In the past thirteen years, the world has changed a lot, and it has not changed much, what has changed is the vicissitudes of life, the years have changed, and almost everything has changed thirteen years ago. What hasn't changed is that the world is still in chaos, even more chaotic.

In a land that had been fertile and was now overgrown with weeds, a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old, covered with all kinds of silk and linen fabrics, squatted unkempt, with his arms and thighs exposed, on a small ridge under which was a homemade trap, which was a small rope made of the fibers of the bark of a tree, and the rope was tied into a rope loop, in which a fat vole was attached, and the boy was untying the rope of the vole. Today's harvest is not very good, there are a lot of sets, the others either did not catch voles, or they were snatched by others, although the boy is thirteen or fourteen years old, but the long-term hunger makes him different from his peers as thin and small, the rib marks on his chest are clearly visible, and he is hunched like a monkey with no hair. He had been wandering alone for as long as he could remember, he wasn't sure if he had seen his parents when he was a child, because he thought that the long period of hunger had damaged his memory, he couldn't remember what he looked like when he was a baby, he didn't remember how he had grown up, and the beginning of his memory was that cold night when he went around tearing clothes from corpses. Therefore, whenever he saw a family with children on his wandering journey, he used self-comfort to suppress the strong envy in his heart, and he kept telling himself that one day his parents would find him and take him home, and he would have white food to eat and clean clothes to wear every day, and he would no longer have to struggle to survive as he is now.

On the days when the harvest was good before, the boy would wash the vole with great interest, and when it was better, he would empty the internal organs of the vole, wash it inside and out, and use a small branch to prop up the vole and then put it on the fire to roast, but today's teenager no longer has that kind of mood, hunger will make people undignified, especially long-term hunger, and now he can't wait to eat all the vole hair into his stomach.

He took the vole back to his home, a secluded col. There was a small hole he had dug in the side of the col, and in the hole was a pile of coals that had not been completely extinguished, and he was going to roast the vole, and then taste it, and eat it little by little. The boy skillfully erected the stand, added some charcoal, and simply threaded the vole with a branch, and put it on the grill. The young man made up for his eating vole while roasting, he had to eat the tail first, then the head, he wanted to keep the skull of the vole intact, make an ornament for himself, and keep the fattest part of the body first, and wait until the stomach can eat the edible parts of the stomach, including the undigested grain and seeds, and then taste the rest of the part.

The young man, who was immersed in Meimei's fantasy, completely did not notice the tall figure that appeared behind him. The figure leaned over and picked up the young mane's roasted vole.

"Roar, there's meat to eat today. ”

The boy saw someone taking his vole, and hurriedly reached out to snatch it back. The man who robbed him of the vole didn't take him seriously at all, and threw him aside as he slipped away. The boy got up and noticed that the owner of this figure was not only tall, but also a strong man with a dark body, a broad back and a broad chest, and strong muscles all over his body. The boy hesitated for a moment, no matter how the meat must be snatched back, if he doesn't eat today, I'm afraid that tomorrow he won't even have the strength to catch voles, so he pounced again, and then was thrown out by the strong man, and this was repeated four or five times, the boy was completely desperate, and cried, he was born in troubled times and lonely, and he had to do his best for his livelihood every day, he was really tired, it was better to die under this man's fist today, and he would also end up clean. The strong man didn't expect such a thin child to have so much strength, and he was caught off guard and was knocked down, the young man bit the strong man's arm, and the strong man strangled the young man's neck with his backhand: "Loosen your mouth, if you don't let go, I'll strangle you." When the boy heard this, he didn't bite harder?

The two were in a stalemate for a long time, and no one refused to let anyone, and finally the strong man really had no choice, so he took out a piece of dried meat from his pocket with one free hand: "Beef, beef, let go, I was playing with you just now." The boy reached out and snatched the jerky, and then he let go of his mouth in hatred and ate it in a big gulp.

During this period, the strong man kept teasing the young man, and the two became acquainted with each other.

"Why are you here alone?"

"Aren't you here alone, too?"

The strong man who kindly asked the boy choked back.

"My house is right here. ”

"There's not even a house here, so how can you have a home?"

The strong man lay down, rested his head on his arms, looked at the wasteland in front of him and sighed: "There was one seven years ago, there was also a rice field, and there should have been an old man and an old woman living here seven years ago." ”

The boy also learned to lie down with the strong man, and looked at the wasteland in front of him with the strong man.

"If all this wasteland was planted with food, wouldn't we be starving?"

The boy tilted his head to look at the strong man.

The strong man didn't answer him, stood up and patted his buttocks.

"Let's go, help me find out if there is a graveyard around here, and if I find it, I'll give you a piece of beef jerky." ”

"I don't. ”

"I'll give it to you when I find it!"

The boy reluctantly propped himself up.

"I haven't seen the grave, and if you want to find the body, I can dig up a few for you. ”

Under the guidance of the young man, the strong man dug a lot of pits and buried the bones of some ownerless corpses who died in battle or starved to death.

