Chapter 39 The Strangers of the Mountains
Early the next morning, the night watchman on the lookout yawned and came down from it, and inadvertently looked at the clan doctor where Ah Fei was, and found that the lights inside had been extinguished, and he was suspicious.
The Sha Patriarch had deliberately explained before that the lights were not allowed to be extinguished at the clan doctor's office where Ah Fei was, so the night watchman went inside to fill up the lamp oil before boarding the lookout.
Pushing open the door, he glanced at Ah Fei's bed with his sleepy eyes that were fighting with his upper and lower eyelids, and with this glance, he instantly felt a chill all over his body, and his sleepiness disappeared in an instant, and he fell to the ground in disbelief.
A Qing man who was passing by saw the night watchman sitting on the ground, and hurriedly came over to help him: "What's the matter, this is, tired ......" The Qing people also glanced at the room inadvertently, and the words in his throat stopped instantly, turned his head stiffly, and stared at the night watchman with wide eyes: "Ah, where is Ah Fei?"
The night watchman's eyes were fixed on the bed where Ah Fei had been lying before, panting sharply and not answering.
Yes, Ah Fei is gone!
The Qing clan hurriedly let go of the hand holding the night watchman, turned around and ran towards Qingmo's residence: "Oh no, Qingmo Patriarch!
The Qingmo people are old and feel less, so they get up early to look through the information collected by Sha Man; suddenly heard the shouting outside, pushed the door out, and glared at the Qing people who came running in a hurry: "I have said it, I am not the patriarch anymore; what does the frizziness look like, and what happened?"
The Qing clan people held their knees with their hands, gasped for a while, raised their heads and said in a panic: "Qing, Qingmo Patriarch, Ah Fei he, Ah Fei he is gone!"
Hearing that Ah Fei was gone, Qingmo's pupils suddenly contracted, and he hurriedly ran to the clan doctor where Ah Fei lived, and the Qing clan man also hurriedly followed.
When I arrived at the clan doctor's office, the house was already full of whisperers, and the night watchman had fled.
Squeezing through the crowd, only to see that the door of the house was open, and there was no one inside, Qingmo turned his head angrily, and asked in a low voice to the onlookers, "Who was the night watchman yesterday?" ”
The crowd whispered, no one answered his question, and in a moment the sound of tugging and scolding came from afar.
Looking for the sound, I saw Sha Anyang twisting a Sand Tribesman to this side, it was the night watchman.
It turned out that Sha Anyang also heard about Ah Fei's disappearance and hurriedly went out, but as soon as he walked out of the door, he saw the escaped night watchman, and he couldn't help but say something, and directly grabbed him and forcibly took him to the clan doctor.
"Patriarch Qing, the night watchman is here. Sha Anyang pushed the night watchman to the ground, and said with a cold face: "Before I lose my temper, hurry up and say, where is Brother Fei!"
The night watchman was already frightened by this time, and he didn't say a reason for a long time, and Qingmo's face was gloomy and about to drip water, so he turned and walked into the clan doctor's office, and lit the lamp.
Looking around, I smelled a rotten stench on the bed where Ah Fei was lying before, which was the same as the smell on Ah Fei's wound, but this one was a little strong.
Next to the bed, there were a few messy black footprints.
Squatting down, pinching up some sand on the ground, the whole sand has been carbonized, as it rubs, a pungent smell emanates, Qingmo can't help frowning, throwing the sand down, and shaking his hand with a disgusted face.
Sha Anyang pinched his nose at the door and asked Qingmo who stood up, "How is the Qing patriarch?"
Qingmo stretched out his hand and rubbed Sha Anyang's arm, making Sha Anyang so disgusted that he almost jumped on the roof.
"It's from the Dong clan, Ah Yang boy, do you know where the Dong clan is?" Qingmo said with his back to Sha Anyang.
Sha Anyang looked at his arm, sniffed it lightly, it was stinky, and he couldn't help but stick out his tongue and retch: "What do you say about Patriarch Qing, it was the Dong people who took Fei Ge away?"
