Chapter 272: The Gathering of Storms
It was a strange feeling as Elder Elaria walked forward, only to find that the others were still where they were, as if nothing had happened. Elder Elaria even turned his head to see a self standing still as quietly as before, as if it was now following Mike, as if it was just an invisible soul.
Elder Elaria followed Mike into the Frost Valley. It was clear that Mike was not unaware of Elder Elalia's presence, humming popular songs as he walked.
After entering the valley for some time, Mike crouched on the ice, seemingly boringly tapping his knuckles on the ice, and said to himself, "Why should we take risks, this damn old man?" This is the kind of terrifying lizard that can hunt fire-eating snakes, and it refuses to send its own people. Those barbarians, what does it matter how many they die? Anyway, when we get the Tigers Crown, everything will be none of our business. It's ridiculous that those barbarians thought we were really here to help them. How is that possible? What else is there about this kind of place other than the Crown of Tigers that is worth risking our lives? ”
Elder Ellaria blew his beard and glared at him in death, and angrily rebuked, "Despicable strangers, you really deserve to be the dung of evil beasts for daring to attack the idea of our holy relics. ”
Mike didn't seem to hear it, and said to himself, "I don't know if anyone else has arrived." Forget it, it's better to behave well now and try to get the Tiger Crown as soon as possible, so as not to be preempted by others. ”
Speaking of this, Mike suddenly looked up at Elder Ellaria and said in horror, "Elder Ellaria, why are you here?" Did you hear all that? ”
At that moment, Elder Elalia opened his eyes, and in front of him was the roof of a tent made of canvas.
"It turned out to be a dream, such a real dream." Elder Elalia whispered in the tribal language, "But why do I have such dreams? Is my subconscious mind suspicious of them? When you think about it, these outsiders are indeed a little suspicious. ”
Just as he was thinking, the scene in front of him changed again, and Elder Elalia found himself back to the day when he first saw this group of strangers. On that day, Elalia, as an elder, and the leader of his strongest tiger tribe had a dream at the same time that seven warriors from out of town would lead them to find the lost crown of Tegurs of their ancestors. Just the next day, they met these seven people. This is what happened now.
This time nothing changed, and the leader told them that he was a warrior who had been instructed by the gods to help them find the lost things of their ancestors, and that he had displayed various strange abilities. One of the things that intrigued Elder Elaria the most was the ability to store space. With this ability, large forces can explore lava lakes to have sufficient material supplies.
The instructions of the dream, combined with this special ability, convinced the elders and chiefs of Ellalia that it was the gods who were guiding them to find the lost relics, so the elders and chiefs of Ellalia summoned the leaders of all the tribes they could gather to discuss the matter. Eventually, most of the Tiger tribes agreed to form an alliance and travel to the lava lakes in search of the Crown of Tygus.
Wherever Elder Ellaria thought of it, a corresponding scene appeared in front of him. Now he knew he was still dreaming, but he didn't find it strange. It seems that there are doubts in my heart, and my subconscious helps me sort out everything.
Along the way, the seven outsiders did play a big role, but when you think about it, it seems that they have not been doing their best. In the past, the Elaria Elders thought that it was because the coalition forces were so strong that they didn't need to go all out. But now with skepticism, it's worth playing.
Only in the metal space where the light of the dim screen shone brightly, Nightmare opened his eyes and said to Luo Han, who was sitting on the side watching Crayon Xiaoxin, "Captain, the elders of the Tiger Department have already begun to suspect that group of trialists. And through the memories of the elders, I saw the abilities of the seven trialists. By the way, I didn't expect you to watch Crayon Xiaoxin, Captain. ”
As the nightmare spoke, the metal walls lit up, revealing Ellaria's dreams like a television screen.
It's still a dream, it's just Luo Han's dream.
