True Word Attempt

After rushing back to the Black Moon Tribe at noon and immediately starting manual labor in the afternoon, Zhou Xu barely had a few minutes to himself all day.

As the sun set, fires were lit for cooking in the camp. Seizing the moment while all the tribe members were back, Zhou Xu stood up…

"Everyone, look over here. I'm planning to form a transport team of five people. The main job will be to carry essential supplies from the Black Moon Camp to the Salt Lake Camp, and then carry coal ore and salt from the Salt Lake Camp back to the Black Moon Camp."

At the Black Moon Camp, under the watchful eyes of all the tribe members, Zhou Xu quickly explained the job duties of this transport team.

"This task requires excellent physical strength. Everyone with outstanding stamina, please step forward."

Apart from Zhou Chongshan and a few others, Zhou Xu didn't have a clear impression of more than five other people in his tribe.

It couldn't be helped, considering their Five-dimensional attributes were all two-star.

Of course, he didn't look down on two-star individuals. After all, he had a pretty good grasp of this star level. Two-star represented the standard of a normal, ordinary person.

Was there a problem with being ordinary?

Ordinary people were the most common in this world, along with the occasional ordinary person who thought they were special.

It was estimated that over ninety percent of humans were two-star ordinary people. Yet, it was precisely these ordinary people who made up the vast majority of humanity and were an indispensable part of the race!

However, even though he didn't look down on them, they lacked distinctiveness and memorable points for Zhou Xu.

With all their panels showing two-star attributes, Zhou Xu couldn't discern who among them had better stamina from their Five-dimensional panels.

The only thing that could differentiate their abilities to some extent were those equally ordinary Talents.

But that brought him back to the same problem: there were too many people, making it difficult for him to remember them all.

As for using the 'Eye of Insight' to scan everyone in the tribe again, the Consumption was quite significant, and he really didn't want to incur unnecessary Consumption on this matter.

After all, according to his plan, he intended to study the 'Skeleton Control' ability a bit later.

However, only about eleven or twelve people had come forward, which wasn't a big problem.

[Eye of Insight]

Ordinary Talents like 'Gathering Expert' and 'Tenacious Will' clearly didn't meet Zhou Xu's requirements.

"You, you, you, and you…"

After careful consideration and comparison, Zhou Xu quickly selected the five members for the transport team.

"It's you five. Starting today, you will be responsible for this job."

Actually, to improve transport efficiency, Zhou Xu had considered making something like a wooden cart.

But in this era, wheels and bearings weren't exactly easy to make.

Compared to making a wooden cart, he was currently more inclined to tame some animals like cattle or horses, which could then help carry things.

Unfortunately, he hadn't encountered any yet.

If he had, he might have been able to take a detour and usher in the age of animal husbandry.

In any case, once things were settled here and the camp stabilized internally, the exploration reconnaissance teams could begin their operations.

He hoped they would have some gains by then.

After assigning the transport team members, everyone ate and rested.

Meanwhile, Zhou Xu, following his original plan, began studying the True Word for his 'Skeleton Control' ability.

"Chongshan, gather all the collected skeletons."

"Yes!"

Receiving the order, Zhou Chongshan acted quickly. After gathering people and working for a few rounds, Zhou Xu's vision was soon filled with piles of skeletons.

They had counted the total number: thirty-nine, which they had brought back bit by bit over the past few days.

As dusk deepened, Zhou Xu, sitting amidst the pile of skeletons, did indeed appear somewhat eerie.

The members of the Black Moon Tribe were clearly accustomed to this situation, as their former chief had done the same thing.

As for the members of the Salt Lake Tribe, since it was Zhou Xu sitting there, they weren't afraid.

Without any intention of asking people to leave, Zhou Xu soon uttered ancient incantations.

[Skeleton Control!]

Instantly, an invisible force spread out, causing the hollow eye sockets of the skeletons to glow with eerie green flames. Then, with a creaking sound, they rose from the ground.

At that moment, looking at the skeletons standing around him, Zhou Xu felt a slight surprise.

Because at this moment, all thirty-nine skeletons on the scene had stood up!

He had indeed activated the True Word with the intention of seeing how many skeletons he could raise, but he hadn't expected to achieve this much.

He recalled that when another Transmigrator used 'Skeleton Control' to attack, the number of skeletons was only about twenty.

Zhou Xu didn't think the other party could only find twenty skeletons at that time; it was more likely that the other party could only control that many.

Yet, he had easily surpassed that number.

And don't forget, the reason he raised thirty-nine skeletons now was because there were only thirty-nine skeletons around, not because he could only raise thirty-nine!

Considering this situation, Zhou Xu quickly had an idea after a moment of thought.

[This is probably related to my 'Spirit' attribute, which reached three-star level from the start. After all, it's the only attribute whose strength is particularly outstanding right now.]

[Following this line of thought, it means that the strength of the 'Spirit' attribute affects the abilities of True Words. This might be reflected in the number of uses, meaning Consumption, or it might be reflected in the strength...]

With these thoughts, Zhou Xu began to try controlling these skeletons and arranging them into the Attack Formation he wanted. However, these skeletons seemed unable to understand his intentions. Even very simple formations appeared impossible for them to comprehend.

Later, Zhou Xu changed his approach.

[Advance forward!]

This time, the skeletons finally understood and began to advance.

[Attack that Shi!]

Receiving the order, the skeletons immediately swung their arms and continuously attacked the Shi.

[I get it now. These skeletons can only understand very simple and crude commands. As soon as the difficulty increases even a tiny bit...]

Thinking this, Zhou Xu gave another order.

[Pick up that Shi.]

As expected, the skeletons didn't know what to do and simply froze in place.

This allowed Zhou Xu to basically understand them.

Simply put, they could be understood as animals with an intelligence lower than dogs, completely unable to execute complex commands.

Under this premise, combined with his previous guess, a new idea came to his mind.

[Let's try it.]

As this thought flashed through his mind, that ancient tone sounded from Zhou Xu's mouth again...

[Skeleton Soldier Control!]