Volume 1 The First Entry into the Troubled Times Chapter 52 Dream or Reality
Chiaki slowly opened her eyes and found that it was already dawn, and she was still meditating, but she was no longer in the guest room.
He stood up and looked at the dense forest around him with a confused expression, and saw that the black cloth around him was gone.
"Black Cloth, Black Cloth, Where are you?" Chiaki shouted around.
No one in the empty mountain forest answered him, only a flock of birds, frightened, took to the air and flew towards the sky.
"Damn, these people from the Oriental Sect actually threw me out?" Chiaki shook his head vigorously, feeling a fainting, he pinched his arm again, he could feel the pain, and realized that it was not a dream.
Qianqiu tried to call Yang Xian a few more times, and then called the names of the people he knew one by one, and finally even called out Yu Wenhua, but in the end, no one responded to Qianqiu.
"What the hell is this, when was I thrown out?" Chiaki muttered to herself as she casually found a direction and started walking.
In the mountains and forests, there is no road in the true sense, and Qianqiu can only carefully find it step by step. However, this mountain road is very difficult to walk, and there are many weeds and thorns entangled in many places, which makes it difficult to walk.
"Fire MethodβFireball!" Chiaki said the term, trying to burn a thorn in front of him in order to pass through.
But there was no fireball as usual.
Chiaki was shocked and tried again, but there was still no response.
The spell failed?!
"What do you mean! what's going on?" Qianqiu said to herself in a hurry, trying a few more times, and the result was still the same.
He tried to urge the contract charm again, and found that the cultivation pool did not fluctuate at all.
"These ghosts of the Oriental faction won't abolish my cultivation! Oh my God!" Qianqiu sat on the ground in despair, not wanting to move.
The sun hung high, shining through the layers of leaves on the face of the frustrated boy.
Qianqiu sat for a while, thinking, "It's not a way to sit stupidly, I'd better find Yang Xian and them first, and then see what the situation is." β
After thinking about it, he stood up and walked down the hill for the camp.
Chiaki finally got out of the mountain after a lot of hard work, and when she reached the bottom of the mountain, she finally found a path overgrown with weeds. By this time, he was covered in bruises, and his body was covered with blood marks from thorns and hard branches.
He looked back, and the mountain in front of him didn't feel like Dongfang Mountain, not only did it not look like it, but the type of trees in this mountain was not the tree species of Dongfang Mountain.
Chiaki shook her head and shouted loudly to the sky, "Where the hell is this! Are you trying to kill me?"
The empty valley still didn't respond.
The lost boy shouted back, and when he was almost done, he continued to walk along the path honestly.
Chiaki is prone to collapse because of her mood, not her mentality.
After walking for more than two hours, Chiaki saw a small village hidden in the wilderness from a distance.
"Great, there must be someone in the village, I can ask where the hell this is. Chiaki was very excited, but when she stepped on her leg, she felt some pain.
He was not in a hurry to leave, sat down first, took off his shoes, and found that his feet were slightly swollen.
Ordinary people have walked the mountain road for so long without stopping, and their feet are wasted.
It's also thanks to Qianqiu that he is a child in the mountains, and since he was a child, he has been asking Shenshan to run all over the mountains, and if he has no food, he has to find it himself, and if he has no water, he has to find it himself, and the master will not let him take Lao Wang with him, so now although he has no blessing from the cultivation technique, Qianqiu can adapt to the current situation.
"Looks like you can't run, let's go. Chiaki only rested for a moment, then stood up and walked towards the village.
With a lot of effort, Chiaki finally stepped into this unknown small village step by step.
He took a look and found that this unknown small village was in tatters, and the only thing that could be more dilapidated than this village in his memory was Hujia Village under Sheep Mountain.
But there are so many people in Hujia Village, but this village is extremely desolate, and there is no one on the small street.
"Anyone?" Qianqiu shouted at the top of her voice, muttering in her heart, "You can't carry it like this, right, it's still a deserted village?"
"Is there anyone? in Xia Qianqiu, I want to ......" Before Qianqiu finished speaking, a little girl rushed out of the corner, only to see that she was wearing a coarse linen dress, her tattered clothes were full of patches, and there were two small pigtails on the top of her head.
The little girl first looked around vigilantly, and after finding that there was nothing abnormal, she took Qianqiu's hand and said, "Big brother, you come with me." β
Before Qianqiu could agree, the little girl had already pulled him past him and ran towards a small corner.
The small corner zigzagged inside, and the two turned a few thatched huts, and then got into a small alley, and when they came to the end, they found that it was a dead end.
The little girl let go of her grip on Chiaki's hand, squatted down, and removed the dry straw stalk that had been spread on the ground, revealing a wooden plank on the ground, and she lifted it skillfully.
After the plank was lifted, a hole in the ground was revealed, and the little girl jumped down first, stretching out her hand to beckon Qianqiu: "Big brother, come down quickly." β
Chiaki hurriedly agreed, and jumped in.
