Chapter Forty-Nine: Resignation
After clearing the beasts underground, the two finally found time to go to the surface.
Kane was worried that he would be exposed to humans, so he kept Keisha hidden as usual, while he waited near the exit for news.
The desert night is not dim, the half-moon hangs high in the endless sky, and the sky casts starlight.
To Keisha, this is much brighter than the underworld.
The rich smell of life slowly rose on her face with the dust, and Keisha's eyebrows furrowed under the helmet, and she immediately stepped on the rocks and walked out of the stone pile to look around.
The sight in front of her made her angry!
The pile of rubble where the tunnel entrance is located is artificially fenced with wooden piles, which are inserted into the ground and connected to the rock pillars, forming a beast fence with an area of several hundred square meters.
And judging from this low wooden stake, what this inverted beast pen wants to fence is not the void monster that devours life, but the sacrificial sheep in the fence!
Yes, the smell of Keisha is the stench of pasture, dung and wool.
She saw that under the stone pillar where the huge skull was placed, a group of goats huddled together, leaning on the stone pillar that pierced the yellow sand of the desert to resist the cold wind of the night, and leaning on each other to maintain their body temperature.
And this corral was set up to prevent the sheep and cattle from escaping!
Keisha looked into the distance again, and the settlement not far away was dotted with lights dotted with dry and cold nights, which meant that the people had not left, and were still living a seemingly peaceful life in the settlement.
It made her very angry, very angry.
Obviously, I have warned again and again, why did these people not only move away, but also put their sheep and livestock in such a dangerous place!
Feasting on the Void creatures to come up and eat, don't you think you die fast enough!
Do you have to wait until your family is ruined and everything is filled into the mouth of the monster to know how big the appetite of the void is?
Keisha was very angry, it can be said that she was furious, but she still couldn't help but not vent.
For the wind spread her scent among the flocks, causing them to scream in panic. The voice drew out two humans hiding in the shadows, and Keisha overheard their conversation.
"What's going on? Screaming so badly? Is it a monster coming? β
A man armed with a spear stepped out from behind the stone pillar, assuming a fighting posture with an uneasy expression.
"If there are monsters, don't scare yourself."
The other man's hat was also crooked, and he had moved it from his face to the unkempt hair, and his ass was covered in ash, and it was clear at a glance that he was sitting on the ground resting.
Keisha was glad that she was invisible, otherwise she might have discovered it with two humans hiding in the shadows.
"Keep a good vigil and don't be lazy. If the monster comes and you're sleeping, I'm not going to wake you up. β
The sheep gradually quieted down, and the spearman said to his companion fiercely after finding that there was nothing abnormal in the pens.
However, the man in the cloth hat didn't care, and shot back in a disdainful tone: "What kind of monster, if there were, these sheep would have been taken captive a long time ago." β
"How do you explain so many strange things happening in the settlement ahead?" The spearman struck his companion with the shaft of his spear.
"No one has died since the previous events, and you think about it, will real monsters just scary people and not kill people? Apparently not. If you want me to say, there must be some evil mage pretending to be a ghost and deliberately teasing us, but he is too clever for us to find out. Don't come to a few missionaries who say that there are monsters and you believe it, it's naΓ―ve, and that as long as you sacrifice it, you can feed the monsters and keep the settlement from invading......"
The man in the hat scolded resentfully, as if he had something to do with the missionary.
Kesha's ears pricked up at hearing the missionary, and her instinct told her that maybe that was why people didn't heed the warnings.
"The strange things in the settlement have really stopped these days, and everyone thinks the missionaries are right."
"So you believe it?"
"I don't believe it, but the chief does, otherwise we wouldn't be keeping vigil here." The spearman sighed.
"Don't be wronged, I'm more wronged than you, the only two sheep in my family have been pulled over as sacrifices. The two missionaries were beasts, and they didn't even spare the ewes who were pregnant and could produce milk. β
The man in the hat usually milks a goat, and as he spoke, he pinched the strong pectoral muscles of the spear man regretfully, causing the latter to scold for a while.
"Get out! So hungry to find your ewe! β
"It's cold to death, the sheep know to be next to each other to keep out the cold, and you don't let me rely on it to keep warm. It's really impersonal to keep a vigil together. The man in the hat rubbed his arms vigorously, the temperature difference between day and night in the desert was very large, it was midnight at this time, and the cold wind with sand and gravel was blowing on Mao's face and it hurt very much.
"Won't you huddle with the flock, it's warm there. When the mood comes, you can also do a warm-up exercise, so what are you afraid of cold. β
Keisha didn't continue to eavesdrop on the conversation between the two men, and the more she listened, the more puzzling she became, so she simply went underground and told Kane about the situation.
Of course, there is also a follow-up topic about the ewes by the two night watchmen.
"Ahem, I forgot about the ewes, and we're going to focus on the two foreign missionaries." Kane patted Keisha on the shoulder, speaking like an old father.
"As far as you can hear, the arrival of the missionaries caused the people to build a pen next to the tunnel, in which sheep and animals were placed as sacrifices, and they wanted to exchange the sacrifices for the peace of men."
"Yes, that's it!" Keisha clenched her fists, and she had nowhere to vent her anger.
Angering her, she said to Kane, "Why don't we go and kill all the goats, leave the carcasses uneaten, and warn them not to throw any more sacrifices into the ground." β
"The sacrifice was meant to be sacrificed, and when you kill the sacrifice, isn't it conveying to them that the sacrifice is valid?" Hearing this, Kane directly screwed her ears: "You might as well go over those goats and kill those two night watchmen, so that you can convey your anger, and you can also warn people to be nervous before sending sacrifices." β
Keisha was frightened and shook her head again and again: "How can we kill people without hatred or resentment?" Isn't that just like a monster? β
"Forget it, I'll think of something else."
Killing people is still too taboo for Keisha now, and she has received a lot of positive feedback from humans in her former small village, so even if she is misunderstood once, she still has a good impression of humans.
She saw a lot of things in human beings that were worth protecting, and those love and kindness did not conflict with people's stupidity.
At the end of the day, stupidity is just because you haven't seen it with your own eyes, and it's not really hopeless.
Keisha came back to her senses, and she quickly noticed Kane, who suddenly fell silent, and saw that he looked as usual, not half angry, and wondered, "Why aren't you angry at all?" β
Kane was wondering whether to raise the tram problem to make things difficult for Keisha and pry her bottom line, but after thinking about it, he forgot it.
Inappropriate.
"What's there to be angry with a bunch of self-deluding guys." Kane wasn't even disappointed, and though there were two more unexpected missionaries, the result didn't exceed his expectations.
He sighed and uttered a thought that had been brewing in his mind for a long time: "Kesha, or ...... Let's leave them alone, right? β