Chapter 166 - Hope
The merged Hanshui clan easily accepted the new patriarch Tianxiang. Of course, this was not just because he saved the life of the entire tribe. More because he brought new hope to the Hanshui tribe. After all, from the initial spice barbecue to the later defeating humanoids, the young patriarch who seemed to always have a kind smile on his face, always occupied an important position in the hearts of Hanshui people. Therefore, when Soman solemnly announced the merger with the Dragon Clan at the clan conference, all the Hanshui people present burst into cheers of joy. In their opinion, although Soman is an excellent leader, he is too gloomy and too dull compared to this young man who looks full of confidence.
Just imagine, who would like a person who hides under a thick bandage all day long? Tianxiang has been very busy during this period. Zhan Feng and Xiaotian have led some of his tribes to leave Longcheng. The Hope Base is also an ammunition factory, and all of them need manpower. Therefore, after leaving Fang Yu, Xia Dong and other young people who were deliberately trained, the old tribe who came to support and some newly joined Hanshui people rushed to the Hope Base on the second day of the merger. The large-scale attack of humanoids caused the Hanshui clan to lose some of his population. However, with the powerful particle weapons, the clever structure of Soman at the beginning of the establishment of the camp and the help of the dragon reinforcements, the losses of the entire tribe were minimized. Despite this, the population of the entire tribe still suffered more than 2,000 casualties. In addition, some tribes went to the Hope Base for necessary training. All the hunters stayed in Longcheng. However, only about 10,000 were lost.
Like the glorious base after the war, Tianxiang is most troubled at the moment. The mountain-stacked humanoid corpses outside Longcheng have all been completed. This work was completed very timely. Because, just when most of the furs were just transported into the city, the weather had turned completely cold. The humanoid corpses also became extremely cold and hard. They were stuck together, hard, and from a distance, they looked like a plain of gray-white meat.
Fortunately, it is winter now, and insect stricken people are hiding in deep caves to sleep. Otherwise, Tianxiang really doesn't know what he should do to resolve this terrible rotten crisis. Although God gave him several months, what should come must come. Although the severe cold can play the role of frozen corpses, when the spring will warm tomorrow, the large number of insects that are swarming with the rotten stench will definitely not be just interested in the dead.
The corpse must go away in the cloud.
What can tens of thousands of corpses do with the current more than 10,000 hunters? What's more, the ice and snow all over the sky have frozen all the corpses into a ball. If you want to move them from the snow, you will inevitably need to invest a lot of manpower. "They must be transported away, no matter how much the price." This is a unanimous decision made by Tianxiang after repeated discussions with Soman and some ethnic leaders. After all, if you leave less corpses, the risk of attack in the city will be reduced by one point.
In this way, Tianxiang divided all the local tribes into two parts, taking turns to carry out urban construction and daily transportation. Given that there is currently no container that can store electricity, except for a few small particle cannons that have been installed outside, the rest of the energy-consuming weapons are all sealed. Without energy, they are not even as lightest guns at critical moments. As for those gunpowder-fired ground cannons, Tianxiang placed them around the city's defense circle, and combined with them are also a large number of machine gun-building light and dark firepower points.
With those simple wooden stake walls, Tianxiang really did not win over the sudden crowd. In contrast, the work of transporting corpses was much harder. Every morning, a large number of hunters had to carry steel drills and hammers to drive the maggot trucks left by the sea people to the outside of the city. They pried up extremely heavy corpses from the hard frozen soil, put them on the shelves, loaded them, and then transported them to a hill about three or four kilometers away from the base. In Tianxiang's words: in this way, at least in the spring next year, a hunting ground where carnivorous insects gather.
This action lasted until the spring of the following year. During this period, Tianxiang was not idle either, and he obtained two completely unexpected things - cement and cord.
Cement is one of the things that Tianxiang has always wanted to obtain urgently. He knew very well that if it were not for the limitations of the surrounding environment of the Hope Base at that time, the Dragons might have begun to use this necessary object to build buildings. It was completely accidental. During the process of transporting humanoid corpses, Tianxiang unexpectedly discovered that in the mountains around Longcheng, there was a kind of soil particles similar to sand and clay. With great interest, he took this thing to finely grind it in the city.
