Chapter 1: Youth
The Barren Mountain Range, one of the barren mountains in the south, is home to many fierce beasts and even monsters between the mountains and forests.
At the beginning of the morning sun, reflected in the mountains and forests, the originally quiet mountain range, but at this time there were bursts of roars, and countless birds were so frightened that they fluttered their wings and flew away.
At the same time, a group of teenagers dressed in animal skins carried spears through the woods, hurrying towards the source of the sound.
The leading young man showed anger in the depths of his eyes at this time, and used the spear in his hand to remove the branches and weeds that blocked in front of him.
The source of the sound was on the mountainside of the mountain range, where countless leaves had fallen on the ground, and many of the smaller trees had been broken by the knock.
A young man with a young face looked at the rioting demon beast in front of him expressionlessly, and his blood-stained face revealed a cold expression.
The beast opposite him had the appearance of a tiger, but several times larger than that of an ordinary tiger, and had small protruding horns on its forehead, and at this time it opened its mouth wide and roared, and the teeth in its mouth were extremely sharp, especially the two long fangs that leaked out, but its body had been cut in many places, leaking out of the flesh, and the wound was constantly oozing blood.
The corners of the boy's mouth rose, he tilted his neck to look at the demon beast in front of him, clenched the spear in his hand and rushed forward.
"Roar!" The demon beast several people tall saw the boy rushing up, and it roared loudly when it was stimulated, waving its claws, trying to tear the boy apart.
It's a pity that this time there was no repetition of the previous back and forth.
The boy heard a sound not far away, and after dodging its claws, he plunged the spear directly into its eye.
"Roar!" The sharp pain caused the monster beast to cry out loudly, and the sound was extremely miserable.
The boy ignored it, quickly drew his spear, and plunged it into the other eye......
The mournful cries grew quieter, and at last the mountains returned to their quietness.
The boy stuck his spear in the tiger's skull and prepared to drag it back to the village.
"Yin Ziqing!" Several teenagers came out of the bushes, and the tall teenagers led by them glared at Yin Ziqing angrily, and asked sharply: "Why don't you follow the troops? If something happens, can you afford it?"
"I don't need you. Yin Ziqing continued the movements of his hands, and said lightly without looking back, and with a force, he put the giant tiger on his back and walked towards the forest.
"Humph!" The tall young man looked at Yin Ziqing, who had not entered the forest, his eyes were even more angry, he gritted his teeth, and waved to the people behind him to signal to return to the village, and the people behind him lowered their hands, sighed a few times, and their mood was a little complicated.
The bloodied boy of the "Sand ......" walked back to the village with the huge monster on his back, trying not to damage its fur, because it could be used to make children's clothes.
At this time, the demon beast had lost its breath, its body was covered with wounds, its two eyes had been pierced blind, and there was a bloody hole in the middle of its skull.
That struck through its skull.
The boy carried his booty on his back, and used his spear to remove obstacles in the way, and his solitary figure looked a little out of place compared to the teenagers who were grouped behind him.
The other teenagers all had gloomy faces and whispered behind them.
......
"I'm back. Yin Ziqing threw the saber-toothed tiger at the entrance of the village and shouted into the village.
"Wow, brother, what did you bring back? When several children heard the boy's cry, they put down the mud and sand in their hands and ran towards Yin Ziqing with an excited face.
Every time the big brother came back, he brought something delicious, flying in the sky, running on the ground, and the big fat fish in the mountain stream.
So at this time, they can't wait to see what delicious food the big brother has brought back.
"You've got a barbecue to eat tonight. Yin Ziqing looked at the children and smiled, wanting to hug them, but they were covered in mud when they were hunting just now.
These children were young, different from the rest of the village, Yin Ziqing looked at the excited children, his eyes were a little gloomy.
"I'm back from purging, ah, why are you covered in mud, come into the house and wash it up. A middle-aged woman walked over, looked at Yin Ziqing's appearance and said.
"Hmm. Yin Ziqing replied, waved his hand at the children, and walked towards a wooden house.
The people of the village came over to discuss how to get the most out of the giant saber-toothed tiger.
"Babbling......" Several children also surrounded the juvenile's prey, jumping up excitedly and screaming inarticulately.
"Ah, Xiao Yong, they are back too. ”
At this time, a woman looked at the group at the entrance of the village, and hurriedly stepped forward to help the tall young man in the lead wipe his sweat with her sleeve.
