Ye Tianlong is at the head of the central tribal meeting hall, discussing with the senior leaders and elders of the tribe what needs to be done this spring and summer.
The first thing to prepare is to travel far. The destination of this year's journey is still the rock pile base. The fierce linweas over there are very suitable for the current tribe in terms of meat quality and hunting difficulty.
Judging from the current location of the central tribe, the 10,000-meter peak of the Dinglong Mountains is to the east. It has certain strategic significance, but in terms of supplies and food, it cannot be counted on for the time being.
The south is a dense forest area, which belongs to the territory of the forest apes. Although the tribe's timber base is now in the dense forest, if materials and food are collected there, it will definitely have a great impact on the forest apes. Therefore, the southern dense forest area is for For the current tribe, it is just a place where wood is available temporarily, and materials and food are not considered for the time being.
As for the west side...
This is the base of the canyon. In winter, you can cross the canyon and go to areas further west. However, as the ice and snow melt after the beginning of spring, the river in the canyon gradually widens. If you want to cross the river to get to the other side of the canyon, you have to It would be a lot more trouble.
However, with the reinforcement of the large ships at the canyon base and the construction of new large ships, as long as steam engines can be installed, the western area opposite the canyon can be developed.
The most suitable place for tribal teams to travel is still the base of piles of rocks. The fierce skunks on the other side of the basin can support a large tribe of 10,000 people, so there is no problem.
Coupled with the small beasts hunted around the central tribe and several bases in the summer, if they are stored and stacked together to survive the long eighteen months of winter, there will be no problem.
Without the fierce linweas in the basin, with the current population base of the tribe, it would be very difficult to store enough food to survive eighteen cold winters.
However, as the population base of the tribe gradually increases, the ferrets in the basin are not a long-term solution. Based on the number of ferrets hunted by the tribe in the basin every summer, it is estimated that in a few years, the ferrets in the basin will be eliminated. The number of ferret ferrets nearby is about to drop rapidly.
Ye Qiong had thought about sustainable development, but later rejected this idea. Snow Star's winter time is still increasing, and the tribe must develop as fast as possible. The food obtained through hunting, for a small tribe, It is completely sufficient, but when the tribe develops to a certain level, it must find other ways, unless it is like the super tribe in the Xufeng Mountains, which has unique resources.
The entire Xufeng Mountains can support a million-level super tribe...
It's still not a long-term solution.
With limited resources, as the Ye Qiong tribe develops on the west side of the Dinglong Mountains, there will inevitably be a battle with the super tribe in the Xufeng Mountains.
If you want to conquer this super tribe with a population base of one million, you must solve the resource problem in advance. Otherwise, strong tribal strength, that is, military strength, can only solve the population problem, but not the resource problem.
Overpopulation is a problem that can be easily solved. Just fight a war and it will be enough. If the war fails, then continue. Nature always has a way to carry out macro-control.
And human beings seem to be born more warlike, between people, between villages, and between countries.
When resources are limited, there will inevitably be conflicts of interest, and when negotiations cannot resolve them, war will ensue, and no one will be immune.
Ye Qiong is very clear about this in his heart, so from the very beginning, what Ye Qiong wants to pursue is the development and utilization of resources.
Three days later...
Dike base!
The weather has cleared up and the rain has stopped...
The current dike base is already a different scene. The white world has disappeared, replaced by the beginning of vitality.
Some vegetation sprouted in just three days, and green appeared on the earth. The seeds that had been dormant for a cold winter had broken out of the ground under the water of the rain. In the initial stage of germination, They are under the ground and do not need direct sunlight from stars. The light refracted during the day is enough for them to welcome new life.
At the beginning of the buds, the little beasts on the ground began to jump around, and the number increased by an order of magnitude compared to before it was thawed!
However, the number of small beasts is still not at its peak now. In another month, when the time comes to early summer, the number of small beasts will be the largest!
It is these little beasts that reproduce at such a terrifying rate that they support the ecosystem on Snow Planet, allowing human tribes to store a certain amount of food to survive the long winter before winter arrives.
The kind of monsters that cannot store food have also developed a perverted survival mode, which is to hunt each other and attack human tribes.
Although it may sound a bit unbelievable, it is true. At the beginning of winter, Warcraft can still find food on the surface.
By the middle of winter, monsters began to attack human tribes and prey on each other. These attacks would not end until spring of the following year.
Their way of survival is so simple and crude, and the prerequisite for this kind of ecosystem is that it must be supported by a certain number of vegetation and small animals in spring and summer.
Under the base of the dike and next to the wooden house, there were a lot of puddles of water on the ground, and only a piece of gravel remained in the surrounding area, which looked dry.
King Kong was standing on it now, and Ye Qiong, with the help of several Na Ning tribe soldiers, took the sacks from the wooden house.
There were more than a dozen in total. Except for two that contained sea animal skin raincoats from the Na Ning tribe, the remaining sacks were filled with saltpeter.
After bundles of sacks appeared on the side of King Kong's neck, the journey to the dam base was about to end.
Ye Qiong did not take the saltpeter and sea animal skin raincoat in vain. The corpses of monsters piled up beside the wooden house were the exchange items given back to the Na Ning tribe. More than a dozen tribesmen from the Na Ning tribe were specially processing the batch of monster corpses. .
"Buzz...buzz..."
Ye Qiong jumped up and rode directly onto Thunder, then waved and said goodbye to several senior soldiers of the Na Ning tribe who came over personally to help move things.
With a sharp squeeze of his legs, King Kong immediately stretched out his giant wings.
Looking at the figures gradually disappearing, several senior warriors of the Na Ning tribe turned around and walked back towards the dike base, but the expressions on their faces were still not very good-looking.
The sea beast has not retreated yet. To them, it is like a sword hanging above their heads. It may fall down at any time, but it just won't come down.
Sometimes, these predators hope that the sea beasts will directly attack the dike base, so that they will no longer have to wait in such agony.
After Ye Qiong left on King Kong, the dike base returned to a busy state.
The senior soldiers in the dike base finally decided to let the soldiers from several surrounding bases go back first. Spring is here, and the annual material collection and hunting tasks in these bases are still very heavy.
As for the warriors who came to support from the main tribe of Da Kezi, they stayed at the dike base for the time being to prevent the sea beasts from launching a surprise attack.
If after a while, the sea beast still does not launch an attack on the dike base, these warriors who came to support from the main tribe of Big Shell will have to rush back...
