Chapter 2 The Upper Reaches of the River
The Mo River flows down from the depths of the primeval forest, soars through the canyon, and encounters a narrow mountain between two narrow mountains, roaring and rushing, and the snow-white waves are higher than the mountains on both sides. No one knows where the end of the river is, and no one knows what is at the end of the river.
After Yue Yan had dinner, he stood quietly on the edge of the Mo River. Looking at the calm river, I recalled that I always liked to make a fierce son in the Mo River and like to catch fish in the river. Thinking of the Mohe that brought him countless joys, but at this moment he seemed a little dignified.
"If you want to enter Xiangbei Academy, I'm afraid that only by going to the upper reaches of the river, going there to exercise your physique and exercising your strength, can you have a glimmer of hope to enter," Yue Yan muttered softly.
"Grandpa, tomorrow I want to go hunting with Uncle Ergouzi", Yue Yan said to Grandpa slowly. "Child, that's too dangerous, there are too many fierce birds and beasts in the forest, and you are too small to be safe, wait a few years, and then you will go hunting with your second dog uncle." Grandpa touched Yue Yan's head with a full face, and said dotingly.
"Grandpa, in fact, I secretly went to the stele last night to test my spiritual power, but I found that I didn't have it in my own body, I think I can only rely on my brute strength to achieve the test of the stele." Yue Yan said with some frustration.
Looking at Yue Yan, who was a little lost, Grandpa Zhang also knew that if he continued to stop Yue Yan, he might leave a thorn in Yue Yan's heart, so he comforted: "Then you must follow your second dog uncle closely when you go, he can protect you well." I'll go and talk to your second dog's uncle", after saying that, he got up and left and went to the second dog's uncle's house.
As soon as the next day dawned, Yue Yan got up early and waited under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, and the stone monument was still standing quietly. But only this time, in Yue Yan's heart, it was not like the first time he saw a lot of joy and curiosity, but more of the pressure brought to him by the stone stele.
"Haha, Yue Yan This kid is really promising, he wanted to go hunting with us at a young age", the voice of Uncle Ergou came. I saw that Uncle Ergouzi's arms were thick, and the green tendons on his muscles were beating up and down with his words. He holds a three-pronged knife in his hand and a sharp short knife and rope pinned to his waist. As soon as the words changed, his slightly honest face was angrily burying his second dog, "If only my second dog could have Yue Yan's child who is sensible", he laughed after speaking. The second girl's father echoed and said: "I see that Yue Yan This kid is becoming more and more pleasing to the eye, or I will give you my second girl as a daughter-in-law in the future", Yue Yan listened, his head shook like a rattle, and his mouth kept saying: "No, no, no", for fear that if he said it slowly for a while, Er Ya would marry him. As soon as Yue Yan thought of it, he was afraid of the scene where Er Ya kicked Er Dog in the river.
At this time, the second dog lying on the bed sneezed, got up in a daze, who was talking bad about me, and fell asleep again after speaking.
After everyone gathered, they took various hunting tools and began to set off towards the primeval forest, and a group of seven or eight people crossed the flat path and slowly walked up the Mo River. At first, the path was clearly visible and the trees were a little sparse, but the deeper you go, the more you find that the path is basically gone. "I'm about to enter the primeval forest, everyone should be vigilant", the second dog uncle who walked at the front turned back and said to everyone.
The more Yan looked, he saw that there were no bushes, all of them were tall and upright thousand-year-old trees, much thicker than the millstone of his grandfather's house. The branches and foliage of the trees are intertwined, and the outstretched foliage covers the sky. The narrow old approach is crooked, eerie and terrifying. The crowd stepped on the thick leaves, making a rustling sound, accompanied by the foul smell of the primordial fallen leaves due to the lack of sunlight for many years.
The surface of the Mo River was no longer calm, the waves were turbulent, and the water hit the stone ridge heavily, and splashed into white foam in a rage. The river roared like a monster, wheezing like a wounded beast. The cold air generated makes people breathless, and it feels like it penetrates into the bones and penetrates into the blood vessels.
Yue Yan looked at Uncle Ergou a little nervously, only to see Uncle Ergou Zi say in a deep voice: "Immediately approach the lair of the giant wolf, everyone hurry up and prepare to set traps, Yue Yan follows me closely", I saw everyone slowly moving forward. After walking out of about 400 meters, he stopped, only to see the second girl take out the iron catalpa from behind him, leaving aside the heavy accumulated leaves. The leaves were thrown out of a foul smell, and Yue Yan covered his nose, it was really too stinky, it felt worse than the that the iron egg pulled by the river.
