Chapter 80: Re-entering the Secret Realm (20)
The middle of the Tien Shan Mountains.
On the shore of an unnamed lake.
Jiang Ge stood trembling in the wind and snow.
As far as the eye can see, there are white snow-capped mountains all around, which are majestic and magnificent.
Behind him is a huge azure lake, bottomless and still quiet in the snow.
Jiang Ge stepped on the hard ice frozen under his feet.
It's not that it's cold all year round, and even the snow is frozen as hard as stone.
But the lake behind him did not freeze.
The temperature was too cold for Jiang Ge to think about it, waiting for everyone to come out and quickly find a place to hide from the wind and snow.
After a while, the last guard walked out of the light gate.
With a whoosh, the light gate slowly faded and swung open in the air, like a stone being thrown into the quiet water, and a few blinks of the eye gate disappeared.
The guards waved their bare hands in the void of the Gate of Light a few times, but there was no response.
The wind and snow are too big, even if the inner armor changed in the spider cave can retain the temperature of the body at this time, it can't contain the biting cold wind in the ice and snow.
Jiang Ge had already raised his line of sight to observe the terrain, except for the lake behind him, the annular basin was a huge snow-capped mountain, only there was a thin black line in the direction in front of him, like a broken mountain, bare black rocks, it was likely that under the crack in the mountain was the exit.
Jiang Ge stomped his feet and said, "It's not far ahead of the exit, let's go to avoid the wind and snow first." ”
"No!"
On the white earth, Jiang Ge and Jian Hong took fifty personal guards, stepping on the ice and snow under their feet with difficulty.
The trail of footprints that had just been walked had disappeared after the wind and snow had blown away, smooth and traceless, as if no one had walked at all.
Half an hour later, Jiang Ge and the others finally walked to the bottom of the black line of the mountain.
It is a deep canyon, which can be paralleled by three people, the mountains on both sides are straight and steep, there is no snow on the ground, the natural stone slabs are irregular, and there is a thick layer of dark and glowing ice, which is extremely difficult to walk.
Fortunately, the wind blowing in from another part of the canyon was not as strong as before, and it was not as bitterly cold.
Jiang Ge saw that there was no place to hide around, and the stone road was extremely slippery, and he felt that the climate was better than before, so he could only order everyone to sit on the ground like him, and slowly slide towards the other end of the canyon little by little.
After an hour or so of hard skiing, the ice on the ground gradually melted, the ground became wet at any time and the stone slabs, and water droplets fell into the ground on the black cliffs on both sides.
Everyone could clearly feel that the wind blowing from the front had a hint of warmth, moisture, and the smell of grass.
Bidding farewell to the cold, everyone's sluggish expressions were lifted, and they hastily ate some dried meat to replenish their water and began to continue walking.
All the way down, about half a day, the ground and rocks have become dry, the breeze in the air has become back to normal temperature, the sky is dark, there is no sticks and firewood on the way, fortunately the weather is better. The crowd fell asleep back to back.
Nothing was said all night.
Early in the morning of the second day, Jiang Ge and his party walked forward by the faint light of the sky in the canyon, and at noon, under the huge mountain crack, everyone sat on the ground, looking at the endless green grassland in front of them, feeling the smell of grass in the warm air, and their faces showed joyful expressions.
Jiang Ge and Jian Hong also glanced at each other, smiled, exhaled heavily, and finally walked out.
Look at the grassland in front of you, patches of wild yaks and sheep, winding streams, and colorful wildflowers dotted on the green meadows.
Jiang Ge seemed to have come to heaven from hell, and rushed to the grassland under the mountain with a loud shout, shouting loudly to express his inner happiness, and did not forget to tell everyone: "Go and catch a few cows and sheep, find more trunks and branches, let's barbecue and eat, yo roar~"
Everyone looked at the general who rushed to the front, cheerfully like a child, and then remembered that the general was really a child less than twenty years old.
Driven by Jiang Ge, happiness has infected everyone, after being trapped for so many days, and encountering a mortal situation, everyone has escaped from the depths of the snowy mountains, there is no reason not to be happy.
Jian Hong, who was cold in itself, was also deeply infected at this time, and the previous encounter was one of the most wonderful experiences in his more than thirty years, and the other memorable experience was also to follow the young man in front of him, a young general who was less than twenty years old.
