Chapter 254: Crocodile
Wynder coughed and explained a little embarrassedly: "The reasons for this are a bit complicated, but one thing is certain, we didn't die, we didn't go to the world of the dead, we just went outside the swamp and are back now." β
"You mean, you two ran away from home?" Pooh's eyes widened.
The embarrassed look on Wynnd's face was even stronger, and his voice couldn't help but lower a lot, "You can understand it that way, but we just want to go out and have a look, see the outside world, can we learn more knowledge to help the clansmen." β
"The god of water, you have abandoned your people and run away from home, do you know how worried your family is about you? Wycliffe, do you know that your mother is even crying blind for you, Wynd, do you know how sad the patriarch has been all these years? You still have the face to come back. β
Pooh, who was angry and bloody, didn't care that Huai Ende was his young patriarch, picked up his throwing spear, and slashed his head and covered his face with a wild whip, but fortunately he didn't completely lose his mind, and before that, he knew to turn the throwing spear upside down.
"My mother's eyes are blind from crying? Is she okay now? What about my father?"
"How's my mother? Is there anything wrong with her?"
Wynnd and Wycliffe asked anxiously, not daring to dodge because of guilt.
When the two and a half of them ran away from home, it was purely the enthusiasm of young people, and they didn't think about it so much at all.
By the time this enthusiasm calmed down, several years had passed, and when they dreamed back at midnight, all they thought about was their own family.
This longing grows with age.
But the more time passed, the more they didn't dare to mention the word home, because they didn't know how to face their families.
If it weren't for the news they got this time, I don't know how long they would have to wander outside before they muster the courage to go home.
"You still have the face to ask, since you care so much, why did you go earlier? Come back early! I'm pumping you for your parents, two bastards, you might as well die outside clean." β
The more Pooh spoke, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but add a little more strength, and the two battle-hardened men who smoked had to squat on the ground with their heads in their hands, no longer silent, and wait until the other party finished venting his anger.
Pooh shot at them, after all, because of kinship feelings, not hatred, after venting for a while, he slowly stopped, and still snorted angrily: " Get up and talk, even if you still have a little conscience, you didn't wait until your Uncle Pooh was seventy or eighty years old and then came back, at that time, even if you want to smoke you, you don't have the strength, don't worry, except for Wycliffe's mother, who has a little problem with her eyes, everyone else is still alive, get up, it's good news that you're not dead, that is, your Uncle Pooh, if you can do it, your family is probably reluctant to smoke you. β
"Uncle Pooh is also for our good, after all, it is our fault in the first place. Huai Ender licked his face and said, after so many years of messing around outside, the craft of two-skin face must be mastered.
What's more, love is so deep and hateful, if the other party has no feelings for them, they don't bother to care about them, regardless of whether they are dead or alive all these years.
After this beating, although the flesh hurts, my heart is much better.
"It's good that you know, you all come here, get to know each other, these two are our people, that is, little Wynd and little Wycliffe, who ran around disobediently and were devoured by the mire, and this time they saw the living. Pooh said to the group of young men he was leading.
When these young people came to say hello, the expressions on their faces were very strange, not only the elements of wanting to laugh but not laughing, but also the appearance of looking at rare animals, and there were even a few young ones. It seems to have a bit of adoration.
Damn it.
His own people are using the two of them as negative teaching materials to educate the next generation, and the village doesn't know what kind of situation awaits them.
"Uncle Pooh, why are you patrolling here? If I'm not mistaken, this is several villages away from our town. Wynder asked in a blind eye.
Pooh glanced at him, and said with a lingering sigh: "You have been away from home for too long, there have been great changes in the clan, this place has been annexed by us five years ago, and it belongs to our territory, since last year, the weather has become very abnormal and abnormal, the fishing grounds in the north have dried up, and our fishing grounds have begun to move to this side, and the current situation is a bit chaotic, fortunately you have met me, if you change to other villages and towns, or people who don't know you to lead the team, it will be bad." β
Wynder just wanted to say that we are not weak and unruly girls, and we have encountered more chaotic situations along the way, and the reason why we are tied up is because you are our clansman.
