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Chapter 202 Giants, Caves, and Fangs

Zhang Tian thought that the sheep-gut prophet was about to speak out again, but the old lady didn't say anything, and led the two of them towards the east side of the camp.

A group of old people are cleaning up the domestic garbage in the camp, which is one of the contributions that the old people can make to the tribe.

Hundreds of people eat and live together, and produce a lot of garbage every day, such as animal remains, ashes after firewood burning, various waste materials, feces, etc. If they are piled up in the camp and are not disposed of, not to mention rotten and smelly, it will be even worse. Attract scavengers to patronize, seriously affecting the quality of life.

The old people gathered yesterday's garbage to the east side of the camp, and then transported it into the mountain to be dumped. These garbage are all natural and easily degradable substances, and there is no problem of environmental pollution.

"Mother."

"My lord priest."

"My lord wizard."

The old people stopped their work and said hello to the three.

Pu Jie smiled and nodded, her eyes swept over the faces of the old people, and finally fell on a thin old man.

"Abba, come here."

The old man named Aba wiped his hands on his body and walked over quickly.

He has a tall frame, and he must have been a strong hunter when he was young, but now he is old, his well-developed muscles have shrunk, his tall and straight back has become bent, his dark skin is covered with age spots and wrinkles, only his eyes are still intact. Shining against the sun, it reveals a vitality and enthusiasm that is not commensurate with its age and figure.

He is still alive, alive with hope... This is the message Zhang Tian read from his eyes.

Aba looked at his mother, then at the sky priest and the wizard, and couldn't hide his excitement.

He knew that his mother would definitely bring them to find him. When he heard that this group of foreign visitors was going to the far south, he knew there would be such a day, and he had been waiting for this day for a long time.

"Let's talk somewhere else."

The four returned to the central square and sat under the thick canopy of the big oak tree.

Zhang and Lin walked back and forth with them, but they still didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the prophet's gourd. The old lady knew how to tantalize people, but it seemed that she would not play tricks this time.

Pu Jie finally spoke, and introduced: "His name is Aba. He is the only one in our tribe who has been to the end of the grassland and the far south. If you want to go to the far south, you should listen to his story. .”

Feeling the attention of the sky priest and the wizard, Abba suddenly became excited.

This is an experience he is most proud of. He has told the story countless times, and it still seems like a dream when he thinks about it today.

"That was a long time ago, when I was young, the best hunter in the tribe, you know Babu, right? I was much stronger than him when I was young..."

"Cough!" Pu Jie interrupted, "Get to the point."

Aba stopped bragging, his eyes suddenly became distant and deep, he flipped through the book called memory, and turned it back to the most exciting page in his life.

"It was a cold day. Usually when the cold weather comes, we will go up the mountain to exchange some things with the people on the mountain, and that cold day is no exception. But what is different from the past is that on the way up the mountain, we found a series of footprints , very large footprints, my lord wizard, I think those footprints are almost as big as two of your feet."

Aba noticed that the wizard's feet were very small, so she used her feet for comparison.

After listening to Zhang Tian's translation, Lin Yu subconsciously put his feet together to see the size.

giant?

The two had the same thought.

"Are you sure it's human footprints?" Zhang Tian asked.

"I'm pretty sure," Abba said. "Those footprints have five toes, just like ours, only bigger."

Zhang Tian was noncommittal.The legends of giants have a long history, even in modern society. Those guys who claimed to have seen the footprints of giants later proved that they were either grandstanding or mistaken the footprints of beasts for human footprints.

Aba went on to tell: "There is such a huge savage hidden in the mountains. We were all shocked. This big savage is a potential enemy of the tribe. In order to find out his origin, we traced the footprints all the way and finally found a pit. Holes, very big, very deep potholes."

"It's strange that we have been to that place before and don't remember such a pothole existing."

"The footprints were broken in front of the pothole, and the wild man must have climbed down the hole wall. This proves that his climbing ability is very strong, which surprised us and even scared us."

