Yes, there is a price to pay for guarding a village. Most of the people in Housewadidi sent warriors to guard the village, and the villages being helped had to hand over a certain number of cattle and sheep.
This number is increasing year by year, and by this year, the village will be unable to support it.
The situation in the other four villages was not much better.
It's a really bad situation. I don't know why the Star Council used a method similar to that of Safe Zone 17 to occupy this plain? Tang Ling was a little distracted.
Valencia wiped away her tears and continued: "I can't hold on this year. Wolf disasters happen every year. Originally, our six grassland villages watched each other and got through it safely."
"However, in the past three years, most of the houses have become stronger and greedier year by year. The number of cattle and sheep requested this time is too much, and the people in the village cannot afford it."
"The Baltu family advocates compromise, and they will instigate it tomorrow. This time, I think they can succeed."
"Baltu?" Tang Ling raised his eyebrows. Isn't he that muscular boy? Isn’t he going to marry Valencia
"Well, Baltu. I don't know how he became like this. We were childhood sweethearts who grew up together and were engaged. He used to be very honest."
"However, three years ago, most of the House of Uwadidi withdrew from the Grassland Alliance. After Baltu went to most of the House of Uwadidi, he seemed to be a different person. He gave up the pride, glory and dignity that he should have insisted on. He almost became a running dog." At this point, Valencia was filled with resentment and couldn't help but pull a handful of grass from the ground.
It turns out that the two people have feelings. Tang Ling spat out the grassroots in his mouth, suddenly looked at Valencia and asked a very strange question: "You six grasslands, that is, the six grasslands including most of Housewadidi." Does the village have a huge secret? "
"Secret? What secret could there be?" Valencia felt a little unable to keep up with Tang Ling's thinking.
"It can't be said to be a secret. Well, how should I put it? Is there anything different about it?" Tang Ling tried to give Valencia an idea.
"Difference? Does the annual festival count?" Valencia was a simple girl. She felt that Tang Ling must be tired of hearing these nonsense about the village, so she wanted to know some strange things.
After all, adventurers are curious, and what else can he do besides sympathize? He was just a passing, foreign boy.
"Big sacrifice? You mean sacrifice? Well, you can tell me, what makes it different?" Tang Ling showed a curious expression, but in his heart he was thinking about finding out who the Star Council was so interested in this place. reason.
Tang Ling always had a vague question that remained unanswered.
That's why the Star Council chose to control Safe Zone 17? Is it because of yourself? Not really! At first, his identity was not exposed.
Is it because the zombie wave in the settlement was launched at the beginning? What did you want to find? No, it was revealed from Albert's mouth that time that their goal was achieved.
Is it simply because of ambition and wanting to dominate the world? No, no no! Such a strategy would be drawn up by fools. It is not easy to control it by choosing a remote place, and it will not have any deterrent effect on other forces in the world.
If you have this ambition, it is better to attack the next weaker safe city, then you can naturally occupy a large area. The Star Council has this strength.
Tang Ling is a person who will think deeply when he grabs the slightest clue and will never let go until he figures it out! But this time, the clue he caught was that Safety Zone 17 was very close to this plain.
It is indeed very close. Judging from the map, this is almost the south and closest to the safety villages in Safety Zone 17.
Faced with Tang Ling's inquiry, Valencia did not doubt that he was there. Anyway, the Great Sacrifice was really not a great secret.
So, after taking a deep breath, she said: "Our six villages have begun to divide and disagree. But before winter every year, we still gather together to hold a sacrifice."
"You passed by the place of sacrifice."
"Huh?" Where? Tang Ling tried hard to remember what was different about these places, but he was being chased by a group of Udi Purple Crows, so he really didn't notice anything.
But Udi Purple Crow? Tang Ling scratched his head, suddenly jumped up, covered Valencia's mouth, and said eagerly: "Wait a moment, I will show you something."
Suddenly, Tang Ling's hand touched her face. Valencia's heart trembled slightly and her cheeks turned red and hot.
She could smell a nice smell of grass on Tang Ling's hands and clothes.
But when she thought about having such contact with a boy she had only known for a day, and who still smelled good to her, Valencia felt even more embarrassed.
She lowered her head, thankful that it was a rainy night and Donnie couldn't see her shy look.
But when she looked up, the young man had already run away and quietly entered the tent.
"What a little thief." Valencia spat, remembering the scene when she met Tang Ling during the day, when he was chased by a group of thieving birds, the Purple Crow, and couldn't help laughing.
Two minutes later, Tang Ling appeared, holding a bird's nest in his hand.
Looking at the bird's nest, Valencia was speechless. How shameless was he to dig out the nest of the Purple Crow? No, this Downey actually carried the entire bird's nest!
Although the Woody Crow is a thief bird that can steal anything, they are notoriously low-level. The more obscure and indescribable things they are, the more interested they are.
Just like women's underwear, or something that girls use every month, especially if it's used, how shameless, how shameless!
Danny actually wants to show this to himself now? Valencia was angry and anxious, and decided that if he saw something bad, and Donnie was teasing her, he would definitely hit him.
"Look." At this time, Tang Ling had already arrived in front of Valencia with the bird's nest. He pulled off the cloth that had been covering the bird's nest and said to Valencia excitedly.
"What are you looking at? Don't look at it!" Valencia looked away anxiously, showing special resistance.
This made Tang Ling wonder. Why was Valencia so unfriendly to this bird's nest? ! Ever since I saw this bird's nest in the afternoon, I had shown a look of contempt for myself.
Why is she still like this now that we have a good relationship? Could it be that the Udi Purple Crow is the sacred bird of Barbato Village
Fortunately, Tang Ling did not express this thought, otherwise Valencia would know that Tang Ling thought that Wu Di Zi Crow was the sacred bird of their village, and would have to fight Tang Ling to the death.
