Chapter I

"Little lady, do you want some fresh vegetables? I just got out of the field in the early morning..."The hawkers in Lin'an City were selling as usual, and the wide streets were crowded with small stalls and vendors selling goods, and the middle of the street was full of traffic, and the crowds were surging, and the sound of selling and bargaining was in the ears.

Not far away, a child looked at the broken wave drum, and his big black and white eyes immediately filled with moisture, and began to burst into tears. His mother squatted next to her and gently touched the child's forehead, and wiped away the tears that had slid on the child's face with her fingers little by little, with a loving look in her eyes.

Jiang Liannan looked at the mother and son with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and gently stroked the high bulging belly, and the child in the belly seemed to have a sense, and gently kicked the mother's belly.

The drizzle wet Jiang Linan's white skirt, and Amber, the housekeeper of Anfu who followed him, held up the oil-paper umbrella printed with lotus flowers: "Madam, the sky is about to change." ”

Amber looked at the lady who was standing next to him in a daze, and just wanted to ask again, he saw Jiang Linan's eyes fall on the second floor of the Zui Anju Inn.

A pair of golden boys and girls sitting by the window on the second floor are really talented and beautiful, and the world has to sigh when they see it, a match made in heaven.

The young lady was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and her white clothes made her skin even whiter. Opposite sat a young man dressed in a black robe. I saw her pursing her lips and looking at the boy in Xuanyi opposite with a smile. The young man in Xuanyi had his back to them, so he couldn't see his expression clearly, but he thought that he should be in a very good mood.

I saw that the lady in white picked up a piece of food in front of her and carefully handed it to the Xuanyi Gongzi, who leaned back slightly and avoided the chopsticks she handed over. The lady in white gently lowered her mouth, her mouth closed one by one, and she didn't know what she was talking about, and then opened her round eyes and motioned to the person opposite to hurry up and eat. Only then did the boy in Xuanyi open his mouth...

"Amber, go home!"

Amber glanced at Jiang Linan and then raised his eyes at the Xuanyi boy on the second floor, and sighed softly: "Madam, master, he..."

"Amber, how many years have you been with the master?"

"I met the old man in Tongxiang Township..."Amber recalled the scene of his acquaintance with Mu Baiyan.

That year, there was a famine in Tongxiang Township, and the farmers in the fields caught up with the drought and had no harvest. The relief food allocated by the imperial court has reached the hands of the people, and there is not much left. After that, I had no choice but to go to other states and counties to find a way to survive. The people of the village walked and scattered.

Amber also took his wife and led the ten-year-old child Kawako to set off with the escape team at this time. However, there were too many refugees along the way, and the road was littered with corpses, and those who did not have tents at night were accustomed to lying on the ground. I don't know how long it has been, but the number of refugees on the road has increased instead of decreasing. There are only a few grains of rice left in the last bowl of Bushili along the way. Adults are fine, but the ten-year-old child Fugui is the age of growing his body, but due to long-term malnutrition, his dirty and thin shoulders are exposed in his tattered clothes, and his toes are exposed by the shoes on his feet for a long time, and there are large and small blisters on his toes.

I don't know who said that there is a lot of game in the woods next to it, and if you are lucky, you can eat meat at night. Amber looked at his wife who was secretly wiping tears next to him, and then at the skinny child, and decided to follow everyone to hunt in the nearby woods. Before leaving, he told his wife to wait in place, and then reluctantly followed the army.

The deeper you go into the forest, the more you find that there is no end to this forest, and after walking half a cup of tea, you don't see the prey you said. At this moment, there was a treacherous sound in the dense forest, like a small beast scratching the ground with its claws, like a big python winding up a tree, and like an ape swinging through the branches. "Run~" After someone in the crowd shouted, everyone began to flee in all directions.

Amber, who had not yet figured out what was happening, remained where he was, and not far away stood a monster that looked like a tiger and a deer, with a head like a dragon, two horns rubbed together, as big as a tree trunk, and a pair of giant wings on its back. Amber, who was not in the cultivation realm, had never seen such a scene, he let out a terrible scream, and he wanted to run when he pulled his legs, but he fell to the spot with a shake under his feet. The monsters in the distance walked towards him step by step, as if enjoying the dying throes of their prey. Amber moved his body in a panic, knowing that he was afraid that he would not be able to avoid this catastrophe, but he just thought of his wife and the child's red eyes, and crawled back step by step.

