Phoenix Feather

Those soldiers were about to step forward to kidnap people with a shout, how could Xuanxuan and Yueyu be arrested without a fight, and just about to fight, the high priest said: "Stop!"

The soldiers all retreated to the side, and Mocha said angrily, "High Priest, are you covering up the criminal?"

The high priest gave Moka a cold look, and said: "So you still know that I am the high priest, but you are just the head of the guards. Let me weigh your weight. This is where you can play wild?"

Mocha's face changed. His position was several levels behind the high priest. He always looked down on this yin and yang high priest. , the loser must be himself, but as long as he finds evidence, everything will be different...

Thinking of this, Mocha straightened his back, pointed at Xuanxuan and Yueyu and said, "These two stole the chief's scepter, and the high priest defended them so much, could it be that he was with them? No wonder he was so active last night. Introduced to the chief..."

"Presumptuous!" The high priest was furious, "Mocha, you'd better remember your own identity, if you dare to offend me, you will bear the consequences!"

Mocha's breathing was stagnant and his face turned blue. Those soldiers begged the high priest for mercy with pale faces: "High priest, spare your life. We didn't mean to run into your old man. Please forgive us!"

The high priest snorted coldly.

Mocha's legs trembled slightly, obviously because he was very frightened. Xuanxuan was curious: he didn't know what would happen if he offended the high priest. The reaction of these people must be terrible, otherwise they wouldn't be so scared.

The high priest asked one of the soldiers, "Tell me what's going on?"

The soldier said: "Earlier this morning, the chief found out that the scepter was missing, and he was furious at this moment... After Chief Mocha heard the news, he led us here to arrest people."

Yue Yu sneered in her heart: Is it because he and Xuan Xuan are outsiders that the crime falls on them? What a joke!

The high priest knew in his heart that Yue Yu and Xuan Xuan did not steal the scepter. These two people never left the tent at all last night. It is still useful for these two people to keep them. They must be kept...

After thinking for a while, the high priest turned his head and ordered a soldier: "Go and call the two guards at the entrance of the pontoon bridge."

The soldiers took orders and went.

The high priest said to Moka: "If I say that these two people did not go out of the cave last night, you must not believe it. Then you can ask your subordinates yourself."

Mocha bit the bullet and said: "Then what if it is confirmed that they are indeed going out?"

The high priest walked to the table and sat down, and said coldly: "If your point is not true at all, I don't need to answer your question."

Soon, the two soldiers guarding the bridge came.

The high priest said: "Tell me your chief Mocha, did anyone come out of my place last night?"

The cave of the high priest is the third one on the right, facing the pontoon bridge, and the position at the bridge entrance can definitely see the situation on the cave side clearly.

The two soldiers shook their heads and said honestly, "No one came out from the high priest's place last night."

Mocha's face turned blue and then white, white and then blue.

The high priest satirized: "The chief guard is really competent."

Mocha's face turned pale, and he dared not speak out because he was at fault after all. He waved his hand and was about to take his people away.

"Wait a minute." The high priest stopped him, and said gloomyly: "Mocha, you came to my place for no reason and made a fuss. You just talked and said, and you didn't even apologize. You just waited for me to wait for the cave dwelling." Is it?"

Mocha swallowed his anger, bowed to the high priest, and apologized unwillingly: "Mocha has offended you so much, please forgive me by the high priest."

The high priest said: "I don't want this kind of thing to happen next time, well, you can go."

Mocha left with hatred.

Xuanxuan and Yueyu watched the play in silence. After Mocha left, Yueyu bowed to the high priest: "Thank you, high priest, for your help."

The high priest didn't speak, but just smiled inexplicably.

Xuan Xuan said: "I would like to ask if there is a place here where I can wash my face." He always felt that his body was very itchy, even if he couldn't take a bath, it would be good if he could just wash his body.

"Come with me."

The high priest led Xuanxuan and the two out of the cave, and walked down the stone steps.

People along the way would salute the high priest respectfully when they saw the high priest, which shows that the high priest has a very high status in the tribe.

Follow the high priest to the bottom of the rift, and you will see that there are big pits on the ground, or underground caves are more appropriate.

There were people living in those underground caves, Xuanxuan observed carefully, and found that the people living in these underground caves were all women, old women, middle-aged women, young girls, little girls, and their clothes were extremely dilapidated , his eyes were dim, his expression was dull, and his whole person seemed lifeless, without any vitality.

