The female supporting role is no longer a human being

Chapter 197
The Yan Tribe had already lost their numbers sharply due to a cold winter, and they were attacked just as they were suffering from hunger and cold, so they had no power to fight back.

As a result, the Yan Tribe was clearly defeated.

The war between tribes is nothing more than to grab territory and women.

The tribal people are still very united, so although they were defeated, there are still some people who survived, about 100 people, and most of them are old, weak, women and children.

The warriors of the tribe had already died in the battle.

Those who survived the Yan tribe became homeless.

The so-called wanderers are those who have lost their tinder.

The witch of the Yan tribe also died in this battle, and as the only surviving successor of the great witch, the client Man Qing was elected as the new great witch.

But what's the use of just having a name, there is no kindling, there is no ritual of inheriting witches, and the client, Man Qing, is just an ordinary person.

A group of old and weak women and children have become homeless, and it is too difficult to survive.

Lack of food and clothing, people will always die, always die, first the elderly, then the children.

For the remaining women, some tribes are willing to take them in.

Some people chose to go to other tribes, and some chose to continue to follow the client.

Anyone can go to other tribes, but the client can't, she is the great witch of the Yan tribe, if she all goes to other tribes, then the Yan tribe will be completely finished.

The client, Man Qing, insisted that he was starved to death due to lack of food.

After starving to death, she was selected by Xiaosi and became the client this time.

When it comes to long-cherished wishes, slow green is just eight words, the fire will never go out, and the tribe will never go out.

This is her obsession, otherwise she would not persevere until she starved to death, nor would she want to go to other tribes!
Meng Changjin slowly opened his eyes and found that he had changed the key.

The top of the head is a stone cave roof, and the bottom of the body is covered with hay and animal skins.

The air in the cave is not good, there is a strange smell.

Meng Changjin climbed up from the haystack wrapped in animal skins and walked outside.

There was a fire burning at the entrance of the cave, and it looked like it was about to go out now.

Meng Changjin first added a few thinner firewood to the fire that was about to go out, and then looked outside.

The cave is located on the mountain wall, and there are some chiseling marks, but most of them are formed naturally.

Meng Changjin guessed that there should have been a cave in the first place, but it was chiseled and it became a place to live.

Looking outside, you can see that there are a thousand semi-circular mountain walls, and there are hundreds of such caves on the mountain walls.

However, some of these caves had smoke coming out, and some did not. Meng Changjin knew what it meant based on the client's memory.

A cave with smoke means there are people, and a cave without smoke means there are no people.

Of these hundreds of caves, only half of them still have smoke coming out.

Under the semicircular mountain wall is a huge flat land.

In the center of the flat ground, there is a circular platform built of stones. On the platform, there is a little flame fluttering in the cold wind.

This is the so-called tinder.

Don't look at it as just a cluster of small flames, but unless it is swallowed or replaced by another fire, it is impossible to extinguish it even if it is blown by wind and rain.

The opposite side of the semi-circular mountain wall is separated by a two to three meter wide river, and the opposite side of the river is the mountain forest.

At this time, the two-three-meter-wide river had been frozen, and the mountain forest on the opposite side was also a piece of snow-white at this time.

Meng Changjin's ears moved slightly, and he heard a voice from above his head.

After careful identification, Meng Changjin understood the meaning.

It is said that there is not much food, but the winter is only half over, and it is estimated that many people will not be able to survive this time.

Meng Changjin straightened her lips. This is indeed a big problem.

In fact, there are quite a lot of things in Meng Changjin's Lingzhi space. Before leaving the last mission world, Meng Changjin did not make any preparations.

She bought a lot of all kinds of rice, flour, grain and oil and threw them into Lingzhi's space.

Anyway, if you have money, there is nothing wrong with being more prepared.

What Meng Changjin finds difficult to handle now is that there must be a reason for her to take these things out, right?
Now half of the winter has passed, and there should be no starvation for the time being.

But if there is not enough food, people should start dying in the next few days.

Once winter is over, there will still be people who are interested in this territory and want to grab it, let alone fighting on an empty stomach.

Meng Changjin immediately felt a sense of urgency.

Even if she took out food now, the source is not clear, and these people probably wouldn't dare to eat it.

There is only one way.

That is, become a witch.

The people of the tribe believed what the witch said unconditionally.

