Chapter 15: Out of the Mountain
After returning from the sacrifice, Yuan Ao had been very silent, and even the clan elder ran to him with the flying dragon soup to make him interested and take a look.
Cheng Tian sat on the old camphor tree at the entrance of the fort with his head down, and the friends shouted loudly under the tree and didn't see him reply.
The anxiety of leaving home and the hesitation of the unknown pressed the heart of this young man who had never known the taste of sorrow for the first time.
Two days later, at night, the sky was full of brilliant starlight, and a light moon hung on the tree, like a bright light on the tree.
Ouyang Yafu slowly climbed up the tree, and then carefully held on to the branch and moved to Yuan Ao's side little by little, and sat down next to him before turning around to look at him.
After two days of not eating, drinking, or sleeping, Yuan Ao's face was a lot haggard, and his eyes were full of melancholy and bloodshots.
"I heard you're going to come with us?" the girl asked cautiously.
Yuan Ao didn't seem to see a girl sitting beside him at all, turning a blind eye, hearing but not hearing, still immersed in his own world.
"I heard that you are reluctant to leave Yanbao, and you are reluctant to leave your Grandma Yi?"
Yuan Ao's eyebrows moved, but he still didn't speak.
"I heard Sister Yi say that you are fifteen years old this year, right! She also said that you have been hunting tigers in the forest since you were five years old. Is it really that powerful?"
Yuan Ao twitched the corners of his mouth, but still didn't make a sound.
"Do you know how old I was when I left home? Eight years old," the girl said to herself, still undeterred.
"According to our family's rule, when a child reaches the age of eight, he has to go to his ancestral land to receive family training, and he can only return home four times a year.
Do you know how sad I cried the day I left home? I fainted, and you shouldn't be worse than me!"
Yuan Ao had already turned his head to look at the girl, shook his head, and still didn't speak.
"In the outside world, children have to go to school when they grow up, and the closer ones are near home, and the farther ones are separated by a few cities, or even half a blue star, which is a natural thing, and it is not that they can't go home.
Although you went out with us this time, you can still come back if you feel homesick, so why be sad!
Usually you don't often stay in the jungle and don't go back to the fort, this time it's just a change of environment and a longer time, at least closer than those children who are separated by half a blue star!"
"Is it really not far away, can you come back?" Yuan Ao finally spoke, listening to the girl say so much, it seemed that he really shouldn't be like this, wouldn't he seem inferior if he continued like this?
Although he didn't know what Xun meant, Yuan Ao still felt that he should not be inferior.
"It's just a few cities away! Of course, you can't come back at any time like you are now, but it's not like I can only come back four times a year," Ouyang Yafu didn't know how many years it would take for Yuan Ao to leave.
"Okay then, can you tell me about the outside world?" Under the girl's persuasion, Yuan Ao's mood recovered a little, and he began to take a little interest in the outside world.
"Didn't you have a brother who went out to teach you?" said the girl, jokingly.
"Can you stop mentioning that?" Brother Luo sometimes talks nonsense," the young man's face was a little thin-skinned, and he began to blush at the thought of what had happened.
"Alright, alright, spare you!" the girl laughed, "Then I'll start ......"
"Wait, wait, I'm hungry," Yuan Ao hadn't eaten properly for several days, and as soon as his mood relaxed, he immediately felt hungry, "You wait a minute, I'll go find something to eat, and we'll talk when I come back." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Ao had already come down from the tree and sneaked into the night.
"You're in the wrong direction, there's nothing to eat outside the fort in the middle of the night," Ouyang Yafu stood up and called.
This is not a city where to find food in the middle of the night.
But it soon occurred to her that this boy was not an ordinary person, and that it should not be difficult for him to find food in the forest.
So she sat back down on the trunk of the tree, shaking her legs and admiring the moonlight.
It didn't take long for Yuan Ao to come back with the prey on his shoulders, and they had all been peeled and cleaned.
"Why are you moving so fast, this forest has become your kitchen," Ouyang Yafu said with a smile on the tree.
"Did you eat all three meals by yourself in the jungle, and I haven't seen you eat with us?"
