Chapter 1: The Ancient Battlefield

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I call the heavens and the earth to prove it to you today, and I will show you the blessings and misfortunes of life, death, and misfortune. So choose your life, that you and your descendants may survive. ------- Bible

Located in the western part of Middle-earth, the Ancient Battlefield is the place where the gods conquer their destiny and the place where the gods fall. The entire battlefield is made of blood and bones, and I don't know how far and wide it is. A river of red blood runs along the edge of the battlefield, flowing from where it originated. Not many people know about the ancient battlefield, because the environment is harsh and very few people can go deep into it. I only know that it is unusually hot during the day, and the temperature is enough to roast the beef in an instant. From a distance, the blood is light, the ground covered with white bones is slightly wriggling, and through the remains, you can see dense poisonous insects, rats and ants. The battlefield during the day was silent, and the bones baked by the heat wave were crystal clear and exuding a rolling heat wave, which steamed the land here, except for a rolling river of blood, there was no water here at all. Therefore, there is not a single grass or tree in the entire ancient battlefield, and it looks like a wasteland Gobi under the scorching sun.

At night, it's a different story, with a mist and miasma. The temperature of the battlefield at night was extremely low, and all the poisonous insects and poisonous snakes hibernate underground to begin hibernation, and the surging blood river also formed a thick layer of ice. Under the moonlight, fairies can be faintly seen dancing in the cold light reflected by the white bones, and beautiful songs echo on the ancient plateau. In the middle of the night, this is the world of gods and demons, the divine light emitted by the divine bones is staggered, the demon bones emit demonic energy and does not disperse, there is a sacred sword-wielding god king looking up to the sky and roaring, the tall headless demon king walks around, and the fierce beasts and agile monsters fight and bite. Everywhere there are phantoms of gods and demons, constantly repeating the scene of the ancient war of conquest and killing. With the roar of the gods, the rustling of the demons, the tall power of the gods and demons slashed and killed each other and then disappeared, and then reappeared and continued to fight until dawn.

Whenever day and night alternate, when the morning star is the brightest, it is the time when the entire ancient battlefield is the most vibrant. In the warm breeze, the voice of a mother and a baby talking to her mother echoed softly......

It was sunrise again, and it was time for day and night to alternate, and the morning glow rendered the ancient plateau solemn and somewhat solemn.

On the plateau, there is only a low mound, which is not covered by corpses, and the small grave is unremarkable, there are no tombstones, no flowers, and the pitch-black soil is covered with a layer of green weeds, which is very eye-catching. A simple little dirt bag almost flush with the ground, with the passage of time and the erosion of wind and rain, this nameless tomb has been forgotten in the corner.

On one side of the grave, a small hole was newly dug, and at this time, a baby of a few months would crawl out of the small hole, and the boy would have a thumb-sized stone pendant around his neck, lying beside the small hole, babbling to the sky, as if someone was talking to him.

The boy babbled for a while, and suddenly stared at the east with some anticipation, and after a long time, he still didn't appear, and the boy's eyes gradually showed anxiousness, where the white light flashed and a ray of sunshine shone, and the boy quickly covered his eyes with his hands and cried. There was something strange this morning, the usual conversation between mother and baby did not appear, and a baby cry in the morning breeze echoed faintly in the silent wasteland, like a chicken in the morning, with this cry, the sun jumped obliquely out of the horizon, and the temperature rose in a straight line.

Perhaps the poisonous insects, snakes and rats have not yet been activated by the heat, and the white bones on the battlefield are still waiting for a new day to bake. There was only a white light crawling on the edge of the battlefield, and if you looked closely, it was a boy, the boy quickly crawled towards the outside of the battlefield with his bare buttocks, the anxious color in his eyes became heavier and heavier, he had not eaten for three days, although the movements were still relatively fast, but fine sweat had already oozed from his forehead.

The temperature was getting higher and higher, and the sound of "pop" was not loud, but it made the boy tremble. The boy looked behind him, and a black line was wriggling at the end of the sky, making a "rustling" sound, and as the sun spread, the black line became longer and wider, and it spread closer and closer to see that it was densely packed with poisonous insects. If there are adults here, they will be panicked and run wildly, and they will shout: "Run, the insect tide is coming!"

However, the boy was only a few months old and could neither walk nor speak. But he was aware of the danger behind him, so he climbed faster and faster, even when he was out of breath.

Suddenly, with a "wow", the boy stopped crawling, raised his palm, and a drop of blood fell to the ground, and the wound was suddenly blackened, and a large scorpion with teeth and claws blocked the way.

Today's scene is especially strange, the eastern sun has not completely jumped out of the horizon, the moon in the west is still spreading its brilliance, at this time, with the river of blood as the boundary, the east is gradually dawning, and the west is still a gray night. At this time, the poisonous insects in the sunlit area escaped from the ground and continued to eat the blood and bones left behind. And in the place of night, there are still fairy phantoms singing and dancing, and the images of gods and demons fighting against each other, like two parallel worlds.

The direction in which the boy crawls is the night in the west, and he knows that if he stays in the sun, he will be eaten by poisonous insects, and only by crawling towards the west can he always be in the buffer zone of day and night, and he can survive.

The sunlight spread faster and faster, and soon approached the boy, who quickly bypassed the insect area and continued westward, but was soon blocked by the river of blood. The anxious look in the boy's eyes became heavier and heavier, and when he saw that there was no way to retreat, there were pursuers, and his mouth pouted and cried "wow".

More and more poisonous insects gathered and gradually surrounded the boy. The boy's cry attracted more poisonous insects, and the poisonous insects bit the boy, causing the boy to cry louder, and more poisonous insects gathered here.

The black lines in the sky had spread behind the boy, and the boy's buttocks were already covered with poisonous insects. I didn't have time to knock out the poisonous insects on my body with both hands, and after a while, my body was full of pus. The boy was crawling with poisonous insects, and even poisonous turtles and poisonous ants crawled into the boy's body along the seven orifices. The blood on his body began to turn black, and seeing the black lines spreading upwards along the veins at a speed visible to the naked eye, the poisonous insects frantically injected venom into the boy's body, trying to poison the boy to death and then feast on it.

Seeing that the boy's whole body began to swell, emitting a pitch-black light, and veins spread to the top of his head, the boy began to lose consciousness.

The insect tide wriggled violently, as if cheering for a delicious meal.

The poisonous insects frantically climbed up the boy's body, and gradually gathered into a poisonous insect hill, the boy's cry was already hoarse, and gradually the cry became smaller and thinner, and gradually became inaudible, and he saw that he had reached the end of the strong crossbow, and he staggered and fell to the ground, and rolled down into the river of blood along the river of blood, and disappeared.

The poisonous insects seemed to be unwilling, and frantically flocked to the blood river, and soon a layer of insect corpses floated on the blood river.

The sound of "rustling" along the river comes and goes, and it is full of unwilling teeth grinding.

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