"Take a look." Tang Ling picked up the thing from Wu Di Zi Crow's nest and handed it to Valencia's eyes.
Valencia was anxious and shy, but at only 17 years old, she was somewhat curious. Finally, she couldn't help but open her eyes and take a look at the thing in Tang Ling's hand.
With just one glance, Valencia couldn't help but let out a low cry and took the thing in Tang Ling's hand into her own: "This? You mean you found this in the nest of the Purple Crow in Udi?"
"These damn thieves! No, this matter is very serious, I must tell Abu."
"Oh, my God! This matter, no matter how much discord the six villages have, must be resolved."
"Hey, calm down." Tang Ling pulled Valencia: "The matter is not as serious as you think. At least among the nests of the group of Woody Purple Crows, I guarantee that this is the only one that contains this egg."
Yes, Tang Ling took the risk and took away Wu Di Zi Crow's nest, not because there was any great treasure in the nest, but because there was an egg in the nest.
This egg is very strange, with a silver eggshell and some unexplainable and strange totems on it.
Are these totems natural? Obviously not! It is more like a totem painted on by humans. It is dark red and has obviously faded.
At first, Tang Ling just passed by the Wudi Purple Crow's nest. He definitely wouldn't find the egg among the crowd of thief birds.
But what a coincidence, this egg is silver, it can reflect sunlight.
At that time, the egg-stealing crow flew up and exposed the egg in its nest. Tang Ling caught a glimpse of the reflected silver light.
Well, even if it was silver light, it might not necessarily arouse Tang Ling's interest. The key is that Tang Ling could detect the slightest energy fluctuation on the egg through precise instincts!
What's happening here? Even high-level mutant beasts may not have energy fluctuations, because their own energy has not reached the point where they can release energy and form fluctuations, unless they are ferocious beasts, and if they are level two or above.
An egg has energy fluctuations? Tang Ling couldn't help but be curious.
So, he took a risk and stole the egg, and even set a fire, just to smoke out the Woody Purple Crows and see if there were any such eggs in other nests.
Because Tang Ling once suspected that this was the egg of the 'Bird King' in Wu Di Purple Crow? Were those strange totems on the eggs painted by Wu Di Zi Crow relying on his own instinct
Just like a certain kind of monkey has the instinct to make wine by itself, they may not have any knowledge of the brewing itself.
"Xia, when you mentioned the sacrifice, I remembered the totem on the egg. Tell me, is this egg related to your sacrifice?" Tang Ling asked his question directly after briefly describing the process of obtaining the egg. .
Valencia is somewhat doubtful about life.
The young man in front of me not only stole something from the Purple Crow, but he also set a fire and almost burned down the nest of the thieving birds? God, how lucky he was to escape this afternoon, how audacious.
But things have happened. No matter what, Tang Ling's fire proved that the group of Udi Purple Crows only stole one egg, which was considered a lucky thing. Valencia finally calmed down after taking a few deep breaths. Come down.
She stroked the egg in her hand and said, "This is indeed related to our sacrifice."
"I told you just now that our sacrificial place is somewhere between the Lake of Divine Tears and the canyon."
"That place is a secret cave. Even if outsiders discover the cave, they will not feel its magic."
"Only people in our six villages know that there is a temple deep in the cave. But you must take the Holy Blood Pill to enter the temple."
"Holy Blood Pill? What is that?" Tang Ling pulled another grass stem and put it into his mouth.
"That is an incense made from the blood of the direct descendants of our six villages, added with a special kind of grass. Every time you want to open the seal of the temple, you must light a holy blood pill." Warren Xia almost said everything she knew.
But at this moment, a majestic and steady voice interrupted Valencia: "My daughter, don't you think you said too much?"
"Abu, why are you up?" Valencia covered her mouth. She did not expect that her father would suddenly appear at this time.
But Wenbu ignored Valencia at this time. He looked at Tang Ling and said word for word: "I listened to a conversation between you and I think you are inquiring about our secrets. You should give me an explanation. , foreign guests.”
When he said this, Wenbu's attitude was no longer too friendly.
Valencia said anxiously: "Father, he is my friend."
"Valencia, come into the house, it has nothing to do with you now." Wenbu was a gentle father, but once he became strict, Valencia did not dare to refute anything.
"Valencia, please go in. I actually have something to talk to your father about." Tang Ling sighed slightly in his heart. It was such a coincidence that he felt it was necessary to give this resolute and upright man an explanation.
In addition, the remaining matters were indeed beyond Valencia's control, and Tang Ling needed Wenbu's help.
Valencia had no other choice. After returning the egg to Tang Ling, she entered the house feeling quite uneasy.
Tang Ling held the egg in his hand, looked at Wenbu, and said, "Should I return it to its original owner?"
"It's not necessary. There are many such eggs piled up in the temple, but they cannot hatch, let alone be eaten, because their egg whites and egg liquids are highly toxic. If you have evil intentions against the temple, give up as soon as possible, because the temple There is nothing special that anyone desires! Its existence is just the spiritual sustenance of our six grassland villages.”
"Sacrifice to the temple is a custom left over from previous civilizations." Wenbu said seriously.
"Actually, the person who covets the temple is not me, but the Star Council, right? As for me, I'm really just a passerby." Tang Ling suddenly said to Wenbu.
Wenbu froze suddenly.
People in the village don't understand the outside world, but that doesn't mean Wenbu doesn't understand. When he was young, Wenbu was also an ambitious young man, and he also traveled abroad.
But after only three years, he returned to Barbato Village disheartened because he was too weak.
At this moment, Tang Ling suddenly grabbed a cow not far away and tossed it in his hand a few times: "Uncle Wenbu, I think we need to help each other. What do you think?"
(End of chapter)