Ancient wasteland

They set out from the tribe, led by the mountain, down the mountain road to the lake, and continued along the road that spread out from the lake.

When he first saw the lake, Jing Zhu felt that the area of ​​the lake was astonishingly large, and he would walk along the lake without seeing his head for a long time.

It is estimated that according to their current speed, it may take two days or even longer to get out of this water area, which is really very big.

If it was changed to his original world, he might be able to participate in the selection of the largest freshwater lake.

Moreover, the water area is vast, and there are many birds living and inhabiting the lake. There are quack beasts near their tribe, and quack beast eggs are everywhere.

Walking a little along the weed-covered road, Jing Que saw a larger bird that looked like a white crane and crested ibis, hunting in the water.

He estimated the area of ​​the lake, tilted his head and asked the mountain, "The fish said that the water in the lake will dry up when the dry season is at its hottest.

Where exactly will the water level drop... I mean where will there be no water, is that in front of us or behind us. "

Shan carried the spear he had cut from a whole green tree branch, walked to the water's edge and looked at it for a long time, with a bewildered expression, "They... all look the same.

I can't tell where there is no water, it may be here, or it may be in front, maybe we have already passed by.

Uh... I think this place is very similar, it seems to be here, hey Jing, why do you ask this, if there is no water in this lake, there will be no water.

Our tribe relies on small streams for water, which flow down from the mountains. The priests said that the streams are a gift from the gods and will never dry up. "

Jing Qu carefully looked at the position where he was standing. If he was a senior botanist or geographer, he could easily determine where the lake was drying up.

But he was neither, staring at it for a long time but couldn't see any clues, so he could only shake his head slightly and sigh, "Let's continue walking.

You remember looking at the lake, and if you can remember where the water started to dry, tell me and I'll record it. "

Before setting off, Jing Que not only led people to drive out the wasteland, but also took the time to take the oil fume collected by the fish and make a small amount of oil fume ink.

Now I carry them with me, and I want to record the route from their tribe to the Dahe tribe, and it is best to draw it into a map.

The settlement of the quack beasts is close to their tribe, and as the salt-changing team slowly moves away, it fades out of their sight, compared with the area of ​​the lake.

In their colony, although there are quite a few quack beasts and duck eggs, the overall comparison looks a little small.

Taking advantage of the break in the middle, Jing Que sat on the rock, spread out the parchment he was carrying, dipped a quill pen in ink and began to draw a map.

Although he had a good memory, he didn't know how long it would take him to reach the Great River Tribe, so he had better draw everything he saw whenever he wanted.

Ye Ye came over with a kettle and a teacup, "Drink some water."

Sitting next to the empty seat next to him, watching him leaning against the smeared, black and white, twisted and twisted, it looked very strange.

I couldn't understand what it was at all, and I was a little confused. I lowered my head and leaned over to look at the map, and asked Jing Que, "Jing, what is this?"

Jing Que had just drawn the place where the quack beasts lived, put the quill pen into the ink bottle, and moved his limp arms and fingers.

Pick up the parchment, and gently dry the ink on it to avoid blurring after contamination, and explained to Ye, "This is the map.

Come to see, this raised figure represents the mountain peak, this flowing line represents the river, and this triangular shape represents our tribe.

These are the roads we walked today. The shadows below the tribe are the settlements of the quack beasts. This is the portrait of the quack beasts I drew.

You can tell I'm drawing a quack... This is a stick figure that's a bit abstract, and I wrote my name next to it. "

... Even if the people in the tribe are still illiterate and can't understand, this map is only for him to use for the time being, but it is still very important.

Ye frowned lightly, looked carefully at the quack beasts that Jing Yu said, stretched out his fingers to touch the map, "This is the tribe.

This is the place by the lake where we touched quack eggs, then this is..."

He pointed to not far from the quack beast, where Jing Zhu painted a circle with ink, and tried to guess, "This is our round kiln, where the wooden band pottery team collects clay and burns pottery, isn't it?"

Jing Que looked at the place he was pointing at, and felt ecstasy in his heart. What kind of genius is Ye? ?

Primitive humans who have never been exposed to pictures can not only understand what he said just based on the few words he just said.

Just turn around and give him a big surprise, and start drawing inferences from one instance? !

Seeing Jing Qu froze, Ye thought what he said was wrong.

Frowning slightly, he clearly remembered the location by the lake, where pottery was fired, and he and Jing built the round kiln.

He should remember correctly, Ye frowned and pointed to the location on the map, "Jing, isn't this the round kiln we built?"

