"What's that?"

A few strong men in animal skins saw a flash of yellow fur, because of its size, it didn't look like some small animal with the same color, but such a large one, what could it be?

"Be careful, there are visitors lately, don't go too deep. ”

It is rare for the strong men who rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the forests to eat the forests, and when they saw the large animals passing directly, they did not notice them, and they did not rush up to provoke them, in case they could not be beaten, but they were not unlucky.

The brightly furrished tiger is a new species here, and there is no beast of the same type, he walked leisurely for a while, and saw the appearance of several beast skin people in his eyes, thought about it, and changed into a human form, and a nearly identical animal skin was wrapped around his body into a simple animal skin skirt.

After straightening his hair, he headed towards a village he had seen before, and was spotted when he walked nearby, but because of the similar painting style, no one was too wary.

"Stop, you're not from our village, what are you doing here?"

A young man insisted on a sharp axe and asked, The axe in his hand was not made of iron, it was an almost black metal, which looked even more terrifying.

"I escaped, and there, all dead. ”

He pointed to a place, which he had seen from afar, where the village had been burned down for some unknown reason, and no one seemed to have escaped.

"Wait here, I'll ask. ”

The young man will be suspicious, their life is peaceful except for fighting against fierce beasts, after all, the place is too big, there are too few people, they can't fight if they want to, and their defensive hearts against each other are not too strong.

Watching him run back, the man stood at the entrance of the village, did not act rashly, from a distance, he could see the stone house in the village, the thatched houses around him seemed to be guarding the stone house, such a shape, although the style of the house was different, but that feeling, made him very kind to the stone house.

The boy ran into the stone house, and soon led the adult over, and the other man came to ask him a few words, and the man said, "My name is Rod, and I am from there." ”

He pointed in that direction again, and there was still a look of surprise in his eyes.

"Oh, we've heard, you're unlucky enough to run into a visitor. ”

The young man said this, he could understand the other party's helplessness very well, the outsiders came to the door, although they didn't know what method they used, but they couldn't beat it, what should they do?

The cruelty of life makes them very acceptable to such things, so it has not become too difficult to accommodate Rhodes, any normal time, they are willing to take in more people to be their own, as long as it does not exceed an upper limit, it is always easier to survive with more people.

Many years ago, when the outsiders first arrived, they also took them in because of their kindness, where did they think of the killing that followed.

Theoretically, they agreed to take each other in, but they still had to go to the stone house first.

Rod looked very understanding, and walked behind the young man.

"Look at you so strong, you used to be from the hunting team?"

The boy also followed, he talked a lot, like his age, he still has little knowledge, and when he meets a new outsider, he always has a lot of questions to ask.

"Hmm. ”

Rhodes didn't really understand what the other party was talking about, he still had very little grasp of the vocabulary here, and now he was able to communicate smoothly, but he listened to a few more words when he was a tiger, and summarized the specific syllable meanings according to certain rules, but if you want to say it in detail, it is easy to miss the words.

Fortunately, he was also a reticent person, and most of the time he only needed to say a few keywords.

It seemed that certain things could also be seen in his temperament, and when the young man saw him like this, he did not feel displeased by being perfunctory and neglected, and continued to ask: "How did you escape, did you see the visitors? What do they look like? Aren't they very powerful?"

The series of questions simply leaves enough room for answers, and in the end Rod simply says "no", and probably even he himself doesn't quite understand which question to answer.

The young man glanced back, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, okay, it's none of your business, go play." ”

"What's the matter, I'm guarding the village, don't think I don't know, things are different, be guarded, be cautious!"

The boy said a lot, a string of words came out quickly, quickly and fluently, and Rhodes had been secretly summarizing the pronunciation of it, and roughly understood some of the meanings.

In the stone house, facing the miraculous flame in the firepit, Rhodes looked solemn, he could feel a certain divinity in it, and for a moment, it seemed to go back to the past, the primitive times of the past, he was also in charge of the sacrificial activities of a tribe.

Looking at the old man facing the door, there was an indescribable sense of closeness on his face.

From his eyes to his breath, the old man looked at him very seriously, and then looked at the condition of the flames, which was very stable, which meant that there was nothing to guard against.

"From now on, you will be from our village. ”

The old man decided.

The young man looked overjoyed, patted Rod on the shoulder, and said, "Good brother!"

"Good. Rod responded, his expression relaxed.

Because of his strong enough stature, Rhodes was naturally assigned to the hunting team, and he maintained his taciturnity, hearing his brothers in the hunting team talking about recent events, many of which he didn't understand, but his vocabulary was increasing day by day.

