Chapter 1 Ancient Villages Section 5 The Scourge of the Ancient Tribes (1)
After hesitating for a moment, Lang Yu nodded twice. Then the two excited old men pulled Langyu into a chair, and the two of them also sat down opposite. The chair seemed to be a little bigger for Langyu, and his feet couldn't reach the ground.
At this time, a little girl walked into the house with a plate of fruit, and bowed to the two of them very respectfully. "Good patriarch, good Uncle Gan. Grandpa Gu let out an "um" and pointed to the table. The little girl put down the fruit plate, glanced at Lang Yu curiously, and bowed out. It seems that these two old men have a lot of status, and out of politeness, Lang Yu also stood up. After all, he was just a child in the eyes of others. But he was immediately pressed back into the chair by Grandpa Gu. "Xiaoyu, don't be nervous. It's like your home. ”
Am I nervous? Joke, Lang Yu couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart, swords, swords and shadows used to be commonplace. You are still nervous about this small scene, but the words of Grandpa Gu below made Lang Yu serious.
"You just woke up, and you may not be a little used to the environment of our ancient clan, but fortunately, you can already understand our words. Grandpa will tell you about some of the situation in our village now, and you will gradually become familiar with it in the future. As he spoke, he looked at Uncle Gamble. Uncle Gamble nodded at him.
This is exactly what Langyu is eager to know. What kind of place is this? Why are you here? Is this still the world you are familiar with, or is it hell or heaven? The old man understood his own thoughts.
Since Grandpa Gu said this, Lang Yu sat back in the chair quietly.
Grandpa Gu continued: "Our village is called Gu Village, and the main residence is our Gu family. More than a thousand years ago, when our ancestors came here, it was still a barren place, this is already the southernmost point of the Apocalypse Empire, and more than 20,000 miles south is the Divine Punishment Forest. Ancestors originally chose this place to escape the war, but later as the number of families moved in, towns were formed in the area. At that time, our Gu family used to be the largest family in this area, but I didn't expect it to decline a few generations later, and by the time of my grandfather, there was only this small village left. I am the head of this village, and I am also the patriarch. Speaking of this, Grandpa Gu shook his head heavily, a little helpless and sad.
"You must be wondering how you ended up here. Indeed, your family was not originally from this village. Oh, didn't your mother tell you?" Lang Yu shook his head.
"Haha, grandpa told you the same. It was three years ago when an unfortunate disaster struck our village. The cause was a golden-winged tiger skin eagle that fell from the sky, the eagle flew from nowhere, at that time, it could be concluded that there had never been that kind of creature within a radius of thousands of miles in our village, and my grandfather had never seen it, it was a demon beast, although there were many large forests where there would be demon beasts, but most of them were wild beasts, and only a few of them could be cultivated as demon beasts, such as the black eye forest behind our village, there were some second- and third-level demon beasts. But this golden-winged tiger eagle is the only one I have ever seen in my life, and this species of eagle alone is extremely rare. I also know this name from the genealogy of the ten thousand demons handed down by my family....... ”
A hurricane blew, the sky was dark, and in an instant the sand and rocks were flying and the smell was fishy. Just as everyone in the village looked up in panic, a huge black shadow crashed into the sky like lightning, and landed at the entrance of the ancient village, and the earth was violently attacked. An eagle, like a large eagle-shaped flying beast, has a body like a cow, and its wings are spread out for more than 30 meters, like a huge meteorite swooping down.
With a loud "boom", the earth trembled loudly, the dust and smoke were everywhere, and the ancient village was submerged.
Fortunately, the giant eagle just landed at the entrance of the village in the south, and if it was more than 50 meters forward, the situation of the ancient village would be unimaginable. The ground was smashed into a pit more than ten meters deep, many surrounding houses collapsed, and the hard wings were slapped all over the ground.
A middle-aged man in a blue shirt rushed out of the smoke and dust near the place where he fell, just took a cursory glance, and quickly ran towards the Gu family compound. In an instant, many villagers flocked to the entrance of the village. Watching from afar, shouts of surprise continued to sound noisily.
The strange bird was completely dead when it fell, its body sank into the pit, its wings sticking out of the ground, its head more than twice as large as the head of a bull showing only the top of its head, and its long dark golden beak ploughed a deep furrow in front of it. But there were no scars on its body, just a lot of dark green juice coming out of its mouth, emitting a foul stench.
A passage parted in the crowd, and several sturdy old men hurried out of it. One of them, a rather majestic hunchbacked old man, waved everyone back away, and then cautiously approached, carefully observing his head and feet and the ground.
At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted, "Shuang'er, what's wrong with you?" and several others exclaimed. The old man turned around, and in the crowd of onlookers, a few more people fell to the ground in front of him.
"No! Retreat!" the hunchbacked old man shouted, and he sped backwards. "Puff puff" on the body in a few urgent places. A beam of dark red blood spurted out, his face turned pale in an instant, and he was held by his clansmen.
