Chapter 97: The Broken Island (19)
Having successfully poisoned the prey of the boar people, and by the way, added an insurance to infect the fawn with the plague, this mission has been successfully completed. Seeing the wild boar man carrying his prey home happily, Wen Yun and Hurt Yu were also in a good mood, and they succeeded after only one attempt, which was really lucky.
Returning to the previously agreed gathering point, Yechen and Tang Wu observed the boar man camp from a tree, while Catherine stood guard under the tree.
Seeing Wen Yun come back, Tang Yu slid down from the tree and asked, "How's the situation?" ”
Wen Yun picked up the kettle and took a sip of water, and said, "It's going well, what about you here, have you found anything?" ”
"I didn't see anything, but she ......," Tang Wu pointed to the top of her head, "and she was still observing with interest, and I didn't know what she was looking at." ”
At this moment, Ye Chen shouted down, "Is Wen Yun back?" Come up. ”
Seeing the head of the regiment calling himself, Wen Yun had no choice but to put down the kettle he had just taken a sip of and said, "Okay, I'll come right away." ”
Climbing the tree, Wen Yun found that Yechen had set up a "bird's nest" on the branch, although it was not very exquisite, but it was very comfortable whether it was lying on his stomach or lying down, and it took a lot of thought at a glance, Wen Yun was a little dumbfounded and asked, "What is this for?" ”
Yechen smiled and gently patted the nest he made, and said, "You can also build one when you have time, the climate here is humid and hot, and there are too many mosquitoes lying on the grass at night, so it is better to build a nest on the tree." ”
"Huh?" Wen Yun was a little confused, did Yechen plan to stay here for a long time? Why bother to think about whether it is comfortable to stay at night, if she only stays for a day or two, she can always get through, or is there something special about her, knowing that they will not be able to solve this wild boar man camp in a short time, so they can only stalemate.
Seeing that Yechen didn't plan to say anything, Wen Yun didn't ask again, but said, "Okay, I'll try." She lay down next to Yechen, looked at the boar man camp in the distance, and said, "Did you find anything?" ”
Yechen didn't answer, but asked a question: "How far do you estimate we are from our destination?" ”
Wen Yun thought for a moment and said, "According to the distance estimate, we are about a third of the way through. "At their speed on the flat ground on the outskirts of the island, it would have taken them four hours to reach the core of the middle zone, but because of the extremely difficult terrain and dense predators, they had only walked a third of the way yesterday for most of the day.
Thinking of this, Wen Yun added: "It's a little too slow, but there is no way, the road here is too difficult to walk." ”
Yechen shook his head and said, "It's not slow, it's too fast, Wen Yun, do you think it will take us a few days to get to that core area?" ”
How would she know how many days it would take, not to mention what trouble would happen to the remaining two-thirds of the way, even now, she didn't know how long it would take to be in this boar man camp. Wen Yun looked at Yechen suspiciously, and was stunned for a while before it suddenly dawned on her that Yechen was to consider the difficulty of the design of her entire task. There are so many good things in the middle of the space, of course, they can't let these "players" get their hands on it casually, but it can't be set too difficult, otherwise it won't make much sense.
Wen Yun thought about it and said, "It's about fifteen to twenty days, and I can't tell if it's specific." ”
Yechen frowned slightly, rubbed his eyebrows with his knuckles and said: "It's hard to say, it's really hard to say, this is not a task of the supernatural background, many details do not have such a clear meaning, it is difficult to estimate the time needed, or the time given by space." ”
Wen Yun looked at Yechen who was babbling nonsense, her head full of doubts, what was wrong with her?
Seeing Wen Yun's confused eyes, Yechen smiled reluctantly and said, "That's the case, I made an estimate of the time it would take to reach the core area this morning, and the result was ......"
Wen Yun said: "The estimated results are different from mine? ”
Ye Chen shook his head with a wry smile and said, "There is no way to estimate at all, too many ambiguous details can affect the final result, so you can't estimate a valuable number at all." ”
"Oh, that's right." Wen Yun pretended to be regretful and said, "Then what should we do now?" ”
Yechen said, "I didn't find anything, but I had an idea, if we can solve this boar man camp, we might get a good return." ”
Wen Yun stared blankly at the wild boar man camp in the distance, and said uncertainly, "You mean...... Ore? ”
Yechen nodded with a smile and said, "It's the ore, we have also carefully surveyed around this camp, there is no path to bypass, there are no large predators, and there is an information point that we didn't notice before, and we haven't found any sharp gold ore and fish scale ore. ”
Ye Chen said this, Wen Yun also understood, if you have to divide it, this group of wild boar people is only in the Stone Age now, and there is no way to dig a large-scale mining hole without durable sharp metal equipment, but sharp gold ore appeared in their camp, indicating that not far from the wild boar people's camp, that is, there is a sharp gold vein somewhere nearby that they can't detect now, and it is likely to be an open-pit ore vein that is extremely convenient to mine.
Wen Yun laughed and said happily, "With an entire ore vein, we can create a lot of sharp gold weapons. ”
Vein? Yechen is still relatively sensible, and it is estimated that such a good thing as the ore vein will not be touched, but it is certain that they will definitely be able to pick up a lot of sharp gold ore, which is enough to change the equipment of the five of them.
Yechen said: "Good things are ahead, the question is how can we get them." ”
Wen Yun said with confidence: "Don't worry about this, I have poisoned their prey in advance, and infected that fawn with the plague, the two can always gain something." As he spoke, he described in detail what he had done before.
Yechen nodded while listening, and said, "Very good, whether we can kill a few wild boar people depends on the subsequent development, but this is a good test that can help us understand the true strength of these wild boar people." Despite the poison and the plague, Yechen remained cautiously optimistic, not believing that it would be easy to remove the stone that stood in their way.
