The adults in the village argued back and forth. In the end, Second Brother Feng insisted on choosing only 15 people who met the requirements, and the rest were unquestionably pushed back by the man.
There were less than 20 days left before the winter, so they had decided to go out of the safe area to look for food, so they had to set off as soon as possible.
After packing up and preparing carts, bags, dry food, and various armors and weapons, the 15 fully-armed villagers came to the entrance of the village to bid farewell to their relatives.
Many women and children burst into tears at this time.
"Dad, I'll wait for you to come back. You must come back."
"My boy, you have to be careful. Don't be careless. Listen to your Second Uncle Feng."
"Zheng, your son is only two and a half years old. No matter what happens, you have to crawl back. Your son is waiting for you to come back and teach him martial arts."
It was like a parting of life and death.
In fact, it was indeed a parting of life and death.
No one knew how many of the 15 people would come back. Maybe none of them would come back. This kind of thing had happened in the East Star Village before.
Under the gazes of their relatives, the fifteen brave warriors danced the ancient war dance at the entrance of the village. They waved the weapons in their hands, beat their chests, and roared. This was the war dance of the brave warriors in this world. It was said that even when the army went to the frontline to fight, the soldiers would also dance this kind of war dance, symbolizing the determination to defeat everything, to press forward with indomitable will, and to never retreat.
After the war dance, when Second Brother Feng and the others were ready to leave the village, Li Mu stood out.
"Second Brother, let me go with you."
Everyone's eyes suddenly fell on Li Mu.
Because Li Mu did not show off his skills in daily life and worked in the fields like an ordinary person, many people regarded the chosen one, who had just grown out of the longevity tree for less than two months, as the one being taken care of. They thought Li Mu's strength might not even be as good as that of many elderly people in the village.
"How can you do that? You are the chosen one and destined to be a future military officer. But now, your memory and strength have not recovered. You can't go out with us and take risks. "Second Brother Feng directly refused.
Li Mu said, "In fact, my strength has recovered a little." As he spoke, he shot out a broadsword light, and a rock as tall as a man outside the village was instantly cut into pieces.
"Wow, that's amazing." Xiao Xingyan immediately applauded and cheered.
The villagers suddenly had a whole new level of respect for Li Mu.
As expected of the Heaven's Chosen One. These few days, he didn't make any movements. So his strength was already so high?
That blow just now seemed to be on par with Second Brother Feng, one of the top three experts in the village.
"Not bad. He's barely in the Worm Realm now." Second Brother Feng nodded, and then shook his head, saying, "However, it still won't do. With this type of strength, there are still dangers in the wilderness. You are heaven's chosen, your potential limitless. For the sake of becoming a military officer, your status will be respected, our human race's future hope. You definitely cannot take risks here."
Li Mu hurriedly said, "As long as I'm careful, there won't be a problem. Moreover, I'm good at escaping. My speed is extremely fast." As he spoke, his figure swayed on the spot and turned into ten afterimages. In an instant, he appeared a hundred meters away and then returned.
What incredible speed!
Everyone was shocked.
Under Li Mu's repeated insistence, Second Brother Feng and the others discussed with the village chief and finally reluctantly agreed to Li Mu's request.
"Thank you, Brother Mu. However, once you enter the wilderness, you have to obey my arrangements. You can't act alone. Do you understand?" Second Brother Feng said very seriously, "Otherwise, I will send someone to forcibly send you back to the village."
Li Mu nodded repeatedly and said, "No problem."
Second Brother Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
Everyone set off together.
In the blink of an eye, they were out of the village.
After half an hour, when they looked back, they could only see the longevity tree that was more than 20 meters high in the distance. It stood in the vast wilderness like a green coordinate.
This was the first time Li Mu had gone out of the village.
The outside world was a barren wasteland.
There was a kind of demonic and dangerous aura, boiling on the earth.
Most of the land was like scorched earth. Not a single blade of grass grew, and it was filled with ravines. It was as if a nuclear explosion had taken place here and destroyed everything. Walking a little further, one could see a kind of thorny plant. It had black branches and thorns, and basically no leaves.
"This is Black Wind Thorn, which has no edible value." Second Brother Feng introduced it to Li Mu.
They had rich experience in finding food and hunting in the wild.
Li Mu had been quietly following the crowd.
For a whole afternoon, they walked more than 50 kilometers together.
The vegetation on the ground was finally more abundant.
The leaves and roots of some plants could be eaten, so they were picked and dug out for preservation.
Time passed quickly.
Night fell.
The team temporarily found a shelter to rest.
The night in the wilderness was ten times more terrible than the day. In the wilderness during the day, there was only the sound of the wind, but at night, there were the roars of beasts. In the distance, they could also see all kinds of light balls like ghost fire floating around. Even Li Mu felt a burst of horror.
Everyone in the East Star Village team was smeared with a layer of black mud made of the leaves of the longevity tree, covering their human aura. At the same time, they also used the Embryonic Breathing Method to conceal their aura, making themselves like a dead thing, so that they would not attract the attention of beasts and demons. They did not dare to make a fire, and when they were hungry, they would eat some dry food they carried with them.
For the first time, Li Mu felt the aura of the wilderness, which made him understand one thing.
It turned out that the inside and outside of the village were really two different worlds.
The wilderness was the real chaotic domain.
In the wilderness, there was no strange aura like the longevity tree, so the power of law in this world could be perceived more clearly. Perhaps because the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was dozens of times more than that on Earth, the law here was also different from that on Earth. For example, if the gravity on Earth was one time, then the gravity in this world was more than ten times.
