"Ya, I heard you want to go out?"
A delicate-looking girl with a bone ring tied to her hand looked curiously at a fishing cliff.
The young man nodded: "I have already told my parents that I will be leaving in a few days."
"Is it because of the omen the wizard said?"
"There are some, but no one is willing to move, and I have wanted to leave for a long time."
"Why?"
The girl was confused: "We have food, clothing, and family here. Although we are surrounded by mountains, we don't have much hardship. As long as we work hard to farm, fish, and hunt, we can have enough to eat. Why go out?"
"Because I want to see the outside of the mountain."
The young man said this: "It's big outside, it's big, big, big. There's the boundless sea in the east, the vast grasslands in the north, the towering snow-capped mountains in the west, and further south, the legendary Miyako Wilds is there."
The girl shook her head: "The sparrows in the mountains have been flying all their lives and just hovering in the mountains. They don't envy the so-called sea, don't see the so-called grasslands, and don't know what snow-capped mountains are. They are equally happy, why should they give up happiness and go away? What about pursuing suffering?”
Ya sighed: "Ah Chang, the turtle doesn't know where the fish is!"
The girl was stunned, her cheeks suddenly puffed up, she was very angry.
"I have decided to leave. Do you want to come with me?"
However, the boy sincerely asked the girl, and after thinking about it, the girl shook her head.
She didn't dare to leave, and her family wouldn't let her leave.
If one person is missing, there will be one helper missing, and life at home will be difficult.
"You have an eldest sister and a younger brother at home. The younger brother has grown up and can help with the work, but I can't."
"But I can wait for you to come back."
Ya already knew that Ah Chang would not leave with him, so after a long silence, Ya patted the girl on the head.
Wait, I definitely can't wait. How far is the mountain, and how long does it take for Huo to cross the river to flow upstream before he can see Qingshui?
Don't know any of this.
After a few days, he gave up on the cliff of hazy love and embarked on the journey to leave. No one walked with him.
Everyone was waiting for the tribes to move together, which would definitely be a big deal, but Ya and them were not going along the way.
"Every ten years or so, there will always be some radical children who want to go out of the mountains and see the outside world. Oh, the outside world is so dangerous. Decades ago, the giant broke in and killed everyone. Qian’s tribe, and how many monsters are there like him out there!”
Regarding Ya's departure, many people sneered and said similar things.
The outside world is very dangerous, and this is the only paradise.
But Ah Chang kept in mind Ya's words, a turtle doesn't know where the fish is going.
The turtle doesn't know where the swimming fish is going.
After Ya left, the Huodu Lake tribe remained as usual, day after day, as winter turned to spring.
When everyone relaxed their vigilance, many people broke in outside the mountain.
These people claimed to be from a tribe of gods. They defeated the warriors here and hanged or beheaded many of them. After their complete victory, they declared that the mountains and wilderness became their tributary and were reclaimed by humans. What scares me is the blood sacrifice.
The young children will be taken away as blood food to the gods! To express the loyalty of the tribes.
[Recommend blood to appease the gods! 】
"Since Emperor Zhuanxu, where can there be a god of blood sacrifice in heaven and earth?"
This was the old wizard's accusation. However, the wizard who defeated him coldly told him that this god was older than Zhuan Xu's time and was the ancestor of all human races.
This sentence made the old wizard and the others understand the prophecy of their ancestors.
This wizard covered his face and claimed that he had been blessed by the gods and transformed into an immortal body. However, under his heavy linen clothes, animal skins, and bird feathers, what he should have was not a body of flesh and blood, but a body of flesh and blood. It's a shrunken body like a mummy.
"Our tribe is the assimilation of countless tribes, and we now call ourselves 'Summer'! Our god is called 'ancestor', and he is the ancestor that all tribes should respect. After worshiping the ancestor, you can obtain an immortal body!"
Some of these tribes were rescued slaves, and some were small tribes that were about to be exterminated due to migration. They were guided by the "god" and gathered together, and their wizards truly obtained immortal bodies.
The reappearance of the ancient blood sacrifice god is not yet known to many tribes in the Great Southern Wilderness, because the more remote the place, the more frequent blood sacrifices are. This comes from the ignorance of the world and the fear and awe of the so-called "gods". .
Compared with the behavior of the black snake, because the black snake is basically a beast, it can say "I am a barbarian". After all, the beast itself does not have morality. If it had not eaten the sacred deer and the immortal grass, the black snake would not have survived. Not now.
Moreover, although Emperor Zhuanxu had wiped out the practice of blood sacrifice, in the Emperor Zhi era, monsters such as Xiu Snake and Jiu Ying, or strange beasts and giant gods, still caused turmoil, and at the same time, the legacy of blood sacrifice was followed.
Weak turmoil, like a dark fire, was burning in the interior of the Southern Wilderness. These blood-sacrifice tribes began to capture and plunder some small mountains and fields, but did not dare to move to the central mountains and other large mountains and fields, because big countries such as Yanhuo and Feathermen were among them. .
"This woman is good, she can serve as a waiter for the gods!"
The mummy-like wizard pointed at Ah Chang, and with the entire tribe under control, the Huodu River was filled with bright red blood.
Ah Chang looked into the distance, which was the direction of the Ganzhi tree. As spring passed and autumn came, the Ganzhi tree was about to bloom.
So the tribe was dragged away and became slaves. But here at Huodu River, the fireflies no longer flew, the houses collapsed, the wooden pillars tilted, and only the Ganzhi tree was left, still standing here quietly.
Everything in heaven and earth was miserable. From that day on, when spring passed and autumn came, this sweet tree never bloomed or bore fruit again.
The people of the tribe have gone away, but not in the way they dreamed. They no longer have a way forward, and they are walking cautiously towards the abyss. The only ones left in Huodu Lake are the fireflies that fly and return every year, and the fireflies that fly back and forth every year. That five-hundred-year-old Ganzhi tree.
The tree is waiting.
It is waiting for the day when people who have left will come back. It believes that it can wait, because it can live for thousands of years, and one day, someone will come back.
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When the water of Huodu flows, the waves reverse the current, and the vast green water appears in the eyes of the cliff.
He finally figured it out and came out on his own.
Out of the ancient and confusing mountains!
When he saw the vast wilderness, he didn't know where to go. He raised his head, and the birds in the sky were soaring. He walked forward and came to the wilderness of Biyi. As night fell, the Erba gods appeared in front of him. In front of them, they danced and sang ancient songs in front of three plates of stars in the wilderness!
He saw fireworks nearby, and there were tribes living here. The people of the tribe told him that those shadows were the Erba gods. They were the Yellow Emperor's star at night. In the past few years, the sparks were stolen, and the years were lost. Sanmiao attacked. In the north, the gods went north to look for fire. Later, wizards from the north came here and rekindled the spark. As a result, the distant wilderness knew time again.
Ya looked at some of the farming tools used by the local tribes. He stared, having never seen those things before.
To the tribesmen outside, the young man Ya was just like the time traveler two hundred years ago, his cognition was stagnant.
"What do you mean? This is called a plow! It comes from the Fire-Tired Country, and the Fire-Tired Country is obtained from the Southern Hills of the Northland!"
The young people of that tribe looked at him with a smile.
