Chapter 85 Chapter 85
Disaster
One night, two days after the orcs of the Wood Tribe stayed in the cave of the Salt Tribe, they suddenly heard a huge sound of rushing water outside.
They were awakened by the strange and terrifying sound and immediately looked outside. It was pitch black outside and difficult to see clearly, but they still trembled all over and their scalps went numb.
The orcs seemed to feel that the river was under their feet and was about to sweep them away.
Soon, orcs in the cave were groping for fire with blackwood, but because they were impatient, it took a long time. Fires gradually lit up in the cave, and the orcs who saw the scene in front of them with the help of the fire were so scared that they even forgot to breathe.
There was a violent storm outside, and the wind and rain were whistling and hitting the surrounding trees. The branches were swaying wildly, and the leaves were flapping rapidly, making a heart-pounding sound.
Although there was water on the muddy road during the day, at least you could still wade through the water. At this time, the muddy road had disappeared, replaced by a wide and long "river".
The river surface was splashed with water as the big raindrops fell. The water rushed down violently, and there was no end in sight.
Shen Nong didn't sleep at all. The moment he heard the strange noise, he rushed to the cave entrance and watched the surging flood rushing towards him. It was extremely windy outside. Ze stood beside Shen Nong and stretched out a hand to block Shen Nong.
"Priest, it's cold outside, let's go in." Ze noticed the priest's frown and raised his hand to gently smooth it out with his fingertips, "I'll go check on the tribesmen. You go and rest and wait for me to come back."
Shen Nong knew that Ze would not agree to let him go alone, but he would also be worried if Ze went out alone. The wind and rain outside were too strong, and the river had already flooded the road outside. Shen Nong knew that in this situation, it was impossible for people to walk outside, but Ze could transform into a half-beast and fly away.
If he followed, Ze would have to pay attention to his condition.
Shen Nong wanted to say, otherwise no one should go. Now there is no shouting, it should be okay. But in the end, Shen Nong still sighed, hooked Ze's knuckles, and whispered: "Don't get hurt."
He nodded and said, "Okay."
Golden light emerged, and beautiful wings appeared behind Ze. After Ze left, Shen Nong contacted Shen Yi and Shen Er on the system's chat platform and asked about their situation.
It was also raining at Shen Yi's place, but it was very light and it was intermittent. There was no sign of flooding, and even mining was not delayed at all. Shen Er's place was still sunny, and he reported on the construction of the beach dormitory, which was ready for occupancy.
The Yu tribe, who have been fishing for the Wood tribe in the coastal tribe for a long time, are also considered orcs working for the Wood tribe, so naturally they also need dormitories to live in.
In addition to the orcs of the Yu tribe who have to live in the workers' dormitory, there are also orcs from the coastal tribe.
Previously, at the Yu Tribe, the Yu Tribe members told him about the situation of the tribes along the coast. If Shen Nong wanted to develop long-term and stable development along the coast, he couldn't just ignore them. So, he also asked Shen Er to communicate with the tribesmen along the coast. Would they be willing to work for the Mu Tribe and give them equivalent animal skins, pickled meat, etc. in exchange?
Shen Er talked about the situation of the seaside tribe. Shen Nong raised his eyebrows slightly, obviously not expecting it.
The seaside tribes are now in a polarized state.
One part is from small tribes that want to come to the Mu tribe to work, and the other part is from large tribes that strongly disagree. Not only do they not agree with their own tribe members doing so, they also do not allow people from other tribes to go.
Shen Nong was about to ask Shen Er if he knew the reason when a message from Shen Er popped up on the other end. "According to the priest of the largest tribe on the coast, someone did this a long time ago. They believed it at the time and sent the orcs to the other tribe, but those orcs never came back. However, those small tribes didn't seem to encounter such a situation. They all said that the Sea Tribe and several other large tribes were talking nonsense."
It’s not that Shen Nong is bragging, but the idea of their Mu tribe providing animal skins and pickled meat for the orcs to work with is really hard to refuse for the orcs who are hungry and cold.
Even in a large tribe, there are still some orcs who are hungry and cold.
Although no other tribes around the Mu tribe sent orcs to work except the seven tribes agreed upon at the beginning.
