Chapter 350: Ash-covered Bamboo Slips



Anyway, I have to accompany Bai Lu to the medical consultation, so I might as well go over there and see what it is.

So after Bailu finished washing dishes and other chores, I took her and Yunwen and followed the five hyena people to their newly rebuilt residence. Wherever they were, there were iron products. When we went out of the yard, we saw hyena people setting up stalls with flat stones outside, and there were patrolling guards around, and these guards were all trained by me.

Especially the big guy at the front, wasn't he the big fang that I had cultivated? When he saw me, he immediately raised an unstandard military salute, and I returned one to him, which made Bai Lu stunned.

In order to facilitate the transaction, a large area outside has been fenced with wooden fences, extending from the edge of the dangerous jungle in the north to the direction of the post station in the south, to the extension area of ​​Diaolou Mountain in the west, and to a distance of twenty steps east of the post station in the east. It is fenced with wood and stones and divided into the east gate and the north gate, which are made of iron fences and are still guarded by hyena people as in the past.

This is all for the convenience of the market area, so that there will be no crisis for customers. It's just that this encloses our station inside, which gives us a feeling of being in a domestic country. By the way, it plays a role of guarding us. There are people watching over the perimeter and the gate. This is really the treatment of a king. No wonder Bai Lu doesn't need to go out with Hu Lingshang when she goes out recently. After all, it is basically safe outside.

But seeing them piled up like that to form a fence was still a bit ugly, so before going to the hyena people's residence, I went to the outskirts and taught them how to use mud and water to form mud with a certain viscosity, and then spread it over and pile it up layer by layer with stones, which is the way to make an earth wall. After demonstrating it on the spot, the hyena queen Huahua immediately gathered a number of hyena people to follow suit. These were all treasures to them.

For a moment, all the hyena people looked at me as if I were a god.

"Brother Zhou Bo, it looks like you are really the king here, so majestic." Song Bailu said, her eyes revealing admiration.

I coughed. I also like to hear nice words, but I have to pretend to be indifferent.

Then we went to the main residence of the hyena people, the uphill of Diaolou Mountain. When we first arrived, this was the world of wolf spiders, but unfortunately those wolf spiders were killed by the apes, and even all the spider eggs were crushed, which led to the current scene. It has also experienced ups and downs, and now it has changed its appearance. The mountain path has been cleaned, and a lot of holes have been chiseled on the mountain wall, at least seven in total, three of which have iron smelting furnaces with earth piles inside, emitting bursts of hot air and clanging sounds, where iron is smelted and forged.

Among the other seven, the ones that were darker were all occupied by a female hyena and her litter of children. They looked at me with great respect. Some of the children had grown up a lot, and they must have been born before. Others didn't even have all their body hair grown, and they might have been born within this month, which means they had started to reproduce earlier. There were about six children in one room, raised by two female hyenas.

In fact, the living habits of hyenas are not very similar to those of modern people. They live in a matriarchal society, and females are higher in status than males regardless of size. Generally speaking, the right to reproduce is only possessed by the female leader, and other female hyenas are only allowed to raise children together. But now it may be because the hyenas need to increase their population, and they have been more or less grafted with human brains and their genes have changed, so their way of thinking is naturally different. Therefore, it is estimated that the hyena queen Huahua gave the order to allow all members to reproduce, which led to this situation.

However, those who Yunwen has the right to reproduce all look very similar to Huahua. They may be sisters from the same litter. In terms of status, they are the eldest princesses, or princes and nobles. There are two such rooms, so the next generation of hyena people can increase to ten to twelve. There are also two rooms reserved for the queen. There are about five or six female hyena people in one room, and about seven or eight hyena people of different sizes. They look very similar to Huahua, which shows that they are all royal family.

This is a complete social system. Just a simple tour made me marvel at it, but at the same time I felt a little scared, as if I was not visiting an ordinary place, but the backyard of a kingdom.

I came to the last room, where there were only two female hyenas. They served a little hyena together. This hyena looked very much like Huahua, with similar figures and fur patterns. He lived in the largest cave. I thought he was the crown prince. However, when he saw me, he turned away and went back to biting and playing with his own toys.

Huahua howled a few times, and the two female hyena servants called the little hyena man over. Seeing Huahua's angry face, they knelt down to me.

"Brother Zhou Bo, I don't know why, but after staying in this place for a long time, I have a sense of fear. After all, Yingchun was bewitched and killed by them. I always feel that if we stay with them for too long, there will be bad consequences." Bai Lu said with an uneasy tone.

If before, I had turned a deaf ear to the outside world and only wanted to save Yunwen, and had not paid attention to these changes, I would not have felt anything. But now that this has happened, looking at these unexpected situations, I began to feel that what Bai Lu said was not unreasonable. Although it is peaceful and ordinary here for the time being, with family matters and nothing special, but when I think about it carefully, I do have concerns. After all, traces of royal power can be seen everywhere.

From small matters like personnel arrangement to big matters like accommodation placement, it is just a simple separation, but it can reveal the ruthless and selfish side of power and make me feel a chill in my heart, although it is none of my business for the time being.

"Don't think too much. Yingchun brought it upon herself. What we did were all righteous and altruistic things. How can we compare them?" I said.

She nodded, even though she might not quite agree with what I said at the moment.

At this time, Huahua gestured to us, I turned to look at Yunwen and asked her to translate. It turned out that the guards were going to take Bailu to visit the patients among the hyena people. Bailu was very uneasy, but after I comforted her, she still went with them. At this moment, I really hoped that Yunwen would say something. Her erudition would definitely give me some good suggestions. Unfortunately, she could only be dull and indifferent in front of me, waiting for orders, and suffering the pain of the resurrected soul.

After Bailu was led away by the hyena guards, Huahua took us into its house, which was the largest and most spacious of all the houses. It was protected by an iron door outside and two guards stood guarding it. The cave was very deep. There was a small iron rack nailed to the wall in the house. There was a bowl-shaped thing on the iron rack, which was filled with fish-man cream and was on fire. There were also steps, and there was even a second floor inside. It looked very much like the structure of our post station house.

After going up to the second floor, I was stunned by the scene in front of me. The room was filled with crab legs, fish, fruits, and even a lot of gold and silver jewelry made of simple craftsmanship, piled all over the floor. It reminded me of the scene that Yingchun had done in the castle before. It felt like the rich and powerful were feasting and drinking. Compared with it, my potatoes in the woven basket were really nothing.

There is a small window on the second floor, through which light shines in. In addition, there is also the fish-man cream that is constantly lit, so there is plenty of light.

"Oh my god, this guy doesn't look like a distressed person at all, he's clearly a rich man on a deserted island!" I couldn't help but sigh.

The hyena queen Huahua waved her hand, and the other three hyena guards retreated. They heard the sound and went to the stairs on the first floor to guard. They pointed at a box in a corner and made sign language to Yunwen and me. I asked Yunwen to translate, and Yunwen said, "This box is what we found when we dug this cave. It's what I want to show you, Your Majesty."

I walked over and Huahua pushed it open. I saw that the box was made of a special ancient metal material, like bronze or something else. It felt very smooth. I opened it and saw that it was completely empty with only a bundle of bamboo slips hidden inside. I was afraid that the good things had been taken away long ago, but I didn't care about them.

I opened the bamboo slips, but couldn't understand anything. I could only ask Yunwen to translate for me in a clear way. Yunwen held the bamboo slips in her heart, and her eyes actually lit up, which seemed very inconsistent, as if the face and eyes had no connection. It is indeed appropriate to say that the form and spirit are not consistent.


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