Heavy footsteps are getting closer.

- Knock!!

stepped on it in one step, as if there was a muffled thunder exploding on the ground, and then the beech tree under Ye Xi's feet also trembled twice, and the leaves swayed.

What is this behemoth so sacred that it can cause the earth to tremble?

Ye Xi was shocked in his heart, and he reined in his breath more and more carefully.

With a burst of thunderous footsteps, the giant beast finally revealed its true face - it was a creature as huge as a stone mountain, with gray-black skin, like a rough rock wall, and when it moved step by step, it was like four legs under a stone mountain.

The back of the "stone mountain" is covered with moss, and many vines have grown out of the folds of the skin, and it is like a chain crawling on its body.

There were many creatures perched on the back of this behemoth, brown-red foxes, clouded leopards covered in black spots, chirping birds, and even many giant dragonflies and other insects.

What surprised Ye Xi the most was that on the back of this "stone mountain", there were three humans sitting on it laughing and talking, completely ignoring the clouded leopard that was very close to them.

And along the way, there were many small animals running out of the vicinity and crawling on its back, all "hitchhiking", and the giant beast continued to walk forward step by step as if it didn't feel it.

Ye Xi was dumbfounded.

Aren't these creatures afraid of such a big beast?

At this time, Ye Xi heard a squirming movement behind him, and he immediately turned around and found two giant worms crawling towards him quickly. Ye Xi frowned and just pulled out the dagger, but saw them quickly climb to the top of the branches, and flew towards the giant beast, just on the back of the "Stone Mountain".

"Oops!" Ye Xi said secretly.

Sure enough, the next moment, the three people sitting on the "stone mountain" followed the direction of the worm and saw Ye Xi hiding in the tree.

The eyes were facing each other, and everyone stared at each other for a while.

After two seconds, one of the men, dressed in a black animal fur coat, waved at him and shouted, "Come up, what are you doing?"

The other two men also beckoned, urging: "Hurry up!"

Ye Xi only hesitated slightly, bent his knees and made a beautiful leap, jumping onto the back of the giant beast.

- Knock!!

- Knock!!Knock!!

Although the movement of the giant beast was large, it walked very steadily, and Ye Xi walked around a group of small squirrels running all over the ground and walked to the three big men.

The big man in black animal skin beckoned Ye Xi to sit down, and when he saw that his clothes were in tatters, as if he had experienced countless battles, he asked, "Which tribe are you a little cub, why are you here alone?"

Ye Xi looked at the three big men who suddenly appeared.

The three men all looked to be in their forties, about the same age as Pu Taiyong, with thick beards on their faces, covering their facial features, and wearing well-fitting animal skin clothes, which looked like fierce animal skins.

The breath of the three big men was not released, and Ye Xi couldn't feel their strength, but they must all be warriors.

Ye Xi sat down cross-legged on the broad back of the giant beast, and replied without asking: "This giant beast is your war pet?"

The black beast skin man looked at him in surprise: "Of course not, this is Shi Azu!"

"Shi Azu?" Ye Xi raised his eyebrows.

"Didn't the elders of your clan tell you?" the black beast skin man asked suspiciously, seeing that Ye Xi really hadn't heard of it, he explained, "Shi Azu is the giant beast under our feet, because it looks like a stone mountain, and it has lived for an unknown amount of time, and it is older than the ancestors of our ancestors, so we all call it Shi Azu." ”

Ye Xi looked at the mess of creatures around him and asked, "Why are there so many creatures climbing up here?"

Dahan patiently explained: "Shi Azu sometimes leaves his territory to go to the lake to eat water and grass. Because of its gentle temperament, many things that want to go to the lake will jump up and let Shi Azu take it for a ride. With Shi Azu here, no fierce beast around dared to come up and provoke. ”

"We were also lucky, we ran into Shi Azu when we went out, and we happened to take us to the Tree Clan. ”

Treants?

Ye Xi was surprised, it was a term he had never heard before.

The big man in the black animal skin asked, "Little fellow, what is your name and which tribe are you from?"

