prehistoric modern man

His exposed face was already frozen, and the animal skin covering his body felt cool as if the wind had leaked out, as if he hadn't warmed up after covering it all night.

The cave was already brightly lit, and there was no sound around, so it was a little quiet.

Ji Chi also saw the appearance of the cave clearly.

The cave has a large space, the entrance is as wide as five or six people, and the cave wall is uneven. There are several pieces of animal skins on the ground in the larger groove diagonally opposite Ji Chi.

Except for the groove, the cave walls on both sides seem to be straight as a whole, and they are opposite to the entrance of the cave, which is why the cave is so cold.

From the entrance of the cave, there is a turning point after the end. Looking at it, there are more than a dozen pieces of animal skins spread on the ground in a space with a depth of tens of meters, each occupying one place.

There is no one in the cave, it seems that the men are out hunting, why is the woman not there?

He didn't even notice when they went out, Ji Chi had never slept so soundly, probably because he was too tired yesterday.

He walked to his position and glanced around. There was a recessed corner beside the hole, which was quite wide, because the light from outside could not come in, and the light was relatively dark.

At this time, footsteps came from outside, and three women walked in, holding fruit shells, their faces and hands were frozen purple, Ji Chi glanced, and there were some unknown insects inside.

They glanced at the net bag under Ji Chi's feet, smiled kindly at him out of curiosity, and continued walking in without talking to him.

Ji Chi moved a few bags to the corner next to the cave entrance and walked out of the cave.

Because of the snow, it was a vast expanse of whiteness outside, Ji Chi closed his eyes and got used to it before starting to observe.

The entrance of the cave is a little higher than the ground, and a few hundred meters ahead is a meandering river. Ji Chi went over to look at it, and found that the surface of the river was frozen, but the bottom of the river was not. The sound of running water.

Several women were standing on the ice and shaving ice, while others grabbed the snow from the ground and stuffed it into the fruit shells.

Across the river is a forest in the distance. From a distance, it looks withered, yellow, and covered with snow. It has long since lost the mystery of summer.

Looking at the direction of the cave again, Ji Chi took a deep breath, and the overlapping peaks rose up from the ground. Counting from where he was standing to the right, the mountains continued to twist and turn, and the end could not be seen at a glance.

On the left is a vast plain covered with snow.

Ji Chi covered his unconscious ears with his hands, and began to walk around the cave to observe the terrain, and pay attention to the whereabouts of another group of people yesterday.

There are no other habitable holes around.Instead, he found a cave under a small mountain about 20 meters behind the cave.

He walked over by accident. Before he noticed, a small animal suddenly ran out of there, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Ji Chi went over to take a look. It was a hole dug at the bottom of the mountain. The hole was small, and the space inside was several times the size of the hole.

The entire cave is almost buried at the bottom of the mountain, and the entrance of the cave cannot be noticed from the top down. Only when you squat down can you see a dark opening.

Ji Chi returned to the cave, brought a few net bags over, took out some dried fruit and jerky and stuffed them into a few small bags on his body, then tightened the net mouth and pushed them all into the cave at the bottom of the mountain.

Finally, he blocked the entrance of the cave with yellow weeds around it, and piled up some snow, so that even if someone approached, he would not be able to find it before leaving.

On the way, I passed several women and children who were squatting on the ground looking for food from the crevices of the rocks. Some of them stuffed the food in their mouths directly, and some of them put the fruit shells in their hands to store them.

When they saw Ji Chi, the women stopped their movements and gave him a symbolic smile, then continued to work.

After Ji Chi responded, he walked to the river, shaved some ice and packed it into fruit shells before returning to the cave.

After the ice in the shell melted, Ji Chi took out the frosted beans and started brushing his teeth.

Frosted beans were discovered by Ji Chi in the forest by accident. They are shaped like beans with a very rough skin, and the beans inside are still edible.

After washing and eating some dried fruit and meat, Ji Chi got up and began to move the animal skins on the ground.

A few people were already sitting on the animal skins diagonally opposite, and a fire with weeds was lit in front of them, and the fire was faint.

Among them were two elderly women who sat motionless as if in a trance, staring straight at Ji Chi.

