Gradually waking up from the unexplained pain, the little girl named Mengzhu slowly opened her eyes. As her consciousness gradually regained consciousness, she also habitually wanted to get up from lying on the ground.
, but was blocked by an unexpected sense of restraint: "I am -"
"Where?"
Suddenly her vigilant eyes returned, and the tight body of the little girl with messy blond hair resisted the thick ropes binding her limbs: "Who are you?"
"I finally woke up, little one."
Different from the cold feeling covering his side, the warm bonfires were flickering between the tents above Mengzhu's head. A man sitting in front of these bonfires also put down the huge wine glass in his hand.
, the wine in the cup also spilled a little: "We spent a lot of time trying to find a way to wake you up."
"You seem to have spent a lot of time tying me up." Mengzhu tried to raise his left and right wrists, and Mengzhu's voice became extremely cold at this time: "When did you catch me?
?”
"Catch you? No, no, that's not the right word."
The scattered curly hair appeared under the reflection of the bonfire, illuminating the face of the man who was speaking very clearly. He stood up and then put his mocking look on Mengzhu.
In front of him, his footsteps also circled around the center formed by most of the bonfire: "We just 'discovered' you near the edge of the storm and picked you up by the way."
"Pick it back?" The confusion in his eyes flashed away, and then there was a hint of surprise on Mengzhu's expression: "Yes, it was a sudden storm, and our team was swept away by the storm.
Sky, and then—"
Then I was kicked offline by the system?
The doubts in the mind then flashed through the little girl's thoughts, and then were replaced by a more severe headache and a hot feeling of weakness. The still tight body seemed to relax involuntarily amidst this gnawing pain.
A little, slightly confused vision was immediately blocked by the shadow above his head: "Then we picked you up, it was such a coincidence, the adventurer of the Sioux tribe."
"You, you know that I am from the Su Clan?" Biting the tip of her tongue to keep herself awake, Mengzhu asked in a hoarse voice: "Are you the enemies of the Sioux Clan?"
"We can't talk about enemies, but we didn't expect that you could actually survive that storm." Shaking his head, the tall man slowly squatted on the wooden frame where he was tied.
In front of the little girl, he said: "I never thought that I would pick up such a beautiful little beauty."
"..."
"Don't rush to struggle and refute, I know you are an adventurer hired by the Sioux tribe."
Looking at the little girl gritting her teeth and struggling hard again, the curly-haired man smiled and continued to shake his head and said: "Since you can be hired by the Sioux people, it is natural that you can be hired by us, right?"
"Ah, I forgot to introduce myself." He looked back at Mengzhu and looked at his face with eyes full of hatred and disdain. The hand that originally wanted to reach out to the other person's face paused for a moment: "I am Cole
Ge, the leader of the Nak tribe, the head of the elders of the Nak tribe, and the successor of Carbaluli."
"In order to ensure safety, I once led people to seek the assistance of Surtu to check the Sioux team." He continued to stretch his hand forward and touched Mengzhu's cheek, which suddenly became quiet: "But
I don't seem to remember that there is a person like you in that team."
"This shows that your search ability is very low." A cold light flashed in his eyes, and Mengzhu's tone became as deep as the abyss: "It also shows that your vision is really embarrassing."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! It's not too late to find out now!" Not paying attention to the piercing hostility shown by the other party at this time, Kilger, who was squatting in front of the little girl, laughed loudly: "As the most important person of the Nak tribe,
It is common for young clan leaders to be a little careless, and the elders of the clan often lament my carelessness. This is the unique right of young people!"
"Of course, they often sigh at my other shortcomings." When he said this, his eyebrows were like moons, and his smile became as twisted as a river: "The leader of the Nake tribe has not had a patriarch's wife until now. It's really
It’s a little unruly.”
"..."
"Oh, don't think too much. After all, people from the Ke tribe will not easily accept foreigners as their partners." He waved his hands to block the silent and cold gaze of the little girl in front of him.
His face gradually returned to its initial calmness and calmness: "But if it is an outsider who is willing to join our tribe, the situation may be different."
"...You want me to join you?" Mengzhu finally couldn't help but sneered and snorted: "Dream."
"My ancestors once said: The beginning of everything is always the hardest, and this is the first step between us." Putting on a bright smile again, the curly-haired man spread his hands to both sides: "Even if
It's impossible between us, and it's better to try to take this step than to wait in place, isn't it?"
"Sorry, it's impossible between us." Mengzhu took a deep breath, closed his eyes and calmed down his expression, and then replied solemnly: "If you want to fulfill the long-cherished wish of the elders of your clan, you
Go find someone else."
"Oh, is this really good?" He shook his head slightly, and then a strange smile appeared on his face: "Don't you want to know why you fell into our hands?
Don’t you want to know what the Sioux did after that?”
"They have abandoned you and left the center of the storm alone." Looking back and pointing outside the tent with a crackling bonfire, the leader of the Nak tribe continued angrily: "We are chasing them.
I came to the other side of the storm and discovered your existence by chance. If I hadn't been kind enough to pick you up, you might have passed away to heaven by now."
"...Are you chasing the Sioux?"
The imaginary expression of anger and resentment did not appear on Mengzhu's face. Instead, the next question that popped out of the other party's mouth made Kilger stunned: "Why are you still chasing them? Isn't it that there is no hatred between you?
What?"
"I, we just discovered some other things and wanted to talk to Surtu." The words were a little delayed and hesitant, and then Kilger used a casually made-up answer to prevaricate the other party: "It's not a feud after all.
We don’t want to see them just wiped out and disappear into the historical memory of the Wind Continent with the strong wind.”
