Chapter 648 The Devil with Four Eyes and Four Hands
The popularity of spicy fruit in the royal city is actually just a minor episode in the construction of river embankments.
In late September, just after the second bridge pier was repaired, Lei finally returned to the royal city with dozens of hunters.
From mid-August to the end of September, the group of hunters led by Lei had been building camps and searching for waterways in the Tung Forest Lake.
According to Xu Chen's judgment, Lei's mission should not be dangerous.
But when Lei and a group of others came back, they were in a state of disarray. More than ten people were injured, and two people were even missing.
This situation brought the busy construction project to a halt.
After hearing the news, the two military and political palace commanders Feng and Long, as well as the officers of various tribes and a large number of hunters, all put down their work and ran to the palace to inquire about the news.
Lei and a group of hunters came back not all by water.
According to them, they took a raft to reach the Qia tribe, then landed and returned to Gonghuo Basin by land.
When they set out from the lake, they originally carried a large amount of tung seeds in rattan baskets and animal skin bags, but most of them capsized and fell into the water on the way back. In addition to causing nearly half of the people to fall into the water, more than ten people and two were injured.
People are missing.
As for the reasons, firstly, the waterway route is relatively narrow and rugged, with large rocks and reefs in many places. Because the waterway is unfamiliar, the raft hit and capsized several times, causing some cargo losses and personnel injuries. The other is that they encountered
Extremely scary monster attack.
According to Lei and a group of frightened hunters, this is a humanoid demon with white hair all over its body. It walks upright on two legs, but has four hands and four eyes. It can also use stones, sticks and spears to climb on the cliff.
Climbing between the trees, his movements are as fast as flying, and his screams are also very terrifying.
The reason for the heavy casualties was that they encountered a group of such demons in the downstream river a day away from the Youtung Forest Lake. Panic and fear caused a large number of rafts to hit the rocks and capsize. At the same time, due to the panic and failure to rescue in time, two people
The companion was washed away by the water and disappeared.
A white-haired demon with four hands and four eyes. This terrifying description scared everyone.
Even a super warrior like Long turned pale after hearing this.
In this era, the territory of human survival has always been very small, and the knowledge is also very limited. What we see every day is only a few dozen miles in radius. Even now that the country of Pakistan has been established, the range of activities of hunters has become dozens of times larger, but regular activities
The radius is only two to three hundred miles, and five hundred miles is almost the limit.
Just like the dragon, the farthest it has ever been is the Tage tribe, and the straight-line distance is at most two hundred miles, which is about the same as the Cicha tribe.
Lei led his troops to visit the Moteng tribe, and the distance should be more than three hundred miles, but it is impossible to travel this distance all year round, and there may be several years between visits.
Within the scope of this regular activity, what each tribe sees and hears is similar. The most powerful beasts are dragons, tigers, wild boars, bears, pythons and other large predatory animals, and then there are also leopards, wolves and other common ones.
Some wild animals such as monkeys can also pose a relatively large threat to human survival.
Other than that, most animals are just food for humans.
Perhaps some of them will be feared and awed like demons, like the ghost faced by the Five Ghosts or the giant eagles raised by the Ba tribe, but this is very rare.
Human beings have evolved from the primitive Homo sapiens to the Stone Age over millions of years. When civilization has already sprouted, the understanding of nature has been very strong. In addition to natural changes such as the sun, moon, stars, wind, frost, rain and snow, and some irresistible forces.
In addition to awe and fear of natural disasters, extreme fear of animals is rarely produced.
A large number of animals on the earth are actually hunted by humans as food and are slowly becoming extinct.
This is true even for giant beasts like the mammoth.
As a veteran hunter warrior and someone who had followed Xu Chen to the Mengma River Basin and expedition to the Moteng tribe, Lei Li should be the most experienced hunter in the entire country of Ba, but he was also frightened this time.
light.
Ever since I returned to the royal city and met Xu Chen, I had been in a state of nervousness. At first, I was stammering when I spoke. It was not until I followed Xu Chen into the palace and drank a glass of hot water and rested for a while that this fear slowly subsided.
As for the group of hunters who came back with them, many of them were in extremely abnormal mental states.
They couldn't even describe clearly the appearance of the white-haired demons with four arms and four eyes that attacked them.
Some said it had white hair all over its body, some said it had no hair but white skin, some said its four eyes would emit light, and some described it as having terrifying curved horns on its head.
Even the location of the devil's four hands is unclear. Some say that the two hands are on the belly, some say that the two hands are on the back, and some say that they have seen a devil with six hands.
Anyway, according to Xu Chen, these hunters should have been frightened.
You must know that these hunters are not only experienced in hundreds of battles, but they are also the bravest hunters in each tribe. Many of them followed Long Helei and even Xu Chen when they went out to participate in exploration and wars. They are all fierce apes, standard
There is no primitive wild man who is greedy for life and afraid of death.