The high priest walked to the top of one of the caves, and said to the two women below: "Go and fetch three buckets of water, and prepare three meals."

The two women obediently agreed, and turned to prepare.

Two little girls aged twelve or thirteen brought up a small round wooden table and three chairs from the cave, and said in a mosquito-like voice, "High Priest, please sit down."

The high priest sat down, pointed to the other two chairs to Xuan Xuan and Yue Yu, and signaled them to sit down too.

The two little girls stood aside and waited, and saw that one of the little girls had a long gash on her arm that was still oozing blood, so Xuan Xuan took out a hemostatic patch from the small bag at his waist and tore it off for that girl. Put it on... Before his hand touched the girl, the girl shrank back in shock, her face full of fear.

Xuan Xuan was taken aback.

The high priest's eyes turned cold and he snorted.

The girl trembled, and stepped forward bravely.

Seeing the little girl with fear in her eyes, but standing in front of him so docilely, Xuanxuan suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart. For some reason, he thought of the little girl who died in the grass. Could it be that she also came from here? a member?

Xuan Xuan took the little girl's hand and put on the hemostatic patch.

The little girl was confused and looked at Xuanxuan helplessly.

Xuan Xuan smiled at her, the little girl blushed, and stepped aside holding her hands.

Glancing at Xuanxuan with a smile on his face, the high priest licked his lips and a gleam flashed in his eyes. Yueyu saw it, and his eyes turned cold, he would never let anyone who dared to play Xuanxuan's idea.

After washing his face with clean water, Xuanxuan suddenly felt refreshed.

The morning food was unusually rich, a small pot of vegetable porridge, three small bowls of beef noodles, and a plate of Roujiamo.

Seeing the two little girls staring at the meat buns on the plate and swallowing continuously, Xuanxuan took pity on them for a moment, so he reached out and took two and handed them to them.

The two little girls didn't dare to pick it up, and looked at the high priest... The high priest ate beef noodles slowly, without any expression.

After hesitating for a while, the two little girls reached out to take the Roujiamo, but they just held it in their hands but refused to eat it.

Xuan Xuan was surprised, but he didn't think too much about it.

Until they finished eating and left, Xuanxuan looked back and saw the two girls split the Roujiamo in half, and gave the other half to the other two girls in the cave, watching the little girls gobble up After eating, he licked his fingers... Xuanxuan felt a little sad for no reason. He could see that the status of the women here was very low. They lived in these underground caves with no roof over their heads. It is completely conceivable what kind of situation it will be. Although I know it is unfair, there is nothing I can do.

Yue Yu put her hand on Xuan Xuan's shoulder, Xuan Xuan looked back at him... Yue Yu touched Xuan Xuan's cheek with the back of her hand, and smiled slightly: "Xiao Xuan is so soft-hearted."

Xuanxuan's face became hot, and he slapped his hands away, warning him not to touch his hands all the time, otherwise don't blame him for being rude.

Yue Yu blinked innocently, and reached out to grab Xuan Xuan's hand.

Xuanxuan really doesn't understand what's so good about his hand, why Yueyu always likes to hold his hand.

As if seeing what he was thinking, Yue Yu said: "I don't know why, I just want to get close to you when I see you, and I will never see another person again, Xiao Xuan, you have to be responsible to me."

Xuanxuan really wanted to reward him with a punch, and said in his heart: I still want you to be responsible for me, either kiss or hug, if I were a woman, I must promise you with your body!

At this time, a soldier hurriedly ran down from the top...and ran to the high priest. The soldier saluted and said, "High priest, the chief is looking for you, please go to the temple immediately."

The loss of the chief's scepter caused a great deal of trouble. The scepter is a symbol of the chief's power. Its importance is like a jade seal to an emperor and a soldier's talisman to a marshal. Without the scepter, the chief's absolute dominance will be shaken.

The chief originally wanted to suppress this matter and retrieve the scepter secretly, but the news had already leaked out, and he couldn't cover it up even if he wanted to.

Among the Gashmir tribes, Xuanxuan and the other chiefs they met yesterday had the highest status. They were the great chief, and there were two chiefs under the great chief, one was the judicial chief, the other was the financial chief, and the next was the high priest. There are three deputy priests under the high priest, one is in charge of offering sacrifices to gods, one is in charge of funerals, and the other is in charge of witchcraft. Besides, the rest of the positions are all hereditary, so the power is concentrated in the hands of a few people.

