Chapter 12: The Ethereal Town
In the early morning of the next day, the eternal morning sun stepped on a light step, like a flat palace lamp rising into the air, spraying ten thousand golden beams, and the soft golden light sent warmth to every household in the ethereal town.
Ethereal Town, an ordinary town farthest away from the eastern frontier of the Shenlong Empire, according to which fifteen miles to the south is the Red Leaf Village, and further south is the endless Red Leaf Forest.
At the other end of the Red Leaf Forest is another country on the Haoyu Continent, the Great Qi Empire.
In the middle of the town is a road 10 meters wide and nearly 200 meters long, lined with houses and shops.
As far as the eye can see, all the houses are all gray and white, although they vary in size, but the layout is patchwork and simple.
Only due south of the town has a two-meter-high, fifty-meter-long earthen wall erected, which is the direction leading to Momiji Village.
From here, more than ten miles to the south, and then bypassing Momiji Village, you will come to a continuous low hill forest.
The mountains and forests are full of red-leaved forests, brilliant crimson, and every dusk moment here will become dream-like, as far as the eye can see, a fiery red, as if in a sea of fire.
There are no earthen walls in the other three directions of the town, and it is more of a focal point for several small villages than a small town.
And the ethereal town was originally just a small village the size of "Momiji Village", called "Ethereal Village".
After the current emperor of the Shenlong Empire took office, he worked hard to govern the country and set his ambitions in all directions, and he selected people from all over the country who read poetry and books, and sent them to every city in the empire.
And the closest one to the ethereal town is "Magnolia City".
After the new lord of Yulan City took office, he issued a decree to move all the families of several small villages to the surroundings of Ethereal Village, and then after several years of running-in, there is today's Ethereal Town.
After the completion of the ethereal town, the lives of the people here have gradually improved.
At a certain time, people in each village would take their prey from their homes and go to the town to exchange it for each other's goods.
This is also the reason why Muhu is not afraid that what they have stolen will be discovered.
Crunchy......
The morning sun awakened the sleeping people, and the sound of the wooden door opening resounded in all directions, breaking the silence of dawn first.
The town gradually woke up to the morning light, and the pale blue smoke once again enveloped every wooden house in the town.
"Wang boy, you have to be careful when you go into the mountains to hunt this time, if you get scratched on your left arm again, you can only stay at home and recuperate. ”
In front of a small courtyard in the northwest corner of the town.
A half-hundred-year-old man with gray hair but an unusually ruddy face sat on a stone bench and waved his hand at a weak-crowned young man.
"Hey...... Mr. Feng, my mother said, as long as you are old, no matter how seriously injured you are, you can rejuvenate yourself, and I am not afraid of those beasts. ”
With a simple smile on his face, the weak-crowned young man stepped out of the small courtyard next to the old man.
He carried a bamboo tube filled with short arrows with white feathers, a bow made of mahogany in his left hand, and a spear with a black wooden handle in his right hand.
"Wang Li, where are you kid rubbing around? Why don't you hurry up and take the guy into the mountains with us to hunt. ”
Not far away, in the open space in front of another small courtyard, there were more than a dozen young adults, led by a rather strong middle-aged man, carrying a seven-foot long knife with a black body behind him, with bright tiger eyes, and a body as strong and strong as a dragon.
"Here we go!"
The weak-crowned boy hurriedly shouted.
Then, he bowed down to the half-hundred-year-old man on the side, took a big stride, and hurried forward.
"It's good to be young!"
Looking at the weak-crowned young man who was running into the distance like the wind, the half-hundred old man's expression darkened, and he sighed in a low voice.
The morning sun is the most fascinating, breathing in the fresh air, with the expectation of "returning with a full load", a group of young adults rushed towards the south of the town.
"No, why didn't you see Uncle Mu Hu go into the mountain with us today?"
"You kid just talk a lot of nonsense! That guy Muhu is busy seeing off his two brothers, and he won't be hunting with us in the mountains for a while now. ”
"See you off, could it be that the two uncles Mu Qi and Mu Yu have already ......."
"What are you kid thinking! Recently, the wind has been too close, and Mu Qi and Mu Yu are leaving. ”
......
As he spoke, the middle-aged man led by him subconsciously glanced at a small courtyard directly west of the town, which was Mu Hu's home.
The "prestige" of the three Muhu brothers spread throughout the ethereal town, and secretly, the people in the town respected them as the "Ethereal Three Heroes".
However, this "prestige" is not visible.
Although the targets of the three Muhu tribulations are all unscrupulous profiteers who are full of evil, the Shenlong Empire has a clear decree: prohibit bandits, and once they are discovered, whether they are right or wrong, they will all be killed!
For more than ten years, the three Muhu have distributed all the money and goods they have robbed to the poor families in the ethereal town, and almost every family in the town has been more or less funded by the three of them.
It is precisely because of this that the three Muhu have been able to survive unharmed to this day.
"Muhu, this kid is in big trouble!"
