The man carrying Qi Bai threw him to the ground. The smell of rotten earth entered his nose.
Qi Bai opened his eyes and found that they were in a cellar, with only a faint light coming from the entrance.
After adapting to the dark environment, everyone found that people were huddled together inside.
Lang Kuang, Niu Shuo, and the others immediately got up from the ground. The cellar was low and cramped. The tall horned beastmen couldn’t stand up straight at all.
They bent over and rushed to the inside of the cellar, trying to see the faces of the people in front of them clearly while calling out the names of their tribe members in low voices.
The people in the cellar, who had been numb, finally seemed to come back to life due to their calls.
“Shuo?”
Niu Shuo’s eyes lit up when he heard this. He crawled in the direction of the voice, hugged the skinny sub-beastman, and said in a choked voice, “Xu, it is me.”
Niu Xu touched Niu Shuo’s cheek in disbelief, tears streaming down her face. “How come you were caught by them?”
“I wasn’t caught. I came to rescue you.” Niu Shuo tried to calm down and looked at Niu Xu. “Where are our people?”
Niu Xu had a hard time speaking. She tilted her head and called out to the side twice, but got no response. “They… they fell asleep.”
On the other side, Lang Ji looked at Lang Pu, who was almost unable to move, and said angrily, “What did they do? Why can’t you move?”
Apart from being unable to move, Lang Pu had no other injuries on his body. He heard Lang Ji’s question and replied while half-lying down, “I don’t know either. Ever since we came to this tribe, it is like we’ve been cursed. We have no strength in our bodies. We will fall asleep as long as we eat their food.”
Qi Bai asked, “Is there any problem with the water?”
Lang Pu shook his head. “It is too dark here. We can’t see anything.”
At this moment, a loud noise came from above the cellar. It sounded like the sound of a huge beast running past.
Niu Xu subconsciously held her breath, but her desperate cry still rang out.
Niu Xu pulled Niu Shuo’s hand and said anxiously, “Hurry, lie down quickly.”
Feeling the trembling body in his arms, Niu Shuo rubbed her hair with his head and said in a low voice, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here. Tell me slowly what happened.”
“The beastmen of this tribe are back from hunting. Every time they make such a loud noise, they will pick one of us to take away. Those who are taken away have never come back…” Niu Xu said in a collapsed manner. “Hurry and lie down. They will pick out those who are awake.”
It was almost the same as what Niu Xu said. Not far from the cellar, a beastman with a face full of flesh angrily smashed a stone bowl. The beastman who handed him the stone bowl crawled on the ground, not daring to move.
The hunting team of the Amo Tribe hunted four wild beasts today, but one member of the hunting team lost his life. This made the chief of the Amo Tribe very angry.
He kicked the tribe member on the ground away, pointed at the cellar, and shouted a few words angrily.
The Amo people following him were already accustomed to all of this. Upon hearing this, they silently looked toward Wu sitting nearby.
Wu was now touching the animal skin coat in her hand with a smile on her face.
The animal skin clothes that were just stripped from the two-legged sheep today were much better looking than the ones they made themselves, not to mention that these people brought so much salt.
After hearing what Chief Amo said, she waved her hand casually. She was in a good mood today and didn’t bother to care about the chief’s affairs. They were just two-legged sheep. He could kill them if he wanted.
The noise on the ground was getting closer and closer. Suddenly, a beastman roughly lifted the hay covering the cellar. His body seemed very heavy, and every step made a heavy sound.
The beastman walked to the corner of the cellar with familiarity and pulled out a little girl. The girl tried hard to pretend that she was still asleep, but the sound of her teeth chattering was particularly harsh in the enclosed space.
The beastman laughed twice and looked at the little girl in his hands as if he was looking at an interesting toy.
The moment he turned around, several motionless beastmen suddenly stood up and knocked him to the ground.
The little girl in his arms was thrown heavily against the wall, but she managed to hold back from making a sound.
However, the sound still attracted the attention of the beastmen outside the entrance. One beastman shouted inside but got no response. He had to walk into the dark cellar. The next moment, the beastman was pressed against the wall.
Lang Ji’s eyes were bloodshot as he tightly gripped the beastman’s neck. The beastman struggled violently and reached out in the direction of the entrance.
“Hold this place.”
After saying this, Qi Bai immediately left the cellar. Xiong Feng and Huan Ping growled when they saw this.
Before entering the Amo Tribe, Lang Ze had already told the two of them to protect Qi Bai’s safety. Now Qi Bai had given them a new order.
The two men paused as they were chasing after him. Finally, they could only pound their chests in frustration and stay in the cellar.
Qi Bai rushed out of the cellar and was faced with panicked slaves.
Qi Bai ignored them and quickly ran in the direction where Lang Ze was. As he ran, he raised his hand and whistled loudly with all his strength.
Qi Bai knew that there were constant conflicts between tribes on the Beastman Continent, and casualties were common. However, when he really faced these things, he still hoped to resolve them in a peaceful way as much as possible.
What they were facing now was a completely unreasonable cannibal tribe. He couldn’t hesitate, or everyone would lose important people.
