Chapter 7: The Wedge (7)

Habibie looked back at the long procession that followed behind him, winding like a strange worm, surrounding Mount Kinabalu with its body.

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infoThere are a lot of people in this team, but no one makes a sound of speech, and everyone's expressions seem to be carved out of a mold, and they are all dull.

Even the annual whimpering show in the tribe, the masks worn by the performers are more interesting than this, at least not a look, it's boring.

Habibie couldn't stand the boredom and was about to fall asleep, but he knew no, because this time he was burdened with a very important task, and his mother told him to complete it very diligently.

Habibie didn't know what Mom said this task was, but looking at Mom's expression, it was really important to say that this task was really important.

Looking at this team, we also know that except for Habibie, everyone else measured every inch of the road of Mount Kinabalu with their feet wearing straw sandals, but Habibie not only wore the gorgeous clothes, but also asked people to carry them.

The tools used to lift Habibi were made from the branches of the Biot tree in the woods, which were strong and tough, and Habibi sat on it, dangling and really sleepy.

He yawned and tugged the collar of the clothes he was wrapping around open, why did he wear thick clothes when it was so hot?

Habibi was only twelve years old, an age that was very special in the tribe.

Habibie remembers that every year a twelve-year-old boy would be carried up to Mount Kinabalu and then never returned.

When people returned from Mount Kinabalu, they were very excited, and it was said that the gods had once again accepted the gifts of the people, and the following year would be a good year for abundant prey and abundant crops.

Habibie asked her mother what the gift from the tribe was to the great god, and her mother avoided answering the question every time.

As for asking other people in the tribe, such as the old wizard who seemed to know everything under the sun, the old wizard would put down the smile he usually put on his face, and said viciously that he was not allowed to ask this question in the future, and that it would be disrespectful to the great god to think about it in his mind.

Children who grow up in the tribe have to learn all kinds of hunting and cultivating crops at an early age, and they also have to learn some basic common sense from the old wizard.

There are various types of common knowledge, and it is usually not the old wizard himself who teaches it, but his apprentice, the one-eyed and long-eared fellow, and the most terrible of this guy has four fingers, which is said to be the way he was born.

The old wizard believed that the strange man was a messenger from the gods to prevent the tribe from throwing the child away, and he brought the child up from his biological parents alone.

Every time the guy waved his four-fingered hand to teach Habibie and them all sorts of things, Hobibie's mind was on his strange four fingers.

Habibie and they all call this guy a monster behind their backs, and they don't know if they will be discovered by this person.

He is a teacher, and when he lectures, he sometimes talks about the stars in the sky, and usually such classes are taught at night.

But what puzzled Habibi was that some stars were obviously invisible, and the teacher could tell how he knew all night.

The old wizard didn't know any of this, and he sat next to him smiling slightly, watching the four-fingered teacher tell the children of the tribe about the distant starry sky.

He remembered the prophecy again and again in his heart, when the four fingers pointed to the sky, far away no longer far away.

Isn't the scene in front of us a reflection of this prophecy?

As for what it means to be far away and no longer far away, he himself thought about it for a long time, but there was no result.

He asked Milor how he knew about the unseen starry sky.

Milor wanted to tell her master that she had always had these things in her head.

There were a lot of things that Milor told the children, and after the children knew more, the tribe began to regard Miloel as a sage and respected him very much.

Eight years ago, after waking up one day, Milor pointed to the mountain that could be seen through the few crevices in the dense woods around the tribe and said that people should go and worship the mountain, which Miloel called the fall of Corolls.

People do have a lot of respect for Milor, but not to the point of obeying him.

Milor's prophecy that if he did not worship, he would not be able to hunt prey and harvest crops, and his prophecy was recalled.

From then on, the tribe began to prepare a sumptuous sacrifice at the behest of Milor, and once a year, all the adults of the tribe participated.

Habibie was attending the worship for the first time, and he was excited at first, of course, at the beginning of his journey.

The fall of Crown looks very close, but if you walk up, you have to pass through cliffs and rivers, which is really a very difficult journey.

