Chapter 39: Toward the Light
(PS: The update is a little late, because it's a big chapter, and the word count of two chapters.) )
Arthurd was taught one thing by his parents, clansmen, elders, and team leaders since he was a child, that is, the tribal inheritance is more important than everything, even more important than their lives, and when it comes to tribal inheritance, no situation can shake the tribal inheritance, otherwise they will not even die without rest.
Responsibility and responsibility, this is the concept that all the Black-ear people have been instilled from childhood to adulthood, and in the special environment of the three-layer underground world, there is no privileged class at all, or there is also a privileged class, but the most important responsibility and responsibility of the privileged class of the Black-ear clan is to protect the entire tribe and protect the continuation of the tribe, because of this, in the three-layer underground world, even if they often eat the meat of hierarchical creatures, the number of internal force realms of the entire Black-ear tribe is actually not much, the reason is very simple, almost all the internal force realm warriors are killed in battle, and few die of old age, and the old and dead internal force realm warriors will be considered shameful, relatively speaking, the death rate of the big warriors in the Black Ear tribe is much higher than that of the ordinary tribe people.
The same is true of the education that Arthurd has received since he was a child, his worldview, his outlook on life, and the same is true of what he thinks in his heart, so even if he can't even take his life for the sake of the bright world, he can even do things like stealing the Ancestral Stone, but his plan has not changed from beginning to end, that is, when the matter is over, he will definitely steal a lost Ancestral Stone from the Drow tribe and come back, even if he doesn't want his life, it doesn't matter, because the reason why he is such a person is his parents, clan, elders, and everything that educated him in this way。
In fact, this is also the reason why the patriarch of Arthurd's tribe made up his mind to die, and the big warriors and elite warriors in the tribe, as well as the reason why he invited the surrounding good tribes to hunt down Arthurd together, for the Ear people, there is nothing more important than the continuation of the tribe, this belief has been deeply rooted in their bone marrow and soul.
However, with such a belief, it does not mean that these people of the Black Ear Clan are all fools, on the contrary, in order to survive in this cruel underground three-layer world, every Black Ear Clan will face the problem of life and death, and when continuing the problem, they will be countless times more shrewd than the humans on the ground, how to get the maximum benefit at the lowest cost, and there is no one more proficient and decisive than them.
After seeing the sunlight shining from the huge pit, seeing the green plants on the edge of the hole, and also seeing the threshold of the magnificent huge building in this three-story underground world, the patriarch and the great wizard are not fools and madmen, they can't continue to deceive themselves that the light world does not exist, the land of ancestors does not exist, it is all myths and legends, they can't be so self-deceiving, on the contrary, after confirming that all this is true, the first thing they think of is the entire tribe...... It does not refer only to their small tribal branch, but to all the tribes of the entire Black Ear Clan, all the people, who want to lead all the people to the world of light, which is said to have endless light, endless clean water, sweet plants and all kinds of non-dangerous creatures that can be eaten while lying down.
But the bright world is not something you can go to if you want to, the big layer of despair is an insurmountable wall of despair, the black ear clan has not been like Arthur to pursue the light world of the clan, not only there are, but also very many, just the recorded big warriors are hundreds, among which there is a high-powered patriarch and great wizard, and even the historical records have the patriarch led the entire clan to pursue the bright world, to find a way to pass the despair layer, but without exception, all failed, and after leaving the territory where the black ear clan lived for generations, the entire underground three layers of the world easily swallowed any black ear people who stepped into itIt is precisely because of these countless records that the entire Black-Ear tribe has no interest in the proposal of the genius Arthur, because it has been proven by the lives of countless people.
But now the situation has changed critically, the Land of Light has appeared in front of their eyes, the Land of Ancestors is within reach, and at the same time, from the mouth of the ancestral spirits of the Land of Ancestors, they still have the hope of choosing a person to purify the bloodline, and then cross the Great Layer of Despair to the Land of Light......
This is the best chance to continue the Black Ear Clan!
In this case, the patriarch and the great wizard whose outlook on life and worldview are the first priority of the continuation of the clan, they can't care about such a small thing as the Ancestral Stone at all, if at the cost of disbanding one of their sub-clans, they can let the entire Black-ear tribe go to the Land of Light, then they will definitely do it willingly, and any Black-ear branch will make the same decision.
