Chapter 35 – Animal tamers

Translator’s note

Sorry, Tribe > Village change, I’ve updated the previous chapter.

“Kenya!” 

The black man named Kenya turned around and saw a boy running towards him.

Kenya had lived in the Boku village for 20 years, and left to work in the outside world for 5, he was the person that had brought back the first television in the village.

He was hailed as the pride of the village, but after the arrival of the armed men, the people of their village were no longer allowed to leave, and they could only stay to farm for those men.

The others did not know what it was, but Kenya knew. It was a poisonous plant that dragged people into depravity.

As Africa was a vast continent, there were no powerful rulers that could properly govern their lands. For money, there were plenty of people that held onto guns that claimed territories.

There were also many people that hoped for the unification of Africa, and they hoped for the peace that would follow. It was a pity that such a hope was futile, due to the outside world and their own internal strife.

Many treated Africa as farmland for the poisonous flowers.

It was the same for their village, those people held their guns and forbade every single person from ever leaving, isolating them from the outside world.

Kenya had returned recently, and those people only allowed people to enter, not leave. None of the villagers had guns, and after a few deaths, no one dared to resist anymore.

“Mike? Go home now! Your family won’t be able to find you!” Kenya scolded, and the armed men in the area were not nice people.

Mike pouted, “The village head asked me to find you, he said the television was broken again……”

Kenya had worked at Xia (country) previously, and he had bought a television, a generator and a couple of movies to bring back.

Most of the people in the village had not come into contact with such things before, and that was why they called for him every time they were confused.

“I got it, you go back first!!” Kenya waved the boy away and continued walking forwards.

He actually had a secret, from last night, a voice had been speaking to him. He didn’t know if it was god or the devil.

In his dream, he was in a godly domain filled with light, the white world around him resembling heaven.

“Do you wish to save your village?”

There was no sound in the world in his dreams, but Kenya heard a loud and majestic voice from the side of his ears, its sound seemly travelling from the skies into his soul.

“Are you god?”

Kenya prostrated on the ground hazily.

“I wish to save my village! I beg of you to help us!”

That voice did not respond, and the white empty world around him fell into silence.

When he woke the next day, he could immediately feel it, he could control animals!

It was like a dream, after the initial disbelief, the overjoyed Kenya turned his gaze towards the crude two-storey building next to the village.

That was the temporary residence the armed men had them built, and 15 armed men patrolled the surroundings of their village every day.

“Go! There is delicious food there.”

In a dirt house not too far away, Kenya was petting the scales of a black snake, mumbling softly to it.

In the day, that wooden house would have about 7 people resting inside, they were the people responsible for the nightly patrol.

The snake flickered its tongue, and behind it were 10 poisonous snakes, each with their own unique colouring and patterns. Kenya didn’t know why they could understand his words, and he looked on anxiously as they slithered into the wooden house.

Time passed slowly as Kenya stared at the house, his heart trembling while he prayed to the god in his dreams! If you really exist, I pray that you won’t deceive me!

He had stayed in Xia, and the people there were non-believers of god. The prideful people of Xia believed in technology, and that humans were responsible for using their hands to change the world.

In the past, their village followed Boku, they believed that Boku was the name of this planet, and if they believed in and followed him, he would bring prosperity to the village.

Even until the people of the outside world came and described the world to them, they chose to reject their words and even thought that the younger generation that had returned was fooled.

However, after a group of people had brought all kinds of proof to them that god did not exist, they finally chose to accept this truth.

Of course, this excluded the older people who had lived for decades. Their belief and worship of Boku had seeped into their souls and became their habit and ideology.

And the younger generation knew that, so they simply left them alone.

Three hours later, one of the armed men that was on patrol returned to the wooden house, and he quickly ran out in panic. Kenya knew he had succeeded and ran back home.

“Da da da……” 

“Gather! Gather everyone!”

As he expected, after they had found out about the deaths of their companions, the armed men were on alert and furious.

They had found the snakes in the wooden house, but they did not believe that their men had died to snake bites.

All 7 of them bit to death by snakes???

Someone must have purposefully released those snakes!

Everyone from the Boku village had been gathered at an open space outside of the village, and 8 armed men held onto their guns as they surrounded them, they were in despair.

“Who released those snakes!?”

The seven corpses had died without making a sound, and they were being dragged out of the wooden house.

The people of the Boku village were dumbfounded as their gazes flickered from the bodies on the floor to each other. Among them, the village head stood up with a hunched back and spoke, “We did not kill them.”

At this moment, one of the armed men suddenly whispered into the ears of their leader.

And the leader turned back to the village head.

“Is everyone from your village here?”

The village head was confused as he turned to look around, he couldn’t understand, did someone run away?

One of the armed men suddenly laughed coldly, “Where’s Kenya?”

These armed men had been stationed here for more than a year, and they knew most of the names of the younger generation in this village.

The village head was shocked, but he maintained his expression as he looked at the faces beneath him.

“He’s a murder, and he ran away!”

“Hmph!” The leader raised his gun, and the armed men instantly followed, aiming their guns at the villagers. In the next second, they loaded their guns as the people of the village stared upwards at them, their eyes filled with tears and despair.

“Gu!”

A shout came from the skies, disturbing the silence.

Everyone looked up, they could see the clear skies and a vulture that was rapidly descending towards them.

“Ka Cha!”

“Bang!”

Seeing the huge bird, the leader didn’t think twice and shot upwards.

“What’s this?”

The vulture’s head was blown off, and its headless body fell towards the ground.

At the same time, what followed its corpse were multiple long creatures.

“Si!”

“There are snakes!”