When Jiang Heng and the others set off from Shire Town, it was still bright and early in the morning, but now it was already a warm yellow sunset.

Yao, who was sinking in the west, with a residual temperature, submerged his figure into the western sky little by little. The bird was concerned about the young chicks in the nest and flapped its wings in a daze. The beast missed the warmth of the cave and dragged back with tired steps. Against this goose-yellow background, it seems that everything is calming down.

Feeling the smell of the leaves drifting and listening to the murmuring of the water beside him, Jiang Heng seemed to forget how long they had been gone. He had an indescribable familiarity with the sunset, very nostalgic, very warm, but at the same time, it was very sad for him.

It seemed that he could always see that he was standing at the mouth of a dilapidated alley, and next to him stood a little boy who looked very similar to him, waiting for something together. Wait, wait, I don't know how long it took. Wait until a tall figure, with his back to the sunset, can't see his face clearly. He appeared slowly, from far to near, carrying the day's harvest on his back, walked up to them with a smile, stretched out his rough hands and touched their heads, "Let's go, let's go home." ”......

"Your Excellency Jiang Heng, Your Excellency Jiang Heng!" Pu Bulin's voice shook in his ears.

"Ah, what's wrong, what's wrong?" Jiang Heng was suddenly awakened, and only then did he notice that Meisha, Publing, and Lockty were surrounding him, looking at him with concerned eyes. And only then did he notice that the corners of his eyes were moist, and the traces of two lines of tears across his face were still clear.

"Your Excellency Jiang Heng, are you okay? After I finished speaking just now, I didn't hear your response, and I found that you were staying there. Publin looked visibly worried.

He just talked about himself as he walked, and after speaking, he didn't hear Jiang Heng talk for a long time, turned his head, and no one was there. Looking back, the kid was facing the sunset in the distance, staring at tears, almost thinking that he was a lover.

Meisha explained on the side, "Patriarch Pubulin, don't worry, this is the young master's usual old problem, he often immerses himself in his own world without knowing when, and the whole person is frozen. "It seems that Messa has long been surprised.

"That's right, Patriarch Pubulin," Jiang Heng hurriedly smirked, dispelling the worries of others about him I didn't know what to think just now, by the way, what did you just say?"

Pu Bulin looked at Jiang Heng as if there was nothing left, so he sighed, and didn't care that Meisha and Lockty were still beside him.

"Ever since Carl and his group of seven men disappeared, I have warned the rest of the clan not to enter the interior of the Eya Grand Canyon again. Just to find them, I sent a team of sentinels to guard the entrance to the canyon, and told them to send their own tamers to search the canyon inside. ”

"Taming beasts?" Jiang Heng didn't hear this word for the first time, "I've read in textbooks before that many Inhumans who are close to nature can tame demonic beasts for their own use. ”

Publin waved his hand, "This is not an advanced technique, in fact, it is similar to your human race taming the demonic beasts, except that we are in a more peaceful way, close to them, live together, and coexist as equals." ”

"And we Terrans," Jiang Heng's tone seemed stiff, "taming low-level demonic beasts will remove the wildness from their next generation, and high-level demonic beasts will directly submit by force." ”

Slightly self-deprecating, "Compared to this, our Terrans seem to be more savage." ”

Pubulin didn't say anything, and seemed to agree with Jiang Heng's point of view.

"By the way, Patriarch Pubulin, can you show us your tamer?"

"Absolutely. Pubrin smiled and whistled with his fingers. A crisp whistle was followed by a long whistle.

A goshawk flew out of the far forest and landed on Publing's outstretched arm. It was the size of one of Publin's hands, with black feathers, wings and a few white stripes on its belly, a pair of eagle eyes that were piercing, a kind of arrogance that flowed from the eyes, and the most striking thing was the handful of golden retrievers on the top of its head.

"Hey, little Kim!" said Locky greeted the goshawk as soon as he saw it. And the goshawk, Xiao Jin, responded with a chirp.

Pubrin looked at it with a smile, "This is my companion who has followed me for seventeen years, Little Kim. ”

With that, Publin threw his arm, and Jin flew into the sky, and then hid in the forest.

Pubulin looked in the direction of Kim's departure, "Wherever I go, it always follows me and moves around me. ”

Jiang Heng nodded thoughtfully, "This is a black eagle, judging by its size, it should already be an adult, but the white lines on its body and the golden feather on its head are not what ordinary black eagles should have." I feel like its strength has reached the White Feather level, is it a mutant?"

