Chapter 1: Sadness
A small village falls in a col, and the tall peaks do not block the sun, but let the small village see the dawn of hope.
The small village is sparsely populated, but it is still smoky, the verdant woods cannot completely hide the different scenery of the small village, and the mountains cannot surround the breath of life in the small village.
The perimeter of the hamlet is fenced off with a wooden fence, which is a basic defense measure to protect the hamlet.
Although there are few dangers in the flatlands, there is always some precaution when living in the mountains.
Outside the village, I occasionally saw people going out or coming back, those who went out looked resolute and went away with hope, and those who came back were physically and mentally exhausted, with many scars or stains on their bodies, but they all gained something, and they smiled and returned to the place where they felt the warmest.
This small village is just one of the humble villages in the mountains, and like the others, it is simple and ordinary.
There is a small river below the small village, the water is very clear, and the water of the village is drawn from this river, and you will see many small villages along this river, because they also draw their water from this river.
At this time, a small, tattered child, with messy hair and a stained face was sitting on a stone by the river that had been wet by the river, and he was still holding a yellowed bread in his dirty hands, and there were a few wild fruits that had not been washed next to him, and this was his first meal of the day.
He tore the bread in his hand with his mouth, chewed it vigorously, and then swallowed it violently, and suddenly his face was hideous, covering his dirty little neck, obviously he was choking.
He groaned in pain, lay down on the rock, stuck his head into the river, and then sucked a large mouthful of water, and hurriedly swallowed it.
Then, he closed his eyes with a sigh of enjoyment, revealing a look of enjoyment, and he swallowed the mouthful of bread.
"Damn the bun, it tastes good, it almost killed me!"
He complained and cursed, then bit into the bun again, enjoying his first meal of the day.
The child was nibbling on the bun, his feet soaked in the river, the cool water made him feel very comfortable at this time, and then he washed the wild fruits, because the bread was almost finished, and he had to prepare food to continue to fill his stomach.
The child clicked and bit into the wild fruit, which was not delicious, and it was a little bitter, but it could satisfy hunger, otherwise few people would eat this wild fruit.
"It's worthy of a brown pear, it's still so unpalatable!"
The child had a bitter face and ate the bran and pears with difficulty.
"Little monkey!" Just as the child had just finished eating the bran pear, a childish cry came from not far away.
When the child looked back, he saw a companion about his age, both twelve or thirteen years old, but he was thinner than the child.
"Little monkey, I know you're here!" the boy ran to the little monkey with a happy expression, as if he had guessed that the little monkey was happy to be here.
The two children were about the same height, but the little monkey was dirty and the other was clean compared to the child in front of him.
"Han Fei, do you have something to do again? I just finished eating!" the little monkey guessed Han Fei's intentions.
Han Fei pouted and said, "Now is not the season for planting, even if I look for you, I will be kicked out by my mother in a while." ”
Han Fei is a child with a family, but his father died early, and only his mother took care of him since he was a child.
Unlike the little monkey, he doesn't know where he came from, he has no family, no father, and has been a person since he was sensible.
No one in this village took him in, because the small village was very short of food, except for growing food, he went into the mountains to hunt, and if he was lucky, he could eat a few meals of meat, and if he was unlucky, he had to find another food.
Therefore, it is impossible for someone to adopt a person who is not related to him, then there will be one more mouth, and there will be more burden and more pressure.
Who would ask for trouble when there is no way to keep themselves alive?
When the little monkey was small, some people looked at him pitifully, and occasionally someone would give him something to eat, and when no one gave him food, he would go into the forest and pick up the wild fruits that had fallen on the ground to eat.
When it was cold, he would go into other people's thatched houses to sleep, he was always barefoot, and when it was very cold, his feet would get frostbitten, and there were no wild fruits in the forest at that time, so he could only go into the water naked to look for fish.
At first he almost froze to death by the river, but over time he got used to the temperature of the river, and when it was cold, people would exchange his stored dry food for fish, because the people in the village dared to go into the water when it was cold.
As he grows up, the little monkey learns a lot of things, but all of them are learned in order to survive on his own.
Because he knows a lot of things, people often come to him for help, and he doesn't get much paid for helping, just a meal that can fill his stomach.
Don't look at the little monkey's weak body, he is no worse than a sixteen or seventeen-year-old man, so the people in the village or other villages are happy to ask him for help, because his remuneration is only a meal.
The name Little Monkey was not given by him himself, but when he was a child, the people in the village saw that he was thin, like a little monkey, and he was agile in doing things, so he gave him such a name, otherwise he would still be a nameless orphan.