The little girl saw that Qianqiu was standing firmly, and pulled a small rope next to the hole, and the plank "snapped" and closed again.
"What about the grass on top?" Chiaki asked.
The little girl blew a fire fold, lit a small torch, and said, "I'll put it back on later." Big brother, you come with me. β
"Good. Chiaki agreed.
After walking along the secret passage for a while, she came to a cave again, the little girl opened the covered plank, held her hand and jumped up, and after jumping up, she turned around and stretched out her hand to greet Qianqiu: "Big brother, you take my hand, I pull you up." β
Qianqiu waved her hand and said with a smile.
He endured the pain and climbed up as well.
After coming up, Chiaki looked around and saw that it was a closed cabin, and the doors and windows were sealed.
The hut was littered with yellow stalks, and in the corner sat a wizened old man with a white beard.
"Grandpa, I got him back. The little girl patted her dirty hands, walked over to her grandfather, and said happily.
The old man who was cooking the soup smiled, and the wrinkles on his face piled up together, and said to the little girl, "Girl, well done." Then he gently touched the little girl's head.
"Come and sit down, lad. The old man saw that Qianqiu was standing stupidly and did not speak, so he beckoned him to sit down.
Qianqiu nodded hurriedly, walked over, and sat on the straw mat: "Old man, I don't understand a little, what did you just say that your granddaughter saved me?"
"Alas, I see that you are dressed in tatters, and you must be a refugee from some village. The old man added a piece of wood to the stove.
Chiaki looked at the clothes on his body, and it was indeed scratched by thorns.
"Our village is called Lijia Village, and there have been bandits recently. I just saw that you were isolated outside, and when they caught you, they killed you, so I asked the girl to save you. The old man said.
"Thank you, old man, and thank you little sister. Qianqiu hurriedly saluted.
The little girl was arranging her pigtails, and when she heard Chiaki thank her, she quickly stood up and said with a sweet smile, "Big brother, you don't have to be polite." β
Qianqiu liked it, and said in her heart: "What a sensible little girl." β
"Girl, bring me a bowl. The old man said to the little girl.
The little girl replied simply, "Huh." So he brought a large bowl of roosters.
The old man took the bowl, poured a bowl of soup from the pot, handed it to Qianqiu, and said, "We don't have anything to eat, I think you should be hungry too, drink a bowl of sweet potato soup." β
Chiaki gratefully took the soup and blew it.
His stomach was already empty, and what he had eaten last night had already been digested, and now this bowl of soup was undoubtedly a relief in the snow.
"Drink slowly, see if you're hungry. The old man said with a smile.
Qianqiu drank the soup at once, wiped her mouth, and asked, "Old man, you are making trouble here with bandits, don't the government care?"
"Where is there a government, and the people in the government have become bandits. The old man said with regret and anger, "The people of our village seal the house as long as there are still people, and at night they will hide in the hole in the ground, for fear of the bandits." β
"Are they so daring, and no one can take care of them?" asked Chiaki, confused.
"There are only a few dozen people left in our village, and the bandits come to rob and kill people at a time, who can care?" the old man's eyes dimmed.
Qianqiu just wanted to say that he had taken over this matter, but he hesitated for a moment, and suddenly thought that his current magic was not effective, and he was no different from ordinary people, and he couldn't control this matter.
"It's not an option to hide in the house. Chiaki said to the old man.
The old man replied, "No way, I can't walk far because my legs and feet are inconvenient." It's just a pity..... Young man, I beg you something. β
"But it doesn't hurt to say it, Qianqiu will do her best. Chiaki clenched his fists and said.
"Why don't you help me take the girl away, if she stays here, she will be kidnapped by the thieves sooner or later." The old man looked at his teenage granddaughter.
"Grandpa, I won't leave you. If I'm gone, there's no one to help you get food. When the little girl heard this, she cried and shouted to her grandfather.
"But if you don't go with this big brother, you will definitely be taken captive by the bandits. The old man said worriedly, "And now that we have no food, how can we live?"
The old man burst into tears and picked up his granddaughter.
Chiaki was about to say something, when suddenly there was a noisy sound outside, someone shouting, and the sound of horses' hooves.
The old man was shocked and hurriedly said, "The bandits are coming, hurry, fast into the tunnel!"
The girl skillfully lifted the plank, Chiaki stood up and helped the old man in first, then put the little girl in, and finally jumped in herself.
The noise outside was getting louder and louder, and the people were getting closer.
"Where's the people, search every house for me!" a thief shouted outside.
After a while, there was a lot of screaming outside.
"Has anyone been caught?" asked Chiaki in a whisper.
The little girl hurriedly said to Chiaki, "Don't speak, big brother, you will be heard." β
As soon as they finished speaking, the three of them heard the sound of the door being kicked.
"It's coming. The little girl said scaredly.
"Bang, bang, bang!" The door was kicked one after another, and finally it finally "snapped" and shattered.