Meng Changjin thinks it doesn't matter if she doesn't become a witch, if she can make Wu trust her, then the problem will be solved.

The most important thing is that the witches of the tribe usually pass on all the witches to the new witches before they die. Meng Changjin is afraid that he will become this witch, so it would be bad for the current witch to die.

But how to make Wu believe her is not an easy matter.

Wrapping the animal skin tightly, Meng Changjin stepped on the stone pit next to him and went down.

When passing by the neighbor's house below, the neighbor started chattering to Meng Changjin.

Meng Changjin was stunned for a while, and after making a distinction in his mind, he finally figured out what the other party was talking about.

The neighbor below the client is also one of the candidates for the next witch, or in other words, the people living in the six caves up and down in this row are all candidates for witches.

The client, Man Qing, is just one of them.

The client lives in the cave on the second floor of this row. The person who lives below her is named Zhuo. He is a 14-year-old boy.

The other party just asked Meng Changjin what he was going to do in the chattering bunch just now, and he shouldn't go out in such a cold winter.

Of course, in addition to this, the boy named Zhuo also told Meng Changjin some things about previous winters.

The most important thing is that someone went out last winter and was frozen to death.

Meng Changjin wanted to laugh a little, was he afraid that she would freeze to death when she went out?

The winter here is indeed rather cold, and Meng Changjin felt that it was more than ten degrees below zero.

In addition, heating only depends on animal skins and hay and a small fire at the entrance of the cave. It is not surprising that people freeze to death.

Meng Changjin typed up the manuscript, and talked to the other party in the same babbling words, and she just went out for a walk.

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the other party to emphasize again that he would be frozen to death if he went out, Meng Changjin quickly stepped on the stone pit and descended to the ground.

When they reached the ground, Meng Changjin discovered that the entrances of these caves, those on the ground, were blocked by stones, but there were no more caves above.

But looking at the stone pit used to go up and down, Meng Changjin knew why.

Just such a stone pit, you have to be careful up and down, let alone moving stones up.

Meng Changjin didn't look too much, turned around and walked towards the river.

Before going a few steps, Meng Changjin heard footsteps behind him.

No need to look back, with a sweep of consciousness, Meng Changjin arrived, followed by the boy named Zhuo.

Meng Changjin turned around suddenly, so frightened that Zhuoyi fell to the ground behind him, and the animal skin was covered with a lot of snow.

"Why did you follow? Didn't you say that you would be frozen to death if you went out? Go back." Meng Changjin was also puzzled. Didn't this guy say that he would be frozen to death if he went out? If so, why did he follow?
"I, I'm afraid you'll freeze to death, so I'll drag you back." Zhuo whispered.

Meng Changjin: ...

After being speechless for a while, Meng Changjin frowned and said sternly: "Go back immediately, don't follow me!"

She was out doing business, but she didn't have time to take care of this kid!

Meng Changjin's expression was so serious that Zhuo, who had just got up from the ground, suddenly shrank his neck.

"Then you froze to death..." Zhuo wanted to talk about dragging the corpse, but seeing Meng Changjin's dark face, he couldn't continue.

"I'm sure I won't freeze to death, but you just say that's not necessarily the case. If you insist on following, I don't care if you freeze to death." Meng Changjin's face was dark and his tone was very serious.

"Okay, don't follow me." Meng Changjin didn't bother to say any more, and after adding something sternly, Meng Changjin continued to walk outside.

Zhuo really didn't dare to follow her this time. People in the tribe, if a person clearly does not allow other people to follow her, then other people will generally not follow her.

It's the same now, Meng Changjin doesn't allow Zhuo to follow, and Zhuo doesn't dare to follow.

Unable to follow Meng Changjin, Zhuo quickly ran back to his cave. He was actually afraid that he would freeze to death.

Meng Changjin's spiritual consciousness has been spreading behind him, and he is satisfied that Zhuo did not follow.

It's fine if you don't follow, if you follow, it will be inconvenient for Meng Changjin to move.

She came out on purpose, in order to find a way to bring something out of Lingzhi's space first.

Like her knife.

In addition, Meng Changjin also wanted to go to the river to have a look.

Now that the river is frozen into ice, you may be able to see fish directly under the ice.

If you can see it, you can take some back.

Food is scarce now, and fish is also food.

However, in the client's memory, people from the Yan tribe do not eat fish.

