Chapter 550: The Civet God Who Can Learn to Scream Like a Human (Please vote and subscribe)
A true man must fight crocodiles, and the most courageous hunter must challenge the most ferocious beasts. Although the men of the Han tribe have become more and more civilized under the influence of their leader, the nature of eating raw meat and drinking blood has not been completely lost. After all, Luo Chong has only been here for less than five years, and the men of these tribes have relied on hunting for a living since childhood.
At this time, they successfully hunted a 7-8 meter long crocodile. The crew members who had been on the boat for a few days and were almost idle were extremely excited. After dismembering the first crocodile, they quickly repeated the same trick, each carrying a weapon and running to the river, and again pulled out a few crocodiles with iron hooks.
The river beach on the shore was soon stained red by the river water and blood, and became extremely muddy, but the more than 200 crew members under You Fu did not feel tired at all, but became more and more energetic.
"Captain You, look at how much meat this fish monster has. It's so white, it looks like chicken, but I don't know if it tastes good."
"Of course it tastes good. Didn't you see how strong this thing is? The leader said it's called muscle. Yes, muscle, that's the meat with a lot of strength. Muscle tastes better."
"Captain You, look at how strong the fish monster's skin is. It's stronger than cowhide. If we use this thing to make leather boots or armor, it must be strong and durable. Let's keep some of this fish skin." A crew member said to You Fu while shaking a piece of crocodile's carapace.
You Fu also took it and looked at it, then shouted loudly to the crowd.
"Brothers, this fish skin is very useful. Take it back to our leader, maybe we can make something good out of it. Don't cut the fish's body anymore, just cut the head, let's peel the fish skin more completely."
"Okay, don't worry, captain, just watch me."
"Got it, brothers, don't break the skin, we'll use it to make good things when we get back."
"Captain You, this fish monster has a lot of oil, should we keep some?"
"Keep, keep, keep. Take whatever you like. Let's let everyone have a good meal today. Also make some more dried meat for us to eat on the boat."
"Hurry, hurry, someone come, I've hooked another one, someone come quickly, I can't hold it anymore!!!"
You Fu was busy here, and in the woods not far away, many people from the Raccoon Tribe were hiding behind the bushes with their cats, staring at You Fu with wide eyes, and then there was a burst of chattering discussions.
"What are they using? How is it so powerful that it can even penetrate the skin of water monsters?"
"I don't know. Where did these people come from? They are all so powerful."
"Why don't they have women and children? Are these people just the hunting team of their tribe? How many people are there in their tribe then?"
"Their dress is so special. What are they wearing? It doesn't look like animal skin. It may be made by themselves. And what are they wearing on their feet?"
"Yeah, even their hair is tied on top of their heads. This should be for the convenience of work. You see how hard they hunt, and their hair doesn't fall down to block their eyes."
"Well, these are not important. What we should think about now is whether we should go over and contact them. They are killing water monsters by the river now, which has delayed our hunting. Usually at this time, we hunt on the shore. If we don't go out, what will we eat at night? We will all be hungry. But if we go out, we will be found by them, and we will definitely not be able to beat them." The young leader of the Raccoon Tribe suddenly said to his people.
"Well, we don't know if they are good people. They have such powerful weapons in their hands. Will they attack us? Seeing how good they are at killing water monsters, they must be hard to deal with."
"But this is where we usually hunt. They are outsiders."
"What if they are not bad? Their weapons are so powerful, and they are also good at hunting. They must not lack food. They should not attack other tribes. We don't want to drive them away. We just want to hunt there. We don't want the water monsters in the water. We only want the small animals drinking water on the shore. It shouldn't be a problem."
"Yeah, they have so much meat to eat, they shouldn't mind if we eat a little too. Maybe these people are easy to talk to."
"It would be great if we could exchange two weapons with them. The things they use are really powerful. They can penetrate the hard skin of the water monster in one go. The previous leader led people to kill the water monster with bone spears and stone spears, but they couldn't pierce through it no matter how hard they poked. Several people were dragged away by the water monster, and several people who were not dragged away were bitten to death. It would have been great if we had the weapons they used at that time."
