six years later.

In addition to a large number of new wooden houses in the canyon, there are also many stone buildings, which means that after the profession of carpenter, there are more professions of stonemason in the tribe.

The originally sparse buildings are connected together and become densely packed, and the architectural style has become complicated. Housing is not only required to live conveniently, but also to live comfortably and beautifully.

The function of buildings has also become more complex. In addition to living, there are also various functions such as reception, discussion, storage, barracks, and sentry.

And outside the canyon.

First of all, you can see a small wooden building, which was prepared for the caravans and guests from other tribes. Since the Golden Tribe and Helfas formed a caravan, people from other tribes stepped out along the two caravans. Mature security line, start to do business.

The exchanges between tribes became more and more frequent, and the tribe established by Helfas became more and more famous.

Going a little further, you can see a lake, and you can see the dense oil bread tree farmland. The farmland can't be seen at a glance, and the canals and gullies are criss-crossed.

In addition to this farmland, there is a new farmland on the side.

That's right, the tribe of Helfas has an extra piece of farmland.

Weird. The oil bread tree is the first one that Helfas knows how to reproduce, or it is a weird copy. Two years ago, when the first oil bread tree farmland bred and multiplied to the limit, Helfas artificially controlled it. It broke free of the seal, and then broke it again as it metamorphosed into the Tree of Human Faces.

If you look farther away, you can see several checkpoints at the entrance of the jungle, and you can also see a solid sentry tower made of stone.

People come and go.

Earth drakes and caravans laden with merchandise arrive from time to time.

It has to be said that the place Helfas established already looks like a city.

It's just that it's not just the power of Helfas alone that made this city appear, but the expectation of everyone in the Land of the Full Moon for countless years, the desire of people who came one after another.

This expectation and desire attracts more and more people of the full moon to come across the danger and the jungle. The thousand-year-old tribes in the land of the full moon are promoting the development and progress here.

At this moment, Helfas is inspecting the newly established blacksmith workshop.

He also looks different from before, he looks a lot more mature, at least he has the aura of a leader in his gestures, his clothes are still the same as the Guanshou shirt, the style has not changed a lot, but it fits better. The pattern of the clothes looks more complicated, and the cloth is also dyed black.

Pants, belts, and shoes are also more refined and rigorous, which also represents the rapid development of the tribe's craftsmanship in this area.

He walked in front, followed by a large group of people.

Calling and hugging.

The person in charge of the workshop followed Helfas carefully: "Master Helfas, because the iron materials produced by the main workshop are limited every day, we have no way to make more ironware here. ah!"

After hearing this, the blacksmith officer on the side immediately said: "I have arranged for more people to mine, and also made new mining tools, Lord Helfas, I promise that in the future..."

Helfas nodded without making a judgment, but just said: "Don't worry about making arrangements, I'll go to the mine tomorrow to have a look."

The output of black iron is increasing day by day, and all kinds of ironware made by blacksmiths have become popular in the land of the full moon.

These ironware were sold to the weaving tribe by the caravan, sold to the farmer tribe, etc., and finally spread to various places in the full moon land.

It has become the best-selling item of the tribal caravan established by Helfas, and it is also their most obvious symbol.

At the same time, because of this, the tribe of Helfas also has a name among outsiders, it is called the Black Iron Tribe, and it seems that black is the symbol of this place.

After watching the blacksmith workshop, Helfas went to the house where the caravan was received to have a look.

He looked at the old house and then at the new one.

Then, he said to the recording officer on the side.

"There will be a lot of people coming to the city building ceremony, all from various ancient tribes. We must not neglect and repair some of the old houses."

"Also, there may be more people coming than expected, so we have to prepare and set aside a part of the room to prepare."

The recording officer immediately took out a pen, wrote down all what Helfas said, and issued it to the carpenter officer and other people in charge of this aspect.

It had been seven years since he had decided to use the place and welcomed the first people to it.

Helfas is going to announce this month that the world's first city will be established.

The time for the ceremony had been fixed, the day after the day of the full moon.

