Heart of the Castle

Chapter 355 Demoralized Aboriginal Tribes
The big crow that flew forward for reconnaissance turned back and landed on Li Wei's raised arm. "My own people, my own people." It was noisy, stretched out its wings and patted Li Wei's arm, and stretched out its head to ask for credit, until Li Wei rubbed its head with his hands, and then handed it some oatmeal, the bird Only then did he let out a contented grunt, folded his wings and jumped onto the back of Black Nightmare.

This mischievous crow once jumped onto the head of Black Nightmare recklessly, and was immediately ejected by a ripple with the power of flames. Several feathers smelled burnt. After that, it became cautious, He is very respectful to this steed of the same color as himself.

Li Wei concentrated his eyes and looked forward. Although the distance was still far away, and there were layers of mist floating on the rotting swamp in winter, he could already see many camps and bonfires in Yingyingzhuozhuo.After seeing these, Li Wei let out a long breath, and immediately felt exhaustion flooding his body like a tide. "Thanks to the merciful Father God, we are not too late." He whispered, "Now let's go over and meet the leaders of the swamp natives."

"Well, Master Levi, shouldn't we be more careful?" Babrupa moved his body close to Levi and said, "These aborigines are savage enough, if the leaders we are familiar with are all finished, will the new leader Will you treat us as military rations?"

Donna glanced at Babrupa's pale and tired face from the continuous rush, shrugged his shoulders and said, "That's when you can come in handy, devout Mr. Babrupa, you A body of fat can feed hundreds of aborigines, and there may be some left over."

"Benevolent Father God, is this something that can be said to a priest?" Babrupa immediately retorted, "There is a commandment: Too many words will lead to mistakes. It is best not to put such blasphemous words in your stomach." Otherwise, it will be too late when the flames of hell burn your internal organs."

While listening to their bickering, Li Wei took the lead and walked ahead.The north of the Dusk Forest has long been frozen for thousands of miles, but near the rotten swamp, although the temperature is low, it only freezes at night, and the muddy and soft ground of the swamp remains unchanged. slightly sunken.

Everyone continued to move forward, and soon saw two simple watchtowers built with water cherry wood and red willow. The branches and leaves on them had not been removed, and they looked like two unusually huge trees from a distance.Lizardman guards with short bows stood on the watchtower, and they were casting vigilant eyes in this direction. A few big crows circled the watchtower, making ugly hoarse cries from time to time.

Since the relationship between the aborigines of the Rotten Swamp and the northern cities is definitely not harmonious and friendly, such precautions are also necessary.Li Wei made a gesture lightly, and a hazy blue light flickered on everyone. The magic of this long-range weapon protection was enough to prevent the lizardman shortbow from killing. Then he pulled down his hood to reveal his face, and signaled to Donna Wait a moment with Babrupa, and ride slowly into the range of the watchtower alone.

"Are you the subordinates of the leader Gala?"

The lizardman guards on the watchtower were alarmed immediately, and they all drew their short bows to prepare for battle. However, the captain of the guard happened to follow Li Wei and others to the ruins of the tower, and recognized Li Wei's young man at a glance. face.

"Don't do anything, these humans are friends of the tribe." The captain of the guard said, leaning down from the watchtower, "Yes, I am Stull, the son of Gala of the Grayscale Tribe, young human friend, please Inside, the leader and they're all in the camp."

After passing the watchtower, the ground became more muddy, and both Donna and Babrupa had to jump off their horses and walk on foot, because their mounts would sink when they stepped on the ground.But Li Wei didn't need it. Although Black Nightmare was taller, when running in the muddy and wet swamp, he still walked vigorously, no different from stepping on a solid stone road.

About 500 meters away from the watchtower, a row of fortifications consisting of wooden fences and horse refusals was erected. Many lizardmen and werewolves were guarding behind the fences, but they all looked a little dejected.Behind the wooden fence is the camp. Li Wei remembers that it was originally a small tribe of aboriginal people, but now it has grown a lot. Hundreds of bonfires are like stars, stretching into the distance.

Li Wei and the others went all the way to the place not far in front of the wooden fence, and there was a small group of werewolfs questioning thousands of people. The guy in the lead wore a wild boar skull as a helmet on his head, and wore a rusty chain mail shirt that didn't fit well. .Werewolves look similar to humans, but Li Wei could still tell his identity from his notched right ear and the few strands of white hair on his cheek, so he patted Heima on the head lightly, signaling It stops.

"Deputy leader Garcia." Li Wei greeted the werewolf leading the team.

