Chapter 17: The Great Festival
Zhou Xin took a breath, and then spoke: "Since this is the case, there is no new candidate, then we will now start voting on the next president." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
After a pause, he asked, "Is there anyone who opposes Dart taking over as the next dean?" Yes, please raise your hand. After Zhou Xin's words, the scene fell silent again, and Zhou Xin took some time to scan the entire hall and found that no one had raised their hands.
After letting everyone think about it for a few minutes, Zhou Xin really didn't see anyone objecting to this, so he continued to ask, "Then agree to Dart's request to take over as the next deanβuh-" Before he could finish his words, everyone present raised their hands.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin reluctantly continued to speak, "It seems that I don't need to say anything more." Then, he raised his head and shouted to Dart on the stage, "Since everyone has made their own choice, Dart, you don't have to shirk it, you are the only one who can take up the important task of dean." β
When Zhou Xin opened his mouth to solve the siege before, Dart, who was very embarrassed at first, showed a relieved expression, but as the plot continued to develop, his mood began to become nervous. After the election was completed and Zhou Xin re-introduced the topic to himself, he showed a helpless expression again, obviously he was not ready to take over the burden in his heart.
Seeing this, everyone opened their mouths to persuade, "Dart, you still agree." "Yes, Dean, this is an outcome that we all agree on, so don't refuse." "This is a choice made in front of the ancestors, Dean Dart, you don't shirk it anymore." Some people have already begun to call the dean directly.
Seeing that Dart was still embarrassed, Zhou Xin had no choice but to relieve the siege again and said: "Since they have all been selected, then you don't have to worry, the top priority now is to continue the big festival." β
Under Zhou Xin's reminder, everyone remembered that the Great Sacrifice was still going on, and they suddenly fell silent, focusing their eyes on Dart, waiting for his next move.
Glancing at Zhou Xin gratefully, Dart adjusted his mood for a moment, and then proceeded to the Great Ceremony, "Now, we stand here and report to our ancestors: under the glory of our ancestors, we once developed a glorious civilization, and now although we have fallen into the trough of civilization. At this point, he glanced around at the people under the platform, "But our people have not perished, and I believe that our Atlantis will still have the day to regain its glory." At this time, the Atlanteans below showed excited expressions.
Then, Dart's expression became serious, "Now, we must forget the pain and move on, and those who sacrificed for Atlantis will also leave the pain behind us and join the arms of our ancestors, silently watching us behind us." After saying this, Dart knelt down again, and everyone knelt down when they saw this, "Now, we are here to offer sacrifices, and may the ancestors and the heroes who have passed away continue to protect us." Then, from Dart's mouth came a sentence similar to a mantra, which sounded very obscure, and even Dart was slowly spoken by syllable, and the translator did not translate this sentence.
After Dart finished saying this sentence, which was similar to a spell, Zhou Xin heard a low horn sound coming from the hall, but Zhou Xin hadn't seen anything like a horn before. Listening carefully to the sound of the horn, it took a long time for Zhou Xin to hear it, and it seemed to come from the totem pole in the middle of the hall. At first, the sound of the horn was not very loud, but as time went on, the sound began to get louder and louder, and by the end, a huge horn sounded throughout the hall.
When the sound of the horn reached its climax, Zhou Xin saw that all the small pillars that had been placed around the totem pole before were on fire, and all kinds of things placed on the pillars were burning without exception.
At the same time as the pillar was burning, Dart, who was kneeling, once again led the people to bow down in the direction of the sun lamp, and this time, everyone lay on the ground reverently, and did not stand up straight.
The light of the fire on the pillar did not last long, and in less than a minute, the fire that had risen on the pillar was extinguished, however, what had been placed on the pillar before had been burned to ashes by the fire. After the fire on the pillar had been extinguished, the crowd stood up, and Dart stood up and said, "Now, we are here to offer sacrifices to show what we have experienced so far, and that our ancestors will continue to bless our people." β
After saying this, Dart and the other Atlanteans sang in unison, and unlike the melodious singing voices that had preceded it, the song was low, rich, and full of wild beauty. Zhou Xin, who was next to them, still didn't understand what the Atlanteans were singing, but the melody of the song was very simple and smooth, and Zhou Xin only listened to the first paragraph and began to hum along with them.
But although the melody was simple, the song was very long, and they sang it for ten minutes, and Zhou Xin still didn't feel any signs of stopping the singing, and the whole hall reverberated with this rich song.
Twenty minutes later, Zhou Xin heard the singing echoing in the hall begin to weaken, and after another five minutes, the singing finally stopped. However, the movements of the Atlanteans did not stop, and at the same time as the song ended, the people in the inner circle began to spin along the totem pole. They were dancing as they turned, as if it were the Atlantean civilization itself, and while the person in the middle was dancing, the others on the periphery began to sing again, this time in a strange song, only two syllables repeated, but the song was in harmony with the rhythm of the dance of the person in the middle.
Like the previous songs, the dance continued for a long time, and after about half an hour, the singing on the periphery stopped, and the people who circled around the totem pole in the middle also stopped. At this time, Dart walked down from the platform, and while Zhou Xin was quietly watching, waiting for their next activity, the crowd in front of him parted a road, and Dart was walking towards him step by step from the opposite side of the road.
Walking up to Zhou Xin, Dart opened his mouth and invited, "My dear friends, I sincerely invite you to participate in this great festival of ours. After speaking, he looked at Zhou Xin with eager eyes.
