but that the people from the tribe over there had already discovered their presence and were looking towards them with some vigilance.

Some of them had already raised their weapons in front of them, and an incomprehensible voice was heard, obviously shouting at them.

This doesn't look like a very friendly tribe.

The eldest brother and the others also noticed the changes on the opposite side, so they quickly put Han Cheng down, took off the rattan shields on their backs and used them to block in front of them, protecting Han Cheng behind them.

There were four other people who took the rattan shields with him, and the rest also took their own weapons.

According to the previous training, the eldest brother and five other people holding rattan shields formed a protective wall in the front, followed by Shang and seven other people holding spears.

Junior Brother Sha on the left led two archers and had already taken out bows and arrows, while the two on the right who were using slingshots had also loaded a stone bullet into the slingshot.

Of the nineteen people on this trip, except for Han Cheng and Liang, who is a half-baked doctor who is far from being a master, the remaining seventeen are people who regularly participate in training.

Among them, the eldest brother, Shang, and the younger brother Sha are all captains of their respective teams.

The Rattan Shield Team and the Spear Team can't play a very big role in the battle relying on the wall for defense. The place where this combination can play the most role is in the wild. Therefore, among the people who came with Han Cheng this time, the Rattan Shield Team and the Spear Team have the largest number of people, a total of twelve.

Slings and bows are best used for defense.

Especially the slingshot, which makes too much noise and has high requirements for the surrounding environment, such as a relatively open place, so Han Cheng only brought two slingshot teams and three archery teams.