Chapter 377 The Road to Migration to the South
The baby girl has no teeth yet, and she chews the thick mist as if she is chewing her mother's chest. Her
slightly pouty mouth is a little stubborn, and her eyes are open, looking left and right. When she looks at Diwu Xuan, it seems that she can see through the thick mist and look directly into Diwu Xuan's eyes.
This is really a weird baby girl.
"She feels more like a totem than a baby girl."
Moon Totem may just be talking casually, but Diwu Xuan quite agrees.
"If she is really a totem, then which tribe's totem is she from?"
Diwu Xuan murmured, his eyes fell on the baby girl's forehead.
There is a triangular birthmark there, with three vertical lines in the middle, two round lines on the left and right, and the middle one is short and slightly thick.
This birthmark looks like a vertical eye in a triangle. When Diwu Xuan looked directly at it, he felt that it was also looking directly at him.
"She can't really be a totem, after all..."
Moon Totem stopped talking halfway.
After all, cows can become totems, and the greedy wolves of the wolf tribe are also totems. There is no reason why humans cannot become totems.
But all along, these totem spirits have instinctively excluded humans from becoming totems, because humans are believers of totems.
If the believers become themselves, who else will believe in themselves?
Such a paradox makes the totem spirits dare not believe this possibility, but Diwu Xuan will not fall into such a dead end of thinking, because he himself is a human, at least the soul is like this.
There is no reason that cows, wolves, and bears can become totems, but it is not possible for humans.
The quality of a totem should not be judged based on what made it a totem. After all, most totems are made of stone. Are stones smarter than humans and therefore more likely to become totems?
Such an answer is obviously nonsense. So what makes a totem?
After many years of observation by the Fifth Xuan, the final result is still attributed to faith: when enough people have a sufficiently devout faith, totems that belong exclusively to these people will be born.
Totems are both made by humans and believed in by humans. This is not uncommon in the past.
From the perspective of a company, the vision of a good company is mostly proposed by a few people and finally supported by the majority. There are many employees who regard the corporate vision as supreme.
If it is too loose to look at it from the perspective of a company, it is better to look at it from the perspective of religion.
Humans created various gods and then believed in them. The predecessors knew whether they were true or false, but the later generations have completely entered this vicious circle of belief. The most interesting thing is that the later generations will constantly supplement the beliefs created by the predecessors and think that they are originally like that.
If you look closely at the gods, they have different images in different periods. Sometimes they represent confinement, sometimes they represent persistence, sometimes they represent freedom, and sometimes they represent exile. People can always use them appropriately.
When these issues are thought through, it is not unacceptable for humans to become their own gods.
"Although it's not much, she is indeed absorbing your mist."
Rituten's voice rang out, with a surprised expression on his face, looking at the mist being sucked by the baby girl.
The mist fell into the baby girl's mouth as she sucked it, and even entered her stomach as she swallowed, which was really surprising.
"Just pay more attention to it in the future, and don't rush to draw conclusions."
Diwu Xuan glanced in the direction of the sea, speaking casually, but his heart was quite complicated.
Whether it was Baxia, the big turtle, or this baby girl, they all came from the sea.
What is in the sea? Why do so many strange beings come from the sea?
No one could give Diwu Xuan an answer to such doubts, so he could only keep everything in his heart and supervise the baby girl more.
"Ba Xia, let's go back to the tribe."
After confirming the target of these beasts and the abnormality of the baby girl, there was little point in staying here to attract beasts.
With the wife and daughter of the eighth generation witch around, it was not convenient for Ba Xia to fight, so Diwu Xuan had no intention of fighting here.
Ba Xia's figure moved forward towards the temporary station of the tribe against the wind and snow. Fierce beasts could be vaguely seen wandering in the surrounding wind and snow, but due to Ba Xia's physique, they did not dare to rush over, which disappointed the Sun Totem who was preparing to fight in the totem.
Back to the tribe, Diwu Xuan explained the situation to the eighth generation witch and asked him for a solution.
If the baby girl adopted by the Eighth Generation Shaman is always among these old and young women and children, with ferocious beasts wandering around, it will be very dangerous. For safety reasons, it is not a good idea to do so.
However, since the matter involves the wife and daughter of the Eighth Generation Shaman, Diwu Xuan cannot make a decision on his own, so he asks him what he thinks.
"Let my wife and daughter follow you."
The Eighth Generation Shaman finally made a choice, and Diwu Xuan also thought so in his heart. If
the baby girl follows him, there will be less possibility that the ferocious beasts will harm the elderly, weak women and children, and it will also be convenient for Diwu Xuan to monitor.
Diwu Xuan asked Ba Xia to drag the wife and daughter of the Eighth Generation Shaman away again and ran towards the front team.
There were warriors there, and if the ferocious beasts attacked, the damage would not be great. Moreover, Diwu Xuan could also let the warriors protect the wife and daughter of the Eighth Generation Shaman, and let Ba Xia hunt the ferocious beasts.
