Chapter 246: Rebellious Leaf Cutting
The two continued to move forward, encountering many warriors or ordinary tribesmen from the Red Ant Tribe along the way, but no one came to question them.
Soon, they arrived at the center of the Red Ant Tribe’s residential area and saw a tall and magnificent building that was completely different from the other houses.
After Qie Ye came here, his eyes became proud and his chin was raised higher.
"Do you see that house in front that's as big as a mountain? It's built with the shell of a large tribal totem god. The witch and leader of our Red Ant Tribe all live in it."
Jiang Xuan looked towards the building and saw a tortoise shell as huge as a mountain standing there quietly.
The surface of the tortoise shell was covered with moss and vines, but it was still as hard as iron and without any cracks.
Under the tortoise shell, the Red Ant Tribe built a large number of ant nest-shaped houses. The huge tortoise shell provides shelter from wind and rain, so these houses are very safe.
Jiang Xuan understood that this turtle shell should be the remains of the deceased old turtle god that the Mountain Turtle Tribe had been thinking about for countless years.
The tortoise shell of the old turtle god was actually built into a house by the Red Ant Tribe, and was shown off by the tribesmen as a glory.
If the Mountain Turtle Tribe knew all this, they would probably be so depressed that they would want to vomit blood.
"Come on, I'll take you in to have a look."
Qie Ye was obviously very familiar with this place. He took Jiang Xuan to the house built with a giant tortoise shell with ease.
The security of this place is obviously much stricter than outside, and there are soldiers guarding the entrance.
However, when these soldiers saw that it was Qie Ye who brought Jiang Xuan in, they just looked at Jiang Xuan a few times but did not stop him.
This made Jiang Xuan even more curious. What was the identity of this Qie Ye? How could he enjoy so many privileges?
Qie Ye didn't care about it at all and took Jiang Xuan straight into the house inside the big turtle shell.
The houses of the Red Ant Tribe are almost completely imitations of ant nests, except for the addition of wood for support and fixation.
Passing through the winding corridor, you can see rooms. Some of these rooms are big, some are small. There is a curved corner at the entrance of each room, and you can see the furnishings inside the room after entering.
The advantage of this construction is that the room is more private. As long as others don't walk into the room, they won't know what is going on inside.
Some rooms are even equipped with wooden doors like fences so that others cannot enter or leave at will.
Jiang Xuan followed Qie Ye, looking at these strange buildings as he walked, and occasionally looking up at the huge tortoise shell on the roof.
Not long after, Qie Ye brought him into a room inside.
"Come in, this is where I live."
Qie Ye opened the wooden door that looked like a fence and walked in first.
After Jiang Xuan went in, Qie Ye closed the wooden door again.
After Jiang Xuan entered, he looked around.
Qieye's room was simply furnished with only a low bed, some weapons and decorations hanging on the wall, and food piled in the corner of the room.
Jiang Xuan also noticed that there was no fire pit in the room, so he asked about it.
"Qie Ye, why is there no fire pit here?"
"The Ant God doesn't like fire, so there are no fire pits in the rooms of our ant tribe."
Jiang Xuan asked curiously, "How do you eat the meat? Eat it raw?"
"Of course not. There is a place outside to grill and cook meat. Once it is cooked, we can share it with the tribe members."
"So that's how it is."
Jiang Xuan suddenly felt a little lucky, because the divine vine also didn't like fire, but the members of the vine tribe could make a fire at will in the house or in the yard.
If it's like the Red Ant Tribe, they have to find a special place to make a fire, which is quite troublesome.
Qie Ye took out a round ball from the animal skin bag in the corner, placed it in front of Jiang Xuan, and said: "This is the round ball at the root of the big mushroom. We call it a cone."
Qie Ye took out a stone knife and cut the cone like a watermelon, revealing the thick flesh inside.
The flesh of this fruit is milky white and has a sweet smell when cut.
"Try it."
Qie Ye handed a piece of cone to Jiang Xuan and picked up a piece to eat as well.
Jiang Xuan didn't hesitate and just picked it up and started eating it.
After eating a few bites, Jiang Xuan found that the taste of this thing was a bit like Hami melon, with a stronger sweetness and a special smell.
Of course, this smell is within an acceptable range.
The two of them quickly finished eating the whole cone. Jiang Xuan still felt a little unsatisfied, but Qie Ye was too late to take out the second cone.
Because at this moment, a middle-aged man with a dark face walked in from outside.
