"I want two horses, one Ziggy. Ice Bear Abyss said.

"Two horses, and a zigger?" said the dwarf human, who seemed to be trampled on his feet, jumped up and shouted, "You are crazy, old fellow, I only have a mule." ”

When Catherine heard the word "Ziggy", her heart couldn't help but fluctuate. Until she was coerced into the spirit world of the Silver Dragon King, she didn't know that there was a demon like Zig in the world. Catherine wasn't sure if the "Ziggy" in the Ice Bear Abyss's mouth was the same creature she had encountered in the Silver Dragon King's spirit world.

"A mule is a mule, but Ziggy can't be less. The Ice Bear Abyss did not compromise, and pressed one hand on the middle-aged man's shoulder, as if pressing a monkey, "Don't try to fool me, you have Zige, just hide in the cave over there." ”

The middle-aged man looked like a cat with its tail stepped on, and exclaimed, "Old fellow, what nonsense are you talking about!"

"Then we'll go to the cave and find it ourselves. The Ice Bear Abyss nodded at Catherine and turned to leave.

"Hey, don't go, don't go. The middle-aged man hurriedly dragged the arm of the ice bear abyss, as if hanging from a thick branch.

"Why aren't you allowed to go?" Ice Bear Abyss turned around and smiled, "I want two horses, one Qige." ”

The middle-aged man's face stiffened, and he hesitated for a moment and finally nodded helplessly. "You wait. He hung his head and walked out of the bazaar.

Catherine looked at the middle-aged man's back and asked puzzledly, "Why did he agree to your request?"

"That cave has his secrets in it. The Ice Bear Abyss leaned against the fence, "His wife and children are hiding in the cave. ”

"Can't his wife and children see anyone?"

"No, at least not for the people in the bazaar to find out. Ice Bear Abyss sighed, "You don't know his identity, I know, I know his wife and children." ”

So the Ice Bear Abyss told Catherine a story.

The Bercy Empire and the Beast Nation have been at war for many years, especially the hunting war, which lasts the longest and is the most brutal. One year during the Hunting War, an Imperial Scout team infiltrated the Land of Behemoths to scout, but unfortunately the entire team was captured alive by a barbarian tribe. This tribe is not one of the thirty-three confederated tribes of the Behemoth Nation, but is actually a barbarian slave tribe. This tribe of barbarian slaves is called the Worm Tribe in the land of Behemoths.

Slaves among barbarians usually came from human captives, but human captives could not be directly enslaved and needed to be domesticated. This is the meaning of the existence of the Bug Tribe. Barbarians who have been crippled by war will occasionally be willing to form Bug tribes, when a slave tribal chieftain provides domesticated slaves to the Alliance Tribes.

As a race of extreme martial arts, barbarians are warriors, young and old. If a barbarian is wounded in battle and is disabled and unable to go back to battle, it is considered a lifelong disgrace. Therefore, when barbarians are wounded in battle, they tend to become more ferocious and disregard for their lives. For them, dying in battle was a glorious moment, meaning that their tribe could be blessed by their ancestors. Wounded and disabled barbarians, if they believe they have lost most of their combat effectiveness, usually break away from their tribe and go on foot to the depths of the beast country plateau. There stands the sacred mountain where the ancestors rested, and on the top of the sacred mountain is the legendary Heavenly Lake. As long as they can climb the sacred mountain and enter the Heavenly Lake, they have hope of regaining their combat effectiveness. It is said that there are very few barbarians who can finally reach Tianhu and successfully return, and many more are gone. However, the barbarian warriors who have traveled through the Heavenly Lake will not only heal from their injuries when they return, but also become more powerful - possessing incredible sorcery abilities, and these people are often called Kinabalu Shamans. Of course, only a few people can become shamans in the sacred mountain, and many more disabled people die on the road before they reach the sacred mountain, and they may not be able to enter the heavenly lake if they climb the sacred mountain. That's why a small number of barbarian wounds are unwilling to go to Tianhu to fight for a slim hope, and they choose to establish a Worm tribe and become vassals of other alliance tribes.

Bug tribes can also have their own names. This insect tribe of the Capture Imperial Scout Team is one of the largest insect tribes in the land of giant beasts, and is a vassal of the bear tribe among the three major tribes, so it is named the bear fly tribe.

The bearfly tribe has been established for nearly 100 years, and the tribe has more than 10,000 people, which is one of the few insect tribes that can be inherited. The first tribal chief of the Bearfly tribe chose to establish the Worm tribe because he lost his legs and could not walk to the Heavenly Lake, and persuaded his wife and children to join the tribe together, and also married a human woman as a second wife and gave birth to an heir. Since then, generations of chieftains of the Bearfly tribe have always maintained the habit of intermarrying with humans, and the family's bloodline has gradually merged into human blood, and its appearance has become closer and closer to humans. The human captives in the tribe have been reproduced for generations, and the newborns have been raised in the tribe since childhood, making these newborn humans identify with the land of behemoths far more than the empire.

It was because of the accidental encounter with the humans of the Bear Fly Tribe that the Imperial Scout Team relaxed their vigilance and was tricked into the tribe and captured. The Bearfly Tribe was tasked with domesticating human captives, and several Imperial Scouts were no exception when they became captives. One of the Imperial Scouts was domesticated by the daughter of the chieftain at the time. Unexpectedly, the chief's daughter fell in love with this imperial soldier. The two fled together, went incognito in the border market and gave birth to a child.

"That cave is his savage wife and children?" Catherine guessed at once after listening to the account of the Ice Bear Abyss.

"Yes. The old barbarian pointed to the middle-aged man who had come with his horse, and said, "The spies of the empire have discovered him as a deserter, and I have found them by using his wife's barbarian blood." He made a foolish choice that made it impossible for either the Bearfly Tribe or the Empire to forgive him. ”

"That's not right. Catherine suddenly looked at the Ice Bear Abyss, "You are the shaman of the sacred mountain of the dignified bear tribe, how can you care about the elopement of the daughter of a vassal tribe chief." ”

"The first chiefs of the Bearfly tribe are my own brothers, and their chiefs are my grandchildren. The chieftain of that generation begged me to find a daughter for him, and I needed the Imperial. The Ice Bear Abyss shook his head, "That war has been going on for too long, and the Kingdom of Behemoths can't fight anymore. ”

Knowing that the hunting war would end with the Bear tribe rebelling against the land of the Behemoths, Catherine vaguely guessed something. However, she didn't ask any further, it was about the secrecy of the war and the truth about the betrayal of the bear tribe. Most of the Ice Bear Abyss will not be told to an outsider.