survival in the wilderness

Chapter 24 The Herd is Coming
Although Mu Shi concentrated on weaving baskets, he listened to the two children with his ears up.

Hearing their rhetoric, he also looked forward to it, hoping that they could do it.

The adults are busy making various preparations. The winter season is approaching, and the most difficult time is coming. They must make adequate preparations.

Now every family has pika pups, and it is no small matter to prepare hay for them in the cold season.

The grassland to the west of Lin Yan's home has an inestimable number of pika populations. She named it "Pikayuan".

People in the tribe bundled the grass and carried it back to dry into hay, and piled it up into haystacks. In the cold season, they could not only feed the pikas, but also light the fire.

Now there are haystacks, firewood stacks, simple stoves, and various pottery pots outside the entrance of every house.

Seeing that all the preparations are almost done, everyone is very happy. This winter season should not be difficult.

On this day, Lin Yan was teaching the children how to read, and a large stone board was placed in front of her. Holding a charcoal pen in her hand, she wrote neat lines of characters.

These children have good brains. She writes down twenty words every day, and they can remember them.

After several months of study, a lot has been accumulated, and everyone can master thousands of words.

Simple writing is no longer a problem. Lin Yan does not have a systematic study plan, and picks out some simple words from the books in the Science and Technology Museum to teach.

The children have a strong thirst for knowledge, are smart, and learn quickly. Lin Yan taught them casually, basically including the names of things they come into contact with every day.

After these children have learned it, they will teach it to more people. Now everyone in the tribe can know a few words.

When a group of children were reading aloud to Lin Yan, Mao Mu suddenly rushed over and shouted, "Run, the herd is coming, run!"

The children were stunned and didn't know how to react.

Lin Yan was also in a daze, what is a herd of beasts?
Mao Mu rushed over, picked up Lin Yan, picked up Ye Ya with one hand, and yelled at the child who was still stunned: "Follow me, hurry up."

He yelled in the direction of his home again: "Aniang, come out quickly, hurry up."

Mao Mu roared loudly, everyone around heard it, and ran out immediately without delay.

Under his constant roar, people ran away in a hurry.

Adults are no strangers to the herd of beasts, and when they hear it, they immediately change color, and they can't care about anything else.

Most of the children have not experienced it, but they have also heard about the horror of the herd.

Subconsciously, he followed Mao Mu, fearing that if he took a step too late, his life would be lost.

Mao Mu ran towards the tribe and shouted, "Run, the herd is coming, run!"

Others ran and shouted too.

Regardless of whether they were old or strong, at this moment they all burst out with unprecedented strength and ran desperately.

As they ran, the sound of rumbling in the distance was getting closer and closer.

The earth trembled, the momentum was huge, and the rumbling sound was like thunder.

Lin Yan's eyes widened, staring at the direction of the sound, trying to see what it was.

The crowd was chaotic, shuttling through the woods, there were children's cries and crazy roars, all intertwined.

At this moment, Lin Yan's mind was buzzing, and he ran away quickly while being hugged by Mao Mu.

After only ten minutes, the herd arrived.

Lin Yan's eyes widened, watching the sturdy, fat and strong black bison rushing like thunder.Wherever it passes, vegetation splashes.

From time to time, a bison trampled on a cave on the ground and fell down. The bison behind them kept rushing, and the fallen bison was trampled to a bloody mess.

Bloody riots and roars, she had never seen such a shocking scene with her own eyes.In front of the running cattle, people seem so insignificant.

At this time, they were hiding on a big banyan tree, watching the herd of cattle swarming up below.

At that time, they were busy running away, seeing the noise getting louder and louder, people climbed up the big tree one after another to hide, so they managed to escape the catastrophe.

Everyone was so scared that they didn't dare to speak out, and the children were all frightened, dumbfounded, and stared at a certain place absently.

After a day and a night, the herd began to retreat slowly.

The young and strong in the tribe went to investigate the situation, while the others stayed where they were and did not dare to move.

After waiting for a long time, it was confirmed that the herd of cows had gone far away, and people came out of their shelters and looked at the devastated home with tears streaming down their faces.

They stayed in this place for five years, and finally settled down. Who would have thought that the herd of cattle would come so suddenly that people were caught off guard.

The newly established home was destroyed.

As Lin Yan watched, someone's cave was trampled down, and the haystacks and hearth built were smashed to pieces.

The ground is full of pits left by the herd of cattle passing by, and a hoof down is a big pit.

The domesticated pikas were trampled by the cattle, leaving pieces of broken flesh and blood all over the place, and some took the opportunity to escape, leaving nothing behind.

Everything is ruined, nothing is left of the home they worked so hard to build.

The more people looked at it, the more their hearts became colder, their eyes were full of sadness, and they cried loudly.

The food that was so hard to save was gone, and the home was gone, and everything had to start from scratch.

Lin Yan was very sad, tears were rolling in her eyes, she never thought that everything would be easily ruined.Life was already difficult, but now it is even worse.

It is not yet known how many people did not escape and died, and how many were injured while trying to escape.

After the grief passed, the stomach growled and the children screamed and the adults gradually cheered up and looked for food.

Only at this time did Lin Yan realize that A Niang didn't know where she was.

"Momu, where's my aunt?"

"Don't be afraid, I'll take you to find A Niang." Mao Mu gently patted Lin Yan's back, looking for someone as he walked.

Huahong was eagerly looking for her daughter, with tears in her eyes. She was busy mowing the grass outside. When she heard the herd coming, she ran back quickly, but it was too late, so she could only temporarily avoid the herd.

When the herd of cattle retreated, she hurriedly looked for her daughter. Huahong was very scared, and hoped that her daughter would escape.

Lin Yan is so smart, he must have a solution.

Meeting Mao Mu and seeing Lin Yan, Hua Hong couldn't bear it anymore, hugged her daughter, and cried loudly.

Scenes like this are everywhere.

That night, people gathered together, afraid to go to sleep.

The adults formed a circle, surrounded the children in the center, and guarded the surroundings.

After a difficult night, the sun rises and a new day comes, but people's nerves are still tense and they dare not relax.

No one knows if the herd will ever return.

Lin Yan also figured out that the cows came to the Sun River for drinking water.

On this land, not only humans need water, but animals also need it.

If they encounter a single beast, people still have the strength to fight, even if they can't beat them, they can run away.But if you encounter a large-scale herd like a herd of cattle, you can only flee in embarrassment.

Fortunately this time, the cattle are only for drinking water, and the cattle are herbivores and are not interested in people.

If you encounter carnivorous animals, people are food, and it will be even more difficult to escape.

After a herd, the Sun Tribe suffered heavy losses.

(End of this chapter)