Chapter 1734 Qianling Tribe Ⅱ
Cheers resounded in this small mountain wilderness. The Qianling Tribe was happy that the enemy had withdrawn. No matter whether it was an enemy they defeated, as long as the enemy retreated in front of them. , is enough to make people happy.
The scale of this battle was not large, with only about a thousand people from both sides combined. There were still many injured people from the Qianling tribe, all of whom were women. It can be seen that this is a tribe dominated by women.
While cleaning up the wounded, a group of female soldiers surrounded Bing Zhixie. Bing Zhixie thought they would be nice to him, but unexpectedly, they still looked wary.
They circled around with weapons, looking at Bing Zhixie up and down, left and right, like a monster. At this time, the healthy woman with short flat hair said a few words that he couldn't understand. The women around them howled excitedly and swarmed over, pushing and pushing Bing Zhixie towards their tribal village. .
"Hey, hey, that woman, don't any of you understand what I'm saying? Can you tell me what they are doing?"
The woman with short flat hair did not respond to his call. , with a look of being irresponsible. Seeing that these female warriors didn't seem to have any ill intentions, Bing Zhixie flew out with a teleport, landed in front of them, and followed them into the village.
This village is not too big, but not too small. The village is protected by walls surrounded by wooden pillars, and there are low buildings built of wood and thatch inside. There are some cows, sheep, and some free-range chickens in the stockade. There are also two burrowing beasts that are used as laborers and are tied to a large stone plate in an open space in a corner of the stockade. During the battle just now, he discovered that no one from the Qianling tribe summoned any guardians to participate in the battle. They fought entirely on their own. The victims did not have guardians to come out of the collapsed life space after they died.
Although guardianship and contract making are the most basic survival and life skills taught in the academy regardless of the country's big or small, regardless of the level of education, the people here are completely uncivilized and have not learned any magic education in modern society.
Someone in the village was making simple metal utensils. They dug holes in the ground and used molten metal to cast the simplest molds for the utensils. Not far from these people, there was a pile of scattered ore. Some people were carrying the ore and some were smelting metal. All the people doing these jobs are women. Bing Zhixie hadn't seen a man among these people for a while.
Having just experienced a battle, the situation in the village immediately returned to order, as if they had long been accustomed to such things. The injured people were being smeared with chewed grass blades by tribesmen who looked like doctors, and the victims were placed aside.
Is this human civilization in modern society? Bing Zhixie had seen descriptions of the barbaric tribes in this area in books, but seeing them with his own eyes was completely different. In fact, this place is not very far away from the modern magical civilization society, but the inside and outside are like two worlds.
The sky is getting darker and the bonfire in the village is getting brighter. Rain fell from time to time in the sky, and the open-air village was quickly deserted. Only some captive animals and wild beasts and the two burrowing beasts were left suffering from the cold.
It turns out that the inner end of the village is next to the mountain wall. There is a big hole under the mountain wall with a wide space inside, enough for many people to live here. According to geographical records, the Feiyun area has rainy season for nearly 11 out of 12 months a year. It may be sunny for two or three days, and then it may rain again. With such harsh weather, it is impossible to live without a suitable living environment. No wonder the people of the Qianling tribe chose to build their village here.
Bing Zhixie was forced into the cave by these tribal women. He just wanted to ask for directions, but no one could answer him. The only female warrior with short flat hair who could speak a few words in Common Language never spoke to him again. When he came to the cave in the belly of the mountain, he finally saw the men in the village. These men lived in the cave. They had delicate skin, were generally fat, and had loose muscles, like people who had not been engaged in productive labor for a long time.
The cave is very wide, and there are some self-illuminating crystals stuck on the walls. The light is not very bright, and it illuminates the cave dimly, much like the bright light reflected by the water surface.
"Young man at the entrance of the cave, come in, don't you have something to do?" A pale and elderly voice came from deep in the cave. Bing Zhixie finally heard the familiar common language, and he spoke it in a relatively standard way.
Bing Zhixie walked deep into the cave. Several female warriors from the Qianling tribe were escorting him on both sides holding wooden spears and bone spears. The cave was more open, with some wooden structures arranged on both sides. There are low tables made of animal skins and blankets spread on the ground. The low tables are simply and delicately decorated with colorful paint. The female tribal warriors with status sit behind these low tables. Those who do not have enough status can only gather behind these people or sit on them. further afield.
