Chapter 73 Chapter 73
Three chapters into one
The chiefs of the Stone Tribe and the Mulberry Tribe, as well as the captain of the hunting team, went to the Tree Tribe, which was not far from the meeting point.
After the orcs from the Tree Tribe guard team learned the purpose of the four people's visit, they turned back and went into the tribe to inform their priests.
It had just rained yesterday, and the ground was muddy and wet. The four people's feet were already covered with thick mud, and every step they took was stuck to the ground, which was very strenuous.
While they were waiting outside, they used branches to scrape off the mud on their feet. When they were halfway through, the tree tribe orc who had gone in to pass the message came back with an obvious look of joy on his face, "Go in."
The four men were anxious to see someone, so they threw away the branches they were using to scrape the mud and walked straight into the Tree Tribe without even raising their heads, without noticing the expressions on the faces of the orcs of the Tree Tribe.
"Did the priest give you some meat? Why are you smiling so happily?" His companions were puzzled. How could a person with no expression on his face go in and come out grinning with two rows of teeth showing?
The orc narrowed his eyes and said, "This is more enjoyable than getting meat."
This completely aroused his companion's curiosity. He asked anxiously, "What's going on?"
"There's movement in the sacred tree!"
The companions who heard this took a breath. Hiss... This is really something that would make the tribesmen happier than dividing the meat. It has been so many years. I heard that since the fourth priest, the sacred tree seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep and has never given any revelations to the tribe again.
Now that there was finally movement, he asked, "Did the priest sense anything?"
"I don't know. I heard from the orcs who went to the sacred tree that it seemed like a flash of green light."
"That's better than nothing."
The other nodded in agreement.
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The tribes on the outskirts would exchange what they had with each other, and the chiefs were familiar with each other's tribes. The four of them did not need any guidance, and they came to the place where the priest and chief of the Tree Tribe lived.
"Priest of the Tree Tribe!" The chief of the Stone Tribe stood under the tree house, looking up and shouting at the top of his voice, "Come down!"
The Tree Tribe is somewhat different from other tribes. The people of other tribes live in caves, while the people of the Tree Tribe all live in trees.
The thick branches are intertwined and support the strange-shaped wooden houses.
The body of the log cabin is made of similar-sized pieces of wood tied together with bark ropes.
This bark rope is made by peeling off the tough fibers from the bark and rubbing them. The rope made from it has good toughness and strong load-bearing capacity, which is incomparable to the rope made from grass.
Among the marginal tribes, the bark ropes made by the Tree Tribe are the best, with the best toughness, the strongest load-bearing capacity, and more durability. Other tribes generally do not make their own ropes, but trade directly with the Tree Tribe.
The four of them raised their heads in unison and stared at the wooden house. No matter how many times they looked at it, they would still be amazed at the wooden house where the tree tribe lived.
It's a pity that the Tree Tribe doesn't know how to build a house on the ground, and there are no suitable trees for living within their tribe. Otherwise, they would have asked the Tree Tribe to build them a wooden house to live in.
Not long after Xiong Shi finished shouting, a head with messy hair popped out of the tree house. The other party said impatiently, "It's always you! You're so afraid of climbing the tree house, yet you always come over!"
Xiong Shi put his hands on his waist and said with full energy, "I'm just afraid that I'll crush your tree house. Don't hesitate, come down quickly!"
Then he turned around and shouted to the tree house across the street, "Fox Tree!"
Xiong Shi's rough voice was interrupted by an impatient female voice, "Why are you yelling? It's so noisy."
Xiong Shi turned his head and saw the orcs not far away. He smiled and said, "You are down there. I thought you were in the tree house. Why didn't you go to the Tree Tribe? Didn't you say that we would go to the Salt Tribe to exchange salt together today?"
Fox Tree was originally annoyed by Xiong Shi's noise, but after hearing his question, his previous impatience disappeared and he even smiled. However, Fox Tree, who was already irritable, still spoke rudely, "Why do you care so much?"
But it was true that the Tree Tribe did not inform other tribes in advance. Fox Tree suppressed his temper and explained, "Before dawn, the God Tree suddenly reacted, and we just dealt with it."
Needless to say, the four of them understood why the Tree Tribe did not join them.
The Tree Tribe is a marginal tribe. Not only does their living place differ from other tribes, they also have an enormous tree that they worship as a sacred tree.
The magic of this sacred tree is spread among the marginal tribes. According to legend, the first chief of the Stone Tribe saw the sacred tree glowing, and the third priest of the Sang Tribe and the fifth chief of the Yai Tribe were both saved by the light of the sacred tree...
Regarding the various stories about the sacred tree, not only the Tree Tribe can tell a lot, but other tribes can also tell a lot about the magic of the sacred tree. However, these are all legends and have not been confirmed.
At least for now, no matter the clan leaders or priests of each tribe, none of them have ever encountered the sacred tree glowing, or been saved by the sacred tree.
