With a "bang", the closed door was pushed open with great force, and a burly man stepped in from the wind and snow. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He stood at the door, glanced coldly at the house, and then fixed his gaze on the two Shu Ye sisters and brothers, "Patriarch order, in three days, the men in the clan will go to the Black Iron Mountain again to dig up the iron gall." ”

His tall body was pulled out of a long shadow in the faint light of the room, and the heavy hammer in his hand glowed with cold light, revealing wisps of murderous aura.

"But Xiao Ye's illness hasn't recovered yet, he can't ......" Shu Xueyi retorted in a low voice, "The wind and snow are so big, didn't the patriarch let everyone go to death?"

The man's eyes lit up, revealing a cold killing intent: "You dare to question the patriarch?"

Shu Xueyi avoided his gaze with some fear, bit her lip stubbornly, and did not speak.

"Ten days later, it is the day when my tribe and the Refined City will deliver the refined iron, according to the original regulations, the refined iron refined now is far from enough, the iron gall collected in front has been exhausted, if you don't go to the Black Iron Mountain to collect, where can we find the iron gall to refine the iron?" The man snorted coldly, "If we can't get enough refined iron for the Refined City on time, without clothing and food, we will all starve to death." ”

His muscles were tense, and the invisible coercion was like a mountain: "You want us to starve to death, don't you?"

Shu Xueyi still bit her lip under his strong coercion and didn't speak, she didn't dare to refute, but she couldn't agree.

Shu Ye's illness has just improved, and her body is still very weak, and going to Heitie Mountain at this time is tantamount to death, and she can't let her younger brother go.

The man tightened the hammer in his hand, took a step forward and approached Shu Ye and the others, and the cold killing intent on his body became more and more obvious: "Answer me!"

What he conveyed was the patriarch's personal order, and if he did not obey, he had the right to kill him on the spot to set an example.

"I'll go!" Shu Ye stared at him, biting his lip and spitting out two words.

Under the persecution of powerful forces, he and his sister are like two ants, they have no right to resist, even if they say that they are dead, you have to obey, otherwise you will not survive now.

"That's good. The man nodded, his killing intent relaxed, and turned to leave, "In the morning after three days, the clan will gather in the iron field and set off at the hour, if the time does not come, it will not be as simple as death." ”

The man put down his cruel words and disappeared in the roaring wind and snow in an instant, Shu Ye stared at the man's disappearing back, and in his bright eyes, the killing intent flashed.

"Little Night...... You can't go...... With such heavy snowfall, the Black Iron Mountain must have been covered with snow, where can you still collect iron gall. Shu Xueyi's face was anxious, with pleading, "Patriarch, this is for everyone to die, I can't let you go." ”

"Sister, we have no other choice. Shu Ye looked at her with tears in her eyes, "Don't go, we'll die faster." And, sister, we also need to be brave in exchange for clothing and food, otherwise it will be difficult for us to survive this winter just by hunting snow rats. ”

"Little night, we can go, let's get out of here. Shu Xueyi held her brother's hand, almost pleading.

A few days ago, the snow was not so heavy, Shu Ye almost died in Heitie Mountain, this time he went back with illness, and there was no hope of survival at all.

She can't lose Shu Ye, not only the feeling of life and death, but also the deeper entrustment of her father and mother when they are dying.

"Sister, where are you going?" Shu Ye listened to the sound of the wind and snow raging outside, "If we can't get out of the clan land, we will be discovered by the people of the tribal warrior camp, according to the clan rules, fleeing for our lives, we will be arrested, tied to the top of the cedar, frozen to death, and then eaten by the snow eagles coming and going." ”

"Sister, in the face of the people of the warrior realm, we don't have any strength to resist. Shu Ye said the reality.

The man who forced the two just now was named Shi Lei, a second-order warrior, and his strength was not top-notch in the entire tribe, and his coercion in momentum could make Shu Ye and the others have no power to resist, let alone face the entire warrior battalion.

It was the power of all the warrior realms of the entire tribe, and it was only under the orders of the patriarch, and it could exterminate anyone in the tribe who resisted the clan order.

