There's a human baby lying on the ground!

The dragon was even more vigilant, not daring to go down easily, and carefully bent down to take a closer look.

It was indeed a human baby, probably only a few months in size, with a bare body clinging to mud, and lying on a few lotus leaves with shrunken hands and feet.

The baby's eyes are closed, his hands and feet move slightly, his chest rises and falls, and the expression on his little face twitches as if he is about to cry in his sleep.

The dragon spirit was shocked, and observed left and right for a while, before hooking the pig saddle with his feet, leaning down, stretching out his hands to wrap the baby in lotus leaves and hug him, and quickly sat back on the pig saddle.

Nothing happened.

"Not a trap!" He let out a sigh of relief, hurriedly turned the pig's head, and hurried back.

Everyone had been waiting on the edge of the high ground for a long time, and when they saw him come back with a baby in his arms, they were all amazed and gossiping.

"How is it a baby?"

"It's not a ghost baby, is it?"

"Is it the scavenger's baby?"

The great wizard hurriedly took the baby, looked at it carefully, held the baby and said loudly: "Don't talk nonsense, it's a human baby." ”

He chased away the curious hunter with a cold face, and then whispered to the dragon spirit, the archwizard, and Bakabaka, "It's a cannibal baby." ”

"Ahh The dragon spirit screamed and hurriedly asked, "How do you know?" ”

"Look at the wound." The great wizard pointed to a triangular wound on the child's arm and said, "This is a kind of cannibalism. ”

"Most of the newborn babies of the cannibal herd have to be selected by the wizards, leaving the strong ones behind and the sick and weak abandoning them."

"There are many methods to choose from, the most common of which is a blood-piercing witchcraft, which a small wound on the baby's body and then determines whether the baby has a hidden disease by the reaction of blood and witchcraft materials."

"The wound here is black, and he can't be selected by witchcraft, so he is abandoned."

He showed Shi Pan the wound on the baby's arm and said, "Ah Pan, do you see it?" ”

Shi Pan nodded and said, "I also saw cannibals when I was a child, and they all have this kind of scar on their arms. ”

Baka Baka leaned over to take a look, and said with a clever smile: "I see, the cannibals are wandering around, it must be the children they threw away, who were picked up by the mud scavengers." ”

"Then the scavengers saw you humans, and thought you had lost them, so they returned the child."

The archwizard smiled, "I didn't think that the scavengers were ugly on the outside, but they were pure and kind at heart. ”

"Since it's a cannibal, don't keep it, throw it away." Shi Pan said coldly.

Of course, the dragon spirit couldn't accept it, and questioned: "Since cannibals eat human flesh for a long time, why didn't they eat him, what a pity to throw him away?" ”

"This ......," Baka Baka said, scratching the eggshell, "yes, cannibals never waste food, and they like to eat babies, so why don't they eat it?" ”

The Great Wizard was speechless, Shi Pan was silent for a while, and said, "Anyway, this must be a cannibal, throw it away." ”

"What if not? Wouldn't it kill an innocent person? Adopt it first, and then wait until the rumor tribe. ”

The dragon spirit snatched the baby from the great wizard's hand and said, "Witch Crow, heal him." ”

When the great wizard gave the baby the medicine, the dragon spirit ignored the three of them, and found Nu Xin with the baby in her arms, and asked her to find someone to take care of the child.

A quarter of the team were huntresses, and they were all young people, who had never been in contact with cannibals, and had little resistance to cannibal babies, and quickly found suitable people.

……

After walking for another three days, before reaching their destination, more than a dozen people had already fallen ill, several of them were seriously ill, and the great wizard was helpless.

The army was exhausted and miserable, and if it weren't for the fact that the Rumors had been at the front of the ranks, the humans would have begun to suspect that they had been tricked into the swamp and sent to their deaths.

"Bakabaka, you bastard, how far is it going?" The dragon spirit was also tortured by the harsh environment, slapping the eggshell and scolding.

"It's almost there."

"I said three days ago that it was almost there, tell me the truth, where the hell is your tribe?"

"It's really coming soon."

Baka Baka said aggrievedly: "If we were to drive the boat by ourselves, we would be able to return home in one day and one night, but there are too many of you and you are walking too slowly, all the way to the present." It's almost there, though. ”

"Ahh The dragon spirit bent down in frustration, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly straightened up and looked at the pig's back.

I saw that in the monotonous and desolate swamp, a large green woods appeared abruptly in front of me like an isolated island.

"Oh roar roar!" Everyone saw it, and they roared and cheered in unison.

"I've got it." Baka Baka told his companion to hurry up.

The spirits of the people were greatly lifted, and soon they reached the outskirts of the woods, where there was a wide waterway, and the speed of the fleet increased at once, and they quickly burrowed into the woods.

The terrain here is high, and the ground is covered with tall grass. The woods are sparser than the jungle, and the trees are not tall, unlike the trees in the jungle, which grow unscrupulously and appear delicate and neat.

Sail to a large puddle and the waterway comes to an end. This is supposed to be the port of the Rumors, and there are some reed boats parked on the shore, but there is no one.

"Why is there no one guarding such an important place?" The dragon spirit asked Baka Baka.

Baka Baka didn't care and said: "Cannibals are all in the east, just look there, you don't need it in the west." ”

"Not necessarily." The dragon spirit's evaluation of the intelligence of the Rumor Fungus was lowered by a few points.

Everyone was tired of waiting on the bamboo raft, and as soon as the bamboo raft landed on the shore, they all howled and landed in a swarm.

Lying on the ground, he calmed down his emotions a little, unloaded the supplies, and cautiously dragged all the bamboo rafts to the shore and put them together. Only then did he carry the wounded and his things, and followed a dozen rumored people to the depths of the forest.

The ground in the forest is dry, the trees are not too dense, and there is a feasible road, which the people of Longze, who are accustomed to moving in the trees, like to walk.

After a few miles, the terrain became higher and higher, and when I climbed to the top of the high ground, the front suddenly opened up, and it turned out to be a sunken col.

The col was about one or two square kilometres in size, with flat ground and sparse trees, through which a small river meandered, and at the bend of the river a stone city stood out in sight.

"There are really ruins!" The dragon spirit shook his head in surprise.

The city was only a stockade, forty or fifty meters long, and it was only made of rough stones.

However, the remnants of the courtyard walls and the various ruins scattered around the periphery show that the ethnic group that once lived here not only had a large population, but also had a civilization level far higher than that of the Longze Tribe.

Seeing that there were many simple shacks densely built around the ruins, but there was no stone house, Long Jing couldn't help but complain: "Ready-made good accommodation, can't you make good use of it?" ”

"Why isn't there a guard here?"

"Where is it that there have always been people watching?" Baka Baka was also puzzled.

There were some little people moving in the ruins, and when they saw a large group of people and horses appear on the slope, they all screamed in horror and scurried around like flies.

Baka Baka paused and led the team hurried towards the village.

It was only when I walked to the edge of the village that I saw a group of little people running over, holding short spears in their hands, without shells, all of them thin and small.

When the dragon spirit took a closer look, it turned out that it was all old and weak women and children.

These old and weak people rushed to the front in fright, and when they saw that it was their own people, they all bent down and gasped, and chattered around Baka Baka and others.

Baka Baka jumped to his feet and yelled, "Why are you here? Where have all the people gone? ”

Stopped talking, only an old man with an anxious face, pointed to the notch, jumped and screamed, and Baka Barka and the others were stunned.

Everyone knew that something was wrong, and looked at the great wizard, only to see that the great wizard had a solemn expression, and said slowly: "Cannibalism has come in!" ”

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