The four of them were also surprised to hear the long-silent sacred tree suddenly respond. The chief of the Sang tribe, Cansang, recalled the legend about the sacred tree and the priests of the Tree Tribe. She asked, "Did the priests of the Tree Tribe sense the sacred tree and the prophecy?"
Each tribe in the marginal tribe has its own legend about the sacred tree, but the sacred tree has always been guarded by the tree tribe. The only reason is that the priests of the tree tribe can hear the prophecies of the sacred tree and know what will happen in the future.
This was known to all the marginal tribes, and it was not a secret. On the contrary, because of this, the tribes never thought of competing for the sacred tree.
Fox Tree shook his head, "I don't know."
She really didn't know, and their priest didn't say anything. At this time, the priest of the Tree Tribe came down, and she happened to hear Cansang's words, "Don't talk about prophecy. I only saw the light of the sacred tree once. After that, I couldn't see it anymore."
Shuguo, the priest of the Tree Tribe, is young and has a bad temper. He was just talking about the sacred tree, but now he is touching his stomach and frowning, "Chief, I'm hungry again."
Fox Tree's mouth twitched, "How can you eat more than an orc!"
Shu Guo scratched her head, her hair like a bird's nest moving slowly with her movements, "If you starve me to death, the Tree Tribe will be without a priest."
Fox Tree instantly shut down, said "wait", and ran to find food for their hungry little priest.
Seeing this, Xiong Shi hurriedly shouted: "Hu Shu, don't forget that you still have to go to the Salt Department to exchange salt stone!"
Fox Tree kept moving at a steady pace, not even turning his head, "Got it! Just fill her up and leave!"
At the same time, the orcs of the Wood Tribe, who had taken many wrong turns, were all covered in dust. Maocao quickly climbed a tree, looked at the tribe not far away, and shouted to the orcs below: "I see the tribe, it's just ahead!"
"Okay, come down and eat something, then we'll leave." Tu Feng said.
Maocao nodded, and just as he was about to go down, he suddenly found something glowing very close to them. Maocao, who was very curious, did not rush down, but after careful identification, he found that it was a huge tree.
"Why aren't you coming down yet?" Tu Feng looked up and asked worriedly, "Are you stuck?"
Maocao retracted his gaze and responded hastily, "No, I'm coming down."
While eating, Maocao kept thinking about the giant glowing tree he had just seen, and his speed was much slower than usual. If the orcs were not enthusiastic about eating meat, there must be something wrong with their bodies.
As the leader of this trip, Tufeng had to be more attentive. He sat next to Maocao and said, "Maocao, are you in pain anywhere?"
Maocao came back to his senses, looking confused, "No."
"Then why are you eating meat so slowly? You were always the fastest eater before."
Maocao was really curious, but was afraid that he had seen it wrong, so he told Tufeng that he had just seen a giant glowing tree. Tufeng obviously didn't believe it, how could a tree glow?
"I really saw it." Maocao, who had originally doubted whether he had seen it, was somehow very sure that he had seen it after being questioned by Tufeng.
Without saying anything, Tu Feng climbed up the tree directly, wanting to prove that there was no glowing tree at all. Then he saw a giant glowing tree...
The light green light was not obvious under the sunlight, but it was enough for him to see clearly. If he saw it at night, it would definitely be very beautiful. Tufeng looked once, and then looked again, until Maocao called from below, asking him if he had seen it.
When Tufeng first climbed up the tree, Maocao was actually a little nervous. What if he really saw it wrong? However, the longer Tufeng stayed on the tree, the more certain he was that he was not mistaken.
The other orcs of the Wood Tribe were also very curious. Before Rabbit Wind came down, two of them climbed up the tree to see if there were any trees that glowed.
At first they didn't believe it. How could a tree glow? It's not the sun, the moon, or the stars...
But when they climbed up the tree and saw a giant tree emitting a light green light not far away, they were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths. It turned out that there really were glowing trees!
“There really are glowing trees!”
This immediately caused the other orcs who were still on the ground to climb up the tree. After a quick look, they all saw the giant tree covered in light green light. Maocao also climbed up the tree and saw that the giant tree was close to a tribe they were going to, so he said to Tufeng, "Let's go from there. It will just be a good way to get to the tribe we are going to."
Although Tu Feng was curious, he was more worried about the unknown danger. He refused directly: "No, I told the priest to take you all back."
Maocao felt a little lonely, but he still listened to Tufeng and didn't mention going to see the tree again.
The group packed their backpacks and headed for the Edge Tribe. However, because of the Cliff Tribe, the Edge Tribe had to postpone their trip to the Salt Department to exchange salt.
When Fox Tree was taking the captain of the Tree Tribe hunting team to meet with other tribes, the captain of the Flower Tribe hunting team who had gone to the Cliff Tribe to check the situation also happened to come back.
"Where is your tribe leader?" Xiong Shi looked behind the leader of the Flower Tribe hunting team, but there was no one there. He asked in confusion, "Where are the tribe leader and the leader of the hunting team?"
Feng Yu looked pale. Everyone initially thought that he was tired from rushing back. No one expected that Feng Yu was frightened.
