Chapter 253: Searching for the Piano (18)
"How can I believe that you really killed those two women? Instead of ostensibly holding us back here by you, in fact your companions are sending them away? ”
After thinking about it for a while, the old leader decided to confirm the authenticity of this matter first.
Zhou Daoan also thought about it for a moment - the two demon queens even had clothes from those outsiders before, and naturally they had nothing to trust. But, if not proven...... I guess it won't be good later.
So, he had no choice but to find a dark purple bone and shine in front of the old leader's eyes.
"This is what I got from them - their bodies, I burned them all, only this purple bone can't be burned."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was slightly frightened for a moment! It is important to know that the Maori have their own unique funeral customs, they have to keep the body for a period of time, and even have to wash the body twice before it is put into a pit and left to rot...... Cremate? It's simply unthinkable.
But for the two women possessed by evil spirits, it seems that cremation can destroy the evil spirits...... This made a group of Maori warriors look surprised, and immediately took it for granted.
However, when they heard that the two women had left behind bones that could not be cleaned by the fire, many Maori warriors could not resist looking at them. That's a big look! The bones glowing with purple glow, although they are only the size of a finger, make people look at them a few times, and they can't pull out their eyes a little, as if there is some kind of temptation in the illusion, which makes people think about it!
"Don't even look at it! It's an evil spirit! The old leader was the first to react - he only looked at it twice, and his heart was restless! If he hadn't been wary and hurriedly pinched himself, I'm afraid he would have been attracted by that purple light.
He hurriedly looked away and reminded his subordinates loudly. At the same time, he also believed that this strange bone was indeed obtained from the two women.
Although the faith was believed, the next question was how to account for one's own gods. The old leader directly asked the question.
"Pushing things on us outsiders? You've done your best, and you've killed several visitors—you should have found their bodies—even if you had an excuse for the sacrifice? Zhou Daoan gave a solution.
"No......," the old leader shook his head, "the gods are all-knowing and all-powerful, and if we deliberately deceive him, we will only cause greater calamity...... This is unbearable for our tribe. ”
He didn't care whether Zhou Daoan would be unhappy or not, and continued: "After 1 month, according to the oracle, the gods will wake up. I can only ask you to go and see our god and explain it to Him. If the gods do not pursue this matter, then we will hand over to you the ship that has left this place, along with the strangers on board. ”
If the first half of the old man's sentence could still make Zhou Daoan ignore it and refuse strongly, the second half of the sentence made him have to reconsider the old leader's proposal - it turned out that the other party had already taken control of the only big ship that could carry them out of this place one step earlier, and controlled the seafarers on that ship. Therefore, even if they fought hard with more than 100 people, they would not be able to leave this land.
It's right to think that these indigenous Maori people are searching the world for enchantresses, how can they ignore the places where those outsiders dock their boats? I'm afraid that the old leader knew that the Enchantress had fled as soon as he could, so he dispatched his people to control the means by which they could get out of this place. No wonder he and little Abu met this large group of people near the anchorage of the sea ship......
However, after experiencing the previous mission, Zhou Daoan will no longer take this so-called deity of indigenous belief lightly. With the bloodline of the Children of Chaos on his back, if he encounters the gods of the opposing camp, it is simply a dish to be delivered to the door.
"Who is the god you believe in?" Zhou Daoan decided to get to know his opponent first.
"Marvi! Hero Marwi! He once met a huge fish in the depths of the ocean, and the great fish attacked Him! After 10 days of fighting it, Maweh killed it, and its bones became the ground beneath our feet. And Mawei spared the fish's child and ordered it to guard the island and the sea...... So, when we believe in Maweh, we believe in this land, in our own source......"
The old leader said reverently.
Zhou Daoan has never heard of this legend. For the Maori, his perception is limited to the words "New Zealand", "black face" and "war dance". It was only when he first heard the two enchantresses mention the Maori that he had a vague feeling that he might have been sent to New Zealand by a giant whale.
Originally, he thought that the giant whale was just looking for a piece of land that he knew existed, and left the passengers on his back casually, even if the grievances were eliminated...... Now that he heard the legend from the old leader's mouth, Zhou Daoan had to combine the giant whale that had turned into a lonely island with the descendants of the big fish that Ma Wei had surrendered to in the legend!
What is this task by yourself? Verifying the Truth of Myths?
