Chapter 23

Lu Yu turned his head then looked at Tai Li who went next to him at some unknown time, he asked in a daze, "What is... Enough..."

Tai Li's thin lips tightened, but he still didn't answer.

Cha Zhe retracted his face and sat upright. The sunny smile on his face was a bit stiff, as he glanced at the captured white and thin wrist, while gritting his teeth he said, "Why do the King come here? The Witch just about to give..."

Tai Li glanced at him lightly.

Cha Zhe's pupils shrank, and the rest of the words suddenly couldn't be said.

This man had a terrifying aura. At first glance, he was like a sleeping lion and now suddenly he found that someone was breaking into his territory, but because he felt that his opponent's strength couldn't be compared to him, he only showed a little momentum to suppress it.

Cha Zhe knew that no matter what ability he had, he still couldn't compete with him at the moment, so he could only silently swallowed all his words.

The Matai who secretly watched: The King was good!

Lu Yu felt that the atmosphere was a bit weird, so he smiled and released his wrist from Tai Li's grip. "Tai Li, let me go first." The man was too strong, and Lu Yu felt a little pain when he caught his hand before.

Tai Li glanced at the leaf in Lu Yu's hand and slowly let go.

Lu Yu rubbed his wrist, wondering, "What's wrong?"

"You are a witch, you don't have to do this kind of thing." Tai Li was expressionless, "Shan Pu."

Shan Pu, who was hiding among the onlookers, heard the call and responded quickly, yelling, "Here!"

Tai Li took the soft leaf from Lu Yu's hand and threw it to Shan Pu, "You wipe and feed him."

"Ah?" Shan Pu froze for a moment, and then responded quickly and happily, "Yes!" The King was really smart!

"Hey?!" Lu Yu extended his hand to the leaf that had been taken away, but he saw that Shanpu was holding it back like a baby. He turned to look at Tai Li and said, "It's not good, ba..."

Tai Li's voice was deep, "Why?"

Because he was still doing a task ah, did they think that he was willing to feed the bear child on his own will?! And this King was too double standard, before he also fed him, why didn't Tai Li say that he was a precious witch at the time.

And if it wasn't for Tai Li changing his face all day, did he still need to increase Cha Ze's favorability?

Thinking about it, Lu Yu humph and opened the game panel, there he saw that the progress bar was full. He was overjoyed, he just fed Cha Ze for half a day, but it gave a progress like this. The harvest was good. Sure enough, the first upgrade was relatively simple.

Lu Yu stood up, patted the dirt on his behind, then left, "No need to feed anymore." He walked to a place with few people and opened the panel.

[The guidance system has been upgraded]

Lu Yu studied it for a while. After the system was upgraded, the weapon classification changed to one-handed and two-handed, the armor classification changed to handheld and clothing, and the rest remained unchanged.

Not only that, the time was shortened to once every three days, and he could also accurately search for weapons and armors of class E and below.

Lu Yu thought about using the accurate search of clothing and armor first.

According to the guidance function, he found a group of black and white panthers. Lu Yu checked it with the panel, and found that the armor dropped by those leopards were [F-class hard wood armor].

There were not many leopards in this group, only about forty.

Lu Yu was a little disappointed. According to the drop rate listed on the panel, being able to drop three to four pieces was considered lucky. However, he didn't know if it was because of his own luck or something else, these leopards actually dropped six full armor pieces for them.

These six pieces of armor were assigned to the more powerful Matai who were not very agile.

Lu Yu stored the leopard carcass into the ring. After looking up, he saw that Tai Li had given all the armors to others. He had no intention of leaving one for himself at all. Lu Yu opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but finally he chose not to.

Although Tai Li always changed his face like a Sichuan opera, but Tai Li's character was not the same as that other chiefs who were hiding in the safest place when there was a fight, and he was also the one who protected him and the little Ma Tai in the cave before.

When it came to appear at the front and dividing the food, he was not like another king who would pick the best for themselves. The same conditions also happened with weapons and armor, he always distributed it first to the one who was more suitable.

Ai... Why did he think about him like that?

After their armors were prepared, the Matai people who were observing the area also saw someone from the Black Water tribe went out to hunt. Hearing that, Lu Yu and Tai Li took the chance and rushed to the Black Water tribe together.

Shan Pu looked at Lu Yu and anxiously said, "Witch, don't go, just in case we can't protect you..."

Lu Yu, "I already discussed it with the King last night." After dinner yesterday, he found an opportunity to tell Tai Li about his thoughts. Although his (TL) attitude to him was still the same, they could still communicate well on the important matter.

"Ah?" Shan Pu turned his head and looked at Tai Li.

Tai Li nodded slightly.

Shan Pu was puzzled. Why did the King let the Witch go to the battlefield, anyway what could the Witch do there...

Lu Yu patted his shoulder. "It's okay. When you are fighting, I will find a place to hide. As for the reason why I want to go, you will know it by then."

"Okay, stop talking, let's go!"

...

Black Water tribe.

