The bright moon hangs high in the sky, cold and quiet, like a white light hanging on the curtain of darkness, illuminating the entire tribe's houses, buildings and streets, making everything clearly visible.
People were swaying in the small streets of Zhihuo Town. The people of Zhihuo carefully searched every corner they were familiar with or unfamiliar with. After a while, groups of people gradually gathered in front of the big brown drum in the center of the town.
Groups of people who returned one after another shook their heads helplessly at Huo Tuxin, the clan leader and others who were waiting impatiently.
"Still not found!"
"Where did Linglong go?"
The current leader of the Zhihuo Clan is a skinny old man with gray-white hair. Although his appearance is full of twilight, his words are still full of force and determination, exuding the courage of the patriarch, "Find me again!"
"There's no need to look for it!" Huo Tu Xin, who had been silent all this time, picked up the fire fangs on the side, stopped the Fire Zhi tribe members who were about to go out again, and said with a livid face.
"What are you talking about? Linglong is a member of Huo Weaver and one of us. We will never let her disappear mysteriously!" The old patriarch frowned slightly, walked down from above and scolded Huo Tu Xin, and then continued
He said to the strong man next to him: "Chi Fang, why don't you go quickly?!"
"There's really no need!" He reached out and grabbed Chi Fang, who was about to turn around and look for someone again. Huo Tuxin lowered his face, licked his lips that were dry due to not drinking water for a long time, sighed, and muffled
He said: "Linglong, she should have gone to Yan Xiqiang."
"What?"
The moment the words fell, the clan leader and the surrounding Fireweaver clan members couldn't believe their ears.
Yan Xiqiang is a fire-forbidden area where countless sources of underground fires are suppressed. The intensity of the fires changes so erratically that even the Tongshan Group does not dare to go there without preparation.
A little carelessness can be a matter of life and death.
"This is impossible!" Chi Fang jumped out and shouted angrily, "There are guards outside the Yanxi Wall all year round. Without the orders of my Tongshan Group and the clan leader, no one can break in."
"How is it impossible?! Linglong, she, she..." Turning his head, Huo Tuxin's face became increasingly ugly, and he gritted his teeth but never came out with a complete sentence, as if he had something to hide.
"What's wrong with Linglong? Tell me!" Chi Fang looked anxious and asked loudly, reaching out to straighten Huo Tu Xin's shoulders.
"Okay, stop arguing!" the clan leader scolded, pushed the two of them away, and frowned: "I don't know if others have the ability to bypass the guards, but Linglong definitely has that ability. After all, she is Huo Tu Xin's daughter.
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After saying that, the clan leader glared at Huo Tu Xin fiercely.
Huo Tu Xin was once the number one warrior of the Tongshan Group. Although something happened in the seventeenth year, which made him voluntarily step down from his responsibilities in the Tongshan Group, he still helped and joined hands when the clan had difficulties extinguishing the underground fires.
shared.
Because of her mother's special reasons, Linglong was brought up by Huo Tu Xin since she was a child. It is not unexpected that she can learn a few skills from him that others don't know.
It is a well-known fact that Huo Tu Xin dotes on his daughter. In addition, Linglong has been very smart since she was a child. She may have deceived Yan Xiqiang's defense situation and fire situation from her father Huo Tu Xin long ago.
The old patriarch figured out the key at once, sighed, turned around and looked at the people in a daze, and couldn't help shouting angrily: "What are you waiting for? Why don't you go to Yan Xiqiang to find someone?!
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"Follow me!" Chi Fang glanced at Huo Tu Xin and the clan leader. After taking a deep breath, he immediately stopped hesitating, waved to the people behind him, shouted, then raised the torch with Huo Ya and headed towards the back.
Run to the mountain forbidden area.
The strong men of the Fireweaver Tribe behind them all picked up their fire fangs and followed closely.
Huo Tu Xin was at the end. He looked at the clan leader who looked unhappy, hesitated and asked: "Clan Leader, don't you blame Linglong?"
"Okay! Is this the time now? If you can't even take care of your own baby, what use are you?" The skinny old patriarch snorted, then ignored him and followed the large army towards the forbidden area.
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"Clan leader!"
Huo Tu Xin saw that the clan leader mobilized the whole village to help find his daughter without any hesitation, and he couldn't help but be deeply moved. It turned out that after so many years, everyone still regarded him as the fire weaver, and we were still a family.
Huo Tuxin was so moved that his eyes filled with tears and he almost wiped his tears on the spot.
