Mu Jinshu raised his eyebrows, making me feel that my question was ridiculous, and said sarcastically at the corner of his mouth: "They are all living creatures, the toxicity is equal, of course animals are the same as people, the difference is only the volume determines the duration of the attack, this is common sense." Why, do you think that animals are stronger than people and will not be poisoned? ”

I was speechless, but Ziwei said: "But different digestive systems also create different tolerances, and the toxicity that can kill people is only a drop in the ocean in a certain creature, and it is not worth mentioning at all." ”

Mu Jinshu sneered, retracted his gaze and walked out along the guide of the footprints. We followed until we reached the edge of the cliff, and when we looked up, the rock walls towered high into the sky, leaving a few marks of monster trampling on the rocks that were too high for a person.

"This rock wall is connected to the surrounding peaks, and there is no end in sight, and no one has ever climbed it."

Mu Jinshu pointed in the direction of the clouds, "Legend has it that there lives our god, the head of a phoenix, the body of a giant worm, the wings of a bird, the foot of a centipede, and a python tail. According to the records, it is called the phoenix, it is it who cut off the body to create the world, giving us life and peace, this cliff is the tail it cut off at the time of creation, and the upper part is the heavenly court. Because it is too high, it can be seen from its eyes that everything we do, whether it is good or evil, will be rewarded and punished by it. It's fair, but it's also very harsh. ”

"No one is curious to go up and see it?"

She shook her head, "It's dangerous, no one will risk their lives, and everyone is in awe, there is nothing serious, and no one wants to offend the gods." ”

"So there have been serious things, and some people have tried?" I say. No matter how I looked left and right, I couldn't find any way up.

Mu Jinshu hesitated for a long time, and said: "When the disaster happened before, some people wanted to take refuge on it, but the cliff was smooth and vertical, and they fell down and died after climbing dozens of meters, and no one tried it after that. ”

"Catastrophe refers to the invasion fifty years ago?"

"It's not." After a while, he added, "After that." It has nothing to do with the invasion. ”

I showed a great deal of interest in their history, but Mu Jinshu obviously had no intention of talking to me any more, and when they had checked their surroundings and retreated back to camp, we had to go back to our accommodation in high spirits.

The calling horn sounded for several days, and each time they found traces of some monster, but they couldn't find where they were, and the forest was full of traps they had set, poisonous insects and snakes everywhere, and a few small animals were caught as bait. Tang Jiao wanted to eat the meat at first, but after thinking about it for a few days, after knowing that it was parasitic by cockroaches, his face was like a vegetable, and he gave up this idea in despair. At this time, we have figured out their lives, and the food is planted in a large vegetable garden, with a wall built on the outside, covered with hay on the top, and planted in the field circled inside like a greenhouse. The water for drinking, laundry and cooking is filtered in a special way and delivered from house to house. Mu Jinshu said that after I got married, he could apply for me to come here to grow vegetables, and Tang Jiao and Ziwei went to patrol. I tugged at the corners of my mouth and smiled at her in a foolish way.

Whether they really believe us or not, it doesn't matter if they are good people or not, but this kind of assigned marriage is unpleasant.

It is simple for a person to go from the wilderness to civilization, but it is difficult to accept the degradation from civilization back to the wilderness, the water flows to a low place, and a person goes to a high place, and it is impossible for us to stay in this spiritual environment alone.

There is another point that people have to be wary of, as long as I mention that I want to see Jiang Xun first, Mu Jinshu will prevaricate me with various excuses, and I will also push back again and again when I say that I will meet with the leader.

Finally, when the wedding date was approaching, Mu Jinshu said that the leader promised to see us, and it was okay to see Jiang Xun if he wanted, but we could only stand in place and meet each other, and we couldn't come forward.

I agreed, and then she suddenly became more efficient, and soon took us to the dungeon.

I'm afraid that Mu Jinshu will do tricks, so that Ziwei didn't bring a little mute, although she was displeased when she saw it, she didn't show it too obviously.

As soon as the little mute arrived at the entrance of the dungeon, he trembled with fear, combined with the fact that the little mute was beaten before, I also asked Mu Jinshu why she was a child chosen by the leader, but she ended up like that. Mu Jinshu replied vaguely, saying that it was because the little mute had made a mistake, and they were doing it for her good.

I believe it, and I don't believe it. One is that the little mute is a well-behaved child, and he can't make any naughty mistakes, so it won't be like this. Second, they are still incomprehensible to the chaos of their classes, and they do not approve of this method of education.

It is understandable that mistakes should be punished, and a large number of people must have been beaten by their parents and elders when they were young, and this is a punishment left over from the past. Even Shen Ji still has that pedantry, he made a mistake but threw people aside, punished but not beaten, and gave the two people time to calm down and talk again, but they were afraid that they would lose their proportions when they were angry, they were good, and they didn't grasp the scale at all when they started with a child, and the little mute's body was full of bruises and wounds.

I held the baby by my side, and she held me in her arms and hid her head in my arms, and she didn't dare to breathe.

