Chapter 1 A Strange Woman Falling from the Sky
In the southern part of the Doro Empire, there is a desolate land surrounded by mountains, which is known as the "Stone Forest Belt" because of the stone mountains. In this vast area of stone forest, there are a few small villages scattered around. Stone Village is one of those villages with a long history. For a long time, the villagers have used local materials and abundant stone resources to create a rare stone world: the houses are built of bluestone, the utensils in the house are carved out of stone, the walls are made of stones, the lotus ponds and canals are built of stones, and the roads are paved with cobblestones, such as stone buildings and stone pavilions, stone houses and stone courtyards, stone tables and stone benches, stone mills and stone mills, stone bridges and stone railings......
Except for the Titan Ancient Forest, which is an endless mysterious ancient forest at the west end of the village, the other three sides are surrounded by towering stone mountains. Surrounded by mountains, the small village at the bottom of the mountain is particularly quiet. The sun shone down from the other side of the mountain, and all the buildings in the ancient village were gilded with a faint layer of gold.
In this almost isolated place, the villagers came out and died, and lived a peaceful life for generations, until a sudden catastrophe broke the quiet life of the villagers.
That night, dark clouds rolled, thunder roared, and strong winds raged. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning pierced the dark and dreary sky, illuminating the vast land, revealing the figure of a man walking on the mountain road with great difficulty.
The villagers hurriedly carried their families and livestock, and walked towards a large stone cave on the mountain in the dark with torches, mixed with the panic of everyone and the cries of children along the way.
"Everyone, keep up, take your own children, don't fall behind!" shouted Shi Youdao, the village chief, at the front of the team, his eyes looking at the white chubby baby son who was less than a year old in his wife's arms.
"Village chief, no, Uncle Shi chased his wife back to the village. A villager ran up from the evacuation procession and said.
"When is this, what are those two crazy old men running back to do?" Shi Youdao muttered. If it was someone else, but the two old men were not simple, he turned his head to call someone to chase after him, but was stopped by a green cane in front of him.
"Let them go. Granny Ma said in a hoarse voice, her eyes that had been closed suddenly opened, and her eyes covered with a white film were especially white in the dim light of the torches, and the children who were crying beside her saw this scene, and they were all so frightened that they stopped crying, and the women hurriedly picked up their frightened children, and glanced at the blind Granny Ma and hurried away.
"But when they go back at this time, they are looking for death!" the village chief was stunned, even he saw Granny Ma who opened her eyes for the first time.
"Don't worry, the gods have their own arrangements," said Granny Ma, closing her eyes again, "help me with these old bones, and we'll wait for them to come back in the cave." ”
At the same time, in the long procession up the mountain, two figures were rushing towards the bottom of the mountain in the direction of the flow of people.
"Old woman, isn't it just a sheep, listen to me, don't go back!" Mu Li's loud voice floated from behind.
"Leave me alone! I'll be back soon. Shi Lan said without looking back, and the speed of going down the mountain instantly increased a few points.
Before Mu Li could say something, a thunderclap sounded in the sky above him, and he raised his head to see the dark clouds piling up in the night sky, centering on the sky above the village, slowly rolling and spinning. In the center of the dark clouds, lightning flashed, and from time to time erupted a louder rumbling sound. He secretly said that something was wrong, and immediately increased his speed and chased after him.
When he caught up with Shi Lan and rushed home, the goats tied to the front yard of the house were crowing in annoyance.
"Just because this beast needs to risk his life to come back and save it?" Mu Li couldn't help but say.
"This ewe is my lifeblood, I can treat it as my half daughter, who let us have no children and no daughters. Shi Lan said, untying the rope tied to the goat and holding it in her arms.
Shi Lan's words intercepted Mu Li's sore spot, and he thought bitterly in his heart, when he and his wife first got married, he was pregnant with a girl, and he even thought of the child's name, but what he never imagined was that the child died soon after birth, but the creation made people, and Shi Lan never conceived a child again, which has to be said to be a big regret.
"When is it now, what's the use of talking about this?" Mu Li's eyes dimmed, "Both of us are in their fifties, and it is impossible to have any more children, unless the heavens drop one for us......"
Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning, like a giant tearing the black curtain apart, and then a black shadow fell from mid-air and smashed into their room.
When they were in shock, another shaking shook the two of them to the ground, and at this moment they saw that blue floating points of light began to float out of the smashed room, and these blue points of light condensed more and more, like a river of stars, a long array of lights.
"Old man, what is that?" Shi Lan asked in surprise after the short earthquake, holding the goat.
"It should be," Mu Li finally came back to his senses and said, "It seems that something fell just now, I'll go in and take a look, you stay here." ”
"Be careful, old man. Shi Lan hugged the goat in her arms tightly, she was so nervous that she didn't even notice that the goat was struggling and bleating.
Mu Li nodded and wanted to walk towards the room, a blue light dot floated over at this time, he reached out and held it, in Shi Lan's curious eyes, when he reopened his palm to look, he found that the blue light dot disappeared without a trace, and at the same time, a warm current began to spread throughout his body from his palm.
"Strange, why is it all gone?" he muttered, "What's the matter with this warm current?"
At this moment, the blue light floating in the air seemed to be attracted by something, and all of them quickly converged towards the house, and suddenly, a loud bang came from the house, and the billowing smoke and dust were immediately carried out, covering the whole courtyard, choking them and coughing.
"Old man, look," Shi Lan said in disbelief as she pointed to the location of the room through the smoke and dust, "Heaven has really dropped a child for us!"
Mu Li looked in the direction pointed by Shi Lan, the dust cleared, and he finally saw the scene in front of him, the originally crumbling house was razed to the ground in the loud noise just now, and in a piece of rubble and rubble, a curled figure lay motionless in the smoke and dust.
The two of them hurriedly walked over, only to find that it was not a child, but a young woman with Rokka, stained with blood.
"It's strange, how can her pulse be so steady? Mu Li grabbed the woman's slender hand and muttered.
"Old man, the scars on her back are extraordinary," Shi Lan exclaimed in surprise, "Huh, why do the wounds seem to have healed?" Mu Li heard that he wanted to make a further examination, but suddenly the ground shook again, and lightning began to slash down densely from the center of the dark clouds that had been brewing in the air for a long time.
"We can't stay here any longer, let's carry her back to the cave in the mountain. He immediately set up the wooden cart that had fallen on the ground in the yard, picked up the woman and put it on the cart, when a letter fell out of the woman's arms, and Shi Lan picked it up casually. Mu Li took off his coat and put it on the woman, then pushed the cart and ran up the mountain, Shi Lan followed closely with the frightened goat.
Suddenly, an astonishing flash of light burst through the thick clouds in the night sky, cutting a silver serpent-like crack in the sky, followed by a thunderclap that shook the ground and shook the mountains, but then everything was calm again, the wind stopped, the clouds stopped rolling, and even the rumbling thunder disappeared in an instant. This abrupt change stopped Mu Li and Shi Lan's hurried footsteps, they raised their heads to look at the sky, and suddenly the two of them had goosebumps all over their bodies, and a small meteorite dragged a long tongue of fire through the thick clouds first, and smashed down violently.
"Run!" As soon as Mu Li's shout came out, the meteorite slammed down on a house not far from them, and the huge impact instantly destroyed the house, and the sparkling rubble burst out of the house and landed where Mu Li had just stayed.
The first meteorite to fall on the ground in Stone Village kicked off a spectacular meteor shower, and more meteorites pierced through the clouds one after another, and flew down violently, smashing out pits of various sizes in the village. A continuous shower of meteors filled the night sky of the entire village, and more and more houses in the stone village were smashed and burned, and the firelight was reflected as if it were daytime.
In a few moments, they were in a sea of fire, and several times meteorites grazed their side. After smashing a deep pit in front of him, Shi Lan put down the goat in his arms that he regarded as a treasure, and as soon as the goat landed, he ran away in a panic, and the goat was hit by a meteorite before he could run far, and he was instantly shattered. Shi Lan couldn't care about these anymore, and pushed the wooden cart with Mu Li in unison, and after several shocking dodges, they finally climbed the mountain road and avoided this catastrophe. They looked back with trepidation, and the entire stone village was in a firelight, like a purgatory on earth.