Chapter 2: A Young Man
Zhuge Village, it is said that it is a generation of legendary Zhuge Shenhou for his descendants left the village, the whole village is built into a Taiji shape, the people in the village are simple, everyone is self-sufficient, but every day the sun rises and makes a day to earn and rest, life is very comfortable. There is very little contact with the outside world in the village, and even many children do not know what is outside the mountain. Of course, people who are not from the village can rarely come in, and the miasma and traps outside the village are like a natural barrier, and I heard that this is also done by Zhuge Shenhou in order to protect his descendants from outside interference.
There is a martial arts training ground in the center of the village, where some young people usually exercise so that they can catch more prey, and some old good hunters teach them how to use their body strength better, how to throw the shotgun far, and have a higher hit rate. On some special days, it becomes a meeting place for the whole village and a paradise for children. The adults sat around and watched the young men who had nowhere to do it compete. This is also the best time for unmarried lads to show themselves, and some unmarried girls also cheer for their favorite boys. The child was unrestrained, running wildly, making noise, stealing a few sips of fruit wine when he was tired, and begging for some meat from the lame grandfather when he was hungry.
Grandpa Cripple used to be the best hunter in the village, always catching the most prey each time, and he was also bold, which was very popular with these children. Many years ago, he injured his left leg during a hunting trip, and he limped later, but people were still very happy, and children affectionately called him lame grandpa. The meat he grilled is famous in the village, soft and delicious, oily but not greasy, and it can make the population overflow by looking at it.
In such a happy and cheerful atmosphere, a little girl of four or five years old carefully carried a plate of good meat to the woods next to the martial arts training ground, where there was a small hillside-like clearing, and below the slope was the lake surrounding the martial arts training ground, where the main water in the village was taken.
"Brother Chen, you're here again. I begged some roe deer leg meat from my grandfather, you can try it, it's delicious. The little girl's voice was very sweet, soft, with big watery eyes revealing elves, she was the granddaughter of the lame grandfather, and her nickname was Lan Lan.
When the boy heard the voice, he didn't turn his head, but moved to the side and pointed to the place where he was sitting just now, and Lan Lan sat there, carefully holding the plate in his hand.
Seeing that the boy didn't speak, and didn't move to get the roe deer leg meat on the plate, he looked at her brother Chen with some grievances, his long eyelashes were hanging with water droplets, and he called carefully: "Brother Chen." ”
The boy cried when he heard Lan Lan's voice, and tilted his head to look at her: "Lan Lan, my brother is thinking about something, you eat first." ”
"Brother Chen, don't think about it anymore, come and eat meat."
The village is surrounded by a forest, which is only the outer part of the primeval forest, and is often infested with some low-level wild beasts, such as hares, wild roe deer, and occasionally a few wounded wild wolves. Further inside, there will be some higher beasts, such as wild wolves, leopards, tigers, etc., the beasts here are more ferocious, and the villagers rarely come here to hunt.
And it is said that when you arrive in the center of the primeval forest, there are often demonic beasts haunting, and the demonic beasts here will have some magic, like a demon wolf, which can instantly send a wind blade, although this kind of magic is only three-level, but it is also fatal to ordinary villagers. Of course, there are some more advanced Warcraft. It is said that there is a magical beast in the primeval forest of Hongmang, which can emit ninth-level magic.
Zhuge Jin led the team to the periphery of the forest to hunt as usual, and today I don't know why, the big guy has been here for a long time, and he hasn't encountered a suitable beast, and he only caught a few wild ducks. Zhuge Jin thought that he should stop walking in and see if he could run into some luck, if he could meet a few injured wild wolves.
Zhuge Jin's idea has been recognized by everyone, after all, it is not a way to go on like this, if it was before, everyone would have hit a lot of prey. In this way, everyone walked inside again, because they rarely came here to hunt, everyone was very cautious, and walked carefully, for fear of some accidents.
After a little half an hour, everyone is a little bottomless, although they rarely come here to hunt, but they still know some, on weekdays, although it is not a herd of wild beasts, but it is not like today, and they have not encountered a beast for a long time. At this time, Zhao Feng said: "Brother Jin, something is wrong, today's beasts don't know where to go, and they haven't found one until now, will there be any problems?" ”
"It's kind of weird." Zhuge Jin nodded and said, "Everyone be careful, be on guard with all your might, cheer up, walk for a while, if we haven't found the beast yet, we will go back." ”
The sudden howl of "~~~~~~~" made everyone's nerves tense.
"Be on guard! Find a location to hide! Zhuge Jin shouted loudly. For he could hear that it was not the roar of an ordinary beast, and that it was very urgent, as if it had been wounded.
The sound got closer and closer, and at this time, the black shadow flashed, and slammed on the ground not far from Zhuge Jin, startling him.
What is that? It seems to be a person. Zhuge Jin thought. Then he did something, something that put everyone in danger, and he moved towards the dark shadow to see what it was.
In the village, in the village chief's house, a group of people were discussing something, their faces were very solemn, and one person was still talking about something, and his voice was very loud.
"Dad, you also heard the roar just now, and the scene just now, uncle, they went hunting, something must have happened, and they haven't come back yet, the people in the village are dying, you just let people look for it, or I'll go!"
"Presumptuous, there's no place for you to talk here, get out!" Zhuge Yun spoke.
"But Dad~~" The young man is still not dead.
