As soon as Brown Shield returned to his tribe with his tribe, he heard the shouts of his tribe.
Not panicked, but filled with joy.
Seeing the return of Brown Shield, the tribesmen came to greet him one after another.
Passing through the happy-looking tribesmen, Brown Shield saw the reason why the tribesmen were so surprised - a huge wild boar-shaped monster with a body covered with hard hairs.
The tribal hero who hunted the wild boar, Red Shield, proudly described to Brown Shield the process of outsmarting the monster, and then waited for his reward.
Brown Shield picked up the saber, removed the two hind legs of the wild boar, and held them up with both hands.
The applause of the tribesmen and the reward from the tribe leader Brown Dun made Hongdun extremely excited. He changed his hands and divided one of the two pig legs for the children of the tribe to enjoy.
Brown Shield smiled and motioned for Red Shield to follow him.
Instead of going to the tribe leader's tent, Brown Shield and his group headed towards a cave not far from the tribe's camp. The sides of the stone wall were already covered with torches.
In the open space deep in the cave, the tribesmen who had already cleaned the place saluted when Brown Shield arrived, and then quietly retreated.
Red Shield, who had been following silently, saw the frowns on the tribal warriors beside Brown Shield, and the joy on their faces gradually faded.
After Brown Shield sat down, Red Shield put the pig leg aside and asked with some confusion: "What did Mud Tail say when he asked everyone to go over?"
Brown Shield took off the shield tied to his wrist and put it aside.
"There's going to be a war."
Hongdun's heart skipped a beat, and then he asked: "Want a war with whom?"
"The mushroom people...and the unknown alien race."
"Through Mudtail's investigation, the aliens who appeared here inexplicably made the mushroom people learn to build walls, learn to use tools, and seemed to teach them mysterious spells."
There was silence in the cave, and Red Shield could clearly hear the breathing of his other companions.
Among the four lizard-men tribes, the shield tribe inherited the knowledge left by their ancestors, and one of them is the "foreign god".
"How many years have passed, that story is still passed down from generation to generation... It is said that the first ancestor of the Shield Clan who recorded these things shook his successor's shoulders and told him over and over again that he must pass on everything he said.
Go down..."
"But he was also very frightened. He only allowed the five strongest people in the clan to know this secret, and he had to swear to this land that it would never be told outside."
"However, it is a pity that the story has become more and more distorted as it spreads, and we have no way of knowing what the original intention of the original generation was... I once seriously asked the old patriarch, are these the original words of the original patriarch of the Shield Clan?"
"But he just looked at me silently, without saying a word, and even until his death... he never answered my question."
Brown Shield strolled into the darkness behind him. The moment he raised his torch, the light dispelled the darkness, revealing the secret hidden underneath.
Crooked lines, weird patterns, strange totems, and... words that have never appeared in this land.
Brown Shield knew that what the old patriarch passed down his mouth was full of modified and forged lies, because if that were the truth, these murals would not have been altered.
Over a long period of time, the Shield Clan still chose to deviate from the last words of the first clan leader. I don’t know when, those words passed down from mouth to mouth and those that required swearing to the land were just lies.
Those murals destroyed by sharp objects are like the corpses of prey that have been cut into pieces, making people shudder.
Through the mural, Brown Shield could feel how fearful and frightened the person who made this decision felt in his heart at that time.
But this person is also confused...
He who protects the secret wants to bury the secret completely. He can completely destroy the stone wall and directly modify the tradition of passing on information from the previous clan leader.
But he didn't.
Like a sinner who suddenly felt uneasy and guilty after doing a bad thing, he ended his "atrocity" after destroying the mural so that it could not convey the key information, and continued to pass on the mural and the secret.
"I forged history, I hid secrets."
The patriarch seemed to want to convey such a message to future generations.
After the erosion of time, the murals on the stone wall continued to fall off and were completely unrecognizable. When it came to Brown Shield, they could only know this one thing when they looked at the murals.
In the past, another race that walked upright appeared in the Great Wetland.
She appeared out of thin air and became associated with "Blue Water".
The four tribes at that time were even just newly emerging races on this land, surrounding themselves under the command of the same tribe leader and surviving in a harsh environment.
