It seems that the natives who eat raw meat and drink blood all have the same universality. They like to apply some colorful dyes on their bodies, whether they are local natives or distant Indian natives. Even African tribes have the same hobbies.

Perhaps this is not a hobby. Studies have found that drawing white stripes on the body can protect the skin from insect bites - for people of indigenous peoples, these body paintings can play a certain preventive role in insect-borne diseases.

The brown plastic mannequin attracts 10 times the number of horseflies that are painted with white stripes. In the control model, the beige plastic model attracts twice the number of horseflies that are painted in white stripes. The history of body painting may even precede humans' clothing. Archaeologists have found similar marks on cave walls where Neanderthals lived.

Because horse flies are not picky about food, they often fall on exposed areas on the surface of the human body to suck blood. In the gaps in blood sucking, they may also leave parasites or eggs on the surface of the human body.

However, zebras living next to these indigenous peoples are rarely favored by horse flies, because studies have shown that the black and white striped patterns of zebras can effectively reduce the bites of blood-sucking insects such as horse flies.

In some primitive tribes in Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and North America, many tribal members often paint their bodies with white, bright yellow or beige stripes.

These painted patterns are extremely diverse, usually decorated as surfaces of tribal members, and are also used to express emotions or to indicate personal identity.

In addition to these, it is a symbol of decoration or a certain totem. In addition, you can use the paintings on your body to better hide yourself in the jungle, or scare wild beasts and enemies.

The group of indigenous people who appeared in front of Wangcai were from the deep mountains and dense forests. They had pheasant feathers on their heads and colorful drawings on their faces.

These natives are not savages, they speak the same language as local villagers. However, they are just forced to live in the mountains and forests.

Before, like the people here, they were all mysterious, but not isolated from the world.

Until Zhang Xianzhong came and chased them one by one. The fang tribes here had no choice but to get into the dense forests of the mountains.

Nowadays, these natives came out to rob. Passers-by rob the market and villages. They do not rob gold and silver, and gold and silver are of no use to them.

What they rob were more of daily necessities, and food, meat and other things, but few robbed gold and silver.

Iron tools are also their robbery. If these natives robbed things, they will soon hide in the deep mountains and dense forests. Even when the government faces a hundred thousand mountains, they can only sigh and give up.

What this group of natives like is the tall horse that Wangcai rode.

"Leave the horse and leave!" said an indigenous man with a spear and pointed at Wangcai on the horse's back.

Wangcai said "Yes": "Okay."

He said yes, but Wangcai inadvertently lifted the reins of the horse. He wanted to seize the opportunity and rushed out.

Unexpectedly, these natives were not fools either. Soon someone discovered something was wrong and held a spear to block his way: "Dropping off the horse, hurry up!"

Wangcai had no choice but to strangle the horse and then turn over and get off the horse.

A native came over and reached out to hold Wangcai's horse. Wangcai held the reins tightly and refused to let go. The native pulled it and showed a bit of snow-white teeth, which was intimidating: "Wow wow!"

Although the natives could not see their true colors with oil paint, their teeth were probably due to the mountain spring water, and they turned white.

Wangcai did not mean to let go: "Take me to meet your patriarch."

The natives were stunned. Unexpectedly, the guy in front of him was so brave. He pointed at Wangcai's chest with a spear in his hand and continued to intimidate: "If you don't let go, I'll kill you."

"If you kill me, you will become murderers. Even if you want to surrender to the court in the future, murderers will be punished by my Ming law. If you don't want to kill, take me to see your patriarch. I have important things and want to tell your patriarch."

The natives robbed property, but rarely injured people's lives. If they resisted, they would knock them out or injured them. If they were not necessary, they would not kill people easily.

This native didn't expect to meet such a young guy. He had no choice but to agree: "Okay, come with us."

In this way, Wangcai was robbed by this group of indigenous people. However, the indigenous people were naturally worried about him. They tied Wangcai's hands with ropes and then covered Wangcai's eyes.

A person in front was holding the rope on Wangcai's hand. Wangcai was blindfolded and could only follow behind one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The mountain road is rugged, and these natives have walked a long way. They are turning around, not to mention that Wangcai is blindfolded, even if they are open, they will be lost.

I don’t know how long I walked, but everyone finally stopped. Wangcai heard the cries of goats and chickens, accompanied by the barking of dogs, the cry of babies, and the whispers of women. The buzzing of the crowd.

When the black cloth on his face was unveiled, what he discovered was a brand new world. This is where this indigenous tribe lives.

This is a large open space surrounded by banana trees. The open space is surrounded by people, and several thatched huts are scattered everywhere.

This place seems to be a basin, and it is surrounded by these banana trees, which makes it even more hidden.

In the middle of the open space, an old man sat there, surrounded by people. It was obvious that the old man was the patriarch of this tribe.

It seems that the harvest is pretty good this time, and these natives have robbed a lot of property. Among them, the most valuable thing for them is probably salt.

That’s right, it’s salt. Salt is a necessary daily necessity for the human body. Without salt intake, people will appear very weak.

For these natives, salt is a scarce product.

Wangcai looked at the patriarch and clasped his fists at him: "Captain, why don't you surrender?"

A burst of laughter came from the crowd, as if he had heard the most funny words in the world. After a while, the clan leader slowly said: "Surrender, wait for us to come out of the forest, are you arrested and killed?"

"Don't you know, the court has already fought. The bandits have been destroyed by the court. If you go to the government to surrender, the government will give you the land. You don't have to rob you anymore, and you don't have to hide in this deep mountains and forests and survive."

The patriarch sneered: "Why should we believe you?"

Yes, these indigenous people will not deal with the people. Therefore, many tribes do not know that Sichuan has been recovered by the court. In other words, even if they know, many people are unwilling to surrender.
Chapter completed!