Chapter 5: The Scarlet Sacrifice
The temperature of the flame made me open my eyes again, and I moved my body, and my restrained hands and feet and gagged mouth quickly returned to consciousness.
Seeing me wake up, Wang Yi immediately stopped struggling and whimpering, obviously, he wanted to make some movement to wake me up.
My eyes motioned for me to look to the right, and I followed Wang Yi's line of sight, only to find that the three of us were tied to the high platform of the altar.
Several men with strange patterns painted on their faces, with three high feathers on their heads that resembled priests, were jumping around the campfire, babbling something in their mouths, as if praying.
On the right, Zhao Qiqi's elbow touched me.
I turned my head and saw six people tied up not far away.
To be precise, it should be four people and two skeletons, and one of the four has had his left hand amputated, so the arm that was on the fire just now must be his.
I was secretly glad that since the wild men had already eaten the two members of the other team, they didn't do anything to us for the time being, although it was a bit immoral to think so.
As night fell, the tribe lit up with fires, and more and more people gathered around the altar. The savages, wearing peaked feather headdresses, cheered under the altar with stone cones tied to stone and wood, and said something in their mouths.
The priest who took the lead suddenly raised his head to the sky and roared, and the human bone cane slammed into the ground.
The savages fell silent for a moment, and their dark eyes looked at the leading priest.
Two savages with red feathers on their heads carried the man with the missing arm to the center of the altar. The leading priest painted him all blue and put a pointed headdress on top of his head.
The man was carried to the altar, and the savages lowered him on his back, revealing his body to the fore.
Several priests skillfully grabbed his hands and feet, pulling his body to the tightest state.
The "chief sword" was naturally the high priest just now. I saw that he accurately stabbed the man's chest, then put his hand in it and pulled out the heart that was still beating.
The right hand was raised in the air, showing it to everyone, as if it were not the heart of a living person, but a work of art.
Immediately, he put his heart into the prepared container, and with a very fast stroke, he stabbed it into the heart, spilling the blood of his heart on the statue of the god in the center.
After the action, there was a burst of cheers from the audience. The priest, along with the savages, began to dance with great propriety, and the words were still in their mouths.
As soon as the dance was over, the high priest at the head walked up to the other members of the group, and the woman immediately showed a look of great horror, and she curled up desperately backwards, shaking her head.
The three of us were also extremely shocked, according to the current form, when the other team was killed, it would be our turn!
Sweat keeps pouring out on my forehead, am I Gao Wei destined to die here?
At this moment, a faint crisp sound sounded in my ears, and I was only barely aware of my extraordinary hearing. Hearing the voice, a dagger was lying in his hand.
Only then did I remember that Du Deming, Zhang Qiang, and Situ Cao were not caught.
"The three of them should be nearby, hurry up and cover me!" I said in a volume that only Zhao Qiqi and Wang Yi could hear.
In the middle of the altar, the savages were preparing to sacrifice the woman alive, and no one noticed my little movements.
The two of them understood, and immediately approached me.
I picked up the dagger and cut the straw rope at once.
At that end, the high priest solemnly took off his robe and peeled off the woman's skin with a stone knife, and the visual impact of the bloody human skin was too exciting.
I turned my gaze and picked up my hand.
Finally, the rope on my hand was successfully cut, and I stretched out my hands that were cut behind the back, and quickly cut the straw rope on my foot.
"Hurry up and get ahead of them before they notice us!" Quietly stuffed the dagger into Wang Yi's hand, and I immediately returned to the appearance of being tied.
Soon, Wang Yi, who was born as a soldier, also quickly cut the ropes of his hands and feet.
I hurriedly stuffed the dagger returned by Wang Yi into Zhao Qiqi's hand.
As soon as Zhao Qiqi took the dagger, the wild man beside the high priest suddenly noticed our movements.
He shouted loudly, pointing to this side with one hand.
"Damn, fight with them!" Seeing that there was no way back at the moment, I roared in a low voice: "Wang Yi, you cooperate with me, Zhao Qiqi move quickly!" ”
So the two of us jumped up at the moment, grabbed the leg bone next to us and slammed it at the nearest wild man.
With three punches and two feet, several people have been knocked to the ground by the two of us. Not angry at the cruelty of the priests, I rushed forward and laid a bone directly on the priest's head on the left.
Seeing this, the other three priests immediately swung their stone knives and slashed at me, narrowly avoiding the attack of the three men.
The afterglow swept to the high post behind the altar, where a man was sitting, presumably the tribal chief. Others celebrated at the campfire, and no one stayed with him.
After a two-second pause in my thoughts, I leaped up to the top in three steps and two steps, and pressed the sharp end of my leg bone directly against the chief's throat.
"Wang Yi, bring Zhao Qiqi over!"
Drawn by my yell, everyone's eyes turned to this side.
When Wang Yi heard this, he immediately took Zhao Qiqi to the high position, and the savages didn't dare to act too aggressively, but they just held a stone spear and stared at us with fierce and sharp eyes.
The scene was so deadlocked, and my arm was already starting to go numb with my leg bone.
"Gao Wei, what should I do?" Wang Yi turned to me and asked.
"Don't worry, they should be nearby, let's wait!"
Bang, bang! Shotguns rang out.
The two nearest priests fell to the ground.
"Gao Wei, we're here!"
Du Deming and Zhang Qiang rushed out from behind their high positions, all holding shotguns in their hands.
"Why are you here?" Zhao Qiqi immediately looked happy when he saw this.
"The wild people in the back have all been tied up by us, and now only the ones in front of us are left. To give! Zhang Qiang said, and distributed the remaining shotguns in his hands to the three of us.
"They're really going to eat us, don't be soft-hearted, let's do it!" Wang Yi said.
As the few people spoke, the chieftain who was being held hostage by me whispered something, and suddenly the savages in the audience rose up and rushed towards us.
At this point, the six were reunited again.
Everyone has made up their minds, and immediately takes up arms and starts hand-to-hand combat with the savages.
Wang Yi and Du Deming rushed to the front as the main force, and after a while, they knocked down seven or eight savages. Zhang Qiang and Zhao Qiqi were astute and took advantage of their unpreparedness to overturn several savages. Situ Cao dealt with the aftermath, and she tied up all the defeated wild men with a straw rope that she found out of nowhere.
Looking at the abducted chieftain, I stabbed my dagger into his thigh.
The chieftain's body went limp, and he immediately wailed.
"Situ Cao, take a hand!"
I handed the wounded chief to Situ Cao and tied him up, and got up to join the melee.
The savage was shocked to see that the chief was injured, and his momentum was not as good as before.
In less than twenty minutes, all the wildlings were successfully taken.
I gasped for breath and looked at the tired crowd that had fallen to the ground, and then something suddenly came to mind.
Propping myself up, I hurried to the tent, and when I lifted the eleventh tent curtain, I finally saw the human skeleton chair covered with tiger skin.
Sure enough, there was a box inside.
Inside the box was a rifle, which looked like it was supposed to be a 47, and there were some grenades underneath.
I grabbed a few and put them in my pocket, turned around and ran quickly back to the altar.
"Du Deming, Wang Yi! Come on, here's ......."
However, at this moment, a few gunshots were whirred, and I only felt a pain in my left calf, and I instantly fell to my knees.
When I raised my eyes, I saw several people standing not far away with guns.