Five years ago.

"Dad, don't drive Xiao Hei away! How does it live in the forest? What does it eat, drink, and where can it sleep at night? There is no bed and no quilt in the forest!" The four-year-old girl cried heartbrokenly, making Holid unable to help scratching her scalp. A big man who was more than two meters tall rarely looked embarrassed on his face.

"And, Melis, don't worry, uncle will take care of Edian. Do you think this is OK? Uncle prepares some food here every day. If Edian really can't find food in the forest, it will come here to eat."

The person who spoke was Uncle Ball, who was a forest ranger here and a hunter who specialized in expelling beasts for lumberjacks.

"Uncle Ball, are you saying true?" Four-year-old Melis wiped his tears, raised his head, and looked at Uncle Ball with tears in his eyes.

"Of course it's true. When did Uncle Ball fool you? Melis, don't worry, and Ender, you're in poor health, so you'd better go to the boat early. Didn't you see that Edian already wants to go to the forest? It's the son of the forest. Only in the forest can it live freely."

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Although the name is "Xiao Hei" - also known as Edian, the pet is not small at all.

It is a huge black panther whose tail is nearly three meters long without calculating the length of the tail. Its strong muscles roll under the smooth fur. Sometimes its lips will slightly raise, revealing two sharp fangs, flashing cold light in the setting sun.

It seemed a little impatient, but it still suppressed its patience, rubbed its cheek against the little girl's face, then waved its head, broke free from the little girl's arm, and ran to the older boy, and pressed his head against the boy's forehead - to outsiders, they were saying goodbye at the end.

But in fact, in this way, there is a mysterious spiritual communication between the boy and the black panther.

‘Xiao Hei, do you really want to live in the forest?’ Inquiry came from the boy’s heart.

‘Of course, the family is too small to suit me.’ An answer came from Black Panther’s heart.

'You have to be careful, there are many dangers in the forest, and hunters may also have bad intentions. I don't want to see your fur in the hands of the merchants soon.' The boy was a little sad, his eyes were a little red.

‘End, don’t worry, you saw it last time, even a bow and arrow could not hurt my body.’ Black Panther stuck out her tongue and gently licked the boy’s pale cheeks.

There are some barbs on the tongue of the leopard creature, and you can lick the flesh directly into the next layer, but such tongue licks the boy's pale and almost translucent cheeks, and the boy's face does not even have a rosy look on his face.

However, none of the people present noticed this detail.

Black Panther did not brag. Last time, a new adventurer was in Hank Town. When he saw Ender and Black Panther playing in the yard, he thought he was a beast who cannibalism. In order to save Ender, the brave adventurer quickly bent his bow and arrow and shot the black panther's neck with one arrow. As a result, the arrow was bounced out directly, and even a hair of the black panther was not injured. The adventurer was stunned at that time.

If Ender hadn't used the horrifying spiritual secret technique to directly erase a memory of the adventurer, this incident would have caused a sensation.

It is precisely because of this that Ander finally agreed to his father's decision to release Edian (Xiao Hei) into the forest - Xiao Hei has grown up and is really no longer suitable for living in Hank Town.

‘Xiao Hei, protect yourself. If necessary, I will not forbid you from killing humans! Also, don’t be lazy!’ The boy hesitated for a long time and finally made up his mind to lift the ban on killing humans.

In the forest near the edge, the biggest enemy of animals is humans. He doesn't want to see Xiao Hei become a hunter's prey because of his ban.

People in Hank Town know Xiao Hei, which does not mean that others know him too. Moreover, even those who know Xiao Hei may not hurt him - such a huge black panther fur can be worth a lot of money!

Ender has an adventure and knows what human greed will make people look like.

Xiao Hei was originally a pet that his father bought to accompany him and his sister. At that time, his father thought he bought it a little black cat, but it grew bigger and bigger. When it was more than one and a half meters long, even a fool knew that it was not a cat.

Since then, his father gave Xiao Hei an official name - 'Ed'.

This name comes from a widely circulated story. The protagonist of the story is a ranger. His animal companion is a black panther, and his name is Edian.

Originally, the people in the north were strong and although there were few families who kept a beast as a pet, they were not without it.