Qingmo nodded, Sha Anyang patted his chest, and promised: "Patriarch Qing, don't worry, I will go and bring Fei Ge back!" he said, pointing to the night watchman who was still sitting on the ground: "The matter started because of you, go back and pack up immediately!"
When the night watchman heard that he was going to the Clan, his head shook like a rattle: "I'm not going, I'm not going!
Sha Anyang's eyes instantly turned cold, and he raised his leg and kicked the night watchman's head, kicking him to the ground and rolling several times: "Either follow me to the Dong Clan to save people, or I will expel you from the Sand Clan!"
After speaking, Sha Anyang ignored the prayers of the night watchman and left without looking back.
Qingmo glanced at the night watchman, and walked quickly to Sha Anyang's side: "The Dong people are not joking, Ah Fei's kid has suffered at the hands of the Dong people, so let my old man go." ”
Sha Anyang shook his head and said with a smile: "This is the mistake of our Sand Clan, and Fei Ge has saved me more than once or twice; besides, how can you let your old man go, if you make any mistakes, Ah Fei will not have to twist my head off and kick it as a ball?" After speaking, he waved his hand and left quickly.
When the warriors of the tribe heard that they were going to the Dong tribe, the warriors of the Qing tribe all recommended themselves and asked to go with Sha Anyang, and the people of the Sha tribe found excuses to refuse.
Sha Anyang looked at the thirty or so people he had gathered, except for himself, there were only two Sha people, in addition to the night watchman who was forced to go, there was also a mouse face who had been taught by Ah Fei, which made Sha Anyang very surprised.
Everyone was making preparations, and Sha Man ran from not far away in a hurry, pulling Sha Anyang aside: "What do you kid want to do!
Sha Anyang shook his head helplessly: "Grandpa Shaman, if I don't do this thing, who else can go? Patriarch Qing? Don't tease, he is also a lot older, no more than thirty years younger than you." ”
Sha Man opened his mouth to say something, but Sha Anyang raised his hand to block his words: "Don't say it, Fei Ge didn't save me once or twice, I have to go this time." ”
Sha Man stared at Sha Anyang for a long time, Sha Anyang saw that Sha Man didn't say anything, nodded slightly to him, and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Sha Man suddenly grabbed Sha Anyang's arm again, took out a scroll of animal skin scroll from his leather trouser pocket, and handed it to him: "Take this, stinky boy!"
Sha Anyang took the book and looked at the old man Shaman, but the old man didn't say anything, turned around and staggered away.
Packing up and stopping, Sha Anyang set up a board car that could accommodate everyone, and selected the most majestic ko-headed black bear;
After everyone got into the car, Sha Anyang drove the dog-headed black bear out, and was stopped by a person at the door.
The person who stopped the bear cart was Mu Yao, who had gone out hunting before, and Mu Yao thought that he had a strong magic power and should learn some new magic, so he set up a bear cart and rushed to the Mu clan.
When I went to the Mu Clan to learn magic, I suddenly heard that Ah Fei was seriously injured, and hurried back to the Sand Clan overnight, and I happened to meet everyone at the door who was going to go to the Yu Clan to save people.
"Sha Anyang, where are you going?" Mu Yao's face was full of anxiety: "Where is Ah Fei?"
Sha Anyang didn't know that Qingmo had called Mu Yao back, so he tried his best to make the expression on his face very normal, and said with a smile: "Ah, Brother Fei didn't sleep well yesterday, and he is still sleeping." ”
After speaking, he was about to drive the dog-headed black bear to move forward, Mu Yao reached out and grabbed Sha Anyang's wrist, and his face turned cold: "Liar, is Ah Fei having another accident?"