"That's not what I'm looking for. ”

The strong man wiped some beads of sweat from his forehead, looking a little anxious.

"Seven years have passed, and this place has been turned over and over several times, not to mention the bones, there will not be a single hair, and some have already been eaten and cleaned. ”

"Look at me," the boy said, rubbing the various silk and linen fabrics wrapped around his body, "all of them were ripped from the dead man's body." ”

The strong man picked up the stones back and forth, piled them up in a small pile in one place, took out a small bowl and poured some brown rice, respectfully put it in front of the mound, and bowed a few times to the mound, which was regarded as comforting himself and drawing an end to his heart. When he got up, he picked up a smaller stone on the stone and put it into the blanket he had brought with him, and the young man looked at his blanket curiously, this is a treasure chest.

At night, the strong man and the boy lay on the ground, looking at the starry sky, and in less than a day, they gave each other a feeling that was both strange and familiar, each with its own thoughts, and each with its own reluctance.

"Are you going to get out of here tomorrow?"

"I don't know, I will. ”

"Where are you going?"

"I didn't think about it, maybe I'll go back. ”

"Where are you going?"

The strong man didn't answer, and turned his back to the boy.

"Why are you here alone?" the strong man broke the silence first.

"I don't know why I'm here, I'm here just walking. ”

"What about your parents?"

"I don't have parents. ”

"No way, everyone has parents, and you didn't jump out of a rock. ”

"How do you know I didn't pop out of a rock?"

There was another burst of silence.

"You're amazing, you can survive until now. ”

"You're pretty good, you've been digging for a day and you haven't done anything. ”

The strong man looked at his hand proudly.

"I'm nothing, you haven't seen anything really powerful. ”

"Have you seen it?"

"Of course!" said this, the strong man's eyes lit up.

"When I besieged Qingfenggang, I was there, first tell you about the two ways of cultivation in our world, one is the most common and the physical technique I am practicing now, constantly exercising to improve the strength of the body, the entry is simple and everyone can practice, the second is spirituality, spiritual cultivation is divided into internal cultivation and external cultivation, internal cultivation is to integrate spiritual power with the body, so that the body can achieve functional changes; external cultivation is to inject spiritual power into the surrounding space, and use one's spiritual power to influence the people in this space. ”

"Getting to the point!"

"What's the hurry? You know all this? Do you know what Emperor Ren asked to become an emperor? Because he has Tongtian Academy behind him, and Tongtian Academy recruits students from the entire continent every year, and all those who are gifted ......

"Can you talk about Qingfeng Gang first?" the young man interrupted the strong man.

"You can't do anything when you see you, the monkey is in a hurry. At that time, Emperor Ren's subordinate General Bo and his army were stationed in Qingfeng Gang, at that time, although Emperor Ren ostensibly unified the whole country, but most of the areas were still controlled by various clans and forces, the relationship between various clans and forces was complicated, private fights continued, and they became a country in the area under their control, so that the king's order could not be issued at all, and so the border area stabilized, Emperor Ren made up his mind to control the development of the clans and forces, so he first sent General Yu Bo to lead the army to be stationed in Qingfeng Gang, Qingfeng Gang is the station of Qingfeng Village, and the owner of the village, Cong Chuan, is a master of internal repair, and gathered a group of people entrenched in Qingfeng Gang, saying that it is mutual assistance, but in recent years, there have been many things that have taken advantage of the chaos to do some troubled waters, stealing chickens and dogs, and gradually growing stronger, Emperor Ren decided to kill chickens and monkeys, and the first one to take the Qingfeng Gang sacrificial knife. ”

At that time, General Yu Bo's army was stationed in Qingfeng Gang, only besieged Qingfeng Village, General Yu Bo's army fought for many years, both the quality of soldiers and technical equipment are excellent, at the beginning General Yu Bo wanted to surrender without a fight, after all, these brothers have been with themselves for so many years, are the same as their families, can lose a little less is a little, so as soon as they arrived at Qingfeng Gang, they only ordered the soldiers to beat the drums day and night, these soldiers fought day and night, every day Jin Ge Iron Horse, the noise produced by these drums almost did not affect Yu Bo and his army, but those people and horses in Qingfeng Village did not experience this battle, get up every day, walk, eatFor several days, they felt that their walking steps and eating and chewing movements were pressed by the drums, and the people of Qingfeng Village could not hold it in a few days, some with machetes, some with hoes, and those with wooden sticks, all kinds of "weapons" were available, and they opened the door of the village, and rushed out with their arms. Stopped more than ten meters away from General Yu Bo's troops. General Yu Bo rode a horse and wandered at the front of his team, looked at the group of rabble in front of him with a smile, waved his hand, and his subordinates led a cow over, took the horse to the ground, twisted the neck of the cow and threw the cow out, the cow that fell to the ground was still struggling to stand up, and was killed by General Yu Bo with a punch, and the dead cow was distributed to the soldiers that night to eat, that delicious, fresh beef and so tender. ”

The boy swallowed: "Don't talk about eating yet." And then?"

