Chapter 4: The Nameless Tribe IV
On the fifth day after I woke up, my injuries gradually improved, and I regained some strength in my body, and the pain that I used to have all over my body was reduced by half, and it was no longer a problem to stand up. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoHowever, the internal force in my body is still blocked, and it is difficult to lift the energy.
It was a rare good day, and the early morning rays of sunlight shone through the cracks in the stakes, shining a little warm on me. I lay on the grass bunk like a few days ago, looking at the stockade outside the gap, and secretly slowly adjusting my internal strength.
I didn't get out of the hut much for a few days, and Atto and the old man changed the medicine for my right arm four more times, and their black ointment only stopped the pain for a day, and after a day, the pain in my right arm would come back and I had to change the medicine again. Every time the leaves on my arms are taken apart, looking at my arms full of scales, I can't help but be afraid, I don't dare to look at it, and I can't help but want to take a few looks, but the more I look at it, the more palpitations I feel. When I was carried to the hut by Atto that night after getting drunk, the thought of cutting off my right arm crossed my mind, and it was the creep in my heart. However, when the blade of the Shadow Chasing Sword was across my right arm, I didn't have the courage to do it.
Although the world was spinning that night, I didn't sleep all night.
There were a few figures swaying outside the shack, passing by my door in twos and threes, turning their heads to look at my shack from time to time, and many children running around laughing and laughing. The population of their tribe is pitifully small, about the same number as the number of people in one of my dart games, and if it were really placed in the Central Plains, it would not even be a village. But it was a pleasure for them to recuperate here, and the laughter of women and children could be heard every day outside the shack.
When I turned my head away from looking outside the shack, and had just laid down to concentrate on my breath, the door of the shack was opened, and I saw Atto come in with a wooden bowl and the old man. After spending a few days with them, I also learned the identity of this old man, his name is Hogg, he is a healer of this tribe, and he prepared the black ointment applied to me.
Seeing them come in, I sat up with my left elbow propped up, greeted them, and said, "Ato, come and change my dressing so early?"
If this sentence had been asked two days ago, Atto would not have understood it. But these days I get along with her day and night, and the communication is much smoother, and Ato's person is quite smart, even if sometimes she can't understand what I'm saying, she can guess my thoughts.
Atto squatted beside me, opened the lid of the wooden bowl, and while holding the wooden stick, he looked at me and smiled: "Change the dressing early, and fight the bear today." ā
The wooden bowl was still filled with the same black ointment, which was stirred by Ato, and the smell of the medicine was so diffuse that it felt unusually bitter just when I smelled it. I looked at her and said, "Are you going too?"
Hogg, who was untying the leaves on my right arm, smiled at me and said, "I, Hogg, don't go hunting bears, I'm going to collect medicine." When she said this, she pointed to her and Hogg's bodies, shook her hand and muttered, and then pointed to the black ointment in the wooden bowl, and said, "This medicine, go there to collect it." ā
Her words were incoherent, like a word for word, but now I couldn't help but feel a pang of gratitude. It is also a dangerous thing to go to the places infested by black bears to collect medicine, right? Their usual weapon is a spear, which is very poorly made, and there is no polishing and inlay at all, it is completely made of sharp iron tied to a wooden pole, and some even only tie a relatively sharp stone as a weapon, and the black bear is already rough and thick-skinned, fierce and large, and it is by no means so easy for them to hunt.
I didn't know what Atto was referring to, so I said, "Far from here?"
Atto raised his arm and pointed to the east, smiled, and said, "Not far, in that mountain, hehe." ā
In the east?
When I came out of the passage, I and the Immortal Hall had already arrived at the western edge of the swamp, and it stands to reason that I fell off the cliff and should have been very close to the Death Swamp, and even if I had been rescued and brought here by Ramru and their hunting, it would not be very far from the Death Swamp.
If I look at it this way, I guess I'm still in the vicinity of the Death Swamp, so if the path deviates too much, I can get to Sand City?
Sand City was originally located on the southeastern edge of the Death Swamp, and it was the only earthen city in the southern part of the Death Swamp, and it was from the southern part of the Death Swamp that I arrived from the south of the Death Swamp when I followed the Fireheart Dao people to the Death Swamp. Although such a small city is lonely, it is notoriously loud in the southern part of the Death Swamp, and there are many merchants around, and if I can find the vicinity of Sand City, it will not be difficult to find Sand City.