Yuan Ao smiled and didn't answer, but was busy lighting a fire under the tree, and the wooden stove was very busy. "If you want to eat, come down quickly, and I'll let you taste my craft. ”
"I'm just waiting for your words," Ouyang Yafu said excitedly preparing to get off the tree, but her movements were too slow.
By the time she walked out of the Yan Castle, Yuan Ao had already set up two bonfires and started roasting her prey.
It turned out that Yuan Ao was so good at catching a pheasant and a roe deer, and it didn't take long for a sweet fragrance mixed with the aroma of meat to come out.
Ouyang Yafu felt that her stomach was also hungry, and looked at the roast chicken with an attractive color, waiting for Yuan Ao to speak.
"Where's the sweetness? Is it a berry? You went picking fruit just now?" the girl has always had little resistance to sweetness.
"Just taste it," Yuan Ao carefully tore off a chicken leg and handed it over, "There will be a surprise!"
"Honey, you can still find honey back," Ouyang Yafu took a bite and found that her mouth was sweet and soft.
"Brother Yuan, this is the most delicious roast chicken I have ever tasted since I was a child.
I don't care, you have to help me get the food in the castle in the future, and my sister will cover you when you go out. ”
Seeing that Yuan Ao began to collapse his face again, Ouyang Yafu hurriedly said, "I didn't lie to you, I'm really older than you, I'm 18 years old, I can really be your sister, you see I told you all the age, you should be generous!"
Yuan Ao smiled and didn't say anything, just busy solving the roe deer leg in his hand.
So, a pheasant and a roe deer were wiped out in the words of the two of them.
Ouyang Yafu didn't look at eating very happily, but after the two chicken legs were down, they couldn't hold up, and the rest was basically covered by Yuan Ao.
That night, the two sat on the tree and chatted for a long time, until Ouyang Yafu was sleepy and didn't go back until the moon shadow was slanting west.
"Little Yuanzi, you are finally resurrected with full blood," the next morning, seeing Yuan Ao appear at the door with a smile, the monkey excitedly took the bowl in his hand, "Hey, there is also food, what is this, snake soup? ”
They all knew that Ouyang Yafu had gone to persuade Yuan Ao last night, and the monkey had deliberately teased him.
Yuan Ao was blushing a little by the monkey, and hurriedly dropped his things and said, "If you like to eat or not, I'm leaving." ”
"Don't don't, brother, I'm wrong, can't I? Just kidding you," Seeing that Yuan Ao was in a hurry, the monkey hurriedly said good things.
At this time, Professor Fang and the others all came out, and they didn't dare to make fun of Yuan Ao when they saw this situation, everyone tasted the snake soup when they filled a bowl, and it really tasted extremely fresh.
When Ouyang Yafu, who slept late, came out, the snake soup in the bowl had already been eaten, and he could only urge Yuan Ao to leave the castle and get something else for her.
In this way, Professor Fang and they stayed in the fort for two more days. In fact, the professors had wanted to go back for a long time, but Yuan Ao said that it was not good for him to leave alone if Xiaojin didn't come out.
At the beginning, he promised the ape mother that he would take Xiaojin with him wherever he went, so they had to wait patiently.
Finally, when the fat man was already in trouble, Xiao Jin appeared.
"Is this the golden monkey we saw playing with you on the ancient camphor that day? How do you feel so small," the monkey asked as he looked at the cute and cute golden monkey on Yuan Ao's shoulder with some strange feelings.
Yuan Ao affectionately touched Xiao Jin's fluff and nodded, Xiao Jin enjoyed his face.
Indeed, this time Xiao Jin came back and became a lot smaller, only about the size of a fist, Yuan Ao is not surprised, the size of the ape mother can be free to get bigger and smaller.
Xiao Jin didn't know how many new abilities he had added after this evolution, and Yuan Ao hadn't had time to ask it, believing that over time, it should slowly inherit all its mother's skills.
A day later, the Yi clan elder called Yuan Ao and Professor Fang to the Flame Soul Palace, and all the people in the Yan Castle who had a good relationship with Yuan Ao appeared.
"This is my ID card? There's money in it? I didn't know I had done this. ”
When the Yi clan elder took out a small card and gave it to Yuan Ao, he was startled.
