Zhe Fei looked at this majestic city, and he had made preparations before coming, but when he saw this city, he realized that he still underestimated this tribe.
The city occupies a large area, the outer moat is choppy, and the city walls are so high that you have to hold your head up, and you may not be able to see the people walking on it.
Philip gasped in surprise, "When we left here last year, they were still digging the foundation for the outer city. It's only been less than a year and a half, and they've built such a large outer city wall?"
"You said their leader is a fourth-level earth-controlling blood warrior?" Zhe Fei asked in a low voice.
"right."
"There are no more than a thousand members?"
"If you don't add dwarves. But last winter, they traded more than a thousand slaves from Morgan, but they were all women and useless children. In addition, some scouts reported that they brought back some slaves from the Great River. Slaves, but it seems that there are still many women and children." Fei Li and Duo Fei were puzzled by this, if Jiuyuan lacked women before, it was reasonable to trade so many female slaves in winter, but why did they bring back this time? Women and children
"Is it possible that they got war slaves from other places, but you didn't realize it?"
Feili didn't dare to push it, "It's possible. They have people who are like birds and birds, and my people don't dare to fly this way."
Zhe Fei stroked the mane of the war beast under his body, "If they want to build such a city in just over a year, they must have tens of thousands of slaves, no, tens of thousands are not enough. The city uses not Earth walls, but stone bricks and boulders. Regardless of boulders or stone bricks, people need to be transported, broken, and cut from a distance. You have not noticed such a big movement?"
Phil shook his head.
Zhe Fei looked at the base of the city wall with deep eyes, "They must have mastered something we don't know, look at their city wall, the lower part looks like a huge stone, or it looks like a mixture of crushed stones and solidified Natural stone walls, did such stone walls exist in the first place?"
"No." Fili shook his head again, and then added: "Could it be that the mermaids gave them something? This tribe and the mermaids get along very well. Look, my lord, there are mermaid warriors patrolling for them in their moat. "
Zhe Fei looked at those parading mermaid warriors with admiring eyes, and secretly estimated the fighting power of these mermaid warriors in his heart, "Didn't you say that His Highness Duofei lived with them for a while, and she didn't know?"
"Although His Royal Highness Duo Fei lived with them for a while, according to her, the young priest regarded her very strictly. Although she saw the people of Jiuyuan building the city, they never used it to make stone bricks and lay foundations. Let her go. She also asked those natives, but those people refused to tell her, only saying that it was the divine power of the priest."
Zhe Fei thought for a moment, "Even if the mermaid gave them some special building materials, they couldn't build so fast."
Fili shrugged, he couldn't figure it out either.
Zhe Fei, "There are two possibilities. First, if the tribe does not have tens of thousands of slaves, and the soil-controlling blood warriors only have that leader, the construction of such a majestic city can be completed in such a short period of time. It can show that the leader of this tribe is not only at the fourth level, but may have reached the sixth level, or even the seventh level."
"Impossible!" Feili turned pale, "It took a little more than a year to go from level 4 to level 6? Even if he got the ability training method of the blood warrior, it is impossible to absorb it so quickly with a lot of crystals in his hand."
"Then there is a second possibility." When Zhe Fei spit out this possibility, he had completely overturned his original impression of Jiuyuan in his heart, "This tribe has more than one sacred-blood warrior who can control the soil, and at least five or more. , and the ability is not lower than level three."
Philip's expression also became serious. He wanted to say it was impossible, but the truth was right in front of him.
The soldiers behind Zhe Fei also heard the conversation between the two, and everyone fell silent. If this tribe only has five or more three-level soil-controlling fighters, it’s okay. I’m afraid it’s the first possibility. How much lethality can a high-level sacred-blood warrior bring? People who have never seen a high-level sacred-blood warrior It's unimaginable.
"My lord, when we left last year, this tribe had only one god-blood warrior who could control the soil. I think even if some of them awakened later, it would be impossible to awaken more than five at once, let alone raise them to three in just one year." class."
Zhe Fei suddenly made a digression: "Have you noticed that two of the soldiers who found us before, greeted us later, and went to the city to report did not have warrior marks on their faces?"
Ok? Everyone including Fili began to recall, but they really didn't notice this.
Zhe Fei continued: "We saw that the fighters with marks on their faces were all below level three, so what level are the two fighters without marks on their faces?"
Fei Li swallowed, he found that his information was not only lagging but also had a big problem, "My lord, back then their soldiers had marks on their faces, even their leaders and priests also had marks on their faces."
"But you haven't seen them for more than a year, and you haven't gotten any useful information about them." Zhe Fei didn't intend to criticize Fei Li, but only raised his chin, "Their people are here, and we can see to the end later what's going on."
