After some communication, I finally realized that I was thinking too much. It must be the bombardment of those ghost videos in my dreams that kept my mind in an uncontrollable state. This must be true.

In fact, what Jay is responsible for keeping is not the fire source of the planet Cybertron, which sounds unreliable. Based on the current human exploration of the universe, no mysterious, powerful, ever-changing silicon-based life has been discovered, and some are just

An uncontrolled machine race born from the omnic crisis in human society.

What the jay keeps is ordinary fire, but what is extraordinary is not the fire, but this position.

In a narrow sense, keeping fire is a tribe's maintenance of lifeline, control of tribe's centripetal force, maintaining a stable and bright source of fire in the wilderness life, which is equivalent to giving keyboard warriors a stable Wi-Fi, which can be used in the wilderness.

Survive in the wild until eternity.

In a broad sense, this fire also represents the fire of hope and civilization of tribal civilization. A fire keeper must not only learn how to make fire, keep fire, and use fire, but also learn many things related to food, disease, and manufacturing.

knowledge, after all, these things are closely related to fire.

When a tribe migrates, the fire custodians and tribal elders are the objects of special protection, because whether they survive means whether the tribe's wisdom can be continued and whether its knowledge can be preserved.

In this case, a twelve-year-old girl can serve as one of the custodians of the fire, which can already reflect her talent in intelligence and operational ability.

"So awesome! I thought you were just a humanoid lighter!"

"Humph, please don't slander my noble profession!"

Jay Ya said angrily, she always thought that her mysterious and powerful image had been established by fetching water and making fire, but she didn't expect that I never took it seriously. After all this was explained, her child's temper got worse.

, suddenly there was an awkwardness.

But it was awkward, and her hand holding the short bow never relaxed at all.

"In addition, the elders of the tribe are basically women. In the future, they will also become the elders of the tribe!"

"Sorry, I don't know much about your social structure. Will you take over as the tribal elder in the future?" I asked humbly.

When Jay Ya said this, he immediately became energetic and couldn't stop the smile on his little face: "It doesn't necessarily mean taking over. If the tribe expands large enough, I may also take the divided tribe to settle elsewhere.

, to become the leader of a new tribe.”

"Did you originally expand like this? Do you usually have contact with people from other tribes?"

"Of course, we are a moderate tribe. In addition to our long-term hostility with the barbarian tribes, we often entertain outsiders. The tribe also has special outsider guides who are responsible for receiving and taking them through the tribal areas and the desert."

After the introduction, I got a general idea of ​​the people in the place where Jay was.

The first type is a moderate tribe like theirs, which makes a living by nomadism, maintains a relatively centralized social form, and has a complete social division of labor. A large amount of labor in the tribe is used for production, and the materials produced ensure the continuation of the population.

It grew, and in this way it gradually multiplied to a large scale.

Therefore, the characteristic of moderate tribes is that they are cautious about risk factors, and all behaviors that can easily lead to population reduction will be carefully considered. Therefore, including large-scale hunting, war plunder, and collective migration, they are all things that should be avoided as much as possible.

But they also have a means of external expansion, which is cultural transmission. If they discover a strange primitive tribe, they will send fire custodians like jays, witch doctors, shamans, professional and technical workers, etc. to carry out peace

trade, and impart survival knowledge and skills.

When this tribe adapts to the farming, grazing, and gathering knowledge of the moderate tribe, it will be more eager to learn their survival knowledge, and will often eventually join them. At the worst, it will also get an emerging ally like me.

Be a helping hand in times of crisis.

Therefore, Jay, who is from a gentle tribe, will teach me knowledge and form an alliance with me as soon as I come up. It turns out that this is the diplomatic custom of their tribe.

Fortunately, they came to contact me. If it were a barbarian tribe...

"The barbarian tribe is very dangerous! It's a cancer!" Jay Crow declared plausibly, and then began to introduce the situation of the barbarian tribe.

The second type, barbarian tribes, generally have a powerful tribal leader. For these dictators, whether they are moderate tribesmen or outsiders, they are the targets of their hunting, with the purpose of gaining wealth from their victims.

As a tribe, barbarian tribes often wear the cloak of a gentle tribe at the beginning and interact with other people in a civilized manner. But once the fat sheep have taken shape, they will show their fangs and use war, plunder, and massacre to devour their targets.

All.

After such barbaric tribes reveal their true colors, they are like hungry wolves who have seen blood. They can no longer control their desire to conquer and will start wanton wars in order to plunder more people. In their eyes, all economies, technologies, and food are useless.

They don't need to be developed and can be obtained through plunder. Therefore, most of their tribal structures are warriors and captured slaves.

Therefore, for the moderate tribes, this kind of barbaric tribe is indeed a great threat, which causes them to maintain standing troops to defend against invasion and be always vigilant. Of course, this also promotes the establishment of the alliance of moderate tribes. Everyone knows that only by staying together can they stay warm.

be able to get a chance to survive.

The third type is the outsiders with special origins. Some of them are criminals who were exiled from the civilized world, some are the awakened people who have been frozen in ancient shelters, some are residents who wandered into the wasteland after the collapse of civilized cities, and there are many people who came from space.

Astronauts who came to the ground due to various reasons.

The characteristic of outsiders is that they have relatively complete technological products and technical strength. Although their number is small, they have more advanced automatic weapons than the tribes. Their disadvantages are also obvious, that is, they are unfamiliar with the wild environment and have few manpower.

The outcome of these outsiders, except for a few lucky ones who returned to the civilized world, everyone else faced two fates.

One is that due to insufficient numbers, they become the target of barbarian tribes or other outsiders. In the end, they have no strength to preserve their property and become the prey of others. The territory, population, and technology are all in vain.

The other is to have safely passed through the previous difficult period, but as the old residents leave, the new residents often lack systematic modern education. Within one or two generations, as the equipment ages and becomes scrapped, the technology is missing.

Civilization regressed, and in the end only one or two key technologies were remembered, becoming a new tribe wandering in the wilderness.

However, the new technologies brought by outsiders also effectively filled the technological gaps in the wild world where Jay lived, and promoted the slow and difficult development of that place.
Chapter completed!