Chapter 22 Becoming a God
Since that day, the girl came to Feng Qi to run every day.
I don't know how she keeps track of time, but she's usually standing at the entrance of the cave at around 5 a.m. She has a strong sense of boundaries and never comes in, just waiting outside the cave.
Later, Feng Qi secretly followed her and saw where the cavemen lived. It was on the west side of Dragon Bone Mountain, more than 300 meters away from them. As long as they didn't go there, they would be safe.
This girl came every day, and after a while, Luo Jiu tried to communicate with her.
She drew four little people on the ground with a branch and introduced them to the girl one by one, "This is me, Luo Jiu. This tall and strong one is her, Feng Qi."
"Qi." After running together every day, the girl can already pronounce the word "Qi".
"Yes, this is Zhong Jialing, this is Cheng Yaoyao, we all live in this cave."
Luo Jiu drew a cave on the four little people, and then asked the girl, "What about you? What's your name?"
The girl patted herself anxiously and spread out her hands eagerly. She had no name, and she desperately wished she had one.
Zhong Jialing said: "Let's give her a name so it will be easier to call her in the future."
Cheng Yaoyao asked: "What should we call her? Today is our sixth day here, how about we call her Laoliu?"
"You are only the sixth child," Feng Qi disagreed, "give her a strong name. This environment is so harsh, she has to survive here for the rest of her life."
Luo Jiu thought for a moment, "The first human in the world was Lucy, who lived 3.2 million years ago. This was named by the paleoanthropologist who discovered her."
Feng Qi said quickly, "Lucy won't work. It sounds like a foreign name. We are Chinese. She has to have a Chinese name."
"Yes, we need to choose a powerful name, but also one that is simple and easy to say." Luo Jiu looked around and raised his head to look at the azure sky. "Got it! Call it the sky."
Zhong Jialing: "Heaven?"
"Yes, the sky is very powerful, right? Whether it is the gods of the East or the West, they all live in the sky. The sky and the earth hold all things. Isn't the most powerful woman in Chinese history Wu Zetian?"
"Okay, okay, this is good." Feng Qi quickly asked the girl, "Do you like the name Tian?"
She seemed to understand, "Oh my god."
She tried to pronounce the word, then pointed at herself. She picked up a branch from the ground and drew a little man, "Sky."
Luo Jiu smiled and said, "Yes, from now on we will call you Tian. Tiantian, Xiaotian, Tian, they are all you."
Xiaotian thought about it and drew fourteen more little people on the ground.
Some are tall, some are short, some are fat, some are thin, some are men, some are women, and one of them has a bulging belly, and it looks like she is pregnant.
Then she also drew a cave and put all these people in it.
It seems that there are a total of fifteen people in Xiaotian’s cave, including those who used stones to drive away Luo Jiu and the others on the mountain last time.
Luo Jiu pointed at the pregnant woman and asked, "Is this your mother?"
"Mom?" Xiaotian didn't understand the meaning of this word.
Luo Jiu immediately demonstrated it to her. Zhong Jialing crawled into her clothes. She touched her bulging belly and then "gave birth" to Zhong Jialing. Zhong Jialing snuggled in her arms and called "Mom, mom".
Xiaotian smiled, pointed at the other little man and said, "Mom."
Then she used a branch to draw a horizontal line between the two caves, then stood up and waved.
Zhong Jialing was stunned, "What does Xiaotian mean?"
Luo Jiu took a deep breath and said, "She wants to take us to meet her mother."
The four of them blocked the entrance of the cave with several large stones and followed Xiaotian to visit the cavemen.
Everyone was very nervous along the way, afraid of being pelted with stones like last time.
When they reached the cave entrance, the four of them stopped. Xiaotian went in first, walked up to an older woman, and gestured.
Cheng Yaoyao nervously tugged at Luo Jiu's sleeve, "It seems that the cavemen really don't have language, just like the deaf-mute. Can Xiaotian explain such a complicated thing with just simple sounds?"
Luo Jiu said: "I hope her people are as smart as her, otherwise there is nothing we can do."
The four of them prayed silently while quietly looking around their cave.
This cave is the largest cave in Longgu Mountain. It is more than four meters high and five meters wide. It is at least thirty meters deep and has an internal span of about fifteen meters, which is equivalent to the size of three or four luxurious living rooms in a modern residence.
Xiaotian drew fifteen people in total. Now there are only Xiaotian, her mother and a pregnant woman in the cave. The others should have gone out to gather or hunt.
Before Xiaotian went in, her mother and the pregnant woman were cutting up a rabbit with stones. The scene was extremely bloody using blunt instruments to cut meat.
Fortunately, after Xiaotian went in, they stopped working, because they had to use their hands to gesture and make various sounds with their mouths.
After they talked for a while, Tianma finally came over and brought a piece of rabbit meat that they had just cut.
The smiles on the four people's faces froze. "No, no, no, you guys keep it for yourself. No need to be so polite."
At this moment, a howl suddenly came from the mountain, and Xiaotian and Tianma's faces changed immediately.
The howling sounds on the mountain came one after another, and the sound was extremely mournful.
The pregnant woman started crying. Tianma threw the meat away and ran out immediately.
The four people didn't know what was going on and followed Xiaotian and Tianma up the mountain following the sound. Not long after, they met people who had returned from hunting.
There were twelve of them, men and women, young and old, carrying a wounded man back with sad looks on their faces.
The man's shoulder was bitten by a wild beast, and it looked bloody and hideous. It seemed that he had fainted from the pain. His tribesmen put him on the ground, and the ground was soon stained red with blood.
Xiaotian and her mother rushed over and knelt down with the others, with their heads on the ground, crying bitterly.
Luo Jiu came forward to take a look. The injured man was the one who drove them away with stones that day. Judging from his age, he seemed to be Xiaotian's brother.
The four didn't know what they were going to do, so they didn't dare to intervene. But then, the group of people suddenly stopped crying, collectively raised their heads, and shouted loudly throughout the valley, then each of them scooped up a handful of soil and sprinkled it on the man's face and body.
"Hey, stop it! Are you going to bury people alive?" Luo Jiu couldn't help but speak out to stop them.
The group of people all looked over with unfriendly eyes, as if they felt that these strangers had disturbed their pious ceremony.
Luo Jiu didn't care about anything else and pulled Xiao Tian over to quickly gesture to her, "He's not dead, he just fainted. If you bury him, you'll kill him, and he'll really die."
The situation was urgent, so they didn't care whether they understood or not. Luo Jiu and Zhong Jialing first wiped the dirt off the man's mouth and nose, and Feng Qi used a few tricks to drive them all away.
Xiaotian was anxiously explaining something to her tribesmen. Cheng Yaoyao quietly ran to the side and took out the medicine box.
A bottle of hydrogen peroxide was poured in, the man let out a roar, opened his mouth wide, and then quickly fainted.
The tribesmen were so scared that they ran away, as if they had seen a ghost.
Zhong Jialing: "They don't think we are monsters, do they?"
Luo Jiu took a deep breath and said seriously: "I hope they treat us as gods."
Monsters are to be driven away, but gods gain devout followers.
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