Following the marks left by the other party, the team moved in an orderly and slow direction towards the southwest of the forest.

"Two uncles, do you know the origin of the natives around here?" Li Tianyang has been sick all these days, and he didn't bother to talk to the two guides.

"Actually, we don't know much about it, and the people of this island are very vigilant and rarely interact with us outside the village. Under normal circumstances, most of the people have their own lives, and occasionally they will come to our village with prey that they don't need to trade some iron tools and the like that they urgently need, which can be regarded as a safe life; But if it coincides with a catastrophe or a bad harvest, they will come out of the forest in droves and raid our villages. ”

"Every year, there are always news that a few villages have been robbed by the natives, so everyone is actually very worried about these natives." One of the guides, named Chen Shuigen, was recruited by Li Tianyang and them in a small village less than 100 miles to the southwest, and he had to know a little about the surrounding situation.

"According to their own statement, they are from the Hongya Pingpu tribe, as for which branch it is, I am not very sure, but most of them should be from the Zhuluo Mountain Society. After all, within a radius of a hundred miles, they are the only ones who are thriving and active in this area, and even the village where I used to live often appear in them. ”

"And what about the habits of this race?"

"If it's really people from this ethnic group, that's not bad, although the people of the Zhuluo Mountain Society also hunt for a living, but because they have more contact with these villages around us, they have gradually begun to learn to grow food. Compared with the natives who do not want to communicate with foreign peoples, their lives are a little more affluent, and it is rare for them to go to the coastal villages and do things that rob their homes. ”

"So you mean, this group, we can still communicate with them?" When Li Tianyang heard this, a smile appeared on his face.

"I can't guarantee that, but compared to other natives, they are a good race to deal with."

"That's good, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you uncle to help us communicate well, if we can let them put aside their hostility and allow us to take root in this land, we will definitely be rewarded."

"It should be, it should be!!" When the two guides heard this, they nodded their heads busily.

"Woo!!" A whistle sounded from a few dozen meters in front of the left, and then, the scattered teenagers quickly gathered towards the place where the whistle sounded.

When Li Tianyang rushed over with people, it happened to be two people, across a small stream, across the river.

On the other side of the river stood more than a dozen dark-skinned and strong natives, seven or eight of them were holding a pair of bows and arrows, across the narrow stream, aiming at the teenagers here, and the other natives were holding a spear diagonally, looking at Li Tianyang from a distance. The boys raised the wooden shield in their hands and firmly protected themselves and the crossbowmen behind them, while the boys holding the crossbow behind them aimed their crossbows at the opposite natives through the gaps between the wooden shields.

Li Tianyang waved his hand, and asked the crossbowmen behind the shield to put down the bow and crossbow in their hands, and only let the shield in front of him stand in the middle as protection. At the same time, he laboriously passed through the wooden shield wall, took Chen Shuigen, raised his hands high, signaled that he had no weapons, stood in front of the wooden shield, and exposed himself to the opponent's bow and arrows. Yumo, Changsheng, and Decai were originally closely following behind Li Tianyang and protecting him, but they were blocked by Li Tianyang behind the wooden shield wall with one hand; By the time they wanted to break out of the wooden shield wall, Li Tianyang had already stood in the other party's sight one step ahead of them.

They wanted to rush forward and pull Li Tianyang back, but they were afraid that it would backfire and be misunderstood by the other party, so that Li Tianyang, who was exposed, would be hurt. In the end, Changsheng and Decai could only force themselves to suppress their impulses, standing behind the shield wall closest to Li Tianyang, always paying attention to the other party's every move, and only waiting for Li Tianyang to be pulled back as soon as there was danger. It was Yumo, who thought about it for a while, but put down the weapon in his hand, and naturally walked out generously, standing by Li Tianyang's side.

"Uncle, please say hello to the natives on the other side and show them our kindness." Li Tianyang raised his hands, tilted his head, and motioned for Chen Shuigen, who followed, to shout to the opposite side.

In the midst of trembling, Chen Shuigen stiffened his head, stood up from behind Li Tianyang, raised his hands and shouted a few words to the natives opposite.

Then, among the natives, a strong man dressed in a gray cloth shirt, a pair of shorts on his legs that was no larger than his calf, and a short and coarse linen felt behind him stood up and said a few words of local language to Li Tianyang.