Therefore, the first thing they had to choose was to let the clansmen of the Black-ear tribe purify their bloodline, and then go to the Land of Light to find the inheritance of their ancestors, and bring them back to the three-layer underground world to repair the land of their ancestors, so that they could finally bring all the people of the Black-ear Clan back to the Land of Light.
Although in their myths and legends, the Land of Light is the first place of goodness, there is no danger, no war, and no evil alien races, but the patriarch and the great wizard are not children, although it has been confirmed that the Land of Light is real, but from the perspective of Hao Qi and Yun Qingqing, the two legendary human beings, it can be seen that the Land of Light must also be dangerous, otherwise what do human beings have to learn martial arts in the Land of Light, and why do human beings have to be so strong? Even human beings may fight each other, which is really something to be guarded against.
Therefore, the choice of this candidate must be strong in the first place, otherwise if a person who is not strong enough goes to the land of light and is killed by humans there, then the Black-eared tribe may sink into darkness forever, and this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will be cut off, and all the Black-ear people present will be the sinners of the Black-ear tribe through the ages.
Secondly, this person must be smart, strength is one thing, brain is another, if you only have strength but no brain, then even if you want to find the remains of your ancestors, you may not be able to find it, and if you continue like this, you will eventually die of old age, so what is the difference between being killed and being killed?
Again, this person must be young, because of the difficulty of finding the ancestral relics, which is almost completely conceivable, according to legend, the bright world is endless, to find the ancestral relics in the endless world, ten years, twenty years, even fifty years, hundreds of years are possible, if you send an old man who is good at accidents, has brains, and has strength, every ten or twenty years will die of old age, then this is no different from the above two.
The above three points are death requirements, they must be achieved, and in addition to the above three points, there is also a time limit, the ancestral spirits of this ancestral land are about to sleep, and there is no time for them to return to the Black Ear Headquarters Clan to find reinforcements, and to find all the Black Ear Clan to carefully select, and the candidates can only be found in the crowd here.
In addition to this one, there is also a hidden message, that is, the existence of Hao Qi and Yun Qingqing, the strength of these two people is obvious to all, and they are human beings who came here from the Land of Light, they must be familiar with the Land of Light, and they also know the rules of survival in that world......
So to sum up the above, he has strength, brains, and youth, and he is even more here, and at the same time, he and Hao Qi have a candidate for a period of incense, no matter how they choose, Arthur is the only one......
When Arthurd awoke from the light of the fortress ruins, the surrounding Black-eared people involuntarily gathered around, and then all looked at Arthurd with curiosity......
After blood purification, his skin is no longer pitch black Drow skin, although it is still black, but it has yellow, about the same as the skin of healthy yellow people under long-term exposure, and the ears are no longer so sharp and long, although they are slightly pointed and longer than normal people, but after all, they are still more like humans, not ears like drow elves, and his eyes are no longer so red, and his eyes are dark red and black, on the whole, at most, like a mixed race of a minority race and a yellow race, and no longer an alien image。
Arthurd himself was also surprised to look at his new form, and at the same time he also found that his weak thermal vision seemed to have weakened, but it still existed, not like Hao Qi and Yun Qingqing who had no thermal vision at all, and at the same time he felt that his hearing seemed to have decreased to a certain extent, although the degree of decline was still very slight, and finally he tried the movements and martial arts moves, and his physical flexibility also decreased to a certain extent, but his strength had increased to a certain extent, and his illusion ability seemed to have weakened slightly, and his internal force had increased slightly, all in all, these changes were not drastic, all of them are still within his affordable range, and the strength is estimated to have not declined much, or not at all.
After the purification of Arthur's bloodline, the light of the system hovering in the fortress was finally completely extinguished, and the entire fortress fell into darkness again, in the face of all this, Hao Qi and Yun Qingqing didn't care, but those Black-eared people were obviously very lost, after all, they also had one ten-thousandth of the thought in their hearts, after all, the bright world, the legendary blessed land, who of them didn't want to go?
After this, Arthurd also hoped to go back to the tribe, see his parents, see his relatives, and then discuss going to the bright world, but the patriarch and the great wizard resolutely rejected his plan, both of them were afraid of long nights and dreams, after all, it is mentioned in the legend that even if humans stay in this underground three-layer world for a long time, they will not be able to pass through the despair layer, let alone a bloodline purifier like Arthurd? Therefore, they demanded that Arthur immediately lead Hao Qi and the others to the upward passage, and asked him to immediately cross the Despair Layer.
