That night, after questioning the old patriarch, the chief announced the ritual of the "A-Bu". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe rituals of this era were actually very simple, just lay out the offerings, and then put them on a wooden shelf and burn them to ashes, and float them away in the wind. However, the preparation ceremony is very tedious and consists of ten main steps.

Hado had returned to the tribe with his herd by this time, and as he watched the adults go about the rituals, he had little time to spare—he needed to be the age of a hunter to be an adult. While other children had to help their parents prepare the skins and fruits for the ritual, Hadu had some hidden "privileges" because of his "special circumstances". Hadu's mother was in good condition after giving birth, and the amount of food in the camp was much greater than in previous years, which made the mother's postpartum recovery good, so she didn't need Hadu to take care of her, and there were also Modu and the women in the surrounding villages to help.

Hadu was okay for the time being, so he calmed down and entered the space of consciousness.

This time, the word line appeared to be settled again, and the first thing that came to mind was the accumulation of good and evil values after Hadu's bear hunt this time:

"+760 for Kindness, +600 for Malice. ”

Hadu took a look and found that the "Strength and Control Experience of the Border Bear" he plundered had a one-time increase of 600 good and evil points, and the extra good value was the respect that the 20 hunters who participated in the hunt had for him.

Then the settlement was settled, and the lines were silent for a while, and then they emerged:

"You are in the process of clearing for the second time, and after this settlement is completed, you will unlock the ability upgrade of 'Static Plunder';

The amount of good and evil points that you continue to accumulate after the first settlement is that the hostile tribe has three cavalry raids before and after, with a goodwill value of +820 and a malice value of +560;

Hostile Hunter's knowledge of captive milk production livestock, +560 for goodwill, +400 for malice;

Wild Border Bear's strength and control experience, goodwill +760, malice +600;

Your accumulated goodwill value before this settlement is 3200, and the accumulated malicious value is 1940;

Your current difficulty level is 9 and your skill level is 8;

The impact on you as a result of the two levels has already been made, so be aware of the changes that are taking place in your environment. ”

It's still the phrase "pay attention to the changes that happen around you", but what changes have occurred in the surrounding environment? At least Hadu didn't feel any change in his "environment", but he did feel the impact of the difficulty and skill levels on him.

Let's talk about the difficulty first, originally after his ability was activated, he would have accumulated goodwill points after healing the wounds on the hunters, but since the last settlement, he has also experienced large and small hunting and anti-invasion battles, and he has also healed so many clansmen, but he has not accumulated any goodwill points. He thinks that it may be that this situation has become the norm, rather than the "surprising" surprise, and that there is no such thing as good and evil.

And then there is the skill value, judging from the fact that the three cavalry raids did not achieve the results, the "Mo-Ruq-Fa" tribe was completely afraid, and even this time they were hiding from the people of the Hadu tribe during the riverside hunt. But this has further reduced Hado's ability to deter from the outside world by a lot -- the defeat of the enemy is quite a good way to publicize it, especially since these enemies have come to send their heads three times and twice.

Since it is no longer possible to accumulate good and evil values for the healing of the clansmen after they have been injured, there is no need to plunder the knowledge of horse domestication, milk animal captivity, and physical qualities such as the strength of the border bear, and even if they plunder, it will not increase the clansmen's favorability towards themselves, nor will it strengthen the deterrence of the enemy.

On the other hand, Hado thought he should go find other beasts with more outstanding physical qualities, such as the brown leopard with super running ability, the horned sheep that can be two people tall in one jump, and even the ability of the stone-billed eagle to soar in the sky that Hadu has always longed for - this is much more difficult than the first two, after all, Hadu's ability range is only 10 steps away.

However, in the snow season, especially after the migration of animals such as horned sheep, it is more difficult to find beasts with outstanding physical fitness. It would have been dangerous for Hadu to go out on his own - predators like the Brown Leopard were mostly hidden in the caves of the "Falie", and the mountains would soon be covered with heavy snow, and the best hunters of the tribe would not dare to venture at this time. In this way, you can only go out and explore when the fire season comes.

Withdrawing from the space of consciousness, Hadu heard one of the chief's guards calling him, turned around and inquired, it turned out that the old patriarch beckoned him to gather in the stockade in the center of the tribe. I followed the guards together, and on the way, I heard that I wanted to choose one of the hunters who hunted the border bears to be the chief priest of this festival. When he said this, the guard had a look of admiration for Hadu - being able to hunt a border bear alone was a feat that only an old patriarch could have done when he was young.

The chief priest is the most important position in the ritual process of the tribe: the chief priest will have the opportunity to communicate directly with the gods, make sacrifices to the gods, listen to the teachings of the gods, and receive the blessings of the gods. In the tribe, it is normal to perform the ritual of "A-Bu" only once a year, which is useless and may incur the resentment of the gods, who think that the worshippers are too greedy. The annual ritual means that there will only be one chief priest every year, and only this one can communicate with the gods, so you can imagine what kind of honor it is.

