Yan Mo's eyes recovered, and everyone was very happy, but this kind of miraculous days of not being able to see, and then recovering later made him shrouded in a sense of mystery that belonged to a priest.
At least that's how Meng and Awu viewed Yan Mo.
The next day, Yan Mo, who appeased Jiu Feng and the bee swarm, set off with Yuan Zhan with a simple bag on his back and a herbal bag tied around his waist.
The two quickly crossed the safe Suaeda salsa wetlands and headed towards the left corner of the salt lake.
After crossing the salt lake, there is a prairie with all kinds of weeds and low shrubs growing in disorder. In summer, the weeds here may grow taller than a person. If you walk in the grass, you will be ambushed The beast fell.
In winter, the grassland vegetation is not so dense, even if many grasses are not dead, they bend down, because these long grasses fall down, and some low vegetation on the ground also reveal their true colors.
Yan Mo walked for most of the time and did not recognize any familiar plants. This may also be related to the fact that the vegetation has withered or withered. He suspects that he has seen small day lilies and wild alfalfa just now, but he is not sure. He can only wait for the next spring. to know.
Looking up at the sky, the sun didn't come out today, the sky was cloudy and cold, Yan Mo shivered, and took two steps to catch up with Yuan Zhandao, who was walking in front with a wooden stick to clear the way: "It's going to snow for the second time."
"how do you know?"
Yan Mo didn't say that Jiufeng told him when he came back from a walk in the morning, but just smiled.
Yuan Zhan licked his lips, "Let's go and come back quickly, and try to come back before the snow falls. Can you understand what Jiu Feng and the bee colony are saying?"
The sudden questioning did not make Yan Mo, who was already prepared, flustered. He glanced at the young man strangely, and said with a matter of course: "I am the priest of the mountain god Jiufeng, shouldn't I understand what it says? As for the bee Qun... I think it might have something to do with what Jiufeng gave me, but I don't know the reason."
"Why are your eyes suddenly blind?"
"Didn't I tell you? Punishment." Yan Mo showed a proper bored look on his face, and said, "I will definitely tell you what I can tell you, but if I don't take the initiative to tell you, please Don't get to the bottom of it, it's a taboo thing for me to leak the secrets of heaven."
Mystery? Yuan Zhan felt that listening to the young man was getting harder and harder. Sometimes he had to make guesses based on the context and his tone, because he had never even heard of the many pronunciations and words he used.
"Okay, if you don't want to talk about it in the future, I won't ask any more questions, but if it's something that concerns everyone's lives, you'd better tell me clearly in advance."
"Are you ordering me?"
The two stood still and looked at each other, both unhappy and patient.
The cold wind blew across the land, and the black and yellow ground was exposed in many places on the prairie, which was at least half a person's height. The mud and grass roots under the feet were frozen into ice slag. It's a good place to talk, but neither of them wants to look away first.
Yuan Zhan, who still dared to go barefoot in the winter, took the lead in looking at each other: "Your character is not like your face at all, Yan Mo, does every priest gradually become annoying?"
Yan Mo's expression was numb, frozen! "I didn't expect you to like me, and I don't need it. Yuan Zhan, you did save my life, but what I gave you back is not only enough but also more."
"You hate me, why?" Yuan Zhan asked directly, this question poked him for too long.
Yan Mo laughed, did this kid want to talk to him today
That's right, he has been holding back some words for a long time, and he can't spit them out!
"You actually asked me why I hate you? No, no, no, don't put gold on your face, you are not worthy of my hating you, the most I can do is... I don't like you." With Jiufeng and Man-eating Bee As a backer, Yan Mo's true nature was gradually exposed, and his speech became less and less like a teenager.
"Why?" Yuan Zhan seemed determined to ask the answer.
"Why!" Yan Mo laughed angrily, "Slaves have dignity too, but how do you treat me? How the hell do you dare to force... Who can bear such a thing as a man?!"
"Are you angry because of this?" Yuan Zhan was surprised, he wondered if he didn't feed the little slave enough to make him hate him so much, but he didn't expect it was because of that kind of thing.
