Chapter 6 The First Hunt
In the small square to the east of Nanku Village, scattered blades are placed at random. Nanlan came out of the conference hall with a few people, the expressions on their faces were solemn, and several women walked over to these strong men with their children, the strong men touched their children's heads, muttered in their mouths, and the children reluctantly held hands and retreated to the square.
A little boy of five or six years old came running up to me, took my hand and handed me a cylindrical bone bracelet with a red god tied up from both ends and looped around twice just enough to fit into my wrist. As you can see from the texture of the bones, it took a lot of effort to polish it.
"Uncle Qiyuan, this is for you, it can bless you safely. The child said seriously.
"Thank you!" I had just finished speaking, and the little boy walked up to Chenna. Repeating the action just now, he took out another bracelet from his arms and wrapped it around Zhu Na's wrist, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly: "Aunt Qi Na, this is made for you by my mother, my mother has already made a wish to Lord Nanku, and I will bless you safe!"
"Thank you, little friend, what's your name?" asked the little boy with a smile as she shook the bracelet around her wrist.
"My name is Nan Yongle," the little boy looked at Na.
"Lele, go to your mother, be good!" the boss Nan Zichen touched Nan Yongle's head, lowered his head and said to him.
Lele ran to his mother, who touched his head, her eyes full of sadness. I can only guess that it was a mother's caress for her son, and the rest was not readable at all.
Nan Zichen walked up to us and whispered: "Lele is the child of the fourth child, the fourth child died in a hunt, and now only their mother and daughter are left to depend on each other. ”
"Listen, everyone, we have less than a week's worth of food left, except for the elderly, children and those with small children. As long as you have the ability to fight, bring weapons and go hunting with us!" Nanlan said loudly as he stood on the steps. Everyone had their weapons ready and stood by in the small square.
"Lele's mother, you are out of the ranks!" Nanlan pointed to Lele's mother. Her hair was black and shiny, and her old cropped shorts and animal skins could not hide her muscular physique, and although she was a little emaciated, the waistcoat line at her waist and the muscles on her arms were bumpy. Holding a long wooden stick with a broken bone blade tied to the top, a manly heroic spirit on her face was on full display.
Lele's mother stood up, plunged one end of the long stick into the soil under her feet with her right hand, and looked at Nanlan with a pleading eye: "Lan Lan, just let me go!
"How many times have I told you, Lele is still young, and when he grows up, you will go hunting with the others!"
"Lele is at home with his aunt, you can rest assured!" Lele's mother choked up a little and said: "I want to get his father back, he must still be alive......" Speaking of this, Lele's mother almost cried.
"Let her go!" Nan Yujun walked out of the big tent and said loudly: "But you help them, you can't take risks, Lele has lost his father, you can't let him lose his mother again!"
"Thank you, mother!" Lele's mother bowed and thanked Nan Yujun. Lele came out of a group of children and shouted to her mother: "Mother, I will listen to the words of the eldest aunt, you have to bring your father back safely......
Lele's mother smiled and said to Lele: "Okay, son! Remember, you have to listen to your aunt's words, and you can't mess around!"
"Mother, I remember!" Several children next to Lele also came over to support his shoulders and waved goodbye to everyone.
A group of people took simple weapons and some leftover barbecue meat from yesterday, and followed Nanlan out of Nanku Village. She and He Ku had already mingled with the group, and there was a mischievous little monkey who made everyone laugh along the way. The eldest Nan Zichen looked at me sullenly, and deliberately approached me to talk to me: "Qiyuan, you should learn from that girl, see that she is very good at adapting to the new environment!"
"Thank you, Brother Zichen, I will!" I replied politely.
"They are all used to calling me the boss, you can also call me the boss in the future, and call me Brother Zichen sounds awkward, hahaha......" Nan Zichen said with a smile.
"Okay, thank you, Boss!", "Boss, are you from this planet too?" I asked rhetorically.
Nan Zichen frowned: "No, the only real locals are Nanlan's mother and daughter, and our wife." Nan Zichen continued: "The second, third, and sixth children are all criminals from different places, and it was Nanlan's mother who took us in and let us have children here, and we are her sons." ”
"Then ......" I was about to ask about something else, but the boss interrupted me, "I don't know what happened before, but the enemy we are facing in front of us is very fierce!" The boss patted me on the shoulder and walked straight forward.
"Boy, let's survive first and then think about anything else!" the second seemed to hear my conversation with the boss, and leaned close to me and said coldly.
Over a mountain, Nanlan stretched out his index finger and leaned towards his mouth: "Shh~ Don't make a sound, lie down!" Everyone lay behind a pile of broken stones and looked into the distance without saying a word.
The surrounding area is barren, with the occasional few long-dead tree trunks exposed to the bare hills. This star, called "Eternal Game", is the sun of the land of sin. Under the sun's rays, wisps of white mist rise around the puddles in the low-lying areas. There are occasional piles of large boulders on the earthy red ground, which are probably caused by the erosion of wind and rain to lose the most primitive sharp edges and corners. A few dark green meadows could be seen near the puddle. From a distance, it looks like a war has just been experienced.
Nanlan stared intently into the distance, and whispered, "The front is where they often move, we can only wait!" Nan Zichen on her left and Di Na on her right. Jena's eyes widened, her hands were folded, her lower lip was resting on the back of her hand, and she looked into the distance curiously with a small mouth.
The third child rubbed his face with his left hand, turned over, leaned his head on a stone, and whispered to the second child: "I'll sleep for a while, and call me if you have it!"
"You do this every time!, can you change this stinky problem!" the second child complained impatiently.
"I'm just a rough person, what I am most annoyed about is waiting for time, second brother, you don't know!" said and closed his eyes and began to sleep. The third child has a particularly long chin and beard, which is tied into 3 small braids, and the ends of the braids are buckled with small metal rings. Looking at his thick eyebrows and big eyes, his short hair stands on end, and at first glance, he looks like a straightforward and fast-talking person who doesn't talk around the corner. The second child is just the opposite, with a beautiful face, you can see that he is serious and follows the rules in everything. However, he is ingenious and cannot be difficult in anything, and the weapons he uses are all his homemade iron fans. There are 6 brothers, and Nan Zichen only talked to me about these two last night.
The second child seems to be accustomed to the style of the third child and no longer cares about him. The usually naughty monkey, after drinking the holy water of Nanku, seems to have changed into a monkey, although he likes to frolic, but he has learned how to control the measure. He has been following Title, and he has probably decided that Titlea is his master.
The most abrasive thing in the world is waiting, and from morning to noon, I didn't see the shadow of the beast "Falcon Fang". The water in the skin is all hot water, and sweat flows mercilessly on everyone's face. He Ku also began to doze off, several people lay down and fell asleep, and Nanlan instructed everyone to keep an eye on it in shifts.
It was about to be afternoon, after eating some meat, I took a nap, and the boss gently pushed me, and I was about to open my mouth to speak. The boss covered my mouth with his left hand and raised his right index finger "shh~"
I followed the direction of the boss's finger and saw a dark figure slowly descending from the hillside in the distance, crawling towards a puddle......