"What?" Rody was shocked.
Because he could hear the surprise in Andy's tone. He knew in his heart what kind of temper Andy was. Normally, this old skeleton looked like the sky was falling and it was being covered up. It was rare to see it being surprised.
After a moment of silence, Andy said in a deep voice: "It's very strong! It's indeed very strong! It's a kind of energy... Damn, it's not magic or spiritual power... Boy, be careful, there must be a very strong guy inside!" "
"What on earth is it?" Rody also became serious.
"I don't know..." Andy's tone was a little helpless: "I can't see through it... Damn, clairvoyance is useless! There is a guy inside who is very strong... the kind you have never encountered before!"
"Could he be that chief?" Rody said solemnly: "Could he be better than you, Old Mark, or Miaosi?"
"I don't know..." Andy's voice was very serious: "But I'm afraid it's like this! That kind of energy fluctuation... seems to be a kind of 'field' power!"
"What?" Rody couldn't help shouting, then immediately took a breath and suddenly stopped. The people around him looked at him in surprise, and the mountain people were surprised why this high-ranking official from the empire suddenly shouted. Lant immediately whispered: "Duke, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Rody looked serious, shook his head, and said in his heart: "'Field'? Andy, you mean 'Field'? But I heard Miaosi say that after reaching the 'Field' level, it is almost the same to the existence of God!”
Andy laughed strangely, but there was a bit of weirdness and uneasiness in the laughter: "The existence of gods? Don't the mountain people all say that their chiefs are gods descending to earth? Hum..."
At this time, the mountain wizard had come out from behind the curtain and said something lightly. Wu Yu immediately said loudly: "The patriarch invites Duke Tulip to come in."
Rody glanced at Lant and whispered: "Wait for me here." Then he strode over, opened the curtain and went in.
This wooden house was very big. When Rody walked in, he suddenly noticed something was wrong. He suddenly realized: This house has no windows!
The room was filled with a strange smell, like the smell of some kind of plant. A copper stove was placed in front of the room. The copper stove was engraved with the image of a snake raising its head and spitting out a message. A faint smoke slowly emerged from the snake's mouth. On a platform not far away, the famous mountain chief Wuya just sat there cross-legged quietly.
What surprised Rody was that the chief, who was said to be the "First Warrior in the Mountains," looked so... so weak
Although he was just sitting there, it could be seen that he was not tall. Not to mention compared with ordinary mountain warriors, even compared with Rody, he was a little thinner. Unlike other mountain people, he was dressed in white linen clothes, and his face was clean, without a trace of beard, and he was not smeared with oil paint like ordinary mountain people.
What surprised Rody even more was that Wuya's face showed a strange white color—like a piece of white jade or a piece of ice. The white one is a little transparent! Such a face looks a bit strange, as if it is no longer a face of a living person, but seems to be carved out of some kind of cold jade.
At this moment, his eyes were closed, and he was sitting there casually, letting his body rest against the wall.
Suddenly, Roddy felt that his eyes were blurry. The Wu Ya in front of him seemed to be surrounded by a ball of brilliance that seemed to be invisible. The brilliance enveloped him in groups, spreading like arrogance. come out. There seemed to be a center of brilliance in his heart, which was so bright that it was like a flame.
Roddy knew that Andy was using clairvoyance through his own eyes, and the rays of light wrapped around Wuya's body were the opponent's energy fluctuations.
Suddenly, Wuya slowly opened his eyes - they were a pair of extremely cold eyes, without any emotion in them. He looked at Rody so coldly, as if a superior god was looking down at an ant at his feet.
"Are you looking at me?" His voice was light and seemed to be without any emotion. His tone was calm, and he spoke the language of the empire!
"What?" Rody's expression remained unchanged: "Chief Wuya, what did you say?"
Wuya slowly closed his eyes again and said softly: "Your Excellency, the Duke from far away, you are looking at me, why?"
Rody was secretly frightened, but Andy was already uneasy: "He can detect me!"
Rody cleared his throat and said slowly: "Chief Wuya, I am looking at you. Just because I did not expect that the famous leader of the Flame Tribe would look like this."
Wuya's voice was still cold: "I noticed that there are magic fluctuations in your body... Your Excellency, are you a warrior or a magician?"
"Samurai." Rody replied involuntarily. He had a strange feeling in his heart. The patriarch of the mountain in front of him seemed to have a supernatural aura, and that light voice seemed to contain infinite majesty. Although he just glanced at him casually, he just looked at him casually. At that glance, it was as if he had seen through himself.
Wu Ya raised his eyelids and glanced at Rody again: "A warrior? The magic fluctuations on your body must be because you are carrying a magic treasure. I heard that the Tulip family of your Bright Empire is the most powerful Are you the strong one?"
Roddy tried to calm down his emotions, walked slowly a few steps, smiled and said: "Chief, you asked me to come to negotiate, you must not be talking about our Tulip family, right? I came to see you, there should be There are more important things to talk about.”
