In the faint moonlight, Lu Ming gently appeared behind the barbarian sentry who was half asleep and half on guard on the treetop.
The barbarian suddenly opened his eyes and turned his head. Lu Ming waved his hand and frowned. He reached out again and blood gushed out of the barbarian's throat. On the thick branch, Lu Ming took two steps forward, gently grabbed his body, and slowly placed him on the branch.
Lu Ming clenched his fist and pinched the barbarian's skin again, and found it was indeed very thick.
The first time I used that much force, I immediately felt that it couldn't pierce the skin, even though I chose a weak area like the throat.
It is very difficult to kill one of these creatures, just like a normal person hacking a person to death with a sword. If there are dozens of them, it will be difficult to do so, especially if you want to rescue them.
I looked at the wooden cage and wanted to rescue everyone, but it seems that it is impossible.
I brought a rifle with me, which had about a hundred bullets. Seeing that these barbarians had thick skin and tough flesh, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to kill many of them.
Moreover, I have already started to act, and there is no turning back.
After a moment of hesitation, Lu Ming jumped down from the treetop and came to the wooden cage. Lu Ming was planning to kill the few goats that were roaming around and were obviously serving as sentinels, but for some reason, these beasts avoided Lu Ming when they saw him and did not howl to warn him.
Lu Ming ignored them.
There was immediately some commotion in the wooden cage. Lu Ming reached out and pulled open the iron chain that tied the wooden cage. The people inside were even more excited, but no one dared to make too much noise.
He made gestures and comparisons, implying that he could only take the youngest children away.
Some people showed despair on their faces. One of the old men seemed to be very authoritative, but he was very graceful. He bowed slightly and said something, apparently to express his gratitude to Lu Ming. He also whispered to the children, instructing them about something.
As Lu Ming's eyes moved, he went to a wooden stable. The black goats inside were extremely tall and long-legged, the size of camels, but their horns and fangs were not prominent. Lu Ming had also figured out the trick in the past few days. This kind of black goat should be similar to a horse, used by the barbarians to pull carts and ride.
There were dozens of such wooden stables, each containing fifty or sixty goats for riding.
The wooden stable that Lu Ming entered, there was an extremely tall goat inside. It should be the leader of the group. It was two heads taller than ordinary goats and was about the same size as an Asian elephant. When Lu Ming entered the wooden stable, the other goats retreated uneasily, but it slowly came forward, but it made a low, humming sound in uneasiness.
Lu Ming gently stroked its jaw.
If you have ever had a dog, you know that they don’t like people rubbing their heads, as it will make them feel dizzy, but if their owners like it, there’s nothing you can do about it.
The tall leader sheep's low roar gradually died down, and it began to rub Lu Ming's hand, licking it more carefully.
Lu Ming was delighted and patted its neck and made gestures.
Sure enough, when Lu Ming walked out, dozens of goats followed him, led by the leader.
The people in the wooden cages were horrified when they saw Lu Ming coming towards them with a group of giant goats that were taller than humans.
Although these riding goats are much more docile in temperament, they still show caution in front of humans, and some of them show their fangs to scare humans away.
The look in a sheep's eyes is actually quite scary if you look closely, so some cultures on Earth regard goats as extremely evil animals.
Lu Ming first picked up the two children and placed them on the head sheep. The head sheep's terrifying holes seemed to get bigger and bigger, but after Lu Ming gently patted their necks, they did not resist in the end.
Lu Ming gestured to people to choose the goat and sit on it, then he gently exerted force with his palm, and the goat was pressed down and slowly knelt down.
When the other goats saw that the leader had knelt down and could be ridden by humans, they also knelt down in imitation of the leader.
Seeing Lu Ming's gesture, those people were still hesitant. Even the two children who were held as the leader by Lu Ming were crying, but they were trying hard not to make any sound. Perhaps they were often hunted by barbarians and told stories, so they knew that they could not cry loudly at this time.
The well-educated old man finally gritted his teeth and was the first to sit on a goat.
The others then sat on it tremblingly. Lu Ming climbed onto the back of the lead sheep, gently hugged the two children, and lowered his voice to the crowd behind him, "Hold on tight for a while. If you fall, I won't be responsible! Life and death are determined by fate!" He didn't care whether they could understand or not.
However, after all this trouble, no barbarians woke up.
Since they had been hunting beasts and giving warnings all the time, even the lone sentry could fall asleep, and they never thought that this scene would happen.
Lu Ming looked at the old man again and gestured.
The old man was very wise. He quickly understood what Lu Ming meant and pointed in one direction.
Lu Ming thought about it, then went down again, helped the old man down from the other side, helped him onto the extremely broad back of the head sheep, and sat on it himself.
This elephant-like leader can easily accommodate a few humans.
They are just ordinary camels and goats, which were originally ridden by barbarians, and can carry humans as well.
Lu Ming patted the neck of the lead sheep and gently squeezed his legs together. The lead sheep neighed and slowly stood up. The other sheep also stood up one after another, neighing continuously.
In the thatched hut not far away, there was a noise.
Under Lu Ming's command, the lead sheep started to run slowly, and the rest of the sheep stood up and followed suit.
Amid the exclamations, several people who were reluctant to grab the sheep's bristles fell down.
Lu Ming sighed softly in his heart. This was their fate. If he delayed any longer, he would have to stop the sheep and beasts from running to rescue them. Then the sheep and beasts would be confused by him, and by then, some of them might fall down, or be disturbed by the special whistles of the barbarians.
And after all, in this world, humans do not necessarily represent justice, and barbarians do not necessarily represent evil.
It all depends on their own standpoints for survival.
Competition between different species of Homo sapiens in the same ecological niche.
Therefore, before I figure out many things, I don’t want to get too involved in this kind of competition.
Led by the head sheep, the sheep ran faster and faster. From behind, they could faintly hear the shouts of the barbarians.
However, they were not afraid of them chasing them. After all, a sheep carrying the weight of a human could definitely run faster than a sheep carrying the weight of a barbarian.
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More than an hour later, the sky in the east began to turn pale. The herd of sheep had probably run nearly a hundred kilometers. These sheep had much greater endurance than horses on Earth.
They didn't look tired, but many of the riders looked extremely exhausted.
Under Lu Ming's order, the head sheep led the herd to slowly stop.
Lu Ming communicated with the old man through gestures. From what the old man said, it would probably take until the sun sets before they could return to his home.
It may be more than a thousand kilometers away from the barbarians' tribe.
Lu Ming gestured and asked how many such barbarian tribes there were in the old man's world.
After a while, the old man seemed to understand, but the answer might be complicated and he didn't know how to explain it to Lu Ming. He gestured, as if to say that he would find a way to communicate with Lu Ming after he got home.
The barbarians did not follow us. There was desert all the way. We passed a small desert and rested for a while in an oasis.
When the moon rose high again, Lu Ming's eyes fixed as he turned around a sand dune.
Looking down from a high place, one can see in the distance, a vague image of a medieval castle standing tall.
The outer area is a tall wooden fortress, which is as long as the Great Wall. It is likely that the area of dozens of square kilometers is enclosed in the wooden fortress, including a dense red fruit forest.
The old man immediately gestured, meaning that he would go and knock on the door first and also explain the origin of his benefactor.
Lu Ming nodded slightly and turned around to see the twenty or thirty people who had escaped. Regardless of gender, age or status, they were all extremely excited.
There should be exactly fifty sheep in the herd, and not a single one was left behind.