Chapter 3: The Past
"Bang, bang, bang......"
"Bang, bang......"
In the depths of the dark forest, in this realm that is difficult for humans to reach, a few intermittent gunshots can be heard from time to time. Obviously, this kind of noise can only be made by humans who can use firearms, that is, there are traces of humans in this dense forest.
And this person, the skin is delicate and smooth, not like the slightly rough and slightly wrinkled skin of a middle-aged man, and the hair is dark and bright, without any traces of artificial means. All in all, the characteristics of a strong man are not reflected in him in the slightest, and judging by his appearance, this person's age is about seventeen or eighteen years old. It's hard to imagine that such a minor child has the ability to break into here, and what is even more unexpected is that he is still practicing his shooting skills with a gun, and he is not worried at all that the sound of gunfire will attract some high-level demonic beasts.
However, if you feel the fluctuating aura faintly floating on the boy's body, you will be relieved, even if there is only a trace of fluctuation as light as a gossamer, you can also feel the infinite ability hidden in that fluctuation. Since he has such an ability of strength, the boy does have the capital to run rampant in this treacherous forest. It's just that this ability strength that is obviously not commensurate with age, if it weren't for this, it would probably have caused a sensation in the entire camp, right?
"This moving target is too difficult to hit, I really don't know what Lu Dao's mother thinks, it's only been two months, and I actually set the target on the fluttering leaves, and shoot at this level of practice, I guess with my magic power, I can't even refine the bullets. The boy looked at the pile of bullet casings at his feet, and then at the leaves that were still fluttering in the breeze, threw the pistol aside, lay down and sighed.
"Woo woo woo ......"
"Hmm, what sound, as if I've never heard it before, is it a delusion?" Not long after resting, an unusually slight sound came into the ears of the young man, who sat up and thought for a moment. Then he continued to lie back. This forest belongs to his family's territory, and even high-level demonic beasts dare not set foot easily, it is impossible for other demonic beasts to appear here, and the movement just now can only be considered as an unnatural reaction caused by natural factors.
"Woo woo woo ......"
"What is it?" After the second sound came, the boy couldn't stay any longer, whether there were other magical beasts appearing here or not, out of curiosity, he decided to take a look at this thing that made an abnormal movement.
"There's something really coming in! What is it, it's so deadly. "A boy who has become accustomed to having only his own existence above the territory. After feeling another completely different wave of breath, he muttered to himself in surprise.
"Woo woo woo ......"
"Could it be a human? It is impossible for other magical beasts or animals to appear in this place, the hierarchy in magical beasts is much stricter than that of humans, and it is impossible for any magical beast in this territory to set foot in. If humans can be reasonable, indeed, this sound is exactly the same as human crying.
It's just that the key to the incomprehensible problem is here. This place is located in the heart of the forest. It is extremely far away from human territory, and outside of the territory, it is also controlled by high-level positions, even if a human can enter here. is definitely the pinnacle of human beings. However, how could the supreme powerhouse of human beings make such a sound that is no different from a girl's cry?
β...... Little girl!" The boy finally saw the source of the girl's cry, and the boy exclaimed. Rao is his superb ability, and he didn't expect this result. This voice turned out to be really from a little girl. The little girl looked like she was six or seven years old, her clothes were bright, she didn't look like she had traveled a long way through the forest, and the fluctuating aura on her body was much stronger than that of ordinary humans, but it had not reached the level of an ability. I really don't know how this little girl came to such a place by herself without even getting her clothes dirty.
"Ahh
"Wow woo woo woo ......" The little girl who was still crying "woo woo" cried even louder after seeing the boy, as if the boy was the culprit who made her cry.
"Hey, can you stop crying?" the young man said when he saw that the little girl's voice suddenly raised his voice.
"Wow woo woo ......"
"What's your name?" The persuasion failed, and the young man, who didn't know how to comfort the little girl, immediately gave up persuasion and changed his tactics. Although the little girl was still crying, and the way of dialogue seemed untenable, the teenager still hoped that through the dialogue, the little girl would stop crying.
"Woo...... I don't know what to say...... "The little girl replied softly when she saw that the young man had no malicious intent.
"Where's your mom and dad?" the boy didn't expect this method to work unexpectedly, and when he saw that the little girl's crying had slowed down a lot, he immediately asked again.
"I don't know what to say...... " The girl stopped crying and said timidly.