"You are dreaming. Even if they are easy to talk to, do you think they will exchange such a powerful weapon with us? Such a powerful weapon must be more difficult to make than a grindstone spear. If you have such a weapon, would you exchange it with others?"
"I, I, I"
"Okay, okay, stop arguing. What's the point of talking about this now? Even if they are willing to exchange, who dares to go to them?"
"Well, what should we do? Anyway, we must go out. They have scared away the prey there. If we don't go out, we will definitely be hungry at night. If we had known, we would have saved the melon in the morning to eat at night. I don't know if we can find melons in the fields in the north."
"Okay, stop talking, we will listen to the leader."
"Well, let's do this, as usual, let's ask the raccoon god for inspiration first to see if it will let us go." The leader of the raccoon tribe spoke again.
Everyone nodded when they heard it, indicating that they agreed with the leader's decision.
So the leader of the raccoon tribe picked up the old raccoon cat beside him, held the cat's body with both hands and lifted it above his head, then stared closely at the raccoon cat's two eyes of different colors, and kept muttering in a low voice.
As a result, the cat seemed to be impatient, and a gurgling sound suddenly came from its soft belly, then it broke free from its hands, and its four legs fell on the head of the raccoon leader. It kicked its hind legs hard and rushed out in an instant. With a few extremely fast flashes, it rushed to the scene of the Han tribe slaughtering crocodiles on the shore.
There was no way, it was too hungry, and it would starve to death sooner or later if it followed this group of masters who fell on the street. Looking at the group of people on the shore, they couldn't even finish the meat scraps that slipped out of their hands, so it was better to abandon the dark and join the light as soon as possible.
As soon as the old cat took the lead, the cats raised by other people followed suit, rushing to the riverbank occupied by the Han tribe, and began to snatch the chopped meat scraps on the ground. At the same time, they raised their tails and stared at the people of the Han tribe vigilantly, but they were not particularly afraid, otherwise they would not have rushed to the side of Youfu.
The civet cats raised by these people lived with people every day, eating and sleeping together, so they were not particularly afraid of people, but they were still a little wary when facing these strangers from the Han tribe.
But the Han tribe crew was confused. Where did this group of furry little animals suddenly rush out from? They actually dared to snatch food from the tiger's mouth. Well, although they were all scraps of skin and meat that they didn't want, these little animals were too bold.
"Cat God!"
The Civet Tribe was also confused. Originally, those civet cats suddenly rushed out for no reason. But the Civet Tribe took these civet cats very seriously. They were sacred animals treated like gods. When they saw the civet cats rushing under the butcher knife of the Han tribe, several people rushed over without thinking, scaring the people on both sides of the Han tribe and the Civet Tribe.
"Captain You, someone is running over there."
"Everyone be careful, there are savages." You Fu turned his head and took a look, and immediately shouted.
A few young children ran to the Han tribe crew without caring about anything, picked up the raccoon cat that was snatching food on the ground and held it in their arms, and then they realized that they were already surrounded by the Han tribe. They didn't dare to run, and they began to feel scared.
When the remaining people of the raccoon tribe saw that their people were surrounded and still standing there stupidly, they couldn't help but rush over. Besides, their own cats were there, and they had to get them back.
At that moment, the two groups stood face to face, staring at each other, but fortunately, neither side had the intention of fighting.
"What tribe are you from? Do you raise these little animals?" You Fu asked the people of the raccoon tribe with gestures.
"Which tribe are you from, and why do you come to our tribe to hunt?" The little leader of the raccoon tribe also asked with gestures.
The people of the Han tribe were very calm. It was not the first time they had encountered outside tribes. On the contrary, since they stepped on the reconnaissance ship, they had made plans to frequently contact outside tribes.
"We came from the water and lacked food. We came to the shore to replenish it. We can also exchange things with you. Do you need white salt?"
You Fu first pointed to several large ships on the shore and explained the origin and purpose of these people. Then he once again took out the old routine and asked the subordinates in charge of food to take out a small bag of white salt they carried with them.
The people of the Li tribe were very shocked. They did not expect that these people really came from the water. They could actually make tools to walk on the water. Their weapons were also very sharp, but they were easy to talk to. They actually took the initiative to talk to them about exchanging things.
"White salt, what is it?" The Li leader learned this unfamiliar Chinese word and asked with gestures.