There were no calendars in this era, although various tribes had some methods of recording dates, most of them recorded the days elapsed by the new and full moons.

The recording officer stopped writing: "Okay, I have fully written it down."

Helfas looked at what the recorder wrote down, which was exactly his kind of abstract record notation.

Five or six years ago, Helfas felt that when there were too many people, he needed someone to help him deal with various matters. At least he had to be able to record what he said and pass it on. To do this, the person must know how to write.

He found some clever teenagers from the tribe, and taught them to record and write their own recording symbols. The young man in his twenties in front of him finally stood out and became the recorder of Helfas.

And the rest of them were not wasted, and were arranged by Helfas to various places where they were needed.

Then Helfas remembered something again, and turned to look at the Demon Hunter Captain who was following behind him.

he asked again.

"What about the road?"

"Is it safe?"

The captain of the Demon Hunter immediately stood up and said very seriously.

"Master Helfas, I can't fully guarantee this, after all, there are still some scary and weird passing by from time to time."

"However, I guarantee that during this period of time, people will be sent to patrol every day, and we will always pay attention to any situation."

Although most of the entire Full Moon Forest is still a place that mortals cannot and has never set foot on, the originally extremely dangerous route from the Zhi tribe to this place has been gradually opened up.

At least, it's not particularly dangerous anymore.

When formulating this route, they drew out some extremely terrifying and weirdly entrenched areas, and then chose to make a detour.

As for some low-level monsters, a few of them were sealed, and most of them were expelled to other places in the Full Moon Forest, or fled to other places during the battle. Guaranteed to be able to successfully trap and seal the monster every time, even the weakest monster has its dangers and unknown places, it looks harmless, but you can kill you as long as you don't pay attention.

However, the cleaning operation that took many years also means that as long as there are no strange things passing by on this passage, the safety is still guaranteed.

After spending seven years, they finally achieved some results in fighting against the weirdness.

Although this result is really a road.

Helfas told the Demon Hunter Captain very seriously: "During this time, everyone, please work hard. This day is a very important day for us."

He looked at the other officials again: "You are all the same. During this period of time, I ask you all to cheer up and do everything well. If you do well, you will be rewarded. If you can't do it well, please be able to do it." A good person will do it instead of him."

Everyone saluted Helfas together: "Yes!"

The city building ceremony is not just a ceremony. This seemingly symbolic celebration is actually of great significance.

Once successful, the entire Full Moon Land will know that Helfas has established the world's first city.

And all the power, all the hearts and all the desires of the entire full moon land.

They will also gather here.

—

The new meeting hall that will be used to hold the city building ceremony has just been completed, and it is on the site of the wooden house where Helfas originally lived.

Here is a building made entirely of stones. The heavy stones are stacked one by one to form several steps. A dozen pillars form a promenade outside, and the two largest pillars are erected on both sides in front of the gate. , formed a gatehouse and aisle, and on the pillars, you can also see the appearance of the weird double-phase magic insect and the black swamp.

The patterns on these pillars were carved by craftsmen, but the excavation and transportation of the stones to the outside of the canyon used the power of the sealed items.

But even for the last distance, it is not easy to build it here.

Helfas could imagine.

How shocked and surprised those guests will be when they see this conference hall when they arrive.

And this is exactly the effect he wanted.

Helfas is not here on weekdays, and he doesn't even come here for meetings, but stays in his own residence. He only appears here when he holds some formal activities that need to be public and everyone must participate.

But today he came to the conference hall and walked around.

I seem to be imagining the grand scene of the city building ceremony in my mind.

There was a long table in the hall, and on the wall behind it were paintings of oil bread fields and farmers working. He sat on a chair and looked outside, feeling a little proud.

My heart, which was always tense, seemed to become a little more at ease.

He took out a bottle and put it on the table.

"Wine, take a sip!"

He drank a little wine, and just looked outside like this, letting drunkenness and sleepiness swallow him up little by little.

Just like watching the sun disappear at the end of the street, watching the stars come from the sky.