"Shouldn't I be angry?" Yan Mo smiled angrily, "Or you lie down on the ground and let me try?"
"If you could beat me." Yuan Zhan really didn't understand why the teenager was so obsessed with that matter, didn't they all live like this? Before the tribe was formed, the priests of the tribe encouraged everyone to go out and find women from other tribes. When they saw women from other tribes, they immediately snatched them back, and as long as they fed those women, they would do the same. Stay with the tribe. Sometimes if you can't find a woman, you will be knocked out when you see a man who is pleasing to your eye, and you will be carried back to the tribe directly.
Later, when several tribes merged into tribes and the tribes had slaves, the situation of robbing people would be better. But even so, they saw that the weak tribes could still snatch them, otherwise how could there be so many slaves available
Generally speaking, the tribe lacks women, not to mention sleeping slaves, it is normal for two warriors to mix together, no matter if they are with slaves or warriors, they will separate when there are women in the future.
What is there to hate about such a thing? I didn't starve you, nor beat you.
Yuan Zhan refused to accept it, and said it directly: "I will feed you, feed you, sleep in a tent, and gather medicine for you to heal your injuries. What if I sleep with you?"
Seeing the young man's righteous appearance, Yan Mo's heart ached from being blocked. The world outlook, values, and outlook on life are completely different. How can he tell this person that this insult is one of the most unbearable shames in life for ordinary men in his world. Inviolable personal dignity.
Yan Mo waved his hand weakly, "In this case, if one day you become a slave and someone from another tribe buys you or snatches you back, and he gives you food, drink, and a place to live, are you willing to let him sleep with you? ?”
Yuan Zhan frowned, he didn't seem to have thought about this question at all, "If I can't beat him, I can only accept it. If I can beat him, then of course I sleep with him, if I want to."
"But at that time you were injured, or there were other people around, you had no way to resist."
Yuan Zhan's face was gloomy, and he said gloomyly: "Afterwards, I will find a way to kill him, escape, and destroy that tribe."
Yan Mo spread his hands, look!
Yuan Zhan's face was extremely ugly. He just realized now that this kind of thing is so normal when it happens to others, but once it happens to him, it seems quite unbearable.
Then why did those women, including his mother who still had memories, accept the reality so easily? Moreover, his mother had been snatched by a tribe once, and gave birth to two children to a certain man of that tribe. Later, that tribe was attacked and seized by the original tribe, and his mother was snatched back by his father.
However, his mother did not run away from that tribe, nor did she escape after arriving in the Yuanji tribe. She just lived with his father and gave birth to him until he was five or six years old because she wanted to give birth to a younger brother. He was a beggar, and he killed both his mother and himself before he was born.
His mother was like that, and so were many, many women and slaves in the tribe.
Why don't they get angry and rebel like little slaves? Why do they accept reality so easily
Is it because they are not strong enough, so they can only endure in order to survive
"The strong, give. The weak can only accept." Yuan Zhan seemed to have figured out something, and it took less than ten seconds for his eyes to change from confusion to firmness. Wrong, only the strong can kill the beasts and defeat the enemy, and only the strong can get everything, the weak can only be forced to accept it.”
My Lord! Yan Mo thought that he finally convinced this person, but who would have thought that this person would run his thoughts in an extreme direction.
"Fuck! Does the weak have no right to live? If you are not good at hunting and fighting, you are weak? Are you born of a woman? Without slaves, you will save so much trouble? Then the day you become weak..."
Yuan Zhan directly interrupted him, "I will remember all the shame and become stronger again!"
Yan Mo's body was shivering from the cold, his teeth were chattering and he said: "Then what do you mean, if I can't beat you, you will continue to sleep with me?"
Yuan Zhan didn't answer, just turned around and walked forward without looking back.
"Hey! Tell me clearly! If you still want me to be your tribal priest, I advise you to stop thinking about me like that. Don't you just need a woman? See you later on the road, you Grab it and bring it back!"
