Upon hearing this, Li Qing's expression changed immediately; the amount of information contained in those words was simply too great.
If both sides are fighting fair and square, what could possibly inflict such severe injuries on the strange bird?
There's another point, which is even more terrifying.
Some people survived and went back.
This means that this person will report everything he saw that day to their chief and other warriors.
Danger!
This tribe is so powerful. If we were to fight them now, how would we possibly contend with them?
As he thought about it, Li Qing gradually turned pale.
When Atuna, who was reporting the news, saw Li Qing's expression turn so ugly, he became somewhat panicked and said helplessly, "It's...it's all my fault!"
Pan shook his head, stood beside Atuna, and faced Li Qing, saying, "No, this is my fault, it has nothing to do with Atuna."
"No, it has nothing to do with Pan, it's all my fault, I was too careless!"
"It's my fault!"
"..."
"You two," Li Qing said helplessly, looking at the two of them. "Never mind, I didn't mean to blame you."
The deed was done, and further blame was pointless. Seeing their reactions, Li Qing figured they wouldn't repeat the same mistake next time, so he skipped the attempt to correct them and asked directly, "How is the strange bird's injury now?"
Pan answered first, "It's much better now! Its recovery ability is the strongest I've ever seen, and it's fine now."
"That's good." Li Qing nodded.
Seeing that Li Qing didn't blame him or Atuna at all, Pan felt a little embarrassed and blinked, saying, "Unfortunately, after the strange bird recovered, it flew up again to try to find the warrior's whereabouts, but he still managed to escape."
That's not surprising. With their tribe's strength, they must have some escape route that could fool the strange bird. Li Qing responded and sighed, "Never mind, let's not talk about that. By the way, are you sure you killed the rest of them?"
"Absolutely certain!"
Both of them nodded in affirmation.
"What about the snakeskin bags they were carrying on their backs? They should still be there, right?"
This is the issue that Li Qing is most concerned about.
"...Yes, I'm here?"
Pandao.
"What's wrong?"
Li Qing laughed and tossed the pickaxe to Pan, asking, "Why don't you give it a try?"
Pan took the pickaxe with some skepticism, seemingly not understanding what was so interesting about it, but after swinging it a few times, his expression changed.
He had followed Li for a while and had some knowledge of weapons. "This pickaxe, it actually..."
He could tell from the test that this was no ordinary project.
Li Qing smiled and said, "Let's give it a try on Atuna."
As he spoke, after Pan tossed the pickaxe to Atuna, Li Qingcai said, "The material used to make this pickaxe should be the same kind of kino rock that these people are carrying in their bags. In any case, we can't fight them for nothing. It doesn't matter if one person gets away, but at least we need to bring back the kino rock. That way, when we get back to camp, we can ask our tribe's craftsmen to help us forge some handy weapons."
"yes!"
Pan's eyes lit up.
At that time, the strength of their tribe can be increased rapidly!
But just as he thought of this, Atuna remembered another question and couldn't help but ask, "Kino Rock?"
Li Qing slapped the back of her head, realizing there were too many things she hadn't told him. It was normal that he didn't know, so she casually said, "Let's just call him that for now, don't worry about it. Let's grab the bags and get going."
"Oh...I...I understand!"
Pan responded in a low voice.
Just then, Atuna walked over with a snakeskin bag and a pickaxe. He returned the pickaxe to Li Qing and was about to leave when Li Qing waved to him, "Let me see inside first."
Atuna then opened the snakeskin bag.
The snakeskin bag was filled with these so-called Kino Rock stones. They looked no different from ordinary stones, but under the sunlight, they emitted bursts of golden light. Li Qing was a little curious, so he picked up another Kino Rock stone to examine it. The pickaxe did look similar to an ordinary pickaxe. If he hadn't tried it himself, Li Qing really wouldn't have known that the pickaxe was so magical.
The same goes for these Kino Rocks. From a distance, they look no different from ordinary stones except for their "glowing" appearance. However, upon closer inspection, Li Qing noticed that the stones had many hidden, dense, and intricate patterns. They also had an extremely smooth texture, as if they had been polished. Most remarkably, when Li Qing held them up to the sunlight, he could see that the color of the stones gradually shifted to a pale purple. When Li Qing removed them, they returned to their ordinary stone appearance.
Just as he was about to put the stone back into the snakeskin bag, Li Qing suddenly thought of something. He placed the stone in his palm, covered it with both hands, leaving only a small gap, and peered through it.
A magical scene unfolded: the Kino Rock, which had returned to "normal" state, suddenly began to shimmer brilliantly in the dark environment, like crystal.
“If you don’t look closely, you really can’t tell that there’s anything special about this rock,” Li Qing exclaimed in amazement. He let go of the rock and muttered to himself, “But this Qinuo Rock is too unassuming. Luckily, I knew about it beforehand, otherwise I might have just thrown it away as an ordinary rock.”
After putting the stone back into the snakeskin bag, Li Qing checked the bag again and roughly calculated, thinking to himself, "If the remaining six bags all contain this amount of Kino Rock, then we can probably make about twenty weapons... This amount is already quite considerable. In addition, the rest should be able to be used to make materials such as bows and arrows."
“Alright, I’ll take them,” Li Qing said with a smile. “Anyway, there are six bags. One or two for each person should be enough. By the way, don’t waste the pickaxes. These pickaxes can also serve as our weapons temporarily. Let’s not waste them.”
Atuna and the other man replied in unison, "Understood!"
“Go ahead and get busy. You guys help find those snakeskin bags first, then call Daohua and tell him we can go home now—don’t say too much, or he’ll worry,” Li Qing said, pointing to himself. “I need to check on the strange bird’s injuries and see what happened.”
“If everything is alright, then let’s meet at the strange bird’s spot and head back to camp as quickly as possible.” Li Qing turned to the two and asked, “Any problems?”
The two of them shouted in unison, "No problem!"
After saying that, the two of them crawled back into the bushes they had just emerged from and ran back to the battlefield.
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