prehistoric calendar

In the heavy rain, with lightning and thunder, a rider ran towards the gate of the tribal camp from the darkness of the rainy night.

Gu Hezhen is the assistant guarding the gate today. In addition to their two ten-year-old boys, there are two adults also in the gate corridor. However, the two adults are sleeping at the moment, and they will only be dispatched when emergencies occur.

Gu Hezhen was sitting under the rain shield on the gate tower. Both of them were actually a little drowsy. However, when several riders rushed from the darkness, the two of them immediately woke up and stood up immediately.

When they stood up and looked down, they also knocked on the hollow bamboo pole on the gatehouse, waking up the adults in the corridor of the gatehouse.

Soon, two adult men rushed out of the gatehouse. They looked at the several riders below with vigilance. These riders were all human beings, and each of them had a horse as a mount. This was the name of the Pan tribe.

What they don't have is that the Pan tribe doesn't have the knowledge to raise horses or domesticate horses, nor do the surrounding tribes. Obviously, these riders come from large tribes.

The two adults did not open the camp gate immediately. One of them shouted and ran into the tribal camp. The other adult looked down with a spear in hand. The riders did not rush into the camp gate, nor did they.

He spoke and just stood quietly below. The several riders were about three meters apart. Each of them held a spear in their hand. They did not move at all despite the wind and rain. Even the horses they were riding stood quietly.

In place.

Gu looked at the riders below in shock. This silence, this order, this stillness all gave Gu a huge sense of shock. This was a kind of power. There were only a few riders, but Gu felt it from them.

The breath of bravery hit me.

In fact, only Gu kept looking at these riders. The little friends around him began to feel weak all over, their hands and feet were trembling slightly. Even the adult holding the spear was trembling. They themselves didn't understand.

What were they shaking? Except for Gu who just felt shocked, the other two people all felt fear and fear.

This is murderous aura. These riders carry an invisible murderous aura. It is the aura that only people who come out of the pile of corpses have. It is invisible and has no quality, but it is really enough to make ordinary people not even dare to get close.

After a few minutes or so, several people came running quickly from the tribal camp. The leader was a strong middle-aged man with a big beard, who was the leader of the Pan tribe. He ran to the gatehouse, looked down, and then immediately gave orders.

The tribesmen opened the gate, and the riders entered the tribal camp one by one. The leader of the Pan tribe immediately greeted them and muttered something to them.

Gu still wanted to get closer, but was immediately pulled back by his little friend Zhen. Gu turned around and saw that Zhen's face was pale, and at the same time, his whole body was trembling, which actually frightened him.

When he was gone, he held him up and prayed: "What's wrong? Is it too cold? Go to the fire to warm yourself up."

At this time, the rider, the clan leader and the adults had all gone away, and his face gradually turned red. He looked at the rider's back with straight eyes and said, "Don't you feel it? It's so scary, those people are so good

It’s terrible…”

"What?" Gu was a little confused. He also looked at the riders, and then he asked, "What's so scary?"

He pointed at the rider and said: "Those people, my whole body is shaking when they get close to me. I don't even dare to look at them. I think if I look at them a few more times, they might rush up and kill me. Really?"

Kill me...you didn’t see anything, didn’t you feel anything?”

Gu scratched his head, thought about it carefully, then shook his head and said: "I don't know what you are talking about. Those people are also human beings, not monsters. What's so scary about them."

Xi looked at Gu with an inexplicable look. The little boy thought about it carefully. It seemed that Gu had never shown any fear. This had been the case since he was a child. Whether he ran into the darkness at night or picked up some food with his bare hands.

Insects that look scary, or when a tribesman is injured or even dead, he will move the body with the adults, and follow the adults to bury the tribesman...

Gu never seems to be afraid??

Stupid big guy.

These three words suddenly came to mind. Gu was more than a head taller than him, and his body was as strong as that of an adult. Although his muscles looked only slightly smaller than those of their peers, all the friends who were familiar with Gu knew that

, Gu’s strength is greater than any other adult in the tribe.

