Seeing that their leader was being held captive in the blink of an eye, the warrior behind Da Ma hurriedly pulled out his weapon and shouted to Jiang Li: "Let go of your leader."
At this time, Yan Yu rushed out of the tribe with dozens of warriors.
The dagger in Jiang Li's hand pressed against Da Ma's neck, "Tell them not to move, or they will cut your throat."
Da Ma felt a stinging pain and hurriedly shouted, "Don't move, don't move at all."
Mu Feng stared at Yan Yu who was rushing over and shouted loudly: "Yan Yu, you are just a bunch of jackals. We kindly came to tell you that there are more than a hundred warriors who are still alive, but you attack us."
Yan Yu heard Mu Feng's yelling and scolding, looked at the blur in front of him, worried about Da Ma's safety, and hurriedly ran this way.
"If you don't want your leader's life, just come forward." Jiang Li put a dagger against Da Ma's neck and whispered in his ear, "Leader Da Ma, it seems they don't want you to live!"
Da Ma's eyes were blood red, glaring at Yan Yu who was rushing towards him, waving his hands anxiously, "Don't move, you all, don't move!..."
Hearing his cry, Yan Yu hurriedly shouted: "Stop, don't move..."
Chong looked at Yan Yu's eyes and felt a little strange. He felt that his eyes were not as bright or as lively as before.
Jiang Li looked at the people who had stopped with satisfaction and said, "Yes, don't move if you are obedient. Let's let Leader Da Ma go when we get out."
He held Da Ma in his arms, watched Yan Yu's every move vigilantly, and led Mu Feng and the others back towards the Qiushan intersection.
After retreating to the pine forest at the foot of the hill, Jiang Li shouted: "Quickly enter the forest."
"Okay!" Upon hearing this, Mu Feng, Hei Ba and the others ran into the pine forest like rabbits.
After they had walked for two or three breaths, Jiang Li hit Da Ma on the back of the neck, pushed him out, and dodged into the woods.
When Mu Feng and Hei Ba heard the sound of Jiang Li chasing them, they ran as fast as they could in the forest.
"Catch them." Chong led his men and chased them. After chasing for a while, they didn't even see a single person, and then walked back dejectedly.
Yan Yu hurriedly stepped forward and helped Da Ma up. Seeing a blood mark on his neck, he shouted anxiously: "Wu, come and see how my father is doing."
Wu hurriedly stepped forward and put his hand under Da Ma's nose. Feeling the warm breath, he breathed a sigh of relief, "The leader has fainted."
At this time, Chong came back with his people. Seeing that Da Ma was fine, he was relieved and said, "Yan Yu, I didn't catch up."
"Forget it if you can't catch up. Let's go back to the tribe first." Yan Yu picked up Da Ma on his back and walked back slowly.
Halfway through, Da Ma woke up and found himself on his son's back. Listening to his breathing, he asked Yan Yu to put him down.
Da Ma looked around and asked with a livid face: "Have you caught Yao Hu's son?"
Chong took a step forward and said, "No, they escaped from the pine forest."
With a sullen face, Da Ma led the people back to the cave, "They said there are more than a hundred warriors alive, what do you think?"
Yan Yu felt that it would be of little use to switch back to those warriors. Thinking of his own eyes, he did not dare to speak out. He was worried about being abandoned by Da Ma.
Wu glanced at the warriors outside the cave, then turned back and said: "The warriors in the tribe already know that there are still people alive, we have to go and replace them."
Da Ma nodded solemnly, "Yaohu said that a warrior wants a basket of food. Go ahead and prepare the food!" He understood the meaning of the witch's words and could not make the remaining warriors feel unhappy.
"Yes, leader." Yan Yu and Chong stood up and walked out of the cave.
After the two left, Wu said to Da Ma: "Among the warriors who came back, two of them had their eyes stained by the white ash from the Yaoshan tribe. They can no longer see clearly. It's the eyes of my surviving warriors."
Da Ma looked at him in surprise, "You mean those people's eyes can't see clearly either?"
Wu said with a stern face, "I asked Ye Ye, and he said that many warriors had suffered the same fate."
Da Ma looked at him puzzled, "Then you want to prepare food in exchange for their return? What's the use of the invisible warrior?"
Wu said cruelly: "Let's send the food to Shenmu Mountain and let Chong pretend to go to Yao Mountain. When he comes back, he will tell the warriors who followed him that Yaohu killed all the captured warriors."
Da Ma's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Okay, I'll do as you say."
The two arrived at the cave where the food was stored. As soon as they walked inside, Chong whispered from behind Yan Yu: "Your eyes are not healed yet?"
Yan Yu felt a chill in his heart and turned his head with a nonchalant expression, "Okay."
Chong glanced at him and smiled lightly, "I heard from Ye that two of the returning warriors said they didn't understand things as well as before."
"I just got a little bit of wind in my eyes, it's not as serious as theirs." After Yan Yu finished speaking, he walked inside.
Chong watched him walking quickly inside, feeling that something was wrong.
I saw that the cave was filled with bamboo baskets, and the baskets were filled with beans. The middle of the cave was filled with millet, wheat. Suddenly there were so many warriors missing. The food stored in the tribe was enough for everyone to eat for a few days.
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Yan Yu looked at Mai Zi and felt a pain in his heart, "Chong, if I didn't seize their weapons, but asked them to exchange them, do you think she would agree?"
Chong looked at the wheat in the basket and understood what he meant, "How can elder trees be the same as weapons? It's me, so I won't change them. Also, the man who came with Mu Feng today was the one who saved Qing Wu last time.
That person."
"I know." Yan Yu gritted his teeth and suppressed himself from thinking, "Have someone move some beans and millet out."
"Okay." Chong turned around and walked outside.
Soon baskets of beans and millet were piled at the entrance of the cave.
In the afternoon of that day, Chong led the people and rushed towards Shenmu Mountain.
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Three days later at dusk, Jiang Li, Mu Feng and the others returned to the Yaoshan tribe and saw that some open land had been plowed and a dozen old men were busy in the fields.
When they came back, they were all happy to say hello.
A row of wooden houses were built in the open space outside the tribe's gate, with charcoal fires burning inside, and all the prisoners were locked inside.
When the prisoners saw Jiang Li and the others coming back, they stretched their necks and looked behind them. They didn't see the big witch, so they slumped there with despair on their faces.
The young warrior said desperately: "What should we do? The leader no longer wants us. Will the leader Yaohu kill us?"
The black-faced man frowned and said worriedly: "I heard them say that the leader Yaohu asked the leader Damu to give us a basket of food in exchange for our return."
"I'm worried that the leader knows that we can't see clearly and is unwilling to trade food for us."
The tall and strong man glared, "I don't believe the leader doesn't want us."
Everyone ignored him. What kind of life would a warrior who couldn't hunt live? They knew in their hearts that their hearts were hanging.
Everyone entered the tribe, and Mu Feng told Yao Xiaoqing and Yao Hu what happened to the big witch.