Chapter 353, Refreshing Their Understanding! 

Translator: Silavin

 

All four of them were completely amazed. In all their years, this was the first time they had seen such a thing.

 

“Should we ask someone? If we ask someone, we’ll know everything.” Lan suggested.

 

“Rather than standing here guessing, we really should just ask someone.” Li agreed.

 

The group kept looking around, trying to find someone they could ask.

 

Kai stopped a man in his twenties and asked, “What is this thing?”

 

The man looked in the direction Kai was pointing and said, “This is a cement house that our Shaman had people build.”

 

“Your Shaman had people build it? These cement houses were really built by people?” Li’s red eyes widened.

 

The man nodded without hesitation, solemnly saying, “Of course, why would I lie to you about this?”

 

“How was this accomplished? Unbelievable…” Luo exclaimed with his mouth agape.

 

“You must be from another Tribe? No wonder you don’t know.” The man wore a mocking expression.

 

In his eyes, it seemed like all other Tribes were insignificant compared to the Flame Dragon Tribe.

 

“That’s right, we’re from the Giant Bear Tribe, staying in your Tribe to avoid the rainy season.” Li softly said.

 

“I thought so. This is our Tribe’s secret. I don’t know about it, and even if I did, I wouldn’t tell you about it.” the man smiled.

 

“You…” Lan was about to lose her temper but held back, “When was this built?”

 

“Don’t ask me, I don’t know anything.” the man waved his hand and left.

 

He had heard from the Chieftain that they should not tell anyone from other Tribes about their matters. Even the people from the Black Snake Tribe, who were now part of the Flame Dragon Tribe, were not qualified to know about these things yet.

 

Though they knew the Tribe was using stones to build houses, they did not know how they were built. They knew even less about grass ash cement, so the secret of how stones were joined together remained known to only a few people within the Tribe.

 

Even if the workers knew about this material that could join the stones together, they did not know how it was made. They all believed it was the Shaman’s Shaman Technique, and were completely convinced of this.

 

There were not that many people who made grass ash cement. Those who made it were all trustworthy. They had been strictly selected to take on the job. So, matters related to grass ash cement would not be exposed, even though the Tribesmen all knew about these cement houses.

 

Even they did not know the specifics on how these cement houses came to be, only that the Shaman had people build them. They knew nothing about how these houses should be made, or what the whole process was like.

 

“See? I told you these houses were man-made, and you didn’t believe me.” Luo proudly said.

 

“Although we know these houses were built by people, how exactly were they built?” Kai curiously asked.

 

“How would I know? Even those of our Tribe would not know.” Luo said, spreading his hands.

 

Li thought and commented, “This Tribe is truly extraordinary. These cement houses are much better than our wooden ones.”

 

She was not wrong. The benefits of cement houses were obvious, certainly better than wooden houses and Teepees for protecting them against the wind and rain.

 

Seeing how high these houses could be built meant they must be very stable. Moreover, these cement houses looked very large, surely able to house many people.

 

However, there was one thing she did not understand and felt was unnecessary – why did these cement houses need to be built so high? Even if built higher, who would live up there? How would people get up there?

 

“Looks like they have quite a few cement houses.” Kai scanned the surroundings.

 

He was surprised to find that the Tribe had over ten such cement houses, though only this one was very tall, while the others were shorter.

 

But, even though the others were shorter, they were still much taller than ordinary wooden houses.

 

“Although these cement houses are impressive, why build them up so high?” Lan wondered.

 

Her thoughts were the same as Li. Having tall cement houses seemed completely unnecessary.

 

“Yeah, could it be to intimidate Ferocious Beasts?” Luo guessed.

 

“Are you stupid? This is in the middle of their Tribe. What Ferocious Beast would run straight to the center?” Lan rolled her eyes.

 

“That’s true, but I don’t really understand why they would build them so high…” Luo scratched his head in confusion.

 

Li really could not comprehend it either, her red eyes full of astonishment. She was constantly looking at the cement houses around them. Her expression showed how truly shocked she was.

 

“If only our Tribe had such cement houses…” Lan suddenly felt envious.

 

“Yeah, though they don’t need to be this tall – just the same size as wooden houses would be fine. That would save up on stone and manpower.” Kai agreed.

 

After so many days, they finally had a consensus on something. Though. they still did not understand how these cement houses were built.

 

“If we could form a cooperative relationship with them, we might be able to learn how these cement houses are built.” Li suddenly said.

 

This could be said to be their most meaningful harvest from this journey – if their entire Tribe could change to have such cement houses.

 

“That’s true, but we didn’t meet their Shaman the last time. It might be difficult to meet him this time…” Kai worriedly said.

 

“No rush. The rainy season is long – we’ll have plenty of chances to meet him.” Li said.

 

She suddenly started calculating in her mind. If she could bring back knowledge of these cement houses back to their Tribe, would they not look at her differently?

 

Kai had the same thoughts, though he did not show it on his face.

 

“Look, that’s a road!” Lan pointed at the cement road nearby.

 

The cement road was also very large and long, immediately catching their attention.

 

“What about that road?” Li looked where she was pointing and froze, “That couldn’t also be made of stone, could it?”

 

They had received too many shocks today. Without pause, they immediately ran toward that road.

 

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