Li smiled gently and said, "It's me, Mai Zi. Long time no see."
Li's admission of his identity immediately brought Li Qing's memory back to the time when they had just crossed the Liang Meng River.
Not long after they crossed the river, they encountered a wild boar. They managed to kill it, but suddenly a hawk appeared and snatched them away.
After many twists and turns, he arrived at the Qingye tribe and then returned to the Honghua tribe. Along the way, he experienced far too many things.
Li Qing was filled with emotion: "I remember you guys clearly fell off a cliff. The cliff face was bare, and there was nothing to grab onto. How did you survive?"
These words also brought back memories for Li from several days ago, and she exclaimed, "Yes, that cliff had nothing to hold onto. When we fell, we all thought we were going to die, but during our descent, we were saved by a strange bird, which carried us down at high speed to this place."
Even now, looking back on the experience, Li still finds it hard to believe. It was all too unbelievable. "We had never seen that strange bird before. It was bigger than any bird I had ever seen. I still don't understand why it saved us or how it brought us to this place."
"A strange bird?" Li Qing asked. "Didn't it do anything to you afterwards?"
Li shook his head and said, "It shouldn't have any hostility towards us. It only saved us because it saw that we were about to die. In the first few days after we arrived in this place, it was the one who found food for us and took care of us."
It was like a fairy tale. Li Qing couldn't believe that there were wild beasts in the world that hadn't been domesticated but were so friendly to humans. Whether in prehistoric times or in modern times, humans have always been the greatest enemies of wild beasts. In modern times, people obtain fur and food from wild beasts, and this was actually the same in prehistoric times. Logically speaking, the relationship between humans and wild beasts should have been very strained long ago. How could there be such a "kind" bird? Li Qing thought that everything would only be answered after seeing the bird with his own eyes. He then asked another question that had been bothering him, "So, did you all survive? Are Daohua and the others alright too?"
Li Qing still can't forget Daohua. Whether it's him or "Maizi", he has already regarded Daohua as his younger brother.
Li pursed his lips and said, "Many soldiers were left forever on the edge of the cliff. Some were saved by that strange bird, but they still died from blood loss. In the end, only about half of them survived. However, Daohua was not seriously injured, but he and some of the younger soldiers have not been in good spirits since they entered this place."
Daohua and those soldiers, they were still just children. Having experienced such a battle, witnessing the soldiers around them fall one after another without being able to do anything, it's only natural that their hearts were wounded by this despair. Li Qing sniffed, looking at Li's expression, he probably didn't know what had happened in the world above. Forcing a smile, Li Qing said, "Oh, I see. By the way, Li, do you know that a lot has happened up there while you were away?"
Li had witnessed the "spectacle" above him, but unfortunately, he had only seen it and did not know what had happened. In his anxiety, he asked, "I don't know, what happened up there?"
Li Qing said, "In short, this matter cannot be explained in just a few words. Why don't we go back to your territory here first? Daohua and the others should all know about this."
Li nodded and said, "Alright."
"Then we'll leave this place immediately, the tribe now..."
"No, that won't work."
"how?"
Li Qing had just finished speaking when he saw Li shake his head in despair. A bad feeling arose in his heart, and he asked.
Li covered his face with his hands and said, "There's no way to leave. Ever since the soldiers around us have recovered, we've tried to find a way out of here, but we can't find it at all. We have no way to leave!"
Li Qingxin's heart sank. He realized he had overlooked something. How could a warrior like Yi Li, who cared deeply about the tribe and had a strong sense of belonging to it, stay here and make the tribe worry and grieve for them? Since they were not dead, but stayed here instead of returning to the tribe, it was not because they preferred living here or wanted the tribe to worry about them, but because they had other reasons for their predicament!
Li Qing asked softly, "What about that strange bird? Since it was able to bring you to this place, it should be able to take you away from here too, right?"
Li shook his head and said, "No... Sigh, this matter is very complicated and cannot be explained in just a few words."
“By the way, what’s this big guy?” Li pointed to Big Black. “When I first saw this guy, it was very friendly to me. At first, I thought it was an enemy.”
"It's Big Black."
Li Qing said gently.
"Big Black?" Li asked in surprise, clicking his tongue. "I remember Big Black was just a puppy. When did it grow so big?"
“It’s a ferocious beast that has awakened, which is why it’s grown so big. Li, so many things have happened while you were gone.” Li Qing recounted the events of that day to Li in detail, and then, as if afraid Li wouldn’t believe him, he stretched out a hand to show Li the totem on his right hand. “Look, I’m a totem warrior now, Li.”
Li looked Li Qing up and down at the totem on his right hand and said with sincere admiration, "Back then you were just a level one warrior. I never imagined that so many things would happen while I was away."
He walked up to Big Black and tried to touch it. Seeing that Big Black did not resist, he carefully stroked its fur, throwing away some small stones mixed in with the fur. He praised Big Black, saying that it felt much stronger than before. "I never thought that such a small guy would be such a ferocious beast. But, Wheat, it seems to have many injuries."
Li Qing nodded. He was eager to meet the others and even more eager to leave this place. With danger lurking outside, how could he possibly relax and chat with Li here? He hurriedly said, "Yes! It's very dangerous up there. We must leave this place immediately. Li, what did you mean by 'things are complicated'?"
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