An iron egg that is in the distance, a spirit. "What's the matter, I can't well today", after saying that, he lifted his pants and ran into the distance. Leave a pile of unused unused unused paper messy in the wind.
Several people took turns digging the earth, and after about three hours, a large pit about ten meters long appeared in front of them, and the second father went down to the bottom of the pit with a ladder made of wooden sticks and ropes. It took a hundred or so sticks of sharpened wood upside down at the bottom of the pit to stop it, and in the middle of the pit and in the four corners of the pit lay huge traps.
Yue Yan felt that he couldn't be idle, so he waited for the second father to place the trap and help cover the net above the trap. Then cover it with accumulated leaves and newly dug soil, and when you are done, everyone slowly retreats backwards. One by one looked exhausted. At this time, it felt like it was getting dark, and everyone sat next to each other. Keep each other warm, because the fire will be particularly abrupt throughout the primeval forest. You can only resist the cold on your own.
In the dark night, the primeval forest is more gloomy, the cold is heavier, a cool breeze blows, and the leaves fall in a flutter. From time to time, wolf howls and low roars of unknown beasts can be seen in the distance. It makes people feel that there is a beast from an unknown place at any time, hissing everything, making people feel a chill on their backs and a cold sweat.
Yue Yan felt that the night in the primeval forest was as if it had been dyed by Mozi, and he couldn't see his five fingers. He sat next to Uncle Ergouzi, who wanted to hold him in his arms to keep warm, but was rejected by Yue Yan, because he understood that he had to adapt to the environment here and endure the cold test of his body. In the second half of the night, the temperature was even lower, and Yue Yan shivered from the cold, and he felt that every time the wind blew through it, it was like a knife cutting his flesh, and his teeth couldn't help but tremble. In order to avoid making a sound, Yue Yan gritted his teeth tightly, and the cold wind blew every inch of Yue Yan's skin. He used to laugh at the fact that the two dogs were ten years old, and they still had a runny nose. At this moment, his blue nose has already covered his nose, slowly falling down like a drop of water.
The giant wolf is cunning and cold-blooded by nature, even if everyone is some distance away from the trap. They didn't dare to make a slight noise, so everyone leaned on the huge trees to close their eyes and recuperate, and even if there were fallen leaves covering their bodies, everyone didn't pay attention.
But this is bitter, this is the first time he has experienced it, and he is still only a ten-year-old boy. Others have experienced this environment many times. The cold wind blowing by the knife, the corrosive smell of the fallen leaves, none of them rushed to his skin, his sense of taste. There was a feeling of hunger in his abdomen, and he felt exhausted for a while, but he kept gritting his teeth and persevering. Don't let yourself sleep by relying on the second dog uncle.
It's just that everyone didn't notice it, not far away, an old man watched quietly, and everyone's actions were watched by the old man. The old man's body seemed to be integrated with the ancient wood, and the biting cold wind and the scattered fallen leaves automatically slipped away when they were about to touch the old man. Looking closely, there is a strong spiritual power around the old man, like a layer of light curtain isolating the old man from the outside world, and it is difficult for foreign objects to step into the old man's light curtain, and this kind of light curtain is even more unpretentious, without a trace of spiritual power overflowing, and the old man's control of spiritual power does not spill out at all. The old man did not have a trace of messiness, and was still calm and calm. Even the deep edge of the primeval forest, which seemed to ordinary people to be extremely dangerous, did not cause the old man to fluctuate in the slightest. The old man's eyes are only everyone, to be precise, the old man's attention is only Yue Yan.
Yue Yan's actions and expressions were all in full view of the old man, including Yue Yan's stubborn refusal to lean on the second dog uncle to keep warm, Yue Yan clenched his teeth to prevent himself from making a sound, and Yue Yan's snot covered his entire chin without reaching out to wipe it. That is a stubbornness that belongs to Yue Yan himself.
For a long time, the old man thought that Yue Yan and Mu'er were just ordinary childhood playmates, and it had been a long time. When everyone grows up, the memories of each other will be blurred and will be scattered with the wind. There will be no traces, but tonight's Yue Yan's performance made the old man feel a little moved, but that trace of emotion disappeared in an instant.
