Chapter 297: Sleeping in the rough
Human settlements in neutral areas are generally divided into two situations. One is to trade with the outside world. Just like Shanglin Town, the villagers are richer and larger in scale, with part-time or full-time guards, and even city walls, but they are generally more polite to outsiders, and there are generally hotels and other places for passing caravans to live in the village.
Another settlement is a village like Zhaocun that does not trade with the outside world. The main characteristics are that it is generally small in scale, poor, ignorant, closed, extremely vigilant against outsiders, and even unfriendly or even hostile.
It was not a suitable time for Tianyou and his friends to arrive in the evening, and this was also the reason why Tianyou didn’t want to come all the way before. According to his original plan, he would stay in the previous village tonight and come here early tomorrow morning. He could communicate with the villagers, and then go directly to the mission location Xinghuang Village, and not stay in this Zhao Village.
Unfortunately, because the hero is randomly leading the rhythm, he can only live in the village if he doesn't want to sleep in the wild.
Sure enough, when I saw a group of people appear, the village immediately sounded the sound of striking sounds, and then I saw all the young and old villages rushing out with all kinds of ragged farm tools, gathering together at the entrance of the village, blocking the roads into the village.
Tianyou had no choice but to stop the team and then prepared to go up to communicate. Unexpectedly, the hero who was on the side of the market started to shout first.
"What are you going to stop us from doing?"
The hero had provoked Tianyou many times before but didn't take it seriously, but this sentence almost made him furious. No matter how much he made a fuss, it was an internal conflict, and he was rushing to the road at that time, it didn't have much impact. But now it's different. This is the first step to intervene in the mission. If this guy continues to make trouble like this, something will happen sooner or later.
However, this situation in front of him was really not suitable for internal strife. Tianyou turned his head and glared at the guy, but the other party looked back with a provocative look. Tianyou was stunned for a moment, then frowned and quickly stretched out again, as if he had made some decision. He reached out and grabbed the hero's neck, and the other party immediately waved his hand to block it, holding Tianyou's arm back. "You want to do it..."
The hero who came into contact with Tianyou suddenly trembled violently and then let go of his hand, but Tianyou turned around and held his arm and deliberately gently walked towards him. The hero who lost his balance immediately fell off the horse. The senior brother who was riding with him behind him wanted to help him, but as soon as he touched him, he immediately withdrew his hands.
Tianyou didn't listen to his movements. He turned over and dismounted, just stroked the hero and landed on the ground, and was still shouting: "Senior Brother, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you, Senior Brother,? Is it an old problem that has happened again?"
The hero who fell to the ground was still twitching violently, his body trembling like a fish on the shore. Everyone behind him didn't realize what was going on. The senior brother who just wanted to help the hero discovered something, but he was about to question him, and immediately he was stared back by Tianyou.
Because it was too sudden, the senior brother didn't react for a while and forgot to fight back. After all, he shouldn't have been afraid of Tianyou, and he was much higher than Tianyou in terms of cultivation.
The others were also dismounted at this time. Bai Bingyu ran over as fast as he moved. After squatting beside Tianyou, he heard Tianyou whisper: "Dingzhuan, that's right away, don't let him talk nonsense."
"Are these all the villagers evacuated from Xinghuang Village?"
The village chief nodded and said, "Yes! This is just a part of the people who are seriously ill and cannot move. Try to send them to the village farther away as possible."
"Why don't you stay here? It's just a temporary recovery anyway. Don't they plan to go back to Xinghuang Village?"
"That's not. The main reason is that our village really can't settle so many people. Shangxian, you can see that there are only a few places in Zhao Village. If there are so many, there is really no way. Xinghuang Village is stuck on the commercial road to Huangquandu. Before the commercial road opened on the southern foot of the East Jie Mountain, this is the only way to go east to Qi. The cars and horses passing through the trade road every day are connected in endlessly!
