These people seemed well-trained. With a heave, they lifted Xia Chuan up and then ran with nimble feet, heading straight towards a certain place inside the walls.

Xia Chuan couldn't move his body, so he simply tilted his head back to take a look. He saw that the place this group was running towards had a two-meter square pit roughly lined with stones, and the pit was filled with thin, watery mud. He had just made out the shape of this pit when the group carrying him had already run to the edge of it and abruptly stopped.

Without even thinking, Xia Chuan knew what would happen next.

So, at the moment when they threw him towards the mud pit, he swiftly and decisively grabbed the arms of two of them, borrowed some force to flip over, landing his feet right on the edge of the pit. Then he fiercely pulled those two people.

Using momentum and the force of his hands, he pulled himself back onto the flat ground at the edge of the pit. Then he let go, and with two "plop" sounds, those two people he had borrowed force from, due to inertia, fell into the mud pit and instantly lost their human shape.

The few people carrying Shen Lan were two steps behind them. As soon as they reached the edge of the pit, they saw this scene and were stunned for a moment.

Before they could sympathize with their two compatriots in the pit, they heard Shen Lan say faintly, "I thought it would be splashing water after being thrown into a river or something. Turns out it's mud. Then I won't join in your fun."

As his words fell, the few people carrying him felt a pain in their hands. The weight they were carrying suddenly lightened. Before they could react, they found themselves inexplicably flying up and then solidly falling into the mud pit, rolling into a bunch of bedraggled mud dogs.

Xia Chuan: "..."

He had said that with Shen Lan's physique and strength, he could probably lift a dinosaur. How could four people subdue him so obediently that he couldn't break free? Turns out this guy wasn't struggling at all.

The leader and his group of about thirty or forty men heard the sound of people falling into the mud pit. Probably thinking the prank had succeeded, they all laughingly turned out from behind the corner, intending to make a good ruckus. But as soon as they saw the people standing by the pit, they were completely dumbfounded.

The two sides stared at each other for a long time, unable to say a word... Of course, even if they spoke, they wouldn't understand each other.

The six people in the mud pit climbed out with long faces. As soon as they got out of the pit, they saw a few women coming around from the other side. They had been saying something unknown from afar, laughing.

But as they approached the mud pit, they abruptly stopped. They looked at the few who had turned into mud dogs, then at the clean and tidy Xia Chuan and Shen Lan. They opened their mouths but didn't make a sound for a long time.

Xia Chuan noticed they were holding things in their hands. He glanced and found animal skins, broad leaves... and even a few bird feathers.

He turned to look at the clothing of the others beside the leader, and suddenly understood these people's intentions...

"I think this is probably a rather... special welcoming ceremony. Letting you roll in the mud, then go wash up and change into the clothes they prepared that belong to this tribe," said Laura, who had rushed over. She looked around and gave a dry laugh to Xia Chuan and Shen Lan.

Xia Chuan: "...I see."

Shen Lan couldn't help but wonder beside him, "Why didn't they throw you?"

Laura: "Probably because I was still unconscious when I was brought back, and Allen's fever hadn't subsided, so they didn't find an opportunity?"

Since their clothes weren't stained with mud at all, there was no need to change immediately. These primitive residents were quite open-minded. After being stunned for a while, seeing those few who had tried to prank others but got pranked themselves turning into mud dogs, they instantly started laughing and making a ruckus.

The leader probably had to maintain his dignity and didn't join in the laughter. He folded his arms and once again carefully looked over Xia Chuan and Shen Lan, especially lingering on Shen Lan's strong arm muscles for a while. He nodded, seeming quite satisfied with the physiques of these two new additions.

Shen Lan scratched his cheek. Glancing at the attire of the people here, he probably felt that this bare-chested style with animal skins and broad leaves wrapped around the lower body was very refreshing. So he took a big step forward to the few girls and took the animal skins, bird feathers and such prepared for him and Xia Chuan.

Seeing they had completed their task, those few girls turned and left, giggling. After walking out a few steps, they couldn't help but look back at Shen Lan and Xia Chuan, laughing and discussing a few sentences before turning back.

Laura was amused. She said to Xia Chuan and Shen Lan, "Those few girls quite like you two."

Back in the dinosaur world, Laura wouldn't have spoken to them like this. At that time, the environment was harsh and the atmosphere oppressive. Shen Lan and Xia Chuan were clearly the leaders. The two didn't smile or talk much, one cold and stern, the other fierce, looking quite unapproachable, making Laura not dare to say too much.

But later she found that these two weren't as hard-hearted as they appeared on the surface. Plus, meeting again in this kind of place with a rather relaxed and harmonious atmosphere, she instantly felt much closer to them.

Hearing her teasing, Xia Chuan looked at her expressionlessly. Just as he was about to say something, Shen Lan, who had walked back, poked his waist.

Xia Chuan: "..."

Ever since discovering that Xia Chuan's waist was ticklish that time by the river, Shen Lan especially liked to use this method to get his attention. Who knows what kind of bad habit it was.

"Are your hands idle?" Xia Chuan tensed the lean muscles of his waist and abdomen and glanced coldly at Shen Lan's fingers, as if he dared to poke again, he would dare to draw his knife and chop them off.

Of course Shen Lan wouldn't add fuel to the fire. Instead, he stuffed a share of the animal skin skirt he was holding to Xia Chuan and said, "Here, this is comfortable to wear. Aren't you hot in that outfit?"

Xia Chuan picked up the animal skin skirt that was forcibly handed to him and looked at it expressionlessly. Then he directly slapped it onto Shen Lan's head and patted his dog head, saying, "Thanks, if you want to streak, don't drag me into it."

With that, he patted Laura's shoulder and said lightly, "Let's go check on Allen."

Shen Lan: "..."

Laura watched from the side, laughing for a long time. She felt these two were quite amusing together. She was several years older than them to begin with.

It's just that in the previous world, the aura these two displayed was too strong, not at all seeming younger than her. Now that they had relaxed, she indeed felt they were like younger brothers. "Our place is right in the middle," Laura said, pointing in a certain direction.

After all the commotion, Xia Chuan finally had a chance to take a good look at the inside of the walled village.

The houses here looked more like huts, with conical roofs made of branches, thin grass, and large leaves, stacked in many layers to form a thick cover that should have no problem keeping out the rain. The walls, like the outer walls, were made of mud mixed with stones of varying sizes, with a narrow and low door left in one side. The native inhabitants here probably had to lower their heads slightly to enter, let alone tall people like Xia Chuan and Shen Lan.

There were about fifty or sixty such houses within the walls, scattered near and far, making for quite an impressive sight at a glance.

"It seems that the stronger people live closer to the outer perimeter," Laura said, sharing the customs she had discovered during her two-day stay. "I've seen them sometimes fight to move outward, as a way to show their strength."

As they were talking, a bare-chested man suddenly ran over, pointed to a house far away, almost against the base of the wall, and then said a long string of gibberish to Xia Chuan and Shen Lan. Finally, he tilted his head, rolled his eyes, and made a gesture of sleeping, snoring, and rolling his eyes, to inform them: you two will temporarily stay there.

Laura laughed, "That's the one they were fighting over yesterday, farthest from people, closest to the wall, the first place to suffer if foreign enemies or wild beasts attack."

Xia Chuan: "..."

Shen Lan: "..."