In front of the courtyard, the half-hundred old man looked at the people who gradually disappeared into the distance, and with a stretch of his right hand, a palm-sized Ugin token slipped out of his cuff.
Mu Hu is illiterate, he doesn't know the monstrous danger behind this token, and the half-hundred old man is a man who reads poetry and books.
"Golden Dragon Guard...... It's been a long time since I've heard those three words!"
The half-hundred-year-old man narrowed his eyes slightly, staring into the distance, his right hand constantly rubbing the Ugin token, and he muttered in a low voice, as if he was talking to the same "old friend".
Behind him was a large willow tree with lush foliage, its branches and leaves spreading, covering most of the sky, and the morning light was faint, quietly refracted on the waist of the half-hundred old man through the gap between the willow leaves.
Airplanes!
The void roared softly, and a black light was reflected from the waist of the half-hundred old man, and the black light shimmered, which was very strange.
Ten years ago, the half-centenarian settled in the ethereal town, and with his medical skills like "rejuvenation with wonderful hands", he quickly gained a firm foothold here.
The people in the town only know him as "Mr. Feng", and for ten years, everyone has been respectfully calling him "Mr. Feng".
Mu Hu also didn't know the specific identity of the half-hundred-year-old.
After the three of them desperately fled back to the ethereal town last night, he handed over the Ugin token to the half-hundred-year-old, and then he hurriedly returned to his residence with Mu Qi and Mu Yu.
In a small courtyard directly west of the town, the three Muhu brothers were saying their final goodbyes.
"Second brother, third brother, farewell today, you and my brother are living on one side, these flying sword fragments are extremely sharp, you must remember that before you find the master, these flying sword fragments will be revealed in front of people as little as possible. ”
In the courtyard, Mu Hu looked solemn, waved his hand and took out dozens of thumb-sized flying sword fragments from his arms, which he had picked up from the scene of the tragedy on the grassland of Hongye Village.
"Big brother, don't worry, even if we can't find the master, we won't go to the house again. ”
Mu Yu's expression was solemn, and a pair of tiger eyes were full of tears, but he forcibly resisted it and did not let it fall.
"Big brother, a few days ago, a vision fell from the sky, and Red Leaf Village was slaughtered again, there must be some kind of connection between the two......
On the other side, Mu Qi also had a sad face, he lowered his voice, and stopped talking, but the meaning of his words was self-evident.
"Second brother, don't worry, after you leave, I will take Mu Feng to the Red Leaf Forest and choose a secret place to settle there. ”
Mu Hu waved his hand and patted Mu Qi's shoulder, feeling very bitter.
After he handed over the Ugin token to "Old Mr. Wind" last night, the latter was stunned for a moment, then his expression became very solemn, and he immediately advised him to leave the place quickly.
This is also the reason why he let Mu Qi and Mu Yu leave early in the morning.
Wow wow......
Just as the three of them were talking goodbye, a crisp baby cry suddenly came from a wooden house in the courtyard, and the cry was of different lengths and uneven heights, but it was very clear to the ears of the three people.
"Mu Feng is awake!"
The three of them looked stunned, and then rushed to the wooden house together.
Crunch...... With a crisp sound, the three of them pushed the door open and walked briskly to a bed in the room.
On the bed, a half-centenarian woman leaned on the side of the bed, holding a pink-faced baby in her arms, her arms shaking gently, trying to calm the baby.
"Lady Wang, what's wrong with Xuanfeng?"
Mu Hu asked with concern.
"This kid must be hungry. ”
The half-centenarian replied in a low voice.
"Hungry......? What can I do?"
The three middle-aged men looked at each other, Xuan Feng had just been born for less than four days, and he couldn't feed grains, so he could only absorb "milk" food.
"Big brother, you are watching this kid here, my third brother and I will immediately go into the mountains to hunt a female beast and let this kid drink animal milk!"
Mu Qi's big eyes rolled, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said.
"So far, that's all it can be!" Mu Hu sighed.
"Without further ado, third brother, unload your things and hurry up with me!"
Mu Qi unloaded the package very neatly, he took the hunting bow from the wall on one side, and grabbed the iron spear by the wall with the other hand, turned around and wanted to rush out the door.
At this moment, a mutation protrudes!
The tiger cub, who had been brought back by the wooden tiger, suddenly jumped from the other side of the bed to a wooden table in the room.
Roar!
The tiger cub roared in the sky.
His silk-like smooth hair stood on end, and a brilliant golden light erupted from top to bottom of his body, and the tiger power shook all directions, and an inexplicable aura of coercion quickly spread to every corner of the wooden house.
At the same time, Xuan Feng also suddenly stopped crying, he raised his tender white right hand, and a palm-sized golden brilliance also erupted in his palm.
The two clusters of golden light echoed each other in the air, and the dazzling golden light pierced the eyes of the three Mu Hu with a burst of pain.
"Ahh
On the bed, the half-hundred old woman didn't know what she found, her expression was very frightened, she pushed her hands forward, and quickly threw Xuan Feng out.