Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty

"Listen! Listen!" Ana Maya stood in the water, the eddy current swirling around her waist. That moment wasn't just dramatic.In the distance, several cannons were fired.The sky suddenly burned, turning from golden yellow to fiery red, just like the color of high-grade vicuna wool fabric. At this time, there was a blue light on the zenith, so light that it was almost blue. For the first time in days, there was no rain, and the jungle humidity was less stifling.At sunset, on the cliffs on both sides of the steep river bank, the green forest seems to be so dense that it is impossible to pass through, and the bank is now full of life.

"Listen," Anamaya said softly, her face looking up the river. A few steps away from her, Manco's youngest and most beautiful wife, Juli Okoro, threw herself greedily into the rolling river, and then stood motionless on the pebbles at the bottom of the water. Her figure was smaller than that of Ana Maya. Slightly stubby but well proportioned.After standing firmly, Juli Okoro frowned, covered her chest with her hands, turned to the river valley, and shook her head puzzled. "What do you want me to hear?" Ana Maya motioned her to be quiet.His eyes drifted to the grove at the highest point of the bend where they played.The branches and long leaves rustled in the wind.But this is just the rustling sound of some monkey cubs playing and fighting in Xiangwan's cool time.

In fact, only the usual boisterous sounds are heard, opening the prelude to the night in the jungle.There is the rattling of orioles, which cover up the regular patter of the waterfall splashing against the green leaves.There was also a parrot yelling, as if flying over the river in a panic.The parrots flew across the sky, and a group of red and blue South American parrots responded unwillingly.After a while, they gathered in front of the bird's nest in the cave in the uneven cliff wall, chirping and making a lot of noise.Immediately everything returned to calm, leaving only the sound of running water.

"I listened, but I heard nothing," said Juli Okoro. While Juli Okolo let the cool water flood her neck, Ana Maya watched, noticing what was going on on the bank, and saw a group of baby turtles lounging on the felled tree trunks. "A parrot, it's just a parrot, that's what you heard!" Juli Okoro jokingly said, smoothing her hair. "No," Ana Maya said firmly, "I'm sure there is a voice." At this time, it was replaced by Anna Maya and dived into the water.Juli Okoro had a round face with delicate features, approaching Anna Maya.Anna Maya felt her young hand gently resting on her shoulder.

"So, what you hear is what Kamakenkeya should hear. Women like me can't hear those voices." "maybe!" "Of course," Juli Okoro complained and grimaced, "You and the God of Stone, both of you can do some amazing and great things!" With a slight gesture of her hand, she pushed away a group of fluttering miniature white butterflies.Then she gracefully laid herself down on the muddy ground with shallow water.Close your eyes and let the water flow over your smooth and shiny body. There was a smile on the corner of Annamaya's mouth, and when she was about to respond to Juli Okoro, she raised her face again, pricked up her ears, and opened her eyes wide.

Yes, she felt a draft on the river, as if some soft sound surrounded her.It's just a feeling.It could be a cool breeze, or the faint sound of the wind whistling through tree branches and jungle leaves.But she couldn't help thinking of something else, couldn't help thinking of something else.oh!It's the breath of a cougar! Jia Boye! It lasted for almost several seconds, and her heart was full of Jia Boye's appearance.She felt a sudden spasm in her abdomen, and when the pain was severe, her arms were clasped tightly to her chest.She still pays attention to listening, and pays more attention to feeling.She felt invisible touches surrounding her, like whispers.She believed she could feel Jia Boye breathing on her trembling palm.The feeling was so strong that she had to close her eyes and let herself be immersed in it.

She didn't even realize she was calling his name. Then, the induction suddenly disappeared, just like the beginning, making people feel overwhelmed.Her sensations disappeared in the hot and humid jungle air, as if they were hallucinations. Ana Maya let herself relax again, and opened her eyes again.Nothing has changed.The sunset in the evening dyed the colorful clouds in the sky red, and the shadows of the leaves on the green cliffs became deeper and longer.The night was approaching, and the monkeys gathered in the tall bushes and quarreled non-stop.There are also male parrots chasing the female parrots and singing continuously. At this moment, small clouds float leisurely above the surging waterfall.