"Are you...a powerful human kid?" The werewolf pushed aside the wild boar skull that was obstructing his view, "That's great, the leaders and the others have been waiting for you for a long time." Then he extended his gaze to Li Wei's back, when he found that there were only two lonely people Afterwards, Garcia's deputy leader looked hesitantly, "Human boy... Didn't the messenger of the Black Crow Queen tell you the predicament we are facing?"

"Say it, talk it!" The big crow jumped out from behind Li Wei and yelled.

"I remember that the aborigines of the Rotten Swamp were all brave and good at fighting." Li Wei's eyes flickered.

"That's right, that's right!" Garcia's deputy leader puffed out his chest triumphantly, but soon became dejected again, "But there are too many skeletons and carrion corpses, and the dead companions also joined They make it impossible for us to kill them no matter what.”

"You can't force it. What you need is a new strategy." Li Wei said as he jumped off the horse, "Where are the leaders Wolf, Gala and Stiba?"

"Come with me." Garcia turned around and yelled at the werewolf men under him, and those people immediately went back behind the fence to get out of the way.

Li Wei and Babrupa had seen the way of life of the aboriginal tribe in the decaying swamp, so they were not surprised by the scene in the camp.But it was the first time for Tang Na to see it. Along the way, this middle-aged man with rich adventure experience and military experience looked around with piercing eyes, taking a panoramic view of all the scenes in the tribal camp.

The original aboriginal tribe built many simple huts with mud, rough wood and animal skins on a relatively flat boulder, but now the camp has expanded at least dozens of times, and those huts can only be used by the leaders and important people enjoy.The enlarged part is full of slippery mud, so the aborigines spread thick water cherry wood and red willow branches on the ground, which is barely easy to pass through.

Yesterday's fiasco made the morale of the entire camp quite low. The wolfheads and lizardmen were lying or sitting around the campfire with nothing to do. Embers of dark red light.Only a few people maintain their weapons with animal skins, or adjust their bows and arrows.

When Li Wei and others walked into the camp, most of the aborigines just glanced casually, and then lowered their heads to continue their own business. The whole camp was gloomy and silent, and even the crackling of the campfire was very clear.Only a little noise came from a separate enclosed place far away from the center of the camp, mixed with the smell of blood and the low groans of the wounded, it looked like a wounded barracks.

Garcia led Li Wei and others through the center of the camp and came to the largest shack. In front of the animal skin curtain stood four burly werewolf warriors, holding heavy metal flails in their hands.Seeing Garcia leading several humans over, one of the werewolf warriors took a step forward.

"Deputy leader, these humans are..."

"Our native human friends," Garcia explained, "where's Chief Worf and the others?"

"In the tribal temple." The werewolf warrior pointed to the shack behind him.

Li Wei walked into this "temple" and immediately saw a lot of familiar faces.

The Gala leader of the Grayscale Tribe sat closest to the firepit, his left arm was wrapped with a piece of rag, and some dark red blood oozes from it, obviously seriously injured; The husband leader sat next to him, his face was slumped, his face and body were covered with clotted blood, and he didn't know whether it belonged to him or someone else.There are more than a dozen unfamiliar faces in the room that Li Wei does not know, half of them are lizardmen and werewolves, and there are also several leaders belonging to weak tribes such as snakemen and fishheadmen, with more or less scars and blood on their bodies .

The old hag Stiba was not injured, leaning on the snakeskin beast that never left her, seeing Li Wei's figure, her ugly face twitched suddenly, and then stood up in surprise.

"Boy Li Wei, the Black Crow Queen's prophecy is correct. You are here. You are a true friend of the Rotten Swamp."

"True friend Li Wei, sit here." Wolf stood up, pulled Li Wei to sit next to the firepit with his furry paws, and then repeated it to the other leaders with an emphatic tone. "Li Wei is really a friend."

"Oh, human friend?" The leader of the snake people on the other side of the firepit blinked suspicious eyes and spoke with an uncomfortable hissing sound.

"What did the real friend bring? The iron men on horses, or weapons and equipment?" The fish head leader rolled his eyes and looked at Li Wei, his expression seemed very unhappy.But Li Wei can understand him, after all, few fish on land are happy.

"None of those." Li Wei's answer immediately caused many aboriginal leaders to curse loudly. Wolf and Gala immediately stood up and scolded them, but Stiba remained unmoved. "What I brought is victory." Li Wei said, and then turned his head to the old hag, "Chief Stiba, I want to know how you lost the battle yesterday, and how is the situation now?"

(End of this chapter)