The Xinghuang Village is stuck at the entrance and exit of this mountain road, so it naturally has the advantage of the land. The village has also been expanded to a huge size. I heard that I almost prepared to build a city later. Unfortunately, after the commercial road in the south was opened, the Huangquan Duke gradually became deserted, and Xinghuang Village also fell into decline. However, their scale is still quite large, and the population is more than dozens of times higher than our Zhao Village."
"Is that big?"
"I think Shangxian is not old, I'm afraid I've never seen such a busy trade route that communicates between the north and the south,..."
The elderly like to recall the glorious years of the past. This village chief turned out to be the accountant in a warehouse in Xinghuang Village. He is also a cultural person in the Shenzhou Continent, which is generally not well educated. He is in a particularly novel logistics industry, which is indeed a past worth boasting about.
Of course, Tianyou was not really fascinated by the past. In terms of broad knowledge, no one in the Shenzhou Continent can surpass him. The reason why he listened so seriously was that he was collecting information, and the other was to bring his relationship closer. Sometimes, he did not necessarily need to say too much when interacting with people, and being a qualified listener can make people feel much closer.
After some communication, the general situation between Xinghuang Village and Zhao Village was told by the village chief, and the relationship between the two men had improved a lot at this time. Even the two young and strong men who were supporting the village chief could occasionally talk to Tianyou.
"Then, you see, it's getting late, and we've been traveling for a day. Let's take a break as soon as possible. It's better to investigate the cause of the villagers' poisoning soon tomorrow."
"Oh, yes, yes, you see, I'm so confused. In the past, no matter how many things in the warehouse were in and out, they wouldn't be confused. This is really the older you get, the less useful it is! "
After the village chief politely, he began to arrange accommodation for Tianyou and the others, but the more troublesome thing is that the village is actually in a serious state of over-staffing. You can tell when you look at the patients on both sides of the road. With the simplicity of the villagers, if you don’t like someone, you simply don’t accept you into the village. Once you are allowed to come in, you will inevitably be invited to your home. But now you have to let the patients go all over the streets, which only means that the villagers can no longer have anyone in their homes.
In fact, this is true. After a long time of arrangement, the village chief could only squeeze out a very small room, and the price was that the village chief himself had to squeeze out a house with his three neighbors. There was basically no accommodation in the village, which was separated by men and women, with at least five or six people in a house, and some could even live in the first ten people. Anyway, as long as there was a place to sleep, even the woodshed would not be empty.
The vacated small house is only a few square meters and is not as big as a kitchen. Tianyou decided to settle the three girls Zhao Lingyun and the others in, and there was nothing else to say about this.
The remaining seven people looked at Tianyou with big eyes and stared at him, waiting for him to decide how to sleep tonight, while the heroes on the ground were no longer caring about it.
This guy kept urging everyone to rush on the way, and everyone was already annoyed, not to mention that he was not the leader, which made him even more annoying. So he is unconscious now, and everyone is too lazy to care about him. Anyway, the cultivator's physique is very irritating and he can't die easily.
In fact, after the village chief left, Tianyou confessed his little actions to everyone, after all, he couldn't hide them.
The hero was obviously not a gangster wind attack just now, and he had no problem at all. This guy was shocked by Tianyou.
Since learning the Thunder Palm, Tianyou has been doing various improvement experiments based on this skill. The Thunder Palm Palm that was previously used to destroy the stone gate found under the cave is one of them. As for the one used to punish the heroes, Tianyou has improved another new application method.
As a modern person, Tianyou's understanding of electricity is obviously much beyond the local natives. Since the Benthunder Palm can produce strong electric shock effects, it means that it can be used to generate electricity. Therefore, Tianyou made some fine adjustments to the operation mode of the Benthunder Palm, which reduced some voltage, but extended the discharge time. Therefore, the instantaneous high-voltage lightning strike turned into a long-term electric shock, and its function was similar to the anti-wolf electric shock device.
