Chapter 586 Western Exploration Team
“So, you will be leaving soon?”
In a dim tent made of animal skins, the Big Stream Tribe The priest Egbert asked in his low but somewhat ear-splitting voice. At this time, he was preparing an ointment. He first pounded different herbs into mud in a stone mortar, and then used them according to their respective instructions. Mix the proportions.
"Yes, I came here this time to say goodbye to you." Grant sat opposite him, almost completely obscured by Egbert's tall figure. Although my team has been in the Big Stream Tribe for more than two months, facing Egbert and his tribe, I can't help but feel a sense of unnaturalness and even absurdity from the bottom of my heart.
As for where the sense of absurdity comes from, just look at Egbert opposite him. It is a huge bull head... In short, it is a head very similar to some kind of livestock used for plowing, placed on a In terms of the human body, they don’t look like they match.
The first contact with the Big Stream Tribe was more than two months ago, and before that, Grant commanded the Western Exploration Team to drift on the vast ocean. After leaving the northwest bay, with the guidance of the stars, Their fleet has been sailing westward. Fortunately, the waters they passed were very calm and they did not encounter any weather such as storms, so Gulen planned to name this vast ocean the Ocean of Calm. While floating on the ocean, they encountered many islands. Whenever the crew members thought they had encountered a new continent and their emotions were high, subsequent exploration would always make them feel depressed again. Fortunately, these islands can be more or less Supplement them with some fresh water and food, so that they can continue to go west.
Finally, nearly four months after setting off from Fulan Port, the Western exploration team finally encountered the real continent. After realizing that the land under their feet was not the same as before, the excited team members quickly organized people to explore inland, and then ran into the hunting team of the Big Stream Tribe.
The initial contact was not very peaceful. The Big Stream Tribe... let’s call them Tauren for the time being. Their appearance frightened the members of the exploration team. The combination of a bull’s head and a human body, in the Old World I have never seen such a weird creature before. The members of the exploration team also frightened the people of the Big Stream Tribe. It seemed that they had seen human beings for the first time, but their level of panic was lighter than that of the exploration team.
When they saw the first tauren, fear drove the team members to almost shoot the crossbows in their hands, and the other party also raised the stone spears in their hands - yes, their tools seemed to be very backward. The level of civilization should not be high, and the clothes on his body are also animal skins decorated with bird feathers. Grant, who personally led the team, stopped his men in time. In his impression, all animals that can walk upright have a certain degree of intelligence. Even the notorious Goblins in the Old World can understand people a little bit. words, and being wise means being able to communicate.
Glen's judgment was correct. He made some actions that he thought could express goodwill. At first, the other party just looked at them hesitantly. After repeated efforts, the bull-headed guys let go. arms.
The two parties confirmed each other's harmlessness through continuous communication. After leaving half of the crew and entrusting Vito, a young shipwright from Fulan Port, to collect materials to repair the ship, Ge Lan led a group of people into the Daxi tribe's camp. The things they brought from the ship - porcelain, metal tools, tea, bags of salt, and cloth - were welcomed by the Daxi tribe, and the members of the exploration team were also treated as distinguished guests. In the eyes of the members of the exploration team, these strange-looking natives seem to be more qualified to be called "orcs" than the orcs on the prairie in the north of their hometown. The orcs in their hometown just have longer body hair, but the bull heads here Man really has the head of an animal.
In the following more than two months, Grant and his team members worked hard to learn the language of these tauren. Fortunately, their tongue structure should be similar to that of humans, and they would not be able to pronounce words that humans cannot. syllables, although these guys also like to howl like cows sometimes. Grant himself has a very high talent for language. He has been able to have some simple exchanges with the tauren. During the exchange, he met Egbert, the priest of the Big Stream Tribe. His position seems to be related to The shamans in the prairie orc tribe are somewhat similar, they all do things that the gods talk about, and this priest seems to be the person with the highest status in the tribe.
Although the Daxi tribe does not have a highly developed civilization, it at least has a sense of life. The exploration team, which has been separated from human civilization for a long time, relied on simple barter trade to cultivate here for more than two months. After all the ships had been overhauled and supplies were fully stocked, Captain Grant decided to say goodbye to these new friends. He first came to visit the priest in Egbert's tent.
After listening to Grant's explanation of his purpose, Egbert said with some regret: "Friend, it's a pity that I can't continue to listen to you telling stories about another continent. In my previous knowledge, the sea It is the sea, and beyond the sea is the sea. Except for the land across the Southern Strait, there is no other land in the world. "
Glen has heard about the land across the Southern Strait when he was collecting geographical information here. He set sail this time to go south to see the land.
Grant responded sincerely: "If I have the opportunity, I will come to visit you again. However, respected Priest Egbert, I seem to see worry in your brows. If you have any difficulties, can you tell me this? I just made a new friend, maybe I can be of some help." Priest Egbert sighed, "I don't want to hide anything from my friends. In fact... our tribe is in danger. "
"Are you facing any enemies? Where are they from? "
"Yes, the enemies are from the south."
The land in the south, Grant was surprised, and he was planning to go there to see it.
Egbert shook his head and said: "I don't want to hide it from you, my friend. When we first came into contact, I did have the idea of seeking strength from you, because you also have metal weapons like the enemies in the south, but you There are too few people and weapons..."
Metal weapons? Could it be that there is human civilization on the southern continent?
"They...are they humans? Ah, I mean, are your enemies creatures with the same appearance as me?" Grant's tone was a little excited.
Priest Egbert shook his head again, "They are indeed similar to you, but they are not exactly the same. This is why our soldiers did not take action immediately when they first met you."
Glen thought to himself, no wonder the tauren were surprised when they first came into contact with the tauren, but they were not as shocked as the humans when they saw the tauren. It turned out that they had seen a human-like race.
"So can you describe to me what these enemies look like? What are the specific differences between them and us?" Grant continued to ask Egbert.
Based on Grant’s current mastery of the Minotaur language, it is obvious that he has not yet reached the level of being able to understand the specific image details of the other person’s description of an object. Egbert spent a long time, but he still understood the language of Grant. With a confused expression on his face, he finally gave up his verbal efforts, so he turned around and started rummaging for something, and quickly took out a stone slab, "This is their image on it, take a look."
Glen looked at the stone slab, the expression on his face becoming more and more suspicious. Although the paintings on the slate are primitive in technique and somewhat abstract, they are understandable. The creatures described are indeed very similar to humans, with human heads, human bodies, human limbs, and even human faces and slightly pointed ears. .
Except for the crooked, goat-like... horns on the top of his head.
(End of this chapter)