"After we discovered that there were long-lost members of our tribe in there, we immediately gathered our supplies and brought them back. They told us this news."
Jie lowered his head, covering his face with his paws, and said, "Their left legs were all broken, and more than 30 of our tribesmen were missing at that time. This time, we only saw four here..."
"What about the others..." Meng Yuqing said softly.
"They said some were killed... beaten to death right in front of them. Others were traded with other northern tribes. They changed hands many times. The northern tribal caravan that brought them here didn't know they were from this area before, otherwise they wouldn't have brought them here."
After Jie finished speaking these things in one breath, he closed his eyes and took several deep breaths.
"Did you know? The three major tribes are trying to contact the north." Jie opened his eyes and suppressed all his emotions. "If we allow them to continue to control the south, we will sooner or later become slaves of the north."
Hearing Jieye mention this, Meng Yuqing was silent for a while and asked, "How did you know?"
"Just before we came to the market this year, the three major tribes sent people to find us and asked us to give them all the yellow stones. They gave us enough salt for our tribe to eat for a year. In the past, a thousand stones were enough for us to exchange for a year's worth of salt, but this time they actually wanted it all."
"Do they think we are fools?" Meng Yuqing couldn't help but say.
"Of course not. They want to pay tribute to that divine tribe in the north with our stones." Jie's tone was full of sarcasm. "It's funny, isn't it? Pay tribute."
"But in addition to giving salt, they also gave an extra benefit." Jie changed back to human form, sat on the ground, and supported his head with his hands.
"What benefits?" Meng Yuqing asked.
"They give our tribe one quota every year, and let us choose one person to go to the God Tribe with them to become stronger." Jie had a mocking smile on his face. "They also said that they could let the young witch from our tribe go to the God Tribe with them to study."
"Haha, that child is only eight years old, still a little sub-beast. They asked us to hand that child over as well."
After listening to Jie's story, Xuan frowned and swung his tail wildly, and it was obvious that he was strongly dissatisfied with what the three major tribes had done.
Meng Yuqing even let out a hiss.
In a tone of disbelief, he said, "Have they lost their minds? Didn't the Blue Water Tribe say that they still have internal divisions? Some people are unwilling to get close to the northern tribes."
"Yes, there is also a group that is very determined not to get close to the Northern Tribes, and they make up the majority. However, the group that is close to the Northern Tribes has nearly a hundred orcs who are as strong as the Northern Tribe orcs. So even if the number of people supporting them is small, they are not at a disadvantage."
Jie rubbed his temples and continued to tell them the details.
“The market is still controlled by the faction that is not close to the North, but they are unable to control more.
And if they hadn't sent people to find us in time, we might not have been able to escape so easily that day. After sending those people away, they told us these things.
Originally they had wanted to keep the matter secret and handle it internally, but now they are no longer able to do so. The leading orc on their side, the chief of the Black Tree Tribe, died in the earthquake.
They suspected the other side was behind this... They came to us that day and told us about this... It was like they were asking for help, hoping that the South would reorganize itself."
He paused before uttering his last words, "It will be reorganized by others, and replaced by others...to manage the South."
After hearing Jie's words, Meng Yuqing was silent.
In his expectation, the three major tribes should be standing in opposition to them and be a stubborn obstacle on their way to taking over the south.
If we use the game of breaking through levels to describe it, the three major tribes should be like small bosses.
But Jie's words made us see the three tribes in a different light.
They are also fighting hard. The fact that the South can still maintain a certain degree of peace is inseparable from their efforts.
He was thinking too narrowly, and from the very beginning he had preconceived the three major tribes as villains.
"They have already come to find us." Xuan's eyes were calm.
"What?" Jie looked at Xuan, not quite understanding what Xuan meant by this incoherent sentence.
Xuan continued, "This afternoon, the tribe that's close to the northern tribe among the three major tribes brought a lot of powerful orcs with them, and their attitude was far from friendly."
Jie looked at Xuan and Meng Yuqing in surprise and asked, "And then?"
Xuan turned to look at the Blue Water Tribe, "We were with the Blue Water Tribe. They didn't show up. We were in a stalemate for a long time, and then they left."
Jie moved his head and looked at the people of the Blue Water Tribe floating on the water and the orcs of the Green Mountain Tribe who followed Xuan to join the battle on the side of the Northern Tribe.
His expression gradually became one of shock.
After a long while, he finally spoke, "No wonder, they just left."
"How did you do it?" Jie's expression was a bit complicated. He was tense and seemed ready to explode at any moment. "I've only seen people from the northern tribes who are this strong, or people who have been to the north. Some people in the three major tribes became stronger after returning from the north."
Xuan looked at Jie. He knew what Jie was worried about. Jie was afraid that the Qingshan tribe also had connections with the north.
"Anyway, it has nothing to do with the northern tribes." Xuan tilted his head, "Otherwise, the Blue Water Tribe wouldn't have come with us, and they wouldn't have helped us scare away the troublemakers from the three major tribes."
Jie looked towards the Blue Water Tribe again, and saw that Cheng had transformed into a human form and come ashore. He was holding the little boy in his arms and moving among the crowd.
"That's right. Everyone knows that the people of the Blue Water Tribe hate the people over there." Jie nodded, agreeing with Xuan's words.
Seeing that they had almost finished talking, both parties stopped talking. Jie stood up and walked to the tribesman who was more seriously injured with a sad look in his eyes.
Just as he was about to say a few final words to them, he suddenly widened his eyes and looked at the tribesmen who were eating ravenously, and said with a stammer, "You...your injuries?"
He pointed at the hideous wounds on his tribesmen's bodies. If they suffered such injuries, they would bleed to death. He remembered that he, Xuan and the sub-beast named Yuqing had chatted for quite a while.
Logically speaking, these tribesmen should be dying and leaving their final words, but now they look so energetic and are eating happily.
The orc from the Yellowstone tribe, who had transformed into a humanoid form and was half lying down, took a large bite of meat and swallowed it before speaking. "Those people from Qingshan City have medicine that can treat injuries like this. They applied the medicine to us, so we won't die."
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