In early July, before the peak of the rainy season, the kingdom's Eastern Expedition army, with the help of "Nei Ying", captured the Hidden Snake Holy City in one fell swoop. Black Wolf Toltec personally took charge, purging the descendants and priests of the Hidden Snake God. He sacrificed more than 6,000 people and converted more than 50,000 tribes. And the flag of the main god finally appeared in the easternmost part of the seaside land when midsummer arrived, three years after the eastern expedition to Totonak!
The destruction of the Holy City of the Hidden Snake and the destruction of the Hidden Snake Priesthood is, for the Totonak seaside tribes, the destruction of an ancient faith, and it is also an indescribable and powerful shock to the soul! As this news spread, all the Totonak tribes in the seaside land almost lost their will to continue to resist. The tribes that originally resisted as guerrillas in the jungle, or migrated deeper into the jungle, gradually surrendered to the new Coastal Alliance, and even surrendered as a whole.
"God bless you! Keep going east, keep going south! Before the pouring rain blocks everything, let me move forward as much as possible, and move forward again!..."
Black Wolf holds the newly acquired "artifact" in his hand, and is unwilling to stop at all in his conquest. In mid-July, the kingdom's legions dispersed into battalions and swept across a two-hundred-mile radius east of Hidden Snake City, conquering nearly 100,000 Hidden Snakes and other tribes that moved eastward. The kingdom's battalion also occupied La Venta, the second ancient Olmec city and the ancient sacred place of worship.
At this point, the kingdom's army completely controlled the lower reaches of the Hidden Snake River and the Sunrise River, and completely occupied four ancient Olmec cities. The Totonak Tribe Alliance in the East also officially perished in the fierce rainstorm!
At the end of July, the kingdom's tribal pioneers had penetrated deep into the middle reaches of the Sunrise River and encountered the Suoke tribes in the southeastern mountains and forests for the first time. Then, a waterfall of torrential rain fell, bringing all military operations to a standstill. And the newly born Seaside Alliance, after completely occupying more than a thousand miles of seaside coast, finally allowed the millions of Totonac tribes to be nominally unified for the first time!
"The Lord God bless you! Your Highness gives you your blessing! Haha! I, the black wolf Toltec, fought for three years, and finally defeated the entire Totonac coast and these stubbornly resisting city-states and tribes one by one!"
It rained heavily and even the sea was full of storms. Black Wolf Toltec could not fight the war, so he could only stay in the newly conquered Hidden Serpent City and was forced to deal with boring government affairs.
Of course, most of the time, he patrols the city with the long sword "Frostmourne" on his back and the skull processed by Atcoyotel. He led a large group of red-haired guards, like a wolf king on patrol, patrolling his territory. As long as he passed by and saw his glaring posture, all the Totonak warriors would lower their heads in awe, not even daring to look directly into his eyes.
For Black Wolf, the only fun pastime is to go to the Hidden Snake Temple in the center of the city, supervise the work of General Pappu, and listen to the other party's compliments in different ways.
"Ah! Dear Black Wolf Leader, I heard the thunder on the seashore, just like hearing your majestic roar! And when I watched the storm dissipate in front of me, I knew that you were coming with the artifact on your back, making all the storm spirits... Bow down in fear!…”
"Haha! Pap, your compliments are not very good today! The storm dispersed because I came. Then if the storm comes later and I am still there, what are you going to say?"
"Ah! Witness the Lord God! If a storm comes soon, your powerful and majestic divinity will naturally deprive the spirits of their control over the storm, and you can directly attract the storm!..."
Hearing this, Hei Lang laughed heartily. He reached out his hand, patted Pappu's shoulder hard, and made a few blunt jokes.
"Haha! Pap, you have such a mouth, you can really make the dead seem alive, you are born to make up stories to deceive people!... No wonder His Highness values you and asks you to compile the Olmec ancestral epic!..."
"Well, Chief Black Wolf, although this is indeed the truth, it is not easy to say this... Well, His Highness will be unhappy..."
"Yes, I know! Your Highness values this ancestral epic and wants to compile all the tribes in the world together... Haha! This is like using straw ropes to string together rabbits from all over the world. Then, let them They both peed on each other and smelled each other... Finally, I insisted that they were born from the same litter!"
The black wolf Toltec was very proud, looked at the surprised general Pap, and said carelessly.
"Papu, I understand the truth behind this very well! To put it bluntly, I conquer all the ministries, and it is the rope that strings rabbits together! What about you, you are the one who makes up some epic poem, because you are responsible for peeing and smelling rabbits. The rope is hard, and a disobedient rabbit will be pinched to death. The pee is soft, and the old rabbit will not die when he sees it. Although it smells bad, he will still bow his head and admit it..."