Han Fei took out something from his arms at this time, handed it to the little monkey, and said with a smile: "Look, what is this!"
As soon as the little monkey saw what Han Fei took out, his eyes lit up and he shouted: "The pancakes made by your mother are still a little hot, your mother doesn't know, right?"
As soon as the little monkey saw that it was a pancake, he sniffed it excitedly and felt that it was hot, and immediately aroused the hungry worm in his stomach that had not yet been filled, and swallowed his saliva, but he didn't bite it immediately, but looked at Han Fei and asked.
Han Fei's immature face smiled innocently and said, "It's okay, my wife didn't see it when I took it!"
When he was a child, Han Fei often gave some food made by his mother to the little monkey, and the two were of the same age, so they had always played together.
Generally, Han Fei's family will go to help if they have something to do, even if Han Fei's mother does not pay the little monkey, the little monkey is willing to go, because the little monkey and Han Fei are good friends.
In the past, many times, when the little monkey was hungry, Han Fei secretly sent food to the little monkey, so the little monkey didn't want to help anything, just a conscience.
There were many times when Han Fei secretly gave food to the little monkey and was discovered by Han Fei's mother, who not only confiscated the food at that time, but also reprimanded the little monkey, and after returning home, Han Fei was beaten by his mother several times.
But no matter what, Han Fei still secretly sent food to the little monkey, and whenever Han Fei gave food to the little monkey, it was the happiest and happiest time for the two of them.
The little monkey was overjoyed, and immediately grabbed the pancakes, tore them in half, handed half of them to Han Fei, and said, "It's good that I didn't find it, come, let's eat together!"
Han Fei didn't refuse, and took half of the pancakes and ate them with Han Fei.
After a while, the two of them finished eating, and Han Fei said: "I heard my mother say that yesterday the stick family in the next village slaughtered a long-haired pig in the forest, alas, that is the meat that can be eaten for a month!"
Stick is a child in the next village, older than the two of them, and often play together since childhood, but the relationship is average, and it is just an acquaintance.
When the little monkey heard this, his eyes widened, and he said incredulously: "Is that long-haired pig sick, otherwise why run to the stick, I wonder why we didn't meet it?"
There are some wild beasts in the woods, and these wild beasts are the delicacies of the villagers, and if any of them can hunt wild beasts, then the people of this family will definitely have meat to eat tonight.
The thought of the beast's flesh made the little monkey and Han Fei drool, it was the best food the two of them had ever eaten in their lives.
Once the little monkey used some traps in the forest to catch a few beasts, after getting it, they would generally go to Han Fei's house to cook, and Han Fei's mother did not object to the arrival of the little monkey at this time, because it was very difficult to hunt wild beasts, and some families had not eaten meat for a year.
The more the little monkey thought about it, the more unbalanced his heart became: "There is definitely something wrong with that long-haired pig's head, otherwise how could he let the stick eat it!"
Han Fei looked up at the sky, suddenly his eyes lit up, he looked at the little monkey and said, "Otherwise, let's go to the forest now, the stick can meet a long-haired pig, and we may be able to pick up a unicorn together!"
"Okay! I just had this idea in my heart, let's go now!" The little monkey agreed with Han Fei's idea without saying a word, put on the simple straw sandals he had made, and ran with Han Fei into the woods.
The sunlight in the forest gradually decreased, and the little monkey and Hanfei went deeper and deeper into it, only to feel that the air was getting colder, and the rotting leaves and branches on the ground had a fishy smell, and the smell was very strange.
But it's nothing to the little monkey and Han Fei, who have lived in this mountain for more than ten years and have long been accustomed to this taste.
"Where did the stick meet the long-haired pig yesterday?" asked the little monkey suddenly halfway down the road.
Han Fei scratched his head and smiled awkwardly: "My mother didn't say it, and I forgot to ask." ”
The little monkey is more familiar with the road in the forest than Han Fei, so he wants to ask Han Fei for the specific location so that the little monkey can verify the facts.
The place where they were at this time was still on the outskirts of the forest, and there was no danger, and the little monkeys were very familiar with the outer roads.
The little monkey had been there a few times in the depths of the woods, and on those occasions he had already set traps in them before he caught a few beasts.
And I heard from the adults of the village that there was danger in the depths of the forest, and that there were large beasts in it, and that people had died in the mouths of large beasts.
The little monkey became more and more angry the more he thought about it, and said, "That pig is definitely sick, let's go deeper, I guess all the animals in this forest are sick!"
