Chapter 1: Deadend

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Decades have passed since the incident, and if Wenchuan is summed up in one sentence now, it is "the scum of the clan, the black sheep".

I am Wenchuan, Wenchuan is not my name, nor is it my position, Wenchuan is my talent, or my nation.

This talent didn't do me much good, but it did cause me a lot of trouble.

The trouble began in the summer when I was 16 years old.

This year, something big happened in the clan. Subsequently, a second-class senior official of the DPRK and China came uninvited.

The gears of fate began to turn, and the blessings and misfortunes were unpredictable.

Let's put this bad thing aside and tell everyone about me and my people.

My people, in the official documents of the Celestial Empire, are all Han peoples. But we are a very small branch of the Han Dynasty, or we are a minority group belonging to the Han Dynasty, that is, a tribe within a clan.

This kind of clan within a clan is not uncommon, and many surnames in the Han Dynasty are like "Huyan returns to the sea, sheep tongue is microborn" and the like are clans within a clan. Many of these clans had some extraordinary skills in ancient times, which are now called talents.

Talent is mainly genetic. With the passage of time, wars, migrations, intermarriages and other reasons, the genes of various ethnic groups have been fused, and the inheritance of natural talent has become more and more unstable, and the talents of many ethnic groups have disappeared, but in exchange for a powerful Han nation.

Wenchuan, Zhiyang, and Nantian are among the few three clans whose talents can still be stably inherited.

Zhiyang and Nantian are both clans that they came into contact with after trouble came to the door. The talents of these clans are so secret that I won't talk about them here.

My people have always lived in the north of the motherland, from the Daxing'an Mountains in the northeast, to the Mongolian steppe, and then to the XJ Tianshan Mountains.

In the era when there was no navigation, the tribesmen mainly lived as guides, and spent hundreds of years monopolizing the guide industry in the north of the motherland.

There is a reason why it can be the top of the industry. Most of my people have a strong sense of direction and the ability to survive in the wilderness, which is innate, genetic. Today, the genetics are fairly stable, and only a small percentage of the people do not have this ability, and I am one of them.

I'm Wen Chuan, and I'm almost a waste in the face of the super abilities of my clansmen. I'm a road idiot, I often can't tell the difference between southeast and northwest, and I often get lost when I go out alone. I don't have the ability to save life in the wilderness, I don't divide grains, in my eyes wheat, shallots, and leeks obviously look the same.

And my people go in and out of the primeval forests of the Great Khing'an Mountains, just like planting vegetables and pulling weeds in the backyard of their own homes. Going left and right in the Tengger Desert is like sprinkling water and sweeping the floor in the front yard of your own house.

With this gift, my people are often called upon to be their guides, searching for something secret and unrevealed.

And I can't do all this, and no one knows who my talent is, including myself. But I am Wenchuan, the most special existence in the Wenchuan clan, and the clan takes me as its name.

Wenchuan is determined through a mysterious and complex verification process. Because the existence of Wenchuan is of great significance to the clan, each generation will spend a lot of energy to verify whether there is a Wenchuan in the family, but Wenchuan is very rare, according to legend, more than 80 generations of clansmen only have 5 Wenchuan, and I am the fifth.

Because the times are too long, no one can say what talent Chuan has. But once Wenchuan is born, it will bring great benefits to the clansmen.

The most obvious benefit is that after the birth of Wenchuan, the talents of the clan seem to have been collectively enhanced, and with it, the income has increased and the family has prospered.

No matter what era it is, no one will be unable to live happily. My appearance has allowed the wealth of the clan to grow continuously. Although I will not do anything, my people's income will always be shared, and I will enjoy it.

But all this also came at a cost, and not long after I was born, I was identified as Wenchuan and sent to a small eastern mountain village where a clan lived. The people in the village were responsible for supporting me growing up, but they kept me away. So I grew up without relatives to take care of, and I didn't have any friends or partners.

Such days are uneventful, but also calm. Looking back now, it was the happiest day of my life.

When I was 16 years old, my clan's business was surprisingly hot. In addition to the old and weak, they all received task orders one after another, and slowly left the gathering place to carry out the task.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and the latest person to leave the mission has also left for three months, but none of them have returned.

Most of the guide tasks performed by the clansmen are extremely confidential and difficult, so when they go out on a mission, they only talk about the distance and charge according to the mileage. It will not know the specific place and content of the mission, and will only be responsible for bringing the owner of the money to the designated place and bringing it out again.

In the past, I have encountered a list of people who have been delayed due to accidents, but there has never been a situation where all the people who went out did not return en masse.

Slowly, the people left behind began to panic, but they didn't know what to do.

Just when people were panicking, there was an opening scene. A second-class official of the DPRK and China suddenly visited and asked me to go out of the mountain to be a guide.

All this is unruly, the clansmen who perform which task are assigned by the patriarch, and the merchants do not have the right to designate personnel.

But this time I had to take the order, because he said,

"If you don't take this order, those of you who go out are afraid that you will never come back."

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