11. Werewolf Month
A qiฤ life loves power.
When Parker concentrates on confronting a ferocious wolf, he deeply understands the charm of this sentence.
This is a lone wolf with strong bones and fierce eyes.
The wolf is a social animal, and there are only two reasons why it is alone, one is to fail in the fight for the position of wolf king, and the other is to be too greedy and driven out of the wolf pack.
Whatever the reason, it's an extremely difficult guy to deal with. But Parker was not afraid, he was the most courageous hunter in the village, and countless prey died under his sword.
The lone wolf lowered its head and looked ready to pounce, a handful of white hairs on its forehead, and a hoarse growl in its throat, as if it were swallowing saliva.
In the darkness of the night, its eyes glowing green were even more terrifying.
Parker clenched the scimitar in his hand, and his green eyes popped out fiercely, and he began to strike "wolf" first.
The lone wolf also rose up, its rough claws and massive body slamming above his head. Parker turned around at this, his figure flashed, and just as he was about to make contact with the wolf's paws, he violently twisted his scimitar and swung it towards the wolf's belly.
However, it was shrewd, and had already expected the other party to attack its weak parts, so it deftly turned to one side, its claws lightly falling on the branches, and its dark green eyes flashed with a sly look.
Parker was shocked in his heart, his trick against the prey was almost a hundred shots, could this wild wolf become a sperm?
No matter how strong a man is, he can't compare to a native wolf.
Parker clearly recognized his inferiority, and he couldn't compete with it with his bare hands.
In a flash of light, he thought of the trap he had designed in the afternoon, and there was no more useful time than now.
Parker pulled out a small โกโก from behind his back and deliberately shot it into the lone wolf's eyebrows, knowing that an attack of this speed wouldn't hurt it, but it would be good to anger the arrogant and cold-blooded fellow.
The lone wolf was indeed enraged, and a dark green eye flashed in it, and with a roar at the moon, he raised his four paws and rushed towards Parker violently.
Seeing that his plan had succeeded, Parker turned and ran in the direction of the trap, the thorny path was wet with dew, and the corners of his clothes were torn apart by the bushes, but he couldn't do much because there was a hungry wolf chasing after him.
Parker quickly pulled out the cowhide rope he was carrying, and with a flick of it in the air, he hooked a thick branch, and his feet were off the ground like Tarzan of the apes swinging to the other side.
The lone wolf apparently did not expect his movements, and by the time he realized that he had deceited, his front foot had already stepped into the trap, and then his bulky body also fell, and the dead branches and leaves on the ground fell with it into the deep dark pit.
Parker clapped his hands and crouched down to the edge of the pit, and by the light of the moon, he saw the lone wolf with wide-eyed eyes and bleeding from the corners of its mouth, and several sharp, long bamboo thorns piercing its chest.
He crept into the pit cautiously, took out a scimitar from his waist and cut open the lone wolf's belly in two blows, and peeled off the wolf's skin with swift movements.
"It's Kanasha's birthday in a few days, and it's time to give her a wolfskin scarf." He said to himself, thinking of the girl he loved, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl.
"Hmm, what is this?" Parker noticed a small rock falling from the wolf's belly.
He picked it up and saw that it was not the size of a palm, it was a thin fan, and the surface was very smooth and round, but the color was really beautiful, as bright and transparent as the moonlight at the moment, well, this can be given to Kanasha as a pendant for necklaces. Didn't she keep complaining to herself about not having a decent piece of jewelry?
Parker put it in his pocket, slung the wolfskin over his shoulder, and crawled to the ground with agility.
The bright white moonlight sprinkled in the forest and fell on the body of the dead lone wolf, and an imperceptible green gas leaked out of its body, and it couldn't help but drift outward. After a while, the lone wolf's corpse vanished, and there was a deep, thick, viscous liquid in its original place.
At the same moment, the small stone in Parker's pocket flickered faintly, like a gauze-wrapped firefly, but he didn't know it.
When he got home, Parker found his mother and sister sitting at the table with a sad face, a dim candle lamp on the mottled table.
"Oh Parker, thank God, you're finally back!" When his mother saw him, she came to him with red eyes and hugged him.
"Oh Mom, don't worry, I'm fine." Parker strodged his mother's twitching back and said comfortingly.
His younger sister Julie also came over and hugged him tightly, "Brother, how can we not worry?" It's so late, and seeing that you haven't come back yet, my mother and I are dying. โ
Parker stroked her hair, "Brother wants to hunt more prey, earn more money, and then marry you off in style!" โ
"Brother!" Julie blushed.
