When asked about the reason, Yilin told Zhou Jiping that the special long spear points needed by tribal hunters must be exchanged for prey. However, there is no iron on the Imara grassland. If you want to get the spear points, you must take the prey with you.
How many days will it take to trade?
It seems that Damon is still far away from modern civilized society - otherwise, why would there be such a lack of supplies? Zhou Jiping guessed based on Yilin's words that it seems necessary to get to know the Damon people who have gone out to participate in tribal transactions, so that he can learn more about it in the future.
In which direction to escape can we further determine
While thinking about it, he slowly walked towards the farmland with Yilin and Zomayo. The pace of life of primitive tribes was very slow, which made Zhou Jiping feel very lazy.
As they were walking, suddenly the direction of the tribe behind them became chaotic. They were shouting and screaming something. The three people stopped at the same time and listened to the sounds from the direction of the tribe. But through the tall sisal bushes, Yilin
Zomayo and Zomayo couldn't hear exactly what was going on. Zhou Jiping didn't understand the indigenous language, but he could hear the panic and fear in the shouts.
Crash, the sisal bush not far in front was swaying and making a loud noise! Zhou Jiping suddenly felt a chill on his scalp, and the hairs on his back stood up instantly. How could the sisal bush be stirred up so much, especially
What kind of beast? The spear in his hand immediately tightened subconsciously
Oh no! Before the three of them had time to react, a colorful yellow figure jumped out of the sisal, a leopard!
As soon as the leopard jumped out, it spotted Zhou Jiping and the others, and glanced at them in panic. Oh my God! As the leopard paused when it glanced at Zhou Jiping and the others, the three people were horrified to find that it was a calf, a child.
legs!
Without any time to think about it, Zhou Jiping picked up the spear and threw it at the leopard! As for what would happen if there was no weapon in his hand, Zhou Jiping didn't think about it at all.
As soon as the spear was released, the leopard turned around quickly and ran towards the farmland along the corridor formed by sisal and pyrethrum.
With a crack, the spear deviated more than a meter away from where the leopard had just stood, and stabbed into the soil fiercely.
Zhou Jiping stomped his feet angrily, but there was nothing he could do. He had just held the spear in his hand and hadn't gotten used to it yet. It would be nice if he could throw it out.
There was a sound, and the black shadow flashed. Zomayo rushed out quickly, pulled out the spear from the soil, chased a few steps in the direction of the leopard's escape, threw the spear out hard, and then shouted loudly in the direction of the leopard's escape.
Shouting, the voice was already hoarse
The spear flew in the air at a slow speed, but the leopard was faster. With a few quick leaps, it had already turned around the edge of the sisal bush and disappeared in the direction of the cultivated land. The spear failed again.
It’s too fast! It’s not just the leopard that’s too fast! Zomayo is too fast! Zhou Jiping sighed
Zhou Jiping was surprised to find that this Zomayo, who looked to be in his early forties and already looked old, was obviously bloated and had blurry muscle lines, but he took a few steps in front of him and tried his best to catch up, but he was still the first to pull him out.
out of the spear
The three of them chased around the corner, and a vast farmland lay in front of them. The leopard had already rushed out for more than a hundred meters. A dozen tribal warriors scattered in the farmland, holding long spears, could only watch from a distance, helplessly.
The ground shouted loudly, and the shout could only serve as a threat.
The leopard fled into the distant woods and disappeared
For a moment, people standing far away stopped and the fields were quiet.
Puda, puda... There was a sound of bare feet stepping on the soil. The three of them turned around, and a dozen tribal warriors raised their spears on their shoulders and chased after them. They saw the three of Zhou Jiping standing here, and the leader anxiously
The question was asked in Aboriginal language, probably asking if he had seen a leopard.
Zomayo sighed, pointed to the woods in the distance and replied. The soldiers who were chasing him stopped numbly, looking depressed.
In the distance, several tribal warriors who were closest to the leopard had already caught up with the woods into which the leopard had fled. However, a few of them only went in for a while and then retreated without finding anything. The woods are a natural barrier for animals. Once they escape, it is impossible to escape.
Can catch up
At the entrance to the cultivated land, Zhou Jiping and the other two soldiers and a dozen or so soldiers stood there numbly, dejected.
A burst of crying came, and everyone looked back and saw the chief and elders chasing dozens of tribal women from a distance. The one who was crying and running was probably the mother of the child.
Several tribal warriors came forward to explain the situation clearly. The chief's face turned black and blue. It seemed that the problem was serious.
Soon several tribal warrior leaders and tribal warriors who had witnessed the leopard at close range were gathered together, and the rest were ordered to spread out to carefully search for anything suspicious.
With Yilin's help, Zhou Jiping also figured out what happened.
A leopard sneaked into the tribe at some point. When several women who were responsible for taking care of the children discovered it, one child had been bitten to death and the other child had also been partially eaten. What was even more pitiful was that both children were less than three years old.
The women's screams alerted the leopard, who picked up the uneaten child and ran away, first towards the pasture. The pasture was because Didea took people out to trade, and the remaining tribal warriors who were looking after the livestock were worried that the livestock would be harmed because they had too few manpower.
When a wild beast attacked, he did not dare to go out to graze, so he happened to be blocked near the livestock pen, blocking the leopard back. The leopard was blocked from the front and back, and plunged into the sisal bush, the weakest passage between the livestock pen and the cultivated land, and then escaped from the cultivated land.
Got it
For Zhou Jiping, this was just a tragedy caused by a wild animal attack on people. He would just be more defensive next time. But when he listened to Yilin's explanation, he realized how serious the matter was.
The Damon people believe that people have souls. If a beast eats a child in the tribe, then the beast will have the wisdom of the person and all the memories of the child. Next time it will enter the tribe more easily and be more terrifying.
What's more, every night, the beast will drive the soul of a child, turn himself into a child, and then eat more people. Moreover, similar things have happened to Damon and other grassland tribes. Once the beast eats people,
It won't just eat it once, it will keep wandering around the tribe like a ghost until a warrior kills it.
After hearing these explanations, even though Zhou Jiping didn't believe in the existence of ghosts and gods, it still made a chill run down his spine.
The reaction speed of the tribal warriors was very fast, and the results of the investigation came out quickly. Following the chief, Zhou Jiping also checked the traces left by the leopard attack.