In fact, the little monkey was jealous that the stick family had meat to eat, and Han Fei also came to this deep mountain because he couldn't vomit with the little monkey.
Han Fei nodded in agreement: "The cocktail rabbit must also be sick, we will definitely be able to meet it in a while!"
The cocktail rabbit is a small beast that the little monkey caught in the depths of the forest before, and the little monkey took it to Han Fei's house to enjoy it together, and the meat of the cocktail rabbit is particularly fragrant, so Han Fei has been thinking about the cocktail rabbit since that time.
The little monkey very much agreed with Han Fei's idea: "Don't talk so much, let's go in quickly, otherwise those sick beasts will be taken away by others!"
So, the two little children entered the mountains so innocently.
There was a mist in the depths of the forest, and I don't know how long it took, the little monkey and Han Fei entered the mist.
The haze is just a layer of gray and gray, which makes people's vision a little hazy, but just this layer of haze does not know how many people have been scared and how many lives have been taken.
Suddenly, Han Fei suddenly stopped, he grabbed the little monkey and said, "Little monkey, you ...... What do you see is that?"
Ever since he entered the fog, Han Fei was a little scared, and at this time he noticed a little strange phenomenon, and even became trembling when he spoke.
"What's the matter?" the little monkey grabbed Han Fei's hand, feeling a little panicked, it was not the first time he had come to the depths of the forest, but it was the first time he had encountered such a strange thing today.
In the past, before I even entered the depths of the forest, I heard all kinds of insects and birds, but today there is no sound in the forest at all.
The little monkey looked at Han Fei's point, and there was a piece of cloth there, and there seemed to be blood on it, because it was too blurry, so neither of them could see it clearly.
"Why don't you go over and have a look?" the little monkey was more bold and suggested to Han Fei.
Han Fei nodded reluctantly, there was a little monkey here, he could go and have a look.
So the two approached to see, and when they were about to get closer, the two were cautious, obviously very nervous, especially Han Fei, who grabbed the little monkey's tattered clothes tightly with both hands.
The little monkey lifts the weeds and reveals the truth.
"Ah!!h
Han Fei screamed in horror when he saw it, his face turned pale, and he hugged the little monkey directly.
And the little monkey's face turned pale, his breathing became short, and he closed his eyes and did not dare to look.
After a while, the little monkey still opened his eyes, pulled away Han Fei's still trembling hand, and walked forward.
It was a corpse, with a bloody hole in its chest, and its face was blurred by something, and the blood had long since dried up, but it did not emit a corpse stench, apparently having died in the last few days.
"Don't be afraid, this man is dead. The little monkey really couldn't find any reason to comfort Han Fei, so he could only prevaricate Han Fei with such words.
In fact, when he said this, the little monkey felt a little empty, because he was also afraid.
The little monkey looked at the corpse on the ground dressed in a beautiful dress he had never seen before, holding a weapon in his hand, but there was a gap, apparently broken by something.
Han Fei had already opened his eyes and looked at the corpse on the ground, still feeling horror in his heart, and he asked, "Are we still going to find the beast?"
The little monkey looked around and saw nothing, so he said, "Let's go back quickly!"
Even if the little monkey wants to move on, Han Fei will not agree, if Han Fei knew that this would happen, he would not come to find the beast if he was killed, and it is estimated that he will never come in again in his life.
"Then let's go back!" Han Fei didn't want to stay in this weird place for a moment.
Then the two of them left in a hurry, and walked out of the woods without looking back.
The two of them left in horror, not wondering why all the beasts in the forest had lost their sights.
Soon, the two left the fog and returned to the outskirts of the forest.
At this time, the little monkey glanced back at the dark forest, his heart trembled, he still had lingering palpitations about what happened just now, he was the same as Han Fei for the first time to see a dead person, and the death was so miserable.
The two of them exhaled lightly and slowed down towards the village.
Suddenly, the little monkey grabbed Han Fei and stopped.
"Wait! do you feel it?" the little monkey had a look of fear in his eyes.
Han Fei was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Feeling...... The ground is moving!"
The little monkey saw that the trees around him were trembling, the stones on the slope kept falling, and the leaves on the branches were shaken down because they were hanging in the air.
Han Fei subconsciously grabbed the little monkey's clothes, and his small eyes were wide, looking at it very vigilantly.
The unknown is the most frightening, especially for children.
A chill rushed up the back of his head, his scalp tingled, and the earth trembled, and the two of them followed suit.
They are now like a flat boat in the sea, which can be overturned by the waves at any moment.
