Chapter 44: The Tribe That Will Be Perished
The priest was none other than Atun Hokhin, but because of the language barrier between the two tribes, he did not give a villainous death speech, but came up to exert his predatory powers: he took out a vial full of snake venom and transferred the venom of the snake to the air around Hado. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hadu immediately sensed something was wrong in the air around him, but after he had robbed the emperor penguin's ability to hold his breath, it didn't limit him too much, at best he couldn't breathe. But then Hadu sensed something was wrong: Atonhokhin was using the desert horned viper's venom, which is highly permeable, absorbs on skin contact, and acts quickly in the body. Its main toxicology is that the venom contains a large dose of phospholipase A2, which is released into the blood in large quantities and can cause acute pancreatitis, septic shock, trauma and multi-organ failure.
Hado's face turned sharply from a healthy flush, and within a few breaths, it began to turn purple, then jet black, and scar-shaped purple-black patches appeared on his body. The more troublesome thing is that when the opposing high priest walks out, the nearby enemy troops retreat within 10 paces of him (based on the experience of many generations of high priests). Now only Shin'ne-Nu's own people remain by Hado's side, and Hado feels that if he doesn't find a solution quickly, he will soon be poisoned and killed.
In desperation, Hado turned his gaze to a young hunter who had been struck by the wind and was fainting to the ground.
Definition: "Plundering its healthy physical state." ”
He was only slightly dizzy, and it felt like he was being blown by a strong wind, and Hadu's long beard was blown out, but all the poisonous sores on his body disappeared, and his face returned to a ruddy appearance—and then he looked at the hunter who had been robbed of his health by Hadu, and his body was full of sores, and the poisonous water was leaving out of his body, emitting an extremely unpleasant smell.
The other hunters who were still awake couldn't help but shudder when they saw their companions end up like this: the leader took the life of a man to save himself, and he could still understand that if the enemy kept releasing venom, wouldn't he take the lives of all his own people here? As soon as this thought came to his mind, he looked at Hadu inexorably, and began to move within 10 paces of him—and Hadu stared at Atunhokhin with great annoyance, ignoring the surprised expressions and small movements of his people.
As the hunters thought, Atonhokhin intended to create a wedge between Hadu and his people by constantly causing trouble for him. Many years ago, the former high priest Akun Mod pointed out that the declining population base of the "Shin'ne-Nu" has led to a loose population structure of the tribe, and if Hado is indeed "immortal" as rumored, there will inevitably be some difference in thinking (i.e., generation gap) between Hado and the new generation, and if the impact of these differences can be amplified, it will lead to a growing sense of distrust among the tribesmen, and the outlier effect experienced by Hadu will become more and more serious. Following this guiding ideology, Atenhokhin came up with a rough five-step plan:
1. Waging war against "Shin'ne-Nu", launching a poisonous attack on Hadu when he joins the battlefield, and ensuring that his own military strength is avoided within 10 steps (including the air), he will inevitably save his life by plundering the health of his people, which will cause psychological pressure on his people;
2. In the case of an effective poison attack, besiege "Shin'ne-Nu" for a long time and consume all the grain stored by the tribe to force Hadu to come forward for a decisive battle, and in order to prevent himself from continuing to be harmed by the toxin, he will inevitably bring a sufficient number of clansmen with him during the decisive battle, which will cause more clansmen to die of poison, and the contradiction between the two will continue to deepen;
3. In order to avoid the harassment of the pharaoh, Hadu, who was ostracized by the tribe, could only be captured in the end, so when the pharaoh conquered the tribe, Atonhokhin interceded for Hadu and let the pharaoh treat him lightly.
Well, we don't need to look at the last two steps, the first few steps of the plan can already clearly see the level of Atenhokhin's IQ. Admittedly, these plans are very creative (or too idealistic and brain-dead), but the next steps are largely unexecutable except for the first step, which is still successful.
This is because ...
Hadu is not stupid, after thinking about the health state of the predators, of course, he also thinks of the state of "not being poisoned" by the predators, although the predated subjects will no longer show a hereditary state of immunity from poison, but this is better than being directly poisoned, it is better to use various excuses to prohibit them to give birth - then Hadu has made some progress in the dark belly over the years.
However, Adon Hoshin didn't know these things, I saw him take out another vial with a smile on his face, and the faces of the hunters around him changed greatly, but he saw Hadu make a move to the side with a smile, and then he stood in place without fear and waited for Aten Hoshin's action. There was something strange in Atunhokhin's heart, but he didn't think so much about it, but continued to move in his hands. Then I saw some ripples in the air around Hado (the refractive index is affected by the different composition of the air), but Hadu smiled and breathed vigorously.
It's okay.. !
Hadu glanced narrowly at Atonhokhine, as if to say, "It's up to you." ?