But looking at the other party's angry face, when it came to his mouth, he swallowed it back again, and said with a smile, why didn't he find Uncle Pooh's temper so short-tempered before, is it because of age?
"How's the situation in the clan now?" Wynd asked, knocking on the side.
"Not very optimistic, less rain, the sun is poisonous, many perennial water fishing grounds are exposed, according to this situation, even if the rain is more again, the fishery wants to recover, it will take several years, fortunately, we still have the mother river, although the water level has been reduced a lot, but the output is not much less, and the low water level has the advantage of low water level, do not have to worry about turning leaves, you can go in and out of fishing freely, the days are not bad, barely maintained, but this situation continues to continue, then it is really hard to say. β
Pooh's face couldn't hide his sadness, he glanced at the young people walking around, and said in a low voice: "Tell me the truth, didn't you two really go to the world of the dead and come back again?"
Wyndder and Wycliffe glanced at each other, and said in unison: "Uncle Pooh, it's really not, the world of the dead is just a legend, for so many years, those things that come back from the dead, which one is not a lie, not to mention that in the legend, the necromancer has no temperature, you touch it, we are all big living people." β
"Alright, alright, don't be so loud. Pooh said meaningfully, "Not before, doesn't mean not now, what has happened in our family in the past few years is far more than you imagined, don't be too surprised when the time comes." β
"Is there anything we haven't seen yet?" Wynd and Wycliffe didn't say it, but they didn't care in their hearts, after all, no matter what they said, they still walked out of the swamp of despair, and the people who opened their eyes and saw the world definitely saw more things than these people trapped in the swamp of despair.
With an acquaintance to lead the way, it was noticeably faster, and they quickly returned to town during the chat.
When they saw their town, Wynder and Wycliffe stood outside the gate, speechless for a long time.
Pooh didn't bluff them, they had been away from home for too long, and this place had changed a lot, so big that their towns had already been relocated, and if they weren't lucky enough to meet Pooh, they would have had to go through a lot of trouble if they wanted to find their relatives.
"What's the matter with this castle? Could it be that our people have built it over the years?" Wynnd couldn't help but ask.
In front of them was a magnificent castle, no, rather, half a castle.
But this half of the castle is not divided into two in the middle, but everything is divided into two at the top and bottom, and all they see now is the upper half, and there is still a part hidden under the water.
Even so, the first half of the castle that was revealed alone was larger than most of the castles that Wynnd had seen in the plains of Asia Minor.
Based on the state of his performance alone, Wynnd knew that the second half of his question had been asked in vain.
This is obviously not the handiwork of the crocodile.
Not to mention whether the crocodile people have such great ability, just to say that there are so many boulders to build the castle is nowhere to be found.
Unlike the Byronic people, who like to build stone houses, the desperate swamp boulders are scarce, and the crocodile people usually build houses with mud mixed with aquatic plants, and the conditions are only to build wooden houses with logs and castles with boulders, which is really unheard of.
"Five years ago, the Nu River was diverted, and by the way, most of the water from the green algae lake was taken away, and the ChΓ’teau de Lausanne was revealed, which was not a gift from the god of water, but a legacy left by our ancestors. It wasn't Winnie who answered Wynd, it was another middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man's voice was loud, and there was a bit of dragon and tiger stride in his steps, and he walked over quickly, and he wanted to hug Huai Ende, but he was stopped by him.
On the contrary, Wynder couldn't help but give the other party a bear hug, tears poured out uncontrollably, and he apologized vigorously: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." β
The middle-aged man's body stiffened for a moment, and then he patted Huai Ender's shoulder a little unnaturally, and comforted: "It's good to come back! It's good to come back!"
It's good that three of them come back, which contains countless feelings of middle-aged men.
The middle-aged man with a strong temperament may have been angry before.
But under the impact of time, the anger subsided, and all that remained was a deep longing and the last trace of luck.
