Chapter 10 Section five

"Keep going north, over this mountain, and you will find the camp of the Yu people." Three days later, Yi said, "I can only take you here, and the Yu people don't like the human race. shot dead with one arrow, without warning." "But they will think I'm human." Xiang said. "You are Yuren." "I'm human." Xiang said stubbornly. Yi looked at him: "When you grow up, you bastard won't say that." He suddenly knelt down and hugged the child tightly, hot air came out of his mouth and nose, and he began to cry.Xiang thought, this is great, he has never felt so important.

"Damn! Why are you a feathered man? When you grow up, you will forget me. If you are in war, you will shoot an arrow through your father's throat, because in the sky, everyone looks the same. It's just a point!" "I won't!" Xiang shouted. Yi hugged and hugged him tightly, finally stood up, turned around and strode back.Xiang felt that his surroundings became cold all of a sudden, and the cold wind filled all the vacancies. He burst into tears with a cry, but he couldn't move, and Yi didn't look back.Xiang thought: As long as he turns his head, I will rush over immediately and refuse to leave even if I die.

But Yi didn't look back, Xiang's tears froze his eyes in the cold wind. The mountain is not high, but the forest is very dense.Xiang was very afraid of encountering wild animals here, he didn't understand why Yi dared not enter this forest, until he saw a few white bones hanging on the tree - they were human, because their bones were very thick. The woods were surprisingly quiet, no birds chirping, no beasts hissing, and even the wind seemed to be kept out of the woods.Hearing the creaking sound of his stepping on the snow, Xiang began to feel that his life had really changed.It turned out that at this time, he should be at home, watching Mu quietly stirring the hot rice soup, but now he is in this forest. This is real, not a dream, he is really walking in a strange land. In the woods, the creak of every step is so real.

Finally seeing the edge of the woods, he ran over violently, running faster and faster, the more he ran, the more he felt that something was chasing him.When he was walking in the woods, he didn't feel afraid, but now he realized that it was because fear had completely enveloped him, just like people who are often motionless in the dark, but when they see the light, they start to scream . He ran almost out of breath, and finally rushed out of the woods, he shouted loudly: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh g... They all exploded, and then their feet went limp and they fell to the grass.

grassland?Xiang lay on the ground, stroking the yellow grass stalks... In such a cold winter... He slowly raised his head, looked ahead, stood up slowly, and stared blankly at the... thing that appeared under the hillside in front of him. It was a forest, or it should have been a forest, but now it is a whole, and all the trees are connected together by something, or they are connected together by themselves.Xiang saw those branches stretched out and intersected in the air, did they grow together?No, maybe not, but they are tightly combined, like a three-dimensional net, in the middle of the net, there are many small black spots, like flying insects crashing into the net, and like fruit, but they are very big , and some are as tall as several people.Xiang couldn't see what it was, from the roots to the top of the tree, there were big black balls everywhere.

He suddenly felt dizzy, because the net and the black spots began to move in his eyes, and Xiang knew that it was just because he was dizzy.He felt that the ground under his feet was moving away from him, and his body was slowly rising up, losing weight. He closed his eyes, otherwise he thought he would faint.After a long time, he felt himself slowly falling back to the ground.But he thought that he didn't rise at all, it was just an illusion, an illusion caused by dizziness. When he looked at the woods again, he felt much better, and he began to boldly walk down the hillside to the woods.

He began to feel that the sun was making him hot, and he finally understood why there was still grass growing on this slope, because the terrain here, the mountains and forests on all sides blocked the cold current from the north, there was almost no wind in the valley, and the heat in the valley was hard to dissipate go out.Xiang felt it was very strange, he had seen small valleys before, but he had never seen such a big difference in temperature from the outside world, as if the wind obediently surrounded the forest from the surrounding ridges.The dizziness happened several times during his walking. It felt like an earthquake. The forest in front trembled violently, but Xiang knew it was not moving at all. This was related to his own walking. Moving his body by the edge of the woods, dizziness will occur as soon as the angle changes, and the more he shakes, the more dizzy he will be.Xiang thought that if someone looked at the woods and ran over, he would fall to the ground dizzy within a few steps, and maybe he would vomit from nausea. Xiang was already close to that feeling, so he slowly helped Move down the slope.