"My name is Ye Xi and I am from the Tushan tribe. ”

"Tu Shan?"

The black beast skin was stunned, turned his head to look at the other two companions, and saw that they were also at a loss.

Ye Xi: "What about the three uncles?"

Black Fur reacted and introduced himself, "My name is Blackthorn. ”

He pointed to the two companions next to him and said, "The one with the scar on his face is called Crack, and the chubby one next to him is called Yi Kuang." We are all people of the Peeling Tribe. ”

Skinning tribes?!

Ye Xi thought he had misheard: "What tribe?"

"The Peeling Tribe is the Peeling Tribe!" the chubby Yi Kuang said to the Black Thorn with a smile, "The little guy is young, maybe the elders in the tribe told him that it was the Peeling Tribe." ”

Blackthorn suddenly complained to Yi Kuang: "Our Peeling Tribe has always been called the Peeling Tribe by everyone, so that we ourselves are used to calling ourselves the Peeling Tribe, and as a result, the little cubs are confused." ”

Ye Xi pushed the boat down the river and said: "The three uncles forgive me, the younger generations really know less." ”

Blackthorn gave him popular science: "We peel the tribe, we are good at peeling, so many tribes simply call us the skinning tribe, in fact, we peel the tribe not only to peel the skin, but also to peel the carapace, the tendons, the nails, and the eyeballs!"

Ye Xi's scalp tightened.

...... Did he run into a pervert?

Yi Kuang smiled and said: "The people of our tribe have a good way of skinning, no matter what animal skin, we can peel off it completely, without leaving a trace of flaws, so many people who want to make animal skin clothes will come to us when they hunt precious prey, and pay a certain reward to ask us to skin it." The tone implied pride.

Ye Xi looked at the animal skin clothes of the three people, it was indeed very complete, there were no traces of splicing, and the leather was light and thin, and the corners of the clothes fluttered in the breeze, which looked elegant.

The big man named Split was not like the other two faces, and looked a little serious: "You sneaked out, right? The elders of your clan are too careless, and they let you come out alone, this forest is very dangerous." ”

Before Ye Xi could speak, Na Yi Kuang laughed and played a round: "The tree people are so lively this time, it's normal for the little cubs to be curious and want to go." ”

"Tree Race?" Ye Xi heard this Tree People again.

Yi Kuang was stunned: "Don't you know that the Treant Clan invited the nearby tribes to participate in the selection of the Traveler this time?"

Ye Xi shook his head.

"Well, it's not a secret anyway, if the elders of your clan don't tell you, I'll tell you. Yi Kuang shook his head and said.

"It is said that there is a branch of the Treants who were separated for unknown reasons at an early age, and later took root far beyond the Nu River. This time, it is said that the patriarch of the Treant clan is dying, and before he dies, he wants to know the news of the distant tribesmen, so he wants to select three warriors from all our tribes and cross the Nu River to find the same tribe and ask them for news. ”

This passage is very informative.

Ye Xi decided to ask one by one: "How far is the distance, can you find it safely with three soldiers?"

Yi Kuang said: "I don't know how far it is, they can't tell where that tribe has fallen, anyway, outside the Nu River." However, after a while, there will be a caravan crossing the Nu River to trade on the other side, and the three warriors can follow the caravan to the other side of the river first, as for whether they can find the Treant Clan, it depends on their ability. ”

Ye Xi thought for a while and said, "If the road is far away, it will be difficult for only three warriors to reach it safely, right?

Yi Kuang: "Although it is said that three people are selected, it is actually three places. There is no limit to how many people go to each place, and the reward is only three points anyway, depending on how they divide it. As for why the Treants didn't go looking for it themselves, it was of course because they were slow! If they did, it would be enough to cross the Rage River. ”

Ye Xi heard the word Nu River again, and asked, "Where is the Nu River, is it far away?"

The three of them looked at each other.

Split brows frowned: "Boy, why don't you even know the Nu River, whether it's someone from here or not!"

Ye Xi blinked innocently: "...... Not really. ”