With 5 natural powers at once, Hado really felt that this trip was worthwhile, not to mention that he had gained a lot in terms of "wealth definition". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In the end, he chose to use seismic waves on a large scale, rather than simply and rudely wasting this artistic treasure of nature into a mere weapon.

Hado felt that he had obtained the most valuable harvest this time, and there would be any natural forces to plunder after that, and he might not be able to see it. After settling the matter on the volcano's side, and turning back and forth to avoid leaving traces that might inspire the human race here, Hado and the others embarked on the path of wild exploration.

Now that they had already walked through the snow-capped Alps, Hado didn't want to do it again, so they had to head north along the Apennines and then move east. After all, he had seen the mountains on the west coast of the Adriatic Sea, and Hadu was feeling a little bored with the mountains, and this time he was going to go away from the coastline and go to the heart of the land to find out.

In this way, Hado's group traveled eastward along the foot of the Alps, first reaching the plains of the middle Danube, where they recorded the abundance of wild species and plant forms, and then turning towards the Sudetenland, all the way northeast, crossing the Vistula River. The Dnieper, skirting the Central Russian highlands, came to the colder but most extensive plain of Eastern Europe, and the aversion to the mountains followed him, so that he did not cross the Ural Mountains, but went south to the vicinity of the Black Sea, and then along the Greater Caucasus Mountains to the Caspian coast.

Just this long journey, circling between the mountains took more than 7 years, which was more than 40% more than Hadu originally expected to complete the blue sea land exploration in 5 years. And when he arrived at the Caspian coast, Hadu finally saw the people again—judging by the appearance of their clothing, they should not be a farming people, but a nomadic people like "Nil-lo": robes, face towels, and cross-crotch coverings. Wait.,It's not going to be.,The other party is the people of "Nil-lo".。。 ！

That's not a good sign. If the tribal people who thrive in the eastern part of the desert appear elsewhere, it only means two things: either the desert conditions are so deteriorating that the centaurs of the "Nil-lo" have to go out in search of a suitable place to regenerate, and the situation of the "Shin'ne-Nu" is not much better, or the "Nil-lo" tribe is extremely large, allowing them to have more men to go out and explore other areas, which is not the case for the "Shin'ne-Nu" It is also definitely a threat, whether it is land expansion or resource possession, it will be very problematic.

Worried, Hado beckoned the guards to approach the nomadic horse. With the level of ability he has reached now, there is no need to keep a low profile at all, and he will go directly in the direction of the other party. The other horse's team also noticed Hadu's party, and immediately sent a fast cavalry to rush to this side, and after seeing Hadu's ride, he seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then thought about how to phrase it, and then shouted to Hadu:

“？Yin-Luo_Fin'ne_He-Du_Izu'ul_Shin'ne-Nu。。 ？”

It means, "Are you Hadu from 'Shin'ne-Nu'? ？”

Hadu was also a little surprised when he heard this, the other party could actually recognize him, he lowered his eyes and observed it a little, and saw that he was riding a horse under him, with dazzling white hair, only the line of his back was shiny jet black, and he understood a little in his heart.

After answering that the other party was indeed his own, Hadu and his guards were quickly invited to the temporary camp of the nomadic horse team. The leader of the caravan was Anderkukod Egger's second nephew, Prisseff Egger, who led the caravan eastward in search of possible plains.

After understanding, I learned that something happened to "Shin'ne-Nu".

It all started with the volcanic eruption that Hado encountered, when the seismic waves from the volcanic eruption reached the desert area, turning the already loose sand dunes into a loose and dry mud swamp - the site of "Shin'ne-Nu" was okay and did not suffer much damage in the earthquake, but the other tribes were not so lucky, at least 15 human settlements were completely destroyed in the earthquake, and another 31 settlements faced irreversible catastrophic damage. As a result of the earthquake, most of the human settlements around the Blue Sea were widely displaced, with hungry tribes preying on other nearby surviving tribes like plague insects (locusts). The Shin'ne-Nu were of course one of the main targets of the victims, and at first the Ijun were able to resist a part of the main rice area, but later on, the number of victims was larger than the total population of the Shin'ne-Nu. Whether it was from the northwestern forests (present-day Morocco), the northern coast (present-day Libya), the Arctic Desert (present-day Mauritania), or the more humid west coast of the Sea of Blood (near present-day Port Sudan), the tribal people who were devastated by the earthquake used the desert hinterland with a more suitable climate.

In a protracted war between the victims and the Shin'ne-Nu clan, the hungry and red-eyed attacked with a hundredfold number of bare hands against the heavily armed Ijun and the chieftain's guards. The leaders of the tribe urgently activated the young hunters and riders who were still in the training stage to join the border defense, but even so, the number of victims continued to increase, and the pressure on the defense increased. In order to prevent the first line of defense from being breached, Hado's brother, Mordo, stepped forward and proposed to call for help from "Nil-lo" downstream of a nearby river. After the difficult opening of an information exchange channel, the two tribes came together, and then Mordo realized that the other party's life was not easy: the victims who had trekked from the two river basins surrounded the entire delta and the middle and lower river valleys, and had already caused damage to the downstream cultivated areas, reducing the grain production of the season by more than 30%.

