In a flash, the sun came out the next day.
"The effect of the antidote is very good, and the composition of this spring water is as I expected. It seems that there is no need for Master to lead a team to break out."
Ella yawned and rubbed her eyes that were darkened due to staying up late. The curtains were pushed open, and bright sunlight came in.
"I'm so sleepy. I don't know if I'll have a good night's sleep before the tribe comes."
"Didn't you say there will be a competition at night? There is still a whole day left. Your Majesty can just sleep peacefully."
Amy answered Ella while packing things in the tent.
"The remaining black spring water must be poured out and cannot be drunk by mistake; the used utensils must be washed thoroughly before reuse; the dead kechar bird must be buried properly, and the second surviving one must be buried properly. You can let it go. There is also the most important antidote, which must be collected and taken away..."
"No, Amy, we can't take the antidote away." Ella turned around and said, "Put it away well, but you can't use it during the competition."
"Huh?" Amy was stunned, "No antidote? No, Your Majesty, you... Then what was the purpose of us staying up late last night to make the antidote???"
"In order to further understand the nature of the spring water. However, if I use medicine to detoxify the spring water, some people will say that this is the power of the medicine, not my power. Once we encounter this kind of doubt, I am afraid we will encounter more harsh questions. Challenge. This kind of thing has happened once on the island and cannot be repeated."
Ella rubbed her tired eyes again.
"My current identity is an envoy, so I have to use the method of an envoy to solve the problem. Only by letting them have no doubt about the power of Quetzalcoatl can we leave safely."
"In the way of a divine envoy...? What is that?"
"No need to ask so many questions. Amy, keep this."
Ella took out the yangsui from a corner of the tent and handed it to Amy's hand, while she yawned and lay down on the bed. Poor Amy looked left and right with the yangsui, her head was almost spinning, and then she couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, are you serious?"
"Huh... Quetzalcoatl was also the sun god, so it makes perfect sense to use the power of the sun to detoxify."
"I'm not talking about that! I'm asking, besides being able to ignite fire, this thing can also detoxify?"
"Probably. Amy, I have to sleep for a while. If it's too late, those tribes will really come to our door."
"Your Majesty, just have confidence. I really don't know that Yang Sui has this function. Probably... wait a minute, Your Majesty, what does 'probably' mean???"
Amy reacted suddenly, but when she raised her eyes from Yang Sui, Ella was already snoring on the bed.
Ella was right to worry, she did not sleep well this night.
Not long after he lay down, the leader of the tribe opened the water curtain and hurried in. The hunchbacked priest followed. Ella greeted them with a yawn. Next to Ella, there were more than thirty tribesmen sent by Tesosomok, each of them tied with ropes.
——Just last night, these tribesmen passed through the water curtain to attack Ella's camp, but were ambushed by Tesosomok who was prepared in advance.
"The god of springs informed me of all this in advance."
Before the leader could speak, Ella spoke first. Her hair was disheveled because she had just woken up, and her voice was high and low due to lack of energy, but this made her more like an angel who could listen to the oracle.
"Nonsense!" the priest shouted with bared teeth, "How could you hear the voice of the God of Fountains? How could he tell you these things?"
"That's strange. I clearly heard a voice telling me that it was looking forward to today's competition." Aila glanced at the priest. "It also told me that the attack last night was the result of the impulse of these tribesmen. To, it has nothing to do with the leader or other people in the tribe. Isn’t this voice the god of spring water?”
No matter what happened here, it was impossible for the priest to refute it. Even though he gritted his teeth with hatred, the priest could only accept Aila's statement.
"Aztlan is a friendly country to you, and I will return these people to you." Ella said, "But I also have a request. I hope that the competition can be brought to this morning instead of the original night."
The leader shook his head: "I should have explained yesterday that tonight is when the power of the God of Spring Water is strongest."
Ella also shook her head: "When you explained yesterday, you didn't say that these people would attack."
The leader was immediately choked and speechless.
"Last night, through the water you sent, I saw your god." Ella said, "That is a great god, even Quetzalcoatl recognized it. And after all, I am just a messenger, not Quetzalcoatl. God himself. I want to challenge him when it’s more convenient for me, and he won’t care about it, right?”
"Now do you know you are afraid?" The priest was a little confused, "Okay, you can come with us now. But let me tell you, even in the daytime, the power of the God of Spring is still extremely powerful. If you can't bear it, you still have to Be prepared to die of rotting internal organs!”
Ella smiled and shook her head: "It doesn't matter, God will keep me safe."
She asked Amy to smear the animal's blood all over her face, wrists and neck. Then, while humming a tune that even she didn't understand the meaning of, she walked towards the Black Spring under the leadership of the tribe.
Tzozomoc followed at a distance with Aztlan's troops.
The spring is on the other side of the mountain, far away from where the tribe lives. There were still many sounds of birds and insects along the way, but as we approached the spring, these lively sounds gradually became sparse, making the entire forest become lifeless. As we get closer to the spring, the trees become more and more wilted and the grass becomes thinner, until finally only bare and exposed rocks remain.
The legendary black spring is surrounded by a pile of bare stones. The spring water is as clear and transparent as Ella saw yesterday. It is in sharp contrast to the surrounding withered environment, and it is like a bright pearl that suddenly appeared in the desert. .
The tribesmen left Ella behind, lowered their heads, and murmured prayers to the spring water. Ella looked around a little bored, but there was nothing around the spring. After looking for a long time, she only saw a leaf floating on the spring, swayed by the water waves and sent somewhere.
After praying, all the tribesmen, including the leader, took a step back. Then I saw the priest stepping forward and dancing an indescribable deformed dance with the hump on his back. After that, everyone bowed several times to the spring. After completing this series of steps, the priest dipped the ladle into the spring water, scooped out a large spoonful of water and handed it to Ella:
"You have no way out." He said to Ella sarcastically, "Drink it now!"
