Chapter 420 The Beast is Coming
It was still daylight when Hao woke up, but he couldn't tell the exact time. It was difficult to make such a judgment in a windy and snowy day.
He pushed aside the snow piled on his body, and the first thing he did was to pray to the Sun Totem. Through prayer, he gained the power of the Fire Totem and warmed his body covered in cold.
Hao didn't stand up until he was boiling hot and there was no trace of coldness. After
taking a simple bite of cold yellow millet and swallowing a few mouthfuls of accumulated snow, Hao stood up and began to move forward against the wind.
The difficulty of the journey north was beyond his imagination. If the wind was too strong when passing through the mountain pass, he would be blown down and would have to climb again.
The power of the totem would also be difficult to sustain under such a continuous strong wind. He could only stop from time to time to pray, sometimes to the bull totem, sometimes to the sun totem.
Relatively speaking, the power of the bull totem recovered faster, because it was his main totem power, that is, the power contained in his body, while the power of the sun totem was in the invisible mist behind him.
If it were based on totem power, he should belong to the Bull Tribe at this time, but the Fire Tribe Alliance had already broken up such a way of belief.
Since the eighth generation witch proposed the slogan "All beliefs belong to the God of Fire" eight years ago, people have cared less and less about the ownership of totem power, and no longer regard a person's belief as power.
All members of the Fire Tribe Alliance must first believe in the God of Fire, and then the totem of their respective tribes.
Strength has nothing to do with faith. As long as you say you have faith and get the approval of the preaching witch, you can get strength from the spirit-giving witch.
There are even some extreme tribesmen who abandon this belief. For example, most people in the cattle tribe who have been promoted will not admit that they are from the cattle tribe. They are more willing to attribute everything they have to the gift of the fire god. There are
always some people who are ashamed of such people, but more people will only say one sentence: Who cares?
Most people don't care about all this, including it. It is said that the temple of the tapir totem records all the truth. This is what many conspiracy theorists are trying hard to explore, but more people just want to solve the problem of food and satiety.
"Times are different", this is also the famous saying of the eighth generation witch. People rarely pursue the truth buried deep in history, even some old people are reluctant to talk about it.
It has been 24 years since the founding of Fire City, and it has undergone too many changes in these years. Everything is different from before.
It is said that the tribe existed independently in the earliest times, but it was too inconvenient to think about it.
If it were not for the ability given by the God of Fire and the inability to use the power of two totems at the same time, I think I would have died in this damn snowstorm.
The power of the ox totem made his body strong enough to withstand the snowstorm and move forward, and the power of the sun totem allowed him to get warm before his body could withstand the limit. Both are indispensable, and this is a necessary combination for people who often go out.
He can still remember the embarrassment when he came out of Donghai City. He used the power of the ox totem to resist the ice and snow, and then used the power of the stag totem to keep sprinting and accelerating. He never wanted to experience the pain of running against the snowstorm again.
Later, he changed his main totem power to the bull totem power in order to have two stomachs, which made him more resistant to hunger, beatings and freezing.
The bull totem power is almost the easiest power to obtain. After all, too many people need to rely on farming for a living, and such people are usually very poor. It is unrealistic for them to pay enough copper money to gain power. The
sun totem power is a bit more expensive. He did not save enough money, but his friend Xin was a great witch of the sun tribe, who could preach and give spirits, so he was lucky to get the sun totem power without spending money.
All kinds of random thoughts were floating in my mind. The sky gradually darkened. The sun was setting and night was coming.
I stopped to eat a bite of rice, and used the power of the sun totem to warm a cup of water for myself. I hid comfortably in the snow pit to rest for a while before I set out again.
"That kid, what are you doing?"
There was a roar from behind. I turned around and saw a team of sleds pulled by big dogs running towards this side. The route just passed by him.
"I heard that I can make money by quarrying stones in Beishan, so I came to take a look."
I shouted in response. This was the words he had thought of a long time ago.
"You came with the quarrying team, why did you run out by yourself?"
The big man who was shouting in the team slowly stopped, told his companions to let them go first, and came to the side of Li alone, looking at him with scrutiny, until he walked in and found that he was still a teenager, the vigilance in his eyes disappeared.
"It's so windy and snowy, it's too dangerous, where are your parents?"
"Dead, died of illness and there is no money to treat them. The dojo also fired me because they had no money. I heard that quarrying can make money, so I came to take a look."
Li continued his lies, he was good at this, he rarely told the truth since the day he walked out of Donghai City.
"Which tribe are you from? Doesn't your tribe's relief center care about you?"
