Chapter 92 Cang Li was completely unaware...
Cang Li was completely unaware of Tai Qing's complicated feelings. After leaving Kunlun Mountain, he went straight to Buzhou Mountain to find Hou Tu.
"Houtu, I'm back."
Houtu had gathered the two hundred or so Wu tribe children, and upon seeing Cang Li, she solemnly said:
"Cang Li, please, take them and leave first. Brother Shebi Shi and Brother Qiang Liang came over earlier, and I think they seem to be looking for trouble. You should leave as soon as possible to avoid them stopping you."
Cang Li nodded, still unable to recall what happened ten years ago. After all, ten years had passed, and Cang Li couldn't remember everything.
Two hundred Wu tribe children were collected into a bowl by Cangli, and Houtu urged Cangli:
"You should leave quickly, don't delay."
Cang Li and Hou Tu's eyes met, and Cang Li suddenly felt a lump in his throat. After a moment of silence, he turned and left the Wu Clan without looking back.
Qiangliang and Shebishi had just returned to the tribe when a shaman came to report:
“Ancestral Witch, we dug up many corpses of the Witch Clan on a small mountain in the direction of Kunlun Mountain, about a hundred of them, all of them just bones. The number matches the number of people who went missing from the Great Witches Jian and Fan!”
Qiangliang and Shebishi immediately stood up: "Let's go take a look!"
When the two arrived at the small hill, the bones in the pit had already been dug out. They immediately recognized that these skeletons had died in the exact same way as the five skeletons in the tribe.
Qiang Liang roared in fury: "Cang Li!"
Shebishi immediately ordered the skeletons to be carried back, and then sent someone to summon Dijiang to his tribe. This matter was not over.
Cangli flew all the way to Aqi's tribe, and after about two days, he saw the coastline, and then the houses of the mountain tribes.
The tribe has grown to over 20,000 people, but due to the mountainous terrain, there isn't much land suitable for growing crops, so they can only supplement their food supply by hunting and gathering wild fruits in the mountains.
When Cang Li landed, A Qi, who had grown into a young man, was directing people to process a wild boar they had just hunted. He turned around and saw Cang Li coming over, and immediately ran over happily:
"Great Chief!"
Cang Li, holding the bowl, slightly moved away from A Qi, and reached out his other hand to pat A Qi's head, saying:
"I've come to see you all. How have you been lately?"
Ah Qi rubbed his head against Cang Li's palm and said:
"Everything is fine. Although there isn't much land to grow, it's not cold here much throughout the year, and there are always wild fruits on the mountain, so we won't go hungry."
Cang Li nodded and led A Qi to a more open area to sit down:
"Ah Qi, I've come here to talk to you about something."
Ah Qi immediately asked, "What is it, Chief? Just tell me, and I will definitely do it."
Cang Li showed A Qi the bowl in her hand. A Qi peeked over, paused for a moment, and then asked:
"Great Chief, what is this?"
Cang Li sighed:
“Ah Qi, this was entrusted to me by Houtu. I think it is most suitable to leave it here. Originally, it would have been best to set aside a separate territory for them to live in. However, Houtu said that the Wu tribe has no future. These two hundred little witches need to borrow from the human race to avoid this disaster. That is why I sent them here to you.”
Ah Qi frowned: "Chief..."
Cang Li, resting his chin on his hand, said, "A-Qi, are you in a difficult position?"
Ah Qi shook his head: "It's not that I'm making things difficult for you, Chief. I'm worried about you. Won't you be implicated if you take people away from the Witch Clan like this?"
Cang Li chuckled:
"Good Ah Qi, you're worried about me? Don't worry, wasn't teaching the Wu tribe how to farm ten years ago more serious than taking away two hundred of their children? As the saying goes, debts are never a burden, so what's the big deal for me?"
Ah Qi puffed out his cheeks and said angrily:
"Chief! Aren't you taking yourself too lightly? You always, always picking up kids like this!"
Cang Li was taken aback, then thought about it carefully and realized it was true, but... Cang Li looked at A Qi teasingly:
"Then should I turn back time and tell my past self to stop picking up children?"
Ah Qi: "!"
"Great Chief!"
If she hadn't picked it up, wouldn't she have died long ago?
Ah Qi suddenly fell silent and extended his hand to Cang Li:
"Give it to me."
Cang Li raised an eyebrow and placed the bowl in A Qi's hand: "Release them with the bowl facing the ground."
Ah Qi did as instructed, and a flash of inspiration appeared in the bowl. Two hundred terrified witch children appeared in the open space, looking uneasy. Upon seeing Cang Li, they instinctively approached him.
Their ancestral witch Houtu said that from now on they would have to listen to the leaders of the human race, and they would become the human race.
Looking at these children, the oldest of whom were only five or six years old, Cang Li couldn't help but think of how Ji and the others looked when he first arrived in the prehistoric world. He sighed with a soft heart. No matter what they become as adults, the children are innocent.
"From now on, you will stay with Chief Aqi. Do whatever Chief Aqi asks you to do. There are many wild beasts and poisonous insects in the mountains, so don't run away alone."
The children of the Wu tribe nodded and then looked at Ah Qi.
Ah Qi's appearance was somewhat similar to that of the Wu tribe. His face was more rugged than that of ordinary humans, with deep-set eyes and a color more characteristic of the Wu tribe. This made the Wu children feel a sense of familiarity with him, and they obediently called him "Chief".
