Obligations of the elderly

"Eh? Same name as Eh himself?" Gong Si was stunned.

Scar nodded: "I don't understand either, but Er himself chose this name. I don't know why he gave this thing such a name. Anyway, this thing's name is Er."

"What is it going to do?" Seeing the little monster crawling slowly in the black water, Gong Si frowned.

"Look at it." To this, Scar only said this sentence.

Then everyone's eyes were focused on "E" below.

The eyes have not been opened yet, only relying on the tip of the nose to move, the weird looking but weak thing is walking in the direction, although I don't know what the "direction" it wants, but judging from the direction it is walking, it is indeed Crawling on purpose.

It climbed onto the stream.

The wet liquid flowed down from its body, leaving a crawling mark on Xiliu's chest. Originally, Xiliu could still see the little monster's movements, but as it climbed to his shoulder, because he didn't dare to look back, Xiliu completely saw it. It doesn't move anymore.

"What is it doing?" He had no choice but to ask the opposite palace.

With a strange expression on his face, Gong Si said: "It... is painting the wall."

"Paint the wall?" Hearing this answer, Xiliu froze for a moment—wait, is there a wall behind him?He and Gong Si sat in the middle of the bed, and there was nothing behind him. Although the bed was placed next to the bed, the wall was on his right, okay?He can still see it out of the corner of his eye...

"But, it is indeed painting the wall." After answering again, Gong Si turned his head slightly, and continued to look at the movement of the little monster ahead. Now, except for the invisible stream, he is the closest person to this little thing. It is also the most clearly observed.

Just like what he said, this little black monster barely stood on the shoulder of the stream, stood up tremblingly, and was struggling to use its claws, head, and even belly to smear the black liquid secreted from its body on it. behind the stream.

At first, he couldn't see what the other party was doing, because there was really nothing behind the stream, he could only see the little monster kept rubbing against the stream's ear, but after careful observation, he found that it wasn't rubbing against the stream's ear. The ear is the air behind the stream.

This seemed like a meaningless action, but since Scar said to let him see it, Gong Si continued to watch it calmly, and then, as time progressed, he found that it was not meaningless. Inside, there was a mass of black behind the originally empty stream, as if there was an invisible wall there, but now it was dyed black by the little monster and suddenly appeared in front of their eyes.

Weird, but weirder.

As time went by, the little monster smeared more black slime on it, and the area of ​​the "black wall" behind the stream became larger and larger, and as the area of ​​the "black wall" became larger and larger, the small The monster didn't stick to just laying on the stream, just like a clumsy but hard-working painter, it started to crawl on the already blackened place and continued to paint the "wall".As a result, Xiliu was able to turn around slowly, and as soon as he turned around, he was startled by something that suddenly appeared behind him.

"This... is a space?" Although he was the last person to discover, he was the first to call out what the black wall might be.

That's right, there should be a space there, right?Xiliu's words reminded Gong Si, when he looked at the "wall" again, he felt more and more that there should be a space there. They couldn't see it, but only the little monster could perceive it. Its existence is still because the little monster painted that space black with its own slime, as if there was an entrance to the space that they couldn't see, and the little monster painted it and blocked it with black slime. It's just dead.

"It's blocking something with its own mucus?" It was the uncle who spoke, not just the palace, thinking about the words of the stream, the uncle also realized the same thing.

"It seems so." Juno stared at the growing black wall without blinking, Juno's eyes became deeper and deeper, and he squinted.

The "black wall" smeared by the little monster was an irregular shape, with an area of ​​about two square meters. Seeing that it no longer continued to expand its range, Gongsi felt relieved for some reason, but he soon noticed that, This juvenile "E" began to smear again.

Over and over again, he worked tirelessly to smear his mucus on the "black wall". Its "painting" technique was not very good, and the smearing was not very uniform, but it was very meticulous. Over and over again, those In the end, the slime turned into an abstract painting made of black oil paint under its smear, like a night that suddenly appeared, and also like a huge black mouth, mysterious but hideous, and observed for a while , the slurry on the "black wall" finally dried up, and became solid like those black stones on the bed. Looking at the small back, Gong Si always felt that the other party had a feeling of "ready for battle".

Because of the prudence of the other party, he couldn't help lifting his heart, staring nervously at the wall in front of the little monster, for fear that something would come out of it unexpectedly, but after waiting for a long time, the last thing they saw was The "black wall" slowly...

"Disappeared?" Looking at the increasingly transparent black wall, Gong Si asked in disbelief.

Not only that, even the black stones accumulated on their bed disappeared, if not for the black stones that flowed under the bed before, Gong Si almost thought that what happened just now was just a dream.

No, not only those black stones, but also that little monster.

Seeing the black wall disappear, the little monster suddenly let out a thin scream, and then its whole small body went limp and collapsed on the bed.

Grabbing the little monster, Gong Si couldn't help touching the black wall in front of him. When he found nothing, he frowned and looked at Elder Scar behind him:

"What's going on?"

The same doubts were in the eyes of other people. Elder Scar waved at them, and then walked out all the way with his hands behind his back. He didn't go to the place where the letter bird was trained. He took them directly to his mud hut, and met the patriarch on the way. He also called him in, and when everyone was ready on the blanket, the old man said:

"This place is no longer safe, patriarch, tell everyone in the tribe to start preparations, and we will leave here tomorrow at the latest."

