Chapter 153: Otter Tribe in the Cave
“It’s so beautiful!”
Shan Feng looked at the pottery of the Teng tribe and exclaimed in amazement.
He had tasted the salt from the Teng tribe, and it tasted many times better than the salt he had eaten before.
The pottery of the Teng tribe was also more beautiful than he expected.
The pottery fired by other tribes is not only not round enough in shape, but also has very monotonous patterns and colors.
The pottery of the Teng tribe is different. In addition to the iconic Teng tribe totem pattern on the bottom, the surface of the pottery is painted with various flowers, birds, insects, fish, ferocious birds and beasts. The colors are also rich and very beautiful.
Everyone likes beautiful things, and Shanfeng is no exception. He especially likes patterns of ferocious beasts, which look fierce.
Jiang Xuan said: "Chief Shanfeng, where are your goods?"
"I brought them all."
Shanfeng waved to the Rabbit Tribe warriors.
The Rabbit Tribe warriors immediately came over carrying eight animal hide bags, placed them in front of Jiang Xuan and Shan Feng, and opened the bags.
These animal skin bags are actually filled with top-quality stones!
There are black, red, green, purple...all kinds of colors, transparent or opaque, large and small high-quality stones.
The warriors of the Teng tribe were all stunned.
They had never seen so much high-quality stone in their lives.
Jiang Xuan whispered to Nan Xing, "Go and invite the stone tool master over."
"yes!"
Nanxing hurried back to the tribe and invited the old man Black Stone, who was polishing stone tools, to the second residence.
When Old Man Black Stone saw those high-quality stones, his breathing became rapid.
He walked forward, picked up pieces of high-quality stone, and kept stroking them with a fanatical look in his eyes.
"Good stone... all good stone..."
Since Old Man Heishi said that these were good stones, then there must be no problem with these high-quality stones. The two sides officially started the transaction.
The first thing traded was salt.
After some bargaining, Shanfeng exchanged six bags of high-quality stone for two bags of salt.
Even so, the smile on Shanfeng's face was still very bright, which showed how badly they had been cheated when they traded with the Wasp Tribe before.
Then, Shanfeng used the remaining two bags of high-quality stones to exchange for two pottery tripods and six pottery jars, and Jiang Xuan gave him two pottery bowls.
This touched Shanfeng deeply.
"Chief Xuan, if you have the chance, you must come to our Rabbit Tribe as a guest. I will treat you with the best beast meat."
"Haha, I'll definitely go if I have the chance."
After the transaction, Shanfeng couldn't wait to go back with the salt and pottery, surrounded by the warriors of the Rabbit Tribe.
Only when these things are in the Rabbit Tribe can they feel at ease, otherwise they will always worry that they will be stolen.
After the people from the Rabbit Tribe left, everyone from the Vine Tribe stared at the high-quality stones, and their eyes were different from usual.
Nan Xing came close to Jiang Xuan and said hesitantly, "Chief, I...I want a stone knife..."
"Chief, I also want..."
“I want one too…”
Everyone shouted, and everyone wanted to own a weapon made of high-quality stone.
As a result, although there are a lot of high-quality stones, there are not enough to go around.
"Stop making noise!"
Everyone immediately shut their mouths and looked at Jiang Xuan eagerly.
Jiang Xuan thought for a moment and said, "I know everyone wants it, but there is a limited amount of high-quality stone, so there will definitely not be enough to share."
"How about this, two-color warriors and three-color warriors, each can get a piece of top-quality stone. As for what kind of weapon to polish it into, you can decide for yourselves."
"Don't be discouraged, warrior Yise. We will trade more high-quality stones in the future. Anyone who has made contributions to the tribe will have the opportunity to obtain stone tools made of high-quality stones!"
The Teng Tribe was established not long ago, and the number of two-color warriors and three-color warriors is not large. The high-quality stones from this transaction are more than enough to be divided, and there are even some left over.
Jiang Xuan also gave those warriors the opportunity to obtain high-quality stone tools. In addition, the tribe originally admired the strong, so they would be more motivated to work hard to improve their strength.
"Okay, let's move these high-quality stones back to the tribe first."
At Jiang Xuan's order, eight animal hide bags filled with high-quality stones were moved back to the tribe.
The happiest person in this transaction was Old Man Black Stone. He had enough high-quality stones to make stone tools, which was a very lucky thing for a stone tool maker.
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Southern Wilderness, Otter Tribe.
Ever since the Raptor Tribe migrated here, the Otter Tribe has been living in fear.
