"Jamfu! It's a crack in Jamfu!"
"Look, a giant beast is coming out."
"It's over, it's over! We haven't seen a giant beast here for several years, why did the Jambu Crack suddenly appear?"
"Stop yelling and run for your life!"
There was a loud sound in my ears.
The young man named Huo Wa was stunned, staring blankly at the hanging black in the Yanfu space, which quickly took on physical form and turned into a strange bird with fiery red feathers that looked like an owl, but with a human face.
After it left the Yanfu space, it spread its wings and immediately set off a heat wave.
As the heat wave passed, the trees on the ground burned one after another like torches.
In the blink of an eye, a sea of fire appeared in the wilderness outside the camp.
As the flames rose, the strange bird screamed, circled in the sky, and flew towards the camp.
"Run quickly, Huoba."
The middle-aged man with the missing front teeth yanked the fire boy and pulled him to run with him. He looked back from time to time and saw the figure of the strange bird rapidly expanding in his eyes.
"It's over, it's over. Those of us with two legs can't outrun those with wings."
"Damn it, I'm not willing to give in. I'm going to die before I even sleep with you."
"And you need to light up the sky lanterns, for God's sake, you don't have eyes!"
Rumble.
The heat wave roared in.
The fire on the earth is rolling, chasing the strange birds in the sky, spreading a red carpet on the wilderness.
Just as the strange bird was about to fly into the camp, suddenly, a drum sounded from nowhere.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom, boom, boom!
The drums sounded again and again. Strangely enough, as soon as the drums sounded, the strange bird in the sky suddenly stopped and stopped in mid-air less than one kilometer away from the camp.
The eyes on the strange island's face were rolling, looking somewhere.
It soon spotted a car, an off-road vehicle with a big drum mounted on it.
A middle-aged man was beating the big drum hard, making drum sounds again and again.
Dong dong dong...dong dong dong...dong dong...
The drums sounded rhythmically, and the giant beast's eyes suddenly flashed with panic. Then, as if it was frightened, it changed its direction, neighed, and flapped its wings away.
As soon as it left, the flames on the ground gradually extinguished, and finally green smoke curled up, and a large cloud of smoke rose into the air, and was gradually blown away by the wind.
"Go...go?"
"The beast has escaped!"
"Great, the strange bird flew away."
"God bless you, God, you finally opened your eyes."
There were cheers in the camp, and the middle-aged man with missing front teeth knelt down on the ground excitedly, kowtowed repeatedly, and said words like "Thank God" in his mouth.
"wrong."
Huo Wa suddenly said: "Uncle, what you have to thank is not God, but the sound of the drums. It was the sound of the drums that drove away the giant beast."
"drum?"
The man with missing front teeth raised his head, his eyes blank.
After a while, people gathered at the gate of the camp, including Huowa, saw an off-road vehicle approaching.
The big red drum on the car was very eye-catching, and the drumsticks were even more terrifying. They turned out to be two white animal bones.
At this time, a stout man in the crowd approached the off-road vehicle and said loudly: "Brother Zheng Jie, I've been waiting for you all."
The middle-aged man who was playing the drum in the car just now laughed and said, "Captain Zhao Kun, I kept you waiting for a long time."
That was Captain Zhao, the mastermind of the camp, looking around: "Where is the Queen in Hongshang?"
Zheng Jie, the leader of Yizhen, his face glowing red, jumped out of the driveway: "Empress Hongshang is busy. Besides, I didn't bring the 'Animal Exorcism Drum'."
"You have heard just now that as long as you beat this big drum made by the empress herself, you can drive away the giant beast."
Zhao Kun kept nodding: "It's really magical. I didn't expect that this big drum can drive away giant beasts."
"That's natural."
"Someone, bring this big drum to me in the camp to offer it to me."
Zhao Kun waved his hand, and several young men came out.
"Wait a minute."
Zheng Jie smiled and raised his hand: "Captain Zhao, I have said before that the Queen in Hongshang does not provide help for free."
Zhao Kun said quickly: "I know, I know, this, brother Zheng Jie, I wonder what the queen needs?"
"Food? Water? Or weapons?"
Zheng Jie shook his head, and then uttered one word from his mouth: "Human!"
Yizhen.
The giant elephant trampled it a few days ago, and most of the town was turned into ruins.
After these days of cleaning up, a vacant land has been cleared, and some buildings are now being built on the vacant land, but currently only the earth is being excavated to build foundations.
At the edge of the clearing, two figures, one red and one green, attracted much attention. Those who passed by all bowed to the two figures before leaving.
"Xiaoqing, look, these people are really obedient."
"Whatever we want, they give us."
"Let them go east, they dare not go west."
"It's really fun, don't you think?"
Hongzhuang's face was still pale, as if she had not recovered from a serious illness, but her lips were bright red, so shockingly red.
Qinglian's face has always been rosy, but for some reason today, her face is also pale. When she heard Hongzhuang's words, she smiled reluctantly and agreed in a low voice.
"It seems that what I asked them to build will not be possible for a while."
"Come on, let's go back. We still need to make a few more beast-repelling drums so that Zheng can go find more people for me."
Hongzhuang gently held Qinglian's hand and said with a smile: "The beast-repelling drum is not difficult to make, but the material for the drum head is gone. Xiaoqing, you have to shed some more skin for my sister to use."
"This drumhead is made of the most exquisite material. If it weren't for the skin sloughs from you and me, those mortals wouldn't be able to drive away those beasts even if they smashed the drum."
"Sister knows that it's a bit difficult for you to take the initiative to shed your skin, and I don't want to see you suffer."
"But you know that my sister is weak and frail, and it takes a lot of effort for her to make drums. Xiaoqing, can you understand me?"
Qinglian tried her best to smile and said: "Sister is right. Xiaoqing can't help her, so she should shed her skin for her to use."
"Well, I know you love your sister."
"Without further ado, let's go back."
Hongzhuang took Qinglian's hand and walked back in an intimate manner. Everyone who saw this scene would say "sisterly love".
Another day passed.
Several cars stopped, the doors opened, and Huo Wa got out of the car along with other young people in the camp.
He looked forward, and there seemed to be a construction site in front of him, with construction vehicles busy in the open space.
There are many young people like them, wearing hard hats and digging with various tools in the open space, digging out tunnels.
"What, are we digging trenches here?"
The peers around him started talking about it.
Yesterday, Yizhen sent a 'beast-repelling drum', but it was not given to the camp for free. In exchange, the camp needed to provide fifty young laborers to the Hongshang Empress.
So after drawing lots last night, Huo Wa and the people around him were selected and sent to this construction site.