"The chieftain stayed in the Cliff Tribe to help their priests deal with the curse..."
curse?
curse!
Fox Tree reacted the fastest. She stared at Feng Yu with eyes as sharp as a knife, "You said there is a curse on the Ya Tribe?"
Feng Yu's face turned even paler when Fox Tree looked at him. His mind was now filled with the cursed chief of the Yai tribe, the bruises on his body and his painful wails.
He was speechless and could only nod.
Fox Tree knew that Feng Yu was very scared now, but she was also panicking and couldn't control her expression at all. This curse was a curse of the marginal tribes, and every tribe would be tortured by the curse.
It’s just that the time is uncertain, and the person who is cursed is also uncertain.
Cansang asked, "Do you know who is cursed?"
Cansang's gentle voice eased Feng Yu's tense mood. "It's the chief of the Ya tribe."
After knowing who was cursed, everyone finally understood why the Flower Tribe leader wanted to stay there. Not only the Flower Tribe leader, but all the other tribe leaders also wanted to go.
This is the rule of the marginal tribes. If the chief of a tribe dies, the chiefs and priests of other tribes must go together to hold a fire sacrifice for him.
Because only by burning the dead body with heavenly fire and offering the body to the God of Fire, their tribe will never lack fire. But not all orcs are qualified to offer their bodies to the God of Fire, only the chieftain and priest of each tribe can do so.
Requiring the chieftains and priests of each tribe to go is a sign of respect for the God of Fire.
The orcs of the Wood Tribe sat on the ground, panting. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the orcs were already hot, and the sun was shining brightly, making them all stick out their tongues.
This is an instinctive habit when in beast form. Even in human form, beastmen can't help doing this once they feel hot or tired.
"Lushui, can you bear it?" Tufeng looked at the skinny first-level orc in front of him with some worry, "How about I carry you on my back?"
Lu Shui took a look at the cat grass, then shook his head and said firmly: "I can do it!" After that, he picked up his backpack and prepared to continue walking.
Maocao grabbed Lushui's backpack and held it in his arms, "Good job! We are orc warriors awakened by the priest, we can't embarrass the priest!"
Lu Shui's face flushed red, the face of the priest he most respected appeared in his mind, and he nodded vigorously.
Tufeng smiled and shook his head. He was an orc warrior promoted by the priest himself.
Lushui's orc level was very low, so he shouldn't have come with them. But he was the best doctor in the medical team besides Tudong. Because he studied medicine all day, he had no extra time to train, so his orc level didn't improve.
But if it weren’t for Lu Shui, they would have probably lost someone along the way.
Tu Feng thought of a dozen days ago when one of their orc warriors missed a step and fell down the mountain because the mountain was too slippery. When they finally found him, he was already unconscious from the pain.
The opponent's right leg was twisted in a strange posture. Everyone understood that this leg would remain like this and he would no longer be able to walk normally, whether in animal or human form.
But Lu Shui asked them to prepare thinner wood pieces and tear the fish skin clothes into strips and buckle them together.
After the things were ready, Lu Shui's hands were seen groping back and forth on the other person's twisted leg. After a "crack" sound, the man was awakened by the pain. And the twisted leg was actually straightened.
The injured orc was sweating all over his forehead from the pain, and his cry of pain startled a flock of birds. When the piercing pain eased a little, he felt something cold on his leg.
After a fracture, you need to apply cold compress first. It is not winter now and there is no snow and ice. There happened to be a relatively large cave nearby. The sound of dripping water in the cave was easily heard by the orcs with their sensitive hearing. A small pond had formed inside, and the water in the pond felt icy cold.
It’s perfect for cold compresses.
Lu Shui remembered what he had learned and let the orc with a broken bone apply cold compress for two days, and then apply hot compress to promote blood circulation and reduce... the swelling.
After stuttering, he finally remembered what Captain Tudong had taught him. Lu Shui calculated the time, took out the animal skin towel which was not very cold, and rinsed it in the water again.
"I'm going to find some herbs. Please help me apply cold compresses to him. When the animal skin towel doesn't feel cold anymore, wash it again. After about twenty times, you won't need cold compresses anymore."
After Lu Shui dropped the task of applying cold compress, he turned around to look for herbs. Tu Feng was worried that he would be unsafe alone, so he followed him.
There are countless plants and ferns growing in this mountain, and Lu Shui didn't spend too much time searching for most of them.
When they returned, the cold compress had been over for a while. Lu Shui used the wooden board he had prepared earlier to clamp the orc's broken leg to shape it, and then used long strips of fish skin to wrap around the wooden board to fix it.
After that, he started to work on boiling the medicine. Because boiling the medicine was time-consuming, it took a lot of time along the way. But fortunately, they had a fire starter. Even if they didn't have a fire starter, Tu Feng would drill wood to make fire, so they didn't have to worry about not having fire.
The orcs have a strong healing ability. The injured orcs could walk slowly on their own on the third day. With the careful care of Lushui, hot compresses and medicine every day, and splint fixation, the injured orcs can now walk normally.
