Ride and Cut

"Your road is not well built." Li Cha stood shoulder to shoulder with Seinide, pointing with a straw stick in his mouth, "The tree should be cut down, and then some asphalt mats can be used. You can also draw a few arrows with lime on it to indicate the direction. This is the case in my hometown."

The ground dragon was blocked again, no matter how it was trimmed, the gap between the two trees was not enough to allow them to pass through. The barbarians and centaurs gathered together and were arguing about which one to cut down. Looking at it like that, it will be difficult to make substantial progress for a while.

"Usually we don't walk very much. We mostly use the cane to jump and swing, which is much faster." Senid pointed upwards.

Li Cha raised his head and saw vines hanging between the tall trees, hanging naturally from the branches like noodles, weaving into a net covering the entire forest. Some old vines in the forest are even as thick as thighs, and they are mixed with tree trunks and cannot be distinguished from each other.

"That's not bad." His eyes lit up, a little envious. The feeling of being free and unrestrained from high to high has always been what he pursued.

But it's useless to be envious, you can't learn at all. The iron armor on their bodies alone has already made everyone in Gaoshanbao weigh as much as a weight. Moreover, these arbors generally have more than a dozen blades. If one falls accidentally, it will save the need to dig a hole and burn it—you can just smash one out by yourself.

"Actually, people of the tribe fall and die every year. The elders now also advocate walking more and less hanging vines."

"Is your tribe still far away?" The lord asked pretending not to care.

The simple and honest Seinide obviously didn't realize that this was someone taking the opportunity to obtain information, so he replied straightforwardly: "It's not far away. If you walk, you still have more than a thousand cubits at most."

Li Cha curled his lips secretly.

The wild spirit race is obviously weird. Not only does their accent have a very old-fashioned style, but the "cubit" is also a unit of length that was abandoned many years ago. Like the literal expression, it is approximately equal to the distance from the finger to the elbow—but according to the standard of Titans, it is approximately equal to the current five blades.

The lord calculated it in his heart, and it would take more than ten miles. If it goes well, it will be very fast. But at their current stop-and-go speed, it would be a blessing to arrive before sunset.

"The closer the road to the tribe, the better, and we can get up soon." Senid seemed to see his worry, and said proactively.

"Talk about the wild spirits. I'm going to your tribe soon. I don't know what a wild spirit is." Li Cha handed the other party a stainless steel cross sword bought in the system, "A small gift, accept it, or you won't give me face."

"Wild spirits are the spirits of wild beasts, the condensed spirits of wild beasts, the wildest creatures in the world." Speaking of this, Senid immediately puffed up his chest, with a proud smile on his lips, "And our tiger spirits, even among the wild spirits, are the wildest and most unrestrained ones!"

It could be seen that he didn't want to accept gifts from outsiders easily, but for a forest ranger who couldn't scrape together two pounds of metal, a high-quality stainless steel weapon was undoubtedly fatally attractive, so he finally accepted it with a blushing face.

"It's too precious." He stammered, but his hand holding the sword hilt never let go from the beginning to the end, and he was dizzy from being hit by this grand prize.

"There are many wild spirits?" Li Cha immediately asked while the iron was hot.

"Initially there were twelve species, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig." Senid, who had short hands and a steel sword on his back, explained more enthusiastically. Even though the queue had started moving again, they still walked together with Li Cha and chattered endlessly: "Besides, we believe that there was once a cat tribe who taught ancestors who could not climb trees how to climb trees, but was later replaced by the rat tribe. But this theory is only spread among the tiger spirits, and other wild spirits don't believe it, because no one has seen it."

"Oh." Li Cha's face was indescribably weird, and these things made him feel vaguely familiar, "The disciples of the church starved to death of the master, right?"

"Then I don't know." Senid looked a little embarrassed.

After all, if the story is true, Tiger Spirit is obviously the apprentice who was taught, playing a disgraceful role.

"Tell me about this place again." Li Cha tried to avoid asking too many and deep questions on the same topic at once, so as not to arouse the other party's vigilance.

"This place is called Twilight Forest. It has a radius of nearly 20,000 cubits, and it is very vast. There are more than 30,000 tiger spirits and giants living there." Seined said while setting up his arrows and shooting his bow like a cloud and flowing water. He didn't see how he was aiming. There was a sound of "咻", and a tree frog the size of a leather ball fell from a tree not far away, and he picked it up and carried it on his waist.

"Not a bad arrow."

"I can see that those centaur arrows are also very powerful." Senid rubbed the blood on the arrows with a leaf and put them back into the bag. "And they look too much like the wild spirits of the horse tribe at first glance. I was shocked. You must know that the horse tribe has long been extinct."

"What about the other wild spirits? Besides you tiger spirits, is there any bloodline continuity?"

Senid's answer is very meaningful and secretive: "Then we have to see how to define 'existence'."

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The Tiger Spirit settlement is located in a vast plain,

Behind is surrounded by a semi-circular mountainous area, and there is a clear small river winding in front, which is a standard pattern of being surrounded by mountains and rivers.

Here, all kinds of tree species that were common in the forest before disappeared, leaving only oak with reasonable density. The ground is covered with colorful wild flowers and dense lawns, covering every corner of the field of vision, shining brightly in the sun, so beautiful that it is unreal.

After losing their competitors, these oak trees grow very wantonly, and the thickest ones can be hugged by four or five people, but they are crooked and cannot form a building.

Tiger Spirit tribe is not under the tree, but in the tree.

On those crooked but luxuriant trees, they bent their branches and trunks to form wooden houses that could shelter them from the wind and rain. They were connected to each other with soft bridges woven with rattan, and they actually formed a settlement that could accommodate thousands of people. Li Cha was amazed for a while.

The arrival of a large group of strangers brought a little commotion to the peaceful tribe. Soon, more than a dozen Tiger Spirit guards with spears rushed over, swinging on vines.

Facing the crowd in the heavily armed Alpine Fort, they were obviously nervous. Fortunately, Senid was there. After exchanging a few words in a low voice, the guards quickly turned and left, climbed up the oak tree nimbly, and rushed to the distance along the vine bridge.

"You have to make an announcement first. The elders need time to prepare before they can receive guests." Seined explained.

"Your status in your tribe is not low." Li Cha laughed and patted Senid on the shoulder.

"How do you tell?" The latter's response was also quite affirmative.

"None of the guards is as brave as you, and the oil paint is not as fancy as yours." The lord pursed his lips. In fact, there was another point that he was embarrassed to say - he thought that the two copper knives of Seinide were rubbish, but it turned out that they seemed to be luxury goods for Wild Spirit, at least the guards were not equipped with copper weapons.

"I am the second warrior of the tribe," Senid said.

"Oh." Li Cha nodded.

Generally speaking, the main position often belongs to the elderly with outstanding merits, while the capable young and strong can only take the deputy position. It seems that this is a common problem of intelligent life, whether humans or wild spirits are not immune.