Chapter 10: The Celestial Wall
Suddenly a very bad feeling rose in my heart, as if something extraordinary was about to happen!
Things were moving faster than I expected, and after only a few breaths, the red glow in the eyes of all the beasts below receded at the same time, and they all stood in a daze in the open space in front of the castle as if they had not fully recovered their senses.
"The hunt begins!" Suddenly, a loud voice sounded around me, and I heard the old master shout, "Everyone, pay attention, you must return to Dongfang Fort before the blood moon rises!"
"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-"
With his command, a dense rain of arrows covered half of the sky like dark clouds. With just a volley, the fierce beasts that were in a daze fell in response, and even the fierce birds in mid-air fell to the ground.
Finally, after being attacked, the remaining beasts reacted instantly, and a dense stampede rumbled, and all the beasts turned around and ran in the direction they had come, scattering in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, the gates of the Oriental Fort were opened, and the villagers, armed with all kinds of weapons and ropes, rushed out happily, and the real drama was staged.
There's nothing safer and more rewarding than chasing down these already frightened beasts, and it's a monthly feast for Fort East!
All the villagers who were fortunate enough to participate in this hunt were filled with joy and happiness on their faces.
The men shouted to boost their morale, and they jumped and chased excitedly, and when they encountered the wounded beasts, they stepped forward to make up for them, and after killing them completely, they continued to chase forward, just to seize this hard-won opportunity and try to maximize the results of the battle.
Women, old men, and children followed, and after tying up the dead beasts with their hands and feet, they were in a hurry to transport them to the fort.
The whole scene looked so exciting, even Xi Qing struggled to rush down to help, but I grabbed her tightly, after all, she was too young.
Strange to say, the sound from outside the castle can be heard clearly, and it seems that as the beast tide retreats, some functions of the Eastern Fort that I don't understand are also closed.
I didn't choose to participate in the busyness below, relying on the convenience of the higher ground of Dongfang Fort, taking advantage of the good opportunity for the beast tide to reopen my vision when the beast tide retreated, and my eyes moved with the retreat of the beast herd.
What are you hoping to see?
I don't know, I just know that if I do this, I will definitely find something different.
Eventually, as the herd dissipated, a tall and magnificent forest appeared at the edge of my field of vision, where all the previous fierce beasts and demon beasts came from!
Then I looked to the left and right, and at the end of my eyes was the same forest, and its scope was so great that it enclosed the whole of Dongfang Fort from the east, south, and west.
There is a large area of plains between Manglin and Dongfang Fort, among which the plain south of Dongfang Fort is the largest in the depths of Manglin, and it is also the place where the most fierce beasts gush out when the beast tide hits.
The plains on both sides are smaller, but the distance from the forest is much closer, making them look a little narrow.
Standing on the Dongfang Fort at this moment, I can clearly see that there is a towering tree growing in this endless mangling forest that is so tall that it subverts my cognition.
However, when I looked back, I was deeply shocked by another scene that appeared in front of me.
There was no forest in that direction, but instead there was a dense mist, like a thick wall of clouds connecting the heavens and the earth, even if it was called a "sky wall"!
If I really want to describe it, it is more appropriate to use the sandstorm I saw when I was a child, it really covers the sky and the sun, and there is no end in sight.
The gray mist that made up the wall of clouds kept tumbling, emitting a monstrous flame that devoured everything and destroyed everything, and it made people's hearts tremble. I have no doubt about the terrifying destructive energy within.
In front of it, the beast tide that had previously seemed to be grand in scale and imposing was completely out of the table.
I couldn't see the end of the wall of clouds when I looked up, and it was so high that I couldn't even guess if it had reached the highest point of the sky.
As for its width, it is impossible to estimate, and it stretches to both sides for an unknown distance, swallowing up all the forests along the way!
It really resembles a wall of heaven that separates the sun from heaven and redraws the boundaries of the earth, completely separating Mangrove from the world behind it.
Fortunately, this cloud wall shows no signs of moving, otherwise I really don't know what reason Fort Dongfang would have continued to exist in front of it.
I was even skeptical that the incomprehensible size of the surrounding forest would ever exist.
Whether it is a cloud wall or a mangrove, compared to them, the Dongfang Fort in the middle of the two looks so small.
At this moment, loneliness surged in my heart like a tide, and I suddenly felt that life was so lonely, as if there was really only a small village like Dongfangbao that still lived by humans in this world.
It was the first time I had such a macroscopic and clear understanding of my surroundings, but I didn't expect it to be such a depressing result.
"When-when-when-"
Suddenly, a dense gong sounded all around, pulling my thoughts back.
It turned out that the villagers had returned smoothly with a large amount of loot, and at this moment, the corpses of large and small beasts were scattered inside the Dongfang Fort, and they had not had time to clean up, and they would be an important ration for the villagers in the future.
Of course, on weekdays, when there is no animal tide, the villagers will also venture to the nearby forest to collect some fresh ingredients such as fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, and various spices and herbs.
Even some of these areas are produced with cotton and linen, and if you are brave enough and lucky enough, it is not impossible to harvest the cocoons of some alien insects. The silk drawn from these cocoons is very tough and smooth, and the fabric woven from them is the most extravagant thing in the castle.
A limited number of people such as the castle owner can afford it. Of course, as the protector of the Eastern Fort, he naturally gave the villagers a more satisfactory equivalent with his supernatural powers.
After all, all this is due to the fact that the beast tide will fall every month in Dongfang Fort, which is not suitable for growing crops, and the villagers can only venture into the forest to obtain all kinds of materials needed for life.
Therefore, it is said that the old legend relies on the mountains to eat the mountains, and relies on the water to eat the water, probably so.
By the time the gates of Fort Orient finally closed, it was already dark, and even the distant forest and the formidable wall of clouds seemed to be only a hazy shadow.
They hid in the night, and under the red moonlight, they stared at the Oriental Fort like creeping beasts.