The old man said weakly and urgently: "Hurry back, poisonous!"
The crowd around them quickly retreated, and a few strong clansmen rushed forward to pick up the old man and quickly retreat to the village.
In the hall in the courtyard of the ancient family, several people in charge were restless, all looking anxious. The hunchbacked old man is no longer in serious trouble, and the injury just now was caused by the poisonous gas forced out of his body.
Two more people hurriedly ran in: "Patriarch, Gu Shen." Gu Jiuchun also fainted. ”
This is the seventh to report the incident.
"Daddy. Suddenly, a crying voice came. "Dad, Leizi, Leizi, also fainted, what should I do. A delicate woman with a great gaffe rushed in from the backyard.
"What!?" the hunchbacked old man pushed the door and hurried towards the backyard. Several people in the room were also startled and got up and followed.
A moment later, a barrage of orders came from the compound. Several ancient clansmen took bottles of pills and boxes of herbs and distributed them to the clansmen. More people gathered all the combustible materials and piled them up around the big bird at the entrance of the village. At the sound of the order, smoke rose and flames rose. The fire burned for three days before it rested. In the space of three days, some of the Gu people had already died of poison. More people are showing symptoms of poisoning. Several old men appeared in front of the pile of charred gray charcoal after the fire. With a wave of his hand, he revealed the giant bird under the ash heap. At a glance, several people were shocked, except for some gray stains, the big bird in the pit was actually in an intact shape, and the feathers were not injured.
Several people glanced at each other, and they all felt extremely hot.
"Ask the lord for help. Now is not the time for us to save, otherwise we are afraid that there will be a danger of extinction," said the hunchbacked old man among them.
A younger old man wanted to open his mouth, but finally sighed helplessly.
The three golden-feathered horses swept away. Ran in three directions.
The hall was unusually dull, and several core figures of the ancient clan were gathered together.
The hunchbacked old man looked at the first old man with white hair and asked, "Does the clan elder know what kind of poison this is?" The middle person is as cold as ice, his mouth is flowing with green water, and the whole person is unconscious, for three days at most, or one day at least, and the person will not be able to do it. As far as I know, I haven't found any poison to behave like this. And it's contagious. ”
The old man was thinking deeply, and when he heard the patriarch ask, he thought about it again: "It is said that the golden-winged tiger skin eagle is not a highly poisonous demon beast, and I am afraid that it will also die from this poison." What can kill a seventh-order demon beast, I only think of one possibility. If it is really as I think, I am afraid that our ancient clan will not be able to escape this fate. ”
"Ah!" At this time, the other gray-clothed old man who was sitting with the white-haired old man seemed to think about it, and exclaimed, "Could it be that the eldest brother is saying-"
"Yes, erysipelas. The white-haired old man nodded.
When these words were spoken, everyone changed color.
"Only the natal erysipelas of highly poisonous demon beasts is probably so powerful. ”
"Then, does the clan elder know what can be cured?" the woman on the side asked anxiously.
"There should be a way, but the old man doesn't know it. ”
"Ahh As if the last glimmer of hope had been dashed, the woman wept bitterly. I got up and went straight to the backyard.
"Hey!" everyone in the room shook their heads, helpless except for a sigh.
Silence is less. The hunchbacked old man hammered his palm. got up and paced to the window, looked out the window, and said to himself: "If it's just Gu Lei alone, it's fine, but there are so many clansmen, but I can't help but save Wow." ”
There was silence, and several elder-level figures were at a loss. Someone came in to inform them of the casualties, and the number of poisoned people was still increasing.
The hunchbacked old man in front of the window is the current patriarch Gu Mo. After a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind, raised his hand and stroked his beard and said, "This is the first thing to see what kind of character the city lord will contact, maybe only the true fire of the Dan Master can refine it." Although this demon beast is full of treasures, and even has demon pills, we are helpless. In this big empire, Danshi are extremely rare, not to mention our remote country, and more importantly, we can't wait. If it still can't be solved, then we may have to isolate the poisoned people and move to another place. ”
When I heard that I was going to move. Everyone's faces changed. But there's really no better way to do it.
"A thousand-year-old inheritance passed down from our ancestors. I don't want to be ruined by my Gu Mo now. ”
"Mo'er doesn't need to blame himself. The ancient clan has fallen to the present, and it is not your fault. Natural disasters have struck, and no human can do it. The old man and the others are not responsible. The two gray-clothed old men at the top glanced at each other, and one of them blamed himself.
"Generations have declined to this day, and Gu Mo also asks himself to be worthy of his heart. It's just that the ancestors passed it down, no matter what, we should keep the ancient village, as long as this village is here, our clan will have a glorious day. If I did, I would not be a sinner for the ages. "As the head of a clan, if you are not really powerless, you will not be sad.
There was silence in the hall for a moment.