In fact, it did become a temptation, just a temptation. But after the boar man showed symptoms of poisoning, such as vomiting and fever, the old priest reappeared, and he danced inexplicably around the boar man who was tortured by the poison, shouting and screaming, and he did not know what he was shouting. After a period of primitive witchcraft rituals, the boar man was actually healed, and although his body was still a little weak, it was already clear that he had fully recovered.
Wen Yun was a little depressed during dinner, completely missing the elation when he just came back, and at this time everyone realized that the wild boar people were not so easy to pass, and they were afraid that they would have to stay here for several days.
At night, lying in the bird's nest he had built, Yechen looked at the starry sky, and recalled in his mind the scene he saw during the day, the boar man sacrifice was dancing and roaring, and the wild boar man did not show any signs of improvement in this somewhat lengthy process, and then the sacrifice began to worship.
Yes, it's worship! Yechen's eyes narrowed slightly, it was from the old sacrifice that the situation of the wild boar man began to improve, but what was he worshipping? The old priest didn't put a statue or anything in front of him, and he didn't worship due south or north when he said the direction, so what was he worshipping?
The camp of the wild boar people is completely recessed into a valley, and from the direction that Yechen can observe, it is impossible to see anything in the direction of the old sacrifice and worship, if you want to see clearly, you must go into the courtyard of the wild boar people's camp, but entering the camp of the wild boar people also means that they have to have a direct confrontation before, which is what Yechen has been avoiding - all this is specially arranged by the space, it is specifically aimed at them as spiritual trialists, in the supernatural mission, direct confrontation often means that they have fallen into a desperate situation, It's just a struggle to the death. Although this is not a mission for the supernatural background, Yechen believes that some of the general principles of the supernatural system also apply here.
The next few days also confirmed Yechen's thoughts, and the girls tried all kinds of means, but they couldn't help the group of short and savage boar people. Wen Yun tried to use the plague again, she was also annoyed, and directly spread the plague in this area, except for the fact that they had to walk a lot more when they were looking for ingredients at night - because the small animals that were convenient to hunt around were all infected with the plague and died, but the group of wild boar people were still alive and kicking, although the dead animal carcasses were already stinking, but they were dragged back and let the wild boar people sacrifice to hold a ceremony to help purify them and they could eat them again. There was a good opportunity for a wild boar man to be left alone, Hurt Yu and Catherine went out, Wen Yun and Tang Wu were on the side, and the four trialists ambushed the unlucky boar man, and as a result, he was allowed to escape. The combat effectiveness of the wild boar man is average, similar to that of the injured rain, but the defense is too powerful, the dirty fur is like armor, and the sword in the hand of the injured rain can be regarded as bought from the cemetery for gold coins, usually cutting trees and chopping wood, cutting meat and chopping bones, but cutting on the body of the wild boar man only left a white mark, not even the skin was cut. In the face of such a hedgehog-like guy, they really couldn't do anything, and they stalemate until the sun went down, and because of a momentary negligence, they let the wild boar man run away. Tang Wu thought about using his terrifying talent to scare the big beast to attack the camp of the wild boarman, the previous progress was relatively smooth, Tang Wu successfully drove a jungle cheetah along the planned route towards the camp of the wild boarman, but when he arrived at the camp, the jungle cheetah refused to go forward, as if there was a fire pit in front of him. Tang Wu continued to increase the terrifying pressure on the cheetah, and in the end, the cheetah foamed at the mouth and forced Tang Wu to death.
During this time, Yechen mainly lay in his bird's nest and observed every move in the wild boar man's camp, especially when the old priest held a witchcraft sacrifice, Yechen's eyes did not blink, and every move of the wild boar man's sacrifice was imprinted in his head, and before going to bed, he would play it in his mind, over and over again, carefully figuring out what the old priest wanted to express.
In this way, a seemingly small camp of wild boar people kept Yechen and them here for five days, and in five days, the girls each tried their best, but they still couldn't get rid of the camp, and of course, they didn't have nothing to gain at all.
"What do you think the boar man priest spends a long time dancing and shouting during the witchcraft rituals?" On the evening of the sixth day, Yechen gathered the team members together, and after a simple dinner, threw out such a question.
Tang Yu frowned and said: "This is not easy to say, most of the primitive witchcraft is very rough, they can often only perform magic based on intuition and experience, without any systematic arrangement, who knows what that crazy old guy means?" ”
"Wen Yun, what about you?" Yechen turned his head and asked.
Wen Yun lowered his head and pondered for a while, then said, "Although that old priest looks crazy, I feel that his shouting is not completely meaningless, but I don't know exactly what he wants to express. ”
"Yes, Wen Yun is right, dancing and shouting have rich meanings." "After all this time of observation, I think it's more akin to a prayer. ”
"Prayer?" Wen Yun said, "Isn't it a pastor who practices prayers?" ”
Yechen nodded and said: "That's right, we actually had a bit of a wrong idea before, we always thought that the old priest was a shaman who was proficient in elemental magic and natural magic, but now I prefer that he is a priest, he communicates with the gods he worships through dancing and shouting, and then gains some divine power to solve the problems encountered, which also explains why the old priest can mobilize the power of the elements, heal injuries and remove toxins, which is no longer something that ordinary shamans can do." ”
"Magic?" "Even if we know he's actually a priest, we still can't deal with him." There was some frustration between the words, the reactive activities in the past few days had hit her self-confidence, they had tried all the methods they thought of, but it didn't work.
Ye Chen smiled and said: "It has a lot to do with it, knowing that the old priest is actually a priest, we have to deal with him with the priest, let's search around to see if there is anything that can deal with the old priest and his service to the gods." ”
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