Chapter Twenty-Three: The Outer Countryside
Outside, the sun is shining, surrounded by green trees, surrounded by mountains and mountains, with crisp birdsong and a gentle breeze. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The sun is a little harsh, not hot and warm. When Xu Sheng pushed open the door, she saw that the outside door was opened by Lan'er, and she walked out of the outhouse.
"Lan'er, where is your grandfather? Quickly, Uncle Li has been attacked. ”
There was an anxious voice outside the house, and when Lan Er walked out, there were already four or five people standing in the courtyard, all of them were uncles in the village, and only one of these people was a young man, very tall, only in his twenties, with long hair a little scattered, and a strong body, but at the moment his face was full of anxiety and his forehead was sweaty.
"Grandpa went out to collect medicine, what's wrong?What happened?" Lan Er didn't know what was going on, but saw a few people with anxious faces. She vaguely felt that something was wrong, and when she walked into the courtyard, these middle-aged people scattered, and saw a man lying on the grass, it was Uncle Li.
I don't know whose door panel was removed and Uncle Li was allowed to lie on it. He was unconscious, his whole body was covered in blood, and his upper body was already blurred with flesh and blood, especially his abdomen, his intestines were about to flow out, and the grass was stained red.
"What's the matter!" Lan Er was startled, opened her mouth wide, and asked, "Have you been attacked by a black bear?"
The two middle-aged men lifted the door panel one after the other and lifted Uncle Li into the house, but his injuries were too serious, although Lan'er had studied medicine, she would only treat some minor diseases, like her intestines were pulled out, and it was the first time she had seen it.
Xu Sheng saw a few middle-aged people crowded outside, and then saw that a middle-aged man was seriously injured and dying, there are many beasts in this deep mountain and wild forest, and it is inevitable to meet them when walking outside.
"You guys go find my grandfather, he's gone to the back mountain!" Lan Er looked panicked, she was about to vomit when she saw such a bloody scene.
"Okay!" one of the middle-aged men turned his head and ran out.
"It's useless, he's not saved. At this time, Xu Sheng spoke, and he saw that the man's abdomen was no longer undulating, and his heartbeat had stopped weakly.
"What?" everyone turned their heads together, only to find that there was a boy standing in the room, with a human face, and had never seen it before.
"Who are you, why are you here!" The only young man among them immediately frowned and walked towards Xu Sheng.
"Don't move, he was brought back by my grandfather. Our family's benefactor!" Lan Er immediately stopped and blocked in front of Xu Sheng.
"Stinky boy, where did you come from?" the man asked with an unhappy face when he saw Lan'er favoring him.
"I'm just passing by to recuperate, and I'll be gone soon!" Xu Sheng said.
"How long have you been here?" the man asked again.
"I just came last night!" replied Xu Sheng.
"Yes, you'd better hurry up and ...... up", "Li Block, have you said enough? Don't you go to my grandfather? Before the man could finish speaking, Lan'er interrupted him with a scolding.
"Lan'er!" the man named Li Tuan swallowed back the words and said nothing.
Some people went to the back mountain to find Grandpa Lan'er, while the rest of the people waited in the house, they couldn't do anything but pray.
"God of War bless!" someone prayed silently, and the young man Li Tuan silently thought of peace in his heart in front of a painting hanging on the wall of Lan'er's home.
"God of War!" Xu Sheng noticed that there was still a portrait of the God of War hanging on the wall, and he was extraordinary.
"Do they also believe in the god of war?" Xu Sheng said to himself in his heart, but it is reasonable to think about it, although this village does not know where it is located, it is roughly on the edge of the Xu family, and it is not unreasonable for the residents of the village to believe in the god of war.
"Did you meet a black bear?" or a bear man?" Lan Er asked as she briefly dealt with the dying man.
"It's not. It's not these beasts!" Speaking of what happened to them, several people still had palpitations in their hearts, and they were afraid.
"What is it?" Lan Er asked as she sat next to Xu Sheng.
Seeing that Lan'er was so close to an outsider, Li Duan's eyebrows furrowed again, and unhappiness appeared on his face. And the other middle-aged man was still bumping and jumping, "He's back!
"What?" Lan Er asked, her willow eyebrows furrowed slightly, seeing that everyone was so afraid, she faintly guessed something.