By a small river, Jiang Ge took off his clothes and took a bath comfortably, although the water temperature was still a little cold, it was already a good reward from God for Jiang Ge, but he didn't want to have a hot spring to soak comfortably.
The guards slaughtered a cow and two sheep, the bonfire was prosperous, and more than a dozen people who were not afraid of the cold also learned Jiang Ge to jump into the river and let a cool and comfortable howl.
The cattle and sheep on the shore on the fire kept rotating, bubbling with strands of golden grease, dripping into the burning firewood along the fire, poof~ sound, and the aroma of meat overflowed.
Jiang Ge, who had already been freshened, gathered around the fire, gnawing on the beef and mutton that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and it was crispy and delicious when he bit into it, followed by the tender meat mixed with oil juice, chewing in his mouth with steam, and then swallowing it in one bite, from his mouth to his stomach, all satisfied.
Jiang Ge also opened the bow left and right, holding a burnt yellow leg of mutton in his hand and tearing it desperately, feeling comfortable and having a big appetite, although I don't know what place this is, but it is indeed the most down-to-earth and comfortable place, first eat and drink enough to rest
Now, let's go to the next thing.
Xiaocao Ah Si, who has been crying all the time, doesn't know what's going on, he has been in a coma since he saw the spider, and Jiang Ge can't wake up this guy, so he can only wait for him to wake up naturally.
Just washed, the hair was casually draped behind his back, and the white wood was soaked in the river water by Jiang Ge for a while, and when he saw that there was no reaction, he threw it on the grass next to him at will.
Everyone chatted while eating meat, some looked at the shining stars in the sky, some thought about the person in their hearts, and some were already lying on the ground and falling asleep.
Jiang Ge looked up at the brightest star in the sky, and remembered that there were two pear vortices in the corners of her mouth, wearing white clothes and white skirts, and she shouted that she was a fool.
A night of dreams, with a happy smile on the corner of his mouth.
........
"Big brother, grandpa? Wake up. ”
Jiang Ge was still holding Bai Ling'er's hand in his dream, looking at the stars and eating pears, feeling that someone was shouting to him, and his ears were still extremely itchy.
Jiang Ge, who had saliva at the corner of his mouth, closed his eyes, rubbed his ears, turned over and continued to dream.
"Big brother, wake up, big brother."
Jiang Ge, who was still in a sweet dream, suddenly remembered that this was the voice of Xiaocao Ah Si, and suddenly sat up, looking for Baihuo Mu on the ground with his right hand, wondering if Ah Si was awake.
When Jiang Ge was looking for the grass in a panic, Xiaocao Ah Si suddenly jumped on Jiang Singer, but under Ah Si's stalk was not the hundred-living wood, but a finger long strange thing, as if it was the corpse of an insect.
Jiang Ge looked at the three green leaves in his hand and touched them gently, and said in his heart: "Don't pretend to be dead?" ”
"Big brother, the conscience of heaven and earth, Xiao Si is really not pretending to be dead, the control is just a giant bear's physical exhaustion, fortunately I met this last night, it is simply a field spirit, otherwise Xiao Si would have to sleep for I don't know how long."
"Invincible Begins with Sacrificing to the Ancestors"
"What heaven and earth spirits?" Jiang Ge looked at the insect-shaped object swinging under Ah Four.
"Big brother is this, although it is not as good as ginseng deer antler snow lotus lingzhi, this cordyceps is not bad. I was still asleep last night when I suddenly came across this thing, and slowly digested it all night, and now I am in good spirits. Big brother, you see I'm alive again. ”
"Ah, this is cordyceps, I said how it looks familiar, I saw it in the kitchen when I was a child. But it's all sun-dried, and it's the first time I've seen this kind of work. ”
"It turns out that the eldest brother has eaten it before, but it is the first time for the poor little four to eat such a delicious thing, it stands to reason that where there is cordyceps, there will be snow lotus, and there may be Ganoderma lucidum near the location of snow lotus. Big brother, where is this? How do I feel that I have entered the smell of herbs, and the ground is full of this thing, did the eldest brother rob the medicine field of which house? ”
Jiang Ge then remembered, Ah Si is a fairy grass, the best at finding medicinal materials, listening to the precious medicinal materials Ah Si said, Jiang Ge's heart moved, and asked, "Are you sure this place is full of Cordyceps?" And snow lotus and reishi? ”
Ah Si shook the three green leaves on his head for a while and said: "It's a little meaning, big brother, I can't lie to you, just this place you visited, let alone a dozen cordyceps, this piece is too many to count, I also asked about the taste of snow lotus and Ganoderma lucidum, not far from here." ”
Jiang Ge quickly moved his body, and with the help of Ah Si, he successfully pulled out more than a dozen cordyceps, the grass on the soil, and the body of the insect under the soil, which was simple and easy to recognize.