"Cut the leaves!"
The middle-aged man growled and gnashed his teeth, like an angry red ant, with his fangs and claws bared!
Qie Ye's face changed and he immediately stood up, staring at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man looked at Jiang Xuan, then looked at the remaining cone residue, and suddenly became even angrier.
"Qie Ye, how could you bring people from the outside tribe here so casually? Do you want to piss me off to death?"
As he spoke, the middle-aged man raised his hand.
The middle-aged man's words and his actions seemed to have touched Qie Ye's sore spot, and the thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy instantly exploded.
Qie Ye strode to the middle-aged man, stretched his face in front of him, and said through gritted teeth: "You hit me, I'll send it over for you to hit. Anyway, I've hit you so many times before, it doesn't matter this time!"
“You…you…”
The middle-aged man's hands were shaking with anger, but he didn't hit her.
"Why, you can't do it? I'll help you!"
“Bang!”
Qie Ye suddenly slapped himself in the face so hard that a red mark immediately appeared on his face.
The middle-aged man obviously didn't expect Qie Ye to hit himself. For a moment, he didn't know how to deal with it.
“Bang!”
Qie Ye stared at him, and with a sarcastic look on his face, he slapped himself again, making the other half of his face swollen.
When Qie Ye was about to slap him for the third time, the middle-aged man roared, “That’s enough!”
"What? Do you think I didn't hit you hard enough? Or do it yourself?"
Qie Ye stretched his face forward again, his eyes very cold.
The middle-aged man looked at Qie Ye, then glanced at Jiang Xuan. He felt a fire burning in his heart, but he couldn't release it. Finally, he waved his hand, turned around and left with a dark face.
During this process, Jiang Xuan, as an outsider, could only remain silent.
He discovered that the animal skin clothes and ornaments on the neck of the middle-aged man were much better than those on the Leaf Cutting Machine. Even the short knife hanging around his waist was made of high-quality stone and even had some patterns carved on it.
Most importantly, he saw seven warrior lines on the middle-aged man’s face, which meant that he was an extremely powerful seven-color warrior!
Combining this information, Jiang Xuan has roughly guessed the identity of this middle-aged man.
After the middle-aged man left, Qie Ye turned around. Although his face was swollen, he still looked relaxed and said, "Don't worry about him. He doesn't dare to do anything to me."
Jiang Xuan couldn't help but ask, "Who is he?"
Qie Ye answered nonchalantly: "He is my father, the leader of the Red Ant Tribe."
"Then how did you end up like this?"
Qie Ye laughed at himself and said, "Because I don't follow the rules. In his eyes, I am a disgrace and will only cause trouble."
Jiang Xuan asked again: "Does your Red Ant Tribe have many rules?"
"Too many, so many that it's suffocating."
Qie Ye said: "You have to eat on time. You can't eat before that time, no matter if you are hungry or not."
"You should go to bed on time and wake up on time. No one cares whether you want to sleep or wake up."
"You have to walk in an orderly line. If you accidentally walk off the track, someone will immediately blame you, even within the tribe."
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Qie Ye told Jiang Xuan a lot of rules of the Red Ant Tribe. Just listening to them made Jiang Xuan feel his scalp tingling.
According to Qie Ye's description, the members of the red ant tribe live no different from those giant red ants.
Boys like Qieye's age are in the rebellious period of their lives. They like to show off, prove themselves, and break the rules.
He couldn't stand the constraints of these rules and regulations, so he tried desperately to break free and did a series of actions that seemed very strange and unacceptable to others.
He became a bad boy in the eyes of the Red Ant Tribe.
In fact, although Qie Ye always did things that seemed out of line to others, he had never done anything that would harm the interests of the tribe, nor had he made any mistakes when he went out hunting.
Of course, if a person leaves others with an unreliable impression, people will subconsciously magnify his shortcomings and ignore his strengths.
No matter what this person does, it will be difficult to change this unreliable image.
"Come on, I'll take you to some other places."
Feeling a little depressed in the room, Qie Ye wanted to go outside to get some fresh air.
However, the young man was very proud, so before leaving the room, Qie Ye deliberately smeared a green medicine on his face.
This medicine was very effective in reducing swelling, and after a while, Qie Ye's face returned to normal.
Afterwards, Qie Ye washed his face with water and quickly drew the totem pattern on his face.
The tribesmen draw totem patterns almost every day. They are very familiar with the method of drawing totem patterns and can draw them well without a mirror or help from others.
