"Who are you?" Wei asked with a dark expression.
The other person's head shrunk back and he stuttered, "I-I-I-I'm from the Ya tribe!"
"Ya tribe?"
Shao Xuan had heard the Drumming tribesmen mention this before. Bo Gu said that the elderly and children of their tribe were all taken away by the Ya tribesmen. The only fire seed he could sense around here was the Zhi tribe's fire seed. The Ya tribe should be quite a distance away. But if the Zhi tribe could get the Ya tribe to take the elderly and children away, the two tribes must have a good relationship.
Shao Xuan signaled Wei to put down his sword and said to the person not far away, "You're here to look for the Zhi tribe? Then why did you sneak up behind us? "
"I … I'm here … to see the Yanjiao people …" The other person stuttered and shrunk his neck. He squinted his eyes and looked at Shao Xuan and Wei.
Shao Xuan was speechless. It sounded like he was looking at a chimpanzee in the zoo.
At this moment, Bo Gu was carried over.
"Wa Ji, why are you here?!"
Bo Gu's wounds were already treated, but he didn't rest in the cleared area like the others. Instead, he asked someone to carry him here. He wanted to ask the Yanjiao people about hunting fearsome beasts, but he didn't expect to meet the Ya tribe's Wa Ji.
"How are they?" Bo Gu thought something happened to the people he brought out so his tone was urgent.
"They're fine, they're fine." With Bo Gu's arrival, Wa Ji's nervousness lessened. Although he still spoke quickly, at least he didn't stutter, "I heard that there was no movement here so I came over to take a look."
Knowing that the people were fine, Bo Gu relaxed and introduced the person who suddenly appeared to Shao Xuan.
"He's Wa Ji, from the Ya tribe. The Ya tribe is quite far from our tribe, but they often move around our tribe. " After a pause, Bo Gu hesitated for a moment before continuing, "The Ya people live underground and have many underground tunnels. Sometimes, we would ask them to deliver things to us. Previously, when we encountered the giant beast, the elders and children of the tribe were also taken away by them. "
"Even so, he shouldn't have sneaked up on us from behind. I almost stabbed him," Wei said unhappily. "Even if he was curious about us Yanjiao people, couldn't he have looked from afar? Do you have to sneak up on me? "
"Cough, you've misunderstood," Bo Gu explained on behalf of Wa Ji, "The Ya tribesmen … have poor judgment."
Shao Xuan looked at Wa Ji's squinted eyes and nodded in understanding. Previously, when he saw Wa Ji's expression, he felt that it was strange. It did not look like he was smiling, but it turned out that he had bad eyesight.
"Shao Xuan from Yanjiao," Shao Xuan introduced himself, then looked at Wa Ji. "Hello, Excavator."
"… Waaji, my name is Waaji," Waaji corrected.
"Wa Ji, have the Ya tribesmen ever thought of going to the Flaming River Trading Point?" Shao Xuan asked.
"Flaming River Trading Point? I've heard of it. I was the one who told Bo Gu and the others about it, "Wa Ji's long fingernails dug into the ground anxiously." I wanted to go before, but I didn't dare. "
"Why didn't you dare? You know how to dig holes, isn't it safer to go underground? "Shao Xuan was puzzled.
Wa Ji's squinted eyes quickly looked up at Shao Xuan, then shrunk back. "I heard that you Yanjiao people are huge, have sharp teeth and claws, and eat people!"
Wa Ji spoke quickly and bluntly. The words came out of his mouth so fast that Bo Gu could not stop him in time.
Shao Xuan and Wei were speechless. What the hell?
It was fine if he had sharp teeth and claws, but the Yanjiao people would not take the blame for "eating people".
"Bullshit! Who said we eat people?! "Wei glared angrily.
Wa Ji continued to dig into the ground. "I … I heard! I didn't say it! "
"Ahem, that," Bo Gu had to explain again. "The Ya people heard a lot of news, both real and fake."
The people of the Ya tribe dug holes everywhere, and they liked to communicate with each other. When they dug holes in one tribe, they would chat for a while, and when they dug holes in another tribe, they would chat for a while. Then, when their own people gathered together, they would brag and brag. The truth and lies were stacked on top of each other, and when combined with imagination, the truth was distorted a lot.
Wa Ji also realised that it was not good to talk about this in front of the Yanjiao people. He scratched his messy hair uncomfortably with his long fingernails, then reached into his clothes and dug around. He jumped out of the ground. His short body was exposed, and his neck was short. Shao Xuan thought that he was timid and shrunk his neck, but now he realised that Wa Ji's neck was short to begin with. When he shrunk his neck, it looked like his head was connected to his shoulders.
After jumping out of the ground, Wa Ji offered the food in his hand to Shao Xuan. "Want to eat?"
Sharing food was one of the ways to show friendliness. It was common among many tribes. This was also Wa Ji's way of showing his friendliness to Shao Xuan and Wei. If he could be on good terms with the Yanjiao people, he could go back and brag to his brothers.