Seeing that the other party did not enter the poisoned state again, Aton Hoshin's face also began to be a little uncertain: he did feel a little at a loss, the original plan was quite perfect, and the first step was also very good, how could he win or defeat in an instant. ?
This also starts with Akun Mod's instructions, what the high priest said is to use the action of sowing discord as a tactical means, and he will never act casually unless he has to—the strength shown by Hadu is not something that can be defeated with a little poison. Atonhokhine, on the other hand, has used sowing discord as a strategic tool. He thinks that a single strategic use can bring Hadu to the point of no return, but he doesn't know that this is just a political tactic that people thought of to fight Hadu in a short period of time in order to gain a gap in negotiations.
But if this tactic is used as an indomitable strategy, there is a big problem: there has been a hundred and ten years of peace between the "Shin'ne-Nu" and the pharaohs, and the two have not been in a state of war at all for many years, nor have they reached the point of being unable to attack for a long time and stalemate. Using snake venom at this time, once it is cracked by Hadu, Pharaoh will have no way to calm Hadu's anger, let alone delay until the negotiations.
The diplomacy of this era is not something that can be relieved by saying "not recognizing Atonhokhine's behavior as an official act", after all, there is no actual interaction between the two tribes, and there is no diplomatic relationship (not even a neutral relationship), which makes the angry Hado attack the Valley of the Kings again, as he did last time, so that the pharaoh's face will not look good.
So now this is the situation: Hado immediately found a solution. Funnily enough, Atonhokhin only thought about executing his so-called plan step by step, but did not think about what to do if the plan went wrong. What is even more strange is that in this raid, not a single junior officer was allowed to charge forward with the army, and all the leadership work was actually done by Atun Hokhin himself.
The strange situation and the sudden outbreak of war also aroused Hado's suspicions: it was possible that the pharaoh was making overtures to the tribe.
This speculation is well founded: when friendly relations were concluded again, Pharaoh Zhel hinted at Hado's distrust of the predators within the dynasty. Since these powerful people were even more powerful than the pharaohs, they actually shook the rule of the pharaohs on the basis of dynasties, and although the pharaohs were able to compete with the predators by various means after many generations, this kind of contempt for themselves under their own rule would really make all the pharaohs dissatisfied. However, the predators have a long history, and they have laid down the foundation for the dynasty and solved difficulties several times in history (such as the conquest of Lower Egypt by Upper Egypt, and it was the predators who played a key role), and they did fight for the interests and power of the pharaoh. And to Pharaoh's regret, he has not found the origin and origin of the predators for so many years, and why there are so many predators in this world is also a headache.
This matter has also troubled Hadu, who has encountered many people with predatory abilities in the past few thousand years, and their abilities are strange and their experiences are not the same, but specifically, why did they gain predatory abilities, which no one can explain. Just as Hado can plunder all things in nature, the Egger clan can plunder emotions and feelings to construct scenes, and the ancient Egyptian high priest can plunder portraits, is it just to better let his people have a living space? Hadu thinks that no, on the contrary, there is no difficulty in obtaining living space, and what is difficult is to continue to develop and grow after obtaining living space. After all, there was also a period of great prosperity in the history of "Shin'ne-Nu", and how this period came into being and how it declined may be the question that he needs to consider after gaining the ability to predate.
Of course, Hadu didn't figure it out either.
As for Pharaoh's possible overtures, Hadu was not very satisfied: the current state of the tribe was unknown (he himself could not see it), so he wanted to send the high priest to the door to receive the fate (or to get rid of Atun Hokhin with Hado's hand) as a sign that the friendship between the two tribes would last forever, but the raid still brought casualties to his tribe (Hadu did not know how to resurrect the dead). Although Hadu himself was quite indifferent to the lives of his people, it would be really out of bounds to kill his usual companions in front of his eyes (which is not such a thing at all).
Thinking about it this way, Hadu can also understand the good intentions of the current pharaoh, after all, the high priest as a party will definitely not be willing to stay where he is, they will definitely develop outward to conquer the territory, and this kind of thing will often become a high meritorious, so instead of a thankless suppression of them, it is better to open a vent and let the high priest go out to fight hard. Even in the Pharaoh's lineage, Hado's strength is indicated, and if he makes such a surprise attack, it will definitely be a big defeat - of course, it would be great if it can affect the strength level of Hadu or "Shin'ne-Nu".
Obviously, Atenhokhin was also stupid at this time, he couldn't believe that his brain-racking and painstaking plan could not go forward after only taking one step. On the opposite side was Hadu, whose face was covered in frost, beside him was the crack that had fallen into the slave army, and behind him was the Heavenly Demon who had been pierced through the body by iron thorns and could not move, and the hunters on both wings were surrounded by fire in their eyes, making Atonhokhin covered in cold sweat and in a dilemma.