They were worried that the Raptor Tribe would attack the Otter Tribe and plunder everything they had.
And this worry came true one day! After the Raptor Tribe arrived here, they frantically opened up hunting grounds and plundered all resources.
The amount of food consumed every day by a medium-sized tribe of more than 5,000 people is very terrifying. All the edible animals and plants in a forest will be eaten up in a short time.
They had just arrived here and had not had time to engage in planting and breeding, so they could only hunt crazily and plunder other tribes.
The Otter Tribe, which was only a day's journey away from the new settlement of the Raptor Tribe, was naturally not spared.
In fact, after the Raptor Tribe arrived, they discovered the Otter Tribe within a few days and set their sights on those fat giant otters.
On February 15th, the Raptor Tribe finally took action against the Otter Tribe.
“Ga ga ga…”
Thousands of warriors riding on birds of prey ran quickly in the forest and approached the Otter Tribe.
Although these birds of prey cannot fly, they can run very fast. They can even catch large insects they meet on the road and swallow them while stretching their necks and continuing to run.
Soon, they approached the territory of the Otter Tribe.
These birds of prey slowed down their pace, stopped chirping, and quietly approached the Otter Tribe's huge water building.
However, they didn't know that the Otter Tribe had been prepared.
"The Raptor Tribe is coming!"
At the edge of the forest, there were Otter Tribe warriors hiding in the grass. When they saw a large number of birds of prey, they immediately shouted loudly.
“Clatter…”
In an instant, the giant otters that were lazily basking in the sun in the huge building complex of the Otter Tribe turned over and dived into the water, and soon disappeared into the water.
The members of the Otter Tribe also jumped into the water and ran with the giant otters.
Before long, there was no one left in the Otter Tribe.
In the forest, the warriors of the Raptor Tribe who were ready for battle, upon hearing the shouts, immediately rushed towards the Otter Tribe. However, they missed their target and everyone was stunned.
"Where are the people? Where are those fat otters?"
The leader of the Raptor Tribe walked into the giant building built by the Otter Tribe using a large number of trees. He walked around a few times but didn't see a single ghost.
Those giant otters, the otter tribe members, as well as their food and supplies, all disappeared.
“Bang!”
The leader kicked the wall hard, breaking several pieces of wood on the wall.
The warriors of the Raptor Tribe also looked at each other, and no one knew where the people of the Otter Tribe and the giant otter had gone.
"Tear down these houses for me, I won't be able to find them!"
The leader of the Raptor tribe let out a frustrated roar, and then led the Raptor tribe's warriors to frantically destroy the Otter tribe's giant wooden buildings.
In fact, for a building like this, fire is the fastest way to burn it down and destroy it most thoroughly.
But the Raptor Tribe didn't dare to do so, because these buildings were connected to the forest on the shore. Once they caught fire, the forest would probably catch fire as well. Then, it would not only be the Otter Tribe that would be in trouble, but also themselves.
"boom!"
Under the destruction of the raptor warriors, the giant buildings of the Otter Tribe collapsed bit by bit, and countless broken wood floated on the water.
However, despite their great efforts, they demolished the Otter Tribe's buildings into pieces, but the Otter Tribe members and the giant otters were still nowhere to be found.
The leader of the Raptor tribe sat depressedly on the shore, looking at the vast swamp, and asked, "Did they all go under the water?"
If this is true, the Raptor Tribe really has no way out.
They can run rampant in the forest, but not in the water, and they can't even swim at all.
Seeing that they had come here with so many troops but gained nothing, the leader of the Raptor Tribe was so depressed that he felt like vomiting blood.
After struggling for most of the day and still getting nothing, the leader of the Raptor Tribe had no choice but to announce his retreat.
After all, the Raptor Tribe needs a lot of food every day, and they simply can't afford it.
After more than a thousand Raptor Tribe warriors left, only a ruin was left on the water surface. Apart from the sound of water, almost no other sound could be heard.
Not long after, the leader of the Raptor tribe brought his men back to this place.
However, after searching for a while, they still found nothing. The Otter Tribe seemed to have disappeared.
The leader of the Raptor Tribe was finally completely disappointed. He kicked a small tree hard and broke it, then roared, "Go hunting!"
These more than a thousand soldiers rode away on their birds of prey again, and this time, they never came back.
With so many people coming out, it would be impossible for them to go back empty-handed. Since they failed to steal anything from the Otter Tribe, they could only go hunting and catch some prey to replenish the tribe's food.
Peace returned to the Otter Tribe's territory.
