The Survival of the Wild Tribe

65

"Found it?" Luo Zhen and Lu Zhan looked at each other.

Horn Bamboo took off the outer coat of animal skin covered with snowflakes, put his frozen hands together near the fire, and said, "In a mountain about a day away from here, there is a cave. Those people live in a cave now."

"Isn't that their original tribal residence?" Lu Zhan said with certainty despite doubts.

Hei Fu nodded, and he scooped a big bowl of meat from the stone pot. They ran in the ice and snow for more than two days, and they could only eat some cold food. Now they came back and found this cooked meat with salted fruit. How delicious it is.

"They should have moved here only after the winter. They don't even have animal skins. Many soldiers have to maintain animal shapes to withstand the cold after they leave the fire."

"A lot of fighters? How many of them are there?"

"I don't know, except for the soldiers, no one has ever stepped out of the cave, but about twenty soldiers guard the cave in turns."

Twenty people, the warriors alone are almost equal to the number of our entire tribe. Even with walls and weapons such as bows and arrows, if we engage in a battle, we might not gain any benefits. If the other party really takes a fancy to it. If our tribe wants to defend it, we may not be able to hold it.

Lu Zhan's face sank, and the expressions of the others were not very good, obviously, they all thought of this level.

"Did they find you?" Luo Zhen changed a stone pot, put a few meaty bones in, and then filled a large stone pot with water to continue cooking, and threw a few pieces of wood into the fire. The charcoal fire made a few crackling noises, and then it burned more vigorously.

"No, we were very careful." They didn't get close to the cave. They were even found out by those people because they were worried that they would leave traces. They didn't dare to make a fire in the wild because they were wearing thick animal skins, or otherwise. According to the temperature at night, soldiers who are not animalized can be frozen and sick.

"Then do you think they followed the staghorn horse to this neighborhood, and even found signs of our tribe?" Luo Zhen continued to ask.

Heifu and Kadotake glanced at each other, "We didn't notice any movement from them when we were there, and even the soldiers did not go out hunting."

"But I found the bones of some beasts that had been bitten not far from the cave. They are still very fresh. They should have just hunted them not long ago, so there is no need to go out hunting." Kakutake guessed.

The fierce beasts in this season are much more brutal than usual. If the tribe has hunted fierce beasts not long ago, I am afraid that some soldiers will be injured more or less. It is normal not to go out at this time and to hide in the cave. However, if this is the case, the number of their fighters would be far more than twenty.

Luo Zhen bowed his head and thought for a while. After Heifu and the others had said something about the tribe, Luo Zhen looked at Lu Zhan, "Should we set some traps nearby?"

"Traps?" The three people who were talking all stopped.

"Yeah." Luo Zhen nodded and briefly explained the effect of the trap to the three of them. Luo Zhen is not very good at traps that are too difficult. The ones he knows are also used to catch some small animals, but they don't know if they are useful against powerful orc warriors.

But having a trap is better than doing nothing.

Several people discussed it and thought this method was feasible, but to prevent accidentally harming the members of our tribe, Luo Zhen suggested going to the river at the foot of the mountain tomorrow to catch fish that are enough for the whole tribe in winter, except for the warriors who go out on patrol. Apart from us, before the arrival of spring, no one else should step outside the ice city wall.