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"......" Su Ling was stunned for a moment, and looked at Ah Cai on the ground: "Is that so?"

Ah Cai closed his mouth and looked at Su Ling's sparkling eyes, and the Zaku boy closed his eyes at the same time.

"I'm not a Zaku of you, nor am I a 'child of the mountains,'......" Char's tone was mocking, "but I'm not the kind of outsider who doesn't know anything about the mountains! You know? I've lived in the mountains since I was a child! So, do you really think I'm so easy to deceive?"

Char gently raised his hand to block Su Ling, then grabbed the leather coat on Ah Cai's body, lifted him up, approached the other party's nose, and stared at Ah Cai's eyes up close: "I've been suspicious for the past two days, but I'm not from your Zaku after all, so I haven't seen through your trick yet, but fortunately, I finally understood it today." ”

He paused: "First, you have been taking us on a detour! If it were someone else, maybe we were really deceived by you! Since we crossed the small river the next day and entered the area of the 'wild forest' you called, in fact, you have taken us on a folding-shaped route for the rest of the time, although we have walked for four days, but in fact we have only walked a few dozen miles in a straight line!

"I ...... I'm just taking us to look for something! Since it's a search, of course, we can't go in a straight line, and we have to expand the area of search as much as possible. Ah Cai came up with a justification.

"Yes, that's what I thought at first. The sneer on Char's face froze: "I also thought that the detour back and forth was to find the magic kiss taro." But I accidentally found out about your little trick!"

As he spoke, Char wiped two handfuls on his neck, and then snorted: "Since entering the wild forest, the insect repellent potion you gave us is obviously useless! At first, I thought it was strange, why the insects here are getting more and more powerful, even if I smeared the mosquito repellent potion you gave, it is useless! But now I understand that the herbs you gave me are not insect repellent at all! Because unfortunately, your uncle, Ah Zuo, I once walked with him, and he told me that there are at least three kinds of flowers and plants, and as long as you squeeze out the juice, you can effectively repel those pesky mosquitoes!

When Char said this, he glanced at Acai: "Don't tell me that your potion is better...... Remember what I asked you the night before? You said that the other herbs are only in the forest in the south, and here in the forest in the north, there are no other herbs...... But it's a pity that when I was chasing pheasants in the grass this morning, I found those flowers and plants that repel insects! These things are not hard to find, there are a lot of them! You, 'son and daughter of the mountain,' will never make such a lowly mistake!"

"Okay!" Ah Cai straightened his neck, "Even if I made a mistake in the insect repellent herb, so what? You can only say that my skills in this area are too mediocre, what evidence do you have to say that I did it?"

"Two reasons. ”

Char took a breath: "I deliberately burrowed around in the bushes today, guess what I was looking for? Tell you, I was looking for snakes! That's right, and I found them! Do you know what I found? I found the snakes I found, those snakes were not afraid of me! I walked by it casually, but the snake didn't seem to react! I thought, it must be the smell of the 'insect repellent potion' you gave me that had a wonderful effect! The things you gave us in the past two days were not used for insect repellent at all! But so that we would not be attacked by snakes! Right? I thought about it for a while, and I just happened to know that there was a kind of flower and plant that snakes loved the most!"

Ah Cai closed his mouth.

Char glanced at him and continued: "The second reason, I found out, is that you are making marks along the way! You are very clever, you are not stupid to draw any patterns on the bark or drop anything as a marker, but ...... Hmph, there's something wrong with your knife!"

He picked up Ah Cai's knife, put the blade to his nose and sniffed it, his eyes lit up: "Hehe, what is it? The fruit pulp is mixed with honey, isn't it? Very clever to do! You cut the bushes and thorns in front of us to open the way, and your blade in the process of chopping, it will stick these pulp and honey on the thorns along the road! There are a lot of wild bees in this forest, and those things will be attracted by these honey pulp and swarm in, and finally they will become natural road signs!"

"......" Ah Cai finally sighed, he raised his eyelids and stared at Char, his tone was very bitter: "I admit it, you seem to know really about things in the mountains, unlike those other outsiders. You're right, fruit syrup and honey, but with the addition of a snake's saliva, a smell that we can't smell with our noses, only insects. ”

"Oh, you admit it. Char smiled: "So, tell me, who are you leading the way, and who are you tracking us for?"

