Chapter 25: Usri's Worries
Forrest Gump, the giant arm man, was slightly tired after a night's trek. He walked all the way to the Huyamen, the only entrance to the Baiwu Mountain Basin, and occasionally found a few white fruit trees growing sporadically in the dense Shuiweng forest, looking at the trees full of ripe white fruits, Forrest Gump swallowed his saliva and found that he was hungry and tired.
Forrest Gump secretly calculated that he had to deal with the entire White Witch tribe alone, and he had no chance of winning, if he was hungry and tired when he got there, how could he fight and save the Kham people. Thinking of this, Forrest Gump decided to take a break and eat something to replenish his energy, he couldn't disappoint the man who was waiting on the edge of the ice swamp.
So Forrest Gump came to a tall and thin white fruit tree full of fruits, raised his right arm and slashed the trunk hard, and then he hurried to protect his head with both hands like a child.
"Knock knock knock......" More than 10 ginkgo seeds fell down, and two hit Forrest Gump's shoulder and blossomed directly. Forrest Gump stretched his back against the trunk of the tree on the ground, picked up the ginkgo on the ground, broke it open, and ate it in a big gulp. The purple-red white flesh is rich in nutrients and water, and Forrest Gump devoured it and ate about 10 of them at once. The purple-red flesh touched his mouth, and he wiped his mouth with his big hand, then raised his hands behind his head and lifted Erlang's legs, squinting.
Because he was in a hurry to eat, he burped a few times in succession, and Forrest Gump, who was squinting, felt that his sitting position was not very comfortable, so he moved his back. By the way, he opened his eyes and looked around, looking down, and found that he was surrounded by leftover peels, so he pushed the peel with his hand, and found a hairy grass, he pulled it up, and then put the rhizome of hairy grass in his mouth and chewed it leisurely.
"Hmm!! Damn, I almost forgot what I was going to do. Forrest Gump suddenly muttered to himself, and he patted his head.
"Poof!" The grass in his mouth was spit out by him, and Forrest Gump, who was full of food and drink, almost forgot that he had to save people because he had never been so tired and hungry.
So Forrest Gump opened the peel of the fruit next to him with his hand and tried to find another rhizome of Mao Mao grass to chew in his mouth, but he couldn't find it no matter how he turned it over. His gaze stopped at the hairy grass he had spit out, paused, and slowly reached out to pick it up and put it in his mouth to continue chewing.
Forrest Gump chewed as he recalled his father's words, and he had heard his father talk about the basin of the White Witch tribe of the Kham people. There are mainly some flamingo trees growing on the basin of the Baiwu tribe, as well as many white fruit forests and bamboo forests, and the terrain is flat and surrounded by natural stone walls several meters to more than ten meters high.
In the middle of the basin, backed by the cliffs of the Kanglacius, grows an ancient flamingo tree. This ancient tree is nearly 30 meters in diameter, larger than a house, and its light green dense and huge canopy covers almost a fifth of the basin.
The fruit of the flamingo tree is red, the skin is smooth, and the flesh is filled with a subtle fragrance, which is very delicious. The most valuable is the core of the flamingo fruit, which can be used to refine a cooking oil. It can be said that the whole body is a treasure.
This flamingo tree is nearly 7,000 years old, and in the long years, it has cracked the nearly 2-meter-thick stone wall next to it, because the front part of the trunk near the ground is obliquely long, and it does not grow upward until the trunk reaches the stone wall. The Kham people regard this ancient flamingo tree as a god, and they believe that it is the flamingo god who protects their people, and they enjoy the gifts of the flamingo tree god every day, so the flamingo tree god is supreme in the White Witch tribe, and no one dares to blasphe.
According to Forrest Gump's father, there is a hole in a tree several meters deep about 3 meters above the ground, and the entrance of the hole is narrow, and the Kham people send a Kham girl into this hole every year through a solemn ceremony to worship the tree god and pray for protection.
Forrest Gump is thinking about how to carry out his rescue plan based on the small amount of information he has about the White Witch Basin. At this moment, there was a sound of drums and shouts from the distant slope. Forrest Gump came back to his senses when he heard the buzzing of his head, and he got up and ran up the slope, knowing that the hateful old man was about to start the sacrificial ritual.
In the distance, on the edge of the swamp, Charelle picked some berries around to satisfy her hunger and drank some water. She was resting quietly on the grass when she was suddenly awakened by the sound of drums in the distance. Xia Lei'er sat up and looked in the direction Forrest Gump pointed out just now, there seemed to be a huge tree growing on the mountain, and the sound seemed to come from there, and she could vaguely see someone's shadow appearing between the stone stairs on the mountainside.
Xia Li'er was very anxious thinking that her sister Tagu was on it, but if she was reluctant to go up in this state, she might not only not be able to help, but would only hinder the giant from rescuing Tagu.
