16. Population Trade?
Almost at the same moment, all the middle-aged people breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately it was not themselves who were chosen, fortunately.
Just as they were relieved, the shrine maiden pointed out three more people in a row, and the faces of the two middle-aged people became extremely pale, but more angry!
"Red General, Gao Yuan, Cold Moon, Ji Yun!"
"All four of you are chosen by the goddess of the earth, take your weapons, set off early tomorrow morning, go to battle, for the sake of the tribe, sacrifice yourself to gain eternal life!" The shrine maiden's cold voice rang in everyone's ears.
After the shrine maiden finished announcing, the whole person collapsed to the ground like soft mud, as if communicating with the earth goddess had exhausted all her strength, and her assistant carried the shrine maiden away directly, and the leader followed.
The crowd dispersed quickly, and many people were still digesting the shocking news, and Ji Yun returned home in confusion.
Ji Yun's mother was cleaning the fruit, and her sister looked at the piece of fat floating up and down in the clay pot, and her saliva was about to fall.
Ji Shui frowned, as if he had something on his mind, and when he saw Ji Yun coming back, he hurriedly asked him: "What did the leader call you to do today, it shouldn't be a trivial matter, right?" ”
Usually small things are told at noon when the food is distributed, and only major events will all hunters be summoned with horns.
Himesui is disable, so he is not eligible to participate in such a meeting.
Ji Yun said: "It seems that some magic horse came from the far east, I was chosen, and I will go to the tribal alliance station early tomorrow morning to gather, and then go to inquire about the news." ”
As soon as Ji Yun finished speaking, the fruit in his mother's hand fell to the ground.
"What! The Demon Rider is coming! Ji Shui exclaimed.
His haggard face was full of horror, an innate memory of horror.
Ji Shui thought that he had forgotten that memory, and he rarely dreamed of those scenes recently, but now that all the memories came to his eyes, he even smelled the disgusting smell of blood.
He even sent his own son to scout the dynamics of the Demon Rider?
A frightened look appeared on Ji Shui's face, and he roared in a low voice: "Yun'er, you can't go!" You definitely can't go! The barbarian wants you to die! ”
Ji Yun naturally knew that the barbarian was suspicious of him, but he had no other way, if he didn't go, he would be punished by the tribe, and it was even possible to put him to death directly, because in the mouth of the witch, it was the will of the goddess of the earth.
"Father, can you tell me what kind of existence the Demon Rider is?" Ji Yun asked.
At this time, Mother Cangyue walked up to Ji Yun tremblingly, her eyes were full of fear, and her voice was a little hoarse and said, "They are a group of devils!" ”
Ji Yun's sister was a little puzzled, she felt that the atmosphere in the house was a little strange, but she was too young to understand these things, looking at the meat in the clay pot, she laughed happily again.
Ji Shui didn't want to recall that painful memory, but there were many things to tell her son.
"Have you ever heard that our tribe was formed only a dozen years ago?" Ji Shui asked.
Ji Yun nodded, he had heard some old people say that many of their tribe had migrated from the far east, and it was said that the products there were much richer than here, and the people's lives were much better than here.
Later, I don't know what happened, many people fled here, and people gathered together to form such an ordinary riverside tribe with the locals.
"There are some things that I didn't want to tell you, and now it's time to make it clear to you." Ji Shui said slowly.
"Your mother and I come from a huge human settlement, I come from the Nanshan tribe, our tribe has a population of tens of millions, cattle and sheep everywhere, for thousands of years, our people have lived at the foot of that mountain called Mount Meru, and we live a life without fighting with the world."
"One day fifteen years ago, the Demon Rider came! They rode a ferocious beast, clad in glittering metal armor and wearing a hat made of Vajra on their heads......" Saying this, Ji Shui had an angry look on his face.
"It's like they've come out of hell, and all of a sudden, thousands of demon riders appear around our tribe, and they kill our people at will, and our spears and arrows can't pierce each other's clothes at all, and it's even difficult to escape if they are discovered!"
"At the beginning, the tribe also organized tens of thousands of warriors to fight, but in just one day, all our warriors were killed by them, and almost none of them were spared!"
"Kill all our warriors, these magic horses did not spare the ordinary people in the tribe, they gathered the ordinary people on the cliff, and the old people were selected to push down the cliff in batches! Children who are too young are taken away for screening, and adult men are directly pitted and killed! ”
Ji Yun listened to everything his father told in shock, such a massacre made his scalp tingle, and there would be wars between tribes, but such a cruel war had never happened.
In his day, there were cases of civilians being slaughtered by the army, but they would be surrounded by the armies of all civilized worlds.
"Probably the slave trade." The goddess suddenly said in Ji Yun's mind.
When Ji Yun heard this word, he seemed to understand a little.
"Your mother and I were not killed because of our young age, they kept me in the enclosure, and every few days someone would come and take a batch away, but when it was our turn, a strange disease broke out in the enclosure, and many people died, and we were dying."
"Huh?" Ji Yun was very surprised.
Ji Shui smiled and said, "The demon rider thought we were going to die, so he picked us out and threw me and your mother in the wilderness. After a few days, your mother and I survived, and luckily we were rescued by other people who had fled. After more than a year of long-distance migration, we came to the edge of the endless river, and then settled down. ”
Although everything before was explained in a few short sentences, the suffering in it was indeed unimaginable for their generation, so this magic rider was really too ferocious!
This reminded him of his long journey, crossing green waters and stepping on snow-capped mountains, which were also extremely difficult.
However, he had a question in his heart, in the tribe, in addition to the warriors, the great witches have the most powerful combat power, they can communicate with the gods to use the holy power, and some of the great witches can obtain it
The power of the god of fire, some can obtain the power of the god of water, and even the power of the god of thunder.
"The Great Witch of the Nanshan Tribe is not the opponent of the Demon Rider?" Ji Yun asked suspiciously.
Ji Shui smiled bitterly and said: "Although the power of the Great Witch is strong, the coat of the ordinary Demon Rider can protect against the power of fire, and the high-level Demon Rider can even be completely immune to the divine power of the Great Witch, and they are all thousands of them charging together, how can the Great Witch fight?" ”
Fully immune to the power of God? Huge cavalry charge!
If this is the case, the Great Witch will not have any power to fight back in front of the Demon Rider.
"And the magic rider can detect our vitality, within three hundred steps, they will immediately find our traces, and then raise a stick, and bang, our warrior will be smashed in the head, your grandfather died like this!" Ji Shui sighed, his eyes full of tears.
It was the first time that Ji Yun knew the cause of his grandfather's death, and he looked at his father crying bitterly, and he was also a little sad and angry in his heart.
"Father, mother, don't worry, I will definitely avenge my grandfather and the dead people of the Nanshan tribe in the future!" Ji Yun said with a firm expression.