Chapter 24 I Just Want to Close the Country to the Outside World

The leader of the Donghe tribe [Grandmother] came to the temple to express her gratitude.

She also tactfully expressed the tribe's wishes: they are a branch of the Donghai clan, and although they are in a difficult situation. But no matter what, they cannot violate the clan's belief in praying to the gods.

Winter came very early and was colder than ever before. The vast Donghe River was actually frozen.

This had no effect on the Garlic Tribe.

Now the tribe has sufficient and balanced food, including this year's bumper harvest of wheat, potatoes, garlic, and salted fish and meat.

In addition, since the houses have been transformed into wooden houses one after another, the ability to block wind and rain has been greatly enhanced, and it is warmer than before.

The most important work of the Garlic Tribe in winter is logging, looking for wood in the forest for heating and storage.

Heavy snow for many consecutive days covered the entire tribe with a thick layer of white, and the ditches were frozen. Because it was too cold, even some birds and rabbits ran to the tribe to find food.

On this day, people from the Donghe tribe walked over the ice with bags on their backs.

The cold winter forced them to dismantle the boat to burn for warmth, and fishing became dangerous and difficult. The freezing made it impossible for them to break the ice and go to warmer waters.

The last sea monster also died underwater, but they did not give birth to a new sea monster.

Under the starvation and cold, more than a dozen people in the Donghe tribe had frozen to death or died of illness. They had to abandon their tradition and come to land to find a way to survive.

[Grandmother] took several female captains and knelt outside the temple, praying that the gods would forgive their previous rudeness.

Lu Yao did not embarrass them again, and asked Isabel to help them as she promised before.

The situation is stronger than people, and they have to eat.

Besides, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Lu Yao needs the Donghe tribe, who can provide a water route and contain the Salt Pond tribe.

As the actual leader of the Garlic Tribe, the prophet received the Donghe tribe very kindly. Because the days are too short in winter, it is too late to build houses now, so the Garlic Tribe allocated some houses for them to live in.

After helping the Donghe tribe, something unexpected happened to the Garlic Tribe.

This winter, many babies were born in the Donghe tribe.

Lu Yao slapped his forehead when he saw it.

I was careless!

The Donghe tribe was attracted by the strong men of the Garlic Tribe!

There was no concept of marriage in the tribal period, let alone monogamy, and everyone was very open-minded. Today I go to your house, and tomorrow you go to her house, and we will raise the children born together.

This is more or less the case.

The new babies in the Donghe tribe are both boys and girls, but none of them turned into sea monsters, they are all normal babies.

[Grandmother] was very panicked.

"God of prayer, great God of prayer, are you still unwilling to forgive the tribe? We have never forgotten your gift, and have been working hard to breed sea monsters and offer you leather."

"Why do you want to leave us... God of prayer, please, bless your people in a foreign land again!"

Of course, these prayers were useless.

The women of the Donghe tribe still did not give birth to a sea monster.

After a detailed investigation, Isabel came to a conclusion: the so-called Donghe tribe women gave birth to sea monsters not because of their abnormal physical constitution, but because of the prayer totem.

The prayer totem has a special fire of faith that will transform the newly born male babies. The fire of faith will enter the bodies of these sea monster boys, using their lives and reason as fuel, and condense into a thick layer of leather on the surface of the sea monster after burning. These leathers can be transformed into the power of faith again through special sacrifices.

In short, sea monsters are a kind of living faith crops.

The totem sows the fire of faith in the baby's body, turning it into a sea monster, which is raised by the Donghai tribe, and finally the sea monster skin is sent back to the Donghai clan in exchange for the protection of the prayer totem.

Lu Yao was not particularly surprised by such a result.

As he became more and more familiar with the simulator, he knew that every god in this pixel world did all kinds of things to gain more faith.

The amount of faith is directly related to the strength of the god's power.

Faith is the first productive force of the god.

Because he is a god, there are no taboos.

Any action of the gods will be beautified, and will be blindly followed and understood by believers. At least in the tribal civilization stage, no one will question the greatness and correctness of the gods.

The so-called demons are just the names of heretics given by the gods.

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After losing the totem, sea monsters and ships, the Donghe tribe is a very weak group on land.

As leaders, [Grandmother] and the female captain are very worried and panic.

However, most of the women in the Donghe tribe are immersed in a simple happiness of being well fed and warm. After becoming neighbors with the Garlic Tribe, they put on woolen winter clothes, ate wheat and potatoes, and no longer had to worry about not having firewood to keep warm at night.

Especially after giving birth to babies, they spent most of their time taking care of these next generation of little lives.

Because these children belonged to the two tribes, the Garlic Tribe also spared no effort to provide food and supplies, so that the women of the Donghe tribe could spend this winter effortlessly.

When winter was about to end, [Grandmother] took the Donghe tribe away and returned to the Donghe Ship Island.

They left most of the babies behind. Because the Garlic Tribe is undoubtedly a more prosperous and stable tribe, and is more suitable for raising young children than the Donghe Tribe.

So the Garlic Tribe ushered in its first baby boom.

Lu Yao deliberately counted them.

This winter, there are 34 more babies, accounting for nearly 1/10 of the total population of the Garlic Tribe.

He counted with a smile.

Next winter, remember to come again.

In this context of everything going well, the Salt Pond Tribe made a less harmonious voice.

The Salt Pond Tribe sent a group of people to negotiate with the prophet.

"The Garlic Tribe has always been our partner, and we have always given the Garlic Tribe the most favorable trading price for the salt we supply."

"But the Garlic Tribe bypassed us and traded with the dangerous Donghe Tribe. This is unwise, seriously disrupting the trading market and affecting the interests of the entire Salt Pond Tribe. So you must stop this behavior and make corresponding compensation to us."

"Another thing is that the price of salt in the outside world is rising, and all tribes are short of salt, so we need to raise the price."

"Of course, if the Garlic Tribe is willing to trade with a large amount of wool, we can also make some concessions as appropriate."

In the past, they would say some hypocritical words, but now the truth has been revealed.

The Salt Pond Tribe relies on the monopoly of salt and the passage to the outside world.

The prophet answered very firmly this time: "These are all things that the Garlic Tribe cannot accept, and there is no room for negotiation. We welcome any friends who want to cooperate, but we will never accept threats."

"Stupid barbarians!"

"You will regret it!"

"The Salt Pond Tribe no longer considers you friends!"

The people of the Salt Pond Tribe left in a rage and went into the mountains to the west.

Lu Yao pointed out the earthquake in [Miracle] and selected the mountains bordering the Garlic Tribe to the west. As the miracle came, the earth shook and the boulders on the mountains kept rolling down.

[Earthquake]!

[Earthquake]!

[Earthquake]!

Under the impact of a total of 4 earthquakes, a large area of ​​mountains collapsed, and the edge of the mountains was a mess of rubble. The passage between the Garlic Tribe and the Salt Pond Tribe was completely cut off.

The little people of the Salt Pond Tribe who were in the mountains fell into panic.

"It's over, the passage is cut off!"

"This trade route is cut off, and goods can no longer be transported from this side."

"The loss is too great!"

"My wool, my garlic!"

Lu Yao clenched his fists.

Want to play economic sanctions?

My buddy initiated it first.

Do you know what is called a closed-door policy?

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