Chapter 39: The Scourge of Orion
After dealing with these things, he was about to resign.
Before I knew it, I had been here for more than a month.
Once he was about to leave, his heart was full of reluctance.
Holding it in his hand, Mulberry Leaf spent several nights making a set of white robes for him, and the eye-catching leaf embroidered at the placket of the shirt can also appreciate the affection in it.
But so what?
In his opinion, he and her belong to two worlds after all!
The scenery of this season, although splendid, is also short-lived.
And he is destined to endure a hundred years or even a thousand years of wind and rain.
After that, do you have to spend the rest of your life alone in reminiscence?
The avenue is vast!
What is the avenue?
However, the feeling of vastness has been accompanied!
After some sentimentality and sighing, it finally ushered in the rainy season in a foreign land.
It's dripping, full of dampness and coldness, it's really annoying!
The villagers moved into their new houses before the rain fell.
At least there are walls and roofs to protect them from the wind and rain than to stay in the broken tents of the camp!
But even the simplest household items have not had time to be built and placed, and the houses are now empty, and the wind is whining.
The optimistic villagers don't mind this. This is a group of people who can find something to have fun for themselves, no matter what the circumstances.
In their new homes, they found the most suitable room, and sat together as a family, drinking tea, chattering, and sleeping...... Leisurely pass the time of the day, which cannot be started.
There are also people who visit each other in the rain, and they are happy to talk about how your house is and what is going on behind my house. How will this place be placed in the future, and what will be left for there......
The happiest and busiest are probably the children in the village.
I'm not afraid of getting wet, I wear it in the rain with my bare feet, this one runs, that one goes shopping, one house takes a few looks, and that house turns a few times...... Everywhere they left their wet footprints and patches of laughter and noise.
Old man Sun took advantage of this time to get a few wooden planks from the little carpenter, put together a simple table, and placed them in the center of the outer hall of the new house. I picked up a few more severed stumps, and placed them around the table, and there were stools.
This is a master who will do things in an orderly manner wherever he goes, and he knows how to have fun at leisure.
At this moment, he is sitting at the table with his eyes squinted, leisurely, drinking his tea.
In the air, the rich aroma of ancient tea is wafting.
Mo Wen felt curious, he had heard earlier that the tea he had hidden had been divided among the four elders in the village, but where did he get the tea he had brewed at this time? Could it be that he still had a private collection?
Thinking about it, he leaned over and opened it into his teacup.
Between the curling water and air, the soup is golden, and at first glance you know that this is a good tea!
The old man glanced at him neatly, pushed an empty lamp in front of him, and said, "Do you want to drink?" ”
Mo Wen was not good at this, but the fragrance of this tea was really attractive, so he unceremoniously poured half of the pot and sat down face to face with him.
Pick up the tea cup, look at the color, smell the fragrance, suck the tea soup in the mouth, do not swallow the throat, turn the tip of the tongue two or three times, tour and swallow, and carefully consider. Then he squinted his eyes slightly, as if he was reminiscing, and then opened his eyes again, and said: "This tea is rich in solute, strong but not astringent, pure but not light, rich and palatable, and has a sweet aftertaste." It's good tea!"
The old man raised his eyebrows, as if he was impressed by him, "I didn't expect you to be a little baby, but you also know the goods." ”
Mo Wen grinned and said, "I didn't understand it before, but I used to serve a lot of masters, and he was very picky, so he was forced to know some fur." ”
The old man nodded, and said thoughtfully: "Oh? I want to come to your master, but he is a high-ranking person." ”
Mo asked if he was noncommittal, but he said in his heart: "That person? Eat, drink, and have fun, all of which are fine." He's better than that, what's in the cup!
"It's just that although the aroma is strong, it has a slight hint of old fire...... It seems that after picking, due to the lack of drying time, in the later roasting process, the fire temperature is used to make up for it, resulting in a slight loss of natural taste, which is the fly in the ointment of this tea. ”
When the old man heard this, he smiled and patted the table, indicating that he had found a soulmate.
He moved forward, and was about to discuss the tea ceremony with him, when he saw his little grandson, who was barefoot and drenched, ran in recklessly, and shouted at him, "Grandpa, grandpa......"
The old man saw that he looked like a ghost in the water, and was about to say something to blame, but he heard him gasp and say, "Uncle Hao...... Looking for you...... Let you hurry up and make a trip to the past......"
The old man raised his eyelids and muttered angrily, "This rainy day, you have to be in a hurry?
But the child hurriedly said, "I see the dead people! There are several of them who have brought them...... It's scary...... Go check it out!"
Dead people? Who died? How many died? Who are they?...... This series of questions was about to pop out of his mouth one after another, but when he saw this ignorant face, he knew that he couldn't ask a reason.
The old man turned his head to look at Mo Wen, and when he saw that the other party nodded, he immediately got up and said, "Go!"
Compared with other families in the village, the Hao family has more people, and the house is larger.
But in the three-in, three-out house, at this time, it was crowded with people on the inside and outside three floors, and outside, there were still many people who were rushing to hear the news, and when they saw that they couldn't get in, they braved the rain to look inside.
The three old men of Sun had a lot of tips before squeezing into the outer hall.
I saw that in the center of the outer hall, there were five corpses covered with white cloths side by side, and a burning smell spread around, making the people around cover their noses and frown.
Next to the corpse, there were seven or eight people sitting on the spot, old and young, men and women, all of them looked embarrassed and haggard. It seems that it has just experienced a thrilling catastrophe. Although he escaped at this moment, he was still in shock, and when he looked at the people who were killed around him, his expression was full of sorrow, panic, wilting, and stupidity...... He seemed to have hissed violently for a while, and was now exhausted and collapsed......