"This time I caught another giant tiger, our Li Yong is considered to have grown up!" The woman smiled and wiped the beads of sweat from the tall boy's forehead, and praised the people surrounding the giant tiger with a smile on her face.
"There's a chance!"
"Of course, Xiao Yong is a genius in our village. ”
The villagers hurriedly helped, smiling and praising them.
Li Yong had a calm face, lowered his head and said, "It's not me ......"
"Let's go, my mother will get you something to eat, go back and wash it." The woman frowned, quickly interrupted her son's words, and pushed Li Yong to go home and take a bath.
Li Yong knew everyone's thoughts, so he didn't say anything more, just walked away with a calm face.
"Li Bing, that's good, you kid!" A man also stepped forward and patted his son on the shoulder and laughed.
The teenagers who followed behind also laid down their spears, and the villagers praised the results of the hunt, and then returned to their homes to clean.
The woman who had just called Yin Ziqing looked at the villagers praising the children in turn, looked back at the house, and sighed slightly.
In the house, Yin Ziqing washed his body with water, and did not pay attention to the words coming from the entrance of the village outside.
I remembered his experience, the middle-aged woman just now was his adoptive mother, and his biological mother divorced his father when he was seven years old, and walked out of the mountain to live with other men.
My father also had an accident last year and fell down while walking on a mountain road, leaving him unrecognizable. The whole village prepared a wooden coffin for his father and buried him on a small hill.
Since then, he has stayed with a middle-aged woman in the village.
He followed his father to hunt since he was a child, and learned a lot of prey skills and hunting methods.
So every day he would go to the mountains and forests with the boys from the village to hunt, but he would not walk with the team and would always go alone.
And his credit is generally replaced by others, such as those who are known as the genius of Li Yong, the son of Li Linhu, the former deputy captain of the hunting brigade, the children in the village will go to the mountains and forests to hunt when they are thirteen or fourteen years old, inheriting the mantle of their elders, but in fact, this new hunting unit has not even carried out a real group hunt.
Genius? Plundering the achievements of others is genius? Yin Ziqing sneered, shook his head and didn't think about these things anymore, if his father was still alive, if that thing hadn't happened, maybe he would still be the most favored child in the village.
"Deserts, oceans, towns, cultivators who cultivate themselves with the aura of heaven and earth, wonderful red mortal worlds......"
Yin Ziqing said to himself, a little distracted, he recalled the story his father had told him.
"Perhaps, I should go out and have a look. ”
The boy raised his head and looked at the old plank on top, and his heart was full of thoughts.
Washing away the blood and mud stained on his body with clean water, and washing away the last trace of dirty mud, Yin Ziqing wiped his body dry and walked out wearing clothes made of animal skins.
"Come, self-clearing, roasted tiger meat. "The adoptive mother carried a plate on which the steaming roast had a lovely aroma. The villagers have stripped off the tiger's fur for clothing, and baked fresh tiger meat for consumption.
Yin Ziqing nodded, took the stone plate, used the knife he carried with him to cut out a small piece of the barbecue, stabbed it and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly.
"Come, go out and eat with everyone. The adoptive mother looked at Yin Ziqing eating meat, smiled, and under the pull of the adoptive mother, Yin Zihui walked to the fire and sat down, and the adoptive mother added another piece of meat to his plate and walked back home.
Around the fire were some adult men and teenagers, and several people who were hunting with Yin Ziqing were sitting here, including Li Yong, who was eating meat with a gloomy face. The rule in the village is that the hunting team will enjoy the fruits of the hunt with some prestige people in the village.
The people who were originally quite enthusiastic, after Yin Ziqing sat down, invariably put away their words and lowered their heads to eat the cooked tiger meat.
"Li Yong. Yin Ziqing was accustomed to this situation early in the morning, slowly cut off a piece of barbecue meat and put it in his mouth, looked at the burning fire and said.
"Huh?" Li Yong couldn't help but look up at him depressedly when he heard Yin Ziqing call himself.
At this time, Yin Ziqing slowly turned his head, squinted at Li Yong, and said in a slow voice: "Do you think there is anything wrong with me leaving the team today?"
Hearing Yin Ziqing's question, Li Yong snorted, frowned slightly and said: "The mountains are not a place where you and I can run amok, the role of the team is to unite the strength of everyone, although you should not leave the team this time, if you can ...... next time"
"If you don't want your tongue to hit the ground, don't let me hear it again. ”
Yin Ziqing said in a cold voice, interrupting Li Yong's words.
