"Bang bang bang..."

In a wilderness, there was a noise, and a branch was shaking.

Through these budding trees, one can see figures moving among them.

These people were dressed strangely, with rattan helmets on their heads, rattan armor on their bodies, and backpacks on their backs that should never appear in this era.

This group of people was Han Cheng and his group who left the tribe and headed south.

After walking for a period of time, Han Cheng and the others had walked out of the familiar territory of the Qingque tribe.

At this time, they were walking in a completely unfamiliar land. Even Mao, who often led trade teams in the tribe, had never been here before.

The second senior brother who was walking at the front with an ax in his hands held the ax in both hands and chopped down some branches blocking the way to clear the road. There were also several others holding sickles in their hands to cut off these thorns and other things.

The passage should be widened to allow people and livestock behind to pass through.

Mao Ze climbed up a tree, stepped on the branches with his feet, put his hands around the trunk, and built a pergola in front of his eyes with his other hand, looking around.

"Go that way! The vegetation over there is sparse!"

After watching this for a while, Mao pointed to the left direction in front of him and said to everyone.

The second senior brother who was holding a bronze ax in front of him to clear the way, after hearing this, turned back to look at the direction pointed by the trade center. After confirming, he moved towards that direction to clean up.

After walking forward for about three to four hundred meters in this way, the seemingly dense vegetation gradually became sparse. After walking forward for a while, people and animals could pass through without much cleaning, and even the field of vision became thinner.

It's more open.

When everyone saw this, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and finally walked out of there.

Han Cheng looked at Mao and smiled.

Sure enough, there are still specialties in the arts. People like Mao who often lead trade teams in the tribe and shuttle back and forth between the surrounding tribes are far better at finding a more suitable place to walk in this situation.

This relatively homely, semi-primitive person is good at it.

Han Chengcheng had considered these things before coming out, so among the thirty-five people traveling south this time, all members of the trade team were among them, a total of twenty people, accounting for more than half.

In addition to the trade team, Han Cheng also considered the other people who came.

For example, the second senior brother has become stronger and stronger after losing his big belly, and the grown-up boy in the second senior brother's family is not as strong as the second senior brother, but is still stronger than the average person in the tribe.

One of the main purposes of Han Cheng letting them come was to open a road.

"Everyone, let's take a rest."

After walking forward for a while and having a wider view, Han Cheng, who was sweating a little while walking, said to everyone.

Everyone put down their backpacks and rested on the spot as instructed.

However, this kind of rest is not the kind of rest where three or three people gather together, but the kind of rest where they are divided into three groups and each form a circle.

The circle formed by everyone was also different from the usual ones. They were not sitting in a circle with their faces inward, but with their backs to backs and all their faces facing outwards.

In this way, people do not need to consider the danger from behind, and can monitor the surroundings without blind spots.

This is the method Han Cheng came up with.

Being in the wild, in a completely unfamiliar place, and in times like this, one cannot be too careful.

While everyone was resting, another man quickly climbed up a big tree not far away, took out the ax stuck in his waist, and chopped off some obstructive branches and leaves.

Then the men continued to chop, and within a short time, a large piece of bark was peeled off from the tall tree facing south.

It looks very conspicuous against the surrounding brown bark.

This was done to prevent getting lost and unable to find the location of the tribe when returning. Han Cheng specifically asked someone to do this.

Along the way, basically every time you walk a certain distance, you will leave such a mark.

If there are no such trees in the place you pass, you can choose a relatively high place and use stones to build a relatively high pile. Where there are no stones, use wooden stakes to nail an irregular circle.

While making these marks, Han Cheng also drew their route on the paper he carried with him.

Mao, a person who remembers the route very clearly, is also using his own skills and pays great attention to the places he travels.

With this three-pronged approach, you basically don’t have to worry about getting lost when you return.

While Han Cheng drank some water and took out paper to draw a route, Shitou was also writing something with charcoal and paper.

What he recorded was some strange things he encountered on the way here, or some things that happened in the team that he thought were worthy of recording, which is somewhat similar to a diary.

After resting here for a while, everyone set off again and continued to head towards the unknown south, cutting through thorns and obstacles...

At this time, under the leadership of Tree Bark, the alliance led by the Black Stone Tribe, with the purpose of robbing the Blue Que Tribe, also reached the tribe where Tree Bark lived before.

The cave still has traces of being burned by the fire and is very dilapidated.

Inside the low and dilapidated earth fence, there are some unburned tree trunks, which are what were left after the shacks built by the barkers were burned down.

At first, there were some rabbits and other things that were almost cooked under this shack.

