Maybe he didn't want to expose his decision-making mistakes in front of the people of the city, maybe he considered his position as the city lord, or maybe he had another hidden secret, in short, he punished the city lord and took a deep breath: "What do you want to talk about?" ”

Wei Feng looked thoughtful: "Let me think about where to start." ”

He looked at the Punishment City Lord and spoke unhurriedly: "You know that I am not from this world, and I was puzzled when I saw the human city. ”

"I'm thinking about how strong the humans here must be to be able to enjoy a peaceful corner of this forest surrounded by extraordinary beasts."

Wei Feng spread his hands: "It's a pity that I didn't see it." ”

"The strongest combat power on the bright side is like you, and it shouldn't be able to beat the tiger I saw when I came here, and that's not the deepest part of the forest, let alone a stronger beast, even if there are more tigers like that, I'm afraid I can level this city."

"You don't have to say that there is no conflict of interest between us, as far as I know, human beings consume a lot of meat every year, and the battle for food is the battle for survival, which is the most fundamental conflict of interest."

"I can't even understand why three cities that don't even have a regular army can stand for thousands of years. Lord of the Castle, can you help me with my doubts? ”

The punishment city lord looked indifferent and ignored it.

Wei Feng shrugged his shoulders and said to himself: "You see, people who know this secret are silent, and ordinary people only regard it as a normal phenomenon, so I can only rely on guessing, such as ......"

He pointed upwards: "For example, under the light of this stone statue, the beasts will be weakened, and the humans will be strengthened, so there will be no beasts within the range of the three cities." ”

The corners of Wei Feng's lips hooked up a smile: "In order to verify my conjecture, I found some enthusiastic people to answer my other question. ”

"When I first came out of the forest, I saw a lot of ruins at the edge of the forest that had been abandoned for many years, which shows that the living range of human beings here has changed, and the scope used to be larger, so what is the change that causes the current to be not as good as the ancient?"

"It makes sense that a few elderly enthusiasts told me that when they were younger, even if they were far away from the Three Cities, there would be no wild beasts, and now the villages are infested with wild beasts from time to time, and they have to move to the city, so it makes sense, but it also raises new questions, what caused this change?"

"Fortunately, the process of the ceremony here is publicly visible, and I can easily ask the answer, the change started from the defeat of the hunt in the ceremony in one year."

"Ordinary people only care about the three city lords who died two of them in the battle at that time, and the last one was seriously injured but desperately defended the stone statue, but he was still killed shortly after the ceremony, so it is reasonable to think that the city lord died and the combat strength of the city was greatly reduced, and it was normal to not be able to hold the villages outside the city."

"But they ignored that there was no one outside the city to guard it, so they ......"

"In the final analysis, it comes down to the focus of 'keeping the stone statue', the essence of the hunting ritual...... It's guarding the legacy, right? The corners of Wei Feng's mouth raised slightly.

"But there is a suspicion here, the three major city lords almost lost their participation in the hunt back then, so how did you keep it all these years? I easily figured out the other questions, but this question, I thought about it for a long time and came up with the most reasonable explanation. ”

"The difficulty of defending must be related to the range of the stone statue, right? In the past, the scope of the stone statue's light protection was large, and the difficulty of defense was naturally large, but now the stone statue can only take care of the three cities and a little around it, and the difficulty of defense is naturally small. ”

He looked at the city lord with a determined look in his eyes: "Further inference, this 'hunting' ritual may not only be about defense, but also determines the scope of protection of the stone statue in the next year, I guessed right?" ”

The punishment city lord was noncommittal, and was silent for a long time before speaking: "That's all you want to say?" ”

Wei Feng ignored him: "According to the animal skin scroll in your mansion, the hunting ritual is to fight with wild beasts in that space. ”

The punishment city lord's eyes narrowed, the beast skin scroll was deliberately placed on the bright side to attract the enemy when he found that the fog was enveloping the city lord's mansion, and when he fought with Wang Ping in the martial arts field, he also left an ambush near the study, just waiting for a fish to take the bait.

It's a pity that no one showed up until the fog cleared, and he also checked that the animal skin scroll had not been turned over, and thought that this move was idle, but he didn't expect that it was just because the opponent's methods were more clever, and he showed up but was not noticed by him.

Wei Feng didn't care about his increasingly dangerous eyes, but asked curiously, "Then what is the basis for judging the victory or defeat of the hunt?" You're planning to take part in the hunt yourself this year, are you planning to expand? ”

The Punishment City Lord said indifferently: "This has nothing to do with you. ”

Wei Feng waved his hand: "Why is it irrelevant, if you don't say it, how can I help you?" ”

There was a hint of expression on the face of the punishment city lord, who had always been indifferent, and he frowned slightly: "What do you mean?" ”

Wei Feng smiled: "Look, I've been talking for so long, and you let me ramble here, why?" Because you're also going to have to drag on for time, if nothing else, you're waiting for the other two cities to enter that space, am I right? ”

"As the lord of a city, you will definitely not risk your life to participate in the hunt, no one will believe it if you say that there is no plan, if nothing else, the three cities should have reached some kind of agreement, and they plan to start expanding the territory of the human race."

"In this case, once the people of the other two cities enter it and find that there are more outsiders but there is no city lord of you, they will naturally not be polite, then my partners will be more than lucky, they are all seriously injured, and it is likely that they will have to face the city lords of the other two cities, and they will not be lucky."

"Naturally, my partners will not sit still, once there is a attrition when desperately resisting, as long as the hunt has not officially started, you can go in and make up the total number of five people, oh yes, the five-person limit here should be for you professionals, such as me and my companions are not within the number of people limited by the rules at all, right?"

A smile appeared on the face of the Punishment City Lord for the first time, and he crossed his arms around his chest: "Since you know, why do you have to cooperate with me to delay time?" ”

Wei Feng put away his smile this time, and said with a serious expression: "Because I want to survive, and I also want my partners to survive together." ”

"And it is you who can decide our life and death, but we are now hostile relations, I must talk to you openly and honestly, and reach cooperation, this is our only way to survive."

Now that it has been said, there is no need for the punishment city lord to make that gloomy expression, he looked at Wei Feng with interest: "Why should I cooperate with you?" How can you help me? ”

(End of chapter)