The Blue Water clan is more backward and isolated. They are just snacks for other monsters. Even the lizardmen like to hunt them.
However, all this changed with the arrival of the alien race.
Like the fire that fell on this land in the darkness, the darkness of Blue Water was driven away by her alone.
She gave the blue water technology.
Blue Water built walls within his tribe's settlement that could withstand attacks, and gradually transformed the buildings into more sturdier houses.
She gave the blue water powerful magic.
That is a powerful power that they have not been able to imagine or master until now.
The ancestors of the Shield Clan saw with their own eyes that she could construct a huge mud giant just by waving to the ground.
Under the leadership of the alien race, Blue Water rose.
Then the God of the Giant Lizard and the God of the Jungle came together. They made a three-part agreement with the aliens to expel the aliens from this land, and at the same time allowed Blue Water to continue to live here.
Immediately afterwards, the blue water gradually disappeared on this land. For generations, the lizard people had never heard of the existence of this tribe. Even the creatures living in the wetland had no impression of them. They could only vaguely hear that some monsters still existed.
They conveyed their past deeds in obscure words.
The message conveyed by the murals is probably this. What exactly was forged, what was hidden, what was modified... Brown Shield is unknown.
The Shield Clan has never been a particularly smart race. They pursue physical strength and ultimate defense. They like to hold up their shields and charge forward, then smash the shields into their opponents' faces.
That dull thud can make every lizard in the Shield Clan excited.
There are some speculations among the four tribes about the disappearance of Blue Water.
For example, the Fallen Tribe of Mudtail believes that the Blue Water clan was destroyed by a natural disaster that suddenly struck the Great Wetland hundreds of years ago.
The anger of Mother Earth shook the Great Wetland, and countless creatures were swallowed by the suddenly cracked earth and turned into nutrients that nourished the land.
The four tribes continued to throw their prey into the suddenly cracked earth, and even sacrificed the blood of their tribesmen, pouring their blood on the ground, begging for mercy and praying to the Earth Mother, and they survived the disaster.
The god of Blue Water is a foreign race. The god who was expelled by the God of the Jungle and the God of the Giant Lizard will definitely no longer be able to provide assistance to this poor tribe.
Natural disasters destroying Blue Water is just one of the theories.
The most aggressive and ill-tempered of the four tribes, the current leader of the Cracked Stone Tribe, Shattered Scales, believed that Blue Water had offended the two gods of the Great Wetland and ushered in the disaster of annihilation.
"Who made Blue Water accept gifts from foreign races?"
When it comes to blue water, most lizards react the same way.
No lizard thinks that Blue Water's destruction is a pity, and no lizard thinks that Blue Water's strange spells and techniques should be lost.
That's how it should be, this land has its own rules.
Although Brown Shield is not smart, he feels it is strange.
Building walls and strong homes is what the lizardmen are doing too.
Then why is it that what the Blue Water Tribe did was wrong and should be spurned and punished, but what the Lizardmen did was not wrong?
Since it is said that the God of the Jungle and the God of the Giant Lizard reached an agreement with the gods of the Blue Water clan, why did the gods go back on their word and destroy a race that did not pose a threat to them?
Brown Shield didn't understand. He hadn't thought about this carefully before, but now that Mudtail had organized the four-race alliance to wipe out the Mushroom People and expel the foreign races, he had to think about it.
War is not a trivial matter, even though Niwei said it was just a foreign race that invaded the Great Wetland, not a god, let alone an envoy of the gods, but...
…
After a long silence, Brown Shield raised his head and glanced at the three brave men who had no objection to the war, as well as Red Shield, who had a worried face.
As the youngest brave man in the clan, Red Shield is regarded by Brown Shield as his next successor, so Brown Shield is very concerned about his opinion.
Hongdun looked at the stone wall illuminated by the torch, stretched out his claws and scratched his face.
"The Great Wetland is vast enough."
"Our people have been walking for sixty sunrises and moonsets and still haven't been able to leave this land..."
"I mean…"
Red Shield looked nervously at the tribesmen around him who were eager to fight, and looked at the shields tied to their wrists. He gritted his teeth and said, "Just drive the mushroom people away. What we want is to survive, not to be enemies with other unknown forces."
