Chapter 176: A Thousand Faces
The man standing on the branch was dressed in a fur without hair, but a more finely treated skin. The markings on the animal's skin coat look very similar to this mountain forest, dark green and light green are intertwined, and if the breath is hidden in the woods, it will definitely be difficult for people to notice.
This kind of dress is actually not a special case, when the temperature is a little warmer, many people Shao Xuan has seen will wear such animal skin clothes. And the man on the branch, the most special thing is the mask on his face.
At first glance, it looks like a mask with patterns specially worn, but in fact, this mask is a part of their facial bones, and the lines on those masks are totemic patterns that appear due to the power of totems.
The invisible murderous aura spread, and the surrounding birds that were originally pecking at carrion also rushed to flap their wings and leave.
There were a lot of birds gathered in the corpse pile, and these birds flew up at the same time, as if a black veil had been opened, and the figure on the opposite side also seemed faint.
Swallowing his saliva, he clenched the stone knife in his hand, the tip of the knife unconsciously facing that side, guarding against the person who appeared. When the other party appeared, he didn't even notice it at all!
At the same time as the birds flew, a figure leaped down from a height, and like lightning, it split the black curtain of scavenging birds, and went straight to the scavenger, and slashed at it.
There is no superfluous movement, just this knife, but this knife makes Mo feel as if there are tens of millions, the blade is slashed head-on, and the power from this knife comes instantly, it seems that no matter where he hides, this stone knife will chase after him.
His expression froze, and his body seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, wanting to struggle, but his body didn't listen to him, struggled away, and tried to dodge again. But it's no longer possible!
At this moment, I regretted it, quite regretted it.
Why do you want to come here? Drag the deer away? What did grandpa say before leaving the tribe, don't be overly curious, if you find something abnormal, you should leave far away!
I smelled the clearest breath of death in my life. Maybe the next moment, he will be like those people in the corpse pile, and he will be thrown here with a knife, and become food for those scavenging birds in the sky.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed him by the shoulders and dragged him back sharply, and a very sharpened stone knife appeared on his head, blocking the head-on slash. The two sides collided without any fancy touches, and where they collided, thin fragments of stone knives splattered.
Under the sword qi of both sides, the hearts of the people beating wildly, there was a sense of trembling for the rest of their lives. But he also knew that now was not the time to think too much, if it weren't for Shao Xuan, he would have ended up with those people in the corpse pile. Standing here, he couldn't help, so he hurriedly moved a few steps back to make more room for Shao Xuan.
Although the momentum of the other party is very strong. Just now, he was suppressed by this sudden momentum, and he didn't react immediately. But for the hunters who often fight with those fierce beasts in the mountains and forests, Shao Xuan has also faced fierce beasts that are good at hiding and assaulting, so he can naturally deal with them.
He held the hilt of the stone knife in one hand, and after shaking off the sword with the other, he put the back of the knife on the palm of his hand and held the knife in both hands. Hold the other party's sudden knife.
If it was an ordinary stone knife, if it was hard to stand this one, it would probably be scrapped in an instant, and the one that Shao Xuan was holding now was a knife given to Shao Xuan by Wu. It is also one of the stone tools he brought back when he found the ancestor from the territory of the stone insect king insect, and when he left the tribe, Wu specially had someone polish it and bring it to Shao Xuan.
When he left the tribe, he brought with him, except for the tooth knife that Lao Ke had sharpened again, this one. The tooth knife has been polished several times and has shrunk a lot, and this stone knife is larger, and Shao Xuan uses this one when he fights with people on weekdays.
The moment he held this knife, Shao Xuan felt a strong sword aura, and the stone knife hit his arms directly. However, Shao Xuan was not afraid, and his arm with totem patterns violently pushed the other party out.
The two people who were pushed away quickly retreated until they retreated under the tree he was standing under just now, staring at Shao Xuan, and the eyes that emerged from the mask were full of doubt and surprise.
While wondering whether to take out the stinger from the leather pouch, the masked man quickly left without attacking them again.
After carefully perceiving his surroundings, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
From the other party's sudden outburst, to Shao Xuan's blocking of the other party, the confrontation was quiet for a moment, and then to the separation of the two sides, and the other party's departure, it was just a breath of time.
I thought that if I could skillfully control how to use frog poison, I would have the ability to protect myself, but now it seems that I am still very tender, and many times the absolute strength is suppressed, and I will not give you time to use poison at all.
Now he can still clearly recall the cold feeling that when he was slashed head-on by that knife just now, there was nowhere to escape, and it seemed that the blood in his whole body was frozen.
"I'm scared to death!" he gasped for a long time, not disgusted by the rancid smell here, even if it was a more foul smell, it was better than death.
