Chapter 2: The Humble Slave
Despise is contempt, and in the end, Ning Yuan was taken away by this group of barbarians, after all, in this special period of ancient times, population was also an important resource.
Of course, like Ning Yuan, after being captured, he was basically used as a slave, and he had to do all the dirty work, and then just give him a little food to ensure that he didn't starve to death.
Ning Yuan's height of 1.83 meters, coupled with perennial exercise, still has eight-pack abdominal muscles with clear water chestnut angles on his abdomen.
Originally, he thought that his physical condition was very good, but who would have thought that the male barbarians here were all the same body as Mr. Bodybuilder.
And people are not the kind of people who eat any protein powder, their pimple meat is all trained in life and death struggles, full of wild beauty and violent beauty.
Compared to them, the only thing Ning Yuan felt relieved about was his height, at least he was not the shortest one in it.
Although most of those barbarians were tall and tall, they could still see some of them who were more than one meter and seven meters tall, so Ning Yuan could only seek a little comfort in his height now.
The tribe that captured Ning Yuan was called the Grizzly Bear Tribe, and there were more than a hundred people in the entire tribe, of which one-third were strong warriors, and there were more than thirty, and the rest were old people, women, and children.
In order to make the game experience more enjoyable for players, these barbarians also have names and surnames, otherwise just naming their subordinates is enough for players to drink a pot.
The surname of the grizzly bear tribe is Xiong, which is very worthy of the name of their tribe, and the patriarch is called Xiong Shan, who is a strong man in his thirties.
Xiong Shan's body is covered with dense scars, and at first glance he looks like a ruthless person who has experienced a hundred battles.
On the other hand, Ning Yuan, although the muscles up and down his body are also angular, he looks a little thin compared to others.
And he has no scars all over his body, and he looks like a cowardly waste, so the people of the grizzly tribe look at him with contempt, after all, scars are a military medal that shows manhood in this era.
In ancient times, slaves were also divided into several types, and those strong prisoners of war would gradually be absorbed into the tribe and eventually become a part of the tribe, and a coward like Ning Yuan, basically no tribe would want to absorb him, so he belonged to the most despicable slave.
The work assigned to Ning Yuan in the tribe is to collect firewood, the kind that does not stop from morning to night.
In order to ensure the long-term inextinguishment of the fire, the fire in the tribe was guarded by special personnel, and some firewood had to be added to it from time to time.
In addition to maintaining the fire is not extinguished, the tribe also needs a lot of firewood to make a fire every day, the fire is needed to remove moisture in the rainy season, and the flame is needed to heat in the winter.
If a tribe doesn't stock enough firewood before winter arrives, it's likely that the tribe won't survive the winter, after all, in ancient times, when medical conditions were almost non-existent, winter was more terrifying than the man-loving beasts.
Basically, every tribe loses some of its people in winter, so humans at this time have an instinctive fear of winter.
Ning Yuan's job is to collect firewood, but where is there so much dry firewood on the ground for him to pick up, so he needs to break the branches that grow in the low places with his hands, and then bundle these broken branches and carry them back to the tribe.
Collecting firewood was originally done by the elderly, women, and children, but who made Ning Yuan grow a weak chicken-like physique.
It must be very eye-catching for a big man to mix with the elderly, women, and children, so this is the main reason why Xiong Yue came to trouble him when he had nothing to do.
Xiong Yue was originally a warrior in the tribe, and his mission was to be in charge of hunting and fighting, but during a battle, his left leg was cut off by a stone axe, and although he finally picked up a life and came back, he also became a cripple.
After becoming lame, he could no longer participate in the hunt, so the patriarch Xiongshan asked him to stay in the camp to protect the women who were collecting firewood.
Although many of these firewood women were slaves from other tribes, slave women were also a valuable resource, working during the day and warming their beds at night, so they should not be taken captive by wild beasts.
After all, this is an era of wild beasts, they can be seen everywhere, and people can be attacked by wild beasts at any time as long as they leave the camp, so they must always be on guard.
Although Ning Yuan also wanted to prove that he was not a weak chicken and had the value of being absorbed by the tribe, after seeing that those strong men could easily carry two or three hundred catties of wild boars around, he decisively chose to keep his mouth shut.
Well, he admits that he's a weak chicken, no way, these barbarians are all perverts.
Compared to them, the only thing Ning Yuan can show is to run fast, but in this era, just running fast is useless.
There are no Asian Games, Olympic Games, and you can get a medal or anything if you run fast, not to mention that he has now left an image of the people in the tribe who would rather run, and don't you feel uncomfortable mentioning him running fast?
Ning Yuan also thought about running away, after all, a cripple would not be able to catch up with him no matter what, but after thinking about it, he finally dispelled this idea.
Run away? Are you kidding.
You must know that this is an ancient era, and the jungle outside is full of all kinds of fierce beasts, and it is simply wishful thinking to survive here with the strength of one person, otherwise the tribe would not have sent only one cripple and two old men to watch them slaves.
They didn't want to prevent them from escaping at all, but from a wild beast coming to sneak attack.
After dispelling the idea of escaping, Ning Yuan had only one way to go, and that was to make the people of the tribe recognize him by working hard, so as to absorb himself into the tribe.
Therefore, he has been cutting wood very hard in the past two days, and hundreds of bundles of branches with thick wrists have been broken, and his white and pure body is also covered with scratches because of climbing the trees back and forth.
Ning Yuan worked hard, hoping to arouse the tribe's idea, but in the end he was deeply disappointed.
Because no matter how much firewood he carried, the soldiers never looked at him squarely, and what made him even more desperate was that from morning till night, he was only given a small piece of roast meat and a bowl of hot water, not to mention filling his stomach, and it was not enough to stuff his teeth.
After sleeping hungry all night, he had to get up early the next day to work, breakfast was a bowl of water and a small section of pig intestines, this is his food for the day, the next meal has to wait until the evening, and the amount will not be much.
As the saying goes, people are iron and rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic.
After starving for two days in a row, Ning Yuan really couldn't work, plus he worked too hard in the first two days, so this comparison, the gap was too obvious, so Xiong Yue began to target him.
It doesn't matter if he is targeted, in the morning, Ning Yuan has been hit seven or eight times in the ass.
Ning Yuan originally wanted to find some wild fruits to secretly satisfy his hunger, after all, there were still a lot of wild fruits in this forest.
However, as long as the wild fruits are picked, they belong to the property of the tribe, and he, a slave, is not qualified to eat at other times, so after stealing wild fruits was discovered by Xiong Yue, he was hit on the stomach again.
Although Xiong Yue was a cripple, that pimple meat was not white after all, and Ning Yuan almost didn't get angry with that kick.
It stands to reason that with the character of the players, if they encountered such a situation in the game, they would have jumped up and scolded their mother, and if they didn't accept it, they would die, and it was really rare to be able to endure it like Ning Yuan.
After all, death in the game is not real death, and now that you have just entered the game, it is a waste of three months at most, so why swallow it so much.
In fact, Ning Yuan didn't want to endure it like this, although the three-month imprisonment was a bit long, he was still able to grit his teeth and accept it.
What really made him unable to let go was the attribute he randomly received, whenever he was about to lose it, he would sneak a glance at his character attributes, and then he had the motivation to continue to endure it.
Because the character attribute he randomly found was more convincing than what hook practiced lying on his back and tasted his courage, and Han Xin was humiliated by his crotch.