The Thunder God Novel - Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Lei Yin (1)
The 1000-meter-tall cliff was dotted with small trees. It was swaying tenaciously in the wind. The top of the cliff was flat and open. It was a man-made platform. A small figure sat lazily on the cliff under the setting sun. Its legs were hanging down boldly on the cliff. It unconsciously swayed, making it look exceptionally lonely.

This was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old youth, He had faint broad eyebrows and slender eyes. He seemed to be used to narrowing his eyes. He always gave off the feeling that he hadn’t woken up. The outline of his face was very clear, like a knife cutting an axe. It emitted a resolute smell. Since he wasn’t an adult yet, he was slightly green. However, when he carefully observed his eyes, he would notice a trace of vicissitudes in his eyes.

“This world is so fucking abnormal! Even time is different. I don’t even know how long it has been … three years? Or four years? This place only has two seasons, warm season … cold season … sigh … I can’t go back …”

The youth let out a long sigh. He hammered hard on the ground and looked at a fist mark on the green rock. He smiled again. There was almost nothing he could be satisfied with in this world. Other than strength, there was no entertainment in this bird’s land. Everyday, he had to consider whether to eat or not. Seeking anything that could fill his stomach was the meaning of living in this world.

A sharp whistle sounded. The youth suddenly jumped up and flew along the top of the cliff. His speed was extremely fast. In a moment, he arrived at the corner of the cliff. There was a stone castle, and it was a stone castle that protruded seven to eight meters from the cliff. Two large men stood in the middle of the small stone castle.

This stone castle was very small, narrow and long, protruding from the cliff. The top was a castle made of logs. There was a large hole three meters long and two meters wide on the ground. One could clearly see that a metal shelf was placed at the entrance of the castle, and a giant wheel was installed on it.

A man with a big beard saw the youth come in and said, “Feng, the hunting squad is back. Your eyes are good. See if there’s anything wrong.”

The youth nodded. He extended his hand to support the wheels and looked down. There were a few small black dots below. His eyes suddenly flashed and a faint silver light flashed. The youth said happily, “It’s Uncle Ke and the rest are back … quickly put them under the basket!”

The bearded man stretched out his hand to clasp onto an iron ring and pulled hard. A huge basket loosened and appeared at the entrance of the cave below. The two men began to shake their wheels and put down the basket.

The basket was three meters long, two meters wide, and 1.5 meters deep. It was a rectangular basket that was specially used to carry people and supplies. It was one of the entrances and exits of Tiger Cliff Castle. There were a total of two roads leading out of Tiger Cliff Castle. One was here, and the other was a tunnel in the back castle. However, that road was even harder to walk on, so the people in and out of the castle were all using baskets.

Soon, the basket was lifted up. There were two big men sitting in the basket and a large pile of prey. The youth glanced at them and said, “Why are they all small prey? Uncle Ke, don’t you have any big prey?”

The basket was filled with wild rabbits, pheasants, ducks, and a few precious sheep.

The so-called precious sheep was a specialty of this place. It was a very small wild sheep. It liked to eat all kinds of spirit herbs. Its meat was delicious and was one of the best delicacies here. However, it was too small and didn’t have much meat. A precious sheep could only have twenty kilograms of meat at most, which was a bit more meat than a pheasant or rabbit.

Uncle Ke smiled and said, “Feng, we didn’t catch much this time. Hehe, but … we killed a buck-toothed wild boar. It weighed hundreds of kilograms. The harvest is not bad. Feng, come back to my house and pick up a pig leg, hehe.”

A Feng nodded and smiled, “Alright, I’ll take Uncle home.”

Tiger Cliff Castle was inhabited mostly by hunters, Families generally grow some grain and potatoes in that valley, Normally, men didn’t farm. Men had to go hunting. Tiger Cliff Castle had a very small population of over a thousand people. There were nearly two hundred families. Young Feng was also one of them. There was also a grandfather and a young little sister in the family. Their parents had left before he could occupy the youth’s body. They didn’t know where they had gone.

These past few years have been quite difficult, When I woke up, Little sister is only three years old, It was entirely dependent on the youth, Feng. Grandpa was old and weak, so he was no longer able to hunt. At first, Feng relied on picking wild fruits. In addition, some hunters were really sad to see the three of them. They would occasionally send some prey to survive until now. The people here were very simple. The neighbors helped each other. If they could not help each other here, it would be very difficult to survive.

However, in this year’s warm season, Young Ah Feng had to prepare food for himself in the cold season. This was a difficult task for him. Not only did he have to feed himself, he also had to feed his grandfather and younger sister.

Uncle Ke went down again. This time, the basket carried a buck-toothed wild boar that weighed more than 500 jin. This kind of wild boar’s meat wasn’t delicious. It was rough and didn’t have a certain cooking method. This meat wasn’t delicious. Of course, Young Feng didn’t care about it. It was good to eat it. Ever since he arrived here, he rarely felt full. Moreover, his appetite was so large that he felt extremely helpless. He couldn’t understand why he could eat it so well.

