Chapter 21: The Ritual

Yuge had landed as gently as she could, but the strong air currents still blew my clothes messy, and I tried my best to keep my feet steady. Another bout of fainting, another bout of numbness.

She took me to hide under a large tree and watched from afar.

Then I was stunned and woke up from my numbness.

Her settlement is thriving.

Yuge had only told me that her hometown was closed and backward, which gave me the illusion that their ethnic settlement would be very similar to that of a primitive tribe, with a few tents around a campfire, but the reality was very different from what I thought. This delicate community is not to be underestimated even by the most skilled planners of mankind.

Their dwellings are built on trees like birds' nests, but they are much larger than birds' nests, and small dwellings need at least four trees to support them, while large ones need to be close to ten trees to define. These small dwellings show a very complete construction process, they are made of countless woven wooden strips, thick and thin, you can clearly see the stressed structure, different levels of wooden strips support each other, forming an oval house. Some areas of the building are dense, while others are relaxed and full of rhythm.

The sparrows are small but have all the organs, and these bird-man buildings are as amazing as many of the famous monuments of the human world.

"Miss Yuge, you never told me that your race is so skillful, and it is understandable that I can't communicate with the outside world for such a creation." I was amazed by what I saw.

In addition to the craftsmanship, I found that their ghettos showed a distinctly hierarchical character. In the center is the largest nest, and then the further out, the nest becomes smaller and denser. There is an unmistakable centripetal character to the whole area, and there is a wide terrace around the largest nest in the middle, and the other small nests have their own escalators leading to this terrace, which is obviously their gathering center.

At this moment, on every platform, in every shade of the trees, there are several young girls, some of them are playing the harp, some are playing the flute, and some are beating the strange musical instruments made of wood hollowouts.

And the men, all gathered under the big platform at this moment, beat the ground with harpoons, and played the most accurate drums for the girls' playing. The time is sparse and the time is dense, and the sound is pleasant.

"Miss Yuge! Is everyone in your race so proficient in music theory? "Once again, I was blown away because these birdmen seemed to be born with a sense of music, and they played casually to form beautiful pieces of music of their own.

Yu Ge must have been a little impatient by my repeated exclamations, and she gently covered my mouth. "Shhhh Don't speak, we watch quietly. ”

Long Shao was now tied to a stake on the terrace, and it looked like he had fallen asleep. A flock of birdmen surrounded him, and three older-looking women sat on the rattan chairs opposite Long Shao, looking at him solemnly.

“patini!”

The woman sitting in the middle suddenly shouted.

This sentence that I didn't understand caused quite a commotion, and for a while there was a lot of noise. The men and women gathered around became distracted by the words, and flew down from the terrace, and watched timidly below, and for a moment there were only a few people left on the wide terrace.

The three women sitting on the wicker chairs were much calmer than the fleeing birdmen, and they quickly formed a triangle, with the dragon in the center. The woman at the head made a gurgling sound from her mouth.

“parakore!”

For a while, countless white feathers came with the wind from all directions, fluttering and sprinkling, as if it had fallen a snow that was not cold but beautiful.

These three women should be the leaders in Yu Ge's mouth, I didn't expect that even the leaders were so beautiful, they looked just a little bigger than the girls, they were as beautiful and moving as the girls who had just bathed in the lake, and they also had a mature charm, their hands were swinging gracefully like conductors. These feathers instantly became human, they gathered on Long Shao's body, covering them layer by layer, these feathers were tightly attached to Long Shao's skin, leaving no gaps, and after a while, Long Shao was wrapped into a white sphere.

“tahunga!”

The white feathers were surging like waves, and they slowly dragged Long Shao high into the air, and the three women changed their gestures to a more decisive and commanding style, manipulating the feathers as if they were casting spells. It can be seen that this formation consumed a lot of their physical strength, and the faces of the three women were covered with sweat.

The white feathers tumbled more violently, and a stream of jet-black ink was hidden inside the white sphere, which was constantly emerging along the edge of the feathers, and after a while, half of the white feathers had been dyed black, such a scene was like a drop of ink dripping into the water, and in just a few seconds, the originally clear water waves were swallowed up by the darkness.

"Wow! I've never seen my mother use such a powerful spell. Even Yu Ge on the side couldn't help but exclaim.

Then a succession of feathers came from all directions, and the black balls gathered, the black ink kept pouring out, and the white feathers kept rolling in, and the process formed an endless cycle, and I watched the incredible everything in the corner.

I can't imagine that there will be such a grand and magnificent ceremony, I have seen many similar performances on TV in such a scene, but the immersive feeling, such a shock can not be described, under the ritual of these three women, I am like a small insect that will be blown by the wind at will, these powerful forces can crush me in an instant.

This ritual lasted for a long time, and not only me and Yu Ge, but even the people below were dumbfounded, they didn't say a word, and the entire settlement fell silent.

Only the wind could be heard. The sound of feathers flying one after another.

Eventually, the black ink was drained by the white feathers, and they stopped tumbling, and I fixed my eyes on the sphere, which had gathered to the size of a spherical observatory, and the black feathers suddenly lost all force and poured down in all directions. These black feathers turned into ashes before they touched the ground, and the sky, which was still clear, turned into a haze for a while, and the air was filled with a thick fishy smell.

Long Shaodi fell to the ground in the sky, his mouth was full of black ink, and he kept vomiting out. His body had regained its original complexion.

But I couldn't believe my eyes, I couldn't confirm whether this was Long Shao at all, I knew it couldn't be someone else, but Long Shao's appearance after this ritual baptism was completely different from before.

He had become a lean man, his round belly was gone, his thick arms and thighs had become much more slender, and his clothes now seemed as loose as sheets. He looks almost the same as he did in the picture he gave me, handsome and handsome.

"Oh my God!" Yu Ge and I couldn't help but sigh.