Chapter 9: Disaster
As the long wait continued, night fell, and the Human Race members who had gone out hunting also returned to the tribe one after another.
After dinner, Li Zimu took a few stones and found the Chief.
Seeing the Chief's confused expression, Li Zimu also found it difficult. How could he communicate...?
Helpless, he could only point at the stones and start gesturing.
The Chief opposite him stared blankly at Li Zimu's continuous gestures.
Seeing that the other party didn't understand, Li Zimu gestured even harder.
It took a very long time for the other party to understand his general meaning.
The Chief nodded heavily, then took the stones and walked out.
"wasdgdb!"
The Chief shouted with a booming voice.
All the Human Race members hurriedly ran over to gather.
The entire tribe had over two thousand people, and the sight was quite spectacular.
"wasdafg! (Gather!)"
"sddfo! (Remember the appearance of this object!)"
The Chief said a few words, then passed the stones around for the Human Race members to examine one by one.
Seeing this, Li Zimu breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed the matter was settled. Now it just depended on whether this group of Human Race members could collect enough limestone and iron ore.
The next morning.
Li Zimu, who was still asleep, was startled awake by the noise.
As soon as he stepped out of the house, he saw a mighty procession of Human Race members leaving the tribe together.
"Uh... is it this grand...?"
Li Zimu was a bit dumbfounded. He thought at most one or two hundred Human Race members would go out, but this time over a thousand were dispatched at once.
The remaining thousand people were the elderly, weak, women, and children, left in the territory by the Chief. Several hundred young Human Race members were also kept behind to guard the camp.
Li Zimu gained a new understanding of his status in the hearts of the Human Race members.
"But this is also good. I originally thought it would take several months to collect all the materials, but looking at this, one or two weeks should be enough."
Li Zimu thought, since they were so cooperative, he should also use all his knowledge to equip the tribe.
time flowed, and in the blink of an eye, two months had passed.
Through contact during this period, Li Zimu gradually integrated into this Human Race tribe.
After two months of development, the tribe was surrounded by high walls poured with cement.
The Human Race houses were also redesigned by Li Zimu and built into sturdy stone houses.
Fireplaces were designed inside, allowing the Human Race to keep warm indoors during winter. A huge granary was also built.
Due to time constraints, Li Zimu could only create this much. Other things would need to be developed slowly in the future.
Over the past two months, he also noticed the inconvenience in the current Human Race communication and wondered if he should teach them modern language.
But the problem was he wasn't a linguist. At most, he could try his best to teach some simple and easy-to-understand communication language.
...
Outside Earth Star.
Jiang Fan was very satisfied watching the development of the Human Race. This was much faster than if he had personally guided them.
As the saying goes, each has his own specialty. He didn't understand construction knowledge.
[Ding! Host, you can now accelerate the time flow of Earth Star.]
Ye Yu reminded him.
He believed that under Li Zimu's guidance, the Human Race should be able to survive the coming disaster.
The early disasters would definitely not be very strong. Otherwise, if civilization developed into a higher civilization in the future, wouldn't the disasters be even more exaggerated?
"Okay!"
Jiang Fan also felt the time was right.
Over the past two months, he had also continuously gained quite a few Creation Points.
Enough to sustain a hundred years of acceleration with some left over.
"Accelerate civilization development! time... one hundred years!"
Jiang Fan's pupils flickered with golden light. A massive power of creation enveloped Earth Star, as a large amount of Creation Points were spent.
Earth Star entered the torrent of time. All living beings on Earth Star naturally couldn't sense this.
"It's here!"
Jiang Fan's brows furrowed. Shortly after accelerating, he sensed that disaster had descended upon his Earth Star.
At this moment, on Earth Star.
"Hmm?"
A sense of unease rose in Li Zimu's heart.
He immediately rushed out of the house.
At this time, the outside world was surging with wind and clouds. The strong wind blew incessantly, and the trees were swaying violently.
"What's happening! What happened!"
Li Zimu's face was grim. One moment it was a clear sky, and the next, dark clouds covered the sky and the strong wind wouldn't stop.
At this time, after the acceleration of time, ten years had passed since he arrived on Earth Star.
Under his leadership, the tribe entered an unprecedented period of development, and the population of the Human Race also experienced explosive growth.
(Population growth doesn't necessarily come from birth; there are many natives, and the tribe will expand.)
In ten years, the population grew from around two thousand to ten thousand.
"Fortunately, I built a cave a few years ago because of unease."
Li Zimu muttered to himself. Looking at the current situation, something was clearly wrong.
"Gather!"
Li Zimu shouted loudly.
Hearing this, the Human Race members also hurried over. After ten years of evolution, the Human Race could understand quite a bit of what Li Zimu said. These commands were also simple instructions he usually shouted.
"Everyone, enter the cave!"
"Bring food! Bedding!"
"Orderly evacuation!"
Li Zimu's words were concise and clear. The Human Race naturally understood. His prestige among the Human Race was now very high, even surpassing the Chief.
The mighty Human Race members, under Li Zimu's urging, entered the cave in an orderly manner one by one.
After spending a full hour, everyone finally completely entered the cave.
Taking advantage of the last bit of time, Li Zimu glanced outside. Heavy snow was already falling from the sky, and the temperature plummeted.
However, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was snow, not rain.
It was just that he had thought of this disaster as too ordinary...
...
Outside Earth Star.
After just another moment, Jiang Fan's eyes widened.
"How is this possible!"
Under his gaze, another disaster descended upon his Earth Star.
Jiang Fan was dumbfounded. Before, there was only one disaster. Why were there two?
[Ding! Host... this might be the difference between actively triggering civilization advancement and passively triggering civilization advancement.]
Ye Yu also didn't expect this civilization advancement to be so ruthless. Was this testing civilization or stifling it?
Although there was the System's explanation, Jiang Fan's expression was still grim. There was nothing he could do. Once the advancement began and disaster descended, he could no longer use Creation Points to reduce the difficulty of the disaster.
Now it just depended on how tenacious the Human Race's lives were.
Under the torrent of time, five years had already passed on Earth Star.
"How many people are left now...?"
Li Zimu's face was sallow, and he had become a lot thinner.
The Chief beside him swallowed dryly and stammered out a number: "5321..."
Five years, a full five years. During this time, the food ran out several times, so people were sent to the granary above to move food.
Even though a lot of food was stored above, not much was left after the long period of consumption.
Considering the entire tribe, everyone ate just enough food to survive.
But under the severe winter, quite a few Human Race members still froze to death or died from illness.