Several tribes did not dare to object under Wu Ya's suppression, but Rody felt uncomfortable sitting there feeling the hostile eyes around him.
At noon, according to the custom of the mountain people, a grand banquet was held to entertain guests from afar. In the largest open space in the valley, countless delicacies and game were laid out.
Although the food of the mountain people is abundant, the cooking is very simple. No matter what kind of game it is, it is all roasted, and some are sprinkled with a handful of strange spices. After Roddy ate for a while, he saw several other tribesmen looking at him maliciously. Sure enough, not long after, the tribesmen came over holding huge wine bottles.
Since the chief is not allowed to cause trouble to these two Imperial people, then it’s okay to get them drunk, right
The mountain women used various strange earthen percussion instruments to make rhythmic sounds. Some mountain men wearing furs stood in the middle holding hands and jumping back and forth. Some of them were holding a roasted deer leg in one hand, and some were holding A wine jug. Everyone's face was full of excitement and drunkenness.
Seeing these people standing in front of him and shouting continuously, Rody looked at Wuya with a wry smile, only to find that Wuya, who was sitting in the chief's position, had left at some point.
Roddy sighed and pushed Lant out. I could just sit aside and enjoy the strange dance of those mountain people. Lant was huge in stature and had an outstanding capacity for drinking. He drank more than a dozen bottles of wine in one breath, and he only shook it a few times but remained calm and composed. Rody was secretly surprised - he had just tasted this mountain man's wine. In his opinion, these drinks made from unknown wild fruits were sour, bitter, and spicy, and they were really unpalatable.
After seeing nothing, Rody also quietly left his seat, taking advantage of the chaos and walking away.
There was almost no vigilance in the tribe of mountain people. At this time, because of the feast in the tribe, most people went to have a carnival. There were very few people in other places in the tribe's village, but Rody looked like a foreigner at a glance. Someone pointed.
Unknowingly, I walked to several wooden houses with chimneys that I had seen in those days. Hearing the constant tinkling inside, Rody's heart moved, and he became curious about the mountain people's method of making weapons, so he couldn't help but walk in.
The doors and windows of these wooden houses are very large, allowing ventilation in all directions. But after walking in, I still felt a wave of heat rushing over me.
There were no lights in the room, but flames came from a huge stove in the middle. Two or three shirtless mountain men were hammering with various pliers and hammers in their hands. Next to them was a row of various weapons that had begun to take shape.
Rody smiled and felt that there was no difference between this place and the blacksmith shop in the imperial city.
When the mountain men saw him coming in, they didn't have any strange reactions. They were all concentrating on their work. One of them put down the hammer in his hand, walked over, glanced at Rody, and suddenly said loudly in the language of the Empire: "Do you want a weapon?"
Rody was stunned for a moment: "Can you speak our words?"
The mountain man said loudly: "Sometimes, when I buy things, I go to your place and learn how to do it!" After saying that, he grinned widely, showing his yellow teeth.
Since Rody entered the mountain, he has never seen a mountain man who is so friendly to him. The other mountain men look at him with hostility, but this mountain blacksmith seems to be very kind to him, which makes Rody feel a lot. Somewhat favorable.
He smiled, picked up a long knife on the shelf, and looked at the blacksmith with questioning eyes.
The blacksmith laughed and said loudly: "This is a good knife! You want two wolf skins!"
Rody nodded, knowing that the mountain people were backward, and most of the things they bought and sold were barter for things, and there was no such thing as currency.
He waved the long knife in his hand casually, looked at the edge of the knife again, and felt that it was indeed sharp, and said with a smile: "Your knife is not bad!"
The mountain blacksmith immediately filled his face with pride and said: "There is the best iron ore in the mountains! The iron ore in Ziye City is bought from us, not the best!"
Rody looked at the knife in his hand and asked, "Are there any others?" He paused and then said, "Better ones?"
The blacksmith smiled and said, "Yes, that's for the warriors!"
The blacksmith took Rody into another wooden house nearby. There was no one in the room. He only saw a few long curved bows on the shelf. Rody picked them up to try, and then grabbed a strange-shaped bow. He smiled and said, "Do your people also use swords?"
