When Shao Xuan and the others went to the grassland, on the grassland, the Feng tribe and Lao Ho went to wait on a low mountain on the border of the Feng tribe every day.
According to the agreement between him and the others, the people on the grassland should leave here, but one day has passed, two days have passed... Five days have passed, and Lao Hoi did not see the shadow of those people.
On the tenth day, Lao Ho stopped letting his wife and grandson wait here with him, and he would notify them when he saw someone. The old lady is old, and she is not a tourist from the Yanjiao tribe, and her health is not good. Ten-year-old Anai was called to help people watch the sheep so that they could get some food in return. After all, no one knows how many days it will take to leave.
Lao Ho knew that the grassland was huge and it would take time to come, so he waited at ease at first, but on the fifteenth day, Lao Ho was really anxious. He was worried that the team would forget him. After all, there are only three members of their family here, two of them are old and one is young. Could it be that they are disgusting and causing trouble
The old man couldn't help but start thinking wildly.
The tourists on the grassland are also divided into several groups. Naturally, it is impossible for all of them to walk the same way. The person who Lao Hoe contacted really decided to go this way. However, after fifteen days passed, he didn't even see a person. Is it intentional? Yes, or are you having trouble
If it is the former, Lao Ho will leave with his family. He knows that there are only three of him, the journey is long, and there are many misfortunes, but he is willing to take risks. However, Lao Ho still believes in the latter situation more. People he knows will not easily abandon his clan, but if he encounters trouble... I heard that there is a war on the mountain range, and if the tourists encounter it, they may be implicated. Thinking of this, Lao Ho was even more worried. He would rather other people forget their family of three, and he didn't want others to be implicated because of the war. Once involved in the war, they would be killed.
Rarely, the indifferent temperament developed over the years has become impatient, and Lao Ho still insists on bringing food to the mountain every morning to wait until sunset.
When Lao Ho was going up the mountain, Lao Ho's ten-year-old grandson, Anai, was helping Guer's family to guard the sheep. There were five guards including him. There were only three in the past. Sometimes they could keep an eye on them as a family. But recently, the tribe has been throwing sheep, and sometimes there are cattle or horses. The livestock is variable, and most of them are lost. those young ones.
The patrolling team patrols day and night, and still throws livestock, sometimes this one, sometimes that one, for more than ten days.
Some people say they saw wolves moving around, maybe some sly and fast wolves. There is a war between tribes on the other side of the mountain, so the beasts in the vicinity also moved around in order to take refuge. Some of them climbed over the mountain and came here. Therefore, the patrol team has sent more people in the past few days to pay attention to the wolves. traces.
Gu Er has been languishing recently. His favorite calf has disappeared. He thought that he would carefully raise it to fight bulls with a few friends next door. . He didn't want to stay with his friends for the past two days. I finally took a fancy to a newly born calf, and even the best pasture was prepared, but it was gone.
"Anai, you said, when did the wolf come in and take the calf away?" Guar asked boredly.
"I don't know," after a pause, Anai said again, "I don't think it's a wolf."
In the past two years, because Gu Er promised Shao Xuan to take care of Lao Ho's family, his attitude towards Anai was better. Even if he did not let Anai join their small group, he was not sad. Sometimes Anai was bullied by others. Gua Er also went to make a clearance, so Anai and Gu Er also talked a lot.
"I don't think so either. It could be a fox or an eagle or something. There are many animals on the grasslands that steal livestock, and they all like to steal cubs." Guaran said with a ruthless expression on his face, he took out a bone knife and slashed in the air." If I know who stole it, I'll cut it!"
After saying a few harsh words, seeing that no one was there to support him, Gua Er turned his head and found that Anai didn't listen to him at all, and was looking left and right.
"Hey, did you hear what I said just now!" Guaran said dissatisfied.
Anai didn't answer this, but asked, "Did you hear anything just now?"
"What's the sound?" Guar thought that Anai was making an excuse.
"It's..." Anai thought for a while, but couldn't describe it. Ignoring Guar's complaint, he stood up and looked at the sheep grazing not far away.
However, Anai didn't want to pay attention to it, but Guer couldn't stop talking and continued talking.
"Hey, I heard that you are leaving, when are you going? Where are you going? Can you see Shao Xuan again? If you see him again, ask him to carve another wolf wood carving for me, and I will exchange it with cattle and sheep. My dad took it and didn't let me touch it." Gua Er said to himself.
"Guar!" Anai said suddenly.
"what?"
"I lost a sheep!" Anai said anxiously.
Hearing this, Gu Er hurriedly got up, stood on the wooden stool next to him, looked at the sheep, and counted them. There are not many sheep in his family now, and the livestock that have been lost recently are all young, so Guaren directly counted the number of young sheep.
"It's not lost, you counted it wrong, not a single lamb was lost." Gua Er said relieved.