The two were silent, but there were already tears flowing out of the corners of Han Fei's eyes.
"Let's go!"
The little monkey was bolder, so he directly grabbed Han Fei and ran out.
Han Fei was a little soft-footed, but when he was pulled by the little monkey like this, he mustered up the courage in his heart and ran with the little monkey with all his might.
None of them knew what was happening, but they could feel a crisis looming over them, and for the first time they felt that their lives were in danger.
The two children ran through the trembling earth, and they did not know how long, but their faces were very pale because they were afraid.
Just as the little monkey was running towards the village with Hanfei, the sky suddenly darkened, and the sun in the sky was obscured by a behemoth, and a huge shadow hung over their heads.
When the little monkey and Han Fei looked up, they were both frightened by the huge shadow that suddenly appeared.
They couldn't see what the behemoth was, but they knew it was bigger than a mountain.
They saw his huge black object moving, moving slowly, but the aura emanating from the huge black object was suffocating.
"Is this a monster?" the little monkey turned pale with fright, and his eyes showed despair.
And Han Fei had fallen to the ground after being shrouded in this huge shadow, his legs were weak, his face was bloodless, but he was still breathing, and he didn't even have the desire to run away.
The ground shook more and more, and the boulders on the mountain began to roll down the mountain because they couldn't withstand the violent shaking, and the centuries-old trees were directly crushed by the boulders and turned into debris.
A large area of deep forest is like a huge wave of continuous falling, the scene is very vast, I don't know how many lives are forever suffocated in this tremor.
At this time, the shadow that shrouded the head of the little monkey Han Fei began to move, and when the huge body ran over the mountain, the mountain could not withstand the force and collapsed, and the originally beautiful mountain was turned into ruins.
"Boom!!"
Like the sky falling, the loud noise is also suffocating.
"Mother...... Mother......"
Han Fei fell to the ground, his face pale, and his thin lips trembled.
Whenever Han Fei was scared, he would always call out to his mother, but now that his mother was not by his side, he could only hurry closer to the little monkey.
The little monkey looked at the behemoth and wanted to see through what this huge thing was, and he didn't want to die in vain.
"What the hell is going on? what the hell is it?" the little monkey muttered, hugging Han Fei, his eyes fixed on the shadow, full of fear.
The behemoth continued to move.
Suddenly, the little monkey's eyes widened, and he grabbed Han Fei with some distraction and said, "Han...... Hanfei, that ...... That's not ......"
Han Fei also looked in that direction, and after seeing it, the whole person stayed in place, and his mind was blank.
After being stunned, Han Fei jumped up directly from the ground, his eyes were instantly bloodshot, and he ran in that direction vigorously.
"Mother!
Han Fei shouted at his mother as he ran, losing the frightened look he had just fallen to the ground.
"Danger!
Seeing Han Fei running, the little monkey was anxious and ran over to grab Han Fei.
"Mother!
Han Fei's eyes were blood-red, and after being pulled by the little monkey, he pushed the little monkey away, and then ran away, not caring about what happened to the little monkey at all, and completely lost his ability to be independent.
Just now, the little monkey saw that the behemoth pressed over a mountain col, and that place was Han Fei's home, which was also the home of the little monkey.
And Han Fei suddenly lost control after seeing the mountain fall, because when he followed the little monkey out, his mother happened to be weaving cloth at home, and the weaving cloth was to make a new dress for Han Fei.
In Han Fei's heart, his mother is the closest person, the person he respects the most, the person who loves him the most, and the most powerful spiritual pillar for him.
Since he was a child, because Han Fei's father died early, he never had the appearance of a father in Han Fei's impression, and the only one who has always been by Han Fei's side is his mother, who is his only relative.
When Han Fei saw the mountain cracking, when he knew that his mother was still at the bottom of the mountain, his heart seemed to be broken countless times, and he died completely.
"Mother!
Han Fei was still running and shouting, his voice was hoarse, and his current body was like being controlled by someone else, rushing towards the collapsing mountain without knowing it.
"Hanfei!
The little monkey also had red eyes, and when he saw that the small village was gone, his heart was as uncomfortable as Han Fei, because it was also his home.
He has been a helpless orphan since he was a child, and he has long regarded the small village as his support in his heart, but the reality in front of him has shattered the warmth in his heart.
Running and chasing, Han Fei is still running forward, and the little monkey is still chasing Han Fei behind Han Fei.
There were a few times on the way when the little monkey had already pulled Han Fei, but he didn't know that Han Fei's burst of power when he was out of control directly pushed the little monkey away.