These people can't handle fish at all, and fish scales can't be chewed, so fish is excluded from food.

But precisely because people in the Yan Tribe didn't eat fish, there might be a lot of fish in the river.

If they were all caught, enough food for a few days would be good.

When they reached the river, Meng Changjin took out her knife.

The fiery red straight knife was held in her hand, and she stepped on the river in two or three steps.

The ice layer is a bit thick, so I can't see clearly below, but it doesn't bother Meng Changjin, she has spiritual consciousness.

The consciousness spread out, directly passed through the ice layer, and probed the surroundings.

Soon, a smile appeared on Meng Changjin's face. There are really a lot of fish at the bottom of the river!
Not to mention a lot of fish, they are all quite fat.

If you see one at random, it should weigh five or six catties.

Meng Changjin picked up the knife and slashed at the ice. Although his strength was not very good, the knife was good!

The ice layer seemed to turn into soft tofu under Meng Changjin's fiery red straight knife.

A long crack was cut out easily, and Meng Changjin cut down a few more times, and a hole the size of the mouth of a basin was cut out in the ice layer.

There was a little shallow water under the ice layer, Meng Changjin fished out the broken ice, stabbed it with a straight knife, and a big fish was caught.

Meng Changjin was very happy fishing, and it didn't take long for her to knock off a large piece of ice on the river.

Looking back, he found that there were quite a few big fish caught. Meng Changjin found a rope to string the fish, which was more than one meter long.

Meng Changjin struggled to drag.

But the fish are all dead, so they can be put into Lingzhi's space directly, and then taken out when they are near the cave.

As for the straight knife, Meng Changjin would naturally take it back and put it on the bright side.

Inside the tribe in winter, in order to reduce consumption, everyone eats something and then sleeps for a day.

So Meng Changjin dragged a long string of fish back, and few people noticed.

Meng Changjin didn't care, and dragged the fish directly to Wu's cave.

Wu's cave is on the first floor. There is no pile of stones at the entrance of the cave, but a piece of animal skin is hung to block the wind.

Just as Meng Changjin dragged the fish outside Wu's cave, an old voice came from inside: "It's Man Qing, come in."

Meng Changjin raised his eyebrows slightly, this witch is a bit interesting.

Meng Changjin didn't drag the fish in either, he put a string of fish outside, opened the hide and went in by himself.

Wu's cave is much larger and divided into several rooms.

At this time, the wrinkled witch was sitting on the stone bench, holding a roll of animal skin in his hand.

"Why did you go out? It's freezing cold, and it's dangerous to go out." Wu glanced at Meng Changjin, then glanced at the straight knife Meng Changjin was carrying, and said softly.

Seeing that the old lady was quite gentle, Meng Changjin felt that she should be easy to talk to, so he thought about it and said, "Dawu, I just went to the river to catch some fish and beasts, and I want to share with everyone."

Wu glanced at Meng Changjin again, paused, and said slowly: "How do fish and beasts eat? The hard armor on the surface can be removed, but the bones of fish and beasts are too thin, so it is easy to accidentally eat them. Stuck in the throat, even if you are careful, the fish and beasts don't taste good, and it's miserable."

Meng Changjin listened quietly, and nodded his approval.

Wu saw Meng Changjin nodding, which was even more strange.

Now that we know these problems of fish and beasts, how can we catch them and bring them back?

Meng Changjin, however, remained calm: "Great witch, I have a way to make the meat of fish and beasts less bitter. Everyone should be careful when eating it. It will be no problem."

"You have a solution?" Wu looked at Meng Changjin strangely, and soon, a smile appeared on his face: "Then you have a try."

Meng Changjin was surprised that Wu was so talkative, so he let her try?

But she didn't delay, and nodded quickly: "Wait a while, big witch, it will be ready soon."

After Meng Changjin finished speaking, he hurriedly opened the animal skin curtain and went out.

I found a relatively small fish from the rope, and Meng Changjin didn't care if he would be wronged by using the straight knife made by Tiancaidibao to scrape the scales of the fish. Belly, took out the viscera and black membrane inside.

Gills are also a part that must be cleaned.

After finishing all this, Meng Changjin took the processed fish and ran to the river to wash it quickly. On the way back, he chopped a wooden stick and peeled it while walking. When he returned to Wu's cave, Already peeled and skewered onto wooden sticks.

(End of this chapter)