Chapter 65: The Shagarn Sect
The food brings a new lease of life to the village of the Shatterfinned Mud Fishman.
Many people may not believe in the change that food brings, but Mochi understands the change. He also lived a confused life in school, with a laboratory, a canteen, and a dormitory every day, and the boring life made him unable to see hope and fun.
It was at that time that Mo Qi received the warrior brother in the [Tannery Seven], took Mo Qi to a very luxurious local restaurant, and ordered some very practical dishes - stir-fried shrimp, yam kale, braised pork, and green vegetable bowl. It's not a lot of luxury—and certainly Mochi can't afford to pay for it—but the meal does make Mochi feel something different.
Later, when Mo Qi got his Ph.D., he was very pleasantly surprised to find that he couldn't afford to go to that restaurant as his mother, and his life was as boring as ever. But he has finally found some goals - outside of the boring life, there are always things and people worth fighting for. After all, if you eat someone else's food, you have to invite them back, hey, this evil Chinese style of dinner.
Returning to the fish-man village, there was a craze for villagers to raise spiders, and more and more villagers raised their hands to ask questions in the spider farming course. From passively asking me to learn, to later I want to learn, the spider eggs are getting closer and closer to the day when the first young spiders will break out of their shells under the care of the villagers.
The only thing that reassures Moqi is that the villagers' motivation for learning seems to be not simple enough, and from time to time there are always fishmen who come to ask Moqi "how big the spider legs are the best".
On the other hand, the spy sent to the next village also brought back the news.
The food sources of the fish-people in the eastern villages are all hunted from the deep sea by the Naga, and the food ration is very tight, and conflicts often break out between the fish-people and the fish-people, and between the fish-people and the naga, over the distribution of food.
This is also expected by Moki, if the Naga want to use food to control the fishmen, they must rely on the Naga people to hunt food for the fishmen. Fish-people are numerous, and the Naga cannot and will not provide adequate food for them.
"Mr. Mooch, this is a good opportunity! The Naga will certainly not be able to provide enough food for the fish-people, and if the situation worsens, conflicts will definitely break out between them. When Anvina heard the news, she immediately expressed her thoughts to Mochi.
Mochi stretched and said, "It's a chance, but it's not enough...... The Naga will lie that there is not enough food in the deep sea, and you want to eat? Okay, then attack the villages in the interior. There are barns and barns that will fill your stomachs with enough food. In just a few words, the Naga was able to transform the food contradiction into a contradiction between the sea race and the land race. By that time, the poor Shatterfinfish had been completely reduced to the vanguard of the Thornspine Naga. ”
"How can this be......" Anvena said incredulously.
"Fishmen naturally like to cling to the strong. This is something that no one can change. Mochi said with a straight face.
Anwena sighed in frustration: "Politics is really a complicated matter...... Mr. Mooch, can we just watch the Thorny Naga succeed? ”
Seeing Anvina's deflated appearance, Mo Qi couldn't help laughing: "No, we still have a chance." ”
Hearing Moqi say that there was a chance, Anvina was even more puzzled: "We still have a way?" But you just said ......"
Mo Qi smiled and said, "Since the fish-people naturally like to cling to the strong, then we will create a strong one." ”
In the evening of the same day, in the fish-man village on the southeast coast of Hillsbride, some strange rumors began to circulate -
"Did you hear that? The reason why there is no food in this sea is because the Nagas have built a magical barrier at the bottom of the sea, so that fish and shellfish can enter the shallow sea. ”
"Ah, wouldn't it? Who are you listening to? ”
"It's the priest of the Shagarn Sect."
"Shagarn? What's that? And what is the sacrifice, and can you eat it? ”
"Shagarn is the horn in the hands of Gore Ganes, the god of the sky and the sea, and legend has it that the titan Gore Ganes used this horn to create the sky, the sea, and the creatures of the sea. The so-called Shagarn sect is a sect that believes in the ocean titan Gol Ganes, and the Shagarn sacrifice is the spokesperson of Gorganes in the world. ”
Hearing this explanation, the expressions of the fish people all looked like they didn't understand it, but they thought it was amazing.
