14 Act III: The Human-Wolf War (1)

Tie Shan stroked his wife's face with his plush gray hands, and his loving gaze gradually moved to his wife's abdomen, which bulged slightly under the silk robe, which symbolized the birth of life. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Amity looked at her one-meter-seven, black-and-gray husband in front of her with a smile on her face, and she asked happily, "Do you say there are more boys or girls?" ”

Tie Dan said categorically: "Of course, there are many boys, I heard that the Sele family gave birth to four boys, and the high priest personally went to their house to pray. He seemed to be envious of the celestial family's favor with the High Priest, but it was also an honor that every family in the Iron Tribe wanted.

Surviving in the wasteland, they are always ready to fight, and their enemies may be humans, saber-toothed monkeys who live in groups like them, or even other wolf tribes. In order not to be swallowed up by other tribes, or exterminated by wild beasts, they must ensure that their tribe has enough men to have the fighting power to defend the tribe, but they practice monogamy, and the harsh environment makes their personnel very bad, and several people die almost every day.

Tie Shan walked to the well-shaped stone fire, and the soft light of the fire shone on the small house, which was only fifty square meters and reached three meters at its highest point.

The house is made of stone blocks and is shaped like an ice house built by the Eskimos in ancient times: a semicircular lid is fastened to the ground, an arch fits seamlessly into the side of the lid, and a circular vent is above the lid.

Clever werewolves know how to use the silt in the swamp and turn it into a binder for chimeric stones after several processes. The ten-centimeter-thick walls of the house are covered with palm leaves, which are warm in the cold and cool in the summer. If it rains, they close the vents, and they don't close the arches unless it's a very heavy rainstorm.

There is a ditch dug outside the house, and the rainwater will flow down the ditch to the Zhan River, which is a calm river close to the tribe, although some sections of the river are hundreds of meters wide, but it has never been rough, so it is also revered by the Tie tribe as the mother river.

Iron Shan houses are very common in the tribe, whether it is the size or shape, in fact, as long as he wants, he can live in a more luxurious house. Because he was the son of a tribal chief, but he didn't ask for that.

In the center of the tribe there is a circular square covering an area of 10,000 square meters, and in the center of the square there is a 40-meter-high towering ancient tree, shaped like a banyan tree. The Iron tribe called it Sassen, which means messenger of the soul of the earth.

The Iron Tribe built a wooden disc-shaped treehouse in the middle of the trunk of the Sassen Ancient Tree, a tree house perched twenty meters in the air with a bright yellow color, which they called the Council. The leadership of the clan often met in parliament for discussions, mostly on serious issues concerning the survival and development of the tribe.

The first thing you get to when you climb the tree ladder is the balcony that surrounds the conference room at 360 degrees, and there are dense and verdant foliage above the treehouse, if you stand on the balcony and look down on the entire Iron Clan, you have to feel the wisdom and creativity of the werewolves.

The whole tribe was like a wheel, and the place where the council was located was the axle in the middle. With the parliament as the center, the semi-circular stone houses spread out in a neat and uniform shape, like the wheels of a horse's wheel, and the number of these houses is nearly ten thousand! The frame of the carriage wheel is the four-meter-high city wall, which is made of rocks and wraps the entire tribe in a perfect ring, and the mottled wall tiles seem to tell the vicissitudes of time without words.

Above the walls are several banners of the Iron Clan, in which a roaring panther is depicted. There is a heavy wooden gate more than three meters high on the west and east of the tribal wall, and the east gate is the main gate, and like the west gate, there are two wooden guard towers twenty meters high, each guarded by two dedicated werewolves.

In front of and to the right and left of the East Gate is a sweet grassland, and knee-high meadows exude a dreamlike scent in the breeze. The meadows are not very undulating, and the brown cows with long manes and lightning horned sheep are happily eating together, and the number of these cattle and sheep is roughly estimated to be in the thousands, and their owners are werewolves within the walls.

Sparsely on the steppe stood seven tall houses, about the same shape as those within the city walls, but five or six times the size of those inside the city walls, and they had no skylights, but instead a load-bearing pillar stood in the center, and the walls had small rectangular windows.

The occupants of these houses are the hussars of the Wolf Warriors: a sturdy panther weighing nearly five hundred pounds

At the end of the meadow is a deep jungle, and at night and during the day, bloodthirsty beasts often emerge from the jungle to snatch cattle and sheep, sometimes monitor lizards and demon spiders, and sometimes a large army of saber-toothed monkeys. For these monkeys with huge fangs, human scientists believe that their intelligence is comparable to that of human children about ten years old, and they are also the most troublesome enemies of the Iron Clan.

They call the saber-toothed monkeys hidden in the mountains and forests the thieves, and the latter seem to think that it is an honorific title.

Behind the jungle was a long mountain range, where the Shanjung had occupied land, but they had not colonized it. Because there's a terrifying steel monster - the machines that humans use to mine and sawn trees

Behind the west gate of the tribe is the gently flowing war river, dozens of canoes are going down the river to cast nets to fish, the war river is a branch of the Vaal River in the East Pole, the downstream section of the river where the Tie tribe is located is a surging and roaring waterfall, and the upstream is the three wolf tribes of Yanhuo, Naxi, and Gariwu.

And the reason why this river is called the war river is because the warriors who guard the tribe sleep in its body.

In the Tie tribe, the people believed that everything in the world had a soul, whether it was plants or animals, or clay pots and buckets. Like the souls of the earth, the souls of all things in the world are equal, and everything has its own reason for being.