The surrounding atmosphere suddenly froze, Li Yong stared at Yin Ziqing with an indifferent face, gritted his teeth and secretly clenched his fists, his nails sank into the flesh, oozing a trace of blood, and he didn't say anything, the two looked at each other like this.
When everyone heard Yin Ziqing's words, they couldn't help but stop what they were doing, and glanced at the white young man with their residual eyes, feeling a little worried.
"You...... How can you ......" Li Yong's mother sat on the side, her original stretched smile disappeared, she frowned, and wanted to speak for her son.
Yin Ziqing squinted at Li Yong's mother and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"You ......" Li Yong's mother exhaled heavily, her chest rose and fell sharply, she was angry, and pointed at Yin Ziqing with trembling fingers, she was stared at by that gaze, and she was speechless in her heart, afraid that the young man in front of her would do something out of the ordinary, and her lips kept trembling.
"Mom!" Li Yong hurriedly patted his mother's back with his hand, and then stared at Yin Ziqing viciously, angry but did not dare to speak out.
Yin Ziqing raised his chin slightly, still playing with the knife in his hand.
The atmosphere was a little thicker, and the surroundings were so quiet that they could clearly hear the squeak of wooden sticks burning in the fire, and several adult men silently prepared to attack at this time, beware of Yin Ziqing, who was sitting in front of the fire.
They don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past.
"Ahem......" The village chief, who had been sitting on the stone next to him, suddenly coughed a few times, looked at the two people facing each other, and knocked on the ground with a black wooden cane.
"It's going to be night, so let's all disperse. The thin body seemed to have great strength, and as soon as the words were spoken, the people around the campfire immediately got up to say goodbye, and the village chief was heaven in their hearts, and they had to listen to whatever they said.
Everyone stood up and walked towards their homes, so as not to provoke Yin Ziqing.
That kid is a madman!
Yin Ziqing sneered, threw the plate in his hand into the fire, and walked back to his adoptive mother's house.
Only the old village chief, the angry woman and the gloomy Li Yong were left beside the fire.
"Go back, don't get into trouble. ”
Li Yong nodded, picked up his mother, and walked towards home.
The old village chief sat alone by the fire, his thin fingers tapping on the crutches, his eyes were dim, he sighed slightly, put out the fire, and walked away with the crutches to support himself.
A dinner ended like this.
That night, the old village chief's house was late at night, but the lights had not been turned off, and two figures were discussing matters in the house......
Since then, Li Yong has never made any statement about Yin Ziqing's departure from the team, and there was no recurrence of the last situation at the bonfire party afterward.
The people in the village also avoided this teenager even more.
......
A year later, inside the house.
"We're going down tomorrow. Yin Zichuan sat on his bed, looking at the full moon outside the window in a daze.
That night, he discussed with the village chief about going down the mountain, and tomorrow was the appointed day.
The moonlight reflected on the young man's body, and his already fair skin became a kind of holy temperament at this time, the breeze blew through the angular face, and the black hair danced in the wind, like a picture scroll.
The boy stared at the bright moon outside the window, as if waiting for something to come.
As the scene in the field of vision changed, the deep black pupils slowly swirled like a whirlpool.
"It's coming. ”
The moon gradually turned blood red in Yin Ziqing's eyes, and the meridians on his body also bulged, like dark red centipedes, dark red runes spread from his back to his whole body, and his pupils rotated rapidly, and they were dyed the same color as the moon.
Yin Ziqing's body was as if he had fallen into a pool of blood, his whole body was red, and blood was pouring out of his pores, turning into a bloody person.
Like a mad beast, he trembled and roared, raised his left arm, and bit down suddenly, and the warm blood instantly flowed out along with the wound and dripped onto his clothes.
With a "hiss", a piece of flesh on the arm was bitten off along with the clothes, and countless tiny roots drilled out of the wound, and the blood-colored roots continued to squirm under the moonlight......
"Ahh Yin Ziqing opened his mouth and bit it again, his body trembling continuously, and let out a low roar.
In the house, in another room, the adoptive mother heard the sound made by Yin Ziqing, stood in front of the window, looked at the bright moon in the sky with a sad face, and put her hands on her chest and prayed silently.
Torn, churned, the skull seemed to be propped apart, and a sharp blade ravaged his brain. The deep desires in my heart, the intense pain, and the irrepressible impulse tormented the fragile body, and several slender blood-colored roots that emerged from the body danced in the bright moonlight......
His whole being was on the verge of collapse and suffering greatly!
After a long time, the blood in the young man's eyes and the runes on his body gradually faded, Yin Ziqing closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep......