Zabal's Cave House sits on the top of a hill. We went up the mountain trail, and the more we went up, the colder the air became, and there were hardly any trees to be seen along the way, and more of it was a bare and barren land like a rocky hill. Abigail said that Zabal was withdrawn, and that the top of the hill where he lived was as desolate as his character. The top of the mountain is much more shabby than the mountainside, and it looks distinct and out of place. I don't know why he doesn't live in a place with a pleasant view on the mountainside, but he wants to live on the top of the mountain.

When we reached the entrance of the cave in Zabal Cave, we stopped. I looked up and saw that the hole was not luxurious, but made of the sky. The entrance of the cave is the size of a zhang, the edge is uneven, concave and convex, like the entrance of a coal cellar.

The entrance to the cave was guarded by two Miro men, and when they saw us coming, they fell to their knees and bowed to Abigail. Abigail spoke, and a Miro tribesman on the left side of the cave quickly stood up again, turned around and ran towards the cave.

When I saw this, I frowned imperceptibly. This Zabar's status seems to be higher than that of Abigail, who is already the patriarch of the Miro tribe, and he has to report when he comes here. I looked into the cave, and it was so groggy that I couldn't see anything.

It wasn't long before the guard hurried out again, knelt on the ground and said a word to Abigail, stumbling to the guard on his right as he got up.

We followed Abigail into the cave, and we were greeted by a strong smell of herbs. It seems that whether it is a wizard or a Dan Dao master, the place where they cultivate is inseparable from the smell of herbs, the Danfang of the Shaobai Dao people is like this, the same is true of the ancient pharmacy, and this cave is no exception.

As soon as you enter the cave, there is a long passage, and there are torches inserted in the gap between the stone walls on one side of the passage, and you can clearly see the road under your feet, but it is unusually smooth. After walking through the passage for a while, we came to an outer cave that resembled a courtyard within a cave.

This outer hole is very large, and there is a white stone floor on the ground, which is very finely polished, smooth as a mirror, but it is not slippery at all when you step on it. In the middle of the cave there is a pool of water the size of five zhang, and in the middle of the pool stands a stone sculpture of a barbarian carrying a mountain, the stone sculpture has a closed mouth, and water gushes from the top.

I didn't expect there to be such a big contrast between the inside and outside of this cave, I was a little surprised, but what surprised me even more was the surrounding stone walls of this cave.

The stone wall is finely excavated, and the excavated stone grooves are rows of stone grooves. The stone trough was filled with scrolls of animal skins rolled into scrolls.

Looking around, the cave was about ten zhang high, and rows of stone troughs went straight to the top of the cave, and almost all of them were stuffed with animal skin rolls. I can't count how many hides there are in this cave, and I just feel like I'm in the middle of a sea of mountains.

Na Gu also seemed to be a little stunned, and muttered, "Are these the witch's witch books? How many must there be?"

There are so many! I marveled at the fact that if all these scrolls were to be brought down and loaded in horse-drawn carriages, I am afraid that there would not be a hundred or so horse-drawn carriages that would not be able to fit them.

I was thinking about it, only to hear Abigail in front of me nod and smile, "Exactly." In his life, the Great Witch traveled all over the Western Regions, and he was well-informed and knowledgeable, and these are the witch books kept here by the Great Witch, the codex of the experience of witchcraft, and the books that record the herbs of the world. ”

The witch books left by the ancient ancestor together are not as many as the scrolls on the bottom layer of this cave, right? Hearing Abigail say this, the drunkenness on Nagu's body seemed to have decreased a lot, and he smiled and did not speak. Abigail pointed to the front and said, "The cave in front is a collection of rare medicinal materials by the Great Witch. ”

We followed Abigail towards the front, and sure enough, after passing through a passage again, another wide cave appeared in front of us.

