Volume 1 Cold Front, Troubled Times Chapter 0007 People's hearts are unpredictable

The Tianyuan Continent is martial arts.

Martial arts is the inheritance of the people of the Tianyuan Continent since ancient times, and it is the foundation of life. And the origin of martial arts has long been included in various books and classics.

In the Tianyuan Continent, the longest, most extensive, and most classic Zengguang Xianshu "Tianyuan Wuzhi Tonglu", there is a author at the beginning of the cloud:

"The Tianyuan Continent is vast and thousands of miles. The primitive deep forests are widely spread, and between the mountains and rivers, there are many vicious beasts and fierce birds, some are called strange beasts, demon beasts, some are called brute beasts, and some are called evil beasts. Born with great power, bloodthirsty and aggressive, poisoning the ancestors and harming one party. The ancestors were trapped in fire and water, and they were almost wiped out, so they wept blood to survive. At that time, the sages came out, enlightened the people, spread the fire, taught the art of farming animals, and taught the martial arts, so as to kill the fangs and make them live in peace......"

Since ancient times, human civilization has passed many springs and autumns and experienced many reincarnations.

Now the environment of the Tianyuan Continent has finally been changed by humans.

Although the evil beasts and fierce birds still attack people and wreak havoc in all directions.

However, because people practiced martial arts, they had long avoided being slaughtered by them and were spared the fate of extinction.

Now the human race is gradually prospering, standing tall, and slowly beginning to dominate this realm. It's just that the law of the jungle has never changed, and it has even penetrated into the bones of human social civilization.

In this world, people don't want to be left out of the environment. You have to be strong. And to become a strong man, you must practice martial arts. However, in addition to opportunities, martial arts training also requires resources.

Because martial arts cheats are not available everywhere, martial arts talents are not available to everyone, and martial arts resources are not abundant.

As a result, the world also presents human social classes.

The difference between people is extremely obvious here, the difference between martial arts practitioners and non-martial arts practitioners, similar to the difference between the rich and the poor in the world before Zhang Teng. And the distinction between high and low is excessive, but not as good as it.

In the world before Zhang Teng, the rich exploited the poor, and here the warriors exploited the non-warriors or low-level warriors.

However, for the rich and the poor, the strong or the weak, Zhang Teng today doesn't care at all. As for practicing martial arts or something, he didn't know anything about it, let alone any interest in it.

Now he is alone and helpless. It is the weak scum of the weak, and it is simply not qualified to be exploited by the strong.

For him, the most important thing every day is what to eat, how not to starve to death and die of cold.

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.

For more than two years, Zhang Teng basically figured out his geographical location. That is, Tianyuan Continent, Suining Town, Xin'an County, Liaoxi County, Yunxia State, on the edge of the Western Barbarians.

Suining Town, a total of three villages and eighteen villages. That is, Linjiazhuang, Wangjiazhuang, Yejiazhuang, Ning'an Village, Min'an Village, Tong Village, Li Village, Fang Village, Mu Village, Xingfeng Village and other 18 villages. There are more than 3,000 households in total, with a population of more than 18,000.

In the past two years, Zhang Teng has never gone outside Suining Town.

He neither wanted to, nor could he.

Suining Town is one of the most remote towns in the west of Yunxia Kingdom, surrounded by mountains, dense jungles, rugged and complex roads, infested with wild beasts, and full of dangers. With a weak child like him, even if he was not eaten by wild beasts, he would lose his way and eventually starve to death.

What's more, there is no need for him to go outside.

This is not his original world, and there are no relatives and friends outside him. What's the point of going out?

Of course, people are curious.

Zhang Teng also thought about going outside, but after suffering a heavy setback, he completely broke off this thought.

It was the sixth month since he arrived in this world, and he was barely able to communicate with people, and he tentatively went to an out-of-town merchant to ask for salt. He did this in the hope of improving his life through trading on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wanted to learn about the outside world.

However, he did not expect that the other party not only forcibly snatched the little prey he had fought so hard, but also falsely accused him of being a thief, insulted him, and even beat him. In the end, Zhang Teng could only swallow his anger, hugged his head and ran away, fled into the mountains and forests again, relied on grassroots spring water, and survived with difficulty for a few days.

As the saying goes, eat a sting, grow a wisdom.

Since then, Zhang Teng no longer intends to contact people outside Suining Town, and he is tired of running for food every day, and his interest in the outside world is gradually exhausted.

The truth of the law of the jungle, now he has long understood, and he knows very well that with his own strength, no matter where he is, it is almost the same. Staying in Suining Town honestly, at least he is more familiar with the environment, and it is relatively easy to get food, so he will not starve to death soon.

It was late autumn in September, and a group of displaced people came to Suining Town.

I heard that it was the civil strife in Yunxia, and the smoke was everywhere, and most of the counties and counties in Yangzhou were also affected by military disasters and droughts, and the people could only flee to the most remote places. The victims along the way were really hungry and mourning. And during this period of time, a group of displaced people happened to enter Suining Town.

Zhang Teng witnessed the tragic situation of the homeless people, who were ragged and skinny, selling their children and begging everywhere.

On this day, Zhang Teng, who caught wild meat in the mountains, boiled wild vegetables, and barely had a full meal, just arrived at a simple old farmer in Linjiazhuang, Suining Town, and exchanged some medicinal herbs for salt and oil.