The hero twitched and foamed before, but in fact it was a stress reaction after electric shock. Thanks to him as a monk, his spiritual energy spontaneously protects his body and has a high tolerance to strong currents. Otherwise, with Tianyou's long-term electric shock, which is unknown to the depth of Tianyou, it would have been electrocuted to ordinary people. You should know that the killing of people in an electric shock accident is never voltage, but current. Whether it is the Ben Lei Palm or the Ben Lei Finger, they are all high voltage and small current, with a large reaction, but the damage is average. However, Tianyou's long-term electric shock effect is a medium voltage and high current, which is really dangerous. If Tianyou hadn't stopped in time later, it wouldn't be surprising that he would have electrocuted him.
Of course, the main reason for this accident is Tianyou's lack of understanding of the knowledge related to spiritual energy. He cannot fully understand the transformation process of spiritual energy in his body. The so-called modification is just a random attempt without direction. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is trying his luck. Therefore, in fact, Tianyou himself is not able to control his skill effect. Of course, this range is limited to the skills he has improved. At least it is normal for him to use genuine skills like the Thunder Palm.
After hearing the fact that Tianyou was playing a hero, the few senior brothers reacted inconsistently. Most of them had no interest and even had some encouragement. Only one senior brother felt that it was a bit inappropriate, but he didn't care much. The main reason was that the hero was urging everyone to rush on the road today, which made everyone complain about him. Therefore, seeing that he was suffering, everyone was a little gloating.
After actively admitting his mistake and solving this big and small hidden danger, Tianyou did not rush to arrange a place for everyone to live, because he had no place to arrange it. The village now has no place to live on the roof. He wanted to find a place to add a shop and could not stuff it in, let alone a clean room? Besides, even if there is a place to stuff it, these senior brothers would definitely not squeeze in with a group of mountain village men. It would be better to sleep in the wild than to squeeze into canned sardines.
Everyone was discussing their views on Tianyou in a slight manner. Generally speaking, they mostly had positive impressions, but as they were talking about the topic, they somehow went to gossip news.
"Do you think he and Senior Sister Zhao Lingyun really have something to do?"
As soon as this topic came out, everyone was obviously very enthusiastic. Although all the authentic monks from Zixiao Palace were present, they could at least become generals and command thousands of people in each team, but the soul of the gossip was obviously not distinguished between high and low. The discussions between a group of brothers were so heart-warming.
"Don't talk nonsense. I was actually there that day. It was not what was rumored outside." There was an insider in the team who immediately aroused everyone's interest and surrounded him and listened to his detailed explanation.
With first-hand information, everyone finally figured out that Tianyou and Zhao Lingyun were not planning to form a Taoist couple, but a group of people talked about it and pulled Bai Bingyu out again. From Bai Bingyu's two attitudes toward others and Tianyou, it can be seen that Tianyou and her obviously had a different relationship. In addition, Bai Bingyu is not too big or too small, and Bai Bingyu is also a celebrity in the Divine Sect. Although she is not as famous as Zhao Lingyun, she is also a dream fairy that many junior brothers are dreaming of. So everyone discusses the relationship between Bai Bingyu and Tianyou very enthusiastically.
Everyone here was chatting excitedly, and suddenly heard a question sounding from behind. "What are you talking about? It's so lively."
"We are..." The senior brother who had just spoken didn't react at all. When he turned around, he immediately got stuck when he saw Tianyou. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and immediately changed his words: "We are talking about some interesting things in the door. Hey, have you just gone hunting? You have caught so many of them now?"
Now there is no need to try to change the topic. Tianyou was wearing a bunch of prey, which immediately aroused everyone's interest and they gathered around to ask questions.
Tianyou replied while untiing the rope down, "I worship the hunter in front of the mountain gate. Hunting is my old job. It happened that there are a lot of prey here, so I caught a few more. But it was mainly my demon pet who helped me a lot, otherwise I wouldn't find so many preys if the moon was dark and windy this time."
"Demon pet?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this word, and then they realized that they had not seen Tianyou's demon pet this day. Tangfeng is now more famous than Tianyou in the Divine Sect. Last time, they demolished the Yingke Garden, and the noise was quite disturbing. They had known that Tangfeng was Tianyou's demon pet before, but they didn't see it when they set out early this morning. Everyone didn't remember it for a while. It was not until they heard Tianyou talk about it that the person in front of them had a demon pet.
