Shao Xuan felt the totem in his mind jumping. The sudden change woke him up from his light sleep.
Surrounded by wooden walls, he couldn't see the situation outside. In the room, there was a layer of hay on the ground, and many people were lying on their stomachs, snoring louder and louder.
Shao Xuan quietly sensed.
It was in that direction.
But, what happened to make the totem change like this?
He wanted to go out and take a look, but soon, the change stopped. The totem flame in his mind returned to its usual state, no longer surging.
Shao Xuan temporarily dispelled the idea of going out immediately. Here, he was surrounded by people he didn't know, and this was the slave owner's territory. If he went out at night, he would probably be regarded as a person with bad intentions and be attacked by the patrolmen.
After sensing again and confirming that the totem didn't move, Shao Xuan closed his eyes and continued to rest.
The next day, the people of the Pu tribe didn't have any arrangements. Only Fan Ning and a few other important members of the travel team went to discuss with the other travel teams. It had nothing to do with the rest of the team.
Shao Xuan originally planned to go to that direction to investigate, to see if he could find the reason for the totem's change last night, but as soon as he left the house, he was pulled away by Yu. Yu found a new kind of frog poison in the other travel teams. It was a frog species that didn't exist in their tribe. He wanted to go by himself, but remembered what his grandfather said before he left, so he pulled a few more people, including Shao Xuan.
"Shao Xuan, what are you looking at?" One of them asked.
"Are they all wanderers over there?" Shao Xuan pointed in that direction.
The people of the Pu tribe, who had several years of travel experience, looked over there and said, "More or less, but I advise you not to go. The people over there are crazy. If you go, you may be entangled. There are many who want to join other tribes, but they are too dangerous, so very few tribes are willing to accept them."
Despair made people crazy. After suppressing it for too long, intense emotions were naturally there. This made many people avoid them.
"You want to go over there?" Yu asked.
"I just want to take a look," Shao Xuan replied.
"You don't have to go there now," a middle-aged man next to him said. "The wanderers there will go out early. Some will go to the surrounding mountains to look for food, and some will go nearby to see if they can find other opportunities."
Shao Xuan looked in that direction. Indeed, there weren't many people walking around outside, so he left with Zhao and the others. He would come back later to take a look.
Not long after Shao Xuan and the others left, Yan Shuo moved away the wooden planks in front of the house where the wanderers gathered.
There was exhaustion on his face, but he was in a good mood. Compared to his eyes that were like stagnant water in the past, there was a glimmer of light in his eyes now.
Last night, for the first time, he saw the totem patterns of the legendary totem warriors on his body. Moreover, they were from the Yanjiao tribe.
Although the totem patterns were not clear and did not last for long, Yan Shuo felt that there was light in his life again. He was so excited that he could not sleep for the whole night.
People who had been in the dark for a long time only needed a little bit of light to ignite their hope.
Last night, besides the changes in the totem patterns, Yan Shuo also felt a slight change in his body. It looked the same as before, but Yan Shuo felt that his strength seemed to have increased a little. When he moved the wooden planks, he obviously felt a lot easier.
Originally, he planned to leave here with the others, but after knowing that things had changed last night, Yan Shuo temporarily put down the idea of leaving. After he got up in the morning, he discussed with his wife for a while before coming out of the house. It was much later than usual.
There were already people around looking for food. Yan Shuo also planned to leave, but unexpectedly, just as he was about to leave, he saw someone coming from the river bank.
Seeing the other party, Yan Shuo frowned. He turned around and said to his wife in the house, "Stay in the house, don't come out!"
The person who came over walked leisurely with a vine whip in his hand. On the river bank, where the slaves carried goods, people like this could often be seen.
They were also slaves, but compared to the lowest class slaves, they were slightly better. They were responsible for supervising the lowest class slaves, and if anyone was lazy, they would be mercilessly whipped. Probably because they enjoyed this kind of power, they usually whipped anyone who was not pleasing to the eye. Sometimes, they would even beat someone to death. But as long as the slave owner did not pursue the matter, it would be fine.
And the person who came over was called "Li". He was a wanderer who came here from other places with Yan Shuo. Later, they could not endure it and joined other tribes, but were rejected again and again, and became slaves.
And Li was the first to choose to become a slave among the people who came with them.
At the beginning, Li was also just a slave of the lowest class. He had to do a lot of work every day, and had very little time to rest. Sometimes, he would be so tired that he almost fell down and was even whipped. However, he ran into a good opportunity. Someone had offended the leader of a relatively large traveling group, and the slave master had directly slaughtered a few people as an apology to that traveling group. It was at that time that Ruthless was promoted to the position of Slave Master.
After becoming a slave, they could obtain new strength from the slave owner. And as they were promoted, they could obtain more resources and strength from the slave owner, and naturally their strength would also increase.
The person who came to find Yan Shuo last night had his arm broken and his body full of injuries caused by Li.
