Xiao was the first warrior of the Rames tribe.
He was only eighteen years old when he defeated the previous number one warrior, "Zhuang".
He was strong and healthy, the fastest and strongest man in the tribe. He could kill a wild boar in half a meal's time with his self-made gold and stone spear. He was fearless even when facing a pack of wolves and could retreat safely.
Before encountering outsiders, Xiao's daily routine consisted of leading a hunting party to hunt, stockpiling enough food for the tribe, and then marrying the most beautiful girl in the tribe.
Perhaps one day he will be defeated by a new hero, perhaps one day he will die in a battle with a beast, or perhaps he will be lucky enough to live a long time and see his children born, grow up, and become new heroes.
He is satisfied with his life and future, and will accept any possible outcome of death.
But his simple mind never imagined that the final outcome would be annihilation.
His relatives and friends were all killed by those outsiders, his tribe was also taken over by those outsiders, the girl he loved fell in front of him, and the blood of his respected chieftain flowed all over the golden flower field.
Xiao was completely caught off guard when the disaster struck.
He didn't know what the dozen or so helicopters that suddenly appeared in the sky were, nor how his supposedly powerful tribe could have been wiped out overnight. Even when "Wolf" pinned him down in the bushes and he saw Sanchek emerge from a helicopter, he was still bewildered—
When that person came here a few years ago, he didn't bring any disaster. Instead, he gave their tribe a lot of good things, just like another outsider.
They had already exchanged items, enjoyed food together, and the chieftain had even taken them to see the golden flower field, picking golden flowers to bless them.
Why was it this person who ultimately destroyed his home?
From the moment Xiao saw Sanchez, he learned to hate, to restrain himself and endure, and for the first time understood the "insidiousness" of those who were "human" but more cunning than beasts.
Xiao desperately wanted to rush up and kill the much younger Sanchez.
But the wolf stopped him.
The wolf saved his life; it was his benefactor. The wolf taught him to be patient before he could seek revenge.
He understood.
I also want to try my best to achieve that.
But he couldn't do it.
When he is far from his tribe, he can temporarily endure because he does not see his enemies.
But now that they've returned here, returned to his homeland, how could he possibly stand by and watch his enemies take over everything that originally belonged to their tribe?!
The golden flower fields are a gift from the sun god, the moon god, and nature.
It's not a bargaining chip for that dirty, greedy person.
Xiao couldn't understand why Sanchek destroyed and occupied their tribe at first, even though he tried hard to remember every gesture of the wolf and listen carefully to every word of the wolf and his friends.
But language was a huge obstacle for him.
But the mountain was soon moved by the younger brother who had broken his leg.
The younger brother with the broken leg was the smartest person Xiao had ever met. Xiao thought he must have been blessed by the sun god.
That's why he can be called "Tomorrow".
It took him only one day to understand the meaning of all his gestures and calls, and then another three days to teach him the simplest language of the outsider.
When he could communicate verbally, what had been puzzling and perplexing him began to become clear.
He learned of the existence of the "Golden Elixir," which was incredibly important and sought after by outsiders; he learned of the blessings and...curses that the "Golden Elixir" brought to those outside the forest; and he also learned that the "Golden Elixir" was a potion made by outsiders using golden flowers.
When Si Mingri showed him on the computer images of people becoming healthy, strong, and even younger in a short time because of the Golden Liquid, Xiao's eyes widened.
He felt no envy whatsoever; instead, his eyes were filled with an overwhelming sense of dread.
When the screen on the computer suddenly changed from boundless joy to a nightmarish scene of carnage, Xiao's fear vanished, replaced by a sigh of regret.
His two unusual reactions alerted Si Mingri to something.
Then Si Mingri asked him, "Why weren't you happy at first, but not scared at the end?"
Xiao's answer surprised Si Mingri.
"What's there to be happy about when they greedily and incessantly demand blessings that don't belong to them?"
"What is there to fear when greed turns a blessing into a curse?"
Xiao's expression was indifferent and resolute.
"This is the ending they chose themselves."
Si Mingri asked him, "You've seen a curse like this before? Do you know how to break it?"
When asked this question, Si Mingri's tone even carried a hint of urgency.
However, Xiao's answer disappointed him.
"Of course I've seen such a curse. There was once a beautiful and clever fox that always came to the Golden Flower Field to steal flowers. At first, no one could catch up with it, and it could even walk among tigers and wolves. But when it came to eat the thirteenth Golden Flower, it suddenly went mad, howled, bled profusely, and finally crashed into a giant tree and died."
"The old priest said this is the curse of excessive greed. We must learn to cherish everything that God has given us and know how to restrain ourselves. Otherwise, we will only bring about our own destruction."