Wuya was silent for a while, nodded, and said: "Okay. Your Excellency, please sit down."
After Rody sat down, Wuya said slowly: "Your Majesty the Duke, when you come this time, you must have brought your conditions. There is no one here now, so just say it directly."
Rody was startled. He didn’t expect Wuya to be so direct. He thought for a moment and said, “Chief Wuya, with all due respect, we cannot agree to your request. If nothing else, it means that all the tribes in the mountains are now united. Our Emperor will never accept the recommendation of a chief. For more than a hundred years, according to the decree of Emperor Abbas, all tribes in the mountains are not allowed to establish chiefs. This move of yours is undoubtedly a challenge to the empire! "
Wu Ya seemed to smile: "Since you can't accept it, what is the purpose of the Duke's visit this time?"
Rody took a deep breath: "I'm here to persuade Chief Wuya to give up his thoughts."
Wu Ya glanced at Rody: "Do you know what is in my mind, Your Excellency the Duke?"
Rody smiled coldly: "The Wuya clan leader is ambitious, so he naturally wants to unify all the tribes in the mountain and establish his own clan!"
Wu Ya was silent for a while, and suddenly smiled slightly. With his smile, his face that originally looked like it was carved from cold jade seemed to glow with a glimmer of light. His voice whispered softly: "Unify all the ministries and establish their own branch? It seems like You all think so..."
"Isn't it?"
To Roddy's surprise, Wu Ya slowly shook his head: "No."
"Oh?" Roddy didn't expect that he would deny it face to face.
"Your Majesty the Duke, let me be frank, I have no interest in unifying the various tribes in the mountains and establishing my own clan..." Wuya's tone was very calm: "I have no nostalgia for the title of chief."
Rody frowned and said, "Chief Wuya, I don't quite understand what you are saying."
Wu Ya opened his eyes, glanced at Rody, and said: "Your Majesty, Duke, how could you not understand? Have you not already made up your mind... The purpose of your coming is to find out who in our mountain tribe is against me. The forces and people who assassinated me will eventually divide us and overthrow my authority, won’t they?”
What he said was an understatement and extremely calm, but every word he said was like a series of thunderous explosions in Rody's heart. No matter how calm Roddy was, he couldn't help sweating on his back and his face changed drastically.
"You don't have to be surprised." Wu Ya waved his hand gently and said calmly: "I already knew what you were thinking when you first walked into this room..." After saying this, Wu Ya showed a smile on his face. : "I forgot to tell you... I have the ability to read minds!"
"What?" Roddy finally couldn't help shouting in a low voice: "Mind reading?"
Although ordinary high-level warlocks or magicians also have some abilities such as physiognomy, most of them can only guess the authenticity of what the other person is saying based on the changes they hear in the other person's heartbeat or breath fluctuations when they speak - and directly explore The thoughts in the other party's mind are simply magical power!
Wuya's tone was still calm and indifferent: "Your Majesty, Duke, you don't have to be so surprised." He sighed: "In fact, for me, people's pursuit of power is no longer a concern..."
"Then..." Rody gritted his teeth: "Then why did you unite the various tribes in the mountains and then assume the position of chief? Isn't everything you do moving forward step by step towards that goal?"
Wuya's face turned gloomy, and he slowly shook his head and said: "You are wrong... You are wrong... They are all wrong too. Unite the mountain tribes? Are you like the people on the northwest grasslands, establishing their own country, and then joining the empire? Fighting? It’s so ridiculous... The battles between humans are so boring.”
"Human?" Rody couldn't help but whisper, his breathing began to quicken: "Isn't the Wu Ya Clan leader a human?"
There was a confused look in Wu Ya's eyes. He seemed to hesitate for a moment, shook his head, and said something that surprised Rody: "I don't know."
Roddy felt his mouth go dry for a while, and he couldn't help but want to laugh wildly, laughing at this Wu Ya's crazy words, but his heart felt as heavy as a stone. With a forced smile, Rody slowly said word by word: "Chief Wuya, what do you mean by your words?"
Wuya shook his head: "I don't know - but I can tell you that I have no interest in fighting with your empire. If I wanted to fight with you, then I would have fought long ago... The power of one of your legions in the south is blocking Can’t live with me…”
Rody was silent for a while and said coldly: "Then what do you want?"
"Promise!" Wu Ya opened his eyes: "I want the empire to promise that I will not take a step into the mountains from now on!"
"What?" Rody stared at the mountain clan leader in front of him with wide eyes, and said in surprise: "Is this what you want?" He secretly thought in his heart, if he really just asked the empire not to take a step into the mountains, what would happen to the empire? Say, it’s not hard to accept. The empire has no interest in the land in the mountains. It's just... Is this what this legendary figure in the legendary and ambitious mountain wants
Rody said in a deep voice: "Chief Wu Ya, I really don't understand what you are saying. I hope you can give me a sufficient explanation."
