Chapter Ninety-Five: Bursting
Through observation, Guo Sen also discovered a strange phenomenon.
This giant race really seems to have the concept of "rank".
The giants carrying giant trees and stones he had seen before were the lowest-ranking beings in the entire tribe, and wherever Guo Sen saw such a guy with a rope tied to his head, he found that they were busy doing all kinds of menial work.
Guo Sen found that they did not seem to have enough IQ and were very slow to react.
The same is true of those who fought with giant insects before.
Their number is also the largest in the total number, nearly 300 or so.
Guo Sen called them "hard laborers".
Judging by the attitude of the other giants towards them, these giants are the lowest status.
The second is a giant with white animal fur tied around his waist and always dangling around the forest to hunt.
After Guo Sen heard a loud noise in the forest, he saw these terrifying guys violently killing a few one-eyed, long-haired beasts larger than the truck in his memory.
Their bodies are not so bloated, but more "fit", and their skeletons look much more slender than those of laborers, with just the right amount of muscles on top of them, almost triangular when viewed from top to bottom.
They seem to be better at using the explosive power of their muscles, and after increasing their speed, they can smash the skull of their prey with thick sticks or sturdy bone sticks tied to ropes.
Their combat effectiveness was quite strong, and in half a day, they hunted enough prey for the whole clan to eat for several days.
They numbered about two hundred, and they were basically either hunting or on their way.
Guo Sen called these battle maniacs "berserk hunters".
The third type is the artisan class composed of giantesses and giant children.
All the weaving of the tribe, as well as the burden of making weapons and digging caves and cooking food, fell on these people.
They seem to be relaxed, but in fact, they are the most tiring existence in the whole clan after the hard laborers.
It can be said that they did not fail to do anything other than moving rocks and giant trees and hunting.
These people were the most numerous, five hundred.
Their status is similar to that of the laborers.
However, Guo Sen also saw that some of the children here were fat and slow; Some are fast and muscular.
When they grow up in the future, they should also grow into drudgers and berserk hunters.
The fourth, and least numerous, is less than ten people in total.
Those were the giants who specialized in rituals and trading with the armored orcs, and Guo Sen called them "Golden Walkers".
The Goldwalkers have the highest IQ in comparison, as can be seen from their previous interactions with the Armored Orcs.
At the same time, their status is also very high, Guo Sen feels that in addition to the chiefs,
Compared to the other giants, they had the easiest job, conveying the chieftain's words when they weren't sacrificial, and carrying various things to trade gold with the armored orcs.
However, they are also the most tired comparatively.
In the case of the chief's illness, almost all the orders, they had to convey to the laborers, artisans, and berserk hunters, and they were running around all the time.
The rank of this tribe is roughly in the order of chieftain - goldwalker - berserk hunter - artisan and hard laborer.
A large proportion of the patients who have been affected by the miasma and become skinny and pot-bellied are berserk hunters and laborers.
All of them were among them, and there were 35 patients in total.
This amount is not too much, but it is not too much.
In addition to the chieftain, there seemed to be more sick people, and the whole person seemed to be drained, except for the big belly.
It felt like my stomach had absorbed all the nutrients in my body.
Guo Sen observed for several days.
He found that the patients' bellies would grow larger and larger, and even the epidermis would be translucent, and their expressions would seem to be extremely painful.
At the same time, they seem to eat several times more than the other giants, but it seems that they do not excrete, which is really puzzling.
This strange illness is not contagious, and after all these days, the giants who took care of them are still the same, and there is no change at all.
Guo Sen pondered.
Is it constipation?
It shouldn't be.
You can't eat so much if you're constipated, and then you're ridiculously thin except for your stomach, right?
Food poisoning?
That's going to be pulling and leaking, and it shouldn't be this.
Guo Sen thought of all kinds of possibilities, but there was no reasonable explanation.
Until he suddenly discovers that the hard laborers who often go out to hunt and carry and cut down trees have the unlucky ones who have this serious illness.
At first, there was nothing wrong with their stomachs, but their hands and feet were not very dexterous, but in less than half a day, they could no longer get out of bed.
As the amount of food continues to grow, so does their belly.
Weird.
Could it be that he was really poisoned......
The Goldwalkers exchanged a considerable amount of gold ornaments from the armoured orcs and made their way to the cave where the chief was.
"We ...... It's time to start the sacrifice, carry me, carry me over! The chief's voice trembled, and he seemed to be in a coma and a half-coma, and he was as weak as he was.
The gold walkers put away all the gold artifacts in the cave, and the four people carried the leader out of the cave.
Guo Sen saw that almost all the giants had also gathered outside the cave, whether it was a laborer or a craftsman, or other berserk hunters and gold walkers, they had already formed a team, and the black was overwhelming.
They followed the footsteps of the Golden Walker carrying the chieftain to the bottom of one of the tallest hills in the tribe.
At the bottom of the hill there is a wide flat area, and an almost rectangular boulder is placed in the center.
The Goldwalkers placed the chief next to the long stone, and placed the gold objects above the stone, which shimmered in the light of the stars, and were divine.
Two people were holding the leader, who was no longer able to stand up, while the others stood with their hands on the side of the boulder.
All the sick giants were also carried to the boulder and laid side by side, all of them seeming to endure the pain, their eyes closed and afraid to make a sound.
Laborers and artisans, as well as berserk hunters, gathered to wait for the sacrifice to begin.
"Great ...... Limutar God, as your ...... Forgive our disrespect and ......, people."
In the light of the stars reflected in the gold, the chief began to sweat profusely and panting, and before he could finish speaking, he had completely fainted.
The scene also panicked because of this sudden change.
After all, the sacrifice hadn't even begun, so wouldn't it turn into disrespect for the god Limutar?
After a brief moment of panic, the pious giants fell to the ground en masse, and no one dared to raise their heads.
And the sick people who were lying on the ground also fainted.
Well?
Guo Sen was a little surprised, how could these people even grasp the timing of fainting so well?
Why at the same time?
That's when it happened.
All the giants lying on the ground suddenly screamed in unison!
Their swollen bellies cracked open like an explosion at the same moment!