While Mordu and Andkukod were in a state of frown, the younger leaders of the Iger clan, the brothers Prisefud and Owokukod, proposed at a high-level meeting of the clan that the cavalry of the two clans should open a patrol passage between the two clans' front lines, and let the horses drag wooden stakes with various sharp spears embedded in them to roam around the attack group of the victims. Mordo said he was puzzled by the proposal, but Andkukod thought it was a good idea, and when it was actually used, Mordo was surprised - the horses were moving along the front lines of the victims, and the victims would be involuntarily attracted to "fly" to the horrific spiked stakes and stab them to death. As the patrol force expanded, Mordoux saw Prisseff Egger constantly pick up and drop the stakes that were ready to be used, and Andkukod implied that his nephew had the same "abilities" as Hado.

The spiked stake has played a miraculous effect in the offensive and defensive battle, making the defense efficiency increase significantly, and being stabbed to death by the sharp stake is much more terrifying than cutting off the head and cutting off the waist, the latter is the head of the land, it can be regarded as a happy death, and the former is directly on the ground after the hole, bleeding not only can not move but also wail all over the sky, even the hungry victims look at the scalp is numb, the stomach is empty can be regurgitated, you can imagine how bloody and horrifying it is. Not immediately after being pierced, the smell of blood attracted the predators and scavengers that wandered nearby—wolves, eagles, hyenas, and spotted rats. Originally, these animals were still hesitant to attack the large human race, but when they saw these humans so weak, they couldn't help but fall to the ground, and they didn't care so much when they were shocked by the ground, they rushed over and feasted, and then they saw a fight between the victims and wild animals, and the pressure on the two races was greatly reduced.

The rear of the new site of "Shin'ne-Nu" is a high ridgeline, and there is a large lake area to the west, so the area that needs to be defended is relatively concentrated in the north and south, and after the cavalry patrol route is established, the pressure on the frontal line drops sharply, and the already precarious tribal defense is immediately stabilized. It was impossible for the tribe to accept foreign human tribes into the "Shin'ne-Nu" until Hado's return, not only because of food supply and density of residence, but also because of the deeper discussion of primitive worship and tribal loyalty. For the Shin'ne-Nu to survive from a corner of the grassland to the desert, it is essential to have a common ideological core and atheistic ideology – the people are trying as hard as they can for themselves, their fellow citizens, and the collective, rather than fighting for life and death for the sake of a leader or a god. As a result, it was impossible for the people to accept foreigners who had not been robbed of their loyalty and faith, and they would not even be allowed to give them even a little food to satisfy their hunger. The main reason why "Shin'ne-Nu" will attract so many victims is that before the natural disaster, Hadu acquiesced to the foreigners coming to exchange weapons, armor, rice, and craft utensils with the tribe with wood, hard stone, vegetable and fruit seeds, sea fish, etc., which also made these foreigners know that the tribe has a large amount of food reserves, so they also rushed to the tribe in the hope of taking advantage of the chaos to get some food.

However, it is a pity that due to the late development of cavalry patrol tactics, a large number of older generation "Yijun" were sacrificed on the frontal front, and even many Fang Yiyi adult hunters were sacrificed in battle. After the positive pressure subsided, the tribal leader began to count the casualties, and finally came up with heartbreaking data:

-infantry

-- 3,192 killed

-- 4,033 people were seriously injured

--- 1,007 people were seriously injured and died

--- 251 people were seriously injured and became permanently disabled

--- seriously injured 177 people with half of their bodies disabled

-- 2,528 people were slightly injured

-cavalry

-- 3,116 killed

-- 237 people were seriously injured

--- 16 people died of serious injuries

--- 79 people were permanently disabled due to serious injuries

--- seriously injured 29 people with half of their bodies disabled

--- was so seriously injured that 11 people were unable to ride

-- 2,380 people were slightly injured

- Civilian 972

-- 92 people were killed in a sneak attack by the victims

-- 386 people were killed or injured due to poor protection during the transportation of grain and grass

--The fish tank storage area was affected by the earthquake and capsized, killing 16 people

--31 underage hunters killed

-- 447 people were slightly injured

---- a total of 7,856 people were killed

This is the first time that such a large number of casualties has been encountered since the unification of the "Shin'ne-Nu", which inevitably immerses the people in a great pessimism. On the other hand, due to the blessing of various "black technologies", "Nil-lo" did a very good job of loss control, and Anderkukod also "retired with honor", and the outstanding Prissefud took over the position of clan chief, and his brother Ovukokid served as the deputy patriarch of the clan.

