Chapter 224 [Target: Snake Slaughter]

"..." Su Ling was stunned for a moment and looked at A Cai on the ground: "Is that so? A Cai?"

Acai closed her mouth and looked at Su Ling's shiny eyes. The boy Zaku also closed his eyes.

"Although I am not your Zaku people, nor are they the 'children of the mountains'..." Xia Ya's tone was mocking: "But I am not the kind of outsider who knows nothing about the mountains! Do you understand? I have lived in the mountains since I was a child! So, do you really think I am so easy to deceive?"

Xia Ya gently raised her hand to block Su Ling, then grabbed A Cai's leather jacket, lifted him up, and approached the other party's nose, staring at A Cai's eyes at close range: "I have been suspicious these two days, but I'm not your Zaku people after all, so I haven't seen through your tricks yet, but fortunately, I finally understood today."

He paused: "First, you have been taking us off the road! If it were someone else, you might have been deceived by you! Since we passed the river the next day and entered the "wild forest" area you mentioned, in fact, in the following time, you took us on a folding route. Although we walked for four days, in fact, we only walked a straight distance of only a few dozen miles at most! Right!"

"I...I just took us to find something! Since it is a search, of course we can't go straight, we must expand the area we are looking for as much as possible." A Cai made a reason for his defense.

"Yes, I thought so at first." The sneer on Xia Ya's face froze: "I also thought that the way back and forth was to find magic kiss taro. But I accidentally discovered your trick!"

As he said that, Xia Ya wiped her neck twice, and then hummed: "Since entering the wild forest, the deworming potion you gave us was obviously useless! At first I felt strange, why are the insects here getting more and more powerful, and even if you apply the deworming potion you gave you, it would be useless! But now I understand, what you gave me is not a deworming herb at all! Unfortunately, your uncle, Azuo, I once walked with him all the way. He told me at least three kinds of flowers and plants. As long as you squeeze out the juice, you can effectively drive away those annoying mosquitoes! But what you used for us is not any of these three!"

When Xia Ya said this, she glanced at A Cai: "Don't tell me that your potion is better... Do you remember what I asked you the night before? You said that the other herbs are only in the south forest, the north forest, and there are no other herbs... But unfortunately, I found those deworming flowers and plants when chasing pheasants in the grass this morning! These things are not difficult to find, there are many! You, the 'child of the mountains', will never make such low-level mistakes!"

"Okay!" A Cai straightened her neck: "Even if I made a mistake in the deworming herbs, so what? You can only say that my ability in this area is too mediocre. What evidence do you have to say that I have done something wrong?"

“Two reasons.”

Xia Ya took a breath: "I deliberately drilled around the bushes today. Guess what I was looking for? Tell you, I was looking for snakes! That's right, and I found them too! Do you know what I found? I found that the snakes I found were not afraid of me! I walked by it casually, but the snake seemed to have no reaction! I think it must be the smell of the "deworming potion" you gave me. The things you gave us these two days were not for deworming! But to prevent us from being attacked by snakes! Right? Not being attacked by snakes? I thought about it carefully for a while, ah, little guy, I happened to know that there is a kind of flower and plant that is the favorite thing for snakes!"

Acai shut her mouth.

Xia Ya glanced at him and continued, "The second reason is that I found out that you are making marks along the way! You did it very cleverly, and you didn't foolishly draw any patterns on the bark, or throw something away as a mark, but... Humph, there's something wrong with your knife!"

He picked up A Cai's knife, put the blade to his nose and sniffed it, his eyes lit up: "Haha, what is it? The fruit pulp is mixed with honey, right? A very smart way! You cut the bushes and thorns in front to open the way for us, and your blade will dip these fruit pulp and honey on the thorns along the way during the chopping process! There are many wild bees in this woods, and those things will be attracted by these honey pulp and flock to us, and eventually become natural signposts!"

"..." A Cai finally sighed. He raised his eyelids and stared at Xia Ya, his tone was bitter: "I admit that you really know the things in the mountains, and they are different from other outsiders. You said it well, fruit pulp and honey, but it also needs to be added with a kind of saliva of snakes, which will emit a smell that our human nose cannot smell, and only insects can smell it."

