"What do you mean by fishman?" Lin Cheng asked curiously.

"Haven't you heard?" the owner was a little surprised, thinking that this person really didn't care about the world!

"Actually, I haven't seen them with my own eyes, but I've only heard that they are fish-tailed and good at water, and they are very cruel and murderous, and many of our people in the south have not escaped their butcher's knives. ”

Speaking of this, the owner of the car was a little sad, if the Red Phoenix Lord was still there, they would not dare to be so arrogant.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect such hatred between you......"

The coachman didn't speak again, he had a family and no country, and he couldn't take revenge, and this feeling was something that ordinary people could experience.

The mountain road was rugged, and when Lin Cheng arrived at Lingyang City, it was already noon, and the sun was on the head, and it was unbearably hot.

For Lin Cheng, summer came too suddenly, and when he came to this world, the original world winter was not over yet!

Lin Cheng thanked the owner of the car and found an inn to live in. The little girl gave him a lot of money, enough for him to wander for a while.

Lin Cheng thought that when he arrived at Lingyang City, he was only more than seventy miles away from Chihuang, and if he was fast, he could walk there in a day. Anyway, I still have some spirit crystals in my hand, so why don't I wander around the city first, and take this opportunity to buy some supplies!

"Boss, do you know where there is a place near here that sells jerky?" Lin Cheng asked the innkeeper.

"Jerky, there is a small shop, I don't know what kind of jerky the guest officer wants?"

"That's great, you can prepare two catties of beef jerky for me to send to my room. Lin Cheng didn't know if he had enough spirit crystals, "It shouldn't be expensive, right?"

"It's not expensive, thirty pieces of broken spirit crystals are enough. ”

After lunch at the inn, Lin Cheng ran out into the streets, he hadn't learned much about the world.

Lin Cheng was dressed in red, wandering around the street stupidly, and it was difficult not to attract attention. He noticed the strange stares from the people around him, and he didn't care, anyway, he would go back when the matter was done, and none of us knew anyone.

After wandering around for a long time, he didn't know what he was going to buy, and was about to stop when he saw a grocery store. Lin Cheng walked into the grocery store, there were a lot of goods inside, basically all of them were things he didn't know, and the only ones he could name were a few matching swords hanging on the wall.

Lin Cheng couldn't help but take one off and rub it in his hand, the pattern on the hilt of the sword and the touch were very good. He wanted to pull out the sword and see how sharp it was, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull it out.

......

"This guest officer, the sword is not drawn like this. The shopkeeper couldn't stand it anymore and told him that there was a mechanism on the hilt of his sword.

When Lin Cheng heard this, he was a little embarrassed, it was the first time he had come into contact with this thing.

"If you take a fancy to this sword, how about selling you eight spirit crystals?"

"Eight spirit crystals, how many broken spirit crystals are worth that?"

"Eight Hundred ......"

Eight hundred, Lin Cheng didn't have so many spirit crystals in total, so he could only reluctantly hang the sword back in its place.

The shopkeeper has a thief's eyes, and he can see that Lin Cheng doesn't understand anything, this kind of person is best deceived, although he doesn't look like he is rich, although the sparrow is small, it is also meat.

"If you think it's too expensive to match the sword, then look at this folding fan, the bluegrass painted on it really matches your appearance!" The shopkeeper took out a folding fan that looked very exquisite and unfolded it in front of Lin Cheng, "The paint on this painting is added to the fragrance of bluegrass, as long as you fan it lightly, the fragrance of bluegrass will come to your face and last for a long time." The most important thing is that it is not expensive, only a hundred broken crystals!"

"Don't listen to that old fellow, that fan is a flashy thing, not for you. ”

It was a teenager who was lying in a rocking chair.

"You stinky boy! Lao Tzu is in business, what kind of mouth do you have!"

"I said Dad, let's do business and do business, but we can't fool everyone, and we can't make any money!"

When Lin Cheng heard this, he instantly had a good impression of the young man.

"Look at him like that, he can't eat enough, and he fools him into buying this thing, isn't it harmful!"

"I'm your old man, you still dare to educate me!" The shopkeeper glared at the young man, "I know that I am idle all day long, and I don't learn how to do business! The children of the old Zhang family are two years younger than you, and they have already opened their own shops outside!"

"I'm going to be a big business person in the future, so I'm not going to buy these things from you!"

"You're going to talk about you!"

......

"This, I ......" Lin Cheng watched the father and son arguing, a little embarrassed, "I just want to buy a sword to defend myself......"

"Self-defense?" said the young man with some surprise, "You should go to the weapon store to buy a sword for self-defense, what are you doing at the grocery store, these are not weapons, they are just decorations." ”

"And where do you go to the weapons shop?"

"Go out and turn right and go straight for two streets and then turn left, two hundred meters ahead. ”

"Okay, thank you!"

Lin Cheng thanked him and walked away stupidly, and after going out, he could still hear the reprimand of the shopkeeper.