In the memory of the fusion, Shu Ye knew that in the entire tribe he was in, the power class was divided into three levels, which were the three levels of ordinary, strong and warrior.

Each class has its own treatment and responsibilities.

The people of the ordinary class are the lowest level of the tribe, and they do a series of heavy and rough work such as going up the mountain to mine iron, carrying iron materials, and going deep into the northern snow field to collect medicine; the people of the elite class are much better than the people of the ordinary class, they are only responsible for training the iron gall into fine iron, or making fine iron equipment, and are the backbone of the tribe; the people of the warrior class are all members of the warrior battalion, and they do the duty of supervising the entire tribe, and do not end up working.

Strength corresponds to treatment, the families of the ordinary class are poor and difficult, and the families of the elite class are poor and can barely survive, while the families of the warrior class enjoy the best resources of the tribe and share the wealth of the tribe with the patriarch.

The warrior stage is divided into one to nine levels, and each level has a huge difference in strength, but Shu Ye doesn't know how it is, he and his sister Shu Xueyi have a narrow vision, and they can only get a glimpse of a small part of this world.

"It's just that my sister is too weak to protect Xiaoya. Shu Xueyi was full of resentment, "If only I could become a warrior, then no one would dare to bully Xiao Ye." ”

"Sister, there are no female warriors in the tribe. Shu Ye looked at her sister, felt full of warmth, and comforted, "Don't worry, sister, I can take care of myself, you don't have to worry." ”

He is no longer the original Shu Ye, he has lived a lifetime, and his heart is no longer an ordinary sixteen-year-old boy, and he can bear these difficulties.

"Just because our tribe doesn't have it doesn't mean there aren't female warriors. Shu Xueyi tried hard to refute, "Last year, the person who came to the tribe to collect the fine iron from the Elite City was a woman, and I heard that she had the strength of a fifth-order warrior, which was stronger than anyone in the clan, and even the patriarch didn't dare to speak loudly in front of her at that time. ”

"Fifth Order Warrior ......" Shu Ye pondered, "In the final analysis, in this world, strength is everything, if I had the strength of the warrior realm at this moment, my sister and I would not be so persecuted, and we couldn't even control our own life and death." ”

A strong determination swelled up in his heart, and the thirst for strength was suddenly as important as life.

With the help of Tianxin Stone, Shu Ye lay in bed for a day, and his body fully recovered, not only did the wind and cold disappear, but his strength was also much stronger than before.

The rest of the time, he ran on the snowy northern snowfield, catching occasional snow rats and adding a little ration to his family.

At night, he clung to the stone pier and worked hard to train his strength.

Shu Xueyi looked at her younger brother's diligent and desperate appearance, and always felt that he seemed to be a little different from before, but when she thought about it, she didn't know what the difference was.

In the past, Shu Ye was also diligent and hardworking, and loved her sister very much, but her desire for power was not so firm.

Three days passed in a flash, and the snow still didn't stop.

At the beginning of the morning, Shu Xueyi boiled a bowl of rice porridge for Shu Ye with the remaining grain, and then followed him to the tribal iron field.

Before the day was fully dawn, many people had already gathered in the iron field, all of them men from the ordinary class, and each family had a representative.

"Let's go!" a loud roar rang out.

Under the supervision of the battalion of soldiers, everyone carried the iron basket, picked up the digging tools, and braved the wind and snow to walk in the direction of the Black Iron Mountain.

Shu Xueyi watched Shu Ye gradually disappear from view, although she was reluctant and worried, she didn't have anything to do.

Black Iron Mountain was ten miles north of the tribe, but in just an hour, everyone had reached the foot of the mountain.

As far as the eye can see, the mountain is steep, the snow covers all the paths, and the mountain path up the mountain is no longer visible, adding countless unknown dangers compared to the last time.

But since they came, everyone had no way to retreat, and climbed towards the Black Iron Mountain one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The snow on the trail is knee-deep, and with each step, everyone has to cut through the snow and determine the location so that they don't deviate from the position and cause accidents.

