Chapter 214
Chapter 214 – The decision
Translated by Lesyt Team
Edited by Ilesyt
Shao Xuan’s return changed the atmosphere in the tribe again.
Some people in the tribe had doubts, but now they had faith and looked forward to it.
In the morning.
Shao Xuan walked out, felt the sunshine from the sky, and stretched.
“The soup is ready, and the meat is beint roasted. Before you go up the mountain, drink the soup and eat the meat.” Old Ke said in the house. He had prepared the food early in the morning and then started grinding the stone tools.
Hearing Shao Xuan’s words, the Shaman was silent for a while. He naturally understood Shao Xuan’s concerns, but it will take a long time to improve their strength.
“What do you mean?” Since Shao Xuan put it forward, the Shaman knew he must have an idea.
Shao Xuan smiled, took out a fiery-red crystal stone and showed it to the Shaman.
“This.”
“The fire crystal? Too few.” The Shaman frowned and said. They should be used by the best of the elites not by all, because it was difficult to find the fire crystals.
“Those living in the central region rarely eat ferocious meat, they usually eat the plants they grow and the animals they raise. They get very little energy from their food, so those from the big tribes in the central region improve their strength by exercising and relying on the fire crystals. Sometimes some disputes caused by fire crystals can destroy the entire tribe.” Shao Xuan told him his experience. That was the massacre that he had seen when traveling with the Pu tribe to the central region.
“The fire crystals are naturally precious.” The Shaman did not understand Shao Xuan’s meaning.
“If we can find more fire crystals, we had better use all of them.” Shao Xuan said.
The Shaman’s eyes were suddenly open wide and he then looked at Shao Xuan, “More fire crystals?!”
“Do you remember the place where we found the fire crystals, the bat cave?”
“Didn’t you say that we cannot go there anymore?”
“I want to try again.”
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When Shao Xuan came out of the stone house, it was noon.
Glancing at the hot sun in the sky, Shao Xuan took a deep breath and sighed.
That was really a very short trip to the central region, so he failed to learn much about the big tribes in the central region. After all, everyone in those big tribes were alert to this stranger in the beginning. Shao Xuan could not get too close to them and he only talked some with the two people from the Mang tribe and the Eight Limbs tribe.
And that trip also let Shao Xuan know more clearly about the importance of belonging to a tribe in such a big place.
If his tribe was strong enough, he would have more protection.
Using the fire crystals was undoubtedly a very good way to improve themself in a short time. Last time, because of the group of vampire bats, he didn’t dig deep inside. But Shao Xuan believed that there should be more fire crystals. It was probably a fire crystal mine!
Shao Xuan had also heard of the fire crystal mine when he was in the central region. A fire crystal mine may lead to disputes among two or more tribes.
And now, in the mountain, there may be a fire crystal mine. Before another tribe found it, Shao Xuan would seize the chance.
For this, Shao Xuan was willing to take a risk and go there!
Two days later, the Shaman and the chief put forward the “return plan”, which also indicated that the tribe’s return trip was formally put on the agenda. Although the return date had not yet been determined, they made up their mind to focus on this plan in the following years.
From the day, when the Shaman and the chief announced the “return plan”, everone in the tribe began to prepare for it. What they had done last year was just a beginning, and from that day on, it was a real fight for the return.
First of all, they had to keep healthy and strong, especially those living at the foot of the mountains. They led a tough life. The tribe would provide more food for those thin children, for every child was the future of the tribe.
But the Shaman had also said that useless people were not welcome in the tribe. If they didn’t take this opportunity to improve themselves, they would…hmmph!
The Shaman did not say how to deal with them specifically, but everyone was worried that they would be abandoned. If they were left behind by the tribe, how could they survive in this barren place ?
Ordinary people had their work, and the disabled also had their ways to prove their value. For example, old Ke crafted more stone tools every day. People living at the foot of the mountain only needed to exchange very few things for old Ke’s things.
When Shao Xuan was in the tribe, old Ke didn’t worry that he didn’t have enough food. Moreover, Caesar and Chacha often went out to look for prey. At the foot of the mountain, old Ke could be regarded as the “richest” person.
When Shao Xuan and the others came back, it was almost full moon.
The hunting team would go out after the full moon. Then the number of the members of the hunting team would be doubled.
The warriors went out for hunting and the others needed to collect timber, which would be used to build a ship.
There was plenty of high quality wood in the mountains for them to choose from. They didn’t need to worry about it. The problem was how to build a bigger ship.
Yan Zhi and the others could make a small ship, but they were not confident that they could make a ship like the Longboat tribe. They needed to spend more time in trying to make a ship. Before they could build a ship, the tribe would not move there.
After all, this time, it was a migration which more than two thousand people would get involved in!
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