Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Charcoal Seller
Before Wu Ma Xin could speak, Ye Zhanghan had already quickly run to the old man's side and shouted, "Grandpa, why did you come out to sell charcoal again, go back to the house quickly." ”
Grandpa? Wu Ma was stunned, this little girl he met actually called the legendary charcoal seller who guarded Gudongyu grandpa!
"Xiaohan is here. When the old man saw his granddaughter, he jumped up happily, didn't even look at Wu Ma Xin, pulled up Ye Zhanghan and left, "Let's go, let's go into the house, today grandpa will dig a wild boar for you to eat from the ice." ”
Although Gudongyu is cold, it is not useless, you don't have to fight if you want to eat, just dig directly from the ice.
"Grandpa, and my friends. Ye Zhanghan hurriedly grabbed the old man and said, "He came to Gudongyu to find you in an emergency." ”
Wu Ma Xin hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his fists to salute: "Wu Ma Xin has seen his predecessors. ”
The old man looked Wu Ma Xin up and down, and said, "Are you from Wu Ma's family?"
"Exactly. ”
"Oh. The old man turned his head away from looking at him, pulled up Ye Zhanghan, and still muttered, "Xiaohan, do you want to eat wild boar or elk?
Wu Ma Xin met the seniors with strange tempers one by one, but he was used to it, and slowly followed behind, secretly happy in his heart, it seemed that he was still one step faster than Zi Song, and nodded to Ye Zhanghan, who looked back at him from time to time with a guilty face: This is really nothing.
The charcoal seller lived in a large grass hut, the four walls were stacked with black coals, and there were seven stoves lit in the middle, arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper, although it was still daytime, but Wu Ma Xin could still distinguish the location of the Big Dipper through the eyes of the ghosts, and the stove in the house was placed exactly the same.
There is a worn-out table in the spoon of the Big Dipper, and this is the warmest place in the whole house. The charcoal seller motioned for the two to sit down, and he went out to get ready to eat.
Wu Ma Xin saw the old man go out, and asked softly, "Is it your grandfather who sells charcoal?"
"You didn't ask me. Ye Zhanghan said with a wicked smile.
"So, he's also from the Ye Zhang family?"
Ye Zhanghan blinked his eyes, eager to bite this guy, but he couldn't help it, he didn't taste good, and said with a serious face: "My grandfather is Ye Zhangyu, the head of the Ye Zhang family, and he has never liked to ask about family affairs, and then he simply didn't even take the head of the family, so he stayed here to burn charcoal." ”
"Oh, oh. Wu Ma nodded repeatedly.
After a while, the charcoal seller walked into the house with a basket, put the contents on the table, his face bloomed with flowers, and his mouth muttered: "Xiaohan, this is your favorite wild boar heart, deer antler, pheasant liver, ......" set up a table, and then he said to Wu Ma Xin: "You come with me." ”
Wu Ma Xin nodded, Ye Zhanghan waved his hand, and said vaguely in his mouth stuffed with wild boar hearts: "Go, my grandfather won't harm you." ”
Ye Zhangyu pointed to the depths of the mountain valley and said: "You keep moving forward, there are things you want there, and this is also my promise to your father." ”
"My father. Wu Ma's heart "buzzed", and a trace of pain appeared on his face, although he did not see it with his own eyes, but he could imagine the pain and humiliation that this simple peasant suffered before he died.
Wu Ma's inner thoughts were seen through by Ye Zhangyu at a glance, but he didn't say anything, with a self-conscious expression, he wrapped the torn cotton jacket on his body, and turned around and walked back. Wu Ma Xin came to his senses at this time, and took a deep look at the back, the back stopped for a while, but did not look back, continued to walk away, and a voice resounded through the mountains: "You have to remember that you are surnamed Wu Ma!"
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The sound was like a bell, shaking the ice and snow on the mountains on both sides.
Wu Ma Xin bowed to the head again, walked towards the depths of the mountain, his eyes involuntarily looked to both sides, the mountain was frozen tightly, and the ice was covered with all kinds of strange ancient beasts, like a mural made of ice, with many heads and tails, huge eyes and wings, sharp scales and sharp armor, and he couldn't name it at all. At the end of the mountain stood a huge ice sculpture, with a human head and a fish body, a hideous face, a towering dorsal fin, sharp scales, and countless long and short tentacles hanging from the neck, and in the center was a red heart, on which the blood vessels were clearly visible.
The ice sculpture has no impurities, and from a distance, the heart seems to be hanging in the air.
Wu Ma's heart closed his limit, held his breath and condensed, trying to communicate with that heart, since the labyrinth came out, he can feel more and more the power of nature, full of awe, as long as you know how to be humble and call sincerely, you will find that everything in the world is alive and has a soul.
An old man in red clothes broke through the ice, he was already too old to look good, and he had no intention of coming over, just standing there trembling, looking around, trembling one after another.
"Seniors. Wu Ma Xin clenched his fists and arched his hand, "In Xia Wu Ma Xin, I came to take my heart on the order of the family teacher." ”
The old man slowly turned his head and looked at it, and then said in a low voice: "Oh, but you don't look like a member of the Wuma family, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of this mountain." ”
"Why did the seniors say this?"
"Oh. The old man trembled and found a piece of residual ice and sat down, and said, "The biggest weapon of the Wuma family is the innate domineering, not angry and self-assured, killing and not confused, everyone obeys orders, and no monster dares to get close, but you don't have it, but like ordinary people, the kindness of women, I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve great things." ”
"Isn't it necessary to be ruthless to achieve great things, regard life as a mustard, and treat the people as dogs?" Wu Ma was a little unconvinced, he was not without ambition, but he was in awe of life, and he would rather not have what he could only obtain through brutal killing.
