As soon as this thought came to mind, Shuo immediately rejected it.
Although there are smart people in the valley tribe, everyone is simple by nature. Apart from dealing with wild beasts, they have never had conflicts with other tribes and are not very wary.
He thought it was a calculated move, so the people of the Valley Tribe shouldn't have noticed. The last time they left, everyone in the Valley Tribe had been extremely friendly to them. How could they have turned around and taken such strong defensive measures against them?
Seeing that Shuo didn't answer, the people in the tribe asked again: "Shuo, make a decision quickly, what should we do?" Standing here in the cold wind is not a good thing, their companions are still in the bottom of the pit with ice and snow.
Shuo couldn't make up his mind.
They had come here after days of trekking, ready to fight desperately because they couldn't survive. The women and children in the tribe were still waiting for them to take food back.
If he returned like this, how could he face his fellow tribesmen? How could he solve the food crisis?
Rather than starving to death, it is better to give it a try!
Shuo looked up at the ground ahead, which was reflecting the light of snow. He gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go forward and see. Everyone, watch your step." After thinking for a moment, he instructed the person walking in front, "Pick up a branch and explore the road first. Make sure there are no big holes ahead before you go any further."
The man walking in front was trembling with fear when he heard that he had to go further. It felt like a thousand pounds weighed down his feet, making it difficult for him to move forward. When he heard Shuo's words, his eyes lit up, and he quickly broke off a branch and began to explore the way.
He soon felt thankful that with the branches he had dug out several holes and avoided the tragic fate of falling into a large pit.
Little did they know that they had actually already entered the hub and were entering the encirclement along the route designed by Qiao Yu.
The people of the Valley Tribe had long been impatient. When they finally saw the people of the Stone Tribe approaching, they all held their breath, waiting for Qiao Yu's signal to attack.
Seeing the people from the Stone Tribe getting closer and closer, Qiao Yu squatted down and quickly blew up the simple tinderbox she had just made, lighting the thatch tied to her spear. She stood up and threw it. A long streak of fire whizzed out and hit the chest of a man walking in the middle of the Stone Tribe. The man screamed and fell down.
The people of the Stone Tribe were stunned. They stood there in a daze, still unable to react, when they saw unknown objects being thrown from multiple directions and hitting them. Some were knocked to the ground, while others instinctively dodged, only to slip and fall into a trap.
"Hurry, go back." One of them held his head and shouted to the people behind him.
Everyone reacted immediately, turned around and ran towards Luffy.
But in their panic, they didn't realize that the road they were taking back was not the same road they took when they came.
The person running in front suddenly felt his feet go empty and a sense of weightlessness came over him. When he came to his senses, he had already fallen to the bottom of the pit.
The person running away was sprinting at top speed, and because they were running too fast, the person behind them didn't react in time and fell in. The person at the back did react, but their body couldn't stop the car, so they fell in like dumplings in a pot.
The last one managed to brake, but was hit on the back by a wooden hammer and stumbled and fell into the trap.
At this time, it was only a few minutes since Qiao Yu threw the spear, and only Shuo's body and the two people who were hit at the beginning and walking in front were left on the ground.
One of the two men was probably knocked unconscious, and the other one didn't know where he was hit. At first he tried to struggle to get up, but in the blink of an eye he saw all his teammates disappeared from the ground. He was dumbfounded and made the smartest decision. He gave up struggling and lay quietly on the ground pretending to be dead.
The tiny flame Qiao Yu had used as a signal flare was knocked out by Shuo when he fell to the ground. It hit the snow and went out instantly. The snow returned to its original faint glow and silence.
Seeing this scene, the people of the Valley Tribe, who were ready to fight and holding wooden hammers, were dumbfounded.
Although they knew that this war might not require close combat with the enemy due to Qiao Yu's formation arrangement and the appearance of long-range throwing weapons such as wooden hammers, no one expected this kind of scene.
Apart from the arrow shot by Qiao Yu at the beginning and the several wooden hammers thrown by the people who were ambushing in the same place with her, the enemies were gone before the people in other ambush locations had a chance to attack.
What's going on? Are they...victorious?
Everyone blinked, and blinked again and again, repeatedly, and saw that the three people lying on the ground had not disappeared, and there seemed to be some movement coming from the other end of the trap. Everyone was convinced that their Valley Tribe had really won.
The people of the Stone Tribe came with great force, but were defeated just like that?
Everyone was in a trance.
After the trance, excitement replaced it.
Too strong, their leader is too strong.
Qiao Yu had repeatedly stressed the importance of following orders. Seeing the enemy, she shot out her flaming spears, prompting everyone to attack. Only when she gave the order would everyone emerge from their ambush and deal with the prisoners.
For this, she punished two people during a military exercise.
She didn't say anything at this moment. No matter how excited and passionate the people of the Valley Tribe were, they still stayed obediently in the ambush site, recalling what had just happened over and over again, waiting for Qiao Yu's orders.
The wounded man from the Stone Tribe lay on the ground and pretended to be dead for a while, but then there was silence all around, as if there was no one around. He felt very strange and looked up a few times, but found that there was indeed no one. He struggled to get up and went to shake the unconscious man beside him. Seeing that the man didn't wake up, he limped over to Shuo, pushed him, and then checked his breath, and found that Shuo was completely dead.
The man looked around, thought for a moment, broke off a branch, and walked back cautiously to explore the way.
The people of the Stone Tribe did not receive any orders from Qiao Yu, and they just watched the man walk further and further away, feeling extremely anxious.
Qiao Yu was very satisfied with this. Seeing that the man had carefully explored the road and seemed to have found the way he came. Just as he was about to go that way, she threw a wooden hammer at him, hitting him accurately on the head. He fell to the ground with a plop and fainted.
Qiao Yu then said to Man beside him, "Alright, go tie up the two men on the ground. Leave the people in the trap alone for now, let them freeze for a while. When they feel they are too frozen to move, you can go and deal with them with others. Be very careful when approaching them, and don't be careless."
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