This cave is almost the same size as the previous one, and the style is similar, with a pool, a white stone floor, and a stone wall and stone trough, except that the stone carvings in the pool have been replaced by a vulture swooping statue, and the spring water gushes out on the top of the vulture. The rare herbs preserved in the stone troughs around the stone wall are very different from the way I imagined the herbs to be squeezed out of water and bundled together, but they are filled with colorful glass bottles.

These bottles also filled the stone walls around the cave, and at first glance it was impossible to know how many, and each bottle was filled with liquid, presumably a special potion used to preserve herbs, and each bottle contained only one herb. I looked at the bottles closest to me, and what I saw were herbs that I had never seen before, only curved roots and flowers of various shapes.

In one of the bottles, I saw a skull that was almost identical to a human skull, but the bottle was not really that big, it looked like a wine jar, and the skull inside was only the size of a human fist, and on either side of the row of teeth were two finger-long fangs, which were far from the human skull. When I helped the Shaobai Dao people sort out the herbs in the Death Swamp, I already knew that there were many kinds of herbs in the world, and the strange shapes of herbs were innumerable, and it was unimaginable. I just don't know what kind of medicine this skull is.

Swallowing the amazement in my heart, I watched, but did not stop at my feet, and followed Abigail towards the third cave inside.

The third cave occupies a small area, and the roof of the cave is much lower than the first two. On the left side of the cave there is a row of small stone houses, the door is a copper-yellow wooden plank, separating the inside and outside, and from time to time there are bursts of inexplicable insect chirping.

On the right side of the cave is a large solid wood case, and the table is cluttered. An old man in a black robe with a stiff body was preparing potions at the desk.

Is he Zabal? In the past few days, I have heard more about him than he was, and this time I finally met him in person.

Zabal was not tall, the hair on his head was sparse, his back was a little hunched, and the black robe on his body was loose and baggy. He was holding a transparent glass bottle in his hand, which contained a blue fluorescent liquid, and he didn't even raise his head for our arrival, but was carefully pouring the blue liquid into a porcelain jar on the desk.

Nagu and I stopped, Abigail and the two old men walked to the desk, Abigail smiled and said, "Great Witch, the wizard of the Siri Clan has arrived. ”

Zabal still did not look up, as if deaf to Abigail's words, and Abigail also stopped saying this, and stood quietly with the other two.

He can't help but be a little rude like this, no matter what, Abigail is the head of the Miro clan, if you look at the status, the two should be on an equal footing, I often hear Nagu say that wizards have a high status in the clan, and some wizards have a heavier weight in the clan than the patriarch, but even if the status is high, it is necessary to have etiquette when meeting the patriarch. But this Zabal did not.

I looked at Nagu beside me, and he looked at me, probably because he was also wondering how wordless Zabal was, and his face was full of puzzlement.

In the glass bottle in Zabal's hand, the blue liquid was as viscous as honey syrup, and he poured it out of the bottle and joined it into silk threads, like an embroidery thread, into the porcelain bowl under the bottle.

I raised my head slightly, Zabal seemed to be old, but the hand holding the bottle was quite steady, and the blue mucus flowed out of the bottle evenly, not trembling.

Just as it was pouring, suddenly, there was a "zila" sound in the porcelain bowl under the bottle, and there were small particles in it like salt on a hot pan. However, his action seemed to be half a minute late, and when the bottle was removed, there was still a little blue slime flowing into the magnetic bowl, but when he heard a "snort", a small cloud of blue smoke rose from the porcelain bowl, and the porcelain bowl also calmed down in an instant.

Did it fail?

The small cloud of blue smoke dissipated, and a strong, pungent smell reached my nose.

The preparation of drugs requires control of the dosage, and the precision required is extremely difficult to control, and the slightest carelessness can lead to undone efforts. When we were in the Death Swamp, it took a lot of effort for Shaobai Dao to artificially prepare the potion, although we picked a lot of exotic flowers and plants from the Death Swamp at that time, but due to the lack of accurate containers, Rao is Shaobai Dao people have superb Dan skills, and in the end they did not configure any potions.

