Chapter 19 The Rainstorm Strikes
Everyone soon woke up one after another, and after each of them solved their physiological problems, they began to continue on their way.
The sun rises over the skyline, dyeing the distance a red glow.
Some people have a fanatical love for the sunrise, and they can be on the road 365 days a year in order to see the sunrise in different places.
But for Xia Qi, this is just an astronomical phenomenon, besides, in the first few days, he often saw such a scene, and he has long lost interest in it.
In the blink of an eye, the sun leaps out of the skyline, dyeing all the clouds overhead a beautiful red, and the scene looks spectacular. But Xia Qi's face was a little unpleasant.
There is a saying that "if you don't go out in the morning, you will travel a thousand miles in the evening".
Why, because once there is an early glow, it means that by the evening, it will rain eighty percent.
Xia Qi didn't know if this proverb on the blue star was suitable for this world, but he made up his mind that once he couldn't find the cannibal tribe in the afternoon, he would return immediately.
Not long after a group of people traveled along the path, the surrounding barren grass more than one person tall was instantly empty, and a huge clearing appeared.
No, that's not an open space!
Just like the circle formed by Xia Qi and them stepping on the barren grass earlier, this is actually a circle, but the area is too large, so at first glance it looks like an open space.
Judging from the scale of this circle, the number of cannibal tribes is much more than Xia Qi imagined, I am afraid that the Blackstone tribe at its peak plus the Xia tribe will only have one way to defeat them in the end.
Of course, this refers to the frontal battlefield.
On the opposite side of the path from which they came, there was the entrance to the path, and the group continued to walk along the path without resting.
"Speed up."
They didn't know how long they would have to walk in this grassland, and with the rain that they didn't know if it would come, Xia Qi made people speed up their progress.
Running through the barren grass that covers the sky is a great test for one's nerves, and when the blades of grass shake, the sound is very loud, but one can still hear one's own wheezing and heartbeat.
I don't know how long I ran, but everyone's eyes suddenly emptied, and a small stream was babbling not far away. They finally left the steppe range.
If it weren't for the fear of startling the grass and the snake, Xia Qi wanted to scream very much, the feeling in the grassland just now was too uncomfortable, and it almost drove people crazy.
Behind is the road, in front is the gravel beach, after thinking for a while, Xia Qi took off the animal skin that bound his feet and stepped into the stream, all the way down the river. With pebbles and fine sand underfoot, the stream looks wide, but the water is shallow enough to reach your calves.
Although it is not the height of summer, it is still very comfortable to soak your feet in the stream, especially in order to prevent your feet from being scratched, Xia Qi also specially wrapped his feet with animal skins.
The animal skin is not breathable, and the sourness of wrapping the feet with this thing can be imagined.
After walking down the stream for about a mile, the water beneath his feet suddenly became turbulent, and not far away there was the roar of water crashing against stones.
Xia Qi then led everyone up to the stream, and every time he walked forward, he found that the road under his feet had been completely cut off, and a cliff appeared not far ahead. The water rushed down the cliff and turned into a waterfall.
A huge crack appeared in front of everyone's eyes, Xia Qi looked down, and a camp suddenly appeared in front of him.
The crack is not very deep, the deepest is only about 20 meters, it is not wide, and the widest is only 100 meters.
Under the cracks in the ground, a group of people seemed to be performing some kind of ritual, and a large number of people under the black pressure fell to the ground, not to mention thousands. If you are accidentally discovered by that group of people, just a few of them will not be enough to add a dish to the opposite side.
Fortunately, because of the perspective and light, the cannibals didn't notice them.
"Patriarch, are we mistaken? The people of the previous tribe were all wolf-headed people, and these people looked very normal. The deer next to him whispered.
This sentence, from the time they pursued the two big men, the deer had always wanted to say.
"Shh......h Read on. ”
Xia Qiyi didn't speak, and continued to read.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a group of people to come out of a cave, it was a group of people from other tribes who had been caught, and behind them were a dozen wolf-headed monsters, constantly driving away the people in front.
The distance was a little far, and Xia Qi didn't know if his Eye of Insight would work.
Item Name: Wolf Bone Mask
Special abilities
Bravery: The wearer is more courageous in battle, increasing their morale by 5 points
Deterrence: When fighting, make the opponent feel fearful and reduce the enemy's morale by 5 points
Hey, I didn't think this thing was a special item.
As mentioned before, Xia Qi's Eye of Insight can view information about game characters and special items.
