I couldn't finish it today, so I'm sorry for changing it tomorrow morning.

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On the day of Salt Water, my people finally decided to leave this place.

Salt Water is a warm, beautiful, peaceful place. A few years ago, we fled here, chased by roaring snowstorms, ferocious beasts, hungry stomachs, and constant death, and were generously accepted by the Salt Water Priestess.

But the salt water is too small to accommodate too many people.

Slowly, over food and a place to live, blood began to flow between the clansmen.

It was in order to find a suitable place for the whole family to live, so we left the familiar and beloved barren homeland, left behind our aging parents, who were no longer able to travel far, and made a hard trek all the way to this place.

Those who are still awake sigh that they understand that salt water, while good, is not the good land we are looking for.

The clansmen looked at the patriarch, waiting for his orders.

"Brother, you don't want to leave the salt water, do you?"

The patriarch's sister, Ji Xi, asked the silent patriarch with a smile.

She laughed, and the face that had been licked and smacked by the fire and completely ruined was even more terrifying. But before her husband was killed by her own brother, she was the most beautiful woman in our race.

In our community, a widowed woman cannot refuse another man's marriage proposal. If she wants to defend her beloved husband, it will only make all men have no desire to propose to her.

Her brother, killed her husband.

In order to become our patriarch.

The patriarch remained silent.

All knew that the patriarch was reluctant to leave the salt water.

The goddess of salt water fell in love with him and treated him as her guest. Every day, it is a delicious and delicate meat soup, refreshing and delicious berries, thick and warm tiger skin under the body, and the body is embroidered with silk satin clothes full of rare flowers and plants.

Day after day, the delicate goddess accompanies him, watching the bright morning sun, watching the enchanting moonlight, or listening to the melodious chirping of the birds on the mountain.

He could no longer see the painful and resentful eyes of his people, and he could not hear the cries of their miserable despair.

He was tired of the endless toil and trek.

"But you are our patriarch, and you must seek a vast land for your people. ”

Snake Creek smiled and spoke again.

The patriarch looked at the clansmen, and their eyes were cold and resentful.

You are our patriarch!

At that time, didn't you kill your opponents one by one mercilessly on the altar, even your friends and relatives, just to be the patriarch?

Some of those who died were brothers, some were sons, some were lovers, some were husbands, and some were fathers.

I don't hold grudges, because I need a strong, resolute patriarch who can lead everyone to find a fertile and vast new land.

Your body and soul belong to this poor race.

"Brother, do you really want to stay here?

Now the goddess of Salt Water loves you, and you are the guest of Salt Water. But the life of the goddess is much longer than that of us mortals, and the mind of the goddess is also easier to change than that of us mortals, and one day, when you are no longer strong and handsome......

Brother, let's get out of the salt water.

You are our patriarch, always. “

The voice of the river is still tactful, soft like the body of a water snake.

The patriarch was entwined with the voice, and his lips and tongue were controlled.

He only gave orders.

"Get out of the salt water!"

"No! you are not allowed to leave the salt water!"

The land, water, wind, and creatures of Salt Water are all loyal to the goddess of Salt Water. The patriarch's decision was only known to her in an instant.

Her long hair was hastily tied up with pale green vines, her pale face was devoid of the usual rosette-dyed flush, her fingers were slender, her crystal-like transparent nails were only half-painted with cardamom, and she had only a simple white gown.

She came in such a hurry to prevent her lover from leaving.

Even the goddess of salt water is still as fragile as a mortal woman in front of the people she loves deeply.

Although the clansmen did not want to see the patriarch being tied to the salt water land by the goddess again, she was so petite, beautiful and sad, and everyone naturally got out of the way.

The tears of the saltwater goddess fell to the ground like broken beads, and small white flowers with golden stamens immediately bloomed on the ground.

"My love, my love...... Please don't go, don't leave the salt water. “

The patriarch retreated from the sad eyes.

"Goddess, we're leaving. “

"Don't go, don't go.

If your people are hungry, I can make all the fruit trees of the salt water blossom and bear fruit all year round, and the rivers and streams will always catch fish, rabbits, roe deer, and birds...... Breeding offspring ten times a year.