Just as the monster attacked Amber with a mouth of fangs, Mu Baiyan, the boy in Xuanyi, landed steadily in front of Amber, and the Xuan-colored long sword in his hand hit the fangs of the monster, and the monster took a big step back. The beast fluttered its wings, screaming in its mouth, and its blood-red pupils opened angrily, thinking that it had been hurt by the long sword just now. I heard a loud bang, and I saw the monster fall to the ground, and countless trees of all sizes and ten trees next to it flew all over the sky. Amber didn't know how Mu Baiyan knocked the monster down, only that the man in front of him was his savior.

With a plop, Amber knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the man in front of him a few times, and said, "Thank you, Childe, for saving your life." ”

Mu Baiyan helped up Amber, who was kneeling on the ground: "You don't have to worry about it." Slowly walked in front of the monster, put his hand on the monster's head and said a few words silently, and saw a ray of white light flowing out of the monster's head, and finally drew a small white ball and landed on Mu Baiyan's hand.

Amber probably understood when he saw this, the son in front of him should be an immortal.

"Dare to ask Your Excellency, do you know how far Tongxiang Town is from here?" Mu Baiyan asked as he looked at Amber, who was still in place.

"Tongxiang Township, why did Gongzi go to Tongxiang Township? I am from Tongxiang Township. It's a pity that in recent years, there has been a lot of famine, and everyone has been scattered. Amber said

Mu Baiyan frowned

Amber continued: "But Childe, most of us are resting on the edge of the forest, if Childe needs to find someone, you can come with me."

Mu Baiyan said: "I'm tired of you leading the way." ”

As soon as he left the forest, he saw a river of blood flowing on the ground, Amber looked at the scene in front of him and worried about his wife and children, and he couldn't even take care of Mu Baiyan, so he hurried to the place where he was before leaving. Who else is here, even the few tattered clothes they brought with them have been thrown everywhere.

Amber grabbed the arm of the little woman next to him and didn't care about the difference between men and women, and asked anxiously, "Have you seen my wife and children?"

That man happened to be a fellow villager with Amber, and the man in the family died on the road a few days ago due to famine. Looking at Amber's red eyes, he whispered to Amber, "Mrs. Sister-in-law is over there." ”

Following the direction pointed by the little woman, Amber saw his wife and child, lying next to a group of corpses, the wife holding the child in her arms tightly, the child panting faintly with round eyes.

Amber ran to his wife and the child, stretched out his hand tremblingly to probe his wife's breath, and sat on the ground weakly, leaving his wife to go first. didn't bother to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and carefully took out the child in his wife's arms.

"Chuanzi, tell Dad, whose hand is moving?" Amber trembled and hugged the child, his dry voice making a hoarse sound.

"Daddy... Be... The village's "ahem

"The chief and the village... A lot of people. "Ahem, every word Chuanzi says seems to cough up the blood in his lungs.

Amber clasped his hands tightly and raised his eyes to look at the lieutenant not far away. Settle Chuanzi aside and walk towards the village chief. In his hand he was holding a sharpened wooden stick, which his wife used to catch fish when she thought she was passing by the river.

Amber hid his figure, slowly walked behind the captain, and stabbed the wooden stick into his heart when the chief was not looking: "Die!" Amber shouted angrily at the captain

This scene happened to be seen by the lieutenant chief's doglegs, who pushed the lieutenant from behind, allowing the lieutenant to escape.

The lieutenant chief motioned to the person next to him to hold Amber down, and said angrily, "Don't want to live anymore?"

"Hahahahe, you murderers will definitely get retribution in the future. As long as I have a breath of air, I must have you bury my wife. Amber's scarlet eyes stared at the chief, and he saw that the chief's back was numb, and seeing that Amber was about to break free from the suppression of the two, the chief hurriedly called two more people to suppress together.

Amber, who was watched by four people, was finally unable to move.

"Captain, the people who went to the forest just now have basically been resolved, and only a few children have escaped. "I just heard someone report to the lieutenant chief

Hearing these Amber angrily wanted to break free, he scolded Li Chang: "You ***, aren't you afraid that the souls of those people will come to ask for your life?"

Just as the lieutenant commander had just signaled his subordinates to kill Amber.

The chief's spy came to report: "Chief, this Amber met a master in the woods, and that man killed a monster in a few moves. We can't move this man. ”

The lieutenant chief looked at the spies who came to report suspiciously: "Is this serious?"

"It's true, I've taken someone to check it, and the monster's body is still in place. After speaking, the spy also pointed to Mu Baiyan who was not far away: "That's this person." ”

The chief looked at the figure pointed by the spy, Mu Baiyan was wearing a black robe, and stood in the crowd with a brocade belt around his waist, looking out of place in this place where blood flowed and refugees were plagued.