"So I can rob those women, but I can't force you? Why? Because you are more useful than those women? Because you can threaten me? Because you are stronger than those women?" The young man turned his head and looked at the young man mockingly, "Don't deny it, My lord priest, you are exactly like us."
Yan Mo felt heartbroken again. Although the other party is making unreasonable words, it just makes you unable to refute. How would he answer the youth? Saying that women should be men's vassals? Why should a woman be a man's vassal? Just because you're born with more fat than muscle? Natural physical problems doomed them to be weak? And the weak can only accept the arrangement and coercion of the strong
The question turns back, if some men are weak as well, why can't they live like women? Women can accept such a life, why can't men accept it
"Women can also be very powerful..." Yan Mo said weakly, he didn't know that he had gone off topic.
"Yes, women can be very powerful, and the patriarch of the Sun Salute tribe is a woman."
Yan Mo slapped his head, so this is still a question of strength and weakness. Whether you are a man or a woman, you have the right to speak only when you are strong. If you want not to be bullied and coerced by others, and want to be respected and revered by others, then you must have some ability to make others taboo, at least you must be strong in a certain way, so strong that others need you, cannot lose you, and cannot lose you. Dare to offend you.
So he was persuaded by a primitive man who advocated force instead
A prairie fox ran over briskly in front of the two of them, and looked back at them not far away.
Yan Mo salivated looking at the disappearing fox tail.
Yuan Zhan suddenly became vigilant.
"I'm not weak." Yan Mo trotted to catch up with the man, and couldn't help emphasizing, "I'm just not good at hunting and fighting, but I think it's easy to kill you, do you want to try?"
"I won't give you a chance. I want to sleep with you in the future, so I will tie you up." Yuan Zhan replied while turning his head to look around.
"..." Yan Mo was amused, did this guy have such an idea after seeing his golden needle
"Don't forget, I still have Nine Winds and Man-eating Bees." Someone wanted to get back his place and face.
"I know you can command those man-eating bees." The young man turned his head and pulled him, preventing him from stepping into the dirt pit in front, "Every time I send you up a tree, those man-eating bees will drive me away but You won’t sting me, I know those man-eating bees are under your order, you don’t want me to see what you are doing in that hive.”
"Hehe, you're really smart." A certain person smiled on the surface, and didn't say thank you when he was helped.
"Man-eating bees are afraid of fire. You made me anxious, so I set fire to burn that hive."
"I'll let them sting you first!" Someone didn't realize at this time that their serious discussion had gradually begun to develop into a childish quarrel.
"I will figure out a way to keep their thorns from piercing into my flesh." The young man whispered vaguely.
"What did you say?"
The young man stopped and turned his head, "I said, I am very excited when I think that I will fuck you under the eyes of the mountain god Jiufeng and the group of man-eating bees."
"...you pervert!"
"What is perversion?" The young man couldn't figure out what it meant.
Yan Mo sneered, "It means you are not normal, because your brain is all grown in the testicles, and only the cerebellum is left on the neck... Poof!"
Yan Mo's whole body was suddenly pushed to the ground by the young man, because the speed was too fast, he didn't even have time to protect himself, his mouth was almost in close contact with the ground.
Yan Mo raised his head and was about to curse, but the young man turned his head and put his fingers in front of his lips, without even making a hiss.
Yan Mo was vigilant, and only then did he feel that something was wrong with the air. The wind brought a smell that belonged to wild animals that he had smelled in the zoo, and there was also the sound of the grass being stirred in the wind. There was a rustling sound, as if some medium-sized animal was walking through the grass.
Something flashed by in the grass far away, Yan Mo felt that he seemed to see something, but he was not sure.
The two of them lay quietly on the spot until the smell and the sound of shuttles completely disappeared.
Yuan Zhan held the wooden stick in his hand, propped it up on one leg, looked at the six directions and listened to all directions, and slowly stood up with his waist bent.
Yan Mo looked up obliquely, and asked him with his eyes: Can you get up
Yuan Zhan stretched out his hand to pull him.
Yan Mo followed his hand and stood up, "What is it?"
