Chapter Seventy-Six: Domestication

For three days, there was a bowl of decoction after each meal. Wu Kui had poured them out, and he hadn't drunk them under his supervision.

Wu Kui didn't know exactly what this potion was for, but he clearly noticed that the Bigfoot monsters in the next cave were much calmer, and he could no longer hear their angry howls.

After dinner on the third day, a group of people wearing square crowns and robes came and looked a bit like Taoist priests from the Central Plains. They sat cross-legged on the floor at each opening, and then they held something like a prayer wheel and began to spin it incessantly, while chanting words as if they were singing a hymn.

Listening to their humming chanting, Wu Kui felt very sleepy and almost fell asleep, and at the same time felt a sense of mental distress and emptiness. He thought that the Tufan was casting some kind of spell on them, so he grabbed two lumps of mud on the ground, kneaded them into mud pills, and stuffed them into his ears and eyes to find peace.

He recited this for three days in a row, and early on the seventh morning, the Tufan soldiers came in and unlocked the lock on the iron fence at the entrance of the cave, and let them come out of the cave.

After Wu Kui came out of the cave, he looked left and right, and saw several Bigfoot monsters coming out of other caves one after another, and there were about eight or nine of them. These Bigfoot monsters are much taller and burlier than him, there is a darker Bigfoot who looks very strong, and his head is a lot taller than Plop, and the other Bigfoot monsters are about the same size, and they are more than a head taller than Plop, and only one Bigfoot with a reddish coat, who is thinner but taller than Plop.

These tall and mighty Bigfoot, somehow, looked very calm and docile at this time, and they were also very obedient, standing in the place designated by the Tufan Taoist in robes, and did not dare to make a mistake at all.

Wu Kui saw Plop on the other side and walked out, she was much shorter than the other Bigfoot monsters in comparison. And the look of the plop was a little dazed, and he didn't have the spirit of some time ago.

At this time, a native of the earth began to speak, he shouted something loudly, and the Bigfoot followed his shout and made different movements, either raising an arm, or lifting a foot, or squatting down, or jumping in place, or turning left, or right. Bigfoot all did the odds as they were tagged.

This native may have spoken the language of Bigfoot, but Wu Kui couldn't understand it, so he had to learn the movements of other Bigfoot monsters.

After repeating this a few times, Bigfoot's movements gradually became more and more neat. The Tufan Dao people made them make more complicated movements.

Wu Kui paid attention to it, and these bigfoot monsters were all blank-eyed and had wooden expressions, as if they had been lowered by someone, mechanically carrying out other people's orders. In contrast, Plop was much better, Wu Kui saw that she sometimes didn't want to do these actions anymore, so he motioned for her to continue with his eyes, and Plop had no choice but to continue to follow everyone to gesturing.

The Bigfoot people then lined up the Bigfoot monsters and walked back and forth in the cave, either running and stopping, or crawling forward, repeating it many times until they thought that everyone's movements were more uniform.

This training lasted another three days, and the Bigfoot had been trained to be as good as the average soldier. Wu Kui and Pu Tong were at the end of the queue, trying to behave like everyone else, so that others could not see the flaws.

About half a month later, a general came, accompanied by several people and chiefs, to review the training results of these bigfoot. After watching the various drills of the Bigfoot, the general nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes, it's a pity that there are only a few of them now, but if you arm these Bigfoot, you can at least defeat a thousand troops." After saying that, he turned back to the commander who accompanied him and said, "However, the Bigfoot monsters that have been domesticated in the early stage have been sent to the front, where they will be armed into giant warriors, and from then on our army will be invincible and invincible." Let's stay in the rear for the time being, select two or three to be sent to the palace as guards, and dispose of the rest. ”

The chief nodded and said, "Okay, just do as your lord instructs." He paused, then stretched out his hand to the general and said, "Then please ask your Excellency to choose the guards for the palace yourself." ”

The general looked at the Bigfoot monsters in front of him again, turned back and said, "Well, in two days it will be Eid al-Fitr, and the royal family has prepared a grand celebration, and you will arrange for these Bigfoot to perform a gladiatorial battle at the scene, first, as a gift to the royal family, and secondly, the winner of the gladiatorial battle will be selected as the palace guard." Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds? ”

Eid al-Fitr is a large-scale, solemn religious and cultural festival of the Tufan people, the Tufan people who believe in religion rush home in advance at this time of the year, spend a beautiful festival with their families, during the festival, every household prepares steamed buns, oil incense, lessons, flowers and other traditional foods rich in national flavor and characteristics, and at the same time also slaughter sheep, chickens, rabbits, etc., make cold noodles, stewed vegetables, etc., send relatives and friends and neighbors to each other, and greet each other. On the first and second days of the festival, both married and unmarried sons-in-law should bring holiday gifts to their parents-in-law. Many young men and women also choose to celebrate their weddings on Eid al-Fitr, adding to the festive atmosphere.

On the third day of the festival, a grand ceremony is held by the royal family, which is usually convened and presided over by the royal family, and many entertainment activities are carried out, such as lion dance, stilt walking, flower singing, wrestling and other activities. On that day, the Tufan people will bathe and cleanse their bodies, change into the most beautiful or cleanest clothes, and gather from all directions in the morning to the place where the ceremony is held, and people will say peace to each other and pray to the Tufan gods for happiness in the coming year.

According to the general's arrangement, the cave stepped up the training of the Bigfoot. It took a lot of brains to figure out how to divide Bigfoot into two groups for a gladiatorial fight, because there were nine Bigfoot, and if you didn't want the cub, there was a mother, and the two sides were not balanced, and in the end, the chief decided to count the cub and the mother into one, so that there were four adult males on one side, and three adult males plus one young and one female on the other side, a total of five, which was relatively balanced.

On the day before Eid al-Fitr, eight wagons pulled nine Bigfoot out through another exit of the cave and headed for the city of Seki. Wu Kui and Plop were still put on a big car, in the car, Wu Kui used some simple Bigfoot language that he had learned during this time, and told Plop Tong that they would let Bigfoot kill each other, and he would protect her when the time came, Plop nodded as if he didn't understand.