"Good boy, if you hinder Lao Tzu's business, forget it, and drive the guests out, I won't kill you today!"

"Old fellow, if you dare to hit me today, when you go home, I'll let my mother punish you for kneeling on the washboard all night!"

“............”

The young man didn't lie to him, and according to the route he said, Lin Cheng quickly found the weapon shop.

"Master, do you have any cheaper weapons to sell here?"

Lin Cheng walked into the weapon shop, and an old man was settling accounts on the counter.

The old master looked up at Lin Cheng, and continued to lower his head to settle the account, and replied casually: "Cheaper, how cheap do you want?"

"Probably a few pieces of ...... crystals"

As soon as he said this, Lin Cheng himself felt embarrassed.

"I saw that the black sword on the ground was not there, the materials were originally good, but unfortunately the refining was wasted, if you take out three spirit crystals, pick them up." ”

Lin Cheng could think about the three spirit crystals, he walked to the corner instructed by the master and picked up the black sword lying on the ground.

The black sword is not wide, three feet long, and it is quite heavy. Lin Cheng wiped the dust off the sword, only to see that the sword was full of potholes, and the blade was also full of gaps. He tapped it with his fingers, and it seemed to be quite sturdy, and he thought that although it was ugly, it was not bad, and it was worthy of himself.

"There's a sword test stone over there, try it yourself. ”

"No, that's it. Lin Cheng took out his money bag, counted out three spirit crystals from it and handed them to the master.

The old master took the spirit crystal, weighed it, glanced at Lin Cheng's money bag, and suggested, "If you are willing to give me this purse, I can exchange it for a good sword for you." ”

"No, I still have to return this money bag. Lin Cheng rejected the master's suggestion and waved his hand, "Thank you, master." ”

Lin Cheng always felt that something was wrong when he went out, and after walking a few steps, he found that this black sword didn't even have a scabbard. It was too shabby to hold it in my hand all the time! I had no choice but to walk back to the weapons shop.

"Master, where is the scabbard of this sword?"

"If you refine it like this, how can there be any scabbard, and it is already good to be able to match a sword hilt. ”

Lin Cheng felt that it seemed to make sense when he heard this, after all, it was just thrown in the corner at random.

"Brother Jian, it looks like you're more down-and-out than me!"

Lin Cheng returned to the inn and asked the innkeeper for a long cloth wrapped around the black sword.

"Although you are not very sharp, but the edge has to be restrained a little, so I will use this cloth to wronged you for the time being!"

Lin Chengda heard the direction of Red Phoenix City, wrapped the dried beef with a black sword on his back, asked the innkeeper for a pot of water, and set off early in the morning.

The sun hides behind the clouds after showing its face in the morning, and it looks like a heavy rain will follow. This is not good news for Lin Chengke, although the weather will be much cooler, but if it really rains heavily, he will become a soup chicken.

Lin Cheng walked on the road, in fact, it was no longer a road, and few people had walked in this direction over the years, so this road had almost been abandoned.

The Red Phoenix was destroyed by fire a hundred years ago, and Lin Chengyue walked forward and saw more and more traces left by the fire.

Even if after a hundred years, the vegetation has regrown, and the fallen leaves have covered the ground layer after layer, but the remains of ancient trees are lying on the ground, and Lin Cheng brushes off the moss on them, and the traces of the fire a hundred years ago are displayed in front of him.

Further on, the air is getting hotter and drier, yes, hot. Although the clouds in the sky were getting thicker and thicker, the air was not as moist as it should have been before the rain. Lin Cheng's mood also became dull.

The trees gradually thinned out, and the mountain forests were replaced by low bushes, and Lin Cheng did not expect to see a desert-like scene in such a place. These shrubs are unfriendly, and although they don't have thorns, their dead branches are sharper than knives. Lin Cheng was scratched several scars without paying attention, and he could only walk around.

Passing through the shrubland, the road is blocked by a dry river. Lin Cheng looked forward, about two miles wide from the opposite bank, and did not see a bridge nearby, so he could only pass under the river. There is a green belt in the center of the river, and I don't know if there is still an uninterrupted flow of water.

Lin Cheng jumped down the river, and there was a large pebble on the side, and his feet were panicked when he stepped on it. The river has dried up, and there is no water but there is a wind current, which is not known if this is a precursor to rain or because of the topography of the river.

Near the center of the river, small grass began to grow on the ground, which was the "green belt" that Lin Cheng saw on the bank. However, although there was little grass, there was no water, and the land was much wetter than the place where I had walked before, and there should be a dark river underneath it. Originally, I thought that if the river had not completely dried up, there should be a silt swamp in the center, and Lin Cheng would have to waste a lot of effort to get there, so it would be much more convenient.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and it was not yet noon, but the sky was darker than dusk.

Lin Cheng climbed onto the riverbank and was greeted by a "field". He almost thought it was a wheat field planted by the people around Red Phoenix City, but it was impossible.

It's just waist-deep weeds with golden leaves that mistake wheat for wheat that is about to ripen.