Stone Village may be said to be a special place in the vast mountains. Although it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, it is full of life and gives Di Yi a completely different feeling.
This is a completely different experience whether you are in that self-contained place or walking aimlessly among the vast mountains.
He seemed to like this atmosphere.
In the evening, the sun was about to set. It hung on the branches of the trees and scattered like gold, dyeing the clouds in the sky red. It was very beautiful.
A group of children, ranging in age from a few years old to teenagers, numbering twenty or thirty people, have long been waiting in the open space at the head of the village, playing in twos and threes, waiting for a rare and sumptuous party.
As for the adults, they were sharpening their knives and cutting the giant beasts, making clanging sounds from time to time, which was the collision between the knives and the bones. It was obvious that the bones of those giant beasts were incredibly hard.
As night falls, smoke rises and bonfires are set up. The dismembered animal meat is placed in an orderly manner, and soon the aroma of meat fills the air.
Slowly, under the movement of the woman's hands, the animal meat roasted on the fire began to turn golden and shiny, dripping with grease from time to time, and sizzling in the fire.
At this moment, not to mention the children, even the strong men couldn't help it and salivated at the smell of meat.
"Today, we have a guest in Shicun. He is an honored guest..." The old patriarch knew it was time for his performance. He stood up and pulled Di Yi to say a long string of words.
Of course, many of them are useless or polite words, but his simple feelings are quite real.
Soon, after the opening remarks, men, women, old and young all became lively. As the bonfire danced, the parents chatted briefly and talked about everything.
"Food..." Di Yi took the animal meat handed over by the old patriarch and felt the burning heat. This was his first time eating, and the experience was very fresh.
"Isn't it to your liking?" The old patriarch looked at Di Yi who didn't speak immediately. He didn't know whether it was because he didn't like the food in the village or because he had some special requirements.
But there was nothing else that Shicun could use to entertain the guests. After all, in the cruel wilderness where ferocious birds and beasts were infested and lives were threatened from time to time, these animal meats were already rare.
"No." Di Yi shook his head, then followed the way most people eat and ate the animal meat in his hand.
The taste is very special.
"By the way, I forgot to ask earlier. I wonder if you have anything special to do when you come to our stone village and this vast wilderness?" The old patriarch pulled Di Yitao closer and asked cautiously.
"It's nothing special, I just walked here." Di Yi wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth and took this opportunity to ask, "Do you know where this is? There are words like "Outside the Wilderness" and "Prince"
The title?"
"It seems that the guests must have come here from a very far away place." The old patriarch got a lot of information from Di Yi's words and had an idea in his mind, "Our area is within the scope of Xiaogushan, more than a hundred
There is a small Gushan Town inside and outside, and beyond that is the area named after the big tribes such as the Lei Clan, Luofu Daze, Zishan Clan, and Golden Wolf Tribe. Of course, this is still considered to be in the wilderness, and I remember its real broad name.
It seems to be called Xijiang. If you go further out, it is the Stone Kingdom, and the entire wilderness is included in the territory of the Stone Kingdom."
"Xiaogushan Town, Xijiang, Shiguo... What if we go further out?" Di Yi nodded. If we apply the prince's explanation earlier, this is undoubtedly a huge place, and like him
The number of people is at least counted in hundreds of millions.
"I don't know anything about the outside world. What I know is passed down from generation to generation. People in our village have not walked out of the wilderness for a long, long time." The old patriarch shook his head, saying that his knowledge was limited and he could not
Answer one by one.
"I understand." Di Yi did not continue to ask. After all, he already knew the general information and understood where he was now and what kind of world he was in.
"Where are you going next?" The old patriarch saw that the conversation was awkward, so he changed the topic and continued to talk.
"I haven't thought about it." Di Yi didn't know where he should go, "By the way, do you know where you can find people like me?"
The patriarch of Shicun said before that there are only a handful of people like him, which means that although there are few people like him, it is not impossible. He thinks he can look for such people to see if he can get a way to heal himself.
"This... I don't know, but I think people as strong as you can only be found in the imperial city of the Stone Kingdom." The old patriarch shook his head. This question was beyond his scope of cognition and he was unable to make any useful decisions.
reply.
"The imperial city of the Stone Kingdom? What is the imperial city?" Di Yi asked. He heard another puzzling word and couldn't understand it.