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Although the basket filled with herbs was held by the cat grass, which reduced the burden on Lu Shui, his orc level was too low after all, and it was early summer, and he was too hot, so his speed quickly slowed down.
"I'll carry you." The tall orc quickly stepped forward and held Lu Shui's thin shoulders.
When Lu Shui turned around, he saw a stern and fierce face.
When the other party saw Lu Shui shivering unconsciously, he turned around and squatted down, "Come up."
Lu Shui's eyes fell on the splint on the other person's leg, and hesitantly said: "No, your leg is still injured..."
"It's healed already." The other party said this, but he was afraid that Lu Shui would not believe him, so he directly removed the splint and stood up to stretch his injured leg. "It's healed a long time ago. I listened to you and didn't remove it before."
Lu Shui squatted down to examine it carefully, pressing on the joints from time to time, and asked after each press, "How do you feel?"
After getting all the answers, Lu Shui tied the splint back in place and said, "It will take a while longer to take care of it. Don't bother with it, or it won't be able to run anymore."
Hu Mu had no choice but to nod. The orc warrior couldn't run, as that would be no different from having a broken leg.
In fact, when he fell down the mountain and fainted, he saw what his legs looked like. At that time, he was desperate, knowing that he would not be able to walk normally in the future, let alone run...
Now, not only can he walk normally, but after recovery, his legs can function just like before the injury. Hu Mu is grateful to Lu Shui, and also to their priests.
If the priest had not taught Tu Dong medical skills, established a medical team, and asked Lu Shui to follow him, he would have forgotten about keeping his leg.
Tufeng threw the backpack on his back to Humu who was standing upright. He patted his back and said to Lushui, "Come on up."
This time Lu Shui did not refuse. He felt that if he continued walking, he would faint.
Tufeng carried Lushui on his back and walked forward steadily. "Every time before our hunting team sets out to hunt or fight, the priest will say something to us."
"What?" Seeing that Tufeng didn't continue speaking, Lushui asked curiously.
"Do the best you can and come back alive. If you die, you can't do anything."
Lu Shui's heart skipped a beat, and after he understood what this meant, he felt a little embarrassed. He had previously rejected Tu Feng's help without regard for his body's ability to bear it...
He whispered, "I won't do that again."
Maocao was close, so Tufeng didn't suppress his voice. He blushed a little and lowered his head without saying anything. He just encouraged Lushui to follow him regardless of his own health...
Tu Feng nodded with satisfaction. Now everyone was finally obedient.
After finally reaching the tribe they had seen before, they were attacked by the orcs of this tribe. After being attacked, the orc warriors of the Wood Tribe began to fight back as a conditioned reflex.
Because the orcs of the Wood Tribe were all at a higher level than the orcs of the small tribe in this marginal tribe, they didn't use much strength, and even subconsciously restrained their strength, but they still knocked them all down easily.
It was precisely because their level was too high that the orcs of this tribe thought they were attacking their tribe, so in order to protect the tribe, they started attacking without saying a word.
Moth Leaf from the Flower Tribe's gathering team saw that their guards and the orc warriors from the hunting team were all injured by the high-level orcs that suddenly appeared. He transformed into a beast and prepared to secretly fly to the Cliff Tribe to find their chief and priest.
Because the Moth Leaf Orcs were of low level and their transformed size was not large, and they were very familiar with the terrain of the tribe, they took cover and did not attract the attention of the high-level orcs from the Flower Tribe who attacked them, and successfully flew out of the tribe.
The orcs of the Wood Tribe used a certain degree of severity, but they were not really ruthless. Looking at the people falling and lying on the ground, Tu Feng said with a guilty conscience: "I came here to talk to you about the salt and stone trade..."
"Oh, do you think we would believe you?" The orc lying on the ground covered his chest and glared at us, "You knew we didn't have salt stone, so you lied to us, didn't you?"
Feeling the fierce looks these orcs gave him, Tu Feng shook his head helplessly. If it were him, he would not believe that the person who injured all the orc warriors of his tribe actually wanted to trade salt stone with his tribe.
But, it was clearly the orcs of this tribe who suddenly attacked them! Rabbit Wind rubbed his brows. This was a move he learned from the priest. Whenever the priest was upset, he would do this. The priest said that this would help relieve the pain. Rabbit Wind had tried it before and felt no difference.
Today's subconscious action actually made his headache less painful. It turned out that it wasn't useless before, but he wasn't really annoyed at that time.
This matter was actually very simple. He only needed to say, "The salt and stone trading of the Salt Department will be taken over by the Mu Tribe in the future. Now the marginal tribes can go to the former location of the Salt Department to trade salt and stone."
Now...after being stared at fiercely by the injured orcs again, Tufeng decided to meet with the priest or chief of their tribe first to explain things.
After all, no matter what he says now, these orcs will misinterpret his meaning.
Because he didn't want to get too close and make the orcs even more fearful, Tu Feng took a few steps back, stood still, and pointed at the orc who was the least injured.
