Zero followed the natives to a natural valley in Death Ridge.
The vegetation here is also full of vitality, but it is less strange than those mutated plants outside. Zero walked through these plants along the path, and he was sure that they were just ordinary plants. Apart from being able to bring abundant oxygen to Xiaogu during the day, they would not appear strongly aggressive.
There is a small pond in the middle of the valley, the pond is only about ten meters long and wide. The pool was full of water, and there were fully armed natives guarding the side of the pool. Obviously, this pool was very important to them.
Around the pond, there are wooden houses built in layers around it. It's just that these wooden layers are built on the big trees with intertwined roots. The wooden house is simple in structure and rough in style, but it has a primitive and natural flavor.
The entire indigenous tribe has a total of about 30 wooden houses like this. According to Ling's rough estimate, the population of this tribe is at least a hundred. It wasn't a big tribe, but it wasn't small in number. When unfamiliar faces like Zero and Moni entered the valley, they attracted the attention of other natives.
The misunderstanding between Zero and the female native was only resolved after the arrival of the prophet named Gutner. Obviously, Gutner does not belong to this tribe called the Semites by the prophet, no matter in terms of race or knowledge. The obvious white race distinguishes Guttner from these dark-skinned natives. Under Guttner's explanation, Ling realized that the clean water in his mouth was the source of life that the Semites said.
And the source of life that was regarded as a treasure by the Semites is actually the pool of water in the valley.
Guttner was originally a geographer and explorer. During an expedition ten years ago, he and the expedition team were in distress. The rest of the team died in this forbidden area except him, but Gutner was lucky to be rescued by the Semites. It is not appropriate to say that it was rescued. For the Semitic people, Gutner, who was in a coma at that time, was delicious food.
But when Gutner woke up, he used his advanced knowledge to cause quite a shock to the Semitic people, so he was regarded as a prophet by the Semitic patriarch. And Gutner also liked this simple and unsophisticated native, so he stayed and used his knowledge to bring a little more bargaining chips for the survival of the Semites.
In the base, Guttner's greatest contribution is to find this mouth of groundwater which is called the source of life by the Semites. This is also due to Gutner's own rich geographical knowledge. In an area full of radiation sources like Death Ridge, finding a water source with an acceptable pollution level can only be described as a miracle. It is important to know that the Semitic people needed water to survive in the past. They either drank the blood of the mutant beast directly, or dug up the roots of plants with sufficient water, and squeezed out the sap from them to serve as a water source. But no matter which method is used, it is extremely dangerous, so the average life expectancy of each Semitic is about 20 years old.
Until Guttner found this water source, few Semitic people would die due to lack of water in the past ten years.
But the water source here is not very sufficient. In addition to the small amount of groundwater, because of the ubiquitous radiation on the Death God Ridge, the water quality can only last for about a day. It can be said that the existence of the source of life is only a small distance away from the Semites who wander on the line of life and death every day. And in this jungle, the deadly elements are more than just lack of water.
Torches are lit in front of every wooden house in the valley for lighting, and there is a pile of bonfires near the source of life to illuminate the surrounding space. This is the most primitive lighting. In a world full of light sources in the new era, when you walk into such a tribe, you will feel in a trance. It's as if time went back to the old age, and it was a relatively old age.
But the dark blue electric fire in Gunnart's own wooden house reminded Zero that he was still in a turbulent age when crises were everywhere.
After a few people were sent to the prophet's cabin, the female Semitic and other guards dispersed. As for the injured natives, they were taken to the witch doctor in the clan for help, and the body of the shield snake was brought back at the same time. The armored snake's scale armor, which even M500 can't shoot through, was pulled out by Grunart, and combined with some oak fiber, it can be made into a soft stomach with amazing defense.
This is another contribution of Gunat to the Semitic people. Although he is not a master of weapons, years of exploration experience have allowed Gunat to come into contact with various levels of knowledge. Even the wheel saw used by the female tribe was designed by Gunat, and he went to Phoenix City himself, and the goldsmiths in the city made it according to his design.
In the prophet's house, Zero sees an oval vessel. There are four or five strange flowers floating in the vessel. These small flowers with five petals reveal traces of faint blue light from the veins. The whole flower had a blue-white halo, and they illuminated the whole cabin. But Zero knew that their function was not just lighting, because Zero felt strong radiation on their bodies.
