Chapter Seventy-Nine: Independence Day

The sun was setting, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and the golden evening light sprinkled on the roof of the oracle and every corner of the gentle slope;

"Are the calendar pillars still engraving?" I stood on the wooden steps and asked Sister Xiangchuan, who took my arm and smiled and nodded at me;

"What day is it?";

"September 23";

How could it be so coincidental, this day happened to be the ninth full year that I had been adrift on an isolated island after I was in distress;

Raising his hand and beckoning to the white-robed people under the gentle slope at the far end, the men and women of my own tribe walked over with their chests puffed up when they saw my call, while the white-robed people of the Qi tribe and the Poison Department looked at each other tremblingly and lowered their heads, looking at the posture like a group of prisoners rushing to the execution ground after defeat;

I have not seen this kind of battle of four or five hundred men for a long time, as the saying goes, "a thousand people are up to the sky", and the place where the oracle was built was originally a narrow mouth and a trumpet, which was originally intended to facilitate defense in the event of an enemy attack, but now four or five hundred people poured into this trumpet like a tide, and the dense white robes extended from the front of the oracle steps to the bottom of the gentle slope;

Take out a small earthen pot and knock off the bottom of the jar when the horn is pressed on the mouth:

"Good evening......" was so calm in my tone that I could only hear it in the nearest rows;

"The Dali tribe has a new beginning for us today";

"Whether it is the grudges, entanglements, deception or oppression of the past, whether it is the shadow of blood, the axe, the looting or the massacre between your tribes";

"The former Dali tribe has come together again, and we can no longer consume each other for the differences of our ancestors, but unite with each other for our common interests";

"It is the arrangement of the sun god and the wood god, and today happens to be the 23rd of September, which is the national birthday I set nine years ago, and we stand together before the oracle";

"We are no longer standing here to kill each other and persecute each other, but for our survival, for each of us to have abundant food, comfortable shelter and to protect our lovers!";

I paused, and my eyes fell on Sister Chuan's face, her eyes were still blurry, but I could see that all the happiness was revealed in the blur;

"We are coming here for survival, and we are also walking together for the right to live";

"We will no longer give our wives and daughters to the pleasures of the Evil Spirits!"

"We will no longer see our brothers serve as slaves to the Spirits!"

"We will never again allow any of God's favored people to die in vain at the hands of the spirits";

"We will live, tenaciously live, and together the sun god and the wood god will bring us the end of the evil spirits";

"Today, September 23 will no longer be just a national holiday for the Banpo tribe, I will announce to the sun god and the wood god that September 23 will forever belong to the people favored by the sun god and the wood god."

"Today will be the Independence Day of all the Dali tribes!"

I emptied my mind and recalled the lines from the movie, and my tone went from flat to high, until it was so high that it resonated with my chest, my voice was hoarse, and I was dizzy;

But the exciting, god-to-spirit, flag-waving and shouting scene I was expecting never appeared, but I saw the white-robed people stretching under the wooden steps bowing their heads and whispering, and the words of a few people drifted into my ears, "What does Shanna mean?" ”;

Holding his cheeks, he squatted helplessly on the wooden steps, watching the four or five hundred primordial savages coaxing each other nonsense, not to mention what it was like in his heart......

Sister Chuan took half a step forward, clasped her hands in front of her chest, lowered her head slowly, and suddenly said in a tone that resonated with her abdominal cavity and chest cavity:

"Shanna's people, the followers of the sun god"

"What I have to eat, you will have food"

"We will no longer be starved to death, beaten to death, or abused to death by the Spirits, and we will never hand over any of our people to the savage Spirits."

"Shanna will lead us to work together, to receive God's reward, and to defeat the demons together, just as they did last time."

"Today will be our holiday, the sun god and the wood god say this holiday is called Independence Day"

"Tonight, all of us will celebrate our own Independence Day with the best food and the brightest bonfire!"

As the passionate words of the Sichuan girl landed, the crowd erupted in earth-shattering cheers and roars, and the white-robed people raised their hands and shouted "Shanna" and shouted "Independence Day", and the women of the drug department who were already holding their stomachs jumped with the people around them regardless of their bodies;

Yes, they have been oppressed for too long and too much, and even the children in the wombs of these women are the births of those wild beasts, and it is hard to imagine what kind of bullying they were subjected to when they were conceived;

I watched the white-robed crowd of people in front of me who looked like madmen so easily satisfied, satisfied with food, satisfied with survival, satisfied with the protection of God;

Therefore, they don't need the spiritual food I give them, but they need the "grain rice" and "rabbit meat" that the Sichuan girls give them, and share them with each other;

