Chaos City 30
Three months after the Lantern Festival.
The news of the wedding preparations of the Queen of the Beautiful Snake Tribe and Chief Aihong of the Red Horse Tribe spread like wildfire.
But what surprised all the tribes that were paying attention to the wedding was that halfway through the wedding, it suddenly, as a joke, changed from a marriage to an alliance.
Queen Yabai announced on the spot that she had made an alliance with Chief Aihong to help him drive out Isa and unify the Chima tribe.
When the news reached the City of Chaos, Asulin was thinking about what kind of tail-shedding gift to prepare for Ning Ren.
After hearing this, Nianlie chuckled, "Marriage has become sworn brotherhood. They've gone from being a couple to being siblings of the opposite sex."
Jie Ling: "Queen Jacobel isn't the type to change her mind at the drop of a hat. Is there something hidden behind this?"
"Regardless of whether there's a hidden secret or not," Asulin put down the 'Children's Guide to Animal Lovers,' "After Aihong and Yabailie united to resolve the civil unrest within the Red Horse Tribe, their next target will be our City of Chaos."
Henlie stopped smiling and said, "No matter if they are allied or not, if they dare to attack, we will kill them all."
A Sulin: "If my guess is correct, Isa's letter for help will be delivered to me in a few days. The White Feather Tribe previously gave up the competition in the Lar Mountains for some unknown reason and stayed indoors. We are the only ones Isa can turn to."
"Only if the Mi tribe sends troops can he help secure his position as clan leader," Jie Ling said thoughtfully. "Should we take action?"
A Sulin: "I can, but there are other conditions. I will talk to him personally."
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The beauty snake tribe.
Deep in the dungeon.
Countless chains turned into a cage, tightly trapping the figure inside.
This is a female beauty snake. The snake crown on its head is covered in blood, as if something has been peeled off from it.
From a distance, a guard's respectful voice came: "Queen!"
"Open the cell door, and let no one in."
"yes."
Queen Yabai walked in calmly and stood in front of the beautiful snake. "How do you feel, sister?"
After a long moment, the bound serpent uttered a weak laugh. "Sister? Yulila, it's just you and me here. Do we still need to put on a show?"
A few days ago, she married Aihong as her queen. In order to make him willingly give birth to a child who would inherit his fire talent, she even agreed to his request that they could live apart for a long time after marriage and each lead their own tribe.
But Jacobel had not expected that on the wedding night, her queen would drug the wine and team up with her sister to peel off the crown on her head, which had long been integrated with the snake crown.
From then on, Yulila used her face, which was the same as Yabai's, to become the 'Queen Yabai' of the beautiful snake tribe.
The real Queen Yabai turned out to be Yulila, who was thrown into the dungeon on the pretext of going crazy.
"Okay, I'll listen to you, sister." Yulila stroked the crown on her head. "I always listen to you."
Queen Yabai sneered, "Why don't you kill me?"
Yulila's expression faded. "If I were defeated today, sister, would you kill me?" She stepped forward, ran her hand across the side of Yabai'er's face, and wiped away the blood. "Sister, I care about you very much, but—"
Her voice suddenly became sharp and fierce, "Why!"
"Why does my mother say she loves me, but she cares about you more? Why does she say she will pass the throne to me, but turns around and gives the crown to you?!"
"I will never forget my mother's disappointed look! Why?! How can you judge me as unfit to be the king of the Serpent Tribe just based on the choice of a crown?!"
The crown on Yulila's head suddenly emitted a scarlet light. She screamed, covered the crown and stepped back repeatedly.
Jacob's jaw had turned red from being pinched by her, and he looked at her with pity.
"You bind me here, but I see you, too, bound in an invisible cage by the throne. Yulila, the crown refuses to acknowledge you because you lack the willpower to protect your people. Responsibility is not easily overcome."
"I can……"
Yulila covered her crown, took a few deep breaths, and slowly calmed herself down.
"I'll let you watch alive, I can."