"The monster from ten years ago! The giant beast is back! We were hunting outside the village, and we came across a strange encounter, and the plum was attacked by the giant beast!" The middle-aged man was still sweating profusely.
"The monster is back!" Lan Er shook when she heard this, and the water cup in her hand almost fell to the ground.
"What is a giant beast?" Xu Sheng asked puzzled as soon as he arrived.
"Ten years ago, a monster came to our village, with a bull head and a human body, more than three meters tall, almost slaughtered the whole village, many people died in the village and finally beat the monster away, ten years have passed, he is back, back for revenge!" The middle-aged man was obviously frightened, and his body was trembling when he spoke.
Xu Sheng nodded, but he noticed that Lan'er had been trembling slightly, and felt that something was wrong, so he patted her on the shoulder and asked, "What's wrong with you!"
"No!" Lan Er said perfunctorily, forcing a smile.
At this time, Old Man Lan came back, but Uncle Li was completely out of breath, and he was killed.
This news immediately alarmed the people in the village, and Uncle Li's daughter-in-law held the child and lay next to the corpse and cried all the time. Li Lumpy smashed the fence wall with an angry punch, and the horrors of ten years ago once again enveloped the village.
There were many people gathered at the door of Old Man Lan's house, they looked at Uncle Li's corpse and mourned in silence, Lan Er looked at Uncle Li's corpse and trembled all the time, Xu Sheng put on his clothes and stood next to her, and suddenly Lan Er turned her head and threw herself into Xu Sheng's arms.
"You... What's wrong?" Xu Sheng was stunned, he always felt that something was wrong with Lan'er.
Lan'er was similar in size to Xu Sheng, her soft body threw herself into Xu Sheng's arms, lying her head on her shoulder, trembling slightly as if she was afraid.
"What's wrong with you?" Xu Sheng was a little overwhelmed, so he comforted, "Don't be afraid, I will protect you, and no one will hurt you." ”
"I'm so scared!" Lan Er choked up and lay on Xu Sheng's shoulder, she was breaking out in a cold sweat.
"Stinky boy, let her go!" At this moment, a curse came from beside him, followed by a fist at a rapid speed.
Xu Sheng reacted sensitively, he hugged Lan Er's waist, made a mistake at his feet, and took her to avoid it, and the fist missed.
"You..." The person who punched Li Tuan, he jumped like thunder, and shouted, "Stinky boy, I'm going to fight you!"
Xu Sheng was speechless, it seemed that the other party had regarded him as the No. 1 rival, and now that Lan'er pounced on him, it was useless to explain it, and a lot of eyes had gathered around him, pointing at his face.
"I don't mean anything else!" Xu Sheng still explained, but he looked very weak.
"Bring me my tomahawk, I'm going to fight you!" Li Tuan was tall and burly, his eyes widened as he wanted to fight Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng let go of Lan Er, Old Man Lan stepped forward to take her away, the people around him retreated one after another, someone handed over a battle axe, and Li Liang took it.
This tomahawk has a dark blue body, more than two meters long, and looks very heavy, but there are many cracks in the axe body, but the tomahawk material is special and extremely sharp.
"This tomahawk has been designed for some years, and it is mostly used on the battlefield, the forging metal is special, and there seems to be a carved formation inside, which can be driven by true qi. Xu Sheng looked at the axe in Li Duan's hand and analyzed in his heart: "Almost everyone in this village is a civilian, even this person named Li Tuan only knows how to condense true qi, and he is not a monk." The tomahawk in his hand should have been picked up from somewhere. ”
"Stinky boy, is the appearance of the giant beast related to you?" asked Li Tuan.
Xu Sheng didn't bother to explain, because it was useless to explain at the moment, and Li Tuan hated him so much that it would be futile to explain.
"Let's fight, as long as you follow my move, you will win!" Li Tuan spoke, he urged his true qi, and suddenly the battle axe glowed, depicting the internal formation operation, and the battle axe only began to gather thunder and lightning elements.
The surrounding crowd retreated, although Xu Sheng was only a teenager, he was always a human face, and women and children would still be scared after being frightened. And Li Tuan is a young strong man in the village, who became a guard at the age of twenty, and is also in charge of the village's artifact, the battle axe.
"Stop!"
Just as they were about to fight, a person walked out of the crowd, and everyone turned their heads to look, only to see an old man with white hair and white beard, on crutches, and the old man Lan followed him, hurrying over.
