Desert, hills. Lu Ming selected several team members and was starting the motorcycle. Steel has built a huge fortress. The steel barrier is about five meters high. Soldiers can stand in the shooting position and shoot at any ferocious beast without restraint.
The fourth team returned after several days without a correspondent to deliver the news. Lu Ming decided to take a look in person, but the cluster dispatcher did not dissuade him.
After all, being willing to sacrifice is highly valued by the corporate culture. In the desert, the small iron flag signpost left by the fifth detachment disappeared dozens of kilometers away.
Ahead, there is a dense coniferous forest. There is still thick snow in the forest. The fifth team may have walked in a certain direction along the edge of the forest, and the road signs may have been cleared premeditated by some creature.
Lu Ming pondered for a while and pointed in the direction of the woods.
"I'll go inside and take a look myself. You can go back." Several members of the White Blood Cell were also very indifferent. After their superiors gave the order, they all turned around.
Lu Ming checked his personal equipment and entered the woods. If he really encounters a danger that can kill him, then he will no longer set foot in this new continent in the short term.
Moreover, he knew in advance what dangers he would face. I don’t use any road signs to leave my mark.
Of course, every time I walked, I still carved marks on the trees with my dagger. Gradually, we entered deeper and deeper into the dense forest.
... One day and one night, Lu Ming moved forward at a speed of almost 10 kilometers per hour, which was about 300 kilometers. The dense forest still had no end in sight, and strangely, except for some cold-resistant insects, there were no mammals here.
The morning light in the forest is no different from the old world. After running at a constant speed all day and night, for the first time, Lu Ming felt physically tired. Lu Ming was about to find a place to rest when suddenly he frowned slightly, then he chose an extremely tall tree and climbed up. He picked up the telescope and looked towards Look into the distance.
Although it is a coniferous forest, the dense trees block the view. You can vaguely see that the trees are gradually sparse a few miles ahead. At this time, two groups of black goat beasts are slowly approaching. Each group is about a few meters tall. There were hundreds of them, and the ferocious beasts at the front of both sides were approaching slowly with their long horns bent in the direction of each other.
Suddenly, they all rushed towards each other fiercely, pushing hard and biting each other, and the scene immediately became extremely brutal and bloody.
Gradually, the sheep on the left could no longer hold up. The leader suddenly turned around and ran away, and the other sheep-headed beasts also retreated immediately.
The victorious sheep-headed beasts immediately chased after them, but their attack targets were the injured and the slowest ones, biting them to the ground, and then swarming up to eat them.
Lu Ming was startled again, as if he heard a whistle, and slowly turned the direction of the telescope. In the telescope screen, an extremely tall man wrapped in animal skin suddenly appeared, with a head full of black hair almost hanging around his waist.
When he turned his head, Lu Ming's eyes narrowed slightly. He had a plush face, extremely thick hair on the temples, and prominent cheekbones and cheeks, just like a gorilla that had lost a lot of hair on its face.
Seeing him calling the sheep, it is obvious that he can command these sheep-headed beasts. Looking at him, Lu Ming recalled some Neanderthal restoration pictures he had seen in his previous life, which looked very similar.
There is no doubt that this should also be the Homo sapiens branch of the evolution of ancient apes. According to the scientific species classification of its previous life, it belongs to the genus Hominidae. It is just that I don’t know whether there is reproductive isolation from humans like myself.
Because they are in an area isolated from both the Old and New Worlds, this species of sapiens has not been exterminated by modern humans.
And if they can barely exchange genes with humans like themselves, that is, if there is a chance of giving birth to the next generation, it means that in ancient times, tens of thousands of years ago, creatures on these continents could migrate to and from each other. They evolved from the same species of ancient ape.
Lu Ming's eyes suddenly focused again, and his telescope was focused on the metal mace in the hands of this unknown Homo sapiens.
Obviously from the technological level, it has entered the Iron Age, not the stage of ancient Homo sapiens like Neanderthals.
Moreover, being able to drive such a ferocious herd of sheep-headed beasts must be very powerful. Looking at the sheep, I didn't dare to eat when I saw him. After his gesture, I started to eat happily again.
Although he is tall, he is only about 2.23 meters tall. He is probably not the giant-like barbarian in the legends of the Northern Territory.
Lu Ming observed this guy's every move until he left Shi Shiran with the well-fed sheep.
Lu Ming thought for a while, slid down the treetops, and followed the sheep's paw prints in the distance, a few kilometers away from them.
Along the way, this guy led the sheep to fight several more times, and he always won. In fact, the sheep all had their owners.
Moreover, I am afraid that all the mammals in this world will be eaten, and the sheep will have to eat each other. Every day when we fight, it’s almost the same as in the morning.
But after a few days, Lu Ming followed this guy back to his
"Tribe", I was very surprised. In the river plain area, sheep-headed beasts are raised in densely packed wooden stables. Are there hundreds of thousands of them?
There are probably tens of thousands of thatched huts scattered among them. The forest-like grain fields stretching for hundreds of kilometers in the distance are even more shocking.
Tribal culture, so many people gather together, and where do these captive ferocious beasts get food?
... Lu Ming stayed far away, observing the tribe. After a few days, I discovered that the so-called grain field should be a natural tree plant with a large yield and red fruits that can be eaten by humans and goats.
On this day, the tribe cheered loudly, as if their hunting team had returned, and the sheep were pulled into the cart, covered with huge leaves.
When they peeled off the leaves, Lu Ming's hand holding the telescope tightened slightly. There were corpses all over the car, and judging by their clothing, they were obviously the corpses of White Blood Cell members, but they all looked frozen.
More than a dozen carts and hundreds of corpses. Look at the logo, it's a member of the fourth team. The tribesmen cheered, thinking that they could have extra food, because they saw a child picking up the corpse and took a bite. However, they were reprimanded by their parents, so they stood aside aggrievedly.
Sure enough, a bonfire was lit that night and every household cooked meat. Unlike the cannibalistic emirates in Southeast Asia, this group of Homo sapiens seems to particularly like the delicious taste of human flesh, as if it were a feast.
The meat of goat beasts is just ordinary food for them. It turns out that most of the goats have been kept in captivity for a long time and will be slaughtered when they reach adulthood.
The goat beast, which is often taken out to fight, seems to belong to the fighting group and is treated specially. After a few days of observation, I feel that their social structure is a patriarchal tribal culture. The men take turns going out to hunt, and those who stay at home gather food with the women and children and raise sheep-headed beasts.
But I don’t see anyone making iron. Moreover, these sapiens have a variety of iron weapons, including long swords, spears and the like.
But the size is obviously relatively small, and they don't fit well in their hands. On this day, another hunting team came back, bringing dozens of living people, real humans.
Just like the clothes from the Middle Ages, there were men, women and children, all of them were frightened. The women and children were crying, and even the grown men were crying and begging for mercy, but the language was incomprehensible.
They were all put into wooden cages. It seemed that because they had just added a meal the day before yesterday, these trophies would be raised and eaten in a few days.
Lu Ming looked at this scene, and his original guess seemed to be correct. This new continent also had human civilization like his own.
They are a bit like the Oonians of the Old World. Their noses are particularly high, their faces are narrow, their facial features are extremely delicate, and their skin color is fairer than the Oonians.
