Massahong knocked on Meng Qiqi's door and said, "Hello, I would like to ask where your fire comes from?"
Meng Qiqi is surprised, don’t they use fire here? It’s really like primitive people
"This is my superpower, it's fire." Meng Qiqi said as she let Massa see the superpower fireball in her hand.
Massa's big red eyes were full of fear, and he kept backing up. Seeing that he was not burned and approaching him in a novel way, he wanted to reach out and touch it.
"No, you will get burned." Meng Qiqi quickly backed away and distanced herself.
"Oh" Massa looked at the flames with longing eyes
"What do you want the flame for?" Meng Qiqi asked
"I want it. I need a flame to light the priest's lamp. I haven't organized a sacrifice for a long time. I want to help the clan leader pray for the clan members." Masati's sacrifice was lost. It was unclear why the clan leader had not performed the sacrificial ceremony.
There is less and less food
Meng Qiqi wondered whether the sacrifice was the same as the temple fair? Or was it the same as on TV?
"Actually, it's not that I can't give you the flames. I'm just afraid that if you don't handle it properly, you'll burn yourself or burn things in the forest. Once the flames spread, it will be a disaster." Meng Qiqi said the seriousness of the matter and used her superpower.
A piece of dry wood was lit. The flames burned bigger and bigger, and you could feel the scorching heat emitting from it. Soon the dry wood was burned out.
"Okay, can I ask you for help if I need it?" Massa was also frightened.
"Of course," Meng Qiqi agreed with a smile.
"That's great, just wait for my news." Massa got Meng Qiqi's promise and ran away with a smile.
Lange walked to Meng Qiqi's room and saw Massa running away from his eyes. "What is she doing here?" Lange asked.
"Come and ask me for the flame, but I didn't give it because it was too dangerous. If she needs my help, I will help her. If I just give her the flame, I'm afraid of causing trouble." Meng Qiqi said as she cleaned up the room.
"Well, Tan San and I just flew around the red soil territory in the aircraft. The surroundings are all red and it's easy to get lost. We need their tribesmen to help guide the way. And I found that they are not the only ones here, there are others.
"People from the tribe," Lange said about what he found when he went out.
"There are others, who are they who got here by mistake like us?" Meng Qiqi said.
Lange shook his head and said, "No, I look the same as them, but they seem to be very unfriendly when getting along with each other. I can't quite understand what they are saying, but they seem to be in a very irritable mood."
"Well, it seems that not everyone is so friendly," Meng Qiqi said
"We can go in and out here at will, but we may not be able to go in and out of other people's areas. If that's the case, we won't be able to find the teleportation location." Meng Qiqi added.
"The teleportation station is just a guess, but I haven't heard of such a place. Tan San and I didn't find any buildings that were too big. Almost all the residences here are like this, and I found that most of them eat raw food.
The most important thing is that when we meet someone who is not from the Red Earth Tribe, he eats meat," said Lange.
"Don't all those who eat meat eat vegetarian food?" Meng Qiqi said
"Yes, and those meat-eating people are stronger and more powerful than the vegetarians." Lange said, thinking of the scene where the Red Earth people were thrown away today.
"It seems like this place is not as safe or peaceful as imagined," Meng Qiqi thought.
"There is a conflict between them but there is no big move. It seems like they are trying to contain each other." Lan Gu guessed.
"Today Massa mentioned their tribe's sacrifices. They said they were praying for blessings and that flames were needed. But I didn't see a place for praying or anything like a Buddha statue." Meng Qiqi said.
Lange thought about it and said: "Pray for blessings? The Red Earth Tribe people have no faith? What is the Buddha statue? What needs to be prayed for and what to pray for?"
"No faith?" Meng Qiqi guessed that she was wrong. There is no such thing as a Buddha statue in this era.
The two still couldn't get the answer, so they decided to wait for Tan San to come back and discuss it with them.
Massa went to the patriarch and asked, "Why don't you ask outsiders to help us with our affairs? After all, Baka and the others sometimes go too far."
"As you said, since they are foreigners, there are naturally some things you don't want them to know.
We hope they will be fine as long as they stay peacefully in the clan, but if they go out, we can't guarantee their safety. After all, this place is different from where they live.
Even if each of them is a capable person, there is no guarantee that they will be safe here
And even if we want to ask them for help, we don’t have the corresponding remuneration to pay them." The patriarch said slowly with his eyes closed.
"Didn't you say that you don't need to pay for helping each other?" Massa didn't understand why he had to give things.
"Those are people within the clan. We make deals with people outside the clan. If you don't pay us, how can you get people to do things for you?" the clan leader continued.
"I still don't understand," Massa said
"Now the food in the clan is getting less and less. Baka still comes to rob it.
Today I went to ask that woman for her flame. But she said that it was too powerful and could easily hurt me, so she didn’t give it to me. But she promised to help me if needed.
I want to use that flame to go to the sacrificial platform in the forbidden area to ask for more food, so...this way the people of the tribe will feel better." Massa said anxiously.
The patriarch opened his eyes and looked at her coldly, "You also said that it is a forbidden area. No matter how difficult it is, you cannot enter that place of sacrifice. The ancestral rules cannot be broken. Entering will bring disaster."
"But now we are facing a disaster. There is a shortage of food, and the growth of things grown has become much slower. There are more and more people in the tribe, and they have more to eat.
Let’s go search outside the red soil. You still don’t allow it? You said there are things that will hurt us, but what are they? Why? We can’t enter the forbidden area.”
"You don't need to know that. You just need to take care of those few foreigners. I will find a way to deal with the rest." After the patriarch said, he closed his eyes and leaned on the recliner.
"Afa" {Afa means great-grandfather in the Red Earth Tribe} The clan leader did not respond. Masa pursed her lips together, lowered her big eyes and looked at her hands, and had no choice but to exit.
The patriarch opened his eyes and looked at Massa who had left at the door. He stood up and waved his staff before disappearing.
Appearing outside a huge mangrove, the tree was so thick that ten people needed to wrap their heads around it to block out the sun. The patriarch waved his cane a few times and the tree in front of him became unreal. The old man walked in slowly.
The person disappeared instantly, and the tree returned to its original appearance again