Jungle Throne

The air seemed to freeze at this moment, and the surrounding was so quiet that only the heavy panting of the beasts and Gao Zhige's beating heart beat wildly in his chest.

"Howl." Gao Zhige said, looking firmly into the eyes of the only black wolf present.

"I promise you to stay, but I have one condition..."

"Can't……"

Meng Luo shouted anxiously, at the same time the lion's eyes glared, his teeth bared, and he wanted to hit again.

"Munro, stop!"

"Don't fight anymore." Gao Zhige said softly, with firm eyes.She said to the wolves again: "I will stay, Mao Mao will not die, and I will heal its wounds. But, the premise is that Meng Luo can also stay, and you can't do anything to her... "

"Howl! Don't agree! Without priests, there would be no priests, and we still survived!" The wolf whose teeth were smashed by Gao Zhige before had a fierce look, and its mouth was full of blood.Seeing Howl was hesitating, it couldn't help but stop it, "That female hurt Mao Mao, I want to avenge Mao Mao!"

As he said that, it suddenly rushed over.

"Go away! Don't do too much damage!" Meng Luo also rushed over.

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control again, Gao Zhige saw that Howl had no intention of stopping it, so he couldn't help feeling a touch of despair, wondering if it was so difficult today that he was going to die here?However, at this moment, an extremely hoarse voice suddenly came from outside the cave, bringing the battle to an end.

"You guys! Stop it!"

Gao Zhige looked up, and saw the female who had borrowed the wooden stick from him, and beside her was a rickety old man.

It should be her who called to stop just now.

"Amumu!"

"Mother!"

Several wolves inside cried out.Howl turned back into a human form, and while calling "Aunt", he walked over quickly and asked, "Why are you here?"

"You still ask!" The old man looked anxious when he saw him. "If I don't come, will you be like your dead father, disrespectful to the priest? Have you forgotten what happened to Rongxue decades ago? Cough——"

"I've never forgotten, I remember everything." Seeing his grandmother coughing violently, Haoyi hurried forward to pat the old man on the back, so as to calm her down.

"I think you just forgot!" The old man calmed down and continued to teach, "If Ai Ye hadn't come over and told me about the priest, would you still have kept it from me? Ah! Everyone in the tribe knows I don’t know, only my mother. Ever since you became the patriarch, you have lost your mother...I’ll kill you wolf bastard!"

As he said that, the old man raised his crutches and beat and cursed. Of course, this level of strength was nothing to the orcs.Howl didn't hide, and stood there obediently to let Grandma vent her anger.

Gao Zhige ignored what was going on outside, quickly dropped the stick, ran to Meng Luo's side to inspect her wound, and at the same time pampered the aggrieved lion.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry, be good! I said to stay, but I don't really want to stay. It's just a delay. There are so many of them, and you only have one. You have to protect me. I don't want to see you get hurt. , I will be sad if you get hurt..."

"...It's just a small injury, just lick it." The lion snorted, paused, and then asked a little awkwardly: "Gao, you won't stay, you won't leave me, right? "

"Yeah!" Gao Zhige replied patiently, "Look, you are the first person I met here, my backpack, clay bowls and pots are all in your cave, and I'm still building them over there. I bought a leaf hut, I haven't finished my stove yet, and I have to make clothes for you...so, I won't leave you."

"Yeah!" Meng Luo shook her tail excitedly when she heard the words "making clothes", thinking that Gao Zai still had so many things to do in his cave, so he would not abandon himself.

However, when he thought that he had never done anything for Gao, and kept letting Gao make troubles, that he was an orc, but failed to fulfill his responsibility to protect and take care of females, Meng Luo suddenly became disappointed again.

It was a long time later that she realized that Gao was not an ordinary female, and even the orcs were her defeats.

Gao Zhige is not the kind of heroine who needs protection.

After beating and howling for a while, the old man knew that he was getting old, and these few beatings really wouldn't have any effect on him, so he stopped beating and came in and knelt in front of Gao Zhige himself to beg forgiveness from the priest.

As soon as she knelt, all the members of the Timberwolves tribe behind her had to kneel down too, shouting in unison:

"My lord, please forgive us."

