The Rugged Boy's Road Chapter 27: Danger lurks
Evil Wind understood Curly's thoughts, and said bluntly: "You guessed right, those energies just now were indeed emanating from the corpses of the four Thunder Tigers. In fact, people will produce some energy when they are angry, sad and other emotions, especially death can produce strong energy, but you don't know how to refine it, but I know. ”
Evil Wind's words made Curly Hair suddenly realize, and at the same time, it also opened a door in Curly Hair's heart, why did he finally why Evil Wind's cultivation was so much higher than him, it turned out that he had mastered this special method, but it was such a secret method, why did Evil Wind tell himself this? Curly Hair couldn't help but wonder and asked, "Why did you tell me such a secret thing?"
Evil Wind said: "It's very simple, because I want to live to the end, but on this island of Shura's purgatory, with the strength of one person, the chance of persevering to the end is very slim, so I need one or two reliable helpers." ”
Curly said, "Why did you choose me?"
Evil Wind said: "Because your cultivation is acceptable, and your heart is ruthless enough, as long as you are willing to obey me, I can take you to the end." ”
Although it sounds like the little brother of the evil wind, isn't the current evil wind the leader of the Iron Fist Gang? Curly Hair was already in despair, and suddenly rekindled his hope and asked, "Then what does it take me to do?"
Evil Wind said: "There are two main points, the first is to store food, if I expect it to be correct, it will not be long before the number of fruits in all the forests on the island will wither when the wind and snow come, and although I have stored some dried fruits before, it is far from enough for the two of us to last for two years." ”
After a pause, Evil Wind continued, "So we need to look for food again, I know that there are several people in this forest who have stored a lot of food like me, and I have found out where they store food. ”
Speaking of which, even if the evil wind stopped, he quietly looked at the curly hair. Curly asked thoughtfully, "What do you mean?"
Evil Wind nodded, and Curly Hair also nodded lightly with Evil Wind's movements, already knowing the meaning of Evil Wind in his heart, killing people and selling goods.
Looking at Curly Mao's clear expression, Evil Wind said again: "But this alone is not enough, because even if you have enough food, if your cultivation is insufficient, then you will not be able to protect these foods, so you still need to work hard to improve your cultivation." ”
Hearing this, Curly replied with a gloomy face: "It's just that the gap between my cultivation and yours is too big." ”
Evil Wind said: "There are so many nutrients on the island, as long as I help you, it will be easy to improve your cultivation." ”
Curly fur wondered, "Nourishment?"
Evil Wind replied: "Yes, those who don't survive to the last on this island will not all become nourishment for others." ”
Curly hair's heart palpitated, it turned out that this was the real purpose of the Hell Gate to gather a thousand people and place them on the island in the lake, just to achieve the cultivation of a small number of people in death! But what could he do? If he wanted to live to the end, he could only listen to the evil wind that was inferior to himself at the age in front of him.
Curly finally said: "I understand, I will still rely on your dispatch in the future, and I will never say anything." ”
Evil Wind nodded again and replied, "Very good, then you are ready to prepare, there will be action tonight." ”
Night had fallen, but the moonlight was obscured by the clouds, and the island in the lake was pitch black. In the darkness, some people are sleeping deeply, some people are experiencing hunger in the dark because of the shortage of food, and a small number of people are kneeling in the dark, trying to improve their cultivation.
Su Hang is a very special one, he is not short of food at present, but he has never slept and has not practiced cross-legged as before, but is busy. Since this morning, Su Hang found the seemingly unintentional but profound glance of the evil wind, and vaguely, he guessed the intention of the evil wind.
After returning, Su Hang pondered for a day and finally decided to take advantage of the darkness to change the storage location of the stored food tonight, and Su Hang was busy in the middle of the night to change some of the food to a secret place for storage. Then for three days and nights, Su Hang put all the food in three places, and in order to avoid being discovered, he deliberately disguised the storage place carefully.
In the first two places, Su Hang chose a farther location, but the third Su Hang was not too far away, but chose a secret nearby, which is a pile of rocks, and you can see the original position at a glance when you climb the high place of the stone pile.
Six days have passed, and there is moonlight tonight. Under the moonlight, Su Hang crossed his knees in the third place where the food was stored, and Su Hang chose this place to verify whether his guess was wrong, and nothing happened for six days.
Approaching dawn, Su Hang just opened his eyes, with extraordinary ear power and deliberate listening, he heard some sounds, Su Hang poked out half of his head on the stone pile, and looked towards the previous position, sure enough, he saw two figures, the distance was still a little far, Su Hang couldn't see the appearance of the two clearly, but he already knew in his heart, one of them must be an evil wind.
The two figures left after a while around the place where the dried fruit was stored before, and after seeing the two leave, Su Hang was also worried again when he was congratulating on his foresight, the evil wind this person is extremely high in cultivation, and he is clever, and his place is not far from the previous position, if the evil wind has the heart to look for it, I am afraid that sooner or later he will find this place.
