Chapter 16: The Viper Tribe

"Praise my lord, praise my lord!"

As the triumphant procession escorted the captives back to the tribe, cheers began one after another.

Looking at the dejected captives, even the old witch doctor was a little excited, and it was a little difficult to help himself.

After living for so long, it was the first time he had seen this meeting. So much so that when I looked at the captives that I could hardly count, I was first excited, and then worried.

"With so many captives, how are we going to settle them, and how much do these people have to eat every day?"

The old witch doctor frowned and asked, he had no experience in this matter at all.

But this question has already been decided in his heart, and now when he saw the old witch doctor asking, he coughed lightly and said, "Don't worry about the food for the time being." We got a lot of jerky from their camp, enough to eat for a long time.

As for the placement, they are just captives, like cattle and sheep caught by us in the jungle, and they can be taken care of. In a few days, these captives can be exchanged for slaves!"

"Yes, that's it. ”

"Witch doctor, should we make a sacrifice next, these captives can also be our sacrifice to our lord!" said Tam, not thinking that human sacrifice was cruel.

After all, that's the way the environment is. Human life is really despicable. Sometimes, in a year of calamity, the tribesmen will even sacrifice their own people.

But only this time, the old witch doctor who was willing to hold the sacrificial ceremony shook his head without thinking about it, "My lord has long said that all tribes in this land should become believers of my lord, and my lord will not accept such sacrifices.

Let's slaughter a few antelopes as our sacrifice to our lord. ”

Liang Tian was reluctant to let the tribe hold human sacrifices, both to promote the development of the tribe and make the tribe more civilized. It is also because the sacrifice of a person will have a great negative impact on him, making him have a strong bloodthirsty impulse.

He didn't want to become a madman who wanted to kill, and he naturally hated such things as human worship.

So the tribe just killed three antelopes in captivity and sacrificed them to Liang Tian. Liang Tian, on the other hand, fed the energy generated by the three antelopes to the white wolf.

Now that he has accumulated some family funds, he no longer cares about such a little energy.

For now, he was more concerned about how much the Giant Tree tribe that believed in him would gain from this war. For, in order to turn the situation in the direction he wished to see, he quietly exerted some influence on his followers by the power of faith, which was almost omnipotent.

......

In the middle of the night, Tam suddenly had a dream.

In his sleep, he was already old, no longer young.

But the tribe has grown very strongly. They numbered ten times as many as they did now, and they owned many slaves.

These slaves hunted for them and raised for them, so every warrior in the tribe was tall and burly, and every child was smart and lovely.

Because of this, even if he is too old to run, he can still have endless food and clothes that he can't wear every day.

So he had a great time every day. Life is really free of worries at all, and life is really as sweet as honey.

Ramming his mouth, reminiscing about the unforgettable sweetness. Then he slowly opened his eyes and found that the sun had not yet risen, and it was still dark all around, but he couldn't help but clench his fists.

"Is this my Lord's guidance to me?"

Rammered. Recalling the wonderful life in his dream, he raised his eyes and looked out, but in his heart, he had already planted a seed for "a better life outward"!

I'm going to make it happen.

Lying on the bed, he made up his mind. In the dark, Liang Tian watched silently, the corners of his mouth were lightly raised, and he couldn't help but smile.

Two days later, the Viper Tribe was a hundred miles away from the gathering place of the Giant Tree Tribe.

Today's Viper Tribe is in full swing, with 3,000 tribesmen, 1,000 warriors who can take up arms to fight, and 800 slave soldiers.

The entire tribe, plus the slaves, had a population of nearly eight thousand.

Such a huge population base has made the Viper Tribe the most powerful tribe within a radius of 100 miles.

Therefore, the Viper tribe does not have only one gathering place, but three gathering places. They are Moka, Rock Cliff, and Clear Creek.

Moka was their largest gathering place, with fifteen hundred members of the Viper tribe and two thousand five hundred slaves.

Therefore, compared to the gathering place of the Giant Tree Tribe, Moka, which lives with 4,000 people, is much grander. Not only were the buildings taller and more beautiful than those of the Giant Tree Tribe, but they even drove their slaves to build a rudimentary wall of stone and wood outside the clan's settlement.

The wall is two meters high, which is exactly more than one person.

And because of this wall, a large number of clansmen and slaves were distinguished. The members of the Viper tribe lived inside the walls, while the slaves lived outside the walls.

Now, the news of the defeat has been brought back by deserters, and it has really caused an earthquake in Moka.

The tribesmen couldn't believe that such a weak and inconspicuous tribe could defeat their warriors. Because of this, the Great Lord of Moka received the deserters as soon as possible.

He carefully inquired about the battle, trying to find out the reason for the defeat. But the frightened deserters had different opinions on this.

There are those who say that there are invincible giants in that strange tribe, and there are also those who say that the terrible tribe can drive demonic beasts, and there are even those who say that the evil tribe has the ability to bewitch people's hearts, so the Black Snake tribe that has surrendered will betray.

The Great Lord didn't know who to trust, so he had to let the surviving warriors go back to rest.

"Great Lord, since this is the case, why don't you ask the priest about it. The priest knows how to divinate and will definitely be able to give you the answer. The subordinate on the side respectfully gave advice.

The Viper Tribe also has its own beliefs and legends.

In their legends, their ancestors were born from the union of Moka, the king of vipers, with humans. So they worshipped poisonous snakes, and liked to use venomous weapons, and tattooed snakes on their faces and bodies.

The tribe's sacrifice is also the only existence that can communicate with Moka, the king of poisonous snakes. So they knew how to divinate and domesticate poisonous snakes.

Because of this, the great lord who could not find the answer had to walk with his entourage to the place where the sacrifice lived.

It was the northwest corner of the tribe, a courtyard made of stone, and in the courtyard there was a statue carved out of wood, the king of vipers, Moka.

His upper body is a human and his lower body is a snake. Holding a dagger and a bone needle in his hand, there is an indescribable bewitching beauty.

Walking into the courtyard and meeting the statue, the high lord bowed respectfully, and the retinue knelt on the ground.

Then, the viper tribe, the young and powerful lord, walked alone to the room where the sacrifice lived.

But this time, before the lord could knock on the door, the door of the sacrificial chamber opened from the inside. An old man dressed in animal skin, with a mask on his face and a snake-headed cane in his hand, appeared in front of him.

He seemed to know that the Great Lord was coming, and he knew why the Great Lord was coming.

So he took the initiative to invite the big lord into the room, and the two kept talking in secret for half an hour before the big lord left with his entourage. And after leaving, the Great Lord ordered his brother Lord Fangs to be a messenger to negotiate with the strange tribe that had defeated them!