He fell asleep in the chair.

But it didn't take long to see fine sweat dripping from his forehead, and then he opened his eyes in panic.

Helfas got up and put his hands on the table, but looked around vigilantly, as if he was guarding against something.

It's as if he was once wandering alone in a deserted jungle.

Panting for breath, he stood up little by little.

He had someone prepare water and wiped his face and body.

When wiping his body, he could see the terrible scars on his back, where the bones were visible, and it looked shocking.

Almost, this claw tore him into a pool of rotten flesh.

Although the injury had already healed, the pain that penetrated into the bone marrow still remained in Helfas's heart. When he thought of it, his back seemed to still be in pain, and blood was still oozing.

"Why did you suddenly remember this?"

That's right, just now Helfas dreamed about the scene of that day again.

The sharp claws that fell from the sky were so sharp that they could tear apart everything, and everything was still fresh in his memory.

He dreamed again that he was running for his life in the dark and damp jungle, longing for any ray of light that fell through the cracks in the leaves.

Helfas put one hand on the edge of the tub, looking at the wound on his back through the moonlight and reflection.

"What the **** is that?"

To this day, Helfas still doesn't know what it was that almost killed him that day.

He had also paid attention to whether there was a similar existence in the Full Moon Forest, but he couldn't find it. The Full Moon Forest was too big, and they could only touch a part of it.

Although he couldn't find it, Helfas was not disappointed, or he hoped that he would never encounter that weirdness.

Helfas asked someone to bring down the basin while he walked towards the residence.

And at this time, a shadow faintly looked at Helfas from a very far distance outside.

The gaze penetrated the farmland and the lake, and across the canyon.

finally.

It fell on the dark-haired man walking on the central avenue of the house.

the next day.

Helfas led the people through the cave tunnel and came to the vicinity of the mine.

Bad news came early in the morning. There was an accident in the mine, and all the people who stayed in the mine died.

When Helfas came, all he saw were charred and torn corpses. The entire wooden house where the miners lived and the wooden shed where the utensils and iron ore were placed were overturned by a huge force, and it looked like a mess.

Coupled with the horrible death of the corpse, the scene is really scary.

Helfas asked as soon as he came.

"Everyone is dead?"

"Is there any alive?"

If there is one alive, at least we can know what happened here.

The captain of the demon hunter and the blacksmith officer immediately approached, and the blacksmith officer responded.

"No, there is no one alive here."

The blacksmith officer was scared and a little sad.

"I couldn't find a decent corpse at all, and the death was too miserable."

The captain of the Demon Hunter looked around with the coward's lamp: "Master Helfas, the monster has left, and it must not be nearby. This should be a monster who likes to keep moving his position."

Helfas: "Did you find anything wrong, or match the weird features we recorded?"

At this time, the blacksmith officer frowned, and said a strange thing to Helfas.

"One thing is very strange. The black iron tools we built are all gone. Those are tools for mining."

"Whether it's old or new, it's all gone."

Helfas immediately turned his head: "Is the iron missing?"

This is obviously abnormal. If it is ordinary and weird, it may not eat people, but how could it take away the weapon.

It's just that the movement here is obviously left behind by the weirdness.

Helfas: "Could it be that after the weird invasion, someone came and took away the irons here?"

The blacksmith shook his head: "Then I don't know."

Helfas looked at Captain Demon Hunter, and he immediately said, "I'll check right away."

Helfas still stayed where he was, he squatted down and carefully looked at the scorched black spots on the mutilated corpses.

"Why doesn't it feel like it's on fire?"

—

in the jungle.

A caravan is on the way. There are about dozens of them, and there are twenty or thirty ground dragon beasts and peak back dragon beasts, which are fully loaded with various goods from afar.

The leader is a middle-aged dragon man with a big beard, riding on a ground dragon beast and swaying from side to side.

The bearded businessman was accompanied by a woman wearing a metal mask. The two seemed to have a special relationship, so the bearded man wanted to bring the woman to participate in the Black Iron Tribe's city building ceremony.

