Zhou Yu's hand couldn't help but touch it like his waist, it was extremely inconvenient to use the bow and arrow in the dark night, and if there was a battle, the waist knife was the best weapon.

After a stalemate between the two sides for a while, a rather strong man came out of the wild men on the opposite side, and looking at this fierce man, the team members suddenly felt a threat rushing towards them.

The captain swallowed, and his hand gripping the hilt of the knife couldn't help but tighten a little.

"Who are you?"

The captain asked again.

The strong man stared at the captain for a moment and then spoke: "West! Summer! ”

Although these syllables are not very standard, they really hear them, these people can actually speak the language of Xia Guo, and even know the existence of Xia Guo, which is really surprising to them.

This place is at least hundreds of miles away from the Xia Kingdom, and in the exploration of this mountain range more than ten years ago, it was only a mark on the map, and it was not explored in depth, let alone had contact with these mountain people.

"Do you know Xia Guo?" Asked the long.

The strong man nodded and said, "West, tribe, strong, summer, hair, you are the same, people, live here." ”

Listening to the distorted language, everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and tried to sort out these words smoothly in their minds.

"Are you saying that there are Xia people living here?" The captain asked in surprise.

The man nodded and said, "A long time ago, I came, and I died." ”

Everyone's expressions changed, and they looked at these savages as if they were facing a great enemy.

"How did you die?" The captain asked coldly.

The man was unimpressed by the nervous performance of these people, and said in a calm tone: "Old death! ”

Hearing this answer, everyone was stunned, just now they thought that these people had any hatred for Xia Guo, since the Xia Guo people who didn't know their names died of natural old age, then these people should not have any ill will towards themselves.

"What are you coming to us for?" Asked the long.

"Weapons, clothes, exchange these." As he spoke, he turned to the clansmen behind him, and saw several wild men walking out with the basket on their backs, putting the basket down, and the stones exuded a charming metallic luster under the light of the fire.

"Captain, these aren't what we're looking for!" whispered around.

The captain did not reply, took a deep breath, and mustered up the courage to walk towards the two baskets of goods.

The wildlings didn't make any threatening moves, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

The captain took out a stone from the back basket and looked at it carefully near the fire, this ore is grayish-white, this is a new metal that Xia Guo has never found at least before, he knows that their good luck is coming this time, although he doesn't know what the specific use of this metal is, but as long as it is a metal, it is definitely a good thing, this will not be wrong.

But these savages wanted to exchange weapons and clothes with him, which made him feel embarrassed, and the weapons in their hands were kept for their own use, if they were given how to survive, but he didn't want to give up these metals, even though they could take out so much ore, obviously they knew where the metal mines were.

Standing up and looking at the man, the captain said, "Weapons and clothes cannot be given to you, these things are now more useful to us than these stones. ”

After listening to the captain's words, the strong man did not feel surprised, and said: "Let's go to the west, Xia, change weapons, worry about danger, you and we will go together." ”

The captain shook his head and said, "This can't be done, we have important things to do now, and we won't be able to return to Xia Country for a long time, I'm afraid this will disappoint you." ”

The man turned around and muttered to the rest of the clansmen for a while and said, "No, go to the Xia Kingdom, or your weapons, you can't live here without weapons." ”

The captain squinted his eyes and sneered: "What is not being able to live, do you want to fight with us?" We're not soldiers, but if you want to threaten us with numbers, you're probably wrong. ”

After saying a long paragraph, the strong man shook his head again and again: "You are wrong, in the mountains, monsters, weapons to kill monsters!" ”

"Monsters? What monsters? The captain asked.

"It's big, and it eats a lot of people."

Seeing that the conversation continued, he couldn't ask anything, so the captain had to say, "How about taking us to meet that monster?" ”

The man scratched his head and thought about it, and muttered to the person behind him for a while.

"Yes!" The man nodded.

"It's too late today, and if you agree, how about we meet at the foot of the mountain after dawn?"

