Immortality, but people in primitive society

Chapter 159: Building big ships in primitive society?

Following the group of people by the lake, I saw another group of people coming from a distance during the day.

The group that came later was carrying a wooden stretcher, and the things on the stretcher were covered with straw. But in the daytime, it was clear that it must be a dead person.

It looks like it’s not a sacrifice, but a funeral!

Sure enough, the group of people who came later threw the wooden frame into the fire, and then a group of people continued to gather around the fire.

This tribe's thinking is quite advanced; they've even learned about cremation, and they do it with such a grand ceremony...

"Ah!" Su Ling suddenly exclaimed.

Bai Tian frowned: "What's wrong?"

Su Ling pointed to the distance and said, "There's a person floating up, above the fire... Look, he's floating up from the fire. It's an old man."

I looked carefully during the day and only saw flames surging, but no one.

"Su Ling, did you really see someone?" Bai Tian's expression became serious.

Su Ling nodded affirmatively: "There really is an old man floating up from the fire, and he's lying on top of it... Yeah, he's flying over here!"

Bai Tian's heart was startled, and he was about to mobilize his strength to prepare for defense, but at this moment, his body suddenly trembled, and a white bead flew out from his heart and slowly flew into the air.

Then, Su Ling exclaimed again: "Ah, that old man was sucked away by your white beads."

Bai Tian's brows were furrowed even more tightly: "Su Ling, did you see clearly?"

"Oh, I saw it clearly. The old man flew over and was in front of us in an instant. Then he was sucked away by your white bead. It was sucked away in an instant. It was so big, I don't know how it was able to fit in."

What's the matter?

The soul of the burned-to-death person appeared, and Su Ling could see the soul? And the white bead would absorb the soul?

Before Bai Tian could think about it, the white bead flew back into Bai Tian's body on its own.

Su Ling was very curious. She touched Bai Tian's body for a long time and muttered, "What a strange thing."

In comparison, Suling’s eyes were found to be even stranger during the day. This was not the first time she could see “ghosts”!

It feels like Su Ling is becoming more and more weird...

Before I could think about it, the crowd by the lake had already begun to disperse, and they didn't even wait for the fire to go out.

The fire was still burning fiercely, with flames shooting up into the sky. These people had a poor sense of safety, and if there was a gust of wind, the surrounding forest would surely be in tatters.

Seeing those people walking away, Bai Tian and Su Ling walked towards the campfire by the lake to prevent the fire from burning the forest.

What was unexpected was that before the fire was extinguished, several more people came back.

When those people saw Bai Tian and Su Ling from afar, they started shouting loudly. Of course, Bai Tian and Su Ling could not understand what they were saying.

Bai Tian and Su Ling stood still while the others came over and chattered non-stop. As they talked, they gestured with their hands, as fast as if they were celebrating a festival.

Su Ling couldn't help but mutter, "What are you talking about? I didn't understand a word."

During the day, he gestured patiently and pointed to the wooden house in the distance.

The other party glanced at the wooden house in the distance and seemed to understand what Bai Tian meant. Then they stopped talking and the middle-aged man in the front began to slow down and gesture with his hands.

They are supposed to leave here during the day.

Bai Tian nodded and stepped aside, but the middle-aged man gestured again: "Move further away, and don't look."

During the day, I roughly understood that their cremation custom is that after sending the person into the fire, one must return and cannot watch the process of the person being burned.

It's similar to some modern rural burials, where a few people are left behind to be buried, and the rest of the people have to go back once they are buried...

Bai Tian and Su Ling returned to their residence, but they still couldn't help watching from a distance.

After the fire by the lake was extinguished, the men began to push the ashes into the lake. This was unexpected during the day. In the end, they were feeding the fish. Why didn't they feed the bodies to the fish in the first place?

After the people by the lake finished their work, they walked towards Bai Tian and Su Ling.

They seemed a little afraid of the collapsed mountain and did not dare to climb up the mountain. Instead, they shouted from a distance that they would go there alone during the day.

It was the same middle-aged man from before, gesturing with his hands as he spoke. It wasn't hard to understand; he was just asking Bai Tian to follow them.

After a brief consideration during the day, he nodded in agreement. This tribe was huge; they must be the large tribe that Su Ling had seen in her "dream"...

After a simple tidy up, Bai Tian took Su Ling and followed those people.

When those people saw the golden machete during the day, they were shocked and whispered something. Judging from their expressions, they must have wanted the golden machete...

Following a few people around the small lake, we walked down the river for a distance and saw a very large lake that stretched as far as the eye could see.

And these people's tribe is right next to the big lake.

It's very strange. There is a big lake below, but they want to cremate in the small lake above.

It was a fairly large tribe, with houses spread out along the lakeside. It was estimated that there were around 500 people.

The people of this tribe weren't particularly tall, averaging about 1.80 meters. Of course, most were taller than Bai Tian and Su Ling, and quite sturdy.

The houses they built were very close to the lake, and some even extended onto the lake.

It seems that this tribe is quite good at fishing...

Bai Tian and Su Ling were taken to a wooden house, and then an old man came to see them. Bai Tian could tell that this old man was the one who was dancing in the mask at the front of the team because his clothes were colorful.

Of course, communication was still a big problem. Although I could draw the pictograms during the day, the other party couldn't, so I had to rely entirely on sign language to communicate.

During the day, we even discovered that this tribe had no hieroglyphics!

Finally, Bai Tian and Su Ling were taken to an old thatched hut in the corner of the tribe and stayed there temporarily.

However, this tribe treated Bai Tian and his friends well. Although the hut they lived in was not very good, they gave Bai Tian a lot of meat, fish, game, and even gave him fishing tools: a long, sharp wooden stick.

After those people left, Su Ling whispered, "During the day, I dreamed about this tribe. They made a very large object out of wood. It was over there in the woods."

Bai Tian was calm and said, "That thing is called a boat. It can float on the water and can go very far."

"Really? Then let's go and take a look later?" Su Ling was full of anticipation.

Bai Tian shook his head and said, "We just arrived, I guess they won't let us see it. Let's stay here first, we're not in a hurry anyway."

If this tribe could really build boats, that would be interesting. From Su Ling's description, it seemed that this tribe built not just wooden canoes, but large boats that could actually accommodate people!

In primitive society, it is incredible that someone could build a large ship...