"Hand brother Tianyou, have you followed your demon pet? Why haven't you seen it for a day? I thought you didn't bring it with you."
"When you go out to do tasks, you need help. How can you not bring them?" Tianyou said as he looked up and whistled into the sky. Everyone looked up at the sky, but they saw nothing except the stars in the sky.
Just as everyone was about to ask again, they suddenly saw the bow god pointing in a direction with some uncertainty: "It seems to be there."
Everyone followed his fingers and found that he was not pointing to the air, but the woods beside them. With the light emitted by a large bonfire, everyone looked at it intently and found that on the edge of the dense forest, two red gems could be seen on the branches of a big tree that were shining against this side.
"That's... the eyes of the junior brother's demon pet?" Someone guessed the answer but was not sure. Although the two sides were only less than thirty steps away, they really couldn't see anything except those pairs of flashing eyes.
Tianyou did not answer directly, but waved at Xuanfeng: "Come here."
When he shouted, everyone immediately noticed a large black shadow spreading behind the red light. Then the shadow fell to the treetops, sank for a short period of time and approached quickly against the tip of the grass blades.
As the shadow approached quickly, its body finally showed its shape in the firelight. It was a big bird, a huge bird that was big enough to hold everyone in its arms with its wings. And as it approached, everyone understood why it could not be discovered before.
This huge bird was actually black. Except for a pair of eyes, all over the body were covered with a layer of black and non-reflective feathers. It was precisely because of this layer of non-reflective black feathers that it would merge with the darkness when it squatted. If it weren't for the eyes reflecting the light of flames in the darkness, even with the eyes of the bow god, it would be difficult to find it in the darkness.
The wind was not approaching yet, and the wind pressure had already arrived first. The fire behind everyone was blown by a strong wind and turned to the side. Unfortunately, this was a bonfire, not a torch or candle, and it was not so easy to be blown out, otherwise everyone would have to ignite the fire again.
I didn't think it was far away, but as the mocking wind approached, everyone became nervous unconsciously. After all, this guy was too big and didn't slow down at all. Judging from the normal situation, it would definitely overturn everyone when it hit like this. So when it saw it getting closer and closer, but not slow down, everyone began to worry.
However, the facts proved that worries were redundant. Just before contacting the crowd, Xuanfeng's huge body suddenly began to shrink and smaller. When it finally landed on Tianyou's shoulder, it had turned into a small winged bird with a body of more than a foot long. However, its fur color was still pitch black and there was no change.
"Junior brother, can you change your figure?" The bow god ran over and pulled Tianyou to ask. In Zixiao Palace, if you have a demon pet in your hand, it would be like the college students on earth who have their own exclusive cars. Just pull it out and take a walk around to get a lot of envious and jealous eyes.
Of course, there are also differences between cars. Although the current mocking Feng is not a top-level demon pet, with its current power and ability, it is at least a mid-range luxury car of the 7-Series BMW level. At least compared to the senior brother who does not have a demon pet around, Tianyou's mocking Feng is already eye-catching enough.
In fact, in addition to the level, demon pets have many hard indicators that can determine their value. For example, there are three most valuable attributes in Xuanfeng, one is that they have flying ability, the other is that they have camouflage color, and the third is that they can control their body size at will.
The monsters that have become bigger and smaller will naturally master them in the later stage, but they may not necessarily master them when they are mastered. Some monsters have very low levels and are not strong in strength, but they have mastered the ability to transform very early. However, some monsters have an extremely powerful combat power, but they have been promoted until the demon king to learn to transform. The acquisition of this ability is very irregular, and it seems to have nothing to do with race and talent. Some monsters can't learn it no matter how they learn it, and some are born to know it.
