Follow the man with the lamp.
Travel through dark jungles, ride on a raft across fast-flowing rivers, and pass through strange and inhabited areas.
Finally, they came to a large canyon.
"Hurry up."
"Are the saplings following? Sir Helfas said that the distance cannot be increased."
"Be careful, it can kill people."
As soon as they arrived, they saw a group of people rushing out.
The leader held a hat respectfully, and a group of people followed him and carried a small sapling as they walked outside in a mighty manner.
It looked strange. They were clearly holding a hat and a sapling, but they seemed to be doing something very sacred. They even saw looks of worry and fear on those people's faces, as if they were holding a hat and a sapling in their hands. What he was holding was like a scalding flame.
Entering the canyon, you will see many wooden houses.
The style is very simple and uniform. They are all spires supported by wooden pillars. Some have no walls on all sides, and some are surrounded by wood, and then twigs are braided together to serve as doors and windows.
And in the only two-story wooden house among them, they met the legendary person.
Before they entered the door, they saluted respectfully outside the door, with a faint uneasy expression on their faces.
"Lord Helfas."
Helfas walked down the stairs and came to the wooden house to look at these people.
When he walked out, he counted there were twenty-three people in total, about thirteen of whom were adults, five of the remaining ten were young people capable of working, and five were children.
These newcomers are a little cautious, partly because they are outsiders who have just arrived in this seemingly mysterious place.
On the one hand, it is also because of the various legends about the black-haired man.
In rumors.
He can fight monsters and even control monster powers.
Helfas established a new order and created a new system for this place. He understood that if there was no order in a place, it would be a terrible thing. Even an unreasonable system was better than no system at all.
This system and order will not only restrain the people here, but also bring a sense of security to the people living here.
He sat down cross-legged and talked about the rules here.
"Since you are here, you must abide by the rules here."
"Article 1: He who kills must die..."
The initial rules are very simple, that is, restricting behaviors such as no killing, no stealing, etc. There are very few items, because if there are too many, no one can remember them.
The person who led them over was an elderly woman, who should be the mother and grandmother of these people. She spoke to Helfas.
"You can rest assured that we will abide by the rules you set."
"You follow the rules, and the rules protect you," Helfas said.
After telling the newcomer the rules, he told them again.
“Everyone comes here to do something they are good at.”
"What are you good at?"
Helfas will assign a responsibility, equivalent to a profession, to everyone who comes here with the ability to work, and there will also be a person responsible for managing them.
For example, the group of people who just ran out of the canyon are farmers, and the people who manage them are called agricultural officials.
The person responsible for building a house is called a carpenter, and the person who leads them is called a craftsman.
The person responsible for raising poultry is called a herdsman, and the person who leads them is called a herdsman.
Very simple and clear at a glance.
The visitor told Helfas: "We are good at weaving."
Helfas nodded: "Then those of you who can work should do textile work. The occupation is called cloth craftsman, and you are their craftsman."
Helfas spread out a picture in front of them, then drew a circle on the picture and told them.
"The place where you live is here. Several houses have been built. If there is any shortage, please contact the carpenters."
"After you gradually settle down, you can then communicate with the pastoral officers and they will provide you with materials, or communicate with the leader of the guards. They will also bring back some things that everyone needs from outside, which are customized for other tribes and caravans. Purchased.”
The folk customs of this era are simple and simple. Everyone thinks more about how to survive, but they don't think too much about other things.
Herfas's arrangement was simple. The only criterion was that those with jobs would provide a ration of food.
As for other things, these are not considered by these people at all.
They were very serious about saying, "We're going to do our job."
Because in their memory, people who cannot complete their work and are useless will be expelled.
Helfas completed the arrangements for these people and also told them something about the current situation here.
"You just need to do your own thing and live there with peace of mind. The current food is enough to last for a long time."
"I have arranged for farmers and agricultural officials to grow food, and herders have also brought back some velvet dragon mothers, cubs and eggs from outside. I will also take people out to hunt regularly."
"Everything will be on track after a while, and no one will have to worry about food, survival, and safety issues."
This also puts the newcomers at ease.
In this world, it is not easy to find a place with abundant food and safety.
Helfas could even see these people who had been wandering around for who knows how long and were so excited that they shed tears and kept talking to himself.
"Thank you for your blessing."
"Thank you for taking us in."
Helfas didn't say much, just sat with his head bowed.
While looking at the content recorded on the scroll, he waved people to take these people to the place where they had been arranged to live.
He used various symbols on the scrolls to record different occupations. For example, the carpenter was an abstract man with an axe, and the farmer was a man with a bamboo hat.
Now he added a new profession, the cloth maker, to the scroll, a crude image of a man holding a spinning wheel.
"Now there are five professions: farmer, shepherd, carpenter, cloth maker, and hunter. Everyone with a profession is allocated rations on time."
"A day's consumption is..."
Helfas calculated that, including the twenty-three new arrivals, the current food supply could sustain the situation.
