Chapter 73
Chapter 73
The young man didn't know how long he had slept. When he woke up, his head was groggy, but the sound of something outside being blown by the wind woke him up a lot.
But before he could collect his thoughts, he heard a long-lost human voice—it was indeed a human voice!He can't get it wrong!
However, in the wilderness and ridges, it is the background of the beginning of the prehistoric era. During this period of time, the young man has seen all the tragic scenes of bones and corpses everywhere, and he has long given up hope for his former fellow race—the human race.
Especially after he was trapped and plotted against by a group of humans not long ago.
After listening to the outsider's words, the young man pondered for a while, and suddenly he heard the sound of the wind filling the sky and the earth, and the sound of snowflakes piling up on the eaves, and the wooden piles cracking under the weight.
If those people outside were really human beings, if they were left outside in such a cold night, he would probably only see a few empty skins when he woke up tomorrow morning.
That's all, God has the virtue of being good at life, and he has this life thanks to luck and God's blessing, so let's be generous!
Thinking about it, the young man picked up the branches next to him and flicked the fire, raised his hand and removed the table from the door, and let the people outside come in.
After a few ecstatic thanks, the three thinly dressed men quickly opened the door and entered, then quickly closed the door, and dragged the table over to support the wooden door again.
They must have been used to doing similar things, and they moved swiftly and neatly. After finishing, they shivered violently because of the huge difference in temperature inside and outside, and let out a breath of hot air from their tremblingly folded hands.
The young man raised his eyelids and looked over. Although the pupils were out of focus, the phoenix eyes were bright, and there was a sense of radiance and brilliance. With the long eyebrows and lips and plump round face, his beauty was eye-catching.
Seeing him like this, the three men were all stunned.
These three people are of the same age, not far from each other in clothing, even behavior and demeanor, so they should come from the same place.
However, although many places are similar, it can still be seen that the leader is the one surrounded by the middle.
That man was born with sword eyebrows and stars, with a heroic temperament and a very straightforward personality. He didn't say much. After bowing his hands to the young man, he sat down under the window far away from the fire, polite and vigilant.
The other two surrounded him, faintly showing a state of guard. They quickly gathered a pile of hay that was already in the dilapidated house, and used flint to light up a new pile of bonfire.
There were two fires in the room, the temperature rose instantly, and the warm current echoed in the air, almost turning into substance, dispelling the last bit of chill.
The three of them seemed to be relieved, took out the frosted water sac, baked it, heated it, and took small sips.
The young man was quite interested in the three strangers, but in order to avoid arousing their vigilance and misunderstanding, he did not strike up a conversation hastily, but turned his body slightly, pretending to sleep on his chin, and opened his eyes to glance at them from time to time.
All three are human, about 20 years old, have a little martial arts but not very strong.The clothes on his body are made of linen, but judging from the luster, the clothes of the man in the middle are much smoother and smoother than those on the left and right, including the thick sheepskin boots on his feet.
There is a mountain forest nearby. After the heavy snow closed the mountains, there were few people and even animals. It took a lot of effort for the young man to find this dilapidated wooden house and tidy it up to make it liveable.They appeared here at this time, and they didn't seem to be fleeing for their lives. They thought there was something attracting them here—of course, it was more likely that they were passing by.
As the first human being he saw after "breaking the shell", the boy silently pondered whether to follow them quietly tomorrow, to see if he could find a human settlement.
During this period of time, he claimed to have traveled quite a distance, but most of what he could see was wasteland, let alone people, and there were no existences like the previous brain-filling versions of "Buzhou Mountain" and "Candle Dragon". I've seen it, it's a bit boring.
If he can't find any creatures that can effectively "interact" with him, he will have to go back to his birthplace to "recharge and continue".
While thinking about it, the young man gradually felt drowsy, covered his mouth and yawned, closed his eyes and rested.
Two piles of bonfires were burning quietly, and from time to time there was the crackling sound of hay bursting under the high temperature. Apart from that, only the sound of wind and snow echoed.
