The unique ritual caused more psychological pressure and confusion than excitement for the indigenous people.
With little education, they didn't even know what month or day it was today, let alone realizing that beneath the solemnity of the ritual in this "New Tribe," there was also a component of celebration.
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By the time Chen Zhou returned to the cave, it was already noon.
The Iron Massacre was, of course, once again soaked with foul sweat.
When he took off the armor, Chen Zhou felt as if he had just come out of a steamer, his whole body hot and sweaty.
If not for often being in the Forging Room with the furnace recently, coupled with years of physical labor making him strong and robust, anyone else wearing armor and walking back and forth on the mountain like this would have been utterly exhausted.
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