Chapter 29: If You Want To See, You Can Watch
“Ah.” The woman’s scream cut through the night sky, and there was the last point of the fire that had not been extinguished. Luo Zhen saw that a human-shaped object fell from the tall spruce, and there was a muffled bang.
Only then did Luo Zhen realize that there were warriors on the spruce who were in charge of watching and guarding the tribe.
Someone hurriedly stopped the woman from running towards the body. The woman grabbed and bit the ones holding her, trying to break free. Her emotions were too agitated, since there was wind and rain around her Luo Zhen did not hear what the woman was saying, but from the voice of the other party, he could feel heavy sorrow.
Another flash of lightning flashed, and the drenched Da Wu came out, his hair clinging to his face in a mess, looking a little embarrassing, and a little less arrogant and mysterious.
Da Wu stretched her hand to the woman’s head, and the woman who was still struggling desperately calmed down in an instant. With tears, she held Da Wu’s palm with both hands religiously and was pulled aside.
The surrounding tribesmen were all watching around. Da Wu did not approach the warrior who had turned into charcoal. He reached out to remove the herb tied to his arm and made a squatting movement, then stretched his hands flat and moved slowly. He was dancing.
While dancing, he sang an old ballad that they didn’t understand.
Lightning was still flashing across the air, and one of them appeared again above the spruce, so close that it seemed it was gonna smash them soon.
Luo Zhen watched the lightning in horror and didn’t even take a close look at what Da Wu was doing. “Let’s get away from this tree.” Luo Zhen pulled Lu Zhan’s arm and whispered in his ear, “The lightning is too close, it is not safe to stand under the tree.”
Lu Zhan also saw the warrior who was scorched by lightning on the spruce just now. He could see Luo Zhen’s worries so he did not object. He put the animal skins that Luo Zhen had just replaced on his head and called Hei Ya. Together, they stayed away from the tree where they had sheltered from the rain.
Those people who had been hiding under the tree to avoid the rain saw this and looked around. Lu Zhan didn’t avoid them when he spoke to Jiao Zhu just now. In addition, there was an example of being scorched by lightning. After hesitating for a while, they also walked out from under the tree. Some people directly took off their animal skin skirts, naked and without shyness, like Lu Zhan, they used their animal skins to tightly protect the people around them.
Da Wu has already danced around the spruce. After the last move, Da Wu suddenly shouted. The herb in his hand turned into powder, and it slipped from the middle of his fingers to the ground and quickly melted into the ground. Of course, except for those warriors who had good eyesight and were relatively close, no one could see the final moves of Da Wu.
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The darkness before dawn feels a bit depressing. Fortunately, the lighting didn’t strike anywhere near them again. With the first rays of sunlight falling through the thick clouds, the wind and rain that had been blowing for several days finally stopped.
After being soaked in the rain all night, Luo Zhen’s lips were a little purple with cold. As soon as the wind and rain stopped, Lu Zhan took out a small stone pot from the animal skin backpack and then took out two pieces of wood and a small handful of blankets. The flint wrapped in animal skins was thrown below the stone pot.
A stone slab blocked the moisture on the ground, and the flint was quickly ignited. Lu Zhan placed some wet branches around to dry. The dry wood he brought out was very few so Luo Zhen asked him to harvest some resin from the pine tree next to him. He came back with lots of pine branches so Luo Zhen was able to make a fire, at least before the wet branches could be dried, the fire that was hard to ignite would not be extinguished.
In the second half of the night, Jiao Zhu sent A-Shui to the tent. After the wind and rain stopped, the people who had been crowded in the tent for a day began to come out one after another. Luo Zhen could see that although A-Shui’s face was pale, he looked pretty good, and there was no sign of falling ill after a night of tossing.
Jiao Zhu also brought a lot of things here. Their stone pot was smaller than Lu Zhan’s. Jiao Zhu did not expect to use the stone pot as a brazier like Lu Zhan, but he used the stone pot and filled it with rainwater. Lu Zhan set up a wooden frame on the brazier, directly put the stone pot of water on it, and threw a few pieces of meat and a small handful of salt in it. At this time, they all needed a little hot water to warm their bodies.
Hei Ya’s complexion was not very good, and he sat silently on the side. Many people around had already started to light the fire, but because the combustible materials were soaked by rain, there was no way to ignite it with flint, so they could only come to Luo Zhen and borrow their fire.
Luo Zhen talked to them about the role of the resin and soon a pine tree was cut by the Black Panther warriors to make fuel. On this fairly flat high ground, fires began to be lit one after the other causing it to be a bit smoky since most of the wood they used was a bit wet.
He wrung out the water on their animal skins and set it aside for baking before Luo Zhen took the broth that Lu Zhan handed over. They only had two wooden bowls. After giving one to Jiao Zhu’s family, the two of them could only share the one left.
With the broth, the body that had been cold all night finally warmed up a bit, and Luo Zhen had the intention to observe the situation he was in now.