Although there was no movement, Ji Chi could still see their bodies trembling slightly due to the cold.

There were two other people he knew, the little girl and her mother.

The little girl's name was aggressive, he had heard the girl's mother call it that.

In fact, the little girl was already very familiar with Ji Chi, but she seemed to be unfamiliar with him again within a few days. She looked at him with that timid look again, while her mother was counting the worms in the nutshell, with a Some dried fruit wrapped in animal skins.

Ji Chi smiled shyly at Duo, and then she smiled shyly, ran over and squatted aside, curled up and watched his movements.

Ji Chi was dragging the animal skin to the groove beside the cave entrance.

The recessed corner in the dark place is just enough to fit a whole piece of animal skin, and the animal skins of two people can lie on it.

Ji Chi went over and felt it. Although it was not warm, at least it blocked the wind.

Duo also leaned over, still squatting on the ground to observe the corner, not sitting on the animal skin.

Ji Chi took a look at her, and pulled her to sit on the animal skin before exiting the hole.

There are many stones of different sizes around, but unfortunately most of them are round or oval rocks with no edges and corners and unevenness.

Ji Chi tried his best to find those square, rectangular stones and began to move them into the hole.

Others are looking for food, but he is looking for stones. This behavior is of course strange. The women gathered around the stone curiously and studied for a long time without coming to a conclusion.

It took several hours to go back and forth before Ji Chi moved enough stones.Because of the non-stop walking, his body has already warmed up.

At first she followed him in and out aggressively and curiously, but within an hour she lost interest in this repetitive movement and ran back to her mother.

After a short rest, Ji Chi began to rummage through the pile of hills, picked out suitable stones and began to pile them up around the corner.

Halfway through the stack, a stone wall with a width of more than 40 centimeters, two stones, and a stone wall as high as his thigh gradually took shape.

The women who came in and out slowly gathered around, studied for a long time and finally saw Ji Chi's intentions, and ran out with joyful faces and began to lift stones.

By the time Ji Chi finished stacking, the sky had already darkened, and the others had just moved enough stones, and began to imitate his actions, stacking stones in front of their own land.

At this time, the men who went out began to come back in twos and threes. Ji Chi secretly counted, twelve or three men, including women, a total of less than 30 people, and there were several elderly men and women.

Ji Chi probably guessed some of the reasons why the tribesmen did not spend the winter together.They seem to have grouped together a relatively weaker group of people, perhaps to increase survival rates.

The men were more or less carrying one or two frozen small animals.

The women who were busy stopped what they were doing to meet them, and several people gathered together and started sharing food happily.

Ji Chi noticed that they did not gather the hunted animals together and distribute them evenly, but only shared the food among the few people who came back together.

Even so, Duo Yin and his mother also got a small piece of meat from others.

Ji Chi had guessed before that he didn't have a father, but now it's basically confirmed.

The mother and daughter seemed very happy to get a piece of meat, and thanked those who gave the meat repeatedly before starting to light a fire with damp weeds.

After Ji Chi finished stacking the stone wall, he began to wrap it with animal skins. Y. U. X. I.

In fact, this is not very effective, but it is a bit of a waste of animal skins. Fortunately, they have collected enough animal skins.

As soon as he finished wrapping, he smelled a smell of meat close at hand, turned around, and was standing behind him, holding a small piece of meat in his hand, and was passing it to him, saying, "Eat, eat."

Ji Chi's heart suddenly warmed up, he pushed it to her, shook his head to signal that he would not eat, and raised his hand to rub the top of her hair to express his gratitude.

He looked at him in confusion for a while, then suddenly looked to his mother for help, and seemed to get a response, turned his head again, grinned at Ji Chi, and ran back to his mother.

Ji Chi looked at the aggressive mother and nodded to her, and she smiled back at him kindly.

The other people in the cave had already finished eating their meat and began to pile up on the wall, and Ji Chi could hear the sound of stones colliding from the depths of the cave.

After eating, the aggressive mother and several others also started to get busy.

Ji Chi sat on the wall for a while, feeling a little restless, so he got up and went out of the hole.It was almost dark outside, but there was no sign of Yu Dong.