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

Chapter 66 A family of three, all neatly dressed

It's not that big!
In Xia Minghao's opinion, this bear was just the normal size he had seen in the zoo, and not as huge as Daka had described.

It is estimated that primitive humans were unable to compete with powerful creatures like bears, and thus demonized them.

However, this bear's face does look like a human's. I don't know how it evolved to look like that. It even triggered Xia Minghao's uncanny valley effect.

Two bears with human faces ran out of the cave one after the other. The one in the lead was already squatting by the pit, reaching out to pull up the young bear.

But the other one seemed to have discovered something and began to look around.

If it discovers the members of the Li tribe lurking under the tree, then things will be in trouble.

Fortunately, Xia Minghao had made assumptions about the positioning of the two bears beforehand, and had also taken into account the wariness of the human-faced bear.

Even if only one bear comes out, there are solutions for the situation where no bear comes out.

Xia Minghao immediately stood up and shouted to the crowd.

"Liba, release! Shifa, throw your spears!"

Boom!

A huge rock struck the mother bear who was crouching by the pit, reuniting her and her cub.

The boulder, as Xia Minghao had planned, crashed into the pit and fell in, inflicting secondary damage on the bear mother and cub.

The other two boulders both struck the male bear.

The male bear wanted to roar, but this made him dizzy and he fell to the ground, shaking his head.

The three giant rocks slipped from their grasp, losing their balance, and all of Liba and his companions fell flat on their backsides.

But everyone remembered the chief's instructions to immediately take spears and poke the bear in the pit.

Moreover, you can't poke the skin; you have to poke the face, the stomach, and the anus.

The women of the Xi tribe hunting party, who had been lying in ambush nearby, immediately rushed out from the bushes in the distance.

As it ran wildly, it began to howl and roar as it hurled its wooden spear.

With a whoosh, wooden spears rained down, but most of them bounced off the bear skin, with only one or two spears piercing the male bear's abdomen.

Having one or two is enough!

"Return them all!"

At Xia Minghao's command, everyone involved in the operation retreated to a safe distance.

Some members of the Li tribe were so terrified by the giant bear in the pit that they seemed to lose their minds and kept stabbing it at them.

The more you stab someone in the face, the more terrifying the bear's roar becomes.

This cry spurred the tribe members to exert even more force.

It was Liba who, unusually, remained clear-headed during the battle, urging everyone to retreat quickly.

The battle is actually over now. As long as the male bear has been given a fatal wound through the abdomen, all we need to do is wait for him to bleed out. If that doesn't work, we can have the hunting team throw another round of wooden spears when he is weakened.

The participants retreated to Xia Minghao's side, panting heavily. After the adrenaline wore off, they were too tired to stand up.

Only a dozen or so people from Daka stood there dumbfounded, their mouths agape.

Although one of the bear-faced creatures is still struggling, screams can be heard from time to time from the pit.

But the outcome of this bear hunt was already predictable!

Three bears died, but no one was injured or killed!
Why was it so simple? Killing the bear didn't cost anything; all it took was a morning of digging a hole and hanging stones.

So many people in their tribe died back then, but they still couldn't kill these three bears!

And those women who threw spears earlier, how come they could throw them so far?

How powerful must the men of this tribe be, and how powerful must this tribe be?

Daka swallowed hard, a sense of dread creeping into his heart.

What they feared was not only the power of the tribe, but also the wisdom of the man called the chief.

Seeing the absolute gap in strength made him lose all his previous pride.

Instead, a strong sense of crisis prevailed.

This is a sense of crisis that arises naturally from "intraspecific competition".

We must tell the wise man immediately that there is such a tribe!
At this moment, this idea grew stronger in Daka's mind.

…… ……

After two rounds of spear attacks, the male bear was finally killed, and its blood was everywhere.

Seeing the pit made Xia Minghao suddenly understand the meaning of the phrase "blood flowing like a river".