Next, he wrote down some arrangements for the future.
"We won't assign occupations until there are more people. Let the new arrivals live according to their families and families, and they will join the corresponding occupations to obtain food rations."
In fact, Helfas didn't know how to manage such a large group of people. He was still groping and trying.
But at least it looks pretty good so far, nothing too big has happened.
However, Helfas established such a place not just because he had nothing to do, he also had his own plans.
Helfas's eyes turned to the painting on the scroll, an abstract little man holding a bow and arrow.
"hunter."
He organized and trained some people who were good at fighting and courageous, and named their profession hunters.
They are hunters now and soldiers and guards in the future.
However, these soldiers are not used to fight, or to be more precise, they are not mainly used to deal with people.
But deal with weirdness.
However, Helfas has not told these people yet, but is preparing for the subsequent plan.
Helfas also understood that it was very difficult and dangerous for a person to fight those powerful monsters alone, and it was completely impossible to collect information about countless monsters by himself.
He had to do everything by himself. Even if he spent his whole life, he probably wouldn't be able to accomplish anything, and he might even die midway.
He picked up his pen and wrote on the scroll.
"Gather a group of people to search for weird information, and then use the weird information to seal it."
"Use weird power to deal with even more powerful weirdness, step by step like a snowball, looking for a place in this weird world."
——
Helfas wore a dark metal mask and looked mysterious and majestic.
At this moment, he was running with a group of people in the jungle. They were constantly moving and looked like a group of beasts integrated into the jungle. They were chasing a group of dragon beasts with various weapons.
A throwing spear was thrown and penetrated the neck of a two-meter-tall dragon beast.
The others continued to chase the remaining dragon beasts, but stopped outside a swamp, until a thunderous whimpering and roaring sound came from the depths of the swamp, and the group of dragon beasts was no longer there. Any movement.
Helfas walked past the body of the dragon beast that fell on the ground and looked into the depths of the swamp: "Have you recorded its range of activities?"
The hunter on the side was holding a lamp and marking the trees: "It seems that it doesn't move very much and is not very sensitive to the movements around it. Unless it breaks into its core area, there will be no danger." of."
Someone else asked: "Lord Helfas, are we still hunting today, or should we go back now?"
Helfas nodded: "It's getting late, go back now!"
These people are all hunters, and Helfas is leading them to familiarize themselves with various jobs and the conditions of the Full Moon Forest.
Currently these people have three main jobs.
First, it is to regularly welcome people from outside.
Second, hunting missions.
Third, find out the terrain and dangerous areas of the Full Moon Forest, as well as the scope of those weird activities, and even some weird information is gradually being collected.
As time goes by, Helfas has a deeper and deeper understanding of the situation in the Full Moon Forest. Although this forest is still extremely dangerous for them, people continue to accidentally disappear in it.
But now, they know how to avoid danger.
This will decrease as they learn more.
After lifting the prey, the group began to return. They walked into a familiar path, and everyone became quiet.
And this forest is also particularly quiet, because not far away is the terrifying giant weird vine shape.
But precisely because the other party is here, as long as it is not disturbed, there is no need to worry about other weird things appearing in front of it.
As Helfas understood the weird, he also began to divide the weird into several levels.
For example, monsters such as the bread tree and the coward are considered the weakest type of monster because of their weak power and low danger.
As for the Biphasic Demonic Insect and the Human-Faced Tree, this kind of weirdness is on another level, and is one level more dangerous than the first two.
As for the vines he saw before, Helfas didn't know how to classify them. There seemed to be a big difference between them and the Biphasic Demonic Insect of the Human-Faced Tree.
gradually.
They saw the farmland and the agricultural officers appointed by Helfas himself.
The sun was about to set, and the other party was wearing a hat and leading a group of people to take care of the bread trees in the farmland. He seemed to be trying his best to make the other party grow faster and produce more fruits.
Seeing Helfas coming, the farmer stood up from the field in a hurry, wiped the sweat from his face and shouted happily.
"Lord Helfas, you are back."
Helfas nodded and asked about the situation of the farmland.
After the farmer finished the report, he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, another group of people just came, and..."
Before he finished speaking, someone in the canyon shouted towards Helfas.
"merchant?"
Helfas heard the sound and knew who it was.
As he walked towards the canyon, he saw the merchant's caravan, but he didn't expect that the merchant came directly to the depths of the Full Moon Forest.
In the past, the other party usually brought the goods to the outskirts of the Full Moon Forest instead of directly entering it, which surprised Helfas.
However, as he got closer, Helfas saw another group of faces that were obviously not among the merchants' caravan.
His eyes moved slightly, and he probably understood that these people should be the reason why the businessman came in person.
"they are?"
Helfas looked at those people and then asked the merchant.
"Herfas."
"They are people from the herding tribe. After hearing about your reputation, Helfas, they will definitely ask to come and see you."