"Huo Tu Xin, can you not let go of my mother-in-law? Are you looking for my daughter or your daughter?" In the far corner of the street, the patriarch looked at Huo Tu Xin who was dumbfounded and couldn't help but cursed.
It's not surprising that a father with his brains can lose his daughter.
Linglong was really suffering following her father.
"It's my daughter! It's my daughter!"
Huo Tu Xin picked up Huo Ya and ran up immediately.
After a while, everyone rushed to the front section of the mountain at Yan Xiqiang. The smooth rock cliffs were immediately hit by an unspeakable sultry feeling, which was as suffocating and uncomfortable as an oven in the summer of August. Fortunately,
Everyone is a fire weaver. They have lived near fires since they were young and have a strong immunity to heat. This is why they are not sweating and breathing heavily when they first come here.
The Fireweavers who were originally guarding in front of the mountain saw a large group of tribesmen coming from a long distance away. After looking at each other and seeing confusion in their eyes, they did not dare to hesitate and hurried down to greet them.
"Clan leader, who are you?" one of them asked directly.
"Stop talking nonsense! Have you ever seen anyone go in?" The old patriarch looked at the guards and smelled the smell of alcohol coming from a distance, and couldn't help but frown secretly.
If you drink and make trouble, most likely someone will have already entered.
"Especially Linglong, have you seen it?" Huo Tuxin added.
"Yes, probably not." The guard replied hesitantly.
"What do you mean should?!" Huo Tuxin was furious.
"Linglong should have gone in. The fire inside is changing all the time. Someone must have gone in and fought the fire fiercely." On the side, Chi Fang, the youngest and most powerful person, felt the fire for a while and then said in a deep voice.
"Huo Tu Xin, why don't you explain clearly what Linglong wanted to sneak into Yan Xiqiang? Where did he go?!" the old patriarch turned around and asked.
Everyone also looked at Huo Tu Xin, waiting for an answer.
The terrain of Yanxiqiang is unpredictable, and ground fires often rise and go out. In addition, the Tongshan Formation uses the terrain and extinguishes ground fires all year round. The road sections inside are constantly changing. Today the road can be used, but tomorrow it may be because some of the fires are extinguished.
The ground fire can no longer be used. If there is no purpose in searching, this group of people may not be able to visit the entire mountain even if they search for three days and three nights.
"Linglong, she should have gone to the Yan Palace in the central area!" After hesitating, Huo Tu Xin said with a muffled groan.
"It's impossible. Without the map of the Tongshan Group, she couldn't have reached the Flame Palace!" Akakata said immediately.
"Have you forgotten the ground fire exam?" Huo Tuxin retorted with a frown.
"..."
Chi Fang was silent. That's right. That child Linglong couldn't judge according to common sense. She was already very smart. She had been able to catch the loopholes and use tricks to win in the exams that had been passed down for so many years. Then she could escape the guards and enter the Flame Palace.
It doesn't seem impossible.
At this moment, the mountain in front suddenly started to shake, like an earth dragon turning over. The entire mountain tilted and became unstable. Even the fire from the surrounding closed stone walls had a faint tendency to break through the stone and attack.
"What happened inside?" Chi Fang hurriedly reached out to support the old patriarch who almost fell, and asked quickly.
"The fire veins suddenly became violent, causing the entire Yanxi Wall mountain to shake. Either Linglong arrived at the Flame Palace and touched an ancestral mechanism somewhere, or... the fire demon was born." The old patriarch looked a little frightened.
Because although the Flame Palace is located in the core area, as the clan leader, he has still entered it. The Fire Weaver Records passed down through the generations have not mentioned any hidden mechanisms in the Flame Palace that touch the mountain.
But the fire demon has been passed down from generation to generation. Although no one has seen it, fire weavers will always have a subconscious fear of the legendary fire demon. The closer they are to fire and the more they know about fire, the more they will be afraid of fire.
, the awe generated is also deeply ingrained in the bones, which is the heart of the people of the Zhihuo tribe.
"Isn't the fire demon a legend?" Huo Tu Xin asked.
"Where do so many legends come from? Each legend is just something that the ancestors of Fire Weaver have experienced." The clan leader sighed quietly, "It has been five hundred years. Something big is really going to happen to Fire Weaver!"
Huo Tu Xin stopped saying anything. He stretched out his hand to pull out the fire fang that was stuck on the ground, and then walked towards the Yan Palace. His attitude was decisive. No matter it was the mechanism of the Yan Palace or the fire demon, he would go inside and take care of his family.
