Chapter 70: The Strangeness of the Small Tribe
"You just said ...... Dijiang Clan?"
Although the tone was very flat, the man's inquiry still made Chang Zhen a little nervous, and she didn't know if she had said something wrong. Seeing this, Chang Hua on the side of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info asked with a smile, "Brother Xiao, what's wrong?"
"Oh, it's nothing," the man named Xiao Pai smiled gently, "It's just that when I heard this little brother mention the Dijiang clan in the Mi River Valley, he was a little curious and asked casually." ”
"Dijiang Clan?" Chang Hua frowned, and after going through all the large and small clans and tribes in the Mi River Valley in his mind, he shook his head, "Why haven't I heard of this name?"
Hearing his father's somewhat stern voice, Chang Zhen explained with some trepidation: "I only occasionally heard Elder Laqi say that our place used to be a big clan with a population of 400,000, and its name was Dijiang, and I don't know anything else. ”
Xiao Pai blinked: "I didn't expect there to be such a thing, with a population of 400,000, it is a rare clan, and I don't know what is going on now." ”
Chang Hua shook his head: "I have heard of all the large and small tribes in the Mihe River Basin, and the largest is only 30,000 people, and there is no one called Dijiang. However, this tribe is not as populous as possible, Brother Xiao, don't look at the scale of our Tianshui tribe is very small, but it has lived in the Mi River Valley for hundreds of years, which is older than many large tribes with tens of thousands of people. ”
The young man echoed the compliments, and then asked, "Warrior Changhua, I see that you are also old hunters, why do you still come out to hunt when it is freezing in the cold?"
When Chang Hua heard this, he suddenly pursed his lips like a toothache: "It's not because of the clan convening order." ”
"Clan summoning order?"
"You don't know?"
The man shook his head frankly.
Chang Hua glanced at him with a strange look and explained: "Half a year ago, the Nuwa clan and the Zhurong clan jointly launched a clan summoning order, ordering all clans to send troops together to fight against the Gonggong clan that colluded with the barbarian demons. Since then, tribes, large and small, have begun to send warriors to the Nuwa clan to assemble. ”
The man named Xiaopai nodded calmly, not seeming surprised, but asked with some doubts, "Then ...... you guys?"
"Brother Xiao, you don't know anything. Changhua seemed to be asked about the sore spot, and explained with a sad face.
It turned out that according to the content of the summoning order, all clans needed to send half of the adult men to the Nuwa clan to assemble. For some large clans, the number of people is overwhelming, and leaving half of the warriors behind is enough to ensure their own safety, but for small tribes, taking away half of the adult men means that there are many more unknown risks in this dangerous and desolate world.
"Of all the adult men in our Tianshui tribe, there are only twenty-five people, which is already a bit stretched, and if we take half of them, the safety of the clan is really not guaranteed. ”
Xiao Pai patiently listened to the complaints of this Tianshui warrior, and then said empathetically: "There are so many large and small clans in the whole world, and your tribe is not a big department, just don't go, I think the Nuwa clan will not come to you for trouble." ”
"But isn't it?" Chang Hua sighed heavily, "We also thought the same as Brother Xiao, and we originally planned to go south for the winter as in previous years, avoiding this summoning order." But more than a month ago, a big demon of the Xuanyuan clan suddenly came to the clan, saying that he was ordered by the general of Xuanyuan Totem to supervise the army, and asked our whole clan to set off with him immediately and go to the designated place to standby. ”
"You mean," Xiao Pai frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice, "The totem of the Xuanyuan clan sent a big demon to your tribe of only a hundred people?"
Without waiting for Changhua to answer, he asked again, "What about the totem of your tribe?"
"Our tribe of more than 100 people, where can we afford to worship totems. Besides, even if it is a big clan with totems, if it encounters a big demon representing the Xuanyuan clan, can it still be done?"
Xiao Pai nodded in understanding, and the pimple in his eyebrows was correspondingly more convex.
A tribe of more than 100 people, without totems, can be inherited for a hundred years in the dangerous desolate world, and it has also attracted a big clan like the Xuanyuan clan with a population of more than 300,000 to send a big demon to supervise the army.
A tribe with only twenty-five adult males in the whole tribe, what kind of army did they supervise?
And the place where this tribe has lived for generations happens to be the site of the Dijiang clan.
Is this just a coincidence?
"By the way," Chang Hua asked, "I haven't asked yet, which clan are you from?"
Do you want to say it? Xiao Pai looked at the bear spirit indifferently, and the latter spat out two clear words without twisting: "There is a bear." ”
"There's the Bear Clan, that's a big clan. Chang Hua glanced at the little thing in Xiong Ling's arms, with a look of "sure enough", while Chang Zhen and another young Tianshui hunter on the side showed envy at the same time. That look is like the look of a child in a remote area when he hears that a guest is from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
"By the way, two months ago, a team of warriors from the Xiong clan passed through here and headed for the Nuwa clan. Chang Hua said suddenly.
"Oh, how many are there?"
"We only saw from afar, about 5,000 people, a small number of them riding giant bears, presumably you have the giant bear Haji of the bear clan. ”
Xiao Pai nodded, turned back to Xiong Ling and asked, "Is your brother old enough to hunt?"
The girl hesitated, "He's fourteen years old this year, maybe ...... He's already a hunter. ”
She understood the meaning of Xiao Pai's words, if he was already a hunter, then there was half a chance that he would go north with the army, that is, her younger brother might be assembling in the Nuwa clan at this time, and if he was not a hunter, then her brother was in the Xiong clan headquarters in the south at the moment.
Where to go?
This kind of judgment of pure luck makes it a little difficult for the girl who has always been simple.
Xiao patted her on the shoulder: "When we get to Tianshui, let's take a good look at it." ”
"Hmm. ”
The young man turned back and asked tentatively, "Warrior Changhua, did you see one in Haji's team at that time...... Well...... A guy with a strange thing on his head?"
"Strange thing?" Chang Hua thought carefully for a moment and cried out suddenly, "Yes, yes, there is a young man with a hat made of unknown origin on his head and two large holes on both sides. I was wondering, is this the latest popular in your bear clan?"
That guy really went north.
Xiao Pai laughed: "No, this is that guy's own special hobby." ”