."
The top three brave men in the tribe stood up, and the one in front looked unhappy: "If we fight, we will fight. If we don't fight, we won't fight. Red Shield, you always choose a way to explain your thoughts in a way that does not offend any faction, and you are worthy of the title."
For a warrior?”
"Take off your shield. Since you don't choose to charge, you should hang the shield behind your back."
Brown Shield looked at the embarrassed Red Shield with interest, but had no intention of helping him and allowed the three excited tribal warriors to surround him.
Facing three aggressive fellow tribesmen, Red Shield explained helplessly: "I just want to know... what can the crusade against the Mushroom People bring us?"
"We hold shields and enter the dense forest to bring fruits and meat to the tribe."
"When we enter the mine with iron tools in hand, we can bring smelting equipment to the tribe and gain convenience."
"We fight bloody battles with monsters to bring peace to our tribe and allow our children to grow up safely."
"The blood we shed has meaning."
"But what can we gain by fighting the mushroom people and the unknown alien race?"
"honor?"
"Blessing?"
The three aggressive lizardmen were confused by the question.
There have never been many smart people in the Shield clan, and they are called stupid people by other clans, but once these very easy-to-understand words are thrown out, even the most stupid lizard can chew some flavor.
"Maybe...the mushroom people will become our enemies after they grow up?"
Hongdun sighed: "In this great wetland, all races may be our enemies. Do we want to kill them all?"
"The thoughts of alien gods will corrupt the creatures on this land!" A lizard said through gritted teeth.
Hongdun was stunned for a while, and after a fierce inner struggle, he said: "That may be something that the gods should solve."
"What we have to do is to let the tribe survive... Have you ever thought that Niwei's alliance must completely obey his command... Can you really trust Niwei to be the leader?"
"Our tribe must obey his orders, how can you guarantee that he will not take the opportunity to annex us while we are licking our wounds?"
Obviously, Red Shield's thinking mode is a dimension reduction attack among the Shield clan. After the three fools who had no physical strength and strength were questioned with a barrage of questions, their eyes could only dodge, and their heads were even more messy and dizzy.
Huhu, I don’t know how to refute it at all.
Brown Shield sighed with relief, and it was only then that he stood up and supported Red Shield.
"He is right, everything must be based on survival... We cannot entrust the lives of our people to Mudtail, and... it will not benefit us to kill the mushroom people, and there is a risk of offending the aliens."
"But you already promised the Mudtail Clan leader at the meeting... Could it be that we have to break your promise?"
Brown Shield smiled: "I have no intention of betraying my promise. I still have to step forward when I should, but... we can choose the way of helping without any help."
After the other lizardmen left, Brown Shield called out to Red Shield alone.
"You are the smartest member of the Shield Clan. Don't worry about my face just because I am the clan leader... Just tell me if you have a better decision. Sooner or later, you will take the position of clan leader..."
Hongdun was stunned for a few seconds and immediately knelt on the ground.
"There is no need to be nervous. Although I am still young, I think that the position of clan leader should be filled by a smarter person... The Shield Clan should not always be treated as a fool by other clans."
Brown Shield helped Red Shield with his own hands.
These sincere words made Hongdun tremble. He no longer concealed anything and spoke out what was in his heart.
"I want to go to the Mushroom People in person."
Brown Shield shook his head: "It's useless, the language barrier is there, they can't understand our words."
Red Shield raised the torch, and the strange text that had not been completely painted on the stone wall was revealed.
"This text should be the alien text that the ancestors saw from Lan Shui. If they come from the same place, then this text can also be read by the aliens from the Mushroom People."
"This is very dangerous. We have no way of knowing the attitude of the alien race."
"War is also dangerous," Red Shield insisted.
There was another long silence, and Brown Dun was shaken by Hong Dun's determined eyes. He sighed and let Hong Dun take out the tool to carve out the words.
"I hope your decision is correct... after contacting aliens, we are also aliens in this land."
Red Shield said nonchalantly: "This is my reckless action and has nothing to do with the Shield clan... If an accident happens... please give the pig's feet I received to the children."