The man thought for a while and said, "Yes, see you at the foot of the mountain at dawn." ”

After saying that, he took the wild man behind him, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

After the savages left, the team members gathered around and asked, "Captain, what should we do?" Can you trust these savages? ”

"It's not clear if it's true or not, but they know Xia Guo, and they can also speak Xia Guo's language, proving that part of their words should be true, tomorrow we will follow them to see, but remember, we must not be separated, if we find something wrong, we will take the lead, if we encounter danger, we must not fall in love, escape here as soon as possible." The captain said slowly.

"Captain, why do we have to run away now, why do such a dangerous thing?" Someone asked.

The captain pointed to the two baskets of ore over there, and said, "That thing, they must know where it came from, our main task is to find ore, this new ore, if brought back, may be extremely beneficial to us." ”

The others looked at the gray-white stones, nodded, and said nothing.

"Be careful tonight, these people are unknown, it's better to be careful." The captain commanded.

Naturally, everyone knew the severity and expressed their understanding.

After a night of trepidation, the next morning, after waking up from all the heat, I packed up my things and walked to the foot of the mountain.

When they came to the foot of the mountain, they saw that the wild men were already waiting there.

In the dark night, the team members didn't see how many people came to the wild man, and now they hurriedly looked at it, and there were at least thirty of these people, and all of them were men in their prime.

These people were naked, with only a piece of animal skin around their waists, and the bulging muscles under their bronzed skin made them look extremely strong.

"Here we are, let's go!" The captain said in a deep voice.

The man nodded and waved his hand, and the expedition slowly followed them, led by the wood-speared savages.

The path of the wild man was very rough, and after walking over two hills, after walking for half a day, everyone came to a very secret cave.

"In the cave, our tribe." The man explained, pointing to the cave.

The captain nodded, motioning for him to move on.

Walking into the cave, the vision suddenly became dim, the cave was very wet, and from time to time water droplets fell from above and fell into puddles on the ground, making a crisp sound.

As he went deeper and deeper into the cave, the sunlight could barely reach here, and Zhou Yu's eyes could only see a vague figure in front of him, and he could barely see his fingers in the dark cave.

Holding on to the rock wall, everyone cautiously followed behind, and after walking for about twenty minutes, the vision gradually became much clearer.

After a winding road, they finally walked out of the cave, but in addition to the cave, they found themselves in a valley.

And the entrance of this cave is on a very steep slope, Zhou Yu leaned on the raised rock, looked down, and suddenly felt dizzy.

From here, it is at least a few hundred meters high, and the hillside is full of thorns and strange rocks.

If you slip and accidentally roll down, you will definitely die.

The team members were taken aback by the sight in front of them and watched the mountain closely to prevent themselves from accidentally sliding down.

"What are you bringing us here for?" The captain asked with some dissatisfaction.

"Tribe, there."

The man pointed to a lake in the distance.

The captain put his hand on the pergola and looked over there, and sure enough, he could vaguely see that there were traces of human activity near the lake where the sunlight was reflected.

He nodded and said, "Let's go, it's too dangerous here." ”

The man didn't say anything, and continued to walk forward with the group.

Perhaps it was because these people had lived here for a long time, that the rugged terrain was like walking on flat ground, which made the expedition members look terrified.

Finally walked to the foot of the mountain, everyone felt that their legs were weak, and the road seemed to have passed through a ghost gate.

After a while, after crossing the brook and the woods for a day, the people led the people to the tribe of these wild men.

The savages who stayed in the tribe stopped what they were doing and got up one after another to look at Zhou Yu and these outsiders.

This tribe can be said to be a medium-sized tribe, with more than a hundred people, and Zhou Yu saw that these people even knew how to fire pottery, and he also saw people fishing with nets by the lake.

At this time, the man didn't know what to shout at them, and these people looked at Zhou Yu with a much hotter look in their eyes.

"Captain, what's going on?" Zhou Yu said worriedly.

"Don't be nervous, don't do superfluous things, so as not to cause misunderstandings?" The captain warned.

