Chapter 125: Secrets
Li Xin'an looked at the crying woman a little helpless, so he could only comfort: "Since you already know the place, you must be able to find Xiaoya, don't cry anymore." ”
The middle-aged woman stopped crying after a while, and said to Li Xin'an: "I'm sorry, I didn't hold back, come into the house quickly, it's too cold outside, your body may not be able to stand it."
I've brought some food, come in and eat some food, you'll be hungry. ”
As the woman spoke, she walked into the house, and Li Xin'an followed suit.
Li Xin'an just walked out of the igloo after just a cursory look, and only then did he have time to take a closer look.
The interior of the house is very little but very clean, only a bed, a stove, a table.
There were some traces of charcoal burning inside the stove, which made the temperature inside the house much higher than outside, four or five degrees.
The woman placed the basket in her hand on the table, then lifted the cloth covering the basket and removed some food from the basket.
The utensils used to serve the meals were all made of stones or bones, with a bowl of milky milk, a few grilled fish, and some cooked dark blue kelp.
After arranging the meals one by one, the middle-aged woman said to Li Xin'an: "You eat first, there are other foods in the basket, in order to prevent it from getting cold, you haven't taken it out, please take care of yourself, I will go and report the news of your awakening to the elders." ”
Li Xin'an responded: "Okay, you go get busy first." ”
The middle-aged woman stood up, bowed to Li Xin'an, and then turned to leave the igloo.
Li Xin'an stayed in the house, smelling the fragrance of the food and his stomach growled, and then he suddenly remembered the three war pets outside the door, and recalled them all to the preparation area.
"Come back. ”
All three of them have some injuries and need to be returned to the preparation area for treatment.
Then Li Xin'an began to eat, and the endgame here was a little different from that of Frost City, no longer using chopsticks, but a stubborn knife and a sharp fork.
Li Xin'an directly picked up a grilled fish and gnawed it, this fish is slightly bigger than a palm, the grilled outside is charred and tender on the inside, slightly burnt, and the taste is excellent.
The grilled fish is not sprinkled with any seasoning, and it is a little light, but after chewing for a while, it can be tasted from the fish with a salty and umami taste, as well as a unique fragrance, which has a unique flavor to eat, which makes Li Xin'an want to stop.
Li Xin'an ate all the fish on the plate before stopping, and took a sip of the milky white liquid placed next to him, and when he entered his mouth, there was a thick milk fragrance, with some smell, which was different from the milk taste he had drunk before.
Li Xin'an couldn't tell what kind of animal's milk it was, but it tasted good.
Then Li Xin'an ate the kelp again, these kelp were cooked, and it was smooth in the mouth, which made Li Xin'an really admire.
"It seems that this Donggong tribe is located by the sea, and its main diet is fish and marine plants in the sea, haha, I finally ate seafood when I came to this world. But I haven't eaten enough, let's see what else I have to eat. ”
Li Xin'an opened the basket, the basket was divided into several layers, separated by a bone plate, and now there were two reddish lobsters in the top layer, which seemed to be made by steaming method.
"Wow, such a big lobster!"
Li Xin'an picked up the lobster, opened the shrimp shell, and took a big bite, a large piece of fresh shrimp meat made Li Xin'an eat very comfortably.
After eating the two lobsters, Li Xin'an burped, patted his bulging belly, and finally was full, but he still couldn't help but want to see what was in the lower layer of the basket.
Li Xin'an opened it and saw that there were several fist-sized milky white chubby insects on the plate below, and these insects were even constantly wriggling, looking a little like silkworms on the earth, but they were much larger than silkworms.
"Damn, what is this?"
Li Xin'an picked up an insect with his hand, put it in the palm of his hand and looked at it sideways, it was white, his body was cold, and there was a fragrance of fragrance, which made Li Xin'an have a great appetite.
Although the Chinese nation on the earth is a foodie nation, Li Xin'an has never eaten such a thing as insects, and he has never been used to it, but he didn't expect to come to this world for the first time to have the desire to eat insects.
