After all the corpses were burned, these tribesmen piled the ashes into a house, then knocked down the earthen walls around the house, buried the bones inside, and then piled some bricks, stones, soil and the like on top, and also erected

a tombstone.

After doing this, the tribesmen packed up their things in the camp, hurriedly left the place, and disappeared on the way down the mountain.

After the tribesmen left, Leo and Sylvia, who were hiding in the shadows under the trees, walked out and came to the large tomb and looked at the simple tombstone.

Leo looked at the words engraved on the tombstone and said: "This is a variant of the Moon Language language family. It contains some words from the Holy Mountain Language. It should be the language used by a certain Crescent Moon branch clan of the Silver Moon Tribe."

"It's the Half-Moon Clan." Sylvia obviously knew the tribes in the wasteland better than Leo. She quickly gave the answer and continued: "Just now they mentioned that the attackers might be the Tinder Tribe. I remember this tribe correctly.

It should be an emerging tribe, a tribe that appeared after the Year of the Fog. The original members of the tribe were the survivors of some tribes that perished in the monster wave. Later, they gradually grew into a large tribe. However, they gave up a few years ago.

They moved to the territory of the Northern Tribal Alliance and moved back to the Southern Tribal Alliance, preparing to follow the ancient tribal traditions. This incident was still a big deal at the time, and this tribe was even set up by the Holy Mountain in the South as a model for following traditional ways."

"The Silver Moon Tribe seems to be one of the main supporters of the Holy Mountain in the South, right?" Leo thought for a while and asked.

"Yes." Sylvia nodded, and then said: "The Tinder Tribe will move to the south. It is said that it is also led by the Silver Moon Tribe, and the fact that the Tinder Tribe is so valued by the Holy Mountain in the South is also due to the Silver Moon Tribe's operations.

"

"Did someone massacre the branches of the Silver Moon Tribe to frame the Tinder Tribe and destroy the relationship between the two tribes?" Leo then made a guess, then felt that this guess was too hasty, so he smiled and denied:

"Such a technique is too crude and too simple. No one should be fooled."

"That's not necessarily the case." Sylvia had a different view and said: "The Silver Moon Tribe paid a lot of money to allow the Tinder Tribe to move to the south. Now the Tinder Tribe's habitat is also in the hunting grounds of the Silver Moon Tribe.

The most fertile piece of land. Originally, the Silver Moon Tribe tried its best to attract the Tinder Tribe to the south, hoping to increase its voice in the southern sacred mountain, and even praised the Tinder Tribe as a firm follower of the tradition. However, things did not seem to work.

The Tinder Tribe did not develop as the Silver Moon Tribe hoped. The Tinder Tribe did not completely surrender to the Silver Moon Tribe. Instead, it played tricks on various tribes. This also made the Silver Moon Tribe very disgusted with the Tinder Tribe, and even the people at the bottom had a lot of hatred.

The high-level officials of the Tinder Tribe suffered a huge drop in reputation because of their wrong decisions. Naturally, they are extremely hateful towards the Tinder Tribe. Now the two tribes only need one fire starter, and the accumulated hatred can be completely erupted. As for who made this fire starter.

, they don’t care.”

Leo was a little confused and said: "Who will benefit from letting the two tribes conflict? Moreover, the overall strength of the Silver Moon Tribe far exceeds that of the Tinder Tribe. A conflict between the two will not cause much commotion at all."

"Many people will benefit, those who buy and sell arms, those who buy and sell food, those who hoard various commodities, and those who work as war mercenaries. In short, as long as there is a war, there will definitely be many people who will benefit from this war. This

It's for sure." Although Sylvia understood the problem thoroughly, she also failed to figure out who was the beneficiary in Leo's problem, that is, who was the biggest beneficiary. And she also agreed with Leo's statement. If

If the enemy of the Silver Moon Tribe is the Tinder Tribe, then it is difficult for this conflict to turn into a war. It can only be regarded as a major conflict, and no one can benefit from it.

