Fantasy: Rune Inventor

At dusk and sunset, twilight was getting thicker, and in the inaccessible primeval forest, a little boy about seven or eight years old ran desperately up the hill like crazy.

"Why do my relatives have to leave me one by one? This was the case in the previous life, and it is still like this in this life! I don't! I will never! I will never compromise in this life!" The

mountain road is rough, poison is rampant, and the higher you go, the more dangerous it becomes, but the boy ignores it.

Just as it was about to get dark, the boy finally reached his destination, a cliff full of cave entrances.

Tenjin Cave, where the servants of the gods are said to live.

There is a tradition in the village that before the cold winter comes every year, children with disabilities, or elderly people with mobility problems, should be sent to the cave to serve the gods, so as to bless the village with good weather and peace next year.

This legend can fool the ignorant villagers, but it can't fool the boy named Chen Mu.

Because he was reborn into this world with memories, in his previous life, he was a programmer on Earth, who died suddenly and unexpectedly in a 996 blessing, and woke up as a baby.

In this life, he was born in a village in the wilderness, the village is very primitive, the cultivation and animal husbandry are not developed, and the main source of food for the villagers is still picking wild fruits and hunting wild animals.

As a result, food is often scarce in the village, which is why there is such a custom, the so-called worship of the gods is nothing more than sending people who are unable to work to the cave to starve to death

!"Duoduo! Where are you?"

Seeing that the sky was about to get completely dark, Chen Mu anxiously shouted to the cliff.

After a while, in the dark night, a small head poked out from one of the holes in the cliff wall, and cried: "Woo... Brother! I'm here..."

"Duoduo!"

Seeing the little girl at the entrance of the cave, Chen Mu was very surprised and hurriedly ran towards her.

The entrance of the cave where the little girl was located was more than two meters high from the ground, and Chen Mu couldn't see the wall clearly in the night, so he groped for a while before finding a vine and climbed up along the vine.

"Don't be afraid, Duoduo, it's okay, my brother is here!" After

Chen Mu climbed up the cave, he hurriedly hugged the little girl and comforted her softly.

"Woo... Brother, I'm so scared... I thought I'd never see you again.

Chen Mu comforted the little girl while observing the surrounding environment, and although he was happy to find it, the danger was not relieved at this time.

The two lives of human beings make him far more intelligent than his peers, and the night is a paradise for predators, and he has no way to take Duoduo back to the village now, and it is not easy to spend the night in the wild.

At present, it seems that the people who sent Duoduo during the day should have simply cleaned the cave, so the current location is relatively safe.

Chen Mu looked into the depths of the cave, and could vaguely see human bones, and some poisonous snakes and rats were climbing, which was terrifying.

Either way, they had no choice but to spend the night here first.

Taking advantage of the fact that the sky was still a little white, Chen Mu hurriedly climbed down the cave, found some dry firewood around, and threw it up the cave.

Chen Mu's luck was good, the weather was dry in autumn, and there was no rain for the past two days, and he soon found enough dry firewood.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, there was no moon in the sky, only a few stars, Chen Mu could only rely on his memory and faint starlight, holding a few pieces of dry wood to climb up the cave again.

As he climbed, there was a slippery touch on the back of Chen Mu's hand, and he guessed that he had touched a snake, so frightened that he exerted his strength frantically, and quickly rushed to the cave where Duoduo was.

After climbing up the cave, he didn't feel the pain of being bitten, and he was relieved.

He took out two flints and steels from his fur coat on his chest, skillfully lit the hay, and in a moment a bonfire was burning in the cave.

Under the light of the fire, the entire cave became clear, and the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the corner all ran away, and the warm firelight made Chen Mu and Duoduo feel much more at ease.

Although the flames could expel ordinary beasts, they could also attract powerful barbarian demon beasts, so Chen Mu turned in the direction of the outside of the cave and surrounded the bonfire with a high circle of earth, although it could not completely isolate the fire, but it seemed at least not so conspicuous from a distance.

After doing all this, Chen Mu was also tired and sat by the bonfire to rest.

"Duoduo, are you hungry, brother, I'll go find you something to eat after resting for a while!"

Looking at his sister who was sitting by the campfire and nodding obediently, Chen Mu's heart felt sour.

Duoduo was no different from other children when she was born, but as she grew older, the villagers found that she had problems with her eyesight, and she couldn't see anything a meter or two away.

As Chen Mu, who has experienced modern civilization, he quickly figured out that Duoduo suffered from congenital high myopia.

Myopia is a common problem in modern civilization, but in primitive society, it is an incurable terminal disease.

Naturally, during this year's ceremony to worship the gods, Chen Mu was locked in his home, and Duoduo was sent to the cave by the villagers.

After resting for about ten minutes, Chen Mu's physical strength had recovered a lot, and he was now very hungry, so he set his eyes on the pile of bones in the depths of the cave.

After lighting the bonfire, most of the poisonous snakes and rats in the cave fled out of the cave, but there must still be remnants in the depths.

The pile of corpses emitted an unpleasant stench, which was disgusting, and most of the poisonous snakes and rats living here were extremely fierce, Chen Mu did not dare to be careless, picked up a thick wooden stick, and rummaged through it carefully.

"Squeak~squeak~~~!"

When a piece of human sternum was opened, three or four big mice scattered in vain, Chen Mu was quick to move, and waved several sticks at one of the mice, snapping, and seriously injured it on the spot.

The injured rat was still struggling desperately, Chen Mu showed no mercy, and smashed several more sticks, and the rat finally stopped moving.

Although the dead rat looks dirty and ugly, in the eyes of Chen Mu today, it is a delicacy, and only those who have experienced hunger will understand how valuable food is.

One mouse was not enough to fill the stomachs of the two, Chen Mu continued to search inside, and after ten minutes, Chen Mu harvested two more mice and a long snake two fingers thick.

Expecting enough to eat, Chen Mu turned to leave, but out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that under a large stone at his feet, there was a discordant white line.

Chen Mu was a little curious, so he pushed the big stone away, and found that there was a yellow-white hard object buried underneath, and the exposed part was carved with uneven patterns, which looked simple and mysterious.

Curious, he dug open the soil on both sides and dug up the hard object.

"Huh?"

Chen Mu saw clearly that this piece of hard object was actually a turtle, a white turtle only the size of a palm.