Luo Han looked at the projection and said with a smile: "Who doesn't have a childlike heart?" Well, as I expected, the mission of this trial team is to work with the Tiger to grab the Crown of Tiger and take it for themselves. Otherwise, the difficulty of the task will be too low. I'm now curious to see how the remaining teams will be involved in this crown race. ”
In ancient times, there was a story called a suspicious man stealing an axe, saying that a family lost an axe and suspected that a neighbor stole it, so he looked at the neighbor's various actions like an axe thief. This is a subjective judgment caused by preconceived ideas. Elder Elalia initially believed that the team had been sent by the gods to help them, so as long as they didn't behave unreasonably, it was normal. And now, Elder Elaria began to doubt them, and their small actions were judged repeatedly. However, they did have other plans, so the more they looked at it, the more suspicious they became.
However, these tribal elders are all old foxes, even if they have doubts in their hearts, they will not question rashly, but secretly vigilant, and at the same time hope to squeeze the value of the other party as much as possible. Luo Han has really learned this from Kariam. Therefore, Luo Han does not expect to make the two sides turn against each other through a guidance without evidence, this kind of thing must be urgent, and it must be done slowly.
The next day, Elder Elaria began assigning more tasks to the trialists. Although Elder Elaria was able to give reasonable reasons, the trialists who were accustomed to being treated as holy envoys inevitably had some complaints, which made the doubtful Elder Ellalia even more suspicious of the purpose of this team of trialists, and his trust in them slowly decreased.
The Storm Squad has been living in caves for the rest of the day, only going out to let off steam. The nocturnal activities also allowed the Storm Team to discover things that they couldn't find during the day.
Dragons also snooze, and most creatures need sleep. Fire snakes are no exception, but the way they sleep at night is a little peculiar. These long worms like to float on top of the magma, spreading their wings and filling the lava lakes densely, even overlapping their wings. At this time, the fire snake looked particularly lazy, even if Luo Han threw a stone from the crater, smashed it on the body of a fire snake, and smashed it into the magma, the surrounding fire snake was also motionless, and after the fire snake that was hit floated up, he looked around, and found nothing wrong, so he continued to spread out his body and fall asleep like no one.
The fire snake's laziness reminds people of their natural predator, the ice lizard, and it stands to reason that now should be the best chance for the ice lizard to sneak attack, why would the ice lizard choose to sneak up during the day and disappear at night? Could it be that the ice lizard must sleep at night? Or is the languidness of the fiery serpents just an illusion, and if there is a real threat, they will attack them in groups?
If the Tiger Ministry didn't come, Luo Han would definitely find a chance to test it, but since the Tiger Department came, Luo Han could only dispel this idea in order not to be discovered.
As time passed, more and more traps were placed on the road between the volcano and the Frost Valley, almost to the exaggerated level of one trap in ten steps, which made many evil beasts fall into the trap by mistake and had to maintain a considerable amount of maintenance work. In addition, Torabe searched every corner of the volcano. The Tiger Trialists made it clear that there would be other outsiders involved in the fight for the Crown of Tigers, including their old rival Ryubu. Elder Elaria was skeptical, believing that it was not a good act for them to be so malicious to others from the same background as them, and even more suspicious of their true purpose, but on the surface he agreed with them, placing secret sentries at key locations under the volcano.
Ten days before the Ice Lizard's breeding season, a third team of Trialists finally appeared. It's a standard five-man team, four men and one woman, white. As soon as he ascended the volcano, he was discovered by the warriors of the Tiger Department. However, they did not go to the crater, but stayed at the foot of the mountain for a few minutes before leaving the volcano, inadvertently avoiding a direct confrontation with the tiger.
After leaving the crater, the team entered the jungle and camped, and there was no other action. Although it is certain that the other party's mission is related to the battle for the Tiger Crown, the Proving Ground should not be so mad as to make everyone crash, not to mention that this five-person team does not have the strength to directly compete for the Tiger Crown. Without figuring out the purpose of the other party, both the Storm Squad and the Tiger Division's trialist team chose not to contact this team for the time being.
This team is also very strange, after setting up camp, they do nothing, they wander around the camp all day, and they don't seem to want to do anything but build the camp more neatly.