But the problem is that although Adean is smart, he also inherits the active and naughty characteristics of a cat creature. If it is still a kitten, it would be fine. But when it is nearly three meters long and becomes a giant beast, it will be lifeless if it is so naughty.

A few days ago, Xiao Hei accidentally slapped Aunt Campbell's dog to death.

At that time, Aunt Campbell and several other women saw it with their own eyes. The black panther didn't even reveal its claws. It just slapped it with its forefoot, and the strong big dog fell to the ground on the spot, bleeding from the mouth. Finally, the hunter Ball saw the dog's body and said it had broken internal organs and died.

While this made Aunt Campbell feel sad, as a neighbor, she also felt a little scared and strongly asked the Carron family to give her an explanation.

As the head of the Carron family, Holid Carron has a great status in Hank Town. He is the deputy captain of the town guard and also has the identity of a cavalry entourage. However, because of this, he had to exile Edian to the Forest - otherwise, Aunt Campbell claimed to go to the town office to apply for a referee and ask Edian to pay her dog's life.

Of course, if power is used, Hollid may not be able to suppress Aunt Campbell's appeal, but this is not very nice - there are only a few people in a town, they are all acquaintances, what can I hide from everyone's eyes?

What's more, he and his wife Hannah are busy with work during the day and are always away from home. What if the black panther accidentally hurts his children?

Therefore, Holid decided to put Ed in the forest regardless of his little daughter's crying. After all, it should have been born in this forest, and the forest is its home.

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Five years later.

Even on sunny days, the visibility is still not high in the dense black forest.

There is never a shortage of huge trees in the black forest.

From giant pine and spruce that can reach a maximum of more than 100 meters, to various maple trees, cypress, nanmu and beech trees that can grow to fifty to eighty meters, as well as some rare trees with strange shapes that are difficult for non-professional foresters to identify.

Most of these trees are above fifty meters in height, which is also the basic height that a tree wants to survive in the primeval forest.

If they are lower, it will be difficult to separate the sunshine - the branches and leaves of other trees that stretch out will completely block the sunshine.

Looking down from the top of the treetops of this forest, what catches your eyes is a dark green area - even a dark black world.

This is the true face of the original forest.

As described in the novel, there are spacious, flat and covered with fallen leaves between the trees; under the shade, there are rays of sunlight passing through the leaves, like light golden pillars, beautiful like a picture.

Such woods can make people walk and relax in it, or even ride horses and show their clever riding skills.

However, this kind of wood can only be carefully served and maintained by others, and is specially used for the royal hunting grounds held every year. Such beautiful scenery cannot be found in the primeval forest.

In a truly primeval forest, every piece of space is so precious to plants that it is impossible to have large areas of clearings in the forest - unless there is rock without any soil or room for plant growth.

At the bottom of the forest, there are also plants.

Those low shrubs that do not require much sunlight parasitize on the trees, vines that obtain nutrients from the trees, moist moss, thick roots, and fungi plants, together form the underlying world of the original forest.

Here, sunlight is almost a legend. Occasionally, you can see a few round light spots the size of coins on the ground, that is, all the sunlight that can shine on the ground.

The Black Forest is just a person living nearby, and it is an endemic name for this dense and original forest.

This huge primeval forest stretches for thousands of miles and covers a vast area. It has different titles in different countries and regions.

However, among the widely circulated poems and heroic epics of the bards, this primeval forest still has several widely recognized names.

For example: Forest of No Return, the hometown of the monster, the land of the secluded and the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

Like other rarely visited places, in the mouth of the bard, this large forest, which is almost more than all countries on the mainland, is a very dangerous and terrifying cave, and the birthplace of many world-destructive plots - by the way, it is also the stage for many heroic adventures.

According to legend, in a corner of this forest, the evil great wizard is planning a conspiracy, peeping at the devil on earth and whispering, the evading lich is sleeping underground, and the ferocious monsters will swallow all adventurers who step into their territory.

It is said that somewhere there is also a bottomless cave leading to the underground world. Someone once entered the mysterious underground world from here, experienced a terrifying adventure, and was regarded as a *** by the beautiful dark elves. Finally, with his wisdom, he broke free from the control of the dark elves and returned to the ground with a lot of wealth.

Well, this is just a very wide-reaching adventure story, a must-have for bards in the tavern.
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