Chapter 159: The Herd

The old immortal master's face turned white when he heard this, how could the young man speak? What is a waste of dim sum? The two companions secretly laughed when they saw him eating it....... I can't help but wonder if it is considered that the tiger fell into Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, knocked out the front teeth and swallowed blood?

The young man led the way, walked in the dark, and came to a pile of rubble. The strange rocks are craggy, and the darkness is like a monster, which is intimidating.

The people in the camp had already fallen asleep, and an old man heard the footsteps and asked dimly, "Who?" The old immortal master hurried two steps and was excited: "Oh.....! I've found you. ”

Lao Wu listened to the familiar voice, and he couldn't believe it was him in this place of nine deaths and one life. I only suspect that I am dreaming. It wasn't until the old immortal master came to his side and hugged his shoulder, and he woke up the moment he was smoked by his unique scent, that he believed it was him and hurriedly pinched his nose. "Big brother...... Spare me!"

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The two had been absent for a long time, and they exchanged pleasantries for a while.......

Su Wen squinted his eyes and then looked at this person carefully in the dim light, the two old men were of the same age, and their attainments in Taoism were also half a catty. The difference is that the Martial Immortal Master is extremely well-dressed, wearing a dark robe with gold threads on the cuffs and hem, and although he is old, he is extremely dignified. Long eyebrows and white beard, amiable smile. In short, he is an amiable, steady and attractive old man.

He is Wutong, the most powerful immortal master in the Xisu Empire. When he was a teenager, he was a well-known high-roller, known for his kindness and generosity, and his jealousy and hatred. Twenty years ago, demon beasts besieged the northern city of Xisutong. Everyone didn't dare to save it, but he traveled under the stars and led people to disperse the demon beasts and relieve the siege. After middle age, it is rarely on the road in the rivers and lakes. It's just because he accepted the imperial commission to guard the northern kingdom and monitor the demon beasts like an old immortal master.

Only then did the old immortal master remember that there were two more companions. Hurriedly introduced to Lao Wu: "This Lord Su is an extreme master, who can give birth to splitting demon beasts. He is the hottest hero in Xinsu recently, known as the dandelion hero! Thanks to his escort all the way, I can see you again. ”

It can be seen from his outfit that this person is a Confucian scholar who has read poetry and books, and he must not be like the old immortal master who does not pay attention to the rules. Hurriedly stepped forward and took a deep look: "Caomin Su Wen has seen Master Wu. ”

Wu Tong listened to the introduction of the old immortal master, and he already had a very good impression of Su Wen, and what he needed most at the moment was a martial arts master. The gentle smile of exhortation, like a spring breeze: "I have heard the name of Su Chivalry in Xisu, and I really deserved the name when I saw it today." Su Xia Shi is a generation of handsome heroes, and naturally has a good ability to deal with demon beasts. Although there are many monsters here, there is no need to be nervous. We are not here to be brave and ruthless, and it is the wisest choice to hide if we can dodge, and to avoid if we can. If you can retreat with your whole body this time, you will definitely do the first thing for our human race! Even if you are able to receive incense in your golden body, it is not too much!"

Su Wen looked at him, blinked slightly, and secretly laughed at what I want to make a statue? The river god is still sending the son Guanyin? On the surface, he is still respectful: "The boy is fortunate to serve the work of dogs and horses, and I am willing to take the lead of the martial arts master and the horse!"

"Deep and dangerous, Su Shaoxia doesn't need to be polite, but I don't know something....... Dare to ask Su Shaoxia if he can really give birth to a splitting demon beast?" If you change the occasion, such a question would seem abrupt and impolite, but at the moment it is the most realistic question. A correct understanding of the strength of the personnel will be of great benefit to future tasks.

Su Wen was almost embarrassed by him, and secretly complained: You old man bragging doesn't change the occasion, this is a demon beast nest. In case of a demon beast, I really show you a hand-torn demon beast, can't I?