Maybe it was to show off his power, or maybe it was because of some personal grudges, he was ruthless towards his former companions. If it was not because there was something at the river bank and Li had to go over immediately to deal with it, that person would have died long ago.
Among the people who came, some left, some died, and some were injured. Other than Yan Shuo's family, the last person could not withstand the pressure last night and chose to become a slave. Now, only Yan Shuo was left.
Li held a long vine whip and walked towards Yan Shuo step by step, with a sinister smile on his face.
If he was also a slave of the slave owner, he might not dare to kill him directly. Although sometimes the slave owner would not care about the life or death of the lowest level slave, he was afraid that the slave owner would have other ideas. It wasn't easy for him to be promoted, so Li naturally didn't want to anger his slave master. Don't look at how that slave master was all smiles all day long. When he made a move, he was extremely cruel. Thinking back to the time when the slave master decisively killed someone with a raise of his hand, a chill ran down Li's spine.
However, the slave owner would not care about wanderers. These wanderers did not know what was good for them, and even rejected the people that the slave owner fancied.
At that time, the slave owner fancied Yan Shuo, who was the strongest among them. Unfortunately, Yan Shuo did not know what was good for him and rejected him. And Li seized the opportunity and chose to follow the slave owner and leave Yan Shuo and the others.
Wasn't it just a little stronger? They were all wanderers, but they did not have a tribe, and their fire seed had long been extinguished. What was the difference between them?
As for the "Yanjiao Tribe" that Yan Shuo kept telling them on the way here, Li did not believe a single word.
If the tribe was still there, why would they fall into such a situation?
If the tribe was still there, why did Yan Shuo not look for it?
If the "Yanjiao Tribe" really existed, why did no one in the traveling team know about it?
At that time, Yan Shuo seemed to be the calmest among them, but in fact, in the hearts of others, Yan Shuo was a lunatic, always fantasizing about those impossible things.
What Li hated the most was the hopeful look in Yan Shuo's eyes when he mentioned the "Yanjiao Tribe". In the past, he could not beat Yan Shuo, but after becoming a slave, he once again had power. It was just that he did not have the time to find these former companions to "communicate". But now, he had a lot of free time every day. Yesterday, he found one of them, and today, he deliberately came to find Yan Shuo.
In order to avoid the situation of being called away at the last minute yesterday, he also let people who were promoted by the slave owner like him to help watch the slaves by the river bank.
Li held a whip in one hand, and played with a palm-sized shell in the other.
He heard that in the central region, there were places that liked to use beautiful shells to exchange for things. Unfortunately, the shells in this place were far from that level. They were ugly and weak, just like the people here!
Crack!
The shell in his hand was instantly crushed into pieces by Li.
"I heard that you guys are not living well now?" Li looked at the alert Yan Shuo, and then looked at the messy wooden shack behind Yan Shuo that looked like it could be blown down by a gust of wind. He smiled sinisterly, and in the next moment, he raised his hand and viciously lashed out with the whip.
The vine whip hit the wooden shack. The wooden shack, which was not sturdy to begin with, immediately fell down with a crackling sound, and a corner of the roof collapsed.
"Li!"
Seeing that Li intended to continue destroying his house, Yan Shuo could not bear it anymore. After all, his wife and children were inside. If the house was destroyed, where would they sleep tonight? There were too many dangerous factors around, and the two children were still young. It was easy for accidents to happen.
Li came with a murderous intent. Yan Shuo knew clearly what his purpose was, and did not expect to have a peaceful conversation.
Yan Shuo held the chipped stone knife that he usually used, and rushed towards Li.
Li looked at Yan Shuo, doubt flashing in his eyes. Yan Shuo seemed to be different from before? It should not be like this. What happened to Yan Shuo?
However, Li was not worried. No matter what happened, Yan Shuo, a wanderer, was still not his opponent.
Yan Shuo, who instantly rushed forward, waved his knife based on his experience of hunting wild beasts. An unsuppressable fighting spirit suddenly rose in his heart.
It was different from before. Although Yan Shuo's strength was greater than others, his body seemed to be blocked by a large gate, and he could not create much waves. But now, although there was the same feeling of obstruction as before, Yan Shuo felt that the resistance was much smaller. When he waved his knife, there was a kind of indescribable carefree feeling.
Was this power?
The shadow of the knife carried the power of destruction. Every knife seemed to want to harvest its prey, and slashed towards Li. And on Yan Shuo's face, totem patterns that were clearer than before appeared.
Almost at the same time, Shao Xuan, who was pulled by Li and the others to look at the poisonous frog, moved his gaze away from the poisonous frog, and looked towards the wanderer's residence.
"Li, I have something to do and will leave first. Help me get some poison." Shao Xuan handed Li a Water Moon Stone, and quickly left.
"Hey, then we will go back to the house first!" Li looked at Shao Xuan who left in a hurry, and did not think much of it. He once again looked at the poisonous frog in front of him.
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