Deep in the market, the flow of people has decreased slightly, but the prosperity has increased. Maya's sacred smoke rises in front of the wooden shed of the tobacco shop and floats in all directions. Several city-state nobles are dressed in fine clothes, smoking expensive cigarettes, talking and laughing.
Yan Yan. Behind the nobles were several warriors, and a few steps away was the crowd. Like a group of snakes, they stretched their heads greedily, sniffing the dispersing smoke, with yearning on their faces.
"Well...the cornman's divine smoke..."
A dozen steps away, Puap looked at the Mayan business shed, looking struggling and hesitant.
The kingdom strictly enforces religious laws, one of which prohibits warriors from smoking sacred smoke. According to the descriptions of the priests, this smoke that communicates with the gods will burn the vitality of mortals and is especially harmful to the lungs. Once too much is smoked,
It will reduce the samurai's ability to run and fight!
Of course, a more effective measure for the kingdom would be to prohibit the private sale of divine smoke and increase taxes to make the price of such consumables exceed the affordability of ordinary warriors.
"The price of the divine smoke here seems to be much lower than that of the Kingdom and Alliance!..."
Puap saw it clearly. The noble just took out a gem from the lake and brought several bags of divine smoke. The price is probably only one-fifth of the price in the kingdom!
The goods of the Mayans are far cheaper in this nearby port than in the kingdom two thousand miles away. Due to the stable quality and the continuous inflow of huge quantities of gems in the lake, the gems in the lake have gradually become a more popular "currency" in the luxury trade.
"Now, Puap has a bag of hundreds of gems in his hands, and he can even buy all the sacred cigarettes in the cigarette shop!
"The divine object...the divine smoke..."
Puap was wearing an eagle helmet, and was wandering around the tobacco shop with his mind wandering. Two clusters of short branched feathers were dangling on the helmet of the gray earth warrior, like a bird with open wings, walking around.
Fat turkey.
A few steps away, an old man in his fifties, wearing the feathered uniform of a tribal witch doctor, was sitting cross-legged on the ground. In front of him, a roll of white cloth was spread out. On the white cloth, there were more than a dozen monkey skulls.
, an obsidian talisman, four or five ancient jade pendants, three or two jars of strange herbs. And in the middle of the white cloth is a simple and mysterious black and purple pottery plate the size of a human head.
Occasionally, someone came up to the old witch doctor and lowered his head to ask a few questions, but the old witch doctor did not answer, just waved his hand. He sat on the ground, squinted his eyes, and carefully looked at the "fat turkey" hanging around for a while.
Suddenly he sang leisurely in the popular Nahua language.
"O eagle in the sky, flying from the west! O thunder on the sea, falling from the east! The road ahead is long, and my hometown is far away. Stern gods, will you let me go? Let me return to my hometown safely!
..."
"Um?"
Hearing the hoarse singing, Puap stopped for a moment, listened to a few words, and his face suddenly changed. He immediately turned around and looked at the old man dressed as a witch doctor, his eyes flashing.
"Ahem!...Old...witch doctor...what are you singing?"
The old witch doctor ignored it and didn't even raise his eyes to look at Puap. He just shook his head, picked up the pottery plate on the white cloth, held it to his chest, and sang hoarsely again.
"The divine pottery plate, tell me the future of mortals! The destinies of all mortals have long been written by the gods. In the west, there are high volcanoes; in the east, there are endless abyss; in the north, there are thunderous storms
; South, there is a sea of green trees!... Gods step on the edge of the world, where can mortals go easily? Souls without guidance are destined to never return!..."
"...Eh? You'll never come back..."
Listening to the old witch doctor's singing, Puap's expression suddenly changed, and he felt a little in awe for some reason. He walked forward, his eyes moved up and down, and he soon noticed the pottery plate in the old witch doctor's arms.
The style of the pottery plate is extremely simple, and the edges have been worn, as if it has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. On the front of the pottery plate, there is a sacred tree carved from top to bottom. The sacred tree is dyed green and branches out, dividing the pottery plate into three parts.
Layer. The upper part of the pottery plate is engraved with various gods, dyed with the blue of the sky. In the middle of the pottery plate, an elliptical cross-section is drawn with twelve directions. In the center of the ellipse is the pyramid temple integrated with the tree trunk.
The gold powder is dyed golden. And in the lower part of the pottery plate, there are red volcanoes, yellow abyss, and black dark sea.
"Well..."
Looking at such a mysterious and unclear pattern, Puap suddenly felt awe in his heart.
As if sensing Puap's gaze, the old witch doctor glanced at him and put the pottery plate into his feather robe. For a fleeting moment, the gray earth warrior with good eyes could vaguely see the words burned on the back of the pottery plate.
There are dense symbols and divine patterns, as well as rings symbolizing the calendar.
"Huh? The calendar and astronomy are engraved on it... Could it be that this is the inheritance pottery tablet of the priests?"
Puap's heart was moved and his thoughts were ups and downs. A smile appeared on his face and he asked the old witch doctor with a smile.
"Dear old...priest, can you lend me this pottery plate to take a look at?"
"Ha! Gods have spirits and cannot be peeked at. The cruel fate has been doomed for a long time. Mortals can only accept it and cannot change it!"
