In the Great Wilderness of Kyushu, there are large and small barren wastelands between the territories of the surnames, and it is difficult for humans to survive, these wastelands are like invisible moats separating the clans, and only the strong with the protection of strong ancestral spirits can travel through the wasteland among the various clans.

The Guigu Plain, where the Guifang clan has lived for generations, is located in the northwest of Suizhou, and across a wilderness in the south is Qiyuan, the territory of the Ji family, one of the nine surnames, and in the east is the endless desolate Gobi, and the nearest big clan east of the Gobi is the Jiang clan, which is 23,000 miles away.

There are dozens of surnames of all sizes living on the ghost ancient plain, and on the easternmost eastern slope is the small clan Quqi clan.

In the early years, the Jianqu clan and the ghost Fang clan still had some contacts, and they married each other's daughters, but more than ten years ago because of a hunting conflict, the two sides were hostile, and there has been no contact since then, as the two clans are only five hundred miles apart, but they are not connected to each other because of the barrier of the wilderness.

In the distance, I saw a sparse field, corn more than a man tall had turned yellow from drought, a small city surrounded by green gauze tent-like crops, and two lonely arrow towers towered over the walls of loess and wooden planks.

Ghost Fangyue put his hand on his forehead and looked at it from afar, and saw a flag floating on the arrow tower, "Brother, there is the city of the Quqi clan in front, do you want to avoid it?"

Without waiting for Taihao Duo to speak, Ghost Fang Su snorted and said proudly, "What do you want to do, there is a legendary ancestral spirit warrior like me, and I am afraid that he will not succeed in a small Quqi clan?" We have been in the wilderness for more than a month, and we haven't even eaten a decent meal." He pulled out two blood-red stones the size of a fingernail from his pocket, "I still have some Tianxuan stones on me, how about we go and have a big meal first?"

Tianxuan stone is the general currency of the Great Wilderness Kyushu, in Kyushu gold and silver things are mostly used as decoration or refining spirit treasure raw materials, not as currency, but the use of a blood-red stone, legend has it that Tianxuan stone is the blood of the pure dust sky, can be used to enhance the tripod body, but the process is very complicated, only the master knows how to use it.

Yue pouted, "You're bragging again, stinky fart, no matter how powerful you are, can you still go against the people of a city?"

Taihao Duo said at this time, "Let's go into the city and have a look!"

"Ah, you really want to go, brother, let's be careful!" she was a little worried, but Taihao Duo insisted on going into the city.

"The people of the Qu Qi clan are no more dangerous than the demons in the wilderness. ”

He was actually because of the weird dream last night, which made him vaguely feel that he was inseparable from the Qu Qi clan.

When he walked through the cornfield, Ghost Fang Su opened an ear of corn, and saw that the corn inside was full and lush, and the milky yellow rice nails burst out with sweet slurry when he pressed it, and he was secretly happy in his heart, and broke a few trees and put them in the blanket he was carrying, and the moon gave him a white look, "You steal other people's corn, be careful of being beaten in the corner!"

"Heh, if you have the ability, don't eat ...... at night"

Coming to the city gate, several people found that the gate of Quqi City was wide open, and there were no soldiers guarding it, and no one was on duty on the arrow tower at the head of the city, and the whole city was quiet and weird.

Taihao Duo stood at the door and looked at the blood stains on the door, wiped his fingers and sniffed, the blood was very fresh, it was left in the last few days, "Be careful, something is wrong!"

The other two also sensed that something was wrong, only the cocoon moth was still holding a raw corn in his hand with a blank face.

Walking along the street, the more people walked, the more they felt a chill in their backs, the whole city was empty, not only no one, not even corpses, everyone seemed to have evaporated out of thin air!

"Did a rival clan do it?" said Oni Fang Su suspiciously.

Taihao Duo shook his head, "If the enemy clan is a hostile clan, there will definitely be a corpse, but there is not a single corpse in the city, and if it is a hostile surname, after breaking the city, it will definitely occupy this place, and will not give up an intact city and dozens of acres of land!"

The four of them came to the patriarch's hall in the north of Quqi City, and finally saw the first and only corpse.

