Chapter 3: Immortals
"A wave in the waves-a wave in the waves-my brother sings in loneliness-"
"The gray sky outside the mountain is not yet dawn, and the forest is already busy collecting firewood!
"How can you endure the mountains and rivers?"
"How can the enemy be lovesick and obstacle-"
"Sister-"
"My brother's heart is bitter, and I don't let you know—"
"Take advantage of the sky, carry firewood on your back, and enter the city corridor—"
"Whatever you want, get a little money and food!"
"Pull another foot of red silk, tie it on my sister's head, and make it a beautiful girl-"
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On the cold mountain road, I suddenly remembered a few immature mountain songs, which gave a few charms to the jungle that had not yet fully woken up, but it was still too naïve, it should have been loud, crisp, and contained a strong sense of lovesickness.
I only listened to Ah Nian laughing and scolding: "The third brother only knows how to learn the tongue of the crow, but he doesn't know the human touch inside, Brother Chang Ping sings well, in Sister Li's words, it is called eloquent, lovesick into a film, which is like the third brother you, what you sing is not like that at all!" Speaking of this, Ah Nian stopped, and then said: "It's no wonder, Sister Li said that you can only sing this song after the age of sixteen, the third brother is too young, and his hair has not grown, so he will never be able to sing as good as Brother Changping!"
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But the three men quit, put down the bamboo basket, stopped in the middle of the mountain road, and said loudly: "Who said that my hair didn't grow! Come on, come on, take off your pants, let's compare and see who hasn't grown hair!"
After speaking, he pulled the straw rope around his waist and pinched his hands, but he took off the shabby trousers he was wearing. "Come on, it's all off, Bibi-what are you doing in a daze-"
Ah Nian, Xiao Xin, Dog Baby, and Dabao were stunned for a moment, they couldn't imagine that the third brother was so neat, and pointed to the three men, "You, you, you-" After talking for a long time, they couldn't speak.
"Hmph-" The third man lifted his pants with one hand, tied them with straw rope with the other, and said proudly: "They are all good men, what is there to see, you see, the third brother's hair has grown, but you four stinky boys who have not dried up have learned from the girl's family-hahaha-"
After speaking, he raised his head, picked up the basket and strode away triumphantly, Ah Nian and the other four children hurriedly followed.
At this time, the sun was gradually rising high, the moisture in the forest was steaming, gradually dissipating, and the golden light was shining on the mountain road through the scattered gaps in the branches and leaves, reflecting the brilliance. The five children played and played, and slowly went deeper along the mountain road, but they did not meet any rabbits, roe deer and other small animals along the way.
After walking for a long time, the three men suddenly fell silent, frowned slightly, and suddenly waved one hand, but stopped the four companions who followed behind.
Because there were many very chaotic footprints in the open space not far away, although the third man was very puzzled in his heart, he was bold and careful and still stopped the four younger brothers
"Third brother?"
The four children were puzzled and didn't understand what the third brother meant.
"We have been deep in the mountains all the way, and we can always meet some small animals, or the villagers in the same village are hunting firewood, not as dead and silent as today, and the thieves are quieter!"
After speaking, the three men looked at the many footprints under their feet, jumped over the mountain road, and climbed into the jungle next to them, followed by the four children closely.
As a result, the five children left the safe mountain road they were used to, and the atmosphere in the forest became more and more dull and depressing. The five children gradually felt that something unusual, and each picked up a wooden stick, formed a circle, and carefully pushed forward, Ah Nian was the youngest, so he was protected in the middle.
"Huh-what's this-"
The first three men suddenly stopped, there was a pool of red liquid under his feet, which was particularly dazzling under the sunlight, and there were already a lot of these things stuck to his straw sandals, the three men squatted down, wiped a handful of red liquid on their feet with their hands, put it under their nose and smelled it, and suddenly exclaimed: "Blood-it's blood-it's human blood-"
Ah Nian was stunned, didn't understand what was happening, and asked, "Human blood?"
Xiao Xin said: "It's common to chop your hands and feet when you collect firewood, it's not worth making a fuss!"
The third gentleman's face was ugly, and he said, "You know a fart!" After speaking, he picked up the grass with his hand, and more footprints appeared in it, but this footprint looked extremely flustered, and at this time, even Ah Nian knew that something was wrong. The third gentleman said: "These footprints are chaotic and have different shades, indicating that the master was very nervous and hurried at that time, tired of running for his life, and there are many plum blossom-shaped marks mixed in them, probably encountering some large beast that is not capable of being defeated!"