Everyone nodded, and walked into the tribe cautiously and vigilantly.

The man led the expedition to a clearing and said, "Sit! Food, coming soon! ”

Everyone looked at each other, but they didn't dare to do it, in this case, only standing could they take out their weapons as quickly as possible.

"Half of them were on guard, and the other half were sitting down to rest." The captain commanded.

They sat cross-legged on the ground, opposite the savages.

It didn't take long for several female savages to bring water to the team with clay pots and cups.

Due to the special skin color, Zhou Yu is particularly prominent among a group of black-haired people, feeling the gaze that falls on him from time to time, which makes Zhou Yu very irritable.

No one went to drink the water that was brought, so the captain picked up the quilt and put it down, and said to the strong man, "What do you call it?" ”

The man looked at the captain a little confused, not understanding the meaning of this sentence.

Looking at his expression, the captain immediately reacted and asked in a different way, "What's your name?" ”

"Zhou Yan! The name given by the old patriarch. The man said in a deep voice.

"Zhou Yan, there is still a surname, and it is also the surname Zhou." The captain was a little surprised.

Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou Wu Zheng Wang, these surnames can be said to be the earliest batch of surnames in the Xia Kingdom, but the surname Wang is the surname of His Majesty the Emperor, and the Xia Kingdom only has the royal surname Wang.

Unlike today, these eight surnames were status symbols more than ten years ago, and they were not just a single person.

According to this person, the Xia people who came here should be the earliest group of people in the Xia Kingdom, more than ten years ago, in his impression, the Xia Kingdom should have just been established not long ago, or it was not necessary that there was still a salt department at that time.

"May I ask what is the name of the old patriarch!" The captain asked.

"Zhou Feng!" Zhou Yan said in a deep voice.

None of the team members had heard of the name Zhou Feng, which made them even more confused.

"What's the name of your tribe?" The captain continued.

"There's a salt department!"

"What?" This time, not only the captain, but the rest of the expedition members all looked incredulous.

Zhou Yan looked at everyone in some surprise and said, "Xia Ren, is there anything wrong with the name?" ”

"You can know that there is a salt department that is the name of our Xia Kingdom before!" The captain said solemnly.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yan actually nodded and said, "The old patriarch said that his tribe has a salt department!" ”

"I want to know why you old patriarchs are here!" The captain asked.

Zhou Yan was silent for a while and said: "Expedition, the fourth team, the beast attacked, got lost, came here injured, three companions died, the old patriarch's leg was broken, I learned from him, father mine." ”

The captain frowned, he couldn't remember what happened to the Fourth Expedition more than ten years ago.

looked at the others, and saw that they were also in a state of confusion.

This is Zhou Yu raised his eyebrows, walked to his side and said, "Captain, I may have a guess about this matter. ”

"What a guess."

"That's the case, I've heard people talk about things before the Xia Kingdom, more than ten years ago, that is, after the Xia Kingdom conquered the five grasslands, at that time it was still planning to establish a country, and His Majesty the Emperor also formed an expedition team at that time, just like we are now, but the weapons at that time were still inferior bronze, and many of the expeditions that went out did not come back, I wonder if it has anything to do with it." Zhou Yu said slowly.

"And this thing?" The rest of the people also looked at Zhou Yu with a curious expression.

Zhou Yu nodded and said: "There is indeed this matter, I also heard those veterans talk about it when I returned to Fish City, those veterans had participated in the expedition before, I was more curious and chatted with them for a while, and I probably understood the situation." ”

"I see, that's the explanation, I guess it's the previous expedition, I don't know what beast attacked at the time, the team members suffered heavy casualties, the rest of the people lost their way in a panic, and finally fled here, he said that three companions died, maybe there were a total of four people who came here at that time, and in the end only that Zhou Feng survived, but maybe he couldn't return to the Xia Kingdom for physical reasons, and finally stayed here as the patriarch of these people, you can see their way of life, is it very similar to our tribe period." The captain combined this information and analyzed.