Chapter 11, a new squad is born

Sixty kilometers east of the desert of Xianzang No Man's Land, in a barren valley where no grass grows, there lived an ancient tribe of human beings, who had lived in this barren valley for hundreds of years, and almost no one knew about their existence, and this tribe was the Tianxun tribe. The Tianxun people worship flames, and they all have flame tattoos on their backs. In order to continue the race, for hundreds of years, the Tianxun people have been intermarrying with the Wuqian tribe, a primitive tribe behind the barren mountains in the east.

The barren cracked valley where the Tianxun tribe is located has dry weather, scarce rainfall, sparse vegetation, cracked land, and barren mountains everywhere. There are only three deep wells here that provide water for the Tianxun people. To the west and north of the Far Rift Valley, close to the desert of Xianzang no man's land, and to the east are blocked by barren mountains, and only by walking to the south, after crossing a large area of wasteland, and then climbing over a group of bare hills, can we reach the border of Qinhai.

In the big cave of the Cracked Valley, the Holy Maiden of the Tianxun Clan, Zhu Xinyan, would keep repeating a dream, which made her puzzled all the time.

On this day, Zhu Xinyan told Zhu Tianxiao, the patriarch of the Tianxun clan, about this dream he often had: "In a place where there is no sunlight, there is a vast forest, in the middle of the forest, there is a clearing, there is a huge cylindrical tower in the middle of the clearing, the tower has a total of thirteen floors, I stood under this huge tower, looked up, and soon I saw into a trance, and when I woke up, I was already in this tower! My intuition told me that this is the ninth floor of the tower! In the ninth floor, there is a huge python sleeping cross-legged. I was scared, I wanted to climb up the steps on the wall of the tower, but every time I was halfway up, the python would wake up and pounce on me! Patriarch, is this dream I often have a coincidence or not?"

Zhu Tianxiao thought for a moment and instructed Zhu Xinyan to come with him.

When he arrived at Zhu Tianxiao's cave, Zhu Tianxiao took out a bamboo bucket from the cave, and in the bamboo tube were six ancient coins used for divination. Zhu Tianxiao shook the bamboo bucket a few times, poured the coins inside to the ground, and then looked at the coins on the ground and thought...

After a few minutes, Zhu Tianxiao shook his head and said, "This hexagram? I have been divining for decades, and this kind of hexagram has never appeared! Xinyan, my clan is only afraid that something bad will happen! So you must keep going south until the end of the south, to find someone who can resolve the crisis of our clan! And I will lead the clan to leave to the north, and when the time is right, we will come back." ”

Zhu Xinyan was shocked: "What! Patriarch, my clan has lived here for more than 600 years, and has never had any quarrel with the world, nor has it been in contact with the outside world, why do you suddenly want to leave today? Is it related to this hexagram?"

Zhu Tianxiao sighed and said, "Hey, I have been divining for my people for many years in my life, and the hexagram has never deviated. But after I saw this hexagram today, it was really difficult for my heart to settle down! I had a premonition that in the near future, disaster would surely befall us in this barren valley! Xinyan, look at this hexagram, I put six ancient coins in a bamboo bucket and shook them, and then poured them to the ground, and five of them were stacked on the north side. These five coins represent the rest of our tribe, and if one coin rolls a few meters south before falling to the ground, this coin represents you! It seems that you must have a long road ahead and many difficulties!"

Zhu Xinyan stood in place after hearing this, and Zhu Tianxiao had already begun to gather the clansmen at this time.

Outside the big cave, Zhu Tianxiao gathered all the clansmen, a total of more than a thousand people. Zhu Tianxiao stood on a large rock and shouted to the people below, holding a wooden staff that symbolized prestige, "My people! We have lived in the Barren Valley for generations, intermarrying with the tribes outside the barren mountains to the east. But today, we are going to move north and start a new life! Everyone hurry back and pack their bags, and tomorrow morning, we will set off!"

Everyone was at a loss for what to do in the face of the patriarch's sudden decision, and the clansmen's questions also rose one after another!

"Patriarch, why do you suddenly want to move?"

"Yes, Patriarch, we've lived here for more than six hundred years!"

"That's right, Patriarch, it's a desert to the north, it's a no-man's land!

"Patriarch, is something going to happen?"

"Patriarch! I'm going to marry a woman from the Wuqian clan in the east in a few days!

"Patriarch, it's okay to go, my clothes drying on the mountain haven't dried yet!!"

Zhu Tianxiao clenched the wooden staff in his hand and raised it, and in an instant, there was no more silence below! It seems that he, the patriarch, still has prestige!

Zhu Tianxiao then said, "Tribesmen, the hexagram shows that we must move to the north, otherwise, there will be a great calamity!"

Zhu Xinyan was also standing in the crowd, she still couldn't accept the reality! She never dreamed that today she was telling the patriarch a dream, but it would actually lead to the current situation! She regretted it a little, and was a little confused, thinking to herself, "If I hadn't gone to the patriarch today, wouldn't the patriarch have led everyone to migrate? But if the catastrophe that the patriarch said is really coming soon, then why didn't I go to the patriarch?"

Zhu Xinyan's own brother, Zhu Xintian patted Zhu Xinyan's shoulder from behind with his hand, "What are you in a daze?

Zhu Xinyan came back to his senses, looked left and right, and the clansmen all went back to the cave to prepare. Zhu Xintian continued, "Hurry back to the cave and prepare, we will leave tomorrow morning! Go to bed early tonight!"