Sha Anyang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly squeezed out a smile, ready to make up a reason to prevaricate, but Mu Yao grabbed the wheel and squeezed up, slapped the dog-headed black bear's buttocks, and said coldly: "Go." ”
Sha Anyang hurriedly stopped the bear cart: "Mu Yao, why are you coming along? What we are going to do this time is too dangerous! ”
Mu Yao ignored Sha Anyang at all, raised his voice and said, "Go!"
The dog-headed black bear turned his head, looked at Sha Anyang and Mu Yao, and hesitated, but when he saw Mu Yao's expression, he felt that Mu Yao was more terrifying, and hurriedly stepped away from the bear's legs and ran quickly.
Before Sha Anyang could say something more, Mu Yao suddenly raised her left hand, and a dazzling white light appeared in her palm; Sha Anyang hurriedly stopped talking and guided the dog-headed black bear towards the previous woods.
Coming to the woods he encountered earlier, Sha Anyang waved his hand to everyone, got out of the car first, and slowly walked towards the woods with an iron knife in his hand.
Mu Yao raised his nose and smelled it, and a faint stench came to his nose, and he stretched out his hand and fanned his nose, frowning in disgust.
The woods were very quiet, and the sound of feet stepping on blades of grass and branches echoed very clearly in the woods, and Sha Anyang felt that his breathing was a little short, and his heart was beating violently, so loud that he could hear it clearly.
Mu Yao felt that Sha Anyang's marching speed was too slow, so he got up and walked forward quickly, Sha Anyang was startled, and hurriedly grabbed Mu Yao's hand.
Mu Yao dodged to the side and continued to move forward without looking back; Sha Anyang had to wave to the people behind him, speeding up his pace to keep up with Mu Yao; behind him, everyone did not hesitate, and stepped up to keep up with the two.
The area of the forest is very vast, and everyone walked for nearly half an hour before passing through the woods; Sha Anyang saw the gradually widening vision, and his heart was relieved: fortunately, there was no ambush of the Yu people.
Coming out of the woods, it's a cliff.
Standing on the cliff, the view is extremely vast, the high peaks are covered with dense green forests, and the tribe formed by stone houses sits under the cliff, and from the cliff, the life of the tribe is in order.
Mu Yao looked at both sides, and found a mountain road extending from the cliff, beckoned to Sha Anyang, and took the lead to go down.
Sha Anyang waved his hand to the people behind him and ran to Mu Yao's side: "Mu Yao, do you know what place this is?"
Mu Yao shook her head: "I don't know, and I don't want to know." ”
Sha Anyang looked at Mu Yao's resolute little face, paused, quickened his steps, and walked in front of Mu Yao: "This is the Dong clan, it is very dangerous, you will go to the middle of the team in a while, so that we can protect you." ”
Mu Yao glanced at Sha Anyang, although he said very heroically, his hands were trembling uncontrollably, and he could see that he was actually very scared in his heart.
Mu Yao couldn't help laughing, but quickly held back the smile and followed Sha Anyang's side.
The Dong tribe is almost unknown to everyone in the Eastern Wilderness, but there is very little understanding of them.
According to word of mouth, the way of life of the people of the Yu people is extremely primitive, and they are ferocious by nature, whether they are humans or wild beasts, they are the meat in their mouths, and they are almost a group of carnivorous wild beasts in the form of humans, so they are also called cannibals.
But when everyone walked into the tribe of the Dong tribe, they found that the tribe was slightly different from the rumor.
The tribe of the people of the tribe was built on the mountain, and there were no high-walled gates for the defense of seats, and there were no watchtowers for the vigil, and the houses in the tribe were also made of stone, but each stone was polished and square, and looked very flat, and between every seven houses, there was a large fire rack with a large cauldron on it, and things were boiling at this time.
The inhabitants of the tribe come and go, divide labor and cooperate, and life is very orderly, but the men, women and children in the tribe are not in the right direction, and everyone has a fever on their faces.
