Savage Tribe Survival

"Found it?" Luo Zhen and Lu Zhan looked at each other.

Jiaozhu took off the snow-covered animal skin coat, moved his frozen hands to the fire, and said: "In a mountain about a day away from here, there is a stone cave. Those people Now live in a cave."

"Isn't that where their original tribe lived?" Although Lu Zhan was suspicious, he said with certainty.

Heifu nodded, and scooped up a large bowl of meat cubes in the stone pot. They ran in the ice and snow for more than two days and could only eat some cold food. Only now did they come back and found the meat cooked with salted fruit How delicious.

"They should have moved here after winter, and they don't even have enough animal skins. Many soldiers have to maintain their animal shape after leaving the fire to resist the cold."

"A lot of fighters? How many are there?"

"I don't know, except for the warriors, no one else has ever stepped out of the cave, but there are about 20 warriors who take turns guarding around the cave."

20 people, the fighters alone are almost equal to the number of their entire tribe. Even if they have walls and weapons such as bows and arrows, if they really match up, they may not be able to get any benefits. If the other party really likes them If the tribe wants to snatch it, they may not be able to hold it.

Lu Zhan's face darkened, and the expressions of the others were also not very good-looking, obviously they all thought of this.

"Did they find you?" Luo Zhen changed a stone pot, put a few bones with meat in it again, then filled a large stone pot with water and continued to boil, and threw a few pieces of firewood into the fire by the way, The charcoal fire crackled a few times, and then burned more vigorously.

"No, we're very careful." They didn't go close to the cave, and they didn't even dare to start a fire in the wild because they were worried that they would leave traces and be discovered by those people. According to the temperature at night, non-beast-like warriors would be sick from the cold.

"Then do you think they followed the antler horses to the vicinity, and even found signs of our tribe?" Luo Zhen continued to ask.

Heifu and Jiaozhu looked at each other, "We didn't notice any movement from them when we were there, not even the soldiers went out to hunt."

"However, I found some gnawed beast bones not far from the cave. They are still very fresh. They should have hunted them not long ago, so there is no need to go hunting." Jiaozhu guessed.

The ferocious beasts in this season are much more brutal than usual. If that tribe had really hunted ferocious beasts not long ago, I am afraid that more or less soldiers would be injured. It is normal not to go out at this time and hide in the cave to cultivate. Yes, but if this is the case, then their number of fighters is far more than 20.

Luo Zhen lowered her head and thought for a while, and after Heifu and the two talked about the tribe, Luo Zhen looked at Lu Zhan, "Should we make some traps nearby?"

"Trap?" The three who were talking stopped in unison.

"Yeah." Luo Zhen nodded, and briefly explained the function of the trap to the three of them.Luo Zhen is not very good at traps that are too difficult. The few that she knows are also used to catch some small animals, but she doesn't know if they are useful for dealing with powerful orc warriors.

But having traps is better than doing nothing.

Several people discussed it and found that this method is feasible, but in order not to accidentally injure the people in his tribe, Luo Zhen suggested that tomorrow go to the river at the foot of the mountain to catch the remaining fish that would be enough for the whole tribe to eat in winter. Except for them, before spring comes, others should not take a step outside the ice city wall.

In addition to the human-faced bird before, there is now another threatening tribe. Their little Sunshine tribe is beset by enemies everywhere.

After seeing off Heifu and Horned Bamboo, it was already late at night, and the two Cuckoo birds and the stag-horned horse in the house had closed their eyes and fell asleep.

After Luo Zhen packed up her things, she dragged the animal skin quilt she was sleeping on a little closer to Lu Zhan, and after warming her cold feet with hot water, she retracted into the quilt. The quilt had been placed on the fire just now While baking, it was warm at the moment, Luo Zhen sighed comfortably, and then poked his head out.

"Azhan, do you want to expand our tribe?" Luo Zhen thought for a long time before asking what she wanted.

"How to expand?" In order to let the light of the fire shine, the beds of the two should have been on the left and right sides of the fire pit, but now Luo Zhen pulled the beds over, and they became head-to-head , The distance is so close that even lying on the bed, you can still hear the other party's light breathing.

"Absorb the tribe that lives in the cave into our tribe."

Lu Zhan, who was about to lie back under the blanket, paused when he heard the words. He raised his head and looked at Luo Zhen. There was no sign of joking on the other side's face. "Why?"

"There is still a long time before the end of winter. They should be short of food. In addition to losing their original tribal habitat, we have a whole big river of various fish. As long as we provide them with food, there will be a place like this." A safe place to live, they should be very willing to join our tribe."

