Li Ding is forty-two years old this year.
In the headhunting war 30 years ago, as a commoner of the Tiya tribe, a member of the Li family finally reached the standard of a headhunter through his own efforts.
This person is Li Ding's father.
According to the rules of the Aiba clan, as long as the headhunter survives the headhunting war and succeeds in the headhunting, his entire family will become a headhunter family, and his status in the Tiya clan will rise.
This was an opportunity to change the fate of the family, so Li Ding's father went to the battlefield without hesitation, and died in battle afterwards.
The fate of the family has not changed, but luck has come to Li Ding.
Thirty years have passed, and now Li Ding is highly regarded by the patriarch Tai Tan, and in the entire Aiba clan, he can be said to be more than one person than ten thousand.
The starting point of his rise was being personally interviewed by the patriarch as the son of a dead headhunter.
The old patriarch at that time was Tai Tan's father, after a short contact, he caught the young and mature Li Ding with a single glance, and arranged him by his son's side.
But as his knowledge grew, Li Ding gradually realized that his father was actually doomed to die the moment he set foot on the battlefield.
The barriers of class were never so easy to break. With the configuration of my father's headhunting team at that time, it was impossible to survive.
Now that he has lived to this age and gained this status, he has seen through many things and is also bearish.
Only the headhunting war was something he couldn't let go of in his life.
For the old patriarch, he didn't have much resentment in his heart.
The team configuration arranged by the old patriarch led to the death of his father, but he also promoted himself exceptionally.
And Li Ding also understands that the old patriarch and the like, this is not the root of the problem.
The root cause lies in the Beast God who shows up once every ten years.
Only with the existence of beast gods can there be headhunting wars. And with the existence of the headhunting war, there will be a poor guy like his father.
So for many years, he has been influencing this peer beside him, the new patriarch of the Eba clan, Titan.
Tai Tan is a talented practitioner. He has the broad mind of a leader and the same lofty ambitions as Li Ding, but compared to Li Ding, he is not good at thinking.
So Li Ding advised him and became his right-hand man.
The current situation of thousands of people marching together to fight the beast god to the death is actually the result of Li Ding's youth losing his father's determination, the youth going out to study hard, and the middle-aged man planning the layout.
At this moment, he was following the patriarch Tai Tan, heading for the holy lake.
It was only the last shudder, even if Li Ding's skill in nourishing Qi had reached Li Ding's level, it was still difficult to hide the excitement on his face.
"Li Ding, in fact, you don't need to follow." Tai Tan turned his head and said to him, "The current matter is a battle between our headhunters. You, an ordinary person, are involved in it. If you die later, who will count?"
"Patriarch." Li Ding smiled, "You have persuaded me all the way, if I would listen, I would have left long ago."
"Hey." Tai Tan shook his head, "Why are you bothering?"
"To live and die together, this is the promise I made with the patriarch when we were young." Li Ding said.
"Alright then." Tai Tan said, "You turn around and stand behind me, and I will try my best to protect you."
When the two said these words, they were already very close to the shore of the holy lake.
The holy lake is the lair of the beast god.
Except for the relatively gentle terrain on the north bank, the other banks are like cliffs, almost straight up and down, and the drop is huge.
To confront the Beast God head-on, these ten thousand headhunters had to reach the northern shore of the Holy Lake before they could fight.
The terrain on the north bank of the holy lake cannot accommodate so many headhunters.
The place near the water level is a small rocky beach plus a small forest, and the drop in other places has risen again, so we can only look at it.
Therefore, the rocky beach and the forest are the battlefields for fighting the beast god, and the other places by the lake are actually the viewing seats.
Li Ding's battle plan for Tai Tan this time is very simple.
There is no need for the other 10,000 or so headhunters to intervene, because this is a group of rabble. Once the leading team is cleaned up by the beast god, it will definitely cause large-scale chaos and hinder each other.
Once the morale collapses, the whole situation will be difficult to clean up.
Just let them watch from the spectator stands.
The five elite headhunter teams of the Aiba clan, this is the main combat force, went to occupy the rocky beach and the forest.
The weakest team among them occupied the river beach, and played the role of the vanguard of the scouting team, and at the same time acted as a death squad, allowing the Titans to see clearly the reality of the Beast God.
Then the four most powerful headhunter teams of the Aiba clan, a total of 113 people, including Tai Tan and Li Ding, ambushed in the forest, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
These one hundred and thirteen people are the results of thirty years of cultivation of the most powerful clan in the Tiya clan, and they are the elite of the elite.
If they can't do it, the other 10,000 headhunters will be paid for nothing.
So don't bother, go straight king to king.
This battle plan went smoothly in the early stage, and by now, the Titans had arrived on the north shore.
Because Li Ding was with them, they were not traveling very fast, and the two places on the north bank had already been occupied.
However, Tai Tan's status is there, and Li Ding's popularity in the entire Tia tribe is good, so it's easy to explain a few words to clear the situation.
According to the records of the clan, the beast god appeared at midnight, so it was still early.
The battlefield is cleared, so the next step is to prepare for the battle.
How to prepare for battle, in short, is to eat.
Some of the accompanying headhunters were carrying meat, and some were carrying pots. At this moment, the bonfire was lit, and water was drawn from the lake to cook the meat.
In normal times, meat is usually eaten roasted, but not this time, because roasted meat is not easy to digest.
Everyone eats boiled meat, and then sleeps.
Wake up at eight or nine o'clock in the evening and take a sip of hookah to refresh yourself. This is called waiting for work with leisure.