When one of the Dong tribesmen saw Sha Anyang and his party, all holding iron swords and swords, they were standing not far away, whispering, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowing vigorously, and shouting some words they could not understand;
Mu Yao was startled, not understanding what was going on, Sha Anyang frowned, turned his head and pressed his hand against everyone: "Everyone hide the knife behind you first, these Dong people are begging us for mercy." ”
Everyone looked back and hid the iron sword in their hands behind them, and Mu Yao looked at Sha Anyang with a surprised expression: "You actually understand?"
Sha Anyang laughed, stretched out his hand and scratched his head: "In the knowledge that Grandpa Sha Man taught me before, there were the words of the Dong people, but I listened to it well, and what he said was a little reluctant. ”
Mu Yao couldn't help but give Sha Anyang a thumbs up, Sha Anyang stepped forward and said in a broken Dong dialect: "You, don't be afraid, we, come to find our friend Ah Fei, you give us people, we, don't kill the people of the Dong tribe." ”
When the people of the Dong tribe heard Sha Anyang's words, they were all a little puzzled, and in the crowd, an old man knelt and crawled over: "That, I can speak the language of the Great Wilderness;
Sha Anyang was stunned for a moment, then turned her head to look at Mu Yao, who reached out and helped the old man up, she felt that these people had no malicious intentions, and seemed to be very afraid of them.
"Old man, I'm from the Mu tribe;" he said and pointed to Sha Anyang: "He is from the Sha tribe, and there are Qing people behind him; ”
The old man listened to Mu Yao's words, staggered around, raised his hand to the people in the tribe, and said something in his mouth, Mu Yao looked at Sha Anyang suspiciously.
Sha Anyang rolled his eyes and said, "This dead old man said that we are not treacherous, don't be afraid of us and so on; ”
Mu Yao smacked her mouth, kicked Sha Anyang, and said in a low voice: "What are you talking about? What the old man said is the truth, do you still want people to kneel all the time?"
Sha Anyang shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, the old man staggered back and smiled kindly at Mu Yao, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he revealed the few five teeth in his mouth.
Seeing this, Sha Anyang couldn't help but "poof", Mu Yao raised his eyes and glared at him, and also smiled at the old man: "Old man, have you invited one from the Sand Clan, huh...... Such a tall, strong man?"
Mu Yao said while using Sha Anyang as the base shape to compare Ah Fei's height, shortness, fat and thinness.
The old man shook his head and beckoned to everyone: "Come in first, there is a miasma here at night, which is not good for your health." ”
Mu Yao didn't hesitate, and followed the old man to the tribe, Sha Anyang hurriedly ran to Mu Yao's side, lowered his body, and whispered: "Why are you not defenseless at all, they are all from the Yu tribe!"
Mu Yao shook her head and said arrogantly: "Woman's, intuition!"
The old man led them to one of the fires, on top of which was a large cauldron in which something was boiling and a strong smell of meat emanated from it.
Sha Anyang had no ability to resist meat, and when he smelled such a fragrant broth, his saliva flowed out; he grabbed the spoon hewn out of the stone in the pot, fished out a large piece of meat from it, and while blowing on it, he ate it in a big gulp, did he praise it twice: "Mmmmmmmm
Mu Yao couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at Sha Anyang's appearance, but the old man laughed very happily: "Eat! Old man, I made it, eat more!"
Sha Anyang ate the fragrant meat in his hand, and nodded vigorously to the old man: "Well, good, old man, as soon as I saw you, I knew that you were a good person!" and then said "Great good person" in the Dong language.
Mu Yao rolled her eyes, and said in her heart, "Who said I was unguarded just now?" and turned to the smiling old man and asked, "Old man, I asked you ...... just now."
The old man shook his head: "We are here, and no one else has been here for a long time, except for ...... Treacherous. ”
Mu Yao and Sha Anyang glanced at each other, the old man saw the confusion of the two, and took the initiative to explain: "You are outsiders and don't know that we are here; there are two clans in our Dong clan, we are the Bai Dong clan, and there is another ...... It's the Tricksters, and it's the Tricksters who take your friends away, and they do that all the time. ”
Mu Yao wanted to ask something, but Sha Anyang suddenly screamed, choking back in fright, turned his head and frowned and asked, "What are you doing in a hurry?"
