With the undulations of the waves in the distance, the passenger ship under his feet swayed slightly in a regular and rhythmic manner, and the housekeeper in simple clothes gently hugged the four or five-year-old boy beside him, and the two figures, one big and one small, looked at the mainland that gradually disappeared out of sight and were silent.

The destruction of the family happened in one year, and in this year, the master and servant fled almost all the corners of the Dongzhou land, just to avoid the almost ubiquitous black door, the group of murderous executioners who did all kinds of evil!

He has worked as a peddler, a laborer, a beggar, stole the chaff nest of a poor family with a clear conscience, and even snatched a bite of fish bones with wild cats and dogs.

Now, the little spare money that the two of them hid by stealing, robbing, and saving before, finally became two tickets to Xizhou under the oppression of black-hearted businessmen.

But after all, he survived, as long as he didn't die, he had a chance to take revenge!

After going through this storm, the two are now not just masters and servants, but more like masters!

The child next to him is also sensible, since he saw all his family members being abused and killed in front of him, he changed his previous simple and sunny character like a blank sheet of paper.

As if he was a different person, sometimes he showed a black belly and cunning, which was not much better than himself who was half-buried in the loess.

You must know that he is only a child under the age of six, and even in the average family, children of this age should be crying and asking for toys and snacks!

But he suffered so much with himself, and sometimes he thought that it would have been easier for him to die if he hadn't tried his best to escape!

However, when I think of the great kindness of the old lady, even if Lao Yu fights for this cruel life, he can't leave the little young master alone, otherwise he will have no shame to face the soul of the Ma family below!

When he was in a trance, the hem of his clothes was pulled to attract Lao Yu to lower his head. Ma Shuo's little face, which still had a hint of baby fat, had an obvious tired look: "Grandpa, go in, I'm so sleepy!"

When Lao Yu heard this, a smile appeared on his face, and he dragged his equally tired body to pick up Xiao Ma Shuo and nodded: "Grandpa is also sleepy, let's sleep with him for three days and three nights!"

Although the two of them had already approached the critical point of coma mentally and physically, getting rid of the nightmarish pursuers at this moment also made the string in the heads of the two men completely loosen.

They returned to the "rat hole" that the captain had vacated for them, snuggled up to each other, and soon fell asleep.

Dongzhou, the capital of Jinwu State, the northwest suburb of Jinwu City, the ancestral residence of the Ma family.

There is a large area of exquisite garden buildings that are magnificently located here, but there is no living person in the scene that should be bustling.

All that was left was an old mansion with a gloomy atmosphere, and from time to time there was a trace of gray-white dust drifting in the wind along with the smell of blood! But apart from the sporadic traces of the fight and the few traces of blood, not even a single corpse could be found.

Suddenly, in the middle of the rear, the ancestral hall used to pay tribute to the ancestors of the Ma family ignited a flame, followed by a raging fire.

When the flames burned two meters above the roof, they seemed to be blocked by an invisible and untouchable cover, and they scattered and flew in all directions, indescribably weird.

It's a pity that the Ma family is very large, and the surroundings of this house are even less inaccessible, so until the flames are slowly extinguished and the ashes cool down, they have not been noticed by outsiders in the slightest. Only a group of black-clad masked men and many laborers parked next to the excavation machine gathered around the ancestral hall.

Then, after a series of alternating beatings by machines and manuals, under the one-foot-thick stone slabs of the ancestral hall, an underground passage appeared that did not know where the end was.

The black-clothed man at the head waved his hand and signaled to the other black-clothed masked people, and then slowly walked towards the underground along the passage that didn't know where the end was, and there were screams and shouts on the ground behind him!

Soon, the sound disappeared without a trace, but the gray-white fly ash and bloody smell in the air were once again thicker.

The man in black who was walking underground snorted slightly when he heard the screams, turned on the light he carried with him, and did not mean to stop at all.

After entering a dead end several times, I came to a stone gate that depicted the whole as a white lion, but with a single horn on its head.

After carefully inspecting the entire area with the help of the light, and finding no trace of the trap, the man in black raised his hand and lightly touched the stone door. With a "boom, boom" sound of machine friction, the stone door automatically opened from the middle to both sides.

"Didn't the last master who mastered this physical mechanism technique die in war hundreds of years ago?" Looking at the rather mythical scene in front of him, the man in black looked at the stone doors that automatically opened on both sides again with great curiosity, and stepped in.

It was a room completely hollowed out by a monolith, with no organic matter such as metal cloth or even water. The stone slabs of various sizes are carved with various patterns like children's graffiti, and they are quietly and neatly arranged on the floor against the wall around the room.

He couldn't read the words at all, but there were a few pictures that aroused his great interest, and the first of them caught his attention was the white lion depicted on the first stone tablet, which was exactly the same as the one on the stone gate, and many animals like cows, horses, rats, and even flowers and trees prostrate in front of it as if worshipping gods.

Then there is a large tree with clear facial features, the mouth and the ground are painted red, and there are some long or short black dots and black lines scattered around, if you add a few animals with their corners facing away from the tree, this picture is not difficult to understand!

On the third sheet, the white lion and the big tree leading the animals and plants behind them stand face to face under the scorching sun, as if negotiating.

Seeing this, the man in black probably guessed that the two creatures should be opposites, the big tree eats animals, and the white lion is protecting animals, and the two should be the top existence that cannot stand to death.

It's just that it seems that these things don't exist in nature! The white lion with a single horn on its head may appear in some deceptive circus juggling, but how can a big tree that can walk and eat people?

Is it an ancient myth?

The pattern on the fourth slate made the man in black even more surprised. The white lion and the big tree, who should have sworn to each other, appeared together peacefully and amicably, and the white lion even raised his head to eat the round fruit on the tree!

I don't understand what this means, and the man in black regrets not leaving any life for the Ma family!

Of course, the little one who ran away doesn't count! A five- or six-year-old child can't afford to make any waves, even if he packs up with the old guy surnamed Yu, he doesn't deserve to be right with himself!

The pattern of the fifth slate made the pupils of the man in black hidden under the hood shrink sharply, and it was still a white lion standing with his head held high under a big tree, but in front of him stood a humanoid creature walking on two legs!

In an instant, he understood why there was such a big contradiction in the first few stone slabs - the negotiation was successful! The big tree and the white lion became mates and gave birth to humanoids!

Well, the Ma family!

Thinking of this, the man in black grabbed the slate with both hands and trembled, "Smack!" There was a crisp sound, and the slate fell to the ground and shattered.

Hurriedly squatting down, trying to gather as many slate fragments as possible together suddenly stopped, and now only he knows about it!

The only person alive in the Ma family is the child who doesn't know when he will die in another country, so there is no need for him to clean up the slate!

Let this family history, which may be a hybrid of monsters, be incomplete forever!

With this thought in his head, the man in black patted the dust on his hands and got up to leave, and the entire underground space returned to its former quiet and darkness.

The moment he walked out of the dark passage, he glanced around, and was very satisfied with the ability of these people under him to destroy the corpses and destroy the traces.

Taking a deep breath of the rancid air, he turned his head and saw a man sent by the "Black Fly", who was the main force chasing and killing the child, standing respectfully not far from the bottom of the steps.

"Is the child dead?" said the man in black's lazy, emotionless voice.

The "black fly" immediately lowered his head, and his words were full of shame and panic: "The master, the subordinates and others are incompetent, and the master and servant fled to Xizhou by boat!"

"Xizhou? Great revenge will be avenged! Now it's time to try to open up areas outside Dongzhou!"