Zhu Xinyan hesitated for a while, and whispered, "I'm going to set off to the south alone, to the end of the south, no, not with you... ”

"What! You went to the southern end alone? why!" Zhu Xintian was surprised

"This is indicated by the hexagram of the patriarch ... Zhu Xinyan said helplessly

"W, what... The patriarch's hexagram, could it be a miscalculation? . . ”

"Brother, the patriarch has been divining for decades, have you ever made a mistake?"

"Well, that's not true, but even if it is shown in the hexagram, I can't let you go to the south alone! Mom and Dad are no longer here, so I will take care of you for them! Tomorrow, I will go to the south with you!"

"But brother, the hexagram says that I was going alone... Zhu Xinyan was about to cry aggrieved

"I can't control so much! You are my own sister, or the saint of my clan, you are my only relative! I will not leave you alone!" Zhu Xintian said firmly

"Brother!" Zhu Xinyan threw herself into Zhu Xintian's arms and cried, and Zhu Xintian also hugged her sister tightly.

Early the next morning, after the sun rose, Zhu Tianxiao led the clansmen to begin to migrate in an orderly manner, and a large group of people marched towards the north of the Barren Valley, while Zhu Xinyan and Zhu Xintian began to set off in the opposite direction to the south.

Near noon, the brother and sister were walking the wasteland, and the wooden staff held by Zhu Xinyan was also used as a crutch. And Zhu Xintian followed her with a bow and two buckets of arrows on his back.

Zhu Xinyan covered the top of his eyes with his left hand, propped his right hand on the ground with a wooden staff, and stopped to rest, "Ouch, brother, I really can't walk!

Zhu Xintian also stopped, handed the water bag on his waist to Zhu Xinyan, "Save some drink, the road is still long." ”

Zhu Xinyan took two sips of water, returned the water bag to Zhu Xintian, and then looked around. I saw that there was a heat wave constantly emerging in the distance of this wasteland, and there were barren mountains on the left and right, and the loess under my feet was dry and cracked, and it cracked when I stepped on it. Not a single grass, not a single tree, and a flock of vultures hovered above their heads, waiting for the moment when their siblings fell...

After they sat down on the hot ground and rested for a while, Zhu Xinyan untied the luggage on his back, took out dry food and donkey jerky and handed them to Zhu Xintian, and the two of them began dinner.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and a wolf howl was heard in the distance, and a pair of green eyes were slowly approaching the brother and sister. There were as many as twenty or thirty wolves in the group.

Zhu Xinyan put down the half-gnawed donkey jerky, held the wooden staff in his right hand and waved it in the air! A flame ignited on the top of the wooden staff more than a meter long, instantly illuminating the surroundings. Zhu Xintian also pulled out the arrow from the quiver behind him and put it on the bowstring, ready to shoot at any time. The cunning wolves in the distance no longer approached them when they saw the firelight, but retreated and scattered, wandering leisurely at a distance of a hundred meters from the two of them.

In fact, although the Tianxun clan admires fire, they can't conjure flames out of thin air, after all, they are human races and have no spells. But Zhu Xinyan is an exception, she has been able to control fire more skillfully since she was a child, so she can be respected as the holy daughter of the Tianxun clan at a young age!

Zhu Xintian looked at the wolves in the distance and said, "These cunning things! deliberately stay away to distract us! As long as we relax or fall asleep, they will attack them in groups! So tonight we have to take turns sleeping." When he had finished speaking, he shot the arrow from the bowstring, and a wolf was hit in the distance!

The wolves in the distance saw that the two had weapons, so they retreated a few dozen meters and spread out even more. Zhu Xintian saw that the wolves had retreated beyond his range, so he breathed a sigh of relief for the time being.

After dinner, the brother and sister didn't dare to stay longer, so they continued to hurry, Zhu Xinyan walked in front with the wooden staff burning at the top, and Zhu Xintian put the arrow on the string, always turning back to guard the wolves behind them, and the wolves also remained out of Zhu Xintian's range and followed behind them.

After continuing to rush forward for about an hour, Zhu Xintian found that the wolves behind him no longer followed, he put his mind at ease and said to Zhu Xinyan, "Great, Xinyan, the wolves are no longer following us, maybe they are afraid of the bow and arrow in my hand!"

Zhu Xinyan stopped, she noticed that animal corpses began to appear on the ground in front of her, and she said, "Brother, come and see, what kind of animal bones are these?"

Zhu Xintian approached the animal carcasses on the ground by the light of the fire, "Oh, this, it's a desert wild donkey, we were still eating it just now!"

But as the brother and sister continued to move forward, there were more and more animal carcasses on the ground, including wild asses, wild horses, sheep, rabbits... Until they saw the human bones! Zhu Xinyan was a little scared and said, "I heard the patriarch say that there are terrifying desolate insects in the wasteland south of the Cracked Valley! They are huge, move quickly, and will suddenly burrow out of the ground! The mucus spewing out of their mouths can stick to the prey and make it difficult for the prey to move... We, we must have entered the realm of the Great Desolation Worm... ”

"Don't scare yourself! The Great Wilderness Worm is just a legendary monster. Besides, even if there is really a great desolate worm, there is still a brother! Brother will protect you! Don't be afraid!"

Hearing Zhu Xintian say this, Zhu Xinyan was no longer so afraid, and continued to walk in front of him holding a burning wooden stick to light the way.

But there were more and more animal bones in front of them, and a strong smell of putrid smell was also permeating. The brother and sister could only cover their noses and move forward. But two more bones were found in front of them, which were human. The two corpses were intertwined and intertwined, and the mandibles were wide open, like inseparable lovers! Zhu Xinyan began to be scared again, and he looked at his brother behind him from time to time. And Zhu Xintian also began to be afraid, and he became more and more uneasy in his heart, and a bad premonition came to his heart.

At this moment, there was a dull sound under the ground not far away, and the brother and sister began to get nervous.