Chapter 34: The Flaming Beast
The merchant girl watched in astonishment as Su Yang ran away, and in a blink of an eye, she was already waving at her at the entrance of the cave, shouting: "Merchant girl, hurry, the wind is tight!" ”
Su Yang is really not timid, the key is that he can't help now, and when he saw that the merchant girl finally reacted and ran up, he was relieved. I built a pergola with my hands, and looked in the direction where the soldiers were running, but I saw that the forest was restless, and I didn't know what was going on.
The sound of the horn continued, and people began to run out of the mouth of the salt mine, and the people he brought with him were also in the mine.
"Angry!" Suddenly there was a roar from the mountain, it was Ya's voice.
I saw Ya running down from it with a long-handled stone axe in her hand, followed by four other young elders, and when these people appeared, all the people of the Yan clan gathered, but the children all ran into the cave to hide.
At this time, Chun and the others also came out, and quickly ran to Su Yang's location, no more, no less, their team was exactly seventeen people.
"Maybe the Xiyi people are here!" Haru said aloud.
"What Xiyi?" Su Yang hurriedly asked, he really hadn't heard of it.
"Even those wanderers who don't believe in the gods and specialize in stealing other people's things, I also listened to what Matsu said. The Xiyi will drive the firelight beasts to appear at sunset, and they call us Dongyi. Haru recalled.
The merchant girl was surprised, "I know that the skin of the fire beast is called fire cloth, and if it is dirty, it will be clean when burned with fire, and the Jiuli tribe has this kind of cloth, which is in the wizard's place." ”
After a while, Su Yang figured out that the Fire Light Beast was a mouse the size of a calf in the legend, and Matsu said this in his memory, and said that the Fire Light Beast was a treasure, priceless, and at the same time, it was also very dangerous, and it was best to flash it when he saw it.
Suddenly, the sound of the horn changed, and more and more people gathered around Ya, and the soldiers who had run out in front of them returned one after another, and in such a short time, some of the soldiers were wounded, and I don't know what happened in the forest just now.
Yang Jima ran to this side, and soon came to the front, and said, "Su Yang, Ya please ask for your help, exchange it for salt!" ”
Su Yang struggled in his heart, how could salt be more valuable than human life in his heart, it was not comparable at all, but the situation was like this, he had no excuse to refuse, so he had to reply: "No problem, what's going on over there?" ”
"The Xiyi people have come to steal things, and we have already had some people die." Yang Jima gritted her teeth, every year before winter, the Xiyi people would come, but this time there were more people.
It's really a Laoshizi Xiyi person, Su Yang suddenly wanted to run away with the team, but there are no eggs under the nest, the existence of the Yan clan is a live target, if it is gone, other small tribes may suffer.
"That's it, everyone come with me!" Su Yang made a decision immediately, anyway, he would not rush to the front, he acted when he saw the opportunity, and now he didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, what was there to be afraid of.
After arriving at Ya's side, he learned more information, this battle is estimated to be unfought, and the reason why he invited them over is purely to appear that there are more people here, so as to prepare for the next negotiations.
That's right, it's a negotiation, there was already a battle in the jungle just now, there were dead people on both sides, there were three corpses lost by the Yan clan, and it was about the same over there. This is a kind of temptation, and the defeated party will pay a heavy price, and the competition just now is considered evenly matched, but the Yan clan is still in a weak position, if you don't want to continue to die, you have to use items to buy peace.
Su Yang was very shocked in his heart at this time, in just a while, three living people died, just a bargaining chip, what kind of law is this?
"Roar!" There was a loud cry in the forest, and a large group of people ran out in an instant, about fifty or sixty, these people were dressed very strangely, they were actually dressed in a whole skin, not a large beast, probably the size of a wolf or a wild dog, and directly put the leather on the head of the head, and the skin behind it was draped on the back, if it was a bow, it was really easy to mistake it for a beast.
There is also a slight difference in the appearance of this group of Xiyi people, even uglier, as if they are half a minute different from the tribes here.
"Ya, we're here." A man with a white beard stepped out of the Hiyi.
Ya also walked out with an axe in hand, and in a blink of an eye, the two of them got together for a while, talking about something.
Before Su Yang could understand, suddenly Ya and the white-bearded man raised their weapons at the same time, and in an instant, they fought, and the crowds on both sides pulled their necks and howled, as if they were cheering for their respective leaders.
Ya is very powerful, wielding a heavy stone axe with one arm, simple and violent, and every blow beckons to the opponent's vital point. But the white-bearded man was also very terrifying, holding a wooden staff like antelope horns in both hands, and he was hard at the same time.
Suddenly, Ya's stone axe swept the man's arm, and the man's wooden staff also hit Ya's shoulder, and the two staggered away.
"Bring the salt!" Ya yelled a little unwillingly.
Soon, dozens of bamboo tubes were taken out, and needless to say, they were full of salt. The white-bearded man opened the bamboo tube and looked at it, there were white salt ore crystals in it, as well as black salt scraped from the charcoal, which was worth dozens of skins.
"And also!" The white-bearded man roared, and suddenly the crowd behind him dispersed, and a terrifying rat ran out, much larger than a calf, with red hair like silk, glowing, and red eyes, like a flame burning, this is the legendary fire beast.
"Squeak!" The firelight beast let out a high-pitched mouse-like cry and kept digging into the ground, warning the Shio clan.
Ya's chest rose and fell, and she finally waved her hand and shouted, "Take it again!" ”
Dozens of bamboo tubes were taken out again, this time all of them were black salt, but they finally met the white-bearded man's request and asked Xiyi's people to put all the bamboo tubes away.
"Ya, we'll be back next winter."
Hula, the Xiyi people quickly disappeared into the forest, as if they had never appeared, but then the three corpses recovered by the Yan clan were bloody, and they buried the corpses on the ground, which was also a kind of sacrifice to return the dead to Mother Earth. There are also tribes that put the deceased in the nests of trees, or in the crevices of mountain cliffs, which varies.
The salt clan suffered a heavy loss this time, and the salt they sent out was worth at least sixty hides, which was their inventory for a year, but they had no choice but to compromise.
This made Su Yang have a sense of crisis, if he opened a bazaar, he would inevitably attract Xiyi people. The dozens of Xiyi people I saw just now are not all of them, there are still hidden in the forest, and the team of Xiyi people is not only these people who came today.
"Ya, is that fire beast very powerful?" Su Yang couldn't help but ask, he felt that if the Yan clan chose to go to war just now, he should have won, and that big rat was the key to Ya's compromise.
Ya's expression was solemn, and she replied, "The Fire Light Beast can set the forest on fire and burn all the outside of the tribe. ”
Damn, is it so exaggerated! Su Yang wondered if he had misunderstood the meaning, but the people of the Yan clan were all convinced, and they all believed that only wizards or totem warriors could hunt the Fire Light Beast.
"Ya, what is a totem warrior?"
Ya shook her head, didn't answer the question, and instead asked him about the transaction, wanting to increase the volume. But Su Yang couldn't agree to this, because the rock tribe can't produce so much pottery now, and winter is coming, and when the snow is boundless, it will be impossible to dry and burn pottery, and it will enter the winter break.
To put it mildly, Su Yang agreed to increase the transaction of twenty pottery, which is already the limit, you must know that there are still creditors outside him, and he will have to repay nearly fifty pottery next time he rushes to the ruins.
When he returned to the cave, thinking of today's events, he couldn't help but say something arrogant, "When I reach adulthood, I will hunt the Fire Light Beast with my own hands!" ”