The next day, Su Hang began to look for another secret place. After five days in a row, Su Hang finally found a stone cave on the stone cliff by the lake, which was not large enough to accommodate four or five people standing at the same time. Su Hang transferred all the dried fruits in the third place to the stone cave, and at the same time found some stones to cover up the entrance of the stone cave, and then entered the stone cave to practice with peace of mind, without asking about the outside world.
Outside the cave, time passes on the island in the lake. Winter has arrived, the snow is falling, the fruit trees are no longer bearing fruit, and the island's teenagers are starved of food. Death came quietly, and the teenagers who had relied on cultivation to resist hunger could no longer hold on, and many fell in the ice and snow, suffering from hunger and cold.
Of course, there are many people who are not willing to die, they either feed on tree bark and ice and snow to survive, or go in groups to plunder those who have stored food before, and finally the teenagers on the island begin to kill each other on a large scale in order to survive, and the breath of death fills the entire island in the lake, and it is getting stronger and stronger!
The strong aura of death turned into energy without deliberately inducing it, and even Su Hang, who was hiding in the cave, could clearly feel it. In such an environment, the demon yuan in the Suzhou and Hangzhou Baihui caves finally improved, condensing into a black mist the size of a soybean, and at the dantian qi sea, the power of the true yuan never fell, and finally condensed into a drop of fog under the penance of Suzhou and Hangzhou day and night.
On the cave, Su Hang felt the leisurely true yuan water droplet in the dantian, and a smile of relief appeared on his face. During this time, he hid in the cave and was depressed, but at this moment, his cultivation has made progress, looking at the goose feather snow outside the cave, Su Hang couldn't help but want to get up and go out to breathe.
In the cold wind and snow, Su Hang walked alone, and the goose-featherlike snow in the sky was still falling, covering the entire island, covering the traces of those evils, so that Su Hang could not detect anything unusual.
Su Hang walked slowly, leaving rows of footprints behind him, the direction he was walking was his first hiding place, since he was out of the cave, he wanted to see if that location would be discovered.
After a short walk, Suzhou and Hangzhou have reached the first place to hide food. The stone crack had already been covered by winter snow, and Su Hang hesitated whether to sweep away the heavy snow to investigate, but he was afraid that the traces would be too obvious, and if someone passed by, he would inevitably be discovered.
"Ahem. ”
While hesitating, Su Hang heard a cough, and the sound came from behind a big stone not far away, and Su Hang followed the sound. I saw a young man sitting on a stone in the snow, the boy was like a withered tree, his eyes were closed, and his breathing between his mouth and nose was weak.
Looking at the appearance of that person, although Su Hang already knew in his heart that most of the people on the island would definitely be like this, he was still a little unbearable, so he turned back to the place where he was hiding food, and without hesitation, he cut through the snow, turned over several layers of stone slabs, and took out a few dried fruits under the cracks in the stone to restore the place to its original state.
Su Hang took the dried fruit, walked up to the young man and asked, "Friend, are you still alive?"
Hearing this, the young man's eyes opened slightly, and he looked at Su Hang expressionlessly, and saw that Su Hang's young man's eyes lit up slightly, and he was surprised: "It's you?"
Feeling the young man's tone, Su Hang asked, "Do you know me?"
The young man smiled bitterly, glanced at his body, and said slowly: "That's right, I look like this now, you naturally don't recognize me." ”
The young man's words made Su Hang a little puzzled, and Su Hang asked with doubts, "Are you?"
The young man sighed and said slowly: "I am Aftershock." ”
Su Hang's face was surprised, and for a very short moment, Su Hang stepped forward with concern and held Yu Zhen's shoulders and asked, "You, is Brother Zhen?"
Aftershock nodded slightly, and then said, "I look ugly like this now." ”
Aftershock is one of the few teenagers in Suzhou and Hangzhou who has dealt with him, looking at Aftershock's current appearance, Su Hang sighed in his heart. In the past, the aftershocks were tall and strong, and they didn't want to be like this today.
Su Hang was slightly bitter in his heart, but he pretended to chuckle on his face: "It's not ugly, it's still so handsome." ”
Hearing this, Aftershock said again: "You lied to me again, I think we have known each other for so long, but I don't even know your name." ”
Su Hang replied: "My name is Su Hang, by the way, Brother Zhen, I still have some dried fruits here, you eat a little first." ”
Then Su Hang took out the dried fruit he had just taken out from his arms and handed it over, the fruit was held in his arms for a while, and the frost on the surface had melted, not as cold as when he first took it out, revealing its original color.
Yu Zhen looked at the dried fruit in Su Hang's hand, but he didn't take it, but smiled bitterly and said: "I want to come to the island, you bring some dried fruit back every day, many people have laughed at you, saying that you don't seem to have eaten fruit, but now I think about it, you are still prescient." ”
Su Hang saw that Yu Zhen didn't answer, so he handed the dried fruit a little further forward and said, "Brother Zhen, you eat some dried fruit first, and then we can talk again." ”
Aftershock raised a hand with difficulty, waved it and said, "Forget it, food is extremely precious right now, I am already a mortal person, why waste it on me!"
