Chapter 332: Blood Sacrifice
The supply port was still some distance from the core area of the Kingdom of Dahomey, and there was no road in the jungle, but the two people in front of them seemed to be familiar with this place, and they kept walking without hesitation at all, except for occasionally taking out a pointer to judge the direction.
Moreover, even if you encounter any poisonous snakes and beasts along the way, you will bypass them directly, and you will definitely not be entangled.
"Looks like you're well prepared." Li Mu looked at these two people, which made him more and more interested. Something that makes people work so hard to do their homework must be of great value.
Li Mu has been hanging far behind the two of them, and Shuang'er is even more hidden, and even Li Mu can only roughly perceive the location of Shuang'er.
The two of them followed for most of the day, and finally came to a hidden valley when the sun was about to set.
The valley is littered with thatched and log huts, scattered throughout the valley, and a little cluttered. In the middle of the valley is a clearing, and in the center of the clearing is a high platform made of rock, on which are carved all kinds of strange statues. There are also painted stone pillars scattered in the valley, which are carved into the shape of very abstract beasts, which seem to be some kind of totem.
On the inner side of the valley, a group of female soldiers guarded a large house made of boulders and planks, apparently inhabited by a very high status.
Seeing the group of female soldiers patrolling the camp with weapons in hand, Li Mucai remembered that the Kingdom of Dahomey would recruit sturdy women to join the army because of the shortage of soldiers due to the problem of perennial warfare......
At this time, the sun had set in the west, and a faint golden light enveloped the entire canyon, and a slight wind blew into the canyon, dispelling the hot breath of the day, and the teams returned to the valley one after another. A small number of these groups carried common prey such as zebras, antelopes, and buffaloes, and many more carried strings of black slaves who had been tied up.
The prey was not taken to the corner to be slaughtered and divided, while the black slaves were tied hand and foot in a huge enclosure. The fence is surrounded by guards with weapons. The possibility of these black slaves escaping was cut off. Sometimes the simpler and more primitive the solution, the better it works.
The gold-rimmed glasses and the strong man in front of him hid in a hidden place at this time and quietly hidden, obviously waiting for something. Seeing this, Li Mu was not in a hurry, so he quietly informed Shuang'er to come down, and the two of them found a place that could monitor both the valley and the two of them to sit down and trim one or two.
Although this level of tracking is not very expensive for Li Mu, it has long become a habit for Li Mu to maintain a better state to meet the battle one by one.
As the sky grew darker, the camps in the valley lit piles of bonfires, and the prey was put on the fires and roasted. The smell of meat wafted in the wind.
In front of them, gold-rimmed glasses were hidden, and the two of them twitched their noses as they nibbled on their compressed biscuits. He still muttered silently, "Wait, wait, wait until Lao Tzu steals your things, hiding in the main world, it's not a good ...... to eat and drink spicy."
Li Mu looked at the two of them and laughed, he then arranged the isolation circle, and then beckoned Shuang'er to set up the table together, and then put a table of dishes on the table, and ate happily.
Time passed slowly, and three days passed. The gold-rimmed glasses and the strong man lay quietly in the grass, while Li Mu and Shuang'er set up their tents a hundred meters away from them, drinking tea while watching more and more hunting teams come back and put more and more slaves in that huge cage.
Shuang'er looked at the teapot and snacks placed in front of him, and then looked at the two people lying in the grass not far away, "Childe, why is there such a big gap between us and them?" ”
Li Mu thought for a while, "It's probably the brain hole that changes fate." ”
He could feel that the two of them had not weak energy fluctuations, and they could make such delicate preparations, so their bags must have been filled with various items, and the main reason for this difference was that these two gamers, like most gamers, had always devoted their best energy to studying how to "fight", and had been focusing on the improvement of combat effectiveness, while ignoring some other things.
Of course, this does not mean that this is wrong, it can only be said that everyone has their own way of living.
Li Mu has no interest in discussing the correctness of the concept with others, which does not mean anything to him. All he wants to do now is to do what is in front of him well, and then take Shuang'er to the top of this game to see what is going on behind the scenes.
Dusk slowly fell again, the golden sun hung obliquely in the sky, and the breeze blew into the valley. Li Mu looked at the elongated shadow on the ground and then at the lonely sky, "Could it be that today is another day of waiting in vain?" ”
"Childe, look." Shuang'er suddenly exclaimed, and then pointed to the valley below.
Li Mu looked in the direction of Shuang'er's fingers, and found that the originally quiet camp began to be agitated, more and more people walked out of their huts, and then gathered around the square, and the soldiers who were originally patrolling the camp formed a circle in front of the altar in the middle of the square to prevent the surrounding people from entering the altar area.
At this time, an old man walked out of the longhouse at the end of the valley, the old man was wearing a crown full of peacock feathers, wrapped in a piece of silk painted with gorgeous patterns, painted with various strange patterns all over his body, and a circle of metal ornaments wrapped around his waist.
The old man walked towards the altar step by step with his heavy wooden staff, and after the old man appeared from the longhouse, the whole valley slowly fell silent, and even the sound of heavy breathing was faint, and only the sound of the old man's wooden staff hitting the stone road echoed in the valley.
The old man walked slowly to the altar, then nodded slightly to somewhere below, and then several people came out of the procession, each holding a long, large horn in his hand.
Woo-woo-woo-
The heavy and desolate sound of the trumpet sounded from the valley, and the sound of the trumpet echoed through the valley, slowly drifting away into the distance. Li Mu listened attentively, and he actually heard a certain solemn momentum from the monotonous sound of the horn.
After three horn sounds, a group of soldiers went up to the cage where the slaves and prisoners were held and opened the cage. The slaves, as if aware of their impending fate, began to make a noise, some flinching back, others pushing the soldiers, trying to snatch the weapons from each other's hands.
However, these slaves, who had been hungry for several days, were no match for these soldiers on the battlefield, and they were even more unable to resist, and were beaten to the ground in a few blows, and then they were thrown into the pit near the altar where the soldiers dragged the downed slaves to the depths of the pit.
For a while, screams, angry scolding, and shouts resounded throughout the valley. But the warriors were silent and threw the slaves into the pits near the altar, and when a pit was filled, several soldiers would carry a huge lid woven of iron bars and cover the pit, and the lid would be firmly nailed to the ground, and then several soldiers would aim their spears at the slaves to prevent anyone from trying to push the heavy iron lid with their hands. Although, they can't push it away.
The huge fence was slowly emptied, and the deep pits on the ground were filled one by one, and when the last pit was covered by the soldiers with iron lids, the old man on the altar nodded, and then another group of soldiers came out, each carrying a wooden barrel in his hand, and the barrel was filled with boiling liquid, gurgling and bubbling, and these soldiers came to the pit, and then poured buckets of boiling liquid into the pit along the gap in the iron bar.
Then, a scream came from the pit, and the soldiers left with empty buckets as if they had not heard them, and a moment later they poured a boiling bucket into the pit.