In the center of the cave sits an elderly woman sitting on a rock slump. She has so many wrinkles on her face that she could kill bugs in the cave. She has gray eyebrows and narrowed her eyes to examine everything. People who came here unexpectedly.
Bing Zhixie stood seven meters away from the stone couch and said politely: "My name is Celeste. I came here to ask you for directions."
Everyone looked at him. The previous hostility in their eyes was gone. However, the person sitting on the stone couch did not speak, and neither did anyone else.
The old woman’s wrinkles were too deep and her expression could not be seen, but she seemed a little unhappy. She glanced at the short-haired female warrior not far away. The short-haired woman walked to the stone couch and whispered a few words to the old woman. Their voices were very low, but Bing Zhixie could still hear them, but he couldn't understand the content of their conversation.
The old woman nodded, turned around and said to Bing Zhixie: "No matter what your purpose is, I don't care what your identity is. When you arrive at the Qianling tribe today, you must abide by our laws. .”
Bing Zhixie Don’t understand: “I don’t understand what you mean by that.”
The old woman punched the cane stick in her hand and said: “I am the grandma of the Qianling tribe. When you see me, you should kneel on the ground. Ask for my permission to speak.”
"..."
The clan grandmother continued: "In the Qianling tribe, all male creatures, including men, are slaves raised by women as slaves. Slaves have no right to wear clothes."
After saying that, the two female warriors beside Bing Zhixie came up, seemingly ready to take off his clothes.
Bing Zhixie's body swayed and he stepped away from the eyes of the two girls. He was sweating secretly in his heart. Before he came, he had not heard the male owner of the wooden building talk about the strange customs of the Qianling tribe. The man was probably worried about his wife, so he forgot to mention it.
The tribe’s grandma narrowed her eyes coldly and continued: “In return, do you know what crime you have committed against my tribe?”
Bing Zhixie showed doubts. Didn't he help them drive away the enemy? How could he still be guilty?
The tribe's grandmother said: "Tonight is the day when my tribe holds a pregnancy ban. On this day, all unclean men cannot appear under the sun and moonlight, but you suddenly appeared. This defilement The tribe's ritual~!" Bing Zhixie thought, no wonder she didn't see half a man before, it turned out that all the men were locked up by them. Bing Zhixie said: "This is a misunderstanding, I am not an unclean man, I..."
"Did I let you speak?" The clan grandmother was very angry as she punched the wooden stick. . The female warrior next to her immediately raised her bone spear and pointed it at Bing Zhixie.
Bingzhixie shut up.
The grandma coughed for a while, then calmed down her anger and said: "I mean all men are unclean, dirty, lazy creatures." She added: "I have been outside, when I was young. Outside. The world scares me, the order is completely upside down , There are no rules. The leaders of those tribes are actually men. It is the greatest disrespect to the gods to let men manage women."
"..." Bing Zhixie was a little speechless. In order to find out the direction, I can only listen to what she has to say.
Grandma said: "You are an outsider and do not understand the true laws. I have temporarily forgiven your guilt. This is also the reason why you can come in here and meet me. Now I allow you to speak. Come on, say what’s on your mind.”
"Uh, I..."
"Wait." After being reminded by the female warrior beside him, the clan grandmother interrupted him and said: "I forgot something. Are you How did you come to the Qianling Tribe? Is there anyone guiding you? ”
"Can you guide me?" Bing Zhixie looked unhappy at the clan elder and said, "I came here accidentally. I lost my way. I came here just to ask you..." Here, he suddenly felt that these people might not know what the 'Realm of Confusion' was. This name was what people in the outside world called a place in the Feiyun area. But he asked anyway.
The result was exactly as he expected.
"I don't know where you are talking about. If this is what you want to say, I can't answer your question." Grandma said.
Bing Zhixie did some research before entering the Feiyun area. In the past, it was recorded that there were not many people looking for the Blurred Realm, far less than those who explored the Forest of Warcraft. Most of these people failed, but some people found it with the help of the tribes here. It is said that these people confirmed that what they found was the Realm of Bewilderment through records in ancient books. But successful people reveal very little information. Such precious information is usually regarded as a kind of private treasure and will not be shared with others.
