Original War

Chapter 20 The Moon Is Out

Shao Xuan stayed in the stone room every day, learning the last patterns on the stone wall on the right, and studying the paintings on the stone wall, thinking that it might be helpful in the future, anyway, he was idle.

The winter passed day by day, and it was much calmer than imagined. In the winter of this year, the children in the cave kept fish, plus the food and firewood sent by the tribe, as well as some herbs commonly used in winter by Shao Xuanbei. No accident happened.

Two days ago, a younger child caught a cold and had a fever. Shao Xuan boiled the herbs given by Ge and poured it on him, and it stabilized within two days. As long as it lasts for this period of time, if the physique is too bad, the herbal medicine will be useless, and if you can’t find someone to come over, it will be as obliterated as Shao Xuan’s body. Fortunately, during the period before the winter, the children in the cave ate well because they often went out for activities, and their physical fitness was a little better. The incidence was not as high as in the winter of previous years.

In the stone room, Shao Xuan puts a mat on the ground. Sometimes he studies the mural painting too late, so he just sleeps here. Shao Xuan sighed after drawing a pattern with his fingers on the ground. Two-thirds of the winter has passed, and there are still about 20 to 30 days. It will be much better if it can last. It feels like staying in the cave every day. The whole person is going to be moldy and rusty, and the whole person is not energetic.

As he was thinking, Caesar, who was lying next to him, moved his ears and looked out of the stone room.

Then Shao Xuan heard Ge’s shout.

Today shouldn’t be the day to make an appointment with Ge to deliver food. Is it because I’m stuck in the stone room, thinking too much, and remembering it wrong?

With doubts, Shao Xuan walked out of the stone room and looked over there.

“Uncle Ge, what are you doing?” Shao Xuan looked at the triangles he drew on the stone wall specifically to keep track of time. Because the grid is every three days, Shao Xuan didn’t use the word “zheng” to record. At the time, it was a drawn triangle, but now the last triangle is still missing a stroke, that is to say, the grid should be here tomorrow.

Ge shook the snow on his clothes next to the fire, took out a roll of animal skins, and said, “I’m looking for someone, and all the people who are over eleven on it are called here.”

Shao Xuan took the animal skin roll and looked at it. Seven names were written on it, including Stammer and Tu. The two people over there seemed to think of something, their eyes lit up, looking at this side expectantly.

The name written on the animal skin scroll was the same as Shao Xuan knew. He called people over, and two of them were still asleep. When someone who was forced to wake up from sleep and was a little confused, when he saw Grid and the children who were already standing next to Grid, his hand was stagnant when he rubbed his eyes, and suddenly he packed his things quickly, grinning and leaping forward. Next to the grid.

Grid’s gaze paused on the fish-tooth necklace hanging around the necks of the seven children, and then scanned the signs with their names on them, checking them one by one. He is usually responsible for transporting food, and he has an impression of the children in the cave, but this time the matter cannot be sloppy and must be confirmed again and again.

“Yes, just these seven.”

Rolled up the animal skins, Ge threw a leather cloak to each of the seven children, and said: “Wear it, follow me out later…Moore, you too.”

Moore was eleven years old after the winter, and he is ten now.

Hearing Grid’s words, Moore was wearing clothes and carrying the knife. Unlike other children who were excited or envious, he walked calmly, as if he had expected such a thing.

“Okay, Axuan, you continue to sleep, I will take someone to leave first, and I will bring food over on time tomorrow.” Ge opened the grass curtain and left with a few children.

Shao Xuan opened a slit in the thick grass curtain on the outermost layer. The cold wind blowing in made his eyes sting and his vision was a bit blurred. However, he could still see the thick snow layer outside the cave and the blanket. On the way out of the grid, the snow on both sides of the road is higher than the children walking on the road, and the small figures are shaking with cold, but they still follow the grid closely, without the slightest retreat in their footsteps, but with urgency. .

Putting down the straw curtain, Shao Xuan returned to the cave. The rest of the children in the cave lost sleep, staring at the fire in a daze.