As soon as the businessman finished speaking, the other party immediately stepped forward and saluted Helfas.
"We want to join your tribe."
"Lord Helfas!"
Of course Helfas didn't agree with the other party's nonsense.
He just verbally welcomed the other person's arrival, then helped the other person up, then waved everyone into the canyon and arranged for people to prepare dinner.
During the bonfire dinner, Helfas finally understood the other party's intention.
It’s about weirdness.
"Red snail?"
"What kind of weirdness is this, and where is it?"
"Do you need me to deal with it and resolve the crisis for you?"
The visitor said: "Actually, our tribe has bound it through a method a long time ago. It was precisely our ancestors who found it trapped."
"At least it can't run around for the time being, and it's not in too much danger."
Helfas: "Then why did you come to me for help?"
The visitor said: "We hope you can help us seal it and then allow us to control this weird power."
"Of course, the power we hold is your power, because as long as you agree, our tribe is your tribe."
Helfas frowned.
He instinctively felt resistance, just like the human instinct to resist loss. He heard the other party describe this strange thing called red snail as a kind of weirdness that is weaker than the bipolar demon insect and the human-faced tree, but should be on the same level.
And this is exactly what he lacks.
He even immediately wanted to use his telepathy ability to sense some information in the other person's mind. Although he could only sense the thoughts that emerged in the other person's mind at the moment, it was impossible to dig out all the information in the other person's memory. thing.
But with proper guidance, it shouldn't be a problem.
"Do you want to do this?"
He hesitated.
Except for some key conversations, he rarely peeks into the depths of other people's hearts, even if he can.
And currently, only businessmen know that he has this ability.
But when he wanted to use this power, he suddenly thought of another level.
He can do this, but he cannot use this method to seize the power of the weird red snail, because doing so seems to be equivalent to shutting out more people like him.
This was the first person to come to him and ask him to seal the weirdness, and he was also willing to bring the entire tribe to him.
If there is a positive response, there may be more in the future.
As if sensing Helfas's hesitation, the leader of the pastoral tribe stepped forward in person.
She even knelt directly in front of Helfas and kowtowed to him.
"Great Lord Helfas, if you can give me power."
"I am willing to follow you forever, and I am willing to dedicate all of myself to you, even my children and grandchildren will always be loyal to you."
She actually used the word great, which was used by the Zhi tribe to describe gods, which was really a bit over the line.
Helfas suddenly couldn't figure out what kind of existence he was in the eyes of these people.
Helfas did not agree to the other party, just told her.
"I'll give you the answer tomorrow morning."
The leader of the pastoral tribe kowtowed again and said loudly.
"Great Helfas, I look forward to your response."
After saying that, she retreated.
night.
Helfas stood alone on the corridor behind the house, which connected to the huge pit in the distance.
He took off the mask on his face, revealing his original face staring into the abyss of darkness.
There were footsteps behind him, and Helfas knew it was the businessman without turning around.
"Thank you for bringing me the people from the herdsman tribe."
The businessman said: "I'm actually a little worried. I don't know if I'm bringing you good news or a trouble."
After saying that, the businessman turned to look at the prosperous gathering place.
Looking at the ever-increasing number of houses, I think of the farmland outside and the lively bonfire dinner.
"Helfas, you really established a big tribe!"
"It's really nice here. Although it's dangerous to come here, it's very safe once you get in."
"I think this place will definitely become the largest tribe in the world. There will be houses everywhere, and there will be several times more people than the Weaver tribe, or even more than ten times the number of people."
Helfas: "It was no longer a tribe then."
Businessman: "What is that?"
Helfas: "Should we call it a town?"
Helfas suddenly remembered the picture carved on the door under the giant cave, and the city floating in the sky.
That civilization is so vast and glorious, and their power is so powerful and incredible.
if.
Can one person build such a glorious civilization with his own strength?
Can one person establish such a power system?
Suddenly, he knew what to do.
He said.
"Businessman, I want to build this place into a city."
What he wants is not just a small red snail monster, what he wants is to use the power of everyone to gather strength like a snowball to fight against those more terrifying monsters.
He wants to master greater power and understand the world more deeply.
To control your own destiny, to explore your own secrets.
He looked into the abyss beneath his feet.
The picture depicting the dragon beast bloodline genealogy and the dragon-human genealogy came to mind, and I thought of the round table high above, and the seven figures overlooking the world.
They must know something, but why would such a powerful, immortal and aloof being tell themselves.
Just because he wants to know?
They have experienced the mythical era of civilization, and have also seen the disappearance and destruction of everything. They are used to seeing the birth and disappearance of species, and have seen the vast seas and mulberry fields.
What is life and mortals to them?
What is the difference between weird and human?
If you can't even control your destiny, if you are nothing, why should the other party respond to you.
At least stand in front of those beings and have the courage to speak out!
The businessman was curious: "What is a city?"
Helfas also looked forward to it. He smiled and said, "You will know when the day comes." ()
