As the little prince stopped in the village and walked deeper into the forest, the people escorting him changed. These new guards wore hair crowns and masks made of feathers and bark.
The upper body is shirtless and the lower body is wearing an animal skin skirt. If the crew members on the ship are wearing large intestines as necklaces, then these people in primitive costumes are wearing large intestines as jewelry.
It is wrapped around the neck, wrapped around the arms, hung crosswise on the chest, and wrapped around the waist.
They probably don't dress up like this for aesthetic reasons.
The crew used a large intestine to scare away ordinary animals. What did these people use several large intestines to scare away?
I didn't take off the air mask and kept wearing it.
After walking for about a few miles, the surrounding trees and plants became strange.
These plants have crooked melons and cracked dates, and are all deformed. They don’t understand the meaning of symmetry and beauty.
The petals of a flower are half long and half short, half round and half long.
The trees were all twisted and twisted, and none of them stood straight.
Many trees seemed to have tumors, and the bark of some trees seemed to have skin diseases.
No matter what kind of plant, the purpose of growing seems to be to irritate people's eyes.
Many tree tumors also have yellow-green mucus leaking out, like a burst pustule.
All living creatures crawling on the ground and flying in the air are deformed.
A strange bird with two heads, a gecko with eight legs, a mouse with three tails, and a big-eyed snake coiled in a tree.
Each of those snakes has comic eyes, and the eyes are even higher than the head, like two light bulbs tied to a hemp rope, which looks particularly awkward.
Fortunately, the little prince's eyes were blindfolded, so he couldn't see these weird creatures, so it was better.
The wind started blowing in the forest, and the animals that came out to watch the excitement seemed to sense something and hurriedly hid in the grass.
The 'savage' protected the little prince and moved forward steadily without being affected.
A white shadow passed over their heads with lightning speed.
Fortunately, the little prince was fine. He just felt something flying over his head and instinctively wanted to take off the blindfold.
The savage beside him held his shoulders to prevent him from continuing this action.
I squatted on the tree next to me, because there are many animals here and the curiosity is strong. As they walked this way, there was always movement in the surrounding forests and grass.
I no longer had any scruples and controlled the air thread to move around without putting too much distance between me and them.
The way I move now is very much like a spider, using air threads instead of legs and feet. It walks on the ground, and the principle is similar to walking on stilts.
It’s just that I walked freely and it was easy to avoid blocking plants.
The faint sound it makes is the same as that made by other small animals.
With them as cover, I can follow them freely.
The extremely fast white shadow flew around them, but it did not hurt anyone after several 'shots'.
I can feel its eagerness, its hunger is tormenting it, and it wants to eat so much.
However, it was afraid of something and didn't dare to really move its claws.
When the Savages left, a white shadow landed next to me.
I usually walk from the tree and stop on the branches.
It happened to settle on the branch I chose.
We squatted side by side, and it turned its head and stared at me with its dark eyes.
It is a very strange white bird, with down instead of feathers on its body.
The wings are more like bat wings, but the head is indeed that of a bird.
It has four eyes, one on the front and one on the side.
The claws are like hooks, so it will be difficult to escape if caught by it.
I didn't move, and it didn't move either. Our eyes faced each other for twenty seconds.
Perhaps because it was bored, it flew away without making any attack movements.
I used an air mask to protect my whole body. It probably didn't smell my scent. I noticed something on the tree just by sight. It didn't look like a living thing. After observing it for a while, I felt it was boring and left.
After it left, I continued to follow the little prince, and stone statues began to appear in the dense forest, all shaped like monsters.
After walking for about ten kilometers, a city appeared in front of me.
It is built of stone, with a stone gate and no walls. Several rows of trees were planted outside the city to serve as city walls.
There are stone roads, stone houses, stone towers, stone pillars, and a stone palace in the city.
Everyone in the city is decorated with a large intestine, including babies in swaddling clothes. Babies in ordinary homes are wrapped in small quilts, but babies here are wrapped in a large intestine.