Hurriedly explained seriously: "I don't know who made up the legend of the Split Demon Beast, it's all some flattering and polite words, don't take it seriously." I just strangled a baby leopard demon. If the weapons and armor are complete, you can barely fight when you encounter a lone demon beast. ”

Su Wen thought that he was humble and realistic, but he didn't expect Master Wu to make a difficulty. He had dealt with demon beasts for many years, and of course he didn't believe that anyone could give birth to demon beasts. But since Su Wen said the big thing here, he couldn't refute it. Believe it, but I'm worried that it will affect my decision. It was difficult for a while.

The old immortal master waved his hand and beckoned Su Mei over: "This Su girl is my apprentice, and her strength is only below you and me." She is not only proficient in immortal arts, but also a first-class archer, and has killed many demon beasts under her hands. ”

Su Mei's identity is special, and the old immortal master is not good at leaking it casually, lest he be heard and remembered by someone with a heart.

Su Mei greeted him and exchanged a few words..... Master Wu shook his head with a wry smile, and laughed at himself: "Sure enough, heroes have been young since ancient times.... Your grandfather and I are both old! I didn't expect to become a waste here! I have to rely on your protection! Fortunately, the girl has learned the bow and arrow, and she just happened to show off her skills here!"

Su Tong already knew the intention of the three of them. His exploration of this place has encountered a bottleneck, and he is struggling, so he simply consults with a few people. "Since everyone is here, let's make a long story short. Su Tong pointed into the darkness. "This is a huge basin, and we are on a circular mountain range, and a herd of about thirty or fifty demon beasts lives below. ”

The old immortal master gasped, "Life, is there enough meat here?"

Wu Tong said abruptly: "You should be able to see it in the light of day..... The terrain in the basin is gentle, the geothermal heat is abundant, and the pastures are abundant, so there is naturally no shortage of herds of cattle and sheep. ”

Su Wen recalled the landforms along the way, and sure enough, he saw many craters. After a long silence, he asked softly, "Dare."

Ask Master Wu, do demon beasts often migrate between basins? Is this a continent or an island?"

Wu Tong looked at his serious expression, suddenly laughed at himself, and said, "Although we arrived a few days early, it's a pity that we don't know much. As Shaoxia said, monsters and herds often migrate back and forth between the basins, and we didn't dare to leave the mountains at all. ”

Whether it is an island or a continent, since it can support such a large number of demon beasts, it also shows the vastness of this place. There is no more information to judge, only to wait until dawn to make plans. The three of them were already exhausted after a long journey, so Wu Tong called for people to vacate a few tents, get into them and sleep in their clothes.

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The next morning, when the morning fog was still thick, Su Wen couldn't bear to get out of the tent. The faint scenery in front of him was as he expected, and this was another volcanic crater rich in geothermal resources. The clouds they saw in the distance were the product of the hot air in the basin and the natural cold air. Miraculously, the clouds and mist only encircle the mountains, but the air in the basin is permeable and unobstructed.

A blue sea with a white rocky beach lies quietly in the middle of the basin, and countless streams, trees, and grasslands together create a paradise-like world. All kinds of animals graze lazily by the sea, weeping willows by the streams, and several large peach forests are falling in color, and they have entered spring earlier than the mainland.

"Bow down, away from the edge of the mountain. ”

A low voice came from behind him.

Su Wen leaned down and glanced back at him, clearly seeing that it was a sentry sergeant.

The man pointed to a wooded area about two kilometers away. A relative said: "The leopard demon is in the forest, be careful to be discovered." ”

Su Wen was startled, he had already carefully looked at the woods, but he didn't notice anything abnormal. Then he picked up the high-powered sight and focused on looking for it.

It was a crooked-necked willow forest, the willow tree had grown for an unknown amount of time, the old one could not stand up, and there were a lot of leopard demons lying on the crooked branches, and the spots on the leopard demons were integrated with the environment. If you don't look closely, you really can't see it.

"There are a lot of little leopards, and the leopard demon is here to give birth?" Su Wen saw a few simple little leopard demons, probably too energetic, climbing down the willow tree early in the morning, chasing butterflies in the forest, and being cute.

