Beastmaster

The old village chief smiled and said, "Haha, well, then let me ask you, if I'm not mistaken, you guys here should be the only ones left in Longyue Village, right?"

Hearing this, Zong Lei was obviously stunned for a moment, but still took a deep breath and said, "How did you know?"

The old village chief smiled and stroked his beard and said, "Haha, if I'm not mistaken, your village was also affected when the Tiger Beast Village was raided half a year ago, and all of you escaped from that war."

Zong Lei sighed, then sat on the ground and smiled bitterly. He decided not to hide it anymore. After all, he should have died half a year ago and he was not afraid anymore. "Hey, you're right. Our Longyue Village was one of the victims of the raid half a year ago. After that raid, only a hundred of us survived. The village was gone, and the altar was occupied. We were afraid that the people from the Tiger Beast Village would wipe us out completely, so we dared not go back to the village. In order to survive, we could only raid villages without beast generals for the past half year. But who knew that three beast generals would suddenly appear in your Huangjiang Village..." Zong Lei's voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

The old village chief didn't say anything but just looked at Zong Lei quietly. Zong Lei's face was now covered with tears, and the villagers of Longyue Village standing behind him all had red eyes. Longying also lowered her head deeply without saying a word but clenched her fists. Zong Lei wiped her tears and said, "You guessed right, Longyue Village no longer exists. The sweep of Tiger Beast Village affected a total of 22 villages, and our Longyue Village was one of them. In that battle, my eldest brother Zong Zheng and Longying's parents fought desperately to let us escape, but in the end they all died in the battle."

Longying suddenly yelled at the old village chief, "So are you mocking us now? Knowing that we are homeless, you want to humiliate us and expose our scars?! Although I am very weak now, one day I will join Cangying to avenge all the people in the village!!!" Longying almost shouted the last sentence, which contained all her hatred and grievances.

The old village chief quickly explained, "No, no, no, that's not what I meant. I just want to understand what happened, because the Tiger Beast Village may kill you today, and they can come to kill us tomorrow."

Longying lowered her head again, her hands clenched into fists, her palms bleeding from being scratched by her nails.

At this time, Zhan Yongyi walked over and asked, "Longying, can you tell me why you can contract a war beast that is seven levels higher than you?"

Longying whispered "The war beast is leaving the body" and a burst of white light flashed. The one-legged goshawk appeared in everyone's sight again. Longying's clothes also returned to the original appearance, but compared to before, the clothes now were tattered.

"The goshawk was discovered accidentally by my father when he led the uncles in the village out hunting when I was very young. It was still very small at the time, and its feathers had not even grown fully. I was taken away by the village chief to train for combat since I was a child, so I had no friends around me and I was very lonely. When I learned that my father brought back a little goshawk, I immediately asked my father for it. Since then, it has become my only friend. We grew up together, trained together, and accompanied each other."

When she said this, Longying looked at the goshawk beside her, her eyes filled with tears. "Later, the village was attacked by a neighboring village. The goshawk was injured in the battle with them and fell from the sky. My father took the village warriors out to look for it, but they couldn't find it after a long search. Two years passed, and I never stopped looking for it. Once I was chased by a poisonous black-scaled python in the forest. I ran desperately, and just when I thought I was going to die, an eagle's cry resounded in the sky. It was the goshawk. Within a few rounds, the goshawk defeated the black-scaled python. At that time, it was already level 17 like it is now. It recognized me and took the initiative to make a contract with me. In this way, it became my contracted beast. Later, I asked the goshawk many times where it went and what happened after the battle, but it never told me."

"Understood".

Fang Tiankuo now has a very unhappy face, "Yongyi, why are you so cold when you talk to girls?"

"Don't worry about it."

Fang Tiankuo was completely silenced by these two words.

After a while, the old village chief also learned the basic situation of Longyue Village from Zong Lei. Now there were only 110 people left standing here. "What are your plans next?" asked the village chief.

Zong Lei sighed, "I haven't thought about it. We have been living in the mountains for the past six months. Whenever we robbed something from a village, we would live near that village. At the same time, we were also avoiding the pursuit of the Tiger Beast Village." Zong Lei looked helpless at this time. A village with beast generals would not be so destitute no matter what. But who knew that the two beast generals of the Tiger Beast Village were so strong and cruel.

The village chief looked puzzled and said, "Hunting? The village has already been destroyed. Why would the Tiger Beast Village still hunt down the rest of you from Longyue Village?"

Zong Lei hesitated for a while, and then thought that this was not a secret, so he said it out loud, "In fact, although our village has beast generals, after all, the village is not big, and the resources are not very rich. Normally, a small village like ours should not be the target of attack by the tiger beast village, but..."

Zong Lei obviously hesitated when he said this, "But our village has a space ring that has been passed down from generation to generation! I don't know where the Tiger Beast Village got it from, so we were also invaded."

The village chief was shocked when he heard this, then he stroked his beard and said, "I see, Mr. Zong, it's not a good idea for you to wander around outside all the time. If you don't mind, you can stay in Huangjiang Village."