"Do you feel anything?" Juli Okoro said shivering as she curled up in the water. Anna Maya laughed out loud.Manco's young wife looked at Ana Maya with eagerness and melancholy, curiosity and fear. "You must have seen something." She still insisted, "You became so weird just now, as if...your people are not here at all..." Anamaya laughed awkwardly and slipped into the water.Hiding her naked body in the water, it seems that Juli Okoro has the ability to see through her body to see the power of another world, and see the traces of Jia Boye's touch. She cupped the eddy in the river with her palm, and splashed the water on her shoulders and the back of her neck.

"It's hard for me to explain to you." "You mean it can't be said?" "No, it's not that it can't be said, but it's hard to explain, and it's hard for you to understand." Juli Okolo pouted her lips angrily, her beautiful but still childish lips were raised very high.She shook her head, and her thick hair immediately swayed left and right like algae flowing with the water. At this time, her round breasts emerged from the water, like pebbles emitting golden light in the sun. "It's time for us to go back," Annamaya said. Juli Okoro held her belly and smiled sarcastically and jealously:

"Kamakenkoya, I know what you can't tell me. You're thinking about that foreigner you love, the one you call a cougar!" Anna Maya hesitated for a moment, then smiled and confessed: "I didn't think about him, I felt him." "Feels? Feels like he's holding you in his arms?" Juli Okoro exclaimed. She had stood up now, her eyes widened. Anna Maya just smiled and nodded, and then took the hand of the young Juli Okoro to go to the shore. Their clothes were still hanging on the low branches of the banyan tree. "Can he get in touch with you often like this?" Juli Okoro still did not give up asking.

