Chapter 993: To Pigeon or Not to Pigeon

Fenghou had never seen this before, so he remained silent throughout; Limu also had to admire this, as their Soldiers were not professional soldiers, but those of Huaxia were, and they were not far from establishing their own professional army, because they were now close to having enough food, and as long as there was enough food, they could pull some labor out to be specifically trained for combat.

As for Xiong, he acted as if he had not heard Xuanyuan's praise, for after all, he was not Baifeng and had no qualification to make any evaluation of this matter.

However, Xiong told Xuanyuan another piece of news: "Tribal Chief Xuanyuan, if you want to send messages to your tribe now, do you still have to rely on people to walk slowly back through the mountains and forests to deliver the message?"

Everyone looked puzzled: "Otherwise what?"

Xiong smiled and said: "We in Huaxia have a way to send messages back at an extremely fast speed; take this place for example, if we were to send it back to our Huaxia, I think it would take about two days to arrive."

Limu shook his head directly in denial: "Impossible, impossible, how could it be that fast, unless you yourselves can fly back."

Xiong stared at Xuanyuan and gave a meaningful expression; Xuanyuan was also a bit confused, and no matter how he thought about it, he could not figure out how the message could be sent back so quickly; as for things like gods, he did not believe in them at all.

"How exactly is it sent back?"

Xiong gave a hint: "Tribal Chief Xuanyuan, we do fly back, but it is not people who fly, and that is something you have seen."

Xuanyuan pondered for a long time before asking with some self-doubt: "Pigeons?"

"Correct, it is pigeons; the pigeons we raise in Huaxia can fly back to Huaxia on their own; you only need to tie the message we need to send onto its leg, and then it can naturally deliver the message."

Limu was somewhat dissatisfied: "You didn't do this well; why didn't you tell us before? And those pigeons raised by your Construction Teams were used for sending messages, right? You've been lying to us all along!"

But Xiong only asked one question in return, which made Limu deflate: "If your Xuanyuan Tribe had such a thing and such an ability, would you be willing to tell Huaxia?"

Limu knew he had spoken wrongly and stopped making noise, but feeling that these Huaxia pigeons had been flying right under his nose for years and he had only just found out what they were for, he still felt very unhappy.

Xuanyuan, however, was very open-minded; it was fine that the people from the Construction Team used pigeons to transmit messages when they were in Huaxia, as they hadn't leaked any secrets anyway, and if one thought about it this way, the previous time Baifeng suddenly arrived at the Xuanyuan Tribe at an unreasonable speed could also be explained, even though the reason Baifeng gave at the time was also quite reasonable.

"Xiong, is your purpose in saying this to have us, the Xuanyuan Tribe, also use pigeons to transmit messages?"

Xiong nodded in confirmation: "Yes, our King said that you can use the pigeons we brought over to transmit messages as you please, because we are allies now, and good things should be used together.

But it has a disadvantage, which is that the pigeons will only fly to Huaxia and will not fly to the Xuanyuan Tribe, so if there is any message, it can only be sent to Huaxia first, and then transferred to the Xuanyuan Tribe by Huaxia.

It might not even be as fast as you sending people directly to the Xuanyuan Tribe to deliver messages."

"Then wouldn't that be useless to us?"

Xiong tried his best to make his smile look less cunning: "Heh, Tribal Chief Xuanyuan, just because it's useless now doesn't mean it won't be useful later; besides, this pigeon, it won't work for this generation, but if you raise it in your Xuanyuan Tribe, and it is taken out later, if you let it fly back to deliver a message, it will only fly back to your Xuanyuan Tribe.

By the way, didn't we give you a few pigeons before? You can have your tribesmen take them to a distant place and release them to see if they return to their nest."

Xuanyuan was thoughtful, but Limu was puzzled: "If you release the captured pigeons in the wild, won't they just fly into the mountains and forests? How could they possibly return to the cage?"

"As for that, it is the result of us breeding them for many years; at first, the pigeons we raised were afraid of people, and as soon as you released them, they would fly away directly, but it is different now; they have bred for many generations by people's sides and are no longer afraid of people.

And the pigeon cage is their nest; if they feel it is too dangerous in the wild and want to return to the nest, they will only fly back to the pigeon cage."

Xuanyuan interrupted Xiong: "Is Baifeng's meaning that he is looking to see if our Xuanyuan Tribe wants pigeons, and if we need them, he is willing to trade your pigeons for us to use, is that it?"

"Yes, that is what our King meant; no, that is not exactly what he meant; actually, our King didn't think that much; he hesitated for a long time before coming out this time, not knowing if he should bring pigeons out.

Because once we brought pigeons, what our pigeons were used for would certainly not be able to be hidden from you; it is so remote here that it is very difficult to send pigeons over, and we couldn't possibly eat the pigeons just to deceive you.

Besides, bringing pigeons here is in itself unexplainable and very hard to explain; if you saw us bringing pigeons, wouldn't you think it was very suspicious?

So, after our King thought it through, he decided to bring them, because this war is too important, and he must know the situation here at all times.

If you don't want the pigeons, we would actually worry less; if you want them, we can give them to you."

Xuanyuan smiled helplessly and said: "Baifeng really has to consider the pros and cons of everything; no matter what it is, if there isn't enough profit, he hides it and doesn't speak of it.

But indeed, this thing of yours makes me a bit tempted, but aren't you afraid that we will catch our own pigeons to raise instead of trading with you?"

Xiong said carelessly: "Not afraid; you don't know how much time we spent for pigeons like these; if you catch wild pigeons and want to raise them to be like ours, you'd better start by raising them for five or six years first, but during these years, you won't have any pigeons to use.

You can go catch them and tame them yourselves, but if you want to use them now, you can only trade for them from us in Huaxia."

After Xiong finished speaking, everyone fell silent; Fenghou was also thoughtful on the side, and now he felt that he was only just beginning to slowly understand what kind of person this Baifeng was.