night.
The 'virtual sun' on the dome directly above has been extinguished.
Under a huge stone pillar, a huge stone wall surrounded a yard of seven or eight acres. A black fortress stands against the stone pillars,
Large swathes of luminous moss and vines cling to the outer walls of the fortress, and the faint blue and light green fluorescence illuminates the entire courtyard. It adds a bit of ancient and vicissitudes of atmosphere to this small stone castle.
Behind the main entrance of the courtyard, two Niu tribesmen who were responsible for the night watch were lying on the ground, snoring heartily. Two thick iron wheel axes were thrown carelessly at hand.
The two gray rock lizards circled slowly along the wall. Every time they crawled past the two cattle tribesmen, their amber eyes would glare at them and vomit a long message impatiently. .
The main door of the stone castle opened quietly.
The skinny Wu Tie came out, and two gray rock lizards quickly crawled over, licked Wu Tie's palms and insteps affectionately, and continued to circle around the base of the wall.
Looking at the two sleeping Niu clan members, Wu Tie grinned and quickly walked around to the back of the stone castle.
There is a school ground that is about an acre in size. There are all kinds of cumbersome and heavy instruments scattered everywhere on the gravel ground, including stone locks, stone tripods, and large stone balls with long chains. The largest stone ball among them is much taller than Wu Tie.
Carefully taking off his tight-fitting clothes made of fine linen, Wu Tie stood shirtless in the middle of the school grounds, gritted his teeth, slowly moved his arms and legs, and slowly performed a set of punches and kicks with a bit of jerkiness.
Just a quarter of an hour later, Wu Tie, who was sweating and panting, fell to the ground. Blue veins bulged under his fair skin, and many of them were squirming violently. His muscles were trembling all over his body, and the severe pain made his eyes darken. He He gritted his teeth tightly without making any sound.
The torture lasted for a long time, and Wu Tie almost fainted from the pain several times, but he gritted his teeth and endured it.
When the severe pain slowly subsided, Wu Tie struggled to stand up, picked the smallest stone lock on the school field, and hugged it tightly.
Closing his eyes, gritting his teeth, and tightening his muscles, Wu Tie squeezed out the last bit of strength in his body, and his whole body was shaking violently. The stone lock, which was almost half the size of his body, did not move at all.
After working hard for a long time, the last of his strength was exhausted. Wu Tie sat down suddenly on the ground, his hands hanging weakly, and his forehead hit the stone lock heavily.
"Some things don't mean that if you work hard, you will definitely get results." A voice with a bit of hoarseness and an extraordinarily gentle tone came from the edge of the school field.
About five feet tall, with the head of a wolf and the body of a wolf, wearing a spacious robe made of fine linen, with his gray hair neatly combed, Master Gray walked step by step with his hands behind his back, holding a leather scroll. Next to Wu Tie.
With the light of wisdom shining in his deep eyes, Master Gray reached out and touched Wu Tie's sweaty head, and said in a deep voice: "Taiping... I remember, I told you. In this world, everyone has His unique and irreplaceable value."
Wu Tie raised his head and muttered in a low voice: "But we must find the right path to realize our own value!"
"Yes, the right path!" Gray Master smiled: "And I have only seen you waste energy on the wrong path again and again."
"I..." Wu Tie opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he held back his breath, lowered his head angrily, and punched the stone lock hard.
The fist hurt, Wu Tie gritted his teeth and tried his best not to show the pain.
"Believe me, force is not the only force." Master Gray raised his head. A few hundred meters above his head, the black dome was extremely oppressive. It was still a long, long time before the 'Void Sun' would light up...
"Since you are in such good spirits." Gray Master smiled and sat next to Wu Tie. He wrote a long string of characters on the sand with his fingers: "It's a long night and I have no intention of sleeping. It would be good to solve a few arithmetic problems." of."
"Also, I think this poem is very beautiful. After solving the problem, you can memorize it with me!"
In the blue and green dim light, a furry wolf head shook its head, gently swaying the book in its hand, and led a handsome young man to recite in a low voice - "Listen to the spring rain in the small building all night, sell apricots in the deep alley in the Ming Dynasty" flower'!
"But, Master... what is an apricot blossom? I have never seen it! No one has seen it!" In the quiet night, the young man's angry complaint rang out.
"But Taiping... Xinghua, it must exist!" Gray Master's gentle, somewhat hoarse voice sounded faintly. He murmured to himself full of longing: "What a beautiful artistic conception... Apricot blossom, that must exist!"
"Click, click" sounds came from the dome.
The 'Void Sun' with a diameter of about thirty meters lit up with a little red light in the middle. Gradually, the red light spread to the surroundings. An hour later, the entire 'Void Sun' completely lit up, and the warm red light illuminated the surrounding area. Wu Valley several miles away.
Last night, the moisture blown by the wind from the surrounding mines and tunnels soaked the ground.
The red light of the 'Void Sun' caused the temperature of Wu Valley to rise rapidly, the water vapor evaporated, and a white mist several meters high accumulated on the ground.
