Chapter 15: The Altar
This time, Xinghan didn't hold people anymore, but took Ye Ke's little hand, she twisted and struggled a little, in exchange for a harder grip.
To be honest, I was still a little timid when I went out to contact an unfamiliar environment today, but I felt less uneasy when I held my hand, and I didn't refuse.
The two of them interlocked their fingers and walked out slowly, pushing aside the dense grass at the entrance of the cave, Ye Ke really looked at the face of the tribe for the first time.
At night, the moon was very round, and the moonlight clothed the whole tribe with a veil, so that it was as clear as day, and if you looked closely, you could see that it was built around a small valley rarely seen in the rainforest.
The whole is similar to terraced fields, and there are many caves from top to bottom, and the vegetation here is very lush, covered with tall and lush broad-leaved vegetation, which looks a bit like a plantain.
For Ye Ke, a northerner, it is already very good to recognize the trees in the rainforest, but these trees are more than 20 meters high, and the branches and leaves that cover the sky and the sun can well conceal the location of each cave.
Xinghan's cave is relatively high and relatively remote, and there is no cave very close to the vicinity, which is quite condescending, and Ye may easily take in the scenery of the entire tribe.
Walking slowly down the hill with a gentle slope, Ye Ke could see that these plantain trees, which can be seen everywhere in the tribe, may have reached the end of their growth, and they have already borne a lot of fruits.
It's just that it doesn't look like the kind sold in the supermarket, which is as full and round as a plantain, but like many green melon seeds gathered into a handful.
When I didn't pay attention, there were scattered people on the road, most of them were young and tall men, maybe they were going to hold a festival for a while, and they were all cleaned up quite neatly, not so unkempt as they imagined, and they all bowed their heads when they saw Xinghan, and they all avoided it from afar.
The further down I go, the more people gradually increase, and I can occasionally see one or two women, compared to most of the men with good faces in the tribe, when Ye can see women, the contrast in his heart is a little big.
The height looks like one meter eight or nine, most of them are relatively obese, and some are not so fat, but they are also very strong.
In fact, if you look carefully, you can still see it at the eyebrows and eyes, after all, the living environment of the primitive tribe and the daily utensils are too backward, for the women here, it is enough to eat enough, where will you pay attention to the appearance.
There are many people who bow their heads and get out of the way when they say hello, and there are also a small number of people who wave their hands very enthusiastically.
When they were about to reach the bottom of the valley, they saw Wolf Leap, who had just eaten barbecue with them, and was waving vigorously to them.
"Brother Han!" A childish voice came from the front, and Ye Ke saw a middle-aged woman with a kind smile on her face, wearing a simple brown animal skin skirt, and a slightly hunched back, leading a thin little boy with big eyes, about five years old.
Hearing the voice, Xing Han walked up to the child, squatted down, touched the boy's head with his other hand, and said gently, "Good~"
At this time, the middle-aged man beside the woman who looked very similar to Wolf Yue looked at Xing Han and asked seriously, "Have you thought about it?" Wolf Ge had already heard about the festival, and not only this time, the patriarchs of the previous festivals wanted someone to communicate with the beast god on his behalf.
It wasn't until the big cub went back to confirm the news with them just now that this festival was indeed presided over by Xing Han.
There is a high chance that the strong little males in the tribe will awaken on their own at the festival.
It's just that Tucker has been weak and sick since he was born, and he almost went to see the beast god several times, and Wolf Ge felt that Xinghan presided over the festival and had a lot to do with Tucker.
And Xing Han just nodded vigorously, picked up Tucker with one hand, and continued to walk forward, Ye Ke was pulled by him, a little uneasy, and could only say a word to reduce the sense of presence as much as possible.
When he walked to the bottom, he was greeted by a middle-aged man on crutches and wrapped in black animal skins around his waist and body.
His hair was tied back by something, and he was covered with many long feathers of various colors, and he had a string of white animal teeth around his neck, and a false smile on his face.
He was followed by a lot of people, all of whom were holding more or less divided pieces of meat, or small prey, and a lot of fruit and the like.
Before it got dark, Wolf Mountain had already prepared everything, he had been waiting for this day for a long time, since the death of Xinghan's father, it took a lot of effort to take care of the panicked tribe.
It's just that his beast soul is just an ordinary night wolf beast soul, although it finally reached the second level later, it is not enough to support the presiding ceremony, and now with the star cold, Wolf Mountain is also mixed.
On the one hand, there has been no communication with the beast god for so many times, and the overall strength of the tribe has dropped a lot, and if it encounters the beast tide and other tribes attack, the consequences will be unimaginable.
In order to stabilize the hearts of those uneasy people in the tribe, and in order to stabilize his position, he was very happy to see it happen and let the powerful Xinghan preside over this festival.
On the other hand, although after so many years of hard work in taking care of the tribe, including the old people who would be forcibly expelled before, they were also supported as much as possible, just to win the hearts of the people, but when the dry season came, those old guys who couldn't support them didn't do their job.
Many clansmen will give him three points of face, and they will not be so tough to elect a more powerful patriarch, if Xing Han can successfully communicate with the beast god this time, will his position be shaken, and he is uneasy in his heart.
Trying to pull out a stiff smile again, Wolf Mountain grinned a mouthful of big yellow teeth, "Xinghan, we've been waiting for you for a long time, let's go..."
Wolf Mountain took the lead, and the clansmen behind gradually followed to the front, until they reached the depths of the valley, and a huge round platform came into view.
This giant round platform is the altar of the source tribe, the whole altar is painted and engraved, complex and mysterious lines, there is a stone pillar with a diameter of about one meter and a height of more than ten meters in the center, and at the top of the pillar, there is a round platform, a particularly realistic wolf head statue, standing impressively.
The eyes of the wolf's head statue are very sharp, as if they are alive, so that people dare not look at each other, the mouth is bared, the sharp teeth are exposed, there seems to be a cold light flashing on it, the hair of the whole head is clearly rooted, densely covered like a steel needle, and the neck of the statue is designed to look like a cloud, tightly hovering on the pillar.
Standing under the altar, Ye Ke couldn't see the complicated lines on the altar, but the statue was shocking enough, but he didn't know how the people here carved it so lifelike.