Chapter 78: The Animal Kingdom

  Evil Eye Kingdom...

  Evil Eye King?

  Du Wei sneered: "Has this guy already built a country here and declared himself king? An animal kingdom? A demon beast kingdom?"

  After seeing this notice, Du Wei became more and more curious about this "Evil Eye Tyrant".

  "I'll give you one eye..." Hussein sneered, suddenly taking a step back. Before Duwei and Dadaniel could react, the knight swung his sword in reverse, and with a loud crack, the massive boulder in front of them split into two halves and came crashing down. A glint of gold flashed in Hussein's eyes as he took another step forward, shattering the stone fragments on the ground with one foot. "I'd like to see this king for myself," he said coldly.

  At this time, several caws of ravens came from afar, and Du Wei's three people couldn't help but pause. Looking far away, they saw that on a withered tree trunk in the canyon, several ravens had flown to the withered branches at some point, and they cried out to the three people. Among them, one raven surprisingly spoke human language, loudly saying: "Outsiders! Outsiders!"

  After finishing speaking, it flapped its wings and shouted "Go report quickly". Then several crows flew into the valley at the same time.

  Hussein sneered, casually kicking a few stones at his feet. With two whooshing sounds, two stones shot out and struck down two crows from afar. Instantly, two feathers scattered, smashing the two crows to pieces, which fell from far away. However, he intentionally left one behind to return and report back.

  "Alas, you should have taken them all down." Du Wei sighed: "Now the other side is prepared, not too good."

  "I did it on purpose." Hussein said with a proud face, then strode ahead and walked into the inner room.

  Dadanier pulled Du Wei down, he was serious, and fumbled in his bosom for a while before pulling out a small package. After opening it layer by layer, several black things were revealed: "This is what we carry with us to deal with the Golden Eyed Python. The most terrible thing about the Golden Eyed Python is its gaze. As long as you look into its eyes, you will be petrified. These few things are what our Li family spent a lot of money on and after reading many ancient books, we finally figured out how to make them..."

  Du Wei took one glance and couldn't help but blurt out: "Sunglasses?"

  "What?" Dathanil countered.

  "Oh, nothing." Du Wei shook his head immediately. The things that Dada Nile took out looked like the "sunglasses" that Du Wei knew in his previous life.

  Everything is very delicate, two thin black polished semi-transparent crystals are fixed with a pure gold frame, and there are two more leather cases on both sides, which are used to fix them on the ears.

  "These black crystals are hard to come by. We also spent a lot of thought before buying them." Dandanier smiled: "Don't underestimate these things, these few items cost a total of 800,000 gold coins. There were eight of us who came to the forest together, and we brought eight pieces, all of which I kept here. Now that there are only three of us using them, it's more than enough, each person can wear one, and when we encounter the Golden Eyed Python, we don't have to be afraid of it anymore. And...I think that thing over there, called 'Evil Eye Tyrant', is also mostly related to eyes, I'm afraid that thing also has some strange eyes, if we bring this thing with us, it might come in handy."

  "Thank you." Du Wei didn't decline and reached out to take a pair of "sunglasses" to wear.

  "No need to thank me, it should be me thanking you instead." Dandanier's face was a bit strange, and he said in a low voice: "I'm very clear that with my strength, I can't even protect myself in this kind of place. If it weren't for your help, there would be no way to get here. No matter who you are, I, Dandanier, owe you a great favor."

  "No matter who you are" As soon as these words came out, Du Wei couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He had originally reported a fake name to Dada Nile, but later, with the addition of Hussein to the team, Hussein knew Du Wei's identity, and in his speech and behavior, Hussein would inevitably call out Du Wei's name. Even if he didn't call out Du Wei's name, occasionally calling out something like "the young master of the Roland family" was enough to reveal Du Wei's true identity.

  Dadanier heard it, but didn't say anything either.

  Today, the window paper was pierced, and Du Wei couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Dandanier had always been very honest with himself, and he had deceived him, deceiving his companions who had been together for so many days (and that day when they met Hussein, Dandanier knew he was no match, yet still fought desperately to protect Du Wei). Such feelings were cherished by Du Wei.

  Duvie looked at him with a guilty expression, and said in a low voice: "Alright, Dathanil. I didn't mean to deceive you... My real name is Duvie, and I'm from the Rollin family. Count Raymond is my father. Because I don't want too many people to know that I'm studying magic... So... I gave you a fake name. Please forgive me for this."

  Dadanier smiled, opened his arms and hugged Duwei: "No matter who you are, you are my friend and benefactor. Whether it's Duwei or Haripotter the magician, you are you. I swear, I will definitely help you keep this secret."

  The three of them continued on, faintly, from up ahead came a burst of noisy sounds, the collision of rocks, shouting, and yelling.

  The three of them exchanged a glance, quickened their pace, Du Wei's hands were tucked into his sleeves, while Dandanil had already put away his bow and arrow, only Hussein was walking in large strides at the very front.

  As he rounded the last bend, the terrain suddenly opened up in front of him. However, the scene before his eyes also made Du Wei feel somewhat unexpected:

  The site in front of us is roughly the size of a football field, or perhaps even larger.

  Here, there is actually a city wall under construction!

  Yes, that's right, it is the city wall!!

  Some gigantic things like giants are walking back and forth, laboriously transporting the stone blocks that have been cut into square shapes to pile up...

  Next to them, a group of short and stout, gray-furred small creatures, resembling groundhogs, were holding whips in their hands, running back and forth, as if supervising the work!