The more than one hundred men here today are all good seedlings who were carefully selected back then. After twenty or thirty years of practice, they are now able to be strong and stable.
It's clear that life and death are tonight, but when they are cooking, everyone is talking and laughing, as if nothing happened.
This scene fell into Li Ding's eyes, and he couldn't help feeling envious.
He knows that this is the result of practice.
But his skill in nourishing Qi is not bad, but now he feels uneasy.
The Tai Tan beside him was already sitting on the ground, but because of his huge stature, he could still look almost at the same level as the standing Li Ding.
The patriarch smiled faintly, and patted the open space beside him: "Okay, now that we're here, it's nothing more than giving it a go. It's useless to think too much. Li Ding, sit down and let us chat."
Li Ding responded and sat down as he said.
"I heard from you earlier that you hired four hunters." Tai Tan asked, "How much is it?"
"Five hundred million, US dollars." Li Ding replied truthfully.
Tai Tan's eyelids trembled, and there was a look of heartache on his face: "Why is it so expensive?"
"The leader of the Hunting Gate leads the team, and it is worth the price."
"Then we have been working in Palangkaraya for a year, how much income do we add up inside and out?"
"It's actually a lot of money, but eating horse chews also consumes a lot of money, and the interests of all aspects must be taken care of." Li Ding said, "I also showed you the account book last year. The net profit was more than 50 million US dollars."
"I can't understand the ledger." Tai Tan shook his head, then asked, "Then, can we afford the five hundred million?"
"Of course I can't afford it." Li Ding shook his head, "So I threw out all the money lying in the account, which is regarded as a deposit, and they will be stabilized first."
"Then you mean that the final payment is not paid?"
"No need to pay." Li Ding said, "Because they can't survive, I can still go to the widow of the leader of the hunting gate later, not only can I get back the deposit, but also a liquidated damages."
"Let me tell you, Li Ding, you don't need to think of such a way to make money." Tai Tan persuaded earnestly, "To be honest, we have already done harm to the world and reason in those transactions in Palang Karayali.
But those people have needs in the final analysis, and we meet the needs, which is barely justified.
Besides, we did that to settle things tonight.
If you don't try to make money and use money to make a way, you can't change the current situation.
But I don't think those four hunters have anything to do with us, you just killed them.
And also cheating their families, isn't it a bit too much? "
Li Ding rolled his eyes: "Patriarch, how many times have I told you.
You are the head of the clan, and you will be the leader of the eight million Tiya people in the future.
You can't be so kind-hearted and be bound by so many rules and regulations.
Also, you seem to have misunderstood me.
I'm not cheating. "
"It's not a scam, what is that?" Tai Tan looked puzzled.
"I really want to make this deal with them. Those four hunters might have a chance to kill the Beast God." Li Ding said, "Because I learned a very important word from that leader Lin , do they know what the Beast God is?"
"What vocabulary?"
"Sea Monster." Li Ding said, "I talked to him in Chinese, and the meaning of this Chinese word is the monster in the sea."
"A monster in the sea?" Tai Tan pointed to the holy lake not far ahead, "That's it? Is this also called the sea?"
"I'm wondering too." Li Ding shook his head, "But when we walked around the lakeside, the patriarch must have seen it.
There is a small part of this holy lake, and the color of the lake is lighter than other places. I suspect that the sea water has poured in.
This shows that under the lake, there is a channel leading to the seabed.
The monsters in the sea came along this passage.
Once every ten years, our ancestors believed that the beast god would wake up once every ten years. "
"Hey!" Tai Tan slapped his thigh, "Then it's not easy, can't we just block the passage? If the monsters can't get through, the beast god will be gone!"
"The truth is right." Li Ding sighed, "But it's too late to do it now."
"It's too late, there are still seven or eight hours." Tai Tan said, "Aren't you still dumping ammunition in the urban area? Get some explosives, and I will go down and install them myself, and just blow them up to block the passage. "
"It's not a technical matter." Li Ding waved his hand, then pointed to the surroundings, "Patriarch, look, there are ten thousand headhunters nearby watching.
We also let out what we said before, we must kill the Beast God to completely solve this scourge.
So even if the leader of the hunting gate is right, it is a matter of the passage at the bottom of the lake, we block the passage, and the Kraken cannot get through.
But how do we explain this to other Tia people
Even if the siren's statement is true, it is not the same as their concept, nor is it consistent with our previous propaganda.
If we can seize the time and block the passage, then in front of the other Tiya people, we can only explain that the beast god didn't wake up this time, or has died naturally, and he can't wake up from now on.
In this way, we were busy for nothing before.
Then why do you want to lead the entire Tiya tribe? "
"So complicated?" Tai Tan scratched his head.
"The existence of the Beast God is the foundation of the current social structure of the Tia Clan, and it is also the prerequisite for the current major clans to maintain their ruling power." Li Ding said, "The removal of the Beast God in front of everyone is the future social structure of the Tia Clan. It is also the prerequisite for you to become the leader of the entire Tiya tribe.
So after all, we played the same game and used the same method as the previous clan leaders.
Now that the arrow is on the string, it has to be fired.
So even if it is necessary to blow up the lake bottom channel, it is not a matter of tonight.
This battle tonight is inevitable. "
"Yeah." Tai Tan nodded, "Although I don't understand it very well, you are definitely right."
"As for the four hunters." Li Ding continued, "It's the same as the passage at the bottom of the lake. After tonight, we can't keep it. Let this secret sink to the bottom of the lake forever."
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