Although I don't know pharmacology, I can still remember the text recorded in the herbal medicine chapter of Shangshu, this cordyceps is a rare high-grade medicinal herb, and it is invaluable. If according to Xiao Si, this piece is full of cordyceps, whether it is kept by these people as a medicine to replenish qi and heal wounds, or sold or given away in the future, it is also an excellent thing.
So Jiang Ge distributed the cordyceps in his hand to the guards, and ordered them to look for them according to their appearance, and pull out as many as they wanted.
After arranging the guards, Jiang Ge called Jian Hong to take a number of cloth bags, and then inserted Ah Si, which had been integrated into Baihuo Mu, into the bun that he pulled casually on the top of his head.
Jian Hong was wondering why she suddenly dug up the grass medicine and went to other places, but curiosity was curious, and Jian Hong quickly found some cloth bags and followed.
Jiang Ge followed the direction of Ah Si on the top of his head to the gravel slope on the edge of the grassland, Jiang Ge, who had just turned up the slope, was shocked by the scene in front of him, and Ah Si on his head was also screaming there in surprise, of course, only Jiang Ge could hear it.
Jianhong, who followed later, was also shocked when he saw the scene in front of him, and his jaw was about to drop.
Climbing up the gravel slope, the sunny side is a sea of lilac snow lotus, and the shady place is covered with palm-sized milky white reishi.
According to Ah Si, these snow lotuses are in one season a year, and the purple snow lotus is the best quality. The milky white Ganoderma lucidum can only be available for more than 100 years.
Jiang Ge was amazed, and saw a few yellow sheep and yaks not far away casually gnawing on the snow lotus and Ganoderma lucidum on the hillside, and felt a little sorry in his heart, but Ah Si asked if he had eaten these cattle and sheep.
Jiang Ge asked, "What's so special?" ”
Ah Si said excitedly: "These cattle and sheep are the real treasures, they eat such precious herbs all day long, they are simply violent, Ah Si has lived all these years, big brother, eat more of these cattle and sheep, it is only good for the body, there is no harm." Although these grasslands are precious, they will have some side effects, but the animals that eat medicinal herbs every day leave the essence in the body for conversion, and the toxins are discharged. It's just an active fairy grass. Ah,,, of course it's definitely different from me, just an analogy, ha. ”
Jiang Ge and Jianhong are not in a hurry to pick them, there are so many in front of them, and they can't finish picking them. Jiang Ge casually picked a snow lotus and Ganoderma lucidum, held it in his hand, and gave it to Ah Si and said, "You are today."
When you go back later, you can digest it on the ground and don't let people see it. ”
As soon as the words fell, Ah Si's incomparably flattering voice sounded, and their respective compliments came out one after another, almost praising Jiang Ge to the sky.
Jiang Ge asked Jianhong to pick two of them and bring them back so that the brothers could get to know each other, Jiang Ge began to think about things in his heart, and quickly returned to the camp with Jianhong.
Summoned all the guards who were digging Cordyceps and said: "Brothers, although we don't know where we are yet, but I think that if we come, we will be safe, and everyone has survived so many days before, so let's not worry." I'll make the arrangements, and from today onwards, we'll follow the arrangement. ”
Everyone clasped their fists and said in unison: "But according to the general's orders." ”
Jiang Ge thought for a while and said: "This place is inaccessible, the first priority, every day a team of people carefully search, the farthest can not exceed twenty miles." Departure on the same day and must come back that night. Mark the places that have been explored. The second thing is to keep digging up the cordyceps on your hands, as well as the snow lotus reishi on the hillside over there. It can be eaten raw, but not more than one at a time. Do you understand? ”
Jiang Ge took out the snow lotus and lingzhi in his hand and shook them in the air, and pointed to the slope of the mountain full of snow lotus.
