We made you the chief, and now you've become the world's chief?

Chapter 65 Encirclement and reinforcements
Night had fallen, and earthenware pots sat on stone stoves beside the campfire.

Everything seemed the same as usual, except for a dozen or so more customers who were drooling.

Everyone else was looking at the fragrant wolf meat in the earthenware pot, but only Daka was looking at the pot itself.

This is much better than the stone pot they painstakingly made!

Not only does it look delicious, but it's also very light when I touched it, and it smells so good when I cook meat with it!

Lipa was already somewhat displeased when he heard Daka say that the chief couldn't lead everyone to kill bears and that he always boasted about their tribe.

Seeing Daka's expression as he looked at the pottery pot, a hint of pride immediately appeared on his face, and he boasted to Daka.

"This was made by the chief; your tribe doesn't have it. And these too, pottery jars!"

Following Lipa's hand, they discovered the pottery jar.

The pottery jar is not in use today, so Daka doesn't know what it was used for.

It wasn't until Lipa brought it over and showed Daka the water inside that things started to change.

Daka immediately understood, a hint of envy appearing in his eyes.

If we had this, it would be much easier to fetch water from the river, and we could also use it to carry other things.

When Daka looked at Xia Minghao again, a glimmer of light appeared in his eyes.

"So you were the wise man of your tribe?"

"No, not a wise man, but a chieftain!"

When Lipa heard Daka refer to Xia Minghao by the name of another tribe, he immediately retorted.

Chief?

Upon hearing this word, Daka felt that it sounded somewhat similar to "leader," but also different.

I silently memorized this special name.

Then, Daka thought of what the "chief" had said earlier that day about killing a bear, and couldn't help but ask.

"Are you really going to kill the bear?"

"Ah."

Xia Minghao glanced at the wolf meat in the pot and casually replied.

“You can’t kill the bear. We’ve thought about killing the bear, and many people have died, but the bear is still alive.”

Hearing this, Xia Minghao became interested and looked at Daka.

"What do you use to kill the bear?"

"They used wooden spears, stone axes, and torches."

How many people were involved in killing the bear?

"There are as many people as your tribe. Many men, and women too."

Hearing Daka say that, Xia Minghao frowned.

In fact, looking at the issue of strength statically, the tribe's current strength is still slightly weaker than when the Da tribe killed the bear, as described by Daka.

Although they were stronger than the Da tribe at the time due to their organizational and tactical abilities, as well as the added advantage of spear throwing weapons, they were actually stronger.

However, due to limitations in basic weaponry, it won't be much stronger.

“Those two big bears were terrifying. They captured our people and then handed them over to the little bear.”

“Teach that little bear how to hunt my people.”

“That little bear ripped out my tribesman’s intestines and ate them, and even twisted off his head.”

“They licked my people’s faces with their tongues, and after one lick, half of their faces were gone.”

Seeing that Daka was becoming more and more terrified as he spoke, Xia Minghao looked at everyone and found that the people around him who had overheard him were also showing signs of fear.

Oh no, this is Daka's fear spreading to others.

Xia Minghao quickly interrupted.

"Tomorrow, they will die, but we will not."

"The little bear will die, and the big bear will die too."

Xia Minghao's words instantly acted as a reassurance, calming the fear in the crowd.

But as soon as the words left his mouth, a tactic suddenly popped into his mind.

Little bear... Big bear...

Xia Minghao's eyes lit up, and a plan he was completely confident in began to take shape rapidly.

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Inside the cave, amidst the sparse bushes, three bears—two large and one small—were fast asleep.

At that moment, a scent wafted into the young bear's nose, causing it to open its eyes.

But when he saw the source of the smell, his sleepy eyes widened instantly.

It's meat! It smells delicious!

After crawling a few steps forward, the young human-faced bear swallowed the stewed wolf meat whole.

To his surprise, it even tasted salty!
This was a delicious treat I had never tasted before, and my mouth was immediately watering.

Seeing that there were more ahead, the young human-faced bear immediately stepped forward and swallowed them whole.

besides?

