Chapter 2: A Man's Forest

The end of the rope ladder was more than two meters above the ground, but it was nothing, and the cloud tugged at the rope in his hand, and his feet kicked the trunk of the tree, walking up the trunk step by step.

When he reached the bottom of the rope ladder, adjusted the rope, and moved his feet to the last step of the rope ladder, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, released the flying claws in his hand with his left hand, grasped the rope ladder, and began to climb upwards.

This is the secret hideout of the clouds, and here, it is about a day's journey from the small town of Jieyang, the home of the clouds.

Of course, this day's journey is calculated according to the small short legs of the clouds, and if an adult came to walk this road, it would be half a day at most - the distance in a straight line is only about twenty kilometers.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle is dangerous, an adult, still dare not walk alone in the dense jungle, Yun Duo, a ten-year-old doll, can actually go deep here, I can't help but say that this is an extremely dangerous behavior, but there is no way, in order to survive, Yun Duo has to do this.

If the small towns on the edge of the forest belong to the towns that can be abandoned at any time in the Xiyue Continent, the small town of Jieyang, which is about ten kilometers deep in the forest, is even more abandoned land among abandoned land.

This kind of town, when the beast tide comes, it can't even play the role of early warning, because if you go deep into the forest, even if there is no beast tide, you will be attacked by wild beasts at any time, so even the tax collector in the town is not willing to come here.

The only reason for this kind of town to exist is to provide logistical supplies for the hunting team deep into the forest.

There is at least an interval of two hundred and forty years for each outbreak of the beast tide, therefore, there are often some ordinary human beings who survive for generations at material supply points like Jieyang Town, because such towns often have relatively light taxes, or even no taxes, and the people in the town only need to be bold enough to pick some flowers and plants in the forest, and the money they get back can also make themselves rich.

If the townspeople were able to master some cultivation techniques and provide some immortal services to the hunting teams going deep into the jungle, his life would usually be more comfortable than in other fringe cities.

Therefore, ordinary humans in the town often reproduce in this kind of forest village for several generations, and then, when they smell the wind is wrong, they will take several generations of accumulation and flee to the coastal city, and this way of survival is also one of the daily ecology of those who can't survive in the Xiyue Continent.

The Yunduo family is an ordinary household in Jieyang Town.

But this family is too capable of giving birth to children, Yun Duo's grandfather Yun Taichong has married four wives before and after, and now the fourth wife is alive. These four wives left eleven children to the Yun family, and Yunduo's father Yun Laosan was born and raised by the second wife, in addition, the second wife also left Yunduo's father and Yun Laosan Aunt Yun, Yun Ergu's sister and sister.

Not to mention Yun Duo's uncle and second uncle, Yun Laosan married Yun Qin's wife, and gave birth to a total of six children, Yun Duo has three sisters on the top, a younger sister and a younger brother on the bottom, and the youngest brother is called Yun Seventeen...... Listen, Yun Seventeen, in the case that women do not participate in the ranking, only men, just Yun Laosan's son, are ranked in Yun Seventeen, you can think about how this family is prosperous.

It stands to reason that such a family should be very powerful in the town, and in this low-productivity situation, more people seem to mean more wealth in the city, but how much water a bucket can hold is not determined by the longest plank in the bucket, but by the shortest plank.

This big family, four mothers before and after. Between the children, they naturally form gangs and become four groups, and a mother is not guaranteed to be able to love and help each other and work together with the outside world, so you can imagine how chaotic this family should be.

Yun Laosan, as the second child born to his grandfather Yun Taichong's second wife, although he was a man, when Yun Laosan was born, Yun Laosan was already strong, married a wife and had children. Although his mother died, his mother was the original spouse, so Yun Boss did not rely on the identity of the eldest son of the original spouse to bully Yun Laosan.

When Yun Laosan's mother gave birth to Yun Ergu, and after she died of a blood collapse, Yun Taichong quickly married a third wife in order to take care of the infant child.

The third wife was relatively strong and had a high fertility rate, and she gave birth to three sons and one daughter in a row. At this time, the previous Yun Boss, Yun Lao Er has grown up, and has been married and has children, in order to rob her children of the limited resources in the family, this "little third grandmother" did not dare to target Yun Lao Da Yun Er, so Yun Lao San became a natural target of exclusion.

It's a pity that the third grandmother didn't live long, and in a sudden monster attack, Yunduo's third grandmother was unfortunately killed...... Immediately Yunduo has a fourth grandmother.

The old man loves his young wife, and after having the fourth grandmother, the children born to the third grandmother also stood aside, and now the Yun family is the most powerful is the remaining children of the fourth grandmother.

However, when the third grandmother was alive, she wisely married her only daughter to a wealthy family in a county outside the forest, in contrast, Yun Laosan's first sister and one sister were not ideally married, and for the villagers in the forest, the relatives outside the forest are the place of emergency and the bridge of communication with the outside world, which needs to be particularly knotted and flattered.

