Chapter 142 Inheritance Totem
Ryan and his four friends made all the calculations and escaped from the "Plague Base". But they were unexpectedly blocked by the barbarian army and taken back to the Mechanical City.
It seemed like a futile effort, but after seeing the scene of the mechanical city being breached, Ryan was glad that their choice was correct.
Even though Ryan was a doctor and had seen so many strange death cases, he still gasped when he saw the tragic situation in the mechanical city.
There is no one alive in the huge "plague base".
Thousands of corpses were carried out of the mechanical city by the barbarian warriors, their equipment was stripped off, and a high mountain of corpses was piled up on the flat ground.
Whether they were wasteland hunters or those rich and powerful people dressed in gorgeous clothes, their deaths were extremely hideous. Many people did not even have any external injuries, but their deaths were extremely horrific.
Have you ever seen colorful meat mushrooms growing on a corpse?
Have you ever seen rain that is like sulfuric acid, corroding people to death?
Have you ever seen something with a swollen belly like a toad, which bursts with a slight touch, and then a bunch of little toads jump out?
Have you ever seen white threads like fungi growing out of the eyes, ears, mouth and nose?
All kinds of bizarre ways of dying appeared before our eyes.
Ryan was also very impressed.
I don’t know what methods those top-level barbarians used to attack the city, but judging from the scene, the barbarians suffered very few casualties.
Before, when he saw that the barbarian's top warrior "Habu" was able to intercept them outside, he guessed that there must be a lot of barbarian masters coming to the base.
Now seeing that, it is indeed true.
There are tens of thousands of barbarians in the base .
Each of them has one or two magical beast mounts, and there are tens of thousands of them in the army.
The barbarians' strength and status are almost equal.
The higher the status, the greater the strength.
Except for the number one warrior, Hab.
Among them, there are two "elders" who are one level higher than the "high priest" Wuduo, who are particularly eye-catching.
The totems on the faces of the two old men are very special and easily recognizable.
A man who looked like a blue totem. To the naked eye, the blue paint on his face seemed to be alive. The totem, like flowing blue spring water, circulated in the totem on the old man's body, shining with spiritual light...
The other one was covered in emerald green totems, which also shone brightly, giving people the feeling that it was a fluorescent liquid from the previous life. Although the old man was dark-skinned and skinny, Ryan saw the vigorous vitality of plants in him.
Seeing three “legendary” fighters at once, it can be imagined that even if the barbarian tribe did not come out in full force this time, at least half of their top fighters have come.
The barbarians cleaned up the battlefield and took away everything they could.
But they couldn't move the mechanical city, so they had to destroy it.
The barbarian warriors, hammering and banging, tore the huge mechanical cities into pieces. Steel plates, rivets, artillery...
After a few months of fighting, these barbarians have roughly understood the functions of some mechanical equipment. They also know about magic items such as storage rings...
Take away everything that can be taken away, and if it can't fit in the storage ring, hang it on the monster and carry it away.
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Ryan and the other four were the only survivors in the entire base.
Of course, except for those red-robed wizards who escaped using the teleportation array.
The barbarians were cleaning up the battlefield, and Ryan and his companions were thrown into a temporary beast circle as "prisoners".
Not far away, Wu Duo's mount, the snow mastiff, was staring at them fiercely like a guard dog.
Ryan was trapped by animal tendons like a caterpillar.
The same was true for Carl. Old Man Tust was not tied up very tightly, but without the robotic arm, he could not move at all.
Bazel was treated the best. In addition to the strongest animal tendons, this legend's hands and feet were all locked with black stone locks that exuded spiritual energy. It was unknown whether the monster feces in his mouth was spit out or went somewhere else, but it was gone anyway.
As soon as this guy was able to speak, he made a few spitting sounds and started yelling again: "Ryan boy, can you speak the language of barbarians?"
Along the way, he naturally heard the conversation between Ryan and Udo, which was quite a surprise.
You said that you learn martial arts quickly, but that can be said to be a talent.
How can one master this language without several years of study?
This also made Basel more curious.
Ryan didn't want to have his mouth stuffed with monster feces. He looked at the guard barbarian and whispered, "It will take a while to explain. Although we are not going to die now... they are going to sacrifice you to the gods. Senior, if you can escape, just escape by yourself and don't worry about us..."