Zhang Teng, who is well-behaved, has now figured out the way and knows what kind of people he should trade with and what to trade.

Generally speaking, most people don't bully a small child because of a few herbs. After all, adults still want to save face. And these herbs are not rare, you can always pick them with a little time. Adults, on the other hand, are often busy with farming and don't have so much effort to collect medicines. Zhang Teng, who has been here for a while, finally found a way to change something he needs.

On the road, Zhang Teng saw a one-legged middle-aged man with a thin yellow face and thin muscles, who was prostrating and begging on the side of the road with a child about five or six years old on crutches.

The five- or six-year-old boy had unkempt hair, skinny skin, his lips were already chapped with thirst, and his voice was small and weak. After shouting a few times, he fell to the ground, and his little body never straightened up again.

Seeing this, the man picked up the dying child and cried, calling for passers-by to give some porridge and water to save his life.

Zhang Teng hung three bamboo tubes, two of which were filled with salt and oil, and one of which was filled with wild fruit pulp mixed with water. Seeing this, he hurried over to save people.

"Water, something to drink. He untied the bamboo tube and handed it to the man, and said to him.

The man pulled the plug and poured some fruit water into the child's mouth. The boy drank some wild fruit syrup, and slowly woke up, but he whispered to the man that it was good and wanted to go back and give some of the fruit to his brother.

The man agreed, but he was embarrassed because he couldn't carry her back because of his inconvenience.

Zhang Teng thought about doing good things to the end and sent the Buddha to the west. Although he is more than eight or nine years old, his strength is not small. So he decided to carry the child on his back and accompany them back to the place where they had stayed.

At first, the man led the way, but nothing out of the ordinary. However, as he walked, Zhang Teng realized that something was wrong.

Because the place where he walks is becoming more and more remote, there are fewer and fewer pedestrians, and this area is a wild forest, and there are often wild wolves and wild dogs in the morning and evening in the forest, which is not very safe.

Zhang Teng squinted his eyes and looked carefully at the man, and found that under the man's dirty and fluffy coat, his waist was a little bulging. As I walked, a strange bump appeared slightly.

He was pondering, wondering what it was.

Suddenly, a very small, almost inaudible voice came from my ear: "Brother, daddy is a bad person." ”

Zhang Teng trembled slightly, he immediately thought of something, only to feel a chill hit his back vertebrae, which immediately made his hairs stand on end.

As a result, his speed slowed down slightly, and he began to distance the two of them intentionally or unintentionally.

After walking for a while, the distance between the two was farther away, the man was a little strange, stopped and turned to Zhang Teng and said: "Why is Engong walking slower and slower, is he tired of carrying the little girl on his back?" I live not far from here, and I am almost there, please ask Engong to go faster." ”

"Oh, okay. Zhang Teng stopped and answered the man from a distance.

He turned around and smiled slightly, made a relaxed expression, and asked the little girl behind him in a low voice, "Little sister, you are so heavy, have you gained weight by eating meat these days?"

"Well, I ate it. The little girl replied casually, and asked a little unhappily, "Am I fat?"

Hearing her say that she ate, Zhang Teng trembled slightly, and asked in a low voice, "Well, it's a little fat." By the way, what's wrong with your daddy?"

When the little girl heard this, her little face turned pale, her body trembled slightly, and her eyes showed a look of horror.

As if remembering something terrible, she kept saying, "Daddy is a bad guy...... Daddy is the bad guy...... Villain...... What did my mother say...... He gave meat to my mother, but my mother didn't eat it...... Hit by Daddy...... Daddy carried his mother away...... Never came back......"

Hearing this, Zhang Teng couldn't help clenching his fists, he lowered his voice and continued: "Little sister, go to your father's, my brother is leaving." ”

At this moment, the man over there urged again: "Engong, come here, hurry up." ”

"Brother, I don't want to go to Daddy's, I'm afraid...... I'm scared of Daddy...... Daddy looks so scary when he looks at me every day...... Take me away, I'm looking for my mother...... Woo woo ......" The little girl listened, suddenly grabbed her nervous clothes, tears rolled in her eyes, her nose twitched, and she cried quietly.

When Zhang Teng heard this, his brows couldn't help frowning, but his face quickly showed a resolute look.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Teng lifted the little girl on his back to it, and then turned around suddenly, running back the same way without looking back.

He deliberately said loudly: "Big brother, you wait for me first, I left something important behind." Now go back and get it, and you'll be waiting there!"

"Hey, hey, Engong, what did you leave behind? Engong! Engong, where are you going?" the man suddenly shouted. As he spoke, he quickly reached into his waist and chased after Zhang Teng with a cane.

"Clothes! I forgot to take my clothes, you don't have to come over! Wait there!" Zhang Teng shouted, the more creepy he felt, he said in his mouth, his feet did not stop at all, but faster and faster.

"Engong, don't run, tell me if you have something urgent, wait for me!" The man saw Zhang Teng's desperate running energy, and he didn't know what the situation was at first.

But seeing him running away with his daughter on his back, without the slightest intention of turning back, the man immediately woke up.

He couldn't help but be shocked and angry: "Good little rabbit cub! You don't want to run away today!"

The man immediately tore the skin of the face, and while pulling out a sharp knife with a bull's ear from under his clothes, he chased after him with a curse.