Under the night sky, a group of people ran across the salt flats. The crunching sounds were like the movement of some kind of reptile.
The night sky was pitch black and the group did not light a fire. Zheng Luo wanted to use the glowing stones that Shao Xuan gave to light the way. Even an advanced totemic warrior would not be able to see accurately in such a dark environment. Their vision would be affected. But if he took out the glowing stones, he was worried that they would be too obvious in the dark. They would be easily exposed. They could see a little light in the darkness from afar.
Shao Xuan volunteered to lead the way. He had been following the team for a while now, so he knew which areas were more dangerous, which areas to avoid, and which direction the team should head in. He already had a plan in mind.
There was no light at night but Shao Xuan had another special vision ability. The topography of the salt flats was very clear in his special vision. The shallow pits, the salt flowers on the ground and so on were clearly visible in his vision.
With Shao Xuan leading the way, the others did not have to worry about bumping into salt flowers or stepping into shallow pits. If they accidentally tripped and ate a mouthful of salt, they would be poisoned half to death, not to mention following the group.
Shao Xuan led the way according to the group's speed during the day. Zheng Luo was suspicious at first, but he relaxed and followed closely behind.
The group became a long and narrow formation, one following the other. This reminded Shao Xuan of the games the children played in the early days of the tribe. Also, the first time he went out hunting, he took Mao with him like this. But at that time, they were running for their lives. This time, they were hurrying.
After stopping for a while, Shao Xuan distributed the purple thousand-grain gold to everyone in the group. There was no time or conditions to light a fire, so there was no way to cook porridge. They could only chew. In the wild, the warriors had chewed raw rice too. They were no strangers to it.
Even though there was only one, and it was still raw. It was crunchy and crunchy, but the purple Thousand Grain Gold was even more comforting to the soldiers than the golden grains. The tension and exhaustion from traveling in the dark, the anxiety from the weather change that they had never encountered before, and the emotional turmoil before the battle were all gently soothed. It was as if their bodies were soaking in a hot spring.
The messy totemic power in their bodies became orderly again.
No one spoke, but the atmosphere became more relaxed. Their minds, which had been somewhat muddled in the salt flats, became much clearer.
"Let's go," said Zheng Luo.
"Mm." Shao Xuan took a gulp of cold water and led the group forward.
The sky gradually turned from dark to hazy. The white salt flats became clearer.
It was dawn.
Dawn, in the salt mines.
The chiefs of the Fox and Shen tribes sent their men to the Flaming Horn, Taihe and Mountain Wind salt caves to start smashing them.
The terrain of the salt mines was like a mountain, but this mountain was not very tall. Instead, it occupied a very large area. After the five tribes occupied the salt mines, they divided their territories and dug salt caves. There were no high cliffs in the mountain where they dug.
When they were digging and mining, the people of the five tribes were very gentle when mining. Even the Flaming Horns tribe, which was considered the most rude of the five tribes, was also very careful when it came to the salt cave.
The rocks in the salt mines got harder the deeper they went. The closer they were to the top, the easier it was to dig. It just so happened that the first layer of salt mine was above, so the opening of the cave was above. The second layer of salt mine was below ground, in a belt shape. Wacha and the others were mining underground, so the upper layer had long been mined out.
At the same time, a group of people had gathered above the cave. There were Fox, Shen and other tribesmen who were recruited as helpers. Each of them held a large hammer or a sharp chisel as they stood there.
"Today, your job is to make this cave collapse, do you hear me?" shouted a Fox tribesman.
"What about the salt inside?" asked an outsider reluctantly. During their time here, they had received a lot of salt but the Fox and Shen tribesmen refused to let them in.
"Salt? The chief will give it to you. He called you here so you won't be taken advantage of. You've received a lot of salt these past few days. Is there a problem with the salt quality? "asked a Shen tribesman unhappily.
"No, there isn't." After being invited here by the Fox and Shen tribesmen, the salt they received was better than what they usually got. But as time went on, they were not satisfied. People were greedy.
The commander standing at the top saw the expressions on these people's faces and secretly mocked them for their ignorance. He was also angry at these people for not being satisfied. However, the leader said that after this incident, it was hard to say if these people would still be alive, so he would satisfy them first.
