The old witch looked at Jiang Xuan's tall back and admired his mentality and adaptability.
Chi Shao was also infected by Jiang Xuan's courage. She did not hesitate and immediately followed Jiang Xuan outside with the old witch.
At this time, the more than 2,000 Teng tribe members in front of the altar were already anxious. If it weren't for the control of Undou and other leaders, the crowd would have started a riot.
After Jiang Xuan, Chi Shao, and the old witch returned, everyone's eyes were fixed on them.
Jiang Xuan calmly cleaned the stones on the altar, and then stepped onto the altar step by step.
Because the altar is relatively close to the stone mountain and is made of soil, it was severely hit by the rocks. Some places were smashed, and there were large cracks in some places, making it look dilapidated.
But an altar is an altar, even if it is dilapidated, it still has a high status in the hearts of the tribal people.
"Everyone, please be quiet first!"
Jiang Xuan shouted and stretched out his hand to press down. The more than two thousand Teng tribe members gradually became quiet. Everyone looked at Jiang Xuan and no one whispered to each other.
At this time, Chi Shao also walked up to the altar step by step and stood beside Jiang Xuan.
As for the old witch, he is not a member of the Vine tribe and is not qualified to ascend the altar.
Jiang Xuan whispered to Chi Shao: "Sister, follow what we discussed before."
Chi Shao nodded slightly, and then announced to everyone:
"People, the Vine God has not left us. It's just that he has consumed too much divine power to survive the thunder tribulation and needs to sleep for a while. When the Vine God regains his divine power, he will protect everyone as before!"
"Very good……"
The crowd burst into cheers. As long as the Fujigami is still here, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Even if there are a few ethnic minorities who have doubts about Chi Shao's words, no one dares to speak out.
Among tribes, witches often represent the will of the totem god. If you question the witch, it is a very serious crime and you will be executed.
After Chi Shao finished speaking, Jiang Xuan said some more morale-boosting words, and then asked the soldiers to stay and clean up the rocks while the others went back to do their own work.
The huge stone mountain was broken into pieces, and there were a lot of rubble around it, which must be cleaned up.
Uncaria asked: "Chief, where should these stones be moved?"
"Pile it in the open space next to it for the time being, and move it wherever needed in the future."
"yes!"
After receiving the order, the Vine tribe warriors began to work one after another.
They carried or carried stones, large and small, to both sides and placed them in piles.
Three days later, all the stones were piled up to form hill-like piles of stones.
Immediately afterwards, Chi Shao led others to repair the altar and the totem pole next to the altar.
During this process, the half of the charred divine vine did not change at all, as if it was really dead.
At the same time, the news that the totem god of the Vine tribe had survived the tribulation gradually spread among the nearby tribes.
When Shen Teng was going through the tribulation, the commotion was so loud that the thrilling and terrifying scene could be seen from a long distance away, and there was no way to hide it from other tribes.
However, after Shen Teng passed through the tribulation, the totem gods of several nearby small tribes did not feel the powerful aura belonging to the totem gods of the large tribes, and even Shen Teng's original aura disappeared.
As a result, these small tribes will inevitably have doubts, and some people speculate that Shen Teng may have failed to overcome the tribulation.
Of course, speculation is just speculation. Before there is definite information, the nearby small tribes dare not have any thoughts about the Vine Tribe.
Because in the past few years, the Vine Tribe has successively wiped out several powerful small tribes, medium-sized tribes, and even the Black Snake Tribe failed to take advantage of the Vine Tribe.
The past performances of the Vine Tribe are like halos blessing the Vine Tribe.
Before the halo disappears or is broken, any tribe that wants to touch the Vine Tribe must think carefully about itself.
The trading area of the Vine Tribe also continues to be open, and Jiang Xuan does not want the Vine Tribe to show too many abnormalities.
However, after all, the stone mountain was chopped down to only a big stone, and the divine vine was chopped down to only half of the charred main stem and the invisible root system underground.
Whether they are people from other tribes or members of our own tribe, they are all very uncomfortable.
Whenever they looked at that location, the empty scene made people feel particularly unreliable.
The only good news for the Vine Tribe is that the one hundred and eight giant dragonflies did not leave after the Vine God passed through the tribulation.
They used to live on rocky mountains, as companions of divine vines.
Now, the stone mountain is gone, and so are the sacred vines. They can only live on the tall vine walls.
