Obligations of the elderly

Tap-tap-tat!Tap-tap-tat!

This is the sound of warming up and trotting at the beginning.

Tap!Tap!Tap!

This is the rhythm when the warm-up is over and you start preparing for a long-distance run.

When the sound of footsteps sounds in conjunction with the heartbeat, if you are lucky, you will know that you must be in good condition!

Most of the time, humans don't even know what's going on in the mind of another human being, let alone a little letter bird.

Even the palace that has been with Lucky for the longest time, and the stream that is best at guessing other people's thoughts, can't guess Lucky's mind, let alone other people.

In fact, luck is a very simple bird most of the time.

Like other letterbirds, like any other bird.

It's not yet grown up, so it has far fewer things to think about than other birds that are older to think about courtship and rearing.

Before encountering palaces and streams, it mainly thought about when to go and where to pick up shells every day. After finding out that the coins were delicious, it began to think about how to squeeze a corner in the fish market to set up a stall, and then The rest of the time it is placed in the letter bird shop in the commercial street.

It no longer remembers where it came from, where it was born, and it has no impression of the bird that gave birth to itself. It only knows that when there is something in its little head, it is alone.

But other letter birds live together.

They live in a big house with many "nests" made of wire, and there are food and water in the "nests".

You don't have to brave the cold at night to pick up shells underwater alone, and you have to always be on the lookout for huge bird-eating sea beasts that may suddenly appear in the water.Food is always available, and lots of companions get together...

Then it met palaces and streams, and then it also had its own wire nest.

With its own letterbox, Gongsi always couldn't figure out why luck likes letterboxes so much, and had to wear letterboxes on his body every day when he slept, because he didn't know what letterboxes meant to luck.

A bird with a letter box is a useful bird, a bird that will never be abandoned, and a bird that will always have a wire nest to go back to - not only since when, but probably in the days when I stood outside and peeped at the letter bird shop, lucky little This idea has been stubbornly formed in the eyes of the little heart.

Of course, these are all things in the past, and luck can hardly remember the past.The days when I stood outside the Xinniao shop and looked in pitifully are almost forgotten in the depths of my brain along with my place of birth and my parents.

After all, as a letter bird, IQ has never been a strong point!The strength of the letter bird is to record the sound frequency and smell of other letter birds!

This is simply an innate ability. When Gongsi asked him to sniff the feathers of other letter birds while worrying about whether Lucky would be able to record so many information of letter birds, Lucky's mind had already accurately recorded each letter. I only believed that the taste of the bird and the frequency of the call were accurately registered, and then properly recorded in my mind.

It's just that some kind of lonely memory before is still subconsciously remnant in its memory. It also recorded its own footsteps in its mind. When it was still alone, it was only accompanied by its own footsteps. When it is afraid, it listens to its own footsteps. Gradually, this becomes a habit.

Even if it is no longer fearful now.

Its dark eyes stared firmly ahead, it had identified the direction of the letter bird closest to it, and then it was running hard in the direction of the other party!

Tap!Tap!Tap!Lucky is running forward at an unimaginable speed.Gongsi has seen it run. When setting up a stall in the market, Lucky basically has to help him deliver a letter from time to time. The small figure that shuttles deftly through the crowd - this is how Gongsi looks at Lucky running. comment of.

"It runs really fast. In fact, maybe it can run away without me to save it." ——This is the evaluation of Mo Fa, who was lucky enough to "save" in the mouth of a bird-eating beast.

However, these evaluations are actually outdated. If they see the luck at this moment, they will be shocked by the speed of luck——

How can there be such a fast bird running?

Just like a black shadow, Lucky screamed while running, using a sound that other creatures cannot hear. These sounds can help it locate well, and can also help it judge the nearby terrain, allowing it to instinctively Find the nearest way out of unknown territory.

The thigh muscles on the two slender legs are so well-developed that almost every step can take a distance several times longer than its body, running through the creeping plants all over the ground, running through the sandy soil with hidden eddies, and occasionally fanning it with luck. A pair of small wings, although it can't fly yet, but it can already learn how to use these wings to maintain balance, how much strength to flap the wings at the right time, and can also lift the body a little bit. Continuously accumulate experience and continue to learn.

like now-

Fortunately, he ran to the edge of the cliff at some point.

The ground that was originally a flat river suddenly disappeared here, replaced by a dark and deep mouth in front of it.

However, this is how it is here, and the radar in Lucky’s brain told it that the terrain here is like this. The reason why I chose this road is because it is the closest and the safest road.