Achieve deformation ability may not necessarily increase the combat power of the demon pet, but it will greatly increase the adaptability of the demon pet. For example, in narrow buildings or caves, too large demon pets will face the embarrassing situation of being stuck or even unable to enter. Conversely, if a smaller demon pet can learn deformation technique and make himself bigger, he can also get a certain bonus in battle.
Therefore, deformation ability is a very important hard indicator for demon pets, and Xuanfeng happens to have mastered this ability, which means that it has additional bonus points in addition to combat power that can improve its evaluation.
Of course, Taofeng didn't care how others looked at it. Now it only had the pile of prey in Tianyou's hand left in his eyes. Although most of these things were shot by Tianyou, they all discovered them, so it was thinking about how to eat these prey and had no time to care about other people's sight. Anyway, if there was hostility, it would sense it immediately, and Taofeng would never care about it without hostility.
Tianyou, who didn't want to show off his demon pet, quickly changed the topic and directed everyone to help deal with prey. There were so many things alone, so Tianyou could only let everyone do it themselves. However, in the end, most of the prey was handled by Tianyou, because most of the people in the team could not deal with prey, and Tianyou could only do it for three people. In addition, the speed of the other two was very slow, so most of the prey was handled by Tianyou alone.
He quickly washed the prey and took out a bunch of spices from his worries bag. Tianyou began to season. Although he couldn't bring the ingredients with him when he went out, he could bring the seasonings with him.
Considering that everyone was very tired, Tianyou did not show off his skills and made particularly complicated dishes. He simply marinated his prey and brushed it with seasoning sauce and then put it on a flame to grill it. The remaining few pheasants were wrapped in the form of beggar chicken and buried in the fire. The last pile of mushrooms of various colors were washed, chopped and thrown into a large pot to cook on one of the fires. There were also a few small fishes placed with the mushrooms. There were obviously no river nearby, and I don’t know where Tianyou found the fish.
After getting all the ingredients done, Tianyou was left with a lot of internal organs, which ended up being cheaper. It didn't mind the strong smell of blood. In fact, this smell would make Xuanfeng excited, just like a person who loves tofu smells the stinky tofu smell. He would not feel disgusting, but would drool instead.
The eating habits of Tangfeng were voracious. Looking at a pile of larger circles than it, it was quickly swept away. The senior brothers around him sighed at Tangfeng's appetite, but they didn't know that it had killed a whole roe deer on the way back. According to Zhenyuan Xianxian, Tangfeng is currently in the growth stage and his appetite is indeed relatively large. In addition, Tianyou is also a time when he can eat in the ingredient period. Every time a pair of masters and servants go to the cafeteria, they can make the servants busy serving food. Fortunately, Tangfeng likes raw meat with blood, otherwise he may not even be able to keep up with the kitchen.
The barbecue speed is much faster than the average cooking method. The prey in the fire quickly emits a tempting fragrance, and the saliva of the senior brothers around him began to gather in their mouths. However, before Tianyou could say which prey was roasted, he heard a crisp and pleasant female voice coming from the direction of the town: "I just said that Tianyou was making barbecue, you don't believe it. Look, look, I didn't want to take you here, I missed it." Lu Meng was jumping and appeared in the range illuminated by the bonfire as the sound came.
Bai Bingyu followed Lu Meng and cursed with a smile: "Okay, your dog's nose is the best in the world."
"I'm not a puppy." Lu Meng defended her and didn't have time to argue anymore. She jumped to Tianyou and came to the side of Tianyou. "Is there any baked one? Give me a bunch."
"Didn't you see, the senior brothers are still empty-handed? You have to come first, then come?" Tianyou and Lu Meng and the others had a good relationship, so they naturally don't have to worry too much about joking.
Lu Meng also smiled and acted coquettishly, and even shouted to the surroundings that anyone who dared to rob her would go home and ask her master to help her vent her anger. Of course, everyone knew that she was joking, and didn't care. Instead, she smiled and said that the first string was given to her to eat first.
The things were already roasted during the fun. Tianyou took a shiny pheasant and handed it to Lu Meng: "Well, I'm the first one to give it to you. Be careful to become a fat girl."