Different from the arrogance that Ye He and the other three regarded themselves as superiors, Zhe Fei and his party did not forcefully break into the territory of Jiuyuan. At the border of the Duofei tribe and the territory of Jiuyuan, they expressed their wishes to the defenders of Jiuyuan. It means to visit Jiuyuan friendly.
After that, Zhe Fei and his party did not run around, but followed the Jiuyuan soldiers until they were led to the gate of the west city.
And they didn't have to wait long. Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo, who had received the news in advance, had already sent people from the inner city to greet them.
Hei Qi and Wu Chen led a group of people forward, laughing before saying anything.
Hei Qi stepped forward to introduce the identities of the two, and asked about the identities of Zhe Fei and his party.
"Guest from afar, hello. I'm Hei Qi, this is the chief disciple of our lord priest, Wu Chen, the leader and lord priest asked us to come here to welcome you."
Zhe Fei glanced at Hei Qi and Wu Chen. He didn't get angry because the other party sent a child to meet him. On the contrary, he was the first to see the blood warrior mark on Wu Chen's face. Awakening at an early age is rare in the Three Cities. If you connect to the Temple of the Three Cities, your future will be limitless.
Now that he heard that Wu Chen was a disciple of the priest, he felt in his heart that this child should have such an identity, and at the same time suppressed the last bit of dissatisfaction.
If this was a very ordinary tribe, and he, the general of Tianzhu City, came here, if the tribal leaders and priests didn't come out to greet him personally, even if he had a big belly, his subordinates would show the tribe a little bit of color.
But this tribe is not an ordinary tribe, even he was overwhelmed by the scale of this magnificent city, coupled with their previous speculation, his subordinates did not dare to act rashly when they saw that he did not prompt.
Although Zhefei didn't blame Jiuyuan for his negligence, he didn't dismount the war beast either. He sat on the tall war beast and nodded slightly to Wu Chen and Hei Qi, uttering a very simple sentence: "Zhe Fei, From Tianzhu City. I want to meet your leader."
Hei Qi was polite, moved out of the way, and signaled Zhe Fei and his party to follow them into the city.
Zhe Fei didn't find it strange either. Unless there were special circumstances in the three cities, the general envoys could enter the city. He didn't know that Ye He and the other three had not been able to enter Jiuyuan before.
Seeing that the Jiuyuan people let them enter the city, Feili didn't show any worry or fear, let alone a guilty conscience, and he didn't think that the disappearance of the high priest had anything to do with this tribe.
The city is empty.
This is Zhefei's first impression after entering the outer city.
There are not many pedestrians on the road, or even very few.
There are two rows of trees on both sides of the wide and flat road. Behind the trees, you can see neatly arranged stone houses and a large area of cultivated fields.
He seemed to see soldiers practicing, but he couldn't see them very clearly from a distance.
The left side seems to be the residence of dwarves, and many dwarves are coming and going.
The second impression is that the city is very clean, completely free from the mess and chaos of some big tribes he has been to.
A scout stepped forward and whispered something in Zhe Fei's ear.
Zhe Fei nodded, there was no smell left by the three of Ye He in this city, and the high priest probably just walked around outside the tribe before leaving. But why didn't the high priest enter the city? Did he not want to know more about such a city
Wu Chen raised his head at this moment, and smiled honestly, "Some time ago, there were envoys from Tianzhu City, but at that time our leader and priests were not there, only the mountain god was there, and the leaders went to the Moorgan tribe in the middle of the river to participate Their spring trading market is here. The three adults didn’t go to the city after hearing about it. They wanted to go to the city, but the mountain god didn’t want strangers to enter the city, and no one could appease him without the priest. After talking with the mountain god, the lord didn't insist on coming in, and told us to add some food and said that he would also go to the middle reaches of the river to have a look."
It seems that the human-faced bird must be very powerful. Wu Chen's words dispelled the last trace of doubt in Zhe Fei's mind. He had a good impression of this boy with one-faced eyebrows. He was neither arrogant nor impetuous, with a simple and honest smile. He looked like an honest boy, "You often do business with the tribes in the middle reaches of the river? "
"No, it was the first time in spring. It was the Morgans who found us last year and asked us to go, so we went."
"What is the deal between you and Moore?" Zhe Fei asked gently.
"Our tribe has just been established and there are few things. We will trade some furs, bones, herbs, and some dried wild vegetables."
"Is the cloth on your body also traded from Morgan?"
Wu Chen shook his head, proudly said: "No, this is what the priest taught us."
"Oh?" Zhe Fei also believed more and more in the guess that the young priest came from a temple in a certain city.