"How did you get here?"
"I don't know what to do......"
"I don't know how you got here?" asked the young man, puzzled. A six- or seven-year-old girl who can't remember her name and gets separated from her parents is nothing to blame, but even if she doesn't remember, she just came here, she can't even forget how she got here, right?
"I know no, I'll be here when I wake up......"
β......γ Do you know where your home is?"
"I don't know what to do......"
"And what do you remember?" After several successive questions to no avail, the boy held on to the last glimmer of hope and asked the last question he could think of, related to the little girl's clues.
"I don't know what to do...... I don't remember anything. β
β...... , where am I supposed to send you?" the boy was completely puzzled. Even if this place is extremely far away from the human settlement, if you know some news about the little girl, after sending the little girl back to the human realm, there will always be some way to find her relatives. But I don't know what to do, plus the teenager is not deeply involved in the world, I really can't think of any good way to properly place the little girl.
"Wow woo woo woo ......" I thought I had caught a life-saving straw, but after hearing the boy say this. The little girl immediately understood her situation and began to cry again.
"Hey, why are you crying again......" The young man suddenly had a big head.
"Wow woo woo ......"
"Don't cry, what do you want!"
"Wow woo woo ......"
"Don't cry, okay, if you don't have a place to go, come home with me!"
"Woo...... Really?"
"It's true if you don't cry!" said the young man, relieved, with a stiff face.
"Hmmm......"
"Whew! The young man exhaled and said. Curiosity is really unacceptable, if it weren't for the curiosity of this cry, how could he have come here and not run here. How could it be such a big trouble? Zuo Congrong sighed and thought with some regret.
"What are you doing?" just after being relieved, he suddenly felt that his hand was grabbed by the little girl, and the boy asked with some confusion about the little girl's motives.
"Make a mark!" said the little girl, earnestly.
"How do you get a mark?"
"Like this......" Miracle happened, I don't even remember the names of myself and my parents, I don't even remember how I got here. However, at this moment, a magic array diagram appeared in the palm of her hand and placed it in front of the young man.
"Hmm, don't you remember anything?" asked the boy, a little puzzled. You must know that this magic array is much more complicated than the name or the like, and she can't even remember the name. How could the magic array be manifested?
"I don't know what to say, it seems to have come out all of a sudden!" said the little girl innocently.
"And then like this!" After the little girl finished answering Zuo Congrong's question, her little hand flipped over, and she didn't pay attention to the young man's meaning. Directly imprinted the palm of his hand on the back of Zuo Congrong's hand.
"The contract is made!" said the little girl happily at the end of the simple procedure.
"What is the contract?" the boy asked, startled.
"I don't know how to do it, but that's the impression. The little girl pretended to be stupid again.
β......γ Forget it, it doesn't seem to feel anything, the contract is the contract! You really don't remember your name?" the boy asked the little girl after glancing at the back of his empty hand, scanning the magic circuit, finding nothing unusual, and then putting the question on the back of his mind.
"I don't know how to ......"
"That's troublesome, what should I call you in the future?" the boy asked, a little distressed.
β...... What should I do?" the little girl asked as if she had no backbone.
"Okay, how about I get one for you?" The young man was very helpless about the little girl's crying, and when he saw that the little girl was about to cry again, he immediately tried to find a way.
"What is the name?"
"Hmm...... Wait, I want to think about it, I have to think of a nice ....... Yes, Xiaokong, how about calling Xiaokong?" the young man thought for a long time and said suddenly.
"Sora? Little Empty ...... Is there any basis for this?" asked Sora wistfully.
"Don't you remember anything......? Look at the sky, what can you see?" The young man who originally wanted to say his original intention saw that Xiaokong's eyes were full of expectations, and he couldn't bear to divert the topic.
"Heavens, I can see the clouds, and the leaves...... "Sora replied honestly.
"No, I'm not talking about that, have you ever heard a legend that there are gods living in the heavens?" asked the boy.
"I don't know how to ......"
Immortals are people who live for a long time and will not grow old, and they will not die, and they can do anything. Because they wouldn't be so, so there were more and more immortals in the sky later, and then there were not so many immortals in the sky, so some smaller immortals were sent to the earth. You may also be sent down by the gods, so you are named Xiaokong, which means the little fairy sent down from the sky. How's that, isn't it amazing?" said the young girl, flickering without blinking his eyes.