Just when Guar was about to laugh at Anai's inability to count, he heard Anai say: "It's not a lamb, it's a big one! I counted it four times, and I lost it! It's still in the morning!"
"Impossible!" Guarian counted in disbelief. Although he usually likes to play, he also clearly remembers the number of livestock he raises, how many he consumes every day and how many are born.
When the count is over, there is indeed one less.
There are still four people staring at the other places. Although they are not staring at the flock, they are looking at other places, but as long as the sheep are not lost, it is fine. Gua Er ran over and asked the four people, but none of them saw the sheep leave the flock.
People are all here, and I haven't seen wolves or foxes. Could it be an eagle
Looking up at the sky, I didn't see a single bird. Even if the eagle came down to catch the sheep, it would definitely make some noise, but Gu Er didn't hear it.
"Hey, Guar, what are you looking for?" A little girl about his age from Guar's neighbor came over.
"What's your business?!" Guar's tone was not good because he was in a hurry now.
Knowing Guar's temper, Duoya didn't intend to ask him, but turned to Anai next to him.
Anai's impression of Duoya was not bad, so he talked about what happened just now.
Knowing the whole story, Duoya lost her mind to find Guaran to race horses. Her family lost a sheep yesterday, not too small or big.
"What are you going to do?" Doya asked.
"Guaran, go and talk to your father. If your mother is at home, you can also talk to your mother." Anai advised.
"No, I'll look for it first!" Gu Er didn't want to go to the patrolling father now, nor to wake up the sleeping mother. The mother still has a little brother or little sister in her stomach and needs to rest. Moreover, he hopes to find some clues, and then go to tell the adults.
"I'm going too!" Duoya flicked her horsewhip, rolled up her sleeves, and followed.
Anai looked around, spoke to the nearest sheep watcher, and chased Duoya and Anai.
The people watching the flock didn't care, the tribe's children ran around all day and saw nothing, and there were patrols at the border watching, they didn't worry.
While Anai and Guar were looking for the missing sheep, Lao Hoi, who was standing on a low mountain, finally saw a team. The person at the head was the one who had contacted him.
Overjoyed, Lao Ho hurried over, but found that everyone in the team was extremely tired and still had a lot of injuries. There were two seriously injured people in the team, and they didn't know how many days they would survive.
They encountered the war on the other side of the mountain. However, it is lucky to be alive here.
Of the original 32-person team, because of the melee between the tribes over the mountain range, three were not able to follow them here. As for the two seriously injured people in the team, if they couldn't survive, it would be five.
Because this group of tourists has always been walking at the junction of the tribes, even if they are seen by the patrolling people, as long as they are not the kind of people who are bloodthirsty, they will usually be fine. Lao Hoi wanted to bring people to his house, but now is in a sensitive period. People from the Feng tribe will not let suspicious people into the tribe. Therefore, Lao Hoi ran back to get some herbs and used them for the injured people.
"I also brought some food, you can put it on first." Lao Ho handed over half of the leg of lamb in his hand, and that's not enough for these people, but there is food anyway, and everyone can take a bite after roasting it. it is good.
Just as they were talking about the situation in the team, a patrol team of the Feng tribe ran over quickly on horseback, and Gua Er's father was the one running at the front.
"Old Ho, have you seen Guar and the others?" The other party was sweating with anxiety.
"No, what happened?" Lao Ho had a bad premonition and trembled when he spoke.
"We lost a sheep at home, and that kid Guar didn't even tell us, he took Anai and Duoya to find them! But I haven't seen any of them until now!"
As soon as the old lame leg softened, Anai was the only child left in his family. If something happened...
"Look, look... Look, I'll look for it too!" Lao Hoi said, shaking his lips.
The patrol team looked at the nearly thirty tourists who were covered in blood and asked, "Are you coming from the mountains? Have you found anything unusual, such as wolves and other beasts."
"There are indeed wolves, foxes, and... ah!" The man who was talking thought of something, and his face was horrified, "There is also a big bug, I heard that it originally slept around the mountains, and was caught by the people over there. The war woke up, and came out to eat a lot of people. One of our team was dragged into the field by them. I don’t know if they came over.”
"Insects? Stone worms?" the other party asked.
"It's not stone worms, they have fangs, some are flat, and they have a lot of feet on their bodies. They don't leave holes where they burrow. They will block them with soil. We dug for a long time..." The speaker cried, they thought they were When they saw their companions being dragged into the ground, they all went to dig, but their speed was not comparable to the speed of the worms burrowing into the ground, and only soil was dug out.
Insects that burrow into the ground? Don't leave a hole? !
The people on the patrol were startled and looked at each other, seeing the suspicion in each other's eyes.
The livestock lost in the tribe may not be wolves or other beasts on land or in the sky, but a threat from the ground!