Zabal placed the bottle on the desk, propped himself up on the desk with both hands, and looked at the porcelain bowl without saying a word, and we didn't dare to speak.

After a while, he said slowly: "Got it." ”

Isn't it too late to respond to Abigail at this time, but Abigail didn't pay much attention, looked at Zabal and said, "Great Witch, the Celestial Wolf Clan with the fish-headed monster venom in his body has also been brought, and this is the person." As he spoke, he pointed at me.

Being pointed at by him like this, of course I couldn't go forward and salute stupidly, and I could only look at a few of them on my face, but Nagu stepped forward and bent over, and said respectfully: "In Nagu, the wizard of the Lower Heavenly Wolf Clan, I have seen the Great Witch of Zabar. "When I saw Nagu come forward, I saluted after him.

Zabal looked at me and Nagu for another moment of silence. When he turned his head, I saw that he had a very prominent hooked nose on his face, which occupied almost the entire face of him, and his face was also very old, with layers of wrinkled skin on his face, and I didn't know how old he was, but his eyes were shining.

After waiting for a while, I only heard him say: "One of my pythons killed two of your clansmen, but this one of your clansmen destroyed one of its corpses, one life is worth one life, and one life is missing, and this life should be regarded as the benefit of you looking for me to heal the disease." ”

I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, my eyes kept looking at him. In the middle of the black forest, their Miro Python Ghost Boy killed two Sky Wolf Clansmen, and although I failed to kill the Python Absolute Ghost Boy, I also destroyed its body. However, the body was a dead body, and on our side it was two living lives. Could it be that in Zabal's eyes, two lives of a living person are not worth a dead body?

At this time, Abigail said: "Great Witch, the wizard of the Sky Wolf Clan is sincere in visiting and worshipping, and there is no responsibility to chase the python. ”

Nagu saluted Bazar again, and continued: "The python of the Great Witch is unpredictable, and it is the duty to guard the territory. I waited for this visit to the Great Witch, I only hope that the Great Witch can remove the Gu poison from my clan, and my Heavenly Wolf will be grateful, and there will be a generous gift afterwards. ”

Zabal was expressionless, and said: "You are very good at saying that since you don't even care about the lives of those two clansmen, then kill this clansman who is poisonous, wouldn't it save a lot of trouble." ”

I was full of excitement. Nagu came to test the Miluo tribe on the order of Kangping, I am afraid that Abigail has already noticed it, and Abigail also intends to make friends with the Great Song Dynasty, which I and Nagudu have been able to figure out. As for the two Heavenly Wolf Clansmen who died in the Black Forest, both of them kept silent and tacitly acknowledged, probably for the sake of friendly exchanges between the two clans in the future, and did not want to care about past suspicions.

But Zabal's words suddenly broke the tacit understanding between the two. Indeed, since they don't even care about the lives of the two clansmen, why should the Sky Wolf Clan bother because of a clansman with Gu poison in his body? Anyone who uses their brains a little can know that our visit has another purpose, but neither Nagu nor Abigail have made it clear. Nagu didn't say it clearly, I can guess what he meant, he was worried that the Miro tribe had no intention of submitting to it at all, if this is the case, once it is clear, the lives of more than a dozen of us will be in danger, maybe the Milo tribe will attack us last night, or drive this place away.

Then, Abigail has never made it clear that he has the intention of making friends, most likely because of this Zabal's attitude? Nagu said that Zabal does not like the Central Plains, and if the Miluo people have the intention of making good intentions to the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that he will be the first to stand up and oppose it, plus his status among the Milo people and even in the Western Regions, once he opposes it, Abigail will not be able to say anything.

After thinking so much in my mind, I couldn't help but be a little surprised, looked up at Nagu and Abigail, and was said by Zabar, but the two of them suddenly stopped moving, and their faces were a little embarrassed.

Is Zabal so unwelcoming to us?

A trace of anger rose inexplicably in my heart, but my face remained silent. His tone was even louder than Abigail's, as if the entire Miro tribe was just his own decision, and even Abigail was in awe of him.