"Okay Parker, Julie is still young, she is not in a hurry to get married, but your wedding date with Canasha is coming soon, and we should also get ready," the mother touched the wound on his shoulder and said distressedly, "Child, what is going on?" Did you encounter any accidents today? โ
Parker briefly talked about the encounter with a lone wolf, he didn't want his mother and sister to worry, because he didn't have a father since he was a child, he knew how hard it was for his mother to raise two children, and now that he was older, he had to protect them with his own strength.
After washing up and changing into the clean clothes his mother had given him, Parker suddenly remembered the little moonlit stone, but he rummaged through the tattered dirty clothes, but he still couldn't find it.
"Could it be that I lost it on the way back," he rubbed his head in anguish, "and it seems that we will have to wait until next month's market to buy jewelry for Canasha in town." โ
Perhaps it was a cold at night, and Parker had a high fever the next day, and he was now young and strong, but he was so sick that he couldn't even get out of bed.
This made my mother very anxious, and she called the sorcerer in the village and boiled him a lot of thick black potion, but it didn't work at all. His mother and sister stayed by his side every day, and their eyes were swollen like walnuts from crying.
Kanasha also came to see him, and Parker wanted to talk to her so badly that he felt that all his strength was drained, and his brain hurt like an explosion, and he couldn't even open his eyes.
Just when everyone in the village thought he was going to die, Parker miraculously got better, and in just three days, from the brink of death to the time he was brought back to life, he felt like he was reborn, and his body was filled with strength, screaming and rushing out of his body.
However, this strange sensation lasted only a minute, and Parker felt the same as before. He touched his chest, flicked his arm a few times, and walked to the window to look up at the sun.
"Oh Parker, my good boy, how did you get out of bed?" His mother came in with a bowl of medicinal juice and was surprised and delighted to see him alive.
"Mom, I'm fine, how many days have I been asleep?"
"Parker, you've been in a coma for three days and three nights, and you had a high fever last night, why are you getting better today?" With tears in her eyes, the mother touched his arm in disbelief.
"I don't know," Parker thought for a moment, lowering his head, "maybe God forbid!" โ
Parker was the only male in the family, so he took up his scimitar and went into the mountains to hunt the day after he recovered from his illness, despite his mother's dissuasion, and he was ready to make up for what he had missed a few days ago.
Of course, before that, he went to Kanasha, firstly to keep her from worrying, and secondly to give her the wolfskin scarf. Seeing that he was okay, Kanasha got another wolf skin scarf, and couldn't help but excitedly put her arms around the other party's neck and kissed them.
The girl's bright green eyes and delicate rose-like lips are still deeply reflected in her mind at this moment.
Parker touched his cheek and smiled unconsciously.
Suddenly, he smelled a strange smell that made him feel sick, his stomach was a little sick, his head began to ache, and even the blood resisted the surge.
Parker unconsciously took a few steps back, and when he came back to his senses, he realized that the smell came from a black-brown bush not far away, which was full of blue-purple spindle-shaped flowers, the upper calyx helmet-shaped side calyxes were nearly rounded, and the lower half of the filaments resembled broad-line wings.
Isn't this aconitum grass? It is common in the forest, and shamans also like to use it to make zuรฒ medicinal juices.
Parker was strange, he didn't usually smell it at all, and he didn't feel uncomfortable, but why was he so resistant to approaching it today? Could it be that I got sick?
Parker shook his head in confusion and chose another path, for some reason, the aconitum gave him a strange feeling, nausea with a hint of fear.
After a few more days, after Parker set up the trap, he found that the sky was already dark, and a half-moon shadow faintly appeared in the gray sky. In order not to worry his mother and sister, he packed his tools and prepared to go home.
The forest began to cool down, and the white mist shrouded the verdant plants, and Parker slowed down his steps and walked carefully, since the serious illness, he had figured out that if he wanted to protect his mother and sister, he had to be safe first.
Before I knew it, a dusky moon had hung in the night, and the round jade disk was quiet, and there were a few thin dark clouds around it through the treetops. On closer inspection, the smooth and graceful curvature edge of the full moon seemed to reveal a different color, like a red silk thread blurring out, gradually expanding, and occupying the entire circle.
Parker rubbed his eyes, his heart was shocked, but he couldn't take his eyes off, he looked at a blood moon, his pupils gathered and contracted, the smell of blood rolling in his stomach, his whole body was itchy, as if there were countless spikes piercing out of his body, and his blood vessels seemed to be choked by something, he felt difficult to breathe, his heart accelerated, and his consciousness was shaky.
Immediately afterward, he heard a loud and vicissitudes of life clearly coming from his throat.