Chapter 1 My house is on the treehouse
As the sun sets, the sky is full of burning clouds, and the clouds in the sky are dyed layer by layer, making them appear in a variety of reds.
There are red and purple, just like violet fiery clouds, and there are orange red and bright yellow, like bright irises, and there are more red and blue, which makes people indescribably magnificent......
The clouds stood on a hill that was neither tall nor low.
This hill is one of the 100,000 mountains, with undulating mountains and hills in front of it.
He stood on the sunny side of the hillside, and in front of it was a huge valley, two kilometers wide to the left and right, and about ten kilometers deep. The slowly descending slope was covered with green grass and all kinds of flowers, and a few small streams meandered through the grass and disappeared into the grass without a tail.
These streams are natural streams that are naturally washed by rain, and they are born, perhaps because of springs, or because of heavy rains, and they disappear because of lava infiltration, soil adsorption.
Such streams occur seasonally and often do not have a long lifespan. No one cares about their appearance, and no one cares how they disappear.
The sunny slopes of the mountains are like this, and the shady slopes are steeper, and the trees are dense like a tropical rainforest, and the forest is dimly lit and damp, and from time to time you can hear strange sounds and howls of hard work. All kinds of trees are crowded and overlooked, the sky is covered by branches and leaves, and the ground is covered with vines, so you can't see the sky or find the ground.
It's hard to find two identical trees in the same place, the vines and roses in the forest make it difficult to pass, the rod-like roots of the trees hang down from the sky as if they fell from the sky, and some plants grow not from the ground but grow on trees and branches of all heights in the air, forming a dazzling hanging garden.
Everywhere you look, the old stems of towering trees are uncanny with their flowers and fruits, some with leaves large enough to hold shelter from the rain below, and some with grass-like forms but tree-like statures.
The vegetation here is strange and has everything you need.
Standing on the top of the uphill slope, the tiger's mouth of the two hands is open and vertical, the thumbs and index fingers of both hands form a rectangle like a picture frame, he is facing the slowly undulating hills in the distance, and the clouds in the sky, constantly moving the box formed by his hands, and muttering the words "click, click" in his mouth.
When the sun finally hid under the mountains in the distance, the clouds slowly withdrew the picture frame formed by their fingers, and a sentence of emotion came out of their mouths: "Picturesque rivers and mountains, who is the master of ups and downs?"
Cloud is just a ten-year-old boy.
Such a ten-year-old boy has such old-fashioned words in his mouth, which can't help but make people feel a little ridiculous and a little young.
Turning around, the clouds walked towards the shady slope, and around the top of the mountain, several giant trees stood, and a tree house built with the help of four or five giant trees shyly showed a little clue from the branches and leaves.
This treehouse is very hidden, and most of the materials used to build the treehouse are still growing branches and rattans, and between the living branches and vines, there are still active branches of the tree, which are obscured by the thick shade of the trees—it is almost impossible to find the existence of the treehouse without careful identification.
But the treehouse is still obvious, because it has seven or eight window-like openings, and on each opening is a bay window with a square wooden box—a wooden box with obvious traces of artificiality, which makes it easy to discern at once the secret hidden under the dense greenery.
In the forest behind the giant tree, the trees grow very densely, and the branches and vines grow horizontally and vertically, making it difficult for even a rabbit to get into between the trees, and only in front of this tree house, there is an open passage nearly three meters wide in the forest, so it is difficult for people to ignore such a conspicuous passage as long as they pass by here.
The clouds standing at the entrance of the passage carefully observed the trees on both sides of the passage, the grass underground, and the vines gently fluttering in the air.
Although the mouth of this passage is three meters wide, but here. It's not safe, because this mountainous area is where people often call the "Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle", also known as the "Demon Beast Jungle".
This is a world of cultivating immortals, and there are really so-called immortals here.
This planet is very huge, there are five continents on this planet, each continent has one or two forbidden lands, and the "Ten Thousand Beast Jungle" is the Xiyue Continent where the clouds are located, the most dangerous forbidden land.
Compared with the other four continents, the Xiyue Continent is considered to be a culturally backward place, because of the existence of the "Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle", because this "Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle" will break out every two or three hundred years, at that time, a large number of wild beasts poured out of the Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle, like rats migrating, like killer ants marching, like whales inexplicably rushing to the stalls, without hesitation about life and death, rushing to the nearby human cities, destroying a qiē thing blocking them along the way.
Wherever the beast tide passed, cities were in ruins, farmland was desolate, people were wiped out, and rivers were clogged with corpses.
After the various counterattack methods of human beings come up, they slowly suppress the surging beast tide, and at this time, the beast tide has often struck thousands of miles.
Thousands of miles of villages near the "Jungle of Ten Thousand Beasts" have become no man's land, and civilization has returned to primitive and barbarism.
The results are still good.
