Chapter 10: Totem
He thought of the strange things that had happened before, why was it that only he could hear the voice of the summons, but Tian Ying'er couldn't hear it? Why was Tian Ying'er pushed away and he was able to enter the stone hall? All this showed that this stone hall wanted to tell him.
And the answer, it seems, should be at the top of this magnificent altar.
He looked up at the peak of the altar, and there was a wonderful throbbing in his heart: "I don't know what is enshrined above, and I actually need such a magnificent altar?"
Yu slowly climbed up the stone steps of the altar, the wounds on his body made him unable to lift much strength, coupled with the bumps when he escaped before, resulting in excessive bleeding, he is now weak, and it is difficult to straighten his waist.
He climbed with difficulty, the altar was so steep that each stone step was nearly knee-high, and with each step he had to stop for a moment to rest until he had enough strength to go on.
From under the altar, his figure became smaller and smaller.
Halfway up the mountain, there was a sudden suffocating feeling of oppression on the altar, and Yu's face almost touched the stone steps, and the blood and sweat on his face were mixed, dripping drop by drop.
The higher you go, the more oppressive you feel.
It was as if a large invisible hand was pressed on the shoulder, as if what was on the altar represented supreme majesty, sacred and inviolable.
But Yu still gritted his teeth and held on, and the belief in the family in his heart supported him to the death, climbing up step by step, step by step.
He stepped on the edge of the stone steps, suddenly slipped under his feet, suddenly the center of gravity was unstable, and rolled down the mountain, he only felt that the heavens and the earth were spinning, and his whole body seemed to be hit by countless boulders.
He lay down for an unknown amount of time, and the sound of his deep panting calmed down slightly, and he gritted his teeth and got up again, still unwilling to climb towards the top of the altar.
Finally, the scene above the altar appeared before his eyes.
But he was stunned.
To his surprise, the scene above the altar was not what he had expected, it looked empty, like a stone hall, except for one thing in the center, which was a stone pillar. A strange stone pillar.
The stone pillars are carved with some strange runes.
"This is" Yu stared at the stone pillar in surprise, half speechless.
He slowly approached, carefully examining the runes on the pillar.
A memory from a long time ago popped into his mind.
It was when he was very young, his half-brother had not yet been born, and he had once seen a strange-shaped painting on the wall of the clan ritual, and the old man who guarded the sect said in a sad tone, it was a totem. What is the totem, he asked. The old man said with a yearning face, the totem is a sacred object to protect the tribe, representing the majesty of heaven and earth, with supreme divine power, and the tribe that loses the totem will decline.
Later, the old man died, and the paintings on the walls fell off, and no one cared about the so-called totems, because even without that kind of ethereal thing, people lived well.
But Yu had to admit that there was one thing that the old man was right, since then, the Daze tribe has indeed begun to decline, there are fewer and fewer people, life is becoming more and more difficult, and until today, they have begun to kill each other.
"The totem is a sacred relic to protect the clan" Yu silently recalled what the old man had said, and suddenly his eyes opened, "Could it be that this totem that summoned me here is the totem of my clan?"
"My tribe" Thinking of these four words, Yu couldn't help but beat his heart faster.
He was an orphan picked up by others from the sea, and since he was a child, he knew that he did not belong to the Osawa tribe, and he wished that he was, but others told him again and again in words or deeds that he was not, that he did not even have a surname.
He was a tribeless man, and was called a wild mongrel by others.
However, the totem in front of him seemed to prove something to him.
Although he had said before that he hated his biological parents, when clues related to his biological parents appeared, he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart.
Soon, however, the excitement gradually subsided again.
Even if this is really his tribal totem, then where are his parents, where are his people? These questions are not really answered. It's a clue with a head and no tail.
As for how this totem relic will protect him, he has no way of knowing.
"Supreme divine power?" Yu looked at the totem stone pillar, his heart was full of disappointment, because no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see what was so powerful about this stone pillar engraved with totems.
He regretted why he insisted on coming here, even risking his life, and in the end it was the result.
There is nothing here but stones and that's it!
His face suddenly showed a look of chagrin: "If it weren't for this totem, how could I have come here, and how could Tian Ying'er be in danger because of me?"
The more he thought about it, the more he regretted it, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he suddenly slammed his body into the totem stone pillar.
The pillar neither fell nor bounced him away, as he thought, but like a magnet, it sucked him in like a magnet.