"Get out!" The village chief seemed to be really anxious, "Zhang Song, you go out to appease the villagers, the vision just now alarmed the children in the village, telling them that they are okay and that they are all under control." Others, please come with me. ”
"Yes, village chief." Zhang Song took the order, and the others followed the village chief to the inner house, which is a forbidden place in the village, and no one is allowed to enter without the permission of the contemporary village chief, and whoever violates it will be punished.
Zhuge Yun took out a book from the shelf, which was an important classic in the village, turned to a page and said: "This is what our ancestors left us, there are a few sentences I have been referring to for a long time, I don't understand, today I understand the first sentence, the sun is gone." I think everyone has seen the scene just now, the darkness that covers the sky, although it is only a short breath, but it is indeed a shadow. I asked you to come here today just to let you and me have a detailed review. ”
"The sun is shadowless, and the stars are seen; The rainbow is out of the night, and the turning point is born. The first sentence explains clearly, what does 'night rainbow' mean? 'See you in the stars'? What stars appear? I don't have a clue! Guan Heng muttered.
Zhuge Yun has been referring to these sentences for more than ten years, since he took over the position of village chief and learned these verses, he began to understand them, and only today has he just understood the meaning of these first sentences, not to mention other people who have never heard these words.
"Grandpa the village chief, Grandpa Jin, they're back, it's just ~~" Huzi ran into the house quickly, didn't see anyone, and shouted loudly.
"Huzi, what's wrong? Just what? Zhuge Yun heard the cry of the tiger, and the group hurriedly walked out of the back room and asked.
"Grandpa the village chief, go and take a look, Grandpa Jin, they are all covered in blood, and they are all scared to death." Huzi said with palpitations.
Zhuge Yun and the elders didn't wait for Huzi to finish speaking, and hurriedly rushed to the martial arts training ground, because he had already heard the noise of the villagers coming from the direction of the martial arts training ground. When Zhuge Yun and his party arrived, there were already a lot of people around, I don't know why, Zhuge Yun was panicked in his heart, and he seemed to have felt that something bad was about to happen.
Indeed, the hunter team has returned, but only three people will come, and they are covered in blood, and the captain Zhuge Jin, that is, Zhuge Yun's younger brother, is already unconscious, as if there are still injuries on his legs, but he is holding a baby in his arms, and he is also covered in blood, what happened to them? Why did the team of ten only come back with three, still covered in blood? Now he can't get an answer, and all three of them are unconscious, so it seems that he will have to wait until they wake up. But this injury is very serious, it seems to have the breath of a demonic beast, what did they encounter?
Zhuge Yun hurriedly arranged for someone to carry the three of them down for treatment, dispersed the onlookers, and told the elders to appease the villagers who were saddened by the sacrifice of their relatives. Then, he picked up the bloody child and returned home, the child was still breathing, but he was unconscious, what a blessing it must be! Zhuge Yun became more and more frightened in the process of cleaning, because he found that although the child was covered in blood, there was no wound on his body, and his white skin was ruddy and smooth, not at all like he had been injured.
Suddenly, Zhuge Yun froze, his eyebrows were twisted together, his eyes were wide, full of consternation, he rubbed his eyes, and his doubts deepened.
"See you in the stars, so that's the case." Because Zhuge Yun saw a six-pointed star slowly dissipating on the baby's back just now, although it was only for a moment, it couldn't hide from his eyes.
"The first sentence has been fulfilled, but what about the second sentence, the rainbow in the night? What does this mean? ”
Three days later, Zhuge Jin, who was the most seriously injured, also woke up, but his left leg was injured by some magic and limped, and it seemed that he had fallen into the root of the disease.
A group of people gathered in this room again, no one spoke, they were all waiting for Zhuge Jin, only he knew what was going on at that time. Zhuge Jin limped into the house, saw that they were all waiting for him, and looked at his left leg with annoyance, the pain of losing one leg did not make him crazy, but just chagrin, which also showed that his mentality was already very good.
Zhang Song hurriedly greeted him, although he was the elder of the village, but Zhuge Jin was the youngest brother of the village chief after all, and the best hunter in the village, this time he was injured in the hunt, although only three people came back, he also greeted him.
Zhuge Jin reported the events of that day to the elders one by one, how he didn't hit the prey on the edge of the forest, why he went deeper, how he met the baby, etc., when Zhuge Jin said, Zhuge Yun also kept thinking. Finally, he waved his hand to show that he had understood everything.
Hearing Zhuge Jin's narration, Zhuge Yun understood what had happened. The hunter team didn't catch the prey on the outskirts of the forest, mainly because the beast sensed the breath of the demonic beast, and it was a high-level demonic beast, for these low-level beasts, the aura emitted by the high-level demonic beast was enough to kill, so they all hid, which explains why there are no wild beasts. However, why did the high-level demonic beasts run to the periphery of the forest, or two, judging from Zhuge Jin's narrative, they are snatching this child, so who is this child, and it is worth snatching by two high-level demonic beasts? It's all a mystery.
However, the village chief also said what he saw that day, and everyone's surprise was about the same as when Zhuge Yun first saw it, and only Zhuge Jin was particularly excited. "Impossible," Zhuge Jin shouted, "I obviously saw that kid fall from a height of several meters that day, I think it's a miracle that he can live, how can he not be injured at all?" Big brother, aren't you dazzled? ”
"Nonsense! I've seen it with my own eyes, and there can be fakes! Okay, don't argue, this matter is over, no one should spread the word, this kid will live here, and he will be called Chen in the future! Finally, the village chief spoke.
"Yes, village chief. Then we'll take our leave. ”
"Yes."
In this way, a young man, a Zhuge villager who is not Zhuge Village, lived here.