The laws of nature make werewolves meat eaters, and they will bury their dead people naked in the earth, and let the flesh become nutrients for plants, and in this way repay those who eat them. Only fearless warriors who sacrificed their lives for the tribe can be eternally silent in the river of war, and that is the honor that every wolf warrior hopes to receive.

On the other side of the river is a majestic canyon, the canyon drop is about 100 meters, the slippery gorge wall inhabits all kinds of strange animals and plants, above the canyon is a dense jungle, a little farther is the endless mountain forest.

With a withered grass in his mouth, the little shepherd boy was holding a whip rope to drive away brown cattle far from the tribe, and sometimes he looked at the almost blue sky, his blue eyes full of longing and reverie.

He had heard that humans could fly freely in the sky with the help of machines, so he decided to build a flying machine, because flying in the blue sky had always been his dream dream.

Just as he stared at the sky in a daze, a faint red light suddenly flashed over the jungle in the distance, followed by a subtle explosion, the red light and sound came from a small firework.

Not long after that firework dissipated, another firework rose from the depths of the jungle.

"Bang. Bang. Bang.. Bang.. ”

Every once in a while, fireworks exploded over the jungle, each far away, and Ammon was slightly excited by the sound of the fireworks. He knew that it was a signal flare for the leopard riders, and yesterday afternoon their king had led the leopard riders into the depths of the jungle in search of his human friends, for which the king had a big fight with the elders.

Although the shouts of the elders could reach every household through the walls after the king led the leopard cavalry out of the tribe, everyone, including the elders, hoped that they would return safely, because the 140-strong leopard cavalry was the strongest fighting force of the Tie tribe, and without them, the tribe would lose its ability to deter the enemy.

As soon as the fireworks exploded, Tie Shan put on a red cloak, pulled out his rifle under the bed and walked towards the door, and before leaving, he said to Armiti: "It should be my father who has returned, and you are here waiting for me to come back." ”

Escorted by his wife, he left his house and ran towards the main entrance of the tribe, along with many women, children, and teenagers with rifles.

Woo Woo! The teenagers shouted excitedly and rushed to the main gate of the tribe, and even the iron slip was not as fast as they ran.

The guards pushed open the gates early in the morning, and looked out from within the tribe to a sea of green, and from the wind it smelled of sweet grass.

After a while, the inside and outside of the east gate of the tribe were full of werewolves, including wolf mothers who chased their children with rice bowls in their hands to feed them, ancient and rare old wolves who joined in the fun, wives who welcomed their husbands' triumphant returns, and young boys and girls who wanted to witness the demeanor of idols.

But perhaps the group was so overexcited that they could stand on the grassland for more than two hours, and tomorrow as the sun wore out, the weary panthers stepped out of the deep jungle, where the tall and mighty panthers could continue to run more than thirty kilometers per hour. Even with a strong wolf on their backs, they can swim through the jungle at a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour.

The elders estimated in their hearts that more than two hours had passed since the assembly signal sounded, which meant that the leopard cavalry had been about forty kilometers away from the tribe.

But their estimation was wrong, because after finding the members of the expedition team, Tiemu ran more than 60 kilometers in the direction of the tribe before firing the signal flare, and the real distance they left the tribe was about 100 kilometers.

Temu's purpose in doing this was not to prevent the elders from scolding him for this, after all, taking the leopard cavalry so far away from the tribe would not be able to respond to each other in the event of danger.

Fortunately, the rescue mission was successfully completed, and the elders were embarrassed to say anything at this time, they looked at the rare-haired animal sitting on the back of the black panther with a curious face, there are not many times to observe humans at close range like this, many werewolves have never seen humans once in their lives, they have only heard that there is a rich and powerful country established by humans on the distant land, and the degree of wealth and strength is not even comparable to more than a dozen Shanrong countries.

Lei Ming stared at the scenery in front of him dumbfounded, and in his sight, there was a foreign city standing on the vast grassland, and the majestic canyon in the distance guarded the rear of the city like a natural barrier. If he had stood a little higher, perhaps he would have seen a wide river between the canyon and the city.

Jin Yi was the first to jump off the panther's back, and when he stepped on the meadow, he didn't forget to complain: "This guy is really slow, hasn't he been fed?" ”

When the black panther heard this, he directly gave him a roll of the eyes: "Damn, it's hard enough for Lao Tzu to carry a wolf and a monkey, and you hairless monkey is still complaining about my slow running!" ”

Of course, Jin Yi didn't notice the dissatisfied black panther at all, because his gaze was just as shocked by the sight in front of him as the rest of the people, and the surrounding environment made them feel like they had returned to the Warring States period, except that the inhabitants here were werewolves as intelligent as humans.

The crowd looked at the werewolves on the edge of the city wall in front of them, and they could tell that it was a woman in a robe, and a man was naked. The werewolves stood in a very casual heap, and did not seem to establish any strict hierarchy. While everyone was thinking about the social structure of the Iron Clan, the latter also looked at them with curiosity.

Timber jumped off his mount, whispering to his mount to leave on its own, and he walked towards the werewolves on the edge of the wall.

"Gaa. Woo Ka Goo. Woo quack. ”

The werewolves greeted their king with great joy, and the elders made a series of gestures and prayed for Temu's blessing.

Tie Shan walked up to Tie Mu, and he said with a happy face, "Father, everything needed for the ceremony has been prepared. ”

Temu looked at his son approvingly, and he said, "I knew they could catch this great festival," and he turned his fiery gaze to the werewolves, shouting with his hands raised, "Clansmen, let us party all night tonight!" ”

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