On the way, the two talked and laughed.

The woman held a child in her arms, only three or four years old.

Woman: "I heard that Lord Helfas is cultivating a third farmland. It would be great if we could have our own farmland sometime, so we don't have to worry about food."

The bearded businessman said: "Helfas has been trying to find ways to cultivate more farmland. He is not a stingy person. He has been doing things like sealing and fighting against weirdness. He also hopes that everyone can eat and eat. Live better."

"However, the population of the Black Iron tribe is growing too fast, and they also need food very much."

The bearded businessman thought for a while, and suddenly thought of something.

"But I heard that the farmland of the farmer's tribe can also be divided into a new farmland. I can talk to the farmer at that time to see if I can exchange it with something, and then go to see if I can ask Helfas for help."

The woman said: "Then you can go and talk about it. If the children can farm by themselves in the future, they don't have to go out and risk hunting or become businessmen."

Bearded businessman: "Isn't it bad to be a businessman?"

Woman: "It's good, it's just that it doesn't make people feel at ease."

In this era, there is no concept of husband and wife. The children born to women in each tribe do not know who their father is, and the children born live and grow up with their mothers.

Therefore, the relationship between the woman and the bearded businessman can only be regarded as the long-term promised lover of the bearded businessman.

Or something else.

However, this also means that the matrilineal tribal system in the Land of the Full Moon is under impact and slowly undergoing some changes.

The appearance of Helfas, the Demon Hunter and the Sealed Artifact further increased the importance of the original hunting team, and more and more people began to take the initiative to understand the weirdness, avoid the weirdness, and even want to become the seal of the Demon Hunter.

The emergence of caravans has greatly increased the importance of handcrafters.

The emergence of the farmer tribe has also made farmers and planting the future.

Men gradually replaced women in major productions such as hunting, agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts, and became the main economic pillar of the tribe.

Therefore, the combination of husband and wife and family has gradually begun to appear. This is most obvious in the Black Iron tribe. The model of men and women forming a family and living together to raise children has begun to become popular.

As the caravan walked, the distance suddenly opened up.

They saw plains and valleys, herds of velvet dragons, and shepherds waving whips and whistling.

The bearded businessman laughed: "We're in the Weaving Tribe."

Everyone came down together and entered the Weaving Tribe to rest. After resting, they will go to the Black Iron Tribe in the Full Moon Forest tomorrow.

The bearded businessman brought women, children and caravan members into the Zhi tribe. Everyone in the tribe knew the bearded businessman, greeted him familiarly, and came around to watch him bring the goods.

"Is there anything new?"

"I want some cheap pottery bowls. It doesn't have to be very good, as long as it is durable, I can replace it with cloth. Do you have any here?"

"Yes, yes, what do I have here?"

"Come back this time, help me get some black iron pots!"

"You live by the Full Moon Forest, and you want me to get ironware?"

"Who doesn't know the relationship between you and Lord Helfas? Black iron artifacts are so in demand, it's really impossible to buy them!"

The bearded businessman was very happy after hearing this, but he kept talking.

"Helfas doesn't care about who sells these iron utensils, and I don't want to bother him for an iron pot."

Leaving the noisy entrance of the tribe, the bearded businessman was very happy at the place where he temporarily lived and rested.

The woman saw him like this and said to him.

"Others praise you a few words to see how happy you are."

The bearded businessman: "It's not because they flatter me, it's because I haven't seen Helfas for a long time, and I think he's so good now, so I'm happy for him."

The woman asked him quietly: "Everyone says that Lord Helfas is a god-man who descended from the sky, is it true?"

The bearded businessman: "Only Helfas himself knows this, but from the first moment I saw him, I knew he would definitely do something shocking, because he has the ability to shock the world."

"Now he is going to build a city, the first city."

When the bearded businessman mentioned that Helfas was going to build a city, his expression was extremely proud.

The woman looked at the Zhi tribe, and remembered the changes in the land of the full moon, as well as the tribe she was in.

"yes!"