It was not until dark that a giant otter head swam cautiously out of the water. A warrior from the otter tribe was on its back, carefully observing the surroundings to make sure that the raptor tribe had left.
Then, the giant otter took him back into the water, swam down about five or six meters, found a huge underwater hole, and swam in.
“Crash…”
Soon, the giant otter emerged from the water again with the warrior.
But it was not outside, but in a giant cave underground.
All the members of the Otter Tribe, their supplies, and the giant otters were hidden in this cave.
The cave was dug by the totem god of the Otter Tribe. No one knows how many years it took to dig. The cave is very large and is connected to some natural rock cracks, which allows for ventilation.
The most important thing is that, except for those narrow and hidden crevices, all the entrances to this cave are located underwater, making it very concealed.
Unless you encounter a tribe that is also very good at swimming, it would be very difficult to find them.
It is precisely because of this cave that the Otter Tribe, although not very strong, can avoid crises time and time again and survive on the edge of the swamp.
“Crackle, crackle…”
There were many fires burning in the cave, and the members of the Otter Tribe were gathered around the fires with very nervous expressions.
The Otter Tribe warrior who went out to check the situation, after getting ashore, immediately ran to the center of the cave and reported the situation to the witch and leader of the Otter Tribe.
"Chief, Wu, those people riding the big birds have left."
"Did you see it clearly?" asked Lu Zhu, the leader of the Otter Tribe, worriedly.
"I see clearly."
The soldier answered affirmatively.
"Huh... finally I'm leaving."
Lu Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, the Otter Tribe witch also breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense expressions of the Otter Tribe members nearby also eased a little.
"but……"
The soldier said cautiously: "Our house was demolished by them."
Although Lu Zhu had expected this, he was still very angry.
He said bitterly: "Sooner or later, they will pay the price!"
However, he was just talking big. Given the strength of the Otter Tribe, it would be too difficult to make the Raptor Tribe pay the price.
A man nearby asked, "Chief, when are we going out?"
"No rush, stay here for two days and leave when you are sure it is safe."
Lu Zhu is a very cautious, even mean person, and he dares not take any risks.
Anyway, this cave is very hidden, and those big otters can also lead the otter tribe warriors to the big swamp to fish and collect some edible aquatic plants, which will be enough to sustain for a few days.
In this way, the Otter Tribe hid in the cave for three full days before cautiously returning to the ground.
However, problems also arise.
The Raptor Tribe has designated the nearby forests as their hunting grounds and would come here from time to time. The Otter Tribe has no way of continuing to live on the shore.
Have you been living in a dark underground cave all this time?
After a long time, not to mention humans, even the big otters can't stand it.
Finally, the helpless Otter Tribe had to consider migration.
They had lived in this place for a very long time, but in order to avoid being harassed day and night by the Raptor Tribe, they had no choice but to give up.
"Wu, where should we migrate to?"
Lu Zhu sat on a building that had become ruins and discussed the migration with the witch of the Otter Tribe.
The witch of the Otter Tribe said: "Don't worry, the Great Swamp is vast and boundless. The Otter God will lead us to find a new place to live."
The Great Swamp in the Southern Wilderness is very large. The Otter Tribe, the Mountain Turtle Tribe, and the former Mosquito Tribe only live in one corner of the Great Swamp.
Lu Zhu asked again: "What about the frozen lotus root?"
Frozen lotus root is a specialty of the Otter Tribe, and they are not sure whether it is available in other places.
The witch of the Otter Tribe thought for a moment and said, "Dig up all the frozen lotus roots that can be dug, wrap them in mud, and plant them in the new place where we live. They should be able to survive."
"That's all we can do."
Lu Zhu immediately arranged for the warriors of the Otter Tribe to dig up frozen lotus roots, and at the same time, they rode on giant otters to catch fish and collect edible aquatic vegetables.
This process lasted about ten days.
During this period, the Raptor Tribe noticed the movement here and came over several times, but every time they came, the Otter Tribe would hide in underground caves, leaving them empty-handed.
After several times, the Raptor Tribe got fed up and didn't want to waste any more time.
Ten days later, the well-prepared otter tribe, carrying a large amount of food and frozen lotus roots, set out on the migration journey under the leadership of the otter god.
"roar……"
The huge otter god let out a roar and then swam into the vast swamp.
“Clatter…”
Giant otters, carrying members of the otter tribe, followed the otter god to find their new place to live.
Thanks to the book friend "九沐丶" for the reward.
(End of this chapter)
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