The slope was not high, and he soon came to the flat ground. When he started to look up at the forest, he found that no matter how much he shook his body, he would not faint.He also saw clearly what those big black blocks were, they were houses made of tough rattan, they were very light, they were neatly propped between the branches, they were strong and stable, as if they had grown naturally from there, and they were in perfect harmony with the woods integrated into one. He stared blankly, unconsciously forgetting the possible danger, and walked into this weird forest. It was very quiet in the forest, not even a bird chirping.

Xiang seemed to be walking in the Pavilion of Wonderland. He found that the entire forest was integrated into one body. Many vines that looked like random growth on the outside were actually artificial bridges connecting the trees. From a distance, there was no path to connect them. To those vine houses, and approached only to find that the road is at the foot. He stepped on the bridge of vine nets, and wanted to go to a vine house.Suddenly heard something, just behind the tree. He walked carefully along the vine path in the direction of the sound, and turning in the other direction, he saw the source of the sound.

It was a teenager, sitting alone on the rattan net, shaking gently. "Who are you?" Xiang asked. "I am the king of the Yu clan." The boy said. "You are the king of the Yu clan?" Xiang opened his eyes wide, "Where are the people of the Yu clan?" "They flew away." "flew away?" "When this day comes every year, they fly into the sky, fly away, and migrate to another place." "Then why are you here?" "Because I was abandoned, they did not recognize me as their king." "why?" "Because someone took away the throne that should belong to me. Our Yu Clan believes that on the day of take-off, the one who flies the highest and farthest can become the leader of the Yu Clan, but..."