My daughter is back.
"Follow me quickly!" Gritting his teeth, the leader of the Tiger clan called on Chi Fang and others to follow him.
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Inside the Yanxi Wall.
It's still that dark cave.
To Lu Ming's surprise, after listening to his compliments, the girl next to him was not distracted by the lake. Instead, she held her face with one hand thoughtfully, tilted her head slightly, and looked thoughtful.
appearance.
In the darkness, he couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, but just from his movements and the low heartbeat of the other party, Lu Ming knew that the girl next to him must have been trapped in some bad memories.
"What's wrong with you? Why do you look like someone owes you money~" After hesitating, Lu Ming touched her with his elbow.
In the lonely cave, a little friend finally came, but he was still humming. Lu Ming felt that he needed to be a life mentor for a time, relying on his two lifetimes of experience to enlighten this girl who was obviously worried.
Under normal circumstances, Lu Ming is not willing to meddle in girls' business, because it often means trouble. However, the current environment is different and the people are different. He always feels that the other party's voice and the smell of the other party seem to have been encountered by him before.
It should be very familiar, but I still can't remember it.
It was precisely because of this familiar but unfamiliar desire to discover that Lu Ming rarely became more serious and wanted to help her answer her questions.
"Don't you say that I am the most popular girl, but I have never felt this way. Since I was a child, everyone has been afraid of the plague and stayed away from me. For this reason, my father moved our family to a special place.
Fall outside the village." She pursed her lips, moved her small face slightly, and turned to look at the boy beside her. In the darkness, the very familiar eyes that she saw for the first time gave her an unspeakable sense of peace of mind and dependence.
, the memories and grievances of past events filled the air unconsciously, and she spoke out her thoughts so easily.
"Eh! I thought you were so sad~" Shaking his head, Lu Ming stood up and stretched as if he didn't understand the girl's thoughts.
"You!, forget it, I won't tell you anymore!" Linglong was so angry that she originally thought there would be some emotional resonance, but in the end, is this guy so comforting?
"This is not something worth feeling sad about at all." Lu Ming explained with a chuckle.
"Why do you say that?" Linglong looked up at him.
"You are just setting a limit on yourself. You are making yourself sad because of the dislike of some people you don't like. Isn't this just causing trouble for yourself?" Shaking his head, Lu Ming sat down cross-legged again.
He stretched out his hand to stop her wanting to refute, and continued,
"Why should you care about what others say? There are many people talking nonsense and doing boring and annoying things every day. Do I have to listen to and understand every word and thing they say? And I have to keep it in mind?"
"You just need to care about the opinions of the people you care about."
Lu Ming's words were relaxed and direct, and the words he blurted out without thinking gave Linglong a strange feeling. It seemed that he was not simply comforting me, but that his brain circuit really thought so.
In short, heartless.
But think about it again.
Yes, we only need to care about the opinions of the people we care about... She frowned, Linglong also sat down, leaned against Lu Ming, and suddenly thought of something, "But I am a member of the Fire Weaver tribe, I can't
Only my dad’s.”
"Hey, you..." Lu Ming sighed, stretched out his hand and patted her little head directly.
"Why did you hit me?" Linglong pouted and looked slightly unconvinced. If it weren't for the fact that what he said just now made sense, she would have started to fight back.
"Your little mind has set too many limits on itself. Don't rush to refute it yet!" He gently pressed his thumb on the little cutie who was about to rush over. Old God Lu Ming was there and continued: "I'll tell you another set of words."
Scientific experimental results!”
"Pessimistic people are more likely to pay attention to pessimistic people, and vain people feel that they are surrounded by vain people. People often think that this thing is a common phenomenon in the world because of some accidental things that happen to them and follow the focus of their minds."
"To put it simply,"
"Perhaps when you were just born, people in the village didn't understand you and were afraid of you for some reason. You kept this feeling firmly in mind, but in fact, what is more likely to happen is that
People in the village will gradually accept you as you grow up, but because your concepts and perceptions are still in the past, you don't feel it."
"Impossible!" Linglong knocked off his finger and retorted.
"Nothing is impossible. What I said has been scientifically verified by many parties. I am not just lying to you." Lu Ming didn't care about her unreasonableness and hummed with confidence, "You can observe more in the village in the future.
The behavior of those who smile at you, whether they have reserved many kind gestures towards you subconsciously... Be good at discovering the beauty of the world."
