Chapter 1: Hunting
The inky night sky was like a very still sea, stretching infinitely overhead, without stars or clouds, only a strange red moon hanging high, as if there was a blood-red eye behind the sky, peeking into the earth in the endless darkness.
The world under the night is eerie, the shadows are full of devastation, the wind and sand are all over the sky, and the occasional jackdaw flies by, and there is a mournful cry.
As far as the eye can see, there is only infinite desolation and loneliness.
This is "Eternal Night", a world with only night, a paradise for youkai and a nightmare for humans.
The story begins in such a dark, desolate world, when our protagonist is sleeping on a dead tree.
The blood-red moonlight stretched the shadows of the trees, and the dead trees cast ghostly shadows on the ground, and suddenly, the shadows changed, and when I looked towards the top of the tree, I saw a young man yawning and sitting up from a dead branch.
His name is Fu Li, a thin silver-haired boy, and like all humans who live in the "eternal night", he is also one of the thousands of ants, but this ant is a little special...... For example, he was very hungry......
"TM woke up hungry again. ”
Fu Li touched his cooing belly, staring blankly at the curved bow hanging on the side, frowning slightly. The hunger in his stomach was getting stronger and stronger, and he was a little dizzy from hunger, and he almost couldn't remember how long he hadn't eaten.
For the sake of this "prey", Fu Li had been waiting here a week ago, and the food had been exhausted three days ago, but he did not plan to turn back, because at this moment, he looked at the red moon in the southeast of the night sky, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.
"One, two, three. ”
The dead sky suddenly lit up with starlight, like a lamp being lit, and when I looked closely, I found that it was not a star, but a group of huge black finch, holding a faint green copper lamp, flying in a strange queue towards the red moon.
"The door of Hades is open, and the Yin soldiers borrow the way—"
Out of nowhere, a low chant floated in, and with the ghostly voice diffused over the wilderness, the wind was blowing in an instant, and when the wind stopped, the group of black finches with copper lamps had formed a strange formation under the red moon, and surrounded by the faint green light, the reflection of a round of red moon was reflected in the middle of the formation formed by the black sparrows.
After a while, the red moon reflected in the center of the formation began to tremble, and as the water rippled out, a person actually walked out of thin air from the array, and then, one after another figures wearing black hats drilled out of the formation.
The figures that appeared from the formation, one by one, jumped on the back of the black finch, there were about twenty people in total, only seven were dressed in black and wearing hats, and the rest were all young and beautiful women, all wearing the same black locks on their hands.
It wasn't until the last person appeared that the reflection of the red moon gradually returned to calm, and then dissipated into the night sky.
After the formation was completely gone, the group of black sparrows flew towards the west. Except for the man in black who was in the lead, who was riding alone on a black finch, the rest of the people followed closely with two or three female dependents.
There was nothing else in the sky of eternal night except the red moon, and one could not help but suspect that the sky was a curtain covered by the immortals. Under the red moon, the black finch rode against the wind, and the fierce wind swept like a blade, forcing the black-clothed people on the black finch's back to half-bend and press the hats on their heads, and the wind blew their veils away, revealing their dark and rough faces.
"Boss, we have gained a lot this time! Just in time for the Yuehua Festival, these girls will definitely be able to sell for a good price!"
The man in black who followed closely behind the head bird was pinching the face of a girl next to him at this time, and his eyes wandered obscenely over the girl. Ignoring the cold wind of the mouth, he shouted loudly, revealing a sly smile.
"Hahahaha, second child, you kid is the most anxious, it's the girl who wants to be in Ruyilou. The man in black, who was flying side by side with the man who had just spoken, also shouted, causing everyone behind him to burst into laughter, but the man in black sitting on the head bird did not say a word.
His silence cooled the frolic atmosphere for a moment.
"It's all crooked, aren't you??" The man in black sitting on the head bird suddenly roared, which frightened everyone behind him and shuddered, and the group of black finches were also slightly scattered in formation.
"Before I arrived in Xijing, I pinned my head to the waistband of my trousers!!"
Seeing that the boss was angry, everyone instantly became serious and said in unison.
"Yes, Totong!"
Through the veil lifted by the wind, you can catch a glimpse of the grim face of the man in black sitting on the head bird, his brows are furrowed, his eyes are firmly looking ahead, and a long scar on his face extends from his right eye to his jaw, which looks very terrifying. This person's name is Hu Jin, nicknamed Scar Fox, he has been a bandit for 20 years, and he has just received the official order of the "Hades" not long ago, and has become the commander of the Yin soldiers, this is the first time he has gone to the "other side" to plunder, and he does not want any accidents to happen on the way.