The old witch doctor shook his head. With his old eyes, he looked at Puap for the first time and waved his hand lightly.
"Warrior from a foreign land, don't try to get hold of my sacred objects. Being able to hear me sing a song is considered your luck. Let's go! Your destiny is destined to be in the far east, in the abyss of the sea...
"
"Hiss! My destiny is in the abyss of the sea?!"
Hearing this, Puap's heart suddenly tightened. He pinched his fingers, bit his lip, and forced a smile.
"Old priest, do you know where I am going? What is my fate?"
"No, I do not know."
The old witch doctor looked leisurely and shook his head again.
"The gods have spirits and know their destiny. He just uses my mouth to speak. Foreign warrior, let's go! Destiny cannot be forced."
"this..."
Puap's eyelids twitched and he looked at the cold-looking old witch doctor. After thinking for a moment, he took out a shining lake gem from his arms and placed it on the white cloth.
"This old priest, I would like to offer you a gem! Can you let me have a look at the object and give me some guidance?"
"The gods have spirits, and their destiny is destined. Take it, take it! Take the gem and don't bother me."
The old witch doctor closed his eyes and waved his hand again, without even looking at the gem.
"you!..."
Puap gritted his teeth, reached into his arms again, took out five gems, and begged.
"Six is the number of divinity, the gods of the four directions and the gods above and below. Dear old priest, I would like to offer six gems and implore the god to speak and reveal my destiny!"
"Let's go, let's go!~"
No matter how much Puap begged, the old witch doctor just closed his eyes, hugged the pottery plate, and kept shaking his head.
After a while, the dust warrior Puap finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted sharply.
"You old guy! You don't know what's good or bad!"
Hearing this, the old witch doctor finally opened his eyes, looked at the gray warrior calmly, and said calmly.
"Foreign warrior, you are destined to die, why force yourself?"
"Ah! Damn old thing!"
Puap's heart was shaken, and his expression became stern. He strode forward, held down the copper ax with one hand, and grabbed the lapel of the old witch doctor's clothes with the other, glaring at him fiercely and threatening him.
"You know! Even in this busy city, if I want to kill you and steal this pottery plate, it will be easy!"
"Haha! Can the fate of a mortal be changed with the help of a copper ax in his hand?"
The old witch doctor looked calm and laughed.
"Even if you kill me, what will happen? Your destiny will not change because of this. Gods have spirits. You will only offend the gods and die faster!"
"ah?!"
Puap's eyes were fierce and he stared at the old witch doctor fiercely. The old witch doctor had a calm look on his face, as if he didn't care about life and death. The two stared at each other for a moment, until they attracted the attention of the city-state warriors, who came forward to check.
"You, foreign warrior, what are you doing? No fighting is allowed in the city! No rudeness to the witch doctor!"
"..."
Seeing the surrounding city-state warriors, they all took out their war sticks and shouted, just as they were about to gather together, Puap suddenly softened and fell to his knees with a "pop". Then, in the surprised eyes of everyone, he hugged him
The old witch doctor pressed his waist and face against the pottery plate on the other's chest, begging in pain.
"Ah! Respect the old priest, please give me guidance on my destiny! I am willing to offer my sincere tribute, twelve gems!..."
"Well!..."
The old witch doctor was hugged by the strong gray earth warrior, and the corner of his mouth twitched. He tried to struggle, but the other party hugged him tightly, and he couldn't break free at all. After a few breaths, he finally sighed helplessly and said.
"Hey! Okay then. Just let go of your hand, and I'll beg the god to show you your destiny!"
"Good! Good! Dear old priest, I praise you!"
Puap nodded repeatedly, stretched out his hand excitedly, took out six more gems from his arms, and placed them on the white cloth. Seeing such a wealthy foreign warrior, the eyelids of the warriors from the nearby city-states jumped and their expressions were moved.
The old witch doctor held the pottery plate and looked at the crowd around him. He nodded slightly and said with a smile.
"I would like to implore the divine object to give this unknown foreign warrior a look at the cursed fate! The divine object pays attention to the fact that the fate of mortals will interfere with each other and may cause disaster. I also ask all warriors to spread out a little to avoid
affected."
Hearing this, the expressions of the people around him changed. They quickly took two steps back, looked at the unknown gray earth warrior with disgust, and left in a hurry.
"What?...My fate is cursed?"
Hearing this, Puap's face turned blue, and he sat down carefully on the ground according to the old witch doctor's instructions. Then, he stretched out his hands and pressed them on the center of the pottery plate he took out again. His heart "thumped, thumped" and beat hard.
.
The old witch doctor held both sides of the pottery plate, closed his eyes silently, and sensed it for a while. After a while, he suddenly realized it and let out a long sigh.
"I see!"
"Dear old priest...how...how is it?"
"You have the curse of the condor on your body! It was the noble descendant of the condor who used up all his divinity and life before death to mark your destiny with deep-seated hatred!"
"ah!"
Puap's hands trembled, his body shook violently, and he fell to the ground. The secret deep in his heart was revealed in this way, causing him to feel panic and confusion from the bottom of his heart. After a moment, he suddenly fell down on the ground.
He kowtowed twice on the ground, "bang, bang".
"Old prophet, please save me!"
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