A few hunters and A Feng smiled as they carried their prey towards the inner castle.

Tiger Cliff Castle’s terrain was steep, Cliffs cut off the surroundings, The depression in the middle is two kilometers in radius, Hence, there was a piece of land that could be planted. The people of Tiger Cliff Castle lived in the caves below the inner cliff. Each household occupied a cave. There were natural and artificial caves. The outer caves were built from logs. During the warm season, they could live in wooden houses. Once it was cold, they had to enter the cave for the winter.

The entire terrain of Huya Castle was like a flat bowl. The residents lived in the bowl. The outer wall of the bowl was a cliff. This was a large natural defensive fortress.

Therefore, everyone came down from the cliff and quickly arrived at the residential area.

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A Feng held a wild boar’s front leg in one hand and two pheasants in the other as he quickly walked towards his home.

Very quickly, they arrived at a house with a wooden fence. This was a small courtyard, a small hut built by the cliff. A little girl saw A Feng return and happily said, “Big brother, big brother” as she shouted, she ran over.

The weather was starting to get cold. The little girl put on a fur coat and her long hair danced as she ran. It was like a small ball of fur rolling over. A Feng smiled and said, “Don’t run … Slow down, slow down …” He crouched down. As both hands were carrying something, he couldn’t carry it.

The little girl rushed into A Feng’s embrace and reached out to hug his neck. A Feng stood up and the little girl hung on his body. She laughed and said, “Big brother, whose meat did you take?”

A Feng lightly touched the little girl’s forehead with his own forehead and said dotingly, “It was Uncle Ke’s prey. Is Grandpa alright?”

The little girl smiled and said, “Grandpa went to boil salt. He just came back.”

Tiger Cliff Castle had a unique product, salt. There was an underground salt mine here that could extract salt brine from the ground. After boiling, the amount of salt was not large, but it was enough for the residents of Tiger Cliff Castle to live in. This was also why the people of Tiger Cliff Castle could live in the mountains and possess salt mines. This was a very big reason.

Most of the salt was cooked by old people or women. It was basically enough to eat. It was very difficult to communicate with the outside world. It was a self-sufficient mode. Everything had to be settled by himself. This made A Feng very unaccustomed. Fortunately, after several years of suffering, he had gradually fused with it.

The little girl was hanging around A Feng’s neck. The two of them walked into the hut jokingly. A Feng shouted, “Grandpa, I’m back. Look! This is the front leg of a buck-toothed wild boar that Uncle Ke gave us. It weighs about thirty kilograms. It’s enough for us to eat for a few days.”

This was an old man who was in his twilight years. He sat on a short wooden stump with a leather pocket in his hand. When he saw the two of them enter, his eyes shone with joy. He coughed and said, “Alright, A-Feng, rest for a while. Are you tired?”

The little girl slipped off A Feng and ran to the old man’s side. She hugged the old man’s arm and squatted down. She said happily, “Grandpa, Aunt Qing sent me a piece of barbaric ox skin. I received it from the cave. It’s a big piece. Big brother’s armor is only missing a piece of skin. In a few days, the leather armor will be finished. Hehe, Grandpa, I can do it!” Her expression that you were about to praise me made A Feng laugh involuntarily.

“Haha, little sister is really capable!”

A Feng praised first.

The old man gently touched the little girl’s head and nodded, “Yes, our Yaoyao is the most capable!”

The little girl immediately smiled happily.

The so-called leather armor was something that every hunter needed to be protected against. The leather armor here had a special shape and was made entirely from various kinds of animal hides. The hard leather armor lining it was made from barbaric cow hides produced locally.

The handicraft of the leather armor was extremely complicated. There were dozens of procedures. Two years ago, Grandpa started to make it. A large part of it was made by the little girl. The grandchildren worked together until recently, and it was almost finished. Because they lacked the hard skin of a barbarian cow, it was not completed.

This set of leather armor was specially prepared for Feng to go hunting. Every hunter in Huya Castle had to make a set of leather armor at home before going hunting. This was the custom here. Once the leather armor was put on, it meant that Feng could officially go hunting.

Leather armor requires a total of three types of leather, The innermost layer is a special soft skin, There are countless bubbles the size of soybeans inside the skin, Not only was it exceptionally soft, It also has excellent cold protection, The middle layer was the hard hide of a barbarian bull, and the outer layer was a type of beast hide called the long-haired wild beast hide. The long-haired wild beast hide was over a foot long, and after tanning, it possessed extremely strong toughness. When making leather armor, the long hairs on the hide were woven together to form patterns, and then smeared with a type of animal fat. Not only did it keep warm, it also had good protection.