"I...forget it." You were speechless, but Gu was his little friend who had played with him since childhood, so he still said one more sentence: "Anyway, don't run over and join in the fun.

Something...is wrong personally."

Gu nodded, but he was still extremely curious about who those riders were, where they came from, and why they looked... so powerful?

The next day, Gu learned from his father the origins of these riders.

They came from the large tribe far away from the Pan tribe and were the "soldiers" of that large tribe. They were ordered to contact all the human tribes around the desert sea and tell these human tribes that war was coming.

"...Small-sized tribes will recruit fifty strong hunters, and medium-sized tribes will recruit three hundred strong hunters..." Gu's father was sharpening his stone axe. While talking, he put down the stone axe, sighed slightly, and then walked away.

After a long time, he picked up the stone ax and sharpened it, then put it down and sighed.

Gu looked at his father. This was the first time he had seen such a frowning state. In Gu's mind, his father was a man as hard as a rock. No matter how injured he was during hunting in the past, he would not even frown.

He didn't frown, but now he was actually sighing. This made Gu find it hard to believe. Is that thing called war really so terrible?

Gu's father said to his wife: "Today at dusk, the clan chiefs and elders will select hunters at the campfire in the center of the tribe. Witnessed by the stars in the sky and the sun and moon in their hearts, anyone who has won the lot will go there.

Far away, maybe...may never come back again."

Gu's mother is a strong woman. She has always been smiling, preparing food for Gu Hexing, preparing packages for her husband, kneading leather, and collecting weeds and fruits. At this time, she is carefully pulling Gu.

The worry on his father's clothes was palpable.

Gu's father sighed and said, "If I go..."

At this point, he was speechless, and the couple fell silent. At this time, Xing stood up and said loudly: "If dad wins the lottery, I will go to the war in his place!"

The couple looked at Xing at the same time, Gu Ye looked at Xing stupidly, and his father said in a deep voice: "Nonsense, you are a woman, you are already fourteen years old, you can only be serious after a few days to find a man to marry."

Xing was angry in her heart, but this was indeed the common thought of everyone in the tribe. She rolled her eyes, pointed at Gu and her sister, Li, who was only three years old, and said: "Then what will they do? What if dad goes there?"

Yuanfang, Gu Ye is only ten years old and is not qualified to participate in hunting. If he does not participate in hunting, it is impossible to get enough food. My mother must also marry other tribesmen. If I marry, I will be the same as other men.

We’re home, it’s impossible to bring food over, and if dad wants to go to war, he has to wait at least until Gu is fourteen, right?"

The father was stunned, then sighed heavily, and silently began to sharpen his axe.

Xingjiu said with a smile: "I am fourteen years old. Although I am not a qualified hunter in the tribe, I can also hunt. Mom and Dad all know that I am accurate in archery. If the soldiers of the big tribe disagree,

I'll show them the archery on the spot. If I'm more accurate than them, then they will definitely be willing to recruit a sharpshooter, right?"

"Nonsense..." My father didn't say anything else, he just kept talking back and forth between these two words.

Gu was still a little confused. He didn't understand what was going on. The war, the soldiers, and his father was going to a far away place, and he might not be able to come back for the rest of his life... These were too far away from him.

At dusk that day, my father indeed won the lottery.

The entire Pan tribe only has a few thousand people, about half of whom are women, and the remaining half are children and old people. There are only five or six hundred truly strong adult hunters, which is equivalent to two people being drawn.

One, this probability is already very high, and it is natural to be chosen.

The clan leaders and elders looked at the three hundred strong hunters who had been selected. Their expressions were bitter, and their hearts were almost bleeding. These three hundred strong adult hunters had been drafted into the battlefield, and they could almost be considered dead.

With only half of the adult males left in the tribe, prey harvest will plummet in the next few years, and their hard days are coming.

But they couldn't say no. Unlike ordinary clansmen, the clan leaders and elders were well-informed. Almost all of them had seen the horrors of all clans.

