The raging waves swallowed the cruise ship Li Qing was on. In the face of nature, even the crystallization of human industry cannot escape the fate of being destroyed.

The terrible weather wasn't over yet; with the waves crashing, bottomless whirlpools gradually formed on the sea, eventually swallowing the cruise ship along with its passengers.

...

Where am I? Wasn't I dead? Li Qing opened his eyes and suddenly found himself lying in a primitive tribe. In front of him was a young girl with a healthy complexion, and she wore beautiful red flower bracelets on both hands.

"Wheat, you're awake?"

The girl asked with concern.

Li Qing shook his head, and countless memories flooded into his mind.

"So that's how it is. I've actually time-traveled, and I've even traveled to a primitive tribe!"

Mai Zi was the original name of the body Li Qing had transmigrated into. The girl in front of him, calculated by modern age reckoning, was only fifteen years old this year, and she also had a very beautiful name, Yun.

Li Qing grinned at Yun and said, "Yes, he's awake."

"How are you now? What about Yong and the others?" Yun asked Li Qing anxiously.

"Courage..."

Li Qing's lips trembled. He was enduring an extremely intense pain. According to Mai Zi's memory, he had been shot three times in the back by the enemy. Even though Mai Zi pulled the arrows out of his back before losing consciousness, the excessive blood loss and the depth of the arrows caused him to eventually collapse at the tribe's gate. Moreover, the pain that Mai Zi was enduring had now been transferred to Li Qing.

"Maizi, are you alright?" Yun asked in alarm. "You look badly injured!"

Li Qing smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, I was shot in the back with three arrows. It's already a miracle that I came back alive."

"Three arrows? What happened? Weren't you out hunting? How did you get hit by arrows? Did you encounter an attack from another tribe?"

Just as Li Qing was about to answer, he realized that his mention of "three arrows" had attracted several burly men who were completely naked except for their private parts, which were covered by grass skirts.

One of the men, named Li, stood with his arms crossed and head bowed, questioning Li Qing: "Tell me, what exactly happened!"

Another man named Chu asked in an equally impolite tone, "Where are Yong and the others now? Why are you the only one who came back alive?"

Li Qing gritted his teeth, trying to overcome the pain from his still-healing injuries, and looked at the two men. In Mai Zi's memory, they were both level-two warriors in the tribe, much stronger than Mai Zi, a level-one warrior. Their rude tone was perfectly normal to them: "We were originally planning to hunt some wild boars near Moonstone, but we were ambushed by the Black Wind Tribe on the way. The enemy was numerous, and we were no match for them. Yong... and several other warriors were killed in battle."

"So you escaped alive?" Li ignored Li Qing's serious injuries, grabbed Li Qing's shoulder, lifted him up, and roared, "You traitor, traitor of the tribe!"

Yun hurriedly stopped her, saying, "Li, don't do this! Mai Zi is seriously injured and needs treatment!"

"Treatment? Bah!" Li said angrily. "Why should our tribe treat a traitor like him? Let's just kick him out!"

Chu also chimed in, "Yun, a traitor like Mai Zi isn't worth saving. I think we should just throw him out of the tribe and let him fend for himself!"

As she spoke, she was about to walk towards Li Qing, "Li, you grab his hands, I'll grab his feet, let's throw him out together, our Red Flower Tribe doesn't welcome him!"

Li Qing had just transmigrated into the body of a primitive man named "Maizi," and before he had finished absorbing the original owner's memories or adapting to this primitive society he had never encountered before, he was suddenly labeled a "traitor" and was to be thrown out of the tribe. He couldn't help but feel a surge of anger: "Why do you call me a traitor!"

As he was carrying Li Qing and walking forward, upon hearing this, Li immediately snorted disdainfully, "Shut up!"

Yun stood up, angrily pointing at Li and Chu's rudeness: "That's enough!"

Chu sighed and turned to Yun, saying, "He's just a level one warrior, Yun. Could it be that you've fallen for him? That's really not worth it. There are so many good men in the tribe. You don't need to be so concerned about him."

"He's from our tribe. What do you mean I'm attracted to him? Shouldn't I care about him?"

Just as this minor conflict was about to escalate, Li Qing suddenly spoke up, saying bluntly, "According to you, I should accompany Yong to be buried alive at Moonstone, and then wait for a few days until you feel something is wrong, send people out to look for us, and after a lot of effort, find our bodies at Moonstone. Then you should be overwhelmed with grief, cry your hearts out, and finally let it go because you don't even know who did it—is that what you call not being a traitor?"

silence!

The two men, Li and his companion, were just roughnecks with little education. If they were to really argue, how could they be a match for someone like Li Qing, who had received higher education? They were so angry at Li Qing's words that their faces turned red and their necks bulged, but they couldn't find any words to refute him.

"I ask you, if I hadn't escaped back, would you have died without ever knowing that it was the Black Wind Tribe who did it?" Li Qing asked.

"Do you think we're fools? We'll find out who killed our brothers sooner or later!"

"Investigate? How are you going to investigate? Aside from the Black Wind Tribe telling you that they were the ones who did it, how are you going to investigate? Tell me!" Li Qing mocked. "Besides, how could the Black Wind Tribe possibly tell us that they were the ones who did it? They'd love for our tribe to be wiped out without us even knowing why!"

"Damn it, Wheat, you..."

Li Qing shouted, "In other words, you won't even have the chance to avenge your brothers! The Black Wind Tribe is probably happily eating meat, drinking blood, and dancing around the fire to celebrate right now! As for the revenge for Yong and the others being killed, the tribe will be kept in the dark forever because no one will come to report it. Li, Chu, in this light, let me ask you two, who is the traitor? It's you two, isn't it!"

The two men, whose dark skin was flushed red with anger at Li Qing's words, found themselves even more convinced that Li Qing's words made some sense, leaving them speechless.

Yun was also shocked by what Li Qing had just said. In her memory, Mai Zi was originally a taciturn and mediocre person, and it was impossible for him to say such sharp words.

"You three calm down, Mai Zi, especially you, you're injured..."

Li Qing broke free from their grasp, jumped down, and said seriously, "I can't calm down. How can I calm down after something like this has happened!"

Li Qing said in a low voice, "But before that, we need to bring back the bodies of our brothers and give them a proper burial. They were all warriors of the tribe, and they can't just die out there without knowing why."