After finishing all these, Qie Ye took Jiang Xuan outside. His face regained the unreliable expression of a street urchin, and he didn't even walk in a straight line.
When Jiang Xuan walked with Qie Ye, he not only had to endure the vigilant and scrutinizing gazes of the Red Ant Tribe members, but also their contemptuous gazes.
It feels like going shopping with a lively young man with colorful hair.
But Jiang Xuan didn't care. He wouldn't stay in the Red Ant Tribe for long anyway, so he just let him be despised.
Qie Ye continued to take Jiang Xuan for a stroll in the residential area of the Red Ant Tribe. Even though Jiang Xuan's memory had improved, he could not remember those winding paths at all.
Perhaps, only the members of the Red Ant Tribe who grew up here can remember it.
While strolling with Qie Ye, Jiang Xuan noticed a detail.
Even if cutting leaves seems unreliable, it is actually just a little bit out of the ordinary.
He only took Jiang Xuan to visit unimportant places, and he would not take Jiang Xuan to the truly important places in the Red Ant Tribe.
Jiang Xuan wandered around the Red Ant Tribe for a while and got a general impression of the tribe.
The members of the Red Ant Tribe were all dark and thin, and looked malnourished, and their complexions were much worse than those of the Crocodile Tribe.
The people of the Red Ant Tribe do not live a life that is at all like that of a powerful and large tribe.
However, those giant red ants are very fat.
This is a very strange thing.
Because the Red Ant Tribe had plundered almost all the supplies in the vicinity, even tourists could not survive.
Logically speaking, their lives should be relatively affluent.
Jiang Xuan kept this matter in mind, hoping to find the answer later.
"Cut leaves, cut leaves!"
Just as Qie Ye and Jiang Xuan continued to visit the huge residential complex of the Red Ant Tribe, two warriors ran over in a hurry, looking very anxious.
"What do you want from me?"
Qie Ye still had that annoying expression on his face. He thought that the leader couldn't bear it anymore and sent two people to capture him.
However, the two soldiers shouted anxiously: "Quick, go back quickly."
"What happened?"
Qie Ye realized something was wrong and finally put away his annoying expression.
"Elder, the elder is dying."
"What?"
Qie Ye's face changed drastically, he took two steps and ran back in panic.
The two warriors hurriedly escorted Jiang Xuan out of the Red Ant Tribe and did not let him stay inside.
Jiang Xuan was forced to leave the territory of the Red Ant Tribe. He watched from afar as the Red Ant Tribe warriors blocked all the entrances. He had some guesses in his mind, but he was not sure.
In the Red Ant Tribe, in a room inside a giant turtle shell, an old man's life is about to come to an end.
He looked at the familiar room and the many people in the room. Past scenes came to his mind and his eyes were full of vicissitudes.
The witch of the Red Ant Tribe stood in front of him and fed him some precious witch medicine, but it could only delay his death and could not really save his life.
"Wu, save him..."
The leader of the Red Ant Tribe knelt down in front of the witch with a plop. He was a seven-color warrior, a very tough man on weekdays, but at this moment he showed his vulnerable side, with big tears falling down his face.
Because the person lying on the bed was not only the elder and previous leader of the Red Ant Tribe, but also his father.
The witch of the Red Ant Tribe shook his head and said, "People come and they have to leave. I can only use witchcraft to delay the process so that the elders have time to say goodbye to you."
After hearing this, the leader completely collapsed, knelt on the ground, and cried.
After the elder took the witch medicine, his face became rosy and he looked a little more energetic.
However, Wu knew very well that this was just a last gasp and the elder would die soon.
"Gu Li, get up."
With the help of others, the elder sat up with difficulty.
Guli is the name of the leader of the Red Ant Tribe, but there are very few people who can call him by his name.
Hearing his father's voice, the chief immediately got up and went forward to support the elder.
The elder asked weakly, "Has Qie Ye returned?"
"Dad, I've sent someone out to look for him. He'll be back soon. When he comes back, I'll break his legs!"
It would be fine at normal times, but now that the elder is about to die, Qie Ye is still wandering around outside. This makes Gu Li deeply disappointed and furious.
The elder waved his hands with difficulty and said, "Gu Li, Qie Ye is a good boy, don't be too harsh on him."
Would a good kid do some unreliable things all day long?
Gu Li did not agree with the elder's words, but at this time, he could not refute the elder and could only remain silent.
(End of this chapter)
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