After some easily obtained cement necessities, they finally obtained a cement substitute with extremely strong solidification and adhesion. Moreover, its function seemed to be better than the ancient mud and water. Tianxiang, who was overjoyed, immediately summoned some tribe members to transport this kind of soil back from the mountains to make cement. Although the yield was not high, it could accumulate objective stocks in one winter. Tianxiang believed that in spring, it would not take long to see with his own eyes that a beautiful and majestic dragon city rose from the desolate dark world.
As for Soman's flesh and blood, it was also one of the things that Tianxiang was interested in. From the time he first thought of breaking away from the control of the "Pathfinder" gene, this idea never disappeared. Therefore, after repeated consideration, Tianxiang finally decided to take a piece of meat from Soman's body when he recovered from the injury... and eat it raw. Soman had no objection to this. In fact, since Tianxiang treated him, he had already recognized the status of a friend of the other party. However, he didn't understand how his flesh and blood could have such an effect?
Tianxiang did not explain much. He understood that for all things, he could only wait for the piece of meat containing too many unknowns to be completely digested and absorbed by the body. Only then could he make a final conclusion. Tianxiang did not say what the specific feeling was. However, when Soman asked curiously, he looked at the other party with interest, then lowered his voice and said something that almost made Soman angry to death.
“It tastes good, a lot of delicious.”
Tianxiang himself did not know whether this would work. After all, Soman's body had been changed by phagocytocytes. Apart from the faint residual gene in his brain, there was no "pathfinder" characteristic. Therefore, it is absolutely not possible to use him as a party group to sense objects. The only way is to wait until Zhan Feng, Qin Guang, Yang Xiaotian and Ou Qin reunite with him. According to the development plan formulated, the plains to the south should be used as the tuber planting site in the spring of the following year. However, Soman believed that there was no danger here, and it might be dangerous if it was used as a purely source of food. Therefore, his plan was to plant a large number of fast-growing plants here to completely cover up the appearance of the entire city. However, Tianxiang did not agree with such opinions.
"I also considered what you said. But I think the place that is most suitable for planting woods should be here." Tianxiang's hand drew a line from the south of the city map, far more than tens of kilometers above the plain. "Are you crazy? Here? That's so far?" Soman was a little surprised.
"I'm not crazy." Tianxiang smiled and said, "How many people do you think we can accommodate just this little range at this moment?"
"No more than 15,000 at most," Soman thought for a while and added: "If it is more crowded, it can reach about 17,000."
"Yes, so in such a small circle, where should those large defensive weapons be placed?"
"Does you want to..."
"My goal is to first build a central city with a capacity of about 50,000. Then, expand and extend the surrounding area. Therefore, the fast plain in the south can only serve as a source of food. "But, if this happens, what should we do if the city is safe?" Soman was worried.
"Safety is absolutely no problem." Tianxiang said confidently: "We have a large number of long-range attack weapons. The range is enough to cover the entire area nearby. We only need to set up a large number of defensive traps in the suburbs of the city and set up some obstacles outside this line to eliminate a large number of attackers in a short period of time. In addition, we can build a solid city wall next spring. I believe that even twice as many humanoids are not our opponent."
"Fifty thousand people? So many? How to solve the food?" Soman was still a little worried. "Haha! You don't know the yield of this kind of thing." Tianxiang gently picked up a ball of roasted tubers on his hand and smiled: "Next year, it will surprise you when it comes to the harvest season."
"...You have the final say. After all, you are the patriarch." Soman smiled bitterly and stopped insisting. However, the plan that Tianxiang showed him next made him feel involuntarily excited twice. Tianxiang seemed to be born an ambitious man full of greed and desire. He actually thought of avenging Soman. Of course, this was just a nominal cover. His real intention was the Hanshui tribe with tens of thousands of people after the split.
"I'm afraid this won't work." After listening to Tianxiang's entire plan, Soman said bluntly: "They are too far away from us. Based on ordinary footwork, it will take at least two months. What's more..." "I walked from the Hope Base here for more than a month. Haha! I've still eaten your tribe." Tianxiang smiled and made an exaggerated move.
