0033 Borderlands
The Dax Mountains are also known as the Borderlands.
In the early years, it was a small treasure mountain because of the medicinal herbs that were produced here.
But since the brilliance of the Temple of Life spread to the east, this place has been completely deserted.
Even, because the god of the forest of the god of nature wants to educate this place, even some villages and towns that believe in the god of the forest have moved away from here, and wild grasses grow on the ancient roads that have long been abandoned, and there will be snakes and hares on it from time to time.
Eliza drove the carriage down the road, but it seemed a little abrupt and out of place, and the tiger above the mountain stream looked up vigilantly after drinking water, but he didn't move.
After leaving Helen, Eliza visited Mubian Province overnight, bought some grain seeds, clothes to wrap around, and rented a horse-drawn carriage to begin the journey home.
It's almost winter, the climate is getting colder, and the birds and beasts in the mountains are dying, but the blackbird is still doing its duty as a forest musician, chirping non-stop.
It reminded her of when she left the mountains.
At that time, it was also cold, and there were several big black-haired birds hovering in the air, but unlike at this time, the blackbirds at that time were ugly and bald, and could only croak.
The breeze in the mountains blew, and her mood inexplicably improved, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl slightly, and she hummed an inexplicable minor tune with a country accent that she hadn't picked up for a long time.
She saved her two younger sisters, fulfilled her father's wish before he died, and after a few years, her ability has also increased, even if she returns to the mountains, she will not let her mother and sister go hungry, and everything is developing in a good direction.
The bells of the horse land are clear and transparent, like the bells of a monastery and swing into the distance, containing a kind of cleansing energy for the body and mind.
After losing the anxiety of the city and returning to the mountains, Eliza tensed her nerves and let go of her nerves, and let the horse go on her own, and her light dreams comforted her.
Nearly 800 kilometers further along this road, through the jungle, you can see a ruined wall, obviously without a trace of flesh and bones, bloody gas, but it is an excellent demonstration of a brutal explosion.
In the land of a town, not a single grass grows.
Li Yu walked along the unrecognizable streets, from the west of the town to the east of the town, and from the south of the town to the north of the town.
Liu Laohan's picture of a lady was burned to only half of it, Miss Zhao's jewelry was all black bumps, the knives, guns, sticks and halberds in the martial arts hall became black sticks hanging on the shelves, and in the backyard of Xiao Xi'er's house, several tiger striped groupers were still swimming freely...... These are the favorite things of their respective owners in their lifetimes.
This is obviously not a conflict over property, but if it is not for property, what is there to covet in this barren mountain and old forest?
After turning around, I returned to my own firewood, and all other parts of the house were burned except for the main body made of bluestone.
After a while, Old Man Zhou also followed, he patted Li Yu's shoulder, looked at the building debris around him, and said in a desolate voice: "People can't be resurrected after death, and the festival mourns and changes." ”
"Perhaps, they are not dead!" Li Yu said to himself: "If you die, you can't even find a bone." ”
"Perhaps, they were just caught......"
"Maybe!" Old Man Zhou looked at the mountains and forests from afar, and responded perfunctorily.
After entering the Clothingless Realm, he knew where the people in Asakusa Town had gone.
But in the face of Li Yu, he has other plans.
"When I sent you into the town, I saw that there were no wild beasts, and the insects and birds were silent, perhaps, because they were disturbed. ”
After a long time, he came up with such a sentence: "Asakusa Town is afraid that it will not be safe at this time, so it is better for you to go back to Qinghe Village with me." ”
"Qinghe Village is not for me. ”
Li Yu replied calmly.
He felt a strong sense of guilt.
Asakusa Town, who had no quarrel with the world, suddenly suffered this catastrophe, and it happened that when he left the town to meet Neichel and the others, he couldn't help but connect the incident with himself.
He harmed a town.
His heart was furious, and his resentment against the Brarian family had surged like a monstrous river.
He wants revenge, he wants justice for the people of this village.
Seeing that Li Yu could not be persuaded, Old Man Zhou stretched his hand forward, patted him on the shoulder, and finally sighed before slowly leaving.
Li Yu sat on the threshold of the burned courtyard for a while before coming back to his senses.
Raising his head, Old Man Zhou had already disappeared, he secretly clenched his fist, and knocked heavily on the half-destroyed porch pillar, and then got into the bluestone structure wall of his home that had not yet been burned.
Sweeping away the dust deposited and the broken eaves of the house, the floor tiles were lifted, and the earth was dug nearly five fingers wide, and a bronze plate was revealed.
Picking up a piece of rubble and slitting his finger, scarlet blood trickling from between his fingers and dripping onto the bronze plate.
The blood spread along the lines of the bronze plate as if it were alive, and in a short time, the whole plate was painted scarlet, and a faint light rose, and a copper plate suddenly parted from the middle, revealing a deep hole.
He remembered that every Spring Festival, his father would take him and his sister to carefully dig up the place and release a large bowl of blood.