Listening to the conversation between the two, Su Ling next to her was stunned, she stared at the two people with wide eyes, and suddenly screamed: "Ah Cai! You really did this? Why? Why did you do these things?"

Ah Cai sighed, the young man turned his head to look at Su Ling, and hesitated: "Su Ling, I don't have any malicious intentions, these are all orders from the big chief." The night before our departure, the Great Chief summoned me alone, and I swore in my uncle's name to do these things for the Great Chief. So...... You really shouldn't have sneaked up here!"

Su Ling opened his mouth and was stunned for a moment, but Ah Cai had already turned around and looked at Char: "Sir, please let me go, I didn't mean to do this, I ......"

Xia Ya let go of Ah Cai, put him on the ground, patted his clothes with his hands, and smiled faintly: "You don't have to be afraid, I won't hurt you, because Ah Zuo is your uncle, Ah Zuo once sacrificed his own life to save me, I owe him! So, as long as you tell me the truth, I won't blame you." ”

Zaku Boy's eyes were complicated, he swallowed his saliva, looked at Su Ling, hesitated, and finally sighed: "Okay, sir, you are actually ...... I'm here for the Holy Serpent, right? The Great Chief told me that you're here to help us with the Zakus, you're friends, you're here to help us deal with the Holy Serpent, aren't you?"

“...... I did make that promise to your uncle. Char nodded solemnly, his eyes were firm: "For your uncle, I will work hard." ”

Ah Cai was relieved, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "The big chief told me so, but he didn't say anything to you face-to-face because of some special reasons...... On the issue of the Holy Serpent, the Great Chief told me that there is no unity of opinion in our tribe. Therefore, the chief did not make any decisions in person, and for some reason, he could not announce it in public in the tribe......"

Char nodded: "Some reasons?"

"You don't understand, our tribe, although the Great Chief is the leader of the tribe, but many things, he must listen to the opinions of the High Priest, the Great Priest has the power to divinate and so on between us and the Sacrifice, and more importantly, the Great Priest also has the power to communicate with the Holy Snake...... And on the issue of the holy serpent, the attitude of the great chief and the priest has always been completely opposite......"

Char glanced at Tadoro, and the two looked at each other for a moment before Char continued: "You mean, what action does the high priest in your clan oppose against that holy snake?"

"The High Priest believes that we should continue to maintain a subservient attitude towards the Holy Serpent. To Char's surprise, it was Su Ling who answered this question, and this little girl was full of anger and said loudly: "I hate that guy, he is sneaky all the time, he is simply selfish! Because only with the existence of the holy snake, he can have his current status! The priest is responsible for communicating with the holy snake, listening to every order of the holy snake, and detoxifying the will given by the holy snake! That guy will only watch our brothers and sisters being devoured by that big monster!"

There is a reason for Su Ling's anger, because of the upcoming selection of the snake girl, she herself is one of the victims.

"If you make any decisions openly in the clan, or openly ......" Ah Cai said in a low voice, "the big chief is worried that it will cause opposition from the sacrifice, and that guy may do something behind his back, so we can only do some camouflage - just like hunting, we can't alarm the prey, we can only go around in a roundabout way, and then quietly approach ......"

"Understood, so we asked to enter the forest to find the magic kiss taro, and the big chief happily agreed, in fact, he took the opportunity to let you take us into the forest, and then ......" Char's eyes suddenly widened: "You don't want to take us directly to the holy snake and ask us to slaughter that monster, right?"

"Depending on the season, now is the time for it to hibernate and the best chance. Ah Cai gritted his teeth: "Besides, isn't this what you came here for......? Also, we're not going to leave you alone! The Great Chief has secretly transferred some of the tribe's sharpest warriors, who will leave the tribe in the name of hunting and join us in the depths of the forest. I've left these marks along the way, so that the warriors can follow our course, and we'll finally converge...... Then form a team to slay the snake and go kill that monster and save our tribe!"

Char sighed, and looked at Ah Cai's eyes much more politely: "Then why did you take me around for two days? Why didn't you tell me this earlier?"

"It's not because of Su Ling. Ah Cai smiled helplessly: "This is a dangerous thing! Su Ling suddenly caught up with us, disrupting this plan! I tried to persuade her to go back, but she refused. But it's too dangerous to take her with me, so I've been hesitant for the past two days......"