Seeing that these children were completely different from the witch children she remembered who would snatch things and beat her whenever they saw her, Aqi felt less resentful. After all, she had been bullied by the witch children for a long time while hungry before Cang Li brought her back, so Aqi hated the witch tribe from the bottom of her heart.
Memories from her childhood made Ah Qi dislike the Witch Clan, but these children were indeed as obedient and sensible as the Great Chief had said. Ah Qi vaguely remembered that there seemed to be children in the Witch Clan who secretly gave her food in the past.
Ah Qi sighed and said to the children with a stern face, "Since you're here, stay. I'll take you to meet the other tribesmen later and assign you to different families to be raised."
This was a decision Ah Qi made after deciding to accept these children. He would raise them, but they couldn't be kept together. The children had to be separated to prevent them from causing trouble by staying in one place for too long.
Cang Li patted A Qi's head:
"Ah Qi, thank you for your hard work."
Ah Qi looked at Cang Li and shook his head, then asked Cang Li:
"Chief, why don't you stay at my place tonight?"
Cang Li hesitated for a moment before shaking his head: "No, I have other things to do right now. Ah Qi, I came here to tell you this, so make preparations early. Once the Witch Clan and the Demon Clan officially start their war, it will inevitably affect the Human Clan. Find a safe and reliable place to store a lot of food and water."
As Cang Li spoke, she thought of the story of Hou Yi shooting down the suns. She used to think that was just a myth, how could ten suns appear at the same time? But now Cang Li dared not say that, because she knew that the demon race really had ten little golden crows.
“Ah Qi, dig a very, very deep pit. I have a bad feeling that a great disaster may befall us in the near future.”
Ah Qi always unconditionally believed Cang Li's words, and upon hearing Cang Li say this, he immediately nodded readily:
"Alright! Don't worry, Chief, I'll get right to it as soon as I've settled the children in."
Cang Li patted A Qi's head, got up to leave, and looking at the mountain peak in front of him, suddenly thought of something, turned back to A Qi and said:
“Ah Qi, what we humans excel at is not adapting to the environment, but changing it. There are few flat areas here, so we can't plant like we do in the caves. But these mountains aren't steep. You've seen the steps I built in the caves. Wouldn't it be better to build large steps on the mountains to create flat land for planting than we are now?”
Ah Qi's eyes lit up instantly:
"Great Chief! You truly are the most intelligent person among our human race!"
Cang Li felt a little embarrassed by what was said. Terraced fields, she remembered that in mountainous areas, over millions of years, humans had adapted to the method of cultivating terraced fields.
After leaving Ah Qi, Cang Li went straight back to the cave. She needed to arrange for people to notify the various human tribes to prepare for the worst, otherwise, when the ten suns appeared in the sky, humanity might be wiped out.
On the Wu tribe's side, Di Jiang looked at the skeletons laid out in one place with a gloomy expression, and immediately summoned the twelve Ancestral Wu to discuss the matter.
On her way there, Houtu encountered Jumang and greeted her, "Sister."
Jumang nodded: "Sister, you don't look well. What's wrong?"
Houtu forced a smile: "It's nothing, I was just worried."
Jumang put his arm around Houtu's shoulder and said with a smile, "Don't worry, little sister. Big brother is right. As long as we master the great formation, when Father God Pangu descends, the demon race will surely lose."
Houtu took a deep breath: "I hope so. I wonder what my elder brother wants with us."
Jumang: "I don't know, maybe it's for practicing formations?"
As they spoke, they saw the harvest ahead, and the two waved to each other:
"Sister/Little sister!"
Ru turned her head back and stopped, waiting for the two to approach: "Sister Jumang, Sister Houtu."
The three of them walked together toward Dijiang's tent. Once inside, they saw that the other Ancestral Witches had already arrived. Zhujiuyin was lazily leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed, Shebishi and Qiangliang looked solemn, while Tianwu and Xizi were a little confused and didn't know what had happened.
Xuanming's expression remained as cold as ever, revealing nothing.
Although these people didn't speak, the room was quite lively.
"Gonggong! What do you mean?! Are you making fun of me?!"
Zhu Rong glared at Gong Gong, who was looking at her with a mocking expression, and they almost started fighting.
Gonggong sneered: "What's wrong with laughing at you? You tried to flood my territory but ended up flooding your own, and now I'm not allowed to laugh?"
Zhu Rong got even angrier: "If you've got the guts, come out with me! Let's fight again!"
At this moment, Dijiang, who was sitting in the middle, slammed his hand on the table with a displeased expression: "Enough! What kind of nonsense is this!"
Then her expression softened, and she waved to her three younger sisters: "We've been waiting for you. Sit down first."
Houtu, Rushou, and Jumang sat down, unfazed, waiting for Dijiang to say what he wanted to say.
Dijiang stood up and said:
"I have summoned you all today because of a matter of great importance concerning the survival of the Witch Clan."
Everyone looked at Dijiang, who waved his hand and released the remains of Jian and Fan, saying:
"These are the two great shamans who disappeared ten years ago, and now they have been unearthed."
All the ancestral witches looked over, and they all saw the clues.
Deaths were common among the Wu tribe, especially ten years ago. Fighting, freezing to death, starving to death, and being killed by the demon tribe were all frequent occurrences.
However, these two skeletons are abnormal. Even if they are skeletons, the essence of Pangu's blood would remain. It is impossible for them to disappear without a trace. In fact, these two skeletons do not look like those of the Wu clan.
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