A month and a half later.

The rainy season has passed, and it is now the dry season with hot and dry rain, but the endless Wangduan Mountains seem to be even more lush, and the leaves are green and black under the scorching sun.

It was nearly dusk, the sky was full of fire and clouds, the low-flying dragonflies were quite obscuring the sky, and the hysterical cicadas were chirping everywhere.

Lin Xiao, Bao Li and Lin Yan stood under a boulder at the back of the ridge, looking down, surrounded by a boundless bamboo sea swaying in the evening breeze, and only on this boulder above the bamboo sea could they see the distance clearly.

After a month of entrenchment in the Nihong Department and countless surprises, because the two-month appointment in the Cuiping River Valley was approaching, Lin Xiao had to leave with Leopard Li, and at the same time brought the troublesome Lin Yan with him.

Lin Lei, who had acted more carefully, remained in the Nihong Department and continued some unfinished plans.

Beneath the slopes of the mountain overgrown with arrows and bamboos is a huge impact river valley.

The Cuiping River flows from west to east, from the mountains, all the way is a lofty mountain, and the green mountains on both sides are like screens, hence the name.

When the Cuiping River reaches here, it flows into a huge mountain lake, then overflows from the other side, and continues to the east in the form of a river.

After an unknown number of years, the lake was gradually silted up by sediment and degraded into a swamp, and after countless years, the swamp dried up further and became the current flat and rich Cuiping River Valley.

The Cuiping River runs through the south-third of the valley.

The river valley is crisscrossed, and the farmland is full of rice.

At this time, the rice has been filled, the ears that have become heavy have lowered their heads, and the leaves have turned slightly yellow.

The paddy field has been drained of water, and the final stage of maturity is controlled water, which is conducive to the fullness of rice grains, and after ten days, it is the day of harvest, and a bumper harvest is in sight.

Lin Xiao and others are located on the south bank of the Cuiping River, looking north, only to see that not far from the north bank of the Cuiping River, there is a slightly higher gentle slope, on which a group of huge circular earth buildings with strange shapes are built, all of which are dozens of zhang in diameter and more than ten zhang high, and there are five rows of neat narrow windows on the outer wall from top to bottom, obviously the inside is a five-story structure.

From the direction of Tulou, a group of people rushed out, looking from a distance, running in the front, with an excited face, and waving to Lin Xiao and others while running was the young valley master Niu Ben of the Cuiping River Valley.

It seems that the cattle scouts they encountered earlier have already spread the news of their arrival.

"Let's go down!" Lin Xiao pointed with his hand, and jumped down from the boulder, running down the slope of the mountain overgrown with arrows and bamboos, Leopard Li and Lin Yan followed closely.

As soon as he ran to the foot of the mountain and rushed out of the bamboo forest, Lin Xiao saw that Niu Ben had jumped off the ferry boat on the south bank of the Cuiping River and rushed over, followed by Niu Zhen, Xiong Da and Zhu Gangguan.

"Brother Leopard, I've finally waited for you. Niu Ben, who was a head taller than Lin Xiao, excitedly took his hand and jumped straight up, with a youthful temperament.

"Brother, you have kept your promise, a few days before the full moon. Xiong laughed and patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder.

"As soon as you come, we'll all be together, and we have a few new friends to introduce to you later. "The pig just laughed and groaned.

"Brother Leopard Xiao, welcome to the valley, don't get drunk tonight!" Niu Zhen shook Lin Xiao's hand vigorously, with the spirit of a host.

"Okay! I haven't seen your brothers for two months, so I must get drunk today!" Lin Xiao said loudly and proudly.

Everyone laughed and sat on the ferry, and after a short time they approached the north shore.

The gentle slope on which the bunkers are located is not far from the shore and is surrounded by a bamboo wall made of large bundles of sharpened bamboo.

Outside the wall was a deep trench that was filled with water from the river, and countless sharp bamboo spears were inserted diagonally outward, and the whole camp was like a hedgehog.

Niu Zhen led everyone to a bamboo suspension bridge across the ditch, and introduced: "There are few stones in the river valley, and the terrain is flat, so our ancestors of the Niu clan dug up the mountain to form this ditch and a hill, and then took the soil to tamp it and build an earthen building, so that we have a safe place to stay." ”

While speaking, everyone has walked across the bamboo suspension bridge and entered the earth fort group, only to see that the earth fort group is composed of seven circular five-story earth forts, and the forts are separated by more than ten zhang between the forts.

The arrangement of the seven earthen forts is very particular, one is the largest in the middle, there are three around it, and there are three outside it, and the earthen forts are intertwined with each other.

"Our seven earthen forts are called the Seven Star Chain Forts, and if the enemy breaks through the trenches and bamboo walls, no matter which earthen fort he attacks, he will definitely be attacked on several sides. We can travel freely between the seven earthen forts through the tunnels. "Niu Zhen is quite impressive.

"It's really ingenious. Lin Xiao praised it.

While talking, the group walked into the largest earthen fort in the middle, the gate of the earthen fort is made of giant wooden tenons, weighing more than 10,000 catties, and there are several large doors from the outside to the inside, and it can be seen that there are many mechanisms above the doorway.

After walking through the doorway several feet long, it suddenly opens up in front of you, in the middle of the earthen fort is a large patio, surrounded by five floors from bottom to top, each floor is lined with rooms of equal size, connected by a corridor, and a wide staircase is built between the floors.

In the earthen fort, there was a lot of activity, children were running and playing, some of them were young, and there were no horns on their heads, only two small protrusions.

And in the center of the patio are several wells, surrounded by women who wash clothes, all of them stout and loud voices, and they are vigorously waving their clothes pounding pestles, and laughing loudly with each other.

