Chapter 338

"Just now, why did those people attack me? Also, why did you save us?"

Li Lan glanced at Xia Enxue.

"Everyone wants to accept you as a member of the tribe. The reason is that the tribe lacks personnel and needs to absorb fresh blood from outside. This nation has been doing this for hundreds of years. To entertain travelers who come across, if this person is in the tribe If your evaluation is high, you will be absorbed as one of your own. If your evaluation is low, you will be killed. And you just make everyone in the clan happy. Can you explain it this way?"

"Hmm...then what are they going to do? There is no sign of bowing their heads and begging at all."

"use this."

Li Lan stretched out the pipe in his right hand to show Xia Enxue.

"You have also seen that all the adults here smoke pipes. This kind of tobacco is highly toxic. As long as people become a habit of smoking, they can't live without it. If you don't smoke for half a day, you will have a headache, and if you don't smoke for three days, your hands will shake. , Hallucinations will appear in five days. In ten days, you will drooling and go crazy and die. The tea you didn’t drink contains the extract of this herb.”

"...Then what if I drink it?"

"They would pass out and be bedridden for days. At that time, the little squirrels would also be dismembered and buried in the ground. The whole tribe would then be moved to another place."

"..."

"Oh my god. I can't even think about it." said the little squirrel.

"They'll force you to smoke it while you're asleep. You wake up completely poisoned. If you don't smoke it, you can't take it. This grass only grows on this plain, and only for a short period of time in the fall. Time reaps the rewards. So, whether you want to or not, you either join the tribe and live like this, or you die from a drug addiction, it’s either.”

"So that's how it is. Understood."

Xia Enxue kept nodding.Then he asked Li Lan, "When did you come?"

"Five years ago. Confusedly."

"why?"

Seeing Xia Enxue's question, Li Lan smiled wryly, and refilled the pipe with tobacco.

"Ah. When I first woke up, I thought: What is this? I lost my temper. Then the drug addiction kicked in, and the pain was unbelievable. Anyway, it's not surprising that I died like that. I just wanted to die. .”

Li Lan lit the fire with a pipe in his mouth, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "But the woman who took care of me at that time, oh, she said she was a woman, but she was actually a girl at that time. She said to me: You can't die. Don't want you to die." .Crying and telling me so many times. What else did you say: As long as you are alive, everything will be fine.”

"..."

"So, I chose life. I quickly got used to the job and was accepted by the people around me. Later... I became a couple with that woman. Well, it seems that this has been decided since I got good reviews."

"Are you happy?" asked the little squirrel.

Li Lan replied briefly, "It's okay."

Then he went on to say, "Maybe it was the happiest period of my life."

"...your wife, where is she?" Xia Enxue asked.

Li Lan answered in a flat voice:

"At this time last year, I was killed by someone else."

"why?"

Li Lan took a puff of cigarette.

At this time, the voice of someone running past the tent sounded: "There's nothing here!"

Li Lan went on to say, "Because she can't bear children."

"?"

"She was pregnant with my child, but she was stillborn. She couldn't give birth anymore because of it. A woman who can't give birth is worthless. It's a waste to give food and tobacco to such a person. That's how people think here ...Xia Enxue, don't stare at me so fiercely."

(End of this chapter)

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