Chapter 973 Surge
On the day of the Strange Face Clan’s Festival, Gordon and the others arrived at the cave of the Strange Face Clan early.
The number of Strange Face Clan in the cave has more than doubled compared to the last time they came here. There are more than fifty of them. It can be said that the whole family is gathered together.
The originally spacious cave has become crowded, and these little guys can't calm down.
Gordon only felt that his ears were filled with noises of "Quack!" and "Kababa!"
At this moment, a strange-faced tribe came up to them. It was holding a small wooden bowl in its hand and was jumping and shouting something.
“Gaba?” Hayata asked tentatively.
The strange-faced tribe responded happily, "Kabababa!"
"How did you recognize it?" Gordon looked strange.
Hayata taught him before that individuals can be distinguished by the patterns on the masks of the Strange Face Tribe.
But the strange-faced tribe in front of me, no, to be precise, all the strange-faced tribes in the cave, the patterns on the mask are almost like a maze, which is far from the simple style with just a few strokes of embellishment before.
Can you recognize this?
"Guess." Hayata smiled and said: "It is the one we are most familiar with."
"Yes."
Gaba held the big wooden bowl in his hand Held in front of them, the wooden bowl contained some gray-white liquid that looked like mud.
"Does it want us to drink this?"
"I don't think so"
While he was struggling, Herta came over and everyone was a little confused when they saw her appearance. Surprised, Gordon almost couldn't hold back his laughter.
The former's originally smooth shoulder-length hair was tied into a messy braid. The style looked a bit like a certain dragon hunter.
Many facial lines were painted on his face with red and white dye. If his clothes hadn't changed, he would have been unrecognizable.
Hayata glanced at the wooden bowl in Gaba's hand, and she finally knew what was in the bowl.
“Do we also have to draw it like this?” Gordon asked with a dry smile: “And this hairstyle?”
“Well, it’s better to draw it on the face.” Herta smiled Said: "No need for hair, I just do it for convenience Integrate them."
"The Qimian tribe likes to wear dreadlocks?"
"Not really, a few little Qimian tribe are so playful that they become like this when they wake up." Herta said something like a complaint, but there was no dissatisfaction in her tone.
It seemed that she was quite happy getting along with this group of strange-faced tribesmen.
Hayata dipped his fingers into a little dye, twisted it, and smelled it. There was no strange smell. He asked out of curiosity: "What is this dye made of?"
"It is made by mixing the mud shaken off from the bodies of the Mud Fish Dragon and the Earth Sand Dragon, and then adding some ground plant dyes. The Strange Face Tribe believes that this can gain their power." Herta explained simply.
“It sounds okay, at least it’s not insect viscera, monster excrement or anything like that.”
Gordon breathed a sigh of relief and became more interested, “How to draw with care? Or come casually? ”
"Let Gaba help you draw it." Heta said with a smile.
“Okay.”
Gordon Hayata sat down cross-legged and let Gaba paint on their faces.
After finishing the painting, the two looked at each other and burst into laughter.
The pig's chop was also painted, and a skull-like pattern was painted on the cat's face. Pandan showed great reluctance, and was finally pressed by the pig's chop and was painted on it.
Seeing them painting blessing facial patterns, the surrounding Qimian tribe cheered, shook their heads and danced.
Gordon and the others were also infected by this emotion, and inexplicably felt like "we are also members of the Strange Face clan tonight."
At this time, the sun has set below the horizon and the sky is getting dark.
As if they had received some kind of signal, the Strange Face Tribes lit small torches one after another and left the cave in groups.
Gordon and the others followed closely behind the Strange Face Clan, feeling like they were participating in a carnival parade.
"Where is Mr. Monroe? And the strange-faced man with the golden mask has never been seen?" Gordon was inevitably a little confused when he never saw these two key figures.
Herta explained: "They have been setting up the altar for the past two days, and the ore as a sacrifice has also been transported in batches."
"There really is an altar, where is it arranged? ?”
“It’s a bit far from here, deep in an underground cave. If we walk there like this, it will probably take us two or three hours,” Herta replied.
“But will the earth god they talk about really appear?” Hayata was not very optimistic.
"It is possible to use ore as a bait sacrifice to attract the Explosive Hammer Dragon. Is it really possible to attract an ancient dragon-level creature?"
Heta shook his head and said that he didn't know, "It's hard to say. Mr. Monroe and I were whispering, and the golden strange-faced tribe said: 'It can feel it'.
The senses of the orcs are very wonderful, and we cannot tell whether they really feel something, or whether it is just a one-sided fantasy caused by extreme desire. "
"I have a strange feeling, nya." Xianglan said suddenly. "I thought something would appear, meow."
The three of them looked at it in surprise.
Unexpectedly, Pig Chop also added, "I also felt something was wrong, meow. Just after the sun set, I suddenly felt that kind of feeling that is not easy to describe meow.
Should I say like spring water, meow? It seems like that. There is a spring water rising from the ground."
The three of them looked at each other. Ellu's senses are much sharper than humans. Since Pork Chop and Pandan said so, there may be something underground. Activity.
"The so-called earth energy." Herta said to herself.
“Leyline energy?”
"Ah, it's a concept that the director occasionally mentions. I don't know much about the details."
Gordon slowed down a bit and stared at a large ant mound in the distance. After a few seconds, he said, "There is indeed a problem. Let's stay vigilant.
It was late at night before the worms on the anthills lit up. Come, but now that the sun has just set, they have begun to glow, and the brightness is higher.
They must have been stimulated by something."
"The worms on the ant mound? Herta followed Gordon's line of sight and glanced at the anthill, "Are you talking about the larvae of the Glitterwing Insect?"
"So those are the larvae of the Shinewings?"
"Well, the Great Ant Mound Wasteland is the only place where the Shiningwings hatch. It can be said that all the Shiningwings in the entire New World Road are hatched here. After growing and emerging, they flew to various parts of the mainland.
I haven't paid attention to them in the past two days. Has the brightness increased? This change needs to be recorded." Herta took out his notebook and wrote some pictures. painting.
The hunters and Ellu began to quickly check the status of their armor, weapons, and personal items.
The way they think about the problem is on another line - encountering powerful creatures does not mean that a conflict will definitely break out, but as hunters, they must be prepared for the worst.
"Herta, if a powerful monster really appears and a battle breaks out in the future, don't worry about anything. Call the pterosaurs and leave immediately. You must bring the news back to the stars."
Herta originally wanted to say something else. , but Gordon and the others had already quickened their pace and caught up with the strange-faced tribe who were singing and dancing and gradually walked away.
The mentality of the hunters has changed at this time.
“Do they really have the ability to ‘summon’ or even guide the actions of ancient dragon species to a certain extent?” Hayata said in disbelief.
If this is the case, this group of strange-faced people would be too
"It's also possible that the cause and effect conditions are reversed." Gordon glanced at the strange-faced tribe in front of them celebrating the festival.
“What the Golden Strange Face Tribe sensed in advance was probably not the mysterious ancient dragon itself, but the energy mentioned by Pig Chops.
If this is the case, maybe it will The 'Golden Mother Goddess' didn't bring that energy, it just came after that energy."
Ps.
The investigation team has a certain understanding of earth vein energy. .
After all, many living things have been affected. The investigation team cannot investigate a single person for forty years. It is probably treated as some kind of natural phenomenon.
Words such as ley lines have also appeared in the game plot. The dragon tribe hunter also mentioned, "In the past few years, I can feel that the flow of energy is getting stronger and stronger." But the source of ley line energy, at present time The point should not be discovered yet
(End of this chapter)