"But I'm not afraid, not at all, and I'm the best at climbing. For the safety of the tribe, I decided to climb down to check the situation. We agreed that other people would go to exchange things with the people on the mountain. After finishing the cave, go straight back to the tribe."

Hearing this, Zhang Tian thought, if there is no accident, there must be an accident.

Sure enough, I heard Aba say: "Although the pit is very deep, there are many raised stones and narrow passages on the wall, which are very easy to climb. Just when I was about to climb to the bottom, the cave wall suddenly shook violently." !"

"earthquake?"

Earthquakes are not necessarily caused by volcanoes, but volcanic activity must be accompanied by earthquakes, and the volcanoes in this area have been active for many years, so earthquakes are not uncommon.

But Abba shook his head and said, "I thought it was an earthquake at first, but when I jumped to the ground, I found that the ground didn't shake, only the walls of the cave! I've never encountered such a situation!"

Zhang Tian frowned slightly, not to mention that Aba had never seen it before, he had also played caving before, and knew many caving masters, which he had never heard of.

After the translation, I asked Lin Yu, but Dr. Lin couldn't explain it either.

"The violent vibration caused the rocks on the wall to loosen and fall off. I was hit by a stone and passed out directly."

"I don't know how long it took. I felt a pain in my head and woke up from the pain. I was shocked by the scene in front of me. You must not have imagined what I saw!"

Aba habitually kept a secret. Whenever he talked about this before, he always aroused huge reactions from the audience. He liked to see these reactions. However, the sky priests and wizards were indifferent and completely unmoved.

He touched his nose in embarrassment, and had no choice but to reveal the answer: "I saw a wolf! A very big wolf bared its teeth and growled at me. I almost peed out of fear!"

"The wolf didn't attack me. It wanted to do so, but was stopped by a child. That's right, there was not only a wolf under the hole, but also a strange child, who was only four or five years old at the time. He is still alive and should be a strong man."

"The kid said words that I didn't understand and used gestures and actions to show that he didn't mean any harm."

"I gradually calmed down and found that it was very dark around me. I thought it was dark, so I didn't care. The child held a magical stone that glowed in his hand. I could only see clearly through the faint light from the stone. nearby things."

As Aba talked, he observed the expressions of the sky priest and the wizard. When they first heard about the glowing stone, the clansmen all opened their mouths wide and exclaimed wonder.

This time the audience was still very calm and did not give him any feedback.

This made him feel a little frustrated, and he couldn't help asking: "Master Priest, have you seen this kind of stone?"

Zhang Tian said: "This kind of stone is called luminous stone."

The ancients called it the luminous pearl, but Zhang Tian prefers to call it the luminous stone.

Natural luminous stones are indeed very rare. Volcanic eruptions and geological movements of thousands of years combined rare earth elements with silicates, aluminates, sulfides and heavy metals to form these minerals that can emit phosphorescence in the dark.Some luminous stones are radiated and not safe.

It was the first time I heard of a luminous stone, and it was normal to think it was magical, but in the 21st century, the technology of artificial night pearls is already very mature, so Zhang Tian and Lin Yu didn't think it was too strange.

"Luminous stone... a stone that glows at night, what an apt name..."

Aba repeated it several times, memorized the name, and then said: "That child seems to often travel in the underground cave. He knows the situation in the cave very well, and his eyes are used to the darkness, so he can see far away."

"I rested for a while. Although my head still hurts, I have fully recovered. I asked him where he came from, did he see a big man, how many people there were, and what purpose... He didn't answer, and he didn't know You don’t want to answer, or you don’t understand my question.”

"He gestured for me to follow him."

"Of course I don't agree. I came down to look for the wild man, but the wild man was not found. Finding a child and a wolf as obedient as a sheep is also very important information."