"That's right. Pu Bulin stared at Jiang Heng with some surprise, "When Xiao Jin was still in the egg, he was picked up by me." In order to protect it, its mother died along with the rock crystal python that came to attack the eagle's nest, and I bumped into it, so I hatched Xiaojin out. ”

Publing looked in the direction of Xiao Jin's departure, "At that time, it was the most ferocious time for the Black Eagle to hatch eggs, and the average rock crystal python would not look for fault at that time, and later I found out that Xiao Jin was a mutant, so I thought it should be Xiao Jin, who attracted the rock crystal python at that time." ”

Pubrin suddenly remembered something, "No, I didn't mean to introduce Xiao Jin, alas, really, it's all disrupted by you." ”

Embarrassed, Jiang Heng finally realized that his topic had gone astray, "Then I'm sorry to disrupt your train of thought, please continue." ”

Pubrin coughed and began to speak.

"We Green Forest people have a racial talent, we can achieve spiritual communication with our own tamers, and the senses of both sides of the interpretation are interconnected, and we can also use the eyes of the tamers to find the missing people. ”

"However, not a single one was found. But we found a lot of strange traces, and it was the same as I mentioned before, there were many signs of artificial cover-up, apparently being dealt with, and I guess those people had cleaned not only their own areas of activity, but also many other areas to confuse the public. That's why we can't find anything of value. ”

As he spoke, Pubrin began to look frightened, "As a result, our people began to disappear continuously. ”

Seeing the obviously stunned expressions on Jiang Heng and Mei Sha's faces, Pu Bulin continued, "First I went out every day to collect medicine and fruits, and then I went hunting, and even just left the clan territory for a while. All are missing. ”

Jiang Heng could understand the staggered mood of anger and panic in Pubulin's heart, after all, it was all written on his face.

"However, the missing clansmen are all ordinary people, and whenever a clansman with extraordinary strength goes to investigate, the traces are always cleaned up, and no clues are left. ”

"Based on the clean handling of the scene, I can conclude that someone must have arrested our people who went out, and they were definitely in league with those in the canyon. ”

"Then did you do anything to deal with it?" Jiang Heng asked.

"Of course I did. Pubrin sighed, "We began to restrict the outings of our clansmen, and when it was necessary to go out, we generally only sent transcendents to travel. It's just that despite this, even if you are extraordinary, you will sometimes disappear when you travel alone. ”

"And we Greenwooders are not alone, we have sent people to other Inhuman territory to warn, only to bring back the news that they have more or less disappeared as well. ”

"The large-scale collective disappearance of the Inhumans?" Jiang Heng curled the slender hair in front of his forehead with his fingers, which was his usual action when thinking, "And the murderers are most likely Terrans, could it be those slave traders?"

In the continent except for the origin, it can basically be regarded as a barbarian land, and there are various systems, such as federalism, empire, tribalism, parliament, and so on. In various backward civilization systems, slaves occupy an indispensable position.

Agricultural production, industrial manufacturing, serving the upper classes, and even in barbaric places, would be used for sacrifice. It is no exaggeration to say that in these systems, slaves were the cornerstone of their civilizations. Much of their slow development was driven by slaves.

Thus, in the eyes of the shrewd Terran merchants, the slave trade was simply a profitable business, and their goods became slaves, and they themselves became slave traders. I remember that in the early years, during the period of great expansion of mankind, the general law had not yet been formulated, and all kinds of chaos and darkness were vividly expressed in the process of barbaric development.

They sow discord, smuggle arms, cause wars, buy prisoners of war, and make war money, and I don't know how many low-level civilians and Inhumans of the human race have become slaves. Some powerful slave owners even had rich, well-armed private armies.

It was a time when all the Inhumans that the Terrans came into contact with, and it was also the most controversial time for the Terrans.

It was not until about 70 years ago that under the integration of the five major forces of the Terran race, the general law of the continent to guarantee the basic rights of civilians appeared. The general law of the continent is recognized by all human powers, even most of the Inhumans, humanoids.

The Act had been enacted, and it was immediately enforced in earnest, and countless slave owners and their dogs were sent to the gallows, and the slaves, who had no hope, were reverted to civilian status.

The general law of the continent also established the status of the human race, establishing its prestige to other races, but it was ......