Hadu and the guard came to the center of the camp and at the back of the camp, where the old patriarch had been. The stockade was taller and wider than the average hunter's dwelling, and in addition to being one level above ground level, a hollow was dug into the ground to serve as a cellar and a safe house, which was used to protect the weaker children in the event of an attack. Under no circumstances were ordinary hunters allowed to break into this tall "clan" to disturb the old patriarch, and only the chieftain and his personal guards, as well as the chief priest chosen for the year, were allowed to enter and leave the place.

Arriving at the clearing in front of the "clan", Hadu saw that the hunters involved in the hunt had already gathered here, and it was clearly divided into two parts - "Ku-Su-Sjal'lo" stood there alone, to be exact, and the other hunters avoided it. The obnoxious conspirator was still there arrogantly claiming that he had killed a side bear, and when he saw Hadu coming, he quickly shut up and stepped aside. The language of the tribe was too thin to describe the laughable scene, but the mood was palpable: the hunters were laughing at the self-righteous creature.

This is the leader coming out of the "clan", and when he saw that everyone was chuckling, he immediately understood when he turned his head to look at "Ku-Su-Sjal'lo". The leader didn't stop everyone from reading the joke, but just said loudly: "La-Tun_Sjan'ne-Loq'q'qa-Sar'ro. "Please ask the old patriarch to come out of the village." Hearing this, the hunters stopped laughing and came over solemnly to welcome the old patriarch out of the village.

From the name of the old patriarch, it can be seen that the naming method of the grassland tribe: the names of the patriarch and the leader must have three divine phonetic characters, the leader's personal guard and the leader of the hunter have two divine phonetic words, and ordinary hunters have only one divine sound, and children who have not reached the age of hunters have no divine sound. Divine sound runes can be inherited, but if the descendants do not inherit the ability and contribution level of their predecessors, then they may be deprived of a divine sound;

In addition, children who have not reached the age of age will not inherit the divine voice - their time is spent learning various means of survival, far from the time when they go out to hunt and fight, and they are not able to participate in the discussion of the affairs of the clan, so that the acquisition of the divine voice is useless.

However, Hadu was a special case, and he himself had this feeling: he kept an eye on Hadu when the old patriarch came out, and the other hunters also made a way to Hadu and the old patriarch. Hadu not only commanded and successfully hunted a border bear for sacrifice, but hunted it independently, and according to the clan rules, he was fully capable of taking on the responsibility of a divine sound. However, when the old patriarch and the leaders of the two gods discussed what type of divine sound should be given to him, different ideas appeared: some people believed that Hadu did not have many opportunities to hunt directly, and it was more of a central coordination, which was consistent with the meaning of the "He" and "Du" in his name, so he should start from this aspect when giving the divine sound, while others believed that the dream god "Ye-Dun" When giving Hado divine powers, only his current name is assumed, and if his name is changed in vain, it may dislike the gods and eventually lead to the loss of divine power, which is a very bad thing, so that the only way to say this is to add a new divine sound to his name, and finally there are a small number of people who believe that for "Ye-Dun", the name "He-Du" should be considered as a complete divine phonetic character, that is, "Ye-Dun" It is tacitly accepted that Hadu has obtained a divine sound, so he will be given divine power, in this case, it can be understood that Hadu's name is a divine sound, and according to the clan rules, two divine sounds cannot be obtained in a sacrificial cycle, to sum up, Hadu should not get an additional divine voice this time, otherwise it will violate the clan rules and the approval of the gods.

The leaders had three opinions and quarreled in the chief's village, and finally the old patriarch had to say that he wanted to consider it and went back to the "clan village". Now let the hunters come here to concentrate is to tell them the old patriarch's final consideration of this matter.

The old patriarch walked up to Hadu on crutches and announced the arrangements for this ritual within the clan: Hadu was selected as the chief priest of this ceremony, and Hadu's name was recognized as an independent divine phonetic rune, and the old patriarch prayed to the gods to obtain the writing of the runes, and in addition, Hadu would not obtain other divine sounds. As compensation for Hado's solo hunting of the bear, Hadu was allowed to extend the time he spent communicating with the gods during the ritual - as long as he presented the sacrifice of the bears he had hunted, which was equivalent to a "high-level" ritual.

After announcing the reward scheme, the leader led the hunters to the altar near the "Fa Lie". The altar is not large, but it is actually a wooden shelf used to light a fire, and the offerings are placed more than ten steps away from it. By this time, it was already getting late, and the cold wind was whistling down from the mountains, and the sky began to scatter crystal snowflakes in the sky. The leader immediately ordered Yijun, who was standing by the altar, to light the wood, and then led a group of hunters to kneel in front of the altar and pray to the heavens.

