Chapter 39: The Witch

As soon as the hanging nine men were put down, they put on their clothes, and the chief came and embraced them one by one, bowed them reverently, and then turned around, holding the totemic staff, and announced to the whole people:

"In the evening, there will be a grand bonfire dance feast to welcome the coming of God!"

The bonfire dance is only held in late summer and early autumn during the festival season.

This ritual is very solemn, and the whole family must be washed clean, which is God's warning. The chief would hold out a black metal disc that had been passed down from generation to generation, flat and as large in diameter as a modern face plate. The obverse is engraved with a galaxy map, with a particularly bright star on the edge, and below it is a line of numbers 0--9, as well as the symbols corresponding to the numbers, the star, which is the home where the gods live, and on the reverse is a geomorphological map of the Earth's ice age.

More than a thousand years ago, an aboriginal secretly drew a map of the Ice Age, to show the learned people in the city, it was not eye-catching at the time, it was just a map drawn by the aborigines, only in modern times, astronomers found that this is a map drawn from the air, the incomparably accurate map of the earth's ice age - the northern and southern hemispheres, what is even more surprising is that those numbers and symbols --, 1 Arauton, which is equal to 23,040,000,000,000 days of the earth, that is, 23 billion days, a scholar named Eric in country M, Umland said; "It is only in recent years, as we have become more aware of the universe and have become more interested in space travel, that astronomers and physicists have discovered the need for such extraordinarily large units of computation, light-years (first used in 1888) and parsecs (equal to 3.26 light-years, with a speed of light of about 330,000 kilometers per second), which are only needed when interstellar distance and interstellar navigation are involved." The question is, how could an indigenous person who lived from agriculture have such maps and figures more than 4,000 AD.

But the young natives were not interested in this at all, they were interested in the clean-washed, the contests at the bonfire dance, and the dancing and dating with the girls they liked, so they thanked God aloud and cheered and went about their work

The chief invited Sha Sha and eleven others to the tent, a huge tent, fifteen meters in diameter, covered with a carpet of animal skins, and under the dim fire of the pond, surrounded by the skins of wild animals, and the skulls of jaguars and deer, and bows and arrows, and waist knives, and in it lay the chief's wife, who could not get up because of a break in her spine, but could only lie down and greet the gods and the visitors with the most pious welcome.

The people sat around the fire in the middle.

At this time, the 7 marines already knew the true origin of Shasha, after putting down the hanger, when washing the strange patterns in the river, Ma Jianguo and the colonel told them the truth, they only then understood that the submarine, the disappointment island, the princess, the rainforest, the mysterious natives, the gods, the real secrets behind these, also knew that their real enemies were hounds and potential genetic people, their shock can be imagined, they are dealing with aliens, now calm down, and have a bottom in their hearts, But I felt a little embarrassed to see Sha Sha and Wang Jinfen naked just now, but I felt that everyone was one step closer.

One by one, the chief saluted the tea boiling on the fire in the pond, and then asked Shasha.

"The gods are here for the holy things in the cave?"

"Yes," said Sasha, holding the tea, and then smiled frankly at him; "I'm here to fetch the things of the ancestors inside, to complete my mission."

The chief nodded, and said solemnly:

"God's things, only God can take it, and only God can open that hole, we look up at the starry sky, guard it for thousands of years, and have not left this land, and now we are finally sitting with God, I am very happy."

Ma Jianguo and the others suddenly realized when they heard this, it turned out that it was these natives who were guarding the things of the Andromeda people here, and only then did they understand why they called Shasha a god, and why these natives respected them so much, and then they happily thought that with the cooperation of the natives, this mission would be successfully completed.

Then the witch and the priest crept in.

The witch walked up to the chieftain and whispered with her head down, her face becoming serious, and then she nodded.

The people don't know why.

The witch hunched over to Sasha, and bent down very reverently, saying:

"Our noble chief's wife is in very bad health, she has been cursed by the devil, she has broken her lumbar vertebrae, and she has been tormented by demons day and night, and our whole people are in great pain, and we hope that God will cast out the devil and heal her of her illness."