It's just that the material of the container containing the blue flower must be encrypted, so as to minimize the overflow of the radioactive substances contained in the blue flower.
"Go wherever you want, but don't touch that thing." Gunnart pointed to the oval container and said, "That's the Reaper flower, have you heard of it? Yes, it is the most powerful radiation source in the entire Reaper Ridge. Believe me , as long as ordinary people directly touch it, you can bid farewell to this world in less than 5 minutes. Although this world is not worth nostalgia at all... "
Gu Nat read in pieces, and poured two bowls of water for Zero and Mo Ni, as well as some dried meat of unknown beasts.
While watching Zero and the two eating, Gunnart kept asking Zero some questions about the outside world. It can be seen that this old man has been isolated from the outside world for too long, and Zero can't think of any reason why he is willing to stay in this backward and dangerous place.
Amid Gunat's near-endless questions, Moni did not know when she fell asleep. The Prophet asked Zero to carry Moni to sleep in a corner of the wooden house, but he himself was studying Colt with a magnifying glass as if looking at a rare treasure.
Zero didn't bother him, so he walked to the door and looked at the peaceful world outside.
It was already late at night, except for the guards of the source of life, the rest of the Semites fell asleep. But in an open space close to the source of life, there is a graceful figure jumping up and down.
It was the black girl who almost attacked Zero. She held a wheel saw and kept making various attacks in the open space. From a distance, she looks like an elf dancing in the night, full of dreamlike feeling.
"That child's name is Atesa." Gunnart's voice came from behind him. He didn't look back, but he seemed to know who Zero saw.
It seems that the girl named Atesa practiced these killing skills every night. Zero thought so, just observing from a distance, but judging from Atesa's brisk movements and occasional attacking stances far beyond the limit of ordinary human body, Zero is sure that this girl must have achieved something in the fighting field . And judging from the wave-like silver light flowing on the surface of the fierce soldier when she wielded the wheel saw, Atesa was also involved in the elemental domain.
Usually, the ability to have two different domains at the same time is called wide-area proficiency. And a person with wide-area proficiency is either a mediocrity or a genius. After all, no one can develop global capabilities. Human potential is limited. Those who want to develop global capabilities are purely greedy and greedy.
The more advanced the ability user is, the more he will focus on developing the ability in the field he is good at. Those who are proficient in a wide area are nothing more than majoring in the ability of a certain field, while the abilities of other fields are only used for auxiliary purposes.
Zero can also be regarded as a wide-area master. His current abilities have already involved the combat domain, perception domain, and elemental domain. But for the automatically generated bullet time and the mastery of the fire element absorbed from Sauron, Zero has no plans to invest evolution points for it. The reason is simple, the agility enhancement of the fighting domain can better play the shooting art that Zero is good at. Instead of developing the elemental field that he is not good at, he is more willing to invest evolution points in the ability of agility enhancement.
Of course, with an in-depth understanding of the supernatural world, Zero also understands that agility enhancement is not a very powerful ability. Instead, it's a very common assist ability. Therefore, zero investment in it is also limited to the upfront. Now, Zero keeps the evolution points intact, and until he finds a more powerful ability that suits him, Zero is not going to make any blind investment in any existing ability.
As for the wide-area ability user, if nothing else, Atesa at least has the ability of cold weapon proficiency, low-level strength and agility enhancement, and the unknown level of light element proficiency. This is the judgment made by Zero after observing her. With these abilities, Artesa's potential is already very good for a backward tribe.
The most important thing is that she is still young.
And youth represents an infinite future!
"She is my favorite child, and she is also the pride of the Semites." Gunnart still did not intend to let go of Colt, but said while observing the sniper rifle: "Do you know what the name Atesa means? The language of the Semitic people means daughter of the moon, and the Semitic people worship the moon god, so you see, Atesa is highly respected in this tribe, even me, an old man with the name of a prophet. "
"Daughter of the Moon?"
Zero chanted the words full of ancient taste, when he said the last word. Atesa in the distance just stopped the deadly dance, she seemed to sense it, and looked at Zero.
Even the dark night can't hide the light in Atesa's eyes, it's like the moon, and the sky is full of frost!