The first sentence was to the patriarch, and this sentence was nothing else. It was exactly what Arden had been trying to persuade the elders to do, but...he obviously hadn't mentioned it to the two elders!

So, as soon as these words came out, the patriarch and Arden were stunned.

"What's going on? Elder, has something happened?"

"You didn't see it just now, but the rest of us have seen it. E has appeared. Once E appears, it means that it is unsafe. Although I don't know whether it is a small-scale insecurity or a large-scale insecurity, at least the place where it appears There are already signs of insecurity, and since it appears here, we cannot continue to shelter our people here."

The elder said this passage in tribal language, and Gong Si couldn't understand it, so Arden translated it for them. However, after hearing this translation, Gong Si's confusion in his heart was not relieved, but aggravated.

"Eh... Isn't that the sage you knew before, the original leader of our tribe?" The patriarch was also very confused.

"I will tell you in detail later, but now, you have to issue the order to get everyone to act and start packing. Didn't Arden get a lot of cars when he came back this time? This time it just came in handy, let everyone Putting the luggage on the car can also save some energy." Elder Scar said, the patriarch still had doubts in his eyes, but the words of the great elder of the tribe were so effective, even though he was still puzzled in his heart, it didn't affect him to lead out .

Then, Elder Scar looked at Arden. After the patriarch left, he spoke the next words in common language. Looking at Arden, he asked directly: "Son, did you know something a long time ago? I bought so many things for the first time? Especially those vehicles, which seem to be prepared for the convenience of migration."

Elder Scar deserved to be Elder Scar, and immediately realized that Arden's return this time was unusual.

Originally, he was going to tell the old man, but Yaden didn't hide anything, he went directly to the elder and sat down, took out his mobile phone, and while playing the video, he told the elder what he had seen and heard.

The old man's wrinkled face was like a statue, and he remained motionless for a long time before he sighed: "Sure enough, another catastrophe is coming..."

Then, he was stunned again, and when he spoke again after a while, he mentioned another thing that Gong Si didn't expect——

"That thing, you should call it Nian, right?"

As soon as the word came out, everyone was surprised again.

"This calamity...could it be the Nian in our legend?" Reminiscent of the disaster Elder Ba mentioned just now, and thinking of the various legends about Nian on several continents on his side, the palace immediately put E and Nian as two The words are connected.

In fact, they are all the same thing, just in different terms. After all, there is a language difference between the two sides - this was Gongsi's first thought.

Depend on!Is Nian a real creature? This is the second idea in his mind.

"No, er is er, year is year. er told me that these are two things, but there is an almost inevitable relationship between them." Elder Scar first denied this statement, recalling Thinking about what Er told him back then, he slowly said...

"Many disasters are actually brought about by a kind of creature. It is a terrible creature. It is born powerful. People outside call it Nian, but it is not in the same dimension as the world we live in, so we usually don't know it. If you see it, you won’t be disturbed by it.” When he was still young, he saw E once, at that time in front of E was a black egg that was breaking its shell, looking at the little monster crawling out of the egg, the scar was a little bit Frightened, his first reaction was to destroy the little monster, but he was stopped by Er.

Pulling him to observe the actions of the little monster quietly, Er told him these words.

"However, no matter how powerful a creature is, it will be restricted by laws, and Nian is no exception. It is restricted by a creature called E." He sat on the ground with his knees hugged and looked at the little black creature in front of him who was struggling to paint. , E said to him: "This is E."

"Eh?" Ba, who was still a child, looked up at the boy next to him, yes, at that time, Ba was still a boy.

"Well, it's the same as my name." Er said.

"Whenever there is a crack in the space somewhere and the space becomes unstable, Eggs will appear in that place, first the eggs, and these eggs will secrete black mucus to repair the space. If the mucus produced by the eggs is enough, then this egg The egg will not hatch. If it is not enough, the egg will continue to grow and hatch. When it hatches, it will produce more mucus, which can continue to repair the space. If it is not enough, the hatched er will take the initiative to attack and break through Years of space wrestle, eat it, and then the catastrophe is gone again."

"What if Er is defeated?" Scar asked him.

Er was silent for a moment, and frowned: "Then, disasters will befall this world, and the guardians from all continents will be dispatched to protect this world."

"...that's what E said. He told me that E only appears on the Black Soil Continent, so Nian will only appear on the Black Soil Continent. Don't be too nervous when you find E, because most Nian who want to cross the border will be rejected. E block it, but even so, seeing E is still a sign, a sign of unstable space, and if you encounter it, you have to leave there." Ba said, frowning: "But this egg is actually in the Black Earth Continent. I got it from other places, and some people actually bred er privately. They have not only one egg, but countless eggs. I don’t know whether the relationship between er and Nian is the chicken or the egg. I only know that Er said something back then."

"The law is mutual."

"A law that applies to years applies equally to er."

"When Nian is about to appear, E will automatically generate blocking Nian, and when a large number of E's suddenly gather in one place, Nian in another space will definitely be able to smell them, and they will gather in large numbers and be attracted to In this world."

"That continent... did something that interfered with the law..."

The old man said worriedly.