Chapter 57 - Acting (1/2)

Ch57 - Acting

Zhou Ji felt that the people from this primitive era were really too simple. Any thoughts they had were shown on their face.

As they approached the Little Brook Tribe, some people came out of the tribe to meet them. And when those people saw the goods they were carrying, their eyes gleamed with indescribable greed.

There was something very wrong with these people, yet Xiong Qi, Xiong Ye and the others actually hadn’t noticed anything.

“We’re from the Big Bear Tribe. I’ve been here before, and I’m looking for your tribal chief Bao Cheng.” Xiong Qi spoke up.

The person at the head of the group who had come out was an unshaven, burly man. He glanced at Xiong Qi and laughed gleefully, “Big Bear Tribe? Come with me.”

Xiong Qi was about to lead everyone inside, but Zhou Ji frowned and said, “We’ve already arrived. Isn’t the Little Brook Tribe’s tribal chief going to come out to greet us?”

Xiong Qi froze when he heard these words. He was somewhat unable to gather his wits together as he turned around to see Zhou Ji standing at the back of the team, his brows furrowed in an unhappy expression… What was Zhou Ji doing?

Xiong Ye was equally puzzled. Zhou Ji didn’t concern himself with anything and was very gentle and moderate. He had never shown an expression like this before. Was something wrong?

Xiong Qi was about to ask about it on the spot, but Zhou Ji abruptly spoke up again and forced Xiong Qi to stuff his words back down his throat.

Zhou Ji’s tone carried traces of discontent, “Are the people of the Little Brook Tribe… really so impolite?”

Xiong Qi and the rest of the people from the salt team were all bewildered. Polite?

As for the man standing opposite to them, his expression turned solemn as he looked towards Zhou Ji.

He had already planned to take all their goods as soon as he saw Zhou Ji and their team. He was even more determined after learning that Zhou Ji and the others were from the Big Bear Tribe.

They were people from the Giant Tiger Tribe.

The Giant Tiger Tribe was a large tribe of over two thousand people. After their population had reached a thousand, they could no longer support so many people in the tribe due to lack of food, so they had been faced with two options.

One way was to split up the tribe and send a group of people out to another place to live. The other way was for the entire tribe to migrate together.

They had chosen the latter option.

At first, they had only wanted to find a place with enough food so that the tribe could thrive, but it was difficult to find a place that could accommodate a tribe of over a thousand people––they had so many people that they would end up hunting and eating all the prey in the surrounding area within a few months no matter where they went.

They had no choice but to continue migrating, and many of their elderly and weak had died as they wandered.

And it was at that time that they inadvertently entered another tribe’s territory.

The people of that tribe had tried to drive them away, which incited them to the point where they had directly destroyed that tribe.

A year later, when there was no longer enough prey left to hunt in that tribe’s territory, they left that tribe and decided to move everyone to the next tribe.

They continuously invaded other tribes and repeated the same actions, eventually making it here.

They wouldn’t kill all the people of every tribe they attacked. When they encountered strong people, they would keep them alive and ask them to join their tribe. Of course, there were those who were unwilling to submit, and they also wouldn’t be merciful when they killed them.

After so many years of this, they now had over two thousand people in their tribe!

Just before the previous winter, the Giant Tiger Tribe who once again didn’t have enough to eat attacked the Green Hill Tribe and took it over.

They obtained a lot from the Green Hill Tribe, including the salt trade routes and a lot of salt. If they were willing to, they could have used salt to trade for a lot of things from the surrounding tribes.

However, the demand for salt from the tribes in the area was limited, and it wouldn’t be enough for them to feed two thousand people no matter how much they traded, so they never intended to do this kind of business at all.

They only wanted to bring down all the other tribes around the Green Hill Tribe.

The Green Hill Tribe was located in an area with lush vegetation and lots of prey. There were also many tribes around them that they could invade, so they felt that they could live well here for a good many years.

The Giant Tiger Tribe was already accustomed to using aggression to get what they wanted, so when the salt team from the Big Bear Tribe had come last time, they had attacked without thinking twice. However, they hadn’t been well prepared, and the majority of the people from the Big Bear Tribe had managed to get away.

However, that didn’t matter. They would bring down the Big Bear Tribe sooner or later. Of course, the Big Bear Tribe was a little far, so they had chosen to first take over the Little Brook Tribe that was near the Green Hill Tribe instead.

It was rumored that the Big Bear Tribe had several hundred people, and the area they occupied had plenty of prey. The people of the Giant Tiger Tribe were planning to wait until the coming winter before attacking the Big Bear Tribe.

They had already learned about the Big Bear Tribe from the people of the Green Hill Tribe––the majority of the Big Bear Tribe’s warriors were bears. And bears… weren’t very effective during the winter!

The Big Bear Tribe didn’t know anything about the Giant Tiger Tribe, but the Giant Tiger Tribe already had some knowledge of the Big Bear Tribe. And the person leading this group of people to face them was one of the people who knew about the Big Bear Tribe.

However, now when he saw Zhou Ji arrogantly accuse them of being impolite, he suddenly felt that… things didn’t seem to be the same as what he had expected.

This person’s name was Hu Tiao. He had originally been dissatisfied with Zhou Ji, but after seeing Zhou Ji’s appearance, his heartbeat began to speed up in agitation.

The Big Bear Tribe wasn’t close to their tribe, and it must have taken them many days to arrive. It had rained a few days ago, but the people in this team were very clean, and this person who had spoken up was even cleaner than their own tribal chief.

And the clothes this person was wearing weren’t made out of animal hides… No, not only was this person wearing this kind of clothing, the person next to him was dressed like that too.

Their Giant Tiger Tribe had invaded many tribes, and so their thoughts were a little more complex. They understood that there were other large tribes outside the wild forest, and it was rumored that the people there didn’t wear clothing made from animal hides… That clothing seemed to be similar to what the person in front of him was wearing?

At the time, their tribal chief had also obtained a set of clothing from the people of that other tribe. It wasn’t as nice as the one in front of him, but their tribal chief treated it like a treasure and would only wear it on important occasions like the Beast God Sacrifice.

The clothing worn by these two people, if he could obtain it and give it to the tribal chief…