"And then of course we won. ”

"Isn't there any process? Don't you tell me that there was a master in Qingfeng Gang that time?"

"Oh, oh, there's a master, where did I go?"

"You said that General Yu Bo beat a cow to death with his bare hands. ”

"Yes, yes, at that time, General Yu Bo's move immediately calmed down the people of Qingfeng Village present, you push me, I push you, all urging others to rush forward, at this time a figure came out of the village, and jumped to the front of the crowd in a few steps, this is a young man in a purple shirt, the young man has a long body, especially the legs are not like humans, I don't know what he is attached to, but it must be an animal with relatively long legs. The young man waved a long black whip in his hand, and he shook it with a snapping sound. Standing in front of the people in Qingfeng Village, he took out some white lime powder from a cloth bag, applied it to the end of the long whip, turned around, circled around General Yu Bo like the wind, and returned to his original position, everyone did not react during the whole process, and I don't know when General Yu Bo's whole body suddenly appeared a white spot, the young man in purple smiled and stroked his whip, and there were bursts of cheers behind him, and everyone in Qingfeng Village cheered as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. ”

"And then? Didn't you say you won?"

"Don't worry, who is General Yu Bo? After going through the battlefield and seeing a lot, he has seen a lot of this kind of scene, he turned around and took the shield and hammer thrown by his subordinates, and put them on his hand. Looking at the young man in purple defiantly, the hammer struck the shield, and the young man in purple calmly threw out a whip flower in the air, and threw the whip forward, and the person also bounced out, the speed was faster than just now, and as soon as he saw the person pop out, the "bell" crisp sound of the whip hitting the shield came into his ears. Immediately followed by a burst of "bell, bell, bell, bell", General Yu Bo was beaten without the ability to fight back, and the crowd in Qingfeng Village erupted in cheers. The purple-clothed young man became more and more proud, he was originally quite wary of General Yu Bo, but now it seems that this is just the case, coupled with the sound of congratulations behind him, he completely relaxed his guard, and in the end, he didn't even bother to show his body method, and he fanned towards General Yu Bo with a whip, and on General Yu Bo's shield, the armor was full of dents that had been beaten, looking at General Yu Bo, who had no ability to parry, the purple-clothed young man threw the whip and rolled towards the general's neck, thinking about ending this duel.

General Yu Bo was waiting for this time, and when he saw the opportunity, he put the hammer in front of his face, and the whip touched the hammer handle before it touched his neck, and the general's arm holding the shield quickly threw out a metal mesh towards the purple-clothed youth, covering the purple-clothed youth tightly, and then threw the button of the weaving net behind him, and the people behind him tacitly quickly hooked it with a hook, and the purple-clothed young man was hoisted high by the stone thrower. General Yu Bo handed the equipment to others, clapped his hands and looked at the young man in purple, his eyes were very pitying, you know that most of those soldiers, including General Yu Bo, were born in a reckless manner, many people can't survive, and they go to be soldiers in order to eat for a living, they have no ability or opportunity to contact those profound things in spirituality, although talented ordinary people can reach a very high level through physical exercise, but this is to pay a lot of time and hard work, General Yu Bo admires the young man in purple very much, and wants to recruit him into the army, at that time the conversation was very speculative, the young man in purple said that his name was Cong Chuan, and the general later came to see him and did not obey, after dismissing the Qingfeng Zhaizhaiand let him go. But Cong Chuan's dog will take revenge, if General Yu Bo didn't have this thought at the beginning, he would not have ended up later. ”

"What happened?"

"Later, Cong Chuan, the dog, took the people of the Thirteen Smoke Cloud Pavilion to ambush General Yu Bo, and General Yu Bo was tortured and killed by them. ”

"And you escaped?"

"No, the commander was changed later, how do you know that I followed General Yu Bo?"

"Look at the way you said that the so-called Cong Chuan gritted his teeth, and you guessed it at a glance. The young man bit the neck of the grass and replied casually with Erlang's legs crossed.

"Boy, I don't see it, you're pretty smart. ”

"Hmph... By the way, your general's name is Yu Bo, and the bad village owner is called Cong Chuan, what's your name?"

The strong man squirmed and pinched for a long time without answering.

"What's it called?"

"It's nothing, my name is hard to remember. The strong man smiled innocently.

"Do you know my name?"

"I don't know. ”

"Name me and I'll tell you my name. ”

"Hmm... Well, in a word, it is a certainty. ”

"It's a deal!"

"My name is Dogdan......." The strong man's voice was obviously not as high as just now.

"Haha, dog, dog, good name. The boy was already smiling from ear to ear.

"What's your name!" the strong man was a little anxious.

"I don't have a name. The boy hadn't stopped laughing.

"No way, everyone has their own name. ”

"Really, I don't even have my parents' names?"

"It's also ha, then you'll be a donkey, haha. Donkey eggs. ”

"Your name is Donkey's Egg. ”

"I don't call it a donkey's egg, I call it a dog's egg, and you call it a donkey's egg. ”

The boy ignored him and turned to sleep.