Wu Tie held a large cooked meat mushroom and stood on the sentry tower at the courtyard gate, looking around.
In the Wu Valley, sharp shouts could be heard from the messy stone houses, and even the sound of whipping could be heard.
Groups of gray dwarves shouted loudly and waved their whips to drive large groups of rock gnomes out of the stone houses. Two cattle tribesmen, led by seven or eight gray wolf warriors, escorted a group of rock gnomes and delivered baskets of cooked white mushrooms outside the yard.
The rock gnomes walked past in a line, taking a white mushroom one by one, and quickly swallowed the bitter white mushroom with no expression on their faces.
In just half a quarter of an hour, more than a thousand rock gnomes belonging to the Wu family were carrying various tools, escorted by dozens of gray dwarves, and lined up towards a mine outside Wu Valley.
Not long after, there was a "ding-dong-dang-dang" sound coming from the wind.
A gray rock lizard happily crawled to Wu Tie's side and raised its head to look at the big meat mushroom in Wu Tie's hand.
Wu Tie looked at the direction of the mine, curled his lips, and hummed to the two cattle tribesmen who were standing at the door holding a large basket of food and eating and drinking: "How many of those poor dwarf slaves will die today, do you think? "
The two Niu tribesmen bared their teeth and smiled. Their smiles were full of awe for the little master Wu Tie, but there was also a strange bloodthirsty aura spreading out - "meat", one Niu tribesman waved his fist and said vaguely 's grunted.
Wu Tie felt disgusted in his heart.
He stuffed the big meat mushroom in his hand into the open mouth of the gray rock lizard. The gray rock lizard, which was three times the size of Wu Tie, swung its tail happily and quickly jumped out of the courtyard with the big meat mushroom in its mouth. wall.
Master Gray held the scroll and walked up unsteadily.
He looked at the gray rock lizard that ran far away, sighed, and shook his head: "So, you are not suitable for cultivation! Your father, and your three brothers... they will never waste a little bit of food!"
"Including those poor dwarf slaves?" Wu Tie curled his lips and felt sour water rising in his throat.
"At least your father and brother have never touched them..." Hui Fuzi spread his hands. He looked at Wu Tie seriously and shook his head vigorously: "Taiping... Your father gave you this name because he hoped that you would A peaceful life... This does not mean... "
Wu Tie turned his head, looked in the direction of the mine, and said stubbornly: "Are you going to say that I'm weak? I'm not..."
"This is a cruel world, and everyone must adapt to cruel laws!" Wu Tie muttered like a tongue twister: "So, I want to practice, but you say that I have found a wrong path! Could it be that just endorsement can Kill the enemy?"
Facing the courtyard gate, more than three miles away and a hundred meters above the ground, on the rock wall, in a cave with a diameter of more than ten meters, a gray rock lizard about four or five Wu Tie's size suddenly jumped out.
A green wolf warrior nearly two meters tall was sitting on the back of a gray rock lizard, holding a thick iron spear high in his right hand.
A head was stuck on a spear. When the Green Wolf warrior swung the spear, the messy long hair on the grinning head danced, revealing a rough face full of beards.
"Win!" The gray rock lizard stopped steadily on the 90-degree vertical rock wall. The Green Wolf warrior stood on the lizard's back and let out a high-pitched roar.
Three more huge gray rock lizards sprang out of the cave, and the three green wolf warriors grinned loudly.
Amidst the rapid pace, more than twenty poisonous hunting spiders poured out of the cave like a wave of water. On the back of each poisonous hunting spider, there was a muscular gray dwarf warrior sitting on the back. They excitedly waved their big hammers. , smashing out large sparks on the surrounding rock walls.
Four Niu warriors, nearly ten feet tall, slowly walked out of the cave carrying large axes.
Seeing the Wu Family Stone Castle from a distance, the four Ox Tribe warriors snorted suddenly, their huge pure gold nose rings shaking unhappily.
Behind the four cattle warriors, a rock python that was as thick as a water tank and more than twenty meters long swam out slowly. Wu Tie's father, Wu Zhan, crossed his arms and sat cross-legged on top of the rock python, looking very proud.
Wu Jin, Wu Yin, and Wu Tong, Wu Tie's three elder brothers, a tough man almost as tall as Wu Zhan and over two meters tall, stood on the back of the rock python, laughing loudly at Wu Tie from a long distance away. With.
"Hahaha!" Wu Jin jumped up, brought a strong wind and jumped down from the cave entrance. His feet landed heavily on the ground, and he ran towards Wu Tie with long strides.
From a distance of more than three miles, Wu Jin rushed over in just a dozen breaths. He stepped onto the five-meter-high wall in one step, opened his arms, and hugged Wu Tie forcefully.
"Haha, peace! The Xiong family, which has been against our family all these years, is finally exterminated by us this time!" Wu Jin laughed, took off a huge leather bag from behind, and took out several broken books. , ancient animal skin scrolls.