You Fu also quickly handed the white salt over and asked the Li leader to taste it, but this young leader, who was only sixteen years old, did not realize the importance of white salt.
In fact, the main reason is that the level of civilization of the Raccoon Tribe is too poor. There are less than 100 men, women, old and young in the whole tribe. They have to rely on hunting to get food every day, and it also depends on luck and weather. Just like today, the people of the Han tribe suddenly came to "make trouble", which made it impossible for them to hunt normally. They didn't even have dinner, and the whole tribe had to go hungry.
How could a tribe that couldn't even fill the stomachs of its people grow and develop without any food?
Moreover, they relied solely on hunting for a living, and the casualties were large. They couldn't save any experienced hunters, so the tribe was updated quickly. From the surface, the people of the Raccoon Tribe generally looked very young, the oldest was only in his twenties, and the leader was a teenager of only sixteen years old. Although the leader of the Han tribe was only fifteen years old, Luo Chong was a technical leader, and he had many ways to solve the problem, which was completely different from the situation of the Raccoon Tribe.
The raccoon tribe had no idea or experience of eating white salt. They usually got salt from drinking animal blood and eating internal organs. So they were not interested in the white salt Youfu brought out, but were very interested in the steel weapons in their hands.
After all, they still hunted for a living. It was conceivable how much help a good weapon could have in hunting.
"We don't want this, we want the weapons you brought. Can you exchange them with us?" The raccoon leader handed the salt bag back and pointed at the steel forks and iron hooks in the hands of the Han tribe crew members.
Youfu and his crew were stunned. They had seen so many tribes. Whenever they showed a handful of white salt, they would be treated as guests of honor. Those tribes would come and beg for more white salt.
This time, they met a young man who didn't know the value of the goods. They had no intention of asking for white salt at all. Instead, they asked for the tools they had in their hands to catch fish.
"They should have seen that we were very good at catching fish with these things just now, so they proposed such a deal, right?" Youfu rolled his eyes and thought to himself.
"But, should we exchange it with them?" You Fu hesitated again.
The most important thing is, what does the Li tribe have to offer in exchange, and what the Han tribe doesn't have, and what the leader needs, and valuable things like ironware.
They are so poor, none of them even have a pair of straw sandals, and they are standing barefoot on the muddy river beach. It doesn't look like they can offer good things.
"Chief, they can't even eat enough, but they actually share food to feed those furry little animals. Maybe those little animals have some special uses? I just saw that those little animals eat meat, so they are definitely not raised to eat. Maybe they are like the dogs in our tribe, which can be used to guard the house and herd. How about we ask them and exchange some of those little animals with them?"
A confidant of You Fu, who is also a member of the You clan, came to You Fu and whispered to him.
"Well, what you said makes sense. I'll ask first." You Fu nodded and asked the Li chief again.
"Exchange, that's fine, but what do you want to exchange?"
"This, this, what do you want?" The raccoon leader didn't expect the other party to really be willing to exchange those powerful weapons. Now that the other party agreed, he found that he had nothing to exchange with them.
"I see each of you is holding a small animal. What kind of animal is that and what is it for?"
As soon as this was mentioned, the people of the raccoon tribe began to become abnormal. They hugged the cats in their arms tightly and refused to let them go no matter how they struggled.
This was mainly due to the theological thinking of the raccoon tribe. It is unknown when the history of raising cats in the raccoon tribe began, but they always believed in one idea.
These raccoon cats were transformed from those children who died in the tribe before they grew up, so they often made cries like children crying in the middle of the night. Although it was scary and creepy, they believed that this was a phenomenon of psychic communication. These cats must be related to those children who died in infancy.
More importantly, these children who died in infancy turned into cats and returned to their side, and they could also play the role of guarding the tribe. Cats have the innate skills of catching mice and snakes, which can protect the people in the tribe from being harmed by snakes, insects, rats and ants, and allow more children to grow up safely.
Of course, this is just their talent, but the people of the raccoon tribe don't think so. They firmly believe that these cats are children who died in infancy. They have come to them again to protect the children in the tribe from danger and finally died early like them.
How else can you explain that cats make the same sounds as human children?
(End of this chapter)
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