The Sacred Spring: Chapter 20: Surprise Attack (2)
On the surface of various signs, Lin Fang's series of actions were premeditated and planned. She had far more information about the group of burials than she had told us. She is not as weak as she appears, at least a normal woman would not show the expectant eyes like she did when faced with such a strange corpse. It can be said that when she first saw the corpse of the one-horned witch doctor, the panic that came out of her appearance was simply a bad performance, in order to hide the joy in her heart. These bodies may be what she's been looking for. If it weren't for this, she would never have been able to walk alone into the pile of corpses and expertly untie the knots, and this woman must have a secret between her and the mass burial caverns in Malik's lair. Perhaps, the Cremo savages outside were coming for her.
I told the fat man my analysis, he slapped his thigh, and called Gao Ming: "I think this woman is not simple, maybe she is the same as us at the beginning, doing the business of the dead.
You mean, Lin Fang is not a botanist at all, as she introduced herself, but, a tomb robber? ――
What's so strange about this. Knowing people and knowing faces but not knowing hearts, we were all deceived by her. This stinky little girl, if Lao Tzu is caught, she must be nailed into the coffin with Lao Zongzi and buried alive-
The fat man and I searched in the swirling shroud for a long time, and Lin Fang seemed to have evaporated from the world, leaving no clues. The fat man was so angry that his teeth itched, and he swore to God that he would not take revenge on him, and he would not marry a wife in his life. I advised him to calm down and go out to meet the three unsuspecting people outside.
We rushed out in a straight line, returning several times faster than when we got in. As soon as I got outside, I realized that something was wrong. There was not a glimmer of light in the dark cavern.
Bald Scoop, Wang Shao, and Qin Siyan all disappeared. The entire group of burial caves was silent, as if there had never been any trace of them. A long rope hung from the hole, and the fat man and I looked at each other, pulled out our pistols, and walked to the edge of the rope one after the other. I looked up at the hole. Suddenly, a huge grimace popped out of the hole. I took two steps back and crashed into the fat man behind me. He turned his head and said to me, "Old Hu, we're surrounded-
I fixed my eyes and saw that the cave was filled with a circle of Cremo natives armed with blowing arrows. The grimace at the mouth of the cave was none other than a masked native of the Amazon. The masked natives jumped out of the hole, and the other natives shouted the same voice—Olata-, which I guess might have been the name of the masked native, or something like hooray. The masked native, tall man with a stone axe on his shoulder, walked up to me, took off the golden three-eyed mask on his face with one hand, and lashed at me for a while-
Lao Hu, why is this red-faced native so familiar? ――
He's the chief on the beach, the one we spanked with a gun last night—
Oh, then we'll have to explain to the people that you were the one who spanked him, and I wasn't involved.
It's the same thing you say now, he has already put us all in the target. You see the other three aren't there, I'm afraid they've been captured-
We don't dare to fight hard with the natives, firstly, there is a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, and secondly, it is difficult for them to use the Four Eyes and others as meat shields. The leading indigenous person was none other than the stone axe chieftain who had presided over the funeral ceremony on the river beach last night. He pointed his finger at me, gestured to his men behind him, and in the blink of an eye, a group of Cremo men threw me to the ground, tying my hands and feet together with thorny vines. The spikes on the vines were painful and itchy when they pierced the skin, and it was even more uncomfortable than a severe punishment. The fat man grinned and raised his hands obediently. I lay on the ground and said to him, "Put your hands down, we're already ashamed enough, we can't lose our ambition anymore-
When the natives saw that the fat man was restrained, they pulled out a smooth-sharpened rope and tied him, and only twisted his hands behind his back, and did not tie them as much as I did. I said that they were all prisoners, and that they could not be treated specially. The fat man said: "This can only show that my attitude is more correct than yours, so I have been treated preferentially by the masses." Later, I'll be reasonable and affectionate to their chiefs, and then give full play to my negotiating eloquence, and let them give you a reprieve-
I complained bitterly, and said in my heart that I had surrendered on my own initiative just now, so why didn't I see them showing mercy to my men. Immediately afterwards, we were dragged up from the bottom of the cave by the natives with hanging ropes, and I was constantly touched by the sharp stone wall hangings on the way up because of my hands and feet facing the sky, and even the clothes on my body were worn into strips of rags. As soon as he was hoisted out of the hole, a thunderous burst of applause and cheers erupted outside. A large number of Cremo people were stationed on the top of the hill, and when they saw that their tribe had arrested the enemy, they danced as if they had eaten braised pork for a week. The savages separated me from the others, and the fat man was pushed under the big rocks that bound the Four Eyes and Wang Shao, while I was tied hand and foot together, and the whole person—with my back to the loess and the sky—was told to stand on the middle of the flat ground with a wooden pole. Wang Qingzheng saw that I was lifted up like a roast suckling pig, and he was still in the mood to laugh at me: "Hu Ye is different from ordinary people, everyone climbs up by themselves, not as big as you, hey." It was carried out. ”
I said you dead rabbit cub, there is a kind of waiting for Lao Tzu to free up your hands and feet and you will be rampant again. He shook his head: "I look at the hanging, have you seen the wooden stake erected on the top of the mountain?" I guess it's just for you to cook. ”