Chapter 909 Tribe and Elders

Chapter 909 Tribe and Elders

Chapter 909 Tribe and Elders

In the darkness below, there was a rustling sound, and a figure emerged from the jungle, holding a bow and arrow and pointing it in the direction of Lu Li and the others.

But the arrow did not shoot out. With the moonlight, the man vaguely saw something, "Emily?"

"Is that Uncle Prost?"

Emily walked forward as she spoke, and when they got closer, both sides could see the person opposite them clearly and breathed a sigh of relief.

The tall but slightly thin man in the jungle put down his bow and arrow and hugged Emily. "Where have you been these days? Everyone is worried!"

"I'm sorry, I...I just want to find some medicine to treat grandpa."

Emily was crying as she spoke, and she was obviously recalling the thrilling events outside these days, and she was also worried about her grandfather's condition.

Prost let go of Emily and looked vigilantly in the direction of Lu Li and the others. Because of the darkness, he couldn't see clearly what was there if he was a little far away. He only felt that there was a huge beast and a human figure there.

Seeing her uncle so alert, Emily quickly said, "Uncle, they sent me back."

"Emily, you actually brought outsiders back!?"

Prost's voice was surprised, and he had already drawn the bowstring and aimed it at Lu Li, "Have you forgotten how terrible the humans out there are?"

"Uncle, Mr. Lu Li is different. He looks scary, but he is a good man, and he has a sacred beast with him."

Emily explained.

"Holy beast, what are you talking about, Emily? Where can we find it nowadays..."

As Prost was speaking, Ah Huo and Lu Li approached. In the moonlight, he could clearly see Ah Huo's fat body and was so shocked that he forgot to say the rest of the words.

"Really... is it really a sacred beast!?"

Prost opened his mouth in surprise, and his beard trembled. "Emily, how did you meet them?"

"I was exploring the old civilization city-state of Imorton, and I saw a psycho monster and buried myself. Then I saw Mr. Lu Li kill the psycho monster, and later it was Mr. Lu Li who escorted me back."

Because the events in between were too complicated, Emily simply omitted a lot of them.

The people of this tribe seemed to have a strange worship of the sacred beast. After seeing Ah Huo, Prost no longer released his hostility. His eyes were full of respect. "Mr. Lu, thank you for escorting Emily home. Come down and have a glass of water."

"It was just a matter of convenience. Emily told me that there is a human tribe here, not a modern city-state. I'm very curious."

Lu Li said, patting Ah Huo's fat, "Emily also said that Ah Huo is your sacred beast, so I became even more interested, so I came to take a look."

Prost looked at Lu Li a few more times, and obviously felt that Lu Li's temperament was a bit fierce and ominous, but since the sacred beast was so intimate with Lu Li, he felt that Lu Li should not be a bad person.

After all, according to the records within their tribe, holy beasts will only be close to humans with pure and kind hearts. This is why holy beasts are no longer seen today, because there are probably no humans with pure and kind hearts in this world anymore.

"Mr. Lu, please follow me. Emily, please go home and see the elder. He is dying. He has been unconscious for the past two days and has been calling your name."

Prost led the two downstairs and told Emily about her grandfather's condition.

"What!?"

Emily exclaimed, and without bothering to lead Lu Li, she simply found a fork in the road and went in to find her grandfather.

Prost sighed and looked at Lu Li, "Let me take you to my house. I'm lucky today and caught some prey. I'll treat you there. Thank you for saving Emily."

Lu Li waved his hand, "What's going on with Emily's grandfather? Why don't you take me to see him? Maybe I can help."

Prost was a little puzzled. Seeing that Lu Li was dressed neatly and brightly, he felt that Lu Li seemed to be from the city. However, Lu Li was not like those modified humans whose various parts had been replaced, which made Lu Li's origins a mystery.

Although he felt that Lu Li was a little strange and overly enthusiastic, he still nodded and said, "Then let's go together. I also want to listen to the elder's last words."

Soon, they arrived at the elder's tree house at the bottom of the basin. There were more people in this tribe than Lu Li had expected. There were hundreds of people just praying outside the house.