Anna Maya stepped out of the water before answering, her voice was low, as if she was confiding a secret. "He wasn't really in touch with me. But he seemed to be right next to me. He was looking for me, he was thinking of me." "I don't quite understand." "I told you, it's hard to explain. No matter where he is, he thinks of me, and he wants to be by my side. So, he tried to enter another world to connect with me." "How is this possible?" "Possibly, because he's a cougar...and either priest or priestess must help him!" Anna Maya finished the last sentence with a smile.Juli Okoro had just finished dressing and looked at her blankly and suspiciously. "Juli Okoro, I'm not kidding with you," Annamaya continued softly, "This world is not only what we can see, the great ancestors protect us. We must trust them." "Yes, yes, I know! You always say the same thing, whether it's you, the priest, or the god of stone! But it seems that the great ancestors don't protect everyone with the same power. Maybe they don't care about Manko , leave me alone...not even most of the Incas!" The young girl's voice was a mixture of anger and tears.She took a sharp step and rushed towards the road through the jungle, as if preparing to flee. "Juli Okoro!" "Anamaya, how long has that foreigner been away from you?" Juli Okoro asked without turning around. "Twenty-eight months." "And for twenty-eight months, you didn't know where this man you called the cougar was?" "yes." "But even after so long, you haven't forgotten him, and he hasn't forgotten you either. Even after so long, you still feel that he is by your side, and he, too, feels that you are by his side." "perhaps." "Of course! I'm sure he appeared in your dreams, and even in your sleep, you dreamed of having sex with him! Twenty-eight months! Yes, you have a point: the great ancestor protected you, and I don't want the two of you to be separated. You and a foreigner!" Juli Okoro turned around and blocked Anna Maya's way. "Why? Kamaken Keya, can you tell me why?" She yelled loudly for several seconds, and even the other side of the jungle was completely silent. "Juli Okoro, I don't understand what you mean." Anna Maya said to her softly. Distress and pain distorted the face of the beautiful queen. "I," she said brokenly, "I have only been separated from Manco for four nights. I have no dreams, and the bath is deserted. Wherever I go, my beloved is not with me! Great ancestors Let me be alone. They don't care about me, Kamakenkeya, they don't protect me at all, and I don't think they protect Manko either." "Manco to do what he's supposed to do," Anna Maya writhed, knowing too well the truth that disturbed Juli Okoro, so she whispered, "He loves you more than any other woman." "He loves me, but I can't feel him, but he leaves me alone. He loves me, but I can't feel his touching my hand or his kissing my lips at all. He likes me, But every tomorrow seems to be the same as every day I used to be on the mountain, and it always makes people feel cold." "Juri Okoro, he's gone to war. Manco is fighting those foreigners, and it's a tough fight." Juli Okoro shook her head with tears in her face and said: "No, Ana Maya, you don't know him as well as I do. Manco is not going to fight, but to lose." "Juli Okoro!" "Who does not see this? My husband, Manco, the only king, is alone and has fewer and fewer soldiers. His brother Paul is on the side of the foreigners. The wise Vala Ouma beats himself. You and the stone god, you are here, in Vilcabamba, in this new city hidden in the jungle, only care about the great ancestors, you are so far from my beloved Manco. And Even myself, I am here!" "Juli Okoro." Anna Maya called her in a low voice, took her arm, but was powerless to refute. "He was helpless! The foreigners took his favorite son, Titu Kuji, again! What a despicable act! They even dug up the body of the great ancestor and transported it to Cusco..." Anna Maya was so sad that she didn't know what to say to make things look better.She just stroked the wet cheek of the young girl and said softly: "Juli Okoro, please don't think that I will disregard Manco, the only king. I have always been by his side, and in my heart, he has always been my brother. We are in Vilcapon Everything Ba did was not against him, on the contrary. The city built by the God of Stone is for your beloved Manco to live here in the future, living a life like the Son of the Sun." Juli Okolo broke free from Anna Maya's hand tremblingly.She proudly wiped away tears.But the pain in her heart made her grimace again.Then she cried out in a daze like a helpless child: "Oh! Ana Maya, I'm so afraid of tomorrow." The afterglow shone as they reached the first wall of Vilcabamba.This new Inca city architecture completely followed the blueprint drawn by Kadari, the god of stone, and it looked brilliant and solemn in the sunset. Terraces and quadrangles surrounded the main square of the festival in perfect order; in front of the Temple of the Sun stood a long row of buildings with ten doors open.The walls of the house, like the exterior walls of the quadrangle, were painted with a layer of ocher-red plaster, so that at nightfall they glowed like gold.When the nearby river and crop-rich terraces are shrouded in darkness, these walls are like jewels, cheating the sun's rays, and still shining in the night. The night is still covering the sky of the mountains in the north, and to the east is the winding Pompacona Valley, where many cedars reach the sky and the huge Kapiwa grows. Birds chirped, piercing the silence of the night sky, drawing their attention, and the two young girls slowed down and walked across the damp grass.They stared at the dots of fire in the mountains to the south.Then, suddenly, darkness covered everything, as if snow grains and ice cubes were held in the hands, and suddenly fell into darkness. The frog that was close at hand suddenly screamed shrilly, and then fell silent again.At this moment, Juli Okoro was frightened and grabbed Anna Maya's arm beside her, terrified to move.She pointed to a bush of flowers along the outside of the wall.A small puma with strange eyes stepped out of the swaying branches.Despite the darkness of the night, its coat color still shines. It hopped lightly towards them, its paws making deep marks on the ground. Anamaya could barely breathe, and she felt Juli Okoro moaning in terror. Now, the puma was so close that they could almost see the small white spots around its eyes and the gradation of white fur around its tiny ears. It was two steps away from Anna Maya, looking into her eyes.It opened its mouth slightly and let out a long, gentle cry. It disappeared into the bushes with a jerk. Anna Maya and Juli Okoro could only stand there for a while, listening to the light footsteps of the cat-like animal heading towards the jungle. Juli Okoro was so frightened that she was short of breath and out of breath. When she turned around, she saw a happy smile on Anna Maya's face. "Oh, you've got a point," she gasped, "you've got a point: he's really been there for you."

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