But in any tribe that has had this strange disease, there will definitely be many pregnant women in the second year, but on the night when they finally give birth to their babies after ten months of pregnancy, no matter how strict the villagers are, these newborn babies will disappear for no reason.

The social structure of the Luohe savages is somewhat similar to that of the previous matriarchal society, with most of the entire group being male, with only one female, who is responsible for managing the entire community, Danto said.

Strange to say, in the wild colonies, it is very difficult for the baby girl to survive, most of them die soon after birth, and in twenty-five years, only one baby girl can survive, she will grow up in the worship of the colony, and by the age of fifteen, when the previous leader dies, she will become the leader of the new generation and rule the colony for the next ten years.

For the legend of the savage chai, Dantuo also gave a reasonable explanation.

According to Danto, in the savage tribe, not every male has the right to mate with the leader, they are like the ant colony in nature, each has its own division of labor, most of the savages are similar to the worker ants and soldier ants in the ant colony, only responsible for defending the colony or looking for food in the forest, only a very small number of able-bodied savages can become "male ants" who have the right to contact the leader, they are responsible for both defending the leader and passing on the lineage.

But savages are not ants after all, and those males who are not qualified to approach the leader also have desires and needs, and in order to solve physiological problems, they can only target the female members of the human tribe.

And savage firewood is their currency, taking money for people. That is to say, once the woodcutter in the tribe takes the firewood of the savage, it is equivalent to taking other people's money, and the other party will naturally come to the tribe to pick up the goods, but this kind of transaction, from the beginning, there is no room for bargaining, how much firewood you take, how many women you have to exchange.

As for the wild people stealing children, it is to satisfy the food needs of the group leaders, and it is rumored that once the leaders of the wild tribes live past the age of twenty, they will become extremely bloodthirsty, especially favoring human infant blood, and the males of the group will exchange money for babies in order to please the leader.

Dan Tuo speculated that the savages in the Luohe circle may have learned to raise Gu, and the reason why the people in the tribe have the strange disease of paralysis of the whole body is actually that they have been hit by the Gu technique, this kind of Gu has a strong fertility effect, once the person who is recruited has sex X, the woman will soon become pregnant, and when they give birth to the baby, the savage will come to pick up the goods.

In the early years, similar rumors were circulated in the local area, until more than 20 years ago, when the wild people in the Luohe circle began to flood, and the local tribes disappeared one by one, and all kinds of rumors about the wild people were also hidden in the depths of the mountains with the disappearance of these tribes.

In addition to the savage chai, Dantuo also said a lot of rumors related to the savage, but I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't remember anything.

Ten years have passed, and some things will really be completely passed.

Li Huaishan and Dan Tuo talked a lot that night, but no matter how Li Huaishan tried it, Dan Tuo didn't show the slightest bit of sloppiness, he must have felt that Li Huaishan and I doubted him, but between the conversations, he was neither eager to prove himself, nor did he deliberately avoid any questions asked by Li Huaishan.

But the more he did that, the more uneasy I felt.

Jin Xiangqian finished roasting the rabbit meat, and everyone gathered around the campfire, munching on large strips of barbecue while chatting with each other.

Everyone was a little nervous in their hearts, but everyone was reluctant to show this uneasiness, and there was a smell of whitewashed peace in the air.

Li Huaishan tore off a large piece of meat from the rabbit's leg, chewed it twice, and then said to Dan Tuo: "If there is only one female in the community of savages, then each community should be very small, right?" ”

Dantuo shook his head: "That thing is not a person, it may be born, we have a child to conceive for ten months, they can give birth to cubs in two months, seven or eight at a time, if you are unlucky, all the babies born are boys, and they can all survive." Think about it, they have an average of seven or eight cubs every three months, how many are they in a year? ”

Li Huaishan's eyes widened: "That year, it was twenty or thirty, and in ten years, it was two or three hundred." ”

Dantuo continued: "In the early years, there were more than a dozen wild tribes in the Luohe Circle, they had a strong sense of territory, and they often fought to the death with each other, and the prime of life in each group could be maintained at about fifty, but I heard the old head of the Bazin family say ten years ago that in those years, there was a community that suddenly became particularly strong, and swallowed several small communities in one go, and the remaining communities did not dare to provoke them, and they have been allowed to continue to multiply, and I don't know how large it is now. ”

Jin Qianqian interjected and asked: "There are so many wild people in the mountains, haven't the Burmese side sent troops to suppress them?" ”

Dan Tuo sighed: "Why not, in the early years, they also sent people into the mountains to clean up once, but these savages are very good, plus they are familiar with the situation in the mountains, as soon as the regular army comes in, they hide in the mountains, not to mention encirclement and suppression, not even a single hair of the savages has been seen." Fortunately, this group of savages only nested in the mountains, and they had no interest in the outside of the mountains, and they did not cause a big mess, and the people in the nearby areas rarely entered the mountains, they could not see the savages, and they did not know the existence of the savages, and over time, no one cared about the affairs of the savages. ”

I looked at my watch, it was already one o'clock in the morning, there were no dark clouds in the sky for the time being, but no one knew when the heavy rain would come.

Throwing away the two bones in my hand, I turned around and asked Dantuo: "Senior, is the area of Luohe Circle very large?" ”

As soon as Dan Tuo heard it, he understood what I was going to ask, nodded his head, and said: "It's very big, if it is in the dry season, if you want to cross the Luohe Circle, it will take nearly twenty hours, it is the rainy season now, and the mountain road is difficult to walk, even if we set off early tomorrow morning, we will have to cross the Luohe Circle at noon the day after tomorrow at the earliest." ”

Li Huaishan frowned: "In other words, we must be in a hurry to go at night?" ”

Dan Tuo sighed: "This is also a matter of no choice, if you want to enter the inner mountain, you must cross the Luohe circle." On the east and west sides of the Luohe Circle, there is a nest mouth that is connected by hundreds of miles, and compared with those places, the Luohe Circle is relatively safe. ”

Jin Xiangqian: "What is the nest mouth?" ”

Dantuo: "It's the entrance of the Gu nest, some are caves, some are tree holes, and some are dark pits buried under the weeds, and there are a large number of wild Gu guarding near the entrance of these nests, even if it is Lao Jiang, it may not be able to suppress them." ”

Jin Xiangqian: "Hasn't anyone else been in the mountains in the past?" ”

Dantuo said: "Of course, there are people who are engaged in geology, those who are engaged in exploration, those who study the ecosystem of Savage Mountain, and there are more people who go into the mountains. But except for the regular army that went into the mountains to kill the savages, everyone would be able to avoid the Gu Nest and the Luohe Circle, because the miasma in these places was too heavy, and it was difficult for people without cultivation to approach, and there was not no other way to go in the mountains, so of course they would take a detour. ”

Jin Xiangqian: "That's really not good, let's take a detour." ”

I heard Li Huaishan say: "There is no way to detour, if you don't take the current road, you won't be able to enter the inner mountain." ”

A flash of brightness flashed in Danto's eyes: "That's right, if you want to enter the inner mountain, you must pass through the miasma area." In other words, throughout the ages, although many people have been able to enter the Savage Mountain, there are very few who can really find the inner mountain. ”

Jin Xiangqian asked Li Huaishan with a look of surprise: "Brother Dog, have you ever been to Savage Mountain before?" ”

Li Huaishan immediately made a face like a magic stick, pinched his fingers, and said to Jin Xiangqian with a smile: "Of course I haven't been here, but when I entered the mountain, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in my mind, and I knew where the way into the inner mountain was when I pinched my fingers." ”

This is pure nonsense, and he pinched his fingers, he hadn't even learned to finger divination, and pinched a woolen finger.

But Jin Xiangqian and Dan Tuo didn't know his details, and they were all frightened by him, and Dan Tuo also leaned his face over and said, "You are learning to do divination, but why haven't I seen your fingering?" Oh, you won't be a teacher of Mr. Yu Yijie, I heard that he is good at a method of divination, which is very different from the ordinary sixty-four hexagram calculus, is your finger divination method taught by him? ”

Li Huaishan probably didn't feel embarrassed, but just smiled and didn't answer.

Seeing that it was not early, I would have to hurry early tomorrow morning, and when everyone had eaten almost enough, I asked Li Huaishan to extinguish the bonfire, and everyone hastily tidied up their things and went back to the grass shed to rest.

In the mountains and forests, there are always some dangers hidden under the night, and for the sake of safety, I decided to let everyone take turns to keep vigil, I kept the first shift, and the rest were in groups of two, divided into three shifts.

Thankfully, the night was fine.

Early the next morning, before the sky was bright, Boss Wen and Boss Jiang, who were guarding the last shift, woke everyone up, and Li Huaishan led the way in front, and the team once again slowly advanced in the mountains and forests.

In last night's dream, I once again entered the depths of the Sun Tomb, the white fire light appeared again, and the six stone doors took on strange silhouettes in the darkness, and when two of the doors were about to open, the dream came to an abrupt end.

I don't know why, but since the dream changed, I've always felt a little uneasy in my heart, and I always felt that on the other side of the door, there was something hidden that I didn't want to face.

In order to cross the Luohe circle as soon as possible, Li Huaishan quickened his pace halfway, and the speed of the team also increased.

When the sun completely left Dongshan, we entered a very wide valley under the leadership of Li Huaishan, and on both sides of the valley was a high mountain covered with water vapor, which almost completely blocked the sunlight, and a touch of dirty blue-gray appeared everywhere in the valley.

Dan Tuo, who was walking behind me, whispered: "When you enter the valley, you will reach the boundary of the Luohe Enclosure." ”

I glanced back at Dan Tuo and saw him raise his hand and point to the mountainside on the left: "Wolf skin totem, the first landmark in the Luohe circle." ”

When he said this, I looked again in the direction of his finger, and saw a wooden shelf standing halfway up the mountain, with a complete wolf's skin attached to it.

From such a distance, I could vaguely see that the wolf's skin was painted with some red and white paint, which seemed to depict some kind of strange shape, but because it was too far away, I couldn't really see it.

(End of chapter)