Jing Zhu quickly nodded, "Yes, yes, I'm just a little surprised that you can remember this, you are really amazing!

You have a strong sense of direction. Do you remember roughly the distance you have traveled, or do you remember more clearly because you are familiar with the circular kiln?

Is it just you or everyone in the tribe, usually the hunting team goes far away, do you remember what prey is there in which direction? "

Ye Ye frowned slightly and thought, "I remember things like this, I can remember the most, but without you..."

Jing Zhu raised the parchment in his hand, "This is called a map."

Ye slightly smiled, looked at his bright eyes, took the map from his hand, and stared at it fondly, "This is really good.

The above is very clear, and you can remember it when you see it, unlike the things you remember by yourself, it is easy to forget things. "

Jing Qu nodded with a smile, "The effect of the map is far more than that, you see we have a unified standard, this is the mountain, this is the water, and this is the road.

Then start from the tribe, go to the flat land below our tribe, we just walked from here to here, I will draw it.

When we go to the Dahe Tribe in the future, we can go forward according to the map. Even if there is no mountain to lead the way, we can go to the Dahe Tribe. "

Ye Ye looked at the map in his hand, thoughtful, and Beside Shan brought them dried meat, and when he heard that he was not allowed to lead the way, he immediately became unhappy.

He waved his arms bluffing, "Why don't you need me to lead the way, I'm very good at leading the way, and I promise to find the Dahe Tribe."

Jing Que sighed softly, took the jerky from his hand and slowly ground his teeth, pointed to the empty seat next to him, "Sit down and say, it's not that I won't let you lead the way.

Just to explain the usefulness of the map. Didn't you just ask me why I want to know where the water in the lake will dry up? I want to move. "

Shan was confused when he heard that, "What is moving?"

Even Ye, who was buried in the map, raised his head and looked at him with puzzled eyes, obviously he didn't understand the word move.

Jing Que tore the jerky into his mouth, looked at the two of them, "This is my long-term plan, where we live now, the place is too small.

Although the cave can resist some dangers, it is damp and very dark inside, and it is easy to breed mold and bugs, which I don't like.

The most important thing is... There is too little land that can be opened up. "

He tried to persuade Shan, looking at the blank eyes of the two, Jing Zhu thought for a while, and asked them in another way, "Is the radish stew delicious?"

When it comes to the mountain of food, I will not be confused immediately, swallowing my saliva and nodding, "It's delicious, I've never eaten such delicious wild vegetables!"

Jing Que didn't bother to correct him that radishes are wild vegetables, so he just smiled and said to him, "Radishes are grown from the ground.

After the radishes are harvested in the wind season, I will have enough seeds. If the land is also sufficient, I can grow countless radishes.

... enough radishes for the tribe to eat every day. "

He looked at the instantly brightening eyes of the mountain, and changed the topic, "But we don't have enough land, and the cave we live in is surrounded by mountains.

The mountains are full of tall trees, and we can't grow radishes and other vegetable grains on the slopes, so I want to relocate the tribe.

Now we are investigating the location suitable for the development of the tribe. The first thing to consider is the water source, and the second is the safety of the tribe. "

Besides, if the tribe really wants to migrate on a large scale, Jing Que doesn't want them to dig caves to live in. He wants to build a house to live in. This is the big problem.

The bricks used to build a house are relatively simple. They can burn very good quality bricks, but there are bricks without cement, so there is no way to fix them.

Unless he finds an alternative to cement... So this is a long-term plan, Jing Que rolled up the parchment, "Okay, let's go."

Shan still wanted to ask a few more questions, but he didn't know where to ask. Jing Zhuo said that he understood that he could grow inexhaustible radishes, which made him look forward to it.

Tribal migration?Security Question?source of water?Tribal development?

He said that he didn't understand at all, oh, it's so annoying, I'd better go to the priest with the problem to find a solution after returning from the Dahe Tribe!

It was such a happy decision, Shan put the problem to the back of his mind, and happily led the moo beast to move forward.

Before dark, the team stopped to rest, built a simple stove to boil water and boiled meat, and came over with weapons on their shoulders, "Would you like to go hunting?"

Jing Que walked down all day, suffering from all kinds of backaches, especially the soreness in the ankles and calves, which were hard and tense.

Frowning and relaxing his muscles, seeing Shan's energetic appearance, he couldn't even smile, "Do you still have the strength to walk such a long distance?"

Shan took it for granted, "This is much easier than hunting, we don't need to carry anything, we just walk empty-handed, and it doesn't take much effort.

We used to carry a lot of stone tools on our backs, but now they are all carried by moo beasts. It has never been so easy, and I am full of strength now! "

Jing Zhuo, "..."

Anyway, he didn't have any strength at all, and he really wanted to fall down on the spot and sleep in the dark. He didn't care about anything, and no one would care.

Shan didn't come looking for him.

Ye Zai tidied up his fur at the side, glanced at Jing Que, "Go."

Holding his own bow and leaving with the mountain, Jing Que leaned on the fur, rubbed his sore calf, and fell asleep sleepily after rubbing.

When he was woken up, the sky was completely dark, so he took the bowl handed to him by the oil lamp and the dim light of the fire, and drank hot soup.

Slowly recovering, sighed in a low voice, "It's really troublesome to get around here without cars or roads. It's really troublesome. Wait for the map to be drawn.

I have figured out the situation of the Dahe Tribe, so I won't run with you anymore. I'm really exhausted today. "

Ye Jing quietly listened to him, and when he finished drinking the hot soup, he transformed into a silver lion and let Jing Que sleep on it.

Jing Que was tired and sleepy. After eating and drinking enough, the sleepiness continued to rise. When he touched the wild soft and warm long hair, he soon fell into a deep sleep.

After waking up refreshed and revived with full blood, Jing Zhu felt that he could definitely walk another few tens of kilometers!

After breakfast full of confidence, he was ready to set off and continue to the Dahe Tribe. Ye led the black-haired moo beast over, "Jing, let me sit down."

Jing Que looked at the Moo Beast who dared not resist, and blinked in surprise, expressing his doubts, "Huh?"

Ye took the moo beast and looked at him seriously, "the moo beasts carry things. They are very strong and can carry you."

Jing Yu couldn't help but praise Ye in his heart, what a witty boy, isn't this just drawing in by analogy, wanting to tame moo beasts or horses for riding.

It's not that he didn't think about it, but they had to go to the Dahe Tribe to exchange salt, and they relied on wild force to deter and domesticate them violently.

The ten moo beasts were barely subdued, and they were all used to carry things. There were no extra moo beasts to ride, and those moo beasts were all loaded with cargo on their backs.

Even if Jing Que wanted to ride, he was afraid of crushing them, so he had to give up the idea, "Ye, those moo beasts have to carry things.

I was a little tired yesterday, but I'll be fine if I wake up enough, I can go! "

If he set off on a moo beast, the cargo on the moo beast's back would have to be shared with the team and let people carry it on their backs.

...Jing Zhu felt that he was not that weak, and he really had to wait until his legs were so uncomfortable that he couldn't walk anymore. If he can walk now, he must walk by himself!

Ye stood there holding the moo beast, looking at him firmly, Jing Zhu smiled slightly, "You don't have to worry about me, I will definitely find you if I can't move.

At that time, don't let me ride a moo beast, even if you want to carry me behind your back, I will not refuse. "

Ye Ye's eyes flickered slightly, and he seemed a little hesitant.

Jing Que wanted to say a few more words, but Shan walked by, "Ready to go, hey... Is this moo beast the one that the wild made a special trip to catch yesterday.

The wild is really strange, we obviously calculated the goods and left the tribe on the back of the moo beasts, and these moo beasts are just right.

There is no additional goods on the road, why do you go to catch the moo beast and come back. "

Jing Que, "..." suddenly happy!

Feeling like he wanted to show off, he coughed lightly and raised his head slightly, "This is the one that the wild catch came back for me to ride!"

His tone became cheerful, and Shan was taken aback for a while before he came back to his senses, his face full of doubts.

He hesitated and asked, "What is riding? You mean let it carry you like cargo?"

Jing Que, "...you get lost!"

He didn't bother to straighten the mountain, so he grabbed the moo beast's back, sat on the black-haired moo beast's back with the support of Ye Ye, and smiled happily, "That's great!"

Ye Ye looked at him, "Can you sit still?"

Jing Zhu nodded quickly, "Stable, let's go and try."

Ye Yiyan led the Moo Beast to walk forward. The Moo Beast was bulky and not fast. It walked very steadily, basically without shaking, and was very comfortable.

After changing the salt team and starting again, Jing Que was the most relaxed, sitting on the back of the moo beast and talking to Ye, "Why didn't you just tell me directly.

You said that this moo beast was specially caught for me, why are you still hesitating? "

Ye turned his back to him, holding the rope, "I was thinking, should I let you ride the moo beast, or let me carry you after you ask."