Zero suddenly woke up and saw a roof made of wood and leaves. He rolled out of bed. It was a wooden house. From beds to simple furniture, they are all made of trees, without any metal mouth, with the most rich primitive style. Coming out of the wooden house was a corridor only half a meter wide. The corridor also serves as a balcony. After passing the other two wooden houses, it extends downward to the ground.
This is the house of the asak. They built it on a tree. Usually, there is only one room for each ancient tree that several people embrace, but now it is the residence of the patriarch Gao Ge. He has three rooms, built on two twin trees close to each other, which is a privilege of the patriarch.
Asak villages have no obvious signs. They live in the woods. If you don't really enter the village, you will only think it is a forest from the outside and ignore the past. There is no so-called highway. In the process of returning to the village with Gao Ge and other asaks, they all bend left and right in the woods. Even if you want to write down the road, you can't record it because of the almost repeated scenes.
The only difference between the village and the woods is probably the clearing of an open space. This open space is usually the arena of the asak people. To the west of the open space, tree stumps and square feldspar are used to build things similar to altars. There are totems carved out of wood on both sides. The totem is the face of the asak people. It seems that this alien race is a bit like some of the aborigines in the old times, and ancestor worship is popular.
"Can't sleep?" Gog's voice came from the side. Even after getting off the horse, the average height of the asak people reached nearly three meters.
Gog stood beside zero, and zero only came to his chest. The assak patriarch waved one of his arms and said, "you humans are definitely not used to living in the jungle, but for us, this is the place where we were born and died."
Zero looked at the sky and said, "patriarch Gog, under the same sky, in a different city. I don't know if you believe that we human beings and other alien species can live together in peace. This is a small result of my efforts. I hope that human beings and other races can live in peace, not fight each other to death. "
"Unfortunately, you can't represent all human beings. Like the people who burned our village, they didn't have the idea of coexistence
"So I'm working in that direction."
"Oh, and that's why you came to this land?"
Zero shook his head: "no, it's two different things. I suspect that the holy medicine and seeds you got from the shadow clan have something to do with what you are looking for. It's dangerous. It could even lead to the destruction of the planet. So I'm here to make sure. In short, I'm here to find something, not to fight you. "
Gog looked at him for a moment and said, "I've already sent your request to the temple. I expect it will be sent back tomorrow. But I'd like to advise you not to think about the shadow clan. Otherwise, even if you are a hundred war warrior, the war is still unavoidable. "
"If that's what I'm going to destroy, then even if there's a war, I won't change my mind." Zero said strongly, "because I know very well that once it gets that thing. It's not just a war between us, it's about the world. "
"It? What is it? "
"It..." zero wry smile: "it can be said that it is your mother, it is because of it, so will have you. However, you are not the life it hopes to appear, so if it appears, it will kill you. Because it is the natural enemy of all life. "
Gog shook his head and said, "it seems you have a lot of stories."
"Chief Gaoge, can you tell me something about the holy temple?" Zero has no intention to continue to discuss with Gog on the issue of prosius, so he changed the topic.
"Before the temple appeared, we were scattered. At the beginning of the temple, it was actually the place where the shadow clan lived. We call it Heishan, where the temple is built. I'm sorry, I can't tell you where Heishan is. In a word, when the shadow clan gave seeds and holy medicine to the selected clans, the ten clan heads, including the Amanda, also became the elders of the holy temple. "
According to Gog, zero is a little clear about the power structure of the black earth. The shadow clan is the alien race standing at the top of this land. They are few in number, but their adult soldiers are powerful. Under the alien race is the holy temple, which is presided over by eleven elders. The head of the shadow clan is one of the elders, and the rest is headed by a strong clan like Amanda.
The holy temple is the spiritual symbol of all the foreign people in this land, and it is the decision-making organ of the foreign people in the black land. However, the temple rarely gives clear instructions, and more often allows all ethnic groups to develop freely.
The most recent instruction was that when Xiuya led the army to invade, the holy temple demanded that the alien groups in the level 1 to 3 areas be evacuated, and that they be compressed into the level 4 area. Powerful clans like the asak provided protection, and organized troops against the blood cavalry.As for how to fight with the army of Xueqi, it is up to the strong clan leader who is responsible for organizing the resistance force to decide.