I remembered that Mu'er often recites a sentence, "The wind flutters and the willows fly, and the flowers bloom according to people". The old man shook his head helplessly.
However, at this time, Yue Yan didn't expect that the old man's mind would be complicated. Yue Yan put all his energy into fighting against his body.
"Whew... Oh... Whew"
Suddenly, the silence of the primeval forest was broken by a wolf howl, and the wolf howl was like a big drum, and it struck suddenly. There was a deafening sound, even if it was far away, it still shook everyone's eardrums, and the sound slowly approached from afar. The noise is getting louder and louder.
Although Yue Yan has no spiritual power, he has never seen anyone who uses spiritual power. But judging from the sound of pain in people's eardrums, Yue Yan felt that this giant wolf felt extremely dangerous. He began to wonder whether he and Uncle Ergou could survive from the clutches of the giant wolf, instead of thinking about whether he could capture the giant wolf.
But Uncle Ergouzi, the second father was in good spirits after hearing the wolf howl of the giant wolf. Although everyone still did not say anything, they quietly waited for the giant wolf to fall into the trap of the road that must be passed.
The eyes of the giant wolf were like two huge green ink gems in the dark primeval forest, glowing green. It was eerie, and the huge wolf claws made a slight noise as they landed heavily on the rotting leaves. But at the same time, there is also the sound of dripping, like water droplets gently dripping on stones.
"Could it be that it is injured", Yue Yan asked himself with some doubt in his heart.
At this time, there is a trace of whitening in the sky, and the sunlight seems to have broken through many barriers after a lot of hardships, and a few wisps have broken through the obstruction of the branches and leaves of the primeval forest, scattered among the ancient trees. It adds a little vitality to the cold and damp surface, and drives away some of the cold.
The whoosh is getting closer, and the giant wolf is getting closer and closer to the trap. Everyone's expressions became more and more solemn, and Yue Yan was engrossed in listening to the sound of the giant wolf's claws landing on the accumulated leaves with every step.
The slight roar from the giant wolf's mouth clearly reached everyone's ears, very panting and heavy. The atmosphere reached its peak, because the giant wolf walked ten meters further, and it was about to fall into the huge pit dug by everyone in advance.
Uncle Ergou couldn't help but hold the three-pronged knife tightly, and the green tendons on his hands burst out, covering the muscles tightly like a spider's web. It seemed that at that moment, Uncle Ergou was about to use all his strength to plunge the three-pronged knife into the giant wolf's body. I don't know when, the second father has already pulled out the machete on his back, and the fallen leaves cover the blade. Only one piece of the handle was held in the hand of the second father.
Compared with the solemn faces of everyone, the old man not far away was still calm, even if the giant wolf appeared, he did not attract the slightest attention, like an ancient well. It's as if everything in the world has nothing to do with him, completely out of it. The only thing that could catch his attention was the young man Yue Yan not far away.
The wolf was still moving forward, but more and more slowly. At a distance of five meters from the giant pit, the giant wolf suddenly stopped and looked around vigilantly. The wolf is suspicious by nature, and under the fierce and cold-blooded appearance, he has a cautious wolf heart.
At this moment, the giant wolf and everyone seemed to be frozen, and they did not move at all. The wolf's head looked around vigilantly, its huge fangs exposed, and a low growl came out from its hideous face. The sound of dripping drops of water is the only sound that breaks the silence at this moment. The giant wolf was indeed injured, and there was a huge four-clawed wound on the giant wolf's abdomen, which was very shocking. There are even some places where Sensen's white bones are exposed, which is even more hideous.
The giant wolf looked at it vigilantly and walked forward slowly. "Four meters, three meters, two meters, one meter", everyone kept counting the distance between the giant wolf and the trap in their hearts.
"Bang", a loud bang, was the sound of a huge fall, followed by a terrible wolf howl, resounding through the primeval forest, instantly breaking the silence around the primeval forest.
Everyone rushed up, and the second dog father and Yue Yan were the closest to the giant pit. I saw that the second dog father jumped up and rushed forward with a three-pronged knife, and Yue Yan was the second. Holding the dagger that his grandfather gave him. Closely following the second dog father, the others also took out their weapons. The second father also rushed forward with a machete. Some had axes, some with bows and arrows, and some with great spears.