The dull hair on Shi Nian's head swayed in the wind, innocently looking up at the patriarch holding her, and then looking down at her fluffy paws.

She seems to have turned into an animal, and I heard that she is a guardian beast.

Mom didn't tell her what to do in this situation......

"Uncomfortable?" The patriarch carefully held the newborn ghost beast in front of him and asked gently.

Shi Nian was stunned, and the patriarch's forehead had a ghost flower that was exactly the same as in the palm of her hand.

The patriarch understood the meaning of the ghost beast and brought the ghost beast close to him.

Shi Nian touched the patriarch's forehead with his claws, looked down at the color dyed on the paws, and felt a little lost in his heart.

"What's wrong?" The patriarch held the ghost beast in his palm and asked softly.

The patriarch's son who followed behind looked at the patriarch in horror, he had never seen his powerful mother so gentle when he was so old!

Shi Nian lowered her head in frustration, she felt very big when she saw anything now, although she could understand the sound of all things now, but her vocal cords were not yet fully developed, and language communication had become an unattainable thing.

There was silence to noise, Shi Nian put aside her melancholy mood for the time being, and looked curiously at the large and surprisingly large stone house, as the name suggests, the stone houses are all houses made of beautiful stones, each stone is polished very smooth, and she actually found a lot of jade in it.

The patriarch held the ghost beast high and proclaimed loudly to the kneeling people: "This is the ghost beast of our ghost clan, we live in this land, the ghost flower gives us a bad environment to live on, the ghost beast nourishes the ghost flower, and our duty is to protect the ghost beast, even if we pay for it." ”

Thousands of people bowed down to the ghost beasts for their faith.

Vanity was satisfied or something, and the ten thoughts were completely gone, and she only felt awkward.

Shi Nian knew very well that she had to adapt to this place, including the humble living environment and the atmosphere of being treated with care.

Ten thoughts sucked the fruit milk. The milk fruit matures once every four years, like a snake molting, it sheds its shell once a year, its shell is very hard, the more it is burned with fire, the harder it becomes, and the people here use it to cook, and also exchange the shells refined with other tribes. The inner layer of the hard husk is a thin layer of yellow flocculent, which can quickly stop bleeding when applied to the wound. The flesh wrapped in the flocculent is the fruit milk that Shi Nian ate at this time, and in the ghost clan, only those who hunt the most can get a chance to eat fruit milk.

Fruit milk is sweet and sour, it is the taste that Shi Nian likes, if it is not that fruit milk is too precious, ten thoughts can be ten a day, this is not an exaggerated number, since she came to this ancient society and was reincarnated into a ghost beast, her stomach is like a bottomless pit, and she is always not full.

In the concept of ten thoughts, fruit milk is a health supplement that supplements nutrients, but it is precious but cannot fill the stomach in turn. Her real food is pimples, something unpalatable but resistant to digestion.

Reluctantly eating a piece of black bump and losing his appetite anymore, Shi Nian avoided the patriarch's eyeliner and tried to draw a fragrant bun on the flat stone.

Wow......

Shi Nian hugged his red paws that had been ground by the stone, and grinned his teeth.

She forgot that she was just a newborn cub with impossibly weak limbs.

The sun had not yet shown its face, and in the dark and cold early morning, Shi Nian, who had fallen into a sweet dream, was carefully picked up by the patriarch, wrapped in the softest long-haired rabbit skin, put it in his arms, and covered it tightly with the bear skin on his body.

Although the patriarch walked carefully, the road on the mountain was too uneven, and in the inevitable swaying, Shi Nian came to his senses.

Shi Nian has been a quiet and well-behaved child since she was a child, even if she wakes up in a strange place, she does not struggle, and obediently nests in the arms of the patriarch I, and observes the bad environment outside through the gap to judge her current strange situation.

After climbing the mountain for nearly four hours, the big man who followed behind the patriarch put ten fruit milk on the ground, and neatly built a solid nest for the ghost beast with the beautiful stones he brought.

The big man took the fur and spread it in the stone nest, fixed it on all sides.

Shi Nian staggered to the stone nest, lying in it and watching the patriarch and the others turn back and leave step by step.

Their departure meant that for the next ten days, she would need to be alone to watch over the ghost flower not far away.

Shi Nian maintained the rhythm of eating and sleeping, waking up and eating again.

Alone, I also have a very comfortable life.

The patriarch brought fruit milk and food every ten days, and in a hurry, Shi Nian grew into a ghost beast that could intimidate any mountain and forest beast in solitude.

The ghost flower is still the same as it was ten years ago, budding and waiting to be released. Only ten thoughts could see that the color of the ghost flower was even more gorgeous, just like the pattern burning in her palm.

It was another full moon night, and under the light of the moon, Shi Nian could clearly hear the sound of ghost flowers blooming.

Having received the Ten Thoughts of Scientific Materialism, despite experiencing many incredible things, she still tried to interpret the existence of the ghost flower from a scientific point of view.

