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The big monster was killed on the spot, and its huge body crashed to the ground.The little prince relaxed all over and let out a long breath.

Only then did he dare to take a big breath, and he had been holding his breath just now.

The crew members who came to support me from the pier were dumbfounded. The evil god was gone and the queen was dead. They held knives in their hands, not knowing whether they should slash at me.

Don't cut it... I killed the evil god they worshiped, cut it, I even killed the evil god, how can they be my opponent?
While hesitating, the priest ran out. She also had a staff in her hand, but it was short, like a magic wand.

She pointed to my head with her stick finger and muttered something.

After hearing her words, the crew put down their knives one after another, and the residents hiding in the houses came out one after another.

They surrounded me, and the little prince instantly became nervous again.

The priest approached, stood among the crowd, and said to me in the common language of the four countries that they would like to thank me because I rescued them from the control of evil gods.

I was a little confused, and the priest then explained that they did not sacrifice to the evil god voluntarily, but they were actually targeted by the evil god. If they did not make living sacrifices according to its will, the residents would be massacred.

They also escaped, but the evil god can always catch up with them, and moving the residents in batches will arouse its suspicion.

Once they fled to the river, they had already gone far by boat, but they were still overtaken by the little monster.

In the end, the boat crashed and people died, and the corpses in the river were carried ashore by them and hung up in the city for public display.

They were the closest to Sheng Yu, and once sent envoys to ask Sheng Yu for help, hoping that Sheng Yu Kingdom could send troops to destroy the evil god.

In return, they are willing to offer the Eye of the Forest, the treasure of their clan, which can see everything clearly at night.

I sound familiar, like infrared glasses?

The priest said bitterly: "Sheng Yuguo, you don't keep your promises, cheat us of our treasures, and refuse to keep your promises!"

I glanced at the little prince, and he nodded, indicating that it was true.

Sheng Yuguo tricked them into stealing their treasures, and they wanted to get them back. If they didn’t want to come back, they could steal them. There were no martial arts masters among them, so it was too difficult to sneak into the palace’s treasure house.

From their point of view, it is a shortcut for beautiful women to enter the palace. If they are only court ladies, they will not be able to get close to the treasure house.

They choose to send a person to either the highest seat or the next highest seat.

Go into the treasury to get things openly, without being stopped by the guards.

In Sheng Yu, only the emperor and empress can enter the treasure house.

This treasury is not a place for silk, silk, gold and silver jewelry.

It is the place where the national treasure of Shengyu is hidden. It is not a rare treasure, so it is not qualified to be placed there.

This group of people who call themselves the "Eye of the Sky" selected a well-trained poisoner and sent her to sneak into the palace to carry out the task of recapturing the treasure.

Of course, as long as she succeeds, the matter of sending troops to assist the Sky-Eyed Clan and get rid of the evil gods can also be completed at the same time.

So Poison Master's task is to sit on the throne of queen, if not, then help her son ascend to the throne.

It sounds like their plan is outrageous. Isn't it easier to go to the palace to steal treasures and hire a gangster than to ascend the throne?
But they don't trust outsiders anymore. If someone hired takes away the treasure and doesn't give it to them, where can they find someone?
Unlike Shengyu Palace and Treasure House, they don't have long legs and can't run.

If one person fails, another person can be sent to continue the task.

They have their own ideas, and things have happened, saying anything is an afterthought.

I helped them deal with the evil god by accident, and they stopped pursuing the little prince.

The priest also said that they had promised that if the little prince's mother completed the task and helped the people get rid of the evil god, they would let her be the queen.

Now this promise is still valid, and he looked at me expectantly after he finished speaking.

I looked at the little prince, he is the son of the poison master, should he inherit the throne?
The priest seemed to understand my eyes, and quickly added: "Whoever kills the evil god will be the queen."

The little prince nodded again and again, the way he was scared to pee by the evil god just now, was seen by all the residents in the city.

Even if the priest agrees to him being the king, he cannot agree. In the memory of the subjects, there will always be the picture of their king peeing his pants.

What's more, if the people here don't pursue it, Sheng Yu's crimes cannot be avoided.

I came here to take him back to be punished.

I have no intention of taking the throne, so I politely declined, but the priests insisted on fulfilling their promise.

The priest first arranged for people to clean up the corpses and destroyed houses in the city, especially the queen's body, and held a grand funeral.

She asked us to stay for a few days so we can discuss things.

It's really not suitable for the little prince to go on the road immediately.

The priest entertained us to live in the palace. The Sky Eyes did not get married. The queen has no husband, but she has a bunch of children.

Because of this, they believed that the little prince belonged to their clan and should be dealt with according to their clan rules.

It doesn't matter who the father is, the child takes the mother's last name.

When the children grow up, the boys are 'kicked' out of the house to live independently.

