Hill Tribe

At dusk, in the orange light of the sky, the orcs in the Wood Tribe shouted, "Get off work!"

After a while, orcs in groups of three or four appeared at the gate of the Mu tribe and left together.

An orc patted Niu Qi who was walking slowly, "Hurry up, if you are slow you will have no place to take a shower!"

Niu Qi pulled up the corners of his mouth, with a bitter face, "It's okay, I have to go back to the tribe today. You should go quickly, don't be late again and miss dinner."

The orc asked in confusion, "Didn't you just go back yesterday? Didn't we agree to catch two fish while we were bathing and cook them in a clay pot at night?"

Niu Qi responded in a low voice: "We really can't be together today. My seasoning is in the small cabinet. You can use it..."

The other party wanted to continue asking what was going on, but after glancing at the orcs behind Niu Qi, he shut up and said, "Your chief is here," and then ran away.

"What are you talking about?" Songshan asked curiously, "What seasoning?"

Niu Qi straightened his back. He wanted to say it was nothing, but he didn't dare. After hesitating for a while, he said truthfully, "I was ranked first in "Housekeeping" for seven consecutive days. This is a reward from the Mu tribe. A small bamboo tube of chili powder and salt."

"Chili powder? The red powder that makes meat taste good?" Songshan's eyes lit up. He loved spicy food the most. "How much do you have?"

"There's just one more thing. I agreed with my lower bunk that we would eat them all today." In case Songshan didn't understand what a lower bunk meant, Niu Qi added, "My lower bunk is the orc who just spoke to me, Yang Si from the Grass Tribe."

Songshan didn't care whether Niu Qi's lower bunk was Yang Si or Yang Wu. He grasped the key point in Niu Qi's words, "From now on, you don't have to report back to the tribe. All you have to do is keep getting first place and share some of the seasoning with me."

Songshan emphasized: "More chili pepper is needed."

Niu Qi thought that their clan leader wanted all of it, but he didn't expect that he could leave some for him. It just so happened that he didn't particularly like spicy food. Although it tasted good, his mouth and tongue would hurt after eating it, and it felt like it wasn't his own.

He said happily: "Okay, Chief, I will do my housework well in the future, and I will give you all the peppers I get."

Songshan grinned for a long while before asking, "What is housework?"

Niu Qi explained: "It means cleaning your bed, animal hides, cabinets and yourself. I was the cleanest person in our dormitory for seven consecutive days, so I got the reward."

Songshan has been to the workers' dormitory outside the Mubu Village, and he still can't forget the scene.

There is a long row of wooden houses, beautiful and sturdy. Each house has four things placed in it, with two floors. A long wooden table is placed in the middle, and each person living in it has a small cabinet to store things.

The sun shines in through the propped-up wooden windows, clean and bright, and there is also the unique fragrance of the giant tree, which smells so good.

Songshan took advantage of Niu Qi's inattention to glance at his clean fish skin vest and straw sandals. He looked down at himself, and saw that his fish skin vest, which also exposed his arms, was covered with mud spots, and his straw sandals were worn crookedly, with even his big toe exposed.

No wonder Niu Qi has been the cleanest for several days in a row.

The weather is getting hotter day by day. There is a breeze in the evening, which can dissipate a lot of the heat.

When the two returned to the mountain tribe, Songshan wrinkled his nose and asked Niu Qi: "Niu Qi, do you smell a bad smell?"

Niu Qi held his breath and said, "Chief, this is the stench of our tribe..."

Song Shan stood in front of the tribe and did not go in directly. Niu Qi thought that he wanted to wait until he got used to the smell before entering the tribe, so he also stood in front of the tribe without moving.

At this time, Songshan looked at his own tribe and thought about the appearance of the Mu tribe. The mud houses in the Mu tribe were neat and clean, and the ground was paved with flat bricks. Even in the hottest time of the day, there was no smell in the Mu tribe.