The southward migration team continued to move forward. Except for the eighth generation witch, no one else knew the reason for this episode.
The Fifth Xuan and the eighth generation witch had no intention of explaining this matter, so this matter was not widely known by the tribe.
Originally, the Fifth Xuan wanted to ignite the world of light of the fourth generation witch on the long journey south.
The missionary ability obtained from the third generation witch made him look forward to the ability of the fourth generation witch, but because of the existence of the baby girl and the beasts surrounding him, the Fifth Xuan had to give up this idea.
After more than half a month of marching, the Fifth Xuan could not observe any difference from the baby girl. She ate and slept like a normal baby, but she cried less than those babies.
The baby girl was not abnormal, and the number of beasts did not increase, but decreased. Perhaps the southward route was not suitable for these guys who followed from the north.
After walking for another five days, Diwu Xuan arranged a trap. He placed the baby girl in a seemingly deserted place. Through the traps dug by the warriors and the Ba Xia who hid in advance, Diwu Xuan successfully hunted down most of the beasts that followed.
The remaining guys scattered, frightened by the bloody scene and dared not follow.
After driving away the beasts, Diwu Xuan did not ignite the light immediately, but observed for a few more days.
He found that even if there were beasts on the road, they seemed unable to find the baby girl's abnormality. Perhaps only the beasts that were originally stationed there could find her different, or perhaps it was because of... the thick mist.
As long as Diwu Xuan wrapped the baby girl with the thick mist, she would naturally chew the thick mist and eat it into her stomach bit by bit.
Because the amount eaten was very small, Diwu Xuan didn't care. Instead, he was looking forward to what changes would happen in the end, whether Tai Chi would appear on the baby girl's forehead to replace the triangular vertical eye mark.
These speculations did not happen, but the beasts did stop chasing, which might be related to this incident.
Putting aside these irrelevant speculations, the Fifth Xuan did not tell the Eighth Generation Witch that the baby girl no longer attracted ferocious beasts, but continued to keep her by his side. After all, it was easier to observe this way.
After waiting for a few
more days and making sure that there were no ferocious beasts following, the Fifth Xuan began to try to ignite the Fourth Generation Witch's world of light spots. The Fourth Generation Witch's world of light spots was at the edge of the desert. The Fifth Xuan chose to ignite it on a day of a great sacrifice, so that the sacrifice would provide him with more strength and energy.
He always felt that given the Fourth Generation Witch's slightly talkative physique, this ignition might be unprecedentedly long.
The speculation was soon verified, and the Fourth Generation Witch's ignition took nearly twice as long as usual.
If it weren't for the thick mist and phantoms that appeared on several totems due to the worship of the Fifth Xuan, which made them stronger to a certain extent, they might not have been able to hold on to the end.
Even the Fifth Xuan did not test his abilities as usual at the end, but fainted directly after making sure there was no problem.
This time, almost all the totems in the Bagua space fell asleep, except for the Hammer Totem, because he also had to take care of the Hammer Tribe. At the last moment, the Fifth Xuan did not pull him in to participate.
During the long sleep, the Fire Tribe team went all the way south, passing through many small tribes.
The Eighth Generation Shaman slowly showed his style of doing things in the communication with these small tribes. There was no thunder and lightning, only gentleness like jade.
He would support some poor tribes, teach some tribes hunting skills, and leave millet seeds for weak tribes to plant.
Traveling south, the Eighth Generation Shaman seemed like a messenger of love, which was something the sleepy Fifth Xuan had never expected. Occasionally,
when encountering tribes that acted domineering and ignorant, the Eighth Generation Shaman rarely fought with swords, but more often just adopted a less harmful way of competition such as warrior duels, and after winning, he still focused on helping.
This brought him and the Fire Tribe a good reputation, and some tribes even came here to join the Fire Tribe.
The Eighth Generation Shaman did not reject all these people. For those tribes that had the ability to live independently, the Eighth Generation Shaman still hoped that they could live freely on this land and help more people.
As for some weak tribes, the Eighth Generation Shaman was happy to absorb them, which caused dissatisfaction among some Pillar Shamans, but the Eighth Generation Shaman still insisted on doing so.
"It is difficult for a strong tribe to truly integrate into the Fire Tribe. Only the weak can be easily absorbed."
The Eighth Generation Shaman once told his wife his thoughts in private, but he never explained this idea to more people.
"Why don't you tell those who oppose it?"
His wife once asked in confusion.
"Some things can be said but not done, and some things can be done but not said. This thing belongs to the category of being able to do but not say. Telling you can relieve the depression in my heart."
The Eighth Generation Shaman explained to his wife.
Since the Fifth Mystery promoted simplified Chinese characters, the language of the Fire Tribe has become more complex and verbose, which allows them to express themselves more accurately, and gradually people have become more refined because they can express their thoughts more clearly.
This is the benefit of the first element of civilization, and the Fifth Mystery has accelerated this process infinitely.