After an unknown amount of time, the sleepy boy suddenly woke up for no reason. When he opened his eyes, he found that most of the light in front of him was dimmed, and his visibility was only one or two meters low.
He looked intently, and the fire in front of him had only a few sporadic lights left because the dry grass was about to burn out.But the fire that should have existed next to it has been extinguished, and even the breathing of the three people has disappeared.
Ok?
The young man raised his eyebrows, turned to look at the window, and saw the three humans squeezed together, covering their mouths and noses tightly with such force that they almost suffocated themselves, and shook them lightly after he looked over. Shaking his head, motioned him not to make any noise.
At the same time, in the extreme silence, he heard that very regular sound, as if something was hitting the wall.
It was the first sound he heard the last time he woke up.
The young man lowered his eyes, raised his hand and extinguished the fire in front of him, and the room fell into complete darkness in an instant.
The night is still flowing, like half-frozen thick ink, quietly stained and laid out.
Almost all sounds were drowned in this darkness, only the knocking outside the door echoed regularly like a clock.
Suddenly, a stream of light penetrated through the crack of the door, like a candle.At the same time, a woman's gentle voice suddenly came:
"Sir in the house, it's cold in the middle of the night, can you let the little girl enter the house to escape the wind and cold?"
This is a group that caught him to touch porcelain alone, right?
The young man was speechless for a while, and was about to answer when several horrified gazes suddenly came from the side.
He turned around and saw that the three men shrank even tighter and shook their heads at him in unison.
Are the women outside weird?
The boy blinked and said through the door, "Is the girl alone?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, there was a sudden silence outside the door, and the three people in the corner also froze, and the air was filled with thick and substantial shock, as if his answer was a very strange thing.
The young man tilted his head in confusion, and wanted to speak again, but the leader of the three rushed forward to cover his mouth, and gave him such winks that he was about to draw a lottery.
Brother, you can hold back!
At this time, the woman outside who had been quiet for a long time finally responded: "The little girl is indeed alone. She got lost in this place by accident and traveled for a long time before seeing people. Please have mercy, sir."
As she spoke, the woman sobbed in a low voice, her resentment moving.
Hearing this, the other three people in the room visibly shook their spirits, as if they were affected by some invisible force, and the leader's grip on the boy's mouth also loosened.
But the boy's reaction was: what a classic heroine of strange novels speaking!
If it weren't for a female ghost or banshee who was forced to do bad things outside, he would perform a live bonfire on the spot!
Pulling away the man's hand, the boy motioned him to be calm, and then asked, "How long has the girl been lost here? How long did it take you to find this wooden house at night?"
The woman was stunned for a moment by his unconventional question: "This... the little girl has been lost for more than three days... It took about, about two hours to find this place."
Well, this is a female ghost or banshee who has no concept of time.
The young man raised his lips and smiled in the dark, showing his white teeth: "The girl is so talented and physically strong, she can actually walk for two hours with a candle lamp in such a snowy night. It's bright, girl, let's go out of the forest for a longer distance, so as not to waste the previous journey."
The three people in the room: "..."
The woman outside the door: "..."
That's an outrageous statement, but it makes sense.
When everyone was silent, the young man waved his hand to rekindle the bonfire, and he had already drawn up a standard title for a classical novel in his heart for this night:
——The passer-by breaks the wooden house in the wind and snow, and the weak woman walks the mountain night road bravely.
In the future, I can write a book "The Romance of the Great Desolation".
The boy thought excitedly.
The bright light of the fire filled the cabin again, and the warmth drove away the cold and drowned out the howling wind.
Having seen the calmness and "humor" of the young man, the three people in the room seemed to be numb, and they shrank together again, with a disillusioned look on their faces.
The woman outside the door was silent for a while, when suddenly the wind and snow blew up and slammed on the doors and windows.
The three humans were startled, and ran to the boy's side, their teeth began to chatter, and they knew what was coming from outside.