After the end of the Disaster Defense, both clans began to conduct in-depth research on disaster response, and thus embarked on two different paths: "Shin'ne-Nu" began to think and criticize their dependence on Hado, believing that they should reduce their interaction with the outside world, avoid ethnic annexation and faith wars, and move back to the grasslands after the super monsoon weakened, returning to their former dream homeland; It is believed that the delta at the mouth of the river is fertile, but it is not a good place to attack and defend, and it will bear the brunt of disasters in the event of a disaster, so it emphasizes that environmental transformation and environmental adaptation are carried out at the same time, and gradually expand to the surrounding areas, and the original exploration of the far area is brought back to the table.

While "Nil-lo" was already preparing to recover the two rivers, "Shin'ne-Nu" was struggling with the question of whether to go or stay, and they used to leave these headaches to Hado to choose and decide, until Hadu had been away from the tribe for so long and they remembered that there was no council in the tribe at all. Everyone just lived a step-by-step reproduction life, and did not think of reaching a certain high standard of living or ideological level (or Hadu did not have these ideas, and could not even instill these ideas into the clansmen), and when they actually encountered emergencies, they could only implement the "old" way of dealing with them. In fact, the people are deeply affected by the old plan - the living environment of the grassland and the desert is not the same at all. ？

This hesitation became calm and steady when Hadu triggered the artificial volcanic eruption: the tribe made a simple vote and unanimously agreed to return to the grasslands as soon as the super monsoon ended, and to make this decision a legacy to educate the people born later in the same philosophy. There is also a strong homesickness for Hadu's sister, and under the long-term torture of this emotion, he finally died soon. As her body weakened, she longed for her brother Hado, so Mordo asked Prisseff for help finding Hado, one of the more striking features of which was Hado's white coat and black back. Of course, this "missing person notice" was several years ago, and after the desert was stabilized, Prisseff began to explore the surrounding area again in search of a more suitable area for the people to live in. And this time he explored the vicinity of the Caspian Sea, it was the 19th time he had led the team out, and he happened to meet Hado.

Hearing about the tragic situation in his hometown, Hadu couldn't help but worry about it, and he wanted to hurry back to the new location of the tribe, but was stopped by Prisseff and told him a troublesome thing-

"Shin'ne-Nu" is undergoing a grand "Leader Re-election Ceremony".

This started more than a year ago, it was 5 years after Hadu left, and the tribe urgently needed a leader who supported the development of the tribe to lead the entire tribe - whether it was a step by step or a continuation of the past, there always needs to be someone to say. When the time came, Mordo's health was not good, his sister was bedridden, and the responsibility of being able to re-preside over the tribe was placed on the shoulders of the younger generation. And the criteria for selecting a new leader, of course, are measured by Hado's level and merits back then: physique, combat ability, combat level, craft and technical ability, etc.—and of course there are very few people who can really access all these resources, most of them are Hado's relatives and the families of those guards. This became the model before the unification of the steppes: the tribe had a high-level control over the overall distribution of the tribe's resources—one of the old systems that Hadu had been trying to break with.

If there is no solution to this problem, then Hado's return to the tribe will inevitably cause great embarrassment. Moreover, after all, the ideology of the tribe has changed, and if Hadu returns to the tribe like this, it will be a question whether he can make the tribe again. At this point, Prisseff suggested that Hadu challenge several of the current leadership candidates as an "anonymous challenger", and that most of the people around him who knew Hadu had gone with the wind, and as long as Hadu was masked, no one would recognize him. In this way, he won the victory on his own strength, and finally "won" the crown of the leader, and then did not mention the matter about the old system, and continued to average the resources, and the matter was solved.

Prisseford's suggestion is in Hadu's heart, he doesn't want to turn against his people as soon as he returns, he also hopes to let the new generation of people know themselves again - thinking of those old guys of the same generation, Hadu is also a little lonely in his heart.

However, it was not so easy to return to "Shin'ne-Nu" from the Caspian Sea, and they were now in the Karakum Desert, which was half sandy and half meadow, and they had to climb two mountains to reach the valley of the two rivers first, and then it would take about 30 rises and falls to return to the tribe - it was the rainy season, and the water in various places was huge, and it was extremely difficult to cross the river. Even though he was extremely disgusted with the mountains, Hadu set out on the way back to the tribe as soon as possible, regardless of whether the mountains were in front of him, the desert or the riverbank, and Prisseff accompanied him on the grounds of "taking care of his old friend", and ordered the Egger clan's personal soldiers to "protect" Hadu and his guards one after the other, sandwiching Hadu and them in the middle of the group.

Hadu, who was in a hurry, didn't think much about these details, he thought more about how to deal with the existing high-ranking people in the tribe. It's not that winning the so-called Leader's Crown will make things work out – that's just the first step. If he wants to go out to look for him in the future, then he must solve the problem of the system once and for all before he leaves next time. As for Prisseford's small actions, it is not something he needs to think about now: no matter what kind of action the opponent will have, with his ability, with his level, it is a matter of minutes. No one had ever risen to the supremacy of Hadu in this regard, so he was extremely confident that he would have the same abilities as before, and it was not necessary to say that he would take the Egger clan lightly, but he did not need to put so much effort into guarding against it.

But he didn't know that he was in the middle of a long-planned conspiracy.