Because there was some distance between them, he was afraid that the other party might not be able to hear him clearly, so he spoke a lot louder, "Go and call your priest or clan leader out, I have something to say to them."
Then, the group from the Wood Tribe received even fiercer glares.
Tu Feng didn't know that in the eyes of the orcs of the Flower Tribe, his actions were just a threat to hand over the priest and the chief.
They are the orc warriors of the Hua tribe, and they will never hand over the priests and the chieftain even if they die!
At the same time, they were also thankful that their priests and clan leaders were not in the tribe now, so even if these high-level orcs rushed into the tribe, they would not be able to find them.
But they couldn't show that the priest and the chief were not in the tribe, so the orcs of the Flower Tribe began to shout: "If you want our priest and chief, you have to kill us!"
"right!"
"Unless you kill us!"
Listening to the orcs' loud and vigorous shouts, Tu Feng looked bewildered. This tribe was really strange. Why did their priests and chiefs want to kill them?
Rabbit Wind sighed and said to the orcs from the Wood Tribe beside him, "Why don't we notify another tribe?"
The orcs of the Wood Tribe all agreed and nodded. So they prepared to leave, but not long after they walked out, they were blocked by a giant butterfly.
The huge wings of the butterfly blocked the sun, and the butterfly's body was infinitely magnified, which was terrifying just by looking at it. When the huge wings that blocked the sun flapped, a powdery substance like thick fog was shaken off.
Tufeng stepped back sharply and heard Lushui shouting, "Cover your nose and mouth quickly!"
The orcs of the Wood Tribe had to fight and could not cover their mouths and noses, but they also held their breath and transformed quickly.
The beast form, which was several times taller than the human form, could smell the air above that had not yet been stained by the powder. Rabbit Wind took a deep breath and moved quickly, rushing towards the giant butterfly.
Diehua knew that he couldn't beat these orcs, so he could only quickly shake off the pollen on his wings. The orcs of the Wood Tribe quickly dispersed and surrounded Diehua. Whenever he shook off a large amount of pollen, they would run to the side and rush back quickly after the pollen dissipated.
Pollen is limited after all, and the pollen of the butterfly flower was almost consumed, and soon it could no longer be shaken out. The pollen like thick fog became thinner and thinner, and the orcs of the Wood Tribe also noticed the situation of the butterfly flower, and no longer fought a war of attrition, but launched a full-scale attack.
When Tu Feng knocked the butterfly orc unconscious, he silently said in his heart that the priest was really powerful, and the "tactics" he taught the hunting team were really useful!
Diehua was worried about his tribesmen. When he heard Moye say in the Yai Tribe that a group of high-level orc warriors he had never seen before were attacking the Hua Tribe, he transformed directly and flew towards the tribe at full speed.
The leader of the Hua tribe hunting team, Qingmu, was lower in rank than him and could not fly as fast as him. When Qingmu arrived, he saw their chieftain being knocked unconscious.
Qingmu's eyes turned red with anger, and he could not think of anything else, so he rushed towards the culprit, Tufeng. Tufeng subconsciously raised his hand, and Qingmu could not dodge in time, and was slapped away by the rabbit's claws, hitting him on the head.
Qingmu felt stars in front of his eyes and his head was dizzy. He fell into the dense bushes.
Tufeng touched the back of his hand and looked in the direction where the dragonfly flew out of. But he only saw a three-meter-high jungle standing there like a wall, and nothing else.
He was very puzzled and thought: I felt like I hit something just now, why is it gone?
Several tribal chiefs and hunting team leaders in the Ya tribe became worried after Diehua and Qingmu left, so they followed them.
After all, they couldn't run as fast as flying, and they still had to go down the mountain, where there was only one steep path to walk on. It had just rained, so the path was wet and slippery, and it took a lot of time.
This is also why at the beginning only people from the Flower Tribe came to the Cliff Tribe to inquire, and no one from other tribes followed.
When the tribe leaders and the hunting team captains arrived, they saw Diehua fainted on the ground, motionless. Looking around, they couldn't find Qingmu, so the tribe leaders and the captains stared at Tufeng and the others with a wary look.
It seemed that as long as these orcs moved, they would rush up and bite them regardless of everything.
Tu Feng didn't know how things turned out like this, he looked down at the orcs who surrounded the Wood Tribe orcs, although these orcs were not of very good level, but they were two or three levels higher than the first wave of orcs that attacked them.
Moreover, the totems on each of their faces are different. Some are leaves, some are stones, some are branches... and the totems on the faces of the orcs attacking them are petals. These orcs are not from the same tribe.
Tu Feng silently counted the number of different totems, there were eight. There were nine marginal tribes, almost all of them were here. Having learned from the previous two lessons, Tu Feng was smart this time, and he didn't care whether these people would listen or not, he just talked first.
Before the orcs could make a move, Rabbit Wind shouted, "I'm here to talk to you about the salt and stone trade!"
While the orcs were stunned, Tu Feng quickly told them what happened in the Salt Tribe and why they came. He emphasized that it was that tribe that attacked them first, not them.
