"The blood moon is coming!" someone in the cave shouted.
"The blood moon is coming!" Countless fanatical voices rang out. Some were shouting wildly, some were kneeling down, and some even cut their wrists to let the blood flow out. The aura of madness filled the cave, and blood lines spread on the stone walls. , the moon in the sky was faintly glowing with blood, and the beasts in the forest were awakened. Some howled at the moon, and some fled in all directions.
Sunrise, leaving the mountain.
"Ha~" The young man yawned and walked out of the woods. He had a delicate face and a slender figure. People who were not familiar with it might mistake him for a woman. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the quiet woods. The young man stretched and walked to a tree. Down,
He grabbed it with both hands, and after a few breaths, he climbed up a tree. His movements were as skillful as a monkey's. He picked a piece of seven-leaf clover with different leaves from this tree on a branch of the tree, took a look at it, nodded with satisfaction, and threw it in The bamboo basket behind him was then moved to another tree with great effort.
The young man just carried the bamboo basket on his back and kept shuttling through the woods. Every time he came to a place, he would stop, pluck useful herbs and throw them into the bamboo basket behind him.
He walked to the cliff and took a look at the sky. He counted the time and it was almost time to go to the town. However, the young man did not leave in a hurry but looked down the cliff. There was a raised rock twenty feet down the cliff. There is a herb growing on the boulder. The herb is illuminated by the sun and emits bursts of fragrance. Even though it is so far away, the young man can smell the fragrance. He takes a deep breath and feels comfortable all over his body. There seems to be a warm current in his body, which is very comfortable. .
I looked around and found no other wild beasts guarding the surroundings. Generally, there would be wild beasts around this herb waiting for it to mature. When the herb matures, they would swallow it in one gulp and absorb the medicinal properties.
The young man immediately put down the bamboo basket, took out the rope, tied one end to the big tree and the other to himself. He pulled it and felt it was tight, then he went down the cliff. After a while, he went down more than twenty feet. It was normal. Generally speaking, even adults would not go down so quickly, but for teenagers, it is surprising that this is a common occurrence.
Approaching the boulder, the young man first weighed it with his feet to make sure it would not suddenly collapse, then he continued going down with confidence. His feet landed on the boulder. The young man let out a sigh of relief, and then looked at the herb, "This warm-blooded The grass is finally mature, but I have been craving for it for a long time." Fortunately, the eagle is not here now, otherwise he would not dare to come down easily.
The young man bent his waist to pick off the herb and was about to look at it carefully when his ears twitched and a sharp and piercing scream suddenly came from the sky. The young man shrank from the sky and said something bad in his heart, it was the eagle coming back. Got it!
A shadow galloped towards the young man at an extremely fast speed. It was a ferocious bird with wings spread as wide as seven or eight feet. The young man looked evil and felt very nervous. The current situation could not cause much movement. If If this stone collapses, I will be extremely passive.
Just when the eagle was about to touch his body, the young man kicked his feet hard and moved his body suddenly to the side. The eagle had no time to stop its strength, and its beak was stuck tightly in the gap between the stones.
Maybe it was flying too fast, and the eagle fluttered hard for several times but failed to escape. This shocked the young man. With such force, if it was really hit, it would be either dead or disabled, and this was a cliff of several hundred meters. If you fall, you will die. The crazy behavior of the eagle makes the boy feel something is wrong. I have never seen the eagle in the mountains take the initiative to hurt people. It has a crazy look. It is not honest even with its mouth nailed to the cliff. It is crazy. Calling.
The young man saw the eagle's eyes were red and full of blood, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes. He took out the knife from his waist and slashed the eagle's neck. The eagle flapped twice and then made no sound.
"Crack" a shattering sound sounded in the young man's ears. The young man turned his eyes and followed the sound. He found that there was a break at the junction of the boulder and the cliff, and they were about to separate. The young man hurriedly climbed up the mountain wall. Just when the boy climbed to the cliff, there was a loud noise below. The boulder fell completely and fell to the bottom of the cliff and fell into pieces.
"Huh~" Looking at the boulder at the foot of the mountain, the boy let out a long breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He couldn't help but feel scared. He thought that it would be better to take less risks in the future, but looking at the fragrant herbs in his hand, the boy couldn't help but hehe. As soon as he smiled, his mood improved, he put away the rope and walked down the mountain.
Walking out of the mountains, the first thing you see is a small town. The word "Lishan Town" is written on the stone tablet at the door. The young man walked into the town carrying a bamboo basket. After walking a few steps, he smelled a familiar fragrance, and then came There was a sound of selling, and the young man took a deep breath of the fragrance and walked towards the bun shop.
The owner of the bun shop is an aunt. She has been running the bun shop for almost 20 years. When she saw the young man coming, she greeted him warmly, "Here comes Xiao Wuming. Come on, these are freshly baked buns. Come and try them." He said, He quickly picked up a few big meat buns and stuffed them into the boy's hands. Faced with the aunt's enthusiasm, the boy could only smile helplessly and took the buns.
"Thank you Aunt Sun. Is Uncle Sun here? Didn't you hear that he was injured while hunting some time ago? I happened to pick a warm-blooded grass today. It will be good for your health to fry it and drink it." After saying that, he first took the bun in his hand. Put it aside, put down the bamboo basket behind his back, take out the herbs that he had collected this morning from his adventure, and put them on the table.