"Sold to people outside the mountains." The blacksmith took the dagger from Rody's hand, picked up a piece of wood from the corner, and chopped it with the dagger. The thick wooden strip immediately split into two halves. Then handed the sword to Rody again.
Rody admired in his heart and carefully observed the sword's edge. He saw a hint of coldness on the blue edge of the sword. He held it in his hand and danced it casually a few times. He felt that the size and weight were very comfortable. He liked it in his heart and said with a smile: " I want this thing, what’s the price?”
After speaking, Rody took out a small cloth bag from his body and took out a few gold coins.
Seeing the blacksmith smiling and shaking his head, Rody said "Ah" and said with a wry smile: "Don't you want gold coins? But I don't have any animal skins to give you in exchange for it now."
The blacksmith suddenly took a few steps closer and whispered: "Your Excellency the Duke likes this sword, so I will give it to you."
"What?" Rody said in surprise: "Give it to me? Do you know who I am?"
The blacksmith had a smile on his face and whispered: "I am General Camus's man."
Rody's heart moved, and he immediately walked to the door and looked outside. Seeing that there was no one outside, he turned around and said in a deep voice: "What did you just say?"
The blacksmith whispered: "Your Excellency, I am a subordinate of General Camus, and I am here to deliver news to the general!"
Rody took a breath and said, "You... are you a mountain man?"
The blacksmith whispered: "I have mountain blood, but the General raised me since I was a child. A few years ago, the Duke asked me to go into the mountains and mingle with the tribe."
Rody wondered: "Don't others doubt you?"
The blacksmith smiled and said: "Wu Ya has annexed many tribes over the years. There are many people from other tribes in the Flame Tribe now, so we are not afraid of being suspected."
Rody nodded, and the blacksmith whispered: "Your Excellency, the general has given me news that you have entered the mountain. It is not convenient to talk here, and I can't have too much contact with you. Please take this, it was given to me the day before yesterday I found out the news at night."
After speaking, he handed over a small wooden tube and said in a low voice: "There is a secret about Wuya here. You can go back and take a look."
"Wuya's secret?" Rody was shocked.
The blacksmith lowered his voice and said: "Wuya suddenly became weak a few days ago. They said he was seriously injured after being assassinated. I have reported this news to the general a long time ago, but I have discovered these days that he goes out every three nights. It seemed that he needed to go to the wizard to help him with the treatment. During the treatment, he couldn't care about the outside world. I sneaked into Wuya's room while he was going to the wizard the night before and found out. The things above..."
Rody's face changed slightly and he whispered: "Did you sneak in?"
The blacksmith had a proud expression on his face: "I was raised by the general, and the general trained me! Those toothy guards can't even detect me!"
Hearing the footsteps outside, the blacksmith's expression changed and he whispered: "Someone! Put this away!" Then he changed his voice and deliberately shouted: "We have good stuff here! If you don't believe it, you can try it try!"
Seeing two mountain warriors pushing open the door and walking in, one of them had a drunken look on his face and shouted something to the blacksmith. The blacksmith smiled with him and replied. When the two mountain men saw Rody, their expressions changed, and then when they saw the dagger in Rody's hand, they both showed disdain. Roddy didn't say anything and strode out. One of the warriors spat fiercely at Rody's back. It's just that the chief ordered not to provoke the foreigners from these two empires, otherwise he would have troubled them long ago.
Rody returned to the banquet place. Although he was worried about the contents of the wooden tube in his arms, he knew that it was broad daylight and he could not act rashly. I can only watch those mountain people reveling patiently.
Several people from other tribes were already drunk, and the tough mountain men began to fight over wine and strength in the middle of the field. Several young mountain warriors had torn off the animal skins from their upper bodies and were wrestling together. The people next to them were yelling. Cheers for both of them. Wu Yu, the translator assigned to Rody, was shouting drunkenly and didn't even notice that Rody had gone out and ran back and forth.
After drinking for a while, the Mountain Man's carnival continued from the afternoon to the evening. Roddy returned to his residence early on the pretext that he had drunk too much.
