"If the crocodiles here have become a climate... then wait until autumn, after discussing with the people of the Yu clan, they will send special people to help you clean up."
"At that time, half of the harvest will be distributed to the warriors of the hunting team..."
"This is the unwritten rule in our water pool."
This is quite reasonable.
Mai Fan nodded and listened as the man continued his introduction.
For example, deep in the water, there is a giant beast that is even more ferocious than the crocodile. It doesn't know where it came from. Not to mention its huge size, the crocodile is actually one of their food rations.
This giant beast usually appears in huge saltwater lakes.
Small creatures like humans have only been seen from a distance, and no one has ever really met them.
The carcasses of such beasts have been found on the shore several times...
Judging from the condition of the body, it seems that he was the loser after a fight between the same kind. He was injured too seriously and floated to the shore after death.
According to the speculations of the experienced elders of the Yu clan, only one such beast is allowed to exist in a lake.
When a second one appears, there will inevitably be a fight.
Those who win continue to occupy, while those who fail face death.
The corpses they could see were evidence of failure...
As for why we need to specifically talk about this giant beast...
That's because there is a special gland in the corpse of this giant beast...
When these glands are removed individually, a very unique oil can be made.
Put a piece of firewood in it, stir it up, and it will burn for a long time...
A carcass of this size, if discovered once, would be enough to sustain a group of people with oil for night lighting for two to three years.
In addition to these rare giant beasts, what really caused trouble for the group were small but numerous piranhas.
A poisonous blue shrimp that looks like a shrimp.
There are colorful poisonous snakes, poisonous frogs, poisonous insects and poisonous bees all over the body.
And sometimes there are carnivorous beasts that come from the grassland.
These are the natural enemies of human beings living in the water.
However, compared with these obvious natural enemies, what really affects the development of human beings in water ponds is food.
Because of the single nature of the food here, the human race living here has developed very slowly.
Most of the food sources in water pools are fish.
It is more difficult in the grassland area than in the water park area.
Even in autumn, when the products are the most abundant, there are only grass seeds and a small amount of berries in the grassland to supplement the human race's food.
Small groups of beasts, as well as large fish that are very difficult to catch...
Human survival is often faced with the danger of shortage.
Coupled with the overly humid environment in the water, the human body will always have some reaction.
Compared with the forest area, which is like spring all year round... the changeability and barrenness of the grassland have indeed restricted the development of the ethnic groups here.
But I don’t know what has happened in the past few years...
More and more ethnic groups are being eliminated from all directions.
No matter how vast the central area is, it cannot accommodate the continuous influx of so many ethnic groups.
As a last resort, all ethnic groups united to explore the depths of the grassland, the more central area of the world.
This also resulted in the grassland group's strength, which was originally not large in number, becoming increasingly smaller.
When Mai Fan first entered the water park area, he saw many single people or small groups of only seven or eight people.
Most of them are the only survivors after going through the baptism of the wilderness.
There is also a small part that is too acclimatized in the grassland zone. After a period of buffering, not only has it not slowed down the decline of the ethnic group... but it has collapsed, and the inheritance is about to be cut off.
And this kind of people who still have faith in their own ethnic group and are not willing to submit to the big tribe become free people in the water.
Every winter...it is also among these communities of free people that the most people die.
"Is it possible that a group as large as ours will decline into the status of peripheral people?"
The expelled person smiled bitterly: "What do you think of our tribe?"
"In the previous generation, there were only about twenty people left in the Expulsion clan."
"If it weren't for the increase in the number of foreign ethnic groups in recent years... allowing us to expel people and make a lot of wealth... the ethnic group has once again recovered a part of its population..."
"On the way witches are migrating now, they may encounter our tribesmen."
Could it be so severe?
Mai Fan sighed. For outsiders, it does take time to adapt to life here.
Many ethnic groups who were not accustomed to the climate died out early in the process of adapting...
It seems that the road ahead is more difficult than I imagined.
The other party is willing to remind me to this extent, so I have to thank them.
"So, what role does the Yu clan play at times like this?"
At this point, Pai Xi's words were full of gratitude: "You know, equal exchange is the method that Yu came up with."
"Although their group is the largest group in the grassland, its composition is too complicated."
"And the more barren the land, the more people there are, the greater the pressure."
"They do not have enough ability to save all ethnic groups."
"The people of the Yu clan can only help in emergencies at most. If you pay the corresponding assets, you can get the right to survive."
"This is a fair thing, isn't it... It's just a group that needs exchange to survive the crisis..."
"It can only last for a while at most. After exchanging the previous supplies in the tribe, it can only survive for a short period of time."
"At the end..."
It's just that the struggle lasted a little longer, and the pain lasted longer.
In the eyes of this leader, this kind of struggle is not as satisfying as simply giving up.
I understand... The Yu clan has no intention of winning people's hearts and becoming the overlord of the grassland.
They are different from the original Beast God clan... their ambitions are not big, and they are more of a coordinator.
Just sit on the sidelines and just take care of your own tribe... This is their code of conduct.
This is actually quite good.
Because Mai Fan only regarded the grassland as a buffer zone.
When his tribe becomes larger again... he will lead them through the wilderness and once again return to the forest area that the tribe longs for most.
Now, Mai Fan had gotten the information he wanted, and the tribesmen outside had also cut off the leather the other party needed, rolled it into a leather roll, bundled it, and wrapped it up for the guide.
Paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other, by the way, the fish cake in his hand was also heated along with the fire.
