Chapter 127: Escape 2
Qili watched the two of them talk with a little displeasure, and fell into a deep thought. For a long time, he raised his snowy eyes and stared into the depths of the woods, and did not take them away for a long time.
Gordon looked at Taylor for a while, and at Qili for a while, as if he understood something. A few people sat bored behind the rocks, suffering from hunger, and finally Taylor decided to catch some fish, crabs and other seafood for lunch, as he had done yesterday, otherwise they would starve to death instead of being defeated by the natives.
Nanari and Gordon are responsible for collecting firewood, and Taylor and Jingyi are responsible for staying behind to catch seafood. As yesterday, they turned over the rocks close to the water, and soon found some fat crabs, but they would not have enough to eat the crabs alone, so they planned to set out into the deeper waters to find some other seafood. Jingyi followed Taylor closely, mainly responsible for mentioning what he caught, she was not good at fishing at all, watching Taylor agile with the wooden arrows brought from the natives to spear fish, one fork and one accurate, Jingyi couldn't help but show a look of admiration to Taylor: "Uncle, you are so powerful!" β
"Really?" Taylor smiled softly and asked rhetorically. Looking back at Jingyi, although her face was dirty because of running away and hiding, this did not affect her beauty at all, her handsome facial features were still so three-dimensional, with that small and cute mouth, shining.
Jingyi was a little embarrassed by him, lowered her head, and said coquettishly: "Don't stare at me, you must be ugly." β
"No, my Bella is still beautiful."
"Thank you, uncle, you are so handsome!" Jingyi still does not change her naughty nature.
"Taylor, we've picked up the firewood." Seeing Qili and Gordon each come back with a pile of firewood, Taylor's eyes swept over the firewood they were carrying, and then turned his head to look at the loot in Jingyi's hand, his brows furrowed slightly, but he still shouted at them without changing his face: "Then you guys come over and help with fishing." β
"Okay, right away." Shichiri shouted cheerfully at Taylor. Greeting Gordon, the two of them walked over to Taylor and them laughing, the smile on their lips lingering for a long time. When they arrived at Taylor, Gordon took the things in Jingyi's hand and said to her in a friendly manner, "Bella, you go ashore and rest first, let us men come!" β
"Then, if you need anything, you must call me!" Jing Yi couldn't resist Gordon's enthusiasm, let go of his things and handed them to him, then turned and walked towards the shore, Taylor shouted at her, "Bella, don't go too far. β
"Yes, I see." Jingyi also shouted at Taylor, waving at Taylor as she shouted. Taylor then put his mind at ease and continued with his work. Suddenly, Gordon next to him threw the things in his hand into the water, and Qili cooperated very well at the same time to board Taylor's hand, pressing his hands behind him, Taylor shouted: "What are you going to do?!"
"Save you!" As soon as Qili's words fell, several natives came from the other side of the forest and walked towards Jingyi, Taylor saw it, his heart was anxious, and he resisted vigorously, trying to break free from their confinement, but they seemed to hold Taylor tightly as if they were holding back enough milk and let the natives take Jingyi away. Finally, after seeing the natives take Jingyi away, the two of them let go of their confinement on him, and the liberated Taylor was furious, and punched him in the face towards Nanori, who did not fight back, and let him fight, and finally hit the tired Taylor sitting in the water in a dejected manner, shouting hysterically, and then angrily walking towards the shore. His hands were clenched into fists, and he thought fiercely in his heart, Bella, no one can snatch his Bella!!
Taylor sulked and sat on the beach all the time, Qili brought the baked food to him, he didn't even look at it, like a robot, Qili and Gordon had no choice but to let him go, but at night, a raging fire suddenly ignited on the other side of the woods, reflecting the whole sea very red, Taylor's eyes suddenly opened, staring at the large piece of fiery red, got up and grabbed Qili's collar, and asked angrily: "What are they going to do with Bella?" β
Qili swallowed nervously and said, "I don't know. β
Gordon looked at the red light and muttered, "They are sacrificing, they must be sacrificing." β
"You mean they're going to burn Bella alive?" Taylor asked as he let go of Nanori and nervously tugged at Gordon's collar.
"It should be, I have read the relevant written records in the book, some indigenous people will regularly burn the beautiful women of the tribe alive, as sacrifices to the gods they fear, so that the gods will not come to disturb them and protect their country and people." Gordon told him some of the information he had read.