Getting closer and closer to the original village, but the mountain is still falling, Han Fei can't accept all this in front of him, and keeps rushing forward.
The once silent hamlet was gone, buried in the mountains, and the place was still a little raised, like a tomb.
"Mother, mother, I want mother!"
Han Fei was crying bitterly, but he was still running tirelessly.
"Han Fei, get out of the way!" the little monkey running behind Han Fei suddenly roared.
A boulder fell from the sky, and the place where it fell was just above Han Fei's head.
Han Fei also subconsciously felt the danger, looked up, and when he looked up, he was directly tripped by a branch, and the whole person fell to the ground.
"Bang!"
"Hanfei!"
The boulder fell heavily and pressed on Han Fei's original position, the dust flew up, and the little monkey was also shaken back.
After the dust was gone, Han Fei had lost his figure.
"Han Fei, Han Fei, where are you, you come out for me!"
Tears welled up in the little monkey's eyes, and tears clearly crossed his dirty face.
"Don't scare me, come out quickly!"
The little monkey yelled beside the boulder, he wanted to push the boulder away, but with his strength how could he push a stone so big.
"Hanfei, come out quickly, don't scare me, okay......"
The little monkey was still crying, but his voice was getting weaker and weaker, his tears had dried up, and his eyes were still red.
"Hanfei...... Hanfei ......"
The little monkey shouted for a long time, and finally he sat weakly beside the boulder, muttering a cold fly in his mouth, and his face was very haggard.
I don't know how long it has been, the earth has stopped shaking, and the world has returned to its previous peace, but everything has changed.
The original beauty has become ruins everywhere, broken branches and broken trees are everywhere, and the four fields only smell of earth.
Nothing of the land is intact, and most of it has collapsed into new hills.
"Hanfei...... Hanfei ......"
Next to the boulder, the little monkey looked sad and confused, drowsy, and still muttered to himself.
The little monkey didn't have any relatives, and Hanfei was his only friend in the village, and he used to play and eat together, but those were a thing of the past.
He'd just lost his home, and now he'd lost his only friend, and these sudden events were something he never thought about.
Because it came so suddenly, it was difficult for him to accept all this now, not to mention that he was only a thirteen-year-old child.
I don't know how long it took, but the little monkey's mouth stopped, because he had no strength.
He looked at the boulder with a blank gaze, remembering Han Fei under the boulder, remembering that Han Fei secretly brought him pancakes not long ago, and remembering that he had been in high spirits not long ago to go to find the beast together.
Thinking about all this in front of him, it was all dreamy to him, and it came too suddenly for him to accept.
But he couldn't help accepting it, because everything in front of him was what he saw with his own eyes and was real, which made him have to accept it.
The little monkey was expressionless, tears were still stained on his face, and a pair of misty eyes moved a few times.
"There's nothing left...... Nothing left......"
The little monkey's heart was infinitely sad, and at this time he had calmed down, quieter than the lifeless earth at this time.
The little monkey moved a few times and stood up with difficulty, only one of his straw sandals remained, and the other was lost at some point when he was chasing Hanfei.
"What should I do? There's nothing left, where do I go?"
His heart was empty, he had lost his support, he didn't know what to do next in the mountains, he didn't know where to go, where he could go.
He stared at the boulder, and after a while he spoke, "Hanfei, I'm sorry, I'm leaving......"
"I said I was going to take you out of this mountain, but now it's impossible, I'm sorry, I can only go out alone......"
"I don't know what the outside world is like, it may be better than the village, but now that the village is gone, I have to go and see. ”
"We used to fantasize about how wonderful the outside world is, but at this time you stay here, then I will go by myself, and one day I will come back, and I will tell you about the outside world......"
The little monkey knelt down in front of the boulder, kowtowed three times, and then stared at the boulder again, as if trying to keep the appearance of the boulder in mind.
"I'm leaving...... Please forgive me for not being able to stay with you......"
The little monkey walked barefoot and walked with difficulty.
He didn't look back, and he was afraid to turn back.
The little monkey's tattered clothes became even more tattered, and there were several cuts on his feet, but the blood had dried up.
He dragged his thin body into the distance, and in the middle of the vast mountains, he felt very lost, because not only had he lost his way forward, but he also lost his way in his heart.
He used to have infinitely beautiful fantasies, but a disaster directly shattered all his beautiful dreams and turned them into pieces of ruins.
"Hmm...... Little Monkey ...... Mother......"
And not long after the little monkey left, there was a cold sound from under the stone......