Chapter 423: After the lightning strike
Solang Wangdui told us: Because of the geographical reasons, there is a lack of wood in Tibetan areas, so there has been a custom of bird burial for thousands of years; Under the admiration of bird burial for thousands of years, the status of the dog-headed eagle and several other eagles that eat corpses in Tibetan areas is also getting higher and higher, and they are called holy birds, and bird burials are called heavenly burials. Burn? Wen?? ???. r?a?n?? e?n`org
It is said that after death, the corpse masters transported the body of the deceased to the altar of a large rock platform, then broke the body into bodies, heads, and flesh, and then violently pounded and smashed them with large stones, and in order to make it easier for the sacred birds to peck, they pinched the smashed meat and bones into balls. In order to pray for complete freedom of the soul, the corpse must be completely destroyed.
After doing this, the necrocers tied the meat and balls together with some heavier stones and placed them in the center of the altar: this was done to prevent the birds from pecking the meat and balls apart. The sacred birds, which had gathered near the altar every morning, heard the order of the corpse master, and immediately pushed and fought with each other, and quickly pounced on the deformed remains of the deceased.
In just five minutes, the altar was cleaned by the holy bird. In the Tibetan mind, the soul should not leave anything behind in the end in order to attain complete liberation; Therefore, based on the role of dog-headed eagles in funerals, Tibetans respect these sacred birds very much.
It is precisely because of this that Kasongira will make this great gift when he sees the dog-headed eagle in front of him being shot down; And after that, he also told us not to let us hurt the doghead again.
It's just a pity that the truth never turns out the way we imagined! Soon after the kobold was shot down by the woods, more kobolds began to chase after us from the darkness with fluttering wings.
And because of Kasongira, we didn't dare to shoot the doghead again, so we had to hide in the bones of the huge giant; Fortunately, the giant's ribs are still intact, and the gap between the ribs is just right to block the attack of the kobold!
Kasongira also hid in the bones of the giants with us, kept taking out camel beef from his bag, throwing it to the dozen or so ko-headed eagles that swooped down, and bowed to the group of ko-headed eagles!
But the group of ko-headed eagles were unmoved, and after eating the camel beef thrown out by Kasongira in three and two strokes, they concentrated the target of attack on us again!
Their beaks were not sharp, but their bite was not small, and the ribs on the giant's bones were frequently bitten off by them, and if we continued like this, we would soon lose this barrier; Thinking that these dog-headed eagles can even bite the bones of giants, then our fragile little body will naturally not be an opponent, and I can't help but feel anxious when I think of this.
Perhaps we should come here and respect their customs, as Kasongira said, and respect these crazy kobheads as they do; But in fact, these kobolds don't want to respect us in the slightest, and it won't be long before they break through the ribs on the giant's bones, and then we'll be the next ones!
"I can't care so much, get ready to shoot!"
Seeing that the ribs on the giant's skeleton were bitten off one by one, and we were about to be exposed to the claws of the kobolds, I couldn't let everyone present die here because of my private matter of looking for my grandmother, so I hurriedly raised the gun in my hand and shouted at the people around us, ready to shoot at this group of crazy kobolds.
However, before we could make any moves, the dozen or so ko-headed eagles suddenly seemed to sense some huge crisis? He began to flutter his wings in panic and left the giant's bones, and flew away desperately towards the depths of the canyon in the darkness.
"What's this way of?"
Lin Zi spat and watched the group of dog-headed eagles fly away as if they were fleeing, and he was a little confused.
"Boom ......"
Perhaps the only thing that can answer Lin Zi's question may be the next scene! After the group of dog-headed eagles flew away, there was a sudden loud noise in the entire canyon, which sounded a bit like the thunder during a rainstorm? The earth shook and shook.
Immediately after, a blinding light suddenly appeared above our heads, and it slammed into the ground at lightning speed.
"Flash ......"
By the time we discovered the sudden crisis in the air, it was too late, and I didn't even have time to shout the second word after the lightning before a strong current passed through my body, and I fell unconscious.
By the time I woke up again, it was already dawn! After being struck by lightning last night, there seemed to be a heavy rain in the canyon, and I was already soaking wet, and the land around me was muddy; However, after the heavy rain, Death Valley is still shrouded in a thick layer of fog, like a veil, so that people can never see its true face.
I crawled up from the mud, and then I saw that not only myself, but also Lin Zi and Fan Chenzi, all of them had been struck by last night's lightning, and they were lying unconscious in the shell of the giant's bones. It's Xiao Qinyao's white fox, who is standing alone in the shell of the giant's bones at this time, communicating with Xiao Qinyao, seemingly trying to wake her up?
"Old Hu...... Woods...... Predecessor...... Wake up......"
I don't know if there's anything wrong with them in the forest? So I looked into the past one by one! Fortunately, after some investigation, I found that they were just struck by lightning and fell unconscious, and there was nothing serious, so I was relieved.
"This place is very weird, nephew Zhang Xian, let's go forward quickly!"
After all of them woke up, Fan Chenzi looked at the charred land in front of him and was immediately afraid.
"Further down is the snow, and the situation will be a little better!"
Solang Wangdui also conveyed to me the meaning of Kasongira in due course, telling me that we would be much safer after leaving this area.
"Okay, then let's move forward as soon as possible, and rest again when we reach a safe place!"
After listening to the words of Fan Chenzi and Suo Langwangdui, I looked at the sky, but unfortunately through that layer of fog, I couldn't tell what the weather was like at all. I thought it would be bad if there was a lightning flash and thunder like last night. So I didn't care about the mud on my body, and shouted at everyone.
In fact, it can be seen from the situation at the scene that we were relatively lucky last night! The charred ground and the bones here show us that this place is a minefield, and that many animals have been struck by lightning and killed here, just like we did last night. Fortunately, the lightning we encountered was not very powerful, so we were lucky enough to escape.
ps: I came back a little late from going out, so the update was a little late, I hope you understand! 0.0