"That pothole is very close to our camp. I worry that if these strange underground savages find our camp one day, it will be bad for us. Therefore, I must go back to the tribe and tell my tribe the news, so that Everyone be prepared."

"But... when I wanted to go back the same way, I realized that the pothole was gone!"

Now, Zhang Tian and Lin Yu were finally a little surprised.

Seeing the reactions of the sky priest and the wizard, Abba became excited again, speeded up his speech, and said in a very urgent tone: "I was frightened, and I was groping around. There's a solid rock behind me! I don't even know where I am!"

"I think, someone must have moved my body when I was unconscious, maybe it was that child and that wolf!"

"The kid kept gesturing for me to follow him so he could take me out of the cave and back to the surface."

"I can't trust him, but I have no other choice but to go with him."

"The underground tunnels are very spacious. Most of the time, I can walk upright. In some narrow places, I can bend over. I have been to many caves, but I have never seen such a big cave. It is almost like underground The world is the same!"

"And the underground tunnels are horribly complicated, with so many forks. I almost fainted just by following them, but the kid was able to find the right way out."

"We walked for a long time, and in the end even the stone...the luminous stone was not lit up, so we could only move forward in the dark."

"In a completely dark environment, I can't see anything. You can't imagine how terrible it is. I almost collapsed! Fortunately, it was the last section of the road. Soon, I saw light! Although it was a very faint light , but to mine at that time, that little light was almost as bright as the sun!"

"I ran to the light immediately, I felt the breeze, I knew the entrance of the cave was in front of me, and then... I saw a huge body! It was the big wild man! He was waiting for me at the entrance of the cave!"

Aba slightly raised his voice. This is the climax of the whole story. In the past when this point was mentioned, the clansmen would jump up in fright and scream.

Although the sky priest and the wizard did not have such an exaggerated reaction, the surprise on their faces became more obvious.

He was even more excited, and continued: "That big wild man is almost as tall as two of me, and one of his legs is stronger than my whole body! Because it was late at night, I couldn't see his appearance clearly, and I didn't dare to look at him, He was horrible, just standing there took my breath away."

"I feel like I'm going to die. That big wild man will tear me apart like a hare. I walked out of the hole. There is no pothole. Outside the hole is a dense forest, a completely strange place."

"I looked around, looking for a chance to escape."

"The wild man didn't even look at me. Only then did I realize that the person he was waiting for was not me, but that child."

"The kid pointed me in the direction and told me to walk in the direction he pointed so I could go home."

"I was afraid that he and the wild man would regret it, so I turned around and ran away. That was the fastest run in my life."

Recalling the cowardice that night, Abba showed a little shame.

Zhang Tian must admit that among all the original stories he has heard, this one of Aba is the most exciting.

but……

"What does this have to do with your trip to the far south?" Zhang Tian suspected that the other party had gone off topic.

Aba grinned, he was waiting for the sky priest to ask such a question!

"That's exactly what I can't figure out," he said. "The child was pointing to the north. I walked north, and soon I was out of the forest, and then... I saw a grassland with no end. Grassland. Only then did I realize that I had actually traveled to the far south!"

"Impossible!" Zhang Tian's face changed slightly, "According to what you said, you walked out of the cave not long after the luminous stone went out, that is to say, you only walked for a day or two at most, it is impossible to walk that far! "

"I can't believe it either, but it's true. My family members know it, and my mother knows it too."

Pu Jie said: "At that time, I was not a mother. Aba's affairs were well-known in the tribe. I remember very clearly that he was indeed missing for a long time. It was not until many days later that our shepherds found him on the grassland. , he is returning from the south."

Zhang and Lin looked at each other, and they both saw the disbelief in each other's eyes.

"I can attest."

As Aba said, he took off the rope hanging around his neck.

People at the bottom of the mountain would wear some ornaments more or less. Zhang Tian didn't pay attention to them at first, but after he took them off, he found that there was a tooth on the end of the rope.

A tooth about the size of a thumb!

(End of this chapter)