Two days after the arrival of this team, another team of five people arrived at the volcano. This is a team with yellow skin and black eyes, if it weren't for Luo Han knowing that each trial can only produce one team in each trial field, he would really think that this is a Huaxia team. The team didn't even get to the volcano, it stopped a few kilometers away, and did the same thing as the white team.
The Storm Squad hasn't been out these days, and it's all up to Nightmare to invade the Tiger Warrior's dreams every night to get information. In order not to arouse alarm, Nightmare should not make people dream every night, but fortunately, the Tiger Warriors are numerous, and they will often exchange information with each other, so that Nightmare can know real-time information.
In the last two days, the hundred or so people of the dragon tribe finally arrived at the volcano, led by Kariam, accompanied by the bearded and axe-headed savage. In addition, there is a rugged man with a tall and strong body, who is a cut above the others at first glance, and is obviously recognized as a powerful warrior in terms of status.
The appearance of the dragon department naturally made the tiger department extremely depressed, and in terms of scale alone, the dragon department was the only one that could compete with the tiger department. Those two teams that didn't know what to do were not taken seriously by the Tiger Department at all, and in the hearts of the Tiger Department trialists, the seventeen people who had not yet appeared were likely to be five or five seventy-three teams, and with the strength of the Tiger Department, they were not afraid. At this time, a dragon suddenly appeared in the way, and it was also extremely annoying.
After the secret post arranged by the Tiger Department discovered the Dragon Department, the Tiger Department immediately gathered people and horses to confront the Dragon Department on the mountainside.
Elder Elalia stood in front of the Tiger Warriors and scolded in their tribal language, "You shameless fellows are so shameless that you have traveled through mountains and rivers to covet the sacred relics of our Tiger Tribe. ”
Kariam also came out, and said disdainfully in the face of the accusation of the Tiger Elder: "The Crown of Tiger has long been lost, and your clan has not taken it back for many years, so why do you still say that it is your holy relic?" We in the Dragons have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to reopen the path of the lava lake, which heralds the fall of the Crown of Tegus into our hands. We are the possessors of divine instructions. ”
Elder Ellaria said angrily, "Nonsense! Obviously, we were guided by the gods and brought in the holy messengers to help us. ”
At this time, in order to grab a position, Elder Ellalia also didn't care about the suspicion of the trialist, and took out this sign to prove his qualifications.
Karian laughed loudly, "Perhaps your gods have instructed you, but it is the great, incomparable, irresistible god of destiny who has indicated us. Do you want to rebel against the god of fate? ”
The two old men scolded and scolded for a long time, but they never reached the realm of surrendering without a fight. In the end, the two were tired, but they each led people to retreat, and did not fight directly as expected.
Both old men understood that there were other people waiting to pick up the bargain, and it was definitely not a wise move for the two hardest persimmons to touch each other at this time. Even if you have to fight, you have to wait until the Crown of Tegus is taken out of the lava lake.
The two tribes were in a de facto truce, and the dragon tribe established a camp at the foot of another mountain, but compared to the abundant resources of the tiger tribe, the dragon tribe was much shabby.
Now that all the forces involved in this treasure hunt have basically arrived, only the last seven trialists are missing. In addition, the Storm Squad was hidden in the mountains, and no one else was aware of it, except for Kariam, who thought they must be nearby.
Where is the other seven-man team? No one knows but themselves. Luo Han, who has always been familiar with the whole situation near the volcano through the ability of nightmares, is also thinking about this problem. As a person who likes to play tricks, an opponent who hides in the shadows and knows nothing is always the most headache.
Also having a headache is the Trialist Captain of the Tiger Division. In his opinion, the fact that a full seventeen trialists were missing, and occupying half of the places in this trial was enough to cause a fundamental change in the entire situation.
In contrast, the two five-man teams are much calmer. The reason for this is that their mission is not to seize the crown of Tygers, but to assassinate the first warriors of the Tiger and Dragon respectively. It's just that they don't know where the target is, and they only know through the hint that they will definitely come back to the lava lake to participate in the crown battle, so they came here to wait for the opportunity. Baidu: Read the latest chapter of "The Final Trial of Death: Jiezhong Literature" for free for the first time.