Mo Wen looked at these strange and pitiful faces, making sure that he had never seen them before. And judging from their tattered clothes at the moment, they are not from this village. With long hair on the top, animal skins wrapped around him, a dagger occasionally tied around his waist, and a bow and arrow on his back, he must be a hunter who lives in the nearby mountains.
He had already heard that these hunters lived in the Beishan area all the year round, and they were self-contained, and they had little contact with the village. In a few fixed days of the year, they will go down the mountain and exchange the prey and hides they have caught for some food and utensils from the villagers.
As everyone knows, in such a situation, I saw them.
Hao Haisheng, who was frowning and talking to a lean old hunter among them, raised his eyes and saw Old Man Sun and Mo Wen squeezing out of the crowd, so he immediately beckoned them to step forward.
Old man Sun obviously recognized these hunters, and after glancing at the miserable scene in front of him, he turned to the lean old hunter and asked movingly, "What happened, how could it be so miserable?"
The old hunter wanted to speak and stopped, his eyes were already crying red like a rabbit, and at this time the circles under his eyes were moist again, and his lips were moving, and he couldn't make a sound for a long time.
After a while, I saw that he was trying to calm down his emotions, and said hard: "Twenty-five lives...... Twenty-five lives...... Earlier, I saw them all jumping around in front of me, in the blink of an eye...... It's all gone...... These brutes are so cruel...... When they saw someone, they pounced, and dozens of them frantically hissed and bit one...... Take pity on my twenty clansmen, desperately protecting everyone...... To the end...... Not even a single bone residue was left......"
At this point, my emotions got out of control again, and I cried bitterly!
The surviving hunters in front of him also wept along, and the cry was heartbreaking, sharp and piercing, piercing through the walls and roofs, and resounding through the four fields! The villagers who were watching were all moved by it, and they also wiped away their tears......
When Hao Haisheng and the others saw this situation, they first persuaded and comforted them, but later found that they couldn't be persuaded at all, so they had to let them cry until they collapsed again.
At this moment, the few "fossil-level" old men in the village, who were accustomed to seeing life and death, also kept sighing and sighing: "Do evil...... What a sin!"
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When the crying and sighing gradually stopped, Hao Haisheng helped the old hunter and sat on a tree stump to rest for a while, afraid that he would be stimulated again, so he pulled the old man Sun and them to the corner of the wall, and whispered, relaying what he knew.
The cause and effect of the matter are roughly as follows:
In front of them, there were more than 30 people, men, women, and children. For generations, they have lived at the foot of the North Mountain and have lived by hunting all year round.
There is plenty of prey on the North Mountain, which is enough for them to sustain their livelihood. In the meantime, although you will also encounter fierce birds and beasts that are not human enemies, it is not difficult to escape and protect yourself by relying on the superb skills that you have cultivated over the years. Overall, for so many years, they have lived a relatively peaceful life.
But just some time ago, this peaceful life was broken.
The hunters who went up the mountain found many strange monsters that were not usually seen on the mountain. These monsters are all huge, strange-looking, and terrifying!
But everyone who saw it, after fleeing back, said that their eyes would radiate a red light, and they were extremely tyrannical! Some people even saw one of them with their own eyes, and easily swallowed an adult white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes! Seeing that person, he was frightened to pee his pants on the spot......
As a result, the hunters began to panic. After discussion, it was decided that during this time, they would not go hunting in the mountains.
They hoped that these monsters would just pass by, and that after a few days, they might leave on their own.
But who knows? In the second half of yesterday night, disaster struck suddenly.
At first, I saw a few fires on the mountain, and the hunters on night thought that someone was walking at night. It was strange to myself that when the firelight moved closer, I realized that something was wrong! In the midst of the firelight, there was a wolf-like beast wrapped in it, and it rushed towards the place where the hunter lived.
These "fire wolves" are more than twice as large as ordinary wolves, and their strength and speed are even more than a hundred times stronger! The most terrible thing is that the red flames on their bodies are so fierce and abnormally fierce that they will burn at the slightest touch on their bodies. Several Orions were burned alive in this way.
When the frightened hunters organized their strength and rose up to resist, a larger group of "fire wolves" suddenly appeared on the mountain! Under the command of a huge "fire wolf king," they were densely packed and outflanked from all sides.
The hunters saw that they couldn't hold on, so they could only desperately protect the old man and his wife and children, looking for an opportunity to evacuate.
The wolves quickly formed a circle, and for a while, the flames soared into the sky, the wolves devoured wildly, the flesh and blood flew sideways, wailing everywhere, and the scorched mangs were all over the field...... That place was turned into a purgatory on earth in an instant......
After listening to Hao Haisheng's relay, everyone present only felt that cold sweat was oozing from their palms.
Old man Sun tightened his brows, walked towards the five corpses with a solemn face, squatted down, and gently lifted the white cloth on one of them, and immediately felt shocked, the corpse had already been burned beyond recognition and could not be recognized. If you look closely, there are countless traces of being bitten and scratched on the torn body and stump and broken arms.
Hao Haisheng also stepped forward tremblingly, couldn't bear to look directly, lowered his head and asked, "Uncle Sun, you are well-informed, do you know what is causing this?"
Seeing that Old Man Sun was sighing blindly, he thought to himself, if even he didn't know, then there would be no second person in this village who could recognize him.
At this time, he heard Mo asking: "It looks like a wolf, and its whole body breathes fire...... I've seen something similar to this strange beast in ancient books, but I don't know if it belongs to the same category?"
"What's that?" Hao Haisheng asked hurriedly.
Old man Sun also looked at him, Mo Wen saw that the corners of his mouth twitched, thinking that he was going to open his mouth to scold himself for talking nonsense, but he thought that this time he just had a sad face and didn't make a sound. He said, "Red Flame Wolf!"