Not in Vain

"Zhou Chongshan..."

Muttering his new name, Dashan broke into a brilliant smile.

"Thank you, Chief! I'll be Zhou Chongshan from now on!"

In this primitive era, they basically named themselves after mountains, rivers, birds, and beasts. Given this, anyone could feel the extraordinariness of this name.

For a moment, the tribe members who had come with him looked at Dashan with unconcealed envy in their eyes.

"Alright, let's go inside and take a look."

"Yes!"

At this moment, Zhou Chongshan, having just received his new name, was full of energy and immediately took the lead for Zhou Xu.

Their tribe was located on a plain.

After walking a few steps, with Zhou Xu's eyesight, they quickly spotted the other tribe's camp.

The scale was similar to their own tribe. Both were only small tribes of limited size.

In fact, in this era, due to food limitations, most tribes couldn't grow very large.

To expand further, they needed to obtain more and more stable food sources.

And to achieve this, they had to enter the Agricultural Era!

Of course, to do this, they still had many problems to overcome. While Zhou Xu had indeed included agriculture in his plans, there were still many issues he needed to resolve before it could be officially implemented.

For example, what should they plant?

Don't forget, they currently had no seeds for any food.

In other words, they couldn't plant anything.

Driving straight in, Zhou Xu and his party soon officially arrived at this tribe camp.

At the same time, a system prompt sounded in Zhou Xu's mind...

System Notification: Congratulations to 'Zhou Xu' for occupying Black Moon Camp.

The appearance of the system notification did not surprise Zhou Xu. His attention was now more focused on observing the tribe.

As a primitive tribe that had a Transmigrator, they had mastered the technology of artificial fire, which was basic.

At the same time, Zhou Xu could see that they, without exception, also possessed some basic stone tools.

It made sense; their shield was likely built upon the foundation of stone tools.

However, Zhou Xu wasn't very interested in these things. His most pressing concern now was...

"Da Shi, where is the nearest water source? How are we solving the food problem?"

In this era, tribe camps had to be built near water sources. After all, without a stable supply of Freshwater, they simply couldn't survive. The food problem was the same.

At this moment, facing Zhou Xu's question, Da Shi didn't waste words and directly led him out of the camp.

"Not far from our camp, there is a lake. The water in that lake is drinkable. As for food, we mainly rely on fishing. Besides that, we also hunt."

Hearing the word 'fishing' from Da Shi, Zhou Xu was not surprised at all.

After all, the previous chief was a Transmigrator. Compared to grassland animals, whose movements were unpredictable and harder to catch, the fish in the lake were undoubtedly easier for them to target.

While they were talking, a lake in the distance appeared before his eyes.

At a glance, the lake was about the same size as the saltwater lake near their own camp.

Two seemingly very simple rafts were docked by the lake. Several wooden frames were set up on the shore. On one of these frames, a large net was drying.

Walking up to the large net, Zhou Xu rubbed the net rope with his finger, feeling its texture.

Da Shi, standing beside him, was about to explain when Zhou Xu's voice interrupted him.

"You use those rafts to go out on the lake and use this fishing net to catch fish from this lake. This fishing net is woven from grass ropes. I know all this, you don't need to explain it to me."

Ignoring Da Shi, who was already dumbfounded, Zhou Xu continued to speak to himself.

"Your fishing nets are too poorly made. There are problems with the weaving and knotting methods. Each net opening is loose and slack. I guess it's only because the fish in this lake are big enough, otherwise, with these fishing nets, you'd only catch air."

Saying this, Zhou Xu turned to look at Da Shi, whose face showed a hint of embarrassment.

"I'll make you better ones later."

"..."

At this moment, Da Shi fully realized that these items, which were astonishing to them, were just ordinary, even somewhat shoddy, in the eyes of their new chief...

Overall, Zhou Xu was in quite a good mood at this time.

With a Freshwater lake, not only was the problem of freshwater completely solved, but with the fish resources in the lake, a part of the food problem was also solved. Just for this lake alone, his trip was worthwhile.

"Let's go, take me to see that Altar."

Leaving five people to guard the Black Moon Camp, he then called Zhou Chongshan, had Da Shi lead the way, and before the sun set, the group quickly headed towards the Altar.

The Altar was still some distance from the Black Moon Camp. Upon arriving and seeing the ruins, Zhou Xu didn't waste any time and directly activated the 'Eye of Insight'.

After carefully examining it and finding nothing, Zhou Xu was obviously still a little unwilling. So he went up and moved aside some rubble, looking inside a few more times.

However, the result was no different from before.

Looking at the situation, it was highly likely they had come for nothing, which made Zhou Xu sigh inwardly.

"Right, Da Shi, you said he found the True Word on the grassland, where exactly? Is it close to here?"

Although Da Shi didn't know what their new chief was doing from the start, he answered readily and actively when asked.

"Not far, it's around here."

"Lead the way."

According to Da Shi, it wasn't far from here. Zhou Xu estimated they walked less than a kilometer before quickly arriving at the grassland Da Shi had mentioned.

"It was. Right here! Yes, it's here, I remember this stone!"

Da Shi ran to a rather large stone and, after looking around, confirmed it completely.

"There was a skeleton leaning against this stone at the time. The former chief found the True Word on this skeleton."

Through Da Shi's simple description, Zhou Xu roughly understood the situation at the time.

That skeleton was likely the original owner of the True Word.

"What about the skeleton?"

"At the time, the former chief used the power of the True Word to make that skeleton move. There are many skeletons on this grassland, and the ones he used were basically found here. That skeleton was among them, but I don't know which one."

Listening to Da Shi's words, Zhou Xu, who was currently half-crouching in front of the stone, examining it, nodded slightly.

He patted the dust off the stone. This stone before him, although eroded by time and weather, he could still tell that it was definitely not a natural stone. It looked more like a piece of a broken wall!

Update delivered, thanks to book friend 'Hua Ge's Little World' for the reward!