Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 3 Black Forest

After approaching, Zhou Xu quickly discovered that these strange-shaped trees were different from what he had imagined.

He originally thought that these scorched trees should be dry and dead trees, but this is not the case.

The branches and bark of these trees are quite tight, and they are obviously not short of water, but for some reason, they are all strangely shaped and dark.

[In this wasteland environment, for trees to grow like this, there must be a source of water nearby! 】

Just when Zhou Xu was thinking this way, there was a sudden exclamation from the crowd.

He followed the sound, and saw an animal that looked like a mouse running quickly in the black forest. One of the tribe members tried to rush up to catch it, but the mouse was running so fast that he jumped at it. empty.

At this time, the tribal member was sitting on the ground with an annoyed expression on his face, while his gaze was still scanning all around, it seemed that he hadn't planned to give up yet.

At the same time, many members of the tribe were catching insects on the trees.

At the beginning, Zhou Xu didn't realize what they were doing, until one of the tribe members couldn't help stuffing an insect he had just caught into his mouth.

"..."

Zhou Xu, who saw this scene in his eyes, couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth.

To him, this scene is not so uncomfortable, after all, in the original world, he also ate fried silkworm chrysalis, fried cicadas, and ant fried rice.

It's just that as a modern person, on a psychological level, I'm somewhat repulsed by stuffing a newly caught bug into my mouth without saying a word.

But Zhou Xu soon realized that it seemed too childish and naive to put his thoughts as a modern person on these tribe members.

These tribe members stuffed the bugs directly into their mouths, not because the bugs were delicious, but to survive!

Looking at the surrounding environment, they have no choice but to fill their stomachs and live.

At the same time, this is also a problem that he must face next.

If he couldn't find suitable food, he would soon join the ranks of eating bugs and bark.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu hurriedly reminded those tribe members who were constantly catching bugs and even stuffing bugs into their mouths...

"Before eating those bugs, everyone pays attention to pinch their heads and dispose of their internal organs, but it's better not to eat them first, and concentrate on processing them later."

As for eating bugs in the wild, Zhou Xu has no experience at all. After all, what decent person would look for bugs to eat in the wild and study this at the same time?

However, he has nothing to do at ordinary times, and even though he has watched some survival programs, he still knows that to eat this kind of food, he has to dispose of his head and internal organs.

Even according to Zhou Xu's idea, it's better to cook it before eating, which is safer.

But these tribe members may not cooperate, he can see that food is still very tempting to them.

Unlike when he asked everyone to go with him before, this time many tribe members showed obvious hesitation on their faces.

After all, in this era, they live to find food, and to find food is to continue to live. The two form a terrible endless loop.

They don't have extra time and energy at all, to think about other things, to keep looking for food to survive, is everything to them.

Even if it's just a pinch of the head, they feel it's a waste.

It was in this situation that Dashan took the initiative to stand up.

"Listen to the leader! Don't eat it yet! The most important thing now is to determine the location of the camp!"

Among this group of primitive people, Dashan should have a high status, and those primitive people who were still a little hesitant stopped their movements one after another.

Zhou Xu seized the opportunity and quickly said...

"Everyone, look around the periphery of this black forest first. There should be a water source nearby. After you find the water source, don't rush to drink water. Wait for me to come to confirm."

People can't die in a short time without food, but they can't live for three days without drinking water.

Although these tribe members didn't know this, they knew they were thirsty, and their lips had been thirsty long before.

In the absence of water sources, they can only obtain trace amounts of water through the body fluids of those insects, or by gnawing on fresh bark.

Now that Zhou Xu said that there is a water source nearby, even though they were dubious in their hearts, they still obeyed the order and searched for it seriously.

And in this process, a series of small things also gave Zhou Xu a new understanding of his position here.

[As the summoned 'Son of Heaven', although these primitive people are in awe of me and obey my orders to a certain extent, once my orders conflict with 'survival', they will hesitate . 】

[To put it bluntly, I'm still new here, and I haven't accumulated enough prestige. 】

Outside the black forest, Zhou Xu looked at the black forest while thinking.

【It’s getting dark now. If we can find a water source nearby, this area should be the best place to camp. These primitive people don’t have much food on them. It’s not a wise decision to take them around. 】

Following his own train of thought, at this moment, Zhou Xu has already begun to think about the issue of survival here.

In this dark forest, the strangely shaped trees were bare, and at the same time they did not grow densely.

He looked around, except for the insects and the mice he had seen before, he really didn't see any living things in this area.

【Depend on!I am afraid that I will have to live by eating mice, insects and gnawing bark and roots? 】

Along with the rise of this idea, Zhou Xu inevitably had a thought in his heart that 'it's better not to travel through time'. He might as well just let him die in a car accident, and travel through time and suffer this crime!
Just when he was melancholy about this, the flying sparrow in the distance ran over again.

"I found the water, I found the leader of the water! There really is water over there!"

It is of course a good thing to be able to find a water source, but at this time Zhou Xu is more concerned about the flying bird in front of him.

Ever since he took the initiative to take over the pathfinding mission, this kid's performance has always surprised him.

Take the search for a water source this time as an example. Through observation, although he blindly guessed that there is a high probability of a water source nearby, he was able to find it in such a short period of time and come to report to him. kind of performance.

And this Feique seems to respect him even more...

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu immediately reached out and patted Feique on the shoulder.

"Good job, lead the way."

Zhou Xu's praise made Feique grin. After following him for a while, his gaze passed through a part of the bare black forest, and a lake soon came into Zhou Xu's eyes.

At the same time, around the lake, many tribe members had already gathered here before him, and their expressions looked very excited.

Now when Zhou Xu came over, all eyes fell on him.

Compared with before, the reverence in the eyes of these people looking at him has obviously become stronger than at the beginning.

There is a water source nearby, which is the result of Zhou Xu's reasonable deduction.

But these tribal members don't understand this.

In their view, their leader knew that there was water nearby without even looking at it. This is simply a prophet!
(End of this chapter)