Dawn of Another World

"Master Ling Xiao! Master Ling Xiao——!"

Before the tiny white frost crystals melted and evaporated from the slate-gray tent made of raccoon tail fur, the energetic voice of the little brown wolf Lim rang out briskly outside.

Opening his eyes, the silver-white giant lightly shook its fur, stood up its limbs, and looked back at the bed. Ling Xiao, with disheveled hair, was still curled up in the pile of fur and fell asleep.

I don't know when he fell asleep last night.

"Ling..."

Lim, who was covered in curly brown hair and was still yelling, was silenced the next moment as if he was pinched by the neck.His round and wet eyes followed Basil walking out of the tent. After a while, he let out a joyous cry of 'oooh', and then flew over immediately, sticking to Basil. .

"Master Basil! It's Master Basil whooo~~! Teach me how to defeat the Acupuncture Flame Scorpion by myself—"

In the slightly cold air in the early morning, the gait is straight and bathed in the morning sun, the fur of the giant wolf is shining and dazzling, its golden eyes are like lightning, and it is very handsome.And Lim, who had already ignored his mother's repeated warnings not to get too close to Lord Basil, was one size smaller because he was underage, and rubbed his idol affectionately, turning around in circles.

Basil, who is erratic and solitary, doesn't often show up in front of the tribal people. It's a rare encounter. Lim wishes he could become a little tail and stick to each other.Compared with the previous generation who kept their tongues secret, the younger generation of the Giant Wolf Clan, who advocate the respect of the strong, are more frank and direct.

"be quiet."

Taking a step back, Basil tried to put on a threatening expression to scare away the noisy little guy in front of him.It's a pity that when facing Limu's bright eyes, Basil was also defeated without any suspense, "Ling Xiao is... still resting."

"Oh, okay." After listening, the little guy was quite sensible, and immediately lowered his voice a few degrees, but couldn't help but whisper excitedly: "Then Lord Basil, teach me—"

"That can't be done." There was no room for negotiation, and he refused straight away. The little guy was still too young, and it was too dangerous for the ferocious and venomous flame scorpion.

"I'll go to the hill of ruins in the east to have a look."

Don't be awkward and leave such a sentence, Basil turned a blind eye to the undersized little tail in front of him, threw off his pace and galloped away.Only Lim was left standing there in a daze, thinking nonchalantly.

The Hill of Ruins...isn't it in the territory of the centaur?

What's so good about that bare, ugly hill that borders the territories of both giant wolves, wild snakes and wild snakes!I heard from my father yesterday that it seems that I found a brand new Eye of Thales there... huh?Huh?

Huh huh huh——!

"Master Basil, wait for me! I'm going, I'm going~~"

It is still a child's jumping heart, and Lim seems to have completely forgotten his original intention of coming here earlier.He didn't care whether to speak loudly or quietly, with his naturally curly fur curled up, he opened his voice and jumped up, chasing after him like an arrow.

Only an empty echo remained, still lingering in place.

Not long after Basil and Lim left, Ling Xiao, who was nestled in the warm swamp raccoon fur in the tent, opened his eyes in a daze.The look on his face seemed to be stuck on the boundary between dream and reality, and he was dazed for a long time before he really started to wake up.

Ling Xiao looked around and saw no one, so he got up and got out of bed.He simply tidied up the cloth robe on his lower body, and then laboriously combed and braided the knee-length black hair.

Fortunately, practice makes perfect.

For more than 20 years of living on the earth, Ling Xiao has a cool and short hair. Since he came to this world, deviations have continued to appear.No matter how he tries to shorten it, the long hair will return to a terrifying length as soon as he wakes up, which has really troubled him for a long time.

Ling Xiao picked up the water cup and the pottery basin in the entanglement, went out and turned right to the stone tank outside the tent where the water was stored, dipped the toothbrush made of the tail hair of the mire beast with tooth powder and washed briefly, then thought about what happened today menu, side back to the tent.

After studying and working abroad for many years, he is very handy in cooking Ling Xiao.

"It would be great if there were more types of ingredients..."

Talking to himself, Ling Xiao put the cleaned wild vegetables together with the fire iguana meat, added the ground perilla, lemongrass, pepper and other spices he collected and seasoned with coarse salt, and then put them in a stone pot for stewing.Conveniently, a small amount of chopped pickled red pheasant meat and Chinese toon buds were mixed into the iguana egg liquid and Helaman flower tuber powder, and stirred into a paste.Then spread animal fat on the hot slate baked by the flame symbol, pour the batter quickly, make some thin noodles and put them on the plate.

Poured a cup of boiled white water from the clay pot, and with the fragrant and soft noodles, Ling Xiao had a simple breakfast.