He didn't struggle, he didn't even blink his eyelids anymore, it was as if he had suddenly turned into a stone sculpture, a stone sculpture that was completely still.
Time passed silently.
His wounds began to heal at a visible rate, whether it was a knife wound in the back or a broken arm, the muscles and bones regenerated rapidly, repairing the wound bit by bit.
When the wound is completely healed, the muscles and bones still do not stop growing.
Yu's body grew bigger and bigger, and grew taller and taller, until finally, his clothes were torn and grew to a height of two feet, and his limbs were thicker than a bucket, and his muscles were bulging and knotted, and his muscles looked terrifying.
And in the middle of his chest, a huge black pattern slowly emerged, made up of many fine runes forming a circle, which was a totem.
When the totem was fully formed, the totem stone pillar on the altar suddenly collapsed and turned into a pile of rubble.
Yu felt like he could move again.
But he didn't move.
One of his fingers at this time was thicker than one of his original thighs.
He felt like he was in a dream, and he couldn't believe what had happened in a short period of time.
"What happened?"
He stood still for a while before he tried to move, but his feet became extremely heavy, and he only moved a little before a crack appeared in the altar.
Although he was a little disobedient, the unprecedented sense of power undoubtedly showed him that he, the boy who was once thin and powerless to be slaughtered, had become a giant!
It was getting dark, and Tian Ba was still waiting for Yu to appear.
But he was already looking a little impatient.
He was sure that Yu was still in the cave and it was impossible to escape from other exits, because the wind and snow outside were too strong for anyone to leave alive, and he guessed that Yu might be hiding in a stone chamber, but the roads in the cave were complicated, and he was not sure that he could catch the other party.
So he can only wait, but he is worried, worried that Yu has died in it, or is about to die, in that case, Yu will probably not appear, then he will suffer too much, lose a snow rabbit, and be burned by a fire, tired to death, but in the end he can only get a Tian Ying'er, he feels that it is too worthwhile, too cheap for the kid surnamed Tian, and the most important thing is that he doesn't like to eat women's meat very much, because women's meat is too tender and not chewy.
The little dry food he had left had been eaten.
He lowered his eyes and stared coldly at Tian Ying'er, who was sitting opposite.
Tian Ying'er felt as if a pair of fangs were stuck in her neck. She closed her eyes, trying not to think about it, trying to calm herself, but unfortunately, the great fear still enveloped her will, and her body trembled slightly.
The cave shook softly suddenly.
Tian Ba immediately pricked up his ears and became vigilant.
There has never been an earthquake here in Daze, so the people here don't have the concept of an earthquake, and in Tian Ba's opinion, this is a bit like a precursor to an avalanche.
Thankfully, the second shock didn't happen.
Just when Tian Ba breathed a sigh of relief, there was a sudden "bang" sound from the depths of the cave.
This sound is not like the sound of falling stones, the sound of stones is clearer than this, and this sound seems a little dull.
Tian Bahuo stood up and drew the short knife at his waist.
He concluded that the person who made the sound was not far inside.
There could not have been a fourth person in this cave.
He showed a smug smile and said to Tian Ying'er: "That little bastard has finally come to save you, hehe, he still has a little conscience!"
Tian Ying'er looked at the depths of the cave with a complicated expression, biting her lip, she felt that Yu was stupid, really stupid, he was like that since he was a child, he always likes to do something beyond his strength, this time he lured Tian Ba away to save her, but what Yu didn't know was that she was seriously injured now and couldn't move at all.
"Fool" She is very weak now and can't do anything, so she can only pray, pray that Yu can escape the clutches, although she knows very well that such a possibility is very small, originally she was expecting at least Yu to escape, but now it seems that everything is over, and Yu still has to go one step ahead of her after all.
"See you in the next life," she muttered to herself, teary-eyed.
Tian Ba once again came to the first fork in the road.
To his surprise, there was no trace of Yu along the way.
He looked to the right, only to see a dark and secluded hole, and he didn't know if there was anyone in the dark, he was a little irritable, and shouted loudly: "Little bastard, don't play any tricks with Lao Tzu, if there is a seed, come out obediently, Lao Tzu will give you a good time!"
The sound reverberated back and forth in the cave, and it seemed very loud.
He was still answered by a muffled "bang" sound coming from a distance.