Hadu had never participated in such an event - he used to stay in the village when the weather got cold, and of course his mother and father would not let him do it if he wanted to. So he whispered to the chief what he should do with the gods. The leader gently replied that the most important thing was to ask the gods what they were asking them to do, what sacrifices they needed, and what rewards they could receive. Hadu took these questions to heart, and then the leader said that the gods might hear and see something unusual when they conveyed their requests, and that Hadu should not be afraid, but only remember what he saw, heard, and felt, and report the gods' requests as they were.

Hadu nodded honestly, indicating that he understood what to do. Seeing that the wooden pile on the altar was burning, the chief immediately asked him to go and present the sacrifice and place it on the wooden pile. Hado did so, and then calmly knelt in front of the altar, a little further away from the flames to prevent injury, and then calmed down and tried to communicate with the gods.

The sun is ready to set.

The sun is setting.

It was getting dark.

The moon is ready to come out.

Nothing happened until the pile was completely burned out, and Hado could smell the burnt smell of the bear's paws and the choking smell of burning wood - let alone communication with the gods. Hadu straightened up, too dizzy to recover from the smoke, when he saw the leader, the guards, the leaders, and the hunters all looking at him with concern and longing—they all wondered too much what the gods had promised.

Hadu's mouth was dry, he didn't know what to say, but he didn't dare say that his communication with the gods had not been successful. The ritual is a very serious matter, and as the chief priest, Hadu failed to communicate with the gods, which in itself is a blasphemous thing, and if it is known to everyone, it will be executed. Seeing everyone staring at him, Hadu was also very anxious in his heart, and suddenly he had an idea, and said, "Ye-Dun_Ji_A-Bu_Sa. . . That is, "the god of dreams conveyed through the god of hunting", "Hor'rh-Su_Pan'ne_Sje-Ko. E_Fa-Le_Wen'ne_Cjak'ka。。 "I want to go to the cave of 'Fa Lie' to hunt the brown forest leopard".

Although he saw that the leader's face turned white, Hadu could only bite the bullet and continue to say, "Jin-La_A-Fo'ol", "It must be done before the sun rises again in the middle of the sky".

The chief's face was very unsightly: the risk of killing a brown leopard was too high, this beast was not only fast, but also powerful, and its biting power was so amazing that the hunter who was pounced on by it could not even struggle to bite off his neck - the leader had encountered a brown leopard in his tribe when he was young, and on that occasion the camp could be seen everywhere with the poor people whose corpses had been separated.

However, since the "gods" have such a "transcendent" requirement, their rewards should also be extremely generous, so they should ask right away. After saying that the so-called "gods" asked Hadu to calm down a lot at this time, he opened his mouth to explain: "Ye-Dun" found that after giving him divine power, there would still be a situation where his strength would not be enough, for example, the battle formation centered on Hadu could not move quickly, which was easy to be missed in some combat situations, so he promised to let Hadu hunt a brown forest leopard, and then he would give him the speed and explosiveness that the brown forest leopard only had.

The leader didn't reply after hearing this, in fact, after Hadu gained the power of the side bear, he told the leader exactly what happened, so it was not strange to hear that the leader had such a thing again. It's just that the gods have a tighter time requirement this time, looking at the momentum of the current wind and snow, the heavy snow sealing the mountain is a matter of the past few days, it seems that the gods are going to drop the last reward before the snow season before the mountain is closed.

The mood of the other hunters began to calm down: they would not have any objection to the request of the gods, and besides, each of them had been healed by Hado, and everyone knew how powerful this "divine power" was, so they were even more excited when they heard such a reward: even if they didn't stay by Hado's side, they didn't have to worry about getting hurt.

And only Hado himself blushed a little - he didn't want to lie, but he was in a hurry, and he "embellished" his hope for physical fitness. He was slightly relieved to see that the adults hadn't noticed anything wrong.

Immediately after the ceremony, the leader decided to go into the mountains to hunt, and this decision was quite correct: wild animals were generally afraid of fire, and as long as the hunters carried torches to hunt for brown leopards, the difficulty of the task was greatly reduced, and it was much easier than hunting during the day.

The old hunters searched for clues at the foot of the mountain, found some fresh deerskins on a dead log, and then searched for fresh blood all the way, and headed for a cave on the side of "Fa Lie".

Crawling along the bloodstains to the mountainside of "Falie", I finally found that the bloodstains stopped in front of a cave overgrown with weeds. Hadu led the hunters to the cave, and heard the low roar of the brown leopard—they already knew that an intruder was coming for it. Ignoring the leopard's warning, Hado took a torch and threw it into the cave, which was downward-facing and contained many dry blades of grass, which burned violently when the torch was lit, and a heavy mass of smoke gathered at the mouth of the cave.

As soon as the brown forest leopard inside saw this situation, he hurriedly waded through the flames and rushed out of the cave, just being robbed of the speed by Hadu hiding on the side of the cave entrance, and saw the brown forest leopard's feet crooked, "bang-la-la" couldn't stop, and crashed to death on the stone outside the cave entrance.