Although Aurora and Layla are relatives, the relationship between the two of them has long been so bad that they only keep each other's phone numbers and do not block them, and in addition to this, all the dynamics of social software are blocked from each other, and they usually don't contact each other at all, let alone take the initiative to learn about each other's recent movements.

In addition, the personalities of the two of them are very different.

Aurora is the kind of extremely serious, rigorous, slightly obsessive-compulsive, and even a little bit not good at socializing, but with her own conditions, she is not good at socializing this aspect is covered up, because she doesn't need to take the initiative to socialize with others, others will revolve around her, one of the manifestations of her not good at socializing is that she is very inactive on social software, and it is already frequent to post updates once every few months and half a year.

Layla is different, she is outgoing, she doesn't post at least five personal updates a day and is uncomfortable, no matter where she goes, she is an out-and-out social queen, but recently her best friends have found that she has changed a lot, the most obvious is that the frequency of personal updates has been greatly reduced, only one is posted in a few days, and the content is not like the previous food, yachts, mansions, famous horses and the like in turn, which makes them worry about whether something happened to Layla.

When Aurora called Layla at Jiang Chanji's request, she thought that the latter was either galloping on a horse in the vast grassland, or lying on a secluded but beautiful private beach basking in the sun, never thinking that the latter was not at all in any developed country, not even in any developing country, not in the southern hemisphere or in the northern hemisphere, but in an inaccessible and extremely dangerous place near the equator.

Hot and humid rainforest.

Accustomed to the European climate, Layla kept wiping her sweat with a tissue, and if she missed her cousin Aurora at any time, it was now.

"How far is it?" she asked in English, dressed in a hunting suit.

The accompanying local black interpreter translated her words to a local guide who was in charge of leading the way.

The local guide was a darker-skinned black man, with only an earthy brown cloth around his waist, a necklace made of animal teeth around his neck, and a rudimentary earthen shotgun on his back.

The guide spoke, and the interpreter said to Layla, "He said that it was not far away, but the territory of the witchcraft tribe does not allow men to enter without permission, and he can only take us to the periphery." ”

"Outsiders, too, tell him that as long as I can find the witchcraft tribe, I will fulfill my promise to take him to other countries to settle down, and give him money that he will not use up for the rest of his life. Layla ran out of a small pack of tissues as she spoke.

The interpreter relayed her words to the guide, who was motivated.

"But miss, with all due respect, why are you looking for the witchcraft tribes, do you want to join them?" the interpreter whispered in English that the guide did not understand, "those women are insane, and a young lady from the civilized world like you should not have anything to do with them......"

Syllable!

Before the translator could finish speaking, a black light burst out of Layla's hand like lightning, and at the same time, something fell from the trunk of a tree three meters away.

The interpreter looked at it, and it was a pale green viper, as thick as a baby's arm, which had been hovering in the treetops almost undetectable, but its body had broken in half, and the section was as smooth as a sharp blade.

It wasn't dead, its upper and lower bodies were still writhing and struggling violently, its fangs trying to bite something nearby.

The black light castrated like an arrow, and after killing the viper, it swung back like a wave, wrapping around Layla's waist, which was the horsewhip that Layla never left her hand.

Compared to the poisonous snake, the horsewhip's attack and return just now looked like a more ferocious black mamba viper.

The interpreter and the guide didn't see how Layla used the whip to cut the snake in two, but what shocked them even more was that the trunk where the snake was lying only shook slightly because of the snake's fall, and the bark was not damaged in the slightest, which showed that Layla controlled the whip accurately and did not waste any extra strength, which she could not have done a few months ago.

The translator didn't talk much, because the poisonous snake just now didn't actually mean to attack them, but was killed by Layla instantly, this thunderbolt method is enough to prove that she is not the Miss Jiao who seems on the surface, and her action contains a warning, telling him not to talk too much, just do his job.

And behind Layla, followed by a convoy of mercenaries and her daily bodyguards, in this primeval forest is no less than a small army.

Whew—

A sharp arrow pierced into the trunk of a tree in front of the guide, and the tail of the arrow still trembled.

The well-trained mercenaries quickly formed battle formations, leaning down to turn on the gun safes, and hiding with the help of tree trunks and grass, while Layla's personal bodyguards desperately stood in front of her.

The guide was so frightened that he fell to the ground, threw away his homemade shotgun, and did not dare to move with his head in his hands.

Not far ahead, a young woman from a primitive tribe appeared in front of the bushes, her face painted with vegetable dyes mixed with animal fat, animal skins around her chest and waist, and colored feathers in her hair, but the number of feathers was not numerous.

She said a few words, and the interpreter turned back tremblingly and said, "She warned us not to go any further, the territory of the witchcraft tribe in front of us, and those who violate it will be killed......

Layla brushed aside her bodyguard and said, "Tell her that I'm here to ask to see your high priest, and I can go in alone." ”

"Miss, this is too dangerous, they are all cannibals......" The bodyguard hurriedly stopped.

Layla waved her hand to stop the bodyguard from continuing, and motioned for the interpreter to relay her words to the outer guard of the witchcraft clan in front of her.

After the interpreter complied, the guard remained unmoved.

"Tell her again, if it's your high priest, you should know why I'm here! Louisa will want to see me! Tell her my name is Layla!"

The guard's expression was visibly shaken when she heard the interpreter's words, because she knew that Luisa was the name of the High Priest when she was studying in the outside world, which proved that the white-skinned woman in front of her might know the High Priest.

She said a few words in the native language, and the interpreter relayed, "She told us to stay still." ”

Layla nodded, motioning for the mercenaries behind her to put their guns down and rest in place, the mercenaries obeyed the order to lower their guns, but did not close the safety and still clenched tightly in their hands.

