Chapter 5: Decision-making
After eating the crucian carp meat, Ning Yuan pulled a few blades of grass and put them in his mouth to chew them and spit them out again, and then began to rinse his mouth with lake water and wash his hands with mud and sand.
There is no way, the fishy smell of crucian carp is a bit big, and in order to avoid being caught by Xiong Yue, he must be careful everywhere.
After dealing with the finished matter, Ning Yuan began to walk back with a stone basin full of water, and finally rushed back to the camp before it was completely dark.
When Ning Yuan returned to the camp, he happened to see Xiong Yue standing at the door of the tent watching, so he walked over cautiously and whispered, "Lord Xiong Yue, I brought the water back." ”
"Call back, call back, still stunned what to do, quickly pour the water into the water tank, and then go back to sleep, you have to get up early tomorrow to work, if you can't get up tomorrow, see how I clean you up."
After looking Ning Yuan up and down, Xiong Yue sent him away, and then turned his head and got into the tent.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Ning Yuan got up early, and he didn't know if it was because he ate fish and meat last night, but after getting up this morning, his spirit was very good, and his body was much lighter than the previous two days.
In this way, Ning Yuan worked as usual during the day every day, and then took the initiative to go to the lake at night to fetch water, secretly catching fish to eat, and because the nutrition kept up, his body became stronger and stronger day by day.
Although Xiong Yue suspected that Ning Yuan had a cat on him, he didn't pay attention to it anymore after several searches to no avail, after all, there was a certain risk in going out in the evening, and he was not willing to put himself in danger in order to find out.
As for the patriarch Xiong Shan, they didn't have time to pay attention to the following trivial things.
They risk their lives every day when they go out to hunt, not only to fight with wild beasts, but also with warriors from other tribes, so whether these slaves in Ning Yuan are dead or alive, they don't care at all.
In the blink of an eye, Ning Yuan lived in the grizzly tribe for twenty days, these days, he worked hard during the day, went out to open a small stove in the evening, and lived extremely full every day.
Looking at his obviously thicker arms, Ning Yuan now finally knew why these barbarians were covered in pimples, and if they exercised so much every day, if they could still have fat on their bodies, it would really be a hell of a life.
Although every day is very tired, but these days of hard work is not completely fruitless, Ning Yuan after this period of devil training, the force has grown to two stars, agility, endurance, intelligence, and spirit have grown to three stars.
I can't help it, I have to climb trees and break branches every day, and then carry firewood back to the camp, and in the evening I have to run to the lake to fetch water.
As for intelligence and spirit, I have to fight with Xiong Yue every day, endure the endless work every day, and be careful to avoid those wild beasts that come out to forage for food in the evening, these hardships have been endured, can the mental willpower not be strong?
In terms of force, Ning Yuan had nothing to do.
The improvement of cutting wood every day is definitely much slower than going out hunting, but as long as he can be promoted, he will be satisfied, after all, it is a good start.
As long as he can live, then one day he will be able to grow up, because he is the hope of all.
On this day, Ning Yuan was chopping wood, and suddenly saw a warrior who had gone out to hunt running back, and the warrior shouted loudly while running: "Hurry, hurry, hurry, everyone will return to the camp immediately, the green wolf tribe is coming, if you don't want to die, hurry back to the camp." ”
After listening to the shouts of the soldiers, everyone began to run towards the camp in a swarm, Ning Yuan didn't care about the firewood on the ground at this time, he spread his legs and ran.
After just a few steps, Ning Yuan stopped again, and he felt that something was wrong.
Now only one warrior has returned to report the news, but what about the other warriors who went out hunting? Are they still fighting on the front lines?
And now that everyone is being asked to return to the camp, what does the patriarch want? Want to fight to the death with the Wolf Tribe?
Since this green wolf tribe dares to attack, then their strength must be very strong, at least stronger than the grizzly tribe.
So will the Grizzly Tribes be able to hold on this time? If the Grizzly Tribe can't hold on, then where should he go from here? Do you want to go to the green wolf tribe and continue to be a slave?