But this time, it seems that everyone has collectively fallen into panic.
All the hunter officers who came after hearing the news also listened with a hint of horror as the returning hunters gestured to these demons with fear on their faces.
Xu Chen definitely doesn’t believe in the devil.
Four arms and four eyes, that's even more impossible.
Although he is not yet completely convinced that this is the prehistoric Earth, or just a parallel time and space of the Earth, based on his understanding of the living environment in the past eight years or so, there will be no such monsters in this world that transcend the shape of earthly creatures.
Most likely, this should be a group of humans.
Because Lei and almost all hunters who have seen these monsters said that these demons will use stones, sticks and spears to attack from a distance.
In the entire earth's biosphere, only humans have had this ability for tens of thousands of years.
As for why there are four arms and four eyes, it can be explained by the special behavioral habits of primitive tribes.
Most likely, he is wearing an ornament that looks like hands.
The eyes are simpler, probably painted with paint.
As for white skin or hair, this situation is very special.
Although there are not many white-haired animals in nature, white wolves, white apes, white horses, white elephants, white monkeys have existed since ancient times, and there are even... white tigers.
White tiger... then it must be hairless!
Could it be that after I founded a country and became king, I completed the civilization upgrade mission, and the system rewarded me with a few fair-skinned, beautiful and long-legged beauties...
Xu Chen couldn't help drooling due to evil thoughts.
Although this hope was extremely slim, he felt that he should go and find out for himself.
Even if he is not a tribe of fair-skinned and beautiful beauties, he must take action in order to open up this waterway for transporting tung oil.
Now in autumn and winter, it happens to be the safest and best time to go out.
"By the way, did you draw a map on the way back?" Xu Chen thought of the most important thing.
"Yes, I have painted it!" Lei nodded quickly, and then took out a neatly folded piece of linen from his arms.
Xu Chen took it and opened it on the pottery table in front of him.
The map is very simple. It shows the distribution of several simple tribes on both sides of the Wulong River, including the Yu Gong tribe, the Gonghuo Basin, the Xiu tribe, the location of the new salt mine, the location of the tung trees and the lake, and there is also a winding road.
There are rivers flowing from southwest to east and several mountains crisscrossing from east to west and north to south.
This waterway that was explored did indeed flow into the Wulong River as Xu Chen speculated, and the outlet of the river was actually not far upstream from the Cicha tribe.
Xu Chen simply gestured back and forth with his hands and found that the length of the river should be about 150 miles, with several turns in the middle and several unexplored tributaries flowing into it.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, this is where we were attacked by demons!" Lei pointed at a turning point where two rivers meet and said with concern.
Xu Chen roughly estimated that it was about a hundred miles away from the Tung Forest Lake and fifty miles away from the river mouth, which was two-thirds of the entire waterway.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, this place is not far from the Wulong River, and it is also relatively close to the Cicha Clan. Logically speaking, they may come near the Wulong River, but I have never heard anyone from the Cicha Clan talk about it!" An officer was a little confused.
said.
Xu Chen shook his head and said: "You are overthinking. This location is about fifty miles away from Wulongjiang River. These barbarians will definitely not be able to reach Wulongjiang River, let alone meet the Cicha tribe."
The group of people fell silent for a moment. After a long time, Lei Cai asked in a slightly dry voice: "Your Majesty the Witch King, do you think these are not demons, but a group of barbarians?"
"Yeah!" Xu Chen nodded.
"But they have four hands and four eyes, white fur, and some have horns. Barbarians don't have anything like this!" A hunter explained nervously.
"How far away were you from these demons at that time?" Xu Chen asked.
"perhaps……"
A hunter made several gestures with his hands but couldn't make it clear. In the end, Lei explained: "The distance is at most two spears away. The opponent is attacking us on the mountainside cliff. The river in that place is winding and narrow, there are many rocks, and the water is relatively fast.
They screamed loudly when they attacked. Many rafts overturned in panic, because a large number of people fell into the water, and many bows and arrows fell into the water. We had no way to fight back, so we hurriedly left while rescuing people..."
"That means you haven't fully seen what these demons look like, right?" Xu Chen asked again.
"Yes!" Lei admitted with a frustrated nod.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, do you really think these monsters are barbarians?" Long asked with his eyes suddenly brightening.
"That should be it!" Xu Chen nodded slightly.
"As for the white skin, four hands and four eyes, you can refer to the original Five Ghost Clan. Many of you have been to Devil Valley with me at that time. You should all know very well what the Five Ghost Clan looked like back then!"
There was a commotion in the main hall, and many people suddenly understood, especially Lei and a group of hunters who were in a panic. Their faces were dull, and they were all at a loss, feeling ashamed and annoyed.