Wuya's body stood up slowly. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then his cold voice slowly floated in the room, empty and seemed to have a distant aura, but also seemed to be using A strange tone of voice chanted:
"The shackles of thousands of years have gradually decayed,
The eyes of the devil will be upon the earth.
The emperor's bloodline will eventually solidify,
A vicious curse will hang around every patch of light.
They spread disasters everywhere with their curses,
They spread death across the land with their calamity.
The blood of the gods will overwhelm the temple,
The withering of the thorn flower takes away the end of everything. "
These words were like singing, chanting, complaining and crying, as if they had an unspeakable magic power. Rody felt suffocated in his heart, and felt a faint sense of coldness and fear, but where was the fear? Not coming out.
Suddenly, Andy's voice in his head screamed loudly: "Prophecy!! What he said is a prophecy!!"
"What?" Rody couldn't help but stood up and stared at the Wuya clan leader in front of him.
Wu Ya suddenly smiled faintly and said in a low tone: "Yes, it is a prophecy."
Rody was stunned for a moment, pointed at Wu Ya and exclaimed: "You... what did you say... can you hear me..."
A profound smile appeared on Wuya's face, he looked at Rody and said calmly: "I'm just wondering... why there are two souls in your body."
Seeing Rody speechless, Wuya looked calm and said slowly: "Your Majesty the Duke, I know you are not an ordinary person. I hope you will keep in mind the words I said today."
Rody took a breath and gritted his teeth: "Chief Wu Ya, were those... those... prophecies you just made? What do they mean? How did you know?"
Wu Ya shook his head: "You can slowly understand the meaning of it yourself. Maybe your other soul will know something." A cold smile appeared on his face: "I just want to tell you, I hope the empire will not send any more Take a step into the mountains! I will also restrain the mountain people. The mountains are the world of our mountain people. If we don’t want to go out, don’t come in again! Otherwise, I won’t cherish the blood.”
Rody's face turned pale and he murmured: "The vicious curse will wrap around every piece of light. They will spread the disaster everywhere with the curse, and they will spread the death with the disaster all over the earth... The light you mentioned , does it mean the Empire of Light? What is the curse? "
Wuya shook his head: "I don't know! I just hope that the mountain people can escape... The mountain people live in the mountains and only call the mountains their home. Disasters should not befall us again! Even if there is any disaster, it will be in the mountains. Stop outside!”
Rody was so emotional that he couldn't help shouting: "Nonsense! Nonsense!"
Wuya smiled faintly: "Am I talking nonsense? Then what good will it do to our mountains? What harm will it do to your empire?"
Roddy was immediately speechless.
What harm does it do to the Empire
The empire won’t enter the mountains? joke! For hundreds of years, the empire has not had any interest in the mountains. As long as the plain cities in the south are stable, the empire doesn't care about the world in the mountains at all.
This strange chief asked the empire not to take a step into the mountains, and wanted the mountains to be completely isolated from the empire. Could it be... Is it just to avoid the predicted "disaster"? ? Even if he was talking nonsense, why would he lie to himself
The more Roddy thought about it, the more confused he became, and his breathing gradually became faster.
After barely calming down his emotions, Rody said again: "So Chief Wu Ya, you tried every means to unite the mountain people, what is your purpose? What is your purpose of inciting the mountain people in the empire to mutiny and rebel?"
Wu Ya shook his head: "The union of the mountains is inevitable. The empire is like a huge magnet, firmly attracting the people of the mountains to come closer, and then slowly assimilate the mountains into part of the empire... If this continues, future disasters will inevitably Come to the mountain people! A united mountain nation is necessary. Only if the mountains are no longer a piece of sand can they not be assimilated by the empire... As for inciting those people to rebel... those things are not my orders... "
"Isn't it your order?" Rody shook his head: "You are the now recognized chief of the mountain people! Who would it be if it wasn't your order?"
Wuya walked slowly to the copper stove, stretched out his palm and gently placed it on the nozzle of the snake mouth, letting the white mist spray into the palm of his hand, with a somewhat complicated look on his face: "You guys People in the empire have always had more complex minds than us mountain people, don’t you understand? Even among the mountain people, there are some who are ambitious. In their opinion, when they become stronger, they will inevitably think of revenge. I don't care about the blood at all. Although I don't like that, I can't convince them... I... can't you see? I am just a weak patient now!"
Rody said in a deep voice: "Patient? Chief Wuya is probably not sick, right? Is your assassination true?"
There was a complicated look in Wuya's eyes. He thought for a moment and said slowly: "No! It's not true! No one can assassinate me, at least not among the mountain people. My weakness is because of that Death Canyon. You must come. I also saw it when I was... A few days ago, I went in quietly. "