In the tropical jungle, about 200 kilometers from the port city of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, "Zuzu" is armed with a spear and leading a team of nine to hunt wild boars for sacrifice.

Côte d'Ivoire is a multi-ethnic, multicultural country, and because it was once a French colony, the official language is French, but the unwritten Diula language is more commonly used in daily life.

Like his fellow villagers in the village, Zuudayaf could not speak a word of French, and he was known as "Zuzu" by his fellow villagers, the strongest warrior in the deserted mountain village of "Zanti", and his bare black muscles on the upper half of his body were his pride, although the jeans worn on the lower half of his body indicated that they were not incompatible with civilization, but according to tradition, the hunting of sacrificial wild boars had to use primitive tools.

The time difference between Côte d'Ivoire and China is close to eight hours, and it is late at night, which is still "last night" compared to China.

"Zuzu, the wild boar has run into the ancient ruins, should we wait for tomorrow to ......?"

A slightly stocky companion behind Zuzu whispered in Diura, the whites of his eyes and teeth distinct in the darkness.

The nine-member team, including Zuzu, was no older than 20 years old, and all of them were strong men who could catch up with hares on foot and shoot birds with bows, but they were all afraid of this ancient ruin.

Twenty per cent of the population of Côte d'Ivoire professe a primitive religion, witchcraft is part of their lives, and even interfered with the Ivorian national football team.

In 1992, after the Ivory Coast national team won the Africa Cup of Nations, a group of wizards ran out to ask for credit, saying that the national team won the championship was the result of their "praying for the national team", and asked the country to pay bonuses, but after not being satisfied, the wizards threatened that they would curse the national team in turn, and as a result, the Ivorian football team lost consecutive games for the next 10 years, and finally the country had to pay the wizards' bonuses. Coincidentally, the Ivory Coast team not only made it to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but has been going strong ever since.

Zuzu grew up in Zanti Village, a village that believed in primitive religion, because there were gold mines and hematite near the village, so they had come into contact with modern civilization, but they were stubborn in their beliefs and did not move an inch.

"The sacred hunt cannot be interrupted," said Zuzu to his companions behind him, "the boar has been hit by an arrow from me, and it is impossible to escape too far, and it can be caught by following the trail of blood." ”

"But......" said another companion with a scar on his face, "even the High Priest warned that the ancient ruins were very dangerous here, and that they could not hunt here without his company?" Everyone said that the resurrected corpse ran out of here......"

The ancestor looked at the ruins of the ancient ruins with disdain, and under the full moon and clear light, several broken walls were completely unrecognizable, whether they were originally temples or whatever, they had been destroyed by the catastrophe of centuries ago.

The broken wall is engraved with words that the ancestors can't recognize, and the rectangular ground enclosed by the broken wall is quite flat, and there is something similar to a magic circle engraved in the center of the ground.

"Resurrect the corpse?" Zuzu, who was tall and armed, clenched the spear in his hand, "If the soul corpses dare to appear in front of me, I will kill them and their masters!" ”

The village of Zanti had been plagued by revenant corpses for several years, and Zuzu's best friend had been dragged away by the reincarnated corpses to make new revenated corpses, so Zuzu hated the voodoo sorcerer who made the reincarnations.

The companions are well aware of Zuzu's stubbornness and why he is angry, but the fear of the resurrected corpse makes them want to leave the ancient ruins as soon as possible.

"Zuzu, don't stand on top of that circle," his companion kindly reminded, "Some people say that if you stand on top of the circle during the full moon, you will be turned into a resurrected corpse!" ”

Zuzu snorted and slammed the bottom of his spear on the ground, the tattoo on his back accentuated in the moonlight.

It was a privilege reserved for the strongest warriors in the village, and along the edge of the shoulder blades on his back, Zuzu's skin was uneven, like that of a crocodile or a lizard.

Because Africans have darker skin tones and are not easy to color, most of the permanent tattoos handed down from ancient times are "cut skin tattoos", that is, deliberately creating regular scars on the surface of the skin to form patterns.

The ancestors believed in animism, considered themselves to be the offspring of crocodiles, lizards, and snakes, so they did not harm these three animals in their daily hunts, and tattooed reptilian-like patterns on warriors as a sign of reverence.

Suddenly, someone in Zuzu's team let out an exclamation, because the unknown magic circle that Zuzu was stepping on emitted a dazzling blue light under the bleak moonlight!

Zuzu leaped swiftly out of the circle and raised his spear to look inside the circle.

In his sight, a black-haired young man of medium stature appeared in the magic circle, and the combination of white shirt and black pants was extremely ordinary, but in the next second, Zuzu's eyes suddenly widened!

"Resurrect the corpse! It's a resurrected corpse! Before Zuzu could give the order, someone in the team had already thrown their spears.

Zuzu did not throw his spear, but he did not stop his companions.

The man who appeared in the magic array with a dazzling blue light, at first his skin was yellow - Zuzu had seen Chinese negotiating the development of the mine - but soon his skin was covered with black and gold scales, and the speed of that coverage aroused great fear among the tribesmen in the moonlit night!

In the past few years, everyone has been tortured by the soul corpse to the point of nervous breakdown, this person who suddenly appeared from the magic circle, even if he didn't have a mutation, maybe someone would throw a spear, right?