The great chief had two sons, the eldest son Narba and the youngest son Nayef. It was Narba who leaked the fact that the chief lost his scepter, because he wanted to take this opportunity to take his father down and replace him.

The temple is on the top of the rock on the right. The high priest first went back to the cave to get two black cloaks for Xuanxuan to put on, and then led them to the top of the rock.

When Xuanxuan and Yueyu followed the high priest to the top of the rock, they saw people standing in a circle on top of it.

The structure of the temple is very simple. At first glance, it looks like a pavilion with a flat roof, but it is several times larger than an ordinary pavilion. There are nine large pillars, two in each direction, one in the center, and one in the center. There is a huge eye totem carved on that pillar, which is the same as the one on the right face of the high priest, with eight small eyeballs surrounding one big eyeball.

At this time, there were four groups of people standing in front of the temple, one group was the chief, one was the judicial chief, one was the financial chief, and the last group was a group of priests wearing cloaks.

Xuanxuan and Yueyu went to the back of the group of black-clothed priests and found an inconspicuous place to stand and watch the development of the situation. In fact, they didn't understand why the high priest brought them up, after all, they were outsiders

Yue Yu whispered to Xuan Xuan: "I don't know what kind of medicine to buy in this high priest's gourd?"

Xuan Xuan couldn't figure it out either, the high priest seemed to be helping them intentionally from last night to this morning, if it was said that he didn't have any purpose, Xuan Xuan would never believe it.

Xuan Xuan said: "No matter what medicine he buys, we just need to be more careful."

Yue Yu nodded, he looked at the high priest who was walking towards the great chief, his eyes turned cold, this person had better not play with Xuan Xuan's idea, otherwise he would definitely regret thinking wrongly.

Losing the scepter, the Meatball Chief Bagh is very impatient. He knows that if he does not find and retrieve the scepter as soon as possible, the judicial and financial chiefs who have been eyeing the position of great chief will definitely take the opportunity to attack.

As soon as Bagh saw the high priest, he stood up from his chair and said excitedly, "High priest, I want you to help me find the thief who stole my scepter immediately."

The high priest frowned: "The chief wants to..."

"I want you to perform the divine descent, and I want that damn thief to suffer the torture and die."

As soon as Bagh finished speaking, the faces of everyone present changed drastically.

Both Xuanxuan and Yueyu could see the changes in everyone's expressions, they were all curious about what kind of punishment this so-called divine drop was, and judging by the expressions on the faces of these people, it seemed that it was a terrifying punishment.

The high priest asked Bagh for confirmation: "Chief, are you serious?"

Bug's eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, and he said solemnly: "I will give the thief one last chance. If you don't want to die in pain, you can take the initiative to hand over the scepter. Otherwise, you won't have the chance to beg for mercy after the high priest performs the divine descent. .”

Everyone looked at each other, but no one spoke.

The judicial chief in the crowd turned pale and kept wiping sweat with his sleeves.

Seeing that no one said anything, Bagh was furious, and ordered the high priest to perform the divine surrender immediately.

The high priest returned to the group of priests and took a cane from the priest Carter. The cane was about one meter long and made of gold. The head of the cane was shaped like an eyeball.

The high priest walked into the temple with a staff and knelt before the central pillar carved with eyeballs.

After inserting the golden staff into the large eyeball on the pillar, the high priest began to chant.

The judicial chief's entire back was drenched in cold sweat, and he took a small half step forward... At this moment, two shrill cat meows suddenly came from midair.

The sharp cry shook everyone's heart palpitations. Just as they were wondering, they saw two huge black shadows silently appearing on the top of the temple...they were two black creatures that looked like cats but not cats, and leopards but not leopards.

Xuanxuan stroked his chin and asked Yueyu, "Is that a black cat or a black panther?"

Yue Yu said: "It should be a cat."

Xuan Xuan wondered: "Is there such a big cat?"

Yue Yu said: "Maybe it has mutated."

The high priest continued to sing, and the two cats flicked their tails gently, looking down at the people below.

The people below were panicked by the sight of these two cats, and many people backed away involuntarily.

All of a sudden, the two cats rushed towards Bagh's direction like lightning.