If your people feel cold, I can make the salt water warm forever, and it will bloom three times a year, and the hemp will grow seven feet in a year. “

The goddess of salt water stretched out her white arm and grabbed the skirt of the patriarch's robe.

"I can do everything as long as you're willing to stay. “

There was a slight commotion among the clansmen.

At this time, I saw that the eyes were red and swollen and trembling all the time from the fire and smoke.

"How can I guarantee it?"

He approached the goddess and looked at her soft and flawless skin and black eyes as black as a newborn baby.

"Dear goddess, how do you guarantee that what you are saying now will last forever? My brother is just a mortal who will one day die of old age. At that time, will your love also be buried in the loess with him?

Can you really care for our people and their descendants forever?"

Smiling hoarsely, Jie Xi didn't wait for the goddess's answer, and turned back into the crowd.

The agitation subsided.

And the patriarch pushed away the soft hands with difficulty.

The Salt Water Priestess looked disgusted, humiliated by a mortal's rejection. If it was someone else, she might have been torn apart and eaten by the beast she drove a long time ago.

The patriarch took a few steps back with some trepidation.

The goddess's face was pale, her long hair was flying, and in an instant, everything in heaven and earth dimmed, and only those crystal eyes flashed with a terrifying light.

"I won't ......"

Almost clenching her snow-white teeth, the goddess looked at the patriarch and said proudly.

"I'm not going to let you leave me like that. ”

The next day.

Where the sky and the earth are connected, there is no ordinary blue sky, only gray dust and mist that constantly changes shape and flies wantonly.

As I got closer, I realized that it was a cloud formed by countless living insects of all kinds.

In this season, there should be locusts still lurking in the loess and sleeping, or Anopheles mosquitoes with brownish-white stripes and slender hands and legs that have long since disappeared, small bodies, dark crickets and weavers, miserable green praying mantises, fat moths, and black beetles......

In the dead grass and dead branches on the ground, there are also poisonous spiders and scrubs.

The few people who went to explore the way were shrewd and tough, but they did not make a sound after entering this boundless and invisible, insect-like quagmire.

The way out of the salt water was obscured in this way.

The intimidation of the goddess is not illusory.

"Take a break for a while. Walk into the night. ”

The people sat quietly, in twos and threes, and Creek walked up and down among them, looking for anyone who needed to be watched, for the next would be at least a few days and nights of walking. Strong men and women forget it, but in the years of salt water, couples who don't need to worry about food and clothing have children, and these children have suffered enough these days, and when they can finally stop, they almost faint in their parents' arms.

But it is impossible to hold them and carry them on your back, and the rough and murderous road leaves no extra strength.

It darkened very quickly, and the bugs dispersed.

The tribesmen lit torches of pines and cypresses.

Still can't go.

The mountain road was so rugged that the vines coiled like snakes on the ground, and the originally flat place was suddenly full of thorns, and the flames on the torches were either whipped by the mountain wind or suddenly energized, setting the whole body of the person holding the torch on fire.

The eyes of the clansmen no longer looked at the patriarch, as if he no longer existed. They supported each other and retreated.

The patriarch looked at Snake Creek as if he were pleading for help.

Brook's eyes were full of sympathy, and she was so loving as she pulled her brother, straightened his hair, and gently comforted him.

"But what do I do? The patriarch said distressedly.

He thought for a moment, and then removed a gold ring encrusted with garnet-red cobblestone from his finger.

The patriarch looked at his sister suspiciously.

"I'm going to ask you first. Xia Xi can even say in a happy tone: "You really don't love the goddess of salt water anymore?"

The patriarch didn't speak, just nodded in disgust. The goddess whom he had loved a day before was now his most hated enemy.

He smiled and whispered in the patriarch's ear.

I couldn't hear what was being said, only the patriarch's expression changed rapidly, and finally he showed a resolute and relieved expression.

That night, the patriarch was not with us, but there was no reaction from everyone.

There was only Jie Xi, who sat by the fire all night, her eyes burning until dawn.

The gray insect cloud has accumulated again.

