Chapter Twenty-Eight: People?
As the crimson flames faded, the jungle fell into silence and darkness once more.
Ma slowly closed his eyes, and at this time he was clutching his chest hard, and the heart inside was constantly beating and pounding.
In his mind, he couldn't help but start flashing the shocking picture he had just seen.
It was a scene he had never seen before, the light of the fire in the sky lit up the entire jungle, and even the fire that fell from the sky would not be long before it was extinguished by the wind and rain that followed.
The surging heat wave was the first time he had personally felt the heat of the flames.
"Fire!"
He muttered to himself, but there was not the slightest fear of the flames in his eyes, but he involuntarily gave birth to infinite yearning, and a thought inexorably gushed out and took root in his heart.
"Click!"
At this moment, in the dark and silent jungle, the sound of stepping on dead branches suddenly came from not far away.
Ma's body trembled, and he suddenly came back to his senses, and the uneasiness caused by the darkness approached again, and he barely thought about it, and immediately squatted down, motionless.
"Click!"
Another voice sounded, the voice was much closer than before, and Ma only felt that his heart was beating harder, and he quickly held his breath, his eyes fixed on the place where the sound came from.
The approaching footsteps didn't seem to hide their meaning, and with the sound of pressing and withering branches getting closer and closer, Ma was shocked to realize that the other party's goal seemed to be very clear, and it was where they were hiding!
Thinking of this, he didn't care about the risk of exposure, and quickly turned his gaze to the place where the clansmen were lying on their stomachs, where it seemed that a pair of eyes with a faint light could be seen quietly watching him.
Seeing that the people were not flustered, they still remembered what they had said, and his heart settled down a little, and he withdrew his gaze and looked outside again.
At this moment, time seemed to become extraordinarily long, and a heavier and heavier sense of oppression welled up in my heart, and the voices that were getting closer and closer were like thunder, smashing into Ma's heart.
Ma pressed his chest with one hand and the stone in his hand with the other, as if this would ease his restless heart.
"Come out!"
At some point, the footsteps suddenly stopped, and a word that was both familiar and very unfamiliar broke the silence of the jungle, and reached the ears of the situation, which shocked him, and a trace of horror flashed in his eyes.
"People?"
There was only one thought left in her mind, and then as if she had thought of something, her eyes suddenly lit up.
In addition to the tribesmen, are there really other people in the outside world?
He cautiously raised his head, with a feeling of trepidation, stretched out his hand, tremblingly brushed away a leaf that was hidden in front of him, and looked through the gap to find the place where the voice sounded.
A dark shadow came into his eyes, and the darkness of the night made him unable to see what the other party was.
Ma hurriedly tried to open his eyes wide, but in the dark environment, he could only see a hazy outline.
"Really human?" Ma's eyes trembled.
From the hazy outline, it was vaguely discernible that it was a standing slender figure.
A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he was about to push away the leaves around him and walk out, when a thought suddenly popped into his mind, reminding him of the admonition of the elders of the tribe, and he immediately stopped his movements, and looked at the figure in the darkness with a dismayed look.
It was a long, long time ago, a story that had been told to the tribe that in the wilderness outside, there was a beast that could make the same sound as the people to lure them, and when they ran over with a happy face, the beast would open its bloody jaws and kill them.
Although the figure in the darkness was somewhat similar to them, and even the voice was the same as theirs, she was not sure whether the other party was the same person as herself, or the legendary beast!
"Haven't you come out yet?"
The whispered whisper was like a gust of wind blowing through the jungle, reaching Ma's ears, but it was like a horn for life, so that he couldn't help but hug his knees and curl up in a ball.
The clansmen of the other tribes, after hearing this voice, were still a little surprised, and subconsciously wanted to get up and respond to this person who seemed to be of the same race.
But just as they were about to get up, the words that Ma had said to them suddenly echoed in their minds, no matter what happened, until he spoke, everything stayed where he was, and did not move.
Thinking of this, they suddenly closed their eyes and remained motionless.
It seemed that he had not waited for their response, only to see the figure in the darkness suddenly raise his hand.
Then, a crimson light suddenly lit up, dispelling the darkness around it.
The night is suddenly illuminated at this moment, and everything that is hidden in the darkness is exposed to the light.
The light shone through the gaps in the leaves, on a swarthy face with wide-eyed mud.
'Fire! ’
The red light suddenly shone through, making Ma's eyes that had become accustomed to darkness tingle, his pupils suddenly constricted, but he seemed to have forgotten to close his eyes, and looked at the sudden flames in a daze, at this time he seemed to have forgotten all his previous guesses, and the flame light dispelled the darkness at the same time, it also shone in his heart.
At the same time, it also allowed him to see the true appearance of the black shadow.
It was a man, a man with "hair" all over his body, but his body was very clean, and he didn't even see a bit of dust from the other person compared to the layers of mud that covered them.
When Ma's eyes fell on the other party's outstretched hand, he suddenly looked at him, and it was difficult to take it off, only to see that a red flame was swaying and dancing in his hand.
The light that illuminates the darkness blooms from the flames.
"Fire!"
An exclamation sounded from the ground not far away, and she woke up when she heard the voice, and her face suddenly changed.
"Oh? Is it here? ”
I only heard the man holding the flame chuckle, glanced at the bushes in front of him, and then turned and walked there.
"Wait!" Seeing this, Ma panicked and brushed aside the vines and leaves in front of him, ran out, and came to the other party, blocking his steps.
"Big ...... Person! ”
He looked at the other party uneasily, his heart was pounding, and his expression was a little flustered, but he forcibly maintained his composure.
"Please don't hurt my people!"