Qingshan Village, surrounded by mountains, no one in the village has been to the outside world except for the old village chief, and they cannot go out, and they have lived here for generations.

The old village chief on weekdays, when teaching young children and solving doubts, he also said that the situation in the outside world, whenever there are children yearning for the outside world, they are greeted by the old village chief's anger, and the life outside is too cruel, the old village chief often says to the children, it is a cannibalistic world, don't think about it, don't think about it.

Sacrifice is the custom of Qingshan Village, and the village chief has always been in charge, and the original altar was destroyed as early as two years ago during the flash flood.

The newly built altar is made of black ebony and igneous crystal, and the fire crystal is formed into rock, which can ensure that the sacrificial spiritual fire will not be extinguished for five days.

Xuan ebony, the most special thing about this wood, is that it burns the fire but does not damage its body, but its color is more deep, and everyone has been looking for a long time to find these two things that build the altar.

The altar is located on the hill behind the village, and the higher ground in the village is also taken so that the damage of the previous two years will not occur.

"Rites, all spirits!"

In the midst of the cries of the people, the beasts that had been found a few days ago were made into sacrificial gifts and sent to the altar made of igneous crystal.

Xuan ebony burning, cangcang spiritual fire, a few days of endless life, sacrifice for five days, except for the first day of the whole village to attend, the rest of the day is a pious person kneeling and praying, accompanied by the sacrificial spiritual fire, chanting all wishes.

"Grandpa, we sacrifice to the mountain spirits every year, why haven't the mountain spirits ever manifested?"

This question, whenever he sacrificed, Mo Ran would ask his grandfather, and what he got was always his grandfather's silence.

"Old man of the Mo family, you have been standing for five more days, every year, why bother" The old village chief walked lightly, looked at a person on the side, and sighed softly.

Mo Ran's grandfather, formerly known as Mo Zongchen, moved to Qingshan Village for decades, and his name was gradually forgotten by the villagers, and the villagers called him Mo Old Man more, which was a little more cordial.

He was the first person from the outside world to arrive, and if it weren't for the old village chief's thoughts on the two young children, he would never have taken them in.

"Don't you too, we're all just looking for an answer" The old man stopped at the top of the mountain, looked at the vast spiritual smoke in the distance, shook his head and sighed.

On the day of the sacrifice, the mountain spirit appears to protect the villagers, which is a custom or a belief.

But the two of them here revealed a lot of helplessness in their eyes, and they knew this helplessness in their hearts, but they couldn't say it.

"I didn't believe it when you came, but now I'm still like this, Qingshan Village can't be moved, there are too many meanings here, this is our ancestral land!"

The old village chief muttered in his mouth, shook his head, and left this place silently with his back over the years.

The five-day ceremony, for some children in Mo Ran, the most enjoyable is the night bonfire, gnawing on the golden legs, talking about some trivial matters, during which there are also a lot of fists and feet, most of which are between children, because the adults in the village are used to hunting beasts, and rarely compete in the village.

"Drink!" a roar was heard, accompanied by a thin figure flying out, rolling up smoke and dust on the ground.

"It's painful for me, dead fat, and I don't take it lightly"

It was Sun Ming of the Sun family in the village who got up on the ground, with a thin body, and he was knocked away by Qin Li with one punch, and from time to time there was the laughter of a few children sitting down.

"Don't always look like a girl, you'll be an adult in two months, why don't you go out to hunt beasts?" Qin Li clenched his fists and shouted.

"Come, next! Win me, please eat roasted pork and drink good wine!"

The kid on the field is Qin Li, because he is very tall, and his strength is even greater. The big pillar who led the hunting team in the village was his father, Qin Zhu, who was also a tiger-backed bear's waist.

Since he was a child, Qin Li has been determined to protect Qingshan Village like his father, and now he is almost an adult, and he has gradually shouldered the heavy responsibility of hunting and protecting the village, and has matured a lot.

"Brother Xiao Mo, Brother Qin Li is good or bad, and he bullies Xiao Ming" Xiao Qi looked at Qin Li bullying the small, pouting, and looking dissatisfied, in fact, he was more sympathetic to Sun Ming who went to the end.

"It's not a bad thing, Sun Ming, this kid, is lazy at home every day, and he doesn't come when we practice boxing on weekdays, no wonder Qin Li is like this"

Mo Ran smiled, although he had a little sympathy in his heart, but he couldn't help, it was good to let that Sun Ming learn a lesson, who told him to be lazy every day.

