Nicole coughed violently while covering her nose and mouth. Tigger, who had been quietly playing dead, scratched at her pocket.
"Mama, I searched my database. It's some kind of ancient sacrificial ritual."
Nicole’s heart went cold at the words.
'Am I really going to die?!’
"Tigger, you’re a tiger, right? Can you pounce out and bite them?"
Tigger was silent for a few seconds before speaking cutely.
"Molly Stewart gave me 20% aggressiveness in her original design, but after the Great God Maverick remodeled me, my aggressiveness became zero. Mama, you can pounce and bite them yourself..."
Nicole was speechless. ’Naha... I've just been dissed by a stupid tiger...'
She was just about to ask Tigger where she could run t o when the people around her suddenly stopped singing and dancing. Their expressions turned serious.
Nicole immediately shut her mouth. She could not let them notice Tigger's presence.
Otherwise, she would even lose the only person (tiger) she could talk to!
Just then, everyone stopped talking and tilted their head back to look at the sky with strange expressions.
It was so quiet that only the crackling of the firewood could be heard. It sounded very eerie, scary, and chilling.
Just then, the leader of the group with a scepter in hand took a few steps back, opening up a gap in the circle.
An older woman with a wrinkled face came in holding a large leaf with both hands.
The woman looked at Nicole, put the leaf in front of her, and said something Nicole did not understand.
Then, the woman pointed to the items on the ground and back to her mouth, making a gesture of eating.
She untied the tough branches that restrained Nicole’s wrists, then walked away.
The people around Nicole formed a circle around her again.
Everyone quietly looked at Nicole in the center of the circle. Countless eyes stared at her like wild beasts in the dark.
Nicole looked down. What was on the leaf were dried meat, dried fish, as well as two wild fruits.
Her stomach growled instantly. She had not eaten for
several days.
She swallowed her saliva. Throwing caution to the wind, she picked the food up and stuffed it into her mouth.
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