Someone...
The moment the fire lit up, Lu Xuan pointed around. Everyone understood and immediately found a place to hide.
Fortunately, there were many strangely shaped rocks around the cave, and the cave was not straight, so everyone quickly found a place to hide.
Lu Xuan and Taylor were at the front of the team, squatting behind a two-meter-high stalactite.
Lu Xuan tilted his head slightly and looked towards the place where the fire was lit in front of him. He saw a lazy-looking savage holding a torch listlessly, then stuck the torch into the ground, and seemed to be busy somewhere else.
"Brother Lu Xuan, this savage should be the lowest level. He's responsible for preparing food every day. There were originally two of them, but now there's only one left. This means the number of people left behind is probably insufficient."
Taylor also glanced at the situation ahead from another direction and gave Lu Xuan good news.
"Then you stay here, I'll go check out the situation."
Suddenly, they discovered a savage from the Charlie tribe. Although there was only one savage, Lu Xuan did not want to alert the enemy. If a large group of people moved together, it would inevitably make too much noise. So he decided to go into the tribe alone to explore the way and find out the other party's strength.
Taylor nodded at Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan was holding a bamboo fork and carrying the hunting rifle on his back. Before leaving, he made a gesture to the four girls behind him, indicating that they should just follow Taylor.
After leaving the main group, Lu Xuan crouched alone on the right side of the cave, taking small steps cautiously.
Half a minute later, Lu Xuan successfully arrived at the cave exit. He squatted on the side away from the torch and looked around. Except for the lowest-level savage who was busy making a fire and cooking food about ten meters in front of him on the right, the entire tribe was quiet and there was no movement at all.
The scene in the tribe was identical to what Lu Xuan had witnessed last time. A few simple thatched huts were scattered haphazardly across the land, as if they were part of nature. In the center of the tribe, a flickering fire caught his eye. That must have been the torch lit by the early-rising wild man.
Seeing that there was almost no one on duty here, Lu Xuan became much bolder. While the savage who was busy with breakfast had his back to him, Lu Xuan tiptoed quickly to a thatched hut, slowly lifted the straw curtain, and stuck his head out to look inside.
There was no one inside, only two shriveled straw mats, an extremely ugly ceramic jar and a bamboo fork.
Lu Xuan moved to another thatched hut again and looked inside. The situation was similar to the previous thatched hut, and there was no one inside.
There were no savages in these two consecutive thatched huts, and Lu Xuan felt much more at ease. It seemed that Richard had taken away a lot of savages this time, and he was really preparing to fight with the cannibal tribe.
Lu Xuan didn't care who would win or lose between the two tribes. It would be best if both sides suffered losses.
He only cared about one thing at the moment, which was to find Vivian as soon as possible. Of course, if possible, it would also be nice to bring some things back from this tribe.
After not finding any wild men in two consecutive thatched huts, Lu Xuan became bolder.
Just when I was thinking about going to the third thatched hut, a person suddenly came out of the thatched hut in the center that looked larger.
Lu Xuan was also startled, but fortunately he was agile and he dodged sideways and hid behind a thatched hut.
When Lu Xuan slightly stuck his head out to see the appearance of the person coming, Lu Xuan remembered a person, that is, Alucia, who was called the tribal leader by Richard. He saw the old man staggering towards the early-rising savage.
Lu Xuan quickly stepped to the large thatched house in the center, lifted the straw curtain again and looked inside twice, and made a lot of discoveries.
There was no one else in the thatched hut, but the furnishings inside were much richer than the two huts he had seen before. Lu Xuan not only saw simple tables, chairs and benches made of tree trunks, but also found several tiger-skin skirts, a large bunch of hanging barbecued meat, two bamboo forks, and a large jar of drinking water that didn't look very clean.
Of course, what surprised Lu Xuan the most was that he actually saw a scroll made of sheepskin on that extremely ugly table.
Seeing the sheepskin, Lu Xuan instinctively thought of the sheepskin scroll...
Could it be that this old chief also has a parchment scroll in his hand?
Lu Xuan's interest was instantly piqued. He looked outside and saw the old chief Alushia, who looked old and frail, still chatting with the early-rising savage. Lu Xuan rushed into the thatched hut with a quick step.
He turned on the flashlight and began to examine the sheepskin.
There were indeed some words on it, but the handwriting was unclear, obviously because it was worn out due to age.
Lu Xuan didn't care about anything and put it in his pocket first.
After taking the sheepskin, Lu Xuan slipped out of the thatched hut again. He wanted to explore a few more thatched huts, but suddenly he found that the old leader, who was walking tremblingly, turned around and walked towards him. Lu Xuan quickly went around to the back of the big thatched hut.
Fortunately, Alushia did not return to his thatched hut, but dragged his heavy steps towards the southwest corner of the tribe.
Lu Xuan followed carefully through the faint firelight and saw that the old man seemed to have come to a lawn. He then took the crutch-like object in his hand and knocked on the ground a few times. Then he used the crutch in his hand as a crowbar, bent down, and opened a hole in the lawn that originally looked quite flat.
After a series of operations, a hidden tunnel entrance appeared in Lu Xuan's sight.
Lu Xuan was also stunned. He never expected that there would be a secret passage in this seemingly simple and dilapidated tribe.
Lu Xuan just stared with his round eyes at the old leader who slowly walked into the secret passage.
It seems that Richard really put a lot of thought into this...
Could it be that Vivian was imprisoned in this secret passage by them?
An idea suddenly came to Lu Xuan's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. He even had an impulse and rushed over with his hunting rifle.
Just when Lu Xuan was about to grab his weapon and move forward, Alucia, who had been in there for less than a minute, crawled out from the secret passage again, holding a bunch of food that looked like pickled meat in his hand.
Lu Xuan was a little surprised again. Could it be that this secret passage was used to store food?
After thinking it over, Lu Xuan decided not to act rashly. He would go back and ask Taylor before considering the next step...
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