Chapter 6 Baleland
The stag had been drained of blood on the edge of the cliff and placed on the back of the white wolf. Balelan walked in front, followed by the pregnant doe, and finally the white wolf followed.
Balelan didn't want the doe to keep looking at the dead stag, so he let her go ahead. There are other dangers along the way, with a fur-clad Balelan in front to spy on the situation, and a white wolf to deter other predators. Finally they returned to the place where Bareh lived, a wooden house built on a forked tree.
Balelan bent down, picked up the doe, and carried the doe up the tree, while the white wolf took the stag in his mouth and climbed the tree with his paws into the hut.
The wooden house is very small, less than nine square meters, and the height of one person is only one person. There was a pit in the middle, piled with wood ashes from burned wood, and a pot hung from it. On each side of the wall was a bed of animal skins spread on the ground, one for Balelan and the other for the white wolf. When the white wolf entered the door, he found that his bed was occupied by the doe, and immediately asked, "Where shall I sleep?"
Pointing to his fur, he said, "You sleep with me." ”
The white wolf put down the stag in his mouth and said disdainfully: "Men and women don't kiss." ”
Barelan grinned, "I'm not interested in older women. ”
"Stinky boy, who do you say is old?"
"Could it be the doe? I remember when you picked me up, I was only three months old, and you were ten years old. Twenty-two years have passed, and you are now thirty-two years old, and in the eyes of mankind, a woman who is eighteen years old and unmarried is an older leftover woman. At your age, you should have a full house of children and grandchildren, but you are still alone. Besides, the white wolf can only live for fifty or sixty years in total, and you are at that age...... I can almost call you grandma. ”
"Hehe, you just talk nonsense. When it's night, it's best to protect your neck, don't wait for me to bite while sleeping with me. ”
Baleland smiled and did not answer. This time the doe lost her husband in exchange for ten days of safe delivery, and Balelan was not good at joking in front of her. He removed the hanging pot, opened the wooden door, scratched the snow on the trunk outside the tree, filled the pot, and brought it back to the house. In the house, he lit a fire, and the dark room was suddenly brightened, and Balelan boiled water out of the snow to cook the dead deer.
He took out his dagger and glanced at the doe before stabbing it. This doe is not affected by the breath of wind and snow like the stag, and cannot speak, but her feelings are still there, and her eyes never leave the carcass of the stag. Balelan was a little unbearable. He walked to the corner and took out a handful of leaves from a jar. The leaf is called Bitter Leaf, and it is an extremely bitter plant that can satisfy hunger, but it is almost difficult to swallow. Ballelan usually uses it to make soup and drink, but this time he gave it to the doe. He promised that the stag would take care of his wife, and although Balielan lived alone in this snowy mountain, his morality was not lost, or rather, it was born with it.
While the doe was eating the leaves, Balelan cut the stag open and put it in the pot. He also cut the rest into pieces, took it to a basket made of straw rope on the trunk of the tree outside the house, froze it and kept it for later to eat. After returning to the house, the snow melts in the pot, and the meat is boiled in warm water, just waiting for the meat to be cooked before eating.
The doe finished eating the bitter leaves and quietly looked at the white wolf. The white wolf was resting on the animal skin with her eyes closed at this time, although her eyes were closed, she seemed to know that Caihua Lu was looking at her, and said with her eyes closed: "What do you want to say?"
The doe moans and makes rhythmic calls. The white wolf understood what the other party meant, and replied, "You ask me why I don't eat raw meat?" So don't worry, I won't eat you unless I'm extremely hungry. Besides, as long as that kid is here, I won't mess around. ”
This kind of picture is very abrupt, and from one of the populations, it is a very cruel thing. However, reality is cruel, and birth and death are always linked. Some organisms can evolve and adapt to their environment, while others can survive even if they degenerate. Caihualu watched the venison in the pot boil, watched Balielan and the white wolf finish the meat, and even drank the soup, all the time with a blank expression. There may be expressions, but they can't be expressed.
After eating, the leftover bones should not be thrown around, which will attract scavengers. So Balelan would pile up the bones and find a place to bury them. After the white wolf had eaten his fill, he was satisfied and prepared to lie down on the animal skin to rest. Her neck was tilted, and her standing on all fours suddenly shifted to standing on both legs, and the wolf's head began to turn into a human face. In the end, the white wolf actually became a woman with white hair and appeared in front of Caihua Deer, which stunned Caihua Deer. In fact, the white wolf is an orc, and the west of the extremely cold land borders the country of beasts, so it can be said that it was the territory of the country of beasts in the past. It wasn't until the Frost Dragon entrenched in the snowy mountains that most of the orcs left, leaving only a handful of orcs.
The white wolf lay down to rest, and while Barelan was tending the bones in the pot, there was a sudden knock on the wooden door.
The knock didn't look like someone was knocking, but like a tiny creature banging on the wooden door. Judging by the sound, the white wolf didn't think it was a threatening voice, and Balielan also stood up and pushed the door open. When the door was opened, there was a white picture with no one in sight. Balelan looked left and right, but saw no human figure, and when he looked down, he saw a white hailbird standing on a branch. The knock on the door was the one it made.
The white hailbird called at Baleland. Many of the creatures of this snow-capped mountain have been helped by Balelan, the only human being who lives in the extreme cold. In the past, there was a tribe here, and it was also the birthplace of Daigo, and they didn't leave until it was no longer suitable for survival. That tribe is called the Bear Tribe, which is a very ancient race, and it is the inheritance of the Yellow Emperor tribe. People in the bear tribe are born with abilities and can communicate with living beings.
Balelan understood why it had come, and then waved it away and told it to take care of itself.
