Chapter 441: The Bear's Journey Home

Huangpin spun his head frantically, immediately coming up with a countermeasure. Although it was also a bit dangerous, it wouldn't mean delivering himself to the enemy's doorstep.

"Tribal Chief, just now, your words suddenly made me think of another way!"

Baoxi suppressed his emotions slightly: "Oh? Tell me, what way?"

Huangpin hurriedly raised his head and said obsequiously: "Tribal Chief, for a matter like this, I think you should go deliver it yourself. Only in this way can you see Baifeng's flustered and exasperated appearance with your own eyes. And I can simultaneously take a team of people to secretly go to the road I saw earlier, following it to search for another city of Huaxia. They will definitely think that only your team went, and in that case, they will relax their vigilance, and we will be able to scout for information more smoothly."

Baoxi's somewhat sensitive heart was pricked by Huangpin's words "flustered and exasperated," but what Huangpin said was not without reason. However, this gave him the feeling that he had become a supporting character, as if everything was serving Huangpin.

"You mean to have me provide cover for you? You have quite a lot of nerve!"

Huangpin immediately understood that what he had just said was not very good, failing to distinguish between primary and secondary. Thus, he hurriedly prostrated himself on the ground in terror and said in an even more obsequious tone: "Tribal Chief, how could I dare to think that? I meant that for an important person like you, Huaxia will definitely treat it seriously. Even if it is Baifeng, if you demand it, he will certainly have to come out to see you. Someone like me, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to see Baifeng's people."

"Moreover, if they see you, they will definitely focus all their attention on you. Only you are worthy of their attention. Only someone as dispensable as me can have the opportunity to scout. Besides, only I and those few soldiers of mine know the location of that place."

With the same plan, after raising Baoxi's importance, Baoxi felt more comfortable in his heart and no longer focused on the problem in Huangpin's words just now, only saying indifferently: "Fine, you go back first, I will consider it."

Only then did Huangpin hurriedly stand up and retreat with a humble posture.

At this time, Xiong was leading an even larger team on the road back. When they came, the wild fruits and nuts in the forest were still relatively abundant, but now they were few and far between, having been eaten by other things or collected for the Winter. Their food sources had decreased significantly.

After defeating the Wulenge Tribe, they traveled for another two days. Only when they had completely entered the dense forest, where it was impossible for other tribes to find them and there were no tribes living in the vicinity, did Xiong give the order to resume the method of traveling for half a day and hunting for half a day.

The two tribes tailing them were also discovered by them. Xiong intended to just kill them, but those two tribes clearly expressed that they had no malice and only wanted to join Huaxia. The previous matter was because they had not seen the situation clearly, and now they were very regretful.

Whenever Xiong had the intention to attack, those two tribes would stay far away. It wasn't that they insisted on following Xiong and his group, but that those two tribes had absolutely no choice. When they left the gathering to join Huaxia, their choice was very decisive, but when it came to fighting, they hesitated. Seeing that Huaxia had succeeded, they wanted to follow, but Huaxia no longer wanted them.

However, it was now impossible for them to return to their original territory; the distance was too far, and it was even in the opposite direction from their current path. The temperature was also dropping at an extremely fast speed, and by night, the water had already frozen into a layer of thin ice.

All the assets of their tribe were carried on their persons. If they went back, there would be nothing to support them through the Winter, and they would very likely die on the road. Now, their only hope was to pester Huaxia and follow them, seeing if Huaxia would be moved by their "sincerity" and keep them. A battle had also made them more certain that Huaxia absolutely had the ability to accommodate them.

But Xiong, including those from the Twelve Tribes, had no good feelings at all for such opportunists who deserted before the battle. The Twelve Tribes were even less willing to let those people obtain the same opportunities as them, who had experienced battle and lost Soldiers to join Huaxia.

But Xiong could not drive them away, and he could not spend the energy to encircle and suppress them. He felt very annoyed, just like the feeling of stepping in poop at home, wanting to rub it off on the ground but fearing it would dirty his own floor.

Finally, after a Huaxia Soldier quietly told Xiong a method, Xiong let out a long sigh and decided to stop worrying about those people and just let them follow. However, to maintain morale, he also explained it clearly to those from the Twelve Tribes, only saying that he did not want to waste energy managing them at such a critical moment, as long as they did not affect the progress of their team. The Twelve Tribes could only grit their teeth and accept it.

After those two tribes had tailed them for another two days, they discovered that Huaxia really had no intention of driving them away, so they thought their sincerity had moved Huaxia and became even bolder. The distance grew closer and closer, and at night, they even dared to camp within Huaxia's line of sight.

Now their position was infinitely close to the nameless tribe they had accepted on the road when they came. Xiong was also worried about whether those people were still alive. In such a short time, as long as no enemies attacked them, their survival should not be a problem. As long as it hadn't reached Winter, the vitality of wild people was still very tenacious.

However, those few people from the nameless tribe who had already integrated into their team no longer cared at all about the tribesmen of their original tribe. This was a very realistic matter; for the weak, how could there be such a strong sense of belonging?

But fortunately, when Xiong and the others returned there again, they found that those people were still living well. Those people were also very happy to finally see Huaxia people come to pick them up. Because almost all the adult men had died, their hunting ability had dropped sharply. During this period, they could barely maintain their lives, but when Winter arrived, there would be no hope at all.

After Xiong received them, they immediately abandoned their territory and joined the Huaxia team with immense joy. Xiong also set up camp here to rest and reorganize.

At the same time, Xiong released carrier pigeons to notify Huaxia that his journey was more than halfway through, hoping that after estimating the general time, they could send a team to meet them. Because of the sharp increase in personnel along the way and the decrease in prey, they had to use their Dry Rations. Although the food supply for each person was very small, the Dry Rations were also decreasing at an extremely fast speed.

Most importantly, Xiong had already felt that the temperature had been dropping sharply over the last two days, the wind was getting stronger, and the sky was gradually becoming gloomy. According to his experience, this was the prelude to upcoming Snow. To use the words Baifeng had told them, this was the cold wave about to arrive.