The beasts that plagued the village were removed, and the huge corpses were turned to ashes in the fire, but the lives lost could never be recovered.

Shan Chenyuan and Zeyu searched the entire village with their two children, and only a dozen villagers, as well as five sixteen or seventeen-year-old children, survived hiding in a hole near the village.

“5555… The village is gone, the parents are gone, the grandparents are gone, all are gone, all are gone..."The surviving children cried loudly when they saw the ruined village uncontrollable emotions.

The villagers pulled the bloody soil in front of the house and wept bitterly.

Shan Chenyuan and Zeyu didn't say anything to comfort them, because what they needed most now was to cry, vent the suppressed emotions in their hearts, and then live well.

At night, a bonfire outside the riverside hut lit up, reflecting Shan Chenyuan's face.

There was a tap on the shoulder, and Shan Chenyuan turned his head to see Zeyu sitting on the ground next to him.

Shan Chenyuan said lightly: "Why don't you take a chair out." ”

Zeyu said helplessly: "There are still extra chairs, let a few little ghosts sleep in the bed." ”

"......" Shan Chenyuan moved his buttocks, sat down on the chair tightly, and said, "Well, it's not bad to sit on the ground, it's cool." ”

Zeyu turned his head and glanced at Shan Chenyuan suspiciously, "What do you mean..."

His eyes sank, and when he saw the chair Shan Chenyuan was sitting on, he suddenly realized, pointed and said, "Good guy, sit on the chair by yourself, see me sitting on the ground, I'm very happy, right, I'll make you cool." "When you stand up and pat the dirt on your buttocks, you have to grab a chair.

……

After grabbing for a long time, I didn't grab a position, and sat back on the ground again.

Zeyu said with condemnation in his eyes: "I don't know if you rely on your brothers at home, rely on your friends when you go out, do you treat your friends like this." ”

"Tsk, you're so thick-skinned. Here, eat some more. Shan Chenyuan took out a string of wolf meat stuck in the ground and handed it to Zeyu.

Zeyu didn't take it, and asked instead: "I wanted to ask when I came out, where did you get this meat." ”

"You've eaten all my food, do you want me to go hungry?"

Shan Chenyuan said and directly stuffed the meat into Zeyu's hand, explaining: "When you slept with them inside, I went to the edge of the woods and cut a little wolf meat and came back. Don't worry, this guy ran here to eat me, and died at my hands before he could enter the village. ”

"I'm so sorry." He took a bite of wolf meat with a heart, and immediately spit it out, and returned the meat skewer to Shan Chenyuan, "The meat is still raw, you can eat it for me." ”

"It's not my fault, I said I wouldn't cook food as soon as we met, I haven't eaten it yet, it's your own heart that dares to bite down." I'm so innocent.

"Okay, you're Shan Chenyuan, use me as an experiment."

With a black face, he kicked the chair under Shan Chenyuan's ass to vent.

Shan Chenyuan said with a smile: "Feel better now, don't suppress yourself too much." ”

Zeyu stared at the bonfire and sat down, thinking of the villagers who died tragically, and said with red eyes: "Thank you, Shan Chenyuan, I hate myself so much, I hate that I can't change the facts, and I can't save him if I stand in front of the village chief." ”

Shan Chenyuan inserted the wolf meat back into the fire, looked up at the sky and blinked: "Then don't I hate myself even more, I have a skill, but I didn't have time to save those villagers." ”

Shaking his head, Zeyu said: "You can't predict, how can you know that they will suddenly enter the village." It's a village away from where they're going down, and there's a big maple forest from the village, and I, who was in the village, didn't even notice that they had come down. A dozen reckless beasts, so many, so many—" said with a choked tone at the end of his voice.

After a pause, he continued: "I really envy you, if I were not just a small B-level awakener, but had a strong ability like you, the village chief would not have died, and there would be more villagers who could survive." ”

……

After being silent for a while, Shan Chenyuan turned his head and asked, "Zeyu, you have a lot to do with here, right?" How can such a village still exist now, and why don't the villagers live in the town or the city, but in the mountains. Isn't it safer in town? ”

Turning around the meat skewers next to the campfire, Zeyu sighed and said slowly, "Alas, this was a long time ago. ”

"When I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that before he was born, their parents used to live in a small town under the mountain, and then their home was destroyed by those giant beasts that lived in the ocean, and only a dozen of them survived in the whole town, and then they moved here together, just don't want to face those fears in the sea anymore. Later, some people came who wanted to escape the world, and this place became the current village, and the town below the mountain was rebuilt later, and the government rearranged people to live in it. When I grew up, I understood some things and thought that those giant beasts in the sea were fear, but not those reckless beasts in the mountains, but at that time, when the elders talked about it, they looked frightened, so they could only think about it themselves, and they didn't dare to say it. ”