Tap...Tap... Lucky's footsteps paused for a while, and he looked down with his little head, and then, it suddenly jumped into the direction of the abyss——

Borrowing the wind between the canyons, it spread its wings. Although the wings are still small compared to its body, it deftly took advantage of the wind to stabilize its falling speed, and looked firmly in a certain direction , it flapped its wings in that direction a few more times.

After falling like a rubber ball several times on the cliff, Lucky finally met his first messenger.

Seeing the white letter bird that responded to him, and the bearded man next to the white letter bird, Lucky struggled on the grass a few times to stand up again, and then ran towards the other party again "tattling".

"Hello,

Do not doubt, when you see this letter, it is undoubtedly addressed to you, to be precise, it is addressed to more than one person.

The Continental Safety Commissioner and all human beings who are still on the Black Earth Continent have now issued an evacuation order. This letter is to inform you to evacuate as soon as possible.

The year has come to this continent. That's right, it is the legendary year. This continent is no longer safe. Later, the highest combat power of all continents will arrive on the battlefield. At that time, this land will be even less safe.

Please don't hesitate to evacuate as soon as possible, your family and friends are waiting for you outside, and you will learn more about specific things when you evacuate to Pontok.

Please thank the letter bird for sending you the letter, check if it is injured, if it is injured, please treat the wound for it, if there is food, please give it food, shells, or blue Pontok coins, please send The letter that has been read is put back into the mailbox, and a notch is drawn on the mailbox to indicate that it has been read.Then, please don't delay the time of this letter bird, because this letter bird is the only one that can complete the mission of sending letters, and it will continue to send letters to other people who have not received the message.

......"

When unfolding the thin letter scroll, the man's mood was full of disbelief. He first saw a lightning-like crack gliding across the top of his head, and now a black letter bird descended from the sky. God knows he thought the other party was at first It's a big crow!He was feeling unlucky, but the other party limped towards him, and when it gestured to him for the letter post on his leg, he realized that it was a letter bird, a black letter bird!

Thinking of the picture of the other party knocking on the cliff several times before falling from the sky, the man was startled, and hurriedly checked the body of the black letter bird. After making sure that its fur was thick and not injured, he ate another blue bird. Local currency, while it was devouring food, the man rolled up the envelope again, put it back into the letter box and covered it, and then carefully carved a short word 1 on the letter box. This action seemed to be some kind of signal. Next , he saw the letter bird quickly spread its wings and screamed after eating the food in its mouth. After a brief confirmation, it shook its fluff and ran in a certain direction without hesitation!

That is——a deeper part of the Black Earth Continent, which is even more mysterious than his location...

Dazed for a moment, the man immediately started to rush to the nearest teleportation point.

But the lucky journey has just begun——

The 6000 kilometers in front are very difficult. This is the distance that other messenger birds cannot send letters, and the distance behind is not much better. So far, no one knows how big the Black Soil Continent is. It is full of undeveloped land. If you don't travel with your companions, you can even walk for a month without seeing your companions.

Except, of course, those bazaars.

After delivering letters to three single travelers who were far apart, luckily came to a market. In this market, it found many people who needed to deliver letters. After a short rest and supplies, it was confirmed that the other party had the letter After putting it back, everyone left a mark on its letter box, and then it continued to run to the next letter delivery point.

Lucky is just striding forward with firm eyes. From its point of view, every wound on its body has been cleaned and bandaged, and the full belly is the blue coins given to it by those people. It knows what to do next. Where is a person who will receive its letter, it has clear goals and firm beliefs.

It doesn't know what it looks like behind it, in the eyes of those who have received its letter and are about to evacuate...

It was a letter bird that looked very tired.

The black fluff was incomplete, and there were bumps and bumps all over his body, even the little black head had scratches, not to mention the legs.

Fortunately, the skin of the feet has been worn away.

Even the skin on the legs that are not covered by down feathers has thin wounds all over the entire leg surface, and new epidermis is broken every step of the way. These experienced gold diggers feel pain when they look at it, but The injured black letter bird didn't seem to feel the pain of the wound at all, it just shook out its down feathers that were not very energetic, and then set off again.

Looking at the back of the black letter bird, people stayed silently for a few minutes, watched it leave, and prayed for it.

I pray that the black letter bird can complete its mission safely and survive.

I don't know that my luck that many people prayed for is still striding forward, does it hurt?It hurts, but another feeling rising in my heart makes it gradually ignore the pain in the body, it is a little excited, faintly excited.

Tap!Tap!Tap!Tap!

As the running speed increased, its leg skin fell off faster, not only the leg skin, but also the down feathers on its body. It is reasonable to say that it is painful, but a strange feeling appeared in its heart, It was a premonition of what changes were about to take place in oneself.