It was a teenage boy, dressed in a splendid silk robe, who appeared to be the child of the patriarch, and even the new patriarch himself, who had been impaled through the chest by a steel spear and nailed to the wall behind the lobby, blood running down the snow-white wall, and his head hanging limply.

Yue shuddered, hugged her shoulders and said, "Brother, it's so infiltrating here, I'm a little scared!"

"You go outside and wait first!"

"Ahh ”

Ghost Fang Su stepped forward and raised the boy's head, and when he saw his face, he couldn't help but scream, and even Ghost Fang Su Taihao Duo couldn't help frowning and took a step back.

The boy's entire face was peeled off, leaving only his fleshy features.

"I've seen him before!"

In the stunned gaze of the two, Tai Haoduo slowly recounted the sudden dream of last night, in which the boy who pointed at him and the boy who was nailed to the wall was wearing the same clothes, but the pink and white face like a freshly ripe peach was missing.

Taihao Duo pulled out the spear and put the body down, the handle of the spear was engraved with a symbol, which was the image of a pig wolf, but the person stood up, wearing a human face on his head, and the smile was strange and eerie.

"I know who did it!"

He remembered that when he was a child, his Guru Zhi Xilin had said to him that the most terrifying and ferocious thing in the wilderness was not the hordes of fierce beasts, nor the unpredictable evil demons, but people!

There are some ancestral warriors who have been expelled by the castes for various reasons, and they have gathered in the wilderness to form bandit groups that specialize in plundering small clans, these people are cruel and murderous, despicable, without the slightest mercy or mercy, and oppress some small clans to submit by spreading fear.

These people are called 'Wild Marauders'!

The small clans that have been 'patronized' by the wilderness raiders will not only be plundered of spiritual treasures, goods and grain, but even people will be taken away and sold as slaves, these people are like herds of pigs and wolves, where no grass grows, and they are more cruel and cunning and despicable than pigs and wolves.

This pig-wolf symbol with a human face belongs to one of the most powerful raiders in the bleak Great Gobi--the human-faced wolf! Legend has it that the leader of the human-faced wolf is a monster who likes to eat people, and all the corpses of the enemies he killed are finally eaten by him! Perhaps this is why there is not a single corpse left in the Qu Qi clan.

Hearing the word human-faced wolf, even if it was a conceited ghost, he couldn't help but swallow his throat, and there was no more unruly color, obviously he had heard a lot of horror stories about wilderness raiders since he was a child, and the most terrifying thing was that those stories were all true!

"There are wild raiders here, Brother Duo, let's slip away!"

"Wild raiders don't like to settle in one place, they don't stay long after they've been here, they've long since left, maybe the city they've plundered is safer!"

Ghost Fangyue looked at the boy's corpse at this time, and she didn't feel so terrible, but felt very pitiful, "Brother, let's bury him!"

Taihao Duo shook his head, "Burn, don't leave the corpse, lest it be occupied by evil spirits and turn into zombies!"

The figures who stared at him around the fire last night seemed to be the people of the Qu Qi clan who were killed, but they didn't know what they were going to tell themselves!

After leaving the empty city of the Qu Qi clan, the hearts of the three of them were a little concerned.

Ghost Fang Su reluctantly smiled and said, "There is no one in the Quqi clan, these corns are all ours! These corns are called stealing only if they have owners, and if there is no owner, then they are called picking up, cocoon moths, pick up more!"

"Hmm!" Taihao Cocooned Moth seemed to be unable to understand the sadness of death, and excitedly clenched his fists, rushed into the cornfield, and carried a large bag of green corn out with his clothes as a burden, and stuffed several in his arms.

"Someday, I'll destroy them!"

"Brother, what did you say?"

Taihao Duo's eyes were full of seriousness and solemnity, "I will destroy all the wilderness raiders!"

Ghost Fang Su's hand was on his shoulder, "Brother, count me in." ”

............

The sun rises from the east, like a red-hot discus, exuding scorching heat, and like a huge egg yolk suspended in the chaotic sky, pregnant with a fetal egg of heaven and earth, at noon, this huge egg yolk that cannot be seen becomes hotter and hotter, like a furnace running through the sky, pouring boiling hot streams and a sea of fire.

Under the heat flow of invisible flames, layers of heat rose from the barren land, distorting and illusory some of the distant heavens and earths.

