Firelight in the night.

Hundreds of giant rafts float on the wide river.

On both sides of the river were raging fires, the heat of the flames was overwhelming, there was no longer a buffer of the separation zone, and the sparks and thick smoke were constantly blowing towards the surface of the river with the wind, and even the surface of the river was shrouded in a thick layer of black fog.

The old and weak lay on the raft weakly and coughed, covering their mouths and noses with damp cloths, trying to let themselves inhale as little smoke as possible.

Everyone was silent.

Whether it was the person paddling with the paddle or the person lying on the raft, they were all stunned, and their eyes did not know whether they were smoked or what, some were red and red, and some were constantly shedding tears.

Ye Xi didn't speak, he squatted on the edge of the raft, soaked his hands in the dark and cool river water, and let the water take away the dirt on his hands.

The woman holding the child in her ear whispered, "We're really going to leave here......"

“...... yes" It took a while for someone to answer. The voice was full of melancholy.

Ye Xi stretched out his wet hand from the river.

There was also a sense of amazement in his eyes.

The home that was finally built was destroyed in the blink of an eye due to a natural disaster. Human power is too small in the face of nature.

Now these people on the raft are probably the only survivors left in the Black Ridge Mountain area. With such a large area, I didn't expect that the survivors would be fully loaded with only a few hundred rafts.

Bang bang.

Brown bears, black tigers, and other swimming beasts paddled in the dark water, following the raft closely.

The paddler's arms bulged out and he paddled hard without a sound.

The raft carried the survivors and drifted slowly south.

In the second half of the night, they left the area of the Black Ridge Mountains, which had been burned into a sea of fire. The river began to twist and turn, and the current became rapid, and the raft drifted quickly even without paddling.

Five days later.

At the dawn of the day, they drifted to the vicinity of the Nu River Valley.

The forest here is also on fire, but the fire here is at its end, and only a few scorched trees are burning. The earth became charred and black, and blue smoke curled everywhere, making it look desolate and desolate.

The river has become wider, the current has become faster, and the reefs are so dense that one raft almost broke up when it hit the reef.

Ye Xi could only let everyone leave the raft.

The grass was charred and made a crunch sound when stepped on.

Everyone stood on the shore and looked around blankly.

It was black from all sides, and the scorched land was so silent that not a single bird or insect could be heard.

"Where are we going next?" Chief Tu Shan asked Ye Xi.

The people of the other tribes also looked at Ye Xi with blank eyes, waiting for him to make a decision.

The Tu Shan, E-aphid, and Ye tribes were originally one, and the Niujiao tribe now also announced that they would follow Ye Xi. And after building a raft to escape, the other seven tribes, including the Kurosawa tribe, unconsciously wanted to listen to Ye Xi's opinion.

Ye Xi looked around and said, "Let's fix it in situ first." ”

Although he knew that they had drifted to the vicinity of the Nu River Valley, he had never been to this place, and it was very unfamiliar to him. It's better to find a good direction before leaving, so as not to waste effort.

"You stay here, I'll go to heaven and see what's going on nearby. ”

With that, Ye Xi jumped onto the back of the big buzzard. The buzzard flapped its wings and carried him into the sky.

Everyone was relieved to hear Ye Xi say that they were repairing in place.

Many tribes fled in a hurry, bringing no food with them. When they were drifting on the raft, they couldn't find anything to eat, and they could only carry it when they were hungry, and they couldn't bear it for so many days, and their hands and feet were a little hungry and weak.

And it's quiet but there's no shortage of food.

In the forest after the fire, there were many charred carcasses of animals, and not far from them, there was a twisted charred carcass of a wild deer, still steaming.

When everyone saw it, their eyes turned green, and they pounced at once, tore the pieces of meat, and devoured them.

Other hungry people also began to look around for food.

The one-horned scaly horses, which are grass-eating vegetarians, are more miserable, and they can't find a clean meadow after wandering around for a long time. But their stomachs are so hungry that they can only barely eat some meat to fill their stomachs.

High altitude.

Ye Xi stood on the back of the big buscination and looked around.

Dozens of miles around here were burned by fire, and the forest became pitch black, with no traces of biological activity at all. After Ye Xi asked the big buscination to carry him around, he saw that the smoke rising from the northeast was relatively thick, thought about it, and drove the big buzzard to fly there.

Arrived at the place where the smoke was rising.

Ye Xi was stunned to find that the forest below was not burned into charcoal.

There was a flame boundary, with intact dense forests to the northeast and coke from the fire to the southwest, and a burning zone about two kilometers long and half a kilometer wide in between, and the flames continued to burn, trying to spread to the northeast.

And through the dense canopy of trees, he could vaguely see countless people shuttling back and forth in the burning zone in the sky, as if they were extinguishing fires.

Ye Xi drove the buzzard to fly downward.

The people who were busy putting out the fire noticed a huge pure-blooded fierce bird flying towards them, thinking that it was trying to hunt, so they hurriedly put down the fire extinguishing tools and took up weapons to kill the fat fierce bird together.

Unexpectedly, when this fierce bird was about to land, a person jumped off its back.

Ye Xi stood in the crowd and looked at them, these people were either surrounded by sackcloth animal skins, or showed a face blackened by smoke. He couldn't find any familiar faces for a moment.

It was someone else who recognized him first.

"Ye Xi! You are Ye Xi!"

A person whose face was originally painted with oil paint and blackened by smoke, with a face like a palette, squeezed out of the crowd and shouted at Ye Xi in surprise.

And after this sentence was shouted, everyone else suddenly became in a commotion, watching Ye Xi whisper to each other.

It is said that he not only did not die when he fell into the Nu River, but he also went outside and saw the super tribe!"

"And he also defeated the torch, the torch of the gods!"

"I heard that he is still from the other side of the Snow Mountain Range, this Ye Xi is really powerful, but why did he suddenly appear here......

Ye Xi's ears were sensitive, so he naturally heard these whispers, but he ignored this, and just looked at the person who recognized him hesitantly: "You are ......"

The man wiped his face indiscriminately, pointed at himself, and said, "I'm a mantis feather, remember?

Ye Xi looked at his face carefully and finally recognized it.

This mantis feather was the leader of the stinging tribe in the last expedition, and they once said a few words on the way.