Chapter 7: Disaster Strikes
The next afternoon, the wind lightened and snow fell in the sky. Tiktor went door to door to mobilize the hunters, saying that he had not eaten saber-toothed tiger meat for a long time, and that he wanted to take advantage of the snow and the herbivores did not go to the snowy area, and opened several hunting pits in the area where the saber-toothed tiger was active, but the hunters refused on the grounds that "the leader did not have an order to hunt beasts without permission".
Seeing that his words were ineffective, Tiktor armed himself, grabbed his spear, and went straight to Golota. On the way, he said to a hunter holding firewood: "Don't think that I can't catch a tiger without you, Lao Tzu will prove it to you today!" β
The hunter was silent, and hurried back to the house.
At Golota's house, he was sitting by the fire with his father, taking his father's clothes to catch lice for him. My father is old, in his forties this year, and there is no fire in his body, and his muscles are less elastic, so he wears the leather backwards. That is, Golota's father wore the fur of the desert rabbit skin vest against his body. In this way, lice that are slightly bluish hide in the gray fur and are extremely difficult to find. Golota took the rabbit fur with his hand and blew gently with his mouth so that the root of the rabbit fur was exposed, and when he found one, he put the thumbnails of both hands together to put it to death.
The father sat with his back hunched and put his hand over the flame.
Tiktor pushed the door in, and without negotiability, said to Golota, "Go, hunt the tiger." β
Knowing that the tribe was not allowed to hunt saber-toothed tigers, Golota said, "My father has lice in his clothes, and I have to catch them, so let him put them on quickly." β
"Go and open the hunting pit first, and then catch it later."
Golota shook her head: "Isn't that okay? Tiger hunting requires Regget's consent. Golota knew that Tiktor was not convinced that Regit was the leader of the tribe, and in order to curry favor, he deliberately called Regit by his first name.
If Golotta directly refuses to go, maybe Tiktor will admit it, and when he mentions Reget's name, Tiktor suddenly becomes angry: "Golotta, you explain to me, do you want to go, or don't you go?" β
The father covered his mouth with his hands and coughed vigorously. Maybe he was choking on the smoke of the fire, or maybe he was signaling his son not to go.
Golota raised his head, looked at the angry Tiktor, and said timidly, "I think, forget it." β
Tiktor stomped his spear on the ground and said, "You softass! To tell you the truth, catching tigers is just a statement, I want to provoke trouble and duel with Reget! Why is he the leader? Damn Maiateng is blind! I have to kill him today! β
When Tiktor had finished speaking, he left, and when he reached the door, he turned again, snatched Golotta's coat from his hand, slammed it to the ground, and cursed "Hide in the house, be a woman" before turning away.
The wind blew snow flakes into the house. Golota hurriedly closed the door.
The old man coughed for a while and said, "How can I marry your sister to this evil seed?" I can't regret it! β
The wind was a bit stronger than before. Snow flakes flutter in the air. The visibility distance is less than 100 meters away.
Tyktor walked towards the Rainbow Bridge with his spear in his hand. From afar, I saw a few people standing at the head of the bridge. Tyktor didn't think much of it and moved on.
As he approached the bridge, he saw the men clearly, they were Regett and several hunters, all of whom were also armed with weapons. Tiktor felt strange in his heart, what did they want to do standing at the head of the bridge on such a snowy day?
"Hey, Tyktor, where are you going?" Regit slammed his spear across the bridge, blocking Tyktor's path.
"Hugh has to stop me. Move! As he spoke, Tiktor stretched out his spear to pick up Regit's.
Regitte exerted his strength, but the spear was not stirred.
The moment Tiktor withdrew his spear, he sent it out with all his might, and the tip of the spear stabbed straight into Reget's throat.
Regett dodged sideways, but because he was not on high alert, his movements were a little slower, and Ticotto was so strong that the tip of the spear grazed against his Adam's apple, breaking through the skin and bleeding blood.
Several other hunters quickly surrounded Tiktor and advised him not to be impulsive.
Tyktor grabbed one of the hunters by the collar, and with one foot he put him down, shouting at the others, "Whoever dares to stop me, kill him." β
In order to protect the hunters, Regitte also said, "Get out of the way and let him come at me." β
Several hunters hid to the side.
"Regit, your time of death has come!" Tiktor gritted his teeth, raised his spear, and stabbed Regit in the neck and head with a burst of urgency.
Regit stepped back, dodging left and right, trying to parry.
Tik Duo saw that he couldn't pierce Reget's vital parts, and changed the direction of the tip of the spear, and then the crotch and shoulder, all of which were resolved by Regitte by dodging, sideways, and blocking.
"Tiktor, you have something to say, don't push me."
"There is nothing to say. I just want to die! β
Just then, the sound of bullhorns sounded downwind of the Mammoth River Valley. Because they had the upper hand, the trumpets did not sound loud, and there was no echo in the valley.
Several hunters stood there and did not dare to make a sound.
As Regett dodged, he heard the trumpet sound continuously, and he judged that something was wrong, and said to Tictor, "Something is wrong, let's go and see it quickly." β
"Leave it alone." Seeing that Regitte never fought back, Tiktor became more confident. He thinks it was Regit who didn't fight back. Where is he willing to lose such a good opportunity, and fight even more fiercely.
"Hurry down." Regit ordered several hunters to run down.
Several hunters passed them with spears in their hands and ran downward.
Reget's eyes looked down, and the place where the trumpet sound came from was already glowing red.
"It's on fire! Let's go put out the fire. Regitte said.
"Don't think!" Tiktor said, raising his spear and striking it down at the top of Regit's head.