There is a photo of him on the card, as well as basic information such as his date of birth and gender, and a home address is actually in Yuancheng, the capital of the alliance, which is also too strange.
"This is something I asked a friend outside to help you get it a long time ago, all your information is in it, and the money is not much, but it is enough for you to use it for a few years," Yi Clan Lao handed the ID card to Yuan Ao.
When the child grows up, he will eventually leave him, the Yi old has no children, Yuan Ao is her grandson, and he is really reluctant.
But there is no way, no matter how strong her ability is, she can't go against the sky, all the hexagrams show that Yuan Ao can only survive if he goes out.
"It's good to have this thing, so that Yuan Ao will have a legal identity and a lot less trouble," Seeing that the Yi clan was so well prepared, Professor Fang also felt that he had a lot of peace of mind.
Originally, he was worried about how to report Yuan Ao's identity, since there was a neuronal supercomputer Pangu in the alliance, everyone's information had to be entered into the system from birth, and temporary joining required a lot of explanations and guarantees, which was really not easy to get.
"Little monkey, this is what I and a few of you have prepared for you, you can take it outside and take a look at it slowly!"
Even the clan elder handed over a python skin backpack, which was bulging, and he didn't know what it contained.
"And ours," a few of Yuan Ao's friends also handed over gifts that had been prepared for several days, a necklace made of thousands of fantasy gold, with a simple shape, they must have made it by the goldsmith in the castle.
Even the old man of the mountain clan, who had always spoken very little, gave him a pair of fist gloves made of thousands of illusion gold and a waist bag, which he specially made for him when he knew that Yuan Ao was leaving these days.
I don't know what metal is added to the boxing gloves, not only is it so light that it seems to have no weight, but the color is very close to the skin tone, and if you don't look carefully, you can't feel that Yuan Ao has an extra fist on his hand.
The waist bag is pure black, although it is also made of a thousand fantasy gold, but it doesn't look like a thousand fantasy gold at all.
According to the elders of the mountain clan, it is made of a very long thousand illusion alloy wire, which has a memory function. Not only can it be stretched into a rope, but it will also automatically retract into a wide belt.
The mountain clan is always the best goldsmith in the Flame Castle, and the things he makes must be of the highest quality.
Jiang Yi had already been crying silently, and it was finally time to part.
"I will definitely come back as soon as possible," Yuan Ao secretly vowed.
With Yuan Ao here, on the way back, he was not as embarrassed as Professor Fang when they first came.
There was no trouble along the way, annoying insects, and the beasts that could be seen everywhere didn't know where to run.
Every time the meal arrived, a beast would carry its prey to their camp, and it was almost like a picnic in a park, or someone would provide food.
There was even a section of the road that Xiao Bai swam over with them out of nowhere, but because of the territory, Xiao Bai didn't stay long and went back.
"Sister Yi is right, you are the king of this dragon frame," after enjoying the treatment of the king of the forest for a few days, Ouyang Yafu praised sincerely, everyone kept nodding, and even the fat man rarely refuted anything.
This time, everyone harvested a dagger made of thousands of fantasy gold, only Professor Fang was a trekking pole, which was worth a thousand gold when taken outside, and it was unattainable.
The so-called dark gold weapons outside are all doped with a little dark gold on ordinary metal, and what they have in their hands is made of pure dark gold.
Finally arrived at the cliff where he got off the plane that day, Li Dong hurriedly instructed everyone to rearm the equipment they had left behind.
The Falcon fighter had not yet arrived, but there was no signal and there was no way, and in the end, it was with the help of Yuan Ao and Xiao Jin that they made a conspicuous mark on the top of the tree.
Everyone lived on the edge of the cliff, and Yuan Ao was not worried about danger.
Yuan Ao became somewhat interested in Li Dong's weapon, but because the electronics failed and could not be fired, the monkeys could only teach Yuan Ao to be familiar with the structure of the firearm to pass the time.
Two days later, the sound of a Hayabusa fighter finally sounded above their heads.
"It's finally time to go home," everyone cheered.
"Farewell, my home," Yuan Ao said secretly.