Chronicles of Primordial Wars

Chapter 55: Insects Below the Mountains

The weak in the mountain forest are the most vulnerable to attack, so Shao Xuan has been watching his surroundings spiritually. He is now only a minor child, one of the weakest in the eyes of the beasts and beasts.

By the time we crossed the basin, it was almost evening. Shao Xuanyuan thought there would be a cave dedicated to rest. After all, the hunting team's rule was not to go out hunting at night, and staying outside was too dangerous. There was no cave to rest in this place always felt insecure.

Shao Xuan unexpectedly, the cave of the second position is not on this side.

The second hunting ground is on the other side of the mountain, but...

Shao Xuan looked up at the mountain, completely blind to the top of the mountain and overlooking the border. It was too difficult to turn it over. Even with the tough physical strength of the Totem warriors, it might not be possible to turn it over for a day, not to mention it was too late. There are already a lot of bright eyes staring this way in the jungle near the foot of the mountain.

Mac didn't stop at this with the hunting team, but he kept going up the hill.

Close to the hillside, there is indeed a hole, large, not naturally formed, not deliberately cut out by the tribe, but drilled by some creature.

To be exact, it's a tunnel, and every time the hunting team comes in here, they can walk to the other side of the mountain and go straight through the mountain.

On the wall of the hole close to the hole, the dense numbness was engraved with words. At the end of the day, Shao Xuan saw Mai's name.

Each leader of the team will write his own name when he passes through here, so all these names are written by the leaders of the hunting teams of the previous tribes. When Mike can no longer lead the team, when the new team leader is selected, when he comes here, the new leader will also write his own name. In their view, this is a symbol of honour.

Before entering the hole, the hunting team will hold a small ceremony to thank the ancestors who opened the hunting route.

Mac placed the spear in his hand beside his foot, kneeling on one knee, palms facing inward, hands staggered in front of his forehead, and kneeling against the wall of the hole filled with his name.

“To the ancestors!! ”

“To!”

Shao Xuan also followed other hunting team members and thanked them with the same courtesy.

It is said that every hunting team has traveled the route the ancestors took. Long ago, when the tribes were understaffed, they did not divide so many hunting teams. Each time they went out to hunt, they changed the route. This time, the next time they went hunting that route, the next time they changed the route.

Later, more tribes split up, and each of the hunting routes that the ancestors had pioneered had a hunting team going that way.

It is also necessary to follow the route in order to avoid unknown and unpredictable factors. What kind of beasts are there on every hunting route? How many beasts are there? How's the geography? This can be gained from the experience of generations of hunter fighters, and if you deviate too far from this route, you can't respond to anything in a timely fashion, which can cause even greater losses.

Of course, the hunting route is only one general direction to be taken, on the basis of which it is freely available. For example, Mac's hunting team, the route is to go over the mountain where the first stronghold is located, then across the basin, then across the mountain today, to the other side of the mountain.

As for those in the tribe who have their own ideas to open up new routes, let alone the joint decision-making of witches and chiefs.

Paranoid to open a new hunting route?

Aren't you better than your ancestors?

Absolutely not!

Don't you think this is a bad route?

Damn it! How dare you doubt your ancestors! Believe it or not, beat you to death?!

……

Tribes are always particularly obsessed with what their ancestors passed down, and even if there are many decisions that Shao Xuan sees as inappropriate, Tribes don't think wrong at all.

In addition to their loyalty to Totem, tribesmen also have more worship and trust in their ancestors than Shao Xuan imagined. Even if ancestors crawled out of the earth and told them that there was only one moon in the sky today, tribesmen would not hesitate to nod their heads.

This is also the result of the brainwashing education of successive witches, passed down from generation to generation.

The leaders of each generation of hunting teams lead the hunting team, and they always feel that they can walk the path of their ancestors once more in order to be worthy of their ancestors and to be worthy of the hunting route that their ancestors pioneered. If you look at the names written on the stone walls of the cave, the heads think alike.

After entering the hole, ignite the fire heap, the hunting team did not go inside, according to the previous habit, after entering the hole will spend the night in the hole, tomorrow morning will go inside, through this cave, it will take some time, because, it is not a straight line.

“How did this hole get to the other side of the mountain?” Shao Xuan asked Langa to rest by the fire.

“By the time the ancestors found this place, the hole was already there, and it was said that there was a stoneworm king beneath the mountain, and all the curved paths in the mountain were drilled out of it.” Langa said.

“Stoneworm?!” Shao Xuan was surprised that the rounded passage was at least 10 meters high, and listened to Mai say that there were plenty of underground or hilltop access inside the mountain in addition to connecting the passages on both sides. I can't believe this size of a perforated cave tunnel was made by a stone worm?!

How big is that?

It's incomparable with the stone worms used as bait!

However, this should be the story passed down by the ancestors who first came here to open up hunting routes, and the question of whether there are actually stone worms has yet to be tested.

“So... have any of the ancestors ever seen a stone worm under this mountain?” Shao Xuan asked. It's been years since the original generation of hunting teams came and opened their way. Even if the tribal hunting teams haven't spent much time here, who's ever seen them?

“That's not true.” Langa saw that Shao Xuan was still suspicious, "he said.“ But listen, there will be voices in the cave, there must be stoneworm king bugs. ”

Shao Xuan's side ears listened carefully, there are indeed some very slight cries, but that is not necessarily caused by stoneworms. Since there are many holes in the mountain, the wind blows in from one hole, and several other holes blow out, there will also be such a sound.

There is still a lot of doubt in my mind, but looking at Langa, even if Shao Xuan asks, I can't get an answer. Without arguing with these obstinate people, Shao Xuan turned to ask: "What's on the other side of the mountain? What's the difference from this side of the mountain? ”

Indeed, Langa's attention was quickly diverted.

“Different? Actually, the biggest difference is that there are a lot of giant birds across the mountain.” Langa stretched his arm a bit longer than he did. Although his arm was limited in length, he could tell from the exaggerated look on his face that it must be really, really big.

In fact, looking back in detail, Shao Xuan found that from entering the mountain forest to now, large raptors are rarely seen. Although there are many in Shao Xuan that seem to be very large, according to Langa, on the other side of the mountain, there are larger and more fierce raptors. The feathers inserted on the heads of some warriors at the tribal Snow Festival sacrifice ceremony were probably caught on that side of the mountain.