All races regard human beings as cattle and ants. Although large tribes occupy the places with the most abundant water and grass, they also block the entrance of all races into the desert sea. The reason why these tribes can survive and reproduce in peace is thanks to

The large tribes stood in front, blocking the sporadic pioneering groups or colonists of all races.

But now the large tribes can't stop them. It seems that there are already many tribes entering the desert sea, and they even appear in large scale. This must be resisted and war must be fought, otherwise these tribes will sooner or later be overrun by thousands of tribes.

The clan was razed.

Then, Gu really saw his sister Xing stand up and loudly asked to take his father's place in the war.

This was naturally impossible. The clan chiefs and elders shouted loudly, and the riders of the large tribes all showed disdain.

Then Xing casually took a bow, which was the most ordinary wooden bow, and shot an arrow at the camp gate more than two hundred meters away. The arrow directly penetrated the gate, but hit the gap in the gate.

The power, such a divine shot, shocked everyone at once. Even the soldiers from the large tribes opened their mouths wide, and their eyes were about to fall off.

In the end, Xing took his father's place in the war, which was a common request of the large tribal soldiers. Although his father was livid, after returning home, he kept sharpening his axe, sharpening his spear, and preparing for Xing's death.

He prepared the hardwood longbow that he always used, and placed the best and straightest arrows next to the longbow. He also placed a piece of leather clothing together. These were all prepared by him.

battlefield equipment...

His mother was crying all the time, pulling Xing to say some thoughtful words, but Gu and his sister Li were both a little confused. Although Gu knew that Xing was going to a war far away, he still had no personal experience of his relatives leaving.

I just felt uncomfortable in my heart, but I couldn't say much for a while.

That night, Gu and Xing left the tribe and came to the place where Gu was exercising. Xing hummed a song and lay down on the rock, while Gu sat beside Xing and hesitated.

Xing patted Gu on the shoulder and said: "Okay, why do you look like a woman? I just went to participate in the battlefield. It's not like I will run away and never come back. And I actually didn't force myself at all, on the contrary.

Very happy and excited.”

Gu said dullly: "Why? It was a war. I heard my father and adults say it. It was a battle between many, many people and all races. People would die every moment... Sister, can you not go?

?”

"Idiot." Xing was moved in his heart and knocked Gu on the head and said: "If I don't go, then dad will go. You know how powerful I am. I can survive on the battlefield, but what about dad?

?So rest assured and wait for my name to spread throughout this desert, no, throughout this world."

When Xing said this, he was smiling brightly. This flawless smile made Gu's heart slowly calm down. He also lay down next to Xing, and Xing simply hugged Gu sideways.

The two of them lay down quietly. After a while, Gu suddenly asked: "Sister, you have to be careful. War...war is very scary."

Xing just smiled, and the two of them talked about what they said to each other. When the night got late and they were about to go back, Xing said seriously to Gu: "Gu, I'm leaving, dad, mom, and...

Sister, you have to protect them, you know?"

Gu nodded in agreement seriously, and Xing added: "Also, you can't stop physical exercise. After so many years of physical exercise, you can also slightly control your muscles, bones, and blood vessels. The deeper bone marrow and

You can't control your nerves yet, but you can train your body to your limit and never stop, you know?"

Gu Yiran nodded seriously in agreement, Xing thought for a while and said: "Also, you have very little combat experience, and it's my fault that I have been protecting you too little, so in the following days, you must practice while

While hunting by yourself, if you don't eat enough meat, you won't be able to exercise at such a high intensity, so after I leave, you have to hunt secretly by yourself every day, starting with small animals, then big animals, Warcraft and so on...

...Don’t mess with it for the time being. Also, you can enter dense forests and mountains, but you can only enter the periphery and not go deep, do you understand?”

Gu still nodded in agreement.

Xing also said a lot of things to pay attention to, and also said a lot of things to take good care of his parents and sisters, and the two returned home under the night.

Xing was so excited that he couldn't sleep, and Gu thought about Xing going far away, but couldn't sleep either.

It's late at night, both siblings are thinking about the future, tomorrow...

It's coming tomorrow.