Chapter 208 Eastward Eastward (please vote and comment)
That night, after a brief thought and discussion, Luo Chong made a decision. He would send a cavalryman with more than 50 kilograms of lacquer grass seeds back first, and plant these seeds after returning to the tribe. It
is only the beginning of summer now. If you go back and plant them immediately, they can still mature for a season this year. The planting site is located to the west of the city. There are not many in total, so it should be planted quickly.
The next morning, Luo Chong began to lead the remaining 5 people to the fairy lake. This time there are too few people, and it is impossible to gain anything. Just treat it as a first step to prepare for another march in the future.
From the lacquer tribe to the east, the terrain is still very flat. The original sparse forest is now even sparser. You have to walk a long way to see a tree. Instead, there are large areas of grassland and patches of bushes. The surrounding ecological environment has also changed greatly.
The most common creatures are yellow-skinned marmots. They stand in groups on the grass, looking around for the enemy, and immediately go into the hole at the slightest sign of trouble.
There are also gray hares that run fast. They carefully eat the grass and are always alert to predators that suddenly appear, such as falcons in the sky, but the falcons don't care about them at all.
Yes, there are many eagles here. It's not that there are groups, but you can see a few every time you look up. They are always circling high in the sky, searching for their prey.
Luo Chong has always been wondering, there are so many rabbits and marmots on the ground, shouldn't they all be their prey? Why don't these eagles attack? Until he saw the eagle coming down to hunt, he no longer thought so.
In the clear sky, a free-flying eagle suddenly swooped down quickly, and the prey it aimed at was actually an antelope.
The antelope was an adult, at least the size of a farmed sheep, but the eagle swooped down, grabbed it with one claw and ran away, then took the screaming antelope and flew into the sky, turning to the east.
What the hell, what did I see? This is not an eagle, it is at least a giant eagle, with such a strong carrying capacity, it can actually catch an antelope, it's too amazing.
Luo Chong thought about the thickness of the antelope's waist, and then imagined how big the giant eagle that could grab the antelope with one claw would be. It would be as tall as a person when standing up, but it's not an exaggeration, after all, the wingspan of a giant goose is five meters. After
sighing at the wonders on the road, the group walked until dusk and found a place with a stream to spend the night. There were still large plains around them. Only at the destination this time could they vaguely see the hills on the horizon.
When the moon in the east rose from the horizon, Luo Chong finally saw a small black dot on the moon's surface. That should be the island floating on the lake. Its shadow could already be seen.
The next morning, the six-member team continued to move forward towards the rising sun. At noon, they made another unexpected discovery that piqued Luo Chong's interest. It was a pile of dry feces. Feces were not good-looking, but this pile was different. It was very large and had grass clippings in it.
Luo Chong deliberately asked the team to stop, and then took a small branch to pick up the feces and observe carefully. There were undigested grass clippings in it. A pile weighed about half a pound. This was the feces of a large herbivore. The feces were not very small spheres, which meant that it was definitely not an animal like sheep. Sheep feces are all small spheres.
Then this is most likely the feces of a cow or horse. After carefully searching for footprints nearby, the footprints were a round shallow pit the size of a palm, without toes, so it was an animal of the Perissodactyl family, and the footprints were not deep, which meant that the target was not very heavy.
This explains the situation. This large herbivore without toes on its hooves does not weigh very much. If it is not a horse, it must be a small cattle-like animal. But it doesn’t matter. Regardless of whether it is a cow or a horse, Luo Chong wants to get a batch of them back because the Han tribe is in great need of livestock.
There were still endless plains around. In addition to rabbits and marmots, there were some small antelopes and a few emus, which were vegetarian birds similar to the moa. However, there was no trace of cattle and horses.
However, Luo Chong was not worried. In any case, these animals must eat salt, so they would most likely appear near the salt lake, which was consistent with Luo Chong's destination. So he just kept going.
The team continued to set off. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, they were blocked by a river. This was the river that the guide had mentioned before. If they walked, it would take about three days to walk from the Qi tribe to here. This time, Luo Chong and his team rode, so it only took more than a day.
The river was about 17 or 18 meters wide. Luo Chong could not be sure whether this river was the same as the river next to the Han tribe. If so, it would be even better. If there was really iron ore here, it could be quickly transported from this river to the Han tribe. Well, on the way back, we would walk along the river and explore the road to see if it was the same river.
"Chief, this river is so wide, how can we cross it?" Dali in the team looked at the river in front of him and asked Luo Chong.
"You should ask our guide about this question. The Qi tribe has been to the salt lake to collect salt, so they must have passed through here, right?" Luo Chong first reminded Dali, and then turned to ask the guide.
"Well, we used to swim across this river directly. This river is not very deep, so we can swim across it. I just don't know if the beasts we ride can swim across it. By the way, chief, can you swim?" The guide explained to everyone, and asked Luo Chong at the end.
"Of course, we can swim. There is also a river in our tribe. We often bathe in the river. There are also these horned deer and mammoths. Don't worry, they can swim and we can all cross it.
However, you just said that you used to swim across from here. Does your tribe often go to the salt lake?" Luo Chong asked.
"We don't go there often. Basically, we go once in the summer and once in the fall. Each time, we need to gather more than ten of the strongest adult warriors in the tribe to collect salt. The salt we collect once must be enough to feed the tribe for half a year.
Because this trip is too far, and there are ferocious beasts with long teeth near the fairy lake, it is not safe with fewer people. Even if we gather ten people, sometimes people will die there." The guide replied.
Dali listened to the guide's introduction, then looked at the four or five people around him, and seemed a little hesitant.
"Chief, are we going there again? Do you want to bring more warriors next time?"
"Why, are you scared? We will definitely bring more people next time, but we have to go this time too."
After Luo Chong said this, he was the first to go into the water with Huishan and swam hard towards the other side.
(End of this chapter)
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