She guessed from the smell of the ghost flower, its growth state, and the flowering process that the ghost flower would secrete some kind of noble gas when it bloomed, and in this ancient period when the living environment was relatively harsh, this rare gas was a necessary element for the ghost clan, and it was necessary to breathe to let the body ingest this element to grow. As for the problem that people in other tribes don't need ghost flowers, it is very easy to explain, one side of the water and soil raises the other side, people who grow in the south suddenly go to the north to get angry, people who grow in the land of fish and rice suddenly come to the heavy industrial area and will be allergic, some people can't eat eggs, and some people can't smell the smell of coriander. The principle is the same.

Shi Nian guessed like this, and after carefully observing the entire flowering period of the ghost flower in a scientific and pragmatic manner, he became more and more convinced of his own point of view. Based on this, it is speculated that her role as a ghost animal is to fertilize the ghost flower .......

Thinking like this, Shi Nian was a little depressed.

Ten spring and autumn have passed, and Ten Thoughts have changed from a small cute thing to a behemoth, and has grown into a ghost beast that everyone fears at an incredible speed. Her self-care ability has also reached an unprecedented level, in the mountains and forests, she can solve her own food and drink problems, but she still likes the milk fruit that the ghost clan provides every month. But ever since she inadvertently roared and stunned the people who had come to deliver the milk fruit, every time the person who came to deliver the milk fruit had become the patriarch's son, a cub she had watched grow up. The cub was the same age as hers, ten years old.

Shi Nian lay not far away, quietly looking at the cub, who was carefully observing the ghost flower.

"If you really like it, you can pick one and take it home." Ten thoughts comforted, and the cub lay motionless and stared at the ghost flower for a full sunrise and sunset.

"Mother said that the ghost flower is the treasure of our tribe, and without the ghost flower, our tribe will also perish." Ten years old, in the eyes of Shi Nian is still a child, and in the tribe, a ten-year-old child is already half of the labor force.

"This large area is full of ghost flowers, it doesn't matter if you pick one or two." When Shi Nian said this, she was proud in her heart, from a ghost flower to a ghost flower, this is all her credit, and ten years of hard work have not been in vain.

Recklessly shook his head, reluctant to pick these precious ghost flowers.

"Since I can't bear it, let's take a look at it more. Now you need to go back while the moon is shining. As soon as Shi Nian finished speaking, he picked him up and ran to the foot of the mountain without waiting for a reckless nod, his silver-white fur shining dazzlingly in the moonlight.

Because of the arrival of the ghost beast, the animals fell to the ground one after another, and the mountains and forests were silent.

There is no time in the mountains, and Shi Nian, who stayed in the deep mountains and old forests, did not know the situation outside, but the sudden mountain and forest fire made her flee to the mountains and forests in the north with three ghost flowers before she had time to tell. Birds in the past had told her that there was a sea in the north.

All the plants were burned by the fire, and the embarrassed ghost people looked at the bare mountain forest, leaving only a dazed despair.

On the northern coast, Shi Nian found the water cave, planted the ghost flower in the warm water cave, and guarded the ghost flower to slowly adapt to the environment of the cave.

The silver-white fur on Shi Nian's body was scorched by this mountain fire, and the skin that was clinging to the fur was burning and painful, even if the ghost flower adapted to the bad environment of the coast, her body still did not return to its previous majesty.

In the sea, she saw fairy tale mermaids, but these mermaids did not have the romance of fairy tales, they were fierce and cunning, at the bottom of the sea, they were overlords, and they could even rely on the rapid wriggling of their tails to hunt on the continent.

Under the selection and elimination of nature, survival of the fittest is an immutable truth. As the only ghost beast on the mainland, Shi Nian knew that the ghost clan that relied on the ghost flower to survive would be eliminated by the cruel living environment, and neither did she. The ghost flower is the only one, and she is the only one, neither of which lasts forever.

Shi Nian was not surprised to see Mang, she left traces along the way, and Mang, who had been with her for nearly ten years, must be able to detect her route.

"Only you?" Shi Nian looked at the recklessness of the lonely figure, and was a little surprised.

Mang sat in front of the ghost flower, took a deep breath and said, "The mountain forest fire burned our tribe, many people died, and only twenty people escaped from this fire. ”

"When the smoke blows, you should be warned." Ten thoughts' hearts sank, and even if they were in the mountains and forests, many animals escaped. And she was chased behind by the fire because she delayed the time by moving the ghost flower from the soil, and the ghost clan at the foot of the mountain should not have died so much.

"The people of the clan have lived at the foot of the Ghost Mountain all their lives, and they don't want to leave the place that their ancestors have guarded for generations, even if they die."

"Ignorance!" Ten Thoughts felt both angry and sad.