Then he saw that many people did not light their fire, dry their animal skins, or fill their hungry stomachs first, but stood in twos and threes on a protruding big rock, poking their heads and looking into the distance.
“It’s the direction of the tribe.” Lu Zhan took back from the wooden bowl when Luo Zhen had finished drinking the broth and served himself a bowl to drink. Seeing that Luo Zhen looking at the crowd that was huddled together puzzled, he spoke to him.
“I advise you not to go over and see it later.” The silent Hei Ya spoke tiredly after hearing these words.
Luo Zhen looked back at Lu Zhan, Lu Zhan shrugged his shoulders indifferently, “It’s okay, you can see it if you want.”
Luo Zhen hesitated for a moment, stood up, and walked towards the big rock. Seeing that A-Shui, who had been nesting next to Jiao Zhu, got up and walked to Luo Zhen’s side. Luo Zhen stretched out his hand and took the other’s small hand. Let’s go forward together.
The stone’s shape was a bit awkward. He needed to use both hands and feet to climb up. The warrior standing on the stone saw an ordinary person coming over and stretched out his hand. Luo Zhen smiled and thanked the other person. The warrior nodded, jumped from the boulder, and got down.
Although he ran around there all night last night, Luo Zhen did not pay too much attention to the rising water in the Heihe River. He had seen the Heihe River before and it was not a short distance away from the tribe, and the width of the river did not exceed 30 meters, even if the water rose again, for the Panthers who still lived in their tents in the tribe, the damage caused by the storm should not be as great.
Coupled with the news that the big lake had also flooded over when they were on the road, Luo Zhen only felt that the beastman warrior was too exaggerated. After all, even Lu Zhan traveling in that big lake took several days. How could it be flooded to this side?
However, when he saw the scene in front of him, he couldn’t help but feel a little scared. He became thankful to the Panther Tribe asking them to evacuate early, all the way to the foot of this high slope, because the path towards the direction of the Panther Tribe has become a vast ocean overnight.
Luo Zhen opened his mouth and closed it a few times. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he absolutely would not have thought that in this vast ocean, there was the Black Panther tribe’s territory that housed almost a thousand people yesterday.
“Don’t worry, we can go back when the water recedes.” A-Shui raised his small face and comforted him, but his grip on Luo Zhen’s strength revealed his worries.
Without staying too long, Luo Zhen quickly returned to their place with A-Shui, and Lu Zhan handed the almost roasted animal skin to Luo Zhen for him to eat.
“This time the flooding is too big. It’s also my first time seeing it become this severe.” Lu Zhan motioned to Luo Zhen to help him re-dress the wound that had almost healed. He was out in the rain and cold all night. His skin was covered, and the skin was wrinkled with blisters. In addition, the wound was covered with herbs for so many days so the skin color was originally whiter than the surroundings. At first glance, it seems that it is still a quite serious wound.
“It’s not suitable for long-term settlement.” If this happens once a year, even if the rising water is not as severe as this time, it will not be conducive to long-term residence. No wonder they had to hunt again before the winter, if they had done it before this, they would have lost a lot of food.
Luo Zhen originally planned to wait for the rain to stop and try to figure out how to build a relatively strong house, but now he can only suppress this idea first as even the strongest house can’t stand being submerged by water.
Lu Zhan smiled and did not reply.
“Why didn’t you choose to settle on this high slope when you chose to settle in this land? The terrain here is more than a little bit higher than their tribe, so there is no need to worry about being buried in the rain when you wake up.”
Lu Zhan’s chin moved towards the charred spruce not far away, and said, “Didn’t you see it last night? This place is where the Beast God punishes people. Everyone who wants to stay here needs to pay a price. It’s just that we never know who the Beast God will choose to accept its punishment.”
It’s no wonder that even if they saw lightning smashing people into ash last night, except for onlookers, they didn’t flee this place in a panic. Perhaps they thought that the punishment of the Beast God was over.
“What nonsense are you talking about? We had never seen the Beast God punish anyone before when we came here. A group of migratory beasts live here. Although they are vegetarian beasts, they have a strong sense of territory.” Hei Ya, on the side, slapped Lu Zhan’s head and warned in a low voice, “Don’t spread the wrong information to Luo Zhen. Fortunately, Da Wu is not there, or you will have to accept Da Wu’s punishment before the Beast God sends his punishment to you.”
Lu Zhan curled his lips and threw a half-dried branch into the brazier.
Luo Zhen: “…”
Speaking of Da Wu, it didn’t take long for Hei Shan to bring Da Wu back from a distance. They were also accompanied by a few older warriors and Luka who had just become a member of the Black Panther tribe.
The people who were still watching the direction of the tribe on the big stone were driven down. Hei Shan took Da Wu and stood on the tall boulder. He looked down and glanced at the tribe of people scattered on this high slope. The warriors came and asked them to gather.
When Lu Zhan saw this, the corners of his lips smiled, and he stuffed the wooden bowl in his hand into the animal skin backpack and then pulled Luo Zhen over.
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