Primitive Survival of Mercenaries

Chapter 22 Resisting Foreign Enemies

Ke Tu invited Wu Si and Ah Qing over to discuss how to deal with the Red Earth tribe.

Among the dozens of tribes near and far, the Hongtu tribe is a big one, with hundreds of people, while the Kasa tribe has less than 50 people. Excluding the elderly, children and women, there are only 28 people who can hunt.

"How come people from the Red Earth tribe appear here? It takes at least seven days to walk from where they live to us." Wu Si felt a little strange.

"They said they were looking for a suitable place to live."

"No tribe would change their place of residence in such cold weather. The wild animals in the forest are more ferocious than usual, and many people will freeze to death." Ah Qing has been hunting for many years, and he knows how terrifying the forest in winter is.

It's not migration, it's to compete for food and women.The atmosphere in the tent was a bit heavy, and even Wu Si stopped smiling and looked serious——at any time, the number of people is the key to determining the outcome of a battle.

"Ah Qing, what happened to the ditch that I said to dig last time?" Ke Tu thought for a long time. The current advantage of the tribe is the crossbow that is good at long-distance attack, and the trap that Xie Yi mentioned.

"Half dug already."

"You and Lang Ye lead people to guard the cave these days, and dig the trench as soon as possible. I will take stones and them to find the place where the red earth people live. If there are many of them, we will guard the cave. If there are only a few people we met today Individuals, just kill them directly."

Ketu is decisive in killing and attacking, quite the courage of the head of a clan.

Xie Yi found a comfortable place to nest in the corner, "Ah Qing, give me all the animal tendons you have these days, and I'll make some crossbows tomorrow. This kind of weapon can be used by women and children."

Ketu nodded, a smile finally appeared in his eyes.

Although it had been agreed upon, Xie Yi could still feel Ketu's restlessness, whether it was absent-mindedness during dinner or the sound of the animal skin turning over and over again.

He got up and called Ketu out.

"Are you worried about the Hongtu tribe?" Xie Yi patted his side and told Ketu to sit down.

"Well," Ketu replied after a long silence, "When I first became the patriarch, I hoped that the Kasa tribe could be as strong as the Hongtu tribe. Several tribes near us were invaded by the Hongtu tribe. If we are defeated by the Red Earth people, all my people will be killed and the women will be captured and enslaved, so I must win." He paused, "I will definitely protect my people, you and Kemu's."

Xie Yi used to fight side by side with his teammates. It was the first time he heard someone say that he wanted to protect him, but he didn't find it ridiculous. Instead, he felt an inexplicable emotion flooding his heart.

He suddenly remembered the night when his parents passed away together, he was nestled in the corner alone, the door was blown open by the howling cold wind outside, but he didn't dare to close it, so he could only stay huddled until dawn.At that time, what was he thinking...

Xie Yi picked up the corners of his mouth in the dark night, and hugged Jutu sideways, "Okay, I believe you."

Early the next morning, Ketu set off with a dozen tribesmen, each carrying a crossbow and a bamboo tube full of arrows on their backs, and holding stone spears in their hands.

Xie Yi took Kemu and Duolu to make crossbow arrows in the tent, and occasionally went out to guide Ah Qing and the others on the trench they dug.In the tense atmosphere of preparing for the war, everyone in the clan was very busy, and Guoli also brought a woman to sharpen the spikes to be buried in the trench.

Xie Yi worked all day and finally finished the crossbow. He looked at the sky outside and it was already dark.

"Brother Xie Yi, why haven't they come back yet?" Ke Mu didn't have any intention of cooking at all, so he ran to the entrance of the cave to look at it several times.

Xie Yi was also a little worried. Gosang was the most cunning person he had ever seen in the primitive society. Ketu had little chance of winning against him.He took the saber and walked to the entrance of the tent. After hesitating for a moment, he turned the Desert Eagle out again, loaded the bullet and loaded it.

"You two stay well in the tent, don't run around, I'll go find Ketu."

"Brother Xie Yi, I want to go with you." When Ke Mu heard that he was looking for his brother, he would follow regardless.

Doru also stood up and followed behind without saying a word.

"Nonsense!" Xie Yi's face turned cold, "You two go back and cook!"

Although Xie Yi usually has a pleasant face towards Kemu, he is a person who is struggling in the bloody battlefield after all.Ke Mu flinched from being yelled at, and went back obediently.

Dolu looked at Xie Yi strangely several times before following him back.Ke Mu is well-behaved on weekdays, but when he gets stubborn, even Ke Tu can't hold back. This is the first time Duolu has seen him so obedient.

Xie Yicai was not in the mood to care about the children's emotions, so he went straight out of the cave and greeted Ah Qing who was guarding the cave entrance, "I'll go find Ketu."

"Hey, no, it's too dangerous to be alone after dark." Before Ah Qing finished speaking, Xie Yi had already walked a hundred meters away, so anxious that he picked up the stone spear and chased after him, "Xie Yi, Xie Yi!"

"The patriarch and the others are back." A voice suddenly came from the people patrolling the periphery.

Seeing that Xie Yi stopped, Ah Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and welcomed Ke Tu and the others back to the cave.

Ke Tu took quite a few people with him, and he was not injured at all, but his complexion was not good-looking, and Ah Qing's heart skipped a beat, could it be that the worst had happened. "Patriarch, there are a lot of Hongtu people here?"

Ke Tu shook his head, "We found where they lived, but we didn't see a single person when it was getting dark, so we had to come back first."

"Everyone has disappeared. Could it be that they are really looking for a suitable place to live?" Ah Qing was surprised.

"I don't know, I'll take someone over to have a look tomorrow." Ke Tu looked around, "Where's Xie Yi? I heard you calling his name just now."

"I'm here," Xie put away the Desert Eagle and saber, and walked out from the shadows.

Ketu took out a bunch of silver-gray things from his arms and handed them to him, "This thing looks very similar to the thread you wanted last time. I don't know if it is, so I brought some back."

Xie Yi took it over and saw that it was hemp fiber.He didn't expect Ketu to remember the last time he said about changing the line, "Where did you find this?"

"The place where the Red Earth people live."

"This thing can indeed be used as thread, but I don't know how to do it." Xie Yi tried to twist two hemp fibers together.

The fibers tangle easily and appear stronger than they should be.

"I'll give this to Qing Shui, she is dexterous, let her think about it carefully." Xie Yi pinched the fiber ball, "It's a pity that there are too few of these things, if we can find hemp to make a rope, we can find a way to spin it." Get out the cloth."

"Ma? What?"

"I don't know too well. It should be a kind of thin and tall grass. Look slowly in the future, and you will find it." If it is a weapon or something, Xie Yi can still say one, two, three, but these messy things , he also only knew some things that modern people know.