The mountain tribes have no clean and tidy mud houses, no flat bricks on the ground, only endless dirt. In summer, even in the evening, you can smell a pungent odor in the tribe.

No wonder the tribesmen living in the workers’ dormitory of the Mu tribe don’t want to return to the tribe.

Songshan sighed, walked into the tribe, and headed towards the cave where the priest was.

Niu Qi followed gradually. When they were halfway there, Song Shan, who had been silent the whole time, said to Niu Qi: "You don't have to go see the priest today. I will talk to him."

"Yes, Patriarch." Niu Qi nodded in response.

Shanfeng was not in the cave. It was very hot now. He was sitting at the entrance of the cave, looking at the clay pot boiling water on the small fire in front of him. "Are you back? The meat is in your cave, go and eat it."

Songshan didn't leave, but sat cross-legged opposite Shanfeng, "Priest, why did you ask me to work in the Mu tribe?"

"Didn't I tell you at the beginning?" Shanfeng stood up and scooped hot water into a ceramic bowl with a pottery spoon and put it on the ground to cool. He replied, "Because you eat too much, as long as you are sent to the Mu tribe to work, and the tribe sends some level one or two orcs, the food hunted by the hunting team will be enough to feed the rest of the tribe members."

Shan Feng raised his head and smiled at Song Shan: "We never dared to think that the tribesmen in the tribe would have enough food to eat one day."

This was the second time Songshan heard this answer. The first time was when Shanfeng asked him to go to the Mu tribe to work. He asked the same question as today and got exactly the same answer.

But this time Songshan didn't believe it. He seemed not to hear Shanfeng's answer and continued, "Two tribes joined the Wood Tribe. One is the Water Tribe we know, and the other is the Wushan Tribe, which is far away from here. I don't know what the Wushan Tribe was like before, but Priest, do you know what the Water Tribe is like now?"

Shan Feng still had a smile on his face. “I didn’t pay much attention when I was in the Wood Tribe before, so I don’t know.”

Not sure..

Songshan repeated softly, with a rare serious look on his face, "Then today I will tell the priest what the Water Tribe is like now. The brick-making team has a very powerful thing called a brick kiln.

Mud can be turned into flat and hard stone when it enters the brick kiln. The orcs from our seven tribes can only help the brick-making team to break the mud outside, while the orcs from the water tribe can go into the innermost part and burn bricks in the kiln.

The children of the Water Tribe are all very strong. Even without awakening, their bodies look no different from the first-level orc warriors of our tribe. The children of our tribe are like sick cubs, unable to run or jump, with no flesh on their bodies and bones clearly visible. "

Shan Feng didn't take it seriously, "The Water Tribe joined the Wood Tribe, so they can be close to the brick kilns and their children can eat well. Isn't that normal?"

"Yes, it's normal." Songshan felt that he was smart for once, and he said almost affirmatively: "So, the purpose of the priest asking me to go is to let me see with my own eyes what the orcs of the Water Tribe are like now? Do you also want the Mountain Tribe to be like this?"

Songshan always felt that the priest in front of him had become different after returning from the Mu tribe. In the past, the priest would tell him how to make the tribe better and how to feed the tribe members...

But since he came back from the Wood Tribe, he just watched the pottery pot boil water all day long. He never mentioned anything about making the tribe better or feeding the people.

Finally, the chief of his tribe also asked him to go to the Mu tribe to work with his people. At first, he really believed what the other party said, in order to ensure that all the people in the tribe had enough food.

But at this moment, Songshan was more and more convinced of his guess. Their priest, Heihe, wanted the Mountain Tribe to join the Wood Tribe, so in order to convince him, he asked him to work in the Wood Tribe and let him see what the Wood Tribe looked like.

If he had not stayed in the Mu tribe, he would have refused directly, but now it is really difficult for him to choose.