As long as his son is alive, he is better than anything else.
This middle-aged man was none other than Wynd's father, Weber Salover, the ruler of Lausander.
Compared with the restraint of the two men, on the other side, Wycliffe's blind mother had hugged her son and cried with her son, who thought she had died a long time ago, which was a cry of joy that had been regained.
After a long absence, there were naturally endless words, but Wynd's did not forget the reason that prompted them to rush back, and whispered to his father: "Father, we need to talk about it alone, we have brought back news that is related to the life and death of the entire Desperate Swamp Crocodile Clan." β
Webb stared at his son for a few seconds, then nodded, "Follow me." β
Wynd gestured at Wycliffe and strode away after his father.
Webber led Wynnd directly to the top of the castle, and the father pointed down and said to his son, "Look down from here, what do you see?"
Wynd's leaning over to see the entire town was in full view, and even the desperate Nu River, which was revered as the mother river by the crocodile people, was faintly visible.
However, compared to the flood in memory, the current desperate Nu River is more in line with the image of a mother, calm and vast, with countless large and small boats shuttling on it for fishing and hunting.
Several answers flashed through Wynd's mind, and finally settled on one word, replying, "Home." β
"That's right, it's home, no matter what dissatisfaction you have here, this is the home where you were born and raised, I hope you have learned enough lessons to consider this before making a decision. Weber vaguely expressed his dissatisfaction with his son's running away from home this time.
"I didn't understand it before, but now I understand it. Wynd's head nodded cautiously and said, "We also came back for this, I don't know if my father still remembers that our family code said that the desperate swamp was not what it is now, but a fertile plain, a land of fish and rice, because of natural and man-made disasters, it will become what it is now." β
"Of course, I remember that I read the family code to you at the beginning. Webber seemed to remember something, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly, revealing a hint of a smile, which softened his stiff face a lot.
"This account is true, and now history is repeating itself, but the situation is completely reversed, and the swamp of despair will become the Jiangnan Plain again. Wynnd looked at his father very seriously and said, "For this reason, we personally went to the reflowing river, which is a river that is wider than the mother river, and two years ago, it was just a small river only a few tens of meters wide......
"I know. β
"You know?" Wynd's answer was completely unexpected, looking at his father with a stunned expression.
On the way back, he and Wycliffe repeatedly discussed, the most difficult thing is how to convince his father that everything he said is true, after all, he has not seen Jacob River before and after the reflow, it is difficult to believe this matter.
"Because three days ago, someone told me the same thing and told me that they did everything. Webber's face became extremely deep, and it was difficult for people to figure out what they were thinking at the moment, "I would have believed what I had said to them, but now my son has returned thousands of miles to tell me about it, so it is not far from ten!"
"Who told you about this? He said they did it?" Now it was Wynd's turn to be full of questions, he thought he had brought back first-hand news that shocked the whole clan, how could it suddenly become second-hand.
"An Andes, who has come on behalf of the Eternal Night. Webber replied, "He told me that it was the Eternal Night Army who dug the above-ground lake in the upper reaches of the Mother River, and let the lake go north, and the largest source of the Mother River was cut off, and it would not be long before the Swamp of Despair would be restored to the Jiangnan Plain of the ancient Andes Empire." β
"Andes, Commander of the Night, is the legend true?" Wynd said with a look of surprise on his face.
"You've heard of them?" Webber wasn't as calm as he appeared.
Just like what Wynd just said, this is a big matter related to the life and death of the entire crocodile people, and he can't be careless.
The first time he heard about it, especially from the mouth of a complete stranger, he was completely in a state of high suspicion, racking his brains for the past few days, how to verify what the other party said.
There are many ways to do this, but none of them are immediate, and they all take a lot of time.
Unexpectedly, his son, who had suffered an accident a long time ago, not only returned safely, but now it seems that he has brought back key information, which makes him feel particularly excited, he doesn't believe in outsiders, can he still believe his son?
Blood is thicker than water, and even if you haven't seen it for ten years, you can't stop this connection.