  These overseers were all slightly shorter than ordinary people, but seemed to have evolved from mice into humans. They looked exactly like mice, yet walked upright like humans, wearing "clothes" made of tree bark or animal hides. Each one strolled back and forth, holding a small whip that resembled a twig, occasionally striking the giant stone movers with it and scolding them in shrill voices.

  And those giants carrying stone blocks... Du Wei was shocked.

  Those poor "coolies" were actually all tree people!

  No, to be exact, a group of them are the "companions" of the Tree People!! However, Du Wei soon sensed something was amiss.

  These tree people, the "companion" class of laborers, are no longer wooden from head to toe! Their bodies have turned into stone! As if they had been petrified by some sort of spell, they have become tall stone statues! A group of mobile stone statues! Laboriously, mechanically, and clumsily working back and forth.

  Moreover, those mouse-like overseers were quite short in stature, but these petrified tree people companions seemed to be afraid of those mouse overseers - or rather, they feared the whips in their hands!

  The whips in the hands of these mice seem to have some kind of magic, and with one lash, although they can only hit their tree-dwelling companions' legs at most, they can make them cry out in pain.

  As Du Wei and the other two walked closer, they were suddenly noticed by those overseers. These rat-like men looked at the three strangers who had walked in and immediately one of them let out a loud shrill cry, shouting: "Outsiders! Outsiders! There are..."

  Unfortunately, before he could finish his sentence, Hussein let out a hum and a golden light flashed by, and that rat head was smashed into a meat paste and fell to the ground.

  The other overseers were all frightened and ran away in all directions, shouting loudly. Without the overseer, those petrified tree people companions dropped the stones in their hands, but stood still on the spot, not moving anymore. However, when many overseers ran, they bumped into the legs of the tree people companions and fainted first.

  "Alas, you acted too quickly." Du Wei sighed.

  "It's all going to be turned over anyway." Hussein said nonchalantly.

  The city wall had already been piled up to half when suddenly a horn sounded and then a team of... soldiers? rushed out from behind the gate.

  Du Wei felt that this trip was really an eye-opener. These mouse supervisors could walk upright and speak human language, which had already made Du Wei very curious about this "Animal Kingdom". And the team of "soldiers" who ran out from behind the city wall almost made Du Wei laugh his guts out.

  This is actually a cavalry...?

  About a dozen or so mice, much stronger than those foremen, sat majestically on their "steeds", and these mouse soldiers were all wearing uniform armor... except that the armor seemed to be mostly made of animal hides, and even had someone holding a flag behind them, which was woven from hemp and simply painted with a huge eye-like pattern.

  And these cavalrymen's mounts were no longer horses... but rather a whole team of gigantic "tree otters".

  Although not horses, these giant otters had complete reins, bridles, saddles and stirrups on their bodies. From a distance, a group of mice riding the otters rushed out, leaving Du Wei speechless.

  However, these guys were murderous, rushing out of the city gate and quickly surrounding Du Wei and his three companions. The leader, a large rat, held a sharpened wooden spear in its hand, pointing at the three and shouting in a sharp, unpleasant voice: "Outsiders! Why have you come to the territory of the great Evil Eye King? Quickly state your purpose and pay your taxes!"

  Du Wei smiled faintly and said: "Evil Eye King... I've never heard of a king like you existing on the continent... May I ask, what brings you here?"

  "We are the cavalry of His Majesty the King!" The mouse captain puffed out his chest proudly: "By order of the Prime Minister, we are building a city wall here and are in charge of the checkpoint! Outsiders, quickly pay your taxes, each of you hand over one eye, and we will let you leave safely!"

  Prime Minister? Du Wei didn't know whether to laugh or stare... This evil-eyed tyrant, playing the game of building a nation seems to be very indulged... Actually having a Prime Minister?

  However, no matter what, being pointed at by a dozen or so old mice with tree branches is really hard to make three humans with high abilities feel threatened. ——Even though these mice have very large heads.

  "We have come to pay homage to the Evil Eye King." Du Wei said with a hearty laugh.

  The mouse cavalry captain was taken aback... In fact, this canyon kingdom rarely had outsiders coming here, and as the captain of the kingdom's cavalry, he also rarely had the opportunity to show off his might in front of outsiders... Every day, posing in front of those stone tree people was gradually becoming meaningless. Seeing these three outsiders, this guy was still quite excited, puffed out his chest, and shouted: "Nonsense! Can you see His Majesty the King just because you want to? Quickly dig out your eyes and get lost!"

  Du Wei sighed and stopped talking.

  Hussein made his move, the knight's sword only swung in a circle, and after the golden light splashed out, the wooden clubs in the hands of these old mice suddenly split into four or five pieces. The head of that cavalry captain rolled to the ground with a thud, and the raccoons below were suddenly frightened and trembling all over, no need to shout, they immediately jumped open and scattered to escape.

  Looking at the dead mice on the ground, Du Wei felt a bit nauseous: "Can't you make it cleaner?" He kicked his shoes and shook off the few mouse hairs on them. Du Wei shook his head and continued walking forward.

  He did call out to the petrified tree people companions, but these tree people companions with little intelligence would not speak, so Du Wei gave up his intention and could only walk through this half-built city wall with two companions, continuing into the canyon.

  Once through this city wall, the scene in the canyon immediately became different again.

  Rows of large trees lined up on both sides... all were petrified trees, originally thriving trees that had been petrified, standing on either side of the road, yet exuding a hint of eerie deadness.

  The ground is also paved with stone slabs... all the buildings here seem to be made of stone.

  On both sides, there were even a number of stone buildings, houses and low-rise buildings. Those square houses had doors and windows that were just holes dug out, and Du Wei could see something inside looking out vaguely.

  Three outsiders walked into this strange "kingdom" with impunity.

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