Hearing this, the old patriarch was embarrassed, thought over and over again, and asked a key question: "Did you only learn our language from the bone inscriptions, but did not fully learn the meaning of each word?"
"Maybe." Di Yi was noncommittal, but he had a feeling that the problem did seem to arise here.
"That's it... this is indeed a trouble." The old patriarch's mind suddenly became active, thinking about the most beneficial way to deal with it for Shi Cun, "Then... you see, you are not ready to go anywhere anyway, so why not just go
Staying in Shicun for a while? Firstly, you learned the language but you didn’t really learn it, which is our fault; secondly, we haven’t had guests in Shicun for a long time, and your arrival has also given us something new.
The face brings a new vitality, which may be a new beginning for us in Shicun."
"Want to stay here for a while?" Di Yi pondered, then nodded.
He had no intention of leaving anytime soon.
After all, this place was very new to him. He was exposed to many things he had never been exposed to in one day, and he felt that he might be exposed to more in the days to come.
"That's great - no, I mean..." Just when the old patriarch wanted to conceal his excitement and the achievement of his goal, suddenly there was an explosion in the sky at night.
Thunder on flat ground!
Immediately afterwards, a strong wind blew in the wilderness, and soon it began to rain heavily. The men and women who suddenly arrived in Shicun, old and young, were soaked in water without even reacting.
"Why did it rain suddenly?" A group of people cursed, and the originally peaceful bonfire party was terminated before it ended.
"The climate in the wilderness is unstable, and with those big guys here, how can the weather be smooth? Since God is not kind, let's call it a day. Everyone, go home quickly, don't get cold." The old patriarch made orderly arrangements in the heavy rain.
Everyone.
"This heavy rain..." Compared to the people in Shicun who were soaked in water, Di Yi was like a normal person, his whole body was clean, and not a single drop of rainwater could get close to him.
"Guest, please take shelter quickly..." After the old patriarch made arrangements, he wanted to take Di Yi to his house to take shelter from the rain. After all, although he knew that the man named Di Yi was a strong man, he might have already
The cold won't bite, but politeness is always required.
But when he turned around, he felt as if he had seen a ghost, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Thunder..." Di Yi ignored the old patriarch because he felt that the heavy rain was too strange. Above the dark clouds, somewhere far away, there seemed to be swords and swords.
"Guest, what are you looking at?" The old patriarch was hesitant, not knowing whether to leave Di Yi and go into the house alone, or to step forward and pull him into the house together.
"Go ahead, the rain will get heavier later, don't get too cold." Di Yi motioned to the old patriarch not to worry about him.
"This..." The old patriarch didn't know how to respond. After weighing the left and right, he had no choice but to return to his house not far from the entrance of the village.
"Boom!"
The rain became heavier and heavier, and the lightning and thunder reached their peak, illuminating the sky and the earth from time to time, like daylight.
The wind in the mountains is getting stronger and stronger, and the force is unparalleled, as if it is determined not to uproot the thick trees.
"Yunfeng, go and close the windows in your house. The rain this time was really bad. Why was there no warning beforehand?" In Shi Yunshan's house, he told his son Shi Yunfeng while also securing his room.
Install the doors and windows.
"I got it." Shi Yunfeng nodded, and after closing the window and reinforcing it, he got into bed.
Time passed little by little, and as the night got deeper and deeper, the storm seemed to never stop at all. It was extremely violent. He was woken up again and again, unable to fall asleep, so he simply sat by the window and looked at the storm.
Looking outside.
"Boom!"
Thunder suddenly appeared, and in the dazzling light, it directly collapsed a large mountain, causing a mountain torrent like a sea, and countless ferocious beasts scattered in all directions.
Shi Yunfeng's eyes widened immediately, and his heart trembled. The thunder was too terrifying. He was worried whether it would hit Shicun and whether he could survive safely.
"Sacrifice to the spirits to bless, sacrifice to the spirits to bless..." Shi Yunfeng's young heart was shocked. It was a natural disaster that could not be resisted by human power. He could only place his hope in the sacrifices to the spirits.
"Boom!"
Thunder suddenly appeared again, hitting the mountain farther away, and rocks pierced through the sky. It was like the end of the world was coming, and the atmosphere was so oppressive that it was suffocating.