"I'm not going to run away! This thing is a 'Magic Lock'. It can't even activate my fighting spirit. How can I escape? Besides, there are three legendary barbarians outside. I can't fly away even if I grow wings."
Bazel was not happy.
After thinking about it, he asked the question he was most curious about: "Did that barbarian girl take a fancy to you, so she spared your life?"
“…”
Ryan knew that this guy was thinking the wrong thing, so he explained, "I saved her in the City of Glory before. Alas... it's hard to explain in a few words. Anyway, don't talk nonsense, or you'll be stuffed with monster shit again..."
When Basel heard this, the sour taste in his mouth immediately came back to him.
As if a nerve was pricked, he habitually raised his voice to curse, "Fuck it, if you want to kill me, I won't even frown, but this is nothing..."
Then, after shouting, he successfully attracted the barbarian guards not far away.
The barbarian warrior was not hesitant either. He grabbed a handful of fresh food from the ground and stuffed it in again.
Woo woo woo woo…
Ryan looked at what happened to the legend and let out a long sigh.
If we were to get beaten, we could still stand together out of loyalty, but to be stuffed with Warcraft feces was too...
Then he turned his face away and decisively pretended not to know her, for fear of being affected.
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After cleaning up the battlefield, the barbarians burned down the plague base.
This hunting base, which had tens of thousands of people a day ago, turned into a dead place in the blink of an eye.
The war of civilizations is indeed bloody and cruel.
The scavengers killed countless barbarians, and the barbarians retaliated without mercy.
Now that the four of them are alive, it is not clear whether it is a blessing or a curse.
Apart from the fact that the fate of the "sacrifice" Basel was roughly determined, Ryan still didn't know what grandpa and grandson Te and Carl were about to face.
If he could escape, he would definitely find a way to do so.
But the tens of thousands of elite barbarian warriors surrounded them in three layers, leaving them no chance at all.
Moreover, except for Wu Duo, the barbarians looked at these "invaders" with eyes as sharp as knives. If they dared to escape, they would be chopped to pieces on the spot and fed to the monsters.
Not long after, Wu Duo came back from the meeting, and his face did not look very good.
The large group was ready to go, and she grabbed Ryan again with an expressionless face, and they both jumped onto the snow mastiff to ride.
Bazel, who was not far away, saw this scene with a look of resentment in his eyes. Ryan was lying on the soft back of the snow mastiff, while he was hung on the buttocks of the mammoth. The treatment was completely different.
Awoo~Awoo~Awoo~
A noise sounded in the camp, which was the signal to break camp.
The barbarian warriors mounted their warcraft mounts and rushed into the swamp. For this hunt, the tribe mobilized half of its high-level combat forces, and they also had to rush back to the "Forest of Ashes" as soon as possible.
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The snow mastiff is very fast and can jump dozens of meters at a time.
Although this "old acquaintance" did not give him a good look, they were also "prisoners", and compared with Basel's treatment, this barbarian girl was quite caring towards him.
Ryan lay on his back on the soft and thick fur of the snow mastiff. Although it was a little bumpy, he didn't feel any discomfort.
In order to prevent Ryan from falling, Wu Duo had to use his strong and long legs to hold him from time to time. But because they were wearing little, the touch of their warm skin made him, a grown man, feel something was wrong.
Soon, the large group of barbarians had sneaked deep into the swamp.
This was the first time Ryan had gone deep into the swamp after several months here.
Coleman and his warriors seemed to be very familiar with this swamp. The monsters were very skilled in avoiding the dark pits and running at a very fast speed.
This time the plague base has been wiped out and the barbarians suffered little loss, so it should have been a big victory.
But the barbarian leaders all seemed to be in a bad mood.
Ryan's thoughts turned, and he guessed that the reason why Wu Duo looked bad was probably related to those red-robed wizards who teleported away.
After thinking about it, he decided to ask: "Wu Duo, are you here to chase those red-robed wizards this time?"
Surprisingly, Wu Duo answered immediately this time.
However, he gritted his teeth and said, "Those despicable invaders sneaked into the 'Volcano Tribe', killed everyone in the tribe, and stole our tribe's inheritance treasure - the [Fire Totem]!"
Ryan was a little surprised when he heard it.
It turns out that Winster and his men did not go to the temple, but instead went to slaughter a barbarian tribe?
It is not difficult to understand that they stole the treasure. After all, it is definitely not just to kill a few people that allowed so many top-level extraordinary people to venture into the "Forest of Ashes".
