Chapter 445: Boundary Monument
The plot of the ancient world is about to unfold, and a lot of foreshadowing has been done before, and the plot will gradually become tense.
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This is a vast and deep primeval forest.
In this forest, you can see giant trees about dozens or even hundreds of zhang high everywhere, these giant trees have dense branches, lush leaves, and the trunks are extremely thick, and it takes about ten adults to surround them.
And this primeval dense forest, like about forty or fifty zhang high giant trees emerge in endlessly, row upon row, but the giant trees that go up to 100 zhang are still relatively rare, and there are more than a dozen such towering giant trees in the whole forest, standing tall and tall, straight into the sky.
The area of this dense forest is endless, and from a high place, it is all a scene of lush wood, like a green ocean, extending to the sky, but above this forest, there are clouds and mist, surging non-stop, blocking the original brilliant sunlight, making the whole already gloomy forest even more misty.
Somewhere in the heart of the forest, in an area where the terrain is relatively flat and the trees are not very high, there is a small village with dozens of villages, probably close to a hundred people.
Usually, the villagers live by hunting wild beasts in the nearby dense forests, but because the forest is so huge that there are countless fierce beasts living in it, the villagers dare not go deeper, so they can only get some small beasts that are not too fierce in the forests on the outskirts of the village.
However, the number of those small beasts is limited after all, and the villagers hunt once, and the harvest is limited, which is often enough for the villagers to eat for a day or two, and then the patriarch organizes everyone to go into the forest to hunt.
Because the ancestors warned that entering the forest, you should not exceed the boundary of a stone monument set up by the ancestors, so most of the villagers can only move within the range of the boundary monument, and some people once tried to boldly cross the boundary monument without listening to the advice, and as a result, it seems that they suffered a mysterious curse, and were eaten by the ferocious beasts, and later, the villagers learned a lesson and did not dare to step beyond the stone monument for half a step.
However, such a precarious life also makes the life of the villagers very difficult.
As time passed, the small beasts that roamed the boundaries of the boundary monument were getting smaller and smaller, while the population of the village was slowly increasing, so that the prey that was caught each time was insufficient.
For a long time, the villagers have been in a state of semi-starvation, but they dare not easily walk out of the boundary monument, which also makes everyone very helpless.
Gradually, there were also bold young men who pouted and suggested to the old patriarch, hoping to organize the strongest hunters in the village to go out of the boundary monument for a big hunt, otherwise, the villagers would starve to death sooner or later.
But the old patriarch refused to agree even if he died.
Finally, one night, a dozen sturdy men in the village, carrying the village chief, secretly stepped over the boundary monument, preparing to enter the farther forest to look for large beasts, they were both husbands and fathers, and they could not see their wives and children starving for a long time, as long as they could hunt a large beast, at least the villagers could survive for a while.
It's just that that night, after a dozen men entered the forest, they never returned.
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Ye Dong's father was one of the men who entered the forest that night.
Since my father followed a dozen other uncles in the village across the boundary monument that night, there has been no news, and this is more than a year ago, since then, eight-year-old Ye Dong has become silent.
"I'm going to be strong, I'm going to be strong......"
Ye Dong would go to the edge of the village every day to look at the gloomy and terrifying path outside the boundary monument, and then, he vowed that he must make himself strong, he wanted to let the villagers live a life of food and clothing, so he desperately practiced boxing in a clearing outside the village.
This is a set of very simple boxing techniques taught to the clansmen by the old patriarch, strong and brave, simple boxing, it is a set of brute boxing handed down by the ancestors in the village for generations to give the villagers self-defense and kill beasts.
The small villages are all wooden houses, which can only make limited use of forest resources, rattan, and wooden stakes, and then build them uniformly by strong men.