But he didn't ask for it, not because those tribes really didn't think about letting orcs from his tribe come. The reason for not asking was that there were enough people. Secondly, the priests from these tribes who came to talk had calculations in their eyes, almost touching their foreheads.
Although the Wood Tribe is not afraid of these, who would deliberately place some termites on good wood for no reason?
Therefore, Shen Nong believed the attitudes of the Hai Tribe and several other large tribes.
Shen San sent another message, "Not only do the big tribes prevent the small tribes from coming to work here, they also don't allow them to learn how to row boats or fish with nets. They don't allow any orcs from the small tribes to have any contact with us."
Shen Nong sighed, this is not a easy thing to do.
He thought for a moment and replied to Shen San, "Everything on the beach remains normal for now, but be careful when patrolling at night. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be conflicts among the tribes on the beach. There is no way to change the preconceived ideas of those big tribes. Only they can break through and figure it out themselves. You'd better stay away and don't get too close. The more you get together, the more chaos you'll have."
[Yes, priest.]
After Shen San finished speaking, he went offline.
Shen Nong had just closed the system interface when Ze came back. He fell to the cave entrance with rain all over his body, and his feet were soaked. "The tribesmen are all fine, but the children are a little scared. I also brought orcs from the medical team to take care of the pregnant woman, so don't worry, priest."
Shen Nong breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the selected animal skin and handed it to him, asking him to wipe the rain off his body and head.
Ze took the animal skin handed over by Shen Nong, wiped off the water on his body, picked up a large backpack from the corner and turned it upside down on the fire. There was not much firewood in the fire, and the fire was not strong, so it would not burn the backpack. After putting the backpack in place, Ze spread the used animal skin on the backpack to dry.
After doing all this, Ze changed into a pair of dried fish skin pants and sat on the bamboo mat. He let Shen Nong lie down, rubbed his legs and patted his back, hoping that he could sleep well at night.
…
After listening to Shen Nong's words, the tribe that ran to the upper hiding place early did not suffer any casualties. Because they had just traded animal skins, pickled meat and pottery pots with the Mu tribe, they took all these with them when they left.
However, because there was no fire, there was no way to cook the broth, so the only thing to do was to use a clay pot to collect rainwater, and eat a mouthful of pickled meat and a big mouthful of rainwater.
Otherwise it's too salty.
After two days in the mountains, several tribes could no longer stand it and wanted to go down the mountain. There was no sign of flooding so far, so it probably wouldn't come. Although the conditions were the same on the mountain and below, the caves in the tribes below the mountain were more spacious, unlike now where nearly 20 people were squeezed into one cave, and people were literally packed together.
And the flood broke out the night before they decided to go down the mountain.
Looking at the tribe flooded by water, the orcs patted their chests and felt lucky that they did not go down, otherwise they would have been dead or alive.
The orcs of other tribes were not so lucky.
They thought that all this was a conspiracy by the Mu tribe to take back the things they had traded, and that even if there was a flood, they could just run away before the flood came.
But they didn't expect that the flood would break out in the middle of the night and rush over at lightning speed, so fast that they couldn't hide from it.
The priests who had experienced the flood were carried on the shoulders of the clan leaders, and they all kept saying, "It's impossible." In their memory, the flood had never been as unstoppable as it was today, nor as terrifying as it was today.
The wind was howling and the rain was incredibly heavy. The beast world had no concept of flood recurrence period, let alone summary. The priests of these tribes only relied on their own past experience to make judgments, so it was normal for them to have deviations.
But the cost of this deviation is too heavy and needs to be borne by the entire tribe.
The howling of wind and rain could not cover up the orcs' screams of fear. The water swept over every corner like an overwhelming force. The orcs of a slightly lower level could not resist this strong impact and were directly washed away by the water.
The tribesmen in distress all wanted to go upwards, but only then did they realize how difficult it was. Going upstream, if you were not careful, you would be knocked down by the current, or your feet would be too slippery to stand and you would fall. Once you fell, you would be swept away immediately, leaving no trace, let alone life or death.
The fear in their hearts has driven away their regrets. They are isolated, helpless, numb and desperate in the darkness.
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It seemed that God had almost drained away all the accumulated water, and the rain on the second day was visibly much less. The flood was not as fierce as it was at night, and it had calmed down a lot, but it was still very dangerous.