"Third, after the cattle and sheep are killed, the fur is made into leather bags, and the picked snow lotus lingzhi is dried and stored. Everything will wait until the way out is found before setting off. Everyone moves their bodies every day, then eats more meat, rests more, and practices a set of swordsmanship with Jianhong in the morning. That's it, let's disperse. ”
The people promised to continue their own business.
Jiang Ge threw the Baihuo Wood on the snow lotus, put it in the haystack beside him, and began to meditate quietly.
Jiang Ge always had a conjecture in his heart, but he didn't dare to confirm it.
Perhaps, he took Jianhong and fifty guards and returned to the real world that belonged to him.
The location they are in now is most likely the Tianshan Mountain recorded in the Shangshu.
Because the air here can make Jiang Ge feel intimate and real for a long time, the world in the Phoenix Dream Realm does not have this familiar feeling like returning to his hometown. Even if the Tianshan Mountains are located in the extreme west, it may really be 108,000 miles away from Jingzhou.
Now all you need to do is find one, just ask.
It's just that Jiang Ge has a hard time convincing himself that he can shuttle between reality and dreams, and these people around him have no reason to shuttle to the real world, because they are just characters in Jiang Ge's dreams.
But how does Little Black and White explain it?
Jiang Ge's bold guess is likely to come true, and he himself thinks so, because he has a strong premonition telling him that it is true.
You need to think about what the future holds if you are guessed. After entering the real world, what will change and change Jianhong and the others? What kind of impact will their appearance have on the world?
Perhaps, only time will tell, but the road ahead, Jiang Ge must take them well.
.......
Time flies.
Seven days passed in a flash.
In the past seven days, Jiang Ge carefully observed the changes of everyone, and the changes were also obvious, because every day they ate fairy grass and beef and mutton grown up eating fairy grass, including Jian Hong, all of them were strong to the extreme, and everyone's strength, agility, ability to resist beating, speed, and a series of abilities have been qualitatively improved.
It's like going from a strong-armed ram to a cheetah with great lethality. They can no longer be described as strong, they should be called perverted. In the dream world, it can be compared to Chen Sheng's fierce man, and in the real world, it can be compared to Lian Shanyang's fierceness of one person being a hundred.
And Jianhong's rebirth coupled with the recent nourishment, another Jiang Ge who has escaped alive, although it cannot be compared with the current Jiang Ge, at least it is comparable to Jiang Ge before he didn't drink ambergris.
In the past seven days, the fifty guards have followed Jianhong to learn a set of sword formations that are both offensive and defensive, attacking and killing the enemy, and preventing without leaking flaws. And Jian Hong fortunately, he didn't hide his secrets, and taught the use of sword qi to fifty people. So far, everyone has been able to achieve the point of sword qi covering swords, Jiang Ge can't imagine how fierce fifty people with such combat power will be on the battlefield in the real world.
The most critical point is that under Jiang Ge's careful observation, one of the guards accidentally cut his hand when cutting meat, but it only took a day to recover as before, and there were no scars.
Under Jiang Ge's repeated confirmation, he finally came to a shocking conclusion that the self-healing ability of these people was beyond the scope of this world. In other words, as long as it is not directly fatal, even the most serious injuries can recover on their own.
The more Jiang Ge knew, the more frightened he became, and the more he didn't dare to let everyone easily reveal these secrets, and after the three emphasizes, it was determined that everyone was 100% submissive and obedient to Jiang Ge, and Jiang Ge settled down.
If one person betrays him and escapes from control, then he can only die under his sword, and Jiang Ge will never allow the people he brings to become the scourge of the instability of this world.
After thinking about everything and adjusting the state, finally on the tenth day, Jiang Ge led everyone along the exit that the scouts had discovered.
The grassland under the snow-capped mountain has returned to calm, the number has decreased, and the ordinary cattle and sheep continue to live quietly here, even if it is ten consecutive days of looting, Jiang Ge and the others have only taken away less than one-tenth of all kinds of herbs.
A group of soldiers, each carrying huge leather bags, walked on the green grassland, all the way east, in the direction of the rising sun.
The world there has collapsed, and the mountains and rivers have been shattered.
However, that is the direction of home.