Fortunately, he was sitting on this shelf made of tree branches, otherwise Habibie would have found it difficult for him to make it to the mountain.

Even if you enter the mountains, there is still a long way to go.

The top of the towering mountain was invisible, and the people walked forward one by one, following Milor, who was also walking at the front.

Draped in a blanket with holes, Milor staggered forward.

Habibie noticed that since entering the mountain, the teacher's walking posture began to become strange, as if he was bending down to pick up something.

The waist bent down, and the back began to arch.

As the terrain became steeper and steeper, the teacher began to climb with his hands and feet at the front.

The people behind him were thrown farther and farther away by him, and several times the teacher slowed down and waited for the rest of the group.

The person carrying the Habibie has changed countless times, and it continues.

Where is the peak of this sacred mountain, Habibie counted with his fingers, and since entering the mountain, there have been three sunrises.

While everyone else was trying to climb the mountain with their heads down, Harbibi could see it more clearly than when he looked at the teacher.

The teacher kept stopping and turning back alone, which was very interesting for Habibie, and he stared at the teacher's every time he turned back, and even saw that every time he had to take a certain number of steps, Mr. Milor had to stop.

The distance is a little far, the sun is already in the west, in the shadow of the mountain, Milor turned back again, Habibie was shocked into a cold sweat, how did the teacher's face change?

Habibie is a child after all, he felt fear, so he closed his eyes, and when he opened it again, he looked at the teacher who looked back, and nothing had changed.

Habibie lowered his head, he was about to take another sudden look, but he looked up coldly, but the teacher did not look back.

Until the peak, he didn't stop and look back.

Habibie suspects that he is wrong, is he confused?

Not sure, the shelf he was sitting on was lowered, this should be the peak, the terrain is relatively gentle.

Closer to the setting of the sun, it was a little higher, and unlike the damp and warm woods where the tribe was, the place was very dry.

Habibie is a little unaccustomed, even though it's only been a little while.

According to Milor's arrangement, the people of the tribe kept moving, some gathered together, some scattered, and finally the people on the ground formed a very strange pattern.

The pattern is triangular with a small circle in it.

Mr. Milor sat in the circle, not knowing what he was saying, and the people gradually quieted down and began to keep their heads down and not speak.

As a child, Habibie was also curious about many things.

He quietly turned his head to look at the person next to him who was in charge of carrying him up, but his eyes were closed.

He approached, only to hear a faint sound of breathing.

Yes, it was the same sound he heard at night when he couldn't sleep with the sound of his family sleeping.

Are they asleep?

Habibie looked at Miloel, who had his back to him, and secretly stabbed the person with his eyes closed, but the other party did not respond, and it was the same if he tried someone else.

Everyone is asleep.

But why didn't Habibie fall asleep?

Milor, who is seated in this pattern, can't sleep?

Habibie set his eyes on Milor, who was some distance away from him.

When there was a thin layer of light and shadow around Milor, how did Habibie not notice it, maybe he was watching the people who were asleep next to him.

The teacher who had been sitting seemed to stand up, his body taller, and the light and shadow changed with the change of his body.

The changed teacher has his back to Habibie, and he doesn't know what has become of the teacher's face.

When curiosity rose in my heart, a fear that came out of nowhere grew stronger.

Something must have happened, Habibie wrapped his head in a wide coat, showing only two eyes, and looked intently at Mr. Milor, who slowly turned around.

The teacher has really changed, and from now on, it seems that this is their Milor teacher at all.

The pointed head, no ears, and pimple protrusions on the face are similar to the black toads that the tribe often uses to fill their stomachs, and it makes people feel sick to watch.

The two eyes above this face were so round that it seemed that the eyelids were about to be clamped.

At the summit of the Fallen Mountain of Korors after the sun had set, Habibie, a child from the tribe, saw the monster.

The monster's body can vaguely be seen as a person, but it's not very obvious.

It was standing on two feet, and there was a long thing dragging behind it, straight up, probably its tail.

While Habibie was thinking, the monster was already coming in his direction.

Originally, there were many people between the monster and Habibie, but when the monster walked in front of the person, the person who was originally stunned was very dexterous to get out of the way.

