This is the third snow of the year, and when he walked out of the cave, Wu subconsciously wrapped his leather coat tightly.

The fox skin he just hunted this summer was light and soft, just like the second layer of skin that grew on his body, allowing him to walk on such a cold day without shivering.

Seven or eight young clansmen followed behind Wu, their posture looking straight and upright, each holding an axe about the length of his arm.

Almost identical, the smooth lacquer surface of the wooden handle, the frosted surface of the axe, the flickering cold light, the complete sharp axe blade, coupled with the young man's sturdy figure and vigilant eyes, made many of the clansmen who followed the boy couldn't help but sigh, it was indeed the Youjin clan who had been favored by the gods.

Wu turned around and walked into the procession, and finally inspected the procession, picking out a lot of their mistakes.

"Where's your hand! Why didn't you wash it! There's still dirt in the nails! Is this blasphemy, do you know? ”

"Anyone with tattoos or patterns on his skin is not allowed to participate in the sacrifice! God doesn't like it! ”

"Is this your sacrifice? Which family? Is this your clan's loyalty to the Star God? Twenty pheasants? You won't use it in the future......"

"How many times have I said that the sacrifices must be wrapped in divine cloth...... The star god is most afraid of getting dirty, and he can't show his ...... at all."

After finally making sure that there were no more problems, Wu shouted: "Out! ”

A team of hundreds of people began to move.

It was the coldest time of the year, and in the sparse woods, there was not a single living creature in sight except this team. The birds have flown away, and the wild beasts have migrated or slept in their pits. The procession remained cautiously silent, and could only hear the creaking sound of everyone's animal skin shoes touching the snow along the way.

After a few hours of walking, the solemn atmosphere in the procession began to slacken, and some of the youths and teenagers began to speak, especially as the procession passed by some conspicuous corpses marked by many clansmen......

Naturally, everyone began to talk about the flood two years ago and the story of the arrival of the gods.

Many people in the team have not seen these with their own eyes, and after someone says it, they are naturally full of curiosity to inquire about more information, and then those who have experienced it will naturally come up with more evidence to prove that these legends are true, the divine cloth they use to wrap sacrifices, the divine axe in the hands of the guards, and the divine flint used to light fire every time the team...... Even now, when many people are sick, they take a miracle medicine that will be cured......

Saying this, time flew by, and by the time of the noon break, the party had already passed through the woods and came to the foot of a mountain.

When I arrived, if I looked closely, the traces of the flood two years ago still hadn't disappeared. The bones of many dried fish, shrimp and shells can be seen everywhere on the ground, and most of the trees on the ground have also been flooded and died. There is still some grass that has grown new in the past two years, but it is also yellow now...... In addition, there are almost no traces of bird and animal activity.

"Rest," Wu ordered, and he took out his sundial again, and set the time in front of the sun, "Set off in half an hour." ”

"How long is half an hour?" A curious teenager asked his parents curiously.

"It's about the time of two meals."

"Then we'll have to eat slowly, we're tired of walking."

"You can't say that under the mountain," the adult immediately knocked on the young man's brain, "This is a deception!" ”

Because of the sacrifice, Wu was originally going to fast today. But walking for a long time this winter is really unbearable for the long-term inactive witch. After hesitating for a moment, he asked the guards to open a pack of divine food for him, and as he took a small sip, he thought about what he would say at the festival.

A few guards in front of the team suddenly stood up vigilantly, shouting in front of them from a distance, and before long, two people came on horseback to report to Wu - it was the sentinel that the king had sent to the front of their team: "Everything is okay on the sacred mountain, it's just ......"

The two sentinels were recognized, one of them was the king's third son, who almost died of the plague two years ago, but fortunately he had taken the pill given by the star god. The other is from the Zhou clan, whose parents died in the mouth of the big fish, and he is an orphan. In order to make this festival go smoothly, they went to the sacred mountain five days in advance to protect and clean up the scene there, and ensure that there were no wild beasts and other strange tribes of people to move.

Wu Rang served them hot water left and right, and there was also a bag of divine food in it, and after the two warriors took a sip, their eyes immediately turned red, and they hurriedly saluted Wu Xing, and then drank the rest of the water little by little.

Wu could see that the emotions of the two of them were a little excited, so he waited for them to finish drinking and their breath was completely even, and then asked the question just now: "What did you just say about the Sacred Mountain?" ”

The two glanced at each other, and Wang Sanzi said cautiously: "It's just...... We see the exit of Mount Kinabalu and it seems...... There are some new footprints. ”

"New footprints?"