Shanfeng looked at Songshan's determined and conflicted expression, and couldn't help laughing. "You are smart for once. But have you forgotten that if a tribe has a priest and the priest still has the ability to awaken orcs, he cannot join another tribe. Unless the priest who joins the other tribe chooses to die."

Shan Feng affirmed: "I will not choose to die."

Songshan was stunned for a moment. He had forgotten...

"So, what you mean is that Lu Shuang, the priest of the Water Tribe, no longer has the ability to awaken orcs, so he led the Water Tribe to join the Wood Tribe?" Song Shan touched his chin, "I was wondering why the Water Tribe didn't participate in the beast tide encirclement and suppression several times, so this is what happened."

Shanfeng's face fell, "Is this the time to talk about the Water Tribe?"

Songshan shook his head and said no, then asked: "What do you want to do, priest?"

Shan Feng said directly: "The reason why Beast City is so powerful is that many large tribes choose to be loyal to the High Priest of Beast City and swear to the Beast God to protect the High Priest of Beast City. Each of their tribes exists independently, but they also belong to a whole."

"Priest, do you want to pledge your loyalty to the Wood Tribe and protect the Wood Tribe?" Songshan was a little surprised. "Priest, you must think it through. Once you sign the contract, there is no way to regret it. If the Wood Tribe treats us like the cannibals in the future, the only way left for the Mountain Tribe is destruction."

Shan Feng corrected him, "I am not protecting the Wood Tribe, I am protecting the Wood Tribe's priests. I have formed a pact with the Wood Tribe's priests as a priest, so if you notice something is wrong, you only need to find another priest, and the tribe will not be implicated."

Songshan: ..Priest, do you think it is so easy to find a priest for a tribe? ?

Knowing that their priests were determined to do this, Songshan said no more. Although he said that before, Songshan knew in his heart that the priests of the Wood Tribe could not be the same as the cannibals.

This is the orcs' keen intuition.

"But the orc warriors in our tribe are really too weak... In the end, I'm afraid it will be the Wood Tribe that protects the Mountain Tribe, rather than the Mountain Tribe protecting the Wood Tribe." Shan Feng said worriedly, "I think the Wood Tribe priest may not agree to form a covenant with me."

Songshan thought about how dirty and smelly his own tribe was, and his eyes wandered. There was really no reason for the priests of the Mu tribe to form a covenant with their priests.

What's the picture?

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Marginal tribe.

After two days of drinking wild thorn pear water, Langya's body began to recover slowly. This made everyone in the marginal tribe excited and excited. For them, the curse that had troubled them for hundreds of years had completely disappeared at this moment.

There were still some wild thorn pears in the deer skin bag, but not too many. It depended on the situation in Wolf Cliff that more would be needed. Therefore, he had to take the orcs of the Cliff Tribe back to the Wood Tribe as soon as possible and bring back the wild thorn pears he had left in the tribe to the orcs of the Cliff Tribe.

Knowing that Lu Shui was going to take the orcs of the Cliff Tribe to the Wood Tribe, the chiefs and priests of the marginal tribes also gathered together to discuss for a long time.

Finally we decided to go together and attend the market held by the Mu tribe and exchange some salt stones.

Because they had to participate in the market, each tribe had to prepare a lot of things, so it was delayed for another two days.

During these two days, Lu Shui was not idle. The priests of the Edge Tribe handed over all tribal affairs to the tribe leader, and they gathered in the Cliff Tribe to ask Lu Shui about the curse.

Lu Shui patiently explained, and even took out a wild prickly pear to show them that it was not a curse but a disease. "If you only eat meat and not fruits and wild vegetables, you will get scurvy."

This conclusion was difficult for the priests to accept for a while. In the minds of orcs and priests, meat was the most powerful thing, and eating meat was a symbol of strength.

Only orcs who don't have the strength to hunt and incompetent priests would pick fruits and dig wild vegetables to eat.

But the facts were before them, and they had to believe and accept the fact that they would have to eat fruits and wild vegetables in the future.