The old people gathered in a circle in a corner of the patio, smoking pipes made of bamboo roots, talking about homely things, and a few of them were so old that the horns on their heads fell off.

The men were busy weaving baskets in preparation for the coming harvest.

The earth fort is a strong barrier on the outside, but it is happy on the inside, this scene makes Lin Xiao can't help but think of the Hakka tulou that he saw when he was on a business trip to Fujian to pursue the fugitive, which is very similar.

Perhaps, no matter what the world is, the ideal life of farmers is almost the same.

"Brother Leopard Xiao, our Seven Star Castle was built by the gathering of the Niu people who drifted all over the world after the destruction of the Orc Empire thousands of years ago, so there are all tribes, and everyone is not divided into each other, which can be described as a melting pot of the Niu Clan. Niu Zhen said to Lin Xiao while greeting the cattle people he met.

"Well, you can see that. Lin Xiao looked at the cattle in front of him with interest, and it was really very different.

"Look at this, he belongs to the yak tribe, Niu Qiang, a stick guy, farming is a good style, and his marksmanship is also one of the best. Niu Zhen patted a young man of the Niu clan who was sawing bamboo with an appreciative face.

This young man named Niu Qiang has heavy hair, a sturdy body, and a dense chest hair on his upper body, and he straightened up and nodded to everyone, with a rough expression.

"This is the buffalo tribe, Niu Qian, has a good skill in building a water wheel, and his kung fu is also very good, and he can swing a knife to cross five bowl-thick bamboos when he dives underwater. After walking a few steps, Niu Zhen stopped again and patted a young man on the shoulder and introduced to Lin Xiao.

The young man named Niu Qian was scorning, very burly, he looked up and smiled innocently, scratching his head awkwardly with the hand holding the contemptuous knife, the horns on his head were thicker than those of ordinary cattle people, bent to the sides, but there was surprisingly little body hair on his body.

"Are there any cow people?" Lin Xiao suddenly became whimsical.

"Yes!" Niu Zhen said.

"Really?" Lin Xiao was taken aback.

"There are few people in the cow tribe, and after several generations of integration, it is strange to say that the people who still retain their tribal characteristics are women, and perhaps the characteristics of the cow tribe are easy to pass on to women and not to men. ”

"What characteristics?" Lin Xiao asked curiously.

"The cow department, naturally, it's big! Look at the biggest ones over there, they're the cow tribes. Niu Zhen pointed to the group of women in raccoon clothes in the center of the patio and said.

Lin Xiao took a closer look, and sure enough, there were three or four women in this group of women with very white skin, and their chests were much greater than ordinary Niu women, and one of them was a young girl, who looked at Lin Xiao frequently and smiled at the same time.

"Brother Lin, do you want to ask her to come over and show you?" Niu Zhen asked enthusiastically.

"Hmph!" Lin Xiao heard a cold snort from behind him.

"Hehe, no need, no need, I can't bear it. Lin Xiao waved his hand again and again.

Everyone burst into laughter.

Everyone laughed, and under the leadership of Niu Zhen, they walked up the stairs to the highest floor of the earth fort and hugged into a room.

In the middle of the room was a large round table, surrounded by stools, and it looked like a place for discussion.

At this time, there were several people sitting in the room, and when they saw them entering, they got up to greet them.

"Let me introduce you. Niu Zhen pointed to those people and said to Lin Xiao: "These are good friends who came all the way from the savanna north of Wangduan Mountain. ”

A middle-aged man with a long and strong figure, long flowing chestnut hair, a narrow and long face, and a resolute expression clasped his fists with both hands and said: "In the dismount disease, the leader of the horse patriarch's mane is famous for his impatience and impatience, and I hope that all good friends will bear with me in the future." "The voice is high.

Another sturdy man, with a pair of big curly horns on his head and several long white whiskers on his chin, stepped forward and said kindly: "In Xia Yang Rui, the leader of the Sheep Clan's bighorn sheep tribe, I am fortunate to get to know you." The voice was kind, and there was a wisdom in the eyes that saw everything.

Lin Xiao first pointed at Leopard Li and introduced, "This is Leopard Li from the Leopard Clan's Leopard Division. ”

Then, Lin Xiao pointed at himself and Lin Yan, and said calmly: "The two of us are Lin Xiao and Lin Yan of the Tiger Clan. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.

"Brother, are you really a tiger clan?" said Zhu Gangguan's face was surprised.

"I am indeed a Tiger Clan. For the convenience of walking, I concealed my identity and showed myself as a leopard, not deliberately deceiving my brothers, I'm really sorry. Lin Xiao clenched his fists and apologized.

"Brother, you don't have to apologize, we all understand the situation of the Tiger people. I said strangely, I always think that you are more burly than the leopard people, brother. Niu Zhen beckoned everyone to sit down around the round table and said with relief.

"Since you are from the Tiger Clan, then it is even more right for us to involve you in this matter, and we are discussing this time to deal with your Tiger Clan's long-standing enemies - humans. Xiong Dayi patted Lin Xiao on the shoulder.

"Dealing with humans?!" Lin Xiao was shocked.

"Yes, we're going to start a raid on humanity. Zhu Gangguan squeezed his fist, and his eyes were blazing.

(I'm going to spoil it again.) In the Cuiping River Valley, Lin Xiao will usher in a big battle in the dark! Many bloody and fiery shots have already crackled out in my head, and now all I have to do is to connect them. Brother quack, my ten fingers have been pinched and crackled, and I want to capitalize it!Gentlemen, please help me with recommended tickets and collections!!)

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