It's just that those things were all beaten to death and eaten by the damn Blackstone Tribe leaders...

Looking at the dilapidated cave and the courtyard covered with weeds, Shupi felt very uncomfortable, and his resentment towards the leaders of the Blackstone Tribe became deeper and stronger.

After everyone rested for a night in the broken bark tribe, they continued to set off the next day, heading south under the leadership of bark.

However, compared with before, Shupi became more uneasy.

This is because he is only familiar with the two distances from the Black Stone Tribe to his own tribe, and the Bone Tribe and Qingque Tribe where he originally lived.

As for how to get from here to the Bone Tribe where he once lived, Shupi felt a little nervous.

When he was expelled from the Qingque Tribe, he was in a state of confusion, like a person who had lost his home and was wandering aimlessly.

He himself didn't know how long he wandered before he came from the original bone tribe to the tribe where he later lived.

I can't remember exactly where he went during this process.

During these days, he tried desperately to recall, but all he got was vague memories.

Regarding the Bone Tribe where he originally lived, and the Qingque Tribe to the south of the Bone Tribe, he could only think of a general direction, but he didn't know the specific way to go.

But he didn't dare to speak out about these things. On the one hand, he was worried that the people who couldn't wait to attack the Qingque tribe would attack him with fists and kicks.

Another aspect is that they are worried that the leaders of the Black Stone Tribe, who have finally been deceived by them, will change their previous thoughts and take their people back to stop attacking the Qingque Tribe.

If this were really the case, it would be really uncomfortable for him.

Therefore, the tree bark can only lead people and move forward bravely.

At the same time, he was thinking about the shaman of the Qingque Tribe, praying to the totem pole of the Qingque Tribe, and kept praying in his heart, hoping that some god could bless him and find the Qingque Tribe smoothly...

The leaders of the Blackstone Tribe and the others did not know what Shupi was thinking when he was walking in front with his people and seemed to be very stable.

If I knew, I'm afraid I wouldn't be as happy as I am now...

"Wow~"

Amidst the splashing water, someone pulled the fish cage that was put into the water last night, and there were fish jumping inside.

These fish soon stopped beating because they were all beaten on the head one by one with the back of a knife, their gills were removed from the stream, their scales were scraped off, and they were thrown into clay pots for cooking.

After pouring out the fish in the fish cage, the empty fish cage is thrown back into the water to continue to lure fish into it.

In this case, after breakfast and setting off, we can get some fish again.

"thump!"

The second senior brother threw a half-large wild boar on his shoulders to the ground, and then worked with several other people to deal with the wild boar.

The meat is used for eating, the bones are used for making soup, and the internal organs are basically used to feed the dogs like Fu Jiang who come after them.

The boar skin was left behind and used to wrap around shoes or leggings.

This wild boar fell into a trap set by the tribe before dark last night and died.

Because this time we need to walk a long distance, and we are still walking on land. We can no longer travel all the way by boat as before, so the supplies we can carry are limited.

Even though everyone was carrying a backpack and leading two donkeys and eight deer to carry some supplies, what they carried was still not enough to consume on the road.

In order to save food as much as possible, along the way, everyone would collect or hunt some food when they encountered it.

When we set up camp for a rest at night, some people will be specially arranged to set up some traps near the temporary camp, or use ropes to attach some nooses.

This not only makes it possible to harvest prey, but also protects the safety of the camp.

When encountering places such as rivers and puddles, they will lower the fish cages they carry with them into them as soon as possible when setting up camp.

While Second Brother and the others were dealing with wild boars here, Junior Brother Sha, who was carrying a bow and arrows, and several other people from the team who were good at using bows and arrows also came back from nearby, carrying some shot birds and some

small animals.

Everyone squatted here to deal with it together.

Some were directly used as today's breakfast, while others were put away after processing and reserved for later consumption.

While everyone was doing this, someone put boiling water into a large clay pot for drinking on the road.

Han Cheng was not idle either. Under the protection of several people, he looked at the vegetation around him.

On the one hand, I wanted to see if I could find some new plants that would be useful to the tribe, and on the other hand, I wanted to discover some plants that usually only grow in the south.

When it's not winter, all Han Cheng can rely on to distinguish between the south and the north is to look at plants, and there's nothing else he can do.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

It was at this time that the dogs wandering near the temporary camp suddenly started barking.

The tribe has been raising dogs for some years. From their barking, everyone can tell that something is approaching the camp!

Everyone suddenly became alert and took up arms one after another.

The few people who were wandering around with Han Cheng quickly took action. While looking around alertly, they protected Han Cheng and quickly moved towards the camp.
To be continued...