This shows that they are also afraid of monsters. If they are not protected by the large intestine, monsters will attack them.
Is there a last resort reason for living in such fear and continuing to sacrifice to their evil gods?
The little prince was escorted into the courtyard by the savages, walked through the streets, crossed the stone pillar square, and came to the palace with stone pillars at the door.
The stone pillar is about six meters high, with various monsters carved on it. There is a stone sculpture of a bird at the top, which is exactly the image of the four-eyed white bird in the forest.
The cloth strips from the little prince's eyes were removed. He adjusted to the light and saw clearly where he was, and his fear surged.
He couldn't help but look around, seemingly observing the environment, but actually looking for me.
I hid somewhere where he couldn't see me. Everyone in the city was dressed in primitive clothes. If I came in blatantly, I would be attacked by dozens of bows and arrows immediately.
There were no outsiders in the city, except for me and the little prince, who were dressed in 'fancy clothes'.
A team of people came out of the palace, took over the work of the savage, and led the little prince into the palace.
Perhaps no outsiders come here all year round, and the palace is not well defended.
I climbed over the wall and went in. When the little prince was brought into the hall, I went around to the back of the hall and lay under the window to eavesdrop.
There are windows on the left, right and back of the hall, and only a door on the front.
This palace cannot be compared with the imperial palaces of Shikoku. It has a primitive sense of heaviness and simplicity.
The window has no sash, just a window opening, covered with a mat woven from plants as a curtain.
I squatted under the window sill and eavesdropped without any pressure.
On the 'throne' in the palace, sat the queen wearing a strange bird mask.
There are four eyes on the mask. The mask is painted white, with black eyes and no whites.
They seemed to particularly 'worship' the white bird.
The little prince didn't know their language, so he listened to the guard and the queen chattering. The queen nodded and spoke in Shengyu dialect:
"You are Zed's child. Your mother did not complete the task assigned to her by her ancestors and should be punished. But she died, so you have to take her place and be punished."
"I am the prince of Sheng Yu, not a member of your tribe. You can't do this!" the little prince yelled.
Fear made him subconsciously use anger to cover up his true emotions.
"It doesn't matter whether it's your decision or not. The ancestors will judge for themselves. They recognize their own bloodline and will never make mistakes."
"What ancestor? You want to fool me, no way!"
"Noble ancestors, their will cannot be violated. If they accept you, you must accept your fate. If they reject you, then I will apologize to you and give you adequate compensation. You really do not belong here."
"Where are the ancestors?" From the look of the little prince, he seemed to want to reason with his ancestors.
"Don't worry, prepare yourself first, and someone will take you to see them later."
As soon as the queen finished speaking, the guards on the left and right stepped forward and carried the little prince out of the palace.
The preparations the queen mentioned were to bathe, change and provide food for the little prince.
I think it's okay to give him food, but bathing...
Are there too many spices in the stone bath?
And it smells like Sichuan peppercorns, aniseed and cumin?
The water in the pool must be quite hot. When he came out after washing, the smell of spices on his body was particularly strong.
He probably had a bad premonition, because the plates of food that were brought to him were all spice leaves and medicinal herbs.
How dare he eat it, but someone was watching and said that this was the queen's special treat. If he didn't eat it, he would not give the queen face. Anyone who disrespected the queen, no matter who he was, would be punished and tied in front of the palace door. On the stone pillar, there were dozens of shallow openings on the body, attracting poisonous insects to come and bite them after smelling the blood.
When the little prince heard this, he quickly wolfed down the food in front of him.
They arranged a place for him to rest. The bed was a stone stove, but in my opinion, it was just a stone barbecue pot.
A small fire is lit under the bed, and the bed is warm. Sleeping on it is like frying slowly on a low fire.
This place has a tropical climate, and no normal person can bear to sleep on a fire bed in such weather!
I did the little prince a favor and let him know that I was still there.
I used an air mattress to put some distance between him and the fire bed.
It won't make his flesh really stick to the stone pot.
He was happy and worried at the same time. In this environment, he couldn't sleep at all.
