Chapter 626 Paradise of the Past
"Pu——"
Black tar was poured on the pile of corpses, and then a fire was lit and began to burn.
Standing at the upwind side, the shadows of several people stretched out in the night, quietly watching the fire burning, turning the distorted face into black, slowly turning into an indistinguishable substance.
"Ahem——" The young man holding the torch turned around. He was still wrapped in a lot of bandages, which were oozing with blood.
"My name is Guy, and what about you?" He was pale and his hair was golden.
"My name is Heshia, and this is my companion Orles." The girl introduced. The three stood in the cold night, feeling the heat from the fire in front of them, and their faces alternated between light and dark in the firelight.
"Thank you for treating the boss." He was talking about the fact that after arriving in the evening, Tilan and Sura cleaned the wounds of the weak and injured moose boss and stopped bleeding.
"It was just a small help." Tilan shook her head. Compared with the tragic scene she saw today, she really didn't help much.
After that, the two of them had a brief conversation, and Tilan talked about how he met Sura in the jungle yesterday.
"So that's how we met. It seems that Sura is lucky." He sighed with some sadness in his voice.
"Several years ago, I was also saved by a girl because of a similar experience, and then came here to recuperate, and then slowly integrated and joined here."
"Living in this world, it is rare to meet kind people."
"Come with me, go sit in the distance for a while, the smell here is not good."
Then the three of them approached the exit of the col, and finally, under the leadership of Guy, they found a relatively hidden point on the stone wall. Sitting here, you can see the scenery below with a good view, and it is difficult to be discovered by outsiders.
"When I had nothing to do before, I often sat here, one is to keep watch, and the other is a relatively quiet environment with wind."
"I heard from Sura that you come from a very safe big family, rarely go out, and don't know the outside world. I happened to be in some places, maybe I can tell you about it." After he sat down, he placed the bow across his knees and stroked the scratches on the bow with his slightly rough fingers.
"I haven't been to very far places, but I have visited many places in this thousand-kilometer land."
"In my early years, I was born in a caravan. My mother said she didn't know who my father was, but based on my guesses over the past few years, he might be a relatively agile new race, because I can run pretty fast."
"As I grew up, I got tired of the life of wandering around. I wanted to settle down in a larger stronghold and learn some skills, so I stayed in 'Howling Forest Fort' where the caravan passed by. The iron scale wood there is a very famous specialty, and there are thousands of people living in the stronghold."
"There I learned the skills of using a bow and arrow, including the making of longbows, the nitration of animal tendons for bowstrings, the sharpening of arrows, etc. With this, I occasionally hunt near 'Howling Forest Fort', or I am hired as a guard for the caravan. Of course, the salary is not very high. If it is a big force, they have their own musket troops and don't need people like us who use bows."
"Later, I was hired to go to the remote Gray Tomb Wilderness to look for meteorites and rare materials, so I came here."
"Unfortunately, the road was not smooth. We encountered patrolling war machines. During the battle, my employer and companions were killed by the sharp sickles of the mantises. I barely escaped. As I said before, I was indeed a fast runner."
"But the sickles of the mantises were really sharp. The wounds on my body could not stop bleeding. At that time, my body became weaker and weaker, and my eyes went black, and I fell on the grassland."
"When I woke up later, I found that I was already here." He touched the rough yellow stone in front of him.
"Someone told me that I was found by Ji Ke. She was a girl with beautiful cat ears and healthy brown skin."
"'The grassland is very desolate and clean. It's hard not to see you lying there.' I asked her afterwards, and she explained that she didn't want to save me at first, but she was afraid that I would die there and the body would stink and attract bad things, so she dragged me back." As he said this, the young man smiled with a little nostalgia.
"Ji Ke is very stingy and greedy. She said that this is the nature of cat-tail species, and she often steals my food."
"But she is really lively and has endless vitality. Because of her existence, my life has become more colorful."
"So, I occasionally help everyone hunt and keep watch, occasionally make some interesting small items for her, or go out for a walk with her. We began to be inseparable, which made her a little unhappy."
"'Because you follow me every day, everyone rarely plays with me.' Although she said that, she didn't really drive me away."
"Originally, I thought this kind of life would last for a long time, until one day we were really together, but unfortunately it can't be done now." His voice was full of sadness, but also mixed with a hint of indifference.
"Living in this land, death is a common thing. My mother was surprised that I could live to adulthood. She actually had several children before, but none of them grew up."
After that, Guy's topic slowly turned to the details of life, such as things to pay attention to when living and traveling in this land.
"First of all, you have to be careful about what you eat. Most of the food in the wild cannot be eaten directly. Animals can be eaten because they don't live long anyway or have mutated. If people eat too much, it will cause various chronic diseases and eventually develop strange illnesses."
"Because this place was once the paradise residence of a sacred sun, but He was defeated relatively early, and later it was fought over and occupied by various forces, who also tried to use this planet to raise their own families, so many new races were left on the earth, and some of them were captured as experiments and research subjects, and now they are running all over the world."
"I don't know how many races there are on the planet, because no one has ever counted them. I heard that the most powerful new race still lives a prosperous and glorious life as before, but we haven't seen their cities. Maybe they are on the other side of the sea, or somewhere else."
"And now the place under our feet is the edge of the world, sparsely populated, food is precious, and life is difficult, but the good thing is that because of the barrenness, few big forces are willing to come and occupy it, so it gives many weak races living space."
Tilan listened to the other party's story, thinking slowly in her mind combined with the history she learned, and Ores, who was beside her, had already become drowsy at this moment and leaned on her shoulder.
Under the night sky, the stars are still there, the flames burning in the valley gradually extinguished, and the cool and clear wind slowly blew across the earth.
(End of this chapter)
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