Chapter 066: Witness of Vicissitudes

In the southwest direction of the capital city, over a secluded Lan Mountain, is the southeast of the snow valley fork road, on this fork road, there is Pei Lao's non-clothes flower courtyard.

Starting from Feiyihuayuan, follow the road, and then drive southeast for about half an hour, you will reach a lush and old catalpa forest. Walking through this ancient catalpa forest about two kilometers long, a vast grassland will appear in front of you, and this grassland has a very sacred name - Navi Grassland.

"Navi" means "vast" in the ancient underworld, and as you can see, the Navish grassland is very vast, occupying almost all the areas south of the city.

The Navi grassland starts from the ancient catalpa forest in the west, reaches the endless Fengling Mountain Range in the east, walks ten kilometers of sand and gravel land in the north to see the south gate of the capital city, and after passing through a misty forest in the south, it is extremely steep, almost vertical, and more than 800 meters above sea level Liyan Mountain, if you are lucky enough to climb and climb over Liyan Mountain, you can see the outermost ocean of the Netherworld Continent - the South Taiping Sea.

Surrounded by mountains and forests, the Na'vi grasslands have existed for tens of thousands of years. The Navi grassland has experienced peace and prosperity, but also experienced the smoke and flames of war, and like the animals and plants living in it, she has witnessed the long and heavy history of the underworld.

In the Na'vi grassland, there are many nameless lakes of various sizes, and the animals and plants that live here depend on them for survival and reproduction.

In the Navi grassland, which is about 30 kilometers away from the south gate of the capital city, there is a large lake about 80 meters long and nearly 60 meters wide, which is one of the four famous inland lakes in the underworld, the Blood Wing Lake.

Located at the throat of the Navi Grassland, the Bloodwing Lake is surrounded by many lush and thick trees and a variety of animals, and is a natural barrier between the city and the depths of the Navi Grassland.

Here, there have been countless battles, and the victors either stepped straight into the depths of the grassland or went straight to the gate of the capital city, so since ancient times, the Bloody Wing Lake has been a battleground in the underworld wartime, and it is also a place of respite.

Because wars can easily occur here, the lake is often stained red by the blood of dead soldiers, and the blood-red water of the lake dyes the wings of the birds fishing here, and in ancient times, blood-red winged birds can often be seen hovering over the lake, hence the name of the Bloodwing Lake. Although Bloodwing Lake is no longer blood-red today, her name has always been passed down to this day.

Because it is a strategic location, the ancients built many large and small stone buildings, stone forts, stone walls, stone houses and other buildings next to the Blood Wing Lake to cover, hide, and snipe. However, after thousands of years of peaceful rest, wind and rain, these ancient buildings that had been damaged during the war still stand and show no signs of decay. It seems that what they are sticking to is not the barrier function of covering guns and arrows, but the silent testimony of the vicissitudes of history.

In the vicinity of these buildings, there are many people of the Night Wolf Clan. The Night Wolf Clan is similar to a nomadic people, unlike the other four major families, they do not have their own fixed cities, only three permanent locations. The first permanent residence is located in the Gore grassland, 50 kilometers east of the city, where the patriarch Dugu Xin and the second daughter Dugu Jialuo live all the year round; the second permanent residence is located in the Xiaguang grassland, 70 kilometers north of the city, where the eldest son of the night wolf clan, Dugu Wenyu, lives; the third permanent residence is near the Blood Wing Lake in the Navi grassland, where the eldest daughter of the night wolf clan, Dugu Jinluo, lives.

Some of the Night Wolf people living in Bloodwing Lake have set up the simplest tents, some have set up yurts similar to the human world, and some people with strange crafts will create their own houses, using the solid wood and animal fur of ancient catalpa trees to build windproof and frost-resistant yurts.

At this time, the sun gradually drove away the morning mist and slowly sprinkled onto the earth. Some of the residents of the Night Wolf Clan walked out of the room and lit a fire to cook, and after a while, the smoke of the cooking stove rose, and the air was filled with a faint smell of rice and coriander. However, if you look at their pots, you will find that they are all pots of leaves and rice soup, and nothing else.

This time was a little better, although the Ice Moth Clan continued to reduce the purchase of animal furs, but the Stone Elephant Clan slightly increased some food supply, which gave the Night Wolf Clan a little more respite, not enough to eat, but not to starve to death. And all of this is because of his eldest lady, Dugu Jinluo.

At that time, the adjustment of the business policy of the Ice Moth Clan was equivalent to directly cutting off the biggest financial route of the Night Wolf Clan. And the decrease in the number of animals in the underworld also makes them have less food to hunt. The reduction of the food supply of the stone elephants was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The Night Wolf Clan lives in a very wide range of places, and many people live relatively scattered, and only about one-third of them have the ability to protect themselves. Nearly 1,000 people starved to death in this grain reduction incident, half of them adults and half of them children.

At that time, Dugu Xin didn't have a grain of rice at home, only ate boiled vegetable leaves, and all the food was distributed to the clansmen, even so, he couldn't survive this crisis, just because his eldest daughter was unwilling to bow her head.

One of the ancient families, the Night Wolf Clan, who are shrewd and wise, with their heads held high, are on the verge of collapse.

Dugu Jinluo, who was close to heartbreak, finally let go of her self-esteem and catered to Shi Shou on the surface after helping to bury the corpses of many clansmen with her own hands. After that, the life of the Night Wolf clan gradually got rid of despair and fear.

"Garo, what are you doing so early?"

In a medium-sized yurt room, Dugu Jinluo asked with a hint of anger in his pajamas.

Dugu Jialuo sat on the edge of his sister's bed, smiling shallowly.

"Come and see you. ”

Dugu Jialuo replied softly.

"Your sister is alive and well, what's there to see! From you to this side, it will take four hours to say the least, can you sleep all the way? Your health is not good, and you always don't sleep at night, I don't think you came to see me, but you seem to be angry with me!" Dugu Jinluo glared at his sister and said hatefully.

Dugu Jialuo looked at his sister quietly, not angry, and still had the same light smile on his snow-white face.

"What about father?" Dugu Jinluo saw that his sister was unmoved, and his tone was no longer so blunt.

He ...... OK. Dugu Jialuo's face changed slightly, but that expression disappeared in an instant, and in its place, it was still the same clean smile.

Dugu Jinluo looked at his younger sister, who was getting thinner, and his long-suppressed feelings instantly surged into his heart. Dissatisfaction, doubt, anger, shame, sadness, reluctance and other pent-up emotions were mixed together, twisted into two turbid tears, and fell straight out of her eyes.

Dugu Jialuo hugged the crying Dugu Jinluo tightly, patted her back gently, leaned his side face lightly on his sister's shoulder, and looked at the stone castle that had stood outside the yurt for thousands of years, his eyes became cold.