In recent years, the most well-known quest to explore the Twilight Zone is the hundreds of millions of bounties offered by the Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group and the Mercenary Guild. However, the Iron-Blooded Mercenary Group was destroyed due to exploring the Blurred Realm, and very few people survived. As for whether they had actually been to the Blurred Realm, Bing Zhixie had no way of knowing, and the various intelligence guilds could not buy relevant information. information.
Since his last death, Bing Zhixie has tried to contact Linda many times. When they were in the royal capital of Hindmoor, they had discussed privately to contact each other through the World Bank's postal system if necessary, and had drawn a sketch of the Tongmei Formation that had not yet been finalized. He tried both methods many times and got no reply from Linda for more than a year. He knew that Linda knew that he was alive, and Linda must know of his existence through the evil tourmaline on the Moon Orbit Ice Soul in his hand. But why there was no response, he didn't understand. He had a very bad premonition. He didn't know whether this premonition came from intuition, but he knew that something must have happened if Linda didn't reply. That's why after he left the desert, he didn't immediately seek revenge on Di Kui with Hilary and the others. What he cared about most was this place, the man living deep in the realm of confusion in this forest.
Bing Zhixie suddenly thought that maybe he should not ask the people of the Qianling tribe, but the Shandou orcs who attacked here. The people of the Qianling tribe are very knowledgeable about the outside world. They seem to be more content with where they live and have nothing to do with the world. And those mountain fighting orcs may know more than these ordinary humans.
Bing Zhixie immediately said: "In that case, I have no other questions. Goodbye." He thought that it wouldn't be long before the Shan Dou Orcs evacuated, and they should still be able to find them if they chased them based on their location.
He wanted to leave, but the Qianling tribe refused to let him leave.
“Stop him!” The grandmother stood up from the stone couch holding on to her wooden staff. She was short, only about 1.5 meters tall when she stood upright. She directed the female warriors in the cave to stop Bing Zhixie.
Of course, these people couldn't stop him. Bing Zhixie didn't want to tangle with these barbaric tribes anymore, so he teleported outside the cave in one step. It was pouring rain outside, and Bing Zhixie turned around and was about to fly away, when he suddenly saw a figure moving about ten meters away in the hazy night.
Such a heavy rain, and it was at night, had already blocked the sight, but Bing Zhixie could still see the people in the rain clearly through the dragon's perception.
The one in the rain is a pregnant woman, staggering in the rain with a big belly. Bing Zhixie remembered that when the victims were laid out after the war, several pregnant women who were killed were placed there. At that time, he only glanced at it without taking a closer look. He only saw the pregnant woman and several dead pregnant women placed together. At this time, he saw clearly that the pregnant woman who was still moving was parasitized by the raccoon blood vine.
When the female warriors of the Qianling tribe who chased out saw what was happening in the rain, some of them were surprised and said words they couldn't understand. Probably surprised that someone was still alive.
A few women shouted something, and two young women ran out. The two women who ran into the rain shouted "Cha, Cha" and then shouted loudly in this direction. They picked up the pregnant women and walked towards them.
Bing Zhixie was held up by other female warriors with spears. He wanted to leave, but he was surprised to see the pregnant woman who was helped back with a perforated intestine but still alive, especially since half of the fetus in her belly was slipping. It fell to the ground and looked really scary.
Pregnant women seem to be controlled by the parasitic raccoon blood vine. Judging from the behavior of the women of the Qianling tribe, it seems that the raccoon blood vine can only control living bodies, not dead bodies. However, the current situation is not optimistic. The pregnant woman is still alive, but her face is pale, her lips are black, and she has become extremely weak due to a large amount of blood loss.
The women carefully helped the pregnant woman to the entrance of the cave and laid her flat on the ground, as if calling the people in the cave to come out and prepare for rescue. Someone who looked like a clan doctor brought some herbs and animal bone needles, preparing to use them to save people, but the clan doctor didn't know what to do when he saw the condition of the injured.
Bing Zhixie couldn't stand it anymore. It was impossible to save this woman with the medical condition of the Qianling tribe. He used his magic power to push back the people around him, rushed out of the crowd and stepped forward: "Get out of the way, I Come.”
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(End of this chapter)