Shen Nong doesn’t have the energy to take care of the mountain tribe now. He can only hope that they will listen to him and get away in advance.
He is now going to the cave where the pregnant women live. Early in the morning, Tu Feng risked his life to find Shen Nong. I don’t know if it was because of the fright, but three pregnant women are about to give birth.
In any era before Interstellar, children had to be conceived by women for ten months. Unlike Interstellar, where a culture chamber can be used to simulate the uterine environment to nurture the child instead of the mother.
While a mother is carrying a child, it also means that during childbirth, the mother has one foot in the gate of hell and half of her life hangs on the line.
Not to mention that this is a beastly world where medical conditions are almost non-existent.
Shen Nong had just finished packing and was about to have breakfast. After hearing what Tu Feng said, he stopped eating and followed Tu Feng to the cave where the pregnant women were.
There was water everywhere outside, and there was no telling if there were any sharp branches or stones under the water, so it was easy to fall. Ze spread his wings and directly picked the person up horizontally. Shen Nong was so shocked that he subconsciously hugged Ze's neck.
"It's dangerous down there, I'll take you there faster."
Shen Nong understood what Ze meant. He climbed onto Ze's neck, leaned over and said to Tu Feng below: "Tu Feng, walk slowly. Don't be anxious and don't get hurt. I'll go over and take a look at the situation first!"
Rabbit Wind waved his hand, "Got it, Priest!"
Ze didn't want Shen Nong to worry too much, so he flew very fast. After arriving at the place, Shen Nong took off his raincoat and hat. Ze took the two things, and Shen Nong turned around and went into the cave.
A fire had been lit in the cave, and enough hot water had been boiled. The pregnant woman felt severe pain from the contractions, and screams echoed in the cave.
Shen Nong took a deep breath. He didn't know much about childbirth, so he could only use his supernatural powers to help them stay alive. Although he couldn't relieve their pain, they didn't have to worry about losing their lives because of childbirth.
The medical team orcs can do simple delivery. Shen Nong had exchanged the knowledge of delivery in the system before because of these pregnant women. But it was all the most basic content. He couldn't afford the advanced content, which started at at least 2 million infrastructure points. Moreover, under the conditions of the beast world, it was useless to exchange it. There was no way to implement it according to the above. It was just a piece of waste paper.
The blood poured out in basins, fell into the water, and floated away with the current. The bloody smell in the cave had reached its peak. Shen Nong closed his eyes tightly, communicating with Shen Yi in his mind to build a loom, trying to ignore the strong smell of blood.
Clothes made of fish skin are still the most suitable for winter, while linen is cooler in summer. But I have never found the raw material of linen before, it seems that I haven't looked carefully enough.
Shen Nong had seen pictures of the loom in the museum. There were detailed text explanations and instructions for use next to it, but there was no description of its manufacturing process.
Shen Nong then listed out the information he knew, drew its outline, and slowly broke down the knowledge details inside.
Shen Yi can make a loom, but he can only make a fully automatic one. There is no material here, and he can't do anything. He and Shen Nong can only add bricks and tiles to the ancient loom model built on the platform.
When the loom model was halfway figured out, the children were born one after another. The orcs had a good physique, and with Shen Nong's special ability to protect them, the half of the lives of the female orcs who were hanging in the Hades Hall finally returned to themselves.
The rest of the matters were left to the medical team to solve, and Shen Nongheze returned to the cave.
On the way, Ze looked ahead and asked casually, "Does the priest like children?"
Shen Nong was stunned for a moment, then he felt the force unconsciously tightening around his waist and knees. He somewhat understood why Ze asked this question.
He hugged Ze's neck and rubbed it gently, "I don't want children, I only like you."
Ze put more strength on his hands, his chest rose and fell, and a dull voice came out, "Well, I like priests too."
Words that express love can, even if you don’t understand their meaning, still allow you to feel the strong love when your loved one says them.
Shen Nong chuckled softly, and his originally heavy mood was filled with a little joy because of his lover.
Two days later, the rain stopped completely. Although the water level did not drop significantly, people walking in the water felt much more stable and would not be easily swept away by the current.
The three newborn children also survived successfully. They all have loud voices and are very energetic.