Traveling through the primitive world: I was a priest in the tribe

Chapter 168 External Conflict 8

She took two steps forward, trying to see if there were any other traces.

"Come out!" Sa Shi suddenly shouted at the ape's corpse.

The cave was quiet, without any movement. It seemed that the slight movement of the corpse she had just seen was just an illusion. But at this time, Sa Shi did not dare to relax easily.

She moved closer and raised her long knife. "You're not coming out? Then I'll stab you straight in with this knife!"

He added, "None of these apes can withstand this blow."

The two intertwined ape corpses were pushed apart with great force, and a thin man crawled out from inside. The flame on the torch was flickering and not very bright, and Sa Shiyi could not see the man's appearance clearly.

"Are you the animal trainer?" she asked with a frown. The man was much thinner than she had imagined.

"No... the trainer has already left with the herd." A hoarse but somewhat childish voice sounded.

This...seems to be the voice of just a half-grown child.

Sa Shi picked up the torch that she had just stuck on the wall and walked over. Although the man was dirty and his face was covered with snow and mud so that his original skin color could not be seen, his eyes were wide open and revealed fear.

What a child.

It should be one or two cycles smaller than Feng.

"You..." Sa Shi was about to speak.

A voice came from the cave entrance, "Sa Ten! What happened?"

The kid who was hiding in the corner timidly, heard the noise, and suddenly jumped over like a rabbit, holding a bone knife from nowhere in his hand, against Sa Shi's waist, and looked warily at the people who rushed in.

"Don't come over here. If you come over here, I...I will kill her." There was a hint of trembling in his hoarse voice.

The few people who just came in: ...

Sa Shi rolled his eyes at the smell on his body: ...

"Uh... I advise you not to do such a futile thing." The hunter standing in the front spoke up. What was he thinking? He actually dared to attack Sa Shi. This was a woman who could lift two hunters with one hand, otherwise no one would feel at ease to let her in.

Sa Shi was also a little speechless. Firstly, she had no idea how long this kid had been hiding under the corpse, and his whole body seemed to be pickled. The smell was not only unpleasant, but also made her eyes hurt. Secondly, she had never been threatened like this since she was a child, and her mood was a little complicated.

She turned slightly, grabbed the boy's shoulders, and ruthlessly threw him to the ground.

Great, it's not so smelly anymore.

I was almost suffocated.

She was holding back her strength. The boy was so skinny that she didn't have any flesh on him when she grabbed him. Let alone using her full strength, even if she only used a little bit of strength, she was afraid that he would fall to his death.

The person lying on the ground:?

Before his brain could react to what was happening, the painful feeling of the cold, hard ground on his back reminded him that he seemed to have picked the one who was the most difficult to deal with.

A long knife was placed at his neck.

"Tell me, who are you? Why are you here?" Sa Shi squatted down and said in a cold tone, "You'd better tell the truth. Sister is a little angry about your overconfident behavior just now. If you say something that makes me realize there is something wrong, I will chop off one of your arms."

It seemed that the smell inside was really unbearable, so she reached out and pulled the man out. Thinking that this man had just been hiding under a corpse and his body was covered in rotten blood, she rubbed her hand on the mountain wall beside her with some disgust.

She doesn't even want this hand anymore.

This child was the one they had found before, in the tribe outside the territory.

It was originally a small tribe without even a name, with very few people. There were salt mines in the mountains where they lived, and they could be eaten after simple processing. Occasionally, other tribes would pass by on their way out to exchange salt, and when they knew they had salt mines, they would exchange their furs and other food for some salt.

Because of this, gradually more and more tribes came to exchange salt, and the number of people in the tribe gradually increased. They were called the Salt Mountain Tribe by people from other tribes, but because of this, they got into trouble.

Several reincarnations ago, dozens of people came to their tribe. These people drove a huge herd of beasts, and it seemed that they had some special means to tame the wild beasts.

These people were not as friendly as those who came to exchange salt before.

They quickly killed the leader and occupied the salt mountain.

The people who originally lived in the Yanshan tribe were locked up, and the dead were used as food for the beasts, while the living were used to dig and process salt for them.

Even most of the people who later came to their tribe to exchange salt became food for wild beasts.

It was also because of this that conflicts with other tribes increased. In one conflict with a large tribe, dozens of wild beasts died. Those people felt sad for the dead beasts, so when there were subsequent conflicts, they let the people of the Yanshan tribe deal with them. Gradually, the number of people in the original Yanshan tribe decreased.

The child's name was Aqing. He was originally protected by his parents. Although his life was hard, he managed to survive several reincarnations safely. But later, his father was killed outside, and his mother fainted from hunger while digging salt, and rolled down the mountain and broke her neck.

There are fewer and fewer people digging salt, and the animal trainers are getting a little anxious. They don't want to dig it themselves, so the dozen or so people left no longer have to work on an empty stomach every day.

Not long ago, a few unfamiliar faces suddenly joined their salt-digging team. Later, everyone found out that they were "traitors" from a nearby tribe. They had originally wanted to use what they knew to exchange some food and a foothold with the animal trainer leader. Unexpectedly, after hearing their intelligence, the leader directly drove people to dig salt.

Several people cursed each other every day, but they did not dare to run away because of the wolves and black bears squatting not far away. Later, for some unknown reason, a conflict broke out and two people were pushed off the mountain and died.

The remaining few were beaten up by the trainer, and seemed to accept their fate and began to work numbly every day.

Sa Shi and the others looked at each other. Those "traitors" were basically Xiao Hei and the others.

Especially A Kuan in the team, he was extremely grateful that he chose to return to the tribe with A Qiao. Although he was beaten later, the attackers were his own people and did not kill him. He only suffered skin and flesh injuries, and his bones were fine. In addition, he learned the herbal medicine from the old lady, and he was back to full health after resting for a while.

If I followed Xiao Hei and the others, I wouldn't know whether he would be mining now or had fallen to death.

Thinking of this, he said, "Then why are you here? Shouldn't you be digging salt in the cave?"

Ah Qing was silent for a while before he spoke, "I am the food they brought for the wild animals."

The tribe dug out more and more salt, but fewer and fewer people came to exchange it for salt. Food was insufficient, and the animal trainers realized that this was not going to work. The food they had stored might not be able to survive this cold season.

After discussing, these people decided to lead the herd to the place Xiao Hei and the others mentioned. Because they were led by someone who was familiar with the tribe, their first ambush was very successful.

But Xiao Hei and the others still concealed something. The animal trainer did not expect that they had such powerful weapons and means. Only twenty people could repel the herd of beasts, and more than a dozen wolves and apes were killed.

In a rage, he ordered the wolves to tear apart and eat the two "traitors" who led the way.

A Kuan: ...Oh my god, I was just too optimistic.