According to the current recovery rate of my body, it is estimated that my internal strength can recover almost in five days or seven or eight days, but if I can get to Shacheng earlier, where will I still have such a leisure mood to wait here? Isn't it a great opportunity to be able to walk with a group of them now? It is much better than me blindly groping alone.
As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but feel depressed again, not because of the weakness of my body now, but because of the inexplicable guilt in my heart that touched my heart again. In the past few days, such thoughts have been sticking to my mind like maggots on the tarsal bones.
Such an idea is tantamount to self-inflicted sentimentality. Rushing to Shacheng in such a hurry is nothing more than to see if Cheng Fuhai, Su Qingyao, Han Xiao, Jiang Shun and a group of them are okay, and if I really see them, how should I face them?
But in any case, escaping is not always the way, what should be faced is still to be faced.
I still have to go to Shacheng.
I was thinking about it when Hogg took all the leaves off my right arm, revealing my red right arm, and I only looked at my scaly right arm and turned my head to look at Atto, holding back the uneasiness in my heart, and asked tentatively, "Atto, can I go with you to collect medicine?"
Ato, who had stirred the ointment in the wooden bowl and was leaning over to apply it to me, was overjoyed when I said this, and said, "Okay, let's go together." Speaking of this, she suddenly paused, looked at my arm, and said, "The medicine is on the tree, and you can't take medicine for your injuries." ā
It turned out that the herb that made the black ointment grew on the tree. I nodded secretly, grabbed the shadow chasing sword beside me with my left hand, pulled a circle above my head, and said with a smile: "I can't collect medicine, I can wait on the side." ā
I didn't have much strength in my hands, but this simple gesture made Athor's and Hogg's eyes light up. Hogg on the side looked at me and smiled, and said a few words to Atto that I didn't understand, and Atto nodded after listening to it, and looked at me again and explained: "Hogg said it's good to go for a walk in the mountains, it's good for you." You have iron, and the black bear is afraid of iron and does not dare to approach, and Ramru will be happy. ā
I couldn't help but smile wryly. They didn't know that the Shadow Chasing Sword was made of special materials, and they didn't know the sharpness of the Shadow Chasing Sword, but in their eyes, any iron weapon was the most powerful weapon. And with my current body, let alone encountering a black bear, I am afraid that encountering a boar will make me spend a lot of time, and the black bear in the forest will not avoid it because I have a sharp sword in my hand.
Probably, that's exactly what Ato's people believe in.
I thought silently, while Atto and Hogg dressed me with great skill, and in a moment my whole right arm was again covered in broad leaves. I leaned against the stake by the wall and stretched out my right arm to try it. Wrapped in layers of leaves, my right arm was two or three times thicker than my left, but I was still able to stretch and bend freely, and I didn't feel any discomfort at all. Maybe it's because there are a lot of leaves wrapped around the tree, and my whole right arm is a lot heavier than before, and my body seems to be tilted a little.
Ato, who had gathered the leaves and ointment scattered around the straw shop, said, "Let's go, let's go to Ramru and collect the medicine together." ā
It has to be said that their small tribe is surprisingly united. Ramru is the patriarch of this small tribe, and everything in the tribe is based on him, and everything must be done with his permission, even the food to be eaten every day. At this point, the organization of this small tribe is far superior to the Central Plains Martial Arts Sect, if they are a sect, this cohesion alone can dominate one side.
I nodded, staggered to my feet, and pinned the Shadow Stalker to the belt around my waist.
The sash was ripped from the purple robe I was wearing. By the time he fell into the cliff, the purple robe was already in tatters, and the rest of the garment had been burned by Ato, who, according to them, had to be burned with fire to avoid the disaster. Now I am dressed in the same clothes as Ramru, most of my body is wrapped in animal skins, except for two arms and feet that are exposed.
We got out of the shack, turned a corner, and headed to the left. My injuries had not healed, and I could not walk fast, so I could only walk slowly, but Atto and Hogg were also careful and did not walk fast.
Around, many people had come out of front of the shacks, and when they saw us coming, they greeted us one after another, and Atto and Hogg responded one by one. Although I have been here for a few days, when they see me, many people are still curious and look at me evasively. I didn't understand words, and I didn't know how to greet them, so I just smiled jerkily and said hello.