Lu Zhan shook his head after listening, "If their leader and great witch are still there, it is impossible for them to join our entire tribe. If it is not handled well, they can directly occupy our tribe." Lu Zhan frowned. Pursing his lips, he asked, "Why do you think we can absorb that tribe?"

Luo Zhen smiled, "Of course you are strong enough, as long as the leader is strong enough, you don't have to worry about your soldiers being disobedient."

There are too few people in the Sunshine Tribe, and more fresh blood must be added in order to develop. Although there is a certain risk in absorbing the Cave Tribe, why not it is an opportunity?Reaching out to someone in times of adversity is always easier to win hearts.

Luo Zhen understands Lu Zhan, the opponent's strength can't just be exposed on the surface for them to see, a person who dares to trade with the opponent even with a huge stag antler horse, can't be afraid of a mere few dozen people who can't afford food and clothing. Even the difficult cave tribe, if Lu Zhan hadn't been there, he wouldn't have made such a suggestion at this time.

And there is another reason, if there is a new tribe joining, then they don't have to worry about the human-faced bird who may come back for revenge.

Lu Zhan's eyes flickered, "You don't see too much the significance of a leader and a great witch to a tribe."

Luo Zhen was stunned, and Lu Zhan reached out and rubbed the other party's head, "If you want to grow the tribe, there is no rush, those people haven't been forced to give up their own tribe yet."

Luo Zhen thought for a while, and felt that what Lu Zhan said made sense, "I'm sorry, it may be that I have lived a stable life for too long recently, and I took it for granted."

"No, your opinion is very good. When we have the opportunity in the future, we can try to absorb some small tribes." As long as there are no troublesome leaders and big witches in those small tribes.

"Ah."

This topic ends here, but what Luo Zhen doesn't know is that Lu Zhan has already taken care of this matter. He grew up when the Black Panther tribe was still weak, so he naturally knows the strength of a tribe and the number of people in the tribe. There is more or less a direct relationship, and I understand that only a powerful tribe is qualified to survive here.

Just wanting to absorb foreigners to become members of one's own tribe is not a simple matter. It took decades for the Black Panther tribe, but less than a quarter of the number of foreigners actually joined.

Now the number of their Sunshine tribe is less than 30, and there are only seven warriors who can transform into beasts. Such a tribe, no matter how powerful the leader is, must not try to absorb the entire tribe in the form of tribe to tribe. .

Lu Zhan looked at Luo Zhen who had closed his eyes and fell asleep. Obviously, Luo Zhen was more concerned about building the tribe than himself. Perhaps many of the other party's ideas were too good, but as long as the process is properly operated, it may not be impossible to realize.

Maybe even Luo Zhen didn't see it. The reason why Heifu insisted on pushing himself to the position of leader at the beginning was that the other party was worried that he would give up this small tribe and leave alone.

However, he doesn't know when, like Luo Zhen, he has slowly started to think about some things for this tribe.

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Zhan organized soldiers, orcs and some strong ordinary people to go fishing in the river together.

Last night, Heifu took people to prepare the bait and the spicy Polygonum powder used to medicine the fish in advance, because Lu Zhan was worried about Luo Zhen's health and refused to allow the other party to go with him. Luo Zhen can only stay in the tribe today and wait for other people. After bringing the fish back, help them deal with it together, and by the way, work with Hei Ya to study how to arrange traps around the tribe.

Many simple large wooden boxes are placed in front of each house, and the processed fish can be put into them, and the fish meat can be frozen as hard as a rock in just one night. In order to prevent the fish from sticking together, Luo Zhen People will put some snow and dry weeds inside to block them.

This fishing activity did not end until after dark. The large wooden boxes in front of each house were almost piled up to the roof, which was very spectacular. Leave a wooden door for easy access and seal it with ice. If the soldiers go out, they can directly use the rope ladder on the city wall to enter and exit.

The rope ladder can be folded away when not in use, which is very convenient.

After working all day, Luo Zhen was free to go home and change the antler horse's dressing after all the caught fish had been processed and boxed.

Since the antler horse came back to Luo Zhen's house, it has become much more obedient. Even if its four hooves are not bound, it will lie obediently on the prepared animal hide, neither barking, nor casually lying on it. Walking around the room, only when Luo Zhen came back would she stand up happily to greet him.

The only herb that can be replaced is the big thistle. There are still a few plantains before winter, but Luo Zhen has already eaten them as wild vegetables. There are still a lot of big thistles, so don't worry about not being enough, Luo Zhen even planted a few trees in flower pots, and they are growing well now.

After smashing the big thistle, Luo Zhen cleaned the herbs from the stag antler horse's wound, and was surprised to find that the wound that had only a little scabbing last night was intact.