After calming himself down, the person standing at the top asked someone to bring over a woven wooden basket. Inside the basket were pieces of salt that were red and white in color. There was a lot of white and the distribution was very messy. These salt rocks were all picked from the bottom of the salt cave. Compared to the salt from the top of the cave, the quality was a few grades lower. However, for these outsiders who didn't know the truth, this was enough to make them stare blankly.
So much salt!
"If you can collapse this salt cave by today, the salt will be yours," the commander standing at the top said.
Hearing this, many outsiders rolled up their sleeves, ready to go all out. At the same time, they were thinking about how they could get more salt from the Fox and Shen tribes after the cave collapsed. Why don't they take the risk and steal some?
To reassure them, the commander ordered his subordinates to give out half of the salt rocks. If they could complete the mission, the rest would go to them.
Boom!
A brawny man with a red face stood on top of a rock and smashed down with his hammer.
The others also activated their totemic power, stomping on the rocks or smashing down with their tools at the same frequency.
The Fox and Shen tribesmen watched from the sides, preventing anyone from entering the cave. The chief had said that if any of them entered, they would be killed!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Echoing throughout the rocky area.
The salt mines were located within the area of salt flats, but the surroundings of the salt mines were not as flat as the outside of the salt flats. It was full of strange rocks of varying heights, and the rocks were covered with a thin layer of salt grains. Although the salt grains were not poisonous, they were very coarse and did not contain much salt. Even if they had painstakingly collected them, they would not be able to obtain much salt. Therefore, the people of the five tribes turned a blind eye to the coarse salt that was full of impurities. Even the foreign tribesmen who had been invited to join them were no longer interested in those things.
Boom!
A series of loud noises could be heard. It was not only happening here, but the same thing was happening in the other two places as well. On top of the strange rocks in the surroundings, coarse salt grains rolled down along with the sound of tremors.
At the entrance of the Fox tribe's cave, the Fox Chief stood there, holding the woman with the fox in her arms. His eyes were smiling. "Everything is going well. As long as we destroy their cave, they'll freeze even if they come here."
The woman was smiling too. But the next moment, the fox in her arms stood on end, its thick fur standing on end, making it look like it had swelled up.
Woo! Woo! Woo!
The fox struggled out of the woman's arms, wanting to rush out of the cave. But it looked up at the sky in fear, hesitating.
"What's wrong?" asked the Fox chief.
The woman also found it strange. Thinking of something, she suddenly looked up at the sky and said in surprise, "Perhaps, the change in the sky will come earlier than we expected." The only thing that could make a fox like her react like this was the change in the sky.
The Fox chief calmed down. He looked up at the sky. The sun was blocked by clouds, the wind was weak and there was no snow. The temperature was even higher than yesterday. Everything looked peaceful. It was eerily peaceful. Even the Shen tribe's birds were huddled in a dent in the wall. Like the fox on the ground, they did not fly out at all, as if trying to hide their presence.
"It's not necessarily a bad thing that the weather is changing earlier," said the Fox chief.
The woman thought so too. The workers in the other three caves had already started working. With the help of salt, they would definitely work harder. Half a day was enough to collapse the caves. It was just that they wanted the cave to collapse more thoroughly. If it only collapsed a little, it wouldn't be much of a problem for the three tribes that were about to arrive. Especially the Flaming Horns who were strong, they could clear out obstacles very quickly. That was why they couldn't give them a chance to escape.
"Tell the people in Yanjiao to hurry up. Send another fifty people over," said the Fox chief to someone nearby.
"Yes, sir!" The person who received the order went to look for the outsiders sleeping in the Shen tribe's cave next door. They headed to Yanjiao's cave.
At the cave, the area near the entrance had already collapsed. The workers were expanding the collapsed area.
"The rocks here aren't that easy to break," said a man wielding a hammer as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"Yeah, it gets harder the deeper you go," agreed another.
"What are you talking about? Hurry up and break it," shouted a Shen tribesman who was supervising the workers.
The Fox and Shen tribesmen were mainly keeping an eye on these foreign tribesmen. If they weren't careful, these people could easily take advantage of them. So they had to keep a close eye on them. Seeing that nothing was amiss, the tribesmen who were keeping an eye on the strange rocks also turned to watch the hillsmiths.
But at this time, at the bottom of the salt mine, an angry roar came from the jagged rocks.
Zheng Luo's face was ferocious. He had brought his team over to see these people breaking into their cave! He had only held back his anger because he did not want to be discovered. When they finally got close, he could no longer hold it in. Not just Zheng Luo, the others were the same.
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