An unpleasant smell like rotten rotten meat came to my nose, and I smoked it so much that I wanted to vomit.

Ruiming and Gu Xue, who had already walked down the mountain, suddenly saw two monsters rushing in front of them, with human faces but beaks like birds, and monsters with wings and walking with wings, so they quickly grabbed the little beggar and hid behind a Wakaki tree.

The powerful stench is emitted by these centaurs. As these monsters approached, the stench became even more pervasive and dizzying.

Fortunately, the Ruomu tree, like the sweetgum wood and the acacia, is the most sacred tree in the Southern Wilderness Continent that can ward off evil spirits.

The trunk of the tall Wakaki tree was as red as a fire, with blue-green palm leaves, but it bloomed with brilliant huge red flowers, which were so colorful that it also kept Gu Xue and Rui Ming in the shadows.

The monsters rushed straight towards the three of them, but they didn't seem to see the three of them, bypassing the Wakagi tree, as if some kind of aura emanating from the Wakagi tree made them very uncomfortable.

In the stench of the sky, the monster clattered past the three of them, towards the path they had just walked.

"Oh my God, this is the legendary Donkey (Note 1)!" As soon as Gu Xue said the words, she quickly covered her mouth, but Rui Ming heard these words.

Rui Ming looked at the monster in the distance and asked, "Auntie, is that monster called a donkey?" ”

Gu Xue stretched out her hand to cover his mouth:

"You can't say its name anymore. These monsters eat the fish of the river, and also make food from the leaves of the grass, endive, scum, and poplar trees, and eat people when they are very hungry in winter, and especially like to eat fresh, steaming blood. They must now be going to the woman who is going to give birth. ”

"Why can't I say its name? These donkeys stink and look ugly! Rui Ming said disapprovingly.

Gu Xue just put his hand down, and when she saw Rui Ming talking, she hurriedly stretched out her hand to cover his mouth again: "If you say its name out loud, it will turn around and eat you when it hears it, and you will be a feather on his wings in the future, and you will never see your aunt again." ”

Rui Ming stuck his head out from behind the tree, and saw that there was no longer a shadow of a monster, so he boldly said, "I will catch it in the future and make broth for my aunt to drink, we haven't drunk broth for a long time." ”

Gu Xue patted his little face: "Rui'er is so filial." ”

Pei Die on Gu Xue's back whispered, "I also want to take a sip, just a small sip." ”

Rui Ming said contemptuously, "You don't have to walk, what are you drinking for?" ”

Peidie thought for a while and said, "But I was also scorched with five petals, and I also hurt!" ”

In order to avoid being caught by the slaves, the aunt asked Yu Fengguang to brand Pei Die with a black five-petal sunflower, and she was branded by herself.

Gu Xue has been on the run for five years with the two little masters who escaped from the Changyuan Purple Palace. For five years, they have been eating and sleeping in the open, hungry and cold. In order to protect the two little masters, Gu Xue did not tell them their true identities, only said that they were her sister's children, and asked them to call her aunt.

And Banxue had disappeared inexplicably one night two years ago. Maybe it was taken away by a beast, or maybe it fell off a cliff in the middle of the night. Gu Xue didn't have time to grieve Banxue's departure, the only thing she could do was to continue to flee with the two little masters.

In the Buting Mountain, they picked fruits, dug grass roots, and were hungry, so when they saw Yu Fengguang's food, they went to steal it. As the appetite of the two children increased, Gu Xue could no longer let them fill their stomachs.

Now, I heard that Yu Fengguang said that there would be work in the salt farm, and Gu Xue was going to take the two masters to Ai Yuer Salt Lake or Snow Blue City, where she could go to work as a salt drying worker, no matter how hard and tired she was, as long as she could earn silver quill to buy tsampa (Note 2), she was willing to do anything.

As she was talking, Gu Xue saw a multicolored light pattern in front of her, rolling and surging like a wave.

"Yikes!" She was startled, and hurriedly pressed Ruiming's firstborn to the ground, protected his head with her arms, and lay down on top of him.

The multicolored waves rolled past them, continuing to roll towards the hill they had just walked on.

Only then did Gu Xue see clearly that it was a group of countless sleeping birds. These multicolored feathered birds have beautiful and bright feathers, but they are extremely vicious and cruel birds, they often go out in groups, smell blood and fly, see blood and attack in groups.

Gu Xue's face was shocked, she heard the eldest princess of Yejiu say that in this Southern Wilderness, there is a mountain called Xuandan Mountain, and there is a sleeping bird with colorful feathers on Xuandan Mountain, these birds have human faces and hair, and they are one of the most terrifying monsters in the prophecy.

In the prophecy, the sleeping birds are always accompanied by some birds called green pheasants and yellow birds, and as long as these ominous birds appear and in which country they gather to inhabit, that country will perish.

The Yufeng Kingdom and the Gezhi Kingdom have been destroyed by the Great Emblem, and now these birds appear here, predicting which country will perish?

Gu Xue pulled Ruiming, hugged the Pei Butterfly on her back, rushed out of the mountain with her waist down, and ran to the official road.

Now, they are iron-branded pariahs who were assigned by the king of Jingnan Kingdom Yejiu for stealing, and automatically went to the salt field to dry salt. They don't have surnames, they are called Gu Xue, Rui'er, and Die'er. The two children were picked up by Gu Xue on the road.

They will seek the minimum right to live in the salt drying plant, until one day their fate will change.

If it could really change.

Behind them, on the mountain, there were many birds, beasts, and monsters that they had never seen before.

(Note 1: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness South Classic": In the great wilderness, there is a person named "Donkey".) the wife of the cang, the son of the servant is said to be yanrong , and he has a donkey . The donkey is a human-faced bird with a beak and wings, which eats fish in the sea and walks on the wings of a cane. ”

Note 2: Monetary unit of measurement, 10 silver quills = 1 silver slot, 10 silver slots = 1 gold dong, 10 gold = 1 gold baht)