"The people of the mountain department sent a message saying that they were all gathered together to guard against these visitors. ”

"Which idiot made this suggestion, if we really gather together, and don't wait for others to fight, I'm afraid we will die in the mouth of the beast, have they forgotten the horror of the beast tide?"

"Maybe it's because they have a lot of strong men, enough to resist. ”

"Hmph, how many people can there be in the mountains, and in the end, it's not that each department has to send people, what does the elder say, let's go?"

"I don't know yet, this way, it's too far. ”

"yes, it's too far—"

The emotion brought the conversation to a quick end, and there were many things involved, which Rod didn't quite understand, and he didn't want to ask.

After a while, he learned from the words of the people around him that the strangeness of this world was that they gathered in villages and did not dare to expand into towns, let alone build cities, and if the number of people gathered exceeded a certain amount, it would trigger a tide of beasts nearby.

Speaking of the beast tide, the people around them are all palpitating, some of them are not very old, they have not been out of the village since they were born, it is impossible to know the horror of the beast tide, but when they speak, it is clear that they have seen it.

Rod had a lot of confusion in his heart, but he didn't ask, he was always like this, used to doing things silently.

The elder has a good impression of his character, and at first, perhaps for the convenience of observation, he will always be taken to his side to watch, and after finding that the other party is down-to-earth, he will gradually give some things to the other party, such as sharing food.

Rhodes had done this when he was a priest before, and his distribution plan was relatively fair, and everyone was satisfied, and gradually, he became a fixed allocator, and the elders no longer had to worry about this trivial matter.

When Kibe's people came, it was accompanied by a burst of singing, and the language that did not belong here made Rod listen attentively, and he understood the content of the lyrics.

"Who can save me, which kind person can save me, I don't know if I'm still alive now, my body is gone, my head is hanging on the wall, who will save me, I feel like I have a headache to death, my scalp must have fallen off..."

It is obviously a sad and terrifying lyrics, but the tone, as soft as a sympathetic chant, is thick and needs a big tree in the arms of a dozen or so people to move forward slowly, and every step of it needs to probe the root system first, pull up, probe in, repeat this process repeatedly, accompanied by the traces of soil cracking, and the places you walk through seem to have been forcibly turned over.

"Who's going to save me—"

In the treehouse above the tree, a girl was learning the repetitive tune, and her tone was not too accurate, which made the sentence even more strange.

Rod looked in the direction of the big tree, showing a strange expression, the young man called Rong came again, the other party talked a lot, seeing Rode's appearance, he thought that he was a person who had never seen Kibe, but he didn't laugh.

"This should be the people of Kibe, and it's the first time I've seen them, and I've heard that they all live on big trees, which is really good!"

"Where's the good?"

Rod asked, the other party had a lot of questions and a lot of words, and the people in the same village didn't like to talk to him about this nonsense, but Rod was willing to listen more.

"You don't have to hunt hard! I heard that they are all waiting for the big tree to bring their prey to them, and they can be protected by the big tree wherever they go, and ordinary beasts can't hurt them, how good!"

As he spoke, his eyes kept looking at the girl in the treehouse, and he praised Rhodes: "What she sings, it's so good! If I marry her, can I live in the treehouse?"

"You can try. ”

Rhodes didn't quite understand their marriage customs, so he couldn't tell whether it was encouragement or ridicule.

He probably understood the latter, so he gave him a blank look, turned his head to the side, stopped talking to him, and showed "I'm angry" with his actions.

It may sound strange that the people of Kibe, both men and women, have green branches and green leaves on their heads, and it is said that they are still alive.

Rhodes didn't stare at it, afraid of breaking some taboo, and continued to do his job as always, not like an outsider.

The people of Kibe didn't pay attention to him, but they talked about the village that had been burned down and what happened there, and the elder suddenly said, "Maybe Rhodes knows what's going on." ”

He called Rhodes to his side and said, "That's how he escaped from that village." ”

As soon as these words came out, Qu and the two men immediately stared at Rod, and one of the men said playfully: "Escaped?"

"Well, I was out there and saw someone coming and ran away. ”

Rod lowered his head, as if to show shame.

"It's not your fault, if you don't run away, you'll be burned to death. Qu had seen the tragic situation of that village, although she was not from the headquarters, but compared to those outsiders, they were all her own people, and she kindly broke the siege, and was not prepared to condemn the other party's timidity.

"Hmm. Rod replied in a low voice, not paying much attention to the imperfection of this explanation, just like him, no one else except the man did not care too much, who can guarantee his courage and guts?

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