"Oh, you admit it." Xia Ya smiled: "So, tell me, who are you guiding us? Who are you leaving these marks along the way to track us?"

Listening to the conversation between the two, Su Ling next to her was shocked. She stared at the two of them with wide eyes and suddenly screamed: "A Cai! Are you really doing this? Why! Why are you doing these things?"

A Cai sighed, and the boy turned his head to look at Su Ling and hesitated: "Su Ling, I have no malice. These are the orders of the chief. The night before we set off, the chief summoned me alone. I swear to do these things for the chief in the name of my uncle. So... you really shouldn't have come here secretly!"

Su Ling opened her mouth and was stunned for a moment, but A Cai turned around and looked at Xia Ya: "Sir, please let me go. I didn't mean to do these things, I..."

Xia Ya let go of Acai, put him on the ground, and patted his clothes with a skillful smile: "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you, because Azuo is your uncle. Azuo once sacrificed his own life to save me, I owe him! So, as long as you tell me the truth, I will not blame you."

The boy Zaku's eyes were complicated. He swallowed his saliva, looked at Su Ling, hesitated for a while, and finally sighed: "Okay! Sir, you actually... are for the Holy Snake, right? The chief told me that you are here to help us Zaku people, you are friends, you are here to help us deal with the Holy Snake together, right?"

"...I did make such a promise to your uncle." Xia Yazheng nodded, his eyes firmly: "I will work hard for your uncle."

A Cai was relieved, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "The Chief of the Great Chief told me this, but he did not say anything to you in person. It was because of some special reasons... Regarding the Holy Snake issue, the Chief of the Great Chief told me that our tribe has no unified opinions. Therefore, the Chief did not make any decisions in person, and for some reasons, he could not announce them in public in the tribe..."

Shaya nodded: "Some reasons?"

"You don't understand that although our tribe and the chief is the leader of the tribe, he must listen to the opinions of the high priest. The chief has mastered the power of us and the priests to divine the priests. More importantly, the chief also has the power to communicate with the holy snake... And on the issue of the holy snake, the chief and the priests have always had the completely opposite attitude..."

Xia Ya glanced at Duoduoluo, and the two of them looked at each other, and Xia Ya continued: "What do you mean is the high priest in your tribe opposes the action against that holy snake?"

"The high priest thinks we should continue to surrender to the holy snake." What surprised Xia Ya was that the person who answered this question was Su Ling. The girl was full of anger and said loudly: "I hate that guy, who is sneaky all day long. He is just selfish! Because only the existence of the holy snake can he have his current status! The priest is responsible for communicating with the holy snake, listening to every order of the holy snake, and detoxifying the will given by the holy snake! That guy will only watch our brothers and sisters be swallowed by the big monster!"

Su Ling's anger is for a reason, because she is one of the victims of the upcoming selection of the snake girl.

"If we make any decisions in the tribe, or openly..." A Cai whispered: "The chief was worried that it would arouse opposition from the priests. That guy might do something behind his back, so we can only do some disguise - just like hunting, we cannot alarm the prey, we can only circle around and approach quietly..."

"I understand, so we asked to enter the forest to find the magic kiss taro. The chief agreed happily, but in fact he took the opportunity to let you take us into the forest, and then..." Xia Ya suddenly widened her eyes: "You don't want to bring us directly to the holy snake and ask us to kill that monster, right?"

"From the season, now is its time to sleep and the best opportunity." A Cai gritted her teeth: "And, isn't this exactly what you came here? You promised... and we won't just let you do it alone! The chief has secretly transferred a group of the most elite warriors in the tribe. They will leave the tribe in the name of hunting and then meet with us in the depths of the forest. I left these marks along the way, so that the warriors can keep up with our route, and we will eventually gather together... and then form a snake-slaying team to kill the monster together and rescue our tribe!"

Xia Ya sighed and looked at A Cai with a lot of politeness: "Then why did you take me around for two days? Why didn't you tell me this earlier?"

"It's not because of Su Ling." A Cai smiled helplessly: "This is a dangerous thing! Su Ling suddenly caught up with us and disrupted this plan! I tried to persuade her to go back, but she refused. But it was too dangerous to take her with her, so I have been hesitating these two days..."
Chapter completed!