As he spoke, he lowered his head, but did not retreat, waiting for Shasha to answer, or more precisely, for Shasha to show a miracle.

It turned out that the witch who seemed to be very pious, seeing that Sasha was suddenly worshiped by the whole clan, and her position was threatened, and she used to be in front of and behind the chieftain, in and out of glory, but now she was so rudely snubbed that she was not even allowed to enter the tent, which was not allowed, her position was irreplaceable, she wanted to make Sasha make a big fool of herself in front of her own people at the grand welcome dance banquet of the whole clan, and peel off her god's paint, but how to make her ugly, how to peel off her paint, she paced around outside the tent, Thinking of the Chief's Wife's illness, yes, let her heal the Lady! If she is not cured, then she is not a god, but the embodiment of the devil, who deceives our souls with evil words and deceives us of holy things, then she has a great merit - she has stripped off the skin of the devil, saved the calamity of her people, and strengthened her position, but if she is cured, it is also her credit, it is her plan that has strengthened her position, and she has cured her own position, and she has cured her own position, and she has cured her own position, and she can only rise in the future, and she is very satisfied with the clever plan she has come up with, and she has let the priests come in to witness it.

The chief is upright and kind in his heart, he has long thought of his wife's illness, but he feels that he can't ask God for grace and healing, because his wife is sick from wrestling, it is also God's will, if he is allowed to rule God, it will make God embarrassed, isn't this letting God himself slap himself in the face, if I don't agree, rumors will spread, endangering the unity of the tribe, and it will also affect the legends about God for millions of years, thinking about it, he decided to agree to let the witch ask God, whether he wants to cure or not, let God decide, he believes that God has the ability to solve anything.

Sasha saw the witch come in, whispered to the chief, and went to herself to say the request, the girl Bingxue was smart, knew that this was the witch's idea, and fully understood the twists and turns in the witch's belly, she thought it was a little funny, but she didn't want to destroy their unity, but if she treated the lady, it would violate the order not to interfere with the life of the earth, I don't know what the consequences would be, if it was not treated, it would affect her own mission, if the natives did not cooperate to complete the task, it was likely to cause cannibalism, which she did not want to see, She wants to protect the safety of the Marines, but also the safety of her people, and look farther, she also wants to protect the safety of humanity for one hundred and twenty years.

She nodded lightly and said:

"I can cure it, but I have to clean my wife cleanly, that is, I have to disinfect it, and besides, my wife has to agree to treat her, because she will become very young, you go and ask."

The witch was taken aback, will she become very young?

Can this be cured?

She regretted dying, why didn't she ask God to cure her too, now her little brain is crooked, she suffers a loss, she has to let her treat me too, why didn't she think of herself, it's so stupid, if it's cured, I can straighten up and raise my eyebrows, everyone is envious. God cured me of my illness, I am beautiful, I can't be cured, and I don't lose money, it's like this, and I can expose her tricks by example, improve my prestige, no one dares to underestimate me, this is really the best of both worlds, it's so stupid, how can I open my mouth now, I'm really aggrieved, wait for me to look at her, see if she can figure out my thoughts, so she deliberately hunched even more, coughed, and lowered her head to look at Shasha.

Shasha smiled at her as if she understood her intentions and said:

"You also wash and clean up with your wife, are you willing?"

Wow! What a goddess! Even I know what I'm thinking, do I still have to ask, I don't know how uncomfortable my hunchback is.

The witch's head points as fast as the feet of a centipede.

"Then go and ask Madame!"

The witch glanced at the chieftain, and when she saw him nodding, she immediately turned to ask Madame, who knew that Madame was kind and endured great pain, and would definitely agree, and she trembled up to Madame, and said with hope:

"Venerable Madam, will you let God heal you?"