"Then, after all the disobedient old rabbits are dead, who will know who gave birth to the new little rabbits? When they grow up on a rope, they will smell the same. Look, They all look alike, so they really think they are in the same nest... At that time, even if the hard rope is pulled away, they will get together and not be able to separate!..."
"This... this... God's blessing! Chief Black Wolf... you are really... really..."
Hearing this, General Papu opened his eyes in shock and looked at the black wolf leader in front of him, as if he was meeting him for the first time!
This metaphor is concise and concise, and the words are not crude. It almost makes the profound meaning of His Highness' arrangement clear. You know, even Pappu himself thought about it for a long time before he understood it thoroughly. He never thought that the black wolf leader, who was like a ferocious beast, could have such sharp eagle eyes, able to see directly through the surface?
"Haha! What, Pap, do you still think I don't know anything? Haha! I understand very well! ... By the way, what did you really say about me just now? ..."
"Uh... you are really... you really have turquoise hidden in the stone, hidden wisdom!..."
"Well, that's right! I like hearing this!... Come, let me introduce you to someone who will just join your team of priests who compile epics!..."
Looking at Pappu who admired him sincerely, Black Wolf Toltec nodded with satisfaction. Then, he reached out and pulled out an old witch doctor with a refined appearance and a melodious demeanor from behind. In the arms of the old witch doctor, there was a roll of dusty white cloth. Through the gaps and shapes of the white cloth, you can vaguely see that inside the outer layer of the package is a simple pottery plate that is the size of a human head and is black, purple and grey.
"Well, he is an old tribal witch doctor in Hidden Snake City, also called Wise Kani!"
Hearing such a name, General Pappu's pupils shrank slightly. In the Totonac language of the seaside, the meaning of the word "Kani" is 'wisdom'! And if you dare to use such a word as your name, it means...
"Kani the Wise is a knowledgeable old witch doctor that my red-haired guards met in a small tribe nearby when they raided the Hidden Snake Land not long ago! Originally, the guards were planning to The leaders and priests of these tribes all sacrificed themselves..."
Black Wolf stretched out his hand and patted the old witch doctor heavily on the shoulder. The old witch doctor's eyelids twitched, but the expression on his face remained leisurely. At this moment, he seemed not to be in the half-burned temple of the city, but in the deep jungle, feeling the natural birdsong and fragrance of flowers.
"But this old witch doctor knows a lot. He communicated with the guards for a while and gave each of them a divination. He was praised as a wise man like the shaman of the wasteland! ... So, my red-haired guards discussed In an instant, this wise man was ‘invited’ from that tribe!”
Hearing this, the old witch doctor Kani smiled and nodded slightly to Pappu. Although the process of being "invited" was not so harmonious and willing, since he was forced to return to Hidden Snake City, he could only think of a way to find a job that could save him from the kingdom that conquered the seaside. errand.
Thinking of this, the old witch doctor Kani spoke leisurely, with a simple and desolate tone. The words he spoke were like the singing of a tribal elder, very cordial and melodious, and also like the narration of a campfire narrator, which was long and memorable.
"Divine pottery plate, tell me the new seaside future! The only Lord God opens a new era, and the fate of all tribes is changed in the cycle of eras!..."
"O condor of the plateau, it flies from the heights of the west. He crosses thousands of miles of seashore and goes to the boundless deep sea in the east! ... And what is hidden in the unpredictable deep sea? Ordinary people suffer The gods cannot be seen, but they are preparing for the future! They boarded the long island, and they rowed the long boat to the not-too-distant future to meet the dark and distant challenges!…"
Hearing this, Black Wolf Toltec's eyes widened and he looked at Jiangjun Papu, his face changing color instantly. The old witch doctor Kani's expression remained unchanged, but with a faint smile, he held the pottery plate in his arms and sang the last verse.
"O divine pottery plate, what is the future of the world? Is it the light going east, the darkness coming from the west, or the blood on the land, and the ships in the sea?... However, the divine things have spirits, but there is no answer. He It just guides me to the ancient and new sacred land, and writes the future of the Olmec people from the past of all the epics in the world!"
After several sections of sacrificial singing, it seemed like a divination of the future, or a mysterious omen. And these sacrificial songs fell into the hearts of the two of them, and they seemed to accurately confirm that the divine revelation of the king they knew corresponded to His Highness's layout and arrangements!
After singing the sacrificial song, the old witch doctor Kani looked at the wide-eyed Black Wolf, and then at Pappu who pursed his lips. He smiled slightly and bowed his head to salute for the first time.
"Respected Marshal Black Wolf, respected Priest Papu...I am old and incapable of talent, and I am guided by the gods...I would like to contribute to the prophesied new era and the compilation of the Olmec epic!..."
(End of chapter)