"Now they have taken Bella, apparently as a beautiful woman, to be burned and sacrificed to the great god." Gordon paused and continued.
"Gordon, come with me to save people." Taylor changed his tone suddenly.
Gordon looked at the raging fire, his eyes suddenly filled with fear, and he looked at Taylor in awe, and his body kept retreating.
Taylor glanced at Nanori one last time, smiled contemptuously at them, and ran alone towards the firelight. Qili and Gordon glanced at each other, and finally sighed dejectedly, maybe they did it wrong, they thought that if they handed over Bella to the natives, everything would be stable, but now it seems that it may not be. Now Taylor insists on saving her, I'm afraid that most of this will go and never return, if they leave Taylor now, even if they can safely leave this desert island and reach the outside world, they can't live safely, Taylor exists as a god-like figure, others don't know, they are clear, Taylor went to sea with his ship, and finally Taylor disappeared, and they appeared in front of everyone safe and sound, even if they have a good reason and excuse, how can the gang under him let him go!
Thinking of this, Qili sighed deeply and stared blankly into the depths of the forest.
Taylor walked into the forest and ran towards the place where the fire was burning, stopped five meters before the fire, hid behind a big tree and quietly checked the situation outside, only to see a large number of natives around the fire, twisting their bodies with little cover, as if dancing, standing in front of the fire was a middle-aged man wearing more animal skins, with a long beard, chanting words to the fire, and then looking up, a long pillar was erected in the center of the fire, and a young woman was tied to the pillar, But this woman is not his Bella. Taylor frowned tightly, and began to sweep his gaze to the crowd, although there were many people below, but he took a closer look, there was no Bella in it! What's going on? Didn't they take Bella for sacrifice? Or is it already? No, it can't be, it didn't take long for the fire to ignite! So Bella must still be alive, she must have been hidden by them! But this forest is so big, where will they hide Bella? Taylor began to fall into deep thought, but his eyes remained untouched by the bustling and frantic crowd. Until the end of the whole ceremony, Taylor patiently hid behind the big tree to observe, and after they dispersed after the ceremony, Taylor followed the natives who had just presided over the ceremony, and returned to the house where he was, saying that it was actually a simple house made of trees, branches and leaves and some rattans, and it was no problem to shelter from the wind and rain, but such houses always looked dilapidated compared to modern buildings.
When the priest entered the room, he first removed all kinds of ornaments hanging on his body, then took out a large bowl of water-like things from under the bed made of wooden planks and stones, lay down on the bed with pleasure, began to gurgle into his stomach, drank several sips in a row before stopping, and then went to the clay pot at the door and scooped a large bowl of water, and went around to the back of the house, Taylor still followed him gently, keeping a certain distance, and when he entered the room that was slightly smaller than the front, Taylor rubbed a hole in the side of the room, leaning on the moonlight to look inside, it turned out that his Bella was here! They tied her tightly with some rattan, and the priest brought the big bowl of water to her to show her to drink, Jingyi was really thirsty and hungry, and she didn't even look at it, so she just leaned her face over and gulped down, probably too fast, and before she could drink a few sips, she coughed violently, and when Taylor saw this, her heart tightened, and she wanted to rush in to rescue her, but at this time, she found that her hands had been imprisoned, and it turned out that the natives had discovered him!
He didn't resist and let them tie him up, but when the natives wanted to send him somewhere else, he began to struggle: "Can I be locked up here?" β
"No-no." Short answer as always.
"Why?"
"That'sβit'sβthe saint." The natives slowly answered Taylor's question.
"You mean, that girl inside is a saint?"
The natives who had tied him nodded slightly, acknowledging that their priest had said that it was a holy woman, so they were to make offerings to the holy woman until her deity awakened and showed the way to their people.
"Since it's a saint, why do you want to tie it up?"
"Saint-Daughter-Awake-Awake."
Taylor hung his head helplessly, as if he couldn't get anything concrete out of their mouths. What kind of saint, the awakening of the saintess, this is all nonsense, and only these stubborn and backward natives will believe in this set of spiritualism. But now that they think Bella is a saint, she should be safe, right?
"Do you want to kill the saint?" Taylor asked cautiously.
"Don't kill, you have to offer." The natives replied.
Hearing him say this, Taylor's hanging heart finally settled down, as long as they didn't kill her, then he had a chance! His Bella will survive when he comes back to save her!