"Can you imagine that the arrival of one person can change all people and thousands of unchanging worlds?"

It was the first time for her to go to the Black Iron Tribe. She couldn't imagine the grand scene there, and she didn't know what the legendary city was like.

"city?"

"What is it like?"

The bearded businessman sat down, looked at the child beside him, and picked up a piece of lean meat from the clay plate on the table.

"Come on, eat some more, after dinner we will set off tomorrow to meet your Uncle Helfas."

"A lot of people came to this ceremony, which is an unprecedented scene."

The child asked curiously, "Is there any delicious food at the ceremony?"

The bearded businessman laughed: "Of course, there are many, many delicious ones."

At night, the bearded businessman snored and slept soundly, and it was quiet outside.

Lighting up lights at night in this era is an extremely luxurious thing, so when it gets dark, everyone rests, and outside can only hear the sound of the wind, the sound of shaking leaves, and the sound of insects chirping.

Suddenly, there was a thunder outside.

"Boom!"

The voice seemed to be close to his ears, and the bearded businessman woke up suddenly.

The woman on the side had already stood up and looked outside, while holding the child in her arms.

"It's thundering?"

The bearded businessman looked outside, amused by the fact that he was taken aback, shook his head and said.

"fine."

"It's just thunder, go to sleep."

However, he had just laid down when screams came from outside one after another.

"ah!"

"What is that, what is it?"

"weird."

"The weirdness is coming, the weirdness is coming to eat people."

Suddenly, the bearded man's drowsiness disappeared.

Because he heard the word weird.

Generally, monsters have the highest probability of attacking when there are a group of one thousand or several hundred people, but it is not impossible when there are few people. Many tribes encounter weirdness when there are only two or three hundred people, and it is not uncommon for them to perish in the end.

However, some large tribes also have some escape methods, and even methods to expel and avoid weirdness.

The bearded man immediately turned over and got up, telling the woman and the child to stay in the room.

"Don't panic, I brought Long Xiang over here!"

"I quickly ignited it to expel that weirdness."

The bearded man opened the box and took out something from it, as well as flint.

"It's okay, it's okay."

"I've had a lot of experience with this."

He said this to the woman and child on the bed, not knowing whether to comfort each other or comfort himself.

He rushed out alone, and saw darkness outside.

People came and went in the dark, and they couldn't see who was who, but they could only see shadows running around in a panic, yelling in panic.

"Run outside quickly."

"The weirdness is coming, don't get together."

"Run quickly, one who can run is one."

The bearded businessman looked up to the core direction where everyone wanted to escape, and he could see the silhouette of a huge monster in the sky, and the opponent flapped its wings and made a tooth-piercing rubbing sound.

Even if he couldn't see his real appearance, his weird body shape and movements already made people tremble in his heart.

"What's weird about that?"

thought the bearded businessman.

Suddenly, a white light flashed in front of his eyes.

Then the "thunder" he had just heard sounded again.

"Boom!"

The thunder was accompanied by a strange roar.

"Ugh uh~"

He saw a thunderbolt falling from the sky and landing on the ground.

The bearded man watched the houses of the Zhi tribe in the distance turn into a sea of ​​flames, and with the help of the thunder and sea of ​​flames, he also saw the strange appearance clearly.

It was an extremely huge monster with a towering head and shining dragon scales, as indestructible as steel.

The horns on the top of the head are sharp, exuding a strong power, the huge wings spread out like a bat to bring a strong wind, and the claws are like alloys, one can tell at a glance that it can easily tear anything you know, even if the metal is under its claws. It is as fragile as cloth.

Especially those eyes looking at mortals, with the cruelty and greed of a beast, but very calm.

Calm cruelty, cold greed.

It reminded him of the fat and tender piece of lean meat he ate for dinner just now. When he watched the butcher slaughter the beast, the other party was also so calm, and he put a life on his meal while talking and laughing. plate.

Against the background of the sea of ​​fire, he held the long incense that he had relied on as a means of saving his life, and yelled out that weird name in horror.

"dragon!)