Even though the shabby jeep looked like it was about to be scrapped, the sound of the engine starting was still loud and powerful.
A skinny little white man started the car and stepped on the accelerator hard. Under the glaring sun, a trail of choking dust was blown up as he sped to the bearded man's side. Chuckling strangely, he said, "Boss, I've driven the car for the customer."
"Then why aren't you getting down yet?" The bearded man, who was quietly observing Zhang Lisheng's facial expression, roared and pulled his underling out of the jeep. Then, he apologized to the young man, "I can't be your driver. I'm a person who likes freedom and I'm not used to having a boss above my head.
Let's not talk anymore. Take a look at your car, young man. Pay me if you're satisfied with it. "
Zhang Lisheng smiled silently and patted the hood of the jeep beside him. "There's no need to try anymore. I can tell that it's good just from the sound alone." Then, he took out a credit card from his pocket.
"You know your stuff." The skinny little white man by the side snatched the credit card from his hand and ran to a pergola made of a row of black plastic sheets at the corner of the parking lot. After swiping it, he held up the bill to block the sun and strode back to Zhang Lisheng. "Sign your name, buddy. After you sign your name, this' little baby 'will be yours."
Zhang Lisheng nodded and signed his name on the bill with a blank expression. Then, he jumped into the jeep and drove away.
Watching him driving slowly out of the parking lot and disappearing, the skinny little white man raised his head to look at the bearded man and asked in confusion, "What's wrong with you, boss? It's that boy just now. I'll never mistake him for someone else. It's him who spends tens of thousands of dollars to buy a new car on the island by himself every few weeks. He never haggles …"
"Tolos, stop talking. I've tested that boy and he's either bluffing or he's a tough nut to crack. A guy who's bluffing won't come to this f * cking place to waste his money." The bearded man spat on the ground fiercely. "We only came to this island for money, there's no need for us to take risks.
There are so many calves that we can trap here, so why do we have to catch a bison with sharp horns? "
"Bison? I think he's just a pretentious sheep …" Tolos muttered, unwilling to give up.
"Shut up, idiot. Are you the boss or am I?
Go and remove all the useful parts from the car we collected yesterday. If you talk any more nonsense, I'll twist your head off. " His subordinate's rebuttal made the bearded man howl in rage. At the same time when he was howling, Zhang Lisheng was moving boxes of medicine used to prepare the stabilizer to the jeep from the cold storage that he used as his' experimental material 'warehouse.
After loading the car, he started the car and drove out of the warehouse. Following the flow of people and vehicles, he drove out of the gate of the city wall and left the human gathering place on Shrimp B1 Island. After going deep into the jungle, he destroyed the jeep he had just bought with his incarnation's power and sat cross-legged on Ghostface who had regained his huge size. Loaded with reagents, he walked towards the Tudenan tribe.
The wizard gu traveled up and down rapidly in the jungle. The surrounding trees disappeared in a flash, and only the sound of the wind could barely keep up with Zhang Lisheng's speed.
Less than two hours later, looking forward from the back of Ghostface who was entrenched on the crown of a giant tree, a native tribe that was as huge as a city appeared in front of him.
From afar, he could see thousands of people wearing tough leather armor that was stacked with seven to eight layers of tanned soft animal skin that was densely sewn at the corners around the tribe.
Riding on a giant spider that was covered with light purple hair,
Holding a three to four meters long spear made of a tough hardwood pole and a prismatic metal spearhead that was more than a foot long in one hand and a long curved iron saber in the other, the native red-browed warrior was patrolling the safety with a cold expression.
Beside them, countless bark houses were neatly arranged in a circular structure from small to large. There were more than 100 tree houses on the outermost side by side while there was a spacious and flat road in the innermost part, which was just a few wooden houses away from each other.
At the end of all the avenues, there was an eye-catching totem pole with an extremely thick diameter that was completely engraved with images of monsters and elves fighting. There was also a huge wooden frame that was filled with hundreds of pulleys of various sizes that were arranged in a picturesque manner.
All of the pulleys on the wooden frame were connected together by a thick purple rope. More than ten four-armed monsters that looked like silverback gorillas were pulling the rope with their two thick arms under the wooden frame. The other end of the rope was continuously pulling hollowed-out log carts that were tied together from a deep, dark hole that was laid with a wooden slide track.
In the wooden carts, hundreds of eyeless fine-scaled fish were hopping with all their might in vain. They were pierced by the countless native women and children around them with sharp wooden forks. Their stomachs were cut open and they were dried on the muddy ground.
"Sh * t! These native craftsmen actually created semi-automatic animal-powered slide trucks to transport the catch in the underground river! This is really …" Zhang Lisheng muttered to himself in shock. However, he was so shocked that he could not find a suitable word to describe it at once.