The guard turned and disappeared into the woods.

The accompanying porters carried heavy backpacks and worked silently like mules, and the bodyguards took out a cooler with a built-in battery from one of the backpacks, took out cold mineral water and handed it to Layla. Rape Chinese

About half an hour later.

In front of the woods, a dozen people poured out, all young women dressed like guards, and the woman in the middle, with the most feathers in her hair and the most intricate oil paint on her face, made Layla unrecognizable for a moment.

The most chilling thing for the mercenaries and bodyguards is that the woman in the middle is holding a scepter-shaped object in her hand, and the top of the scepter is inlaid with a skull, which does not look like a Hollywood prop, judging by the size and shape of the skull, its owner may have been a teenage woman during her lifetime.

"Layla. The woman spoke, in English.

"Louisa, long time no see, or should I call you the High Priest?" Layla finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Layla, what are you doing here? This is not the place you should be, you don't belong to this land. ”

The woman who has the English name of Louisa and is also the high priest of the witchcraft tribe is full of majesty as soon as she speaks.

"For the sake of my old classmates, can I say a few words to you? Layla laughed.

Louisa turned back and said a few words to her people in the local language, and her status as a high priest made them dare not disobey her, and they stayed where they were.

"Come over here. She pointed to one side.

Layla ordered the mercenaries who had come with her to stay where they were, and followed Luisa to a clearing a little farther away.

"Okay, what do you want to say?" Luisa got straight to the point.

Layla frowned, "Don't be so angry, it's a classmate, and if you meet again after a few years, shouldn't you talk about the old days first?"

"If you're here to catch up, then I can't accompany you, please go back, this is not the place you should be. Luisa did not hesitate to place the eviction order.

"Well, it's okay if you don't want to catch up. Layla half-jokingly raised her hand in surrender, "Actually, I'm here to ask for your help. ”

"You look like you're here to ask for help?" Luisa glanced at the mercenaries from various countries.

"It's for self-defense, you know, it's too dangerous in the jungle for a weak woman to come in alone, and I don't believe that these rabble can pose a threat to the witchcraft tribes. Layla laughed.

Luisa ignored her teasing and said solemnly, "What kind of help do you want?"

"What if I say I want to join your clan?"

Layla pretended to be serious, and when she saw Luisa turn around and leave, she hurriedly stopped her with an arrow, "Don't don't, I'm just kidding, but I really have similar thoughts, although I won't join your clan, and your clan won't accept me, but I'm seriously asking you for advice, how to get more power?"

"You're already strong. Luisa said.

"It's still far off, to be honest, I've seen people who are ridiculously strong, but no matter how hard I try, I don't see any hope of catching up with her......" Layla smiled self-deprecatingly, staring at Louisa's painted face, "So I'm curious, how did you get into the second place in the witchcraft clan?

"Oracle. Luisa said simply, "The world has its own accidents, and there are its inevitability. ”

"Sorry, it's too profound, I don't understand, can you put it more plainly?"

"Because the chief foresaw that I would be the great priest of the tribe, so I became the great priest of the tribe. Luisa's tone was as if everything was taken for granted.

Layla was shocked to overhear a terrible secret, could it be that the power of the chieftain of the witchcraft tribe was foreknowledgeable?

"You don't believe me?" Luisa read through her inner thoughts, after all, she was too shaken.

"It's not that I don't believe it......," Layla waved her hand, "but if it were possible, I'd love to open my eyes, if you chieftain foresaw that you would become a high priest, did she foresee my coming?"

Luisa shook her head, "Only God is omniscient and omnipotent, the chief can only foresee the unknown from the known, if she sees you, she can foresee your actions for a period of time in the future, but if she does not see you, she cannot predict that you will come." ”

Layla thought about it, she didn't believe in the ability to predict the future, because the future was too complex and full of changes, but she believed that Luisa wasn't lying, and if the chief really had this ability, it must have come from some kind of magical ability.

If she is asked to give a name to this ability, it should be the so-called "seeing the subtle things", and when she sees the signs of things, she can know its essence and development trend, which can be regarded as predicting the future in a sense.

Anyone can do things with traces, even a madman has a certain pattern of behavior, if someone can grasp the behavior pattern of the other person at the first glance, and predict their actions in the next period of time, it is understandable, but I don't know how accurate the chief's prediction of action will be - judging that a student will go to school the next day is predictable to everyone, and predicting how many times the student will go to class is almost metaphysical.

"So, when your chief saw you for the first time, he foresaw that you would become the great priest of the tribe, so he arranged for you? Layla shrugged her shoulders and said regretfully, "It's a pity that there are no regret pills sold in the world." ”

Luisa was silent for a moment, "I thank you for taking care of me back then. ”

Layla blinked, "Yes? You mean I beat up the girls who were in the toilet trying to rip off your skirts to see if you were circumcised?"

Luisa didn't speak, in fact, she was taken care of by Layla more than this, although these things seemed to Layla to be trivial things that were not worth mentioning, and they were forgotten in a blink of an eye after doing them, but when she was alone in a completely unfamiliar environment, it was Layla who rescued her from the rich girls who bullied her several times.

She didn't understand at the time, why girls would bully other girls so badly, shouldn't girls help each other and take a place in the hands of a male-dominated world?

She didn't understand, because she and those girls grew up in a different environment, those girls already had enough living space, and what they were thinking about was not competing with men for living space, but how to squeeze out other girls, so that they could gain a sense of superiority and satisfaction, after all, there was nothing meaningful in their empty lives.