Chapter 768: Unintentionally Getting Smarter
In the distance, the tribe to which Shupi belonged.
The once neat and orderly Shupi tribe was now a chaotic mess.
The gate in the surrounding wall had been broken down, and the broken gate was tossed far aside, losing its function of defending the tribe.
Inside and outside the walls, there were many spots of blood on the ground, and some people lay twisted and sprawled.
Those who looked as if asleep were in fact deeply unconscious — even when someone cut their flesh with a knife, they didn’t flinch.
Within the walls, the shelters that the Shupi tribe had painstakingly built were now crooked and dilapidated.
Under the shelters, the rabbits and sheep they had raised were all dead by now, skewered on sticks and roasted over the fire, sending out wafts of meat aroma.
Those who came with the Black Stone tribe couldn’t help but salivate; some were so impatient they began tearing into the meat before it was fully cooked.
These animals had been the tribe’s hard-earned tame livestock.
Once the fruit ripened, the tribe would have many more rabbits and sheep, but now…
No one paid attention to Shupi’s fury because he was injured and tightly bound with ropes.
The smell of food mixed with a strong metallic blood scent permeated the Shupi tribe’s area — a bizarre and unsettling smell.
Those who had come with the Black Stone tribe to attack the Shupi tribe were feasting joyfully.
But there was little noise — not far away, the leader of the Black Stone tribe was roasting an arm he had just chopped off on the fire.
After roasting for a while, he brought it to his mouth and took a few bites.
Chewing with oily lips, the Black Stone leader glanced around, holding the arm; whenever his gaze met the outsiders’, they quickly looked down.
This made the leader even prouder, and he took another big bite and chewed on it.
Actually, he didn’t particularly like eating human flesh.
He did this openly to terrify many people — after a chance discovery, he found that eating human flesh frightened others a lot.
So afterwards, he often ate human flesh in front of outsiders…
Shupi’s eyes grew even redder because his most beloved bow was now being roughly tugged by that same man who had bitten the arm.
Shupi desperately wanted to snatch the bow back, string an arrow, and shoot that damned man.
But his hands and feet were tied; he couldn’t do it.
He wanted to shout and curse, demanding the man return his bow — this impulse lingered inside him for a long time, but he never dared speak.
Every time he wanted to open his mouth, he would picture that man biting his arm and smiling.
Looking at the slaughtered people in his tribe, Shupi felt sure that if he spoke, that extremely ruthless man would kill him without hesitation.
The Black Stone leader fiddled awkwardly with the bowstring — bending and releasing it, making a series of sounds like fluff being plucked.
While pulling the bow, the leader eyed Shupi. Follow current novᴇls on 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡•𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢•𝕟𝕖𝕥
He wanted to kill Shupi because he remembered that during their last attack on this tribe, Shupi was the one who shot the most of their people.
Not only the leader but also others in the Black Stone tribe believed the leader would kill Shupi.
What surprised everyone was that the leader did not kill Shupi.
Everyone was shocked, because even the leader himself hadn’t expected to decide not to kill this man…
The fierce flames burned, engulfing the already collapsed grass huts and the stored firewood inside the walls.
The smell of burnt meat lingered in the air.
Shupi, with reddened eyes, turned his head and trembled all over.
These burning things were different from the ones he had seen burn when living in the Bone tribe.
Those had mostly existed since Shupi was born, but what was burning now were things that Shupi and his tribe had painstakingly built little by little, with deep emotions attached.
Some members of the Shupi tribe couldn’t help but cry out loudly.
Not only them, but even the leader of the Grass tribe and others watching felt a heavy heart imagining if their own tribe were treated this way.
While everyone was silent, only the Black Stone leader laughed loudly, showing his ferocity and uniqueness.
Then he shouted curses at Shupi and the others, pushing them to walk north…
On the way, the Black Stone leader roughly figured out why he spared Shupi, burned their caves, and took away the Shupi tribe’s people.
This tribe was large and powerful; without using intelligence, he wouldn’t have been able to defeat them.
If treated like other tribes — forcing them to deliver food to his tribe before every full moon after defeat — it probably wouldn’t work.
Besides this, the leader was curious about this strange tribe.
Their odd caves, strange weapons capable of killing people from afar with small sticks, and the bizarre things they built inside caves to trap live prey with grass and sticks all intrigued the leader.
Especially the combination of the strange caves and weapons, which had caused the Black Stone tribe to suffer such losses, drew his attention.
After thinking this through, the leader was pleased, feeling he had unknowingly become a bit wiser…
A large group left; the flames died down, leaving ashes and ruins.
The previous liveliness and vitality were all burnt away by the fire.
As they were led northward, Shupi kept looking back repeatedly…