"Tagu!" Xia Leier leaned her head on her knees with her hands on her knees, and tears fell down her eyes. Taya's playful smile, innocent laughter was always present in front of her eyes, and her lips were holding her salty tears.
"My lovely sister, you must be fine, you must come back. Woohoo......"
The anxious Forrest Gump quickly passed through the water forest, and quietly approached the basin at the top of the mountain under the cover of scattered bamboo forests. When there was no cover in front of him a few dozen meters away from the Tiger Cliff Gate, Forrest Gump hid between a bamboo forest and two large water trees, stopped, and carefully observed the Kham guards at the door.
I saw that about 20 Kham people on both sides of the narrow Tiger Cliff Gate were holding long javelins to strictly check, feeling that they knew that the giant arm people were coming to rob people. Forrest Gump estimated how long it would take him to quickly deal with the guards to break through the first level of the White Witch Tribe, when he heard a more rapid drum beat and noise coming from above.
Deep in the White Witch Basin, backed by the cliffs of the White Witch Mountain, under the ancient and sacred flamingo trees, nearly 200 Kham people are cheering and dancing. A few Kham people carried a small and beautiful moth man with wings that they had never seen before into the crowd and came to the simple altar under the flamingo tree. At this time, the wizard was standing in front of the altar facing the flamingo with his back to the people, squinting his eyes and muttering words in his mouth.
Poor Tagu was firmly grasped by his hands and feet, and watching the strange Kham crowd cheering along the way, Taya didn't know what he would be done. She didn't call, the fear and uneasiness of the strangeness made her miss her sister so much, Dana, and the familiar Kaller steppe. Tears unconsciously wet her face, slid down and mixed with snot, beautiful Taya has never been so embarrassed.
"Sister......
Taya shouted in her heart, desperate at the moment, she only had the spiritual sustenance of her sister in her heart. Since she was a child, her sister has been the person who loves her the most, and she is afraid that she will be trapped here from now on, and she will no longer be able to be spoiled by her sister, and she will no longer be able to play tricks on Dana. She is also worried about her sister, is she getting out safely, will she be looking for herself everywhere?
Taya looked up at the distant sky through tears, as if longing to see her sister's most familiar smile.
"Uh......h Baba! At this moment, a tall and majestic Kham man in the crowd wearing a colorful feather hat raised a staff in his hand and shouted loudly, he was the chief of the White Witch tribe, Usri, although he smiled, but could not hide his majesty. The crowd fell silent at the chief's command, and drew closer to him.
Usri had actually had a debate with the wizard about whether or not to sacrifice the blood of this beautiful stranger to the god of the Flamingo Tree. The first sight of Taya in Usri struck him.
Taya's beautiful white hair and white skin, as well as the fuchsia wings, and the fear and innocence projected by his moving eyes, all touched the chief Usri.
Usri sighed in his heart that such a beautiful angel should live in her homeland, and he couldn't believe that the wizard had mercilessly captured her and wanted to use her to sacrifice to the god of trees.
"She's so beautiful." Usri said.
"Yes, Chief. It took me a lot of effort to get her back from the lake. Both of my sons were injured trying to catch her, and it was they who covered me to get her back from the Giant Arm. I don't know if my two sons escaped, that damn Forrest Gump almost ruined my good deeds. The old cha said while looking at Duogu and lowering his head to arrange the ornaments on his shoulders.
"You mean the Giant Arm?" Usri's brow furrowed slightly.
"That's right, it's Forrest Gump, the giant arm man."
"He's the son of the Giant Arm Chieftain of the Jieka tribe who slashed the Heavenly Arm!"
"Yes...... Yes," the old cha's wrinkled face showed a hint of unease, and she shuddered inwardly when she heard the Sky Slashing Arm, she didn't realize that she might have provoked a formidable enemy.
Usri was silent for a moment, staring at the old cha and asked, "Does the Giant Arm also want to arrest this man?" The chief pointed to Tagu.
The old cha was speechless for a while, and she was not sure if the giant arm man was trying to snatch the winged man, trying to remember the scene last night and her conversation with Forrest Gump, and turned her eyes to look at Usri and said, "I remember that he wanted to stop me from arresting someone, but I bet he was trying to snatch her." ”
After speaking, the old man said to Duogu Nunu, "By the way, she also has two companions, one of them is similar to her, and the other is not like them at all, I don't think the giant arm man should be so greedy, he can completely catch the other." It's sad that that hateful Forrest Gump chased me all night, and I was almost exhausted, and I don't know if he hurt my two sons. After saying that, the old man was a little indignant.
"He chased you all night? How do I think he's trying to save this man? Usri tried to get to the bottom of the matter, and he knew that the wizard might be lying.
"This ......," the old man was speechless for a moment, "Don't worry, Chief, I have just arranged for more than 20 people to stand guard at the gate to prevent him from chasing and attacking us." She knew she couldn't justify what she was saying, and comforted Usri.