Chapter 69: The Stone Forest Boy
After Li Chen climbed the stone pillar, the setting sun in the west had already dyed the entire sky red. The afterglow before the end of the star infects every land it shines on.
After seeing this scene, Li Chen suddenly realized that the sun in this spiritual world actually rose in the east and set in the west, and the afterglow of the sunset was reddish and orange, which had a great degree of similarity with the earth.
Under this red-green sky, a gray-green stone forest is embedded in the middle of the vast forest like a huge lake, and in the center of this unified gray-green stone forest, a boulder that is a whole section higher than the other stone pillars is particularly conspicuous.
Wisps of gray-white cooking smoke rose around the boulder, shrouding the stone forest in a hazy white veil.
Li Chen waved his fist excitedly, since there was a fire source nearby, it proved that there must be traces of human activities, and the breath of life in this stone forest was so obvious, there must be some village living here.
However, although Li Chen saw the boulder in the center of the stone forest and the cooking smoke next to the boulder, he roughly estimated the distance, from his position to the boulder, it was probably nearly ten miles away from the boulder, and it was estimated that he might not be able to arrive before dark, after all, in this dense stone forest, without the reference of his vision, it was still very difficult for him to distinguish the direction.
Li Chen looked back at the forest from which he came, and saw that above the forest, huge blood-red bird shadows were hovering in the air, they swooped down from the air from time to time and drilled into the forest, and from time to time they jumped out of the forest and tore each other, making a piercing scream.
He didn't see the huge spider-shaped black shadow he wanted to see, he didn't know what it was, even the figures of the blood-colored vines seemed to have disappeared into the dense forest.
Li Chen confirmed the location of the giant stone pillar and walked down from the stone pillar. Under the stone pillar, Xiao Hei was excitedly riding a little goat around the stone pillar, and when he saw Li Chen coming down, Xiao Hei jumped off the back of the little goat without saying a word, regardless of the little goat's bleating, and even went straight to Li Chen's calf without even bringing his head back.
Li Chen looked at Xiao Hei who was running over speechlessly, he already had a psychological shadow about this, and jumped back directly to block his hand in front and said, "It's three chapters of the law!" If you dare to come up, let's go to the sky! ”
Xiao Hei was blocked by Li Chen like this, squatted in place angrily, and took out his own bamboo from his back and gnawed it hatefully.
Li Chen didn't care what the resentful Xiao Hei was thinking, and began to walk forward according to the direction he had determined.
Xiao Hei saw that Li Chen didn't care about himself, so he had no choice but to keep up, in the past, as long as it was coquettish and cute, there would always be someone willing to pick it up and take care of it, but today he actually met Li Chen, a guy who doesn't eat hard and soft.
As one man and one beast went deeper into the stone forest, the other animals temporarily found their territory in the stone forest and hibernated quietly.
"Hey~ I said that Sister Zhilan and Erin are also exact, and they don't tell me where the NPC is, so how can I complete the so-called primary stage mission!" Li Chen was kicking the stone while determining the direction, and Xiao Hei, who was following him, was also like him, pinning his two front paws behind his back, and his two hind legs stretched out to kick the stones on the ground.
It was already completely dark, and Li Chen could only rely on the starlight in the sky to distinguish things, and fortunately, the carnivores in the stone forest now didn't seem to be aggressive, otherwise Li Chen wouldn't dare to hurry after dark.
After studying many books on geography and survival in the wilderness in the memory capsule, Li Chen also has his own unique method for identifying the direction in this stone forest.
After taking Hei around the stone forest like a maze array for more than two hours, he and Hei finally saw the white smoke from the burning bonfire, which was extremely conspicuous in the light of the stars.
With the white smoke as a reference, Li Chen and Xiao Hei quickly approached the giant stone pillar that Li Chen had seen on the outskirts of the stone forest.
Around the giant stone pillar, piles of bonfires burned around the stone pillars. Some children were playing excitedly around the bonfire, and when Li Chen, a man and a beast, came out of the dark stone forest, the children who were running around the bonfire were obviously stunned for a moment, and then they all ran to the other side of the giant stone pillar.
On this side of the bonfire, Li Chen could see some docile little animals perched under some smaller stone pillars, they did not go over the continuous bonfire to the depths of the stone forest, and in the depths of the stone forest, Li Chen could also faintly see the traces of the firelight.
"This guest! Please stop! Just as Li Chen was about to walk towards the bonfire, a young and immature voice stopped him.
Li Chen looked fixedly, but it was an eleven or twelve-year-old boy with a cupola bun, wearing a black short combat suit, holding a silver trident in his hand, staring at Li Chen and Xiao Hei with a pair of big eyes.
Li Chen admired the young man's appearance very much, it seems that this spiritual world is actually taking the ancient route!
"This little brother, I'm a person who got lost in the forest and want to spend the night here? I don't know what rules you have here, if you have any offense, please Haihan! Li Chen asked with his fists in what he thought was a very formal Jianghu dialect, but he didn't notice that Xiao Hei at his feet almost fell down laughing.
The young man opposite Li Chen frowned, as if he felt that Li Chen's words were very awkward, and only after a while did he also return the salute with his fists, "This guest, our village only receives guests from the east, you can go to those stone towers with cave entrances, there are flints and water in the stone towers, you can rest in them tonight." ”
The east side that the young man said is the direction that Li Chen came from, and the stone pillars that are close to this giant stone pillar are indeed much more open than those on the periphery, which should be the stone tower that the young man said.
"I'm lost in the forest, do you have a map of your village going out into the forest?" Or in which direction do I go to get out of the forest? Li Chen saw that the young man really didn't mean to let him go over there at all, so he had to retreat and ask.
However, the young man immediately changed color after hearing Li Chen's words, and he waved the trident in his hand coldly and said, "No, you rest for one night, if there is anything, ask the village chief and grandfather tomorrow!" Also, please don't cross the range of the campfire, once you cross the line, we will see you as an intruder into the village! With that, the boy turned and walked over to the campfire.
Li Chen and Xiao Hei jumped back in fright by his momentum, Li Chen shrugged helplessly, he pulled Xiao Hei, who was grinning at the young man, to go back, and whispered in his ear, "Xiao Hei, we can't afford to mess with this guy, don't make trouble for me!" ”
The reason why Li Chen said this was because he found that when the young man was wielding the trident, he actually felt a faint breath of cosmic energy, which was very similar to the luminous particles that were free in the twelve canons on his body.
Li Chen is now just coming into contact with the cultivation of ancient martial arts, he doesn't know what kind of realm this young man is, and now if he has a conflict with the people in this village, it is estimated that Li Chen, a new student of ancient martial arts, will be abused into a soup chicken.