The three men looked up and glanced around, and found some bamboo baskets scattered in the grass, and if they searched carefully, they could find five bows and arrows, "There are large beasts here!" The three men thought about it in their hearts, but they felt very funny, if there were really some large beasts that did not open their eyes into this mountain forest, they were afraid that it was these beasts that should flee for their lives, the hunting team in the mountain village was not vegetarian, many years ago they killed the large beasts here, and he had never heard of any harmful beasts in this mountain forest since he could remember, but the fact in front of him was that something was chasing the mountain people, so that there were casualties. "It's weird!"
"Look further!"
Ahead was a large patch of grass, in the slightly dim mountain forest, black and unfathomable, like the fangs of a giant beast, frightened and inexplicable. A group of five and a half children bravely crawled towards the depths of the grass, all of them with tight faces and stiff hands and feet, for fear that something terrible would happen, Xiao Xin suddenly exclaimed: "Ah-my shoes are wet-"
The other four were frightened by this sound, and they wanted to beat Xiao Xin up.
"It hasn't rained a little in the past half a month, where did the wet shoes come from!"
The three men knocked on Xiao Xin's head angrily, and was about to move on, when suddenly the dog baby also barked: "My shoes are also wet-"
The three of them were not angry, just about to attack, glanced down, and found that there was a bright red liquid slowly leaching out under their feet, it turned out that they didn't know when, the grass that their five children had stepped on was slowly showing blood, but they were too careful and nervous, and they didn't notice it at all.
Through the gap in the grass, you can see that there is a clearing in front of you, and at this time there are four beast-like things, crawling on the ground, biting something. The three men had sharp eyes, and saw a pile of black and pressed objects in the middle of the grass, all of which were corpses, and the blood was slowly flowing, as if the corpses were mountains and a sea of blood, and the dead were all mountain people, and the death was extremely miserable and terrifying!
Ah Nian was about to open the grass to take a closer look, when he was suddenly pulled by the three gentlemen, and covered his mouth with the trend, only to see him "shhhhhh
The three men suppressed the fear in his heart, he was already an orphan, but he was much more determined than those children who had the love of their parents, and he had been fighting for survival for many years, and he had long been honed to be extremely tenacious, and his mature heart was in strong contrast with his thin body. When they had withdrawn from the grass, the three men picked up a bow from the grass, and found a bag of shoddy bows and arrows, all of which were carried on their shoulders.
Seeing this, Xiao Xin, Da Bao, and Dog Wa silently picked up the rest of the bows and arrows, also carried them on their shoulders, and then inserted the machete into their waists. Ah Nian originally brought a bow that only adults can pull, at this time he reached out and touched the bow and arrow on his back, slowly exhaled, the nervous look on his face gradually eased, the three men put their hands on Ah Nian's head and patted, took the lead in throwing down the bamboo basket, pulled out three arrows and held them tightly in the palm of his hand, without saying a word, the other four children tacitly agreed, Ah Nian, Xiao Xin, Dabao in the center, behind the dog baby, the three men waved their small hands and retreated to the bottom of the mountain.
But it's too late!
Three black shadows flashed, three strange beasts with red eyes slowly appeared, stopped in front, one of them also held a human arm in its mouth, "squeak" chewing, blood dripping, three people were shocked in their hearts, glanced back, there was a strange beast jumping out of the back, but this strange beast had more than ten arrows stuck in its back, and its eyes were also blind, and it was unsteady when walking, and the dark red blood kept flowing down, the injury was quite light, the smell in the mouth was salivating, and the eyes of the five children were very fierce.
"I must have met the hunting brigade!" The three men made a clear decision, glanced at the dog baby, and then bit their teeth, the resolute color on their faces flashed, and suddenly roared, the immature voice at this time contained inexplicable power, and took a step forward, and the three strange beasts suddenly saw such momentum and took a step back in unison, and the three men took the opportunity to bend the bow and arrows in one go, "search", only to hear a scream of the strange beast-
At the same time, the dog baby pulled out the machete at his waist and rushed towards the mortal beast that was seriously injured, shouting, "Run-"
Xiao Xin and the dog baby tightly grabbed Ah Nian's thin arm, bypassed the injured beast, and ran towards the depths of the mountain forest.
"Third Brother-Dog Baby-"
"Run-" Xiao Xin and Dabao held back tears and clutched Ah Nian's arm, their legs and feet were pierced by thorns and bled more than once, but they didn't care about the pain, and only fled towards the deeper part of the mountain forest like a desperate person.