"A long time ago, the entire continent was in full bloom with this ghost flower, and the footprints of our people are all over the continent. Later, the sudden change in the climate of the continent made the ghost flower gradually go extinct like other disappeared animals, and the fate of our ghost race was like the ghost flower, and it will eventually go to extinction. These were the last words of the great elder of the clan on the way to escape. Mang's eyes were full of confusion, he saw a lot of scenery in the search for ghost beasts, people of different races, beasts with different abilities, when their ghost race was on one side, struggling for survival, he didn't know that the rest of the continent had undergone earth-shaking changes.

After a moment of confusion, Mang's eyes re-firmed, and he said as if he was telling an oath: "We must live no matter what, as long as we live, there is hope." ”

"Did your mother and eldest brother escape?" Shi Nian lay on the ground and asked slowly.

The mother fled behind her father's back. The eldest brother also escaped. They were behind me and would be able to get back soon. ”

As Mang had said, ten days later, the only remaining twenty-four members of the Ghost Clan came to the Water Rock Cave and looked at the Ghost Flower full of vitality with excitement.

Mang's face was expressionless and combing the dry and withered yellow fur on Shi Nian's body, he didn't know if the ghost beast had reached the time when the oil ran out, but he knew that the ghost beast's body was very bad now. It's so bad that I can't stand up.

As Mang knew, Shi Nian couldn't stand up anymore, the soles of her feet burned by the fire were slowly rotting from the bottom up, and she could feel the Grim Reaper approaching her step by step.

"Mang, who will be the next patriarch." Ten Nian asked, even though she was now too weak to support her weight, her long-standing deterrent power made the clansmen take three steps back in fright.

Recklessly, there was a bad premonition.

"I will be the next patriarch." Mang looked up at the clansmen and said solemnly to Shi Nian.

"That's good." In the end, it was the cub who watched him grow up, Shi Nian knew that he was reckless, and he trusted him very much.

Shi Nian closed his eyes, pondered for a moment, sighed in his heart, and said slowly: "Mang, as the patriarch, I need you to pay more attention to the character of the clansmen, be tolerant of children, and pay more attention to the cultivation of their moral qualities. Kindness, justice, and courage are the spirits that every member of our ghost clan should aspire to and constantly pursue. ”

"I will write these into the rules of the clan and let everyone remember them." Recklessly knelt on the ground and swore an oath.

"You're the kid I watched grow up with, and I believe in you. I believe you can take the ghost clan well. Ten Nian's head rested on Mang's shoulder, and he continued softly, "I will give you the strength to survive, and I hope that the Ghost Clan can make good use of this power. ”

After Shi Nian finished speaking, he looked up at the clansmen who were lying on the ground one after another, used all his strength to stand up, endured the severe pain under his feet, walked in front of the ghost flower step by step, lowered his head and kissed the ghost flower gently.

The ghost flower swayed.

Under the frightened expression of the ghost clan, Shi Nian plucked all the ghost flowers and squeezed out the flower juice of the ghost flowers in the stone bowl.

"Mang, come here." Shi Nian knelt on the ground and shouted weakly at Mang.

"Use your stone knife to cut through the center of the ghost pattern in the palm of my hand, and bring the blood into the stone bowl."

"No!" Recklessly shook his head, he never cried, tears constantly blurred his vision, he was raised by Shi Nian, he knew the knowledge and secrets that many clansmen did not know, and his innate intelligence made it easy for him to guess Shi Nian's intentions.

"Recklessly, there is no other choice." Shi Nian looked at Mang helplessly.

Shi Nian gritted his teeth and stabbed the knife into the palm of his hand.

The blue blood and the red flower juice slowly merge into a noble purple.

Ten Nian drew the pattern of the ghost flower on the body of each ghost tribesman, and the pattern with the blessing of the ghost flower and the ghost beast was integrated into the blood and bones of the tribesmen, and this blessing will make the ghost clan transcend the constraints of nature and surpass all species.

Drawing the last stroke on Mang's forehead, Shi Nian, who no longer had any strength, fell to the ground.

Breathing has also become a luxury.

Mang touched the burning pattern on his forehead, choked and knelt down to Shi Nian's side, picked up the ghost flower residue that squeezed out the flower juice, held Shi Nian's head, and said sadly: "Eat this, maybe you can still live." ”

Shi Nian wanted to smile at Mang, but found that she didn't even have the strength to open her eyes.

Mang chewed up the ghost dregs and fed them to Shi Nian little by little.

When the last bit of ghost dregs disappeared, the ghost beast disappeared into this ancient continent as if it suddenly appeared.

There are three hundred and fifty-six sunrises in a year, and I send you three hundred and sixty-five blessings......

Familiar singing, familiar streets, familiar feelings.

Shi Nian got up from the ground in a daze, slowly looked at the familiar street, looked carefully at the clean palm, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became bigger and bigger.

Against the brilliant sunset, two familiar figures engraved in the bones of Shi Nian walked on the street.

"Ten thoughts? Ten thoughts! ”

A trembling voice exploded in my ears.

Shi Nian turned back suddenly.

"Daddy! Mom! ”

Shi Nian smiled proudly, she did it, she came back! 166 Reading Network