"We came with them, and the youngest ones were born on the road. The half-grown ones are probably last year's cubs. Only then did Su Wen find that there were many half-sized leopard demons sleeping on the trees.

"Why are there so many? This will grow up and get it!" Su Wen roughly counted, and there were about thirty cubs of all ages in the entire forest. There are only five or six adult leopard demons.

"The wolf demon has more cubs, only the ape demon has fewer. "The sergeant had heard of Su Wen's origin, and he was very respectful to him, and he would answer all questions. Pointing to the west, a hazy mountain range loomed through the mist. "There are a lot of trees in that mountain, and apes like to stay in the woods. ”

There was a "snap", and a bolt of lightning exploded in the clouds on the side of the mountain without warning. Frightened, Su Wen hurriedly lay on the ground with his head in his hands, and when he raised his head, he realized that he was the only one who was making a fuss.

The sergeant squatted to the side without changing his face, looked at the expression on his face, and said with a joke: "Master Su is really a martial arts master, this action is incomparably fast...... Tomorrow you'll get used to it, I don't know if this is a ghost prison, thunder and lightning are commonplace!"

Thunder and lightning ..... Su Wen chewed on this word slowly, could the thunder and lightning be related to the electricity in the demon pill? He couldn't understand where the electricity in the demon pill came from.

But he remembered that the thunder and lightning in nature contained a huge amount of energy, and the energy of some large lightning bolts was even at the level of destroying the world.

Is it possible? The monster is here to recharge. Otherwise, where does the electricity in the demon pill come from?

He remembers burning a single meal of coal without much electricity. And where does the electricity in the demon pill that is comparable to the level of a nuclear weapon come from? Apparently impossible.

If it is obtained directly from nature, then the most direct and simple source can only be another choice----- thunder and lightning!.

In the end, it's time to praise the intelligence of demon beasts and the magic of biological evolution! Or should we praise the Creator's miraculous work!

Su Wen couldn't believe that this series of things came from evolution, a natural creation. What reason did the demon beasts use to evolve the demon pill? Why did they travel thousands of miles to recharge it? And who told them how to recharge it?

The monster beast worked hard and traveled thousands of miles. The most amazing thing is that, as far as Su Wen knows, the only function of the demon pill is to use it as a weapon for the immortal master, and the most ironic thing is that the target is actually a demon beast!

Su Wen shook his head and put aside these ridiculous ideas, he found that his train of thought had reached a dead end. In any case, it will go around to the origin and function of the demon pill.

I couldn't help but take out another demon pill, hold it in the palm of my hand, and look at it attentively. He muttered to the demon pill, "Where are you from?....... Where are you going? Who needs you?"

It's as if the demon pill is not a dead thing and can understand his words.......

The sergeant looked at him with a strange expression, and when he heard what he said, he couldn't help laughing: "Our adults are just like you, Jing."

I often take the demon pill and ask how it is useful!"

"No, I'm going down and have a look! Regardless of the use of the demon pill for now, I want to see if the demon pill is related to thunder and lightning!" Su Wen encouraged himself, as if he wanted to make a big decision.

If the demon pill is related to thunder and lightning, then the purpose of the demon beast to the north is very clear.

Young demon beasts need to come to the northern mother land to live for a period of time, in order to recharge the demon pill.

Thunder and lightning resources are extremely abundant here, and the amount of thunder and lightning, just like the climate is divided into rainy and dry seasons, varies from time to time. In a certain year, the resources of thunder and lightning are particularly abundant, and the demon beast has no worries, so it will have more cubs. If the thunder and lightning resources catch up with the dry season in certain years, there is no need for the monsters to raise too many cubs.

The abundance of wildlife in the African savannah depends on the dry and rainy seasons, depending on the scale. From this line of thought, it is possible to explain the number of monsters in different years.