Lu Li also saw a few children and one or two elderly people, which should be a rare scene in this world. After all, Sosuke said that children can occasionally be seen on the streets, but there are no elderly people at all.

The arrival of Lu Li and A Huo caused another commotion. The people in the tribe looked at A Huo in amazement and praised the divine power of the sacred beast, which made A Huo a little proud.

Just looking at the way these people were dressed, they didn't look like the primitive tribe in the mountains that Lu Li had imagined. They were all wearing old clothes like Emily, as if they had been dug out from the garbage dump in the city.

When Lu Li walked into the room, he saw Emily kneeling in front of an old man's bed in the dark, holding the old man's hand tightly.

The old man was still coughing softly. There was a horrible wound on his chest, which dyed the dirty gauze red. At this moment, the air he was breathing in was less than the air he was breathing out.

The wound did not seem to be caused by a monster, but rather by some kind of beast biting the old man's shoulders and chest, causing huge lacerations.

Under the medical conditions of the mountain tribes, if a young person suffers this kind of injury, he may be able to survive thanks to his physical fitness, but once an elderly person becomes inflamed, he is basically doomed to die.

"So you came out to look for medicine."

Lu Li said that Emily was very cautious and never told him why she wanted to take risks alone.

"I can't give up Grandpa. You may find it strange to say this, but Grandpa is the only relative I have."

Emily put her face against the back of the old man's hand and spoke softly.

"Why should I feel weird?"

Lu Li asked back.

"Grandpa said that in the outside world, humans have no kinship, so I think most people can't understand the so-called family affection."

Emily explained, "But I forgot that Mr. Lu Li was weird to begin with."

"You should have told me earlier."

Lu Li said as he approached Emily.

Emily was a little confused, and then she saw Lu Li put his hand on the old man's head. A bright light came on, and the old man's wounds healed and the inflammation disappeared. In just a few breaths, his breathing became steady and his complexion began to become rosy.

Prost, who was standing at the door, also saw this scene through the faint light in Lu Li's hand. He was shocked. He felt that he had seen a holy miracle. "Mr. Lu Li, you!?"

He said in surprise, while Emily was overwhelmed by the surprise.

"It's just some extraordinary abilities I gained when developing human potential, which can be used to cure diseases and save lives."

Lu Li explained that he felt that he really benefited from Ah Huo this time. If it weren't for Ah Huo, if he showed abnormal power, he would be regarded as a monster, just like Emily before.

But now the people in the tribe have preconceived ideas. When they see that he is traveling with Ah Huo, they think that he is a good person traveling with the sacred beast, so when they display their extraordinary abilities, it becomes a miracle.

"Ancestors, what have I seen..."

Prost was amazed and couldn't help but walk closer to observe the elder's condition. "The wound has actually healed, and the body temperature has returned to normal. It's simply a miracle!"

"No, this is not a miracle. Don't look at me like that. This is just a power that humans can master through hard work."

Lu Li was not making this up, the God of Death was originally a human being as well, as long as one had some relevant talent, Replying to the Dao was a skill that could be learned with effort.

But the people in the tribe didn't think so, because Prost's exclamation just now was a little loud, and the people outside seemed to have figured out what happened inside, and for a while they were all exclaiming that a holy miracle had come.

They gathered around Ah Huo and began to worship devoutly, believing that this was a holy miracle brought to them by the sacred animal.

Seeing how fanatical the people of the tribe were, Lu Li knew it would be hard to explain. Being admired was always better than being feared and rejected, so he was too lazy to explain for the time being.

"Emily?"

At this time, the elder slowly woke up, and his old eyes stared at his granddaughter in the darkness.

"Grandpa, I'm here."

Emily responded in surprise.

After the elder sat up, he raised his hand high, causing Emily to close her eyes. But in the end, the hand gently fell and placed on Emily's head. "Silly child, you must never run out like this again."

After teaching his granddaughter a lesson, he got up from the bed. When he stood up, one could see that he was thin and his strong muscles when he was young had atrophied under his dry skin.

This tribal elder has a head full of white hair and, judging from his face, is an obvious Oriental. Emily's Oriental ancestry must come from this elder.