"Amazing, then let's call Xiaokong, it looks very powerful!" Poor Xiaokong hasn't touched anything yet, and he was fooled by the boy and even named it......
"By the way, my name is Xiaokong, what's your name?" said Xiaokong as if he remembered something after choosing a name for Xiaokong.
"Me?" Zuo Congrong was stunned for a moment and asked rhetorically.
"yes, otherwise what else would I call you?"
"What do you call me?" the boy repeated. yes, how to call it. When he was at home, both his mother and his elder brother called him his younger brother, and apart from these two family members, there was no one else who could talk to him. Now being asked by Xiaokong, the young man was suddenly a little speechless, can't he let Xiaokong follow his mother and brother to call him his brother, right?
"Well, what's your name?"
"Uh, that's it...... Pregnant. Call me brother. The boy thought for a moment and said.
"Brother, this is too perfunctory. Xiaokong said with some disgust.
"What's the matter, anyway, you're so young, it's not a loss to call me a few brothers. The boy didn't dare to retort weakly.
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"Shalan, brother, I'm back!" After picking up Sora, the boy stopped training and returned home with Sora to the entrance of the gorgeously decorated cave. The boy shouted inside.
"Why did you come back so early, didn't you come back in the evening?" a magnetic middle-aged woman's voice came from inside the cave, but judging from the tone, it was obvious that she was a little dissatisfied with the teenager's way of running back so early.
"Brother. You're too careless, like you're lazy, at least run away, and actually come back to make a report. A gloating boy's voice came too, as if amused by the boy's stupidity. It seems to be looking forward to seeing what will happen to the boy.
"No, something happened today, otherwise how could I have come back so early. The boy explained to the two.
"Something? What can happen in this place. I want to see how dare you have the audacity to give your mother such a naΓ―ve reason...... "Hey, where did this little girl come from?" I saw a middle-aged lady with a superior temperament and beautiful clothes walking out of the door of the cave, and when she was reprimanding the young man, she found Xiao Kong next to the young man and asked the young man.
"That's her, something happened, that's it, I picked it up in the forest. The boy pointed to Xiao Kong and explained.
"Where's the little girl, where's it, I'll see!" After hearing the little girl's story, the boy's curious voice came out of the cave as he ran and talked. It's a boy whose height is about the same as that of a teenager.,But the appearance is much more immature than a teenager.γ
"Eh, why aren't you human?" said the boy, who was originally very curious, said boredly after seeing Xiao Kong.
"Isn't it human, brother, what are you talking about, what else can she be if she's not human?" the boy asked, a little confused.
"Humanoid demonic beasts, although they also have the breath of humans, but they are indeed demonic beasts, it's really strange, how can I not know how to have a demonic beast run here?Brother, tell me, where did you pick her up?" Before the boy could answer the boy's question, Sharan had already told the origin of Xiaokong on the side, and asked the boy at the same time.
"Humanoid Warcraft? Wouldn't she? She could even speak human words, how could it be a Warcraft. The boy retorted suspiciously.
"Aren't we also Warcraft, and we can also speak human language, and you haven't answered my question yet. After Saran finished retorting, she asked again.
"It's where I practice a lot, at first I thought I was mistaken, if she hadn't been crying, I wouldn't have noticed, and it would have been difficult to find out if her ability fluctuations weren't close. The boy replied.
"That's right, brother, you stretch out your hand and try to cast your magic. After finding out where Sora came from, Sharan ordered the boy.
"Eh, don't you, you can't release it, even if the clothes can be regenerated, but just burn it like this, it's strange to look at it. The boy reluctantly refused.
"Are you disobedient, let you release it, where is so much nonsense, and it can't be burned, it's a big deal to make you another one later. Sharan ordered again in exasperation.
"Oh!" the young man saw that his mother was furious, and immediately panicked, and responded very obediently.
He then flipped his left hand and raised it, placing a cluster of flame in his hand. If anyone sees it, they will probably be curious about this magic manifestation of the boy. Because the flame embodied by the boy is not like ordinary humans releasing magic, condensing the flame into a ball, suspended above the palm of the hand, and can be released at any time, but the flames are all scattered, attached to the skin of the hand, as if a hand is on fire, and more than that. The young man obviously had a lot of deficiencies in controlling the fire element, and he saw that the flames that appeared had spread along the palm of the young man's hand at this moment, and even the sleeves of his clothes were on fire.