"Yes."

The two of them glanced at each other, nodded and said, "It seems that it is the ...... of the past few days What do these footprints look like...... With the footprints of the star god...... It's very similar. ”

"What do the footprints of the Star God look like? Have you seen it? ”

"We've seen it," said the man from the Zhou tribe, "the shoes worn by the star gods have tattooed soles, some deep and some shallow, and the most special of them is the pattern under the soles of the two feet, which are exactly the same, and those footprints are still there, and you can see them when you arrive." ”

Wu's excited lips began to tremble: "Could it be that the star god is back?" ”

No one answered, the whole topic of the Star God, in the entire Youjin clan, was monopolized by witches.

Wu looked at the people around him and asked, "What do you say?" ”

"Probably...... You'll find out when the time comes. ”

"Hurry up and eat...... Hurry up and eat! Wu said loudly, "After eating, we will set off immediately!" ”

Compared with the morning, the journey was relatively smooth and easy, but in the afternoon the people and livestock in the team suffered much more.

The speed of the whole team's action has always been controlled by Wu, Wu is at the front of the team, if he goes faster, the team will follow, if he is slow, the team will naturally slow down.

Probably because he didn't go out for a long time, the speed of Wu walking in the morning was much slower than that of ordinary people, and the road was flat, and everyone talked while walking, just like an outing, except for being cold, there was nothing unaccustomed.

But in the afternoon, it was different, after starting to go up the mountain, Wu was like suddenly being possessed by the star god, walking like flying, with the support of two sentinels, the one who walked was called a tiger and a tiger. Every once in a while, they even have to send someone back to urge them to hurry up.

The original plan was to spend the afternoon walking to the mountainside so that everyone could rest in the cave on the mountainside, and the next morning, they would go to the exit of Mount Kinabalu and hold a solemn sacrifice ceremony.

But now Wu directly changed the itinerary, so that everyone will go to the top of the mountain tonight, as for the sleeping place...... You don't have to sleep today, if the two sentinels didn't lie, Wu plans to hold an all-night sacrifice and move the gods with the sincerity of the entire tribe!

In the afternoon, the team almost returned to the quiet they had when they went out today. No one is talking anymore, everyone is gritting their teeth and going their own way, cart for cart, carrying stuff for stuff. The teenagers who didn't need to participate in the carrying work now have more or less shared some of the burden for other clansmen. However, although everyone worked hard, no one complained in the slightest.

Even when it was time for dinner, some people suggested that they should simply stop eating this dinner, and everyone walked to the top of the mountain in one go, and it was most important to see the star god early, in case they missed the meeting with the star god because they were greedy, then the impression left on the star god would be too bad. When the Star God rescued them, they were busy all day long, but they were much more diligent than they are now......

In the evening, the four moons appeared together, and when the sky arced together, the team finally reached the top of the mountain.

The king probably also heard the news that the team had returned, and rode all the way over, and the people had just rested at this time, and most of them were at the bottom of the mountain, a leeward hillside, around the campfire for dinner, because of the great news today, everyone had the opportunity to drink the divine soup brewed with the seasoning in the divine food, and when the king arrived here, it was the time when everyone chatted and drank the soup at the same time.

The king went round around the campfire, but he did not see a witch who was leading everyone to preside over the feasting ceremony, and called two people with gold and asked, "Where are the witches?" ”

"Still at the exit of the sacred mountain, divination against the footprints of the star god."

"Is there a result?"

"Not yet...... Wu said that the footprints this time were a bit strange. ”

"Oh?"

Wang was puzzled for a moment, he thought that this might be another nervous episode of Wu.

In fact, in the past two years, Wu has been nervous about the issue of the star god a little more.

In the month that the Star God had just left the tribe, almost every two or three days, Wu would suddenly wake up in his dream and shout, "The Star God is back!" After shouting, he came to call the king with great fanfare, and at the beginning of the first few times, the king would solemnly send a dozen warriors to come to the sacred mountain to pick up the star god, but every time he arrived, he found that it was just a false alarm.

After doing this several times, the king consulted with Wu, and reduced the number of people who went to the mountain from a dozen to five or six at a time, and the time was changed from every three days to every ten days, and then once every two months. Eventually, a system was formed, that is, people were sent to Mount Kinabalu every two months.