But …
Shao Xuan looked at the dried worms made from annelids that Wa Ji took out. "No, thank you. You can eat it yourself."
Wa Ji asked Shao Xuan about the Flaming River Trading Point, then went to take a closer look at the giant beast. Because of his poor eyesight, or even high myopia, his nose almost touched the beast.
After chatting and looking, Wa Ji left. He felt uncomfortable under the sun for a long time. Yang Guang did not give him a sense of security. On the contrary, if he was exposed to the Yang Guang for too long, he would feel uncomfortable all over. The Ya people preferred the dark underground. That way, they felt safer.
"I'll go underground first. I'll bring your tribesmen back," Wa Ji said to Bo Gu, then went underground again. The soil on the surface was quickly tossed up by his two large hands. Soon, Wa Ji's figure disappeared.
"There must be other holes that they dug nearby. However, the hole under our feet must have collapsed." After Wa Ji left, Bo Gu said to Shao Xuan, "The Ya people are just a little too curious and timid. They're actually not bad people."
To put it bluntly, the Ya people were just a little gossipy and timid. They didn't have much ambition or intelligence to scheme.
After settling the injured, the shaman came to Shao Xuan.
"You lost quite a lot this time. Not a single house was left," Shao Xuan said.
"No worries. We can just rebuild." This was already the best result at this stage. At least there were still many of them who were still alive.
The shaman carefully held a wooden box and passed it to Shao Xuan, "This time, thank you all from Yanjiao!"
The wooden box was opened. It was filled with crystal balls of all sizes. These were the ones the shaman showed Shao Xuan and the others when they first arrived. They looked like cat's eye stones. But compared to the one the shaman showed them, these were much brighter. On the crystal balls, the 'eye' lines were narrower and clearer. When they turned, they looked like eyes opening and closing.
However, these weren't the ones the shaman cared about the most.
The shaman removed the top layer of the wooden box, revealing the contents of the bottom layer.
The bottom layer of the wooden box was cushioned with soft fur. There were even wooden compartments. Every compartment contained a quail egg sized bead. There were a total of nine compartments, nine beads.
At first glance, these nine beads looked similar to the ones on the top layer. They were just brighter. But when you looked at them again, you realized that wasn't the case.
"Look again." The shaman said.
Shao Xuan stared at the beads. His eyes widened in shock, "This is!"
On the nine pearls, a clear "eye" line appeared. However, unlike the bright light on the pearls on the upper layer, on the nine pearls on the lower layer, a thin line with a darker color first appeared. Then, the thin line opened up, and a slightly lighter filament-like line stretched outwards along the thin line. And as these filament-like lines stretched outwards, the originally dark thin line was like the pupil of a beast, narrowing and widening from its narrowness.
It wasn't the usual optical effect produced by the stone under the light, but it was like the eyes of a ferocious beast!
When the beast-like "eye" lines on the crystal opened, Shao Xuan felt a chill as if he was facing a ferocious beast. It was too similar! Those who didn't know would think it was a beast's eye!
It wasn't just Shao Xuan. Wei and the others who saw this couldn't help but scratch their arms. A layer of goosebumps appeared on their skin.
Luckily, many of them had eaten a beast's eye before. They quickly calmed down from their shock.
However, their emotions were stirred up by the shaman's next words.
"This is actually called 'Ground Eye'. No matter if it's the top layer or the bottom layer, they can all be considered 'Ground Eye Stones'. But these nine beads on the bottom layer are not normal Ground Eye Stones. They are the 'Universal Eyes' of the Ground Eye Stones! "
"Universal Eyes?" Shao Xuan didn't understand the meaning of this name.
The shaman wasn't in a hurry to explain. Instead, he moved the wooden box left and right. Then, he used his other hand to cover the top of the wooden box.
"Can you see it?" The shaman asked.
"They're … facing the sun!" Shao Xuan was shocked. It wasn't obvious when the shaman moved the box but when he covered the top of the crystal with his hand, the 'eyes' of the beads on the top layer were not obvious due to the light being blocked. However, the nine beads on the bottom layer were still facing the direction of the sun and opened their 'eyes'!
"That's right! No matter where the Universal Eyes are, no matter which direction you stand, no matter how you move the beads, they will always face the sun. Even if they're covered, as long as it's not in absolute darkness, they will always have their 'eyes' open. Not only during the day, they will also have their 'eyes' open at night. But at that time, they won't be facing the sun, but the moon! It's said that only one out of ten thousand Ground Eye Stones is a Universal Eye. "
If it was just a beautiful crystal, Shao Xuan wouldn't be too surprised. However, this kind of crystal with a precise direction was very useful.
The tribesmen had their own ways of identifying directions. Some relied on crystals to see the position of the sun behind the clouds, some relied on divination, some relied on beast-like intuition, and some directly relied on domesticated animals, such as birds and insects.
However, these Universal Eyes that the shaman took out were the most accurate, least restrictive and most convenient crystals Shao Xuan had ever seen! They were comparable to a compass!
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