Leo added: "The person just now seemed to have mentioned a place name after seeing those items. Do you know what that place name is?"

Sylvia recalled a little and said: "It's Sobansi, right at the intersection of the Tutu River and the Dajiao River. It was originally just an ordinary tribal hunter camp, but now it may have been built into a distribution center. The group is in the south

The purchasing point of the Holy Mountain once purchased a batch of white-headed roots produced in Sobansi, and the quality of the white-headed roots there is much higher than that of other places. The group also plans to set up a station in Soubans that specializes in purchasing white-headed roots."

"White-headed root?" Leo was stunned when he heard the name of this herb and said, "Is it the white-headed root used to stop bleeding?"

"Yes." Sylvia asked doubtfully, "Is there any problem?"

"Of course there is a problem." Leo said solemnly: "If there is only a small area where white-headed roots grow, there will be no problem. But from what you just said, there are a lot of high-quality white-headed roots growing there, so

This is a problem, because as far as I know, if wild white-headed roots grow with good quality and in large quantities, there will often be some associated minerals near the place where the white-headed roots grow, and this associated mineral is tungsten ore."

"Purple tungsten ore?" Sylvia immediately thought of the purple tungsten steel cold weapon made of precious metals using backward techniques, so she said: "We are just on the way, we can go and take a look, maybe we can find something interesting.

.”

Leo had no objection to this. The two quickly left the dilapidated tribal camp, went down the mountain, and headed south along the Tutu River. On the way, they also saw Silver Moon, who was also rushing towards Sobansi.

Tribal warriors, but the two did not come into contact with these menacing warriors. Instead, they bypassed these people, accelerated their march, and arrived at Sobansi in less than half a day.

As Sylvia said before, Sobansi is no longer a hunting camp. It is much larger than the distribution center Sylvia mentioned. It is more like a small city because of the peripheral defense here.

It is no longer a wooden wall, but is made of stone walls like those big cities outside. There are also neat streets and busy docks inside the city. Except for the fact that most of the people walking on the streets are indigenous tribes in the wilderness.

Apart from dressing up, everything else from urban planning to urban architecture has nothing to do with this primitive wasteland.

"A city was actually built?" Sylvia was also extremely surprised by this, and felt a strange violation.

"Look at the center of the city." Leo seemed to have discovered something, pointed to the location of the city's central square, and said.

Sylvia looked in the direction of Leo's finger and saw a huge statue erected in the central square of the city. There were also altars and the like set up around the square for believers to worship. It looked like other tribes

It's almost the same as worshiping the guardian spirit of your own tribe, but the problem is that the huge statue is not any known natural guardian spirit, nor is it a wild god. Instead, it is a mutation that makes Sylvia feel a little uncomfortable even if she looks at it.

Monster, the only difference is that this mutant monster has a pair of human eyes.

When mutated monsters appeared in the Year of the Fog, almost everyone classified these mutated monsters together with the mutations of human mutants, gods' dependents, etc. that appeared before.

But as people learn more about mutant monsters, they gradually understand that there are huge differences and they are not the same type at all.

For example, human mutants and gods' dependents are all caused by changes in the world. Some of their characteristics have been affected by the changes in the world and have mutated. Therefore, their mutations can be said to originate from themselves. No matter how they mutate, they belong to the world.

One part is just like the cancer cells of the human body. No matter how they mutate, the cancer cells will still be part of the body, but this part will cause harm and destruction to itself.

But the mutated monsters that appear all over the world now are caused by the interference of external forces that entered the world along with the thick fog, causing unpredictable mutations in their bodies. Moreover, these mutations all occur in beasts, and there has not been a single case of human mutation so far.

The cause of the mutation is this external force.

As for the difference between human mutants and mutant monsters, it is very obvious in terms of appearance. The mutations of mutant monsters are disordered and chaotic, and their shapes are all kinds of strange. Most of them look like they were dug from the river beach.

It is a lump formed after a pile of mud is smashed on the ground, but human mutants are different. No matter how they mutate, their appearance will definitely retain some of their original form.

