Pure White Core

Chapter 9

The further we walked, the more traces of human activities there were. A low wall made of simple stones appeared in front of our eyes. There were murky growls in the wall and the chaotic footsteps of animals.

"Hello! Is anyone there?" The yellow-toothed man, who had been silent before, climbed up the stone wall that was not as high as his waist before us. There seemed to be a strange sound coming from the hut, like the cry of an animal. It's like someone shouting loudly.

"What did you say?" Xu Dazhi also leaned against the wall and shouted loudly, "We are passing by, can we stay overnight?"

Loud yelling came from the room again, with vague syllables, obviously a dialect we didn't understand, everyone looked at each other, Yao Xiaobo also climbed up the wall behind Huang Yanan, and shouted inside together, the short stone house The tattered door made of several pieces of wood moved and still did not open, but there was a roar similar to threats and reprimands.

"What's going on?" The low wall is too high for me, and I can't climb it. I just wonder why there was no sound of something running in the yard before.

"Oh, let's knock on the door!" Impatient Jiang Li also stretched out her chubby arms and climbed up the low wall with the help of Xu Dazhi, and jumped into the yard first.Several other people followed suit and climbed in. After Lan Meng passed the stone wall, he reached out and hugged me in too.

It was already dark, and the door of this scruffy little round yard was opened very close to the hut. There were not many weeds in the yard, but there was a foul smell of animal urine. On the side of the stone, there are many white pictographic imprints on the reclining boulder with a height of five or six meters, and the wide gap at the bottom that can be easily entered is dark and permeable.

The stone house, covered with straggly thatch, has no windows, but there seems to be a flue on one side, from which the smoke comes out.Jiang Li and Xu Dazhi went forward with their iron swords in hand to knock on the door. The roar in the hut became louder, high-pitched and thin. madman?

Looking at his dilapidated and poor yard, it really looks like it.

Everyone else was staring at the low little room, and I was looking around. That oval-shaped shack-like room couldn't accommodate eleven of us. Maybe everyone would have to sleep with a bonfire in the yard tonight. I don't know if the host has anything to eat. I have been hungry for a long time, and now my stomach hurts badly.

"Aww!" Yao Xiaobo suddenly clutched his shoulders and screamed, fell to the ground and rolled, and the people around him scattered in all directions, crying and howling.

"Ah! There are monsters!" Lan Meng next to me screamed and scrambled back. The iron sword in his hand fell to the ground without even caring to pick it up. He rushed towards the low wall together with the yellow-toothed man and the old man who had already started running. .Jiang Li screamed again and again, her voice was called Chayin, and the female doctor next to her was not much better, she ran out in a panic and buried her head.

Xu Dazhi had already swung his iron sword into a fight with something that came out of the small stone house. The reason why he said it was a "thing" was because that monster with long hair and fangs stood like a person, no matter how you looked at it, it looked like a human being. It's not like having the slightest relationship with people.It was so strong that it threw aside the wooden object that had hurt Yao Xiaobo just now, and greeted Xu Dazhi with a nail-headed stick full of wooden thorns, beating Xu Dazhi until his clothes were soaked in blood. wet.

Jiang Litijian, who was close at hand, only knew how to stomp and scream, and did not go up to help at all. Liu Fan, who was supporting Yao Xiaobo who fell to the ground, just got up to help, but was thrown to the ground by another howling animal. Yao Xiaobo, with arrows stuck in his shoulders and shouting to death, didn't even care about rolling, and crawled far away on hands and feet, screaming and crying with snot and tears.

I was also trembling with fright, screaming and rushing over to gouge the fangs on Liu Fan's body to bite. It was a lizard-like monster not much smaller than a dog, with special hind legs. Well-developed, with sharper claws than leopards.My strength was too weak, the fangs could not even leave obvious wounds when poking the thing's back and belly, but it turned its body sideways and swung its tail over to hit me in the face, as if I had been hit on the head. He was directly smashed and paralyzed in the soil, unable to even get up.