Si Mingri remained silent upon hearing this.
See, this is such a simple truth. Even savages know not to be greedy and to know how to cherish and restrain themselves. Yet these self-proclaimed intelligent modern people are more and more arrogant than the last.
"You haven't told me how to break the curse yet."
Si Mingri repeated a sentence.
Then he saw this young man with dark brown skin, sharp eyes, and a wild yet innocent look in his eyes looking at him with calm pupils:
“Our high priest and clan chief both know how to lift the curse.”
"But they are all dead."
Si Mingri fell silent instantly.
Suddenly, I felt the silent mockery of fate.
Perhaps because Si Mingri's expression was too desperate, Xiao finally looked at him before leaving and said, "...I don't know how to lift the curse, but the method to lift the curse must be in the Golden Flower Field."
"The high priest never left that place."
After that, Si Mingri began to think frantically about what Ye Renxiao had said, and what else they had overlooked in the golden flower field of that valley.
So he didn't know that after Ye Renxiao left the research institute and had a hearty meal in the cafeteria, he took the incredibly sharp dagger Xie Tianlang had given him and headed towards the valley.
The others were unable to enter the valley because of the poison net.
But for Xiao, the tribe's first warrior who had lived here for twenty-two years, he knew far too many hidden paths that led across this poisonous web to his own home.
He didn't know before why Sanchez wanted to kill his people and seize his homeland, but now he does.
And once he found out, he wanted to kill him.
He couldn't take it anymore.
Because he knew that Sanchez, who was the first to eat the golden flower, had long been cursed by nature.
A life cursed by nature is destined to die.
Sanchez is dying. He wants to kill him before nature kills him.
Moreover, even though the wolf was his savior and promised to avenge him, these outsiders still needed Sanchek to create a potion to lift the curse. Until the potion was created, the outsiders wouldn't allow him to kill Sanchek.
On this point.
He is an enemy of all humanity in the world.
He didn't care whether Sanchek could create the antidote or how outstanding an outsider Sanchek was.
All he knew was that Sanchez was his enemy, and he wanted to kill him. That was enough.
So Xiao entered the golden flower field.
Xiao silently assassinated several mercenaries, but was still outnumbered and captured.
But he knew he wouldn't die immediately.
Sanchez is cursed; if he doesn't want to die, he will be kept alive.
So, on this night, when the moonlight was obscured by dark clouds and torrential rain filled the entire forest, he was taken to Sanchez's laboratory and saw the sinful outsider.
"Welcome back! First Warrior of the Rames tribe. Howl."
As the raindrops pattered on the leaves, Sanchez wore an excited and joyful smile.
But Xiao could tell at a glance that he had been deeply cursed.
Then the savage young man with brown skin laughed. He looked at him and said, word by word:
"You're going to die soon."
While everyone was stunned by his hoarse yet clear Chinese.
The young man let out a long, sharp roar, and then his muscles tightened and expanded rapidly. In an instant, he broke free from the two mercenaries who were holding his arms. Like a mad cheetah, he ran to Sanchez in the blink of an eye and slashed his neck with a knife!
In that instant, the atmosphere in almost the entire laboratory froze.
The mercenaries, who were howling at the approaching figure, were almost unable to contain themselves as they roared, while the other researchers looked terrified and wanted to scream—
If Sanchez dies, then everything they have is over!
At this moment, a third of Sanchez's neck was slashed open, and dark red blood mixed with bluish-black and specks of gold spurted out from his neck.
He stood frozen in place, his face showing shock and disbelief, as if he were truly about to die.
Xiao was shot twice more.
But he felt no pain at all. He even felt a sense of joy in avenging his people.
Just when he thought he could close his eyes in peace, he suddenly widened his eyes as if he heard the devil's laughter.
The person in front of him, who should never have continued to live, whose neck was severed by a third and was gushing blood, suddenly smiled, pressed his hand against his head, and then pressed his head and neck downwards.
The instant the cuts from the sharp knife touched each other, Xiao saw that the man's split neck was healing rapidly.
Skin and flesh, tendons and bones!
In that brief moment, everything regenerates and eventually returns to its original state.
Sanchez moved his neck, which had fully recovered, and his smile remained, yet it exuded an unparalleled chill and malice.
"Tsk, although I knew you, you savage brat, would definitely make a move."
"But you still made me angry."
"You have cost me at least ten years of my life."
Xiao stared intently at Sanchez, noticing that although Sanchez still had that youthful face, he looked as if he had suddenly transformed from a thirty-year-old youth into a middle-aged man in his forties.
Therefore, his strike just now was not without effect.
However, he underestimated the enemy's strength and failed to kill him in one blow.
Sanchez took off his blood-stained white coat, turned around, picked up a syringe, and walked directly to Xiao.