However, the statue that now appears in the center of Sobanse City is completely the shape of a mutated monster, without any original characteristics, but the monster has a pair of very obvious human eyes, which makes Sylvia feel a little bit

eccentric.

"Is it the first human mutant monster, or is it a mutant monster that has mutated into a pair of human eyes?" Sylvia said to herself.

After hearing this, Leo thought for a moment and said, "I think the first option is more likely."

The two of them exchanged their views and then did not continue to observe. Instead, they went up to the road that should have been opened by the Sobansi people and walked into the city from the city gate.

There are several guards at the city gate. Although they all look like wilderness tribesmen, the armor they wear is not that of a tribal warrior. Instead, it is a half-length armor similar to the French infantry armor from a hundred years ago. The weapons on their bodies are also

It is not a traditional bow and arrow or a short spear, but a type of obsolete steam crossbow. Although it is an obsolete type, judging from the wear marks on the crossbow, this crossbow must have been manufactured for no more than half a year.

Just as Leo and Sylvia passed by these guards and quickly observed the guards, the guards also looked at Leo and Xi up and down with surprise and scrutiny.

Serbia.

Although the clothes Leo and Sylvia wore were considered normal in other places, in this city in the wasteland, among the crowds of people dressed as tribal aboriginals, they looked particularly eye-catching.

Fortunately, there seemed to be some people in the city who came to the wilderness to try their luck. The clothes of these people were not much different from Leo and Sylvia, so the guards at the city gate and the pedestrians in the city only looked at the two of them more.

After one glance, he ignored the two of them.

As Sylvia walked, she whispered softly: "The city wall here is too thin, and there is no solid retaining wall built. If there is a group of monsters attacking outside the city, such a city wall may not even be able to hit the monster for the first time."

It’s impossible to resist.”

Leo also said: "Looking at the situation in the forest outside, it seems that this city has not received any decent attacks."

According to normal circumstances, in order to prevent some small mutated monsters from approaching the town through the cover of the woods, an isolation belt will be built near the town, and all the trees and shrubs in this isolation belt that will block the view will be cut down.

As for the city of Sobansi, not only were its walls built against common sense, but even the most basic defense facilities were not built. The entire city gave people the impression that they would not be attacked by mutant monsters.

"Statue." After sorting out their opinions, Sylvia and Leo suddenly thought of the source of why this city was so abnormal.

So, the two of them went directly to the city's central square and took a closer look at the statue. By the way, they also heard some things about the statue from the conversations among the worshipers around them.

As Leo and Sylvia guessed in advance, this statue is indeed the guardian spirit of the entire city. However, because this guardian spirit is not a guardian spirit recognized by the Holy Mountain, this statue and the surrounding altars are illegal.

.

However, the people living in the city of Sobansi are all members of the Tinder Tribe. They are all composed of different tribes. They do not attach much importance to the traditions of the tribe and the authority of the Holy Mountain. They do not pay attention to the rules of the Holy Mountain at all.

They built the statue and the surrounding altar according to their own ideas.

The reason why the people of the Tinder tribe attach great importance to this guardian spirit is because this guardian spirit is their great shaman and the person who leads the Tinder tribe from weak to strong.

When the Tinder Tribe moved south, in order to protect the tribesmen who were attacked by mutant monsters, this great shaman used an extraordinary shamanic spell and died with the monsters. However, the great shaman who was supposed to die died for unknown reasons.

It merged with the broken limbs of the monster group and turned into a new mutant monster.

However, this mutated monster did not attack the people of the Tinder Tribe. Instead, it secretly protected the Tinder Tribe from being attacked by the mutant monsters they encountered on the road. After the Tinder Tribe settled down, it spontaneously moved around the tribe.

The settlement built a mutated statue of the great shaman and regarded it as the guardian spirit of the tribe.

It is strange to say that since the statue of the Great Shaman was built, all the settlements of the Tinder Tribe have never been attacked by monsters. This is why the defense equipment of the city of Sobansi is so weak.
Chapter completed!