It has not experienced it, but it is an instinct engraved in its blood and genes, just like it knows how to send a message innately.

While running, it slowly opened a pair of small wings.

The ground was trembling, purple-black lightning appeared on the ground, the ground seemed to open a huge crack, the ground shook, the volcano in the distance was touched and began to erupt, the river on the ground seemed to be burning, and the water vapor evaporated rapidly , the ground is becoming more and more unstable, hotter, and there are more and more cracks in the ground...

Everything shows that there are terrible changes taking place.

Lucky is still running fast, moving quickly between cracks, but this miraculous hiding seems to be unsustainable, the ground begins to collapse, and the fiery lava is like blood , has quietly begun to flow in the abyss below...

Just when the land under his feet was being resolved, and the trees and rocks were falling into the abyss, Lucky stepped up hard, and his wings flapped hard. At first, he flapped faster and faster. After he started to grasp a trace of airflow, the flapping movement of his wings was suddenly graceful. Get up, fan it slowly...and then again...

When the tree in front fell down at the place where it took off, the young black letter bird flew up!

Over the falling rocks one after another, over the black smoke rising from the ground, it flew up!

With the flapping of the wings again and again, the original down feathers on the wings began to fall off at an accelerated rate, and a small cluster of short and dense gray-black down feathers fell with the wind and fell into the abyss, but what was exposed underneath was not bleeding skin. but...

Brand new black hard feathers!

Those hard feathers were still damp, and had been hidden in the down feathers before, but now they are finally gradually exposed as the down feathers fall off!With the continuous flapping of the wings, the water vapor on those hard feathers is slowly dried.The curled and curled feathers slowly unfolded, pointing out like arrows along the direction of growth, the originally small and short wings seemed to have suddenly become longer, suddenly wider than before.

In addition, the fluff on other parts of its body has also fallen off, and its body is replaced by black hard feathers. It looks a lot bigger than before. huge black bird!

Opening his mouth, Lucky called out twice more.

Its voice is now a little lower than it should have been, however, this only refers to human ears.

Put it on the letter bird, it was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky.

From a long distance, through time, through space... a sound like a road sign!

In a certain tribe, a white letter bird heard this cry. It listened carefully for a while with its ears sideways. Then, it began to flap its wings desperately, and its abnormal behavior attracted people from the tribe.

"What's the matter? Is there really a disaster about to happen?" Wearing a coarse robe, a very old man took Xinniao over, his wise eyes full of melancholy.

The nearby volcano is erupting, the ground has been shaking violently, and the trees in the forest are burning... People in the tribe are panicking now. Under the command of the elders, everyone is counting the number of people and forming a team to flee, but what happened outside?Where are you going to escape?Everyone was waiting for him to give an answer, but even he didn't know the answer!

It was at this time that luck swooped down.

For luck, this is just an ordinary landing, but for people who are deeply in disaster at this time and don't know what to do, it is like a god descending from the sky!

The god who descended from the sky flapping huge black wings... is it the legendary god of death?

The first moment he saw that huge black bird, the old man couldn't help thinking.

Then, he saw the paws stretched out towards him.

It was a pair of callused, unusually thick claws, and now, there was a letter box on those thick feet, a letter box full of scars and nicks.

The old man hastily opened the letter box and took out the letter from it.

He was directly looking at Elder Scar's side...

Looking at it, his flustered heart gradually calmed down. He knew what was going on outside. Knowing what happened, he didn't panic because of the unknown like before.

He knows what to do.

"Give this letter bird a bandage, and give it clean water and food." He ordered to the people next to him.

"Isn't this the God of Death?" The young man in the tribe who was still in panic asked hesitantly.

"No, it's not the god of death, but the messenger of hope..." The old man said, "It has sent news from the outside. Now, in this land we live in, something very terrible is happening, so we want to go out."

The man froze: "Leave...leave here?"

"Well, get out of here, take all the clansmen to leave, let the clansmen who are shaped like flying beasts get ready, and we'll leave now."

"Okay...Okay." The man settled down, then nodded.

There is still some panic on the face, but it is not as strong as before.

Because you know what's going on outside, you know what to do.

I really didn't know what happened just now, everyone knew they wanted to escape, but where did they escape?Deeper in the continent?They were terrified because of ignorance, but now, because of the news brought by this letter bird, they could at least reduce the uneasiness caused by this part of their emotions.

The man went out to inform his tribe, while the old man carefully engraved the number of his tribe on the letter box of the black letter bird, sealed the letter box, and looked at the black letter bird that was ready to leave at any time, and said softly: "Thank you for the letter you brought. , lucky news."

"I hope you can continue to convey this news to more people."