That thing has been hiding under the dark gap between the big rocks, until the thing in the hut came out just now, it jumped out to attack.

"Ah!" Xu Dazhi roared loudly, followed by the screams of monsters and the sound of falling to the ground. The lizard-like thing flew over and tried to pounce on Xu Dazhi, but was forced away by Jiang Li screaming and waving her sword. Xu Dazhi, who was covered in blood, yelled and swung his iron sword and slashed at the waist of the "lizard", knocking the lizard to the ground, and then chopped off the lizard's head with his sword.

Xu Dazhi stood next to the lizard's headless corpse with a sword in his hand, panting heavily, surrounded by women's cries and Yao Xiaobo's ouch, Liu Fan lay quietly on his back not far from me, motionless.

I exhausted all my strength to barely get up. There were warm water marks on my face. When I reached out to touch it, it was red and full of blood, and I could still touch obvious wounds. My cheek was cracked by a tail.

I squatted beside Liu Fan and touched his bloody face, it was still warm, but his throat was almost completely bitten off by a fatal bite, and there was no way to save him.

I looked up at them again. Everyone was in a daze. Jiang Li was sitting on the ground and crying loudly. With the yellow-toothed man, the old man, the female doctor, and Liu Sujuan, they stood outside the low wall without saying a word and went in to watch.

Lan Meng followed the yellow-toothed man and the old man to the low wall at the first time, but they were not the first to go out, because the rural aunt who had been leaning behind was smarter and more agile than them.The female doctor crawled out while crying, and she couldn't climb up several times in the panic, screaming anxiously, but the people outside didn't help her.

I picked up Liu Fan's iron sword. The sword was so heavy that I couldn't even straighten my arms, but I still threw away two teeth and held the sword in my hand. I got up and walked towards the low stone house.

The smelly stone house was very dark, and the roof was very low. There was a small fire in one corner, and a few sticks were stuck beside the fire, and there were pieces of meat sizzling on it. The fat is roasted and exudes an attractive aroma.Not far away, there is a large hay nest with a few sheets of soft animal skins on the surface, which seems to be the 'bed' of that thing.On the other side of the room was a simple wooden frame made of several planks, on which were placed some strangely shaped bones and dead grass, as well as dried fruits and stones.

There are two horizontal wooden sticks on the roof, and several large pieces of dried meat are pierced on the sticks, like stored grain.

Such a small room, let alone ten people, might not even be able to accommodate a third person.

I turned and walked out of the hut, and everyone was looking at me, including the ones who were still howling and groaning.

I tried my best to hold the open wound on my face and let it fit together, hoping that the blood would coagulate and scab quickly. If such a wound suppurated and infected, I doubted whether I could survive seven days and then go back to see a doctor.

"There are no monsters inside, and there is something to eat." I knew what they wanted to ask.

After hearing what I said, Xu Dazhi was expressionless. He turned around and went into the small stone house with his iron sword in his hand. Jiang Li, who was sitting on the ground, also stopped crying, got up and walked in behind him. Several people outside the low wall Also silently scrambling to come in again.

Everyone rushed to the small stone house, except Yao Xiaobo and me. Yao Xiaobo cried miserably, clutching the wooden stick on his shoulder. He cried that he was in pain, but I think he was crying more why others didn't care about him.

I squatted next to Liu Fan's body and leaned against him. As the night got darker, I thought I should light a fire, because the wind was strong now, and it looked like it would be very cold at night.

The hut was so narrow that it was impossible for everyone to squeeze in, so most of them blocked the door without saying a word, poking their heads inside desperately.We hardly saw a few trees along the way, and I wondered where the wood for the fire in the small stone house came from.

A crescent moon hangs in the sky, and the stars are particularly bright in the dark night sky. In my county town, I can also see such a beautiful starry sky in summer nights, but as I grow up, it’s not only the smoky winter that can’t see the stars. , Even the summer smog has gradually become serious, and the stars have become things that only exist in memory.

