Qingzhou South Rain Road, there is a nest village.

As the sun sets, the green hills outside the village seem to fade away, and there is a sudden silence between heaven and earth.

"Zizi. ”

When darkness began to cover the sky, slowly submerging from the sky, a bronze lamp hanging high in the treetops was lit, and the misty orange light shrouded this vast ancient forest.

An ancient forest growing in the water.

The ancient trees in the forest are towering to the sky, just above the water surface, there are dozens of zhang high, and under the water is a hundred curves of roots, engraved with countless road lines, faintly, or light or dark to form a large array, and I don't know how deep there are.

What's even more amazing is that at the place of seven feet above the water, the branches and leaves are the most luxuriant and thick, and they are linked to each other into a trail, and if you count slightly, there are about fifty or sixty, the short is 100 meters, and the long is several miles, and the height is connected, and the distance is connected, such as the traffic of Qianmo.

Although it is a trail, there are also many feet in the narrowest place.

Although the light of the copper lamp is not very bright, it can shine far away, and more than a dozen bamboo rafts can be faintly seen appearing on the river not far away, pulling long shadows.

There was a person standing on each bamboo raft, and the closer they got to the ancient forest, the taller and more burly they became, and almost everyone dragged a huge beast in their hands, returning with a full load.

"They're back!"

Standing on the wooden path in the forest, a group of women and children who had been waiting for a long time suddenly cheered, and the uneasiness and fear in their hearts disappeared without a trace, and their faces showed a burst of joy.

"The hunting party is back safely!"

"That's a lot of prey!"

A few four or five-year-old children looked at the bamboo raft that was getting closer and closer, counted the number of people, and found that there was not one missing, so they immediately turned around and ran away, shouting as they ran, and ran into the depths of the ancient forest in a blink of an eye.

Bamboo rafts were docked under the old trees, and the men tied the rafts, then raised their hands to the predators, and placed them on the wooden paths, looking effortless.

Their leader, in particular, was eight feet long, as strong as a tiger or leopard, and was extremely powerful, dressed in animal skins, with bronzed skin and piercing eyes.

I saw that he was holding a fire rhino weighing more than 10,000 catties with one hand, and with the other hand, he pushed the tough wooden path, and the whole person and the prey jumped up together, but there was no big sound when he landed.

Obviously, the control of one's own power has reached a relatively high level.

"Brother Zhan, in the past, you came back before dusk, why is it so late today?"

A plainly dressed woman looked worried and asked, "Also, there seem to be a lot of prey this time?"

"Here's the thing······" Lin Zhan was about to explain, when he suddenly saw several old figures approaching, and hurriedly walked up with several members of the hunting team.

"The village chief. ”

The old man who walked in the front was Chao Lie, the village chief of Youchao Village, who took a closer look at the members of the hunting team and saw that although they were all bloodstained, they were not injured, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's okay." ”

Before Chao Lie could ask, Lin Zhan smiled and talked about his experience during the day.

It turned out that when they entered the depths of the mountain forest, they found that the towering giant trees there were broken, the thousand-year-old vines were destroyed, and all kinds of beast blood were sprinkled everywhere, and it was a mess.

There were even several mountains that collapsed, and rocks rolled down in all directions, killing and injuring many fierce beasts that were usually ferocious, and they tracked all the way, killing many seriously injured beasts, and no one was injured.

"There are so many dead beasts there that we can only bring back a small number of the more precious ones, and we have been selected for most of the day, so we have not come back until now. ”

Only then did everyone's eyes turn to those prey, and it was indeed a bumper harvest!

The red fire rhinoceros not only has rough skin and thick flesh, but its horn is as hard as iron, and it can also breathe fire from its mouth and burn down a small hill; there are also fierce beasts, whose sound is like thunder, and can shock people to death from a distance of tens of meters; as for those lightning birds, their wings can easily cut through the mountains, rocks, gold and iron, come and go like electricity, and can be slaughtered from the clouds, and the horror is extraordinary······

"It's a pity we can't bring more today, but tomorrow we can prepare a few more rafts, and if we want, we can bring some more beasts. Luo Feng of the hunting team said with some regret and excitement.