All that was left was to clean up the battlefield, but Xia Minghao was in no hurry to make any arrangements.

After a brief moment of panic, everyone who saw the dead bear with a human face began to cheer thunderously.

But after a short while, cheers were quickly mixed with some arguments.

It seems that the Li tribe claimed that they deserved the most credit for killing the bear, while people from other tribes immediately jumped out and said that their credit was greater.

This reminded Xia Minghao that he had been so busy with the migration that he had forgotten to give the merged tribe a unified name.

With a unified name, "we" no longer refers to a single tribe, but rather to the fusion of the three tribes of Wu, Li, and Xi.

Now that we've successfully developed the salt springs and completed the migration, let's strike while the iron is hot and hold a "victory celebration banquet and the founding ceremony of the Xia tribe" tonight.

"Chief, we want to return to the Da tribe."

Just as they were arranging for everyone to use straw ropes to pull the bear carcass out of the pit, they suddenly heard Ladaka's voice behind them.

Looking back, Fadaka and a dozen others had pale lips.

Was he shocked by the killing of the bear?

That's the kind of shock we're looking for!

Thinking back to Daka's distorted description of the human-faced bear, Xia Minghao was actually looking forward to seeing these people, after being shocked, exaggerate their own group's strength when they returned to the Da tribe.

Only in this way can the deterrent effect be good.

"Aren't you going to have dinner and wait until tomorrow to leave? There's bear meat."

Upon hearing Xia Minghao's gentle tone, the dozen or so people immediately shook their heads like rattles.

"OK then."

There was no need to try to keep them, nor did I tell them they must come back again.

Salt Spring is here, so they'll definitely come, and next time they come, it probably won't just be just these few people.

"Wait! Take this with you."

After thinking it over, Xia Minghao decided to bring them something back as evidence of his tribe's strength.

But like wolves, bears are valuable from head to toe, so we're not willing to give away any of the good things from a bear.

They simply cut off the tail of the bear cub they had just pulled up and handed it to Daka.

"Friend, a gift."

While expressing goodwill, it is believed that this will also convince the wise man of their tribe, thus leading this so-called wise man to make a decision that is beneficial to him.

Upon receiving the bear tail, which was as long as a thumb, the salt-harvesting team from the Da tribe felt as if they had been granted a pardon and immediately turned and left.

After watching Daka and the others disappear, Xia Minghao immediately began arranging for the three bear corpses.

Based on my experience dealing with wolf carcasses over the past two days, the disposal of these carcasses absolutely cannot wait.

Previously, the wolf carcasses hadn't stiffened after death, so they weren't too difficult to handle. But today, when dealing with the wolf carcasses again, even the survival knife wasn't enough.

Then, thinking about how to dispose of the bear carcass, he had the people in the tribe conduct an experiment beforehand.

Finally, a solution was found: use a survival knife to make the first incision, and then use a sharp stone tool to make large-area cuts. If you encounter fascia or other parts that are difficult to cut, you will need to use a spiked saw.

A wolf tooth saw is essentially a row of wolf teeth nailed onto a wooden stick. Although sharp, it is susceptible to wear and tear, making it perfect for precision work.

Through repeated experiments, it was found that under these circumstances, the efficiency of four to five people working together is comparable to that of one person cutting with a survival knife.

Pulling up the cubs was easy, but getting the mother bear to lie down together was much more complicated. It took her quite a while to get the family of three to lie down neatly together.

Xia Minghao, holding a survival knife, laboriously cut open the bear's abdomen, allowing the men and women of the Wu and Li tribes, whom he had trained that morning while cleaning up the wolf carcasses, to begin processing it.

The group divided into teams, each carrying tools, and headed towards the three bears to begin their work: skinning, cutting meat, and deboning.

Xia Minghao then led the women of the Xi tribe into the mountains.

As soon as he reached the entrance of the cave, before he could even see what was inside, Xia Minghao noticed a problem.

This cave looks a bit strange.

(End of this chapter)