Zero followed the natives to a natural Valley in the mountain of death.
Here, the plants and trees are also full of leaping vitality, but they have less sense of strangeness than those changed plants outside. Walking along the path, I'm sure these plants are just ordinary plants. They won't be strong aggressive except that they can bring rich oxygen to the valley during the day.
There is a small pond in the middle of the valley. The pond is only about ten meters long and wide. The pool is full of water and scales, and there are fully armed aborigines guarding the pool. Obviously, this pool is very important to them.
Around the pond, there are wooden houses built layer by layer with it as the center. However, these wooden floors are built on big trees with staggered roots. The wooden house has simple structure and rough style, but it has a primitive and natural flavor.
The entire aboriginal tribe has more than 30 such wooden houses. According to a zero estimate, the population of this tribe is at least more than 100 people. It's not a big tribe, but the number is not small. When a new face like zero and Moni entered the valley, it attracted the attention of other aborigines.
The misunderstanding between zero and the aboriginal woman was cleared up after the arrival of the prophet named gutner. Obviously, regardless of race or knowledge, gutner did not belong to the tribe called Semitic by the prophet. The obvious white race distinguishes gutner from these dark indigenous people. Under gutner's explanation, zero knows that the clean water in his mouth is the source of life as the Semites call it.
The source of life, which is regarded as a treasure by the Semitic people, is actually the wangchi water in the valley.
Gutner was originally a geographer and explorer. He and his expedition were in danger during an expedition ten years ago. Except for him, the rest of the whole team died in the forbidden area, and gutner was lucky to be saved by the Semites. In fact, it's not appropriate to say it's rescue. For the Semitic people, the dizzy gutner at that time was delicious food.
But when gutner woke up, he used his advanced knowledge to shock the Semitic people, so he was regarded as a prophet by the Semitic patriarch. Gutner also liked this simple and simple aborigine, so he stayed and brought a little more chips for the survival of the Semitic people with his own knowledge.
In Jizhong, gutner's greatest contribution is to find the groundwater called the source of life by the Semitic people. This is also due to gutner's rich geographical knowledge. It can only be described as a miracle to find a water source with acceptable pollution in an area full of radiation sources such as death ridge. You should know that the water needed for the survival of the Semitic people in the past was either to drink the blood of the mutant beast directly, or to dig up plant roots with sufficient water and extract tree sap from them to serve as a water source. But either way, it is extremely dangerous, so the average life expectancy of every Semitic is about 20 years old.
Until gutner found this water source, few Semites would die for lack of water in the past decade.
However, this water source is not very sufficient. In addition to the small amount of groundwater, the water quality can only be maintained for about a day because of the ubiquitous radiation on the death mountain. It can be said that the existence of the source of life is only a small distance from the Semitic people wandering on the line of life and death every day. In this jungle, the deadly element is more than water shortage.
In the valley, torches are lit in front of each wooden house, and a campfire near the source of life lights up the surrounding space. This is the most primitive lighting. After getting used to the world full of light sources in the new era, walking into such a tribe gives birth to a trance feeling. It's like time goes back to the old times, and it's an old time.
But the blue electric fire in gunate's cabin reminds zero that he is still in a turbulent era of crisis.
After sending a few people to the prophet's cabin, the female Semitic talent and other escorts dispersed. As for the injured aborigines, they were taken to the witch doctor of the clan for help. At the same time, the bodies of shield and armor snakes were brought back. The shield armour snake's scale armor that can't even shoot through M500 is made by gunate. Combined with some oak fibers, it can be made into a soft stomach with amazing defense.
This is another contribution of gunat to the Semitic people. Although he is not a master of weapons, his years of exploration experience has exposed gunat to all levels of knowledge. Even the wheel saw used by the female ethnic group was also designed by gunat. He personally went to Phoenix and was built by the city's goldsmiths according to his design.
In the prophet's room, zero saw an oval vessel. Four or five strange flowers floated in the vessel. These small flowers with five petals show faint blue light marks from the veins. The whole flower emits a blue and white halo. They illuminate the whole wooden house. But zero knows that their role is not just lighting, because in them, zero feels strong radiation.