On this night, the feast accompanied by nearly a hundred bonfires connected all the white-robed people from the Demon Girl Tribe, the Qi Tribe, and the Poison Department, and I even took out a part of the Moutai wine that I had hidden in the cellar and poured it into everyone's mouths;

The laughter, singing, drumming, and slapping of the crowd, the bravado of the men and the laughter of the women, did not subside until midnight, and I was at the height of my drunkenness, sitting alone in the hall of the oracle, watching the bonfire outside the door, and listening to the celebration in the distance;

"Dumb, rabbit broth", a graceful figure floated into the oracle from outside the door, and the coquettish voice reached the ear;

"You did it?" , I looked at the woman in front of me who was still wearing a white robe with hazy eyes;

"Chuan said that every time you drink something called wine, you will be uncomfortable and thirsty, and you have to drink rabbit broth, so I made a bowl in advance", Qi Nu knelt on the ground like a kitten and held the earthen bowl high above her head;

"What about her?";

"She... She said she was going to rub her hair and wipe her body... She also makes... Let me do the same", Qi Nu's voice grew quieter and quieter, so small that only she could hear what she was saying;

"Qi girl, get up and sit with me for a while";

I leaned forward and pulled up the kneeling girl and let her sit next to me and look at the night sky outside the door;

"Don't kneel in front of me in the future, you and Chuan are my dearest people, not slaves, understand?" , I said to Qi Nu in a low voice;

"I don't dare, Qiwu will kneel to you......"

"Why didn't you kneel before?";

"At that time, I didn't know that you were the god who defeated the Demon Clan, and at that time you were just a dumb person I bought";

"Are you afraid of me?";

I shook my body and turned my head to look at her and asked, but she shook her head:

"The people of the hunters say that you have three heads, six arms, can lift a mountain, and can summon the god of thunder to fight for you, but I have seen your naked body, and I have also seen your gentle appearance, you are also a human, and Qi Nu is not afraid";

"Then what are you still kneeling for, are we still as good as before?";

"Are you still willing to be my dumb?" Qi Nu slowly raised her head and looked at me in amazement;

"Of course, but on one condition"

"What is it?"

"Chuan's eyes are not good, you must always be by her side in the future, Dumb promised Chuan to make her the happiest woman in the world", I smiled and looked at Qi Nu and said;

"Do you want to be your eyes even when you have a good time?" , Qi Nu looked at me with curious eyes;

I bent my finger at the bridge of her weak nose with the help of wine: "Where else could you be?" ”;

The hustle and bustle in the distance had completely dissipated, leaving only thirty or fifty white robes to clean up the soot that still had flames and extinguish them one by one;

"Sister Chuan, do you still have wine?" , I looked sideways with my tongue wide and looked at Chuan, who had returned from being wrapped in white;

"You've drunk a lot of ...... tonight", Sister Sichuan never meant me, and gently poured a few drops into the bowl;

I looked at the uncovered wine in the bowl, grabbed the white porcelain bottle, and poured a small sip into my throat: "What does Sosuchi mean in your native language?" ”;

I was dazed by the Sosuchi text mentioned in the wall inscription in the "Chaos" cave, and I asked casually, and frankly, I didn't expect to get any answer from the mouths of the two sheep-like women around me today;

"Soussip? It is our celestial star, showing the way home for every lost clansman," Chuan said, slowly leaning his head on my shoulder;

"A star? Which one? You show me ......";

With the support of the second daughter, he staggered to the door of the oracle with the wine bottle, and looked at the eastern sky along the hand of the girl......

There was indeed a bright star blinking at me, but what really caught my eye was the seven stars hanging upside down above this star, which appropriately excluded a spoon shape, and the tip of the spoon pointed straight to the bright star that the second daughter called Sosuchi;

I lowered my head and laughed silly, tears rolled down my rough face into my grinning mouth, and then I raised the bottle high and tilted my head, and a mouthful of heat went down my esophagus to my stomach, and then I pulled my only two relatives in this world back to the oracle and gently closed the door;

That star, the "North Star" that I had been staring at and looking north for several years every night on this isolated island, now hangs directly east of me;

It was as if I understood a lot of things at that moment...... This is still the earth I am familiar with, but I don't know why, the magnetic poles of the earth's poles have changed, and the heavens and the earth have also changed;

I closed my eyes and thought like a movie about the possible consequences if the Earth's poles changed, but I found that none of them were benign;

The land sector will drift or even rebuild, the ocean will cover an absolute area of the world, and the vast majority of species, including humans, will die out in just a few months;

I hate to admit this scientific reasoning, but I have to admit that only this will cause the North Star to run due east above my head;

My family, are you all right? What did I experience after the Zheng He shipwreck?