Fortunately, everyone is very familiar with Black Iron Mountain, and although the journey is dangerous and difficult, no one has fallen off the cliff.

After noon, everyone finally climbed the Black Iron Mountain, came to the top of the mountain, and looked at a cliff recess behind the mountain.

It is the place where the iron gall is hidden, about three zhang away from the top of the mountain, the road is extremely steep, and the last time Shu Ye fell and was injured, it was in that position.

"Let's go down. Someone roared, took out his iron claws to clasp the rock, and slowly slid towards the mountain hollow.

Everyone did so and carefully descended, but when they reached the safety of the mountain recess, they still lost seven or eight people.

Shu Ye looked at the screams drowned in the wind and snow on the cliff, and felt a little sad in his heart, but he could only take a look at it helplessly.

When they saw the soil under the rock layer, they would change their shovels and dig with all their might, hoping to find one or two iron galls buried under the rock layer.

The so-called iron gall is the iron hidden in the rock formation, which is similar to the earth's iron ore, but the iron gall is naturally formed pure iron, and the iron ore contains many impurities.

Time passed, in the desperate busyness of everyone, passed quickly, and before you knew it, the sky had gradually darkened.

Among the people, there are constantly people who harvest iron courage and begin to leave happily, and there are also people who have nothing to gain and are unwilling to dig wildly.

The sky grew darker and darker, like a huge black curtain that enveloped the earth, and as the night fell, the wind and snow became heavier and heavier.

There were fewer and fewer people around Shu Ye, and in the end, there were only a few people left.

"Little night, we must go, as soon as it gets dark, the storm will come, and then we will not be able to go down the mountain. A middle-aged man stood up, weighed the weight of the iron gall dug in his hand, and kindly reminded Shu Ye, "If we don't dig it, we can come back next time, and it won't be worth it to lose our lives." ”

Shu Ye was sweating profusely, bowed his head and used a shovel to desperately chisel the hard rock formation under his feet, refusing to give up: "Uncle Yu, thank you for reminding me, you go first, and I will come later." ”

The middle-aged man had already done his best to remind him, sighed, and climbed towards the top of the mountain without hesitation: "Okay, then I'll go first, you take care of yourself." ”

The sky began to darken, the wind howled, and began to form a storm, and the remaining people who had not dug the iron courage did not want to stay here any longer, so they picked up their tools, left the recess, and climbed towards the top of the mountain.

It is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, as long as the storm is together, the sky is dark, and you can't find the way down the mountain, you can only die on the mountain.

"Why is this happening?" Shu Ye bit his lip, unwilling to give up, desperately chiseling the shovel into the rock formation.

He was drenched in sweat, his heart was beating so fast, and his strength was running out to the limit.

He had dug more than three feet from the surface of the rock formation, far more than the others had dug deep and wide, but there was still nothing, and now a whole solid rock layer was blocking the progress of the descent.

The blade of the shovel had been curled, but the rock had not moved, and it was so dark that there was only a glimmer of light.

"Why is this happening?" he was unwilling, "is my sister and I destined to survive this winter on snow rats?" ”

It was already dark, and it was impossible to go down the mountain at this time, Shu Ye couldn't help but stubbornly swell, and the rock formation blocking him was consumed to the bottom: "I don't believe I can't pry you open." ”

He struck it with a shovel, and when the shovel was broken, he struck it with a shovel, and after half an hour, he pried open the rock formation.

Beneath the hard rock formation, there was no iron gall that Shu Ye was familiar with, only two goose egg-sized, shining stones hidden in the soil.

Shu Ye didn't expect that he had worked hard, but what he dug was two strange stones, he was resentful in his heart, grabbed one of them, and took a closer look at it with the crystal light emitted by itself: "What is this?"

These two stones are very heavy, more than twice as heavy as iron galls of the same size, crystal clear, and the color is like jade, but their material is rough and thick, like iron.

He searched in his memory, trying to determine what it was, but he didn't have the slightest clue, and was about to put it back in the iron basket, and when he went back to discuss it with his sister, he suddenly heard two shouts not far behind him: "Shu Ye...... Put down the iron crystal, that's my brothers' ......"