Wu Song thought thoughtfully, "So that means that before killing those captives, they will be taken to the place where sacrifices are made to the gods, where is that place?"

The place where the gods are sacrificed is on top of a nearby mountain.

The people of the tribe believed that the gods lived in the heavens and could get closer to the gods by ascending to high places.

The man's name was Balu, and he took Wu Song to the place where the heavens were worshipped.

They waited for a mountain and came to a cliff.

More than twenty meters from that cliff was another cliff, higher there, and there was a house made of stone, a temple dedicated to the gods.

In the open space in front of the temple, there is a stone platform, and that stone platform is the place of sacrifice.

The person who was prepared for the gods would be brought to the stone platform, and then after a series of rituals, the body would be dissected and the heart removed.

After that, the person's body is brought back to the tribe for consumption by the tribe's people.

Between the two cliffs, there is a long wooden bridge for people to come and go.

At each end of the wooden bridge, several tribesmen were guarding.

"When will the sacrifice be held?" Wu Song and Balu were hiding in a bush, and Wu Song asked Balu next to him.

Balu thought for a moment, "Every three days, if there is no rainy weather, we will hold sacrifices. The last sacrifice was exactly two days ago, so tomorrow at noon, if there is no accident, then we will have a sacrifice. ”

Fortunately, in this case, Wu Song will have enough time to prepare.

His plan was this: tomorrow, when the tribesmen held a sacrifice, Wu Song would lie in ambush on the other side of the cliff, that is, near the temple.

Then, after the tribesmen took Wang Gong and them through the wooden bridge, Wu Song rushed out from the side and cut the wooden bridge.

He had asked Balou that the rhinos would follow behind, and would not pass until most of them had crossed the wooden bridge.

In this way, Wu Song cut the wooden bridge and could stop the most threatening rhino soldiers. Then he took Wang Gong and they left.

There is a problem here, that is, the cliff where the temple is located is a lonely peak, and the surrounding mountain wall is as straight as a knife, and there is no way down except for a wooden bridge.

If it is an ordinary person, then cutting the wooden bridge is equivalent to trapping yourself on the cliff.

However, this is not a problem for Wu Song. He can spread his wings of flame and fly in the air, and with just a few trips, he can bring the people of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain.

In the evening, Wu Song came to the vicinity of the tribe.

Before tomorrow's action, he wanted to try to inform Wang Gong and them, so that they could have a preparation at that time.

In the vicinity of the tribe, the rhino soldiers wandered around.

From time to time, the rhinoceros raised their heads and sniffed the air.

Wu Song was sure that the rhinoceros tiger's sense of smell was absolutely very sensitive, and if he rashly entered the tribe, he was afraid that he would startle the snake.

Wu Song thought about it for a while and thought of someone.

Although Balu was expelled from the tribe, he and his wife were not allowed to enter the tribe, and there was no prohibition on their two children.

Every day, Balu's children would go to the tribe to play with his grandfather for a while.

This evening, Balu's children also came to the tribe.

Those rhino soldiers didn't pay any attention to him, and let him pass by.

Balou's children went straight to their grandfather's house, played with him for a while, and then went to play with the other children.

A group of children chased and played until they came to the wooden platform.

Balu's children took advantage of the fact that they were not paying attention and came to the wooden house.

He tossed a ball of paper in his hand, and then blended in with the group of children and went on playing.

In the wooden house, there were more than a dozen people, as Wu Song expected, Wang Gong and all his men.

Before, Wang Gong and the others went to the place where the black smoke was rising.

And when they reached that place, they were attacked by the tribesmen.

The tribesmen outnumbered them far above them and soon surrounded them. Wang Gong was inevitably injured and wounded, so he did not let his men resist.

He also thought that he could have a good talk with these tribesmen, and exchange his money for the lives of his own people.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he was arrested, he was locked up in this room, and no one came to talk to them.

After a while, Wang Gong also saw that these tribesmen and them were almost people from two worlds, and they could not communicate normally.

However, he was not worried about his own safety, because he knew that Wu Song would definitely come to save them.

After the child threw the paper ball into the room, the nearest soldier picked it up.

He looked at the paper ball suspiciously, and it was clear that this was not something that those tribesmen would have.

He handed the paper ball to the person next to him and asked the other party to hand the paper ball to Wang Gong.

Wang Gong took the paper ball and saw a line of words written on it, "You will go out at noon tomorrow." ”

Wang Gong was overjoyed, he finally waited for Wu Song.

Wu Song rested outside Balu's hut at night, leaning against a big tree, looking up at the stars in the sky, thinking about what had happened recently.

