Chapter 17: The Father of the Eagle, the Mother of the Wolf
Sophia's long-awaited rescue from evening to dawn the next day did not appear, and seeing the plains gradually brightening, Sophia's heart couldn't help but panic, she was not afraid that Joika and Owen would give up on her and the other trapped companions, but worried that something would happen to the two of them
Could it be that the two of them were also arrested, Sophia thought worriedly
After a day and night of tossing, Cassius, Lyle and Ischennova, who were stunned by all the bones, woke up one by one, and only Leonard, who had suffered extremely serious internal injuries, was still in a semi-coma
The seven captured men were held in a large wooden cage in the middle of the barracks, and before that all their weapons had been confiscated, and the large wooden cages were suspended in the air and suspended in mid-air at 2 meters above the ground, guarded by more than a hundred barbarian soldiers, and the hands and feet of their companions were tightly chained, and there was no chance of escaping, but even if they got rid of the guards and the chains on their bodies, they could not escape, because when they were just brought to the barracks, several barbarian priests forcibly poured them into a strange liquid, and drank a strange liquid-- The barbarians brought an ancient form of witchcraft from the East, and when they drank the liquid, they were marked with a curse, each of them connected to a voodoo doll, and as soon as the marked person performed magic or other acts of resistance, the priest who manipulated the voodoo doll would immediately know that they would torture their friends remotely through the voodoo doll in Guò's hand
It was right that Joyka didn't force the rescue last night, unless he wanted to watch his companions die one by one
Early in the morning, the barbarians in the whole barracks were agitated, and they kept gathering around the big wooden cage, and the partners couldn't help but get nervous, do they want to kill us, Dani said in a trembling voice, everyone's worries, but as time went by, it seemed that this worry would not be realized for the time being, because the barbarians gathered not in the big wooden cage, but in the ring next to the big wooden cage
The ring was circular, about 20 meters in diameter, made of wooden planks wrapped in sheepskin, erected with wood at the bottom of the ring, about a meter high above the ground, thousands of barbarians gathered around the ring, some pointed to the ring and discussed, some pointed at the captives in large wooden cages, and coaxed like a huge vegetable market - this feeling of being watched like monkeys made the partners extremely uncomfortable
On the opposite side of the ring, there is a makeshift structure similar to a podium, on which are placed two tiger skin chairs, one large and one small, and the podium is empty
At about 8 o'clock in the morning, the barbarians gathered around the ring and the big cage gradually quieted down, and due to the height, the companions saw the bustling crowd and automatically separate, a thin and haggard barbarian, an old man, and a young girl in full makeup walked side by side, the girl had a graceful figure and good looks, but she looked a little melancholy, and there were tears on her face that had not yet dried up
Seeing Shan Yu and seeing Princess Tantan, the barbarians shouted in unison where the two passed
The two walked straight to the command platform, and the old man and the girl sat on two tiger skin chairs, one large and one small, respectively
Is this old man their boss, what a big pomp Lei said
I guess it was, I heard that the barbarian Shan Yu was an old man in his seventies, old and sick, and Cassius said
Hey, is that girl a barbarian princess, a rude barbarian, can such a beautiful embryo Lyle set his eyes on Princess Tantan
Please, what is the situation, and I still want to see the beauty Dani white, and give him a stinky pervert
People are indeed beautiful, is it wrong for me to praise Lyle-for-tat, I understand, no one must have said that you are a beauty, so you are jealous
You...... Dani's face turned red with anger
Sophia didn't have time to bother with the two of them, her eyes searched the crowd, trying to find the two familiar figures, Joika and Owen, did you blend into the crowd
The old man stood up and said to everyone in the audience with that old and hoarse but hidden indescribable majestic voice: "All the male compatriots will enter the final stage of the competition for the first warrior, today we ushered in two important competitions, among the four surviving participants, Wu and Hu Zhengluan, Zhi Zhigu and Che Yaruo will be divided today, two of them will enter tomorrow's final finals, and then our new first warrior will be produced, now I respectfully invite the father of the eagle and the mother of the wolf to witness this important moment
Eagle Father, Wolf Mother, Eagle Father, Wolf Mother......
The barbarians cheered with a louder and deafening shout than before, when the companions saw that in the direction from which the old man and the girl had just come appeared, two strong barbarian warriors, respectively, led a bald eagle with a torch-like gaze and a snow wolf with teeth and claws to the command platform, and where the two warriors and birds of prey walked, the barbarians knelt down one after another, and were very reverent
My good man, this pomp is bigger than just now, and Lei sighed
The barbarians thought that the eagle was their father, and the wolf was their mother, and these two animals had an extremely high status for them, and their belief in the eagle and the wolf was no less than that of any religion on the Olopa, Cassius Taoism
Two samurai led the eagle and the wolf to the podium, standing next to the old man and the maiden, the bald eagle stood on the left and the warrior's sheepskin bracers, and the snow wolf sat on the wooden floor like a dog
Compatriots, the old man raised a gold-handled saber in a silver-gray metal scabbard, and the barbarian under the saber was instantly quiet, and the eagle father was on the wolf mother, as evidence, today's first competition: by the Da Meng warriors against the Anta warriors, the two warriors were invited to the glorious ring
Ukrainian-Ukrainian-Ukrainian...... On the left side of the ring, the crowd, predominantly Da Meng, chanted the names of their warriors, and the companions in the wooden cage saw a barbarian armed with two short spears come out from among his people
It looks like it's the one who saved us twice, and Dani hurriedly said
People want to treat us as sacrifices, and you still treat him as a benefactor, and Lei sneered
Mr. Sophia shouted out to the Uzbe
However, the Uzbek turned a deaf ear to this, and his expression was extremely nervous and stern
Call for Luan, call for Luan, call for Luan...... On the left side of the ring, the audience, mainly from the Anta tribe, also shouted a name in unison, calling Zheng Luan - the younger brother of the leader of the Anta tribe, Zhi Zhigudu, this man in his 30s, although not stronger than his brother, but the average barbarian, he held two iron hooks tied with iron chains, and walked to the ring with a much easier step than the Ukrainian, with an extremely confident smile
Hu Zhengluan raised his forehead, his eyes were full of disdain for his opponent: Don't you give up yet, you should know that even if I win, I will be slaughtered by my brother, it is better to surrender directly and leave this life
If you want to fight, don't talk so much nonsense
hum
The two sides stopped talking and put on a posture and prepared for war
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the direction of the entrance to the barracks, and a barbarian officer ran to the command podium out of breath
There are intruders alone.