Chapter 98: First Encounter with the You Tribe (Please Recommend)
"Chief, are you okay?" Da Shu asked with concern.
"Ahem, I'm fine. I'm not going to die yet. Did the salt mine explode? Pull me out and help me go take a look."
Luo Chong shook his head, which was still a little dizzy. Although he was buried just now, he was lucky enough to escape the destruction of the shock wave. Now he was just a little short of oxygen in his brain after being buried for a while. He just needed to take a few deep breaths.
Da Shu pulled Luo Chong up and let him rest there for a while. Then the two of them entered the entrance of the cave and walked to the depths of the explosion center.
The granite cave entrance, which originally had only a small hole, had now become a large pit with a diameter of four or five meters. Large pieces of mineral salt were exposed in the pit. There were also some traces of water stains further down, which were probably left by water seepage in the summer, or they could be traces of brine.
Suddenly, between several pieces of mineral salt, several strange things with limbs came into Da Shu's sight.
"What is that?" Da Shu pointed at the strange things and asked.
"It's a mummified corpse. It might be a child who went in to collect salt before. He died inside and never came out. Now he's all pickled meat. I don't know how long he's been dead and he hasn't rotted yet. Let's
get some firewood and burn it." Luo Chong looked at the bodies of the children with some reluctance. Seeing the bodies of the children, Da Shu also understood why Luo Chong insisted on not letting the children go down to collect salt.
Two minutes later, a large number of tribesmen also came with cattle teams. Looking at the horrible explosion site, they were deeply shocked.
This was done by their leader. What kind of power could do this?
Shu Da walked around the mine several times, looked up at the cave ceiling that had disappeared, and then looked back at Luo Chong, "Chief, where is your arrow?"
"Arrow? It's gone. I can't find it after shooting it out. Maybe it was blown up." Luo Chong said indifferently.
"Did you really use that arrow to split the mountain?" Shu Da asked in disbelief.
The Rat Witch also turned his head to look at Luo Chong. He also wanted to know how Luo Chong did it.
"Hehe, of course not. I used the things in those two jars. Without them, no matter how many arrows you shoot, it will be useless." Luo Chong explained.
The meaning of this sentence is very profound. On the surface, Luo Chong said that this is not some kind of divine power, but if you think about it carefully, the things in the jars were made by Luo Chong. How can ordinary people know how to get the power to split mountains and rocks from stones?
Therefore, although Luo Chong did not admit anything, he became more and more mysterious in the eyes of the tribesmen. This blue man is not simple.
"Okay, it's getting late, let's start working. A few people will go down and bring up those corpses and burn them, and then start mining salt, which is those light yellow and translucent stones. Others will use hanging baskets to lift up the salt mines and put them in large baskets." Luo Chong saw that almost everyone had arrived, so he began to give orders.
Qubing led Benben to Luo Chong's side and grabbed Luo Chong's arm with some sadness, "Chief, I know them."
"Ah? Who do you know?" Luo Chong looked down at Qubing in confusion. What was this kid saying without any reason?
"It's them. They are the ones who entered the cave and never came out. We used to play together."
Qubing pointed to the three dead bodies of children who had just been pulled up. Those children were his former playmates. If they were still alive, they would probably be about the same age as Qubing.
"Okay, we will never let children go to mine salt again. And now that we have opened this mine, no one will be unable to get out." Luo Chong touched Qubing's head and comforted him.
"Yes." Qubing nodded obediently and began to help the adults collect firewood.
"Everyone hurry up, fill the baskets we brought and then we will leave. We must return to the tribe before dark." Luo Chong shouted loudly to the tribesmen.
"Yes." Everyone quickened their pace.
After a while, the three mummies were also placed on a large pile of firewood. Qubing personally saw off several friends with a torch. The billowing smoke went straight into the sky, taking away the fear and unwillingness of these children.
At the same time, in the forest south of the cave, the You tribe was heading towards the cave.
"Brother, look at the smoke over there. They started cooking so early? Can we have a good meal later?" The young man who suggested coming over to take a look said to the leader. This person was the younger brother of the leader of the You tribe.
"I don't think so. Few tribes eat at noon. Most of them eat at sunset. Think about the thunder-like noise just now. It's probably enough to burn people to death now, but it's impossible to cook. Everyone should be careful when you go there. If we encounter danger, we will run away. Anyway, we run fast." The leader of the You tribe, Fu, said to his tribesmen.
"Oh, that's right. We don't know what happened there just now. Let's go and take a look." The boy's curiosity was aroused again.
About an hour and a half later, the salt mine of the cattle team was almost full, because there was no need to mine it. The explosion just now had already shattered a lot of it. Just collecting these broken salt mines was enough to fill the cattle team this time.
Everyone was ready to go. Luo Chong asked people to prepare more torches. It was about 4:30 in the afternoon. It would usually be dark around 7 o'clock at this time in spring. It was very likely that everyone would have to walk a night road to return to the tribe.
Just when the people of the Han tribe were about to return, the You tribe, which came quickly from the south, finally arrived.
Suddenly there was a rustling sound in the woods, and Rourou suddenly turned his head to the south, flapping his big ears and roaring in that direction.
"There are enemies, everyone be alert." Luo Chong rode on Huishan's back and instantly raised his longbow, with an arrow already fully drawn and ready to be shot at any time.
The tribesmen also raised their bronze spears, or bent their bows and put arrows on them, and pointed them at the place where the sound came from.
"Who is it? Come out." Luo Chong shouted at the woods.
The next moment, the leader of the You tribe, 'Fu', emerged from the woods. He raised his hands without any weapons, and walked forward while speaking in a dialect that Luo Chong could not understand.
Fu did not hold a weapon, which showed Luo Chong that he had no hostility, but Luo Chong knew very well that there were other people in the woods, so he still did not let down his guard.
"Everyone come out, or we will kill this man." Luo Chong still shouted at the woods, and at the same time shot an arrow at Fu's feet.
Fu was startled and took a step back. It was the first time he saw such a strange weapon. He didn't expect that the small wooden stick would fly so fast. However, he also saw that Luo Chong had no intention of killing him. He was just being alert when meeting a stranger. Otherwise, the small wooden stick with feathers would have been nailed to his body.
Since there was no hostility, there was a possibility of communication. Fu quickly scanned the crowd of the Han tribe and suddenly saw a few familiar figures. Then he changed his mouth and said in another dialect: "Friends, we were here last year. We are from the You tribe. Is your bald leader still here?"
In the Han tribe team, the three men from the bald tribe were stunned. Isn't this man speaking the dialect of their former tribe?
(End of this chapter)
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