Lin Yan walked to Yun Qing's side, "They can't understand what we say, and we can't understand what they say. We can't understand the language and can't communicate. Let's tie them up first."
Yun Qing nodded and asked someone to bring him a hemp rope to tie him up.
When the two rough men saw this situation, they immediately resisted and started dancing wildly at them with wooden sticks to prevent anyone from getting close.
Yun Qing and a few others were not afraid of wooden sticks. They rushed forward and subdued the people in a few seconds and tied them up with hemp ropes.
The two rough men didn't expect Yun Qing and the others to be so good at fighting, especially when they saw the sharp knives in their hands easily cutting off the wooden sticks, their expressions changed greatly.
One of them yelled at the shore, telling the tribesmen to leave quickly. The people on the boat were too powerful.
The person hiding in the grass heard the shouting, hesitated for a while, turned around and ran away.
The night was already very dark, so the people on duty were asked to watch the two people who made the sneak attack. The others were very sleepy, so they went to rest first and wait until daybreak.
Early the next morning, Yun Qing ordered the three ships to stay farther away from the shore, waiting to see if those who escaped last night would return.
Two rough men were tied up and sitting back to back on the deck. Lin Yan was standing in front of them, gnawing on pancakes, while Shui Sheng and the others surrounded them and watched.
Huang Ying said: "How can we communicate if we don't understand the language? Judging from their appearance, they must be living a bad life. They have no clothes to wear and there are so many scars on their bodies. They look like savages at first glance."
"We were like this before." Shui Sheng said.
Lin Yan nodded, "Yes, the life of savages is indeed difficult. These two people and their tribe discovered us yesterday and waited until night to attack us. They are quite brave."
She walked up to the two of them, tore off a bite of pancake and handed it to them, "Want to eat?"
The two rough men, who had been frightened all night, were already hungry. They had long noticed the pancake in Lin Yan's hand. It was something they had never seen before. Seeing how delicious it was, they were even more curious to try it.
Seeing the two of them nodding, Lin Yan handed the pancake to their mouths.
After the two rough men finished eating, they stared eagerly at the half piece of pancake left in Lin Yan's hand.
Huang Ying said: "Lin Yan, why are you giving them food? They should be hungry."
"These two people are difficult to deal with. Carrying them is a burden and adds a burden to us. Lin Yan, how do you plan to deal with them?" Lan Yue came over, holding three steamed buns in her hand, which were her breakfast.
The two people on the ground had just taken a bite of the pancake, but it was gone before they could taste it. Their eyes were fixed on the steamed bun in Lan Yue's hand.
Huang Ying smiled and said: "These two people have really accurate intuition. They can find the right food at a glance."
Lin Yan looked at Lan Yue's steamed bun and then at the two rough men. She pointed at the steamed bun and asked, "Want to eat?"
A rough man paused for a few seconds, seemed to have come to his senses, nodded hurriedly, stared at the steamed buns and muttered a few words.
Lin Yan took a steamed bun and took a bite, pointed at the two of them, then pointed in the direction they came from last night, and made some gestures.
If they want to eat, they can call the tribesmen over.
The two rough men looked at the knife at Lan Yue's waist with fear and nodded hesitantly in agreement.
After breakfast, leaving the people guarding the ship behind, Lin Yan followed Yun Qing and the others to escort the two rough men off the ship to find where they lived.
After walking less than a hundred meters, I ran into a group of people. They used sticks and sharp stones as weapons and were about to rush over.
The two rough men talked a lot to the crowd. Lin Yan stared at the opposite side and saw their expressions gradually subsided from anger, and finally stared at him suspiciously.
The two parties, Chicken and Duck, have temporarily reached an agreement. No one made a move and stared at each other warily.
Lin Yan walked out of the crowd, and Lan Yue followed her silently, holding a big knife in her hand, ready to slash at anyone at any time.
Putting up a smile, Lin Yan made herself look kind and harmless. She pointed at the two rough men, then pointed at each other and said, "We have no ill intentions, we just want to take a look at your tribe."
Lan Yue reminded: "They don't understand."
"I know. But I can't understand the language, so I have to communicate." Lin Yan was also helpless.
Someone behind him suddenly said: "Let me try."
Lin Yan turned around and saw that it was Shui Sheng. She simply gave up her position.
Shuisheng slept very late last night and communicated with the two tied people for a long time. It should be fruitful.
Then I heard Shuisheng uttering several unfamiliar words, as if they were jumping out one by one, and the pronunciation was not in the language they often spoke.
This scene shocked many people. Lin Yan felt that Shui Sheng was really talented and could learn the other person's language so quickly.
The people on the other side were even more shocked and stared at Shui Sheng suspiciously. This outsider actually said the same thing as them.
Lin Yan watched helplessly as Shui Sheng went from being stumbling at the beginning to becoming more and more fluent later on. He seemed to have unlocked a mysterious skill and learned it by himself without a teacher.
Her eyes widened and she couldn't believe that Shuisheng could learn it so quickly.
A few minutes later, Shui Sheng said, "They live not far from here. Do we want to follow them?"
Yun Qing said: "How many people are there in them?"
"I've already asked. They don't know how to count, but judging from the description, there should be quite a few people."
Yun Qing looked at his own people, then at the group of savages opposite, and said, "Follow us and have a look."
Shuisheng nodded and spoke to the savages. The savages turned around and led the way forward.
When they arrived at the place where the savages lived, they dug a big hole under a hill. There was a low wall built of stones at the entrance, and it was covered with wood branches and so on.
Lin Yan saw the traces of burning at a glance.
Huang Ying exclaimed: "They can also make fire."
Everyone looked towards the pile of burned ashes.
Yun Qing and other older people found it incredible that people from the Sun Tribe could make fire because Lin Yan lit the fire. But these savages can actually light fire.
Shui Sheng said: "They used sky fire to ignite the fire. It should be the fire caused by thunder and lightning. They were discovered and used, and they were kept and dared not be extinguished."
Lin Yan said: "This is a group of smart people who know how to use the power of nature to change lives."
She walked to the pile of stones at the entrance of the cave and picked up a small piece of whitish stone. She felt that it was different from the stones in Sun City when she started to pick up the tiny debris with her hands.
This is different from ordinary stone. It is much less dense, light and brittle, like a stone that has been weathered for a long time.
After reading the results given by the Science and Technology Museum, Lin Yan felt that this trip was the right one.
The piles of stones here are exactly the limestone she wanted to find as an industrial raw material.
Lan Yue saw Lin Yan staring at a pile of stones for a long time and asked, "What's different about these stones?"
Lin Yan smiled, "You'll know once you touch it."
Sure enough, Lan Yue noticed the difference as soon as she got started. This stone is different from the stone in Sun City, but I didn't expect this stone to be useful.
Lan Yue asked directly: "What is this?"
"Limestone. It is the main raw material for burning lime and cement, and is also the flux for iron and steel making."
(End of chapter)