Even if at the beginning, Pan, and the entire Blackstone tribe all swore that the people who attacked their tribe at the beginning were all wolf-headed monsters, but from beginning to end, Xia Qi had doubts.
Now that the facts are in front of him, Xia Qi's suspicions are correct.
But he wouldn't admit that the target he was looking at with the Eye of Insight was actually the one at the front who seemed to be the leader.
The ritual continued below, and a group of people were forced to kneel in the open space in front of them.
A man who held a wooden staff and looked like a priest did not know what he was saying, and without saying a word, the person below would repeat it. At last, the priest's voice suddenly raised, and he shouted loudly, and then fell to the ground.
This was like a signal, and those wearing wolf bone masks immediately raised the stone axes in their hands and slashed at the necks of those who knelt, and for a moment the blood flowed profusely, and from time to time their heads rose to the sky.
Such a bloody scene, even if it was still some distance away from there, Xia Qi's stomach was still overturned.
Pan lay there and didn't know what he was thinking, Xia Qi should be glad that they were still some distance away from the place where the ceremony was held, if Shang Pan saw that those people who had their heads cut off were all the people of his Blackstone tribe, I was afraid that he would lose his mind on the spot.
"Let's go."
Xia Qi didn't choose to return the same way, but circled around this crack in the ground, he didn't think that such a big tribe usually didn't come out, let alone that the only way for them to leave the crack was to climb up and down the crack wall.
After climbing a mountain bag, a large bamboo forest appeared, the bamboo forest was boundless, and a wave suddenly appeared after being blown by the wind, and the bamboo leaves were even more rustling, in Xia Qi's view, it was more like an ocean formed by bamboo. This explains where the weapons in the hands of those cannibals came from.
And just below the mountain bag, there was a three-person-wide gap in the crack of the ground like a city wall, and those cannibals should have entered and exited the crack from here.
"Let's go, let's go back to the tribe first."
The information he wanted had been discovered, and Xia Qi was about to return to the tribe first, but at this moment, a noisy sound came from the cracks in the ground.
Xia Qi fixed his eyes, and it turned out that those who were originally used as sacrifices were unwilling to die and began to resist, and the person who looked like a priest before was already lying on the ground.
But the rebellion stopped there, with only a few dozen prisoners and thousands of cannibal tribes.
Xia Qi didn't have the idea of rushing over to rescue, but took the opportunity to leave as soon as possible. Besides, even if they rush up, they are just giving people their heads.
The group quickly returned to the stream, and then followed the stream up the water and successfully entered the grassland. Entering here can be regarded as a preliminary escape from that cannibal tribe.
A group of people followed the path back until the sun was in the middle of the day, and after an unknown amount of time, they were out of the grassland and re-entered the jungle.
The group came back to the body of the hanging member of the Blackstone tribe, Xia Qi stepped forward to untie it, found some firewood and piled it on top of the corpse, and then lit a fire, and continued on his way.
In the midst of the flames, the corpse suddenly rose from the fire, its eyeless sockets, staring vacantly in the direction where the group had left.
At this moment, the sky suddenly darkened, and a dark cloud drifted from nowhere, obscuring the entire sky. And as time went on, the clouds became thicker and thicker, and it was clear that the rain was not going to be much lighter.
A group of people couldn't help but speed up their pace, and left the easier river as a precaution.
Click!
A thunderclap sounded, the thunder was so loud that it blew up Xia Qi's ears, and when another thunder sounded, the rain poured down.
Soybean...... No, enough raindrops the size of peanuts fell on my body, smashing my life.
The river they had passed through had reappeared at this time, and as time passed, the water in it was still rising rapidly, and before they knew it, it had overflowed the river.
At this time, the group had just arrived near the former camp of the Blackstone tribe.
Helpless, a group of people had to rush in the torrential rain.
I don't know how long it took, but finally the outline of the camp appeared in front of me, and the constant sound of quarrels.
It's Xiong, who is arguing with a few people, all of whom followed Xia Qi all the way here at the beginning, and can be said to be his henchmen.
But at this time, they were arguing.
Since yesterday evening, Xiong has proposed to take someone out to find Xia Qi, but he was stopped by Wu and others.
No, since this morning, the bear has become extremely irritable, and even the people of the Blackstone tribe have received his hostility. When the rain began, the bear tried to take the people out again, but was stopped again.
Wu's reason is also very simple, such a large jungle, where you want to find it, instead of scurrying around like a headless fly, it is better to wait quietly for the patriarch to come back. The probability is about the same for both anyway.