The boy glanced at them, and didn't ask immediately, but said to the girl, "Is there anything else, girl?"
The woman didn't answer, another low and hoarse voice came from outside the door, like sandpaper on rough sand: "I just said that there is no need to do anything extra!"
Before the words were finished, a sudden gust of wind knocked open the dilapidated wooden door, and the golden candlelight poured into the house like flowing water without a cover. Behind the light, the heavy snow wove into a curtain. The woman stands under the threshold with a candle carrier—a lotus lamp.
There is a huge shadow behind the woman. The shadow spreads its blue-blue wings, its head is held high, and the stretched tail feathers shake off the magnificent brilliance, shining brightly in the night.
The fish-headed girl and... a pure-blooded peacock in its infancy?
The boy froze for a moment, and the three people hiding behind him froze into three statues. Fear arose spontaneously and spread invisible.
Carried by the night and the snow, the peacock folded its wings and bowed its head slightly, its haughty eyes swept over them, showing no emotion, only indifferent and cold killing intent.
"Human race, full of blood." Its beak opened and closed, making a melodious sound like gold and jade clashing, "it just happens to be eaten by me."
As soon as the ending sound fell, the peacock and the fish-head girl swept into the room in a gust of wind, the door slammed shut behind them, and the candles in the lotus lantern were brightly lit, like a rising sun——
Holy, but cold.
The peacock opened its mouth, its huge body cast a huge shadow, its sharp beak pecked fiercely at the young man like an ax cutting the wind and rain, and the sound of shattering gold and rock suddenly burst out in the air.
The eyes of the three people behind the young man were about to split, their throats were blocked with fear, and they couldn't react to what happened for a while.
Just when they thought the young man was about to die under the beak of the peacock, the young man made a movement that was beyond everyone's expectations—he raised his hand unhurriedly, and held the peacock's sharp beak.
The bird's beak that shattered wind and rain, shattered gold and rock, was grasped lightly by him.
"A peacock with such a big tone." The young man raised his lips with a bright and lovely smile, "I don't know if I thought your ancestor Phoenix had come."
The fish-headed girl blinked, her hand loosening and tightening the handle of the lotus lantern, at a loss for what to do.
The peacock was also stunned for a moment, and then furious, the feathers all over his body exploded, and the roots stood up, glowing with a sharp and cold metallic luster.
It struggled hard, trying to break free from the boy's hand, and an angry grunt came out of its throat.
The next second, there was a light click from its beak, and the cyan beak cracked fine and dense cracks. These cracks spread and increased at an extremely fast speed, almost in the blink of an eye, its beautiful beak It was shattered inch by inch, falling to the ground together with the red blood.
"Oh, accidentally too hard."
The boy's eyelashes flickered innocently, and he let go of his hand, letting the fragments of the peacock's beak fall down.
The peacock's eyes widened, and the sharp pain rushed straight into his brain, but he couldn't wash away his horror at this moment.
Three weak chicken humans and a fish-headed woman: already numb.
"Wow—"
After a short period of silence, the peacock was furious—the roots of the crown feathers stood upright—an earth-shattering sword howl came out of its throat, and a sudden gust of wind blew up, tearing the dilapidated wooden house apart.
"Despicable human! I will... kill you!"
The peacock that lost its mouth uttered harsh words indistinctly.
The strong wind starts from the fine dust, and the fire starts from the night. The howling wind and snow all over the sky turn into a flame that burns everything, burning half of the sky red in an instant, and illuminating the mountains and forests.
"Exactly. It disturbs my sleep in the middle of the night, and I don't want to let you go."
The young man raised his eyebrows, his smile faded away, replaced by a frightening hostility, breaking through the sky like a hurricane, directly tearing apart the gust of wind and flames created by the peacock.
He clenched his fists tightly, his eyes were burning brightly, and he said fiercely: "Look! This move is called——"
"Convince people with reason!"
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