"You should be glad you're still useful to me. Your blood will be the best research subject and... life potion."
"I won't kill you."
“But what you’ve made me lose, I will take back from you twofold.”
The thick needle pierced Xiao's arm, and then bright red, healthy blood filled the transparent glass tube.
"Take him to Lab One. Hypnotize him and make him spill everything he knows."
Sanchez looked at the red blood in his hand with relish. "Soon I will be able to develop the real antidote."
* * *
Gou Fugui and Xie Tianlang returned to the Huazhou base the following afternoon.
They returned to the Latin American rainforest at 10 a.m., but the first place they went was the cliff by the sea.
The two golden eagle cubs had already been fed a hearty meal of canned fish and meat, and then Gou Fugui put them into their den. This was along with four large boxes of canned meat and four bags of cat food weighing fifty pounds each, mainly fish.
Because he had already memorized the taste of Owl Rich, even though Gou Rich wasn't actually an owl, the two little golden eagles still treated him like their male mother who fed him, showing no fear whatsoever, and instead calling out with great energy.
Although the half-zombie giant eagle was wary of the humanoid Gou Fugui, it ultimately did not become their enemy—Eagle Daddy didn't recognize anything else, but it could still smell the canned meat and the strange food that smelled so good.
With this food, the two golden eagle chicks could survive the most dangerous and vulnerable period of their chickhood.
The giant eagle loathed and hated humans, yet it also knew how to be grateful.
Then Gou Fugui transformed into Tibetan Fox Fugui and delivered a plane full of cat food, dog food, pet meat cans, and frozen fish to the valley where the Wolf King and his group were located.
The wolf king and his men were on high alert because of the roar of the helicopter coming from above the valley, and the big monkeys were ready to throw durians into the air.
But when they saw the square-faced fox descend from the sky, for some reason, all the adult animals breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time had a strange feeling of "it was him again."
The wolf king slowly raised his head, and a very obvious expression of helplessness and disdain appeared on his wolf face.
Although Fugui the Tibetan fox was not welcomed by the adult animals, he was loved by the cubs!
"Awooooo!"
"Roar!"
"Squeak squeak squeak!"
"Waaah!"
The cubs smelled the familiar aroma of food again!
Then, Zanghu Fugui and his jackhammers transported the food down the rope, box after box, until the dog food, cat food, and canned meat filled a small corner of the valley.
If the animals in the valley didn't engage in strenuous exercise every day and ate less, this nutritious food would be enough to feed all the carnivores for half a month.
The Tibetan fox, now unloaded, stood on the stone platform, thumping its chest and howling:
"Eat without worry! After you finish eating, I'll take my servants to deliver goods to you!"
"So, you must try your best to survive."
Tibetan fox Fugui looked down at the animals in the valley below. They were thin and exhausted, but every one of them that survived was a fighter.
The animals in the valley looked at the strange, square-faced fox, and then at the mountain of food piled up in the corner. Starting with the stag with its broken antlers, the adult animals slowly bowed their heads to the fox.
Only the wolf king remained standing there, its scarlet and deep blue eyes gleaming with a peculiar light as it looked at the square-faced fox.
The Tibetan fox, Fugui, paid no heed to the excessively intelligent and powerful semi-zombie wolf king, and left in a cheerful mood after delivering the goods.
He thought that with those containers of pet food, the animals in the forest would be able to survive.
Next, as long as they find another plant that can control the Golden Flower, even if the search takes longer, they will definitely find it.
The end of the world will eventually be averted.
Gou Fugui returned to the base with these feelings.
But when he got back, Si Mingri told him that Wild Man Brother had gone missing.
Gou Fugui was startled, a bad feeling creeping into his heart. But for the next ten days or so, they searched almost every base without finding the Wild Man.
Meanwhile, over the course of these ten days, it seems that people have been going missing at various bases.
Gou Fugui began to cast his suspicious gaze toward the Savage Valley, which was shrouded in a network of poison.
But before he could even consider exploring the Savage Valley, worse news plunged almost all the surviving humans into despair—
"...The plants have begun to mutate."
"Someone at the Indian base ate wild fruits and vegetables they found in the forest today, and died afterward."
"It's not just a mutation! Many plants are starting to wither at the edges, looking like they've been poisoned. When did this start?!"
"It seems to have started after that heavy rain ten days ago... So, is there also a mutated virus in the rainwater?!"
When Gou Fugui heard the news, his face changed, and he felt an unprecedented anxiety.
They no longer had time to systematically search for herbs and prepare the antidote.
If more of this virus-laden rain, which can cause plants to mutate and wither, falls, then the world will truly be destroyed!
At that moment, he even seemed to hear the world's lament.
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