Let Lant guard the door and open the wooden tube in the room. Inside the wooden tube is a small rolled piece of cloth. A strange pattern was hastily drawn on the rough piece of cloth. After reading it twice, Roddy realized that this was actually the topographic pattern of Wuya's house.
The picture shows the guard outside, the entrance and the door. A thick, weighted line on the top curved around the top corner, and then a heavy circle was drawn.
Rody was confused and thought of the wooden house in Wuya.
Wuya is the clan leader of the tribe. The wooden house he lives in is not only the largest in the village, but also has the highest terrain. It is built on a high wooden platform erected by countless giant trees. From the top, you can see most of the places in the village.
The platform was built against the mountain wall, and the same was true for the wooden house. The wall at the back was tightly against the mountain wall. Rody corresponded to the picture in his hand and found that following the thick line, the circled place was in the direction of the wall behind...
"What's the answer?" He couldn't help but murmured.
Andy smiled in his mind: "What else could it be? I think it's probably a secret passage."
Rody shook his head: "So what if it's a secret passage? Where will Wu Ya's secret passage lead to? Just do we want to check this matter? The situation is unclear now. If we act rashly and offend Wu Ya, I'm afraid it's not What a good idea…”
The two discussed it for a while, but Rody didn't come to a conclusion and fell asleep.
The next morning, people from various tribes gathered together to meet Wu Ya. Naturally, Rody, the Duke of the empire, also wanted to go. Seeing those mountain people making noisy noise, he already understood that Wu Ya was using himself to lure those who opposed him to jump out, which made Roddy feel unhappy. It's just that the appearance of "peace talks" still needs to be faked.
Looking at Wuya sitting quietly at the top, he was still dressed in white linen clothes, and his face was as pale as cold jade. Rody always felt that Wuya seemed a little weird, as if it was a little different from what he saw the day before, but he couldn't tell what was different.
While he was wondering, Andy suddenly shouted in his mind: "I know! He seems to be... getting older!"
"Huh?" Rody immediately looked at Wuya again, and sure enough he felt something was different.
If I were to say that when I first came here the day before yesterday and saw Wu Ya for the first time, he seemed to be no more than thirty years old. Then the Wuya I saw yesterday seemed to be in his thirties or fifteen years old. But when I saw Wuya again today, he seemed to have aged two or three years.
"He is aging rapidly!" Andy's voice seemed a little strange: "No wonder I always feel like he is very weak..."
Rody whispered: "Then he must have had an accident when he entered Death Canyon... Hum, he has to ask the wizard to treat him every three days. I'm afraid it's just for this!"
Andy whispered: "This is strange. I have never heard of any magic or spells that can make people age so fast... Even if there are magics that can make people age quickly, they are not so slow... Medium With that kind of magic, you should age dozens of years in a day..."
"Maybe he has some way to suppress it... Or maybe he doesn't have the kind of magic you know..." Rody shook his head. He glanced at Wuya, who was high up above him. At this moment, Wuya was closing his eyes and concentrating, seemingly disdainful of the people from various tribes who were noisy and quarreling below.
Andy suddenly whispered: "Boy, this thing seems a little weird, should we take care of it?"
Roddy's face was calm, but he smiled secretly: "Andy, aren't you the most curious at ordinary times? Tonight should be the time for Wuya to go to the wizard's place. We might as well go and take a look secretly. This is what the mountain people call it. What are the secrets of those who are ‘gods to earth’?”
"Hmph... You have to be careful about this. You and the two Silver Moon clan members had a big fight last night. Your nonsense about dreaming can only be used by children. Wuya must have known about it a long time ago. Tonight... you It's up to you to take risks, but if you lose your life, don't blame me for not saving your life..."
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[Brothers and sisters of the public version, I have kept you waiting for a long time. Due to the requirements of the publishing house, the lifting of the ban was very slow some time ago. Xiaowu apologizes to everyone in advance!
However, I will gradually speed up the unbanning in the future, and will unban some more chapters before the Spring Festival to repay everyone. I hope you can continue to support me.]