When Li Qing heard the first few words, he wasn't too surprised. After all, survivors were a normal occurrence. But when he heard the later words, he couldn't help but be slightly astonished. Strange, there were still people alive in the White Feather Tribe. In his memory, the group that came out of the Black Crow Forest had been killed by him in the Black Wind Tribe long ago. At that time, he had confirmed that they had absolutely no chance of survival. How could there still be survivors? Could it be one of the elderly members of the White Feather Tribe? Li Qing thought about it and still felt that the latter was more likely. But when he saw the survivor's face, he immediately realized that he was wrong. This person was indeed from the White Feather Tribe, and had also escaped from the Black Crow Forest. But he wasn't one of the group that had foolishly entered the Black Wind Tribe; rather…
"Hutun, you're still alive?"
Li Qing asked in surprise.
The person in front of him was Hu Tun. Even though his injuries were very serious, Li Qing still recognized his face. He was even more puzzled. He had knocked Hu Tun unconscious and then left him in the Black Crow Forest. The Black Crow Forest should be a disaster hotspot. How did Hu Tun survive?
Hu Tun clearly recognized Li Qing as well. His eyebrows twitched, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Don't...don't kill me!"
Li Qing remained silent. He noticed that Hu Tun had also suffered serious injuries. The change in his skin color and the blood clots on his body made Hu Tun look like a different person. However, apart from some superficial wounds, there were no other signs of poisoning and impending death. Li Qing was puzzled and asked, "How are you still alive?"
Upon hearing this, Hu Tun's expression changed drastically. He struggled to kneel down and desperately kowtowed to Li Qing, begging for mercy: "Don't kill me, don't kill me! Please! My tribe is completely destroyed. The very foundation of our Baiyu tribe rests on my shoulders. You can't kill me!"
"It's all over? You know what happened in the Black Wind Tribe?" Li Qing was even more puzzled.
Now it was Hu Tun's turn to be completely baffled. He looked bewildered and then said in a pitiful tone, "After I woke up, I ran back to our tribe, but the remaining people in our tribe were mostly children and the elderly. They had no way to resist the strange stones that fell from the sky. When I got to the tribe and tried to save them, they were all dead."
After saying that, Hu Tun couldn't help but burst into tears. Judging from his actions of wiping snot and tears, it didn't seem like he was faking it. Li Qing could only secretly rejoice while outwardly shaking his head and sighing sadly. In his plan, Li Qing was only interested in the warriors of the Black Wind Tribe. As for those two-faced people from the White Feather Tribe, humph, it would be better if they were dead!
However, Li Qing did not expect that Hu Tun's vitality was so tenacious. He immediately snorted and said, "You are also amazing. I thought I had beaten you to death, but I didn't expect you to still be alive."
Hu Tun was startled. He could tell that Li Qing was just teasing him. He figured that after teasing him for a while, Li Qing would get bored and kill him. Hu Tun's expression changed drastically. He immediately looked at Li and pleaded for help, "Li, you can't let Mai Zi kill me!"
Li said expressionlessly, "What Mai Zi does is his business."
The implication, of course, is that whether or not someone is killed depends on the other party's mood.
Hu Tun could no longer hold back; he shouted, "No! You absolutely cannot kill me! If you kill me, then..."
"Then?" Li Qing sensed that Hu Tun seemed to be hiding something and asked.
Hu Tun suddenly realized that he had let something slip and gratefully covered his mouth.
This action was truly self-deceptive, and Li Qing almost burst out laughing, but he still kept a straight face and said, "Speak up, if you want to keep this from us, don't blame us for being impolite. What do you mean by 'we absolutely cannot kill you'? From what you're saying, we have an absolutely reason not to kill you?"
Hutun said with a mournful face, "Yes, of course we do. Are you looking for your tribe members right now?"
Li Qing was taken aback, thinking to himself that this guy was quite clever, so he nodded and said, "Yes, but so what?"
"I know the exact location of a group of people from your tribe!" Hutun said quickly. "I can take you to them, so you can't kill me!"
Pan, who was settling the tribespeople nearby, heard this and immediately strode towards Hutun, asking, "You know where they are? Then why don't you save them? Tell us all this now!"
Hu Tun's voice was tinged with tears, "I didn't even care about my own life back then, how could I have time to save them? I just left that place and got here, and I've already passed out. Luckily you saved me, otherwise I probably would have died long ago."
“You certainly know how to talk,” Li Qing said.
Seeing that Li Jiangpan had been sent away, Li Qing continued to ask, "Where are they now, and how far away are they from here?"
“It’s quite a distance, and it’s rather dangerous inside,” Hutun honestly replied.
"And what about them? How are they? How many of them are there? Are any injured?"
After thinking for a moment, Hu Tun replied, "There are quite a few people, but I don't know the exact number."
This person is quite cunning. I'm afraid he won't tell me anything useful unless I agree not to kill him, Li Qing thought to himself.
Sure enough, Hu Tun's eyes darted around, and the next moment he said, "As long as you promise not to kill me, I can take you to the place where they are."
Li had just returned after seeing Pan off when he overheard this, so he looked at Li Qing and asked, "Mai Zi, how about we..."
Li Qing said with a wry smile, "Forget it, let's just do as Hu Tun says. I don't think he's lying to us."
"I swear to God, I'm not lying to you!" Hu Tun swore.
Li Qing pulled Hu Tun up and said crisply, "Whether they lied to us or not, we'll only know when we get there. There's no use talking about it now."
"That's right, that's right, hehe."
Li Qing looked Hu Tun up and down and asked, "Can you walk by yourself?"
"Yes, definitely!"
Hutun took two steps in a pretentious manner, deliberately gesturing for Li Qing to see.
"Wait a minute, didn't you just say that you couldn't hold on any longer when you got this far, and that you wouldn't have made it if you hadn't met us? How come you can walk on your own now?" Li Qing asked, feigning confusion.
"ah--"
Seeing that Hu Tun was almost driven to the brink of collapse by his own teasing, Li Qing finally stopped teasing him and laughed, "Alright, alright, let's not talk about this anymore, let's hurry up and set off."
But a plan formed in his mind: shouldn't the tribe also have a shrewd, cowardly character like Hutun to advise the chief?
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