Moreover, considering their orc level, if they really wanted to attack, it would be impossible for all these orcs to survive.
Finally, in order to prove that they were not really here to attack these tribes, Tufeng asked the orcs of the Wood Tribe to transform into human form first.
After listening to Tu Feng's words, the people of the Edge Tribe fell into deep thought. The marks on their faces seemed to be from the Wood Tribe, which they had seen when they changed the salt stone in advance.
Because the totems of the Wood Tribe and their marginal tribe, the Leaf Tribe, are both leaves, but in different shapes, they left a deeper impression on them.
But isn't the Wood Tribe a very small tribe? When will they be able to replace the most powerful Salt Tribe?
The people of the marginal tribe kept this question in their hearts and did not ask it. The fact that the orcs of the Wood Tribe transformed into human form first also showed that they had no intention of attacking. Especially after the orcs of the Wood Tribe put a strange thing on their bodies, their doubts were dispelled.
Fox Tree went to ask the orcs of the Flower Tribe, and it was indeed their tribe that started the fight. Because they thought these people were too strong, they thought they were coming to attack the tribe, and they thought they would strike first when they were not paying attention, just in case they could win...
After hearing the rest, Hu Shu didn't want to listen anymore. It turned out that the team led by that idiot Qing Mu was just as stupid. How could such a high-level orc warrior allow a group of level 1 and 2 to successfully launch a sneak attack?
I don’t know where that stupid guy Qingmu went. When I asked the orcs from the Mu tribe, they all said they had no impression of him.
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The orcs of the Wood Tribe were finally brought to the Tree Tribe by the fox tree. The orcs of the Flower Tribe were a little afraid of them. The Tree Tribe was the closest tribe to the Flower Tribe, so they followed them here.
After entering the Tree Tribe, the orcs of the Wood Tribe saw strange-looking wooden houses. The houses were crooked and tied with ropes, and were supported by tree branches.
The roof of the house was even more crude, just a few pieces of wood laid out and covered with broad leaves, giving the impression that it would be blown away by the wind at any time.
The people of the Mu tribe had all helped build mud houses in the tribe, so they knew that this wooden house on the tree would definitely not work. Not to mention that it would be blown away by a slightly strong wind, even if people moved a little too violently, the house and the people would fall down together.
But in Fox Tree's eyes, their gaze was fixed on the tree houses of their tree tribe.
Yes, which marginal tribe is not like this? Even the Salt Tribe cannot build houses and can only live in caves, but the Tree Tribe can! No wonder the people of the Wood Tribe are so surprised.
Fox Tree was in a good mood. She was so considerate that she didn't disturb the people of the Wood Tribe from watching their tree house. "You guys just watch first. I'll go call the priest. You can talk to our tribal priest about the details of the transaction."
Tufeng and the others nodded. After Fox Tree left, the orcs from the Wood Tribe began to gather together and whisper to each other.
"Well, I still think our mud house is better. Once people go in, they won't be blown by the wind or rained on."
"Yes, the wooden roof they have is made of just a few leaves. If it rains a little harder, it will leak everywhere."
"Our roof is still good. If we replace it regularly, it won't leak."
When Fox Tree arrived with the Tree Tribe priest, several people had already discussed how to build a wooden house using the same method as building an earthen house.
But in the end, no result was reached. They just helped to build the mud house. The specific details of the method still needed to be asked from the orcs in the engineering team.
The reason why the Wood Tribe made this special trip was not just to inform the marginal tribes that the Wood Tribe would take over the salt stone exchange in the future. Another reason was that their priests wanted to hold a market.
At the market, each tribe can bring their own things to exchange freely. The specific content and quantity are decided by the tribes themselves. Their priest said that this is the first time to hold a market, and no one has heard of it before. So it is better to inform the orcs of each tribe in advance, so as to avoid confusion when they arrive.
Then tell each tribe, and they can also bring some things that only their tribe has to set up stalls at the market, and invite other tribes to come to their stalls to trade.
This time, Tufeng also gave the orcs from the marginal tribes some information about the market, and reminded them that if they went to the market, they should bring more things worth trading, because there would be many items in the market, and if they brought too little, they would not have enough to exchange.
Fox Tree raised his eyebrows but said nothing. After a while, the Tree Tribe priest Shuguo narrowed his eyes and said, "Your priest is very powerful."
Rabbit Wind also knew that their priests were very powerful, but the Tree Tribe priests had never seen their priests, so how did they know? However, Rabbit Wind did not think about this question deeply, but just asked: "Can you help call the priests of the other tribes over? I have to talk to them too."
Previously, the Flower Tribe had treated them as people who attacked their tribe, which made Tu Feng somewhat unwilling to try to go to other tribes. If they could be called over, that would be the best. If they couldn't, they could only go to each tribe in groups of two to find these tribal priests.
"It just so happens that the Cliff Tribe is preparing for the Fire Sacrifice, and all the priests and clan leaders of the tribe have to go there." Fox Tree asked Rabbit Wind, "But you twelve people certainly can't all go, but you can pick two to go with you."