I stood up and looked around in the weak light, and I found a firewood pile in a corner behind the small stone house. The scattered dead branches were piled up in a mess. The round nest, with some bone residue and broken feathers left, looks like the place where the "lizard" sometimes rests.

I put the iron sword back into the ring like the others, hugged a bundle of firewood with my right hand, and then carried it to Liu Fan's body. The amount was not much, because I had to cover the open wound with my left hand. It blooms again when I relax.I went back and forth four or five times before I got enough firewood. Those people stood reluctantly at the door, seeing their concentration, I guess they were probably watching Xu Dazhi eat meat.

I want to go in and find a fire after they are gone. I can at least get warm and sleep if I can light a fire.Liu Fan's body was already cold and stiff. The ring inlaid with white stones on his hand was broken. I only picked up a small piece of bright white shards, and the other parts, including the metal, were shattered into powder.

"Pure White Anchor Fragment, Grade F." As soon as the small stone fragment arrived in my hand, a message about it came from the ring. As long as I can collect five fragments, I can go back and exchange for a complete ring.

Someone shouted at the hut, mixed with scolding and women's screams. I listened closely, and those people were arguing over the large pieces of jerky hanging on sticks. Xu Dazhi, who was already full, said that the jerky was exchanged with his life. He wanted to keep the booty that came and eat it slowly. Jiang Li quarreled with him, and the old man fanned the flames for the other two men who were with him to grab it, but they couldn't beat Xu Dazhi, because Xu Dazhi suddenly became so powerful that he He kicked the man who was always talking to himself, and slashed the iron sword in his hand so hard that it almost split the iron sword in the yellow-toothed man's hand, and the yellow-toothed man crawled far away.

The small stone house couldn't hold many people. Xu Dazhi didn't let anyone in, closed the door by himself, and said that he would kill anyone who dared to go there today.

The group of people yelled and cursed a few words outside the small stone house, and then dispersed. The wind was very cold at night, and they stood there and suffered.

After thinking about it, I got up and went to the corpse of the hacked "lizard", took out the iron sword and swung it fiercely, chopping off one of its small front legs, although Xu Dazhi probably wouldn't give it to me now. Excuse me, but if I eat some raw meat pads to cushion my stomach, I think I can sleep more peacefully at night.

"That's right, there's a 'dog' here, we can eat this!" Huang Fangnan was slightly injured in the pushing, his arms shrugged, but his voice was still full of air: "This is fresh meat, it's better than that." It's much better to eat silly!" After speaking, he squatted down and picked up the lizard's body without even looking at me.

"There's no fire, can you eat it raw?" The old man is talking more now: "Xu Dazhi is really nothing. If you take up the fire, you won't be able to use it, you son of a bitch!" Looked pissed off.

"There is a fire, but there is nothing to light. In the wilderness... Sleeping at night is also a big problem." Jiang Li said wearily: "Or just lean against the wall and forget it. I will figure out a way tomorrow morning."

I held the lizard's front paws and went back to squat next to Liu Fan. The wind at night was very cold, but I felt a little warmer by leaning on the leather jacket.I had a little pile of wood near me, but I had no fire, and I thought I could sleep on it when I spread it out.

The few people around the lizard's body at the base of the wall started arguing again. The rural aunt had an extra iron sword in her hand and was chopping up the lizard with the yellow-toothed man. Lan Meng was beside her angrily cursing.She dropped the iron sword on the ground when she ran out in a hurry and climbed over the wall. When she came back, she forgot to pick it up, and found that she couldn't find it again. It turned out that Liu Sujuan had picked it up. He didn't even look at her at all, and when he was in a hurry, he bared his teeth and stretched out his hand to slap her across the face, which made Lan Meng jump away in fright.

Everyone else remained silent, even Jiang Li and the female doctor were silent, refusing to give Lan Meng justice.

"Don't you have another one! That young man is dead, go and get his sword!" The old man probably got tired of hearing it, so he stretched out his hand and waved away Lan Meng like a fly. Lan Meng hesitated for a while, then lowered his head and went I'm over here.