Lu Li had discovered before that the tribes here included both the Eastern races he was familiar with and the Western races, as well as mixed-race people that were a combination of the Eastern and Western races. It was hard to imagine that these people were from the same tribe.

The elder bowed to Lu Li, using a complicated ancient etiquette that even sounded pious. "Sir, thank you for saving Emily and my dying life."

Lu Li helped the old man up. "It's just a small favor. If possible, I would like to hear from the elder about the tribe. Although I have been practicing in seclusion in the mountains, I also know that the existence of a tribe is very rare."

The status of the elders in this kind of traditional tribe is generally very high. You can tell from the people praying outside that the old man in front of you should be the actual person in power in the tribe, although in this fucked up world this kind of power is more of a responsibility and has no real benefits.

However, if one had to say who knew this tribe best, Lu Li thought it should be the old man in front of him.

The elder put on his clothes and introduced himself again: "Mr. Lu, Lu is your last name, right? I am Ji Hong, the elder of the Human Union Tribe. Thank you again for your kindness to the tribe."

Seeing that the elder was eloquent, Lu Li became more interested, because Emily and Prost seemed unable to distinguish their own names, and only understood some honorifics, as if they had received a rough language education.

But Elder Ji Hong is different. He is like a wise man and is truly cultured.

"Elder Ji, you are too polite. To be honest, I have no place to stay after leaving the mountain. It is fate that I can meet your granddaughter."

Lu Li said with a smile, but his wording was beginning to be difficult for Emily and the others to understand.

Elder Ji Hong motioned Lu Li to go out with him. When they came to the moonlight, he first showed the tribesmen his recovered body, and asked everyone to rest assured and go back to rest first.

Then he invited Lu Li into the small courtyard and asked Emily to fetch water from the well.

Lu Li was not in a hurry. He watched the elder pour the well water into the clay pot he had made himself, and then placed the pot in a slot on the table. Then, Lu Li saw the water in the pot gradually heating up and finally boiling.

"Mr. Lu, have you never seen a boiling stone?"

Seeing Lu Li's confusion, Ji Hong spoke up and said that his eyesight was surprisingly good at night, which was obviously the result of adapting to living in the dark for a long time.

"I have been wandering in the mountains to avoid monsters, and I have never seen such a stone before."

Lu Li found it very interesting. He reached out to the slot under the teapot and touched it under Ji Hong's surprised gaze. Then he heard a sizzling sound.

He lifted his fingers and found that they were red from being burned. The heat from the stone could even hurt him.

If it were not in such a world, the heat contained in this piece of ore would be equivalent to a star, which made Lu Li feel truly magical.

At the same time, he also clearly understood for the first time that this world has its unique value. Because the basic energy level is too high, there is no garbage here at all.

Even the dust on the ground is an extremely rare material if taken out, and the functional minerals here are even more expensive if placed in space.

For example, this piece of ore, which Ji Hong calls boiling stone, is an immortal-level mineral. After refining, it can be used to create immortal-level equipment.

Thinking of this, Lu Li began to worry about Chu Chu again. They had countermeasures before, such as pairing the space communicator in advance, wondering if they could contact each other directly after entering the world.

But when he made the call, there was no response from the other end. He didn't know whether the communicator they bought didn't work in this world, or whether Chuchu had an accident that caused the communicator to be damaged.

"Mr. Lu is indeed a remarkable man, able to survive in the wilderness alone, with the company of a sacred beast."

Ji Hong brewed the tea he collected in the mountains and gave Lu Li a cup, allowing Lu Li to experience the taste of civilization again.

"I'm just constantly stimulating my potential in the pursuit of survival. Elder Ji, has this tribe existed for a long time?"

Lu Li got back to the topic. On the way, he had shared some information with Aizen intermittently. Aizen said that humans in this world also had a deformed civilization.

For example, the place where Aizen is is a place called Miller United City-States. It has a wide range, but the human social system is distorted to the point of being abstract.

Compared with those places, the small tribe that Lu Li discovered when he left the bureau might be the only relatively normal human group left in the world.

(End of this chapter)