Even if the magic crystal lamp is bright, there is darkness that cannot be illuminated, and the huge profits brought by slave smuggling are unimaginable by normal enterprises, so the reckless man who wants money and does not want to die, no, it should be a profiteer, and there are many people.

It's just that the direction of their actions has changed, and their main trade object is a civilization that promotes slavery like orcs or other races, and their main commodity is the weak Inhumans, after all, in the Terran territory, it is really not so easy to carry out the slave trade. As for the means, cheating and abduction are the most basic. Their smuggling methods have been repeated repeatedly.

So, to this day, this sordid trade still exists in the blind spot of the Terran enforcers.

"I thought it might have been done by slave traders, but I soon dismissed the idea. Pubrin shook his head.

"Why, what is the basis?" Jiang Heng asked.

"I've been monitoring all the routes out of the Grand Canyon of Eya and into the rest of the region with the other Inhumans, and if you're going to transport slaves, you'll have to take one of them, but there's been no news of that yet. ”

"Could it be that there is a secret passage from the Eya Grand Canyon that leads to the area you have blocked?" Jiang Heng asked tentatively.

"It's also unlikely, not to mention whether the Eya Grand Canyon has a direct passage to the outside to avoid our blockade line, just the area that we have united with the various races to blockade directly covers the entire forest and touches the Terran border, how long a passage is needed. The most important thing is that if there is to be a slave trade, there must be a suitable buyer, at least in the western part of the continent that I know, there is no such kind of racial civilization, and if you want to ship it further afield, the cost is not enough!"

Jiang Heng looked at the old man's words, and couldn't help but think in his heart, "Did the Pubulin Patriarch do this when he was young?"

"So I have a bold guess that all the captives and other races, as well as the Terrans who kidnapped them, are still inside the Grand Canyon of Eia. ”

After saying that, he sighed, "It's just a pity that we don't have the ability to explore the entire Eya Grand Canyon. ”

"The Grand Canyon of Eya has the title of 'Eye of the Continent', not to mention its vast area, the intricate anthill-like burrows and intertwined branches-like cracks alone are enough to trap a well-equipped but unfamiliar Terran team inside. You didn't search rashly, it was the right decision. Jiang Heng enlightened Pubulin.

"Well, you're right. We don't have the ability, so I thought of you. Pu Bulin said, staring at Jiang Heng's eyes.

"So, I thought of seeking the help of your people, and you have the ability. He bent down suddenly, "So please save my people." ”

"Grandpa, what are you doing!" Lockty exclaimed beside him, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Grandpa up.

Jing Xing and Mei Sha also hurriedly stepped forward to help, "Patriarch Pubulin, you are serious, don't worry." ”

Jiang Heng said, pulled out his sword, and held it in front of his eyes, "I'm far away...... No, I swear in the name of my sword that I will help you. ”

When Jiang Heng said this, a serious aura suddenly filled the whole person.

Meisha was very surprised, "Young Master, you ......" Before she could say anything, she saw Jiang Heng closing her eyes and shaking her head at her, she had no choice but to close her mouth.

"Then, on behalf of us Green Forest people, I would like to express my gratitude to you. Publin also knew that what he had just done was a bit excessive. He straightened up and continued to take Jiang Heng and them in the direction of the tribe.

It's just that what he didn't notice was that a few bits of white light submerged into Jiang Heng's body and the sword in his hand.

After walking for a while, just as Yao was about to completely submerge into the West Mountain.

They reached a small river, "Here we are," Publin turned back and said to Jiang Heng and Meisha with a smile, "Welcome to our tribe of the Green Forest People." ”

On the other side of the river, there was an open field, and several wooden houses rose from the ground, surrounded by stout trees, and many green forest people walked through them, young men and women smiling and working, drying their fruits, and handling their prey. Young children gather in twos and threes, swinging and playing with the canes hanging from the tree trunks. The old man sat on the wooden chair in front of his house, his eyes slightly closed, admiring the gradually falling yao. They depend on the forest for their survival, and they take the protection of the forest as a totemic belief, symbolizing that they are the people of the forest.

"I thought," Jiang Heng was obviously surprised, "the atmosphere here should be a little more sluggish." ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" said Publin smiled proudly, "but the rangers don't allow the people of the forest to have no hope of living. ”

His gaze crossed the river and stared at the rows of wooden houses, as the last rays of light swept across their roofs, refracting a warm orange yellow.

The lights are on.