Chapter 1: Between Life and Death
Qinghua Continent Hongli 231 Sangyue border city Guolingjia Village
When the first rays of the morning sun pierce through the mist, the crimson light shines on the earth, and the quiet night is gone, and it is a new day. Roosters crow, dogs bark...... Then there is the curling smoke wafting out of the chimneys of every house, and the world is prosperous and beautiful like a fairyland.
Erlenzi hastily ate breakfast, carried a firewood basket on his back, brought dry food and a bow and arrows, and then pinned the rusty firewood knife to his waist and walked to the west mountain. He is an orphan, raised by Uncle Han Lie in Hanjia Village since he was a child, he has never seen his parents, and he doesn't know what his name is, the only thing he knows is that his surname is Wang, and Uncle Ling, who took care of him, gave him a folk name Wang Ji. However, the people in the village never called him Wang Ji, they all called him "Erlengzi" and "Erlengzi", except for Uncle Ling, who took care of him at the beginning, he had never heard anyone else call him Wang Ji.
Although Wang Ji was called "Erlengzi" and "Erlenzi" by the people in the village, he was not really stupid, but one of the few smart children in the village. The reason why it is called "Erlenzi" by the people in the village is because there was a child named "Leng Zi" in the village.
This is nothing, the other children in the village are also "dog babies" and "fools" and the like, and they may not be better than "Erlenzi" to hear there; therefore, although Wang Ji does not like this title, he can only comfort himself like this, and over time, it will be like this.
Wang Ji has been raised by Uncle Han before the age of twelve, although the family is poor, but can also be fed and clothed, since the age of twelve when Uncle Han died of a sudden illness, Wang Ji has no longer to rely on, everything can only rely on himself, often follow the village hunters to hunt and work, over time there is the ability to survive. The people in the village are simple, and they will often send some food over.
The weather has not been good in the past few days, it has been raining heavily, the rain has become a disaster, and a lot of crops have been washed away, no matter how to rescue it, it is not easy to let it go, the men in the village are ready to go hunting in the mountains, whether it is good or bad, there must always be a hope, otherwise how to survive this year?
Lingjia Village is surrounded by mountains, and most of the hunters went to the mountains in the south, where there were many prey and there were no fierce beasts, but Wang Ji chose to go to the West Mountain. The prey in the West Mountain has not been in the South Mountain, and there are no those ferocious beasts, but there are more mountain fungi such as wild vegetables in the West Mountain, although the wild vegetables and mountain fungi are not as good as meat, but they can satisfy the stomach.
He still has self-knowledge, so many people in the village have gone to Nanshan, and he is a young man with a weak crown who has not yet been full, but he is afraid that he will not even be able to drink the soup.
After walking around the West Mountain for two hours, there was no special harvest, but the wild vegetables were picked in half a basket, and Wang Ji also found a lotus pond that was not particularly large in a remote forest at the foot of the mountain. The mulberry moon is the season when the lotus flowers are in full bloom, so Wang Ji picked a lot of lotus root whips (lotus root belts) in the lotus pond and caught two fatty crucian carp in addition.
The lotus root whip picks a little too much, and when the time comes, send some to Xiaocui, wild vegetables can be made into pickled vegetables and dried vegetables, and you can also eat for a while, one crucian carp goes back to braised and one is made into fish soup, and when the time comes, the dog egg and Xiaocui are called over to eat......
Wang Ji thought about it beautifully, and suddenly smelled a trace of blood, and the habit of many years made him immediately alert, and his eyes swept around. The smell of blood came from the bushes directly in front of Wang Ji, he pinched the firewood knife in his hand, trying to make himself less afraid, and then looked at the bushes not far in front of him and cautiously probed.
In his mind, two completely different voices were circling, one voice told him to go, to avoid trouble, there were no fierce beasts in Xishan, suddenly there was such a grand smell of blood, something big must have happened, I am afraid that it may not be a good thing, it is very likely to lead to the destruction of the entire Lingjia Village; a voice told him to take a look, disaster and blessing! Disasters and opportunities coexist, maybe he can change his future fate through this unknown "opportunity".
For some reason, Wang Ji has a strong premonition in his heart, maybe his life will be different from now on, and he can also know who his parents are.
In fact, in Wang Ji's heart, he doesn't have much affection for the unknown parents, nor does he have much strong **; only occasionally I see that the children who play with him have parents, even if the days are very poor, those parents are doing their best to satisfy their children. Sometimes he also fantasizes about what his parents were like, why did they leave him in the first place, was there something else to hide, or was it simply because they didn't want him......
These questions lingered in Wang Ji's mind for a long time, over and over again, day after day, these questions gradually became Wang Ji's inner demons, forcing Wang Ji to have a strong idea of escaping from Lingjia Village. Just now, Wang Ji found that he might really run out of Lingjia Village to explore the elegance of the world, and it was precisely because of this strong premonition that Wang Ji temporarily suppressed the fear in his heart and moved forward step by step.
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"Bang dang. β
"Vomit ......" Looking at the scene in front of him, Wang Ji finally couldn't help but vomit, and the firewood knife in his hand also slipped to the ground.
Less than a hundred steps in front of Wang Ji, there were four ten-meter-long pythons, four pairs of huge snake eyes staring at the two figures surrounded by them, the two people could not distinguish between men and women, but they could vaguely see the color of the clothing, the two people, one was dressed in black, and the other was dressed in red. There were also a large number of corpse fragments around them, and those corpse fragments were from the body of the python.
It is conceivable that there are definitely more than four pythons, but some have died for unknown reasons.
"Hiss. β
Wang Ji's actions attracted the attention of the python, and they suddenly noticed that there was an extra teenager around them at some point. In an instant, the four pythons shifted the target of attack, and since they couldn't eat these two people, they ate this kid.
The four big pythons have grown so big, they have long been refined, and their thinking is not comparable to that of ordinary livestock, even ordinary humans are not necessarily as smart as these pythons, and the four pythons made a decision at a glance.
"Hiss...... Hiss ......"
The huge reticulated python flew over, and the huge shekou opened up instantly, and Wang Ji was still too late to react, since he couldn't escape, he would fight.
I don't know where the courage came from, Wang Ji held the idea of the fish dying and the net was broken, and quickly picked up the firewood knife that fell to the ground, and lifted the firewood knife above his head, so that if the python wants to eat him, he must first hurt himself.
Phewββ
The imaginary huge snake mouth did not come, the snake tail swept over, rolled up Wang Ji's body, the snake body was entangled, and the muscles of the whole body contracted little by little.
Wang Ji's face turned red little by little, with the contraction of the snake body, Wang Ji felt more and more uncomfortable, the bones and flesh of the whole body were necrotic little by little, his skin changed from unhealthy red to purple red with intense lack of oxygen, and his eyes slowly changed from healthy brown to blood red, at this time Wang Ji was in a state of intense congestion, and it seemed that in the next moment, a young life would disappear.
No way... I can't just die. I haven't left Lingjia Village yet, I haven't found my parents yet, I definitely can't decide to die like this, I promised Uncle Ling to take good care of myself, to live well, to marry a wife and have children......
The huge survival ** attacked, Wang Ji struggled to open his eyes, looking at the slightly mocking snake eyes, his heart was cold, and the courage he had just put forward was exhausted in that pair of snake eyes.
In a daze, Wang Ji saw a large mouth open towards him, and then there was chaos. Before he lost consciousness, he thought, this time he must be dead!
I shouldn't have been so curious if I knew it, maybe I shouldn't have come to Xishan at all......