Chapter 7 The Family of Copper Skin
Cloud Eagle officially manages the oasis.
Wilderness settlements are generally loose and backward, barbaric and very primitive, so it is not easy to turn this chaotic and disorderly place into a regular place, but fortunately, Yunying has a large number of helpers and a top-quality army, so many orders can be issued smoothly and implemented efficiently.
The arrival of these people has had a multifaceted impact on this place.
In the corner of Oasis City, in an inconspicuous and simple shack, there are three mutants, they are very withdrawn and do not like to contact with other people, but it does not mean that they have a bad temper, even in the mutant group, they are not all ignorant and murderous existences.
The Copper Skin family is a typical example of intelligent mutants.
Tongpi is in his thirties, more than two meters tall, weighs 700 pounds, is fat and strong, very fierce, every inch of skin surface has a stratum corneum, its thickness is comparable to that of a rhinoceros, can resist ordinary bullets, and can also ignore the strong ultraviolet rays in the wilderness.
Hua Yan is Tongpi's wife, her body is slightly thinner than the iron head, the thinness here is only relative, she is still one meter nine tall, about five hundred pounds of weight, ordinary people two adult strong men add up to her size, one punch can hammer out the intestines of ordinary people.
The mutant couple had a son: the Iron Nail.
Mutant families are rare in wilderness cities, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Iron Nail is nine years old, he already weighs more than 100 pounds, can lift objects three times his weight, and inherits the strong skin of his father, can easily defeat ordinary beasts.
Whether it is copper skin or flower rock, all of them are infinitely powerful and have amazing destructive capabilities, ordinary wild beasts are not a problem at all, and ordinary people do not dare to provoke them, it stands to reason that they can live a good life, but the reality is not as easy as ideal.
The Tongpi family came to the oasis for a year.
But every day is struggling with food and clothing.
Several times the whole family almost starved to death.
The reason for this is very simple, although the family members are very powerful, even the nine-year-old iron nail can defeat an ordinary strong man, and the huge size and strength can be matched by the amount of food that ordinary people cannot imagine, and the huge amount of food is more deadly than any weakness in the wilderness, where food is poor.
The three of them can barely survive by eating the food needed by ten strong men a day, and they can barely survive by eating the food needed by fifteen strong men every day, and if they want to really live a full life, they almost have to consume enough food to supply twenty strong men a day.
That's definitely a huge amount!
After arriving at the oasis, Tongpi worked very hard, going to the woods every day to participate in dangerous hunting, while Hua Yan worked hard in some places in the city that needed coolies, and even his son, who was only nine years old, had to bring the furs or materials that his father had brought to the market to sell.
The whole family is busy from morning to night every day, where can all the food in exchange for labor fill their stomachs?
"I'm back. ”
Copperhide dragged half of the deer back to the cramped and rudimentary shack.
Hua Yan and Tie Nails were resting inside, and Tie Nails smelled fresh blood, and he was immediately woken up from hunger, but his stomach was gurgling.
"That's it this time!" Hua Yan was a little dissatisfied: "Where is there enough for us to eat!, why are you getting more and more useless, or you steal food on the road!"
"Today I met a few very powerful beasts, and this half of the blade deer was snatched out of their mouths, and you can see that my back is injured. Tongpi showed the wounds on his body with a look of wrongedness, he worked hard to hunt, but he didn't expect to be suspected by his wife when he came back, and his heart became more and more dissatisfied: "On the contrary, you haven't gone out to do things for several days, and you rely on me all day long to catch this little prey, how can we eat it as a family." ”
Hua Yan was furious.
Although they are all high-IQ mutants, their personalities are still a little hotter than ordinary people. "Don't you know, after the new leader came, he was catching children everywhere, and I didn't stay to protect the nails, can you go out hunting with confidence?"
As soon as Tongpi heard this, he immediately wilted.
Some people in the oasis say that the new leader is a monster who has mastered the power of the devil, and he needs to maintain this demonic power, so he must eat a fresh child's heart every day, so gather all the children in the entire wilderness city and raise them like animals, just so that he can eat fresh hearts every day.
I don't know where this rumor came from, but the Copperskin family was very frightened when they heard it, they had seen the power of the new leader, that kind of power really did not belong to the wilderness, it was definitely a terrifying power that only demons could form, so they believed the rumors, and even hid the iron nail carefully.
It's not a way to go on like this!
People must always eat when they live!
The copper skin is at a loss.
"No, that's not what I heard!" the young mutant couldn't help but speak, "I heard that the new leader is a good man, and the other children live in special camps, and they are trained every day without work, and they have to eat and drink. ”
"What did you say?"
"I can't get enough to eat at home, so I want to go too!"
"Who are you listening to?" Copperhide glared at him: "How can there be such a good thing? I have seen that leader, he is a demon, otherwise how can he have the power of a demon, if you go, wait for your heart to be gouged out!"