It is said that in tens of thousands of years, there have been several large-scale beast tides, and the last living space of human beings has been compressed into the three giant cities by the sea, at this time the beast tide has struck hundreds of thousands of miles, and then, the beast tide has weakened for some reason, and human beings have begun to regain lost ground little by little, as well as post-disaster reconstruction.
Every post-disaster reconstruction often takes the efforts of one generation, and after four generations of human beings have reproduced and five or six generations of efforts to restore civilization, the tide of beasts will come again, so human beings have to face another destruction and reconstruction.
Because of this reason, the Xiyue civilization is the most backward among several continents, of course, because of the post-disaster reconstruction, and developed the fierce and aggressive character of the Xiyue people, and cultivated their fierceness of preferring to bend, so the Xiyue people, in the five continents, have always been known for their ferocity, and they can't stand a little grievance.
Also for this reason, the towns in the Xiyue Continent close to the Ten Thousand Beast Jungle belong to a semi-autonomous state, and it is said that the function of these towns is to send an alarm to the rear when the beast tide breaks out, after all, the time of the beast tide outbreak is very irregular, sometimes it does not break out for more than five hundred years, and the shortest beast tide outbreak is only two hundred and forty years apart.
The outbreak of the beast tide has caused a lot of inconvenience to the people of the Xiyue Continent, and this extinction disaster is like a blade hanging over their heads at any time. It makes people feel nervous all the time. Mankind has exhausted all means of prevention for this purpose......
In the interval between each dampness, people believe that their efforts have been successful, that they have effectively eliminated or postponed the outbreak of the beast tide, but the reality has shattered the hope of mankind again and again.
There have been several occasions when reinforcements from other continents planned to support the Xiyue Continent, but the authorities in power in the Xiyue Continent refused the help of other states.
This is because of the sense of territory.
The existence of the Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle has also brought many other states to the Xiyue Continent that do not exist in the genius treasures, the authorities of the Xiyue Continent rely on these resources, and they live very rich on weekdays, they are all hiding in the giant cities along the coast, even if the strictest beast tide erupts, it has never impacted the city where they live, and allowing foreign forces to interfere in the affairs of the state means giving up part of the interests of the Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle, which is not allowed by those in power......
Speaking of Xiyue**, it is not completely inactive, every generation of people in power has come up with various methods, sending countless hunting teams to go deep into the jungle of ten thousand beasts, trying to control the number of beasts and reduce or reduce the intensity of the outbreak of the beast tide.
If the hunting team can come back from the Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle alive, their benefits are very rich, not to mention that they have found all kinds of genius treasures, but from the hunted beasts, they will obtain countless raw materials, and then create all kinds of treasures, so as to get rich overnight.
However, the Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle is the Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle after all, and the scope of this jungle is very wide - how wide it is, the clouds are not clear, and from the description of those in the know, the clouds guess: The entire Ten Thousand Beasts Jungle is probably larger than the African continent, comparable to the area of the Eurasian continent,
There are billions of hidden beasts here, and simply by strangling, they can't achieve the purpose of eliminating the beast tide.
In this jungle of beasts, the beasts are very ferocious and cunning, and in the tens of thousands of years of human struggle, they have learned all kinds of survival skills, such as a snake disguised as a dead branch, a butterfly disguised as a flower, and a poisonous moth disguised as a leaf—and these are still the survival skills of ordinary beasts.
This is still a demon beast jungle, in addition to some ordinary beasts, there are also some demon beasts and demon trees that have been cultivated to the essence. Their camouflage skills, as well as their ferocity, exhaust the human imagination.
For example, a seemingly flat ground may be a psychedelic scene conjured up by a phantom beast, and if you step into this flat land unguarded, it may become food for the phantom beast.
For example, sometimes it seems that the trees are dense, the branches and vines are entangled, and there is not a single gap in sight, however, stride through. But I found that there was nothing in the way - this could be an obstacle cast by a low-level demon tree, and if you walked into this area unguarded, it might be safe, and it might be devoured and turned into fertilizer.
However, these demon trees and monsters do not have a high IQ after all, and the scenes they conjure up are just low-level simulations of the surrounding environment. The simplest thing is this: the sudden change in light will make them unable to react, and their camouflage color will be exposed.
The so-called drastic change in light refers to the time when the sun rises and sets between morning and evening.
The fiery clouds in the sky gradually turned gray, and with the help of the rapidly changing light, the clouds carefully observed the three-meter-wide passage in front of him, and found that the ground and the surrounding branches did not have any changes in color and light and shade, and he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and walked to the foot of one of the giant trees with his little short legs.
He groped around the roots of the giant tree for a long time, and took out a vine from the root of the tree, and above the vine was a copper metal hook, and the cloud held the hook in his hand, and then looked around as alertly as a little rabbit, and then shook the hook and claw.
The hook claw flew into the air, hooking a horizontal branch three meters in the air, and the cloud smiled with satisfaction.
He looked left and right again, and then jerked the rope in his hand, and suddenly there was a sound of a rope overhead.
A rope ladder fell from between the branches.