"I can't believe that the Xiong family actually has a book heritage!" Wu Jin's eyes widened and he handed a few volumes to Wu Tie: "You can't believe it? We don't know many words, and there are still some twists and turns in them. Take a look at the strange characters, do you like them?"
The eyes of Mr. Gray on the side suddenly lit up, and there was faint drool dripping from the corner of his mouth.
Wu Tie stared at a few books without saying a word.
This was not the gift he wanted.
This was not the gift he wanted.
In front of his eyes, the image of the human head on the spear of the Green Wolf warrior still remained.
He still remembered that three years ago, this bearded man, Xiong Hu, the head of the Xiong family, once led a group of soldiers to raid the Wu family. Wu Zhan took Wu Jin and Wu Yin out for hunting. Wu Tong, who stayed at home, was seriously injured and almost escaped death. die.
"You just brought these few people back?" Wu Tie didn't look at the scrolls, but looked at the family warriors brought back by Wu Zhan and others.
He remembered clearly that when they set out half a month ago, Wu Zhan and others took away several times the number of soldiers in front of him, and the Wu family was mobilized in full force.
"There are more than a thousand mining slaves in the Xiong family, and there are many surrendered soldiers to guard, and there are so many mines and farms." Wu Jin handed the scroll to Master Gray with a happy face and said carelessly. : "So, some manpower is left over there. A lot of things need to be taken care of!"
Wu Zhan led the team to the gate of the courtyard, smiled and waved to Wu Tie: "Taiping, bring out all the delicious food and drinks in the warehouse!"
Wu Zhan smiled complacently: "After swallowing up the Xiong family, I spent some effort to merge his family's power into it. Hey, I have been coveting the Black Wind Valley for several years... That is a good, fat land!"
"Celebrate it!" Wu Zhan waved his fist vigorously and laughed.
All the Wu family warriors who returned were laughing happily. A few of the Niu clan warriors laughed so hard that their muscles trembled. Many newly scabbed wounds on their bodies suddenly burst open, and streams of blood flowed out. However, they looked as if nothing had happened.
The light of the 'Void Sun' gradually dimmed.
Several animal oil torches were inserted into the courtyard wall, and the fireballs the size of water tanks emitted bright light, overwhelming the fluorescence of luminous moss and luminous wisteria, illuminating the courtyard.
Bowl after bowl of bad wine brewed from bitter potato root starch was poured down. Large chunks of fatty barbecue were kept being served. Piles of high-starch roots were boiled and cut into pieces, piled haphazardly on the stone table. superior.
The warriors of the Wu family were enjoying themselves heartily. The rock gnome who was waiting on the side was sneaking around on the ground to find the pieces of barbecue and roots that the warriors had missed, and quickly stuffed them into his mouth.
Some brave dwarfs simply approached a few soldiers. Some wine dripped on the stone floor. They hurriedly lay on the ground and licked the dripping wine clean.
The entire Wu Family Stone Castle was full of joy.
Only Wu Tie was at the backyard school yard, beside a huge reservoir. He filled a stone basin with water and carefully washed Xiong Hu's blood-stained head.
The strands of messy hair were neatly trimmed, and Wu Tie spent a lot of effort to finally clean up this hideous trophy.
Heavy footsteps sounded, and Wu Zhan walked over step by step, standing behind Wu Tie and watching quietly.
After a long while, the shaman said angrily: "This is an ancestral custom... Cut off the head of the enemy leader and use it as a sacrifice to the ancestors, so that the family will have better luck and the family will prosper!"
Wu Tie sat cross-legged in front of Xiong Hu's head, holding his chin with both hands, looking at the head with closed eyes quietly.
"Dad, one day, will our heads be chopped off and become trophies for them to show off their martial arts?" Wu Tie asked seriously.
Wu Zhan was stunned, then he shook his head and laughed loudly: "How is that possible!"
Patting his chest triumphantly, Wu Zhan took off a beast sinew necklace from his neck, touched the one-foot-long white fang on the necklace, and hung the necklace around Wu Tie's neck.
"Hmph, hum, our Wu family is not easy to bully." Wu Zhan patted Wu Tie on the head, almost knocking Wu Tie to the ground.
"This thing is said to be called 'Chi You Ya', and it is an heirloom of the Xiong family!"
"When you become an adult, I will take you back to your home to meet the family elders!" Wu Zhan said with his head held high: "By the way... Your eldest brother and second brother have both met your mother... You and the third child have not met your biological mother and you. Little sister... In a few years, if you save more good things, dad will take you to see her!"
Pointing to the 'Chi You Ya' hanging around Wu Tie's neck, Wu Zhan squinted his eyes and murmured to himself: "You have to play with this thing for two years. When the time comes, your own mother will inevitably raid it!"
A strange smile flashed across his face, and Wu Zhan rubbed his waist vigorously: "When the time comes, I will definitely give you another brother... a sister, too!"
Wu Tie looked up at Wu Zhan in shock.