Chapter XVII: Vigil, The Outside World
Soon after, the group finished a sumptuous dinner, and the hunters laughed around the fire, adding firewood to the campfire from time to time, making for a relaxing and cheerful environment.
Time passed quickly, the night was late, and tiredness gradually hit everyone's hearts, and many people started to fight.
The group stopped playing, everyone cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks together, and then said goodbye one after another, and went to several huge tents to find their own place to sleep, after all, they had to continue tomorrow's hunting, and it was not possible to rest and recuperate.
In the evening, when everyone rests, someone in the team needs to take turns to take on the vigil and be responsible for guarding against emergencies such as wild beast attacks.
Because of the extreme excitement of participating in the fierce wild hunt on the first day and the abundant energy after improving the physical attributes, there was nowhere to vent, after Uncle Lin selected the two, Pang Yuan volunteered to participate in it and became a member of the night vigil mission.
Pang Yuan and Uncle Lin worked together as a team to undertake the vigilance task in the first half of the night, and the other two rested first, and after the shift change, the two of them were responsible for the vigil in the second half of the night.
The others all returned to the big tent one after another, and after a little tidying up, they each found a comfortable position to lie down, and gradually fell asleep with their clothes folded on their sides, and soon there was a flurry of snoring.
And Wang Fatzi was the last one to enter, he waited until everyone else entered the tent, took out a small bottle from his arms, walked around a few tents, and sprinkled some powder on the ground, but it was some realgar powder, which can disperse things such as snakes, ants, mosquitoes, etc., to avoid its approach, so that Pang Yuan, who was watching from the side, secretly admired his carefulness.
Uncle Lin and Pang Yuan sat sideways on the side of the fire, facing the periphery of the stone platform, and now there were only two people left in the team outside, and the two of them were roasting the bonfire while carefully paying attention to the movements in the surrounding deep forest.
The boundless forest at night is silent, the silence makes people panic, most of the animals are also resting, only the chirping of insects and the occasional whistling of the wind, even the night air at this time seems to be silent, although fresh, but with a hint of coolness.
At night, the sky is bright and shining, and it is intoxicatingly beautiful. The boy raised his head, and the vast night sky was full of stars, some of which were extremely bright, while others were faint and faint, looming, like twinkling eyes.
Pang Yuan looked up, the stars were hanging low, and he felt as if he was very close to him, as if he was about to fall.
At the same time, a full moon overhead is embedded in the night sky, huge and round, against the background of the sky without any pollution and dust, it looks extraordinarily bright, but it is not dazzling, comparing the infinite stars in the night sky, and the brightest stars will be eclipsed in front of this beautiful jade plate.
The white moonlight like water sprinkled down to the fullest, without stinginess, selflessly sprinkled on the world, without discrimination, neither because of the strong but a wisp, nor because of the humble and less.
The cold moonlight sprinkled on the boundless forest, spread all over the towering mountains that stretched for thousands of miles, sprinkled on the two people on the stone platform under the moon, and sprinkled into the young man's heart.
The boundless night sky, the full moon and the stars reflect each other, the beautiful scenery is like a picture, Pang Yuan seems to be able to resonate with it in this silent night, and his mind seems to be completely integrated into this beautiful night sky, he can deeply experience the coldness and peace in his heart, and he wants to smooth out some anxiety and restlessness in his heart, and brush away the troubles and dust of the world.
Pang Yuan and Uncle Lin sat quietly on the bonfire, and the orange flames reflected the side faces of the two, looking red, as if they were drunk. The two of them didn't say much, just kept a quiet vigil, quietly recuperated their spirits, looked at the forest at night, admired the night sky, and almost turned into two stone sculptures.
It's been a long time, it's late at night, in the end, it's the heart of a teenager, in this lonely forest, even if the beautiful night sky is beautiful, the boy is a little tired of watching it for a long time.
Pang Yuan felt bored and felt a little irritable in his heart, so he stood up, paced back and forth, walked around on the stone platform, and moved his lower body bones.
Uncle Lin looked at Pang Yuan's irritable and anxious appearance from the side, and couldn't help but feel funny, beckoning to him and asking him to come over and sit down next to him.
"What's the matter, Pang Yuan, I can't stand it for just a few hours?"
Uncle Lin said with a smile.
"Uncle Lin, it's so boring for us to sit like this all the time! Besides, there has been no movement in this forest, and I feel uncomfortable looking at it like this. ”
Pang Yuan was a little impatient and complained to Uncle Lin.
"Haha, you are here yourself, do you think the vigil is a beautiful difference?! The vigil tests the vigil, the vigil That's it, if you're bored, I'll talk to you to relieve your boredom, say, what do you kid want to hear?!"
As soon as he heard that Uncle Lin was going to talk about what he had seen and heard, and remembered the titles of mortals and other people displayed on his attribute panel, maybe they could be answered here, Pang Yuan couldn't help but be interested, and asked Uncle Lin excitedly:
"Uncle Lin, have you ever been outside this forest?What is the outside world like?What are the people in the outside world like?!"
A series of questions were asked by Pang Yuan continuously, one after another like a series of arrows.
Listening to Pang Yuan's question, Uncle Lin fell silent for a while at this time, looking at the bonfire next to him, with a complicated expression on his face and frowning, obviously caught in some unforgettable memories.
Pang Yuan thought that he had asked the wrong question, and was a little puzzled, Uncle Lin raised his head, smiled at Pang Yuan, and slowly spoke, in a low tone:
"The outside world is unimaginable to people who have never been there. The world is big and knows no boundaries, people will never reach the end in a lifetime, there are countless people living in the outside world, there are more than a dozen countries, big countries compete for hegemony with each other, and small countries are struggling to survive in the cracks. And as far as I know, it seems that there has never been a unity outside, and as for the history of the ancient times, I don't know. ”
"Uncle Lin, what is the country?!"
Seeing Pang Yuan's ignorant expression, Uncle Lin couldn't help but be a little funny:
"I forgot that you don't know this, this country is a place where countless people live and gather, you can think of it as a village magnified countless times, there are countless villages of this size in the country, and our village is almost close to the smallest type in the village. War is a fight between countries, and this is killing a lot of people!"
Listening to Uncle Lin's words, Pang Yuan couldn't help but feel shocked in his heart, the world was turned upside down in his mind, and all cognitions seemed to be subverted, it turned out that this vast forest was such a majestic and vast world, and the outside world was just showing the tip of the iceberg, which made people yearn for it.
Pang Yuan felt that he was really like a frog at the bottom of a well before, not knowing the vastness of the world and the world!
ps: I just went to see Iron Fist of Shame in the evening, and I came back to post chapters.