Chapter 655: The Crystal Tribe with Eye Tattoos
Originally, Gu Wu also wanted to send a few people who were familiar with the Jing tribe to show Shao Xuan and them, but the Gu tribe had just been in a bad situation, and all the houses and buildings in the tribe had collapsed, and they needed to be rebuilt, and the amount of work was large, and the dead and injured and their families needed to be resettled, so they could only write a cloth scroll to Shao Xuan.
After Shao Xuan and the others left the Gu tribe, Gu Wu thought about it and asked the people from the sub-tribe to bring a letter to the Jing tribe. The people of the sub-tribe will not encounter fierce beasts when they walk in the underground caves, it is faster and more convenient, and they may be able to reach the crystal tribe before the Yanjiao people.
With the people of the sub-tribe easing in the middle, the people of the Jing tribe will have a better attitude towards Yanjiao.
However, what Gu Wu didn't expect was that Shao Xuan's speed of sailing was one step faster than that of the people of the Ya tribe.
Although people from the sub-tribe go to the Jing tribe, although there is no need to go over the mountains and mountains, the underground is not suitable for digging holes everywhere, especially in the area near the river, and sometimes they have to take a long detour, and they have to rest after walking.
And Shao Xuan and the others did not stop except for planting monuments on the shore when they sailed, and they also sailed day and night.
Since the giant beast was killed, the river near the Gu tribe has calmed down a lot, and the smaller fish have begun to be active around, and there are no other large, aggressive river beasts to be seen. The kind of big fish that Boluo encountered before may have also been driven by giant beasts.
Continuing down the Yan River, the topography on the riverbank did not change too significantly, similar to the place where the Gu tribe was located, but compared to the area of the upper Yan tribe, the woods were much denser.
Shao Xuan was in the cabin, sitting cross-legged, placing the sword horizontally on his lap, and there was a blood mark on the body of the sword, which Shao Xuan had smeared with his own blood, and he recalled how he ignited the rope net when he was in the Gu tribe. I was going to try it to see if I could use this method of igniting fire with blood on the sword, but unfortunately, it never worked, and I always felt that there was something missing, but I couldn't figure out what it was for a while.
"Someone!" shouted the people outside.
Shao Xuan also happened to sense the fire of the Jing tribe and temporarily put down his sword. Get out of the cabin.
"It's here. ”
The Jing tribe also lives by the Yan River, not too close to the riverbank, but not too far, closer to the riverbank than the Gu tribe.
Gu Wu once told Shao Xuan that the people of the Jing tribe migrated later, and they didn't know where they were before, but since the catastrophe of heaven and earth thousands of years ago, the Jing tribe has migrated here.
There were people in the woods watching over here, and there were some shrill bird calls. Shao Xuan and the others knew that it was not really the call of a bird, but a signal from a person hiding in the woods.
As the two boats slowly approached, the people in the woods retreated a little away from the riverbank, but they still hid in the woods, staring warily at the two boats on the shore. They had never seen a ship, and they were more wary of unfamiliar outsiders.
A man-made plot of land is clearly visible where the ship docks, and there are no tall trees there. Except for some hand-laid stakes, it's grass. Even the weeds are not as tall as in the woods.
Those low wooden stakes are supposed to be used to tie rafts or something, and there are traces of ropes on them, and those sunken parts of the grass are obviously stepped on by people, so the grass will become crooked from standing upright, and often stepped on. The grass is not high.
Coming ashore from here, Shao Xuan raised his eyes to look at the woods in front of him.
From the river bank to the woods, a path was carved out, only two or three meters wide, but in the dense woods. The trail is very conspicuous.
The Poppy Witch once said that the people of the Jing tribe would use the nets of the Pop tribe to fish in the river, and it was thought that this was the way from which they traveled between the tribe and the river.
Shao Xuan led the people to the front, and did not go deep into the woods, but stood still.
"Are you from the Crystal Tribe? We are from the Yanjiao Tribe, we have something to discuss, please inform the Crystal Tribe. ”
There must be other traps in the woods, although Shao Xuan is not afraid of those, but it is better to have less unnecessary trouble, not to mention, he still has to find "eyes" from the Jing tribe, and he still has to give a good first impression.
After Shao Xuan shouted, the forest was quiet for a while, followed by a few "bird calls", and there was a swishing sound not far away, it should be someone who left to report the news.
Shao Xuan was not in a hurry, so he found a stone in the woods next to him and sat and waited, while the others looked around to see how different the plants in this area were from the upper reaches of the Yan River.
About twenty minutes later, footsteps could be heard in the distance, and someone was whispering.
There were quite a few people who came over, no less than two hundred, which was exactly the same as the number of people on Shao Xuan's ship.
As the crowd drew closer, the path carved out was too narrow, and some people walked directly through the woods, and the click of broken branches became clearer and clearer.
Soon, some figures appeared in the woods.
The sun shines in the woods, because of the shading of the branches above, only part of it is sprinkled on the path, and in the woods on both sides of the path, the sunlight is even less, so at a glance, the person who can see the past most clearly is the person walking on the path.