So the scene that appears is that the crowd is like a tide wrapped in monsters, but at a certain distance.

The monster walked well, and on the way, it showed its scarlet tongue, its long tongue hanging out of its mouth, and several fangs poking out of its mouth.

Habibie seems to have aimed at the true content of each worship, which is for the tribe to provide a child to the monster to eat each year.

No wonder the child didn't come back every time he went, and no wonder the mother was very serious about it, it didn't seem serious, but the mother was very sad.

Habibie remembered his mother, and he began to look for her in the crowd with his head down, even forgetting that the monster had arrived.

Habibie found his mother, and he cried out.

But my mother couldn't hear it, and she didn't react.

But when the monster heard the sound, it stopped.

It looked up at the blinking sky where a few stars had appeared, and it didn't move.

Habibie didn't know where he got his courage, shook off his clothes, jumped off the shelf, and ran wildly in the direction he came.

To be honest, he didn't remember the path he had come from, but the idea was simple, to escape from the summit and get away from the terrifying monster.

The monster apparently confused the kid.

He looked at the stars in the sky, then at Habibie, who had already run out, and finally chose Habibie.

His standing body instantly lowered and fell to the ground, crawling on his hands and feet.

The thick tail was blocked several times due to encounters with people on the ground.

Soon the monster became angry, and he flicked his tail and pushed the people aside with all his might.

A small child's house, and the terrain is so complicated.

Although he was gone, the monster had a way, and he began to press his jaw against the ground to detect the vibration of the ground.

Soon the monster crawled rapidly in one direction, and the small pebbles on the ground caused his body to fly everywhere, and for a time raised a large cloud of dirt smoke.

Habibie couldn't run anymore, and there was a stone ground everywhere, which was very awkward.

After he ran out for a while, he looked behind him, but he didn't follow, and he sighed in his heart.

Soon he regretted it a little, after he ran away, where was his mother, and whether that monster would be embarrassed by his mother and adult brother.

A sense of pride suddenly rose in his heart, if he wants to eat, he will let the monster eat himself, and he can't affect his family.

He made up his mind to go back, but he didn't expect to run such a long way in one go.

Milor was so annoyed that she couldn't figure it out, why didn't she arrive in time when it was a good time, was it because people were walking too slowly this year?

When he arrived at the location, he didn't dare to delay a little, and after putting out the pattern, he began to send out low-frequency signals as agreed.

But why is it that the object in the sky that should have appeared just crossed the corner of the sky and disappeared again?

At this time of year, the tribal children, brought by Milor, pick up the children from the sky when all the adults are hypnotized.

Milor didn't know why, but he became like this when he didn't reach the top of this mountain.

When he first came, he was amazed at the changes in himself, but every year, surprise is surprise, but he is a little used to it.

And the things that made him really troubled happened on the way to come.

On the way, he felt that he was beginning to change, especially when he was about to reach the top of the mountain, and his turn back may have been seen by little Harpy.

How can he be allowed to see at this time?

He also thought about why he couldn't be known in his head, there was no reason anyway, anyway, he couldn't change when he was on the road.

After going up the mountain for the first time, he waited a long time for him to change, but in the past few years, the time of change has become more and more advanced.

Before reaching the top of the mountain this time, the body, especially the face, began to undergo unstable changes, whether this could have something to do with the fact that the objects in the sky did not come on time.

Milor couldn't figure out why the information he had collected from his jaw against the ground was getting weaker and weaker, as he searched for the little boy everywhere in the rugged mountains, was it in the wrong direction?

He stopped and chased in the opposite direction.

Two choices reappeared in his mind, the hypnotized people at the summit should be about to wake up, whether to rush back to the top of the mountain and lead them back to the tribe, or continue to search for the harpy.

He chose the former.

In Milor's opinion, Harpy could not survive in this place, and he had no way to get the tribe back.

The most likely outcome is to die here.

In this case, it will not affect the next year's worship, so be it.

Milor returned to the summit, he needed to give himself some time to change his human appearance, and he sped up his crawl.