Chapter 15 black dog (3)

It leaped forward, its eyes glowed red, and when it breathed, it spewed a lot of foam from its mouth, with long teeth, and roared horribly. It sprang at the captain of the Falim tribe, threw him down, and slit his throat as he tried to kill the beast with his sword.This completely unexpected and unconventional horror event made everyone in Falim bewildered and terrified.They no longer sang war songs, nor could they withstand the hoa attacks.Four more Falim warriors were killed—one of them by the black dog—and the Falim began to scatter in panic, without picking up the bodies of the dead. This kind of thing has never happened before.The elders of Falim had to discuss the matter in depth, and finally decided to launch a retaliatory attack.

Raids usually end in victory, and after each raid, the morale of the young men of the tribe is high for months to a year until the next battle, but this time was different.The Falim tribe was defeated.The warriors had to sneak back to the battlefield at night to bring back the dead man's body; and they found the body mutilated by the black dog: one man's ear had been bitten off, and the captain's left arm had been eaten clean , Bai Sensen, bone fragments with tooth marks on them scattered all over the floor.The warriors of Falim eagerly awaited a victory.The elders sang battle songs day and night for three days.Then the young men took off their clothes, picked up swords, spears, and shields, and with sullen faces, singing war songs, rushed towards the village of Hoa along the path in the jungle.But before they had reached the first field of battle on the trail, they saw the terrible black dog running towards them.Followed by Hoa warriors singing war songs.The Falim warriors turned and fled in all directions, none of them daring to fight each other.It was not until very late that night that they returned to the village one by one.

The women did not salute them, but quietly laid out the food.The children did not surround them as usual, but hid in the hut. The elders also hid in the huts and wept bitterly.The warriors lay down on each of their cushions, weeping silently.Women chat in low tones around the grill under the stars. "We will all be slaves," they said, "slaves to the loathsome Hoa. Our children will be slaves too." Yet the Hoa did not make a raid, not the next day, nor the third.Waiting is always hard. The elders and the young talk to each other.They concluded that Hoa must be raided and the black dog killed no matter what the cost of life.They sang battle songs all night long.In the morning, all the warriors of Falim looked very gloomy, and stopped singing, and took the nearest road to Hoa's garrison.They didn't run forward.Their steps were slow but firm.They looked forward again and again, waiting for the appearance of the black dog, the monster with red eyes and fangs.

In fear, they look forward to its coming.