Chapter 1062: Sacrifice
readx;?? Duma and his brother Minming are orphans in the village, they are not Pulin people at first, but a pair of abandoned babies, who were picked up by the Pulin people, and then they were raised by the village ancestral hall elders. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Later, when Duma grew up, she knew that the mother-in-law who was thin and thin, but extremely athletic, and could defeat wild boars and catch birds alive, was called Golden Eagle, that is, the old man of the ancestral hall who had been raising them.
In addition to the golden eagle, there is also a mother-in-law who also appears frequently, almost identical to the golden eagle, but Duma can tell that the mother-in-law is more smiling and kind than the golden eagle.
Ten years ago, Duma was fifteen years old.
She clearly remembered that the Golden Eagle Mother-in-law called her, her brother, and several other orphans together and told them: "The clan has raised you so much, and it is time for you to contribute to the clan." ā
At that time, Duma had already understood many things, although he had never been out of the village, but every time he saw his playmates of the same age, with his parents or clansmen, walking out of the village and going to the city, his heart was full of envy.
"Are you going to the city?" Duma asked innocently, and her brother's immature face was also full of hope.
Going out from here, following the adults to the city to do business, eating and drinking spicy food, almost every child's dream of their size.
The golden eagle laughed, she had never smiled so kindly, so kindly that Duma felt a little fake, even a little hideous.
She touched her head and said, "Of course, you can go into the city, but before you can do that, you must first go to a place, and when you come back from there, I will send every one of you into the city." ā
A group of friends cheered and were very happy.
That night, they had a full meal, chicken, duck, fish and meat, and the golden eagle made an exception and poured a glass of wine for each of them.
"Drink, drink, maybe never get a chance to drink again......"
"Mother-in-law, why don't you have a chance to drink again? Is alcohol expensive in the city? ā
"Hehe, Duma, my mother-in-law is old, she is talking nonsense, you take it seriously, eat hard, look at your brother Minming, you eat so much, you have to eat more......"
As soon as it was dawn the next day, the golden eagle woke up the seven or eight orphans, gave each of them a piece of dry food, and told them to take it with him, and then took them out of the village.
When he walked to the outside of the village, Duma found that the children who went to the "city" together were not only a few of them, but also some other children with their parents.
They all wore new clothes, and in the misty morning, under the instructions of their parents and the teachings full of tears, they slowly followed the golden eagle away.
Later, when Duma recalled it, he felt sad, these children knew where they were going and what situation they were going to face, but only a few of them did not know, and the golden eagle did not tell them anything.
In addition to the village, heading straight into the mountains and into the Valley of the Winds, Duma began to realize that something was wrong.
Because, in addition to the seven or eight orphans who grew up together, the other dozen or so children, when they look at themselves, always have a chilling gaze in their hearts.
Duma is no stranger to this kind of gaze, the eagle hovering in the sky, when it swoops to hunt the chickens in the chicken pen, it is this kind of look, fierce and cold, arrogant and disdainful.
"Go in, keep going in, and whoever can come out, I'll take him to the city!" These are the words of the golden eagle before sending them into this eerie cave.
At that time, Duma didn't think there was anything, wasn't it just a cave, and there were still tigers and wild boars hidden in it? Even if there were really tigers and wild boars hidden, more than 20 of them would be able to defeat them, and even set up a fire and roast them and eat them.
But in hindsight, everyone who came out of it alive would shudder, and they couldn't help but get goosebumps when the sun was in the sky.
Seeing these children enter, the smile on the golden eagle's face was extremely weird, with anticipation, regret, and deep madness.
"We'll leave a mark here, and when we've been walking for an hour, we'll follow the mark and come back and ask my mother-in-law to take us to the city!"
Min Ming was very smart, and immediately took out a knife and carved a triangle on the hard stone wall, and couldn't help but sigh, the stone here is so hard, and his knife made of truck brake pads only scratched such a small trace.
However, this is enough, as long as it leaves a little mark that can guide them out, it will be fine.
Several orphans were praising Minming for being smart, and the eyes of the two yellow-haired girls were shining with blazing light. In Myanmar, a man can take more than one wife, as long as your property and ability are competent, no one will say a word.
Duma knew that the two girls liked their brother very much, and even secretly agreed that when they grew up, they would marry Min Ming together. Perhaps because of this, they have a very good relationship with Duma and are like sisters.
"Does that work?" The other children asked, frowning.
