The Noi are really weird.

  Su Qi sat on a stone bench, the Noi warrior next to him didn't say a word, he originally wanted to take Su Qi to rest in the stone house behind him, but Su Qi tried to explain half before convincing him to allow Su Qi to sit on the stone bench outside, thanks to the good view of this stone house, Su Qi could see half of the settlement, which also gave Su Qi a chance to observe the one in this settlement

  The settlement is built very neatly, there is a circle of city walls outside, only the city gate is opened in the two directions of the forbidden ancient road and the bronze stone platform, and a very high watchtower is built on the left and right of each city gate, but from the various bone carvings on the tower and the strong fluctuations that are not there, this watchtower is probably not only used for looking, and the city wall is built in the shape of ten horizontal and vertical rows, so the whole settlement is actually a very regular square. The streets between each row of houses were built openly, and there were various bone carvings on both sides of the streets, but almost none of the carved creatures Su Qi knew.

  The people of the Nuoi tribe seem to like living in groups very much, there are no fences or walls or anything like that outside each stone house, the house is so unguarded and wide open, Su Qi glanced at the stone house behind him, the same as Amma's, there is no door, just a square hole in the wall, but this doorway is not directly facing the bedroom, but facing a corridor, through the corridor to reach the bedroom, people with a high status like Amma will also hang rare bone carvings on the walls of the corridor, and people outside can see the bone carvings at a glance through the doorway, this should be a way to show their identity, at least there is no such thing in the stone house behind Su Qi。

  From the existence of the corridor, it can also be seen that the Noi people still have a basic concept of privacy.

  The place where Su Qi sat was not far from Amma's stone house, and it was also the center of the settlement, the street next to it was very wide, and many Noi people would cast curious eyes when they passed by, and when they saw the warriors beside Su Qi, their faces would suddenly change, and those who had companions would immediately lower their voices and whisper.

  It seems that the identity of this big man is not simple.

  That's right, where can the patriarch be an escort, where will it be an ordinary person?

  Su Qi pondered to himself, his eyes were on the Nuoi people who came and went, and soon he found that the proportion of men in the Nuoi tribe was far lower than that of women, and the men were almost all warriors, although most of the women were busy doing all kinds of chores, but Su Qi also noticed that they were all carrying weapons, a kind of short knife tied to the waist, which was very similar to the one in Anya's hand.

  The strange thing is that there are no children in this settlement, every Nuoi person Su Qi sees should be adults, most of the men are only a little shorter than Su Qi, wearing a well-fitting gray robe, but it can also be seen that the body under the robe is very strong, although the women are only up to Su Qi's waist, but the temperament is mature, and from the point of view of the figure, they don't look like children at all.

  Where are the children of the Noi?

  Su Qi looked left and right, and the doubts in his heart became thicker and thicker.

  But before he could come up with a reason, a noisy sound sounded in the distance, Su Qi stood up, floated slightly, and the Nuoi warrior beside him glanced at him vigilantly, but seeing that he was just watching the excitement, the stone knife that had already been drawn out retracted silently, Su Qi looked far away in the direction of the forbidden ancient road, and the chaos seemed to come from there.

  Soon, Su Qi found his goal.

  The city gate has been opened, and there are many Noi people carrying huge prey on their shoulders, passing through the city gate, and throwing those prey on the ground, although it is far away, Su Qi still sees the appearance of these prey, as Su Qi expected, none of them are similar to the human race.

  Su Qi's gaze swept over those bloody prey, most of them looked strange and ugly, some were covered with red spikes, some were covered with white scales, some were the size of a dozen stone houses, and some were only the size of a palm, but one thing was the same, the aura on these prey was very evil and ancient.

  "That's our dinner today. ”

  A slightly vicissitudes of life sound from behind, Su Qi turned his head to look at Amma, he changed into a set of light gray clothes, holding a pair of crutches in his hand, Anya stood beside him, seeing Su Qi's gaze, Anya bared her teeth, like a provoked leopard.

  "Taboo ...... Uh, there is also a difference between day and night on the boundary road?" Su Qi looked up at the vast darkness, there was not even the sun and the moon here, all the light came from the stones on the boundary road, what was the point of talking about day and night like this?

  "Not strictly," Amma explained, shaking her head, "but in order to count the days, the creatures on the Boundary Road also have to find a proper way to calculate the passage of time, to find out how long we have been living on the Boundary Road. ”

  "In what way?" Su Qi was a little curious.

  Amma chuckled softly, his smile mysterious and quirky, "World Rings." ”

  "World annual rings?" Su Qi looked confused.

  "This is something that only the creatures of the Boundary Road know," Amma pointed to one end of the Boundary Road. In that direction, far, far away, there is a sacred place called the Land of Refuge, where lives an unusually ancient race, whose history is far older than that of the Noi and older than you humans, who can see the age of each world in a special way, and according to their direct eyes, they can see the imprint of the world directly with their eyes, and that imprint is like the rings of a tree, circle after circle, increasing and lengthening all the time, and they rely on judging the length of the imprint to determine how long time has passed on the boundary road. ”

  "And in order to let the other races on the boundary road know the time, they made a spirit weapon so that we can know the twelve hours, so many people on the boundary road also call that race the children of time. Amma took out a stone plate from his body, which was extremely smooth, with a circle carved on it, twelve hours written on the edge, and a golden fish moving slowly along the arc around the circumference.

  It's a lot like a clock.

  Su Qi was surprised, and remembered the place name that Ama had mentioned just now, "Ama ...... You just had a place of refuge?"

  "Yes, why, you've heard of Sanctuary too?" Amma raised an eyebrow.

  Su Qi nodded and glanced at Anya who was standing obediently on the side, "I originally wanted to go there, but I was robbed by Anya on the bronze stone platform halfway." ”

  "It's impossible," Anya said preemptively, she glared at Su Qi, "No one here can go to the place of refuge." ”