The big man had come to him, stopped completely, took out a small piece of barbecue from his pocket, carefully broke off a piece, and handed it to him. He
took it gratefully, pretending to be hungry and swallowed it.
In fact, he didn't need to pretend at all, because from the moment he saw the meat, his eyes were shining.
"I'm from the Genzhenniu tribe. The relief center said that if I go there, I can't go to the Huodu Dojo. I want to study at the Huodu Dojo, so I have to earn more money."
After hearing what he said, the big man cursed him and said that it wasn't so troublesome to enter the dojo back then. He just listened and didn't say anything.
People like Dahan, who are in their prime, always complain. He is used to it.
The teacher said that this is because the changes in the past twenty years are too great. Many people cannot adapt to this pace, or cannot keep up with the times, or feel abandoned by the times, and are always full of resentment.
Although this uncle is also full of resentment, he is still a kind person.
"My child also wants to go to Huodu Dojo. Otherwise, who would come out to play with rocks in the middle of winter? Come on, I'll take you a ride."
The uncle waved his hand, let Hao get on his sled, and took him to run north against the wind.
Along the way, the uncle kept telling him that it would be best to have a sled to do this job, otherwise he would not make much money. Also, he was too weak, and he would need to hire laborers in Beishan, so he would make even less money. He suggested that he just find a team to go back. Of course,
he had to perfunctorily do it all the way, and finally arrived at Beishan before dawn on the sled.
When arriving at the destination, the first thing to do was of course to take a nap and rest, and the uncle was no exception. Even if he wanted to transport the stones back immediately, the big dog couldn't pull it.
He made an excuse to go see if he could find a job and left the enthusiastic uncle. He found a quiet place to sleep and didn't wake up until long after dawn.
After eating, he bypassed the quarry and walked towards the abandoned quarry deep in the ground.
The abandoned quarry path had long been abandoned. He kept falling into pits filled with snow as he walked along, and he could only climb up carefully.
He was lucky. If he had fallen into some too deep and slippery pits, he might have frozen to death.
He stumbled along like this for a day, and saw two abandoned blackwater factories on the road, but still couldn't find one that was in operation, nor did he meet any living people.
The night was not suitable for sleeping, but there were pits here, so the situation was better. He found a pit that was deep enough, hid in it for a night to rest, and set out again at dawn the next day.
In the afternoon, he came to a valley, and heard a faint sound from the distant mountain, which made him very excited, and he hurriedly mustered his strength to climb up.
This valley should be a large abandoned quarry, full of holes. When he was moving forward, he did not fall from one hole to another, but climbed from one hole to another. The holes were connected.
He really couldn't understand why the quarry was like this back then. The quarry now is much neater.
This kind of climbing is very physically demanding, and he will have to stop and rest soon.
Looking at the mountain in the distance, he estimated that it would take a long time to climb up, but at least there was hope, and he was still somewhat satisfied.
Just as he was riding between two holes and looking at the top of the mountain, the snowstorm behind him suddenly stirred, as if something was about to rush out of the snowstorm behind him.
He was startled, and remembered what his teacher in the dojo had said about the best way to deal with a ferocious beast in the wild.
He jumped up as if startled, not caring about the dry food and wooden boxes thrown beside him, and plunged into the deep snow. His body twisted downward like a snake, and in a few steps he reached the deep snow.
When he reached the deep snow, he immediately stopped moving, including his breathing and the totem power on his body, all of which were concealed.
"Boom..."
The sound from outside came in clearly. Judging from the sound, it was definitely not the sound that a sled or human could make, nor was it the giant wolf, warhorse, or four-horned cattle and sheep that he had seen in the Fire City.
The sound was too loud, proving that the beast was larger than the former, and the sound was so reckless that it was at least at the level of a ferocious beast.
It could even be a lieutenant-level beast.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he was frightened, but he quickly held back and dared not move again.
"Boom..."
The sound outside suddenly stopped, as if something had stopped on the snow.
He could hear his heart beating wildly, thump thump thump like the sound of a war drum.
"Move... or not?"
He felt his scalp tingling, and his brain seemed to be frozen and he couldn't think at all. He had imagined how brave and fearless he would be when facing a beast, but now he just wanted to be a shrunken turtle. This can't be like
this. Let me think about what I should do if I am discovered by a beast?
Thinking like this, the figure of Xin suddenly flashed in his mind. The blond-haired and blue-eyed guy had said jokingly.
If Xiao Chu and Xiao Chu were discovered by a beast in the wild, the best solution would be to end their lives in advance, because then they would not have to face too bloody scenes.
This sudden memory eased his nervous mood and finally allowed his brain to think.