The thick black clouds squeezed the sky, covering up the golden light in the eyes just now, as if they were about to fall down, depressing as if the whole world was silent.
The indifferent wind shuttles fiercely, leaving the chirping of birds and insects behind, and the weak flowers and grasses have already surrendered to the ground tremblingly, just when the mountain rain is about to come.
In the dense forest of ancient trees, as soon as a figure shuttled through the forest, the target was the black-scaled lion running ahead.
The speed of the black-scaled lion was not uncommon, but this figure was even faster. When it was six or seven feet away from the black-scaled lion, the figure's right arm was raised and swung forward fiercely. A piercing scream came out, and a half-foot-long black iron spear caught up to the black-scaled lion, pierced its back and emerged from its front abdomen, nailing the black-scaled lion to the ground.
The black-scaled lion roared and struggled, but it couldn't pull out the black iron spear that pierced through its body and was nailed to the ground. Its breath became weaker and weaker. At this time, a figure also appeared in front of the black-scaled lion. It was a man in burlap. A boy with a pair of clear and bright star eyes, a head of black hair hanging behind his head, and a childish face.
Looking at the dead black-scaled lion, the boy shook the black iron gun with both hands, carried the black-scaled lion behind him, turned and left.
If people saw this scene, they would be shocked. The black-scaled lion is a large beast, weighing several hundred catties. An ordinary adult hunter, not even the team would dare to provoke it, but it was indeed easily killed by the boy right now.
There were lightning and thunder, and heavy rain was pouring down. Fortunately, the boy had already arrived under an old tree.
"It's really not a good weather, but fortunately there are harvests." The boy looked at the black-scaled lion's paw on his shoulder and murmured in a low voice.
After the rain stopped, the boy carried the body of the black scaled lion and walked quickly in one direction.
An hour later, a small village appeared in the boy's sight.
"Nightmare! Brother Nightmare is back." The children playing at the head of the village saw the boy appear and shouted loudly.
"Call Uncle Niu to share the meat of the black-scaled lion!" The boy, Ye Shang, put down the body of the black-scaled lion, pulled out a short knife from his waist, took off a lion's leg, and left.
Watching Nightmare leave, the children's eyes were filled with admiration.
In the village, boys under the age of fifteen are not allowed to go out hunting. Even if they are fifteen years old, they have to go out with the hunting team in the village. But Nightmare is only fourteen years old and has been hunting for more than a year. Experience, every time is rewarding.
This is an ordinary village, Zhuyuan Village. There are forty or fifty families in the village, all of whom live on hunting. When they saw Nightmare, the aunts and aunts in the village greeted Nightmare warmly.
Saying hello all the way, Nightmare came to the westernmost part of the village. This was his home, and there were only two people in the family, one was Nightmare, and the other was the old father who was beating a wheelbarrow under the eaves.
"I'm back!" Father Gu raised his eyelids as a greeting.
"Father, I'm back." After greeting, Nightmare went to light a fire to deal with the hind legs of the black scaled lion.
Because there were only two people in the family, Nightmare only chopped off one leg of the black-scaled lion and took it back, and distributed the rest to the villagers.
The two are father and son, not father and son with the same surname. Nightmare is an orphan, picked up by Gu Da, who is the head of Zhuyuan Village.
"Father, you haven't finished talking about what happened last time. The guardian of the Holy Light Cult competed with the Nandoumen girl. Who won in the end?" After lighting the fire, Ye Shang, who roasted the black-scaled lion's hind legs, looked at him. Gu Da asked, his face full of curiosity.
"There is no winner, let's not talk about this, you wipe your face first." The ancient father came to the fire, and at the same time handed Nightmare a towel, shuttled through the woods after the rain, Nightmare's hair and face There was also some rain on it.
In the evening after the rain, the weather was a bit cool, the wind blew a cluster of bamboos in the courtyard and swayed from side to side, and the swaying firelight reflected the faces of Old Father and Nightmare red.
The ancient father looked at Nightmare while roasting by the fire, "Are you very interested in this?"
Nightmare nodded and continued to roast the lion's legs on the fire.
The opposite is the silence of the two, Ye Shang's thoughts are known to the ancient father, Ye Shang wants to go out and venture out, want to become a warrior, and the ancient father's thoughts Ye Shang also knows, he is not willing to let himself go out, because the outside world The danger is great.
"Hey, how much do you know about the outside world?" The old father sighed.
Nine domains and eighteen states are vast and boundless. It takes millions of miles from one domain to another. No one knows how vast it really is. A person can walk on foot for a lifetime and can't walk out of a domain. The vast and deep mountains Daze has no end.
There are dangers everywhere in the vast deep mountains and great swamps. Wild beasts and monsters are rampant, and there are even ancient strange beasts. They are the overlords in the mountains and forests. Even advanced practitioners dare not provoke them easily.
Zhuyuan Village is located in a remote place in the north of Dongxuanzhou, thousands of miles away from the nearest town, and thousands of miles away from the nearest cultivation sect, Medicine Valley.
"Then you have to change your life and the status quo. Doesn't it mean that if you join the cultivation sect, you can get blessings? If you get blessings, then the tragedy of the previous period can be avoided." Nightmare sighed and said.
Some time ago, Zhuyuan Village was attacked by a monster, and suffered heavy losses. The village lost three good hunters. In the end, it was only with the joint efforts of the ancient father and the hunters in the village that the monster was driven away.
Gu Da didn't speak, and fell into thinking.
Looking at the thinking old father, Nightmare didn't continue talking, he knew the character of the old father, if he agreed, he agreed, if he didn't agree, then it was useless to continue talking.
After eating, Nightmare went back to the West Room of the three bamboo huts, which was his room. This is the characteristic of Zhuyuan Village. The village is full of bamboo buildings and bamboo huts, which is rare in the vast barren mountains and swamps.
The rain in the deep mountains and swamps came and went quickly, and looking at the star-filled sky outside through the gaps in the bamboo wall, Ye Shang still remembered the old father, telling the scene of the master's duel.
Unable to fall asleep, Nightmare sat up, put on his coat and walked towards the back of the bamboo house. There were two solitary graves behind the bamboo house.
Looking at the lonely grave, Ye Shang touched his ribs, where there was a hideous scar.
According to Gu Gu's father, when Gu Gu's father went out to hunt and found himself, the two people in the solitary grave had already died, and a steel knife was stuck under his ribs, and he was lucky enough to survive if the steel knife was a little bit off.
The stone tablet in the solitary tomb reads the martyrs of the Ye family, this is the name of the two people who the ancient father knew from the tokens on their bodies at that time, and Ye Shang also has a jade plaque with the word Ye engraved on his neck.
Stretching out his hand to touch the stele, Nightmare bit his lip. He knew that he was able to survive, although it was because of the adoption of the ancient father, but it had a lot to do with the people in the tomb. When the ancient father found himself, a man in the tomb Lying on his body, the steel knife pierced through the man and pierced his ribs.
Nearer Shang, this is also the origin of Nightmare's name.
"It seems that it is difficult to get rid of your thoughts. Originally, I planned to let you live in Zhuyuan Village in peace and stability. Don't be attached anymore." Gu Papa patted Nightmare on the shoulder and said with a sigh.
(end of this chapter)