The old man tried to frown, but found that the wrinkles on his face were no longer attachable, and said calmly: "Not necessarily, although I am not optimistic about you, you can try." Why did you come to get your heart?"
"Qi Yu senior, I took the heart not to get anything for myself, but to prevent Zi Song and a bunch of dragons from Chixian Shenzhou from getting this heart. ”
The wrinkles on the old man's face formed a big word "contempt", trembling even more, and he gasped and said: "How domineering Wuma Pingchuan was back then, everyone in the four seas was terrified, and he always took the initiative to attack and take the lead in defeating the enemy, why did his descendants become so cowardly and passive, it seems that there is no hope for revenge." ”
"If I'm as violent and domineering as Wuma Pingchuan, you guys will be relieved?"
"Of course. ”
"Has Wuma Pingchuan completed the mission of the Wuma family?"
"This ...... Well, let's hope your sharp teeth won't be shattered by reality. The old man said, the word "contempt" on his face faded a lot.
"Dare to ask my seniors, how can I obtain this red heart?"
"Everyone has a power, it's the most powerful, it grabs everything you want. ”
"What is the strongest strength in the human body?"
"Ambition!" the old man said with a serious expression, "A strong desire to occupy is the strongest force in the universe, it can absorb all the energy for its own use, and it is invincible. ”
Wu Ma's heart suddenly came to his senses, and he asked again, "Then how do I refine it?"
"Conquer! Nothing can be harmoniously and naturally integrated, it is nothing more than one side making the other side submit, the winner is the master, and the loser is the servant, just like the ruthless blood in your body, which is conquered and fused by the five elements bloodline in your body, but you don't know it. Or not, I'm afraid you've already become a slave to it. ”
"Thank you, seniors. Wu Ma bowed deeply in his heart, and saw that the old man was trembling very much because of his seriousness, and asked with concern, "Why have the seniors been trembling, could it be that there is some disease, and here is the elixir given by the predecessors of the Medicine King......
The old man trembled even more violently, and interrupted him with a loud shout: "As long as you live, your heart will beat incessantly, and your almost ignorant kindness will sooner or later harm you." After that, the old man flicked his sleeves angrily, and a gust of wind struck, Wu Ma Xin opened his eyes, everything was still the same as before, and the ice sculpture was as intact as ever.
It turned out that the old man was the heart of the red pig.
Wu Ma Xin stared at the heart, the tip of the heart pointed to the front and lower left, the bottom of the heart was biased to the right back and bottom, the left edge was obtuse and oblique downward, the right edge was vertical, the lower edge was horizontal, the front and back longitudinal two intersulcus divided the left and right, and the coronary sulcus almost around the bottom of the heart cut the atrioventricle, and the surface was densely vascular, and the terrifying sound of it beating could almost be heard.
It's hard to figure out why anyone would want to own such a thing.
Wu Ma Xin continued to stare, slowly feeling the changes in his body, and every cell in his body seemed to be awakened by this huge and strange heart, sending out a signal of longing. Only the cells at the bottom can perceive the most primitive and basic needs, telling us the most real feelings, thirst, hunger, cold, warmth, strength, weakness, pain, survival, these are the fundamentals of human survival, and art, music, or the judgment of good and evil, the distinction between good and evil, and even the five senses, six desires and seven emotions, are just the illusion created by the brain from deception. They tell Witch Horse Heart that this thing is so delicious that it makes each of them powerful, and they have to get it!
At this time, the heart of the red pig in the eyes of Wu Ma's heart, like a huge red peach, makes people salivate, the desire to possess and devour no longer allows him to think, his right hand uncontrollably reached in and grabbed the peach, and at the same time the heart left the body, the huge ice sculpture made a terrifying "boom" sound, disintegrating into ice cubes and falling to the ground. Wu Ma Xin only felt the most primitive desire for life at this time, and every bite felt incomparably sweet, turning into countless power atoms and rushing to every cell in the body. Every cell is going through a war, greedily devouring, and they want to become stronger.
"Whew!" Wu Ma's eyes lit up red, and he roared to the sky, he wanted to digest this sudden power and the greed in his heart. The other force in his body also trembled at this time, and the original unwillingness in his heart turned into groveling.
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The ice walls on both sides of the mountain made a "click" sound, and the cracks continued to increase, and the eyes of the monsters frozen in them flashed with relief.
The eyes of Zi Song Lu, who came from afar, were full of anger, he never thought that he would lose, lose to this opponent Wu Ma Xin, whom his father had always valued him. This opponent is too weak, if it weren't for his intention to leave him to play and entertain, I'm afraid he would have disappeared long ago.
Whether he's weak or not, he has to be made gone!
And the critical juncture of refining the heart of the red pig is the best opportunity!
Zi Song Lu clenched the folding fan in his hand and walked towards Wu Maxin, when suddenly a hot and humid wind hit, and the folding fan in his hand was firmly grasped. He tugged hard, the ice wall collapsed with a "boom", and a two-headed lizard jumped to the ground, its body was more than a zhang high and several zhang long, shaking its bat-like wings to shake off the residual ice on its body, shaking two blood-red tongues, and drooling everywhere.
There was a big gap in the ice wall, and it immediately collapsed, and several giant beasts that escaped from the ice also fell to the ground, a black bear with a blood basin open and waving huge wings, a tiger with seven heads swinging, and a giant scorpion with nine tails shaking, blocking the path of the mountain valley.
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