Ninety percent of people are very easy to project their focus on the reactions of external people in order to find more examples to confirm their inner thoughts.
The more you find, the more you believe that the world is how you know it, which leads to a misunderstanding. Everyone's attitude toward you is how you know it.
Lu Ming firmly believed that as long as Linglong could search for her, keep an optimistic attitude, and miss those tribesmen who were malicious to him, he would definitely find someone who was kind to her.
If everyone in the entire village is full of ill will toward Linglong, then Lu Ming will admit defeat.
Of course, this situation is impossible to happen. Judging from the fact that she can grow up to such a size safely and can break into the forbidden area of Zhihuo, it is absolutely impossible for such an extreme situation to occur.
Linglong looked at Lu Ming with complicated eyes. In the darkness, she couldn't see each other's expressions twice, only each other's heartbeats.
A boy's confident behavior from the inside out always makes people look at him differently. Her father had taught Linglong before, but she didn't know if it was because she couldn't hear the heartbeat that echoed loudly in Landmark.
, she was not that touched, but at this moment, she listened to Lu Ming's words and recalled everything living in the village,
She seems to be disliked by everyone, and there are some people who are kind to her, such as Xiaopang, who won the game with her last time when she formed a team. The praise and admiration at that time were sincere and sincere.
"I, I'll see if what you said is true or not when I get back!" Linglong raised her face and felt that it was inappropriate to directly deny her previous point of view, so she still said with some arrogance.
You said you were not convinced, but you were so honest with your heartbeat... Lu Ming grumbled in his heart and turned his head away, ignoring the little girl's arrogance.
Girls often represent trouble. If the size is right, trouble will not matter, but this... I was impulsive just now and actually gave her such a long speech.
Mr. Lu now has some regrets and feels that he needs to think about his mistakes and reflect on himself. Why can't he keep his mouth shut?
Linglong's little face turned slightly red, her heart beating continuously. Although she couldn't tell what the other person was thinking, she could sense Lu Ming's desire to complain. After a moment of tweaking, she thought of something else, and asked worriedly: "You
Is your leg okay? Don't worry, I have herbal medicine at home that can cure your leg, and I'll do it in a measured way."
"I'm very good." Lu Ming groaned, and Linglong's thoughts were successfully diverted. When it came to legs, just now... I really wanted to bite her leg... Ahem, sin!
Moving closer to the wall next to him, Lu Ming once again determined that he wanted to repent, very sincerely!
Amitabha, this shouldn’t be my cup of tea!
This is absolutely impossible!
I, Lu Ming, firmly disagree with this marriage!
"Did you forget to ask something?" She stretched out her hand and pulled Lu Ming's arm, but did not pull it out. Linglong frowned.
"No, we are not familiar with each other, so there is no need to ask your name." Lu Ming knocked his head and said with a groan. After saying this, he felt that something was wrong. This girl always seemed to set limits on herself, so her words seemed a bit offensive.
, then added: "Of course, if you are willing, you can tell me your name~"
Say it, I'll pretend I didn't hear it anyway!
"Linglong, my name is Huo Tu Linglong, you can just call me Linglong." Linglong suddenly smiled.
"Yes, I remember."
"Kaka...Kacha..." At this time, the sound of Kaka's wall cracking was heard again from the surrounding walls of the cave.
"It seems we can go out." Linglong reacted first and reached out to lift Lu Ming, but unfortunately he knocked him down.
"Don't be stupid, this cave has been stuck for a long time, there is no way it will collapse..." Lu Ming tilted his head and said with great confidence.
"Kaka...boom!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge stone fell in front of the two of them, and the same bright light from the outside shone through the gap to form an irregular circle of light, shrouding the two of them together.
Lu Ming: "..."
Damn it!
You know you can’t set up a falg casually!
"Didn't you say it won't collapse?" Linglong was stunned and looked at Lu Ming in shock.
"Is this the time now?...Why don't you run quickly!" Lu Ming stood up and grabbed Linglong's hand and prepared to run out. Just as they were about to start, they took a step back and leaned against each other.
Through the gap in the wall above the cave, a fiery red humanoid creature peered in. After confirming that there was someone inside, it immediately let out a harsh hiss.
The wall in the cave seemed to have released some kind of seal, and no longer became strong and sticky. It collapsed suddenly amidst the roaring sound waves. At the last moment, Lu Ming reached out and pulled Linglong under him.