According to the old patriarch, at the beginning, the villagers only dared to build their houses on top of the giant trees, in order to prevent the fierce brute beasts from attacking, because in fact, at the beginning, the whole village was often under the attack of fierce brute beasts, and later, there was a strong man, with the help of the strong man, hunted the attacking brute beasts, and the strong man set up such a boundary monument at the entrance of the village into the forest, as if the boundary monument had a strong deterrent power, so that the powerful brute beasts did not dare to approach the village, and later, the safety of the villagers was also completely guaranteed, and settled down。
At first, the boundary monument only had a deterrent effect on large brute beasts, and some small beasts that did not have much attack power would still haunt the outskirts of the forest from time to time, so that the villagers would also gain a lot from entering the forest to hunt every once in a while.
It's just that with the passage of time, the original small village with only a few families has now expanded to dozens of households, and the number of people has increased several times, and the number of small beasts that move around has not been reproduced, but has decreased sharply year by year, it seems that the forest has undergone some kind of change, and some wild beasts have chosen to escape, and it is difficult to find traces.
It's just that outside the boundary monument, it belongs to the vast and deep dense forest, but there is still a huge danger, the villagers once or twice step out of the boundary monument, occasionally have a small harvest, hunt some larger beasts, but once the villagers are greedy, after setting foot in a farther area, they will often encounter more violent brute beast attacks, and in the face of that kind of brute beast, the villagers' fist skills and strength can not compete at all, so that every few years or even every year, the hunters in the villagers will have some casualties, and like Ye Dong's father and more than a dozen strong men in the village are all wiped out, it can be said that it is the most serious loss in the village in recent decades, in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen families lost their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons at the same time...... This is also the most heart-wrenching accident in the village to date.
"Xiao Dong, I knew you were here, go back, practice boxing with everyone, it's useless to practice a person like you!"
Ye Dong swung a weak fist at a wooden stake in front of him, and under his long-term swing of the fist, a fist-deep notch had already appeared on the stake.
Standing behind Ye Dong, is a petite and delicate twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, from the outline of her face, she is a little similar to Ye Dong, she is Ye Dong's sister Ye Ling, as the sister who also lost her father, Ye Ling is much calmer than Ye Dong, her father left the village, crossed the boundary monument with the uncles, and never returned, everyone knows that their father and the dozen uncles are all fierce and lucky.
Their mother, who learned that her husband's life and death were unknown, spent her days in tears, but soon after she fell ill, and the old patriarch used the best secret methods to heal her, and it was not long before their mother died, leaving the siblings to live together.
And Ye Ling is not like many other girls in the village, often hang her father on her lips, showing very sadness, but Ye Ling buried her sadness in her heart, her father is gone, her mother is gone, she knows that she still has a young brother, since then, the two are the only closest people in this world, can only rely on each other tightly, as a sister, she has to take on the responsibility of supporting the whole family, she has no time to grieve, she has to protect her brother, her only relative.
Of course, as a member of the village, everyone is very watchful and helpful, and usually, the villagers will take more care of the two siblings, and every time they distribute food, they will also give the two siblings a small quota.
This is the most simple thinking of the villagers.
Ye Dong stopped swinging his fist, and at this time, the back of his fingers was already soaked in blood, and it was blurred.
"Little Winter!"
When Ye Ling saw it, he ran forward in distress, took out a packet of medicinal powder from the animal skin bag on his waist, and immediately sprinkled it on the back of Ye Dong's hand, both with reproach and a slightly sour nose.
Ye Dong didn't take it seriously, his expression revealed all the fortitude and tenacity that didn't belong to his age at all, and he smiled bitterly: "Sister, Xiao Dong can only make himself not miss Abba and Grandma in this way...... I want to be stronger, but, sister, tell me, how am I going to be stronger?"
"I ...... Also...... I don't know ......."
Ye Ling's eyes were already blurred, at this moment, where could she remain calm?
"Whew!"
At this moment, a beam of light suddenly crossed the gray sky and fell straight into the forest, and in the blink of an eye, the beam disappeared without any sound.
And the spot where the beam was drawn was not far from the distance between the two siblings.
"Sister, what ...... is that?" )