Run, run, I don't know how long I run, I just feel that my hands and feet are sore, and I have to fall to the ground to rest for a while, Xiao Xin, Dabao's legs and feet have been scratched by thorns miserably, blood flows, Ah Nian because it is sandwiched between the two of them, but it has avoided many thorns, but because of the young age, short legs and feet, two tattered straw sandals ran off one at some point, at this time with a bare foot, stunned looking at the direction when they came, I only hope that the three boys and the dog baby can be fine, but this is just a luxury after all.
When he came back to his senses, two strange beasts appeared again, one of them was holding a round thing, which was the head of the dog baby, and the other was dragging a figure under the mouth, it was the three men, only to see several fangs deeply embedded in his ribs, only to tremble in pain, tearing his heart and lungs, but a crack in his throat had blood gurgling out, and he couldn't make the slightest moan!
"Third Brother-Dog Baby-"
Xiao Xin and Dabao were also so frightened that they couldn't move, Xiao Xin cried out with a "wow-" cry, but the red light flashed, and Xiao Xin's body flew straight out as if it had suffered some heavy blow, and when it fell to the ground, it was completely lifeless, only staring at Dabao and Ah Nian with a pair of frightened eyes.
"Ah-" Dabao was stupid in fright, looking like a crazy demon for a while, but he was brandishing a machete and rushing towards a strange beast, but before he could rush to the eyes of the strange beast, a black shadow fell from the sky, and Dabao fell to the ground.
The three-headed beast slowly approached, and there was a hint of banter in his eyes, and he was not in a hurry to take the life of the little doll in front of him, Ah Nian only moved back little by little on the ground, and unconsciously moved to a big tree, looking at the fierce beast that was gradually approaching, and suddenly felt helpless.
At this time, the three-headed beast seemed to be playing well, one of them was about to pounce, and at this life-threatening moment, only to hear a "whoosh" bow Xuan trembled lightly, and the strange beast had been hit by an arrow in the head, and the strange beast struggled a few times, and finally fell to the ground unwillingly. The other two were startled when they saw their companion killed by the arrow, and they leaped backwards one after another, hiding behind the trees, only occasionally shining with a red devouring light.
"Brother Chang Ping-Sister Li-"
Ah Nian realized that there were two people walking under the tree, it was Chang Ping and Sister Li, who had always been close to their five children, but at this time, Sister Li's eyes were closed, her forehead was scarred, and her face was full of happiness. And Chang Ping had a huge hole in his chest, blood gushed out, and he didn't know how many bones and muscles were broken all over his body, and that arrow had already exhausted his strength, and he couldn't live long.
"Yes, yes, I read it-" Chang Ping sighed lightly, his breath was like a gossamer, and his face became rosy instead, and it was time to return to the light and die.
"Hehe-I can die with Ah Li-I have no regrets in my life, but it's just a catastrophe right now-Brother Chang Ping can't stop Ah Nian anymore-I hope there will be a miracle-"
The two strange beasts slowly approached again, both devouring people and waiting to eat, and there was an inexplicable flash of hatred in their eyes, Chang Ping laughed: "You beasts, what are you waiting for-come-"
As if he understood the ridicule of the dying man in front of him, perhaps in order to fulfill the tragedy of this long-famous hunter, the two strange beasts swarmed up, and in an instant they had torn Chang Ping to pieces, and the blood splashed on Ah Nian's face again, and the hot blood slowly dripped down his dull cheeks, and slowly blended into the earth drop by drop.
The strange beast looked back, looking at the frightened stupid, immobile child, the blood at the corner of the mouth was also dripping drop by drop, the inexplicable atmosphere came out, the two strange beasts sniffed on Ah Nian's face, as if there was some delicious food on his face, a strange beast suddenly stretched out its tongue on his face ****, maybe it was still unfinished, the strange beast licked the blood at the corner of his mouth, his eyes became more and more greedy, the original scarlet fangs were shining, and he was about to bite off the neck of the prey in front of him, and suddenly an angry voice sounded in the distance:
"Brute dare!"
A sword light flashed across the sky, and in a blink of an eye, it was on top of this big tree, the white light disappeared, and a figure appeared, a girl, dressed in a white dress, stepping on a flying sword, with a faint fairy aura on her body, it was a peerless face, like a fairy descending to earth, and the girl was even more angry at this time.
I saw that the girl's right hand sword pointed at the void, and the flying sword under her feet suddenly flew out automatically, turning into three in the air, all of them bloomed with white glory, and the white mist on it was swirling, and the weather was extraordinary.
As soon as his mind moved, three sword lights flashed, his momentum was like lightning, and the lightning was too fast to cover his ears, and the two strange beasts were already in different places, and the dead could not die again.
"Immortals—"
When Ah Nian passed out, this white shadow lingered in his mind, and after today, he will never forget it for the rest of his life.