Jiao Feng, with a serious face asked his confidant, "How is the progress?"

The other person frowned, "I went to the Ten Thousand Beast plain to find the tribes stationed there, and there was only one who respond to our demand, but their cost is very high..."

"How high?"

After hesitating for a while, he replied, "Ten wild boars, thirty baskets of wild fruits, thirty woods, and also ten women..."

Jiao Feng threw the beast bones in his hands to the ground and said angrily, "They really not afraid of death!"

The confidant didn't dare to speak anymore.

Jiao Feng walked back and forth, stood still, then gritted his teeth, "Give it to them."

The subordinate: "But, we don't have that much food reserves at all, and there is also not enough wood..."

Jiao Feng waved his hand carelessly, "Then let those slaves eat less and do more work!" He added sullenly, "Whoever is lazy will be taken care by me."

"Yes!"

After the subordinate received the order, he turned around and told the slaves about it.

"Today, those responsible for collecting food, each one of you must gather about a basket of wild fruits, and those responsible for chopping wood, each group must hand in one piece of wood."

Hearing this command, the slave in a tattered animal skin skirt couldn't help but stood up and begged, "This can't be done at all. We can only find up to five wild fruits a day. Where can we find so many? Please reduce it a bit. "

"Yeah, we cut trees from morning till night, and we can only cut one tree in three days. How we do it in one day?..."

"Please be more generous..."

Holding his hand behind his back, ignoring these people's plea, the subordinate disdainly said, "It's your business how to finish it, if you can't hand it in, just wait to get whipped! "

Recalling the whip made of thin and tough wicker dipped in salt water, everyone shuddered. They dared not say anymore and could only work hard.

However, the tasks were doubled suddenly, how could it be done easily?

Seeing the sun was setting down and it was about the time to hand in their results. A skinny boy while holding four fruits, said to an old man with fear, "Grandpa, I only found four..."

The old man touched the boy's head, "Don't be afraid, Grandpa has a way." The old man avoided the other people and walked quietly under a big tree, then shoved the leaves piled underneath, and found the three hidden fruits there. He handed the fruits he found today to the boy, "Look, it's enough now."

The boy said anxiously, "What about you, Grandpa? No, I can't accept this." He said that while trying to return the fruits in his arms to the old man.

The old man blocked his hands and smiled, "Grandpa is still in a good health. It's okay to take a few whips."

The boy felt tears in his eyes when he saw the old man's kind smile.

The boy's real name was Shu Tai. He was only a twelve year old. One year ago, the small tribe he lived in was attacked by beasts and his parents died. Only he and his grandfather that could escape, because that time they were in the river to clean the fur.

Afterwards, they were captured by the Black Water tribe who had followed the beasts.

Since then, they had become slaves of the Black Water tribe. Not only doing heavy work, they also needed to hand in the food that they found. If they worked slowly, or if the food was not enough, they would be whipped.

Shu Tai grabbed his Grandpa's hand, which had a scar from the whip that had beaten him before, then he sobbed, "Grandpa, let's run."

"Don't say it!" The old man covered his (ST) mouth and looked around, when he saw that there was no one, he let him go. "Xiao Tai, do you forget about what happened to the person who wanted to run last time?"

The old man sighed, "Besides, where can we run? In case we encounter a beast, we will be death. At least, there is a place to sleep well at night here."

Shu Tai lifted the old man's hand that was covering his mouth and angrily said, "But the last time the beast struck this tribe, the most casualties came from us the slaves who worked outside, where can we still sleep peacefully?!" Those people would not care about their life or death at all.

"Grandpa, if we continue to stay here, even if we are not eaten by the beasts, we will be killed by them sooner or later." Shu Tai looked forward. "We might as well find a better tribe..."

"How can there be any good tribe?" The old man said helplessly, "It's all like this, this world is like this. The small tribe can't resist the beast and the big tribe won't treat us as human..."

Hearing Grandpa's words, the light in Shu Tai's eyes gradually dimmed.

Was there really no good tribe...

When it came the time to hand over the supplies, Shu Tai wanted to quietly put the fruit in Grandpa's place, but before he could put it down, a few people who came to inspect them came with a whip, and one of them said viciously, "Are these the wild fruits that you collected? "

The old man did not wait for another reaction, and just took the lead in saying, "This is all collected by this child."

The man bared his white teeth and grinned, "That means, you fail to get anything?"

The old man gritted his teeth, his body trembled slightly, "No, no."

Hearing that, the man raised his whip without hesitation.

Shu Tai shouted in horror, "Grandpa!"

Just when the whip was about to fall on the old man's back, there was a sudden change!

A young man with strong muscles jumped out of the woods behind them. He was so fast that nobody could see him. He threw his body in front of them and caught the whip.

When it was over, he also said with envy, "Oh, Le Shui this deerskin gloves are quite easy to use."

The expression was relaxed, like he did not notice the Black Water tribe warriors who were still holding the whip.

Shu Tai was dumbfounded...

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