At this time, a chief warrior with a feather on his head who was patrolling outside the tribe inadvertently saw his figure sitting on Ghostface and looking down at the ground. With a shudder, he immediately jumped down from his partner and kneeled on the ground in a worshipping manner.
Very soon, the pious performance of the chief warrior spread throughout the entire Tudenan like a raging fire spreading in the dry grass. If one was not a devout believer, it would be absolutely unimaginable for the more than 100,000 aborigines who stayed behind in the tribe to kneel on the mud ground in a short period of time.
"Great Raider, we offer our piety to you! You're the living legend of Tudenan, the faith that walks on the ground …" The singing resonated through the clouds.
Of course, Zhang Lisheng could not turn a blind eye to such a situation. In the midst of countless sudden prayers, he commanded the wizard gu to slide into the central open space of the Tudenan tribe from the void along the colorless silk thread.
The tribal headman, who had already kneeled on the ground, hurriedly walked up to Zhang Lisheng on his knees and kissed his instep. "Great Raider, you're back!"
"Yes, I'm back, Tugra. Looks like all of you have made a lot of good changes during my absence.
I thought that it would take at least several dozens of sunrises and sunsets before Tudenan, which has suddenly expanded several times, can truly condense into a whole. I didn't expect to see such a surprise! "
"Great Raider, the reason I'm able to give you such a surprise is all thanks to the fact that you've turned Tudenan into an unrivaled overlord in the surrounding mountains. Not only that, but you've also imparted countless valuable knowledge to the tribal craftsmen. However, you've never asked for any offerings from the tribe, causing countless Tudenan tribesmen to be inspired.
First, it was Soturu and Dubuqi who contributed the secret of taming the Lohlos to the tribe. After that, Vakuku also volunteered to contribute the secret method of raising the giant millispiders. This is how we can build tens of thousands of treehouses in such a short period of time. Not only that, but after we've just selected the elite warriors, we've also raised enough partners for them.
Upon hearing Tugra's words, Zhang Lisheng was slightly stunned. He knew that in the Hellfire tribe, the craftsmen who mastered the forging of ironware, the construction of large treehouses, and the beast tamers who mastered the method of taming partners were all inherited from generation to generation. Relying on their ancestral craftsmanship, they did not have to take the risk to hunt in the tribe and could enjoy a distinguished status.
In particular, the beast tamers who mastered the secret method of raising the warrior's partner had a lofty status. According to tradition, nobody, even the god, could peep at their skills. For this reason, Zhang Lisheng really could not understand why the young man, who had once acted presumptuously in front of him and was even intimidated by him, would take the initiative to contribute the precious secret method that had been passed down from generation to generation.
"Vakuku has actually contributed the secret method of raising the giant millispiders. Send someone to bring him here to see me. I'll give him three feathers and let him be the leader of all the beast tamers in Tudenan." Zhang Lisheng could not figure out the reason no matter how hard he pondered, so he no longer wasted his brain and ordered.
"Yes, Great Raider!" Tugra stood up and waved his hand to signal the warrior beside him to call Vakuku over. At this time, Zhang Lisheng added, "That's right, Tugra. Are there any small tribes around Tudenan now?"
"Without the Raider, it's impossible for there to be any small tribes around a 'newborn' Hellfire tribe with hundreds of thousands of tribesmen.
The few tribes that were lucky enough to survive the 'glorious night' have long disappeared! "Tugra shook his head and said resolutely.
In the eyes of the Hellfire tribesmen, the so-called 'newborn' meant revenge, expansion, and invasion. In the face of a tribe that had a 'newborn' of hundreds of thousands of tribesmen in a very short period of time, if it was not for the fact that they had similar strength, almost all of the tribes would choose to take the risk of losing their vitality and avoid it. This was also one of the tricks of survival for these weak Hellfire tribes.
"All of them have run away?" Zhang Lisheng frowned. "What about those empty hunting grounds? Can we use them as bait to attract some … Ah, forget it!
The Hellfire tribesmen are not that stupid. According to what you said, I'm afraid there won't be any small tribes that dare to move to the side of Tudenan in the next few years. "
"Not a few years but several decades, Raider!" Tugra said respectfully. "According to the usual practice, there won't be any small tribes peeping at the empty hunting grounds around Tudenan for at least a generation from birth to death."
The implication of the Tudenan headman's words was that after several decades of settlement, if Tudenan continued to develop steadily, it would be able to occupy all of the surrounding hunting grounds and become more prosperous.
If the status quo was maintained, it would undoubtedly mean that the tribe would lose its drive to expand and become stable. At that time, there would naturally be other tribes who would come to divide up those empty hunting grounds.
The third possibility was that Tudenan would decline. This possibility was the most common in the 'newborn' powerful tribes. In that case, the consequences would be self-evident. The tribe would only be able to maintain the hunting grounds that were equivalent to its strength.
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