Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Dove Occupies the Magpie's Nest
As Terri and the others approached the Totem Temple, the vibrations on the ground became more and more obvious, and the loud hiss that came from time to time made everyone tremble.
Even Steven, who often enters the deep mountains and old forests, is a well-informed person, and he can't imagine how huge the snake god is.
Several people haven't had a good night's sleep these days, from the excitement at the beginning to the fear now, the patriarch has thought about whether to go back many times.
However, considering the comfort of the tribe, I had to go to check, and if there was an accident, the tribe would have to deal with it in advance.
The Shu'a only rely on the territory of the giant serpent to survive, offering food when the other party awakens. If the snake god really wants to come to the tribe to forage for food, he will have to consider gathering all the Shua warriors and driving the snake god deep into the rainforest.
Tyri has thought about quitting, and she can't put her life on the line in order to make a documentary. Money and fame also need to have a life to enjoy, and if you die, you will be gone!
With so many sturdy tribal warriors around, though, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to be careful.
"Patriarch, can you tell me how big the snake god is? This earthquake was really the work of the snake god, not some large animal migration? ”
The atmosphere of the unknown was overwhelmingly oppressive, and Tyri thought of soothing her mood with a chat.
"How big is the snake god? I'm not sure either. I've seen the sacrifices, but I've never seen the snake god come out to eat, so we all put the sacrifices and leave. ”
The patriarch thought for a moment and didn't give a definite answer, and pointed to the scimitar on the back of one of the guarded clansmen.
"See that scimitar? It was my grandfather's grandfather, made from the teeth of pythons found near the temple, and some pythons would coil up and stay motionless when they saw it. ”
The scimitar was a meter long, if not a meter, and the scabbard was made of python snake skin, in the shape of a crescent moon. Tyri didn't pay any attention, thinking it was ordinary metalwork.
"Can you show us? I don't know if we can cut love, we will pay a high enough price to buy it. ”
Tyri's eyes lit up, and it was not an exaggeration to say that this was a rare treasure. It is sure that it is genuine and sold outside, which is enough for several people to eat and drink for a lifetime.
"It's okay to see, but we can't take it away, this is an important means for us to deal with the python." The patriarch beckoned to the clansmen to bring the tooth knife and hand it to Tyri.
The snake's tooth scimitar was pulled out, and the texture of the tooth was similar to jadeite, and the blade was opened on one side, with a rough and simple pattern. The fingers touched the blade of the knife with a strange coldness, and in this hot rainforest, it was cold from the fingers all the way to the toes.
Steven stroked the cold white blade, and countless papers crossed his mind, and this knife alone was enough for him to study for a lifetime. "Patriarch, can't you really cut love? The price I paid was enough for the entire tribe to move out and live a convenient and prosperous life. ”
The patriarch shook his head firmly, as the patriarch, every decision related to the tribe must be cautious. Everything has to be thought through, or this fragile little tribe will fall apart.
"I only show the attitude of the outside world towards us, my son is just out and about, and he sometimes sends news back."
Steven smiled awkwardly, feeling the firmness in the patriarch's tone, not mentioning the purchase.
It is indeed not peaceful outside these years, there is a huge war, and people are dying every moment, it is simply a massacre.
They also took great risks when they came to pass through the outside countries, and there were no bones left in them. It was only with this skin and Tyri's repeated invitations that he would join this unknown team.
Since you can't take it away, record more of its information. While letting Horton shoot as meticulously as possible, he took out a notepad and sketched.
Holden carried the VCR and kept shooting, knowing that there would be a big scene this time, and brought all the hard drives that could be used. He was the least injured of the three, and after recuperation and treatment, the flesh wound had already begun to fall with blood scabs.
Returning the tooth knife, everyone continued to hurry, which should be the reason for the tense atmosphere, most of the time was buried in the road, and the time spent was a day faster than the normal hurry.
The temple was a pavilion made of pillars, and the hollowed-out walls were made of large boulders of white plaster. It looks like a huge cage, and the effect is not to live, but to have a place to take refuge when the python goes out.
After a long time change, there are many traces of repair on it. When it comes to primitive tribes, there is naturally a mural, the mural is a big snake entrenched in the middle of the roof of the shed, the center of the big snake is a red blood orchid, and a bunch of villains kneel in a circle.
The altar was on the edge of the cave in the far side of the temple, and the crude stone platform resembled a dinner plate. The patriarch led everyone to the temple to take refuge, and the tremors gradually lengthened with the time interval, and it had not been heard for a long time now.
The patriarch sent a tribesman with a tooth knife to strip naked and bathe, smear the feces of the snake god on his body, and enter the cave next to the altar to check.
The warrior took out the glowing stone wrapped in snakeskin from the bamboo basket, crossed the wide wooden bridge in the middle, and resolutely entered the cave.
"Patriarch, will he be okay?"
"No, every time the snake god wakes up, he has to send someone to the cave to check it. So far, a member of the clan has died. Even though she said that, Tyri could still detect the worry on the patriarch's face that was difficult to hide.