In this way, almost protected and escorted, this group of Black-eared people escorted Hao Qi, Yun Qingqing, and Arthurd to a pitch-black cave entrance, from here is the upward passage, from here to the underground second-layer world, this cave is very hidden, and at the same time it is five or six days away from the ruins of the fortress, but they were rushed by these Black-eared people to arrive in two days, this kind of fanatical mood makes Hao Qi and the others a little incomprehensible.
"...... I have already proposed to the patriarch and the great wizard, let the tribe move into the land of the ancestors, they have also seen the pattern of the land of the ancestors, the building is very tall and huge, there are still a lot of deep sections inside, and the building is very strong, the entrance and exit are also very small, the defensive pressure will be very small, enough to be placed in at least twenty or more sub-clans, and the building can also be inhabited by redundant tribes, the patriarch and the great wizard are very excited, and they are discussing along the way that this should be used as a condition to let the headquarters clan send another ancestral stone, after all, it is our clan that has found the land of the ancestors, not only asking to be able to find a good place in the land of the ancestors to settle the tribe, and there should be a reward of the Ancestral Stone......"
Arthurd was translating the words of the Black-eared tribe to Hao Qi and the others all the way, and also told them about the customs, class, society, culture, etc., and reciprocated, Hao Qi and Yun Qingqing were also telling Arthur about the various situations in the surface world, of course, because Arthurd was a person who had never even been to the surface world, so he couldn't understand the concept of what the so-called city was, so what the two said was basically the natural situation of the surface world and so on.
As they spoke, the three of them had already walked towards the entrance of the cave, and behind them, hundreds of Black-eared people stood there silently, quietly watching the three of them go deeper and deeper, and get closer and closer to the layer of despair.
"...... my parents were warriors, and my father had only one arm, and the one that he had lost was said to have been paid for the capture of a murderous creature, and he said this with pride on his face, because the murderous creature appeared in the season when food was at its lowest, when the food of the tribe was almost exhausted, so the food was basically only available to the great warriors and the most elite warriors, and my father caught the fierce creature, and he proudly told me that he had kept alive at least fifty people who would have starved to death, including his wife, my mother, and me and my brothers and sisters......”
“...... My mother couldn't sleep on her back because she had a huge gap in her back, and it was said that she had paid the price for rescuing a great warrior who had been seriously injured in a battle with a mad creature, and my mother had almost died, and she couldn't sleep on her back since, and it often hurt so much that she couldn't sleep when it was cold, but my mother was proud because she was a great warrior, and that great warrior could at least give the tribe more food to feed a hundred people every year......"
"The ...... patriarch has only one son, and the rest of his sons are already dead, some died in the hunt and in the face of aliens, and some were starved to death, I remember one year, because of the harassment and raids of the aliens, the food stock of our tribe was very small that year, so many people starved to death that year, one of the chief's sons and a daughter starved to death, because they were still young and not warriors, the patriarch took the lead in driving them into the wilderness, and many people felt that the patriarch was too cold, and had to drive the youngest son and daughter of his family into the wilderness...... It is said that in the second year, the patriarch was seen crying in the field holding two incomplete skeletons......"
“...... My brother...... My sister...... Uncle Marbury...... Aunt Artes...... My comrade-in-arms...... My people...... They all ......."
“...... I'll be back, I'll be back with things to restore the Land of the Ancestors, I'll definitely be back, I'll definitely be back......"
Arthurd spoke louder and louder, and gradually changed from lingua franca to black-eared tribal, and as he roared loudly, the three of them walked through the layers of despair that would have held back every black-eared tribesman...... There was no hindrance, as if the desperate layer did not exist, and at this moment, the hundreds of Black-eared people behind the three of them cheered loudly, and basically everyone was in tears, laughing and cheering loudly.
Arthurd turned his head violently, looking deeply at the world that gave birth to him and raised him, and deeply looked at the clansmen who had lived and died with him, he fell to his knees suddenly, and then kowtowed three times, and shouted loudly at these hundreds of people: "Everyone, wait for me, I will definitely come back, I will definitely come back and take you to the land of light......"
"I'll definitely be back!"
As he spoke, he stood up and turned around, only Hao Qi and Yun Qingqing saw it, his tears kept pouring out, and then he didn't look back, and he ...... with Hao Qi and the two
Go to the land of light. (To be continued.) )