If his parents hadn't been arrested, if his parents had really gone to the Eastern Continent as Old Master Lu had said, and if his parents had really left him something or some message, then he would definitely be here.
Jumping into the cave, there was a pungent musty smell in the dreary air, and it was a small space, without a trace of light, only faintly visible silk outlines.
Li Yu climbed the ladder next to him and returned to the outside, he found some charcoal from outside the house, and went outside the town to pull some weeds, broke a stick, and then returned to the cave entrance.
Without Tith, igniting the fire was a big problem for him, so he had to drill wood to make a fire, and it took a lot of effort to light the fire, and then he drilled down the hole again.
Maybe it was the time for the bronze plate to open, or maybe it was some other reason, Li Yu just got into the hole, and the bronze plate was closed again.
The excavated earth around it closed back together as if it were alive, and the debris and smoke were covered again, as if nothing had ever happened.
Even the spy who summoned Prosius and the others was a little confused about the scene in front of him that was the same as before.
He obviously saw people lingering here, but right now, how could he see any people.
Seeing that Prosius's face was getting worse and worse, the spy wiped his sweat and searched hard.
After wandering around for a long time, no one could find it, but only a dark and dying crow had been hovering over the ruins.
He had already been punished for the incident in the waterhole last time, and if his information was wrong this time, he was afraid that his life would be lost, and thinking about it, he was in an irritable mood, so he picked up a stone and threw it in the air, trying to silence the noisy crow forever.
But the crow, as if not afraid of people, easily avoided the stones, fell straight down, and pecked at the spies.
I only heard a scream from the spout, and the bloodshot eyes had entered the crow's mouth.
Prosius and the others heard the screams and came over, but they did not stop the crow's atrocity, and only when the crow swallowed the eyeball into its belly did they raise their hands to support the crow flying over, and stroked its black feathers quite gently.
The crow spread its wings to reveal the letter in the depths of his heel, Prosius took the letter, looked at it a few times, and led the party back to the cave, leaving both spies in the town.
Soon after Prosius and the others left, they saw several tall horses galloping away from the side of the mountain.
"This dwarf winter melon is finally gone!"
"What should we do! If we can't find anyone, we can't go back, this wilderness, the ghost is willing to come here, let's wait like this, what's the matter!"
"There is no divine energy near this Dax Mountains, and I feel that my divine power is about to degrade to the god seal level. ”
"Forget it, look for it, find it!"
In the ruins of the town, two spies chatted with each other.
Under the bronze plate, Li Yu flipped through the two letters in the side corner of the room. A font opens and closes, and the pen walks the dragon and snake; a font is beautiful and regular, if low and hibiscus.
He is familiar with his father's notes, and the hairpin should be left by his mother.
Flipping through his father's letter, it began with the familiar tone of pretending to be impatient, but it told in detail where they went, what to do when he came back from the city, who to find and what Yunyun, and there was a dark black token in the envelope, as well as a cultivation secret of the Eastern Continent.
At the end of the letter, there is another sentence: "When I know that you can't please God, my heart is very comforted, you should follow me, suitable for cultivating the law of the Eastern Continent, but after a hundred years of life, wouldn't it be happy, there are many difficulties in the cultivation of the road, I hope that you will not practice the law in your life." ”
Li Yu stuffed the token and the cultivation secret book in his arms and opened another letter.
The tone of this letter was much softer, and most of the warm things about family living together were the warm things that Li Yu felt that something was not quite right.
Between the lines, this letter expresses a strong debt to him, but there is little mention of Li Yi's affairs, and there is also a token in this letter, but it is golden.
The letter also mentioned a few words about this token, but it only told him to stay away from right and wrong, get married and have children earlier, and then pass on this token.
His mother's letter was in a fog for Li Yu, but fortunately, from his father's letter, he knew that in the depths of the Dax Mountains, there was a passage to the country of barbarians, and along this passage, he could reach the eastern continent by the country of ten thousand islands.
Knowing this, it is enough.
Putting the token in his mother's letter into his arms, Li Yu tightened his clothes, came to the bronze plate with the brazier, and put a bowl of blood in the small metal bowl next to the straight ladder.
First of all came to him were three brown and black eyes, followed by two huge mouths.
While he was still in a trance, two thin swords stabbed at him.
"Catch him! Catch him!"
"Big Harvest! Big Harvest!"
Li Yu raised his hand and walked around the sword, and then looked up carefully, but it was a thin monkey and a one-eyed dragon.
He didn't know either of them, but for some reason they were blocking him here.
"Tell me, who are you, and how did you end up here!" said the one-eyed dragon, seeing him as if he had seen a treasure, and his voice involuntarily carried a hint of uplift.
But the thin monkey stepped back, took out a dark canister from his bosom, and was about to light it with a fire breaker.
"Who are you?"
Li Yu responded, popped up the Qi ball in his hand, knocked out the objects on the thin monkey's hand, and used the Qi as a guide to rub the aura of heaven and earth into a rope and shoot it away, instantly capturing the two of them.