We made you the chief, and now you've become the world's chief?

Chapter 32 This World Is Different

This scream startled all the women who were still asleep awake.

Upon hearing the words muttered by Hima, Hipha, who was already on guard, immediately picked up the wooden spear.

Seeing this, the women from the other hunting parties no longer hesitated, and all ten of their wooden spears were aimed at Ye Zi.

Yezi stared at the women in terror, her mind blank, filled only with fear.

Her petite body trembled, her lips as pale as her face, as she huddled in a dark corner of the cave, shivering.

Xia Minghao, who hadn't fallen asleep, rushed out of the tent and was dumbfounded by what he saw.

"It's a totem tribe, and Ye Zi is from the totem tribe. She will sacrifice us to their god!"

Seeing Xia Minghao come out, the panicked crowd felt as if they had found their pillar of support, and Xima hurriedly said.

Leaves, totem tribes, sacrifices to the gods?

Hearing this, Xia Minghao finally understood, and his face was filled with speechlessness.

I thought it was an enemy attack, but it turns out it was just feudal superstition in the middle of the night?
Xia Minghao was about to speak when Ye Zi's soft voice suddenly rang out.

"I just wanted to help the chief dry those embryos like strips of meat."

Embryo? Dried up?
He turned around in confusion, looking at the still trembling leaves with disbelief in his eyes.

"You mean, you did it? You dried those embryos?"

Xia Minghao hadn't told anyone about the embryo suddenly becoming dry, but Ye Zi brought it up now.

Could it really have been her?

But how is this possible?

After a brief moment of distraction, Ye Zi nodded at Xia Minghao.

"how did you do that?"

Seeing that Ye Zi had given an affirmative answer, Xia Minghao took a few steps closer, full of doubt.

"Chief, Hima said she's from a totem tribe and is dangerous, even more dangerous than a saber-toothed tiger."

Xifa quickly grabbed Xia Minghao and said anxiously.

She glanced at Hima, then at the leaf that looked like a frightened fawn, staring longingly at its own leaves.

Finally, Xia Minghao walked up to Ye Zi and blocked the several sharp spears pointed at her behind his back.

Without rushing to ask questions, Xia Minghao raised his hand and reached for Ye Zi's forehead, just like he had done that morning. But this time, it wasn't to take her temperature; it was to comfort Ye Zi, who was shivering.

Ye Zi initially flinched, but after feeling the warm, large hand, she couldn't help but move closer.

When Xia Minghao sensed that Ye Zi's body had stopped trembling and was no longer so cold, he finally spoke and asked.

"Can you tell me how you made those embryos dry, like strips of meat?"

"Like this..."

Ye Zi hesitated for a moment after hearing what the chief said.

Then, he looked at the campfire, and his eyes gradually filled with an increasingly bright starlight!

Wow, the leaves' eyes really do glow?!

After a moment of stunned silence, Xia Minghao immediately turned his head and followed Ye Zi's gaze.

Suddenly, the campfire in the cave blazed brightly, sparks flew, and the flames flickered...

The women gasped, their eyes filled with fear and unease.

Xia Minghao was stunned by what he saw.

What is this? Is it a superpower?

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The people of the tribe didn't so much get up early as they hadn't slept all night.

Xia Minghao hadn't slept well either. Seeing the women's mental state, he decisively ordered them to go back to sleep, treating it as a morning break.

He sat at the cave entrance and used a twig to write a long line of text on the mud that no one in the world could possibly understand: [Law of Conservation of Energy: Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another.]

The essence of airflow is the directional movement of air molecules, and movement requires energy.

But yesterday's gust of wind clearly appeared out of nowhere, which doesn't make sense!

Does physics no longer exist in this world?
That's not necessarily true. Perhaps it's some kind of energy transfer form that has never existed or been discovered on Earth before.

However, without the necessary conditions for research, everything we do now is merely to satisfy curiosity and has little practical significance.

Without practice, even the most self-consistent theory is ultimately just empty talk.

The underlying principles are not important for the time being; what matters is whether you can utilize them.

Wind power was already being used by humans long before the dawn of civilization.

For example, the oracle bone script character “凡” was drawn based on a ship’s sail.

As civilization develops, the use of wind power is constantly being expanded, such as windmills, wind-powered waterwheels, and even wind power generation!
If a stable wind power could be used as an energy source, Xia Minghao couldn't even imagine how much it could accelerate his "civilization's development."

It's like triggering a Eureka event in Civilization VI; many complex things can be simplified.

Moreover, there is more than one totem tribe. The fire-breathing tribe that Hima mentioned earlier is another type.

If we could collect these magical totem abilities and make good use of them...

Let alone entering the steam age in his lifetime, Xia Minghao is confident that he will enter the electrical age!
Xia Minghao wiped away the writing on the ground and went to the tent.

I was worried that something might happen to Yezi last night, so I let her come to the tent and sleep with me for the night.

This led Xia Minghao to make up his mind as soon as he woke up this morning that he had to make the soap as soon as possible, because the smell of these primitive people was really too strong.

We need to improve our hygiene practices as soon as possible, otherwise it will be very troublesome if we get sick.

Why hasn't Ye Zi woken up yet? That shouldn't be the case.

With something so big happening, Ye Zi shouldn't be able to sleep.

Xia Minghao lifted the small curtain on the tent and peeked inside.

But inside the tent, Ye Zi was staring blankly at the tent zipper, her body curled up in a ball.

I thought Yezi was as carefree as Brother Chicken, but it turns out she was just pretending to be asleep.

After unzipping the zipper and seeing Ye Zi's small eyes close again, Xia Minghao smiled faintly and said softly.

"Don't be afraid. You can come out anytime you want. I'm right at the cave entrance."

You can't wake someone who's pretending to be asleep. Xia Minghao was also worried that forcing Ye Zi out might cause her psychological trauma, so he simply let things take their course and wait until she had the courage to come out on her own.

Ye Zi shuddered upon hearing Xia Minghao's words, and closed her eyes even tighter, as if trying to prove that she was really asleep.

The tent chain wasn't zipped up because I was worried that Yezi wouldn't be able to unzip it and would end up trapping herself inside.

Xia Minghao then walked out of the cave and began to busy himself with his work.

Using a survival knife and an entrenching tool, they dug dirt and built wooden structures, working hard for half a day before finally finishing.

Hot air circulating drying oven – a replica of the primitive era.

This was based on the impression left by the hot air circulating drying oven I saw in the pottery workshop.

It looks a bit strange, but it should be useful.

The earthen trenches were dug to store the heated charcoal, and the heat was blown by the wind to the pottery ...

He looked at it again and made a few minor changes. Just then, Xia Minghao heard footsteps behind him.

Ye Zi walked out of the cave, head down, like a child who had done something wrong, and cautiously approached Xia Minghao.

At the same time, Xia Minghao saw dozens of faces peeking out from the cave behind him, looking over with curiosity or worry.

So they were all pretending to be asleep; they got up at the slightest noise.

Ignoring the other women, Xia Minghao put charcoal into the trough and slowly lit it. Then he took one pottery blank from each batch made in the past few days and placed it behind the charcoal trough.

Then, Xia Minghao said to Ye Zi.

"Leaf, could you let the wind blow in from here?"

Ye Zi raised her head, looked at the strange "earthen kiln" that the chief had just made, and then nodded.

(End of this chapter)