The strong wind brought heavy rain, lashing over like a whip.
After climbing up more than 300 feet along the plank road, Chu Tian looked down and saw that the dock below was brightly lit and many people were busy. He looked outside the port and could vaguely see the shadows of sails rising and falling on the surging sea. Many sailboats were speeding towards this side.
"This is the annual spring hunt!" Wang Tiebi laughed loudly despite the wind and rain. "This is the most lucrative time! Therefore, all the hunting groups on Golden Tooth Island are out. Tsk tsk, I wonder how the other groups are doing!"
'Spring Hunting'!
Chu Tian heard an extremely interesting word. He wanted to ask Wang Tiebi a few more questions, but the plank road had come to an end and they came to a huge cave entrance in the middle of the cliff.
The rainstorm was overwhelming, and there was an invisible barrier at the entrance of the cave that kept all the wind and rain out. Chu Tian followed Wang Tiebi into the cave, and he clearly felt a sticky force field in the air sweeping over him. The rain on his body was isolated by this force field. After entering the cave, his wet clothes and hair became extremely dry.
The entrance to the cave is a hundred feet wide, with bright lights inside and huge torches stuck on the cave walls. Nine large copper and steel vats are lined up at the entrance, filled with sticky grease. Raging flames constantly spew out of the large vats, making the cave entrance extremely hot.
Dozens of burly men with long hair all over their bodies and obvious wild bear features on their heads stood at the entrance of the cave, wearing armor and holding spears, staring with wide eyes at everyone entering and leaving the cave.
Seeing Wang Tiebi with the cold jade box in his armpit and a bloody bandage on his right shoulder, several big men laughed at the same time: "Hahaha, Wang Tiezhua, your arm was removed? You're at a loss this time?"
Wang Tiebi cursed loudly at the group of men, greeted their mothers and daughters rudely, and then led Chu Tian deeper into the cave, cursing all the way.
After walking straight ahead for more than a mile, the road ahead suddenly sloped downward. There were neatly carved stone steps in the 45-degree downward corridor. The cave walls on both sides were filled with torches, which illuminated the downward corridor clearly.
After walking down the stone steps for a long time, Chu Tian estimated that they were at least three thousand feet vertically downward. They came to a platform with a radius of one hundred feet. Dozens of feet below the platform, a huge and extremely prosperous cave appeared in front of Chu Tian.
"Hey, brother, welcome to the Old Bear Cave!" Wang Tiebi smiled proudly at Chu Tian: "Although I am a slave soldier, in fact, there is nothing wrong with being a slave soldier. You don't have to think about anything, just kill people and set fires. If you do a good job, you will get a reward. Hehe, you can eat, drink, gamble and have a good time."
"You don't have to be like us. We all work with our heads on the line, but you don't have to worry about anything. What about us? We have to support our families, and we have to calculate every spiritual crystal carefully. Hey!" Wang Tiebi sighed heavily, "Sometimes I wonder why I married that damn woman? Why did I have children?"
Chu Tian didn't listen to Wang Tiebi's complaints. He just stared at the huge cave in front of him in a daze.
The cave, which is nearly a hundred miles in radius, is about a thousand feet high. Neat streets crisscross it, and tall buildings stand on both sides of the streets. The streets are bustling with people coming and going and traffic.
From a distance, one can see numerous wide and narrow plank roads carved out of the cave walls around the cave, leading to various large and small cave entrances. In front of each cave entrance is a platform of varying sizes, with flagpoles of varying heights poking out from them, and flags of various sizes, colors and shapes flying.
But the most eye-catching thing is that in the middle of the cave, there is a stone platform hundreds of feet high, on which stands a statue of a flying bear with bared fangs and claws, looking extremely ferocious.
The statue of a flying bear with wings on its back is about a hundred feet tall. Circles of light are constantly spreading out from the statue. Even though they are dozens of miles away, everyone can still see this domineering statue at a glance.
“That’s the statue of Xiong Zun, the master of Golden Tooth Island!” Wang Tiebi noticed that Chu Tian was staring at the statue. He smiled and said, “Our leader, as well as the leaders of more than half of the hunting groups on Golden Tooth Island, are all descendants of Xiong Zun. That’s why this place is called the Old Bear Cave! Some people also call this place…”
Wang Tiebi quickly looked around and said with a low voice, "Some people also call this place the Blind Bear Cave, but no one dares to say that in front of the tribesmen of Elder Xiong Zun."
"Hunting group? What exactly does a hunting group do?" Chu Tian heard the word 'hunting group' again, and he couldn't help but ask Wang Tiebi.
"Yeah! The hunting group is just a nicer name. To put it bluntly, we are... a bandit group!" Wang Tiebi blinked and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "Robbery, murder and arson, whatever can make money quickly, we will do it."
"Golden Tooth Island is the largest hunting hideout within a hundred thousand miles of the Fallen Star Ocean." Wang Tiebi took Chu Tian off the platform and walked forward along a plank road about seventy or eighty feet wide that was carved on the cave wall.
"Here, as long as you have spiritual crystals, you can have whatever you want. Magical weapons, miraculous elixirs, martial arts manuals, secret techniques, what can't you get? Elder Xiong Zun is a senior steward of the Jin family. The connections behind him are all the way to the sky!"
"As long as you are a good man with courage and dare to go out to sea, you can earn spirit crystals! As long as you have spirit crystals, there is nothing you can't get here?" Wang Tiebi said with a grin, "I'm unlucky this time. It will cost at least 100 spirit crystals to renew this arm. The salary I get for going out to sea is only 50 spirit crystals!"
"But the harvest this time is not bad. We caught so many evil cubs here, we can sell them for a lot of money. The old black bear has black fur and black skin, but his heart is not black. The dividends from this deal... Tsk tsk, I don't know how much I can get!" Wang Tiebi licked the corner of his mouth and muttered hopefully.
Chu Tian followed Wang Tiebi all the way, walking along the plank road through one cave after another.
Wang Tiebi kept chattering along the way, introducing some basic information about the Old Bear Cave to Chu Tian. From time to time, he would stop and point to several tall buildings nearby, explaining to him what the place was.
After walking along the plank road on the cave wall for half an hour, Wang Tiebi took a narrow stone staircase and climbed up to a stone platform of about an acre in size. Hehehe, he laughed: "Remember this place, this is our regiment's base. When we have nothing to do on weekdays, the brothers in our regiment all live here."
"Okay, I'll take you here. If you're interested, go and look around by yourself. If you run into trouble, just say you're Black Bear Seven's man. If someone insists on pestering you, don't be afraid, just draw your knife and beat him to death!"
"You coward, you can't survive here! Only the brave men who dare to draw their swords can live a comfortable life! Remember this!"
Wang Tiebi hummed a tune and staggered away with his severed arm. He wanted to reconnect the broken arm while it was still fresh.
Chu Tian stood on the edge of the platform and looked around for a while. After memorizing the location of the platform, he jumped directly from the platform more than a hundred feet above the ground to a street below.