Girls stay at home and live with their mothers.

If there is no accident, the family will not be separated.

Of course, this is the rule of the royal family. For ordinary people, a boy will be raised by his biological father, and a girl will be raised by his mother.

I have observed them, men are still engaged in most of the physical labor, including guarding, hunting, picking, building houses...

Women do only light jobs, or even nothing at all.

The priest's explanation for this is that because the spirit bird only listens to women's calls, it brings them antidote herbs on time every year.

There are not many people in the Tianyan tribe, but there are quite a lot of stories.

The priests were also willing to let me know more about them.

She said that the ancestors of the Sky Eye clan were 'cursed' and polluted by a toxin that had penetrated deep into their bones.

This 'curse' cannot be shaken off, it haunts them from generation to generation, from parents to children, from children to children, from generation to generation, no one is spared.

Fortunately, their ancestors discovered a herbal medicine that can alleviate the damage of toxins, but unfortunately it can only alleviate, not eradicate.

And where this herb grows, no one can reach it.

Only the spiritual birds in the forest can fly in and bring out the herbs.

The spirit bird only listened to the calls of the women and ignored the voices of the men.

Therefore, every year, women in the city, no matter how big or small, gather in the square to hold a calling ceremony.

They would sing a song for a whole day. The spirit birds liked the song, and the next day they would go to a place with herbs to bring them the antidote.

However, the spiritual bird only gnawed enough for them to use for a year at a time, and there was nothing more.

It is also for this reason that their Tianyan tribe has always controlled the population.

This is the second secret of their inability to leave the jungle.

But they will not tell outsiders, after all, it is a matter of life and death.

The priest sighed, shook his head and said, "Although the spirit bird is spirited, it is extremely aggressive and likes to eat people."

I suddenly remembered the four-eyed white bird I saw on the way here, and its image was carved on the top of the stone pillar.

The voices of women singing can only give it an antidote, and it cannot make it give up its hobby of cannibalism.

To protect themselves, they still wear 'wooden sausages'.

The priest showed me the large intestine hanging from her body and asked me to touch it.

This thing looks like a pig's large intestine, but it's actually a plant vine.

It came from that deformed forest, and they found that as long as they wore this thing, the spirit bird would not attack.

The spirit bird is their life-saving bird, so it is also a cannibal. The Sky Eye tribe never thought of getting rid of the spirit bird.

What I care about is the antidote they take. When I checked their bodies with supernatural powers, I found that there were indeed toxins in their bodies.

But it's not like a normal animal toxin or plant toxin, it looks like radiation sickness based on my inspection experience in the modern world?
I'm not sure yet, and besides, they don't know why their ancestors were poisoned, and now all the clansmen think they are cursed.

Their group has been living in the jungle and has never left, but there is no radiation in the forest...

The image of the deformed forest suddenly flashed in my mind.

Maybe there's a source of radiation there?

"What? Are you going to Tiankeng?" Hearing what I said, the priest was interested in the antidote and wanted to see it for himself, so he quickly waved his hand: "Don't go, you can't go, there is a dead place that cannot be entered!"

"What's the danger?" I asked humbly.

"There is a dead air that never dissipates. No life can survive in the dead air. It is useless not to breathe. We have tried hundreds, thousands of times, and many people died, but none of them succeeded."

"Don't get excited, I'll go over and have a look, don't enter the dead zone, look outside."

Hearing what I said, the priest relaxed his expression, and immediately arranged for someone to lead me the way.

After freshening up and changing clothes, the little prince is no longer so embarrassed, but he is almost mentally ill and his eyes are dark. He hasn't had a good night's sleep these days, and he woke up from a nightmare when he lived in the city. Big, he attracted a group of guards with his voice, people thought he was assassinated.

The priest had promised him that he would be exempted from punishment, told him to rest in peace, and given him a few strings of wooden sausages, which could save his life at any time.

It turned out that I didn't plan to take him there, but he didn't dare to stay in Stone City alone.

Although the priest assured him of his safety again and again, he was still uneasy and afraid to stay with the Sky Eye tribe.

He insisted on going out of the city with me, saying that he wanted to see the 'forbidden area' in the clan.

The guide led us along a very hidden road. To say that it is a road is an exaggeration. If we come, we will definitely not recognize this road.

And the 'road' is still covered by overgrown branches and complex plants.

The guide cleaned up the plants in front, the little prince walked in the middle, and I was at the end.

It can be seen that the Tianyan tribe gave up looking for an antidote in the deadly place. This road should have been specially opened up, but it was no longer used later, and the plants were allowed to grow wildly on it.

But when the road was built, special treatment should have been done. There were no plants growing on the road, and all plants were higher than the road and grew in a hanging style.

This does not prevent them from covering the road tightly.

Only when clearing and felling, can you see that there is a path without a blade of grass underneath.