Many people rely on these giant dragonflies to keep their confidence up every day.
The giant dragonfly is still there, and so is the Vine God. Maybe he will wake up from his deep sleep one day...
However, as time passed, the divine vine still showed no signs of waking up. Even the half-burnt vine became smaller and smaller under the sun and rain.
As time passed, some people in the tribe began to lose their composure.
…
On the evening of July 20th, in a wooden house on the edge of the Teng tribe's residential area, a man and a woman were having an argument.
The woman said sharply: "Everyone goes to hunting teams, fishing teams, or at worst, various workshops. What about you? You patrol there every day and look at the gates, but you can't get any benefits at all!"
The man argued: "We are protecting the safety of the tribe!"
"Safety? There are so many soldiers in the guard. One more than you is not more, and one less than you is not much. How do you think you, a soldier of one color, are irreplaceable?"
The woman got angrier and her tone became more and more mean: "The hunting team and the fishing team can often share the meat, and the people in the workshops can often get rewards from the tribe, but what about you? You have worked for so long, and you get
What?"
The man opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. Compared with other teams, the guard team did not have so many things to share because they had less work and less danger.
When the woman saw that the man was silent, she became even more angry. She pointed at the man and cursed: "I am so blind that I live such a miserable life with a coward like you."
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I've had enough of living like this!"
The man's face turned blue and white, and finally, he yelled: "That's enough!"
"Boom!"
At this moment, thunder suddenly sounded outside, accompanied by strong winds, followed by heavy rain.
The woman was startled by the man's roar and thunder, and did not dare to push too far.
But soon, because of the heavy rain, water began to leak in several places in the wooden house, and raindrops fell on the ground.
This made the woman feel even worse.
The men used wooden troughs and clay pots to catch the rainwater, while the women sat by the fire pit, looking at each other and finding it unpleasant.
After the man finished his work, the woman held back her anger and said again: "How about you go and beg the leader and ask him to transfer you to another team?"
The man said nothing because he knew that he was relatively weak and joined the Vine Tribe relatively late. It was no longer easy for him to join the guard team. In addition to the planting team and breeding team, it would be more difficult for him to join other teams.
The woman wanted to lose her temper, but judging from the man's appearance, losing her temper would not do much, so she endured it again.
"Spear, you should think about our future. We will have a child soon. Do you want our child to suffer with us?"
The man named "Spear" continued to lower his head and remained silent, but when he thought about his future children, his heart softened a little.
The woman looked around and lowered her voice: "I heard that Fujigami was actually struck to death by lightning."
Mao was startled by the woman's words. He hurriedly covered her mouth and said, "Are you crazy? How dare you say such things?"
The woman struggled to open the spear's hand and said: "Many people say this in private. What are you afraid of? If the Fuji God was still here, the first person who said this would have died long ago."
Spear frowned and fell silent again.
The woman lowered her voice and said: "With the Vine God gone, I don't think the Vine tribe can hold on for long. If other tribes attack by then, I'm afraid we will all be in danger."
"So, we have to make plans for ourselves and our future children."
The woman approached the spear and said in a low voice: "I heard that other tribes are inquiring about the news of the Teng tribe. We can find a powerful tribe and exchange the news of the Teng tribe to get you a leader Dangdang. I
You and your children can also enjoy the blessings.”
Spear flatly refused: "No, the tribe is so good to us. There is never a shortage of food, clothing, and supplies. How can we betray the tribe?"
The woman poked Spear's head angrily: "Are you out of your mind? If the Vine Tribe is really good to you, you should be allowed to go to a better team, and you should be allowed to live in a room decorated by you and have good food.
Use it well!”
"But what about now? Look at this shabby house, it's far worse than the houses other soldiers live in!"
"We used to be tourists. We joined the Vine Tribe just to live a good life. Now that we haven't lived a good life and are facing danger, why are we still guarding the Vine Tribe?"
"Anyway, the Vine Tribe has lost its totem god and will be wiped out by other tribes sooner or later. What's wrong with us exchanging information about the Vine Tribe for some benefits?"
Qiu subconsciously wanted to refute, but he didn't know how to refute, and his face turned red from holding back.
Human desires can never be satisfied.
When they don't have enough to eat, don't have enough clothes to wear, and worry about being eaten by wild beasts in the forest every day, having a wooden house with food to eat and clothes to wear is their dream life.