Seeing that Dutt took the initiative to invite him, Zhou Xin was a little surprised, and after being stunned for a while, he asked, "Isn't this your big festival?" Can we really participate? Seeing Dart nodding at himself, Zhou Xin replied, "I'm happy, it's my honor." β
"Please come with me." Dart turned around and walked back, seeing this, Zhou Xin and the people behind him followed, walking around the totem pole, Dart did not go to the platform, but turned around directly to face the surrounding crowd, walked to Dart's side, Zhou Xin looked at him with a puzzled face.
Seeing Zhou Xin's eyes, Dart understood what he meant at a glance, so he opened his mouth to explain: "Just now, I will stand on the platform because of the needs of the festival. As he spoke, he motioned for Zhou Xin to turn his head and face the crowd.
"Is the festival over?" Zhou Xin turned around as he asked, and he found that the crowd had closed, and now everyone was quietly looking in his direction.
"Not yet." Dart replied, "I used to communicate with the ancestors, and the ceremony was more solemn, but then it was an ordinary celebration, so it doesn't matter if you relax a little." β
Zhou Xin nodded, "Then go on, don't disturb your next activities because of our arrival." β
Da Ting nodded and said loudly to the people around him: "The hero is gone, and the ancestors don't want us to continue to grieve, let us keep the hero's deeds in our hearts and move on." After saying this, he gestured like everyone, and everyone took a few steps back when they saw this, leaving a clearing between the totem pole and the crowd, just when Zhou Xin felt strange, a beautiful singing voice came from behind him, and Zhou Xin, who was attracted by the singing, turned his head to look in the direction of the totem pole, and then he saw Christy singing and walking down from the totem pole.
When Christy was on the stage before, he didn't feel that standing at such a close distance to observe, Zhou Xin found that Christy in full costume had indescribable beauty compared to before, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
Christy walked in front of Zhou Xin while singing, when she was only three steps away from Zhou Xin, Zhou Xin finally came back to his senses, and saw that Christy was so close to him, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and when he was about to take a few steps back to return to the crowd, Christy stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Xin's hand, and then looked at him with a smile.
Being grabbed by Christy's hand, Zhou Xin felt even more embarrassed, and Dart added with a smile next to him, "It looks like Christy wants to perform with you." At this time, the few people who had just followed Zhou Xin saw this and took a few steps back and retreated among the surrounding Atlanteans.
"I'm not going to." Zhou Xin said embarrassedly.
However, no one answered him, Zhou Xin turned his head and found that everyone else had retreated into the crowd, and only himself and Christy were left in the open space in the middle. However, Christie's expression remained unchanged, and her mouth continued to sing while dancing around Zhou Xin. In this way, Zhou Xin stood on the stage, like a stiff puppet, allowing Christy to fiddle with himself beside him.
In just five minutes, Zhou Xin seemed to live like a year, and he didn't even bother to listen to Christie's beautiful singing. He didn't know how long it took, and then he came back to his senses in the applause around him, Zhou Xin, who came to his senses, looked around and found that Christy had finished the performance, and now she was bowing to the surroundings, seeing this, Zhou Xin also hurriedly bowed around, and at the same time felt very embarrassed, he didn't know what he had just done. At this moment, Christy came over and grabbed his arm again, and dragged him back into the crowd before Zhou Xin could react.
Just as Zhou Xin left the middle clearing, a beautiful singing voice sounded again, this time it was Retina who was singing, but Zhou Xin didn't have time to listen to the song, because Spred was teasing him next to him.
"What was it like to be on stage just now?" Spred asked with a low chuckle.
"I don't feel it at all." Zhou Xin replied with a wry smile, "I didn't know what was going on at all, and then I came down." β
"With such a beautiful woman next to you, you don't feel it at all?" Spred looked at Christy and teased with a smile, and Christie's face turned red all of a sudden.
"Yes, Christy is one of the best beauties in the base, you actually said that you don't feel it, it seems that your aesthetics are very problematic." Dart overheard their conversation and smiled at it.
"Even Grandpa, you make fun of me." Christy sneered beside her, "Ignore you." So saying, she turned her head to listen to Retina sing.
Seeing this, Dart and Spred didn't say anything more, Dart walked up to Zhou Xin, smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and then turned his head to listen to the song.
Seeing that everyone turned their heads to listen to Retina singing, Zhou Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief, he turned his head to look in the direction of Christie, and then he found that Christy was also secretly looking at himself, and when he saw Zhou Xin turn his head, she hurriedly turned her head back to the direction of the clearing, pretending that nothing had happened. After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Xin still chose to sit down like the people around him, and watched the next performance seriously, and where he didn't see it, Christy caught a glimpse of Zhou Xin sitting down directly out of the corner of her eye, she sighed slightly, and continued to watch Rhettina's performance with a slightly disappointed look.
Next, the performance lasted for a long time, during which many Atlanteans that Zhou Xin knew and didn't know went up to perform, and what Zhou Xin didn't expect was that even Tarst, who he thought was very wooden, came to the stage to perform, although the performance was not very good. At the end, the sexually aroused Spred and they also took the stage to sing a traditional song of the Thunder Star people.
A few hours later, after Spred had just finished singing, Dart walked out of the middle of the crowd and stopped the rest of the show, he walked back to the stage, looked around at the crowd, and said slowly: "Ancestors, if you can see it, please don't worry about your descendants, we will definitely carry your will and lead Atlantis forward." Heroes, your contribution to the nation of Atlantis will not be in vain, and we will keep your deeds in our hearts. No matter how much time passes, we hope that you will guide us forward. β
At the same time as Dart spoke, the people around him stood up one after another, and their expressions no longer frolicked before, but became serious......