Yuan Zhan had a solemn expression, "It's a wolf beast, a white-tailed wolf, at least twenty of them passed by just now."
Twenty wolves? Yan Mo gasped and asked, "Where did they go?"
"In the direction of the forest, white-tailed wolves generally live on the edge of forests and grasslands. This area is likely to be their hunting ground."
Yan Mo regretted, he should try to bring out a group of man-eating bees, "Then we have to go on?"
"Of course. What are you afraid of? There are only twenty wolves, and with Nine Winds here, there won't be any large carnivorous beasts in this grassland." Yuan Zhan adjusted his direction, leading Yan Mo Continue to step into the depths of the grassland.
"Do you know where the Awu tribe lives?" Yan Mo was curious as he saw the confident look of the young man.
"I don't know. But wherever people live, there will be traces, we just need to find the traces and touch them."
Yan Mo didn't know how to find such traces, so he could only silently follow behind the young man.
In fact, he also asked Jiufeng if he knew where the Awu people lived, but Jiufeng only told him that it was in the grassland, next to a small lake. When asked about the detailed reference, it couldn't explain clearly, and only said that it was the nearest two-legged monster.
The two of them didn't speak any more along the way, walking through the grassland one after the other.
This trip made Yan Mo realize once again that without an experienced hunter like Yuan Zhan and his natural sensitivity to the local environment, he might just walk around in the grassland and be overwhelmed by some invisible potholes and cracks. Pit to death.
On the way they almost stepped into a small swamp.
It may not be appropriate to say a swamp. The correct term may be a muddy pond. It is very small, only about one foot in size, with floating grass growing on the surface. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell that it is a muddy pond.
Fortunately, the long stick proposed by Yuan Zhan played a huge role. When Yuan Zhan was exploring the way, the wooden stick was inserted into the small half at once.
Yuan Zhan felt something was wrong, so he pulled it out immediately.
"There are many similar rotten mud ponds in the grasslands and woods. When walking, don't put your whole body weight on your feet. You should step on every step. Wait for the wooden stick to tell you that the land ahead is safe before you set foot on it. "Yuan Zhan taught young people not because he is his future priest, but every tribe's warrior has the responsibility to teach the minors of his own tribe, including his own slaves, so that they can survive in a cruel environment. To live longer, the second is to not let the other party drag you down.
After the muddy pond, Yuan Zhan found traces of human actions.
Yan Mo looked at it for a long time, but couldn't find the so-called traces, and immediately asked "without shame": "How do you know that the Awu people have appeared here?"
Yuan Zhan didn't laugh at him, and pointed to a piece of weeds in front of the left, "Can you see that? A lot of weeds have been pulled off."
Being pointed out by the young man, Yan Mo also saw it.
Yuan Zhan walked over and touched the weeds, "The weeds here are longer and tougher, suitable for making straw ropes."
Yan Mo glanced, and found that behind those weeds there were a few grasses that seemed familiar to him, just as he was about to walk over to take a closer look, Yuan Zhan had already moved on.
Helpless, Yan Mo had no choice but to follow, he didn't dare to stay in the wilderness alone.
Afterwards, Yuan Zhan discovered many signs of human activities one after another, and followed those traces to the vicinity of the Awu people's residence.
It was a very small tribe. Judging by the number and size of tents, the tribe's population would not exceed one hundred at most.
Perhaps for the convenience of life, the tribe built their tents on the windward side of a small lake.
The lake is not big, and the lakeside is covered with weeds. These weeds are also strong in vitality. Although they are withered and yellow, they still stand upright.
Yan Mo, who was hiding in the grass with Yuan Zhan and secretly observing the Awu tribe, suddenly stood up excitedly when he saw the lake.
"Mo?" Yuan Zhan immediately wanted to pull him down, so is there anyone by the lake
"flax!"
"what?"
"Flax grows around the lake and behind the weeds just now!" He didn't dare to confirm the few scattered trees just now, but with such a large area, he couldn't make a mistake. Faced with such a large piece of natural flax, Yan Mo was so excited that his voice almost changed his tune.