Now, they have wooden houses, have enough food, and are warmly clothed, but when they see other people living a better life, they feel unbalanced and want to live such a good life.
But they never think about whether they have the ability or whether they have paid as much as others.
The woman continued to induce: "Spear, we are not members of the Vine tribe in the first place. There is no need to follow the Vine tribe into destruction."
"When we join a new tribe and live a good life, I will listen to you in everything, okay?"
The woman is just an ordinary person, not even a warrior. She knows very well that even if she wants to sell the news, other tribes may not believe it.
But Spear is different. He is a guard warrior of the Vine Tribe. His words are much more credible to other tribes.
If this were not the case, the woman would have put down her spear long ago and done it herself, and there would be no need to waste so much time here.
"Let...let me think..."
Spear felt like his mind was in a mess. On the one hand, the Vine Tribe treated him well. On the other hand, they had only joined the Vine Tribe for two years, and their feelings for the Vine Tribe were not deep enough to sacrifice their lives at any time.
Outside, the rain was still falling, and the woman continued to persuade Spear with various reasons, hoping that he would not destroy the Vine tribe together...
Rattan tribe, in the bamboo forest.
"Crash..."
The rain was falling very hard. Jiang Xuan stood by the door, looking at the dark night sky and listening to the sound of rain, with a very solemn expression on his face.
Not long after, a ray of fire appeared in the bamboo forest and walked quickly towards Jiang Xuan's yard.
Nowadays, Jiang Xuan's yard no longer has a gate, because the crescent moon and glutinous rice balls are too big, making it inconvenient to get in and out.
The fire kept swaying in the strong wind and rain, as if it would go out at any time, but it did not go out after all.
It turns out that this is a torch, and the owner of the torch is Feng Cao who is holding an animal skin umbrella tightly.
The animal skin umbrella is the latest product of the clothing workshop. It uses bronze as the handle and ribs, and animal skin as the umbrella surface. Although it is temporarily impossible to make an umbrella that can be opened and closed freely due to technical reasons, it is better than it is strong.
"leader."
Fengcao walked under the eaves and put down the heavy bronze animal skin umbrella.
"Thank you for your hard work, come in."
Jiang Xuan took the torch from Feng Cao's hand, walked to the fire pit, poked the torch into the ashes of the plants and extinguished it, then lifted a clay pot from the fire pit and poured a bowl of hot ginger soup.
"Let's have a bowl of soup first to warm yourself up."
Although there was an umbrella, the rain was so heavy that Feng Cao’s lower body was soaked and was still dripping when we came in.
"Thank you, chief."
Fengcao caught the pottery bowl, blew it, then drank the ginger soup in small sips, and placed the pottery bowl gently on the table.
It was only then that the two began to talk about business.
"How did the investigation go when I asked you to investigate it?"
"Chief, there are indeed a few people in the tribe who are secretly spreading false news about the Fuji God."
"What did they say?"
Feng Cao looked at Jiang Xuan and said cautiously: "They said...Teng Shen had been struck to death by lightning a long time ago..."
Jiang Xuan seemed to have expected it, and the expression on his face did not change much.
"Does anyone want to leave the tribe?"
"have."
"How many people are there?"
"Only three people have been identified so far, and the others are still being investigated."
"Okay, don't alert the enemy for now and continue to investigate secretly."
"yes."
After finishing speaking, Feng Cao looked at Jiang Xuan again, but hesitated to speak.
"Speak directly if you have anything to say."
"Chief, the Vine God hasn't awakened yet. People in the tribe are in chaos right now, and outside tribes are eyeing us. I'm worried that someone will betray the tribe for profit."
Since becoming the leader of Thorn Vine, Feng Cao has learned a lot of dirty things. She is no longer the innocent girl she was before, and she will not underestimate the sinister nature of the human heart.
Jiang Xuandao: "The tribe is so big that there are people from all walks of life. You are right to be worried like this."
"But the crime of betraying the tribe is too big. Evidence must be found before arresting the person. Please keep an eye on the people who come in and out of the tribe for me during this period."
"Don't worry, chief. I have deployed manpower near the four gates to keep an eye on them day and night!"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said: "For the tribes around you, please keep an eye on them. If there is any abnormality, report it to me as soon as possible."
"yes!"
"Chief, I'll go back first."
"Okay, please be safe on the road."
Fengcao lit the torch again, held up the heavy bronze animal skin umbrella, and entered the rain curtain...