"Hey, you must have spent a lot of effort to gather this herb. I can't accept it." Aunt Sun saw the warm-blooded grass and quickly declined, "Mom, just accept it. I eat so many buns from you on weekdays." If you don’t give me any money, just treat it like you’ve paid for the buns over the past few years. I’ll send some ointment to Uncle Sun later, so let’s go now!”
Wuming is sixteen years old this year. He has no name. He was brought to Lishan by his master since he was a child. He does not have his own name, so everyone calls him Wuming. The two of them live on the mountainside of Lishan. Wuming wants to be with everyone. They lived together in the town, but the master insisted on living in the mountains. Two years ago, the master told him that he had something important to do and left here. He has not returned yet. I wonder if he abandoned him.
Eating the fragrant pork buns, Wuming walked to a medicine shop. When he looked inside, he found that there were several hunters from the town, old and young, taking medicine. Each of them had some scratches on their body, and some even had some scratches on their bodies. The front and back were bloody and bloody.
The shopkeeper saw Wuming coming and greeted him quickly: "Wuming, you're here just in time. Hurry, there are so many hemostatic herbs in the store. We have all used up the hemostatic herbs." Wuming quickly put down the bamboo basket behind his back and took out the hemostatic herbs inside. He picked them out, frowned at the many injured people, and asked, "Uncle Li, what happened? Why are so many people injured?"
"How do I know? It's said to be caused by the wild beasts in the mountains. Isn't it like this on weekdays? I'll be too busy waiting for you to do something for me."
"Okay, but Uncle Li, you have to pay for my dinner."
Uncle Li, who was helping people bandage something, smiled and cursed without looking up when he heard this: "Okay, okay, you really don't want to suffer. Uncle Li, when have I ever treated you badly?"
"I know, I know, Uncle Li, you are so kind to me."
Wuming rolled up his sleeves and began to bandage the young man in front of him who was about the same age as him. The young man's thigh was still bleeding. He opened the cloth on it and found that the wound was very deep. You could see the white bones inside. Wuming looked at it. Eye Wound asked: "What's going on, Brother Liu? So many people were injured today."
"Hey, don't tell me. The wild beasts in the mountains have been suddenly very active and ferocious for some reason recently, and their eyes are bloodshot. By the way, you, the kid, haven't noticed anything wrong even though you live in the mountains?" The young man named Liu turned pale. , the words spoken in his mouth were all vibrating.
When Wuming heard this, he thought of the ferocious bird this morning. After thinking for a moment, he shook his head, "No, I don't know what happened." He was not sure what the connection was between the two.
The two of them were chatting and Wuming bandaged Brother Liu's wound. Brother Liu thanked Wuming and left without stopping.
"Huh!" Wuming glanced outside the house. There were too many injured people today. It was already dusk when the last injured person in the medicine shop was sent away. After finishing his work, Uncle Li couldn't help but praise: "You are worthy of being a medicine man." Apprentice, this skill is really good. If it weren't for you today, I would have had a good meal."
"Uncle Li, please stop talking about this. Don't give me less money for medicine, and don't give me dinner!"
"Okay, okay, okay, I owe you. I will take you to Lao Wang's restaurant to eat tonight. I have troubled you today. I must reward you and me with a good meal." Uncle Li was also very tired and wanted to go to dinner early today. There were too many wounded, and both of them were very tired.
"By the way, Uncle Li, look at that Yue Hualian. Is there something wrong?" Wuming, who had just sat down, seemed to have thought of something. He quickly stood up and took out a herb from the bamboo basket and handed it to Uncle Li.
After Uncle Li took it, he observed it carefully. It was a lotus-shaped herb. Outsiders would simply think it looked good when they saw it, but for people like them who have been among various herbs all year round, they could see the problem at a glance.
Logically speaking, the petals of the Moon Flower Lotus in his hand should be white and bright and flawless, but now this one has a blood color, giving people an inexplicable sense of uneasiness.
"Did you pick this Yue Hualian last night?" Uncle Li frowned and looked at the herbs in his hand and asked Wuming.
"Well, I felt something was wrong when I picked it, so I picked two for you to see." As he spoke, Wuming took out the remaining one, and saw that the next Moon Flower Lotus had the same flowers as before. There was blood on it.
Uncle Li stared at Yue Hualian for a long time before he said in a deep voice: "It seems that something has changed in Yue Hualian. I just don't know whether the change is good or bad. Until we figure it out, we can't use it." .”
Wuming nodded, knowing that he couldn't use it casually until he understood it clearly. Lishan Town was the place where he grew up, so he would naturally not do anything that might harm everyone.
When the two of them walked out of the drug store, Uncle Li told the waiter who stayed behind in the drug store before going to the restaurant with Wuming.
Wuming ran forward with a bamboo basket on his back. Uncle Li looked at him and recalled more than ten years ago, when Wuming and the pharmacist had just arrived a few years ago. Wuming was only a child of four or five years old, and his body had just reached his thighs. Now, Almost taller than him.
At that time, he was just a young man who had just learned from his master for a few years. So many years had passed in the blink of an eye, and he had also changed from a young man to the uncle he is now.
"Uncle Li, hurry up!" The nameless urging voice came from the front again.