Therefore, no matter what, Yun Taichong now does not dare to offend the three uncles left by the third grandmother.

Based on the above considerations, Yun Laosan, who is used to being bullied, has become a matter of course.

It just so happened that the three children born to this little transparent family were all girls who did not record their family trees, so the oppression in all aspects became even more intensified. Until Yun Duo was born, the survival situation of Yun Laosan's family did not improve much.

No way, everyone is used to the way they get along with each other, and they don't think there's anything wrong with this way of getting along.

The town in the jungle of ten thousand beasts, although there are more opportunities to make extra money, but such a town, the food is extremely poor, and it is almost impossible to rely on hunting for a living, because the animal you are facing may be a demon beast, and the demon beast is irresistible to the human body.

In this way, this dangerous jungle, even adults dare not enter it alone, how could a doll in the clouds go so far into the jungle in the first place.

Because - survive!

The predecessor of the cloud was supposed to starve to death.

Five years ago, when the clouds woke up, the first thing the world gave him was the burning pain of a burning stomach.

People who have not experienced hunger can hardly appreciate the feeling of being extremely hungry.

Under the weakness of the limbs and the dullness of the senses, the whole body feels the stomach, and under the stimulation of stomach acid, the burning pain in the stomach is as if someone has pulled out the organs in the abdomen, put them in the hands, and rubbed them in every way, resulting in the severe pain of tearing the liver and bladder.

At that time, if there was no kind person who poured a bowl of hot porridge to Yunduo, maybe Yunduo's consciousness would have just emerged in this world, and his soul would have been scattered again.

A bowl of hot porridge won't last long.

After sobering up, Yunduo quickly understood the situation he was in, although he was the eldest son in the family, his unfavored father, and the mother of the soft bun, could not change his situation.

Their family was always in a state of hunger, and Yunduo was starved to death because his mother was hungry not long ago, so he endured the last bite of food and secretly let his mother share it with several sisters.

Hunger is the norm in this family.

It only took a few days for Yun Duo to understand this situation, and as for why the family had starved to death this time, the reason Yun Duo never found out.

After figuring out this situation, again, when their family, for an inexplicable reason, was punished by their grandfather and stepgrandmother for not eating, Yunduo didn't say anything and walked directly to the forest.

He wondered, how could people starve to death guarding such a mountain?

There should be an abundance of food in the mountains, but as for the risks in the mountains...... Starving to death is a way to die, and being eaten by wild beasts is also a way to die.

It's a death on the left and right, so it's better to fight.

Yun Duo, who first entered the demon beast jungle, was only in his early five years. With such a small body, the strength and speed are almost negligible, and at that time, Yun Duo already knew the horror of the demon beast jungle, but he had no way out.

Because it carries the memory of another world, the small body of the cloud has the wisdom of an adult.

After entering the jungle, he first walked along the path trodden by the people, and when there was no road on all sides, he began to carefully ...... on both sides of the road Dig traps.

He can't afford to mess with big beasts, small animals, it should be fine, right?

The trap set by the clouds at first was very shallow and rudimentary.

In the first hunt, although he dug four small traps, he did not catch a single prey for three whole days, during which the clouds survived by gnawing on the bark of trees, eating grass roots, and even catching insects to eat, but during these three days he was not idle, he squatted on a large tree, carefully observed the pattern of the animals, and then he began to perfect his traps.

Since then, there have been targeted animal baits in the trap. As a result, on the fourth day, the cloud, which was almost faint from hunger, caught a snow hare.

Holding this snow rabbit, thinking of the sisters and sisters at home, because of the sluggish eyes of hunger, Yun Duo only willfully ate two rabbit legs, and the rest of the meat, Yun Duo hurriedly carried it back.

Let's not talk about how Yun Laosan was overjoyed about the eldest son who was lost and recovered, but the final result of this matter was...... The rabbit, Yun Duo's family did not eat a trace of meat, but because of the lack of two rabbit legs, Yun Duo was beaten by his grandfather. Because, at that time, the step-grandmother was punishing Yun Laosan's family, and it is said that because Yun Qin's laundry was too strong, she washed out one of Grandma Yun's favorite gowns.

Since "not allowed to eat" is a punitive measure, even if there is food in front of them, Yun Laosan's family is not allowed to eat - this is the rule, the rule of the Yun family.

The clouds never fall twice in one place.

It was enough to have such a lesson, Yun Duo, who had been beaten, turned around and returned to the jungle, and from then on, he only called his brothers and sisters from home to the forest outside the town, and quietly ate a full meal, but he would never take a little bit of prey and return to the Yun family compound.

Miraculously, this secret meal addition operation has continued to be concealed to this day.

For five years, the Yun family compound was not aware at all......