Chapter 31

Lu Yu was not sure whether the Matai in front of him understood the meaning of "love". If it were before, he would never think too deeply about it, but last night both of them were... Although they didn't reveal their emotions directly, but still...

"How? Is it wrong?" Tai Li asked.

Lu Yu carefully observed his face and found that it was as always, majestic and cold.

Well, it seemed that he was thinking too much.

Lu Yu smiled, "No, it's right."

He stretched out his fingers and gently picked out this "weird-shaped" shell stone from Tai Li's broad palm, paying special attention not to touch the skin of his palm.

This small shell stone was handed in to his arms.

"I'll also call Shan Pu and the others." Lu Yu said, while hurriedly fleeing from Tai Li.

Lu Yu walked quickly, before slowly slowing down, then lowered his head. He looked at the little traitor in a pile of normal shell stones, paused, took it out, and put it in the storage ring.

Its form was so strange that the panel definitely would not accept it as the upgrade materials, but it was still not good to throw it away. After all, he already told Tai Li that this was a shell stone. Let's just put it away, it wouldn't take up much space anyway.

Anyway, wasn't it just an ordinary shell? Tai Li definitely didn't know what this shape represented would he? Lu Yu convinced himself.

***

"Shan Pu, get back here, hurry up!" Lu Yu shouted to the Matai people who were enjoying themselves in the sea.

"Okay!" Shan Pu and the others responded and walked back one after another.

The excitement on the faces of more than a dozen people had not disappeared, all of them were also still drenched.

Lu Yu took out the soft leaves and spare animal skins, then handed it to them, "Go and change your clothes first."

"Sure!" Shan Pu cheerfully took it, then walked into the woods with the others.

Lu Yu looked at their backs and sighed.

Look, he really was straight.

More than a dozen handsome guys with perfect figures stood in front of him, with their upper body naked and dripping with water, but he didn't feel anything, just a little envious of these figures.

Lu Yu showed them the shell stones and asked them to search for it, then he turned to look for the next material, the seabed green mud.

After the discovery of the shell stone, Lu Yu also wanted to find out soon about the next material whereabout.

This green mud should be found near by the sea. Anyway, the name was quite self-explanatory, so its probably some kind of mud.

Standing on the beach, Lu Yu looked at his surrounding, then bent over and took a handful of mud from the ground. As expected, the panel search was successful.

***

On the Ten Thousand Beasts plain, precisely at a small wooden house of the High Ground tribe. The two brothers, Qiu Guang and Qiu Huang had to use their remaining materials to buy a small wooden house, after their own was lost to Lu Yu because of the bet. Unfortunately, this wooden house was not comparable to their original one, its location was at the very corner of the stone city and it was also very small.

Qiu Guang's whole body even had to be bent, so he could sleep at the small space.

Qiu Huang who sat on the ground, while clutching his chest and coughed, asked his brother, "Come and sit down."

Qiu Guang hurried over to sit down, "Brother, how do you feel?"

Qiu Huang frowned, "Well, let's not talk about this for now, how's the development of thing that I asked you before?"

Qiu Guang, "Yesterday, I sent someone back to the tribe to bring people and supplies. I also sent someone to monitor those people. As soon as there is any news, they will come back and report to us."

Qiuhuang nodded, but when he was just about to say something, a voice came from outside the door.

"Chief, Vice Chief, I discover a new information!"

Qiu Guang called the people in, "What's your discovery? Say it!"

The man replied with a straight face, "I found that the meat roasted by those people is very fragrant!"

Qiu Guang, Qiu Huang: ...

Qiu Guang was angry, "You only found this? Do you want to be punished?!"

The man waved his hand quickly, "No, no, not just this, I also found that they went out of the city at noon today!"

Qiu Guang jumped up and beat him angrily, "Why didn't you tell me such an important information earlier?! You just went to smell the other people's barbecue, right?"

The man hugged his head and whispered aggrievedly, "But it's really fragrant..." He really hadn't eaten it before. If he didn't has enough perseverance, he would already buy it with a piece of fur.

Qiu Huang twisted his eyebrows, "Stop! Let him finish his report first."

Qiu Guang stopped, and the man continued to report, "At noon, they left a few people in the wooden house, while the others went to find a slave. After that, they left the city, but I didn't follow them..."

Qiu Guang wanted to jump up and hit him on the head again, "Why didn't you follow!"

The man hurriedly said, "Because those people are really keen, I was a little too close yesterday and was almost spotted. Moreover, although I didn't follow them, I stayed at the gate of the city and caught the slave who took them out! "

Qiu Guang's eyes lit up, "Where is the slave?!"

"Just outside!"

After asking the slave clearly, Qiu Huang's face flashed with a twist, and said like a poisonous snake*, "When the warriors from the tribe are here, send a few archers to hide on the only way back to the city. There are only a few people on their side, kill them all for me! Especially the one who fought with me yesterday, and the thin person."

*Cunningly, with an evil intention

Qiu Guang, "Okay!"

