"Tell the great witch that as long as they are willing to exchange a lot of lead ore with us, I can give him this sharp weapon!"

Xu Chen turned his head and gave instructions to the guide of the clan.

So the guide of the clan began to translate the gestures. The wizard seemed very moved and said a long sentence after being silent for a long time.

"What did he say?" Xu Chen asked.

"Your Majesty the Witch King, the Great Witch said it's OK, but he wants more of this weapon and salt. We can use this weapon and salt to exchange for ore with them!"

Xu Chen almost burst into laughter.

These five ghost tribes are ugly, but they think beautifully. They are not only difficult to deal with, but also very greedy.

However, this also shows that the great witches of the Five Ghosts Clan are very wise and know how to use their own advantages to seek greater benefits for themselves.

Salt is not said, although there is, it is also very scarce, and this kind of alloy dagger is even more scarce. It is impossible to make such a handful after several years of hard work. So he shook his head and refused.

"Tell him that it is impossible. Both of these things are very rare and are magical gifts given by the gods. If they are willing to pay a lot of lead ore, they can be exchanged in the future, but they must process the ore in accordance with my method. The exchange method and quantity must also comply with my requirements!"

The clan guide was joking and translating with his gestures.

After hearing this time, a group of hunters from the Five Ghosts tribes started to make a fuss, using spear sticks and sticks to the ground, making loud threats.

Lei and a group of hunters who were close to protecting each other became nervous immediately, and all spears, bows and arrows were raised, and the two sides confronted each other tensely again.

"You are telling him that what I just said was the only way for them to get these two things. If they disagree, there will be no trading opportunity. This ore is not available here, and we can find it ourselves. In addition, tell him that this tribe has been cursed by God. If they agree to my request, I can help them find a way to expel this curse!"

The guide of the clan clan began to gesture and translate again. After this time, the entire cave was extremely quiet. After a moment, the great witch stood up in her scepter with a trembling scepter, making a series of low and hoarse voices.

"Your Majesty the Witch King, the Great Witch said that if you can really find a way to expel the curse, he is willing to accept all the conditions!" The guide of the clan clan quickly translated and said in surprise and joy.

Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief and signaled Lei and others to put down their weapons and nodded and said, "Tell him, what I said is true, but I want to see their sincerity!"

So the guide of the clan clan made another gesture and translated it. The great witch also asked the people of the Five Ghost Clan to put away their weapons, slowly walked to Xu Chen step by step, and lifted the animal skin that was pressing on his head.

“Ah~”

The two clan guides were so scared that they knocked down several tree roots behind them, and almost pissed their pants in horror.

Damn it!

Looking at this terrifying and shriveled face, Xu Chen was also scared and took several steps back.

What kind of face is this?

Almost all of his hair was stripped off, his teeth were all gone, and his skin was black and twisted. It looked even more terrifying than the Hobbit mutant Gollum in the Lord of the Rings. His lips and noses were almost cracked and connected, making people feel numb all over.

This is not cursed, but the gene has completely mutated.

"Cough cough cough cough cough..."

The great witch coughed violently and stared at Xu Chen, then spoke a long list of words.

"What did he say?"

Xu Chen suppressed his fear and asked the two pale and trembling clan guides.

The two clan guides finally calmed down and stammered in the translation and explained:

"Witch... His Majesty the Witch King... Great... Great Witch said that the tribe has been cursed by gods for a long time, and men, women and children are sick. It is not that they are unwilling to communicate with foreign tribes, but that they do not want to spread the curse to other tribes, nor that they do not want to exchange more ores with us, but that they cannot, because the ores are occupied by a group of human-eating demons. If we can help them get rid of these human-eating demons, they can collect enough ores!"

Is this a npc task?

Xu Chen shook his face slightly and asked again: "What is a man-cannibal devil?"

"Dog...a very terrible demon, the body of a bird with a human face, can swallow a person alive in one bite, and then entrench near the ore!"

Before the great witch could speak, the clan guide explained the reason, because they still had some occasional contacts and transactions with the Five Ghost Tribe, so they were quite familiar with the situation here.

Xu Chen also instantly remembered that during the Witch Lord Conference last month, the Jia tribe members also talked about some things about the Five Ghosts. They once specifically mentioned that there is a demon with human faces, birds and dogs.

Xu Chen certainly doesn't believe it.

Last time, he speculated that this elusive human-faced monster bird might belong to large birds such as human-faced eagles, which are similar to some demon gods recorded in the Shanhai Jing.

According to the classics of the Hai Nei Dynasty, there is a Ba State in the southwest, where the salty birds grow in the Great Beast, and the salty birds grow in the Chengli, and the Chengli produces the Houzhao. The Houzhao starts to be the Ba people.

Another overseas Eastern Classic records: Eastern Jumang, bird body, human face, and two dragons.

The salted bird and Jumang recorded in this record are monsters with human faces and bird bodies, and they are even ancestors of the Ba people.

Although his tribe is also called Ba, Xu Chen definitely does not believe that his ancestors were birdmen.

Xu Chen agreed without hesitation to the request of the Five Ghost Clan Great Witch.

He actually wanted to see what this monster with human face and bird body ate people is.

After receiving Xu Chen's reply, the atmosphere in the tree cave instantly eased. The great witch coughed and ordered the tribe members to warmly treat Xu Chen's subordinates, and summoned the patriarchs of five tribes to take out all kinds of food, and entertain Xu Chen, Lei and others in the tree cave.

