Chapter 563-564: Skinning Ceremony

There are only about one hundred and eighty people in the small tribe, all of whom are slender and long, about three meters tall, but they are very well-proportioned, muscular like the most perfect cheetah, and there is no trace of fat on their bodies. The slender arms and legs look like praying mantises, but they possess great power.

Both men and women have green skin and long gray hair, which is a natural protective color that makes them easy to hide in the woods.

Men wear their long hair in a marijuana braid at the back of their heads, while women wear two braids that hang down from their shoulders.

Their facial features look more like those of felines, with ears that rotate freely rather than on the sides but on the top of their heads.

The pupils of the big eyes are also cat-like with a crescent moon in the middle, and if it weren't for the fact that they still have a pair of arms under their ribs, they actually look quite human.

Although he has more arms than a person like Tang Jue, he cooperates very well, and there will be no problems when he divides labor and cooperates. And having an extra pair of hands makes it easier for them to work, for example, they can weave a straw skirt with two hands, and the other two hands are free to play a simple instrument like a pipe.

They had no clothes to wear, and both men and women only wore sturdy vines around their waists, and the vines had grass skirts on them, which hung down just enough to block the reproductive organs under their crotches.

The women were bare-chested, but fortunately they were proportioned to their bodies, and it was impossible for such a thin figure to be a big cow, and they were all stiff and stiff like a fist-sized green apple, very strong, making people suspect that their tops were full of muscles.

They lived in simple huts made of tree trunks and thatch. It seems that it is only staying in the tent. As for weapons, the most they can do is to tie a sharpened stone spear or a blade sharpened from animal bones to the tip of a sharpened wooden stick.

Now it seems that all the young people in the tribe have gone out, and Tang Jue only sees the old people, women and children. Their language made Tang Jue feel very big, but fortunately he carried a universal translator, which was a small machine like a headset. Wear it on the ear with a small microphone extending to the mouth.

This universal translator contains all the languages that have appeared in the entire solar system, and it is powerful, and after Tang Jue put it on, the universal translator began to search for itself.

After quite some time, the universal translator finally made a "beep" sound. This means that a similar language has finally been retrieved from the language library.

So Tang Jue finally understood what the people below were saying, and the headset could automatically translate those twittering words into words that Tang Jue could understand.

The tall old man standing in the center of the tribe, with his hands on his waist and his arms in the other, is the leader of this tribe, named Bayinong. He wore a necklace of animal teeth around his neck, and his bare skin was covered with black tattoos, which made him look very strong.

Bayinon was talking to his cronies: "Tara, this time the children's [skinning ceremony]. Who are you more optimistic about?"

Tara's name was the man standing beside him, this man had a tall hairline, and his hair was sparse, and he was too thin to look at. Although this race is all skinny, they are at least skinny and a little muscular. His bones were clearly visible, but he was covered with a thin layer of skin.

Tara's lower hands were clasped in front of her lower abdomen in a respectful manner, and the upper hands were crossed over her shoulders, presumably a salute from a lower rank of their race to a superior person.

"Venerable Lord Bayinong, of course it's your son, Young Master Barigan!" Tara's flattering attitude showed the dominance of Bayinon in this small tribe. ...,

Bayinon nodded and smiled in satisfaction, and when he laughed, he showed a mouthful of sharp teeth that were interlaced like dogs. It looks very hideous. This is also a characteristic of their race, which makes people wonder what kind of animal they evolved from.

Next, from the conversation between Bayinong and Tara. Tang Jue learned what this skinning ceremony was. It turns out that the skinning ceremony is basically equivalent to the coming-of-age ceremony, but it is much bloodier and more cruel.

This race is called the Vol people, and the tribe is called the Taran. According to the tradition of the Taranbu Vol people, as soon as a boy reaches the age of fourteen, he must participate in this skinning ceremony to obtain the same status and treatment as adults, and the best will receive the title of "True Warrior".

And this peeling ceremony. It was to peel off the "skin" of the [insect beast], that is, the carapace covered by those monsters that Tang Jue had encountered before. These carapaces are incredibly hard. If it can be obtained and crafted into armor, it will be the glory of the warrior.

For example, this old man Bayinong is covered with these simple armor made of insect and beast shells, in fact, these carapaces are very hard, and it is very difficult to punch holes in them, so the armor on the whole body is only a few or five pieces, which looks very shabby.

From the words of Bayinon and Tara, it can be known that a true warrior must be able to kill a [sword wolf], and if an ordinary boy can collectively surround and kill a sword wolf, he will be considered to have passed the skinning ceremony. In fact, the vast majority of people hunt en masse to make armor by skinning and getting carapaces.

This sword wolf is the weakest type of attack power among the insect beasts [Battle Beast], and from their occasional descriptions, Tang Jue learned that this sword wolf is the kind of monster he killed when he saved Angelina.

It turned out that these monsters and the monsters had indeed passed through this world, but I didn't know who could control those monsters and monsters, because they obviously looked like they were organized...... Tang Jue thought so in his heart.

At that moment, a sudden noise came from the depths of the jungle, and many people were screaming and running, approaching the tribe.

"What's going on?" said Bayinon frowned, as the leader of the tribe, he was a very stable man to rely on.

"I don't know...... But...... Something seems to have happened...... "Tara shuddered, her bare feet quietly sliding backwards, the Vol people were barefoot, and the soles of their feet had a thick cuticle like cow's hooves, which would not hurt even if they were rubbed against the gravel.

"Stop!" Baynon glared at Tara fiercely. Tara was so frightened that she didn't dare to move, but her legs kept shaking, as if she might collapse at any moment.