Rabbit Wind nodded and said, "Okay."
The Tree Tribe brought the Wood Tribe orcs to a large cave. Not everyone in their tribe was qualified to live in a tree house. There were also tribesmen living in the large caves, usually orc children and the elderly without parents.
They couldn't climb up the tree house either. The older orc children could climb up, but they were very noisy and could tear the tree house down in one night.
The cave was quite large, and many old people and children were already living inside. Now that the weather was not cold, the twelve people from the Mu tribe could just squeeze in at the entrance of the cave and have enough space for sleeping.
After Tufeng and the others left, Shuguo asked Fox Tree, "Is Wolf Cliff's curse so severe? He died in just a few days?"
Fox Tree shook his head, "He's not dead, he's in so much pain he can't bear it and can't move, so he wants to hold the fire sacrifice in advance."
Shuguo pursed his lips and said nothing. Even a powerful person like Langya couldn't bear the pain, so how powerful must this curse be...
The Fire Ceremony was to be held the next day, so the Wood Tribe could only stay in the Tree Tribe today. However, they were not idle either, and went out to hunt. Perhaps the prey around had never seen such a high-level orc warrior, and some of them gave up resistance directly after sensing the powerful aura.
The orcs of the Wood Tribe soon returned with a full load.
The guards of the Tree Tribe were so excited. Didn't these orcs just go out? How come they came back just after they went out? And they brought back so many preys!
So much prey is enough for the entire tribe to have a full meal!
The higher the level of the orc warrior, the bigger his appetite is, regardless of height, weight or size. So the prey hunted by the Wood Tribe is enough for twelve people to have one meal tonight and one meal tomorrow morning.
The fire pit of the Tree Tribe was not far away. Tu Feng wanted to save some fire, so he asked someone to go to the fire pit of the Tree Tribe to get some fire. He took the other orcs to deal with the prey.
The old men and children living in the cave would occasionally stick their heads out to look in the direction of the pile of prey, but they would quickly look away after taking a look.
Faced with high-level orc warriors, they had a natural fear and dared not do anything. They could only swallow their saliva at the meat and hold their stomachs tightly.
But they could still hold it back for now. When the orcs of the Mu tribe each set up a clay pot and added oyster sauce, salt and chili powder for seasoning, the aroma of meat and the aroma of food they had never smelled before rushed to their heads.
The saliva in their mouths could not help but be secreted, and their stomachs made gurgling sounds. They had already eaten meat today, although the meat was a bit smelly, but it was not easy to eat meat. After all, they were a group of people who could not do any work and could only rely on the tribe for support.
It's already good enough that the tribe can give them some meat.
The children of the Tree Tribe stared at the bones with some meat scraps on them. It was fresh meat. They hadn't eaten fresh meat for a long time!
Thinking that these powerful orc warriors fell asleep, they went to pick up the bones and gnaw on the meat, but the orc warriors did not throw it away. Instead, they chopped it up with stone axes and put it into their strange "stone pot" to cook.
The elders were knowledgeable and could tell that the "stone pots" used by these foreign orc warriors were different from the stone pots they knew.
These stone pots are bigger and can cook a lot of things. The gurgling sound of water bubbling in my ears and the steaming white mist also prove that these "stone pots" can be heated easily.
Unlike their stone pot, it takes a long time to heat up. So people rarely use stone pots...
The aroma of roasted meat from the Mu tribe had spread far away, and the orcs with a keen sense of smell had all smelled it to some extent.
Fox Tree stretched his neck, sniffed the meaty smell in the air, and said, "Priest, do you smell anything particularly good?"
Shuguo is not an orc, her sense of smell is not that sensitive, so she shook her head and said, "No."
Fox Tree was so fascinated by the fragrance that she let Shuguo go back by herself. She kept sniffing the scent all the way to find the source.
Bone soup needs to be stewed for a longer time to make the soup white and rich in flavor.
When Fox Tree followed the smell, the Mu tribe's broth was just ready to be served.
"How could you have created such a nice smell?" Fox Tree jumped to Rabbit Wind's side and sniffed the broth in the pottery pot. It smelled good! It smelled good! It smelled really good!
Tu Feng took out a spare ceramic bowl from his backpack, filled it with broth and handed it to Hu Shu. After all, he was living in someone else's tribe, so he couldn't deny the tribe leader a single bite.
Fox Tree was pleasantly surprised, but his face showed no emotion, and he even frowned slightly. Rabbit Wind thought that he was dissatisfied with the small amount he gave, so he added another piece of meat to Fox Tree's bowl.
I can't give him any more. If I give him more, he won't be full.
Fox Tree stared at the pointed piece of meat and thought that this orc from the Wood Tribe was really good for giving her so much meat.
However, Fox Tree was not so decisive when eating. He hesitated for a long time. Finally, he was so tempted by the aroma of the broth that he picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth with an expression of "I'll die".
As soon as the meat entered his mouth, Fox Tree's eyes lit up.
tasty!
After taking a bite, I want to eat more!