Assuming that thunder and lightning resources are abundant in a certain year, a large number of demon beasts will naturally appear. When they live in their mother land, they naturally have no quarrel with the world. Once they return to the south, because the human farmland and the habitat of the monsters are the same, the monsters will inevitably compete for territory.

--- Su Wen clearly remembers that someone said that the land is very different, and that ordinary land can only grow wild grasses, but cannot grow the food that human beings need. The biggest trouble is that monsters and humans need the same land.

Demon beasts want to compete for farmland and pasture, and at this time, a large number of demon beasts gather together, and the spatial battle between humans and demon beasts will inevitably lead to large-scale wars.

Because the number of monsters varies according to the thunder and lightning resources. When the dry season of the source of thunder and lightning arrives, the number of monsters naturally decreases. Mankind has gained a greater space for survival! In this way, mankind has gained time to recuperate and recuperate.

It also means that human beings are not looked at by monsters at all. In the eyes of demon beasts, all suitable habitats belong to demon beasts. They just allow humans to use it when they can't run out.

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The mist had lifted, and Su Mei also got up, washed up briefly, and came over to squat with them.

Su Wen first took her to see the scenery in the valley and the location of the demon beasts, and then narrated his thoughts to her. I hope to get some comments or suggestions from there.

After listening to Su Wen's words, Su Mei was silent for a long time, after all, there is no modern civilization in this world, and no one has seriously studied the behavior of wild animals. She didn't fully understand Su Wen's whimsical reasoning. But he also vaguely felt in his heart that his idea was a way of explaining the relationship between humans and monsters.

Su Mei looked at his eyes quietly and said, "I don't know why demon beasts kill people, and I don't care about the fate of others, but since God has made me a human, then I have to live well no matter what! If I need everyone's help to survive, then I need to protect others!"

Su Wen raised his head, looked at her and said seriously: "If this inference is true, everyone brainstorms and may be able to solve the problem of the number of demon beasts." Maybe humans and monsters will be able to eliminate the war disaster and live in peace from now on. ”

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"What do you say?...... Say it again!" The old immortal master's excited voice came from behind him, and the voice was a little loud. Wu Tong hurriedly covered his mouth, fearing that the abnormal sound would attract the snooping of the demon beast.

"Ouch, you old man is disrespectful to the old, eavesdropping on the young man's whispering!" Su Wen thought about the problem and thought about it so much that he didn't leave him behind him.

"Ahem, don't talk about those useless things, let's talk about how to make people live in peace with demon beasts?" the old immortal master anxiously rushed up and grabbed Su Wen's collar.

"It's just a guess, the top priority is to confirm the relationship between the number of demon beasts and the thunder and lightning!" Su Wen once again explained his speculation, this set of theories was deduced by him, even though he realized that it had constituted a complete causal relationship. The only thing that doesn't make sense is the earliest problem. --What is the use of the demon pill?

From the snow field to the so-called "mother land", although the old immortal master did not say it explicitly, he had already admitted that Su Wen's judgment of many things was more accurate. And he was even more surprised by his familiarity with snowfields and various terrains and unknowns. Even if he couldn't understand it, he wouldn't easily reject Su Wen's speculation.

"Then what are you going to do, how can you confirm it?" the old immortal master continued to ask.

Su Mei had already vaguely guessed what he was going to do, and she even guessed Su Wen's plan. I couldn't help but be a little worried about his boldness: "Do you really want to catch the little leopard demon? I advise you to take a look at it first, where is a group! Not a few! Without the support of the immortal master, how can you ensure that you can escape with your whole body?"

Whether it was the old immortal master or Master Wutongwu, they all understood his plan, and the two of them couldn't help, so they could only remain silent.

Su Wen knew that the decision he made might bring danger to the people in the camp.

He couldn't deal with so many demon beasts on his own, and he needed the help of the sergeants. The danger of the monster beast is well known, and who knows if such a bold act will cause disaster. It's not that he's taking the risk alone, it's gambling on everyone's lives.

"!" the sergeant had been listening, and the young man's face had long been impatient, and he shouted in a passionate whisper, so determined.