Jabaiel: "If you are so confident that you can overcome the distrust of your people, then why don't you just claim the title of king by your own name, but instead wear my skin?"
Yulila said coldly, "You don't need to goad me. I know what I'm doing. When the tribe prospers under my leadership, I will reveal my true identity and say that you died of illness and passed the crown to me. The tribe will only support me."
"From now on, my name, Yulila, will also be mentioned among the kings of all generations."
"Sister, just stay in this dark dungeon and watch me climb to the top step by step."
The dungeon door closed as it had opened, and silence fell once again.
Queen Jabel closed her eyes and sighed.
-
Isa led his troops to stop in front of the City of Chaos.
Ning Lie clasped his fists at the city gate and shouted, "Chief Isa, I've been waiting for you!"
Isa nodded slightly. This was his second time stepping into the City of Chaos, and he was the only one around him.
Arriving at the Central Royal City, Asulin met him and said, "Chief Isa, you have become much more mature since the last time we met."
Isa: "Chief, you're joking. A year has passed, and I'm no longer the ignorant young chief I once was. Chief, you should already know why I'm here, right?"
A Sulin: "I know."
"I can send troops to help you, but there is a condition."
Isa was silent for a moment, then said, "I actually guessed there would be other conditions. Chief, please tell me. Apart from surrendering, I will do everything I can."
"You know, I wanted to kill you at first."
Isa suddenly looked up, all his muscles tensed.
"Don't be nervous. If I wanted to kill you, you wouldn't even have the chance to say a word to me." A Sulin took out a long-prepared list of conditions for sending troops. It only had two lines of text on it:
The Mi tribe is willing to help Isa, the leader of the Chima tribe, quell the civil strife and consolidate the regime, but during the reign of the next young master of the Mi tribe, the Chima tribe must not take the initiative to wage war against the City of Chaos.
"That's the only one?"
He is now the one seeking help, and Asulin can make more requests to him. He will agree even if he is skinned alive.
This one is too simple.
“I just ask, can you do it?”
Isa was silent. "After suppressing the civil strife, it will take a long time for the Chima tribe to recover. As long as the Mi tribe does not wage war against us, we will definitely focus on recuperation."
A Sulin nodded. "A Ren doesn't like fighting. During my reign, I will eliminate all destabilizing factors for him, and all wars will end in my hands. I want him to be happy and relaxed when he is the leader."
At least I won't be as tired as him.
"You're a very good father."
Isa quickly signed his name on the contract and said, "I will go ahead tomorrow and wait for reinforcements from your Chaos City."
A Sulin: "Why don't you go see him? A Ren misses you very much."
Isa touched his burned face and smiled, "No, I'll scare them."
"Let their Big Brother Isa always remain the handsome man in their memories."
-
White Feather Clan.
This is the most difficult festival for them in recent years.
Starting from two months ago, members of their tribe who had no mental power began to develop a strange disease one after another.
At first, Bai Yu would experience headaches, which would become increasingly severe, and he would even experience mumbling auditory hallucinations. Once the disease began, it was incurable and could only be managed through self-harm, which was like drinking poison to quench thirst.
Self-harm progresses from mild to severe and eventually becomes irreversible.
"Great Wizard!"
"Great wizard! Another guard came to report that this situation has already occurred to the young cubs in the tribe!" The young patriarch of the Baiyu tribe, who had just been on the throne for two years, hurried over with an anxious look on his face.
"Cubs?" Great White Crow Wizard, "Quick, gather all the cubs in the tribe together immediately. Those who haven't awakened their spiritual powers should enter the protection circle first!"
"I've already made arrangements," said the White Feather Clan leader worriedly, "Has the Great Wizard figured out what's going on?"
The Great Wizard White Crow looked up at the sky.
It was daytime and the temperature in the North was gradually warming up, but some unintelligent birds could be seen in the sky, flying in flocks from the North to the South.
Since ancient times, birds have had senses several times greater than those of other groups.
Especially before a major disaster strikes, there will be omens and warnings.
