Original War

Chapter 249: Underground Threat

When Shao Xuan and the others went to the grassland, Feng tribe and Lao Jiao went to wait on a short mountain on the border of Feng tribe every day on the grassland.

According to the agreement between him and others, the people on the grassland should leave from here by that time, but one day passed, two days passed… Five days passed, Lao Hao didn’t see the shadow of those people.

On the tenth day, Lao Hao didn’t let his wife and grandson wait here with him. He would notify them when he saw people. The old lady is too old, she is not a tourist from the Yanjiao tribe, and her health is not as good as she is old. And ten-year-old Anai was called to help people watch the sheep so that they could get some food in return. After all, no one knew how many more days it would take to leave.

Lao Hui knew that the grassland was huge and it would take time to come over, so he waited with peace of mind at first, but on the fifteenth day, Lao Hui was really anxious. He was worried that the team would forget him. After all, there are three members of their family, two of them are old and one is small. Could it be that they are disgusted and troublesome?

Lao Jia couldn’t help thinking about it.

The tourists on the grassland are also divided into several groups. Naturally, it is impossible for all of them to walk the same way. The person that Lao Jia contacted did indeed decide to go here. However, after fifteen days, he didn’t even see a personal image. Is it intentional? , Or is in trouble?

If it were the former, Lao Hao would leave with his family. He knew that there were only three of him, and the journey was far away, but he was willing to take risks. However, Lao Hao still believes in the latter situation more. People he knows will not easily abandon the tribe, but if they are in trouble… I heard that there is a war on the mountain side, and the tourists may be implicated if they encounter it. Thinking of this, Lao Hao became even more worried. He would rather other people forget their family of three than they would be implicated in the war. Once a war is involved, they will be killed.

Rarely, the indifferent temperament developed over the years became impatient, and Lao Hao still insisted on taking food to the mountain early in the morning and waiting until sunset.

When Lao Hao went up the mountain, Lao Hao’s grandson Anai, who was ten years old this year, was helping the Guar family to guard the flock. There are five people who guard the flocks, including him. In the past, there were only three of them. Sometimes they could keep track of them as a family. Recently, the tribe always lost sheep, sometimes cattle or horses. The livestock is uncertain, and most of the lost ones are Those young ones.

The patrolling team patrols day and night, and there are still cases of losing livestock, sometimes this house, sometimes that house, for more than ten days.

Some people say that they have seen wolves moving around, perhaps some cunning, fast-moving wolves. There was a war between the tribes on the side of the mountain, so the nearby beasts moved around in order to take refuge. Some of them went over the mountain and came here. Therefore, the patrol team has sent extra manpower these days to pay attention to the wolves. Of the trail.

Gua Lin has been sluggish recently. His favorite little calf is gone. He was thinking of raising a bullfight with a few friends next door, but he didn’t want to. Come the day before yesterday, I went to the bullpen to see that the cow was gone. . He didn’t want to stay with his friends for these two days. Finally, I took a fancy to a newly born calf. Even the best forage was prepared, but the result was gone.

“Anai, you said, when did the wolf come in and take the calf?” Gu Wei asked boredly.

“I don’t know,” After a pause, Anai said again: “I don’t think it’s a wolf.”

In the past two years, because Guaya promised Shao Xuan to take care of the old family, his attitude towards Anai was a little better. Even if Anai was not allowed to join their small group, he was not embarrassed. Sometimes Anai was bullied by others. Gua had also made a relief in the past, so Anai had a lot more words with Gua.

“I don’t think it is either. It may be foxes or eagles. There are many animals stealing livestock on the grassland, and they all like to steal young ones.” If I knew who stole it, I cut it down!”

After saying a few ruthless words, seeing no one to join him, Gua turned his head and found that Anai hadn’t listened to him at all, and was looking left and right.

“Hey, did you hear what I said just now!” Gu Wei said dissatisfied.

Anai did not answer this, but asked, “Did you hear anything just now?”

“What sound?” Gua thought Anai was making excuses.

“It’s…” Anai thought for a while, but couldn’t describe it. I didn’t intend to heed melon’s complaint, stood up and looked at the sheep grazing not far away.

However, Anai didn’t want to bother, but Gu Jin couldn’t stop talking over there, and continued to talk.

“Hey, I heard that you are leaving, when will you leave? Where do you go? Can you see Shao Xuan again? If you see him again, you can ask him to carve another wolf wood carving for me. I will use cattle and sheep in exchange. My dad took it away and didn’t let me touch it.” Gua said to himself.

“Melon!” Anai said suddenly.

“what?”

“Lost a sheep!” Anai said anxiously.

Upon hearing this, Gua hurriedly got up, stood on the wooden stool next to her, looked at the sheep, and counted. There are not many sheep in his family now, and the livestock recently lost are all young, so Gua directly counted the number of young sheep.