The women and children screamed, panicked as the noise got closer and closer, and they tried to escape. Because none of them are fighting forces, but this is their home after all, and they all expect that this is actually just a misunderstanding or a small riot.

"Don't mess around! stand still for me!" said Baynon, now giving full play to the majesty of his chief, and commanded in a loud voice: "Stand back with the women and children, former warriors. Are you not ashamed of your cowardice? Take up the weapons you have at hand, sticks and stones, it's time to stand up! Now listen to my orders, and when you find them, gather them at me!"

When he speaks of the warriors of the past, he refers to the old people. Although the old people are old, they were also warriors when they were young. At this time, under the command of Bayinong. Soon a small group of a dozen or so men was formed, all of them very old men, as evidenced by their flabby, wrinkled skin and gray, almost white hair.

But they did once be warriors, and even in their old age, they picked up the weapons around them. He stood beside Bayinong, and then formed a "wall" with Bayinong to block the front of the women and children. ...,

Tang Jue stood on the treetops, condescendingly and naturally saw far away, and his thousand eyes were very keen, even if there were leaves to cover him, he could see some clues.

He saw more than a dozen Wall teenagers running in a panic, and the Wall teenagers actually looked no different from adult men. The main thing is that they don't have tattoos on their bodies, and it looks like tattoos should be a sign of adulthood or not.

Behind the Wall's boys, only the bushes could be seen shaking violently. It was accompanied by a rumbling sound like thunder, as if a company of armored vehicles had been crushed, or a herd of thousands of cattle running wildly.

Due to the obscuration of the dense foliage, he couldn't see exactly what was chasing the Wall boys, and he could only vaguely see the gray carapace, but his ears could hear that the earth-shattering movement was not caused by the beasts. It's just a monster!

This is a super big guy...... Tang Jue frowned slightly, according to his perception. This monster should be at least forty meters long and weigh more than two hundred tons, which can be said to be a huge monster that Tang Jue has never encountered so far.

Suddenly, the "boom" shook the mountain, and I saw that the entire forest was bulldozed by the roots, and the rows of towering trees twenty meters away were easily pushed down as if they were dominoes, so that there was a wide road-like blank space in the dense primeval forest, and Tang Jue's vision suddenly widened a lot.

"Shhh

The beast was covered in a huge carapace, which was like a natural shield, glowing with a cold black light like steel poured. The back of the three pairs of claws was densely covered with sharp inverted bristles, each bristle was about a meter, thick and sharp, comparable to the bone spurs that Tang Jue had killed the underground monster before.

Its entire head is encased in a single head armor, which makes it look impeccable from top to bottom, the only connection is the gap between the head and back armor, but it is also covered with dense inverted bristles.

The most daunting thing is the long bone spur on the top of its head, and a long bone spur born from the breastplate, these two bone spurs are opposite each other and become two sharp weapons, like a warrior's halberd.

The two bone spurs are almost the same as its own body length, very large, not only strong and sharp, but also the inside of the halberd is covered with short, thick, sharp bristles, it is simply a natural killing machine!

The parts of the body that were not covered by the carapace were all covered with inverted bristles, which caused the ground to be ploughed out by the bristles wherever it passed, in addition to being tamped as if it had been run over by a road roller.

"Run, the halberds are coming—" The Walls screamed, utterly losing the courage to fight. They just want to hunt the knife wolf, if they are lucky, they may be able to kill an injured knife wolf to complete the personal task and become a hero, who knows that it will provoke such a big guy, it really costs their lives.

Some unlucky eggs were crushed by the big tree pushed down by the halberd beast, and they couldn't escape, so they could only cry and grab their lives there.

Tang Jue watched as the halberd beast licked the ground with its barbed scarlet tongue, and licked his "petite" body, the barbs on the tongue were comparable to iron hooks, and they penetrated his body at once, hooking the tendon skeleton, and the blood suddenly spurted out like a fountain, and then it was licked back into his mouth by the scarlet tongue.

For a huge halberd beast, the average three-meter-tall Wall man can't even stuff his teeth, and he doesn't know how much to eat to fill his belly. ...,

This feeling of cannibalism is like the legendary anteater, although it is not as bloody as ordinary monsters eating people, it gives people a psychological feeling that they cannot resist.

The people of Wall, who had been holding on to the tribal camp and preparing to resist, were stunned, standing there with their hands and feet wide open, their hearts full of shock, and they even forgot to flee.

"God......" Lord Bayinong, the leader of the Vol people, looked at the halberd beast with a dull gaze, and his lips trembled for a long time before he scolded: "These damn children! How can you provoke a monster like the halberd beast! Take the halberd beast to your home, is this an attempt to exterminate the Taran tribe?"

There are only a hundred people in the Talan Tribe, and if you give it to the halberd beast, it really won't be enough for even one meal.

"Master Bayinong, let's run away!" At this time, Tara actually spoke quite fluently, he was so anxious that he pleaded with tears and begged Bayinong, the tradition of the Taran tribe is like this, Bayinong does not give orders, although everyone is trembling with fear, but still no one runs away first.

"Run, can we outrun the halberd-beast?" said Bayinon wept, and he didn't see a shadow of his son in the shadows of the teenagers.

Bayinong is an old warrior, he is well-informed, and knows that the halberd beast is the overlord of the insects and beasts, and since the halberd beast has discovered this place, no one can escape.

Don't think that you can run in all directions, the halberd beast is able to drive the low-level insect beast, as long as it makes a unique command roar, the low-level insect beasts within a radius of a hundred miles will be ordered to assemble and obey the order of the halberd beast to attack the humans.