However, the material of the vessel containing blue flowers must be encrypted, so as to minimize the overflow of radioactive substances contained in the blue flowers.
"Just go, but don't touch that thing." gunate pointed to the oval container and said, "that's the God of death flower. Have you heard of it? Yes, the most powerful thing that carries the radiation source in the whole God of death mountain is it. Believe me, ordinary people can say goodbye to the world in less than 5 minutes as long as they directly touch it. Although the world is not worth remembering..."
Gunate read in pieces and poured two bowls of water for zero and Moni, as well as some dried meat of unknown beasts.
While watching them eating, gunate kept asking zero some questions about the outside world. It can be seen that the old man has been isolated from the outside world for too long. I can't think of any reason why he is willing to stay in this backward and dangerous place.
Among gunat's almost endless questions, Moni didn't know when she fell asleep. The prophet asked zero to take Moni to a corner of the wooden house to sleep, but he took a magnifying glass and studied colt like a rare treasure.
Without disturbing him, he went to the door and looked out at a quiet world.
It was already late at night. Except for the guard of the source of life, the rest of the Semitic people fell asleep. However, in an open space close to the source of life, there is a graceful figure jumping and undulating.
It was the black girl who almost attacked zero. She kept making all kinds of attacks on the open space with a wheel saw. From a distance, she is like an elf dancing in the night, full of dreamy feeling.
"The child's name is atatha." gunate's voice came from behind. He didn't look back, but he seemed to know who zero saw.
It seems that the girl named atatha practices these killing skills every night. Zero thought that she was only observing from a distance, but from artessa's ethereal movements and the occasional attack posture far beyond the limit of human ability, zero was sure that the girl must have made achievements in the fighting field. From the wave like silver light flowing on the surface of the fierce soldier when she danced the wheel saw, artesa was also involved in the element domain.
Generally, having two different areas of competence at the same time is called wide area proficiency. And the person with wide area mastery is either mediocre or genius. After all, no one can develop the ability in all fields. Human potential is limited. Those who want to develop the ability in all fields are simply greedy, snake swallowing elephant, and will only draw water with bamboo basket in the end.
The more high-level talents, the more they focus on developing their abilities in the field they are good at. A wide area proficient is nothing more than the ability to major in one field, while the ability in other fields is only used as a supplement.
Zero can also be regarded as a wide area master. His current abilities have involved fighting domain, perception domain and element domain. But for the time of automatically generated bullets and the mastery of fire elements absorbed from Soren, zero has no intention of putting it into the evolution point. The reason is very simple. The agility enhancement in the fighting field can give full play to zero's best shooting art. Instead of developing the element field he is not good at, he is more willing to put the evolution point into the ability of agile reinforcement.
Of course, with an in-depth understanding of the power world, zero also understands that agile reinforcement is not a very powerful ability. On the contrary, it is a very common auxiliary ability. Therefore, zero's investment in it is also limited to the early stage. Now, zero keeps the evolution point intact. Until it finds a suitable and more powerful ability, zero is not ready to make blind investment in any existing ability.
As for those who are also wide area abilities, if not surprisingly, atatha at least has the abilities of cold weapon mastery, low-level strength and agility enhancement, as well as the mastery of light elements with unknown levels. This is the judgment made by zero after observing her. Being able to have these abilities, atatha's potential is very good for a backward tribe.
Most importantly, she is still young.
And youth represents an infinite future!
"She's my favorite child and the pride of the Semitic people," gunate said while observing the sniper gun "Do you know what the name atatha means? In the Semitic language, it means the daughter of the moon, and the Semitic people worship the moon god, so you see, atatha is highly respected in this tribe, even me, an old man in the name of a prophet."
"Daughter of the moon?"
Zero recited the words full of ancient flavor. When he said the last word, atatha in the distance just stopped the deadly dance. She seemed to feel and looked at zero.
The night could not hide the light in atatha's eyes. It was like the moon, frost all over the sky!