"Boom!"
While the boy embodied the fire element, Sharan and the boy just stared at the boy's palm, feeling the boy's fluctuating aura, and at the same time bowed slightly, and his expression also looked unusually happy, as if they were proud of the boy's fluctuation intensity. It's just that with the continuous output of the fluctuation of the young man's ability, Shalan's expression suddenly appeared strange. His brow furrowed suddenly, and then he punched the boy very cleanly, his eyes full of anger. I don't know where the young man offended her mother, and he actually let his mother do such a heavy hand.
"It hurts, what's wrong, why are you hitting me?" the young man asked vaguely, rubbing his cheeks, which had turned blue and swollen. Hit by such a heavy fist without warning, the young man inevitably felt a little wronged, although this mother-in-law has a serious tendency to violence. often takes out anger on the two brothers when things don't go their way, but when she doesn't get angry, Sharan won't attack the two. Also, Saran is often rough though. But it's the first time I've made such a heavy hand like this.
"Tell me, did you lie?" just asked about his grievances, but. What was waiting for him was not the answer he was looking forward to. I saw Sha Lan flash by, and grabbed her right hand fiercely. grabbed the young man's collar, and his powerful right knee was pressed against the young man's chest, grabbing it strongly, making the young man, a figure with enough ability to be proud of the camp, unable to resist, suppressing the young man to the ground, and questioning.
"No, you're so fierce, how dare I lie......" the boy defended in fear.
"Hmm, you didn't lie, then you tell me, how did you come to make a contract with magic?" Although the boy's defense seemed to be quite rude, Sharan didn't mind, but as if she recognized the boy's reason, she believed the boy's words like that, and at the same time raised her question again.
"The magic of the contract?, why do you ask that?" the boy asked in confusion.
"You really wouldn't?" said Sarah, seeing that the boy did not seem to be lying, and asked again in confusion.
"How could it be, you didn't teach me ......," the young man replied aggrievedly.
"If not, how did you come to make a contract with that little girl?" said Sharan with her deepest question.
"Conclude a contract? no...... It can't be that time!" The young man was about to deny it, but suddenly remembered that when he was in the forest again, Xiao Kong pressed the palm printed with the magic array on the back of his hand, and said as if he guessed.
"You mean she made a contract with you?" Sha Lan was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting the final result to be like this, staring at Xiaokong for a while, her face changed a few times in just a moment, and finally returned to a dejected appearance.
"That ....... What's wrong with you?" The young man asked cautiously when he saw that Shalan's face was so unusual.
"Alas, people are not as good as heaven, things are already like this, and they can only accept their fate!" Sharan sighed after the boy asked the question, as if she was talking to herself, and as if she was explaining the boy's doubts.
"What's wrong?"
"Well, I was going to have you two brothers conclude a contract. I didn't expect to be ruined by this little thing!" said Sha Lan as if she had fallen short for Shan Jiuren. Indeed, it was not easy to train the boy so well, and she wanted the two brothers to conclude a contract and become a strong combination, but now the boy was robbed of the opportunity by a humanoid demonic beast that was not even as good as scum in her eyes. This feeling is like just cooking a good pot of food, and you haven't moved a bite, but you end up falling into a worm, how aggrieved you have to be. But there is nowhere to vent this anger, one is his son, and the other is a humanoid demonic beast that has just signed a contract with his son, and the humanoid demonic beast is even weaker, even if he wants to teach a lesson, he is afraid that this lone seedling will be broken, and then his son will not even have such an unethical character......
"Make a pact with your brother?" the boy asked Saran suspiciously, as he turned his head to look at the boy when he heard Shalan's plan.
"Yes, you really don't have any problems with the strength of your ability, but you have been here for so many years, and you have never been in contact with the nature of human beings, and you don't know what kind of malice humans have. In the future, if you go out, I don't worry, if the two of you sign a contract, at least one of them will take care of you. If nothing else, at least with your brother, no one can be unfavorable to you. I really don't know what kind of sin you did in your last life, and you have to work so hard in this life......" Sharan sighed as she looked at the young man. The tone, the looks, how much content was bred in it, worry, regret, powerlessness, or anger at the fate of the teenager. However, none of this mattered, because no matter what kind of emotion it was, it turned into infinite tenderness the moment the young man's face met her pupils...... (To be continued......)