The last month of summer.

Mystery Forest, east bank of Wenshui River.

Even though the sun is shining brightly above our heads, it's still quite cool inside the forest and it's not too hot.

Outside the Talon tribe's village, there are already several dug artificial fish ponds.

The Lizardmen of the Claw tribe brought enough water from the Wenshui River to fill the fish pond and put in fish fry. There were both natural fish fry caught from the Wenshui River and artificial fry purchased from Bianzhu Town.

This is the lizard people's first step towards aquaculture.

Recently, the Green Lizard Alliance has become more and more aware of the convenience of human currency, and most of the things they need can be purchased from Border Guard Town.

Of course, the money currently earned is managed uniformly by the clan leaders of each tribe, and ordinary lizardmen still cannot use the money.

The richest among the four lizardmen tribes is naturally the Shensha tribe. In addition to the money they earn from transporting raw materials, they also have tribesmen working in Border Guard Town.

It is the new lizard force formed by Lusha. They defend the border town together with the People's Army, and Owen must pay them accordingly.

Once he gets his reward every month, Lu Sha will ask his tribe members to keep only a small amount of the money for their own use. Most of the money will be brought back to the Shensha tribe by the transportation team, and the acting chief Keman will decide how to use the money to develop the village.

Seeing that the Shensha Tribe recovered quickly and was still developing so well, the other three tribe chiefs were a little jealous and wanted to send their tribesmen to work in Border Guard Town.

However, Kerman told them that if they want to join the Lizard Force in Border Guard Town, they need to swear allegiance to Owen on behalf of the entire tribe.

Once loyal, the entire tribe will be controlled by humans, which is why the three tribe leaders have been hesitant.

Is this a good thing? Will it harm the entire tribe?

In addition, most of the elders in the tribe were opposed to it, saying that the Shensha Tribe would eventually be destroyed at the hands of humans and not to follow their example.

Therefore, the three tribal chiefs could only give up and continue to earn the hard work of collecting natural rubber latex. Oh, and recently they also had the job of transporting red lead ore.

At this moment, a lizard man from the Claw tribe was standing on the edge of the fish pond, sipping his saliva and looking at the fish in the water. He secretly extended his tail into the water, hoping to catch a fish.

"There are so many fish, no one will notice if you eat one secretly," he muttered in a low voice.

At this time, another lizard man came from behind and reached out to pat the fishing companion on the back.

"Hey! Aji, what are you doing!"

Aji was so frightened that he quickly retracted his tail, turned around, and said covertly: "Ah! A Bao, it's you, I, I didn't do anything, I was just patrolling the pond."

"Xuntang? I just saw you fishing with your tail." A Bao looked at A Ji with suspicion.

Aji hurriedly shook his head and hands, denying: "No, no, you must have seen it wrong."

"Really? Then let me check!"

Abao quickly reached out and grabbed the end of Aji's tail. It was wet, and it was obvious that he had just been taken out of the water.

"ah!"

Aji yelled and hurriedly pulled his tail back, his face turning slightly red.

"Don't touch my tail casually. Only my future wife can touch it."

In addition to slapping their tails on the ground when they are happy, when a lizard-man couple falls in love, their two tails will intertwine with each other.

"Don't try to change the subject." A Bao put on a serious expression, "A Ji, your tail is wet, you were definitely fishing secretly just now."

After being exposed, Aji knew that he could no longer continue to fool him, so he had to lower his head and pretend to admit his mistake.

"Okay, I admit, I was fishing just now. But I didn't catch any. Maybe the fish are still small and can't bite my tail."

"That's your fault, Aggie."

Po crossed his arms in front of his chest with a sullen look on his face.

"These fish haven't even grown up yet, so you dare to eat them secretly. It's not okay to just watch and steal them. It seems that we can't let you be responsible for patrolling the pond."

"I know I was wrong, Po."

Aji begged for mercy: "Don't expose me to the captain. I promise I will never do it again in the future."

Once you report to the captain, you will not only lose the mission of patrolling the pond, but you will also be punished!

The captain's punishment was extremely terrible, and Aji didn't want to suffer that crime.

"Do you really know that you are wrong?"

"Really, I swear to my ancestors that I will never do it again!" Aji vowed and raised his right fist.

"Oh - well, who made you my good friend?"

Faced with Aji's pleading, Abao's attitude softened and he finally chose to let him go.

"That's great, thank you, Abao, you will always be my good friend." Aji said excitedly.

Next, Abao will give a lengthy education to Aji.

"Aji, you have to know that our tribe gained farming experience from humans, dug fish ponds, and developed aquaculture to ensure that everyone has enough fish to eat in the future and to avoid tribal wars due to lack of food."

"If everyone were like you, they secretly ate a fish every time they patrolled the pond to satisfy their craving. If there were not enough fish one day, a war would break out and the tribe would suffer. All the tribesmen who died were the result of people like you who ate secretly. You know

? And..."

"Okay! I get it."

Aji couldn't stand Abao's long teaching. God knows when he was going to talk, so he quickly interrupted and asked other things.

"Abao, did you come to see me for something? Don't forget the business."

After being reminded, Abao remembered that he came to see Aji for business.

"Oh! I almost forgot. I came here to find you. The captain has a new task for us both."

"What?!"

Hearing this, Aji was shocked and said anxiously: "How could you almost forget what the captain told you! Come on, come on! Let's go back to the village quickly, the captain will curse us if we are late!"

The two of them hurried back towards the village.

When he could see the village gate in the distance, Aji noticed that his companions on the watchtower seemed to be waving to him.

"Eh? Is he saying hello to us?"

Seeing this, Aji also raised his arms and waved, shouting: "Hey! I saw you waving!"

"No! Hide quickly, Aji!"

Abao, who sensed something was wrong, pulled Aji into the bushes nearby, pressed his head with his hands and lay on the ground.

Suddenly, a huge black shadow enveloped a large area of ​​land, and then a black flame shot out from above and burned to the fish pond not far away.

In an instant, the water in the fish pond boiled and evaporated, and the fish in the water were burnt black and merged with the black earth.

The black flame burned all the way forward, and all the fish ponds were not spared. Everything in its path was turned into ashes.

"Ah! All our fish are dead."

Then, Aji raised his head and looked at the sky, swallowed, and said with horror on his face: "Abao, what kind of monster is that?"

Po also looked around and found a huge creature in the sky, with huge wings flapping. Its majestic body was covered with pitch-black scales. It had horns on its head and a long and winding tail. It exuded a dangerous and invincible aura.

breath.

Just by looking at it, Po couldn't help but tremble all over, feeling extremely frightened in his heart.

He remembered the ancestral teachings left by his ancestors. The monster Aji mentioned was probably the overlord of the Mysterious Forest - the Black Dragon King. It was an irrefutable existence.

Woohoo——
Chapter completed!