Hei Qi interjected: "Guests, the front is where we let our guests live. I will take you to settle down first. You must be very tired after coming from a long distance. I will let you boil water for you. You can take a hot bath, and then I will give you Get some good food."
Zhe Fei reined in the war beast, "No, I want to see your leader and priest right now."
Hei Qi didn't refuse, "Could you tell me what's the purpose of the guest coming to our Jiuyuan? Do you want to make a deal, or are you just passing by?"
Zhefei paused and said: "I want to see your leader."
Hei Qi was neither overbearing nor humble, "Our leader has a lot of things to do, and it's impossible for him to come out to greet every guest. Guest, can you tell me, what is your business in Jiuyuan?"
Zhe Fei frowned, his subordinates were a little angry.
Wu Chen pushed Hei Qi, and said embarrassingly: "My lord, Hei Qi is always straightforward, but he is very nice. He wanted to ask clearly, but he was afraid of being blamed by the leader. Please forgive me."
Zhe Fei's expression softened slightly, "Go and tell your leader that Tianzhu City is looking for a large tribe that can benefit and help each other in the barren land. If he wants to, let him come to see me."
Hei Qi wanted to say something again, but Wu Chen was ahead of him, "Okay, my lord, I will pass on your words to him. The front is the place to receive guests, please go and rest first, I will be back soon .Brother Heiqi, you lead someone to take care of the messengers.”
Hei Qi nodded, "Don't worry." Then he stretched out his hand to Zhe Fei and the others, "Everyone, please follow me."
After returning home, Wu Chen told the story in detail, especially praising Hei Qi for his wit.
"It seems that you cooperated well." Yan Mo was very happy that he had not misjudged the person, and Hei Qi was indeed a smart person, so he praised the little guy.
Yuan Zhan asked, "What do you think Zhe Fei meant by that sentence?"
Yan Mo, "It's nothing more than that we think our tribe is useful and want us to become a subsidiary tribe of Tianzhu City."
"your thoughts?"
Yan Mo pondered for a while, "Don't reject him yet, but you might as well mention our intimacy with Bai Xicheng."
Wu Chen understood, "Master, do you mean to pretend that we are a subordinate tribe of Baixi City?"
"It's not affiliated, it's friendly. If they don't believe it, you can let them meet the three snake people. In short, the meaning should be as vague as possible and let them guess by themselves."
Yuan Zhan said: "Once we become their affiliated tribe, they may let us be the first to confront the murderer who killed their high priest."
"So hang on to him, only agree to the deal, and then pretend that we have a big backer behind us. For this reason, I will keep a secret for the time being and not show up. Ah Zhan, you go to see them alone, remember to bring Mo Sha. The other warrior leaders also asked They brought bone-refining weapons."
"I'm afraid they will want to see you even more then."
"Just say that I'm back to the temple. When he sees you, I'm afraid he won't dare to do it lightly. He will fool them away first."
Yuan Zhan took people to see Zhe Fei and his party, while Yan Mo turned to Shen Gu. He started helping Shen Gu to stimulate the awakening of the divine blood two days ago, and today is the critical time for the results.
On the way, Wu Guo suddenly pushed him up, "No, my avatar has been discovered!"
Yan Mo paused, "We were discovered so soon?"
"The avatar has no consciousness and cannot control its own energy. It is much easier to find than me. Those wizards with the ability to predict and find objects can find its whereabouts very clearly through the energy released by the avatar."
"Then how soon will they find out it's fake?"
"I don't know, it depends on how well the intelligent creatures who find them know about me. In addition, I have distributed a lot of energy, and now I have no way to completely cover my energy. If those witches find it nearby, they will not be like me. It's the same as Ye He last time, he didn't find me right in front of his eyes. You have to be careful."
Yan Mo looked up to the sky and sighed, how long has he been calm, something happened again! No wonder people in high positions are prone to premature aging.
"If I run around with you, will they find your whereabouts so easily?"
"What are you muttering all by yourself?" A lazy but seductive male voice rang in Yan Mo's ear, "The mermaid lake just behind your residence has been repaired. When will you fulfill your promise?"
Yan Mo rubbed his itchy ears, "I want to fulfill my promise, but if you don't send mermaids here, how can I help them?"
"Who told them not to believe you?" Yu Wu chuckled, and the laughter stopped suddenly, "Come with me, there is a woman who has just been pregnant, and the situation is very dangerous now. I have no way to stop her from aborting the child. procrastination."
"Heh, you wouldn't have come to me if you hadn't been unable to delay."
"... If you can save this child, as long as you can find a way to solve the problem of the mermaid's easy miscarriage, even if you and Yuan Zhan leave Jiuyuan, I will help you defend the city."
Yan Mo is tempted!