Lu Meng gave Tianyou a blank look, held the roasted chicken and started to tear it. As a result, he was burned and still couldn't remember it, which made everyone laugh again.
To be honest, it’s not bad to have a very young member in the team. No one would mind letting her be cute and cute. Instead, it can regulate the emotions of everyone in the team. If Zhao Lingyun was so cute, she wouldn’t be amusing but causing trouble.
The prey was almost all set up on a fire to barbecue together, so basically the same time it was cooked, and everyone didn't need Tianyou to give it to them. When Tianyou said that they could eat it, they each took the things they liked in advance. During this period, two people also fought over a rabbit at the same time, but everyone was playing and no one was serious.
Unlike the legends that Tianyou heard on Earth, although monks on Shenzhou Continent also say that fasting is not something that monks do not need to eat. The fasting here is a kind of ability, and the effect is that monks can not eat or drink and will not starve to death. However, this ability is just a means to save their lives in special circumstances, and it does not mean that monks will stop eating when they can fast.
In contrast to the legend on earth, the monks of the Shenzhou Continent not only do not take the initiative to fast, but are very concerned about eating. Not only should they taste exquisite, but they should also be rich in spiritual energy. For monks, eating is actually a kind of cultivation and a special channel for accumulating spiritual energy. Its disadvantage is that the intake is not high each time, and the advantage is that it does not conflict with other methods of cultivation, and it is stable and solid, and will not be in a situation like being possessed by the devil, but can stabilize the foundation.
In short, the barbecue made by Tianyou is very popular. Not only is it full of color, fragrance and taste, but more importantly, the seasonings added are actually made of spiritual herbs with spiritual energy, so they have a certain effect of replenishing spiritual power. After a few bites of barbecue, everyone soon felt that their tired body and mind were relaxed, and the spiritual power in their bodies gradually became full. With the fragrance between their lips and teeth, it felt so beautiful.
"Himmer..." Lu Meng burped indifferently, then threw down the animal bones that had been gnawed, rubbed her round belly for a long time before barely standing up. "Ah! I'm so full! But what should I do if I still want to eat?"
"You greedy guy." Tianyou smiled and dug out a piece of soil from the fire and kicked it over. "Hey, beggar chicken, take it back for the night to eat." As he said that, he dug out two more and threw it to Zhao Lingyun and Bai Bingyu. The two were obviously embarrassed, but they did not refuse in the end. However, the three of them said goodbye quickly and left, and were embarrassed to stay here. After all, they were girls, and they looked like they were full of oil. This image was ruined by most of them. They were tempted by food just now, so how could they have the nerve to stay after eating?
As soon as they left, everyone else let go, but they really couldn't eat the food. The senior brother who used the war wheel had a bone in his hand and shouted to Tianyou: "Junior brother, why do you want me to eat such delicious roast chicken? What should I do in the future if you ask my brother? After eating this roast chicken, how can I swallow what others made?"
"Haha, senior brother, don't worry. As long as you persist for five or six days without eating, I guarantee that you can still chew on the bark even if it is the bark."
As everyone laughed, Tianyou suddenly remembered something and shouted to Liu Ye, who was concentrating on gnawing on a tail, "Senior Brother Liu, don't eat it first, come and see what I made for you. I forgot to give it to you in a hurry in the morning."
Liu Ye, who was eating happily, stopped immediately when he heard this, put the tail on the huge leaves on the plate, and then hurriedly ran over. "Where is it? Show me quickly."
Tianyou didn't tease him, and took out the slide shed made last night.
Liu Ye was about to reach out to pick it up, but he found oil in one hand. He looked around and couldn't find anything to wipe it. He simply wiped it on the corner of his clothes a few times, and then quickly picked up the slide that Tianyou helped to customize.
Tianyou saw that he held the slide and didn't move, and looked over and over again, and couldn't help but remind him: "What can you tell this way? Quickly put it on the gun and try it. While there is still time, I can help you debug if there are any small problems. When I find the problem tomorrow, it will be too late."
Chapter completed!