In an instant, Ning Yuan thought a lot, he didn't know whether he should sneak away now, or should he return to the camp to live and die with the grizzly tribe.
To be honest, he doesn't have any sense of belonging to the Grizzly Bear Tribe, and he doesn't want to live and die with this tribe, but in this era, he can't survive alone, and he must be attached to a tribe to survive.
Although he is a slave in the Grizzly Tribe, at least he is alive and has seen hope, and it is unknown whether he will be able to continue to live if he goes to other tribes.
"Why are you in a daze, why don't you run quickly?" Xiong Yue saw Ning Yuan, who suddenly stopped in a daze, and came up with a kick.
"Ah, Lord Xiong Yue, come, I'll hold you, you always be careful, this road is a little uneven."
After being kicked in the ass, Ning Yuan finally came to his senses, and he hurriedly grabbed Xiong Yue's arm and ran with him in the direction of the camp.
Back at the camp, all the women and children were arranged to take refuge in their tents, while the rest of the remaining men were given weapons ready to resist the enemy with the large force that would be withdrawn for a while.
Looking at the big bone stick in his hand that he didn't know what kind of animal leg bone it was, Ning Yuan was a little speechless, isn't this the Stone Age, so I can also give a stone axe or a stone spear, how does this bone stick look like the kind that has just been removed from the meat and has not had time to deal with it, it smells smelly.
After a while, the patriarch Xiong Shan returned to the camp with the warriors who had gone out to hunt, and the sharp-eyed Ning Yuan soon realized that the number of people who came back this time was a little wrong.
There were thirty-three warriors who went out to hunt, and excluding the warrior who came back to report the news, there were only twenty-six warriors who returned with Xiongshan, five fewer than when they set out in the morning, and many of these who came back were wounded.
It didn't look like they had been scratched by wild beasts, so it was clear that these warriors had already fought the enemy in advance.
"The warriors of the Grizzly Bear Tribe, the bastards of the Green Wolf Tribe have been eyeing our hunting area, and today they even openly attacked one of our hunting squads.
Although the enemies who came to sneak up on us have been temporarily repulsed, they have gathered all the warriors of the tribe and are now rushing towards us.
They want to drive us out completely, if we lose this hunting area, our tribe will lose a source of food, and many people will starve to death, so we have to fight them to the death today.
After today, there will only be one tribe in this area, and that is our Grizzly Tribe, warriors, take up the weapons in your hands and kill all the miscellaneous pieces of the Green Wolf Tribe. ”
"Kill, kill, kill,......。"
With Xiong Shan's pre-war mobilization, the momentum of the entire grizzly tribe was suddenly stimulated, and Ning Yuan stood at the back of the crowd, holding a big bone stick and shouting.
Although Ning Yuan also shouted loudly and powerfully, his hesitant eyes still betrayed his heart.
This is the most primitive tribal war, and war is about death, and if the Grizzly Tribes are strong enough, then they will not retreat to the camp and all the people will be soldiers.
It seemed that they had fallen behind in the previous battle with the Blue Wolf Tribe, and the five warriors who did not come back, Ning Yuan estimated that they might no longer be alive.
Now he is more entangled in whether he should take advantage of the chaos to escape for a while, or advance and retreat with the warriors of the Grizzly Tribe.
In fact, his heart is inclined to take advantage of the chaos to escape, after all, the green wolf tribe dares to attack, and the strength must be stronger, but now the key to the problem is, where else can he go after he escapes?
It was definitely impossible to survive alone, and Ning Yuan estimated that if he lived alone in the wild, he would probably not be able to survive even one night.
It's not reliable to find a new tribe to take refuge in, not to mention whether he can find a new tribe alive, just treat him with the attitude of the Grizzly Bear tribe, he estimates that other tribes will not be much better, and may even get worse.
So now there is basically only one way left for him, and that is to stay and advance and retreat with the people of the Grizzly Tribe.
If the Grizzly Tribes win, then there is still hope for him, and if the Green Wolf Tribe wins, then his fate is likely to be out of his control, and he may not even be a slave.
After thinking about all this, Ning Yuan tightly grasped the big bone stick in his hand, and his eyes began to become sharp.