Regit grabbed the ends of the spear and raised his hands to block Tyktor's spear. Tiktor's spear slammed into the middle of Reget's slammed into the middle. At the moment when Tykto's spear bounced in the middle of Regit's spear, Regit stepped up with his right foot, and his waist drove his arm to turn to the right, and he slammed his spear handle on Tykto's wrist. Feeling a piercing pain, Tiktor dropped his spear, gripped his injured wrist with his other hand, and crouched down with an "oops".
Regett withdrew his spear and said to Tyktor, "You want the ivory scimitar, as long as you win me." With that, he turned and ran towards the fire.
"Fire, burn it for me! Hahahaha! Tiktor looked at the distant firelight and stood up with a maniacian laugh.
When Regit arrived at the scene of the fire, he saw that the fire was lit by a hunter, not the house. His mood relaxed. Looking in front of the firelight, everything in front of him made him break out in a cold sweat - on this side of the water bridge, there was a large group of dire wolves densely surrounded, some squatting, some standing, some walking around irritably, at least hundreds. Judging by the impression, the dire wolves were only forty or fifty meters away from the place where the fire was set on fire, and because they were downwind, they were choked by the smoke of thick smoke and the intimidation of the fire, and for a while they could not tell what kind of trap the humans had set for them, so they could only temporarily observe the situation and further analyze the situation.
Several hunters kept putting wood on top of the fire to burn it, and the snowflakes above the fire turned into droplets of water and squeaked when they fell on the fire. The rest of the hunters raised their spears and confronted the dire wolves.
It soon got dark, and the wind blew the sparks up and drifted in the direction of the dire wolf. However, the floating sparks were quickly extinguished by the snowflakes and reduced to black sawdust, some of which fell to the ground, and some of which drifted into the sky with the wind, disappeared. Regit suddenly remembered Wangmu. He gave a brief explanation to a few hunters, and said, the dire wolf will not act at this time, you guard first, I will go to see Wangmu, and I will come back immediately.
Regit hurried to the Vum house, and was startled by the lying Etta. He gently pushed open the door of Wangmu's house, and what he saw surprised him againβWangmu was sweating, bare-bottomed, with his legs apart, his hands clutching wildly on the floor, and his mouth screaming, giving birth. Ugg knelt beside her.
When Ug saw Regit coming in, he shouted, "Get out!" Haven't seen a woman give birth? β
Wangmu didn't move at allβshe didn't have the energy to be shy anymore.
Regit hurriedly turned around and went out, closed the door, and left.
"You have to work hard, give birth to the child quickly." Ugg said to Wangmu, "Tonight, the Dire Wolves are attacking the Horde, and the hunters are besieging it. β
Wangmu let out an "um" and struggled.
The wolves became restless. The hunters lit the fire while shouting "Fight the wolf, fight the wolf."
As night fell, the wind became stronger than before, and the whistle sounded, and the snowflakes became bigger and denser than before, "sizzling" and rubbing in the air, hitting the snow, and there was a sound.
The dire wolves shivered in the blizzard. People were also shivering in the blizzard. Each held its ground, and no one was willing to retreat.
When the screams of pain ceased, Wangmu gave birth - and the old chieftain Maiatten was overjoyed.
Uger carried the child to the fire, knotted her navel, bit off the excess with her teeth, wrapped the child in the desert forest rabbit skin prepared by Wangmu in advance, and turned around a few times above the fire, so that the skin was hot, and then carried it to Wangmu for her to see. Wangmu struggled to raise his head and glanced at the child, a happy smile on his face.
Ugg smiled and praised, "This kid is prettier than you." You smell it, and there's a scent of flowers and plants on her. β
"yes, I smell it, too. Hehe. Wangmu said breathlessly.
Uger took the child in his arms and shook it, saying, "Maiatten is not here, you can name the child." β
Wangmu said: "When I first got it, Teng gave it a name. He said that it was a girl, and it was called Aida. β
"That's a good name." Ugg looked at the child and said, "Aida, Aida, the name is as beautiful as a person." β
Suddenly, the snow flakes are thick like layers of curtains, and people can feel the resistance of the snow even if they walk with the wind. The Mammoth Valley was stormy, and the northwest wind turned into a whirlwind, and the wind rolled up the burning fire of the hunters, forming a huge pillar of fire, which was erected in the valley, and uprooted it, and danced in the air a few times, and became a ball of fire, floating, sometimes high and sometimes low, sometimes near and sometimes far away, until they were all destroyed, and disappeared into the snow-covered sky.
The fire is gone, and it is no longer possible to rekindle a fire. Without the fire, the dire wolves became blurred.
Regett ordered: "Spread out, line up, and don't let the dire wolves come in from the west." β
Just as everyone was confronting the dire wolf on the side of the water bridge, a house near the rainbow bridge caught fire, and the wind blew the fire all the way down, igniting several houses.
In one room, the woman and the child were asleep, and the woman was awakened by the shouting outside and the crackling explosion of wood, and she quickly woke up the child, put on her clothes, and was about to run out when the fire burned in. The woman picked up the quilt and ran out of the house with the child, escaping.
The elderly, women and children who ran out of the house formed a circle by the Rainbow Bridge, sheltering each other from the wind and keeping warm.
Tyktor led a group of children and strong women to help the families who were not on fire carry their belongings, and when the fire became more and more fierce, he quickly blew the horn and asked the hunters below for help.
The entire goshawk tribe turned into a sea of snow and fire.
Several houses were already on fire, and the wind was still sending the flames to the houses downwind.
The hunters who confronted the dire wolf had heard the trumpet and had seen it, and each of them had their hearts hung in the air, worried about their families and their houses.
It's important to stop the dinosaur wolf, and it's also important to put out the fire. In times of crisis, it is difficult to choose.