"Thank you, Shao Xuan, if it weren't for you, I would be the same as those people. He said. He didn't expect that Shao Xuan would be so powerful, he thought that this person who appeared with the Yu tribe was just an unknown small tribesman, but he didn't expect that he was younger than himself, but his strength was stronger than himself. No wonder before leaving, his grandfather asked him to follow Shao Xuan on the road, but he didn't say that he should follow other people from the Pu tribe, thinking about it, the old man had already seen who was strong and who was weak, and sure enough, in terms of eyesight, he was not as good as the old man at home.
"Let's get out of here. Shao Xuan looked at the scavenging birds that flew down again and said.
"Yes, yes, let's get out of here. Then he turned and ran, ran a few steps, turned a corner, and walked towards the deer.
The poison on the quiver from the blowgun was so strong that the deer was still lying there.
He didn't care about slaughtering the deer, he dragged the deer away, and now he just wanted to leave such a place full of death. It's no wonder that those in the long-distance team rushed to avoid tribal wars as soon as they encountered them, and they would really be implicated.
When he finally saw the team resting on the shore and met the people moving around, he slowed down. At this time, he remembered the doubts just now and looked at Shao Xuan: "You said, which tribe was that person from just now? ”
Shao Xuan thought back to the other party's mask face and said, "Thousand faces." ”
Such a tribe, as far as Shao Xuan knows, is only one, and it is also the first one that Shao Xuan has seen so far, and the people of the tribe recorded on the animal skin scroll handed down by the ancestors of the Yanjiao tribe - the Thousand Faces Tribe.
According to the records of the ancestors, after the totemic warriors in this tribe awakened, they would form masks with their own characteristics, and that kind of mask was actually when the power of the totem was used, the bones of the face were specialized, covering the entire face.
The masks on each of the faces of the Thousand Faces Tribe are different, and even if they look the same, there will definitely be some small differences, as if no two leaves are the same.
In the tribe of a thousand faces, some people have very hideous masks, like evil spirits, while others are very ordinary or look very peaceful, some laugh, some are angry, and there are thousands of different masks for thousands of people. This is the tribe of a thousand faces.
And the totem pattern of the thousand-faced tribe is a strange mask, Shao Xuan has seen it on the wall of the stone chamber in the cave near the foot of the mountain of the Yanjiao tribe, behind the mural of the stone chamber, the pattern like a human face mask is the totem symbol of the thousand-faced tribe.
"Thousand Faces?" Hearing this word, he didn't react for a while, but after thinking about it, he recalled some things, and his face was shocked, "'Thousand Faces' tribe?!"
The Thousand-Faced Tribe is too far away for the Pu tribe people who have always lived in the marginal areas, but I have heard many people talk about the Thousand-Faced Tribe. Although it is just a few rumors, and many of them are somewhat exaggerated, it is undeniable that the Thousand Faces Tribe is a powerful tribe.
"What the hell did those people who were killed mess with the Thousand Faces Tribe? I remember that on the map they drew in the team, the place where the Thousand Faces Tribe was located was still a little far from here, and if it wasn't a big deal, they wouldn't have come here. "Speculation is that this seemingly tribal war is actually the cause of a one-sided massacre.
"Who knows. Shao Xuan said absentmindedly.
The tribe that can be recorded and remembered by the ancestors of the Yanjiao tribe and is still painted on the mural has to be on the same level as the Yanjiao tribe back then, if the strength is too different, it will not have the same attitude as the ancestors back then.
Since it is said that the Thousand Faces Tribe is a powerful tribe here, and it has always been very famous, then, was the Yanjiao Tribe also on the same level as the Thousand Faces Tribe back then?
Now Shao Xuan still can't know that nearly a thousand years have passed, some tribes have disappeared, new tribes have appeared, the prosperous have declined, and the declining have died, and there are also tribes that have changed from weak to strong, and there are tribes that have always been strong like the tribe of a thousand faces. It's just that no one remembers the Yanhorn tribe anymore.
It was a sad thing, and if the deceased ancestors of the tribe had known, they would have crawled out of the fire crying.
Not long after Shao Xuan and Yu returned to the Far Wanderer team, the people who had been sent out by several leaders to inquire about the situation also returned.
"The tribe that was slaughtered, I heard that it was to rob the fire crystals of the Thousand Faces Tribe, and also killed a few children of the Thousand Faces Tribe, and was chased to the lair, slaughtering the entire tribe, and the fire was extinguished. ”
"Tsk, how dare they mess with the people of the Thousand Faces Tribe?"
"That's it, isn't that looking for death? We usually meet those people of the big tribes, even if they are children, we don't dare to offend them. ”
Probably, those people thought they would do it without knowing it, but they didn't want to bring about a catastrophe. Or perhaps, they have also thought about it, but greed will always make them risk their lives.
Listening to the discussions of the people around him, Shao Xuan also had a different experience. Powerful tribes, even if they are children with weak combat power outside, there are many people who dare not mess with them, things like today, after all, are a minority, and most of them have the same thoughts as the travelers.
This is the influence of the big tribes, just hearing a name and seeing a totem can make people feel intimidated. (To be continued......)
ps: Make up for last night's update. R1292