The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
This is obviously the house of the local indigenous people. But why am I lying here? This made him immediately realize that he was being captured alive by the natives. The arrow wounds on his shoulders and legs were still throbbing with pain. He touched his shoulder wound with his hand. Fortunately, the shoulder injury was not too deep and the bleeding stopped. Looking at the leg injury, it was only a scratch on some flesh, but no muscle or bone was touched. The forehead was severely hit by a stone, causing a big bump. And I always feel extremely dizzy and painful in my head.
He knew that he was captured by the indigenous people, so he wanted to escape from here. However, his dizziness and pain were so severe that he could not sit up. Therefore, he could only lie on the ground honestly.
After sleeping in a daze for most of the day, he felt a little awake and had some strength to sit up. So, he crawled to the door, opened the straw curtain hanging on the door, stuck his head out of the door and looked out, and saw many similar huts surrounded by dense forest.
It was twilight at this time, the sky was dark, and there was silence all around. Not only did Tashiguye feel dizzy, but he also felt very hungry. However, what he was thinking about now was not waiting for someone to bring him food, but he was extremely worried that he would soon become a sumptuous dinner for the indigenous people. Because he knew that the indigenous people here eat human flesh.
The thought of this made him extremely frightened. He tried to crawl outside. However, before he climbed out of the house, he heard someone running over, shouting at him loudly, and driving him into the house with a javelin. He had no choice but to retreat back into the house. So, he thought it would be better to wait until dark before trying to find a way to escape.
However, before it got dark, the natives brought two native women in their twenties and thirties into the hut. The women were naked, and each held a baby in her arms. At the same time, two pieces of food that looked like sweet potatoes were thrown into the house.
Tashiguye was starving for a long time, so he picked up a big sweet potato and started to eat it. Maybe he was really hungry, so he thought this sweet potato was particularly delicious. After eating one, he also finished the other. However, he still felt not full.
After eating the sweet potatoes, it was completely dark outside. The two women put down the babies in their arms, came over to hold him, and wanted to have sex with him. However, Tashiguye could not have sex with them because he was injured. He wanted to escape from here, and to escape from here, he must have sufficient physical strength and energy. Therefore, he did not want to use his physical strength and energy on these two raw women.
So he pointed out the arrow wounds on his body and the big bump on his head for the women to see. When the woman saw the wounds on his body and the big bruise on his head, she looked very disappointed and stopped pestering him. At this time, the baby on the ground started crying. The woman picked up the baby, coaxed the baby, and fell to the ground to sleep.
After the woman fell asleep, Tashiguye quietly walked to the door, hoping to take the opportunity to escape. However, the small door at the door was blocked from the outside. The small door is also woven with tree strips such as willow. Therefore, he pushed hard and made a big hole in the small door, and got out from the hole.
However, when he just got out of the hut and saw no one around, he ran to the edge of the forest and prepared to escape into the forest. However, as soon as he arrived at the edge of the forest, he saw many bright lights shaking towards him in the forest, and there was also the sound of something moving. He took a closer look and was almost scared out of his mind. It turned out that there was a group of lions standing not far across the way, staring at him with wide eyes. He was so frightened that he ran towards the hut where he lived. Fortunately, the lions did not chase him.
When he returned to the hut, the two women had woken up. While pulling him, they spoke to him excitedly and seriously in a language that he couldn't understand at all. However, he could realize that they were telling him that going out at night was dangerous and scary. He was in shock, and while listening to what they were talking about, he lay down on the haystack and fell asleep.
For several days, Tashiguye never dared to try to escape at night. But he is always looking for opportunities to escape from here. For this reason, every day when he had nothing to do, he would lie in front of the door and look out, secretly observing the movements around him and the movements of the indigenous people.
He found that the natives usually went out very early every morning. They are always a large group of one or two hundred people, holding bows, arrows and javelins. Under the leadership of the leader, they enter the dense forest in front of them naked. From the direction in which the indigenous people walked, Tashiguye could make a judgment: this is the place to leave the village.
After dawn, the two women asked him to hold the two babies and go out of the hut with them. They followed the path beside the house and came to an area not far behind the house where there were several large thatched huts. And there are more than ten women and many children in each thatched hut. There were so many children, ranging from babies to eleven or twelve years old, that the room was filled to the brim, making a mess of crying and screaming. But what surprised him was that there were no older children here. And some of these women are from other tribes. They have various tattoos on their faces, breasts and buttocks. These tattoos are not tattooed with anything, but are composed of scars after injury.
At this time, he and some other captured men were escorted out of the dense forest by several indigenous men with javelins. They walked across a single-plank bridge built with very narrow wooden planks and arrived at a large valley on the other side of the river. The valley is huge, extending along the river into the depths of the mountains and dense forests. The valley was covered with sweet potato-like things and was very dense. The natives shouted and urged them to start digging the sweet potatoes with a sharp stone shovel. Not far away, a group of wild boars were also busy in the fields. They are using their sharp claws to dig through the soft soil, and their mouths are stretched out to eat the tender and delicious sweet potatoes. As a result, several indigenous people picked up bows, arrows and javelins and chased the wild boar.
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