After closing the mountain gate, Balelan made a state of going out again. The white wolf said with a puzzled face: "What's the matter, I just lay down and want to go out again." Now is the time when the wind and snow are at their fiercest, and this will go out and not be buried in the snow?"
"Then you should rest first, I will go down the mountain." ”
"Down the mountain?" the white wolf wondered about Balelan's move to go down the mountain, after all, the snow-capped mountains in the extremely cold land are easy to descend and difficult to go up. In the past, Balelan only went down the mountain once every three months, and went to the tribes to exchange animal skins or special products from the snow-capped mountains for living materials and metals. But Balelan had only been there a month ago, to prepare supplies for the winter, and this time he went down the mountain, there must have been something. It seems that the bird must have made some discovery and came to inform Balelan. As the last of the bears in the snowy mountains, Balelan is tasked with guarding the snowy mountains. Snow-capped mountains are extremely dangerous places, and if you go up easily, you will definitely be submerged under snowdrifts.
Answering the white wolf's doubts, he replied, "Someone has gone up the mountain." ”
"What are you talking about? Someone going up the mountain? Crazy, right? Those humans in Beiliang don't know that anyone who goes up the mountain except you can only die a dead end, who is so afraid of death and dares to go up the mountain. ”
"I don't know yet, but, according to the white hailbird, the leader is a giant cyan wolf that is nearly five meters tall and does not look like a human. ”
"Orc?" the white wolf suddenly became nervous, changed from a human form to a wolf form, and said with bared teeth, "I'll go with you!"
Balelan pushed open the wooden door, and the white wolf jumped out of the hut and landed on the snow. Now the wind and snow are indeed fierce, and the snow on the ground is much thicker, and as soon as the white wolf lands, half of his body is buried. Balelan extinguished the fire and said to Caihualu, "You are here waiting for me to come back, and you must not go out." With that, he climbed the tree and jumped down.
Balelan rode on the back of the white wolf, who carried him down the mountain. On the way, the white wolf asked, "Where did those men come from?" ”
"East. ”
"From the east? How could someone come from the east? Could it be from the North Sea? If it's an orc, it should come from the west?"
"The white graupel said that there were many humans besides the lead werewolf, and that they did not look like nomads. Looks like someone else is going to covet something on the mountain. ”
At the foot of the mountain, Yan Che and his party did not move fast. The wind and snow suddenly became violent, and the snow that had only reached the green wolf's knees had reached half of his body in an instant. Yan Che couldn't stand the slow pace of his advance, and wanted to use the spirit movement to lead everyone up the mountain quickly, but Yan Tiege told him not to use magic casually. The further you go up the mountain, the heavier the wind and snow, and the smell mixed in the wind and snow becomes heavier and heavier. Yan Tiege also judged that there was a dragon breath in the wind and snow, and there was an even rarer breath...... If you use magic at this time, you may be known by the gods and dragons on the mountain.
Yan Tiege's words stunned everyone, they couldn't believe that there was a dragon clan on the mountain, and there was still a god clan. The future has become more unfathomable. Yan Che also realized that this journey was not trivial, and it seemed that he could only go up with his feet on the ground.
On the way forward slowly, the leading green wolf suddenly smelled the smell. In this seemingly lifeless ice and snow world, there are actually many creatures hidden, and although they hide in snowdrifts or disguise themselves in other places, they have not escaped the nose of the green wolf. But this time, not only did he smell the smell, but instead of avoiding them like the other creatures, the smell came towards them. The green wolf was curious, as if the other party had come towards them on purpose. It seems that the comers are not good, and all the demons also sense that there is a creature coming towards them, so do they have to use them as food?
Yan Che shook his body and stood out from his shadow. Yan Che said to him, "Hide, you go and take a look." If it is an enemy, it will be solved on the spot. ”
Yin Gang wanted to agree, but Ghost Shili came over to stop him: "Wait." I sensed that there was not only a beast, but also a man! But a long time ago, there were no more humans living here. That human was very strange, and I thought I should not do it yet, and I would have the opportunity to bring it to us directly, so that we could ask something out of that person's mouth. ”
Yan Tiege said, "Well, Mr. Ghost is right. In my opinion, the wind and snow are too strong now, and it is too difficult to move on. We found a cave nearby to shelter from the wind and snow, and brought the human over after subduing him. Perhaps, some of our doubts can be solved in advance. ”
After receiving the order, he flew up the mountain, and the black shadow was particularly conspicuous in the white world.
On the mountainside, the white wolf carried Baleland all the way down the mountain, and suddenly, as if sensing some danger, the white wolf stopped, and asked about the smell of the air with his nose on his head. "What's wrong?"
"There was a strange smell that I had never smelled before. It's not like a creature in a snowy mountain, and it doesn't smell like a human, it's too strange. ”
"Not a human, not an animal?" Ballellan also became nervous, pulling out his dagger and looking at the white expanse around him.
Behind a towering tree, a hidden head peeks out from the shadow of the tree. Hidden face, only a pair of eyes exposed, said to himself: "I didn't expect it, there really is someone." ”
The white wolf instantly sensed that the breath was behind a tree, and immediately the wolf fur stood upright, and shouted to the back of the tree: "What people! Come out! I know you are hiding behind the tree!"
Balielan jumped down from the white wolf's back, took the dagger and said to the people behind the big tree: "Friends in the back, this snow-capped mountain is too dangerous, if you come to explore, you can go back." If it is hunting, there are no animals worth hunting in this stacked mountain. It's the time when the wind and snow are at its heaviest, so if you can't get down the mountain, you can take shelter from me for a while. My name is Balelan, and most of the people in Beiliang know me, and I won't hurt you. ”
Hearing what Barelan said, Hide came out from behind the tree. When Yin Yi appeared, the white wolf and Balielan had shocked expressions on their faces.
"Who are you?"