"Let's retreat to the river first, and he won't dare to do it alone to us so many people. The lieutenant softened his throat, which was a little tight.

"And this man?" the spy gestured to Amber, who was still struggling.

The lieutenant waved his hand, and the four people who were holding Amber let Amber go.

The lieutenant retreated with a group of men to the other side of the woods.

"Thank you!" Amber hugged his son and kowtowed to Mu Bai Yan on the ground.

"I didn't do anything this time?" Mu Baiyan looked at Amber who was still kneeling on the ground and Chuanzi who was dying.

"Because of your existence, we two escaped. Chuanzi closed his eyes tightly, sweating profusely on his forehead, and Amber struggled to deliver water to Chuanzi's mouth. As soon as he finished feeding, Chuanzi coughed up with water and blood.

Amber sobbed lowly, his wounded hand gently brushing away his wet hair, caressing his forehead again and again. Chuanzi coughed uncomfortably, as if she was going to cough out her lungs. Amber didn't know what was wrong with his son, and he didn't know what to do.

"There may be internal injuries, take a look at his chest. Mu Baiyan reminded.

Amber gently lifted the placket of Chuanzi's chest and saw a bruise the size of a footprint. Yes, they were kicked by the beasts.

Amber looked at the child distressedly, but there was nothing he could do, looking at his tattered luggage, and his hatred for those people increased again.

"Childe can have a way to save the child. Amber pinned his last hope on the young man in front of him.

"I'm sorry!" Mu Baiyan blinked, and his gaze slowly looked into the distance.

"Run, the monster is coming. ”

"Ah~"

"Save me~~~"

“...”

Listening only to the long direction on the other side of the woods, the voices of shock, fear, despair, and fear rushed into the ears of Amber and Mu Baiyan in an instant.

Mu Baiyan frowned and looked at the crowd in the distance.

The crowd that had taken refuge on the other side of the woods had returned to this blood-soaked place. Trembling as he looked at the man standing straight.

Amber saw the little woman from before, and he called the little woman over and asked, "What's going on over there?"

"There's a monster over there... With antlers... The body of a tiger has a pair of wings, and it can be eaten with one mouth... Go in alone. There are so many dead—" Her hands and feet trembled, and after stumbling through the entire sentence, she hid next to Amber.

Amber smiled at the corner of his mouth, hooking the corner of his injured mouth with some pain, but it was nothing, he wanted these people to bury his wife with him, and they were all dead.

Mu Baiyan looked down at Amber, then turned his gaze to the little woman and said, "What did you do?"

The little woman looked at the man in front of her in a little surprise, pointed at herself, and Mu Baiyan nodded. The little woman spoke, "I didn't do anything, but the elders dragged out the monster carcasses in the woods to improve the food. No sooner had they put the monster's body on the fire than another monster appeared. ”

This monster's name is: Chi Fengyan. This is an animal that has existed since the opening of the heavens in Pangu, but it has been living in the deep mountains, so it is rarely seen, but this monster is a combination of several animal genes, so the aura on their bodies is low, as long as they do not harm the common people, some immortal cultivators do not bother to subdue them. Every spirit beast, after the corpse is burned, will have a smell, a smell that only companions can smell. As long as the body has been stained with the smell of the corpse of the spirit beast, it will stay for a long time, and the companion will avenge the dead kind. Although Chi Fengyan is not a high-level spirit beast, it is also a species that has lived for hundreds of millions of years.

It seems that no one who has touched the corpse of a monster today will live long.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before the few people who had touched the monster's corpse were eaten by the monster, and after the monster had dealt with them, he returned to the depths of the woods with the corpses of his companions.

Those who were frightened here no longer dared to linger outside the menstrual period, so they packed their bags and went to the next soup kitchen.

At this time, only Amber, Chuanzi and Mu Baiyan remained.

Chuanzi leaned on Amber's arms in his arms, Amber lowered his head and gently rubbed the top of his head with his face: "Don't be afraid, child, it'll be fine." ”

Amber's story stops at this point.

"What about your son?" asked Jiang Linan.

"Dead. ”

"I don't have the money to treat him, and I don't have the money to save him. Amber said this, and his face showed pain again, and his voice seemed to be a little hoarse compared to just now.

"I'm sorry for reminding you of these sad things. Jiang Linan said apologetically.

"It's all old things, and Madame doesn't have to worry about it. Speaking of which, I would like to thank the lord for taking me in when I was helpless. Amber smiled indifferently.