The various Eyes of Thales on the mainland, that is, space rifts, are currently the most important source of living materials for humans existing in Terra.

However, compared with the strange and unknown dangerous beasts or plants, Helaman flower tubers, fire iguana meat, red pheasant, lamp grass, swamp civet tail animal skins, etc., this small part of resources that are relatively safe to use is only Just enough to maintain food and clothing.

In the eyes of the mature and stable Thales, the output is often rich, and at the same time it must be accompanied by the same amount of risk.Residents of the mainland rely on the resources provided by various rifts to survive, and have to constantly fight against the dangers that arise in them.This kind of symbiotic relationship of hostility and dependence has created the strange appearance of the present-day Terra Continent in front of Ling Xiao.

After tidying up a bit, and returning to the stone table, Ling Xiao carefully packed the few books he had read last night, put them on his shoulders, and went out quickly.His destination was near the northwest center of the settlement, the animal skin tent of Ji Ji, the prophet of the giant wolf tribe.

Under the light golden sun, the cold morning air is gradually warming up.

Along the way, you can see wolf orcs who get up early to prepare food or make pre-hunting preparations, while carefree young children play in groups on the side of the road or between tents.

With a population of tens of thousands, the Giant Wolf City, currently the largest habitat of the wolf clan, faced south and was built on a gentle and leeward sunny slope.

A solid and towering circular conglomerate city wall surrounds the periphery of Giant Wolf City. Two black conglomerate avenues running east-west and north-south run through the entire main city in a cross shape.Large and small bifurcated roads, scattered like spider webs, connected the four orc settlements on the top, bottom, left, and right sides of the main road.

Different from the two ordinary werewolf settlements in the southeast and southwest, the northeast region is an important sacrificial ceremony place for the wolf orcs.In the northwest, there lived the current patriarch of the giant wolf tribe, as well as high-status orcs such as prophets and elders.

Slowly moving forward along the North-South Avenue, Ling Xiao needs to walk through the empty central square.The places that are only used during festivals or major events are now just scattered and simple stalls for trading and selling items.

About ten minutes away, Ling Xiao finally saw a little outline of the wolf prophet's rectangular tent covering a large area.

Different from ordinary orc dwellings, the Prophet's Tent located in the northwest area has a light yellow curved top, bound and decorated with many special beast tusks and colorful bird feathers. Outside the gorgeous tent, there are even patrolling warriors and Sentry.

"Good morning, Mia, Sardis."

While greeting gently, Ling Xiao untied the stone pass token around his waist, and handed it to the two orc warriors guarding the tent.

"Good morning, my lord messenger."

The middle-aged male soldier named Sardis just nodded politely, his snake-like clammy eyes seemed to be looking at Ling Xiao, but at the same time he seemed to be seeing nothing.On the other hand, the female werewolf named Miya, with curly shoulder-length brown hair and a huge epee on her back, greeted Ling Xiao warmly while receiving the stone tablet.

"Please wait a moment, the Prophet is still meditating..."

Miya, who was guarding outside, hadn't finished speaking when she heard human voices in the tent accompanied by the sound of debris falling to the ground.

"Is it Ling Xiao? Quick, damn it! Mia, please come in, Lord Messenger—"

Immediately, there was another sound of falling debris.

"..."

Sardis' fixed eyes moved slightly, while Mia spread her hands slightly, with a rather embarrassed expression.After handing over the token and setting up the curtains left and right, the young female werewolf warrior reluctantly leaned forward and made a gesture of 'please', then retreated to the side.

Putting away the stone tablet and smiling knowingly, Ling Xiao walked directly into the tent.

The spacious interior space is brightly lit, and the skylight above the head allows the morning light to shine in without hindrance. On the light yellow tent walls that are supported and reinforced, there are even a few torches that were not burnt out the night before.

"Lord Prophet?"

Piles of scrolls and books were scattered and piled up on stone shelves, high platforms, and various places on the ground as before.While Ling Xiao was circumventing carefully, he also had to guard against stone bowls and stone bowls filled with unknown powder or liquid that would appear from under his feet from time to time. Finally, he followed the sound all the way to the right rear of the tent without any danger.

"Good morning, Master Prophet. This is the book I borrowed from you a few days ago, I..."

After he spoke half a sentence slowly, the book in Ling Xiao's hand was simply taken away and thrown aside neatly.Before he had time to look up and see the face of the person opposite, he was pulled by the wrist and dragged into the other end of the tent separated by layers of animal skins.

And outside the trembling animal skin curtain, a pile of books piled up high on the ground, trembling and maintaining a delicate balance, because of the extra weight of a few books that were thrown unexpectedly, made another clattering sound and collapsed scattered all over the place.

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