Hearing the words on the other side, Chen Shuigen turned his head and explained to Li Tianyang what the other party meant: "He said, this matter belongs to the place of their Zhuluo Mountain Society, and we will set up camp here without their consent, which is a provocation to their powerful Zhuluo Mountain Society, and they asked us to stop our actions immediately and leave their territory, otherwise, their Zhuluo Mountain Society will start a war against our camp." ”

"Then please tell them, uncle, that we came from Qiongzhou, thousands of miles away, and encountered a rare storm at sea, and finally ended up here as refugees." Li Tianyang didn't roll his eyes, and casually told a lie.

"......" Chen Shuigen is a person who has been following everyone for more than ten days, and he really can't see that where can their group of teenagers be the 'refugees' that Li Tianyang said, for fear that Li Tianyang's lie will be exposed by others. But now, he Chen Shuigen is eating and drinking under the hands of others, since he is ordered by the leader, he can't dismantle his own platform, so he can only repeat what Li Tianyang said, but when he was speaking, his body inadvertently moved a step back, preparing that the momentum was not right, so he hid in the shield wall behind him.

Things didn't happen as Chen Shuigen thought, and there was another remark on the other side, which was translated by Chen Shuigen, to the effect that: We don't care where you are refugees and occupy our territory, that's not good, you must leave me quickly!!

Hearing this, Li Tianyang suddenly turned his head and shouted to the teenagers behind him: "Everyone put all the weapons in your hands on the ground for me, including the shields erected, so that the people on the opposite side can see the faces of all of us." ”

"Tianyang, you're crazy!!" Wu Jie quietly moved behind Li Tianyang and whispered in Li Tianyang's ear.

"Don't worry! Trust me, no problem!! Li Tianyang smiled confidently.

The people on the opposite side saw that the teenagers suddenly moved, and they were less cautious and immediately lifted the weapon that they had just put down inadvertently. When the teenagers here let down all their guards and showed their still immature faces, the people on the other side were a little confused, what did these people mean.

"Uncle, tell them now, please look at our people, all of us are just a group of teenagers, and we really are not a threat to them. Since they came prepared, of course they should have noticed that the camp behind us was only teenagers the same size as us. The aboriginal uncles on the opposite side are a group of heroes and heroes, are they still afraid of us boys who are not yet adults? After the person on the other side saw everything here, Li Tianyang asked Chen Shuigen to shout.

This time the words were shouted, coupled with Li Tianyang's action of taking the initiative to put down their weapons, so that the group of people on the opposite side had different opinions, and they began to talk to each other, and discussed for a while before they turned around and responded to Li Tianyang.

"They said that they were only people sent by the patriarch to warn us, and that they were not capable of answering our requests, and that only their patriarch was qualified to answer us. Therefore, they must now go back to report to the patriarch before they can reply to us, and until then, we must no longer cut down the trees around us, and we must not do anything more. Chen Shuigen translated the other party's words and couldn't help but repeat them to Li Tian with joy.

"Then tell them that if they can agree to settle here, we are willing to send a batch of supplies to help them improve their lives." Things took a turn for the better, and Li Tianyang struck while the iron was hot and began to bribe this group of uncivilized natives.

As soon as Chen Shuigen's voice fell, the opposite side suddenly became noisy, and several people began to shout to this side in no particular order, without Chen Shuigen's translation, Li Tianyang could probably guess what the other side of the shouting meant.

Let Chen Shuigen stabilize the people on the opposite side first, and then Li Tianyang hurriedly asked people to run back to the camp and find the person in charge of the materials to get a batch of supplies. Before the person went back, Li Tianyang carefully instructed a few words in his ear, specifically explaining the type and quantity of materials to be transferred.

Then a group of people stared at each other with big eyes across a stream, and looked at each other with curious eyes. It was only at this time that Li Tianyang could observe the group of uninvited guests on the other side.

It can be seen that their life is quite hard, and among the more than a dozen people, except for the strong man who spoke at the beginning and a young man behind him, the others are basically bare-chested, showing strong muscles. Most of their lower bodies are wrapped from the waist down with a piece of animal skin, even if it is their underwear; The most important thing is that none of them had shoes on, all of them stood barefoot on the rough pebbles on the shore without feeling at all.

When Li Tianyang still wanted to call Chen Shuigen and chat with the natives opposite, there was a series of hurried footsteps behind him, and the people who went back to collect supplies had already rushed back. Originally, the place where they found each other was not too deep, and the natives on the opposite side didn't think that it would be too troublesome for Li Tianyang to look for them, so they were waiting for their arrival near the camp, so it was reasonable for the people who went back to come back so quickly.

(End of chapter)