This unique sound instantly attracted everyone’s attention.
The chief of Amo shouted angrily, and several beastmen instantly changed into beast form. The huge dog-rats with dark brown spots all over their bodies rushed toward the place where the whistle came from.
The gravel was shaken off the ground by the huge dog-rat behind it, and a bloody smell followed. One paw waved in Qi Bai’s direction.
At this moment, a huge one-horned white wolf suddenly appeared and bit the dog-rat’s neck.
Crack.
There was the sound of breaking bones. The dog-rat under the giant wolf’s claws stopped struggling. The huge beast shape disappeared, leaving only a human-shaped corpse.
Lang Ze lowered his front body, bared his sharp fangs, and let out a deafening roar.
Several dog-rats were frightened by the giant wolf. They stopped in a hurry and their necks shrank back. However, the giant wolf didn’t give them time to breathe. He quickly bit another one like a flash of white lightning.
The Amo Tribe was a closed and backward tribe, and had never seen such a strong and ferocious beastmen. They didn’t care about their dying tribe members at all and ran away without looking back.
Qi Bai was breathing heavily as dozens of huge beasts whizzed past him. Behind them were sub-beastmen holding bone knives in their hands.
Qi Bai took the bone knife thrown by Hu Xue, stared deeply at the giant wolf’s back, and shouted, “Go save people!” The moment he finished speaking, he turned around and ran toward the cellar with the sub-beastmen.
A fierce battle was taking place at this time at the entrance of the cellar.
The people of the Amo Tribe had discovered that the outsiders in the cellar weren’t asleep. They all turned into beasts and attacked the entrance of the cellar angrily.
The huge brown bear stood up and stood the dog-rat about to pounce on it with one paw.
Everyone was shocked. After a year of training, Xiong Feng’s beast form had become even larger and could block the entrance of the cellar by himself.
The dog-rats could only reach his shoulders, but there were too many of them. They kept coming one after another, surrounding the brown bear in an instant.
Roar!
Xiong Feng roared angrily. The dog-rats clinging to him were shaken away and fell to the ground one by one. The brown bear’s sharp claws suddenly grabbed in one direction. A dog-rat was strangled by the throat, and blood spurted out.
The brown bear pounced forward and threw the dog-rats in his hand to the ground. The dog-rats, which had been attacking fiercely, dodged backward. They twisted their bodies and crouched on the ground, revealing their big teeth.
Squeak!
Seeing that they were reluctant to come forward, a large dog-rat stood up and let out a sharp cry.
Squeak squeak!
Fear flashed in the eyes of the dog-rats. They screamed and rushed toward Xiong Feng again.
Only this time, their target was no longer the brown bear but the cellar behind him.
Qi Bai’s pupils shrank. “They want to destroy the cellar!”
Bang!
The muscular one-horned yaks formed an iron wall defense, knocking away the dog-rats that wanted to move forward.
Their people were still in the cellar. No one could destroy this place unless they were killed.
Qi Bai, Hu Xue, and the others took advantage of this gap and rushed into the cellar quickly. They suddenly entered the darkness, and everyone’s vision was dark. They groped forward. AS long as they touched beastmen, they would carry the beastmen on their backs and run out regardless of anything.
On the ground, the wolf-horned beastmen formed a circle to protect the rescued beastmen.
The dog-rats were helpless against the strong brown bear and the yaks. Thus, these seemingly weaker gray wolves became the target of their fierce attack.
“Awoo.”
Lang Ji was bitten on the hind legs by two dog-rats. He tried hard to turn around and shake them off. However, his body had just recovered, and he was no match for the two dog-rats in terms of physical strength.
Then Lang Ji felt the force on his hind legs disappear. He turned around and saw that it was Qi Bai who had climbed onto the dog-rat’s back.
Qi Bai grabbed the bone knife with both hands and stabbed it into the dog-rat’s neck. He gritted his teeth and shouted, cutting a long cut on the dog-rat’s body. Hot blood sprayed all over him.
Qi Bai touched his face. At the same time that Huan Ping came over to help bite another dog-rat, he stabbed the dog-rat’s abdomen with the bone knife.
Lang Ji was lying on the ground, breathing heavily. He never imagined that one day he would be rescued by a sub-beastman who needed protection.
This thought only lasted for a moment. Soon, he stood up again and rejoined the battle as if he didn’t feel the injury on his hind legs.
In the distance, two huge beasts, a wolf and a rat, were fighting. Everywhere they went, caves were destroyed.
Qi Bai withdrew his gaze, put the bone knife on his waist, and ran back to the cellar without looking back.
He had to rescue the beastmen in the cellar. Once buried in the mud, those immobile beastmen would be in great danger.
The afterglow of the setting sun cast a shadow on the dilapidated earth pit. The bleeding corpses scattered on the pile of bones made it even sadder.
Niu Cheng held two small dog-rats in his hands and threw them in the silent crowd. “Their beast forms can dig holes. These two almost ran away.”
Qi Bai settled the other beastmen before walking over. He looked around at the crowd and frowned. “Where is Wu?”
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