"This is different." Soman shook his head helplessly: "At that time, your first contact had already gained the trust of many tribesmen. Moreover, if you appeared as a supporter, you would naturally be accepted by them. However, the two-month journey was not a joke. Once you lost all supplies, the entire expedition team would face a catastrophe." "Okay, okay, don't discuss this issue again." Seeing that the situation was not good, Tianxiang quickly changed the topic: "How much food do we have in stock now?"
"Not a lot, but enough to eat until next spring."
"That's good." Tianxiang put away the laughter on his face and said seriously: "There is one month left, and winter is about to end. At that time, I will go back to the base of the Ministry and lie down first. A telegram line is laid from there to connect to Longcheng. I think you will probably be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who
"Nonsense!" In an instant, Tian Xiang, who was full of Su Ya's mind, suddenly remembered that Soman no longer had the ability to do this, so he quickly changed his words: "I won't say it anymore, I won't say it anymore..."
"Nothing, I can understand." said Manao, "There is no need to be like this. I am not as fragile as you think..." "If there is a way to treat it..." Tianxiang suddenly remembered the oval culture tanks in the Glory Base. If there is enough energy, can Soman's body be repaired?
However, Soman didn't seem to have much hope for this suggestion. In desperation, Tianxiang had to transfer all his energy to the construction of the city first. Winter came very quickly and walked in a hurry. The hard earth, which had been condensed in ice and snow for several months, began to become wet and soft in the warm spring breeze. The snow water soaked in the soil meandered along the invisible underground ditches, waking up sleeping bugs one by one.
Hunger! Endless hunger, strong hunger! This is the only main song in the dark world every spring. In order to fill the hunger, the insects awaken from sleep will not care about the taste of food. There are not many foods to eat in spring, and the insects will never pick up at this time. However, this year's spring surprises all the rotten insects around Longcheng. They really didn't expect that there would be such a rich feast of rotten meat quietly waiting for their visit in the warm spring breeze. The humanoid corpses around the city have been cleared out. Although the labor of a winter only completed half of the scheduled tasks, Tianxiang is already very satisfied. At least, there is no humanoid corpse or something in the area nearly kilometers from the edge of the city. In other words, even if the insects want to eat, they have to do it outside this range.
However, to be on the safe side, he still ordered all the tribe members to retreat into the second pile wall and wait quietly for the worms to enjoy a sumptuous meal. "This place is much better than the glorious base." In the clan leader's hut, Tianxiang listened to the "ba-chi" sound from the mouths of tens of thousands of insects in the distance, stuffed a piece of barbecue into his mouth without any scruples, and said comfortably to Soman, who was full of disgusting and discomfort: "At least, you can only hear the sound now, and you can't smell the stench for the time being.
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"Think about it, it's delicious!" Tianxiang took a bite seriously, bulged his cheeks on both sides, and smiled badly: "Listen, how happy they eat." "...Wow..."
Soman couldn't remember how many times he had vomited today. In short, the things in his stomach had almost been cleared...
Such days lasted for nearly a week. It was not until Tianxiang approved the tribe's people to open the camp gate and walk out of the city that everyone was surprised to find that the original hellish scene was no longer there. Instead, clusters of fresh green grass emerged from the ground. I don't know who started it, but all tribe's people immediately cheered in unison. After experiencing death and fatigue, they discovered for the first time that life was such a meaningful thing.
On the fertile plain to the south, planted tubers are sown in the newly turned land. Although the area of planting is not large, it embodies people's unlimited hope.
The hills to the north are surrounded by clumps of newly transplanted plants. In no time, this place will become a paradise for plant insectivorous food. It is also a natural pasture for people to eat meat. The hills to the west contain rich underground resources, which will provide hunters with more self-sufficiency items in the future.
The ruins of the city on the east side are the legacy left by ancient humans. No one knows how many secrets, stories, and relics are buried there... In the center of all regions, there is a gathering place for humans temporarily built of wood and stones. From a distance, it seems to be just a stronghold for defense, or a temporary residence for hunters. But no matter what, this will be a place where the earth's civilization has been destroyed for hundreds of years, and it will be a rebirth place for humans to re-rule the earth.
A city full of hope is emerging.
Chapter completed!