"I don't know, my dad didn't tell me!"
"It doesn't matter if he's useful or not, let's go first and then talk about it, if it's useful, we'll go to the city together, if it's useless, we'll follow the rules of the clan."
Those children who have parents also quickly made up their minds and will follow Minming's plan for the time being.
In this way, Min Ming suddenly became one of the backbones of this group of children, and had the same prestige as Wu Ying and Wu Falcon.
It was very dark inside the cave, and some children took out flashlights, and a group of people groped their way forward, leaving a few marks from time to time, talking and laughing, but not so frightened.
It wasn't until they thought they had walked for a long time and returned the way they had come back that they realized something was wrong.
There is no road ahead of them!
It was obviously the same road they had traveled before, but there was such a huge stone that blocked the road headed.
Duma didn't know why, but she remembered a legend from a stockade.
The old people in the village all said that there lived a colorful tiger in the Valley of the Wind, five zhang long and short, and its strength was infinite, and no one could subdue it except the patriarch. Moreover, even if there is a patriarch holding it down, it will often do evil.
Among them, it is the most customary thing to let go of the hole, let the child in, and then plug the hole and eat them one by one.
Could it be that they met the man-eating tiger?
Yes, what they encountered was the man-eating tiger.
It's just that this tiger doesn't grow in this cave, but in everyone's heart.
"Let's go back, since my mother-in-law said that we can go out, we will definitely be able to go out!"
Just when all the children were panicked and overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of the stone, Minming stood up again and led the children to the depths of the cave.
Duma didn't know how long he had been walking, but then he thought about it, and they had been walking for almost the whole morning, until someone was too tired to walk, and then he stopped and began to eat.
Duma and Minming also took out the Golden Eagle Mother-in-law to prepare a meal for them at that time, but at this time, something happened that they never expected.
I don't know whose whistle it was, the group of children with parents, actually jumped up and went to grab food from these orphans!
Orphans grew up in the ancestral hall, grew up eating hundreds of family meals, starved and full, and their health was naturally inferior to those children who had families, jobs and loved parents. Soon, they fell to the upper hand, and most of the people's food was snatched away by them, only a few slightly stronger children such as Min Ming could still hold the food in their hands.
Duma's food was also snatched, and she was very impressed by the child who stole her food, the strong child who looked at her with the eyes of an eagle looking at its prey all the way.
"Give her back, give her back what you eat!" Minming was very angry, and his face turned red and stood up for her.
"Give it back to her? Hmph, a little bastard that no one wants and no one raises, who should have died in this place, why should she give it back", the strong boy said with extreme disdain.
"What do you say? Whoever is a mongrel deserves to die? Min Ming didn't know if he was Duma's biological brother, but he had always treated her as his own sister, and when he saw someone humiliating her like this, of course he wouldn't sit idly by, and asked angrily.
Orphans are the most unpopular group in the village, anyone can beat and scold anyone, but they are slightly stronger than those dogs.
The inferiority complex that he has cultivated since he was a child made Minming not act immediately and forcibly suppressed his anger.
"Hmph, you are bastards who have mothers and no fathers, do you still want me to remind you?" The kid didn't care about Minming's forbearance, but said with extreme disdain, "I tell you, the greatest meaning of your life is to be killed by us!" ā
"The people of the Pulin clan are all men who lick blood from the knife edge, but before they go out, they must have blood on their hands, and after they go out, they can skillfully and accurately cut the throat of the enemy, and you are the ones who let us practice!"
The strong child let out a few sinister laughs that did not belong to his age, and Duma and Minming, as well as some other adopted orphans, shivered all over.
From the moment they came here, they were doomed, they were going to be killed here as people who practiced their hands! How is this possible? When pigs fly.
The mother-in-law also told them before that as long as they could get out of here, the mother-in-law would take them to the city, eat fragrant meals, wear beautiful clothes, and sit in the car and walk around the city!
"He didn't lie to you, you are indeed our familiar instruments of blood." A tall, muscular child pulled a long knife from his waist.
Duma and Minming glanced at their own, only a third of their length.
"However, it's not that you don't have a chance at all, according to the rules of the clan, if any of you can hold on to the end, you can get rid of the lowly status and officially become our Pulin clansmen!"
The strong child was very confident, told them one by one, and extended an olive branch to Min Ming, "Min Ming, I am very optimistic about you, put down Duma, be my entourage, I promise that you will get out alive!" ā