Tie Nail hesitated a little and said, "In case it's true......"
"Don't think about it!" Hua Yan also knocked his son on the head hard, "Stay here honestly from now on, if I see you dare to run out, I will break your legs!"
The Wilderness Family is cooking.
Mutants don't care if they're cooked or not.
Hua Yan tore off a fat fresh deer leg and gave it to the iron nail, which was still covered with blood, and the iron nail was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, he took it and gnawed it with relish, and the bones were all clean.
Half a deer is enough for an average person to eat for ten days and eight days.
But for the three of them, they all had their stomachs in one meal.
A deer leg is not good at all.
Tongpi Huayan has no way to do this, they have no way to provide the food they have followed, life is in the wilderness, how can it be so easy to eat a full stomach, it would be good not to starve to death today. The less food they eat each day, the weaker they become.
This creates a vicious circle.
In the end, if you don't even have the strength to hunt, it means that it is completely over.
Even in the real settlement, as long as the power of self-preservation is lost, no one knows what will happen, and Tongskin feels a strong pressure to survive, and this pressure is what every wilderness person has to face, and it accompanies the wilderness for almost most of his life.
The next day.
It's not dawn yet.
Copper Skin was half-asleep and half-awake when he heard footsteps approaching, he suddenly became alert, and the sleepiness disappeared without a trace, which was the instinct cultivated by living in the wilderness for many years, and when he opened the shack, his face suddenly changed, and more than a dozen warriors wearing exquisite armor appeared in front of him.
These are all warriors around the demon leader, and each of them is a very terrifying existence.
"City Lord's Guard!" a warrior wearing the armor of the Condor Corps stepped out to reveal his identity, "We have received a report that you are hiding the child and not allowing him to be trained. ”
Tongpi hurriedly said, "No! You're mistaken!"
The Divine Domain warrior had already seen the child hiding inside through the simple shack: "According to the regulations issued by the city lord, children under the age of fourteen must undergo compulsory training, we are here to enforce the law, please hand over your children." ”
Copperhide angrily grabbed a stick, "The demon leader doesn't want to eat my child!"
"What are you talking about?" several members of the Condor Legion looked at each other, "Those rumors are baseless, the city lord collects children to cultivate them, let us train them, and take care of their daily food, this is a good thing, I hope to cooperate." ”
Where can I believe in the copper skin?
How can there be such a good thing in the world?
The Condor warrior obviously didn't have much patience, and there were several such to deal with next, so he directly put on a tough attitude, "Our patience is limited, hand over the child immediately, don't force us to use force." ”
Tongskin is not facing ordinary God's Domain soldiers.
These are all fighters from the Condor Corps.
Even ordinary Condor warriors are already very powerful, not to mention that these people who have served as personal soldiers for Beichen Tian are all the best in the Condor Corps, if they really want to fight, Tongpi has no chance of winning at all.
"I'll go!"
The nail walked out.
Tongpin's face changed greatly: "What are you doing here? Go back quickly!"
"They may not be lying, I saw the black pig the other day, and he said exactly the same. ”
Tongpi and Hua Yan were both stunned, the black pig is also a child, because he lives nearby, he has a good relationship with the iron nail, the black pig is an orphan who lives by picking up rags all day long, he must have been taken away, could it be that the child who was taken away by the demon leader can come back alive?
Isn't the rumor of a demon leader eating a child's heart true?
Iron Nail didn't care about his parents' obstruction, he directly chose to follow the warrior.
If you stay, you will starve to death sooner or later, so it's better to go and see what is going on.
The Copperskins were frightened by the rumors of the demon leader, but they had never been here to see for themselves, and when they followed the Condor warriors to a makeshift camp set up for children, the expressions of the two mutants froze on their faces.
There are a few crooked wilderness words hanging at the door of the camp: Oasis Academy!
The whole camp was called the Oasis Academy, and hundreds of children were playing in it, and there were no walls or guards near the camp, as if they were imprisoned here, because it was already breakfast, and the soldiers set up huge iron pots, and all kinds of food were thrown directly into the iron pots to cook.
The children were gathered in front of a large iron pot, waiting methodically for the food to be cooked, when an enticing fragrance wafted out of the camp, leaving Tongpi and Huayan completely stunned.
Is this really built in just a few days?
When Copperskin saw the harmonious scene in front of him, the rumor he had heard of the demon leader eating his heart was naturally shattered. Hua Yan is more concerned about whether he can have free food to eat every day like these children if he can also join in with his own iron nails, and can he still be trained by these powerful warriors?
When you get an affirmative answer.
Hua Yan immediately scolded Tongpi.
If this guy hadn't listened to the strange rumors, would the family have only known the truth today?
This time Tongpi also lost his temper,
He was also remorseful, he shouldn't have listened to the rumors, but he was even more curious about the new leader who suddenly occupied the oasis, what kind of person was he, and why was he so different from the previous leader?
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