Chapter 4 The Lost Civilization
The Gray Eagle nodded: "The luck is really good. The baboon demon attacked. These two swords could be said to have hit the enemy by themselves, and they happened to be inserted into the vital point."
Fei Arrow frowned, a little confused. The two swords were really accurate. Yao's hunting knife was not long enough, and even the long sword could not penetrate the thick chest of the baboon demon and penetrate the heart.
There is a depression on the sternum of the baboon demon, only where the skeleton is the thinnest, barely allowing the tip of the knife to pierce the heart, but it is only a little bit piercing. This place can be said to be the most hidden weakness of the baboon demon, and only the most experienced hunter will know it.
And it's not just this knife, but the one stabbed in the red hair in the neck is also very particular. It seems that the two key points were stabbed at the same time, which instantly caused the baboon demon to lose its ability to move.
The weakness of the neck is not even known. Naturally, it is useless for him to know it now. The baboon demon acts like the wind and has infinite power. It is almost 100 to die when it encounters it. It takes a very weak probability to attack the key point?
Gray Eagle said: "Don't be stunned. It's rare to have a chance to kill a baboon demon, hurry up and start!"
The arrow also woke up, pulled out the hunting knife, and dismembered the prey with the gray eagle.
Ferocious beasts like the baboon demon are full of treasures. With this hunting catch, the entire camp can live a good life. And they will be very safe for the time being. With the aura of the baboon demon, ordinary beasts will not approach here.
Yao was exhausted too much, but his hands and feet were still weak. He did not go to clean up his prey, but sat down next to Huangquan, resting and looking at him, thinking to himself: "It's really just good luck?"
Huangquan sat quietly, his face as calm as water, and he had no feeling of the girl's gaze.
But he was calm on the surface, but in fact, he was repeatedly comparing the baboon demon with a little monkey in his heart.
During the Empire, the little monkey was a very common species on the parent planet. It fed with fruits and grains. It was only half a meter long and was timid and cowardly. It was called a baboon monkey.
Baboon monkeys are not conspicuous and do not have much lethality, but they are extremely adaptable, have lightning movements, and are extremely sensitive to dangers. Therefore, when the Imperial Army goes to the strange star domain, it often brings a group of trained baboon monkeys to use as natural sentinel guards.
Gradually, this species gradually spread throughout the star domains as the empire expanded.
The body size of the baboon monster is much larger than that of the baboon monkey, and the weight is hundreds of times different, and the defense strength of the fur is even more incomparable. But if you ignore the body shape, from the appearance, except for a circle of red hair in the neck, the baboon monster and the baboon monkey are almost exactly the same. More importantly, their key points are exactly the same.
Is the baboon demon here really related to the baboon monkeys of the empire?
Huangquan looked at the extremely tall grass leaves and incredibly huge ancient trees around him, and felt thoughtful.
In half a day, the Grey Eagle and the Flying Arrow finally harvested their prey.
What Huang Quan couldn't understand was that the gray eagle chopped off the entire head of the baboon demon and carried it on his shoulder. The baboon demon's head was big and heavy, and such a big guy on his back could not bring anything else.
Judging from the costumes of the three people, the tribal community they belong to is likely to be in a semi-primitive and semi-handmade state. Judging from this, the most important thing for the survival of the entire community is safety and food.
The meat and blood of the baboon demon should be excellent sources of nutrition, but the gray eagle and the arrow did not get much.
Most of the grey eagle's weight-bearing ability is used to carry the head of the baboon demon, while the arrow collects the heart, liver, and even some organs such as lung lobes. Only a few pieces of meat were cut into the torso, and half of the hind leg was collected.
From Huangquan's perspective, the heart is just ordinary muscles, and it is not much better than breast and leg meat. The livers of many alien creatures are often highly toxic. Even if they are not poisonous, there is no need to take that risk.
The same applies to other organs. They can't see the purpose at all, but the flying arrows have worked hard to take them away. On the contrary, neither of them paid attention to the very useful animal skin.
Most of the corpses of the baboon demon were still moving, and the gray eagle's eyes were full of regrets. He glanced at Yao and saw the girl lifting Huang Quan up, so he didn't say anything. The harvest he had now was based on Huang Quan's good luck, so even the gray eagle was not easy to attack.
When the prey was collected, the girl also recovered completely, which made Huang Quan look up at her again.
This level of recovery ability is quite outstanding and is also one of the most valued qualities of the Dragon Cavalry Camp. When hunting in the wild, the quality of recovery ability often determines the life and death of both sides.
The gray eagle and the flying arrow were the first to open the way, while the faraway person raised the yellow spring and followed them.
This time, Huang Quan did not refuse, and grabbed the girl, put herself tightly on her body, and adjusted her posture subtly. This way, the two of them were one, which allowed her to save a lot of physical strength while running.
The three of them ran all the way, and in a blink of an eye, more than an hour passed. Because of the aura of a baboon demon, the road was very smooth and there was no harassment from wild beasts.
After running for a while, the girl said, "Hold on for a while, the camp is not far away. Are you okay?"
"Fortunately, can you hold on?" Huang Quan asked back.
The girl's breathing was rapid, sweat rolled down, and her body was trembling. But her speed did not decrease at all, like a cheetah, running rapidly in the rain forest. Branches, trunks, vines, and even grass stems of some giant grass could become her leverage.
Huang Quan felt every contraction and relaxation of her muscles, and the flow of power inside, and he actually had a primitive and wild keenness.
She was already quite tired, but still said, "It's okay, you have to run fast on this road so that you won't leave too much smell."
"Why don't you want meat and skin, just take that head and internal organs back?"
"Our settlement has never killed the baboon demon. This head must be taken back to make a totem and preserved forever. When those big settlements are sent to them in the future, they will see that they dare to look down on us. Hearts and livers are treasures for sacrifices, especially the hearts and livers of the baboon demons, which are even rare and precious things. With them to sacrifice, the soul of the ancestors will definitely appear! We can get inheritance and make the tribe stronger!"
The girl was excited to speak, but she didn't notice that Huang Quan's face was different.
The word sacrificial not only disappeared in the Empire era, but also traced back to the Second and First Federations before the Empire. It has not been included in the general dictionary. It only appears in classics that study ancient culture and will not be encountered by ordinary people at all.
It is said that in the era of the parent star, civilization was not fully civilized and technology had not yet ruled the hearts of the people, so there would be sacrifices.
In the vast star field, during the empire's great development, we encountered many races, including races that still retained the tradition of sacrificial rituals. But most of them were primitive races that were not yet fully civilized and were not known to have been many thousands of years since they left the star field.
Unexpectedly, ten thousand years later, I would meet people who retained the tradition of sacrificial sacrifice. From the girls' words, we can see that they worship their ancestors in particular, and it seems that their ancestors will appear in a certain state to impart knowledge, thus making their descendants stronger.
This is obviously beyond Huang Quan's common sense, and he also doesn't understand what kind of knowledge cannot be passed on through intelligent brains or old books, rather than through an obviously unreliable way of priest sacrifice?
The girl and the two hunters both spoke imperial language. Even though the grammar was a bit strange and the pronunciation of some words was different, it was undoubtedly an imperial common language. How could he live like this primitive tribe if he could be influenced by imperial culture?
With a heart full of doubt, Huang Quan leaned on the girl's back and followed the three of them along the way. He did not ask any questions anymore. The conversation during the journey would consume the girl's physical strength unnecessary, and he had a premonition that these doubts could not be understood in just a few words.
Chapter completed!