Chronicles of Primordial Wars

Just like people who are afraid of poverty and become rich overnight will continue to be excited, these days, the children in the cave have been in a state of extreme excitement.

The result of the excitement is a fight.

Outside of fishing hours, there are frequent fights in the hole.

I used to fight to grab food, but now I fight to protect food. Sometimes I pull back the spoils. If anyone gets the wrong fish, no problem, fight!

Now it's not a one-on-one duel. After Shao Xuan instilled in them the idea that a group is another form of hunting team, these children are now in groups of five, and fights are of course group-to-group. The battle between teams is fiercer than ever.

Shao Xuan sat beside him with his head lowered and sighed, committing sin!

After seeing the battle between the two groups caused by a child dragging the wrong fish, Shao Xuan looked at the mess in the cave, thought for a while, and set his eyes on the smooth stone wall near the entrance of the cave.

A long time ago, when the people of the tribe lived here, they polished the walls of the stone caves and carved characters on the walls of the caves. Later, when children lived there, they rarely added characters to the walls, even in the caves. Children who are bored or want to paint on a whim, will only draw near the ground, and if they are higher, there will only be traces left over many years ago.

The time is different, and the way and depth of the painting are also different. Some have used pigments made of plant pigments to paint, while others are directly carved with stone knives. Many traces have been blurred and discolored, and the original appearance cannot be seen clearly. It's a waste to put it there.

Shao Xuan recruited those little cubs who were too excited and energetic, and asked them to pick up stones and start polishing the walls of the cave.

There are some larger stones in the depths of the cave. They worked together to move them out. Grinding at the height of the cave wall needs to step on these stones, otherwise the height is not enough.

When there was something to do, these children really settled down a lot. In addition, this was Shao Xuan's order, and no one objected. Even if they were reluctant, they would take a stone and grind it a few times.

Because the cave wall has been polished for a long time, now it is just grinding away the traces on the surface. After feeling almost the same, Shao Xuan took the charred branch due to incomplete combustion, stepped on the stones below, and walked from the cave wall. I wrote five groups from 1 to 5, who represented one group, and which five people were in the second group. I made it clear to them one by one. To be on the safe side, Shao Xuan also wrote the names of the team members under the numerical code of each group. .

Every once in a while, the tribe will send people over to the cave to teach these children the most basic things, such as counting, such as some commonly used characters, etc. Shao Xuan knows the characters here because of this, but the children in the cave were reluctant before. Listen, I learned very little. Every time someone comes over, Shao Xuan listens carefully for a while.

The children in the cave all have a stone tablet around their necks, and the stone tablet is their name. Even if they can't write, they can't recognize many words, but they can still recognize their own name.

The names were written, the groups were divided, and the fish brought back had to be written down. Originally, Shao Xuan just wanted to write a number to record how many fish each group caught, but the children were not satisfied. Looking at the fish hanging above the hole, Shao Xuan drew a stick of charcoal on the wall of the hole—abstract fish, just a single stroke, and it was enough to see that it was a fish.

This time, the little brats were finally satisfied, and asked the person who could count the most in their group to check to see if the number of fish that Shao Xuan painted on the cave wall was the same as the number of fish he hung.

Each fish is only a sum of effort, and there are only a few dozen or so in total here, so it doesn't take much effort, and it's idle anyway.

Plus the hole is big and the walls are wide enough to draw a thousand fish.

Where Shao Xuan painted the fish, there is a high vent on the opposite side of the cave wall. During the day, sunlight will come in and shine on the cave wall, so that the paintings and calligraphy written on the cave wall can be seen. very clear.

So, outside of fishing time every day, five of these children would sit in the hole and weave straw ropes together. After weaving, they would look up at the wall of the cave, count the fish they made, and then count the fish hanging above them. Fish on their own "turf". It is precisely because of this that the counting ability of these children has increased rapidly.

In the past, people who were not willing to count with stone sticks, now don't need to be urged. They can do it dozens of times a day, which is still rare.

"A Xuan, is it twelve after ten?"

"It's eleven!"

"Oh... Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen... No, Ah Xuan, how come there are only fourteen fish in our team? Fifteen are drawn on the wall! One less! Who robbed us The fish?!!" Said that child and the other four in the same group were copying sticks and stones, and looked at the other children in the cave with gloomy eyes.

Shao Xuan took a deep breath and pointed at the wall with the branch: "Didn't you see a thick stroke on the fish painted in the front? That means you have eaten it, and you ate it last night. Are you going to spit out what's in your stomach to make sure? I--can--can--help!"

"...It seems to be." He tilted his head and thought about it, and the suffocating energy on the child suddenly subsided. He threw the stick and sat down with the other four to continue weaving straw ropes, as if nothing happened just now.

"A Xuan, I heard that Uncle Ge said that tomorrow will be good weather again. Shall we go to the river tomorrow?" a child asked expectantly.

The other children also pricked up their ears and stared at Shao Xuan with piercing eyes, as if Shao Xuan's heart would be shattered if he said the word "no".

"Well, it's business as usual tomorrow." Shao Xuan walked out of the cave, looked at the sky, and said.

Now the more than 20 children in the cave are all acting together. They are greedy and want to spend all day fishing on the river bank, but they also know that it is best to act with other people, and they have to do this. The reason is one— They can't get stone worms.

Shao Xuan has tried many kinds of bugs that can be found in the tribe, but only stone bugs have the best fishing effect. Shao Xuan will not give them stone worms for those who do not obey orders and act without authorization.

Do you still want stone worms if you are not obedient? Okay, you can dig it yourself. Without Caesar, you may not be able to dig a piece for a long time. Those stone worms move underground much faster than earthworms. If they cannot be caught in the first time, they will return empty-handed. Which time in the past few days was not the stone worm that Caesar helped to dig?

The second reason why they had to act in unison: they couldn't get that black nugget that could float on the water. To get that, they had to catch a bug that lived in the black swamp. Unfortunately, except for Caesar, they all The Black Marsh cannot be approached.

Because of this, Caesar's status in the cave has also improved a lot. At least the eyes of those children looking at Caesar are not the food eyes of red glutinous rice and succulent fruit. Some of them are more flexible and have learned to please. Caesar gnawed on the animal bones and gave the fish bones to Caesar. Unfortunately, Caesar had no interest in fish bones at all.

In any case, the relationship between these little brats and Caesar has eased a lot, and Shao Xuan doesn't have to worry about when these little brats will join forces to bake Caesar.

The next day, Shao Xuan was woken up early by this group of people, and went to the gravel field to dig stone worms. Caesar digs one, and Shao Xuan divides one for the captain appointed by each team.

A stone worm can be used two or three times. After digging, it will be cut into two sections from the middle. After a few minutes, the two ends of the cut will be able to move independently, from one to two. If you give a little more time, They can be exactly as long as they were before they were cut.

When everything was ready, Shao Xuan brought the group to the river bank again.

The soldiers who were in charge of guarding on the river bank changed a lot, but they quickly got to know Shao Xuan. In the past two days, they watched Shao Xuan bring the children in the cave to fish, and they would send them one every day. The impression of Shao Xuan is very good, and even the children who came out of the cave have changed a lot.

When they saw the river, these little cubs couldn't hold back, rushing to throw bait to catch fish. But Shao Xuan suddenly stopped him.

"Back! Back! Don't touch the water! Don't throw the bait first!" Shao Xuan grabbed the child who was at the front and threw it back, frowning and looking at the river.

Something is wrong today.