Nanyudao is located in the southeast of Qingzhou, because the Chujiang River basin is too wide, the vast river water occupies more than half of Nanyudao, and the other half mostly belongs to the Mochizuki Mountains where the demon clan is based, so there is very little land suitable for the human race to settle.

With less land, there is no more food to grow, so people have to go into the mountains and forests to hunt beasts, but those beasts and birds are so powerful and terrifying that people may lose their lives every time they go.

If there is a choice, no one wants to go into the mountains, and that means bloodshed and sacrifice, pain and despair.

Now the Linyue Mountain is full of casualties of fierce beasts, and they can be obtained without paying any price, it is simply a gift from heaven!

"The old man thinks this matter is inappropriate!"

Just when most people were looking forward to tomorrow's trip, a sudden voice interrupted their illusions.

Chao Lie looked at everyone, especially the hunting team, and said with a serious face: "Have you ever considered the ins and outs of this matter? In my opinion, most of them are strong people fighting in the mountains and forests, which causes this situation, if it is the human race, what if it is the demon race? The demon race and our human race have been opposed since ancient times, and when the time comes, the pond fish ·······will be affected."

Chao Lie's words were not finished, but everyone knew the consequences.

"Why don't you delay for a few days?" suggested another old man.

Chao Lie thought about it, and hesitation flashed on his face, not knowing whether to agree.

For a moment everyone thought about it, no one spoke, and even the air was silent.

Suddenly, Liu Shan's ears moved, and he was stunned for a moment, and then he lost his voice: "Listen, there is a child's cry outside!"

Chao Lie next to him came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "Old guy, you are old, you must have heard it wrong······ Hey, it seems like there's a baby's voice. ”

The cry of a child came from outside the village, which became clearer and clearer, and everyone present heard it.

Many people looked at each other, there was a remote and desolate nest village, how could there be a baby crying nearby?

The voice seemed to come from not far away, from far to near, becoming clearer and clearer, making it feel like an auditory hallucination, and at the end, it was almost like it was in their ears.

Gu Yun stared blankly at the river under her feet, a little purple light kept flickering in her pupils, it was a wooden basin drifting with the waves, surrounded by vines hanging down by ancient trees, and stopped on the edge of the bamboo raft.

The purple light came from the wooden basin, and the crying also came from the wooden basin.

"It's really a baby!"

As if she suddenly remembered something, she pulled the person next to her who was also sluggish, and said anxiously: "Liu Zhan, you just watch!"

"Oh!"

Liu Zhan suddenly realized, immediately jumped on the bamboo raft, he was lean, light as a swallow, did not make the bamboo raft shake in any way, he carefully brushed away the entwined ancient vines, handed the wooden basin to his wife.

Gu Yun took the wooden basin, and in the basin was a baby who was still swaddling, looking to be a few months old, with a pair of black and white eyes, as pure as a blue and washed sky.

Next to the swaddling clothes was a bead that emitted a purple light, but it gradually became faint, flickering and flickering, and finally completely hidden under the orange light.

"It's a boy!"

The people in the village all gathered around, and Liu Shan opened the swaddling clothes and looked at them carefully, still a little incredulous.

"This child's father and mother are really ruthless, the baby who is only a few months old said to throw it away, and it hasn't been weaned yet!" Several women in the village said indignantly with the glow of maternal love on their faces.

A few people nodded in agreement, but some people put forward different views and sighed: "How can parents in this world not love their children, if they are not in a desperate situation, who is willing to throw away their own flesh and blood?"

"Okay, this wooden basin didn't drift to other places, but it drifted here, which means that this is God's destined fate, just raise this child, now let's give him a name." ”

The village chief raised his hand and pressed it, stopped everyone's discussion, and looked at Liu Zhan's family.

Gu Yun didn't listen to what the people in the village were saying, she was just this poor child, and said in her heart: "You are looking at me, do you regard me as your mother?"

Liu Shan said: "Yun'er, is there a letter or note in the wooden basin?"

Gu Yun flipped it over again, shook his head and said, "Only this bead is crystal clear, it doesn't seem to be ordinary, and there is a change character engraved on it." ”

"Is his surname Yi?" Chao Lie frowned, not knowing what he was thinking.