In this world, the destructive power and supernatural power of the strong on the environment were all limited.
Therefore, people like Second Brother Feng, who had the cultivation of the Worm Realm, were just one of the three strongest in a small village in this world. In the entire human army system, they could only be regarded as weak. Their physical strength and internal strength were similar to those in the Worm Realm in the universe, but they could not jump thousands of miles in a flash like those in the Worm Realm in the universe. In fact, they could not even fly on land, let alone thousands of miles. They could only walk.
Feeling the aura in the wilderness, Li Mu constantly adjusted the golden talisman power in his body, striving to form the greatest compatibility with the law of this world as soon as possible.
At the same time, he was very interested in the "devil" that Second Brother Feng and others mentioned.
From his observations over the past few days, these monsters seemed to be a kind of spiritual existence. They were like ghosts, but even more terrifying than ghosts. When night fell, they would appear and wander the wilderness, devouring the flesh and blood of their own kind and all kinds of living beings, constantly growing stronger.
Did the devil have a soul and consciousness?
Second Brother Feng and others didn't know, and Li Mu didn't figure it out either.
He just vaguely felt that if he was looking for Wang Shiyu's soul, it definitely had something to do with these so-called devils.
In the next two or three days, everything was calm.
Second Brother Feng and the others were surprised to find that their luck was surprisingly good this time. They did not encounter any ferocious beasts along the way, nor did they encounter any powerful monsters. They very smoothly collected some edible weeds and fruits, and even came across dozens of corpses of beasts that had perished together in a fight. They did not even have to hunt.
"If it goes on like this, in about five days, we can collect enough food, and we can go back ahead of time."
"Haha, this time we are really lucky."
"Maybe even God is helping us."
The team members were very excited.
Even an experienced leader like Second Brother Feng couldn't hide his excitement.
In the past, when they came out to search for food and hunt, it was really not so smooth. Was it really the blessing of the longevity tree?
Another three days passed.
It was still extremely smooth.
They didn't encounter any danger along the way.
"Phew, we finally collected enough food. It's too late to hurry today. Let's rest here for a night, and then return to the village early tomorrow morning," Second Brother Feng said with satisfaction as he looked at the cart and the people's full bags.
A bumper harvest.
Now, even if the millet in the village was not harvested, the whole village could survive the long winter. With less food, there would never be starvation of infants and the old and weak.
Night fell.
As usual, the team members smeared the black leaf mud of the longevity tree on their bodies and entered the embryonic state. According to the rotation, Li Mu and Second Brother Feng were on sentry duty in the first half of the night.
"Brother Mu, it seems that there will be no trouble tonight. You go to rest, and I can watch alone." Along the way, Second Brother Feng and other members of the team took special care of Li Mu, not only because Li Mu was the chosen one, but also because Li Mu volunteered to find food for the village. No matter how much effort he put in, everyone was grateful for his kindness.
After all, Li Mu was not a native of the village, so he didn't have to take risks.
"I'm fine. But Second Brother Feng, you are really tired these days. Why don't you go to rest first?" Li Mu said.
Second Brother Feng laughed and said, "My body can completely hold on. Our luck this time is simply inconceivably good, not encountering any dangers. I'm starting to wonder if the wilderness has degenerated, haha …"
Li Mu smiled.
Second Brother Feng said, "Brother Mu, it must be you, the chosen one, who brings us good luck, haha."
"Almost right."
Li Mu laughed inwardly.
Seeing that the first half of the night was over, everything was quiet.
Second Brother Feng yawned and was about to wake up his sleeping companions to change shifts. Suddenly, he felt that there seemed to be a dark red luster flowing in front of him. After a slight daze, he suddenly realized something and looked up at the sky with a frightened face.
Li Mu was also looking at the sky at this time.
A strange change appeared in the sky.
Originally, there was only a silver moon hanging high in the sky. Unknowingly, a black-red halo shadow slowly appeared behind that silver moon. Then, a blood moon that was exactly the same as the silhouette of this silver moon slowly appeared behind the silver moon. It sprinkled down endless blood red light, dyeing the wilderness with a layer of blood red color.
In the sky, a blood moon was gradually peeling off from the silver moon.
"Two moons?"
Li Mu was taken aback.
After coming to the Chaotic World, he had seen the moon more than once.
The moon in this world appeared every night, and it was never a crescent moon. It was always as round as a white jade plate, and he didn't know if it was because it was closer to the earth in the ancient times, so the size of the moon was a hundred times that of the earth's moon. Many times, Li Mu had an illusion that he could pick the big jade plate from the sky with a raise of his hand.
But it was very strange that two moons appeared at once, and one of them was as bright as blood.
"Two moons hanging high, the blood moon appears … This … this …" Second Brother Feng's voice was hoarse, and his face was full of horror.
Li Mu looked at him.
He saw that the iron man was trembling because of fear. "A disaster is coming … No, hurry, Brother Mu, wake everyone up. We can't care so much. Before the blood moon appears completely, we have to rush back to the village overnight."
The roar of beasts rang out in the wilderness, and they seemed to be in a frenzy.
Even further away, the ghostly figures that flickered with treacherous ghostly flames suddenly seemed to have been ignited, and their auras instantly became berserk.
Most importantly, at this time, the rusted sword that Li Mu had been carrying on his back suddenly trembled slightly.
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