***

"Witch, how about it, are these enough?" Shan Pu put a pile of shell stones in his arms in front of Lu Yu.

Lu Yu used the panel to check it, then said, "I guess we still need some more. You also still have to dig the green mud from the bottom of the sea, so leave it to me to pick up the rest of the shell stones."

Lu Yu picked all of the shells from Shan Pu, then stared at the numbers of materials that they still needed on the panel.

They had to gather all the materials here, because they couldn't search it anymore when they returned to the tribe.

After busying for all the afternoon, Lu Yu and the others finally collected all the materials. Fortunately, both of these materials only could be picked up without too much effort.

Lu Yu put away all the materials contentedly, looked up at the sky, then turned around and said, "Okay, let's go back!"

"Okay!" the Matai replied.

Everyone returned to the stone city by the same route they passed before, but on the way through a small forest, Lu Yu who was about to talk to Tai Li regarding their village's upgrade, suddenly saw him frown and stopped.

Lu Yu asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?"

Tai Li stretched out his hand, "Stop moving forward."

Shan Pu and the others immediately stood still, "King?"

Tai Li stared at the seemingly calm bushes ahead, and swept his eyes to the dense branches and canopies in the distance.

"There were someone or something over there."

Lu Yu was taken aback, but quickly thought that they were going to fight, so he wanted to take out the weapons and armors from the ring.

Tai Li held his hand, as he was about to speak, a sudden change occurred!

An arrow blasted towards them with a thud!

Lu Yu's heart beat fiercely.

Fortunately, when the arrow was still a little away, Tai Li had already grasped the arrow with an inhuman speed, and at the same time grabbed Lu Yu and covered him behind his back.

But a few more arrows kept coming!

Tai Li shouted, "Shan Pu!"

"Understand!!" Shan Pu replied, leaning forward slightly, then rushed like a cannonball towards the big tree in which the arrow came from.

At the same time, the other Matais quickly made a formation.

Tai Li whispered to Lu Yu, "Don't take it out for now."

Lu Yu nodded. If it was a beast, it would be fine, but if it was a human, they needed to be more cautious.

He still felt a little rush of adrenaline from when the arrow flew over, but now he slowly calmed down.

Needless to say, the fighting power of the Matai was really a threat for another people, but how could there be so many people hidden here right now.

Who are these people anyway?

Just a second after this question came into his mind, he had the answer. In addition to the two brothers from the High Ground tribe, who else could there be?

After the first round of arrow rain, no one in Matai suffered from serious injuries. The only wounds that they had were on their arms which were scratched by the arrows.

Tai Li ordered, "Move forward slowly!"

"Yes!" The Matai yelled, pressing forward methodically.

Seeing this scene, Lu Yu was quite taken aback. As far as he knew, when the Matai were fighting, they would just rush forward blindly. Now...

Lu Yu glanced at Tai Li who was guarding him. The man was tall and sturdy, just like a shield that was the strongest and would never fall in front of him.

To be honest, Lu Yu didn't know much about combat matters. At the beginning, he gave Tai Li his opinion, but it was probably useless, but he still talked about the idea.

What he didn't expect was that Tai Li really listened to him. Thought about his suggestion, and even improving it.

This man was taciturn, but strong and reliable. Tai Li would always take every word he said seriously...

Lu Yu pursed his lips and looked away.

***

Shan Pu at the front had rushed to a tree, grabbed the branch, and jumped up violently.

After a while, only a scream could be heard, as a person was thrown down from the tree, and fell to the ground with a bang. Nobody knew wether he was still alive or death.

The archers that were hiding in the other trees seemed to be taken aback by the movement, even the arrow rain became stagnate.

Tai Li seized the opportunity and shouted, "Go!"

The Matai people who were ready to charge, rushed forward one after another.

Lu Yu paused and said, "Keep them alive!"

"Yes!"

The enemy archers were thrown down one by one.

The Matai people obeyed Lu Yu's words to keep them alive, but still confiscated their weapon, punched them and threw them down the tree.

These trees were not high, it wouldn't make someone died even if they fell down from it.

After the disarmament was over, Lu Yu and Tai Li walked to an archer who was holding his stomach, while trying to get up, ready to escape.

"Stop." Lu Yu said.

The archer stiffened and turned around slowly.

Lu Yu, "You..."

Before he could finish his words, he saw the archer stretch his hand to his back, took out a small stone blade, and threw it at him.

Of course, it was once again intercepted by Tai Li.

Unfortunately, the stone blade was coarser than the arrow, so as Tai Li grabbed it, his hand was bleeding a little.

Seeing the blood, Lu Yu was flustered at first, but soon remembered one thing.

Favorability!

This big brother really cared about him!

Finding that there was nothing serious happened to Tai Li and he even had already gone up to clean up the people, Lu Yu couldn't wait to open the game panel.

Sure enough, the favorability progress bar was full.

A prompt then appeared on the panel.

[The panel has been upgraded, now you can view the new functions]

Lu Yu chose to view.