Horton was in full swing while Steven was in charge of lighting the shots. Video dubbing can only be done back in the city.
In the anxious waiting of the patriarch, the clansmen who entered the cave did not come out, but there was another vibration behind the mountain. Because it was close enough to the epicenter, everyone present could feel that the source of the tremor was behind the mountain.
Everyone looked different, and Tyri opened her mouth, wanting the patriarch to send someone to accompany her to the back of the mountain to have a look. However, this matter was dangerous, and she didn't want to hurt the patriarch, so she chose to keep her mouth shut.
It wasn't long before the clansmen who had entered the cave hurried out, panting for breath to show that he was running with all his might.
The natives spoke very quickly, which was not something that Terri could understand in Shu'a, but fortunately, she repeated it with curiosity.
"The snake god is not in the cave, he must have gone out from the hole on the other side of the mountain. In this way, it is better for the snake god to forage in the depths of the rainforest, without the need for tribe sacrifices! The amount of food that the snake god needs every time he awakens is not a small amount, and we also use food to lure him into the depths of the rainforest. ”
"What is the lair of the serpent god? Can we go in and shoot. Or go to the top of the mountain to meet the snake god. ”
Entering the cave, the patriarch thought that he would not agree, and it was inevitable that there would be a lot of people, and the snake god was called a man-eating python, which was not easy to get along with.
However, the patriarch asked the old man who followed him for advice, and he agreed to let everyone go up the mountain. He hadn't seen what the snake god looked like at such an age, and the old man had seen it when he was young, but it was also a glimpse from afar.
The sides of the mountain were steep, and the patriarch asked the people to find a way to climb the mountain, leaving one of the people to accompany the old man at the temple, and the rest of the people to go up the mountain together.
Because of the excitement of meeting the snake god, everyone didn't feel tired climbing the mountain. Tyri, who suffered a leg injury, suffered a little, but Steven was by his side and the patriarch deliberately slowed down her pace.
When everyone climbed to the top of the mountain, it happened to be the end of Ye Guangji's battle with the giant snake. The last loud bang was when he used the snake's tail to pump the snake's head into the ground, causing the snake to pass out directly.
Ye Guangji put the unconscious giant snake into the storage compartment, cleaned up the battlefield, recovered the weapon in the trap, and swam the snake body into the cave. As the crowd shook the battle scene below the top of the mountain, most of his snake body entered the cave, leaving only one tail outside.
HU Horton quickly set up a video recorder to shoot, only to shoot the tip of the tail a few meters long. When he looked away from the video recorder, Tyri asked nervously.
"How? What do you think? Did you get a shot? ”
"I did, but only with the tip of the tail. Snake God? I think it's a snake demon, and the pattern on its body is actually a skull! ”
Tyri and Steven couldn't help but snatch the video recorder to check it, not noticing the shocked look of the patriarch next to them.
"This ...... This is not a snake god. The snake god may have been eaten by it! ”
"What?"
"It is recorded in the tribe that the snake god is green to black in color, and the species belongs to the forest snake. It's not this suit, it's probably other giant snakes from the depths of the rainforest that have come out! ”
"Look at the red places, it's all blood."
Tyri was closest to the patriarch, so naturally she heard the patriarch's muttering. I couldn't help but ask rhetorically, and I suddenly regretted it in my heart, if I could come over faster, would I be able to see the prehistoric giant beast fighting, which can be called an epic scene!
Not only did she stomp her feet in frustration, but her mind raced to think of a remedy. Compared to the giant snake battle scene, just a shot of the tail is not very good.
"Patriarch, can you go down and take pictures of the traces left by the battle."
"Yes, but those things are tribal, and we're going to bring them back to make new amulets."
There is a huge crater below, and the ground is so hard that the water that collects here and there will not easily seep down, and it will not be long before a small lake will form. The central area of the crater, where the battle began, had now gathered a lake of water.
Fortunately, the battle destroyed the traces of the trap, and Ye Guangji also took away the weapons that were arranged. Otherwise, let these people see traps and weapons made of fine craftsmanship, and I don't know what they will think.
When the group went down the mountain to search. An embarrassed figure on the way to the temple. If Terri and the three were here, they would immediately recognize that this person was Paul, who had been knocked into the water by an elbow from Horton.
Paul was dressed in a blood-stained snakeskin, and if it weren't for the different color of his skin, he would have been a native of the Shu'an tribe. Since he was knocked into the water, with his good water properties, he has dived to a safe place to recuperate. Follow the ship through the rainforest in search of a chance for revenge.
In the hunter's stronghold that Tyri and the others set on fire, he acquired a number of useful guns. Of course, he saw the sky-rushing fire snake, and when the giant snake was killed, he wanted to rush out immediately, but he held back.
After a difficult follow-up, he captures a native of the Shu'a tribe and successfully forces Terri to find out where they are. Don't ask him how to ask if he doesn't know the indigenous language, there will always be ways to do it under extreme obsessions, such as drawing and gesturing with his hands.