Su Hang was silent, it is true that in this environment, plus the current physical condition of the aftershock, it is unknown whether he can survive today, but Su Hang finally felt a little unbearable, and said again: "I still have a lot there, you can eat with confidence." ”
Aftershock smiled bitterly: "Since that's the case, then I'm welcome, in fact, it's good to be a full ghost." ”
After speaking, Aftershock took a piece of dried fruit and ate it, his severely overdrawn body was extremely weak, so Aftershock ate very slowly and slowly, Aftershock ate silently, Su Hang silently accompanied, and no longer spoke. One bite, two bites, three bites, Aftershock chuckled as he ate, with a little relief on his face.
The fruit was originally very large, but the dried fruit after air drying was quite small, but it was such a small piece of dried fruit, and it took a long time for Aftershock to finish eating, when Aftershock swallowed the last bite of the dried fruit in his hand, Su Hang wanted to hand over another piece, but Aftershock had closed his eyes, and the breathing between his mouth and nose also stopped, until death, Aftershock's face still had that little relief.
The aftershock had passed, Su Hang sighed with emotion, stuffed the remaining two pieces of dried fruit in his hand into the aftershock's hand, and said to the corpse of the aftershock: "Brother Zhen, go all the way." ”
In the wind and snow, Su Hang looked at the aftershock deeply, left with a little melancholy, and walked to the second place where the fruit was stored, and after confirming that the fruit in the second place was also safe, Su Hang began to walk in the wind and snow.
Unconsciously, Su Hang walked to the vicinity of the hill of the former fruit forest, in front of him, the fruit trees with flourishing branches and leaves in the past are now only the bare trunk, and even the bark is gone.
Getting closer, Su Hang saw that behind a pile of rocks not far away, the three of them sat cross-legged with their backs to Su Hang, and there was a small pile of things in front of the three of them.
At this moment of food scarcity, there are still people who dare to put food in front of them? Su Hang looked at the three people who were a little weird, knowing that something was wrong, and he didn't want to get too close, so he took a detour and avoided the direction of the three of them before continuing forward.
If Su Hang continues to move forward, he will find that among the three people sitting cross-legged, there are two people, Evil Wind and Curly Hair, and the remaining one is also a figure from the previous Iron Fist Gang, called Xu Qingyu.
When the fruit tree no longer bears fruit, the Iron Fist Gang has already fallen apart because of the problem of food, and under the influence of the evil wind, Curly Hair has already regarded those subordinates as mortal people, and they are still left, leaving only one Xu Qingyu because of his cultivation, and he was simply left by the evil wind to do things, forming a small team of three.
In the wind and snow, Curly Fur asked the evil wind: "Boss, we have been meditating here for ten days, attracting a total of nine people, but no one has dared to approach in the past two days, do you think we have to change places?"
On the side, Xu Qingyu glanced behind him and said: "Even if we don't change places, then we have to deal with these corpses, so many corpses are placed here, no one will dare to come again if they see it." ”
It turned out that the evil wind deliberately placed the dried fruit here, but it was to lure those extremely hungry people to come, and then kill them, refining the energy on their corpses on the spot, and at this moment, nine corpses were already placed next to the stone pile behind the three people, and these nine corpses were just like those dried fruits, so naked and undisguised.
Faced with the questioning of the two, Evil Wind opened his eyes and said indifferently: "It's okay, in the face of hunger, even if there are mountains of corpses here, they can't stop their thirst for food. ”
After finishing speaking, the evil wind suddenly said again: "Someone, listening to this footstep is far away from us." ”
Evil Wind looked sideways, but saw Su Hang's departing figure, far away, Evil Wind still recognized Su Hang's back at a glance, and suddenly stood up and said, "Is it him? Since it is him, it is not surprising." ”
Curly hair, Xu Qingyu saw that the evil wind actually got up, and felt incredible, you must know that this evil wind only cares about cultivation on weekdays, except for a very small amount of food and excretion, he has never moved, even the previous nine people were killed by the two of them, and the evil wind didn't even bother to move a finger, but at this moment he was willing to stand up. Therefore, Curly Hair and Xu Qingyu asked at the same time, "Who?"
The evil wind smiled and said, "A man who hides a lot of food. ”
Hearing this, Curly Hair and Xu Qingyu's eyes lit up at the same time, and they understood why Evil Wind was willing to get up, it turned out that he wanted to kill people and take food, even though the three of them had stored a lot of food, but in this environment, who would dislike their own food too much?
So, in front of the evil wind, Curly Mao and Xu Qingyu collected the dried fruits on the ground on two cloth bags and followed behind the evil wind, chasing softly and quickly in the direction of Suzhou and Hangzhou.