After surviving the cold season, everything on Feather Island grows.

Towering baobab trees are lush and nourished by their lush roots that draw water from the cold season. These sturdy trees emptied the soil beneath their feet, and crowded roots replaced dirt as new paths. There are occasional gaps between the roots of these trees, and it is said that an indescribable shadow crawls out of them in the darkest places.

Yuren Huangsun squatted on the tree, looking at the black hole that formed between the roots of the two trees. How deep is it? He thought about the legend in the tribe that the feathered people, who were hungry in the cold season, ran into the dense forest of baobab trees to chase reptiles, only to be devoured by these huge mouths and never came out again. The same goes for the Celestial Wheel, known as the "Little Chicken Wing", who disappeared a few months ago and has not been heard from again, and his body has not been seen by anyone.

Strange to say, the silent disappearance of the Heavenly Wheel caused quite a stir in the settlement. The young feathers have been arguing about the cause of the deformed little man's death, with many believing that he would have fallen to his death on his first attempt at flying, while Keeson insisted that he would die of murder because he was too much of an eyesore. Only Huang Sun thought that Yi Tianlun was not so easy to die, he was the smartest person he had ever met, although he was physically disabled, he could always get food, he knew that talking to Keeson when there were many people was easy to provoke the anger of the other party, and he also knew that although Boshida often spoke ill of him, as long as she pleaded in private, she could always give some food. But Huang Sun was not stupid enough to share his limited affection for the Heavenly Wheel with others.

The beautiful big golden snake Sisha is also gone, which seems to make the warbler even more gloomy. When queuing up to receive the soup, she always cowered in the corner, looking at everyone vigilantly, Huang Sun felt that she was pitiful, all the people who cared about her were far away from her, and the rumors around this once the loveliest female feather in the tribe became more and more outrageous and obscene. Sometimes, this happens when the feathered people lose something they need to survive. However, the feather people have always relied on their own bodies to hunt, gather, and live, so what would the loss of a person reduce to such a state? And how can they tell if they have lost that strange object? In that case, how can he be sure that he will not one day lose that precious thing and become a godless walking corpse?

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he simply left the baobab tree. He came here to look for birds' eggs, and at the beginning of the hot season, there were often large and small nests on the baobab trees, and the eggs inside were regarded as a godsend delicacy by the feathered people, and when fried with silous crystal, they had the magic power to make people full of vitality. Huang Sun thought that if he could find a few eggs, he could find a home for a female feather man to keep warm for a while on the pretext of making fried eggs, otherwise he would either not be allowed to enter at all, or he would have to leave quickly after being happy. These female feathers could see that in bad weather, a roof was much more tempting to feathers than they could provide. It's really unfair. The male feathered people lacked dexterous hands to knead hemp and rush together to weave hemp rope like the female feathered people, and they did not grasp the unique art of making reasonable use of the existing structure of the cedar tree and fixing pebbles and flexible boxwood cores to it. All they could provide was food, and now there was a terrible shortage of food, and many males had to lie on the floor while dozing.

Huang Sun lay on the ground almost for the entire cold season, and the more this happened, the more sloppy his body became, and the more he lacked a kind of confidence that he could always find a place to live. Although he is never short of food thanks to the abundance of baobab trees, and it is a wonderful thing to fly and hunt with his companions, it is really not so pleasant to feel that he has nowhere to go after being separated from everyone. So he made up his mind to break into the house of a female feather man in three days, and these eggs were the tickets.

He found a messy nest and eggs among the branches of a cedar tree, and just as he felt that good fortune had finally taken his toll, and he couldn't wait to glide down from the top of the baobab tree, something "swished" past him, causing him to scream in fright, flutter his wings and dodge in embarrassment.

It was a wooden arrow, and it was firmly under the nest.

Huang Sun climbed a relatively thick branch, looking everywhere for the source of the attack, but his mouth was covered from behind.

"It's an old friend." A long-awaited voice sounded in his ears, and Huang Sun turned back in horror and saw a ghost.

The Heavenly Wheel was entrenched between the branches in an extended position, its wings and claws spread, grasping at the branches above, pinching Huangsun's face with one hand and a rough hard bow in the other—of course, as a native of Feather Island, Huangsun had never seen a bow, let alone what it was called.