The voice was so loud and neat that Gao Zhige was stunned on the spot, his head was muddled, and he forgot that he was going to help people up.It wasn't until she heard Meng Luo's impatient cold snort that she came back to herself in a daze.

"Amumu, get up, those who don't know are innocent. You didn't participate in this matter, so I won't blame you."

"No, my lord priest, Howl is my son. I didn't manage him properly and let him offend you."

As soon as the old man finished speaking, a person behind him couldn't help explaining: "Amumu, Kehao is also for the tribe..."

"Shut up!" The old man turned his head and interrupted him severely, with tears streaming down his face, "Have you forgotten how Lu died? How did the people of the clan die?"

As soon as these words came out, grief and even fear appeared on everyone's faces, as if recalling some bad memories.

Someone began to sob softly.Everyone is immersed in sadness.No one continued to speak out.

Gao Zhige was very curious about what they said happened decades ago, but when she thought of the old man insisting on kneeling in front of her and begging for forgiveness, she had no choice but to ask the reason first, "Howl, Tell me, why do you have to keep me here?"

Howl was silent for a while before sighing: "Master Priest, you should know that our tribe does not have its own priest because of the punishment of the beast god, right? The priest is the messenger of the beast god and controls the sky fire. Without priests, we would have no sky fire." , Cooked meat cannot be made without sky fire. We orcs can eat raw meat, but other humans, like females and cubs, need cooked meat. They cannot eat raw meat, and if there is not enough cooked meat, they will starve to death."

"We used to exchange raw meat to other tribes for cooked meat, but since the lion tribe on the grassland became powerful, drove away all the nearby tribes, and defeated the clouded leopard tribe, the only source we can exchange for cooked meat is Lion tribe."

"But for the lion tribe, every time we go to exchange raw meat for cooked meat, the cooked meat is only half of the raw meat, and every time we give them the leftover dried meat, we rarely give freshly roasted cooked meat. They won’t give it unless it’s twice as much raw meat.”

"Decades ago, in order to get rid of the control of the lion tribe and provide fresh cooked meat for the tribe, my father arrested priests from other tribes regardless of the danger of offending the beast gods."

"During that time, the tribe did eat fresh cooked meat, and it was the most satisfying time for the tribe. However, the good days did not last long, and the punishment of the beast god came soon. One night , a sky fire suddenly appeared in the tribe, and burned down the cave where the tribe lived. Many tribesmen failed to escape, and even the newborn cubs died in it. My father, the previous patriarch, Lu, died in the end Did not escape."

"My lord priest, we really didn't think about keeping you at the beginning, but there wasn't much cooked meat in the tribe anymore, and after that punishment, the lion tribe opened their mouths again, and we exchanged the cooked meat for you." The meat is getting less and less. Last time we hunted three long-tusked beasts and sent them over, but in the end we only got the cooked meat of one long-tusked beast. We orcs are reluctant to eat raw meat now, just to exchange cooked meat for our tribe, but the lion tribe Over there... Seeing that the clansmen are all starving, as the clan leader, I was anxious to think of using this method to keep the priest in the clan."

Well, I finally understand the ins and outs of the matter.However, Gao Zhige still had a question in his mind.

"I remember, didn't there be a beast tide in the forest more than ten days ago? Didn't you take this opportunity to catch prey and return it for cooked meat?"

Even if the lion tribe monopolizes the market and asks for sky-high prices, it should be easier to meet prey than usual for the beast tide, right?It shouldn't be difficult to catch ten or twenty prey in one day, right?

However, Howl smiled wryly and said: "Master Priest, you may not have seen the beast swarm. The arrival of the beast swarm does not mean that there will be more prey, it means more danger, because at that time the giant beasts deep in the forest will also Run out, if you accidentally meet them, then the prey is not them but us."

"If we do meet, we can only spend a longer time escaping to get out of danger. Therefore, it is impossible to get more prey than usual in the beast horde."

Even though she knew it was understandable that the other party wanted to keep her, she still couldn't accept that the other party used such means to force her to stay.Can't we use a more civilized method, such as exchanging other things for cooked meat with her... Thinking of the suddenly enlightened appearance of those uncivilized people, Gao Zhige was very heartbroken——

This group of people... No, why are these wolves so stupid? Maybe the Erha on Earth is actually their descendants.