“No, you counted wrong, not a lamb was lost.” Gua said, relieved.

When Guaya was about to laugh at Anais for not knowing how to count, he listened to Anais saying: “It’s not a lamb, it’s a big one! I counted it four times, and it’s lost! It’s still there in the morning!”

“Impossible!” Gua counted in disbelief. Although he usually likes to play, he still remembers the number of livestock he raises. He knows how many animals are consumed every day and how many animals are born.

After the count is over, one is indeed missing.

There were four people staring at other places. Although they did not stare at the flock, they looked at other places, but as long as the flock did not get lost. Gua ran over and asked the four people, none of them saw the sheep leave the flock.

People are here, and there are no wolves or foxes. Is it an eagle?

Looking up to the sky, I didn’t see a single bird. Even if the eagle came down to catch the sheep, it would definitely make some movement, but I didn’t hear it.

“Hey, Gua, what are you looking for?” A little girl from Gua’s neighbor who was about his age walked over.

“What’s your business?!” Gua’s tone is not good because of anxiety now.

Knowing Gua’s temper, Doya didn’t intend to ask him, but instead asked Anai next to him.

Anai had a good impression of Doya, so he talked about what happened just now.

Knowing the whole story, Doya lost his thoughts about finding a horse to race with me. Her family lost a sheep yesterday, not too small, not too big.

“What are you going to do?” Doya asked.

“Guar, go talk to your dad, if your mother is at home, you can talk to your mother.” Anai persuaded.

“No, I’ll look for it first!” Guaye didn’t want to go to the patrolling father now, nor did he want to wake up the sleeping mother. There is a little brother or little Sister in my mother’s belly, and she needs to rest. Moreover, he hopes to find some clues, and then talk to the adults.

“I’ll go too!” Doya flicked his whip, rolled up his sleeves and followed.

Anai looked around, talked to the nearest person watching the sheep, and chased Doya and Anai over.

The people who watched the sheep didn’t care. The children of the tribe ran around all day without seeing anything. There were people from the patrol team watching at the border, and they were not worried.

When Anai and Guar were looking for the missing sheep, Lao Gao, who was standing on the low mountain, finally saw a team. The person in the lead was the one who had contacted him.

The overjoyed Lao Hao hurried over, but found that everyone in the team was extremely exhausted, and there were still a lot of injuries. There were two seriously injured people in the team, and they didn’t know how many days they could survive.

They encountered the war on the other side of the mountains. However, it is lucky to be here alive.

The original team of thirty-two people, because of the melee between the tribes on the other side of the mountain range, three of them could not follow. As for the two seriously injured people in the team, if they couldn’t make it through, then there would be five.

Because this group of tourists has always been walking at the junction of the tribes, even if they are seen by patrols, as long as they are not bloodthirsty, they will generally be fine. Lao Hao wanted to bring people to his home, but now in a sensitive period, the Feng tribe people would not let suspicious people into the tribe, so Lao Hao ran back to get some herbs to use for the injured people.

“I also brought some food. You guys put a pad first.” Lao Hao handed over half of the leg of lamb in his hand. That’s it, it’s definitely not enough for these people, but at any rate there is food, and everyone can eat one bite after roasting. good.

Just talking about the situation in the team, a patrol team from the Feng tribe ran up quickly on horseback, and the one running at the front was Gua’s father.

“Lao Feng, have you seen them?” The other party was sweaty with anxiety.

“No, what’s the matter?” Lao Hao had a bad feeling, and he trembled.

“There was a sheep lost in the house, and the guy Gua didn’t tell us, he took Anai and Doya to find it! However, I haven’t seen any of them until now!”

When Lao Hu’s legs became weak, Anai was left in his family. If something happened…

“Find, find…find, I will find too!” Lao Jia said, shaking his lips.

The patrol team glanced at the nearly 30 tourists who were covered in Blood Qi in front of them, and asked, “Are you coming from the mountain range? Have you found anything unusual, such as wolves and other beasts.”

“There are indeed wolves, foxes, and…Ah!” The person who spoke was frightened when he thought of something. I woke up from the war and came out to eat a lot of people. One of our team was dragged into the ground by them. I don’t know if they came over.”

“Insects? Stone insects?” the other party asked.

“It’s not stone insects. They have fangs, some are flat, and they have many feet. They don’t leave holes in the places they have drilled. They will be blocked with soil. We dug for a long time…” The speaker cried, and they acted When they saw their companions being dragged into the ground, they all went to dig, but their speed was not as fast as the speed at which the bug burrowed into the ground, and only soil was dug out.

A bug that moves into the ground? No holes? !

The people on the patrol team were startled, and when they looked at each other, they all saw the suspicion in the other’s eyes.

The livestock lost in the tribe may not be wolves or other beasts on land or in the sky, but threats from the ground!