Chapter 22: Temptation
Clark and Old Yu's dinner was very simple, brown bread, venison soup, vegetable salad and two glasses of ale, and a glass of fresh juice in front of Ma Shuo.
Although it is the only religious group in the entire Western Continent that is officially recognized by the state and has its own city, it is not as domineering and arrogant as imagined.
The thing that was originally done to accept Clark's questioning and suspicion did not happen, which greatly relieved Lao Yu, who was full of vigilance on the way to the banquet!
The half-hour dinner ended happily in Clark's humorous introduction to the customs of Xizhou and the history of Gray Mountain, and Lao Yu and Ma Shuo listened with relish.
Although Lao Yu noticed the slightest change in Clark's attitude, the other party did not show even a momentary sense of hostility! On the contrary, some deliberate flattering meaning was hidden between the lines, making Lao Yu more and more confused at the same time, but also more and more cautious!
Raising his head and drinking the last drop of liquid in the cup, after a short rest, the secretary officer was the driver, Clark was in front, and the old man and the two were behind, and it took only ten minutes to arrive at the cavalry training ground located on the outskirts of the western part of the city.
Looking at the more than 100,000 square meters of site in front of him, Lao Yu has a new understanding of the concept of Jiaye City, a religious city - it is really worthy of being a city in the background of the whole country!
Setting the test venue here, Clark already had the purpose of showing part of his strength, and now after seeing that the corresponding effect has been achieved, the whole person is more and more upright.
After looking around the field for a week, Lao Yu then shifted his gaze to the weapon rack five or six meters away. Seeing this, Clark stepped forward, picked up a random black-colored sledgehammer on the shelf, and said "continue"!
Watching the black sledgehammer with a length of more than five feet flying towards him, he caught it as if it was all made of metal because he didn't know what material and how much weight it was.
The moment the palm of the hand came into contact with the weapon, I felt that this seemingly weighty weapon turned out to be wooden!
Holding the hammer handle with both hands, the center of gravity was turned upside down, and he sighed involuntarily "Huh!", "It's so fragrant!"
Just when he looked up at Clark, hoping for an answer, he saw that the other party also pulled out a cross heavy sword of the same jet black material from the weapon rack, swiped a sword flower and smiled: "Well, it's very fragrant, right! This is a weapon carved and processed from the branches of the hundred-year-old demon paulownia tree!"
Ma Shuo, who was standing behind Lao Yu, sniffed deeply twice the faint and elegant woody fragrance on the sledgehammer, and felt that a flame in his heart was suddenly ignited, and even his breathing became much heavier.
When Lao Yu heard that the weapon turned out to be made of hundred-year-old demon paulownia wood, he immediately held his breath slightly. Seeing Ma Shuo's heavy breathing and red eyes, he hurriedly raised the sledgehammer to his chest, and at the same time, pushed Ma Shuo away with his other hand!
In ancient mythology, the demon paulownia wood can become a demon after growing for thousands of years, and it is ferocious and tyrannical to feed on people. After death, the aroma of the wood can last for the same age as the tree.
This residual aroma after death will make any other insects and animals it comes into contact with extremely irritable, and after the death of the demon paulownia wood that has reached the level of 10,000 years, it will even make all creatures that come into contact with the fragrance become crazy people!
And the most important thing is that this kind of tree can only grow on the sea of corpses and blood! Although it is as hard as iron and light as wood, this kind of growing conditions are too harsh!
Just now, it was because of his curiosity that Ma Shuo got close to smell the aroma of the wood, and there was a precursor to what seemed to be madness. Fortunately, I kept it away in time, and it gradually returned to normal!
"Fortunately, I reacted in time, otherwise I would have been in big trouble now that I don't know how to recover!"
Fortunately, he always maintained restraint because he was wary of the fragrance entering his body, and did not rush up to fight with the other party, but the attitude he should have still had to be shown! Taking a deep breath of slightly woody air and slowly exhaling it, he barely suppressed the raging anger in his heart after being tempted: "Your Excellency, may I ask what you mean by this?"
After seeing that the two of them on the other side could be affected by the aroma of demon paulownia wood, he held the sword in his backhand and stroked his chest, and replied with a thick apology in his tone: "Clark is deeply sorry for the sudden temptation of the two! Mr. Yu, please don't get me wrong, although the Inhumans have been declared extinct decades ago! But the use of demon paulownia wood weapons for recruit training has become a custom in Jiaye City!"
Before Clark could finish explaining, Lao Yu, who was obviously much more irritated because he had just taken a big breath of the aroma, immediately interrupted: "What does your damn custom have to do with us? This is a five or six-year-old kid next to me!"
Clark hurriedly explained again: "Yes, Mr. Yu, it is precisely because you came with your children, and I am a member of the city, that I have to test the next temporary instructor of the army!"
Lao Yu held the handle of the sledgehammer tightly with both hands, and the wood under the leather gloves had already made a "creaking" grinding sound, and at the same time, Lao Yu did not shy away from scolding back: "Hmph! Then you will test us by testing the stranger?"
Although there were already signs of anger in Lao Yu's tone, Clark saw restraint in the other party's red eyes! It was this kind of restraint in behavior that made Clarke, who had a condescending advantage in size, quite admired!
After inhaling such a large puff of aroma from a distance of about a foot, how can you still control your behavior to such an extent? This person's self-control is really not to be underestimated!
Hurriedly inserted the wooden sword in his hand back into the weapon rack, raised his hands high in a surrender form and slowly leaned towards Lao Yu: "Mr. Yu, please forgive me for my reckless behavior, if you can't forgive me, do it now!"
At the same time as the words fell, the person had already walked to a meter in front of Lao Yu and stood with his eyes closed, looking like he was at your disposal. At this time, Lao Yu's hands were strong again, and he slammed them above his head, gritted his teeth and stopped in mid-air when he was about to smash them!
The green tendons of the two forearms that were exposed suddenly burst out, and the eyes were round and the teeth were gritted as if they were going to eat Clark raw on the spot!
After hesitating again and again, with a heavy sigh accompanied by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, Lao Yu, who deliberately smashed the hammer to the ground, pulled Ma Shuo, who had returned to normal, turned around and walked outside the training ground!
Only then did Clark slowly open his eyes, looked down at the wooden hammer that smashed the ground with clear marks, and nodded to the secretary who gently retracted his long face into the scabbard not far away: "How is this located sir?"
The secretary slowly walked to Clark's side, picked up the hammer and stroked the dust on it: "In terms of strength, it should be much stronger than adults, and in terms of speed, it may be slightly inferior!"
After cleaning the hammer of visible dirt marks, the clerk put the weapon back on the rack.
And Clark turned around and leaned in the direction where the two of them left, muttering to himself: "It's not a damn alien!
Thinking of this, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and then shook his head with a wry smile!
The water here is not shallow! Adults deserve to be adults! If you don't stop them in the afternoon, I'm afraid you will really be confused!