Shao Xuan knew why.

After winter, there will be snow festivals and sacrificial activities, and the most important sacrificial activity is the totem awakening once a year, which can awaken the power of the totem, and since then, it has been a totem warrior, but has not been awakened. Can only wait another year.

Children in the tribe are generally around ten years old before the end of winter and sent to the mountains for pre-selection. The sorcerer will leave the children with a high chance of awakening, and send the other children back. However, compared with other children in the tribe, the children in the cave are generally in poor health, so they will postpone one year old. In other places, they are sent to the mountain for pre-selection at the age of ten, while the cave is eleven. Mohr is a special case, after all, Mohr is not a pure caveman, because of regular training, the physique is much better than other children.

The children who followed Ge are definitely not at peace now, and they all hope that they can be left by the witch this time, because as long as they are left by the witch, 90% of them will awaken totem power this time, even if the remaining 10% can’t awaken this time. , And it will be successful next year.

Shao Xuan is only nine years old now, and he will be ten after the winter. It is still early. After Ge left, he instructed the children in the cave to look for him if something happened, and then went back to the stone room to continue research. mural.

Four days later, when Ge brought the food, he also brought back four children who were quite depressed, among them were slaughter and stuttering. The eldest two 13-year-olds were not there. They were fourteen years old after the winter, and it would be a little abnormal if they didn’t wake up.

The former “Dong Master” Ku is also thirteen years old. He knows people who live on the mountainside, and he is probably training preparations this winter. Many fighters believe that the stronger the body before the awakening of the power of totem, the stronger the ability after the awakening. Ask someone to stay in the mountainside for a winter, Ku can eat better, and be taught some experience by the totem warrior, which is much better than staying in the cave. This is also the reason why Ku did not stay in the cave for the winter this year and went into the mountains early.

“Don’t be discouraged, sooner or later, maybe you can become a totem warrior next year.” Ge comforted the depressed four children, put down the food and left.

“I really envy them who were left by the witch, and they can still receive the witch’s teaching.” said a child who was brought back by Ge.

“Hey, what did Wu tell you?” The other children also gathered around and asked.

“Witch…”

The four children with their heads down suddenly raised their heads forty-five degrees, their eyes with admiration and awe.

Shao Xuan pouted aside.

Still teach? Is it brainwashing?

That old god stick.

Shao Xuan only cursed a few words in his heart, and couldn’t say aloud. Looking at the four children, it was only a few days before he was thoroughly brainwashed by the old god stick.

After this episode, the cave was calm again. Although Tu He stammered and they were still very depressed, they still had to live as usual.

One night, Shao Xuan slept in a daze. He dreamed of two crooked moons, that the ice and snow melted, and also dreamed of fire… Until he heard some shouts, and the shouts were getting louder and louder, he Waking up from a dream.

The sound was not from the people in the cave, but from other places outside.

After the elder child woke up, he listened carefully to the voice, and his face suddenly became happy, “It must be winter!”

Shao Xuan yawned and wrapped it in a fur blanket. It was still night. The fire in the cave had been extinguished a long time ago, and nothing could be seen. Only children’s comments came from everywhere.

Shao Xuan asked Caesar to take it to the entrance of the cave.

When the thick grass curtains were opened, the shouts outside were also heard more clearly, and the excitement and joy in those voices could be heard.

Shao Xuan looked towards the night sky against the cold wind.

The snow stopped, and the two moons that had disappeared for a long time reappeared, although they were only thin and curved fuzzy shadows, they made the dark night sky a little more angry.

At the end of winter, the ritual activities of the Snow Festival are also on the agenda.

I wonder how many people will become totem warriors this year? This is what many people in the tribe think when they are excited and shouting.

There are people everywhere in the tribe who are standing outside and looking at the night sky in the cold wind. Just when these people are no longer shouting excitedly and discussing the upcoming Snow Festival, they suddenly heard a sound from the cave that belongs to the child. Roar.

“The moon comes out, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!”