"But aren't you the one who flies the highest and the farthest?" "I am the noblest Yishi, I cannot lose in the Fengxiang Ceremony, they refused me to participate in the Fengxiang Ceremony, because they are afraid that I will prove again that I am the Yuren with the noblest bloodline and the most glorious wings .” It was getting dark, and the shadows of stars appeared faintly among the dense branches.Two children sat on a branch, dangling their legs. "Why do I feel dizzy when I look at this forest from a distance? Is it magic?" "No, it wasn't even deliberate. Even the Yuren themselves couldn't explain why it had such an effect. They only knew to plant the tree in a certain position, and then calculate according to a formula according to the direction of the branches. Adjusting the placement of the treehouse can produce some strange effects." "Then who told them these formulas? Did they come up with it themselves?" "I'm not too sure, maybe it's the experience of the ancestors, maybe they got a certain heavenly book, hehe, there are too many things in this world and we don't know why." "Then why did you come here? You seem to be familiar with some things about Yuren?" The young man was silent for a while: "I am an avid seeker of secrets, and I like to find out all the strange and incredible things in this world." "For example, why can Yuren fly?" "Hehe, many people think that feathered people can fly just like deer can run and bears can climb trees. There is no reason. But I think there must be a reason, there must be a reason, that makes us in the world so different. Same... tell me, do Yuren and the others know why they can fly?" "I think... maybe they don't know..." Xiang said with some frustration. "It's a pity that the Yu clan has left this place." The boy said, "Even though they have wings, they will have no place to stand on this land." "Is it because of the war?" "The rulers of the human race don't like the Yu clan, because their national boundaries become ridiculous in front of the Yu clan." The young man sneered, "If people can't fly in the sky, then they don't like someone who can surpass them." "Will the Yu clan perish?" "Maybe... no..." The young man stood up from the tree roots, looking at the starry sky behind the branches and leaves, "If the feathered people can live without standing on the ground. But most feathered people can only fly one day a year, they can't Fly forever in the sky...Even if you can, there is no place to live in the sky. If you are given a pair of wings, it is not lucky, because the price is that you lose the ground on which you stand, and you have to wander forever." In the boy's words, there is something that is not commensurate with his age. vicissitudes. "Then who owns the land?" Xiang asked. "Human Race, they have established a huge country." "A huge country? What is it like?" Xiang, who had lived in a small wilderness village since he was a child, couldn't imagine it. "Many, many villages kept expanding, like puddles under a heavy rain, and finally joined together, and the houses began to swell and become denser. Later, they dug countless soil and built long walls to surround the houses..." The teenager recalled, "It's different...like here...but it's completely different." "You mean, as dense as the trees here? But completely different?" "Yes. Smart boy, you have to see what kind of city the human race is like. The city of the feather race is the same." "Is the city of the Yu clan the same as this forest?" "No, this is just a small village of the Yu Clan. The real city of the Yu Clan is much larger, and the scale is so magnificent that it scares you, just like the capital of the human dynasty." "I want to see it too..." "Yes, I could have taken you there, because the great capital originally belonged to me. But now... I have been expelled, but I will search for my subjects until I find a new place to establish a country." "But you're the only one left here now?" "Yes..." The young man lowered his head, "Because I haven't found my people yet..." He suddenly raised his head, looked at Xiang, with hope shining in his eyes: "Worship me as king, be my number one!" Let's be a citizen! Okay?" "Me? A kingdom for two?" "We will find the third person, the fourth person... until this piece of land can't stand!" The boy waved his hand. "Okay, but... what's your name?" Xiang asked the boy. "I..." The boy hesitated for a moment, "My surname is Yi, you can call me Yi Zaitian." "Wings in the sky?" "I named it myself. I love it, it's the name of a king!" "Then I'll call you Xiaoyi." "No! You want to call me Wing Zai Tian, ​​Your Highness Wing Zai Tian!" "Too long, Wing." "Then what's your name?" "My name is Xiang." "It's a good name too. Is your family a high-flying family?" "family?" "Yes, the flying ability of the Yu people is related to their bloodlines. The lowest level of the feather people can only fly once a year, and some of them can't even condense their wings because of intermarriage with the human race. And there are a few big clans, such as Feng, The Yi family and the Yu family can fly almost every day. So they are the real Yu family and kings, what is your family like?" "My family...Actually..." Xiang lowered his head, his eyes dimmed, "I don't know how to fly yet..." "What?" The boy looked at him in surprise, "My first citizen is an idiot who can't even fly... But it doesn't matter, you are still so young, you will be able to sense the moon call in a year or two, Wings sprouted." "Wings? By the way, where are your wings?" The young man looked at him in surprise: "Are you from the Feather Clan? Don't you know that only when we sense the power of Shuangyue and concentrate our energy, can the wings emerge from behind? They are light first, and then slowly condense If we stop flying or fly for too long, the feathers will gradually fall off and melt, like ice in the sun, leaving no trace at last." "So that's the case... Now, can we sense the power of Shuangyue?" "Can't you sense it now?" Yi Zaitian looked at him sideways, like a bird just hatched. "No..." Xiang panicked and shook his head, "I don't know what that is." "You have never felt that when you close your eyes, there will be a force calling you from the sky, pulling your soul to the sky? At that time, it means that the power of Shuangyue is getting stronger, you can try Wings sprouted." "Yes..." Xiang recalled the feeling when he was lying on the grass with his eyes closed, "I have had... and it was very strong!" "That's right, you just haven't learned how to condense wings. Didn't your parents teach you?" "My parents...they are humans..." "What!" the boy yelled, as if he wanted to push Xiang off the tree. "But they say that I belong to the Yu clan, maybe they are not my biological parents." "It's like this... You were adopted by the human race... Then, maybe as long as someone guides you, you can fly." "Then can you teach me now?" Xiang grabbed Yi Zaitian's arm. "No... because these few days are the time when the two moons are the farthest away and the power to the earth is the weakest. Even a noble blood like me can't fly because they can't feel the call of the moon." "Can't you fly if you want?" "Yes... even our most noble clan can only fly for a certain period of time a day, sometimes during the day and sometimes at night... depending on the strength of the moon. Other clans can't even sense the moon at this time It turns out that they can only fly once a year on the day when the moon is strongest..." "Only one day to fly?" "Yes, only on that day, when the two moons are the closest and the moon is the strongest, all the Yuzu can fly. That day is our annual Fengxiang Ceremony, usually on July 7th." "Could it be that all the Yu clan are restricted by the power of the moon, and there are times when they cannot fly?" "No...except them." "them?" "Yes," the young man raised his head, "They are the elites of the Yu Clan, the strongest of all clans, we call them 'Crane Xueshi'". "Crane Xueshi?" "They have excellent talents, and after hard training, they can condense their wings at any time and truly fly freely in the sky. But such a person, there can only be one in ten thousand feather clans." Hope I don't belong to one of those clans that can only fly once a year, Xiang thought. "Maybe when the moon call comes, I can condense my wings... I will be able to fly..." He imagined that he would fly back to the village on a night with a bright moon in the sky, calling Xiao Dan's name, and the girl would rush out in surprise , dancing towards the sky... Father and sister also ran out, and sister Mu shouted happily: "Father, come and see, our Xiang can fly, he is no longer a waste that can't even move a log!" It turns out that he can fly..." Xiang laughed in his dream, rolled on the vine bridge, the vine net shook slightly, but the boy didn't wake up.