In the hot Gobi, a river that feeds hundreds of people has dried up in less than a month, leaving only a light layer of yellow-brown mud with the occasional bubble.

A tanned, thin boy carried a large wooden bucket in his hand, and slowly sent it down to the riverbed with a straw rope, and in the mud at the bottom of the river stood an equally thin child, his legs sunk into the soft mud, also naked, and the immature skin on his back was red from the scorching sun, and there were already signs of sunburn.

"Xiaogu, hurry up, I heard from my sister that there have been pigs and wolves crying here at night in the past few days!"

The child, known as Xiao Tani, carried the yellow mud soup from the bottom of the river into a wooden barrel, and his face was covered with yellow mud, like a small clay figure.

"Ahh

"Catch the fish!" said the young man in surprise, if there was a fish, his sister's illness would be much better.

"Hmm!" Kotani nodded heavily, and grabbed a long thing from the muddy water, which was a human thigh bone, wrapped around dry aquatic plants, and felt like a fish, Kotani tossed the bone aside and touched it, and pulled out a skull from the muddy water.

Both brothers were disappointed, and Kotani and the skeleton looked at each other, threw the skeleton into the grass above, and neither of them spoke.

At this time, there was a rustling sound in the grass, as if something was running quickly from the grass, and the boy who survived in the wilderness had already experienced a strong sense of hearing and rich experience, so he didn't even look at it, and said directly to his younger brother, "Come up!"

Kotani jumped into the big wooden barrel, and the boy dragged the straw rope to slowly lift the wooden barrel up the riverbed, and at this time the thing in the grass finally revealed its true face, it was a creature between a wild boar and a wild wolf, more than three feet tall, with a slender body, covered with long black hair, and a cry like a wild boar.

Pig wolves, black iron-level fierce beasts, are the most common predators in the wilderness, and they are not difficult opponents for ancestral spirit warriors, but for ordinary people without guardian spirits, they are difficult to defeat strong enemies, not to mention two underage children.

When the two of them got ashore and ran away, they ran wildly in the direction they came, not even the big barrels, and shouted as they ran.

The pig wolf was extremely fast, but because it was separated by a river, it came slowly, it jumped into the muddy water and quickly climbed to this side of the river, shook off the yellow mud on its body and chased after the two, although Xiao Gu was young, but he ran no slower than his brother, and his feet seemed to have wind, and he stepped on a broken bone and pierced the soles of his feet, but he could not slow down his pace.

But compared with the pig wolf, the two were still too slow, and when they were about to be overtaken, the adults finally arrived, and the three adults shook the slings in their hands, one held a spear, and the third held a steel fork, and the slings flew out and wrapped the limbs of the pigs and wolves, and the fierce beast in the wild flew out like a cannonball, dragging a long furrow on the ground.

The man holding the steel fork pressed the fork against its neck, "Be careful!"

The spear-wielding man hurriedly dodged away from the pig wolf, and saw the raging beast open its mouth and let out a breath of wind, crushing a dead tree opposite.

The spear stabbed into the wolf's heart, and the beast screamed for a moment before it stopped struggling.

The two children were very bold, and when they saw that the beast was restrained and turned back, the elder brother went to the river to pick up the wooden barrel, while Xiao Gu covered his feet and jumped on one leg, staring at the pig wolf curiously, "Uncle Mo, there is meat to eat tonight!"

Wrapping the slingling around his neck, Uncle Mo rubbed the child's head, "No, these meats should be dried and stored for the winter, but the internal organs can be eaten!"

"Oh, that's great!" said Kotani, cheering, jumping on one leg towards the stockade.

In the Great Wilderness of Kyushu, those who were expelled from the clan because they were not protected by the ancestral spirit, not all of them died in the mouths of the demons and beasts in the wilderness, some lucky guys survived in the wilderness, and these people gradually gathered together and established countless villages of all sizes in the wilderness of Kyushu!

Without the protection of the power of the ancestral spirits, these people had to be more tenacious, braver, and more united, relying on their own flesh and blood to fight and mediate against those powerful enemies.

The Turbidity Clan is one such small tribe of people who have been expelled by clans of all surnames, living like steel in the vast wilderness.