So here’s the question.
What would humans play in the tribal era?
Nothing too complex or cerebral, something that fits the era and environmental context.
It’s best to know how to play once you’ve played, get addicted after a while, and play without a brain.
Lu Yao thought about it.
Mahjong, no, too complicated.
Cards, no. Same reason as above.
Chess? It’s hard for them too.
Lu Yao found the most suitable one.
Dice.
Lu Yao personally didn’t like this gambling nature of toys much.
However, there was a gambling side to human nature, venturing into treasure hunting was a kind of gambling, and exploring the unknown was also a kind of gambling. This was something that could not be denied.
Dice are easy to understand, with different numbers of points engraved on the six sides.
Lu Yao looked up relevant information on the internet.
As early as the Neolithic period, mankind began to play a kind of plate game, which is considered the originator of today’s board games. In all kinds of graphical games, the important prop of dice is needed.
Now that the Garlic Tribe had mastered arithmetic, this kind of simple numbers should not be a big problem.
Lu Yao immediately went out and bought a stone dice from the trinket shop across the neighbourhood. As soon as he returned home, he passed the stone dice into the Divine Temple.
In the middle of the temple, the long-silent old astrologer Shahan excitedly raised his arms high and looked up at the dome of the temple.
“O God, do you hear our prayers? You have finally seen your insignificant servants once again ……”
An exclamation mark appeared above Shahan’s head.
“Is this [dice]?”
“O God, by gracing us with [Dice], do you want us to learn to divine fate?”
“You are so merciful, so wise ……”
While he was there in a flurry of frantic bragging, Lu Yao was so embarrassed that his toes buckled.
This dice wasn’t even used to engage in divination.
Astrologer Occupational Disease belonged to yes.
No wonder Shah Khan had stayed in the temple for so many years without any hints from the simulator that he could be transformed into a seer.
Shahan was more or less missing a bit of fate with the job of a seer.
It was good to see that although the astrologer had clicked on the wrong understanding, most of the people were still quick to understand the role of the dice.
[The Garlic Tribe learned to make and use dice.]
“This one can produce numbers, big and small.”
“Yes, you can compare sizes! I’m bigger than you, hey! I’m six and you’re two! Win!”
“Again!”
“You still have to lose, forget it, it’s no fun to win.”
“Come back! One more hand!”
The vast majority of the tribal villains, quickly understood the meaning of the different numbers on the six sides of the dice. Random jumps in the numbers would produce different results, and such results could be applied to many things.
Lu Yao noticed three villains.
These three people were hiding in a corner and were discussing something big.
“It’s the same as what we agreed before. Let’s do it tonight, go steal a paddle sailing ship, steal it and leave, take it and sell it for sea shells. Take the sea shells and go to the East Sea Clan’s island, where no one knows what we’ve done.”
One of them said, “But who will we sell the boat to when we steal it?”
“……”
The man continued to ask, “If we sell the boat to a merchant, how do we get to the island in the sea? Steal another one?”
“……”
“……”
“Stupid, why didn’t you say so earlier!”
“I just remembered.”
“You stupid brain!”
“I’m sorry!”
The three were silent for a while.
“What now?”
The third said, “…… Let the gods guide us, with this dice, which the gods have only bestowed.”
“The gods will guide us to steal the ship?”
The lead one added, “Stupid! The gods know everything, but they haven’t struck us with lightning until now, so they must be supporting us! The gods support us in stealing the ship, so what are you afraid of?”
Before he could finish his words, a bolt of lightning landed on top of this villain’s head, splitting him into flying dust.
Lu Yao moved his fingers.
You ask me if I support it? Of course I don’t support it.
Stealing a ship doesn’t really matter. But making such an outrageous request is the first time I’ve seen it, so I’ll be merciful and satisfy you.
The other villains were so scared that they hurriedly knelt down and prayed, trembling.
“Lord God, we’ll change right away, we’ll change right away.”
“We were wrong, we were wrong.”
Lu Yao had already shifted his sight to other places.
There were two pixelated villains chatting at the edge of the woods.
The man named Mu Ke said, “You give me children!”
The woman named Hai Wang Gu said, “Are you stupid.”
“Didn’t you say you liked me?”
“Just saying it for fun.”
