Chapter 705 - Arrival At The Tribe (1/2)

“A pterosaur?” Duo Kang was lost for words. It was clear this was the first time he ever heard this name.

“What’s a Pterosaur? A bird?” Duo Kang asked curiously after he looked at the skeleton that didn’t seem thin at all. His frown grew deeper as he examined the figure, “This doesn’t look like an ordinary bird. If this creature was larger, it could be very dangerous.”

This was just a rough model of the skeleton. The bones’s actual structures and the muscle lining of the creature would also affect their judgement of a fierce beast. Duo Kang could only roughly guess from analysing this model.

“They’re different from birds. They existed before most tribes were even formed,” Shao Xuan didn’t know when tribes were formed here, so he was just making a guess.

Shao Xuan thought about this before too. Before the tribes existed and humans became the main predator at the top of the food chain, did other creatures exist?

Shao Xuan didn’t search for deeper answers because there were no other records of this fact. After all, the present and the future were what was most important right now.

Now, what they found in the floating pieces of ice kept reminding Shao Xuan of how there were other things that humans didn’t know about that happened way before their existence. Perhaps the civilization back then wasn’t as developed so they couldn’t record these facts.

The frozen ice pieces they found at sea weren’t the only ones that existed. They didn’t just appear this year either. Maybe they appeared often, but no one ever scooped them up and studied them. People just let these ice pieces melt and get devoured by other fish and beasts in the sea.

These were just found by their fleet, who just happened to pass by them.

The other insects and beasts stuck in the ice all existed at the same time as this pterosaur.

Then, could it be that there were more ancient creatures preserved by ice at the coldest place on earth?

If Shao Xuan had the chance, he would really love to go take a look.

Dinosaurs!

Of course, this was not the time to think too far about these matters.

Since he already guessed what was inside the ice by reconstructing its skeleton, Shao Xuan began to set future plans. He had to test it out on this beast once he returned.

“Is there anything you wanted to tell me?” Shao Xuan asked Duo Kang.

Duo Kang came back to his conscience as he looked away from the wooden skeletal structure. He said, “It’s the Taihe tribe. I showed them the topographical map of the Flaming River Trading Point and the Headquarters. I also asked them where they preferred to settle.”

“They intend to settle somewhere similar to us. They will find a place in the forest and set that as their main residential headquarters, and a group of them will enter the trading point. After all, they would have enough to trade all year long.”

The Taihe tribe were skilled in searching and cultivating medicinal herbs. Before, they would go on expedition trips twice or thrice every year because the market was too far away. They could only exchange for more resources in the city, so every year, they would accumulate and store their stock until it was enough, and then head out to the trading centres to sell all their goods.

Now they no longer needed to do such things. The Flaming Horns owned a trading point and the Taihe tribe had goods to trade with them all year long. They could bring their goods to the trading point any time to trade, so it was much more convenient for them.

“Hmm, that’s it?” Shao Xuan didn’t think these matters were important enough for Duo Kang to personally come look for him.

Back then when they were trying to convince the Taihe tribe to migrate, they had already predicted which part the Taihe tribe would choose to settle in. These were all aligned with what they had predicted.

“Heh! There’s something else.” Duo Kang giggled as he rubbed his hands excitedly. “You said that we’re going to expand our territory at the trading point?”