But this...what the hell is this about stealing the "totem"?
From a psychological perspective, catering to other people's opinions will increase their favorability.
After hearing what Wu Duo said, Ryan immediately said: "I also think that those red robe wizards are indeed despicable and dirty guys! If I can survive this time, I will definitely kill those bastards in the future!"
He said this with righteous indignation, adding curses and hints at the same time.
Of course, it’s not all for the sake of gaining favor, this is also the truth.
The Winster family's evil plan to divert the trouble to others is really crazy. If it weren't for them, at least some people in the Plague Base would have survived. And if it were any other base, they would have been wiped out if they encountered the Barbarians' lineup.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Wu Duo at least looked at Ryan with a more favorable attitude.
After all, she could tell Ryan's emotions.
At this time, Ryan asked curiously: "Are the 'fire totems' the patterns painted on your bodies? Can they be stolen?"
Wuduo felt it necessary to make Ryan understand how important the treasures those hateful guys had stolen were to their tribe.
She said: "The totems painted on the bodies of our Coleman clan are not just decorations. And the totems of the six elders are not painted with paint, but the "inherited treasures" of the tribe, a kind of "Turing" that condenses high-level laws..."
She explained briefly and Ryan understood.
These totems on the bodies of Coleman warriors are not just decorative patterns, but are more like "human enchantments" that have special effects such as increasing their body's toughness, strength, elemental affinity, recovery, etc.
Ryan: "Then... is the totem on Habu also a kind of inherited Turing?"
Wu Duo: "Yes! Elder Habu is the inheritor of this lineage of [Totem of Power]."
Ryan: "What about the other two elders?"
Wu Duo: "..."
After a somewhat tentative chat, Ryan roughly understood the organizational structure of the Coleman tribe.
Their tribe has a "witch priest" who is the supreme leader. His abilities are unknown, but he is definitely very strong.
Secondly, there are six elders whose fighting power is comparable to that of “legends”.
Then came the priests, both big and small, such as Wuduo.
In other words, in the entire Coleman tribe, there are only seven people with a higher status than Udo.
The "Six Elders" are the people who are in charge of the six inherited totems of the entire tribe. Their totems are not painted, but totems with "spirituality" passed down by their ancestors. Just like the crystal core of a monster, it will be stripped out of the body after death and can be passed down from generation to generation.
And the three elders who Ryan thought were likely to be "legendary" masters were among them.
Harb, Coleman's first warrior who controls the [Totem of Power];
The "Rain Master Elder" Fulfa who controls the [Rain Totem]. Bazel said that the problem with "rain" before was due to his extraordinary ability. He can sense rain in a range and can also kill people with acid rain.
Dale, the "Ghost Mushroom Elder" who controls the [Wood Totem], can control the growth of plants. His extraordinary ability is to make mushrooms grow on human corpses.
The [Fire Totem] is a special element totem that can instantly increase a person's affinity for the fire element. It can make cultivation more efficient and help one comprehend the advanced laws of the fire element.
The Winster family specializes in fire magic, and this kind of thing does have a fatal attraction to them.
So the red-robed wizards of the Tust family killed a new elder who had just inherited the [Fire Totem] and stole the totem.
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The two were not strangers to each other.
Along the way, we talked more and more.
Although Wu Duo seemed to have a cold attitude, it was not only because of the dignity that came with being promoted to high priest, but more because of the hatred between the war camps. But in fact, she had no ill will towards Ryan personally.
After the conversation was over, Ryan finally asked, "Um... High Priest Wuduo, what are you going to do with me and my companions?"
This is his biggest concern.
Wu Duo seemed to be uneasy inside. His tone changed from being cold and indifferent. He finally said, "You saved my life once. It is reasonable for me to repay you. I have saved you and your companions just now, but I cannot decide whether to let you go ."
After a pause, she continued, "Although I believe you are a good person, this concerns the blood debt of the dead warriors of our tribe... I am not qualified to forgive the crimes committed by your people on behalf of the dead."
When Ryan heard her say this, he suddenly didn't know how to start.
This was a war of genocide between two civilizations.
It is human nature for one side to hate everyone on the other side.
Just when Ryan felt that his future was uncertain, he heard Wu Duo say again: "But don't worry... I will save you. But I can't do anything for your companions..."