After finishing speaking, the old man crossed his hands in front of his chest and posed a gesture of blessing. The black letter bird took off in front of him and disappeared into a black dot in an instant.

"Elder, everyone is ready! Come up quickly!" The clansmen were calling him from below.

Only then did the old man retract his gaze, and ran out with flexible steps that did not match his age——

On this day, similar situations happened in every corner of the Black Soil Continent. On this vast land, isolated tribes were visited one after another, and gold diggers in lonely brigades were discovered one after another. A letter from a black letter bird, a letter of imminent disaster.

"... Please try your best to leave the place in the fastest way and return to the town of Pontok. Most people should have electronic maps, and electronic maps should be able to guide you to the fastest route."

"However, due to the fact that disasters may happen at any time, no one of us can predict what will happen at that time. Considering that the electronic map may fail, and even the portal may fail, we will light a flame for everyone in the small town of Pontok .”

"Once other guidance methods cannot be used, please pay attention to the sky, we will guide you, please follow the guidance."

This was the last paragraph on the letter. Fearing that the electronic map would fail, everyone was on their way as quickly as possible. However, what everyone was most worried about happened.

"Damn it, what does the guide in the sky look like? Without even saying a word... Are we so sure that we can see it at a glance? What if we see it wrong..." Looking at the dark light screen on his wrist, the man cursed under his breath.

As a gold digger who was very far away from the teleportation point, he turned back immediately after receiving the letter, but the nearby teleportation point had already fallen, and he could only rely on his own ability to travel. However, just now, the people who had been guiding him forward The electronic map suddenly went out.

He immediately thought of the last paragraph on the letter.

"Good spirits don't work bad spirits." He knew immediately that the worst had happened.

Although he was cursing, he still nervously looked at the sky. Now there are erupting volcanoes and flames everywhere. He really doesn't know where he should see the "guidance of the flame".

However, it was also at this time——

An extremely strong flame suddenly shot straight into the sky, more eye-catching and hotter than any surrounding volcanoes, he immediately realized that it was the so-called "guidance of flames"!

"Oh oh oh! That level of flame... is it a palace?" Coincidentally, at this moment, in a land quite far away from him, a boy with short black hair was looking at the disappearing electronic map and worrying, but a little Finally, his companion pulled him to point to the sky, and he immediately saw the cluster of flames, and then saw the big fish transformed from the flame, and whistled, then he jumped off the tree and pulled his companion Run in the direction of the big flame fish.

The same thing happened to the lucky ones.

After finally delivering the letter to the last person, Lucky was exhausted.

It has flown too far, too far.

The sudden disaster has already changed the terrain and magnetic waves, the way it came... Now it can't be retrieved by the method of memory.

It barks weakly twice.

Regardless of whether it is the messenger of the gods who brings good luck in the eyes of others, or the god of death who brings news of disaster, in essence, it is just a little letter bird.

Even though he finally grows hard feathers and can fly, he always misses his master and the little letter bird in his wire nest.

A stupid little letter bird.

After notifying the last person, it realized that it did not know the way home.

Without the target of sending the letter, it couldn't figure out how to go back.

however--

At this time, it saw the cluster of flames ahead!

That is the flame of the master!

Lucky, who has played by the master's stove since he was a child, and whose tail was scorched by the master's fire, knows what it is best!

The master is there!

Its wire nest is there!

The fish-shaped flames were reflected in the eyes, and Lucky was full of energy again. As soon as the huge black wings stretched, it immediately swept towards the direction of the flames——

This night, the town of Pontoc is destined to be very lively.

People waited for gold diggers who were notified to return one after another, and listened to them tell the story of receiving letters from the black letter bird. However, if you listen carefully, the black letter bird they are talking about is not a bird at all.

There are fluffy black messenger birds that can only deliver letters by running, and there are also god-like black letter birds with black hard feathers and extraordinary looks.

If it wasn't for the fact that most of the people present saw the black letter bird leave with their own eyes, and they were sure that only one black letter bird was sent from their side, they couldn't believe that what these people said was true.

Until they waited until everyone came back, and then came the black letter bird with black hard feathers, handsome and godlike.

The people cheered and shouted to celebrate.

This night, the town of Pontok should be very lively.

No one knows how far the little letter bird named Lucky has traveled and flown in the past few days, but people have counted a total of 3287 numbers on its letter box, some of which are scratches, and those with more people are Numbers are engraved directly.

This letter bird delivered letters to 2248 people during this letter delivery process, and then these letters added up to rescue 3287 people!

One after another notches of different shades are engraved on the tattered letter box of the little letter bird, and each notch is a badge. This little letter bird named lucky is destined to be recorded in the annals of history for its illustrious military exploits!