“Why?”
“You’re too small.”
Lu Yao looked away.
Mu Ke was twelve years old, but Hai Wang Gu was already twenty-two. This sibling age gap was a bit big.
Just by looking at the surnames, one could tell that Mu Ke was descended from a carpenter, while Hai Wanggu was a descendant of the Donghai Clan.
“I just want you to give me children, and not give other people children until I grow up, okay?”
A crying face floated above the head of the young Mu Ke.
“……”
Aunt Haiwang said, “Then listen to the will of the gods. You use the [dice] that the gods have graced you with, and if you can hit a 1 point three times in a row, stating that this is the fate that the gods have guided you to, I’ll promise you.”
Mukhorn touched a dice and threw a 3.
“Have fun chopping down trees, fool.”
Haiwanggu turned to leave.
The young man, Mukhorn, fell to his knees, “Why, why is this happening!”
“Gods, gods, why can’t you show me some mercy and blessing! I just want to sleep with Hai Wang Gu and have children, why can’t You help me ……”
“Gods, you are too cruel!”
Lu Yao lost his smile.
Little child, although you are very brave.
But you’re still too young at this age, chop down trees properly and don’t think nonsense.
The Garlic Tribe’s Pixel Villain generally understood dice, but mostly used them to settle disputes, as the name implied – using the gods’ guidance to decide who was right and who was wrong.
This was a bit of a deviation from Lu Yao’s initial idea of entertainment.
Just as he was observing the crowd, the tribe suddenly erupted into a large-scale armed fight.
Two groups of villains fought with bows and arrows and spears for no apparent reason. The chaos escalated further as more and more people joined in.
The two leaders, Morimi and Fishing Company, quickly rushed to stop it.
“What the hell is going on? What are you doing?”
Sorcerer Morimi was now a respected elder in the tribe, and once he stepped in, the riot was quickly contained.
“The merchants are so hateful!”
“That’s right, they’re the ones who caused us to lose our blood!”
“Yes, yes!”
“The merchants are detestable!”
A group of villains had a wide range of opinions.
Lu Yao checked many of the villain’s sayings, which cleared up what happened.
The cause was this.
The fishermen who went out to sea salvaged some beautiful corals and shells in their ocean fishing, and these things were worth a lot of money. When they came back the merchants bought them at a very low price and then sold them at a high price to the salt pond side, making a big profit.
Not only that, the merchants also forged the sea shells, mixing the real ones with the fake ones, making the fishermen suffer a great loss both inside and outside.
The fishermen finally couldn’t stand it any longer and asked the merchants to return the sea shells to them. When the merchant refused, the fishermen attacked.
The large-scale brawl was the outbreak of the fishermen’s discontent and anger after being cheated by the merchants for a long time.
Lu Yao wanted to see how the tribe would handle this.
As long as there were a lot of people, there would always be people who wanted to take the wrong path to gain excessive profits. This kind of thing could not be completely eliminated for the time being, but could only be restrained through various means and rules to protect people’s legitimate interests.
To Lu Yao’s surprise, without waiting for the leaders’ group to make a judgement, a merchant came forward and said that he was willing to pay for all the losses of the fishermen.
It was the hero Shang Li.
Shang Li said, “In order to make the transaction fairer and more equitable, I hope that a rule can be set by the leaders. If the loss of the transaction was caused by deception and concealment, compensation would need to be paid to the other party.”
“Accordingly, if the price is just too high, but both parties recognise it, then the transaction is justified and recognised and protected by the entire tribe.”
“I have made many records based on the problems that have existed in the tribe’s transactions over the years, and I have also written my personal thoughts, so I would also like to ask the two leaders to take a look at them.”
Shangli took out a small book.
Moromi and Fishing Company looked at it for a while, and exclamation marks popped up on both of their heads.
“Very good! Very good!”
“Well written!”
They conferred with Shang Li for a while.
A new prompt appeared on the screen.
[Shang Li wrote the Tribal Trading Code.]
[The Garlic Tribe invented the law.]
[The Garlic Tribe has learnt to make and use laws, and everyone’s intelligence has increased slightly.]
Lu Yao took a sip of tea and secretly nodded his head.
This Shang Li was a talent.
He and Yu Lian would be the future of the tribe.
