In the prehistoric days, there was already a glimmer of light on the horizon. In a quiet corner where the human tribe was located, the clan leader was thinking about Yan's mixed news with a heavy look on his face.
After a long silence, the clan leader raised his head and said to Yan: "The situation in the tribe has just improved now. There can't be any more casualties. We still need to find out the source of the matter as soon as possible so that we can respond early."
"How to find it? I didn't find any suspicious signs two or three hundred kilometers away in the northwest." Yan was also a little helpless when he heard this.
The patriarch's face froze when he heard this, and then he asked in disbelief: "Two or three hundred kilometers?"
Two to three hundred kilometers is not a short distance, especially in such a primitive and dangerous jungle environment. Even if ordinary people don't consider the danger, it would take five or six days to cross such a distance.
If you add in the dangers, detours and other factors, it would have been impossible to get there without me in ten days and a half.
Therefore, the clan leader was very surprised that Yan could detect a distance of two to three hundred kilometers, and even couldn't believe it.
"Yes!" Yan didn't explain much, just nodded affirmatively and answered seriously.
Hearing this, the clan leader shook his head in frustration and relief, and then said: "In this case, it is definitely unrealistic to send the clansmen out to investigate. I'm afraid I can only work hard for you to pay more attention to the movements in the northwest during this time."
"This is not a problem." Yan nodded and continued, "However, the tribe still needs to make more preparations."
"It's natural to be prepared." The clan leader nodded when he heard this, and then said with some distress: "But now there is no clue about the matter at all, and there is not much preparation that can be done."
Yan didn't have much to do about this. After all, he didn't have much experience in this area and could only rely on the clan leader and a few captains in the tribe.
"Then - Clan Leader! I'll leave this to you. I will keep an eye on the movements in the northwest during this period. In addition, the clan will try not to move to the northwest recently."
"Well, let's do that." The clan leader looked very unhappy and said in a deep voice, "I also need to discuss this with other people first."
With Yan's departure and the tribe leader notifying the captains of the news, the atmosphere in the tribe gradually became more solemn. In the following days, the tribe's frequency of entering the jungle began to increase, and the tribe began to gradually increase its food reserves.
At the same time, under the leadership of the tribe leader, the tribe relied on sharp stone axes and dozens of tribesmen with a strength of more than 1,000 kilograms to open up a large hidden stone cave on the back of the cave where they currently live.
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At the same time, six to seven hundred kilometers away from Yan's tribe, there is a valley covering an area of several hundred acres. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and shrouded in fog all year round, making it almost impossible to see sunlight in the valley, thus forming a A sinister place.
It stands to reason that in such an environment, the valley should be lifeless, with no biological activity. But in fact, there are some alternative creatures living in this deserted place where there is no sunlight all year round.
Recently, the creatures in this valley have been very active. Every night when the twelfth lunar month rises, there will be a sound of howling ghosts and wolves in the valley.
At the same time, the lunar moonlight seemed to be pulled, and it converged into the valley in patches, illuminating the entire valley. It was also at this time that the scene in the valley truly unfolded.
A deformed giant tree stood in the valley. It was only two to three hundred meters tall. Although the tree body was not very high, its dark and twisted trunk was two to three hundred meters thick.
The branches on it are intertwined and intertwined with dragons, dotted with sparse dark branches and leaves, like twisted and intertwined giant pythons, spreading staggeredly throughout the valley, almost completely covering hundreds of acres of the valley beneath it.
At first glance, except for this giant tree, there are no other trees or plants growing in the entire valley. The deformed giant tree is like a tyrannical king, controlling and occupying everything in the valley.
At this time, under the illumination of the moonlight, the branches and leaves on the giant tree seemed to come alive, swaying and stretching towards the full moon in the sky.
At the same time, under the cover of branches and leaves, you can see many strange and twisted knots growing on the huge tree trunk. As the branches dance, these knots become weird.
They took on the faces of various creatures one after another. Their expressions were twisted and ferocious, and roars continued to come from them, resounding throughout the valley.
And as these roars came out, various creatures in the surrounding jungle continued to gather into the valley.
The strange thing is that these gathered creatures are all extremely quiet. Regardless of race type, even if they are usually natural enemies, they are now walking together peacefully and harmoniously.
After these creatures entered the valley, black tree roots immediately jumped out from the ground and penetrated into the bodies of these animals. With the sound of gulu~gulu, these animals shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a pool of black mud scattered on the ground. At the bottom of the valley.
In the sky, as the roots of the tree sucked more animals, the trunks and leaves swayed more eagerly. At the same time, new knots grew on the branches, and the roars became more intense.
All the living animals in the surrounding jungle seemed to sense the danger in the valley and began to flee outwards. Affected by the panicked fleeing animals, greater chaos formed in the jungle.
Slowly, as the size of the fleeing herd grows larger and larger, it attracts strange beasts and birds from further away to follow and hunt, forcing these beasts to continue to escape, causing greater chaos and continuing to grow the beasts. group.
At the same time, a large number of beasts gathered, and the gathered energy and blood burned in all directions. The Yinxiexie Chong who stood in front of the beasts were either instantly evaporated by the huge energy or blood, or fled one after another.
Finally, another wave of ghosts formed in front of the herd.
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While the herd of beasts was growing like a snowball and was advancing from the northwest, Yan's tribe was still nervously making preparations to deal with the unknown danger.
Yan himself did not care about the tribe's preparations. Since he received the surveillance and exploration mission from the clan leader, he entered the northwest jungle alone, traveling hundreds of miles outside the tribe's daily activities, always monitoring changes coming from the northwest.
It's not that he doesn't want to continue to go out for reconnaissance, but this distance is already the farthest distance for him to detect danger in time and quickly rush back to notify the tribe.
Yan was alone in the jungle during this period. Although he was strangely attacked by giant beasts from time to time, relying on the super sensing ability of Yuanshen, coupled with his increasingly powerful strength and the protection of several meritorious treasures, he was safe and sound. thing.
In this way, time passed slowly, and nearly ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
That night, Yan, as usual, stayed in a man-made cave on the top of the mountain. The divine spear of merit in his hand kept stirring the bonfire in front of the cave.
At the same time, the innate magical power habitually turns on from time to time and looks towards the northwest.
"Hiss—what is that?" Yan Meng stood up and looked to the northwest with a shocked look on his face.