The patriarch took out his proud longbow, which the best craftsmen of the clan had made for him, a bow made of hundred-year-old ebony, a string made of shark tendons, an arrow made of the leg bones of a deer and the tail feathers of an eagle. He used this bow and arrow to kill many birds and beasts.

Unlike yesterday, the patriarch looked at the clansmen confidently and announced loudly.

"We can get out of Salt Water today!"

We watched as the patriarch ascended to the top of the highest mountain, watching the noisy cloud of worms. Brook leaned over him and slowly raised an arm, pointing to a point in the gray cloud.

I looked over, and in the gray cloud, there was a small, indiscernible red dot that refracted the sunlight and shone brightly.

A few of the people screamed, and they must have found the light, like me, the light of the garnet that had been on the finger of the river.

Clever Beetle Creek!

The goddess of salt water, the clothes and ornaments on her body are all salt water, they will protect her, cover her, only things that do not belong to salt water, will rebel against the goddess and expose her whereabouts.

Last night, the patriarch easily asked the goddess to bring a love object to point out the direction of the murder weapon.

In front of the returning lover, the goddess was also blinded by tenderness.

A smile tugged at the patriarch's lips.

He confidently pointed the arrow at the flickering red dot, the bow gradually rounded, and the knuckles turned white with exertion.

"Huh!"

A crisp sound.

The arrow flew out at an invisible speed, sinking into the gray cloud.

The clansmen waited with bated breath.

The patriarch took an arrow again.

The gray clouds slowly dispersed.

The Salt Water Priestess appeared in the air, and the arrow pierced her right chest, and she was as haggard as a butterfly with broken wings.

"I'm sorry. ”

Saying this softly, the patriarch's arrow let out a pleasant chirp again and flew out.

This time, it hit the center of the eyebrows.

The tribesmen were silent for a moment, and then suddenly burst into thunderous cheers.

They once again cast a trusting look at the patriarch and lifted him up and threw him into the air.

I was pushed out by the crowd, and in the peripheral eye of my eyes, I caught a glimpse of the Grasshopper Creek, which had long since retreated to the side.

Grasshopper smiled.

Everyone was laughing, and it wasn't strange that Jie Xi's laughter was ......

At this moment, a member of the clan suddenly fell.

The people didn't pay attention, but someone else fell.

The man fell whole, and when he got to the ground, there were already several pieces of minced meat.

This time the screams of terror were like thunder.

Salt Water was furious.

Mountains and waters rose and fell, the sky and the ground were reversed, wild beasts roared fiercely, and the roots of trees pierced through the ground like spears.

The gray insect cloud gathered again, more densely.

Countless small voices shouted.

"Don't leave the salt water! Don't leave the salt water!"

The tribesmen were crying and running in all directions, and the ground was covered with werewolf flesh.

I had my foot broken by a boulder, and I had to lie on the ground and wait for my death.

The patriarch fell not far from me, and the flying branches scraped away half of his countenance.

Grasshopper struggled to approach him, she had just lost an arm.

"Sister, sister......"

The patriarch groaned and held out his hand to Grasshopper Creek.

Ji Xi was still laughing, she said with a smile.

"It's a pity, it's just a little bit before you can live happily with the goddess of salt water. ”

Suddenly I felt like I was frozen.

The patriarch didn't seem to understand, and he hesitated to look at the only remaining hand in the river.

In his hand he held an arrow, and the sharp arrow was aimed at the heart of the patriarch.

"It's a shame......"

Snake Creek said again, stabbing down without hesitation.

The patriarch finally understood, and he let out a cry of remorse, but it was also his last cry in this world.

Beetle Creek has never forgiven anyone.

The man of the clan who killed the brother of her beloved husband and forced her to marry another man was the woman of the clan who laughed at her and was jealous.

She didn't forgive any of them.

She waited, endured, and finally waited for her chance.

We're stupid too.

How could the salt water spare us who killed the main god, and what land would accept the human beings who killed the gods?

Brook should really laugh.

I'm dying, too.

All men are going to die.

The sky was a bewitching red and deep blue, and the wind made a sharp sound, rolling up the sand and dust to form a blurry pattern.

Salt water is really, a beautiful place.