"I've also heard from the priests that the fish-people are the race chosen by Goleganes, and that when the day of judgment comes, Goleganes will make the fish-people ruler of all the waters, and that every fish-man will have an endless supply of clams."
"Really?" There was a look of yearning in the eyes of the fishmen. But it's just a yearning, and although they think "if only there really was such a god", most of the fishmen don't take this sect seriously.
A few days later, a fish-man hunter spotted the Naga near the edge of the seabed, and the fishmen screamed and protested to the Naga, demanding that the Naga dismantle their magic and allow them to resume hunting in the offshore area.
"Are you going to rebel?" A female Naga easily silenced all the fish-men present with a serpent-like voice, "This sea area has long belonged to the Thorny Naga, do you low-grade filthy creatures have an opinion?" Or do any of you want to be an enemy of the Naga the Thorns? ”
The female Naga clapped her palms lightly, and six strong and ugly male Naga walked up to the fishmen, and they raised their tridents and stabbed them to the ground.
For a moment, the ground under the fish-man's feet shook violently.
"Ahh
Witnessing the power of the Naga, the fishmen screamed and fled in all directions.
As Mochi had reckoned, the fishmen's protests were effortlessly defused by the Thornspine Naga.
After that, the life of the Shatterfinfish became more and more difficult, and as a punishment for protesting to the Naga, the Naga provided them with less and less food. Many fishmen only eat a small bite of fish a day, hunger and panic spread among the fishmen, and if it weren't for the clan elders to stop them, many young fishmen would have heeded the words of the Thornspine Naga and would form an army to march on the farms inland.
Just when the sanity of the fish people was about to be shattered by hunger, rumors began to circulate in the village about the Shagarn Cult again—
"Did you hear that? Gorgarneth, the titan of the seas, heard the prayers of the Shark Fishmen that he would give them delicious food at midnight today. ”
"Is it true?"
"Do you need to talk about that? Have you forgotten? Last time, it was the Shagarn sacrifice that conveyed the instructions of the gods and told us the truth that there was no food in the seas. ”
The Shatterfinned Fishman was happy to hear the news, but he didn't get much hope. Hungry all day, they don't have the strength to think about gods and religions.
At midnight that day, although the night was also dark, many fishmen still couldn't sleep. They were so hungry that they could only turn their bodies around the hut.
"Huh? What it tastes like. Suddenly, a strange fragrance wafted into the fishmen's huts with the sea breeze, and many of them followed the scent out of the huts.
They found a flaming "long stick" in front of their house.
"What is this? It smells so good! It's just that the shape looks a little familiar, and I always feel like I've seen it somewhere......"
"Whatever, eat it first."
The fishmen took a bite into the crunchy spider legs—
"It's so delicious!"
"But where did such delicious food come from?"
"Look, there's a conch on it!"
"Nope! That's the trumpet! It's the trumpet of the ocean titan Gore Ganes, it's Shagarn! ”
"This is the food given by the god of the sea to the fish-people!"
Grateful to Golganes, the fishmen ate the delicious spider legs. Although the number of spider legs is limited and cannot completely fill the stomach, it has solved the problem of survival of fish people to some extent.
For the next three days, at midnight every day, the villagers would find delicious spider legs on their doorstep, and occasionally they would see a cloaked figure passing through the village, rumored to be a sacrificial priest of the Shagarn.
During the day, walking through the fish-man's village, you can hear hungry villagers silently chanting "Golganes" and "Shagarn". Whenever they are hungry, they recall the crispy and spicy taste of roasted spider legs.
By the fourth day, the Thornridge Naga had also noticed an anomaly.
At midnight, the Nagas sent out their men to confiscate the roasted spider legs at the door of every house.
"It was given to me by Golganes, the god of the sea, and you can't take it away!" The fishmen protested angrily.
Several young fishmen who tried to resist the Thorny Naga were killed on the spot.
The blood silenced the Shatterfinfish people, but it also made the hatred in their hearts burn even more.
On the fifth day, there was a new rumor in the village—
"Tomorrow at high tide, the Sea Titans will send twenty of their High Priests to help the Shatterfinned Fishmen reclaim the ocean and sand. When the ancient songs resound across the shores, the Thornridge Naga will usher in their end. ”