Crossing: Leading everyone to survive

"Thank you very much for this time. If you need anything in the future, you can come to us," the sturdy man said as he walked up to Gu Chengming. He recognized at a glance that the young man in front of him was the one who had done business with them before.

"You're welcome, but I do need your help with something."

"Tell me what you want to hear."

"I want to work with you to get through the next cold winter."

"Oh? But why should we cooperate with you? In my opinion, all of you combined cannot beat me. You will only increase the food burden," the sturdy man suppressed the surprise in his heart, but still said calmly.

"Take a look at this," Gu Chengming handed the notebook to the burly man, "Inside is information about monsters that appear in severe cold, as well as their weaknesses."

The sturdy man opened the book and took a few glances. He had seen some of the monsters before and their weaknesses were correct, but there were also some monsters he had never seen before. When he wanted to continue flipping through the pages, Gu Chengming snatched the notebook back.

"We'll see about the rest after we confirm the cooperation."

The sturdy man looked at the injured person calmly.

"Okay, I promise to cooperate with you."

"Uh..." Gu Chengming swallowed back what he was about to say. He didn't expect the progress to be so smooth.

On the way to the camp where the strong man was, they introduced themselves to each other. The strong man was called Yuchuan. Although he was tall, he was actually a teenager in their tribe. The girl was called Lin Muyao, and she looked very lively and active. The injured man was called Uncle Yue. They called the severe cold the winter crisis, and many lives had to be sacrificed every year to survive it.

Gu Chengming looked at them still wearing the animal skins and asked, "Aren't you cold? Where are the clothes we gave you?"

Yuchuan lowered his head after hearing this. Lin Muyao said, "We are brave warriors, so we won't feel cold."

But Gu Chengming could see her trembling body.

On the way, Hongyu walked up to Gu Chengming and said, "Xiao Ming, will they turn against us when they trick us into their base camp?"

"Probably not. They know how terrible the severe cold is and don't want to experience internal and external troubles during the severe cold. But we still have to be prepared and tell them not to put down their weapons."

"We're here," Yuchuan, who was walking in the front, stopped. Gu Chengming looked over and saw another cave, but this one was much bigger than theirs. It was simply surrounded by branches. Gu Chengming felt that it couldn't even stop himself, let alone the wild beasts. Some people also came out of the cave, seeing Yuchuan.

"Brother Yuchuan, you're back," a child rushed over and hugged Yuchuan.

Gu Chengming took a look and saw that they were all old people or children. Then he thought that there was no one guarding the entrance to the cave, and he suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Brother Yuchuan, this clothes is so warm. Wow! You actually killed so many prey. That's amazing."

"Okay, let's go deal with the prey."

After Yuchuan sent the child away, he saw Gu Chengming’s gloomy expression, “Won’t you introduce your tribe to me?”

There are many tribes in this land, and our Wind Tribe is just one of them. Any tribe that can survive the winter crisis is not bad, but unfortunately, because of one thing, we were surrounded and killed by other tribes. Everyone else died in the battle, and only we survived.

"What is that thing?"

Yuchuan lowered his head, apparently not intending to tell Gu Chengming.

"Listen, if you want to use our power to help your tribe survive the winter, just tell me everything honestly."

Yuchuan felt that the figure that was originally thinner than him suddenly became taller, and his five senses were slowly fading away, as if he was trapped in a dark quagmire and unable to move.

"I need to discuss this with them," he said, and he hurried away.

"Xue'er, hold me," he said and then collapsed to the ground. Jiang Yingxue, who was beside him, quickly hugged him.

"It seems that the situation is not optimistic. It seems that there are only three people in this tribe who can fight, and one is seriously injured," Zhou Chenze adjusted his glasses.

"No wonder they agreed so readily, they are treating us as tools," Hongyu said angrily.

Soon, Yuchuan and Lin Muyao came over together.

"I'm sorry for hiding this from you. We are the only survivors of the Gale Tribe. Uncle Yue is the strongest among us. In order to ensure that we can spend the winter safely, he went alone to challenge the overlord here. He smeared his blood on his body to avoid being smelled, but he failed." Then he looked at Lin Muyao beside him.

"Every once in a while, a ball of light would appear in the sky, but the location where it fell was random. At that time, a ball of light fell on our tribe, and then they surrounded our tribe and forced us to hand over the ball of light."

"Then why don't you hand it over? Isn't life more important than anything else?" Hongyu asked puzzled.

Yuchuan glanced at Hongyu and said, "No, that thing is more important to us than life. There is a light blue crystal inside the light ball. Lin Muyao absorbed it and became the Chosen One."

"The Chosen One".

"Yes, the one who can sense the divine breath and use it to fight is the Chosen One. It is said that the Chosen One has a talent ceiling that others cannot match, and it is also a chance to escape from this cage. So our tribe has finally produced one, how can we give it to others so easily? Mu Yao is our hope.

"Is that the kind of energy that divine breath refers to?"

"That's right, the ones who built the earth wall over there are the chosen ones."

"By the way, do you know how to increase the divine energy in your body?"

"I was going to ask you guys something else. Lin Muyao has only just become the Chosen One. All I know is that eating the flesh and blood of powerful creatures can increase the amount of divine energy in your body."

"Um..." Gu Chengming looked at Lin Muyao, "Have you tried to absorb the divine breath of those creatures?"

"That's impossible. The divine energy in every living organism is different. Even if the attributes are the same, their essences are different, and they cannot be integrated."

"Is that so?" Gu Chengming thought. It seemed that only his necklace could absorb the divine breath of other creatures. What he used was not the divine breath, but the dark power converted by the necklace. So, could he be considered the chosen one?

"There are still three days until winter arrives. In two days, the merchants will come to the trading center again. We must hurry up and hunt these creatures to exchange for as much food as possible."

"Businessman?" Gu Chengming felt his head becoming more and more confused.

"You don't even know the merchants?" Yuchuan looked at him in confusion, "How on earth did you survive until now?" But he still introduced: "The merchants are very mysterious. They come here regularly to trade, but they always barter. And they have everything, even the crystals that make people the Chosen One. But the exchange conditions are also very harsh. Until now, no one can afford it. The biological illustrations given to you were exchanged there."