Huang Sun shook his head, he couldn't understand it, he couldn't believe it. So Yi Tianlun handed him herbal tea in a bamboo tube, and spent some effort to soothe his frightened heart.

"I wasn't actually waiting for you." The agile feathered man, who had been a chicken wing, told him, "It's a trap, and if it weren't for you, everyone would be dead." ”

"You're going to kill your own people?"

"Abnormal?"

Because he used to treat the other party well, Yi Tianlun did not kill the killer now. Huang Sun sweated a little, but he didn't expect that one day he would be saved by the weakness of soft-heartedness.

"What have you been through?" Huang Sun drank some more herbal tea and felt much calmer, but he still didn't recover from his surprise.

"Down there."

"Underground?"

"Hmm."

"I heard you fell into it like they did."

"I fell into it, but someone else must not be. We'll talk about that later. ”

The Wheel of Heaven was reborn. This was Huang Sun's first feeling, although he didn't really know the word "reborn".

"My wings were broken in the cold season and I had to hide underground to recuperate. You know how the tribe deals with cripples. He said the word "crippled" indifferently, as if he were telling someone else's story. "I don't want to drag people down, I just want to find a quiet place to rest, and this sleep is a winter. Molds and mosses from the ground covered my body, and spiders and ants made their homes on me. But in any case, when the cold season passed, I found myself alive, and the Sisha wrapped around me, saving me from freezing to death. ”

"What a loyal snake."

"I've grown new wings." Yi Tianlun explained unnecessarily, Huang Sun could see that with his incredible wingspan and already slender body, he must have become a good flyer now. But why are his wings so thin? Why didn't he wear a yellowed winged robe?

"The winged robe is beautiful."

"It's not a winged robe." Yi Tianlun said solemnly, "You touch it." ”

As soon as Huang Sun's hand touched the surface, the strange feel made him retract. "What kind of animal is this?"

"Snakeskin. For some special reason, I lost too much blood at that time, so I put the skin that Sisha had shed over the wound. When I woke up, the skin was on me. ”

"It's like a myth."

The wheel shook its head, bounced off the branch, glided over to the nest, and grabbed the egg. The snakeskin gave him incredible gliding speed, and his flying posture was quite elegant, which Huang Sun couldn't envy. However, when the wheel of Etian came to rest on the tree, it drew its bow and mounted its arrow, aiming it at him.

Huang Sun spread his wings and made an instinctive intimidation gesture.

"What I'm going to tell you next, don't tell anyone."

How dare he threaten me? Huang Sun angrily threw himself at the other party, and the arrow "swished" out, and the feathers on his shoulders fell in response.

"I can shoot wherever I want." Yi Tianlun said coldly, "In the underground, I practiced 10,000 times. ”

Huang Sun retracted his wings unwillingly, squatting on the tree and staring at the other party warily.

"The first thing I did when I came to earth was to go back to my mother, Fei Ying's house. But at that time, everyone was already asleep, and I couldn't see if there was anyone else in the tree house, so I planned to stay by the side and wait until Fei Ying woke up before going in. I saw something else. ”

"Something else?"

"Something anomalous, a wingless shadow. It floated silently next to my treehouse, and for a moment, I thought it was going to hurt the warbler, but it just stayed there, and after a while it flew away slowly. I've been hiding in this area ever since, trying to see what was floating in the sky that day. ”

Huang Sun was silent. The Heavenly Wheel is waiting for his answer, what is the answer? He didn't know, he just felt that he was in a situation where he was easily controlled by the other party.

"Friend, I need your help." "I think the vanished people have something to do with that shadow. ”

"How can I help you? Now that you've become so ...... Yongwu, where can I still be used? ”

"I have no plans to show up in the clan. I've always felt that 'that thing' seems to have something to do with someone in the clan, and only people who everyone thinks are dead don't get their attention. It's not a wise choice to show up at this point. ”

He whispered what he asked Huang Sun to do.

The clouds cleared, the shadows of the trees were reflected in the long hair of the shawl of the Heavenly Wheel, and the stars shone on the wilderness of Featherland Island.