Speaking of "Hades" and "Yin Soldiers", they are not actually dead ghosts, but "nations" and "soldiers" established by humans who live in the eternal night.
The world shrouded in eternal night is a paradise for demons, but humans are not willing to be ruled by monsters, so the people who live here gather and establish a city-state in the east of the eternal night to defend against the demons who roam the land.
Because of the loss of sunlight, almost any crop cannot grow, so all the sources of survival of the Eternal Night people rely on the treacherous red moon in the night sky, which is the door that links the "other side", through the ancient spell through the red moon, you can reach the legendary land with infinite abundance of land, the world of sunshine and breeze - Cangli.
Therefore, the people of the eternal night formed an army dedicated to plundering, and they descended on the vicissitudes of night to burn, kill, and plunder. Because they only appear at night, their whereabouts are secretive, like ghosts, so they are called "Yin Soldiers" by the Cangli people, and the people of the eternal night who were born in the wilderness seem to like this name, so they simply named their kingdom - Hades.
Thousands of years later, humanity has evolved from a small village to a nation with a magnificent city. Bounded by the Huangquan Mountains, it is ruled across the mountain from the demons, with the territory of the demons in the west and the territory of humans in the east.
At this time, this Yin soldier team that had just returned from Cangli was flying on the way to the southwestern town of Hades, "Xijing".
The quiet night sky was awakened by the noise of the wind flapping its wings, and a flock of huge black finches appeared in the southeast night, looking like a dark cloud drifting from afar.
"It's finally here......"
Seeing the group of black finches appear, Fu Li's face was happy, and he swallowed his saliva unconsciously, as if he saw a flock of roast chickens flying in the sky.
Fu Li was a little impatient to wait, but he slowly stood up from the dead tree, took off a fox mask hanging from his waist and put it on gently, stretched out his hand to remove the curved bow hanging on the branch next to him, and then took out an arrow from the quiver.
The bow is made of bamboo chips, the tendons of the beast are strings, the grip is wrapped with a thick coarse cloth, the arrows are made of wooden branches, the iron arrows are rusty, and the feathers of the arrows are also withered, and they look very shoddy and unfurnished.
But when Fu Li raised his bow, put the arrow on the string, and aimed at the group of black sparrows, the young man who was full of bowstrings suddenly burst out with a fierce murderous aura.
He's going to shoot these black finch?!
That's right, these black birds are called "Xuanniao", which is the "vehicle" raised by the underworld, in the demon-ridden land of eternal night, only in the air can there be a moment of peace, and these Xuanniao with bronze lamps are here to lure the "Yin Soldier Squad" who has returned from the other side.
However, these "means of transportation" in the underworld are the "food" in Fuli's eyes. ”
The young man's slender fingers pulled the bowstring, and a fierce gaze inadvertently flashed under the mask, staring at the flock of birds in the sky that was getting closer and closer, and silently reciting in his heart, "Three... Two.. One.." The moment the boy released the bowstring, the sharp arrow pierced the night sky like a bolt of lightning, and went straight to the head bird flying at the forefront.
When an arrow was shot, the boy didn't care whether it hit or not, but quickly took out another arrow from the quiver, put the arrow on the string, pulled the bowstring, aimed, and released the arrow, and the boy's action was done in one go, and seven or eight arrows were shot out in one breath.
"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-" After a continuous gust of wind, there was a mess in the air at this time. A few seconds ago, the Xuanniao that Du Tong was riding on suddenly fell rapidly, and then, all the Xuanniao fell from the sky one after another.
"Open the wingsuit!
The moment he lost his gravity, the Yin soldier immediately sensed the danger, he shouted loudly, and at the same time quickly untied the buckle on his waist, losing the restraint of the buckle, Dutong's black clothes were blown by the strong wind, and two thin sails were propped up between his arms and back shoulders, looking like a huge bat.
"Don't panic!!Tie the women up!!" When everyone fell, Du Tong had already stabilized his body with his wingsuit, and slowly fell in mid-air, and those subordinates also stabilized their positions under his command. However, he suddenly saw that the man in charge of the jewels was now clutching two chests full of jewels, which were much heavier than a woman, and his wingsuit was about to be torn by the wind under the huge gravity.
"Do you want the fuck money or do you want to die!!Let it go!!"
"My mother is waiting for money to save her life, boss, I can't lose it..."
He didn't have time to think in the process of falling quickly, and before the man could finish speaking, his wingsuit was torn to shreds under the strong pressure, and the man fell headlong like those birds that had been shot......