"Oh? There is still such a big threat here?" Mengzhu continued to ask very quickly: "What tribe is chasing us?"
"That is a being even more powerful than them, a darkness that has never appeared on this continent." The slightly unnatural expression then turned into a more obviously strange one, and Kirg, who raised his finger, then said with a mysterious look on his face.
The answer was: "They claim to be the messengers of God and the spokespersons of destiny. On the upcoming day of 'Fenglin', they even threatened to decide the fate of this continent."
The coldness in his eyes suddenly became sharper, and Mengzhu's expression then became terrifying: "Those guys...do they call themselves the Alliance of Destiny? Or are they descendants of the ancient magic empire?"
"No, how do I know... uh, why should I tell you?" Kirgina seemed to be shocked by the murderous intention of the little girl with a slim figure and cute face in front of him. He originally backed away.
His expression then became more reasonable: "Since you have no intention of joining us, naturally we can't tell you these secrets."
"Why, weren't you just saying that you wanted to negotiate with Surtu of the Sioux clan?" The questioning look on Mengzhu's face became even more intense: "Why can't you tell me about this Sioux clan employee?
Or?"
"Surtu of the Sioux tribe is the patriarch of the Sioux tribe. Naturally, such important secrets must be told to him personally." It seemed that he gradually calmed down, and Kilger's expression became more reasonable.
: "You are just an untrusted little adventurer, not even as good as an ordinary warrior, so why should I trust you?"
"In the final analysis, there is still a lack of trust, right?"
Her eyebrows gradually closed again, and it took a while for the little girl with disheveled blond hair to speak out her voice again: "Okay, it's not going to be good on the other side anyway... Then I'll join you."
"Oh? So you agree?"
"Yes, I agree." Looking at Kilger's sudden action, Mengzhu gradually suppressed the fire of revenge that had just extinguished in her eyes: "Let me go quickly, what are you waiting for?"
"Okay!" Clapping his hands as if overjoyed, the man named Kilger hurriedly stood up and shouted outside the tent: "Come here! Untie this... uh, this lady!"
Following the shouts of the leader of the Nake tribe, several burly warriors of the Nake tribe quickly filed into the tent. Two of the warriors then quickly untied the hands and feet of Mengzhu.
With the rope on his body, he stuffed back the dagger he had previously taken from Mengzhu: "Sir."
"Ah, that's right." As if he had just remembered this matter, Kilger, who was looked at by all the Ke warriors, then reached out and patted his forehead: "I almost forgot.
Now, outsiders who want to join our tribe need to pass the test."
"Sorry, this is the rule of the tribe. Even as the leader of the tribe, I have no reason to refuse." He smiled brightly at Mengzhu, but the light in his eyes seemed to be filled with ice:
"But since you are determined to join our tribe, this test must not be too difficult for you."
He clapped his hands, and then a staggering figure was pushed into the tent under the escort of two other tribal soldiers. The weak-looking footsteps almost collided with the bonfire in the center, and the air in the tent
He let out a shrill scream: "This is a prisoner of the Nasu tribe that we captured with the help of the Nashi tribe earlier."
"Come on, let's do it."
Ignoring the burning smell that gradually spread in the air, he then smiled in the direction of Mengzhu and said, "As long as you kill him, all my people will believe you."
"Kill, kill him?" Looking at the miserable figure who was crushed to the ground in front of him, Mengzhu asked blankly: "Why?"
"Why? No why." As if all the emotions that humans should have been lost in his eyes, Kilger replied matter-of-factly: "They are not from our tribe. If you kill them, you will kill them. If you are not from your own tribe, your heart will
It must be different—the elders and people of the Nake tribe all think this way.”
"Don't you think so?"
He smiled at Mengzhu, and then pushed his hands towards the center of the bonfire as if to encourage him. The little girl with an increasingly dull expression then lowered her head deeply.
The hesitation and hesitation on his face gradually disappeared: "I understand."
"Isn't it just to kill one..."
The heavy injuries and illnesses still tortured the little girl's nerves, causing her posture and steps to slowly move forward to become swaying. Only the fingers that were holding the dagger were gradually surrounded by everyone in the center.
, at this time, Mengzhu's arms were slowly turning white: "It's just NPCs... Aboriginal people, I have killed them countless times in the past..."
She walked closer to the prisoner, and the arm with the dagger raised high stopped in mid-air. The tortured shapeless prisoner's appearance gradually became clear in the little girl's field of vision.
At this time, he was still gesticulating something with his mouth and hands covered with blood and scars: "——"
"……snort."
Mengzhu's hands were slowly lowered again, and Mengzhu's eyes were slowly obscured by the scattered golden hair: "I see, is this a choice?"
"You must have made the same choice many times in the past period, right?"
I don’t know what the tortured prisoner in front of me said in the end or whether he remembered some inexplicable past events. The player, who was also weak and embarrassed, fell into his own world of consciousness until the surrounding tribal warriors with the tacit approval of Kirg
When she gradually approached the two people, she raised her dagger again as if she had woken up: "Different choices will lead to different results, and will also force us to embark on different paths. It seems that there is almost no difference between them."
Any difference, but it actually makes us drift apart."
"Is this my surrender to fate?"
The voice that seemed to be talking to itself then suddenly disappeared, and appeared on the other side of the tent the next moment. Splashing blood was then splashed on top of the campfire as the prisoner gradually fell, and the little girl gradually stood upright.
The rising back reflected: "No."
"It is precisely because I have always believed that destiny can be changed that I persist until now."
This chapter has been completed!