Qiu Ying was not patient with the ferret. A cold and violent aura suddenly popped up all over her body. The black sword in her arms buzzed, and an invisible sword power dispersed.
"Squeak--"
The ferret screamed twice, and the small eyes as big as beans flashed with fear. His fear of Qiuying surged up. He did not dare to touch other small thoughts, jumped out of the tree and ran away on the snow.
In the evening, when the snow stopped, Qiuying followed the ferret to an ice valley surrounded by mountains on three sides.
This ice valley is an extinct crater. The stone mountains around the valley are formed by the magma from the eruption of the volcano. There are hot springs flowing out of the valley. The entrance of the valley uses huge logs as piles and fills soil in the middle to build a village wall. On the village wall, three-story posts were also built. In the post, you can see the river in the distance.
When Qiuying came over, she was discovered by the guards in the mail tower. When she walked under the wall of the village, she was shot to the snow in front of her feet with a "swish" arrow.
Then, a thick voice cried out and said, "Stop, don't go forward!"
After glanced at the trembling tail of the arrow, Qiu Ying's eyelids didn't hop a moment, and she was very happy. Fortunately, the people here also speak Chinese, so it's good to communicate.
"I'm lost, my child is sick, I want to change some herbs." Qiuying was cold and said little, so she became more concise and clear at this time, and she explained the meaning in just a few words.
"The child is sick? Xiaoshi, go down and take a look."
The thick voice on the village wall was kind-hearted, so he immediately asked someone to come down to check it out. However, the man named Xiaoshi did not come out of the village gate, but hung it down in a basket. It seemed that he was still on guard against Qiu Ying's fraud and was very vigilant.
After Xiaoshi came over, Qiuying lifted up her cloak and asked him to see the good baby in the fish skin basket. The cold wind blew in, which woke up the sleeping good baby who was in a daze. She shouted in a daze: "Mom."
"Good baby, go to bed." Qiu Ying said softly, her voice still cold, but her tone was a little more unknowingly gentle.
Xiaoshi quickly glanced at Qiuying. The reflection of the snow made Qiuying's face look whiter and shining like white jade, which made him fascinated.
"snort!"
Qiu Ying snorted coldly, and Xiaoshi was shocked when she heard it. She felt an inexplicable crisis. She was so scared that she shivered. She instantly woke up. She looked at her in horror and hurriedly sat back on the wall of the village in a basket.
I don’t know what Xiaoshi said on the village wall. No one answered Qiuying for a long time, which made her think she was going to be turned away. Then a "creaking" sound came out. A small door on the thick village gate opened. Xiaoshi stood at the door and said, “Come in with me, the witch wants to see you.”
Qiu Ying's cold temperament almost complained. She didn't travel to the world in online fantasy novels, but there was a species of "witch" that appeared?
Fortunately, she was still rational, or now she had something to ask for, Qiu Ying suppressed the complaints in her heart, thanked Xiaoshi, and followed her into the village.
After entering the village wall, you can see the whole view of the valley. Except for the direction of the valley entrance, many caves were carved out on the other three sides for living, and stone stairs and stone corridors were carved for people living on the top floors of the caves.
Press a grotto level
If there are three people living in each place, all the caves are full and can accommodate nearly 10,000 people. However, the above several floors of the caves are very quiet, and there are obviously no one living there. Qiu Ying roughly observed it and estimated that the entire valley will not be less than 600 people, but it will not exceed 1,000 people.
There is a flat slope in the valley, with hot spring water forming a small lake in the northwest corner of the valley. There are some fruit trees that are not recognized by autumn trees growing on the lakeshore, with the same flowers and fruits. The yellow fruits are like pears, and the flowers are also white, but they are not pear trees, and the fruits are slightly smaller than coconut fruits.
Except for the hot spring lake and the fruit trees, some vegetables are planted on the rest of the valley. Qiuying recognizes cabbage, chili, purple cabbage, lettuce, and leeks.
Perhaps it is because there are hot springs in the valley. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the cold wind outside the valley cannot be blown in. The temperature in the valley is very high, and the snow falls and turns into water vapor before it falls. The vegetables grow very well and are colorful. Qiu Ying's eyes lit up and she unconsciously swallowed her saliva.
How long has it been since she had eaten normally since she left Baishan Base?
Qiuying forced herself to take her eyes back and asked Xiaoshi about the situation here.
Xiaoshi was only sixteen years old, and he didn't know much. He only knew that their tribe was the largest tribe within a thousand miles nearby, called the Yan tribe. The leader of the tribe was Xiaoshi's father and the most powerful totem warrior in the tribe. However, the leader was not the leader, but the witch.
The witch does not care about the daily affairs of the tribe. She only presides over the ceremony of worshiping the ancestor gods during the New Year and when the hunting team returns, and treats wounded and sick people in the tribe.
In Qiu Ying's view, Wu is a charlatan and doctor, and is a spiritual leader in the tribe.
Qiuying was wary of such a charlatan. If she could, she didn't want to deal with Wu, so she would rather deal with the tribe leader. However, Wu took the initiative to look for her than refused.
What's more, Qiu Ying had an intuition that if you want to know the way home, it would be useless to find a leader. Wu may have learned more about this world.
Furthermore, the medicine for treating Guaibao is also in the hands of the witch, so it is inevitable to deal with the witch.
The cave where Wu lived was facing the village gate, and it was the highest among all the caves. Even the cave where the leader lived was on the lower floor. The caves on the same floor were all witches, and the animals were placed in different categories. They were all handed down by witches from all generations. Only witches could go in and watch. Of course, others could not understand them when they came in and watch them.
When Xiaoshi became an adult, he moved out of the leader's father's cave and lived at the bottom.
Perhaps it was because he was scared by Qiu Ying before, or maybe it was Wu's explanation that Xiao Shi knew everything, and he would answer whatever Qiu Ying asked.
When he walked outside the Wu's cave, Qiuying had already learned about the Rock Tribe from Xiaoshi's mouth. When he entered the cave, he felt that it was really gloomy and made people furrowed all over. He couldn't help but tighten the cloak on his body.
This is a huge grotto, empty, with many murals engraved on the walls, all of which are scenes related to the sacrifices and hunting of gods, exuding a solemn and primitive smell.
Under the huge mural in the middle, the witch of the tribe was standing. He held a bone staff in his hand.
He was wearing a robe made of animal skin, a necklace made of various animal teeth around his neck, and a crown woven with feathers and gems on his head.
Chapter completed!