It was the same as last time in the hall, there were two rows of people standing in the same place, women on the left, only a dozen, and men on the right, and the number had to be doubled several times.

As soon as we walked in with the little mute, we immediately became the center of attention.

The leader was still sitting in the skull chair, smiling kindly at us.

All three of us were extremely cautious in the lessons of the past, only the little mute stretched out her hand to think about it, and I couldn't move because of my tight grip, staring at me.

"What about Jiang Xun?" I asked Mu Jinshu.

She raised her chin in one direction, and I looked over to see through the gap between the men, the same frame as when we escaped, and Jiang Xun was tied to it, hanging his head and saying nothing.

I subconsciously wanted to step forward, but Mu Jinshu stretched out his hand to stop him and said coldly: "Don't forget what you promised." ”

I frowned and stopped.

The fire over there was still lit, and I looked at him, and through the trembling of the flames, I felt that his figure had become illusory, like a mirage at that time.

Mu Jinshu took a step over there, blocking my view, the leader said a few words, and she translated: "I asked you to come here today for the sake of the marriage between the two parties." ”

She looked at the people on either side of her and said, "This is all of our unmarried single warriors and girls, and they all agree to this family affair, except for Tang Jiao, the two of you can choose one as your spouse at will, and in the days to come, monogamy, live with them until you die." ”

I was stunned for a moment, looking at the group of people at the scene, there were hundreds of them, there were so many people in Muzhang County, there were so many without families, and there was such a big difference between men and women, no wonder they were in a hurry to have children.

Tang Jiale looked at Mu Jinshu, couldn't control his legs, and moved to Mu Jinshu's side one by one, and said a word to her, Mu Jinshu looked ahead, and when he was air, he didn't respond.

The chief sat on it and looked at us with a smile, waiting for us to make a choice.

I looked over there, and when I looked at them in a row, they were all about the same faces, and when I forgot to look at them, and my eyes didn't stop on their faces, I couldn't remember what they looked like. Finding someone who looked honest and a little weaker than the others, he took a step forward and stepped out of the line and looked at me blankly.

I chose it carefully, but I didn't even look at it, I pointed to one and settled down.

For the rest of the day, the leader squinted his eyes and walked down from above, said something Mu Jinshu did not translate, let us disperse, and took us out of the hall and to another room to eat.

"Your three families' new house has been built, and you can live in it now." Mu Jinshu poked the vegetable leaves on his plate twice, "There will be a ceremony on the wedding day, and after the ceremony, you will officially become our people, and no one will look at you differently in the future." ”

I was about to speak, but Mu Jinshu said, "Don't worry, Jiang Xun will also choose her wife to join you in the ceremony." ”

"Why can't we meet now?"

"I've seen it." She said, "When it's over, there's time for you to make small talk." ”

I was about to say something, but there was a pinprick in my abdomen, my eyebrows were tightened, and my palms were sweaty.

"What's wrong with you?" Mu Jinshu asked suspiciously.

I shook my head, pretending to be relaxed, barely getting through the meal, just out of the underground palace, Mu Jinshu said that he wanted to patrol in order to avoid Tang Jiao, and left quickly alone. As soon as she left, my legs trembled and softened as if I was unconscious, and my hand had just touched me, and I was suddenly blocked by the man I had chosen next to me, with a hideous expression as if I had sworn sovereignty.

Ziwei clenched her fists, but was grabbed by the woman next to her.

I thought it was funny, but I couldn't laugh because of the pain, something was pumping blood from the bone marrow in my spine, and the uncomfortable feeling went straight to my brain, and half of my body became paralyzed.

I walked very reluctantly, but the man grabbed me by the shoulder, and before I could react, he suddenly carried me up, and the thin body that had been looking at me was full of hard muscles. My brain slowed down, and my first reaction was to fight back, and after being caught, my elbow immediately hit him on the head, but when I got to the side, I suddenly reacted again, and unloaded my strength in time, and shook my head desperately at Zi Wei, who was about to do it.

None of us thought that after choosing a spouse, it would be such a scene, whether they are men or women, they have a very rigid and strict sense of sovereignty, and no one can touch it.

I was taken back to the so-called new house by the man, who put me on the bed, took out a quilt and a long pillow from the cabinet made of grass and rattan on the other side, handed it to me, and said a word.

I frowned, and even though I knew he didn't understand, I said, "I don't understand." ”

He stood there for a while, then he suddenly came to his senses, squatted down and grabbed my feet, and I was so tight that he took off his shoes and put his legs on the bed, pressed my shoulders and made me lie down, shook off the quilt and covered it.

I was numb and worried about what he would do, we hadn't had a ceremony yet, how could we be considered husband and wife.

Suddenly my abdomen twitched, I arched my body, my eyes were blurry, I looked at the mold spots on the inner wall and ghosted, I closed my eyes in a daze, I don't know how long it took, I felt a cold behind my back, and the quilt was lifted a corner.