However, four or five spears made of sharp stones bound with branches did not cause any wounds when they pierced the opponent's body, but caused a few shouts.

"Your sister! I want to poke Lao Tzu to death! ”

Unlike the high priest in the village, Zuzu could not understand Chinese, and he was not sure if the other party was using any vicious spells, and the fact that the other party was invulnerable deepened Zuzu's suspicions.

"Kill him! Even if he wasn't a resurrected corpse, it must be some other evil spirit summoned by a voodoo manilock! ”

While shouting this order hoarsely, Zuzu used all his life strength to aim his spear at the left eye of the "evil spirit" and threw it.

"You're the resurrected corpse! Your whole family is a resurrected corpse! ”

To Zuzu's astonishment, the other party grabbed his spear with one hand and scolded him in fluent Diura.

"Stop! Stop me before anyone gets hurt! The other party shouted to the Hunter Nine in a very young-sounding voice, "I was just teleported here in a daze, and if you continue to fight, I'm welcome!" ”

However, most of Zuzu's companions had been captured by fear, and they continued to throw spears and fire bows and arrows, almost instinctively.

"It's an invulnerable corpse! Aim for his eyes! Don't, don't let him come! ”

Arrows aimed at the eyes failed to hurt the opponent (as long as you close the eyelids), they did succeed in provoking the opponent.

I saw that the body of the "Soul Resurrection Corpse" covered with black and gold scale armor froze, as if he had said something to his invisible companion, and then raised his right hand, and a ring immediately appeared on the little finger of his right hand, and released a turquoise light.

"Ahh "Ahh

With the green glow of the ring, several poisonous snakes sprang out of the nearby grass, and bit down on the ankles of the hunting team, and in less than a minute, half of the team members completely lost their combat effectiveness.

"It's a snake! My feet! "Why did it bite us! We carry sachets to ward off poisonous snakes! ”

At this time, the rest of the team members calmed down, and as the leader, Zuzu was shocked to find that not only could the other party manipulate poisonous snakes to attack them, but also his skin that was different from human beings, if you looked closely in the moonlight, was not a black snake scale with a golden edge?

"You can call on the snake spirit to possess you, and you can manipulate the snakes...... Who are you? Are you a messenger sent by our ancestors to save our village? ”

Zuzu fell to his knees and begged him to forgive him for his reckless attack, hoping that his companion with snake venom would also be healed.

Seeing that the stormy attack had stopped, the other party shrugged his shoulders, walked slowly in front of Zuzu, and threw all the way to the ground, throwing the spear and bow and arrow he had caught on the ground.

"It's not bad to use the equivalent exchange to close the sense of taste and pain, in exchange for doubling the agility, the main thing is that even if you are hit, it is not a big deal, it is like being hit by a chalk head, where are we here? Why is it dark? ”

If it was Qianxue who accompanied Nanke, he would immediately explain to him that there was a time difference of about 8 hours between Africa and China, but the jadeite in the ring did not know much about this.

"Ah, I haven't had time to eat the instant noodles made for me by the golem stand-in, and I just teleported over and got into a fight, so hungry! You said there are villages nearby, right? Anyway, let me go over for breakfast first......" Nanke looked up at the moon in the sky and said, "It's time to have dinner." ”

When Zuzu saw that Nanke was willing to follow him back to the village, his worries were greatly reduced, but when he heard his poisoned companion lying on the edge of the grass moaning in pain, he couldn't help but ask Nanke again:

"Lord Snake Spirit, we will definitely offer you food, but before that, can you raise your noble hand and remove the snake venom from my companion's body?"

Seeing that the eyes of the ancestor who was half-kneeling on the ground were full of pleading, Nanke's heart softened, and he asked the jade in the ring with telepathy: "You can control the bite of poisonous snakes nearby, so can you remove the snake venom from them?" ”

"You can do it in a similar way to fighting poison with poison," Jade replied after hesitating for a second, "but they deserve retribution for attacking the Emperor, and I don't want to detoxify them and let them die." ”

Nanke couldn't help but have a black line on his face, and said in his heart: Jade is relatively weak among her own people, and she is not soft at all in the face of the enemy, and it is estimated that she will not frown if I give the order to kill everyone present.

Seeing that Nanke did not answer for a long time, and seemed to be communicating with some invisible person again, Zuzu couldn't help but feel terrified in his heart: Could it be that he is really a messenger sent by our ancestors, because we don't respect him enough, so we are discussing with our ancestors what to do with us?

"Serpent Spirit!" In order to save his companions, Zuzu suppressed his pride as a warrior and hugged one of Nanke's feet, "Please let me carry the punishment of angering the ancestors!" Lying on the edge of the grass, Givada's face is already purple, please save him! His child is just two years old! ”

As soon as he heard that one of the poisoned people was the father of the child, Jade also relented, and Nankecha, who had figured out Jade's thoughts, said at this time:

"Non-lethal snake venom can wait until later, how about making sure that no one dies? After all, I want to go to their village to eat, and if someone dies, the food will taste bad, right? They didn't attack me on purpose, it seems that they are treating me as some kind of 'soul corpse', we capable people shouldn't be like ordinary people, right? Listen to me first. ”

Nanke's tone of discussion made Jade's face crimson, and she felt that the word "good" alone was worthy of the Emperor's decree.