From the human point of view, the power of the temple is undoubtedly loose, but its executive power is beyond doubt. Even if only occasionally issued a command, but all the alien are not discounted to complete. This is totally unimaginable in human society.
In terms of decision-making, the temple also adopts the voting system. Each elder has one vote. When the majority of votes are in favor, the decision is passed. On this point, even the elders of the shadow clan do not enjoy privileges.
Gog finally said, "if you want to achieve your goal and want to avoid war. Then we can only urge the holy temple to vote on this and win at least six elders on your side, which is expected to succeed. "
The assak patriarch went to his house, then turned around and said, "if you can be a warrior of all wars, then I'm willing to vote for you. This vote is not for your so-called natural enemies of life, just for your courage to come alone, and for your willingness to avoid fighting with us so far. "
Watching Gog's figure disappear in the room, zero smile looked at the sky: "the situation is not bad, at least, now there is a vote."
Beyond the vast virgin forest, there is a land of red and black. The surface here is scorched black, but in the cracked rock, it is as red as blood. This is a piece of black land, whether there are hundreds of rivers to divide the land into pieces of different sizes. All rivers originate from a natural lake at the end of the earth.
The black earth is from west to East, the terrain is from high to low, and the water level of the lake has not decreased for a long time. It should be that there is a continuous supply of underground water. The lake freezes in winter and melts in spring. With the terrain, the ice water flows to the lower part through the cracks of the earth, forming streams and rivers, which inject vitality into this land.
On the east side of the great lake, there are mountains and clouds. The mountain is very steep and dark, like the color of the ground. There is a mountain road chiseled in it and a platform at the waist of the mountain. It's like a rock cut off from the hillside, forming a concave space. You can see several stone pillars that are surrounded by several people supporting the space. I don't know whether they are formed naturally or intentionally.
The stone column is gray, which looks desolate and simple in the dark mountain. And this platform is the holy temple of the black earth. At the moment, several elders in the temple were arguing about something, and girutan was among them. There is a stone basin in the center of the temple, on which the flame lasts for a long time. The elders argue fiercely around the basin.
"Are you kidding me? Why should the asak give a foreigner a hundred battles fight. What on earth is elder Gog thinking? Just send these people away. " A very small, old looking, but with a very loud voice, an alien elder kept knocking on the ground with his crutch in his hand to emphasize his tone.
"That's because the asaks never refuse challenges, and they never fear them. If it's not a matter of great importance this time, elder Gog will not report to the temple at all. I'm afraid there will be a fight immediately, right A middle-aged man, like a human, said that his appearance was somewhat similar to giruthan, but it was Bajin, the patriarch of the Amanda people.
A man covered in a black robe, but with a white arm showing from his sleeve, said, "if this matter is proposed by other patriarchs, we can reject it. But elder Gog's temperament must be clear to everyone. Their asak dignity and tradition do not allow them to evade any challenge. If we reject it this time, elder Gog will not say anything, but he will inevitably have some thoughts in his heart, or even have a bad relationship with the holy temple. Therefore, this incident needs to be handled carefully. "
"Elder black owl is right." Another elder said: "in my opinion, the best way is to hold a fight, and then defeat or even kill this human in the challenge. In this way, the head of Gaoge clan should have no opinion. "
"I think it's enough to defeat this human. In elder Gog's message, he also pointed out that this human tried his best to avoid war with us. If we kill him in the fight, I'm afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble. " Ba Jin said.
Before that, the elder snorted: "is it rare for human beings to kill our compatriots? Elder Bajin, I know that your son jilutan and this human seem to be friends. It's disappointing if you're biased in favor of humans because of this. "
Barkington said angrily, "elder Wade, I have to remind you. Behind this human is a city called dawning city. Giruthan also said that the city has many high-ranking officers, an army of capable men, and thousands of soldiers. More importantly, the city is closely related to the West tundra. You should know very well, what's in the West tundra? "
The elder in black raised his hand and said, "that's enough. Don't fight any more. Elder Ba Jin is right. This human is not an ordinary person. If we kill him, it will bring us a very powerful enemy. I decided to let elder Gog fight. Then I will fight as one of the warriors. That human, can only stop at the village of the asakHe opened his hat and showed a very beautiful face, but his eyes were as black as ink!