Just now in the evening, he saw the purple light again. It is just a dozen miles away, in the western part of the island. If it weren't for these unexpected things, then he and Wang Gong should have been able to reach where Ziguang was.

Thinking of this, Wu Song frowned. If they can see the purple light, then Ji Wen and Wei Wen will inevitably see it too. I don't know if they've found it now, but hopefully they haven't found the treasure yet.

Balu walked over to Wu Song and handed him a jug of wine.

Wu Song took it, took a sip, and coughed incessantly. The wine was so strong that a sip of wine burned like a flame, and my throat hurt.

Ballou laughed, "This is our own wine, how does it taste?"

Wu couldn't stop inhaling, and only said one word, "Lie!"

"This name, in your Dongzhou dialect, is called Ocean Soul. Balou took a sip of his own.

"Ocean Soul..."Wu Song muttered to himself, and then smiled, "The name is good, it is indeed like this ocean, unruly." ”

He looked at Balu, "Why do you speak Dongzhou, have you left here before?"

"No," Balu sat on the ground, fiddling with the fire next to him, "I was a member of the Rhino Soldiers before, and I had to learn Dongzhou dialect, this is tradition. ”

"Why is there such a tradition? This place is in a remote location, it is estimated that very few Dongzhou people come here, and it is useless for you to learn Dongzhou dialect. Wu Song was puzzled.

"Learning Dongzhou dialect is not practical, it is a ceremony, only by learning Dongzhou dialect, we can be regarded as formal rhino soldiers, starting from the first generation of rhino soldiers, this is the case. Balu broke off a piece of wood and threw it into the fire.

"The first generation of rhino ** soldiers?" Wu Song was a little curious, "When did you start your rhino ** soldiers?"

"It's not a long time," Balu thought for a moment, "that's seventy or eighty years, and speaking of which, we can have rhino soldiers, thanks to you outsiders."

I heard the old man say that seventy or eighty years ago, there were no rhino soldiers in the tribe. One day a group of people came, and they taught our ancestors to tame the rhinoceros and helped them form the rhino ** soldiers.

Oh, by the way, in the first ten years, the people who trained the rhinoceros used the Dongzhou dialect to give instructions, because that's what the group of people did at that time.

Later, we slowly changed the directive to the words of the tribe. I think that the reason why the current rhino soldiers still want to learn Dongzhou dialect should be regarded as a commemoration of the beginning. ”

Wu Song fell into deep thought, and after a while, he asked Balu, "You say, seventy or eighty years ago, what did those people do here?"

"I don't know," said Balu, taking a piece of meat and roasting it over the fire, "said the old men that they had been on the island for a long time, and that they had been in the forbidden ground, and that our ancestors had not dared to look at it. ”

"What is the forbidden land?" Wu Song asked.

"It's a mountain in the northwest," Balou said, turning over the flesh of the volcano, "It seems that it has been a forbidden place in the tribe since seventy or eighty years ago, and no one is allowed to enter it, otherwise there will be punishment." ”

Wu Song looked at the blazing fire, and suddenly thought of something in his mind.

It is rumored that the last emperor of the Dayao Empire was extremely poor and extravagant, and loved to have fun. He once spent a lot of manpower and material resources to successfully tame many demon beasts for his own amusement.

It is rumored that at that time, he also ordered his palace maids to form a demon beast cavalry. During the rebels' attack on the palace, this cavalry made the rebels suffer a lot.

If the rumors are true, then aren't the rhino soldiers on the island now exactly what the emperor of the Great Yao Empire did?

Seventy or eighty years ago, wasn't that the time when the Dayao Empire fell?

Wu Song didn't believe that there was any coincidence between them, nine times out of ten, the group of people who came here many years ago were from the Great Yao Empire.

Looks like they've found the right place, and this is the treasure spot.

The next day, Wu Song left Balu's house and went to the altar on the cliff.

The sun had just risen, and the forest was filled with a layer of mist.

The only way to that cliff was a wooden bridge jutting out from another cliff.

There were people guarding the bridge, and Wu Song naturally couldn't go up from there.

He came to the sunny side of the cliff, spread his flaming wings and flew up.

He landed behind a rock, and then he crept out to observe the situation.

This cliff is not large, about 100 meters in circumference. There is a stone temple built on the cliff, and in front of the temple is the altar.

Wu Song is now at the back of the temple, and the place where he is is is about twenty or thirty meters away from the temple.

Next to the temple is a wooden house, which is inhabited by soldiers guarding the place, about ten people.

At this time, one of the soldiers on night duty was walking from the temple to the wooden house, and the other soldier was still guarding the temple.

Wu Song quietly came to the back of the temple, and then jumped up and jumped onto the roof of the temple.

He entered the temple through the vent and landed on a beam.