Chapter 5 The first time I heard of the sacrifice, I was terrified
No matter how Xiao Yiran complained about God's injustice in his heart, all signs showed that the clan did indeed regard her as a sacrifice for the next sacrifice.
After a few days of secret observation, in the grass and dense forest around the great wizard's residence, there were several pairs of eyes staring at Xiao Yiran all the time. Occasionally seeing a flashing figure, it is not difficult to see that it should be a man, an adult man.
"What to do? Could it be that he has just been reborn and is to be killed as a sacrifice like a cow or a sheep? ”
Xiao Yiran was unwilling to think about it, especially when he thought that he was stripped naked and placed in front of the skull of the giant snake, Xiao Yiran would feel creepy.
"No, it must not be sacrificed, never sacrificed."
Xiao Yiran didn't know when the next sacrifice to the gods would be, but from the changes in his daily diet, Xiao Yiran guessed that it shouldn't be too long. Now Xiao Yiran's two meals a day will produce one more piece of dried meat and two fruits than others. In addition, no matter what Xiao Yiran does, there will always be people who follow her silently not far away.
This was the twenty-fourth day after Xiao Yiran's rebirth, and his mother's shack was occupied by another woman the night after his mother's death. This is also understandable, Xiao Yiran knew that during this period, everything in the ethnic group was public, and there was no private property, except for a few decorations.
After a few days, the only way out that Xiao Yiran could think of without making sacrifices was to flee from the group. There are only two options to escape from here, one is to enter the jungle to the north and face the beasts. The second is to wade through the river with crocodiles in the south and enter the mountains in the south. Needless to say, there must be wild beasts in the mountains to the south. Xiao Yiran thought that being eaten by a wild beast was just an instant pain, and if it was sacrificed as a sacrifice, it would be a rather long process. Compared with the two, Xiao Yiran would rather choose to be eaten by the beast.
After a night of thinking, Xiao Yiran decided to wade through the river and try his luck in the southern mountains.
When he woke up in the morning, Xiao Yiran found that it was a cloudy day. I couldn't help but secretly rejoice. Xiao Yiran knows that crocodiles are cold-blooded animals, and at night, or in the morning, especially in cloudy mornings, the river water is relatively cold, and the crocodile has a low body temperature and lack of flexibility, which is the best time to wade through the river by himself. Xiao Yiran took the shell necklace that belonged to the host and came all the way to the river. Ignoring the two adult women who followed him, he didn't wash his face with the water from the sand pit dug in the sand, as he had done before. Strolled to the river, stood there and looked across the bank. Xiao Yiran would not throw stones into the river, which would only play a role in attracting crocodiles.
When Xiao Yiran raised his feet and stepped into the river, he heard the warning sound of two adult women behind him.
"Don't go in, you'll be eaten by crocodiles."
Xiao Yiran just didn't hear it, and continued to walk towards the center of the river step by step. The further you go, the deeper the river becomes, and the faster it flows. When the river overflowed Xiao Yiran's knees, the huge impact almost knocked Xiao Yiran down. Xiao Yiran was forced to crouch down to lower the center of gravity of his body. At this time, the two women behind him had obviously realized Xiao Yiran's intentions, and the two shouted together.
"Xiao Ran is going to run, come quickly."
By the time the adult women of the group and the men who were hiding near the great wizard's residence to spy on Xiao Yiran arrived, Xiao Yiran had already waded into the middle of the river and was very close to the other side. Hearing the noise coming from behind him, and the sound of someone seemingly entering the water, Xiao Yiran sped up. She didn't want to be captured, and once she was captured, she would never be able to change her fate as a sacrifice.
"Ahh
A miserable cry came from behind him, Xiao Yiran turned his head to look, and saw an adult man who had come to the center of the river, dragged into the water by a crocodile that jumped up suddenly, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Xiao Yiran was shocked, climbed to the river bank in a few steps, turned around, and saw those who wanted to wade into the river to catch him, and quietly retreated.
"Crocodile, thank you."
Xiao Yiran said a word to the river, let the crowd on the other side be noisy, and turned around. After crossing the river, there is a flat land covered with grass, which is not wide, about 2,000 meters, and after crossing this green grassland, there is a mountain range in the south.
Xiao Yiran traveled south along the grass, like a faint road stepped out by animals. The sky was overcast, and when Xiao Yiran came to the foot of the mountain south of the meadow, the sky began to rain. Xiao Yiran had to quickly flee into the mountains and forests, standing under the dense trees, sheltering from the gradually heavy rain.
There was a loud noise from the raindrops falling on the dense leaves, and the thick dead branches and rotten leaves under the feet gave off an unpleasant musty smell. The air in the forest was very sultry, and although he was only wearing a short skirt made of leaves and a shirt made of straw rope, Xiao Yiran was still sweating.
Regardless of this, Xiao Yiran had to prepare for the next night, otherwise, it would be difficult to ensure that he would be buried in the belly of the beast as soon as he escaped the doom of being sacrificed by the clan. After the rain stopped, Xiao Yiran walked east along the dense forest, thinking of finding a place to live for a long time on the sunny hillside.
Around noon, the sky cleared and the sun came out. Siu Yat-ran came to a place with a gentle slope, which was an ideal place to build a shack. On all sides is a dense jungle, and in the middle there is a grassy slope of about ten acres, and in the middle of the slope there are five tall trees that are very close to each other. Xiao Yiran didn't know what kind of tree it was, the trunk was smooth and straight, the leaves were broad, and when there was wind, the leaves made a loud noise when they turned. Xiao Yiran folded a lot of branches with the thickness of his arm, kneaded the grass into ropes, tied those branches to five tall trees about a meter above the ground, and built a platform three meters square. Then two meters above the platform, tie a ridge purlin horizontally, tie fine thinner branches on both sides of the ridge purlin obliquely, and branch branches between the platform below, and spread artemisia grass on the top and outside of the branches, and a simple air attic is built.
Xiao Yiran is still very satisfied with the fruits of his hard work for most of the day. Of course, to be able to do this, it is thanks to the physical body of the host girl, whether it is climbing trees, breaking branches, or pulling weeds, it is not what the original Xiao Yiran can do.
It was not enough to just build a residence, Xiao Yiran folded a branch as thick as an arm, and folded it into a length of about one and a half meters as a personal weapon. He also moved a lot of fist-sized rocks in the attic to protect him from being attacked by wild beasts at night.
After doing this, Xiao Yiran, who was already hungry, began to worry about eating again. How do you hunt animals and get food on your own? And water, which is not easy to find in the middle of the hill.
Xiao Yiran, who was tired and hungry, picked some wild fruits from the dense forest, and after chatting to satisfy his hunger, he hid in the attic and carefully considered how to spend the rest of his life.