At the front were three sturdy warriors, who looked darker, perhaps from their frequent exposure to the sun. The people of the Gu tribe have been tanned to brown, and the people of the Jing tribe are darker than the people of the Gu tribe, but on the contrary, the paintings on their bodies are painted in bright colors, white, red, blue, yellow, green, and so on.
The three Crystal Tribe warriors in front of them held a weapon polished from horn bone or stone tools in one hand, and a circular shield in the other hand to block their chests, covering the entire torso, only exposing the legs and the upper part of the nose, and the black and white eyes showed unconcealed tension, probably they could also see that the people of the Flame Horn were not easy to deal with. In the face of unfamiliar and powerful external people, it is strange that they can be unguarded.
The shield is made of wood or rattan, after all, they don't have the strength of the Yanjiao people, and the shield made of stone tools or horn bone tools is indeed more solid, but it is too heavy, and for those who do not have the advantage of strength, too heavy a shield will not only fail to play its own role, but will also become a burden in battle.
Glancing at the equipment of the Jing tribesmen, Shao Xuan had a rough positioning of them in his heart. Looking past the three warriors to the people behind them.
There was a thin middle-aged man there, his eyes were like knives, and when he looked at Shao Xuan's side, his eyes were like a blade shooting out of his eyes, which made people's hearts feel terrified. In addition, the middle-aged man also walked with the majesty of being in the position of a leader all the year round, which was obviously different from the others.
Crystal Tribe Witch?
Shao Xuan thought of what Gu Wu had said, and looked at the middle-aged man's eyebrows.
There was no third eye as the witch had spoken, but there was a vertical line at the center of the man's eyebrows.
It should be him. Shao Xuan said secretly.
The three people in front of them tightly protected the middle-aged man behind them, and when they were about twenty meters away from Shao Xuan and them, they stopped approaching. Not only them, but the other people from the Jing tribe who came over also looked nervous, wary and uneasy.
The middle-aged man raised his hand and gently flicked the three warriors in front of him, and the three warriors hesitated and moved sideways, but their eyes were still fixed on Shao Xuan and them, looking at that, if Shao Xuan and them made any changes, they would immediately pull the middle-aged man back.
The weather was already very hot at this time, and the lower reaches of the Yan River seemed to be hotter than the upstream, and because of this, some of the tribesmen that Shao Xuan and they met on the way to the boat were wearing less on their bodies, and most of their skin was exposed to the sun. The people of the Gu tribe also wore some linen cloth and some rope nets. However, the people of the Jing tribe are not so complicated, and many of the warriors who came over were basically naked, with only a little cover and protection on their waists and feet.
The brightly colored paintings on their bodies also became more visible as the distance between the two sides narrowed.
If it's anything else, forget it, the people of the Jing tribe are painted with eyes!
The people of the Hui tribe like the cloud pattern, the Gu tribe likes the reticulation pattern, and the people of the Jing tribe like the "eye" pattern. The totem of their tribe looks like three puffed up eyes. The patterns painted on the totem warriors of the Jing tribe are mostly eye lines, but their painting skills are not bad, the colors are different and quite layered, it looks like there are countless eyes on the body, and the bright color is reflected against the tanned skin, which highlights the existence of those "eyes".
People with dense phobia will probably feel nauseous and nervous when they see the people of the Jing tribe, and they will not be able to look directly.
They wear less, but they have a lot of ornaments on them.
The ones hanging on the ears, the ones on the neck, the chains on the wrists, waists, feet, etc., are all ornaments made of earth eye stones, and with the eyes painted on their bodies, people look at it at a glance, as if they are stared at by countless eyes, and their hearts are panicked.
"Are you from Yanjiao?" asked the middle-aged man who came out.
"Not bad. Shao Xuan could hear that the people of the Jing tribe should have heard of the "Yanjiao tribe", but they didn't know which version they had heard, looking at their nervous appearance, and then thinking about their relationship with the Gu tribe, the version that the Jing tribe knew would definitely not be a more true version, maybe there were more gossipy myopic eyes of the sub-tribes.
"What is the matter with you?" the man asked again.
"We just came from the Gu tribe and have something we want to ask. Shao Xuan took out the cloth scroll that the witch had given him and threw it over.
The man caught the cloth roll, glanced at Shao Xuan suspiciously, and stayed on the cloth roll for two more seconds before opening it. Probably to see if there is anything else bad on the cloth roll, such as poison and other traps.
However, after seeing what was written on the cloth scroll, the man's tense expression eased slightly, "What did Zhen write?"
The name of the witch is "Zhen", so after Jingwu said the name, Shao Xuan nodded.
Gu Wu had already written the general situation on the cloth scroll, and after the man read it, he raised his hand so that the person behind him did not need to be overly nervous, and turned to Shao Xuan and said, "Please." ”
This is the meaning of agreeing to Shao Xuan's entry into the Jing tribe for detailed discussions.
Shao Xuan still only brought half of the people over, leaving half to guard the boat. (To be continued.) )