The Five Ghosts Clan currently have some pottery, which are called from the Jia tribe with ore, but not many, because the Jia tribe originally did not have many pottery, and they are all two poor remote tribes who eat soil.

After meeting the leader of the Five Ghosts, Xu Chen also roughly understood why they were reluctant to see people, because one was ugly than the other and even had some symptoms of disability, especially after applying paint all over his body, he looked like a group of mutants.

Xu Chen was afraid of eating too much food for the other party because he was afraid of poisoning, so he only ate a few bites to indicate that he was full. For more time, he was communicating with the other party's great witch and several clan leaders through the guide of the clan, and gradually figured out the general origin of the Five Ghost Tribe.

They have not moved here for a long time, they should have only been around a hundred years.

But before the relocation came, the tribe had already started to have various symptoms of disease, starting with various skin diseases, with large-scale ulceration, and many people died. Because the neighboring tribes were afraid of being infected by them, they launched several expulsion wars against them. They had to move here from the East. Later, they found that applying the soil here to the body would alleviate the occurrence of skin diseases.

But later, more serious diseases gradually developed, and the body began to experience various symptoms, such as vomiting, diarrhea, hair loss, and especially the children born. Many of them had congenital disabilities and even had a large number of stillbirths. The population of the tribe quickly dropped from nearly 1,000 to only more than 300 people.

The great witch believed that his tribe must have been cursed by the gods, so she ordered the tribe to try not to contact foreigners, so as not to cause fear from other nearby tribes and cause new wars.

However, with the survival of this isolation state, the frequency of intermarriage among close relatives in the clan is getting higher and higher, resulting in more and more deformities in offspring, and many children cannot survive at all.

In order to pray for forgiveness from the gods, they threw children with severe deformities and disabilities in nearby valleys, hoping to alleviate the curse, but unexpectedly attracted even more terrifying demons. Not only did they devour these cursed children, but sometimes they also attacked tribe members. In order to appease these demons, the Five Ghosts tribes also held a fixed ceremony every year to worship the people who died of illness and those children who were seriously incapable of raising them to the demons in order to seek peace.

After understanding these things, Xu Chen felt speechless, and was full of sympathy for the Five Ghosts.

He had no idea what the causes of skin diseases in the past were, but in such a harsh and primitive era, not only animals and plants were prosperous, but various viruses and bacteria were even more prosperous. In the absence of medical treatment and medicine, any small infectious disease could cause a tribe to disappear.

After the Five Ghosts were driven away and migrated here, they used lead-containing ore to apply to the body to cure skin diseases, but the lead poisoning caused even more terrible diseases.

Lead poisoning is divided into acute and chronic.

Acuteness means inhaling excessive lead-containing dust or gas through the respiratory system, causing a sharp increase in blood lead. In addition, intake of a large amount of lead-containing food through the digestive system can also cause acute lead poisoning.

Chronicity is mainly caused by the long-term absorption of lead through the skin or food and air, and the accumulation of long-term poisoning.

In fact, pure metallic lead is not easy to cause poisoning. Lead is used in a large number of fishing gear and radiation-proof isolation devices. Ordinary contact is not a big problem, but the poisoning process mainly lies in the collection and refining stages. Dust and gas containing lead ions are very easy to be absorbed by the human body, especially children's absorption speed is faster.

The Five Ghosts live here and apply lead ore powder to their bodies for many years and slowly absorb lead through the skin. In addition, the environment here may also lead to enrichment in various foods, and long-term consumption will further increase the amount of lead absorption.

Therefore, the current state of the Five Ghosts must be due to problems with their living environment and habits.

In order to confirm his speculation, he had a deep conversation with the Great Wizard and several patriarchs, and found that it was indeed the case.

Two families who like to paint themselves into white or black with white lead or galena, the proportion of people who get sick and deformed offspring is much higher.

Because they usually have much more lead exposure, and the population of the two families is also the smallest. Almost all adults have various physical diseases, and children also have various congenital defects when they are born, especially their intelligence, which is very low.

The women and children who live in the tree hole of the Great Witch are still in a very serious condition, because the deformed children who are too terrible are all thrown into the valley to feed the demons.

While communicating with Xu Chen about the tribe, the Great Witch and the five tribe leaders were also very excited to say that Xu Chen could break this curse and repeatedly asked how to break this curse.

Xu Chen did not give a clear reply, but said that it was not easy for the Five Ghosts to get rid of this curse, it took a long time, and he had to submit to the spiritual belief of the great witch of the Ba tribe, so that he could make the great witch pray to the old mother god to obtain a way to break the curse.

Regarding Xu Chen's statement, the Great Witch and a group of leaders agreed to it after a while of silence, and said that if Xu Chen could really help kill the demons in the human face and bird body, they would be willing to submit to the spiritual guidance of the Great Witch of the Ba tribe and help mine and smelify lead ore.

After this simple oral agreement was reached, the emotions of both parties were much higher. In order to let the Five Ghosts clan see the strength of their tribe, Xu Chen brought the map and marked the Five Ghosts clan by the fire pit. He also pointed to the locations of each tribe on the map and introduced them to the Great Witch and the five clan leaders one by one.
Chapter completed!