Chapter 121 Brutal 'Departure' (Please recommend and like)
There was no conversation overnight. The next morning, the Han tribe's team continued to set out and headed for home. After walking peacefully for two days, the Snake Tribe's team had to part ways with the Han tribe.
The white-haired snake witch, with the poisonous snake still hanging around his neck, came to say goodbye to Luo Chong in his sedan chair.
"Han leader, your ox cart is better than a sedan chair. It doesn't need to be carried by people. I'm old and can't walk by myself. From now on, it will be your world. You are good, and the girl you found is also pretty. She will definitely give you more children. I'm leaving. I hope we can meet again in the future."
The snake witch was still mumbling, regardless of whether Luo Chong could understand or not. After speaking, he nodded to Luo Chong. Luo Chong also quickly supported his chest and leaned forward slightly to salute the snake witch. The snake witch waved his hand and let someone carry him away.
After the Snake Tribe left, Shitou rode a deer to Luo Chong and said, "Chief."
"Well, go back and tell Dashu about the matter to the tribe and ask him to organize the tribe to build grass houses for the newcomers. Then you and Shuda will lead the hunting team to camp at Tuogu Ridge. Remember to bring more weapons, especially bows and arrows. There must be enough feather arrows. Also, bring a few more barrels of oil." Luo Chong gave detailed instructions again.
"Yes, Chief."
"Go, be careful on the road and be fast."
"Chief, I know."
Shitou agreed, waved his spear and hit the deer's butt, and ran away.
"Luo Chong, where is he going?" Xiaodie sat in Luo Chong's arms and turned her head to ask Luo Chong.
"He, he went back to the tribe to build houses for the tribe members." Luo Chong put his chin on Xiaodie's shoulder and said.
Feeling the warm breath on her neck, Xiaodie was embarrassed and turned her head away and stopped asking.
At the same time, in the Fire Tribe, which was two days' walk south of Rumeng Water Valley, the Fire Chief also returned to his residence and was preparing to attack the Han Tribe.
The Fire Tribe is a large tribe with a total population of nearly 2,000 people, but their population structure is very distorted. There are many adult males, about 300 people, 500 adult females, only 100 to 200 older children, more than 700 children under the age of five, and no girls. How extreme.
The cause of this extreme phenomenon is the current Fire Chief, Li.
Li is only 19 years old this year, in the prime of his life, but his career as a chief has been less than six years.
Six years ago, there were less than 300 people in the Fire Tribe. At that time, Li was not the chief. Moreover, because this guy liked playing with fire since he was a child, his chest was burned by flames, leaving a huge and hideous scar.
It was the summer when Li was seven years old. One day at noon, his father went out hunting and his mother went out to collect food. He lit a fire in the thatched house. This child was very obsessed with fire, especially liked to watch the yellow and orange flames and listen to the crackling sound of firewood burning in the flames. He felt that this was a kind of enjoyment.
As a result, the unfortunate child was enjoying it when the sparks from the flames ignited the whole house. The dry thatched house burned very quickly. The fire was blazing, but Li was staring at the flames like a demon, as if he saw a god in the flames.
The witch who stayed behind in the tribe saw the fire and ran over in a hurry. He grabbed the stunned Li out regardless of the raging fire. The child had a large burn on his chest, but he didn't cry out in pain and was still staring at the fire stupidly.
The witch who had just pulled Li out of the sea of fire had not had time to scold him when he heard a loud cry from the thatched house. It was Li's younger sister who was less than three years old. The witch wanted to go in and rescue the little girl, but a thatched house made of wood and thatch could not withstand the burning of the flames. Before the witch could lift his legs, he heard a loud bang and the thatched house collapsed.
When Li's parents came back in the evening, they saw that the thatched house they lived in every day had turned into a pile of ashes, and their daughter who was less than three years old had turned into a ball of black charcoal.
Li's mother cried bitterly while holding the black charcoal, and Li's father beat Li half to death with a cane.
Since then, Li was bullied by his peers every day, who scolded him for burning his sister to death. His parents also treated him coldly and gave him very little food, but Li did not change his nature and was still obsessed with fire. Every time he was beaten by his peers, he would secretly run away to continue burning fire, as if only fire could warm his heart. Li,
who was short of food and clothing, began to hunt to feed himself, but he was young and could not catch any animals. Later, by chance, he caught a rat with long brown hair. The rat was slow to react, had almost no eyesight, was fat, and ran slowly.
Li tied up the rat and threw it directly into the flames to burn it alive. The rat struggled madly in the flames and screamed miserably. Li sat next to it and watched with enjoyment, waiting for the rat to burn, but he waited for a long time and the rat was still burning.
Later, after many cruel experiments, Li finally found the reason. The long hair on the rat was very resistant to burning. A rat could burn for a long time, so Li named this rat fire rat.
The discovery of fire rats made Li even more crazy. He even built a pool with stones and raised fire rats in it, just to burn two every day, so that he could fill his stomach and enjoy it at the same time.
After Li grew up, he challenged the leader, killed the previous leader directly, and sat on the position of leader. Those who disobeyed were killed one by one by him, instead of defeating them.
Because Li had been bullied and looked down upon since he was a child, his temper became very violent and his character was very cruel.
He began to lead the tribe to attack other tribes, killing all the men who resisted, killing all the children under 6 years old in the other tribe, and snatching all the women back as reproductive machines.
The next time he attacked another tribe, Li would let the captured men rush to the front. If they were unwilling, he would threaten them with their women or burn their older children alive as a warning.
The captives gradually collapsed and were forced to join the attacking team. After they conquered one tribe after another, they were baptized by blood and saw so many spoils and women. The captives' hearts gradually became crazy and twisted, and they were willing to join Li's army. Those who were still stubborn were burned alive by him.
In this way, the Fire Tribe expanded rapidly under Li's leadership, with more and more warriors. The number of captured women once reached thousands, and they were all imprisoned in a dark and damp cave in the Fire Tribe's residence. The
captured women were forced to give birth to children. If they gave birth to a boy, they could be released from the cave. If they gave birth to a girl, they would be killed directly, because girls born in their own tribe could not give birth to children for their own tribe, and it would be a waste of food to keep them.
Some women were still young when they were captured, and they died directly because they could not withstand their cruel torture. Others died during pregnancy due to the poor conditions in the cave. There were also numb women who kept giving birth to children for the Fire Tribe, and eventually died of weakness and illness due to continuous childbirth. In addition, there was no medical technology in this era, and people often died of dystocia and heavy bleeding.
Therefore, the mortality rate of captured women was extremely high, from more than 1,000 at the peak to only 500 now. Among these 500 people, more than half are currently pregnant. The women did not have a moment to recuperate, and eventually they would die of various reasons due to giving birth to too many children.
There were also women who had given birth to a child for the Fire Tribe and wanted to escape, but the fate of those who were caught would be very miserable. The women who escaped would be burned alive in public, which scared other women so much that they no longer dared to think of escaping, and could only numbly become slaves who gave birth to children for the Fire Tribe.
It is precisely because of this that the Fire Tribe has such a distorted population structure. More than 700 boys under the age of five were born in the past few years, not including the hundreds of baby girls who were killed at birth.
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