The rest of the matter was easier to solve: Atonhokhine's plundering ability was actually very weak, and his own imagination was relatively lacking, and after a few raids, he was cracked by Hado, and then he desperately struggled to be captured, so the hunters each saw Atonhokhin as mud with a knife and an axe.
Although the raid was a failure, the hunters looked at Hadu with a little more meaning: they had thought that the extremely long-lived "leader" was taking care of his people, but now they found that he was so indifferent. This psychological change led to an increase in the number of people who moved out of the tribe until there was no one in the tribe.
However, Hadu did not have so much psychological pressure to return to the "Falie" cave, and this time he planned to add some murals in the cave corridor, especially with ancient Egyptian gold to add some decoration, showing the process of the raid in the form of murals. He also paints in a peculiar way: gold is melted, applied to the walls of caves, and then a variety of colored ores and fuels are added to the molten environment, resulting in a vivid war mural. Halfway through the drawing, he found that there was not enough gold, so he had a good excuse to go to Pharaoh to "replenish" some of the gold—and by the way, to scavenge for more literature on the ability to plunder.
Coming out of the "Fa Lie" cave, he first went to the tribal camp to transfer troops and generals, and prepared to carry out a "surprise operation" with a large army, but the hunters either deduced that the injuries were not healed, or on the pretext that the tribe was overburdened, and no one wanted to go with Hadu. Hadu himself knew what the clansmen were thinking, so he didn't force it anymore, but embarked on the road of "conquering" the Valley of the Kings alone.
From the steppe to the first waterfall of the Nile, ancient Egyptian scouts discovered Hado and immediately reported it to the nearby defenders. The leader of the defenders was a high-ranking officer wearing a partridge tail feather, and he also knew some of the inside story of this senseless raid. When the officer heard the reconnaissance report, the first thing the officer thought of was that the raid had been successful, and that Hadu had indeed come to the dynasty to ask for an explanation; then when he heard the second reconnaissance report, which said that Hadu had come alone without any other subordinates by his side, the officer judged that at least the first step of the plan had been successful; and when he heard the third report that the front-line soldiers had encountered Hadu, but the other side had calmly and not launched an attack, the officer shook his head in disappointment - it seemed that the plan had only succeeded in the first step.
Then it was time for Hadu to negotiate with Pharaoh, because the Nile was still rich in products, and there were many animal and plant products that were not available in the grassland, Hadu really enjoyed the treatment that Pharaoh had - it was a thank you gift from Pharaoh to compensate Hadu. What happened was not so pleasant: Hado declared that he needed a sufficient amount of gold as a "gift of friendship between the two tribes", but the amount of gold needed angered Pharaoh - Hadu demanded 6,000 men of gold as war reparations, considering that the Valley of the Kings produced only 1,200 men of gold a year, which meant that Pharaoh would not have gold for five years. !
This request was rejected by Pharaoh without hesitation, and then. Hadu took out the vial of snake venom that Atonhokhin had brought with him. As a result of comprehending the "reverse definition", Hadu was also able to transfer the poison of the snake venom into the air around Pharaoh's body, and indeed he was able to return the favor to the other in the other way. Threatened by this, Pharaoh lowered his eyes, but did not waver in the slightest. Hadu waited for a while and did not see the Pharaoh give in, so he stood up abruptly, with a smile on his lips, and turned and walked out of the Pharaoh's palace.
In fact, Hado only wanted to see if a ruler like Pharaoh would succumb to the coercion of the predators, and he didn't really want to be an enemy. Since the previous high priests of ancient Egypt could think of using poison to force Hado, then Pharaoh may not have other ways to find out Hado's weaknesses and weaknesses, which formed a relative deterrent and allowed the two tribes to survive peacefully. As for gold, it was really easy for Hado, even if it weighed 6,000 people.
This visit to ancient Egypt, Hadu was more comfortable: since the tribesmen did not want to come out with him, then he did not have to worry about eating and drinking, he just needed to do what he wanted to do freely. After thinking about it for so many years, it seemed that it had been a long time since I had seen the descendants of the Egger clan, and the last time I heard that most of their clansmen had moved to the other side of the blue sea. Over the years, Hadu has been active on the African continent for most of his life, and although he has also visited Antarctica by chance, he has not been out of Africa most of the time. Hadu inquired about the direction of the Sea of Blood, and Pharaoh was relieved to be able to send away such a scourge, so he pointed in the direction of the Sinai Peninsula and gave him a caravan of camels to walk.
Hado was repairing in the White City near Lower Egypt, but he heard some news about the "unsinkable lake", which is rumored to be a lake in the northeast of the Sinai Peninsula, probably near a Semitic settlement, where nothing sinks, where vegetation and animals are extinct, and there is only a dead pool in the vast area.
The news intrigued Hadu - he sensed that his predatory abilities might be able to break through again.