The air of the entire Nasu settlement began to become heavier and heavier with the appearance of a certain news, and even the players who gathered together who were rejected to the door after the battle seemed to feel the arrival of this sad aura with the dispersion of this air, and the Nasoux people who were wandering around the Nasu settlement and were cleaning up the charred black tent like a wandering spirit at this time also began to approach in the direction that Duan Qing and the others had noticed, and the cries gathered there gradually expanded a little. The bodies that stood up sat down again, and the one-armed man named Asahi Dongsheng was the first to break his attention out of the heavy atmosphere coming from that direction, and he looked around at the same ruin-like settlement around him, and his gaze followed the black light smoke that was still floating and rising: "Sure enough, the first time I saw the old man after I went in, I thought that he might be no longer dead. ”

"After all, it's a foul-like tribal guardian force, and it's good to be able to maintain it for so long." Gedmane also let out a deep sigh: "When I went to the camp to reconnoiter before, I didn't remember that the ancestral hall in that direction had any protective power......"

"Don't you allow the Sioux people to have a last hope? With such a big clan, can't you find a place to shelter the people? He pursed his mouth slightly, and the expression that belonged to Duan Qing also fell with the appearance of this sentence, and the gloom on his face swept aside: "Although it is true that they did not save many people in the end, there are not even many people who survived. ”

"Don't talk about it, if you say it, people will really have to settle the accounts on our heads." Poked the gray-robed magician's ribs in the waist, and Xue Lingphantom Ice on the side replied angrily: "People are now real victims, if they count this almost extinction disaster on the head of the Barish ceremony, those of us who strongly advocate participating in the ceremony may really be counted among the objects of suspicion." ”

"So our current situation is still not optimistic." With a calm face, he put down the objections that several people wanted to make just now, and Duan Qing, who was hanging on his broken arm, then looked around at the faces of the others in an indifferent voice: "Even the people of the Su tribe still have enough trust in us, and the current strength of this tribe has suffered a major blow." ”

"As much as I don't want to raise this issue, the necessary procedures still have to go." Xue Lingphantom Bing on the side also cleared his throat: "Let's decide this matter together: do you still want to follow the people of the Sioux tribe to continue walking?" Continuing with our previous strategy? ”

"Well." Sure enough, hesitation appeared from all directions in the procession: "Indeed, now is not the time to be secretly sad, things have come to this point, should we continue to grasp the line we encountered at the beginning?" ”

"The choice of faction...... If you don't choose the Sioux, what else can you choose? You can't choose the Nashi tribe, right? We just tore their faces apart, and the fight was so fierce—"

"There's another option, which has been in our camp before."

With his head bowed and one of his hands stretched, the voice of the gray-robed mage reappeared in the midst of the re-emerging discussion: "We once rejected them, but now it has become an opportunity. ”

"I know, you're talking about Lufin, right?" Pulling his sideburns, the eyes of the Snow Spirit Phantom Ice on the side gradually calmed down: "It's not bad to go on an adventure with their caravan brigade, they can be regarded as showing a certain strength in the previous battle." ”

"The only question is whether that person can be trusted." Holding out his finger to the others, Gedmayne reminded quietly: "Even if we rule out the suspicion of how the old merchant found out about us, the origin of that guy is still unknown, why did he collect so many good fighters under his hands?" Why did you suddenly join the previous battle? There's still so much to figure out. ”

"Old mysteries are solved, new mysteries become more – familiar routines and rhythms." A helpless glow flashed in his eyes, and Duan Qing, who had sunk his face, then said to the rest of the players around him: "Anyway, the basic situation is like this now, we still have time to continue to investigate, Ling Bing and I don't always make choices for you, you can think about it for a while, and then decide whether to continue to stay here, or——"

"A few of you."

A dull voice then sounded behind Duan Qing, and at the same time, it also attracted the attention of several players who belonged to the Qingling Adventure Group who had gathered here in the direction of the comer, and a warrior of the Nasu tribe who was standing there then also paused the spear in his hand, and looked at Duan Qing's face with an extremely dull expression: "Patriarch, please come over." ”

"Patriarch? He's not—"

The voice that subconsciously wanted to raise this sentence was immediately pressed back into his own voice, and the man named Duan Qing hurriedly put on a standard smile: "Ah, it's really good that the patriarch didn't have an accident, please wait a minute, we will go over soon." ”

"No, you two can just go over." Stretched out his hand and tapped the faces of Duan Qing and Xue Lingxuan Bing, and the voice of the Nasu soldier who was still expressionless became deeper and lower: "The patriarch pointed out the two of you, and the others should stay where they are, don't act rashly." ”

"Just the two of us?" Pointing to his nose, the doubts on Duan Qing's smiling face also flashed: "When did the patriarch have such a good relationship with the two of us...... No, no, no problem, we'll go right away. ”

Secretly made a color towards the white-haired woman, and the gray-robed magician with his arm hanging then followed the soldier's guidance in the direction of the courtyard, and more and more clan men and women and members with various weapons also became clearer and clearer as the two approached the footsteps, and finally the figure of Surtu, who was guarded in it, appeared in front of the two people: "You are here. ”

"We're really happy to see that you're still healthy." Putting on a relieved look, Duan Qing, who was beating his chest, whispered to Surtu, who was tied with a headband in front of him, "I heard that the patriarch is looking for us? He's in there now? ”

"Presumptuous! It was so rude to the patriarch! Before Surtu could make his own answer, the countless tribal spears erected on both sides were raised in front of Duan Qing in unison with the angry shouts of the Sioux warriors: "Bow your heads, outsiders!" Keep your manners and respectful! ”