"Wow, I kind of want to eat it, but it feels weird, and it's still alive. ”
When Li Xin'an was struggling, the door of the igloo was suddenly opened, and a group of people walked in.
At the foreground was a tall, majestic middle-aged man with a supple fur coat, his hair tied in strands, bone rings hanging from the ends, and a short black stick pinned to his waist.
With a serious complexion, domineering and leaking, at first glance he is a person in a high position.
Behind him was the middle-aged woman who had left earlier, her head bowed at this time, her eyes were red, and she seemed to have cried again.
They were followed by four gray-haired old men, three men and one woman, with wrinkled faces but all in good spirits.
Finally, there was a sturdy young man and two middle-aged people, one of whom looked a little familiar, as if he had seen it in the previous battle.
There was a flame symbol on everyone's foreheads, and Li Xin'an suspected that this symbol had something to do with the evil god they believed in, and that evil god should be the original owner of the Fire God Ding, the defeated general of the Human Emperor, and one of the enemies of the human race.
The igloo, which used to be quite spacious, immediately became a little crowded.
The dignified man came to Li Xin'an, bowed with his right hand close to his chest and said, "I am the leader of the Donggong tribe, thank you for helping the children of our tribe." ”
The others also used the same movement and bent down to Li Xin'an.
Li Xin'an hurriedly put the white insect in his hand back into the basket, stood up and moved some distance sideways, avoiding everyone's big salutes, and said:
"Everyone, please get up, I don't dare to bear such a big gift, I'm sorry, I still couldn't protect her in the end, but I want to thank you for saving me. ”
The majestic man raised his head and said, "No, you shed blood to save my child, and I want to thank you as a father, please accept my thanks." ”
The majestic man bowed again as he spoke.
Li Xin'an had no choice but to stand in place, accept the bow of the majestic man, and then help him up.
The dignified man said to Li Xin'an: "Please sit here, we still have many doubts to ask you." ”
"Good. ”
Li Xin'an sat down on the west side of the igloo under the guidance of the majestic man, while the people of the Donggong tribe sat on the ground opposite him.
The majestic man asked, "May I ask where you are from, we haven't met people from other tribes on the ice field for a long time. ”
Li Xin'an thought about it for a while, decided to tell the truth, and responded:
"I came from Frost City, and I wanted to travel through this ice field to other continents, but I met the Ice Demon Wizard on the way, and found that there was a living human child in his team transporting animal carcasses, so I rescued him. ”
The people of the Donggong tribe were in an uproar and began to discuss, as if they were surprised by Li Xin'an's origin.
The majestic man said, "Is Frost City the city in the north?" I always thought you would stay in that city and not come out.
Our ancestors used to be there, and they said that there was no faith there, that it was shared by several large families, and that the people there lived there all their lives and never left.
We have been there to develop followers of the god of fire, but we have not succeeded, and we were expelled from Frost City, and we have been with the well water there ever since. ”
The others nodded, and they seemed to know about it.
Li Xin'an said half-truthfully: "Oh? There is such a thing? I always thought that there were only humans near Frost City in the north, but I didn't expect that there were other humans in this ice field. How did you survive in such a hostile environment?"
The majestic man responded, "Thanks to the gift of the god of fire, we have been able to survive this snowy field. ”
Li Xin'an pretended to be interested and asked, "Fire God?"
The majestic man said, "The god of fire is the most powerful and majestic deity, he is like our father, giving us trials, vinegar and strength, making us stronger. ”
Li Xin'an felt that these people were brainwashed, but he didn't refute him, but continued to ask: "I heard the legend circulating in Frost City that said that the Fire God was once an enemy of the Terran and had a battle with the Terran?"
Everyone frowned for a while, as if they were very dissatisfied with Li Xin'an's words.
The majestic man did not refute, but responded: "The god of fire was indeed the enemy of mankind in the past, and that was during the Great War of the Ancients, five thousand years ago.
At that time, the human emperor was still there, and the human race was still very prosperous, and the fire god and the other five gods united to lead the hundred tribes to attack the human race for the survival of their own race, and finally the human emperor was defeated, as if they were targeted by this world.