When Madame saw what had just happened, she knew that the witch was asking God to heal her, and she shook her head and said:

"No, thank God, I accidentally broke myself and let myself suffer, maybe this is because my heart is not good enough, this is God's will, now please God, embarrass God, this is not to be done."

The witch was dumbfounded, my dear mother! If you don't cure it, I can't cure it, and say that I am not kind-hearted enough, am I not kind-hearted to hunchback, it is really unreasonable, she knows that Mrs. is extremely kind-hearted, and thinks more about others, that is, she helped others carry water and broke her waist, so she said:

"Venerable lady, if you don't cure it, God won't cure it for me, you see, look at how uncomfortable my back is, I can't hold it anymore."

Madame smiled when she heard this, this old witch, and this little Jiujiu, but thinking that it was a great thing to relieve people's pain, and I couldn't add spiritual pain to her because I was incurable, she nodded and said:

"Okay, I agree."

The witch was overjoyed, her plan was successful, and she whispered to the chief in the past, and the chief was stunned when she heard it, looking at her, you want to cure it too?

The witch ignored him, and went up to Sasha again, and said:

"Your Lady agrees."

"Well," said Sasha, laughing, and she looked at the chief again; "Prepare for the dance feast."

"Well," cried the chief, believing in this god so holy and good, that he didn't even think about whether it would succeed.

"Then, my honorable chief, my friend and I will also retire and prepare."

"Good," said the chief with a happy face.

Shasha nodded slightly, Ma Jianguo and the colonel also thanked the chieftain, said goodbye, and went out of the tent, and saw that the open space in front of the tent was jubilant, and the natives were busy setting up bonfires and carrying food, all of which were raised poultry, pigs, sheep, chickens, and vicuña meat and all kinds of fruits unique to South America, and were very busy.

But Ma Jianguo and Wang Jinfen, as well as the colonel and those marines, were not in such a good mood, and they were all stunned when they heard Sha Sha promise to treat the disease in the tent, they all knew that the chief's wife broke her lumbar vertebrae, but what was wrong with the witch, and then she thought about it, she was a hunchback, and a hunchback could also be cured? If you think about it deeply, this matter is not trivial, there is a conspiracy in it, if it is not cured, the god Shasha will collapse immediately, and the natives will immediately change their faces, and their previous trust will be swept away, thinking that they are liars, maybe they are ready to strip them naked and hang them again, and sacrifice the real god in their hearts, and the heart that is easy to let go of is tense again, okay, how can you think of it to cure the disease, what does this witch want to do.

Everyone looked nervously at Shasha.

The colonel said:

"Have you treated it before, in this tropical rainforest, disinfecting, cutting the knife, and supporting the steel bar."

"No, don't use that, I have a program in my head."

Procedure! Two brains! How can the program heal!

The crowd's minds were full of exclamation marks and question marks.

"Don't look at me like that, although I haven't been cured, I know how to do it, just activate the genes in their area and repair their necrotic tissues by themselves

。 ”

The colonel said in surprise:

"You mean, people grow their own tails like lizards?"

"Yes, if they can afford it."

"What if you can't afford it?"

"It's not curable, that's what the program says."

The colonel was so nervous that he couldn't speak, wiped the sweat from his face, turned and whispered to the Marine next to him;

"We have to stand outside, and if we don't see it, we should immediately retreat to the hill we just saw, Shasha has the ability to protect himself, and I don't want to be hung up again."

Ma Jianguo said solemnly:

"We have to guard against it, in case it can't be cured, the chief waved his hand, and those poisonous arrows and spears were aimed at us again, and it was too late to fence them at the dance banquet, so we had to rearrange them."

Shasha nodded and said:

"That's good, it's not right, you can evacuate, but don't shoot, they're not bad guys."

"Never shoot," said the colonel; "But it's still okay to escape."

Shasha nodded, turned to Wang Jinfen and said:

"Mom, have you ever bathed?"

There was a clear river over there when they came.

"Not yet, isn't this waiting for you?"

The colonel said:

"Go quickly, they have carried the lady out to wash, and the witch has taken her clothes."