"Standing in front of you is the inheritor named by the patriarch himself! The new patriarch of the Sioux tribe! Lord Surtu! ”

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The embers floating over the settlement gradually disappeared with the passage of time, and the Nasu camp in the corner of the far edge of the continent finally regained its calm due to the end of the battle and the distancing away, but because of the death of most of the tribe and the loss of the entire settlement, the past hustle and bustle and prosperity of this tribe have been completely unable to be regained in the past time. As if they had completely lost hope of regaining their original state of life, the surviving Nasu people around the remnants of the settlement gradually gathered together with their surplus supplies, and they watched as some of their compatriots carried strange ritual props and equipment in a certain direction in the depths of the grassland, and carried the melodious song full of unknown meaning along the wind above the grassland to the verdant depths of the ocean: "...... What are they doing? ”

"It's the old patriarch's send-off ceremony, and you can also understand it as a funeral. Oh, the funeral on the prairie of the free world, this is the first time I've seen it. ”

"It's like everyone else has seen it before - well, if you don't consider the existence of players like Hundred Steps."

"Although I don't have much contact, I guess a guy like him who puts on a cool face every day doesn't like to see such a ceremony every day."

"I didn't expect the old patriarch to die."

Unlike Gedmayne and the others, who were also looking at this team among those clansmen, Duan Qing, who was brought to this team, also had a little sigh mixed with his own steps as he walked on the grassland: "We haven't even met each other a few times, and we haven't talked a few words when we meet." ”

"Don't get too deep into the play, you're a living person now." Hurriedly reminding the gray-robed magician, the eyes of the Snow Spirit Phantom Ice, who were also following this team, also fell on the other clan members in the team in front of him: "From the perspective of adventurers, shouldn't you and I be more concerned about the creation of a new patriarch?" ”

"Sultu? That guy has something to look into. Helplessly, his gaze lingered for a moment on the back of the sturdy man walking at the front of the group, and Duan Qing shook his head nonchalantly: "The only thing that we may need to figure out is probably why he succeeded him as the patriarch." ”

"I heard that the old patriarch has an heir, and he is also a man." Knowing the implicit meaning of the other party's words, the woman named Xue Ling Phantom Ice also lowered her voice: "I don't know what that Suji thinks, let go of his son and don't pass it on, I have to pass it on to a guy like Surtu." ”

"Isn't he afraid of accidents?"

After turning over a small slope, the team finally stopped between the verdant meadows where the wind was a little lighter, and the faint smell of the ocean and the sparkling sea surface also reappeared in the eyes of Duan Qing and Xue Lingxuan Ice with the never-ending folk songs in the team. Raising flags, pulling flags, digging in the soil, pulling ropes - a simple pit then appeared at the end of the slope in the roll of the earth and the faint influence of the waves, and Surtu, who was responsible for guiding it all, silently inserted a stake he was carrying deep into the front of the pit, and then slowly retreated with a heavy expression: "...... Thank you both for participating, adventurers from afar. ”

"Well, if it's just for the ceremony, there's so little we can do." Knowing it in hindsight, Duan Qing scratched the back of his head embarrassedly: "As an outsider, it is already our honor to be able to stand here. ”

"It doesn't have to be that way, it's supposed to be us." Waving his hand, Su Ertu, who walked in front of Duan Qing and the others, turned around and sent the old man covered with a white cloth with a solemn look: "Returning to the grassland is the final wish of every tribesmen, as the descendants of the Nasu tribe, we should send Na Suji off the last journey." ”

"One day in the future, I also hope that someone can send me into the earth safely and complete the cycle of life." His voice paused, and his words became deeper and deeper when he spoke again: "Na Suji has fulfilled his mission and responsibility, he is a good patriarch. ”

"Please mourn and be good."

He didn't say anything suitable for a long time, and Xue Lingphantom Bing, who had not spoken for a long time through Duan Qing's silence, finally let out a sigh: "I also hope that Your Excellency Surtu can continue to lead the rest of the Su clan to live strong on the grassland." ”

"That's why I specifically wanted the two of them to participate in this ceremony." Shaking his head, Surtu, who was dressed in a beast fur cloak, once again looked directly at the faces of the two adventurers with a calm gaze: "As you can see, the remaining Nasu people are no longer able to continue living here, considering the losses within the tribe and the threat of the Nashi tribe, we can only forcibly start the migration before the arrival of the wind season and go to a more suitable place for us to stay." ”

"What are you adventurers going to do?" Speaking of this, his gaze changed slightly: "Are you willing to follow our Sioux and leave this place together?" ”

"Is that appropriate?" Glancing at Xue Ling Phantom Ice again, Duan Qing asked with a puzzled expression: "Except for everything we experienced yesterday, we really don't have much connection with the Nasu Clan, and the idea of wanting to get along with the Clan before was finally rejected by you for various reasons——"

"Yes, you are still not trusted by most of the people in the tribe."

The melodious tribal song still lingered in everyone's ears, and the sound of wind enough to blow all the green grass to the ground in front of the mud pit that began to fill in the earth, and the man named Surtu then said the same calmly, and at the same time stretched out his hand to the rest of the Sioux people around him: "All the people, including me, are now suspicious of your existence, but-"

"Nasuji trusted you until he died." He pointed to the wooden stake that he had planted himself, and at the same time looked back at Duan Qing's face: "So I will also choose to believe you." ”

"We can't seem to convince ourselves of this reason." With two involuntary wry smiles, Duan Qing covered his face even lower: "Can you reveal a little bit about the reason why you believe in us adventurers so much?" ”

"The Chosen One." Correcting a certain title in Duan Qing's voice, Surtu replied indifferently, "But it's okay." ”

"Then I'll tell you a little bit about the story that often circulates among our tribes."