"My grandfather was born here, and he said that the previous generations of the family were ordinary people who could not awaken, and it was not until my father was born that the family changed. He woke up when he was 13 and later earned enough money to buy a small house in the town down the hill before our family moved out. The awakened have a long lifespan, difficult children, my father was twenty-three when he graduated, and he married my mother after the school assigned a job, and my father was in his 50s when I was born, and my grandfather was nearly 100 at that time. My grandfather died when I was three years old, and he had to come back here and come back with me before he died, and that was the first time I came here, and then my father would often bring me back when he missed my grandfather, and then I grew up and woke up, and when I wanted to come, I came alone. ”

"In fact, some people in the town have come to the village to persuade them, but they have grown up here since they were children, and they have long been accustomed to it, and they do not want to enter the town life, so they have never refused to go down the mountain. The people who came here to persuade could not help it, thinking that they had lived here safely and soundly for several lifetimes, so they did not persuade them, and the villagers continued to grow vegetables here, sell them to vegetable buyers, and continue to live with a meager living expenses. But a few years ago, something changed here. ”

Zeyu stopped and said, picked up a skewer of burnt meat and devoured it.

Shan Chenyuan's eyes changed, "Did those reckless beasts start to enter the village to eat people?" ”

Zeyu swallowed the meat in his mouth, sniffled, eased his emotions and said: "Yes, I haven't been here for a while at that time, and I've been busy with my studies, and I only came here after a long time, and I saw that there were a few uncles and aunts missing, and I asked." At that time, the villagers only told me that they had an accident, and I didn't think much about it, but I only learned the truth after listening to the children in the village. ”

"I persuaded them to go down the mountain, but they still didn't want to, and called my father to persuade him, but it was still useless, and I came often after that, but that time it was like an accident, and it never happened again. …… Just a few months ago, the accident happened again, a reckless beast went down the mountain and killed seven people, and left unscathed, including Huahua and Chenchen's parents. After that time, some villagers wavered, while others remained stubborn and unwilling to leave. A month ago, before I came here, I heard that the town was going to arrange for someone to forcibly take the villagers to the town, but I haven't seen them show up until now. Shan Chenyuan, you can think of it, there are only two possibilities for such a situation-"

"One, they changed their minds and didn't arrange for anyone to come."

"Second, there are really people in the town who have been arranged, but there is an accident on the road that makes it impossible for them to get here."

"Do you wonder which one it is, or maybe maybe you heard it wrong." Shan Chenyuan added a few pieces of wood to the bonfire and asked seriously.

"No way, the whole town was debating who was going to come, I wouldn't be mistaken. I grew up in the town, and nothing like this happened to the mayor. I wanted to go back and verify, but I didn't dare to leave, I was afraid that if it was really what I thought. Then neither here nor in the town is safe, and what happened more than a hundred years ago will be repeated again. Now I'm here, and my parents are in town—"

Zeyu was embarrassed to whisper: "Shan Chenyuan, walking forward is the way down the mountain, can you take us together?" ”

His mouth tugged, and he said with a look of shame: "I know, we are a burden, and one person will definitely be able to go down the mountain safely, but-"

Shan Chenyuan threw the meat skewer in his hand to Zeyu's feet, and said slightly angrily: "I thought you had treated me as a friend, but it turned out that I was making a fool of myself." ”

Zeyu waved his hand again and again: "Shan Chenyuan, you misunderstood, I have already treated you as my lifelong friend." I mean, if it's as I thought, we're bound to encounter a herd of reckless beasts on the way down, and we won't be able to walk with you. ”

Shan Chenyuan sneered: "How weak you think of me, a few reptiles can't deal with it." ”

Zeyu was shocked when he heard this, looked at Shan Chenyuan's face, and found that the corner of his mouth was sneering, but his eyes were full of smiles. Realizing that he was teasing himself, Zeyu stood up with an embarrassed face, picked up the meat skewers on the ground and threw them at him.

"You kid is playing with me, it makes a lot of sense, right?"

Shan Chenyuan was amused by Zeyu, "In the afternoon, you saw with your own eyes how I got rid of the reckless beast, and you are still worried that I am not capable enough." ”

Zeyu circled around Shan Chenyuan's back for half a circle, clapped his hands, and asked in surprise: "It's already very powerful for you to have A-level strength at your current age, is it possible that you can reach ten with one." ”

looked at Shan Chenyuan's face again, thought about it and shook his head: "No, no, are you about to break through the A-level and become an S-level first-class master." ”

Shan Chenyuan had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he looked at him with a stubborn taste but didn't speak.

Zeyu, whose mind was hoisted, was so angry that he wanted to kick someone, squatted on the ground with a buttocks, picked up a string of meat and stuffed it into his mouth without looking at it, and then spit it out again.

……

Early the next morning, Shan Chenyuan and Zeyu took the villagers back to the village to sort out some important items, and then set fire to all the houses, and a nameless small mountain village disappeared from there, and only those who witnessed everything remembered that there were people here who lived happily.