Fox Tree has a strange problem. She can't swallow meat that is not fresh. If she forces herself to eat it, she will spit it out. She can't live without meat. Eating anything else won't make her full. She will be hungry again after a while.
So she only eats fresh meat, but that's just enough to keep her from spitting it out.
And now, for the first time, she is not averse to meat and even wants to eat it.
If you taste it carefully, you will find that the meat not only tastes like meat, but also has other flavors, and the taste of each person's broth is different.
Some people's broth smelled a bit strong and was a bit red. Fox Tree swallowed his saliva, drank the bowl of broth given by Rabbit Wind, and then ran away.
She was afraid that if she stayed there any longer, she would lose control and go dig up the stone pots of other orcs in the Wood Tribe!
After the orcs of the Wood Tribe finished eating the meat soup, the bone soup in the pottery pot was almost done. Tu Feng opened the lid of the pottery pot, and the rich aroma of the bone soup overflowed.
The old people and children in the big cave had been covering their noses at some point, but after getting used to the smell of the broth, covering their noses still helped.
The new fragrance was so overbearing and alluring that they always felt that it was coming into their noses through their fingers.
Smells so good!
"Come over and drink."
This is the bone soup they prepared specially for the old people and children in the big cave. They didn't intend to make this at first, after all, the prey they hunted was limited.
Moreover, when they first arrived, they saw that both the elderly and children were gnawing on meat. That little bit of meat certainly wasn't enough to fill them up, but they wouldn't starve to death either. The Tree Tribe was feeding these people.
Some tribes don't care about the life or death of the elderly.
Just seeing the way these old people and children were staring at the meat suddenly reminded me of the Mu tribe from the past.
At that time, the Mu tribe had no priests, and life was hard. The warriors of the hunting team could not even get enough to eat, let alone the elderly and children. At that time, in the Mu tribe, elderly people and children starved to death almost every day...
The people who came this time were all from the Mu tribe. Maocao and Lushui lived in such a big cave when they were young. In fact, they all saw the way the old people and children in these big caves looked at the meat.
Maocao and Lushui even thought they saw their former selves, staring at a piece of bone with only a little meat on it with the same longing look in their eyes, exactly the same as before.
The orcs of the Mu tribe were very careful when making the bone soup, and they put all the necessary seasonings into the soup without any ambiguity.
It tasted even better than broth, except there wasn't much meat in it.
Soup is not a real hunger suppressant, so bone soup is something that the orcs of the Wood Tribe drink after they are full. They each drank a bowl of it, and the rest was shared with the elders and children in the big cave.
The meat the tribe gave them every day was enough to keep them from starving, but they were also hungry every day, and they really couldn't resist the bone soup.
Especially the bone soup that was pushed in front of them.
Fox Tree didn't go far, for she was afraid that the old people and children in the cave would not be able to resist snatching the food. She knew how strong the orcs of the Wood Tribe were, and even a slight push could cost the lives of these old people and children.
At first, she was not worried that the elderly and children would not be able to resist. She really did not expect that the orcs of the Wood Tribe would make the meat smell so good and taste so good.
Seeing the tribesmen drinking the delicious bone soup, Fox Tree gritted her teeth out of habit. She decided that no matter whether the priest agreed with the Tree Tribe going to the market or not, she would trade the strange stone pot with the Wood Tribe.
She can't feed the old people and children in the cave with meat, but can't she provide them with enough bone soup?
After Fox Tree was sure that the old man and the child would be safe, she ran to find the priest and told him what she had seen and what she thought, and wanted to hear what the priest had to say.
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Tu Feng and the others were eating and drinking well in the marginal tribe, but Shen Nong was so busy among the cannibals that he didn't even have time to drink water.
There weren't many things left by the Salt Department, and they could all be solved quickly. The Mu tribe was already engaged in trading, so it wasn't difficult to take over the salt and stone trading. Shen Nong had even started to prepare to hold a simple "market" so that everyone could exchange what they had.
Even if other tribes don't set up stalls at the first market, the Hemu tribe has enough supplies to support a small market.
As for the orcs left behind by the Salt Department, it was also easy to make arrangements. The level seven ones were handed over to Shen Er and Ze to take care of. For the time being, they were given basic food every day as long as they didn't starve to death. They would be reused later based on the situation.
The remaining orcs were all handed over to the hunting team for care. Every day, they were either taken to the brick-making team to learn how to break clay molds, or to the production team to help cut trees. With three meals of meat a day, the efficiency of the brick-making team and the production team was much higher than before.
It was the cannibals that caused Shen Nong to spend a lot of time and effort.
Shen Nong could never have imagined that more than ten days had passed since the battle and summer had arrived, but the orcs of the Mu tribe could still find a group of women in a large cave relatively remote from the cannibal's range.
Upon receiving the news, Shen Nong immediately brought the medical team of the Mu tribe to the former cannibal's territory again.
More than a dozen women were huddled in the dark and cold cave. Each of them had a big belly and was skinny. The bones and joints of their limbs were clearly visible. They had big heads and bulging eyes, and their bellies were even bigger.