orc planet

The rising sun pushed through the morning mist, and scattered the first ray of golden light to the green land full of vitality.

Just like every ordinary morning, the riverside tribe residents in Etalo Forest ushered in a new day in the morning light──

"Clan, patriarch! Noah, he's gone!" A young clansman ran over in a hurry, with big round eyes and a pair of furry animal ears on his head.

Sak sighed heavily, and waved to the panic-stricken clansman, signaling them to back off.

──How many times is this this month?Since Noah knew 'that thing', he used this method to protest himself as the patriarch.

The kid was very stubborn, and Sack knew he shouldn't be so authoritarian.But there is no way, on the next full moon day, that is, when the power of the riverbank tribe changes, he will let go of all responsibilities as the head of the tribe.Before that, he must find a good home for Noah, this is the agreement between himself and 'him'!

"Patriarch, don't you want to go to Noah? In a few days he will..."

"It doesn't matter, he will come back by himself before dark." The tribe is his home, so where else can the child go?

"Patriarch." The clansman beside him hesitated to speak. He carefully peeped at Sak's face, and finally decided to speak out what was in his heart. "Patriarch, there is a reason for Noah to resist you, what he actually likes is──"

"Shut up!" Sac's face turned cold, and he gave the clansman a hard look.

"Noah is just my 'brother'." He specially emphasized the word 'brother', and found that his harsh tone frightened the clansmen, and quickly eased his scowling. "Sen is a good candidate. He will definitely take good care of Noah. This is the best choice for Noah."

The tribe nodded, not daring to say anything more.

Soon, a long horn sounded from the entrance of the village.This is the signal to summon the warriors to go hunting in the forest.Sac strode towards the entrance of the village, took the black spear handed by the tribe, raised it high, and let out a loud roar.The clansmen beat the weapons in their hands one after another, and followed Sac out of the tribe one after another.

The uproar gradually receded, just where Sac had been stranded.A small head pushed aside the dense branches and poked out from the cracks in the leaves.

Noah stared blankly at a certain point on the ground, then gritted his teeth and jumped off the top of the tree.He trampled on the ground where Sac had been standing as if venting his anger, he tried harder and cursed loudly; however, those originally clear and bright eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist at the moment, revealing a thick sad……

"No, Noah, so you are here, everyone is looking for you everywhere..." The young man with a delicate face moved over hesitantly.Noah is very indifferent to people and doesn't like his people approaching him without authorization.In the past, Noah was very cheerful, with a sweet smile in his clear and soft voice, which made people want to get closer.But since 'that incident', Noah's whole person has changed...

Slightly tilting his head, Noah looked expressionlessly at the pretty boy who wanted to curry favor with him.The innocent smiling face deeply pricked a certain fragile nerve in his heart──

"Go away, you don't have to worry about my affairs!" Noah didn't understand why he was so excited, he pushed the boy away, and rushed out of the tribe without looking back.

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"Damn, hate! You are all bastards──Zak, you are a big bastard!"

Noah ran a long way in one breath.The vast primeval forest is exactly the same no matter from which angle, but for Noah who grew up on the edge of the forest, the forest is like his second home.Every time he encounters something unhappy, he will sneak into the forest—sometimes it is a tree hole, sometimes it is a river embankment. Although he is alone, Noah is not afraid, because there is always someone who will find him... ...but that person will never appear again now...

"Why...why wasn't I the one who died..." The sobbing scream echoed in the empty forest, over and over again.The blue sky has been covered by thick haze since I don't know when──

The weather in June can change as you say, the sky is still clear in the morning; when it arrives, it will rain pouringly.

The land quickly became muddy. Noah walked in the forest with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Unknowingly, he came to the "forbidden land" that the people talked about—a steep slope with a drop of hundreds of meters. Thousands of miles away, separated by the terrible forest called 'Deadland'!

It is said that countless evil beasts were bred in that vast and gloomy land; it is said that no one can leave there alive; it is said... too many rumors render the land extremely mysterious.From very early on, the patriarchs of each generation of riverside tribes strictly forbade the tribesmen to step into the dead forest.No matter how scarce the food is, no matter how critical the situation is, absolutely no one is allowed to enter!

With a pause, Noah stopped his forward momentum.He found a smooth rock and sat down, motionless, staring blankly at the necklace made of colorful stones and teeth.

As if recalling something, a childlike innocent smile flashed across his face.However, it didn't take long before Noah stood up angrily and threw the thing in his hand with all his might!He panted heavily, letting the cold rainwater hit his face, blurring his vision...

After a stalemate for a long time, Noah seemed to wake up suddenly, and hurriedly jumped off the stone to retrieve the necklace.He looked around like crazy, and he didn't even notice that his arms and cheeks were cut by sharp grass blades.

Finally, in an unremarkable patch of grass, he found what he had been looking for.Unfortunately, the necklace fell on a steep slope and got caught by a tree root protruding from the ground.

Noah slid down the steep slope carefully.He stepped on the protruding rock as a support, his body leaned down bit by bit, and he stretched his arms trying to reach the necklace.

Just a little bit... almost enough to reach it... Noah was about to stick out his lower lip, and his back was sweating nervously.His arms were tense, his body trembling from being drenched in the cold rain for a long time.

Only a little bit, obviously only a little bit!Noah was so anxious that he was about to come out, his heart was overwhelmed, his toes moved forward a few inches, stepped on the edge of the rock, and his body leaned forward almost at a half right angle.

──Enough!

The moment the fingertips touched the necklace, the soil that was soft due to the rain collapsed because it could not bear Noah's weight!

Noah screamed loudly, he held the necklace in his hand tightly, his body rolled like a snowball and rushed down the hillside quickly.After about five or six minutes, his back hit a piece of soft grass hard.

Noah couldn't believe he was still alive!As luck would have it, there were only a few scrapes on his body that looked serious.

"Sure enough, it's impossible to use death to get rid of it." Noah sneered at himself coldly, raising the corners of his mouth.He looked up at the forest blurred in the mist and rain, and felt a sense of relief in his heart for no reason.

It's not bad to just disappear like this... But just thinking about it, an anxious face immediately appeared in my mind.

Noah laughed at himself again. Sure enough, he was still too soft-hearted and didn't want to see Sac's sad face...

"Find a way out as soon as possible." Noah said to himself, looked around, and couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his heart—the forest of death is as terrifying as it is in the legend!

Perhaps because of the rain, the forest was very dark, and there were dark, eerie intertwined trees everywhere.These huge trees should be hundreds of years old. The criss-crossing, twisted and twisted roots look like snakes, like huge nets covering the entire surface.There were no birds chirping, not even the chirping of insects, only the sound of pattering rain, and weird long hissing from far away...

It's so dark, I can't see anything.Noah rubbed his eyes, hesitated to take the first step.Just like its name, this ancient primeval forest is full of breath of death, which makes people chill!

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