Chapter 21: Retreat
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"Patriarch!"
"Patriarch!"
"I'm fine!" The patriarch closed his eyes and gasped for a while, and said with a stoic expression: "Clansmen, the Black Mountain Clan is our feud, and now the people of the Lingshi Clan are also in cahoots with them. Let's put aside our grief for a moment and get ready for battle, the people of the Black Mountain Clan may come and kill us at any time. ”
"Patriarch, we are not afraid, as long as they dare to come, we will fight with them!" A young man stood up and raised his arms, and many people immediately chimed in.
"Fight with them!"
"Fight!"
The patriarch raised the wooden staff in his hand, the crowd gradually quieted down, the patriarch looked around at his clansmen, and said in a deep voice: "The revenge of our clan must be avenged, but not now, there are many of them, we can't fight hard, we have to accumulate strength." Now, under my orders, all the old and weak are to return to the ancestral cave, and the grain is also brought back to the ancestral cave, leaving only three days' rations here. Ali, you pick a few clever young men to put the sentry post farther away, and the others prepare more bows and arrows and make more traps, we can't let them go back empty-handed! Aya, you lead the team back to the ancestral cave. ”
"Yes, Patriarch!"
Liu Zhibang saw that the people in the tribe began to get busy, but no one paid attention to him, but he could guess from the blood stains on those who came back that something big had happened in the tribe.
"Coming out of the Federation at war, and getting involved in war again, why can't humanity stop for a while? Now I have my gun back, but the energy is limited, and there are no nuclear batteries to spare. Although this signal generator is still intact, it is too far away from the Federation, and it can only send a simple positioning signal, and I don't know if I can receive the signal. Liu Zhibang was a little frustrated, and he was thinking hard about countermeasures.
After some ideological struggle, Liu Zhibang still picked up the signal generator and made up a set of codes, the signal generator made a long "drip" sound, the signal light flashed five times, and then fell silent, only a small red light was flashing at a frequency of three seconds.
"Okay, the signal is transmitted, and theoretically the Federation can receive the signal in a month, otherwise it would really be too laborious to rely on the 'Noah's Ark System' to create a modern world on this planet. I'll just have to hold on for another two or three months until someone from the Federation comes, and hopefully they'll give me a chance to explain......"
Under the command of the patriarch, the Fire Dance tribe began to make pre-war preparations, Liu Zhibang followed Aya's team, and walked to the depths of the dark forest, he looked back and forth, the Fire Dance people walked forward with torches, he couldn't see the head and tail, it is estimated that there are hundreds of people to be transferred, most of them are old and weak women and children, only a very small number of middle-aged men and women are carrying heavier objects, everyone has a serious face, no one speaks, only hears footsteps, and occasionally some young children cry.
"Where is this taking me? Now that I've got my things back, do I want to be with them? ”
Half a month has passed since the martial arts competition, but Liu Zhibang still hasn't found a sense of belonging in the Fire Dance Clan, and has been thinking about how to get out of here and return to the Federation as soon as possible.
At the front of Liu Zhibang's marching procession, Aya held a torch to explore the road in front, she hadn't walked this road for a long time, it turned out that the path had been covered by the crazy jungle, and she carefully explored it with her memory. There was a girl behind Aya, seventeen or eighteen years old, with a delicate appearance, she took a few steps forward, followed Aya, and said softly: "Sister Aya, can you still find the way to the ancestral cave?" ”
Aya looked back at the girl and replied, "Ali, don't worry, the direction is right, you should be able to get there before dawn, you have to take care of the people behind, don't let them get lost." ”
Ali nodded, and looked back at the team behind, because they were all old and weak, women and children, the speed of travel was very slow, and there was no road, and people often fell, but these clansmen were all surviving in the jungle, and there was no big problem. Ali beckoned the people behind her to follow, and then said to Aya: "Sister Aya, what is the ancestral cave?" Haven't you been there, aren't we afraid of being chased by the enemy when we get there? ”
Aya looked at the vague mountains in the distance, and her tone revealed a voice of awe and mystery: "The ancestral cave is the place where the patriarchs of the past generations are buried, and it is also the place where our ancestors originated. However, it is the place where the ancestors are buried, and the clansmen are not allowed to disturb the ancestors until they have no choice but to do so. ”
"The ancestral cave is so safe, why don't they go to the ancestral cave with us, if the people from the Black Mountain Clan and the Lingshi Clan come, can they stop it?" Ali's face was full of worry, remembering that there was still her father and her two brothers in the village.
Aya looked back at the team that followed, there were about 400 people in this team, mighty, like a winding fire dragon draining a few miles long, there was a faint worry between her eyebrows, the torch illuminated her beautiful face, reflecting her bold but pitiful gaze.
"Sister Ali, don't worry, if the village can't hold it, they will retreat and join us, let's go quickly, the falcons of the Black Mountain Clan will come out at dawn, and we can't be discovered by them." Aya let go of her worries and comforted Ali as she quickened her pace.
The team walked higher and higher, Liu Zhibang saw by the starlight that the team was walking towards a big mountain, the fog in the mountain was getting heavier and heavier, the hazy mountain image was a huge monster towering in front of him, and the unknown strange birds in the mountain made a long and low chirp, and Liu Zhibang inexplicably rose a trace of fear in his heart.
"Where are we going, this mountain looks weird and scary, there won't be any monsters attacking us!"
While Liu Zhibang was thinking wildly, the blades of grass in the jungle in front of Liu Zhibang's left side shook.
"Roaring ......"
"Hide!"
As soon as the warning sounded, a terrible cry was heard.
"I'm really afraid of something! Mom, I won't be here today! Liu Zhibang was frightened by the screams.
The crowd panicked, followed by screams one after another.
"Everyone's together!"
Liu Zhibang heard that it was Aya's voice, and saw that the crowd quickly gathered towards a relatively gentle slope, Liu Zhibang clutched the multi-functional laser gun and ran towards the slope. He had barely taken a few steps when he felt the wind blow behind him, and a dark shadow slammed him down with lightning speed, and a fishy smell hit his neck.
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