Xiao Yiran continued to look different from usual, so that her mother, who was washing her face, turned her head to look at her again in surprise. After standing firmly, Xiao Yiran was organizing the language, wanting to explain to his mother that if he continued like this, he was really worried that his mother would see something. Just before Xiao Yiran could think about what to say, he heard a commotion, and when he raised his eyes, a huge crocodile suddenly jumped out of the water, with a big mouth full of fangs, and bit the calf of his mother who had just stood up.

"Ran'er ,......"

This is the last sentence that Xiao Yiran heard from this mother who has only been herself for one day and one night.

"Help, help!"

Xiao Yiran's mournful shouts almost attracted everyone in the group. It's just that when they arrived, they could only see the river water stained red with blood, and Xiao Yiran, whose face was pale and trembling.

The elderly woman who distributed food to her last night walked up to Xiao Yiran, pulled her into her arms, reached out and stroked Xiao Yiran's hair, and gently patted Xiao Yiran twice on the back, which was considered comfort, and then turned around and left. The others also turned back one after another, but they didn't forget to touch Xiao Yiran when they left, which was supposed to be comforting.

Mu Ran sat on a stone far away from the river, and Xiao Yiran cried for a long time. It's not that she has much affection for this new mother, first, she thinks of what happened to her, and secondly, from the perspective of human beings, she feels sad that a fresh life has disappeared in front of her eyes like this. Moreover, I am also worried about my future life.

There are fierce beasts in the jungle and crocodiles in the river, and these threats can be avoided if you are careful. And those invisible dangers, such as whether people will be raped at night, what to do in case of natural disasters such as floods and fires, and infectious diseases, that is, plagues, are the deadliest. As for being hungry all the time, Xiao Yiran didn't pay much attention to it. I have long known from history books that in this Paleolithic Age, human beings have always struggled with food and clothing. Mainly hunting, agricultural cultivation is very backward, and it is not enough to maintain food and clothing.

It wasn't until just before lunch that Xiao Yiran, who was hungry and growling, returned to his residence. Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked to the door of the shack, he saw the food placed on the ground, and in the afternoon, Xiao Yiran knew that people here only had two meals a day. Breakfast around 10 a.m. and dinner in the evening. Xiao Yiran's breakfast was slightly different from yesterday's dinner, with four more green fruits that could not be named.

Until dinner, Xiao Yiran sat on the straw of the shack. When a girl about her own age poked her head in and said:

"Sister, it's time to eat."

Xiao Yiran didn't know what to call her, nor did he know her name, so he could only nod and follow the girl to the place where he had dinner yesterday. Tonight's dinner, there is one more piece of dried meat than yesterday, Xiao Yiran looked at the people around him, there was only one piece of dried meat, and guessed in his heart that this might be taking care of orphans.

After dinner, the older woman who distributed food to everyone called out to Xiao Yiran.

"Xiao Ran, from tomorrow onwards, let's serve the Great Wizard."

As the elder woman's faint words landed, all the people present turned their heads to look at Xiao Yiran. Although Xiao Yiran could feel the strangeness in their eyes, he couldn't understand what the strangeness meant. Mu Ran nodded, went all the way back to his shack, hung the bark at the door according to the way his mother put it last night, walked in and lay on his back on the grass bunk, Xiao Yiran's mind was very messy at this time, and he didn't know what to think.

After nightfall, there was still the sound of footsteps, still awakened by the roar of wild beasts in the jungle, but Xiao Yiran quickly fell asleep again this time. After getting up after dawn, he came to the river alone, and stood silently for a while, Xiao Yiran dug a deep pit on the beach far from the river, and waited for the seeping water to be clear, and then picked it up and rinsed his face. Xiao Yiran warned himself that he would rather not wash his face than go near the dangerous river.

Xiao Yiran didn't know how to serve the Great Wizard, and when she walked to the Great Wizard's residence, she called softly inside:

"Honorable Great Wizard."

"I know, just stay outside."

The voice was still so old and gloomy, still so hoarse. Xiao Yiran chose a place in the shade to squat down and watch the ants coming and going on the ground. When he was really bored, Xiao Yiran saw some thin artemisia grass around him, so he pulled some and kneaded his hands into thin straw ropes on his legs. Xiao Yiran's grandmother's family is in the countryside, and when she was a child, she learned to rub straw rope from her uncle's cousin at her grandmother's house. Xiao Yiran kneaded the straw rope into a length of about half a meter, made warp, and wore six wefts on the top, middle and bottom, so that a straw shirt similar to a tube became a tube. Adjust the thickness of the neckline and waist appropriately, and put it on the body, although it is slightly itchy, Xiao Yiran still feels much better.

It's the third day since I came here, and although I haven't seen an adult man yet, Xiao Yiran, who used to be a lady and a mature woman, still can't get used to being naked, and I'm the host, looking at the physical development, at most eleven or twelve years old. In the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", it is said that the fourteenth day of the woman is to the sun, which means that she has become an adult. There are still two years at most, and Xiao Yiran really doesn't know what kind of fate awaits him.

From the different eyes of everyone at breakfast, Xiao Yiran had a faint sense of foreboding in his heart.

"Will anything bad happen to serve the Great Wizard?"

This is a question that Xiao Yiran has to think about every day recently.

Xiao Yiran rummaged through the modern knowledge and knowledge in his memory every day. Wizards, gods, once read in books, wizards are people who can communicate with the gods they worship in a tribe or tribe in the ancient times. By the way, Xiao Yiran seemed to think of something, and suddenly stood up from the ground. Wizard, god, sacrifice, these three words suddenly popped up in Xiao Yiran's mind, which startled Xiao Yiran. Xiao Yiran still remembers that there are still tribes on the earth who sacrifice living people.

"Could it be that I have come to serve the Great Wizard to make a sacrifice for the next sacrifice?"

Xiao Yiran thought back again, the eyes of those people who looked at him at breakfast were clearly pity, sympathy, and even a trace of respect. It shouldn't be wrong, his biological mother is dead, he has no backer, and he is still underage, he can only be a burden in the tribe, if he must choose a sacrificial girl, then he is very suitable.

"God, how can this be?!"