In this battle, the god of fire and the other five gods were seriously injured and fell into a deep sleep, and the emperor disappeared from then on.
In this battle, although the human race defeated other races and reached the peak of its strength in this world, since then various disasters have begun to appear, both natural and man-made.
Not only did there be natural disasters such as drought and plague, but they were also targeted and hostile by other races, and during that time, the Terrans were embattled and full of enemies, and the strength of the Terrans began to decline, but they were still the most prosperous race.
Two thousand years later, the gate of the demon world appeared, the demons invaded the world, the world was in turmoil again, and the human race bore the brunt, and the leader of the demon clan was a strong man comparable to a god, calling himself the demon venerable.
The Terrans dispatched all the top powerhouses to fight against the Demon Venerable, and finally injured the Demon Zun and returned to the original world, while the Terran powerhouses were also killed and injured.
The other races that had been suppressed united again and invaded the human race together with the demons, and the long-suffering human race fell apart under the siege of the hundred races, and countless human beings were slaughtered and blood flowed like rivers.
The Terrans were nearly wiped out, leaving only the remaining survivors scattered around the world, hiding from other races.
At that time, the ancestors of our tribe were surrounded by a group of demons in a valley, and the situation was very critical, and they prayed to the human emperor day and night, hoping to get help, but they never received a response.
Later, in desperation, the patriarch prayed to the other gods, and finally received a response from the god of fire.
The god of fire gave the ancestors the power to escape the dead, and since then our tribe has come to believe in the god of fire.
Now there is also a fire given by the god of fire in the tribe, which has always guarded the tribe.
Although the god of fire was once an enemy of the human race, it was he who saved my ancestors two thousand years later.
Later, the surviving humans united to subdue some of the lost territory in Zhongzhou, and we returned to Zhongzhou to survive.
But I didn't expect to be hostile to others because of our faith, we just believed in the god of fire, and didn't do anything harmful to humans, but they drove us to this bitter cold land, and we have survived here ever since. ”
I don't know why, this majestic man explained to Li Xin'an in such detail the reason why they didn't fall into believing in the god of fire.
But Li Xin'an was shocked when he heard it, he didn't expect that after the great battle between the human emperor and the six gods, there would be another big war in the world.
And that so-called Demon Gate sounded like a spatial rift, causing races from other planes to invade this world.
And the fire god, who has always been malicious to the human race, chose to help the humans who prayed to him, which also made Li Xin'an a little puzzled.
"It seems that the history of this world is very complicated, and there may be some reasons why the Terrans faced many disasters after that great war. ”
After being silent for a while, Li Xin'an diverted the topic and said, "Let's talk about how to rescue Donggong Ya, do you know where she is?
I also want to do my part, after all, she was taken away from me, and it is my responsibility to save her. ”
In fact, this is just one reason, the main reason is that Li Xin'an wants to explore the so-called demon cave, and he thinks that the demon cave has something to do with the demon clan.
Moreover, the pure demonic qi helps to improve the strength of the Ghost Face Demon Spider, and Li Xin'an wants to see if he can get something that is conducive to the strength of the Ghost Face Demon Spider.
The majestic man replied, "Yes, I've been there, it's the lair of the Ice Demon Wizard, and according to our tribe, it's three days away.
And I know a little bit about their habits, they won't hurt Xiaoya for a week.
Now we are gathering the warriors who were searching outside, and we will be able to assemble them tomorrow, and then we will set off to destroy the demon cave and rescue Xiaoya.
I'd love to see you come with us, I know you have a powerful summoning ability, and I need your help. ”
Li Xin'an replied, "Okay." ”
Just then, the door suddenly opened.
A tall woman in a red dress walked in, her dress was invisible, the color was red, like a flame condensed, and the red dress hugged her body, outlining her alluring curves.
With a red veil on his face, only his fresh red lips were exposed, and he stood barefoot in the white snow at this time, his breath was deep, mysterious and powerful.
When the people of the Donggong tribe in the house saw this woman, they all hurriedly stood up, bowed, and said:
"Welcome to the Holy Maiden!"
Li Xinan only felt that things were getting more and more interesting.