"Village Chief?" Li Tuan immediately dispersed his true qi when he saw it, and the electricity on the tomahawk dissipated.
"Stop it!" the old man shouted angrily, "Li Block, put away the tomahawk!"
"Village chief, he ........." Li Tuan was angry, and he still wanted to teach Xu Sheng a lesson unwillingly.
"Come over to me!" the village chief's face turned red with anger.
"Yes. Li Tuan had no choice but to give up, still looking at Xu Sheng unwillingly.
"Hey, everyone is gone!" After the village chief sighed and talked to Uncle Li's family, he dispersed the crowd and looked at Xu Shengdao again, "Little boy, can you come with me?"
"Good. Xu Sheng agreed, this village chief has a very high prestige here, and almost everyone listens to him, and he seems to be a little cultivated, but he can't walk anymore when he is old.
Old Man Lan didn't speak, he took Lan Er away just now, and he was afraid that Xu Sheng would suffer a loss and hurriedly found the village chief, so it was the matter.
Xu Sheng left with the village chief, and Li Duan picked up the tomahawk and followed behind without saying a word. On the way, the village chief and Xu Sheng apologized for Li Yuan's faux pas, and before they knew it, they had arrived at the village chief's house.
It's still a simple two-stone house, but it's much better than Lan'er's house.
After the village chief took them in, he asked, "Little young man, your surname is Xu." Is it from the Xu family, the god of war?"
Xu Sheng didn't expect him to say this suddenly, so he nodded defenselessly and said, "Yes." ”
"Haha, you can't be wrong. Born with divine power, you can't be wrong, you must be the descendant of our clan's god of war!" The old village chief was extremely excited, his eyes were flashing with excitement, he threw away his crutches, grabbed Xu Sheng's shoulders with trembling hands, and said excitedly as if he was looking at his grandson who he hadn't seen for many years, "Lao Lan said to me, you can kill a wild boar by throwing a sword." ”
Obviously, Old Man Lan told the old village chief about Xu Sheng's extraordinaryness, and the believers of the God of War respect the surname "Xu", and the addition of the two points is very likely to be the descendant of the God of War.
"Old village chief!" Li Tuan on the side was stupid, he didn't understand what the surname "Xu" was, but when he saw that the old village chief was so excited, he almost knelt down for this stinky boy, and he felt very uncomfortable when he saw it.
"Child, before the god of war entered the fairy world, he left the inheritance to a descendant with the surname "Xu", and established a large family in the mainland, and we all have to respect the descendants of the Xu family. Quick, come and meet him!"
"Hey, village chief, village chief, don't. Hurry up!"
"Haha, our village is saved!"
"Hurry up, village, and talk well!"
"Good, good!"
The old village chief was excited, as if he was ten years younger, and he pulled Xu Sheng to sit down in the house, doubly cordial.
"Village Chief, why do you live in seclusion in the mountains and forests? How dangerous is it that the mountains are full of fierce beasts?" Xu Sheng took a glass of water and asked.
The old village chief shook his head and sighed softly, "Hey, I don't know. I only listened to what the dead elders in the family said that there was a plague in our area, and many people from other villages died, and the seniors in the village led the whole village to flee to this deep mountain, and since then they have been isolated from the world. ”
"I see!" Xu Sheng nodded and asked again, "But this deep mountain is full of wild beasts, I don't think you have any ability, how can you survive?"
"Hey, that's the point!" the old village chief sighed again and said, "Although the people in our village don't know how to practice, the seniors in the village brought three treasures before entering the barren mountain, which can resist the attack of fierce beasts. And I heard that there were a few masters in the village at the beginning, but after such a long time, there are no people who know how to cultivate, and there are fewer and fewer cheats left, and only Li Duan can do some three-legged cat kung fu in the whole village. Saying that, the old village chief looked like Li Block who was waiting quietly.
The old village chief sighed as he spoke, and then said, "The people in our village have been living a peaceful life with the three treasures left by their predecessors, but one day ten years ago, a monster with a bull's head and a human body suddenly came outside the village, and it killed many villagers as soon as it arrived, almost causing a catastrophe. In the end, the only two people in our village who knew how to cultivate stood up, took three treasures, and finally broke the treasures and sacrificed themselves to defeat the monster. ”
"Who are they?" asked Xu Sheng.
"Li Block's master! That is, Lan Xiang's parents. The old village chief said.