Chapter 268: No branches can grow outside the festival, but no branches can grow inside the festival
The three of them had the idea that more things were better than less, and they just wanted to send things back to Shushan as soon as possible, no matter who they were, they were now haggard by all the things that happened in this game, and the only thought left in everyone's hearts was to complete the task as soon as possible, and then leave here quickly.
Well, it doesn't matter if you leave here or not, it's best to leave some more time for the team to find an opportunity to save Jiang Yan and take Yu Liang away, but don't torture everyone with such a way of boiling frogs in warm water.
Yes, boiled frogs in warm water.
Qi Zhen felt more and more that everyone in the team had fallen into a huge trap step by step, from coming to this game, meeting Wu Tian, and then his teammates dying one after another, until now at this moment, it seems that every step under his feet is taken step by step, but in fact, all of them have fallen into the calculation of the system.
But those decisions, whether the motion came from Qi Zhen or anyone in the team, were obviously the result of the collective decision-making of everyone in the team, why did the team still come to this point?
It's horrible.
This kind of game is not like a level game, such as Plants vs. Zombies, where you either defeat all the zombies and Dr. Zombie and you can achieve the ultimate victory, or you can just get Dave and his brain eaten clean by the zombies and die instantly.
I don't know what other tasks lie ahead, and I don't know if any of the remaining three people will continue to leave or die, this feeling of unknown future is really too grinding.
In short, we have to be more careful.
It can be said that pervasiveness or invincibility is simply the best interpretation of the content of this game, Qi Zhen thinks that he is cautious enough, but he still can't stop the disasters that happened to the team one after another.
It's useless to escape, and there's nowhere to escape, so Qi Zhen can only stubbornly continue, take one step at a time.
The three of them still remembered the place where Jiang Yan prompted the abnormality, almost in the same place as Yu Liang, stepped on the flying sword behind him, and flew towards the southeast in a low-altitude manner.
As expected, there was little communication between the three of them, and they soon came to the place where the road forked.
Turning right is on the road to the countries of the Western Regions, and on the left is you can return to the town the same way, the three of them have no interest in traveling to the Western Regions, and as soon as their hearts move, the three flying swords will turn to the left and go straight to the southeast.
Coincidentally, an accident befell them again.
Bandit.
But there is one thing, the robbery did not happen to three people, but several people, robbing a caravan.
This time, the strength of the two sides who were robbed and robbed was too disparity.
There were not only vicious-looking bodyguards in the crowd on the robbed side, but also the horses under the seat were also majestic and majestic, obviously good horses.
It seemed to be a very large caravan, with huge packages on the backs of the horses, and it seemed that these camel horses still had some strength left, and it was conceivable that these inconspicuous horses should be the type with very good stamina.
From a distance, there were thirty or forty horses in a whole caravan, which looked spectacular from the sky.
The robbery side was very shabby, two men and two women, because two of them had veils around their heads, and the other two men had long beards that were not difficult to identify.
Their clothes were far inferior to those in the caravan, but the man who spoke at this time had a very fierce face and shouted at the merchant in front of him.
Meng Ran glanced at it roughly, originally wanted to ask Qi Zhen if he wanted to take care of it, but then thought that the team was already too busy to take care of itself, and it was estimated that whether it was Qi Zhen or Li Qiang, there was nothing to worry about now.
This is probably in response to what Chen Xiao once said before, the world is in the world, and the people who cultivate immortals can't control it.
However, it was the first time that four people had robbed a caravan of dozens of people.
The speed of the three of them was not fast, but it was not slow, and the direction of flight and the arrangement of the caravan were simply two parallel lines that would never intersect, and when they were about to pass each other, they heard a very angry voice from the quarrel below.
"Quack, Quack, Qua......ck, Quack
No way, the language barrier, Qi Zhen really [58 fo] couldn't understand what the other party was saying, but he knew the other party's voice.
Take a closer look, ho, acquaintance.
Hu Jinqiu, although his appearance is not much different from the locals because of his beard, but his gesture can't deceive Qi Zhen's eyes.
Qi Zhen's heart turned sharply, but the flying sword under his feet stopped.
"You want to care?" Li Qiang asked.
"Hu Jinqiu is down there." Qi Zhen said softly.
"Oh, then take care of it." Li Qiang said.
The two of them wanted to take care not because of the fate of a meal with Hu Jinqiu, and naturally it was not to repay him for helping the team find the kindness of the goddess, but simply felt that Hu Jinqiu's appearance here was definitely not a coincidence, maybe there were any clues to tell a few people?