In the mountains, in addition to this village, there are all kinds of wild beasts on the periphery, hunting not only needs to know the habits of each beast, but also to be patient, so that one hit must be hit, reduce their own damage, Qingshan Village has its own unique hunting method in several generations of hunting.

Every villager of Qingshan Village, before reaching adulthood, will have a special lecture to introduce all kinds of beasts, take their strengths, attack their shortcomings, everything has its strengths, but also its weaknesses, the strength of the beasts, the attack on its short, is the villagers commonly used beast hunting methods.

He has liked to listen to the old men in the village talk about these things since he was a child, and when he was not an adult, he had already sneaked out of the village and mastered the magic of seven or eight mimic beasts.

After all, he prefers to hunt in the mountains rather than these!

The five-day sacrificial ceremony is over, and the ebony wood will not damage itself, supplemented by the fire crystal, which can only last for five days of spiritual fire to burn, and then extinguished, and the sound of reverence in the village also lasted for five days before it disappeared, and a sacrifice was truly completed.

"Xiaoqi, let's go" The boy returned to the hut, straightened some tools, and then pulled Xiaoqi out.

"Grandpa hasn't been here lately, let's go outside the village, didn't you say it was cute last time, my brother promised to help you catch it"

"Brother is the best" Xiao Qi looked happy, and the two sneaked out of the village as usual.

The ferret last time was very rare, and they had never seen it before, and if it weren't for the lack of bows and arrows last time to force it into a trap, they wouldn't have let such a rare beast go like this.

In the dense forest, two figures were probing around, searching for a while, but they did not find the original cute ferret, but fortunately, it also gave them enough time to set some traps.

The young man climbed up to the tree, slashed the knife in his hand to cut the weakest part of each branch, and then dug several small pits under it.

This is according to the habits of ferrets, which prefer to walk along trees and branches, so it is necessary to do something here.

Then the two searched for a long time, the ferret was hard to see, and after waiting for a day, except for a few spirit rabbits, other beasts were never seen.

A small hole, the dim light of the fire shone on the two of them, it was not the first time for them to spend the night in the wilderness, and this time they were very well prepared, bringing a lot of dry food.

"Xiaoqi, are you hungry?" Mo Ran handed over some jerky, and looked at the little girl on the side chirping and gnawing, the corners of her mouth curled.

Speaking of the small hole here, it was not dug by them, in addition to here, there are also such places not far away.

These small caves were dug a lot by the villagers in the mountains for hunting, and when he was a child, he and Xiaoqi often came here to play, and they have a lot of memories.

The sky is dark, and the fire in the cave is extinguished before it gets dark, otherwise the fire at night will easily attract wild beasts.

Although most of the beasts are afraid of fire, the beasts outside Qingshan Village are very strange, and they can't be thought of as common sense.

"Knock knock, knock knock"

There was a loud roar outside the cave, and even the ground trembled slightly, which startled the two of them.

"Shhhh

"Hmm" the girl curled up in the corner, a smile on her face, and then gradually closed her eyes and fell asleep.

She knew in her heart that as long as her brother was by her side, she would always be at ease, because for more than ten years, both of them had been like this.

In the forest at night, not only is the sky getting colder, but also a little inexplicable cold, and the silent forest often echoes the sound of unknown beast hooves.

However, the cave here is very hidden, ordinary beasts can't find it at all, Mo Ran watched Xiaoqi fall asleep, and also leaned on the edge of the cave entrance to rest, but he didn't dare to sleep deeply, and always maintained a trace of vigilance.

"Xiaoqi, wake up, it's dawn"

A glimmer of light shined through the covered leaves, falling mottled shadows, and the young man looked at the little lazy insect on the side and smiled helplessly.

"You stay in the cave first, I'll go outside to see, yesterday there was a hoof sound in the middle of the night, and I don't know what's going on outside"

He remembered what happened last night, and always had a bad premonition in his heart, after Xiaoqi fell asleep, the sound of hooves still came intermittently, if the color was bright today, he could go out to see the situation.

"Hmm" Xiao Qi rubbed her sleepy eyes, twisted her little arm, and stretched her waist.

The young man pushed aside a gravel, walked out of the cave lightly, and turned around to cover the gravel and leaves that blocked the entrance of the cave, but not long after he came out of the cave, his face changed!

A beast roared, and its sound shook the sky!