Swallow again!

besides?

Swallow again!

He didn't know why the salted meat kept coming one after another; perhaps, like those salt stones, it grew out of the ground.

But this is meat! Not stone!
Once his cravings were somewhat satisfied, the young human-faced bear remembered his mother.

He had never been this far from his mother before; he had always followed her.

He goes wherever the mother bear goes, and he sleeps next to her when she sleeps.

The young human-faced bear turned around and called out twice to its mother.

However, the mother and father bears were fast asleep, having just eaten their fill of wild boar that had rushed in that morning to lick the rocks.

Upon hearing this, the mother bear simply rolled over.

The young human-faced bear thought for a moment, but in the end, its stomach took over its thinking. It turned its head and continued eating the meat on the ground.

They ate their way from the mountains all the way to the caves, and finally, they emerged from the mountains.

Just as I was about to put the last piece of meat into my mouth, I felt a sudden lightness in my body, followed by a strong sense of weightlessness.

Boom!

"You've fallen into a trap! Liba, don't forget what I told you!"

Xia Minghao looked at Liba standing under the giant tree at the entrance of the cave. At this moment, Liba and all the other men of the Li tribe were holding onto grass ropes and vines.

And at the other end of the straw rope in their hands were three huge stones!
This is the key to killing the bear later.

After hearing Daka's account of the past traumatic experiences of the Da tribe last night, Xia Minghao decided to completely avoid direct conflict with the bear.

Instead, they continue to solve problems through traps.

This time, we chose rockfall traps and deep pit traps.

Deep pit traps are indeed more suitable for catching large animals, but they are incredibly difficult to dig. Today, I spent a lot of time using a bone hoe, not to mention the shortage of manpower and resources at the time. So, I had been using lasso traps before.

Instead of using a tripwire or trigger lever to passively trigger the rockfall trap, Xia Minghao had the men from the Li tribe hold it back, thus triggering it actively.

While automatic triggering is indeed more convenient, Xia Minghao observed that various wild animals would frequently come out of and into the cave.

This is certainly a good thing, and among them are some of the animals that Xia Minghao wants to tame, such as wild boars, and he even saw a goat!
But if the traps you set are triggered by these animals, that would be a bad thing.

To avoid such a thing, Xia Minghao not only had the people of the Li tribe trigger it on their own, but also specially reinforced the deep pit trap.

This increases the upper limit of the force it can withstand, ensuring that only a young human-faced bear of similar weight would be crushed and fall inside.

"Strange, why haven't those two bears come yet?"

The young human-faced bear had been howling for most of the day, but there was still no movement inside the cave.

Even with binoculars, the other two adult bears could not be seen directly opposite the cave.

These two bears are really too ambitious!
Are they still sleeping?

Xia Minghao was puzzled and wondered whether he should investigate further.

But the thought was immediately dismissed, fearing it would be like going to see unexploded firecrackers during the Lunar New Year, only to have them explode in your face when you actually get there.

Daka watched from the side, his eyes wide open, feeling a complex mix of emotions.

I didn't understand why the chief was digging holes and tying stones together; I wondered what he was trying to do.

And now he's figured it out!

The word "wisdom" that a wise man once spoke of immediately came to mind.

Why didn't the wise man think of killing the bear in this way?
If that's the case, perhaps it can be done without anyone dying.

But the wise man did not anticipate...

Could this chief be wiser than the wise man?
Impossible. You can't kill a bear like that. Otherwise, a wise person would definitely use this method.

If even a wise man couldn't kill this bear, then this chief certainly couldn't either.

Daka was initially just curious, but now he began to hope that the tribe wouldn't be able to kill the bear.

He did not want any other tribe to be stronger than his own, essentially because he was worried that his survival advantage would be weakened.

Suddenly, a furious roar echoed through the cave!

The young human-faced bear seemed to sense its mother's call, and its cries from the deep pit became even more heart-wrenching.

Xia Minghao put down his binoculars, and could now see the two enormous figures that had appeared in the cave.

The bear with human faces is coming!
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