After complaining, Zhou Daoan's attention was focused on the "Ma Wei" who had become a god. According to the old leader's subsequent description, this deity is "alive"! He just shut himself up in a dark space, not a bone or totem left behind, and would come out from time to time to "breathe" - not for a fixed period of time. During a "release," He eats, feasts, and then seals Himself in darkness for the next awakening.
The old chief's reference to the deity Mawi asking the two enchantresses to make sacrifices was exactly 16 years ago, shortly after the birth of the two girls. Ma Wei seems to have noticed the appearance of evil spirits in his "kingdom", so he "got out". It's just that He came up with a trick of "fattening and killing", and he seems to have a lot of confidence in his own believers, and doesn't think that believers will make any mistakes in "cultivating".
In fact, His followers have never made a mistake all along, only this time......
After hearing this, Zhou Daoan relieved a little more - the god who was still "alive" sounded very bluffing, but in fact, this god was probably not in a good situation, either through "hibernation" to delay his demise, or there was something unusual on his body and he had to close himself......
Hibernating animals don't really love to sleep.
Thinking about this, Zhou Daoan's resistance weakened slightly. In addition, the current mission time limit is still very early, and if you don't "cooperate", I'm afraid you won't be able to leave this island. Even if he kills all the more than 100 people in front of him, if he can't keep the "god" out of the customs after 1 month, he will angrily look for his traces.
After weighing it, Zhou Daoan compromised.
But Zhou Daoan also put forward conditions: he wanted little Abu to go first, and let the Maori hand over the ship and crew to little Abu. After all, he can go back to the ark directly as soon as the time for his own mission comes, and there is not much difference where he is. Xiao Abu is different, but after all the way, the relationship has been established to some extent, so there is no need to let him stay.
The old leader has nothing to do, he just wants Zhou Daoan to stay and deal with the awakening of the gods, and he doesn't care about the "giveaway" of Xiao Abu.
Xiao Abu was very righteous, insisted for a while, and under Zhou Daoan's repeated persuasion, he reluctantly accepted this proposal - after this series of events, Xiao Abu also understood that he was "playing" by Zhou Daoan. Staying by himself, in addition to psychological comfort, will actually not help, but will drag Zhou Daoan down. Of course, he scoffed at some Maori god - Lord Zhen was the only true god, and Zhou was a person of great ability that he had seen with his own eyes, how could he be stumped by some false god?
After some consultation, it was finalized. Zhou Daoan waited where he was, and three days later, another group of Maori warriors who had taken control of the ship returned with the crew. Under Zhou Daoan's careful questioning, it was discovered that this group of so-called "outsiders" turned out to be Viking pirates, who were originally only active off the coast of Europe, but somehow they were swallowed by a strange whirlpool in the waters of a British island, and when they reappeared, they had already arrived here......
This magical story made little Abu's eyes roll! Clearly, he was drawn to the experience of this group of people. The leader of this group of pirates had been killed by the Maori, and the rest of the crew were mostly homeless and bitter, and little Abu only promised them that they would be able to eat and drink spicy food when they returned to Baghdad with him, and they were successfully co-opted.
Of course, whether there will be any more adventures in the future of Xiao Abu, Zhou Daoan can't care about it. Together with a large force of nearly 150 Maori men, he returned to the village where their tribe lived.
The original village is not too described, but it seems very atmospheric in the beautiful natural environment. This Maori tribe has a total number of more than 500 people, which is not a small group. Half of them were warriors, half were women and children—the oldest, the old chief, but he also considered himself a warrior and fought on the front lines.
Not to mention the famous Maori war dances, black noodles, cannibalism...... The people of this ethnic group are very similar to the Ami people in the Taiwan Strait region of China in terms of appearance, and even some customs and cultures have something in common. Therefore, Zhou Daoan, a black-haired and yellow-skinned face, did not cause a sensation as those Vikings when he came to the village.
Of course, it may also be that the old leader quietly ordered to go down and describe Zhou Daoan as a terrible person...... In short, after Zhou Daoan came to the village, he was strictly "monitored". Although there is a separate residence and the diet is not sloppy, the hostility of the guards and the fear of the villagers are written on their faces.
Zhou Daoan doesn't care about this. When I arrived in the village, I immediately "visited" the abode of the so-called gods, which was a deep cave in a valley. The entrance of the cave alone is five meters high, and even in the daytime, when you stand at the entrance of the cave and look inside, it is still dark, and you can't see how deep it is or what the situation is.