The sun rises again, and the earth is bright again.

Todd got up from the ground, looked at Richer and Aisha, who were still asleep, crouched down, crept into the fire pit with some branches, and blown the fire up a little more before turning and walking out of the camp.

Back on the beach, the masts and sails washed up by the sea are dismantled and transported back to camp. Todd walked back into the woods and collected half a bag of dew out of a water bag made of canvas. Finally, he set up a "stone cauldron" and began to boil herbs, distill dew, and make props.

After waking Rachel up, Todd fed her the boiled potion and set it up in a rudimentary basket made of mast ropes and planks.

Watching Todd put the frail Richer in the basket and put the woman's hands on his shoulders, Aisha's face showed an indescribable emotion.

"I guess I'm going to say goodbye to you here?" Aisha bit her lip tightly, her face holding on to the last shred of dignity, her throat feeling dry.

Todd, who was carrying Richel on his back, glanced at Aisha with some strange glances, and then dragged in a "drag bed" made of canvas and wooden poles from outside the camp.

Tying the rope at the end of the bed around his waist, Todd patted the surface of the canvas and motioned for Aisha to slowly move her body and sit down.

Aisha opened her mouth wide in disbelief, her eyes were red, and something in her heart burst open instantly.

"When you sit up, raise the splint of the fracture, there will be some bumps on the way, don't let the wound reopen......"

Before Todd could finish speaking, Aisha asked in a whisper, "Why?"

Todd smiled and said nothing.

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Walking through the territory of the northern barbarians, Todd carried a woman on his back and dragged another woman without feeling tired or fatigued at all, and one of the side effects of the inheritor's mutation was to greatly increase the strength of the mutated part.

For example, if the hand is mutated, "Weakness", "Strength Enhancement", and "Soil Control" will increase the ability, and if the leg is mutated, "Speed" will increase the ability.

Now, Todd carries Rachel on his back and drags Aisha with his mutated right arm, and for him, this level of exercise, coupled with the ability of "pain suppression", will not be too much of a burden even if he travels for two hours.

Unlike the feeling of a flat river on the Yuexi Plain, most of the northern areas are mountains and woodlands, and although the scenery is good, the road is difficult.

The three of them marched all morning before they climbed the first hill.

Against the sun, Todd turned the water bag upside down and aimed it at his mouth, shaking it vigorously so that not a drop of water fell.

Wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead, Todd put down the water bag and sighed as he looked at the dense woods around him.

Aisha, who was sitting on the drag bed, raised her arm and suddenly said to him, "Go in that direction, I can hear the sound of water." ”

Finding the other party's suspicious eyes, Aisha held her head high and said, "As a captain, it is my most basic instinct to distinguish the sound of currents and storms on the sea. ”

Todd shrugged, holding on to the mood of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and continued to walk forward for half an hour in the direction indicated by Aisha, when a small natural waterfall appeared in front of him.

"Haha, there's water!" Todd laughed and took off the water bag and rushed to the waterhole under the waterfall, just as he was about to get water, an arrow grazed his ear.

Almost subconsciously, Todd dropped the hydration bladder, used the "Metal Skin" ability, and raised the mutated right arm to protect his face.

A deep voice rang out, not speaking a lingua franca, but a language Todd had never heard before.

Immediately after, a second arrow struck, this time into the ground at Todd's feet.

The voice was louder again, and anyone could hear the hostility and expulsion inside.

Just as Todd was in a dilemma, Rachel walked to the edge of the pool with his rickety body and spoke the same language in a loud voice.

Todd stood up and stood in front of Richel, only to find the confident woman and refuse his protection.

The owner of the deep voice asked, and Richer replied, and this strange "conversation" lasted more than five minutes. The former's voice slowly softened, and the original angry tone gradually turned into questioning.

Eventually, Rachel seemed to come to an agreement with the people of the woods.

A clumsy hemp rope was thrown out of the woods.

Rachel lowered her voice: "Your Majesty, I may have to wronged you for a while." ”

Todd blinked in confusion.

"In order to gain the other party's trust, I will have to tie you up with this hemp rope. ”

Todd was stunned for a moment, then smiled and stretched out his hand.

Ten minutes later, Todd, tied up and sturdy, stood by the waterhole, baptized by the gaze of a group of people who looked like they had come from the Savage Age.

The leader was a barbarian elder with a white beard and muscles, with only a robe of unknown bear or wolf skin, and an oak hunting bow.

He walked back and forth around Todd a few times before finally landing on the mutated right arm.

A few barbarian words asked, and Rachel hurriedly replied.

The barbarian elder shook his head vigorously.

Rachel looked a little anxious, and began to repeat the name "boyle" in his words.

When the elder heard this name, the resolute expression on his face wavered, and his original attitude of refusal was also softened.

The two discussed for a while, and the barbarian elder nodded reluctantly.

"Follow them, and they promise to provide the necessary food, water and shelter. Rachel winked at Todd, "The most important thing is that they promised to help find my connector." ”

Sensing a spear against his back, Todd glanced at the guarded barbarians beside him, and whispered to Rachel, "Are you sure?"

Rachel found a long branch to use as a crutch, struggled to keep up with the barbarians, and replied, "Keep smiling, and ...... Prayer. ”

The group marched six kilometers south, into a dense broad-leaved forest plateau dotted with dozens of wooden houses.

Todd looked around the barbarian camping heights, which were blocked on three sides by high mountains, and only had a pass to the north that could be accessed, and from a strategic location, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

I also took a closer look at the defense forces of the camp, and there were no more than a hundred adult men, and women, children, and the elderly made up most of the total population, but everyone carried weapons with them, and it seemed that they could join the battle at any time. In terms of facilities, small arrow towers, wooden horses, and hidden pits, although simple, are set up in positions and angles, which are enough to give the enemy a headache.

The surrounding barbarian inhabitants gradually gathered around, and the focus of discussion was on Todd's right arm, and occasionally a low roar of fear could be heard.

In the face of everyone's "enthusiastic" onlookers, the helpless Todd simply looked at the ground, out of sight and out of mind.

To his surprise, the soil under his feet was different from the black or brown soil in the high latitudes, and it was actually red soil, which should be related to the basin topography and highland topography of the camp.

Todd and his party were eventually led into what looked like a large house in the center of the village.

The barbarian elder, with a hunting bow on his back, pointed at Richer and said something to an old woman wearing a bone necklace and another tall and strong young man.

Then the three barbarians began a long argument, and finally reached an agreement with difficulty.

Rachel looked visibly relieved, and she whispered to Todd, "They agreed to give us three days. ”