Sha Anyang grabbed the stone spoon, pointed to the meat inside and said in horror: "People, people, human flesh!" Mu Yao was also shocked, and hurriedly looked into the stone spoon, only to see that in the broth in the stone spoon, a cut finger was erected, and he immediately covered his mouth in shock, and turned his head to look at the old man in horror.
The old man hurriedly waved his hand, reached out and pinched the finger and said, "Don't misunderstand, don't misunderstand, this is not human flesh, this is the meat of short-haired monkeys, and their fingers are very close to people." ”
As he spoke, he grabbed the stone spoon from Sha Anyang's hand, stirred it in the cauldron, and fished out half of the ugly head; although there was no skin, it was indeed not a human head in terms of shape; the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Sha Anyang was still disgusted, and couldn't help but run out and spit out the meat he had eaten.
The misunderstanding was resolved, Mu Yao turned his head to the old man and smiled: "I'm sorry, my friend is more nervous, and I haven't asked your surname for so long." ”
The old man waved his hand indifferently: "It's okay, it's okay, the old man, my surname is Bai, during the day, our entire Baitong clan is surnamed Bai, and this is the same as you." ”
Mu Yao nodded, and also gave the names of himself and Sha Anyang to the old man in the day: "My name is Mu Yao, and that guy is called Sha Anyang just now;
During the day, the old man nodded and spoke leisurely:
The people of the Bai Dong tribe have always liked to work diligently and work hard for their own food and clothing, but the people of the Bai Dong tribe are different, there are only men in the Wei Dong tribe, they are aggressive by nature, and they like to plunder everything they want, even their lives, from the hands of others.
The people have always been disdainful of the Bai people, and they will do some things against the people of Bai Dong openly and secretly, but fortunately, there is a beast god worshiped in the people, this beast god has unparalleled power, and with the deterrence of the beast god, the behavior of the people of the strange people does not dare to go too far.
But more than a hundred years ago, for unknown reasons, the beast god was seriously injured, and the people of the Strange Mountains became even more serious.
They expelled the Baitong people from the place where the people had lived for thousands of years to the barren mountains, and the green mountains and clear waters they see now are also the success of the Baitong people's hard work.
Because they had no women, they ordered them to sacrifice women every year, and they were not allowed to wear clothes, saying that it was convenient for them to examine women, and if a woman had a flaw in her body, several of them would die tragically.
The methods of killing people are also extremely cruel and perverted, and they will crush the genitals of the Baitong people who have been given death until they die.
In order for the Baitong people to continue to provide women, the Baitong people will regularly send meat to the Baitong people, usually short-haired monkeys, and sometimes some large desolate beasts such as earth cattle;
The Baitong people have been living in fear of the people until today, and when they first saw Mu Yao and the others, they were all wearing clothes, thinking that the people had come to inspect again.
But when he saw them holding iron weapons, he was terrified, and when the people wanted to kill for no reason, they would bring iron knives, so when they saw iron knives, the people of Baitong would consciously beg for mercy.
After speaking, the old man sighed heavily, and two lines of turbid tears slowly flowed down his cheeks; Mu Yao was filled with righteous indignation when he heard it, and he couldn't wait to kill this group of well-dressed beasts.
Sha Anyang had already come back before, and he also heard the old man's account of the affairs between the Yu clan, so he raised his head thoughtfully: "Old man, have you ever thought that in fact, these short-haired monkeys ...... Actually, it's all human flesh?"
Mu Yao smacked his mouth, kicked him on the calf, and secretly scolded him for not being able to speak, but the old man didn't care about it during the day, just wiped the tears from his cheeks and shook his head gently: "No, human flesh is the supreme meat for us Dong people; ”
Sha Anyang was stunned again when he heard this: "It turns out that you really eat human flesh!"