Sometimes people are like this, often you have just made a decision on the front foot, and there is a coincidence on the back foot that makes you slap your face and make yourself hurt.
Qi Zhen silently muttered in her heart that being cautious is not that she will not play the game, in order not to let go of any clues that may appear, she will help if she helps.
This time without Yu Liang and Jiang Yan, the dialogue between Qi Zhen and Li Qiang has become less, or this is the tacit understanding between the two people, but if one person has an idea, the other one, they will immediately understand what the other party's intentions are, and they don't even need to explain anything to each other.
It's just a little bitter for Meng Ran.
She really thought that the two of them wanted to repay this good-eyed merchant from the Western Regions.
It was not a normal thing for four people to rob forty people, so when the two sides arguing on the spot raised their heads and saw Meng Ran hovering on the flying sword, the expressions on the faces of both sides changed somewhat.
A trace of bitterness flashed in Hu Jinqiu's eyes, and the faces of the two Western Regions men had a touch of fierceness.
Qi Zhen, who was observing this place not far away, with the eyes of the writing wheel, guessed the thoughts of both sides just by their expressions.
Hu Jinqiu's meaning is very easy to understand, this is a bitter cold land in the northwest, and those who can step on the sword must be immortal cultivators, and immortal cultivators in the Central Plains rarely show up here, so the only possibility is that the other party's accomplices, is this because the caravan is not cooperative, and is it ready to meet the poor dagger?
The expressions on the faces of the two men from the Western Regions were not so easy to understand, but for Qi Zhen, it was still not a problem.
The other party saw Meng Ran coming with a sword, and he was not afraid, which was very revealing, proving that the other party also had some support, and he could rob forty people with four people, but he was afraid that eighty percent of them were also immortal cultivators who practiced in Kunlun.
As for how he could have fallen into robbing caravans here, it reminded Qi Zhen of the stammering hero on the Prodigal Son Cliff, but it was much more decent than the stammering hero.
At least the ruthlessness revealed from their every move is far more intimidating than the stuttering hero.
Why did they show such an expression after seeing Meng Ran, Qi Zhen guessed that they should have mistaken Meng Ran for a colleague who had fallen into the well.
After analyzing the micro-expressions of both sides, Qi Zhen nodded secretly, knowing in her heart.
The reason why we know that the two sides are robbing, rather than meeting friends halfway to have a friendly exchange, is also based on the performance of both parties.
The fierce expressions of the two men are too obvious, and Hu Jinqiu's groveling appearance is still fresh in the memory of Qi Zhen, who has watched countless film and television works.
Eighty percent of the silver that Hu Jinqiu can take out may not meet the other party's requirements, and the other party is unwilling to let the caravan leave, it was originally a good thing for me to be frozen, and it is not easy to end up frozen in place.
Meng Ran's body slowly fell about a meter above the ground to ensure that he could take off into the sky at any time, Qi Zhen said that there would be no risk, just be careful, Meng Ran was still on it.
One really dares to say it, and the other dares to believe it.
"Brother Hu, what's wrong?" Meng Ran asked.
Hu Jinqiu looked at the girl in front of him carefully, and then showed a trace of doubt: "Who are you?" ”
"Didn't we have a meal in town before? You are so forgetful that you don't know me? Meng Ran said.
Hu Jinqiu carefully looked Meng Ran up and down a few more times, and then suddenly said in surprise: "It's you, girl, you never came back from Zhoushan alive?" ”
When the caravan, which was originally quiet, heard this, it exploded all of a sudden, and everyone looked at Meng Ran with something wrong in their eyes, as if they had seen some magical monster.
Meng Ran nodded and smiled: "Exactly, I don't know what's wrong with you, do you need help?" ”
Where can those robbers understand what Meng Ran is talking to Hu Jinqiu, but seeing the uproar of the other party's caravan and the scene of Hu Jinqiu and Meng Ran talking, they know that the two should know each other, but they don't know how strong the other party is, but looking at the reaction in the crowd, I am afraid that this mediocre-looking girl is not weak.
Meng Ran's appearance should not have 90 points among the women in the Central Plains, but also 80 points, anyway, the four words "peace and mediocrity" are not at all, but the aesthetics of this place in the Western Regions are really different from those in the Central Plains, and it is estimated that if Meng Ran knows what the other party thinks, this scene will still be lively.
Although Hu Jinqiu saw Meng Ran flying down from the sky with a sword, his mind turned, and he still sighed secretly in his heart, ready to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster.
"It's okay, girl, you go first, I'm chatting with a friend." Hu Jinqiu still had a kind smile on his face and said softly.
"I watched the sky for a long time just now, but that's not the case." Meng Ran said.