A cloud of gloom filled Bai Ya's heart. He planted his wizard's staff on the ground and closed his eyes. "Alas... Chief, do you know where this situation occurred the most recently?"
Chief Baiyu had a bad feeling in his heart.
He was silent for a long time, "You mean, the Eastern Region."
The white crow nodded.
The White Feather Clan leader is gentle, intelligent and compassionate young man.
They both tacitly agreed not to mention the two words that represented terror.
Bai Ya: "Asulin will join forces with Isa to fight against Yabaili and Aihong. Where is the battlefield expected to be?"
A faint blue light flashed in the eyes of the White Feather Clan Leader, and he locked onto a point in the void as the longitude and latitude intersected. "I estimate it's on the Gomian Plain."
"Time is running out. I need to leave my tribe for a while and go directly to the Gomian Plains to stop this war. If our suspicions are true, this will be the greatest disaster that all life in the Eastern Region has faced in the past thousand years."
The Great Wizard White Crow turned and left.
“No ethnic group can stay out of this.”
-
Asulin unfolded a booklet.
"In two months, you will be at the end of your shedding period. What do you want?"
The booklet contained many rare treasures, toys and weapons of all kinds. Ning Ren was very interested in it, but after flipping through it, he found that there was really nothing he wanted.
He held his chin in his hand and said, "Uncle Jie Ling said that Daddy will be away from Chaos City for two months to fight. A Ren wants to go with you."
A Sulin: "It's too dangerous."
"I'm pretty good too," Ning Ren said, "In the training grounds, I used to play tail stunts with Momo and the others."
A Sulin: "You are still young. After you shed your tail and I solve the problem of the Perfect Man-Snake Tribe, I will take you to see the outside of the Chaos City."
"Glaciers, seas of clouds, deserts, the eye of a storm... The North Territory has many magnificent sights."
Ning Ren was still a little unhappy.
He had never been separated from Asulin for such a long time.
After the puppies are five years old, parents will gradually train them to be independent, with separate beds and rooms. During this period, parents also need to adapt to the gap and discomfort that comes with independence.
A Sulin: "A Ren?"
Ning Ren hugged his waist and buried his head.
"I don't want anything. Dad, come back soon."
A Sulin touched his head and said, "The tail-off period is tough, I will be back before that." He had to leave so that A Ren would have a stable management environment in the future.
Shedding the tail is an important stage, and the Blood Knot will give him a warning a few days in advance, so he has plenty of time to rush back.
Ning Ren twisted and turned in his arms like a restless puppy.
A Sulin: "I told you before that there are pink muhly grasses planted at the sacrificial light column. I should be back after they bloom."
"It's too windy there. If you want to go, let Simao take you there."
"Okay," Ning Ren said sullenly, "come back soon."
The next day.
The setting sun.
Ning Ren and Cong Cong sat on the edge of the outer city wall, their feet dangling in the air, staring at the rapidly disappearing army in a daze.
This was the second time he and Congcong said goodbye.
Ning Ren couldn't explain how he felt right now. He touched the city wall that was warmed by the setting sun and asked Jie Ling behind him, "Is Dad coming back soon?"
Cong Cong wondered: "The leader just left."
Ning Ren sighed dejectedly. He hooked his tail around Cong Cong's arm and said, "How boring."
Birds fly south, the sun sets and the moon rises, and before it gets completely dark, a faint shadow of the moon appears on the sky.
Congcong looked at it for a while and pointed at the moon. "Aren, the area around the moon seems to have turned red," it said in confusion. "It seems... like an eye."
Ning Ren was amused. "No way. Let's go back and check the egg. It's getting really hot. It should be about to hatch."
Congcong jumped into the city wall, lifted Ning Ren onto his shoulders and helped him sit firmly, then walked into the city.
"It really does look like an eye..."
"No, no."
Before leaving, Jie Ling looked back at the sky.
The solitary moon hangs high in the sky, looking ordinary.
The gates of the chaotic city closed heavily, and everything returned to peace.
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