Chapter 111 – Waking up in a foreign land
From the skies, the rain loudly fell, the sounds of the rainfall against the tree made a loud sha sha noise. On the surface of leaves, many raindrops accumulated and slid off the leaves.
In this rain covered forest, the lands had turned muddy as the rain fell, covering the skies in a faint darkness, only the occasional thunderbolt illuminated these lands. The rumbling thunder in the skies reverberating across the night.
In the depths of the forest, hidden in the darkness was a small mountain range, this group of mountains were not very tall, incomparable in height to the Wu Mountains, yet there are many of them.
As the thunder flashed ripping apart the skies, with the instant illumination it brought with it you can see that on one of the mountains laid a single person.
Furthermore this person had been here for a good number of days, in this obscure place where people never visit, it is not know how he had appeared there. In his ragged hide clothes, he seemed extremely haggard.
Laying there motionless, this young man looked barely twenty years old, yet although his features seemed delicate, a scar was cut across his face.
His eyes were shut as a large number of wounds covered his body. Under the rainfall his wounds had already turned white, yet no blood flowed out.
This rain continued to fall even after several days elapsed before finally weakening, revealing the clear skies once more, as the dark clouds receded, the sunlight returned.
As it was summer now, after the rain stopped a thick mist filled the lands, thoroughly baking all the creatures in its heat.
The youth lying by the mountain side remained unmoving akin to a corpse.
Many more days passed, now several vultures started to circle the sky, dancing in the sunlight as they stared hesitatingly at the young man lying by the mountain side.
Finally one of them grew impatient and dived towards this young man, after making a few rounds near him it immediately dived towards the youth’s chest, using its sharp beak it pecked at this prey it had been eyeing for days.
Beakful after beakful, this vulture ate, as it ate, it slowly let down its guard as it finally decided that this was truly a dead man.
Shortly after, the vultures in the sky flew down one by one, silently landing on this young man’s body. But the moment they landed, this youth’s eyes suddenly shot open, his right hand suddenly grabbing hold of the first vulture which descended. As the other vultures wanted to escape, they realised that their bodies had become stuck onto this young man’s body, preventing they from flying off.
While clutching a vulture, he brought it towards his lips before taking a fierce bite into the vulture and drank its blood. Swallowing its blood and into his body, allowing his body which was numb from hunger to finally once more feel pain.
Yet at the same time, this pain brought a certain warmth back to his body.
Very quickly, the struggling vulture lost all its blood as it moved for the last time, afterwards this youth took a deep breath and reached towards another of the struggling vultures on his body, once more sucking it dry. After the seven or so vultures have met their end, this young man’s complexion finally regained some colour.
Lying there facing the skies, the blue blue skies under the blazing sun, his gaze was a blue, he was Su Ming.
In the many previous days of rainfall, he had already awakened. However the moment he did, he seemed to still be able to hear the faint voice keeping him company calling out to him “big brother”.
But when he had fully awakened, he suddenly felt the intense pain throughout his body, completely powerless, unable to even raise his arm.